Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using ‘Slowmation’ for intentional teaching in early childhood centres: Possibilities and imaginings

INCREASED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL attention towards early childhood education has resulted in the development of an Australian Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) called ‘Belonging, Being and Becoming’ (DEEWR, 2009) for realising agreed practice, principles and outcomes. The EYLF highlights the importance of educators using intentional teaching to deliberately promote many important elements of early education. These include children learning about conceptual development, skills and values. In this paper we show how a new teaching approach called ‘Slowmation’ (abbreviated from ‘Slow Animation’), a simplified way for children to co-construct a stop-motion animation, can be used to support intentional teaching in early childhood settings. We present the outcomes of two exemplars, which used video and field observations to document how scientific concepts become conscious to both children and preservice teachers as they co-constructed Slowmation creations. In drawing upon cultural-historical theory, we argue that Slowmation provides a mediating context where a system of interdependent concepts can be held constant, while the relations between a particular everyday concept and scientific concept can be interrogated through action and thought. Slowmation is an innovative way of realising intentional teaching in early childhood settings as young children co-construct digital animations about science concepts.
The Value of Linking: Eciency and Public Punishment

We consider repeated games with mediation and side-payments. We show that any punishment scheme can be divided into a public part and a private part. While private punishment can be reduced by linking, public punishment must be carried out in equilibrium. The total average equilibrium payo is bounded from above by the payo from enforcing the correlated action prole with the highest total stage-game payo net of public punishment. The bound is tight. For any there exists an equilibrium with total average payo close to the upper bound when the players are suciently patient. Our results extend the insights of Abreu, Milgrom, and Pearce (1991) and incorporate a number of existing results in the literature.
The Economic Impact of Remittances and Foreign Trade on Migration. Granger- Causality Approach

This paper analyzed the bidirectional relationship between several mobility factors such as migration, remittances and foreign trade. The issue that certain mobility factors might be substitutes was first raised by economists Heckscher and Ohlin and was later picked up several times by other authors in the literature. We assumed that such a debate should be revived and addressed again, especially having in mind growing importance of mobility factors in contemporaneous Economies. Using modern and sophisticated econometric technique such as Granger-causality analysis we studied the case of Spain taking yearly data from 1975 till 2013. The autoregression vector (VAR) model was used as well as Granger-causality test was employed to provide evidence that such a reciprocal type of relationships between the economic factors subject of our study in reality exist. The results of Granger-causality test have led us to the conclusion that export causes migration and also migration causes export. Results also showed that net migration and international trade are treated as substitutes. Further, we found that not only migration causes higher remittances what is consistent with an intuitive feel, but also past remittances draw further migration. In terms of the Heckscher-Ohlin model, the enormous growth of migration flows in the contemporary time is explained partly because the increase in remittances through the downtrend in their costs which has also encouraged to international trade.DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.ee. 26.4. 12464
Comparative study on the morphology, palynology and essential oil composition of three Trigonella L. species (Fabaceae) from Iran

Trigonella L. is one of the important genera of the family Fabaceae, many species of which have nutritional and medicinal properties. In this investigation, morphological characters related to habit and pollen grain of three Trigonella species i.e., T. disperma, T. subenervis and T. aphanoneura were studied. Oils from the aerial parts of two species were investigated by GC and GC/MS methods and compared with T. disperma, which had been studied in advance. T. subenervis represented oils rich in spathulenol (15.1%). It also contained a small amount of germacrene D (0.6%). T. aphanoneura also represented oils rich in spathulenol (10.4%). The amount of four compounds in this species was ≤1%, and n-octyl acetate was the lowest component in quantity. According what we found out, phytochemical and morphological data could clarify the relationships among the Trigonella species better than pollen morphological data.
THE INSTABILITY OF COMPETITIVE ENERGY- ONLY ELECTRICITY MARKETS

In theory, competitive energy-only electricity markets should provide an optimal level of investment in generating capacity. This optimum, however, is easily disturbed, as a result of which there is a risk of an investment cycle. A second significant weakness of energy-only markets is that they are extremely vulnerable to price manipulation during periods of scarcity As a result, prices will be higher and supply less reliable than in the competitive benchmark. Therefore an adjustment to the market structure is called for to ensure generation adequacy and to improve the operational incentives for generating companies.
Providing aid in complex refugee situations : A case study of

This paper aims to provide a reflection on the humanitarian response to the “migration crisis” along the Balkans route during 2015. Firstly, the characteristics of and dissimilarities to other crises are identified in terms of the engagement of non-traditional actors, the repeated responses at several posts en route and the limited timeframe for relief operations caused by the temporary presence of the respective beneficiaries in one place. Based on this contextual analysis, the case study examines a project which originally aimed to provide information and basic protection activities to asylum seekers travelling through the Belgrade area, but had to be scaled up to take into account a greater number of beneficiaries with more diverse needs than was initially anticipated. Similar developments in other relief activities along the route allowed an identification of the basic lessons learned for the responders on the ground, which would be useful when establishing future projects under similar conditions.
A Framework for Biometric Security based on OTP in Mobile Devices

Biometric technology has been proposed as a new means to replace conventional PIN or password because it is hard to be lost and has the low possibility of illegal use. However, unlike a PIN or password, there is no way to modify the exposure if it is exposed and used illegally. To solve the problems, we propose to apply OTP using biometric information to mobile devices for more secure and adaptable authentication. In this paper, we propose a secure framework for delivering biometric information as mobile OTP to the server (TTP) and compared this paper with existed methods about security and performance.
Seizing the Moment: Can Game Sense Further Inform Sport Teaching in Australian Physical Education?

Australia is progressively implementing a national curriculum for grades Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 10. The need to foreground sport teaching and learning in school settings as part of this curriculum development was highlighted by the recent Australian Government report, The Future of Sport in Australia (Australian Government, 2009). The Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (2010) has also indicated that student participation in quality physical education and sport will be a priority when the physical education curriculum is developed. As the Australian Government’s Future of Sport in Australia report (2009) has recommended an improved status for sport in physical education when the national physical education curriculum is developed, it is timely to consider what place a teaching approach such as Game Sense could play in achieving this outcome. I suggest a more obvious emphasis on learning through a pedagogically progressive model for sport engagement is offered by Game Sense. Therefore, the purpose of this article will be to discuss how Game Sense (Charlesworth, 1994; den Duyn, 1996), an Australian approach to sport teaching and learning in school settings similar to Teaching Games for Understanding, may contribute to an emerging national curriculum. An overview of the development of Game Sense will lead to a consideration of its merit as a model for quality sport teaching. L’Australie est en voie d’implanter des programmes-cadres nationaux (jardin /maternelle a 10 e annee). Un rapport publie par le gouvernement australien en 2009 intitule The Future of Sport in Australia souligne la necessite d’integrer l’enseignement et l’apprentissage du sport en milieu scolaire a ces programmes-cadres. Le Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (2010) a egalement indique que la participation des eleves a des cours d’education physique et sportive de qualite constitue une priorite dont il faudra necessairement tenir compte tout au long des travaux d’elaboration des programmes-cadres d’education physique. Puisque le rapport du gouvernement australien recommande de rehausser le statut du sport en eduction physique dans les nouveaux programmes-cadres nationaux, il convient de reflechir a la place d’une approche pedagogique comme celle de Game Sense dans l’atteinte de cet objectif. L’auteur est d’avis que Game Sense permet de mettre l’accent sur l’apprentissage en proposant un modele pedagogique de participation sportive progressive. , L’article examine en quoi Game Sense (Charlesworth, 1994; den Duyn, 1996), une approche australienne axee sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage du sport en milieu scolaire semblable a celle d’Apprendre et comprendre par le jeu pourrait s’integrer aux nouveaux programmes-cadres. Un apercu du processus d’elaboration de Game Sense aidera a faire ressortir ses merites comme modele d’un enseignement sportif de qualite.
Designing Microfinance to Enable Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from India

Excerpt] This paper focuses on a key aspect of microfinance contracts repayment schedules to determine the impact of greater flexibility in repayment schedules on clients’ ability to smooth consumption as well as increase income by putting their loans in less liquid but higher return investments. Traditionally, microfinance repayment schedules are notoriously rigid, involving high frequency repayment in small installments beginning soon after loan disbursement, an important aspect of the lending model pioneered by earliest MFIs such as the Grameen Bank (Armendariz and Morduch 2005). However, in theory, clients are likely to be better off under more flexible repayment terms, which would give them greater ability to smooth consumption in the face of unanticipated shocks and encourage them to invest more of the loan in relatively illiquid but potentially higher return business investments (Field and Pande 2008). Through both of these channels, introducing flexibility in the timing of repayment by reducing repayment frequency could increase client long-run business income.
Synthesis of Mesoporous TiO2-Al2O3 Binary Oxides Photocatalyst by Sol-Gel Method Using PEG1000 as Template

The mesoporous TiO2-Al2O3 binary oxides were prepared by sol-gel method using PEG1000 as template. The effects of PEG1000 concentration on the properties and photocatalytic activity of the materials were investigated. The binary oxides were composed of nanocrystallite anatase TiO2 and amorphous Al2O3. The surfaces of the samples prepared with PEG1000 were rough and had many long grooves on the surfaces. When PEG1000 concentration increased from 0 to 0.048 mol/L, the BET specific surface area of the samples changed from 99 to 140 m2·g−1, and the average pore size decreased from 22 to 11 nm. The TiO2-Al2O3 binary oxides prepared at PEG1000 concentration of 0.03 mo/L had the maximum photocatalytic activity and high adsorption capacity. Methyl orange photocatalytic degradation and adsorption rates on 600 mg/l of TiO2-Al2O3 binary oxides were 36.1% and 18.6% after 30 min, respectively. Total removal of the dye was achieved after 3 h of reaction.
The 15 August 2007 Peru tsunami runup observations and modeling

On 15 August 2007 an earthquake with moment magnitude (Mw) of 8.0 centered off the coast of central Peru, generated a tsunami with locally focused runup heights of up to10 m. A reconnaissance team was deployed two weeks after the event and investigated the tsunami effects at 51 sites. Three tsunami fatalities were reported south of the Paracas Peninsula in a sparsely populated desert area where the largest tsunami runup heights were measured. Numerical modeling of the earthquake source and tsunami suggest that a region of high slip near the coastline was primarily responsible for the extreme runup heights. The town of Pisco was spared by the Paracas Peninsula, which blocked tsunami waves from propagating northward from the high slip region. The coast of Peru has experienced numerous deadly and destructive tsunamis throughout history, which highlights the importance of ongoing tsunami awareness and education efforts to ensure successful self‐evacuation.
DNA methylation patterns on plant chromosomes

Abstract DNA methylation patterns of chromosomes belonging to several plant species have been investigated. We have reported previous data obtained by means of different indirect immunocytochemical approaches with specific antibodies against 5-methyl cytosine. The processed results have been comparatively discussed with the aim to provide further insight into certain aspects of the structure and organization on the chromosome level of the plant genome.
Compassion as a Practical and Evolved Ethic for Conservation

The ethical position underpinning decision making is an important concern for conservation biologists when setting priorities for interventions. The recent debate on how best to protect nature has centered on contrasting intrinsic and aesthetic values against utilitarian and economic values, driven by an inevitable global rise in conservation conflicts. These discussions have primarily been targeted at species and ecosystems for success, without explicitly expressing concern for the intrinsic value and welfare of individual animals. In part, this is because animal welfare has historically been thought of as an impediment to conservation. However, practical implementations of conservation that provide good welfare outcomes for individuals are no longer conceptually challenging; they have become reality. This reality, included under the auspices of “compassionate conservation,” reflects an evolved ethic for sharing space with nature and is a major step forward for conservation.
Conjugated vaccines against serogroup A, C, W-135 and y disease

Licensure of highly effective meningococcal C conjugate vaccines represented an enormous progress in the possibility of controlling meningococcal C disease. The unpredictable changing serogroup epidemiology of meningococcal disease emphasizes the need of developing combination conjugate vaccines, containing more than one meningococcal polysaccharide, to broaden protection against the disease. A quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine (A-C-W135-Y) conjugated to diphtheria toxoid is available only in United States and Canada for use in persons 2-55 years of age. However, in infants (the age group with the highest incidence rates of disease) the vaccine proved to be not immunogenic and is therefore not licensed for use in children younger than 2 years.A novel tetravalent meningococcal vaccine (A-C-W135-Y) conjugated to a non-toxic diphtheria mutant toxin (CRM197) is being evaluated in Phase III trials and has demonstrated to be immunogenic and well tolerated in all age groups, including infants, representing, at last, a real possibility of a broader protection against meningococcal disease.
Cyber-Physical System and Internet of Things Security: An Overview

An increase of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched by botnets such as Mirai has raised public awareness regarding potential security weaknesses in the Internet of Things (IoT). Devices are an attractive target for attackers because of their large number and due to most devices being online 24/7. In addition, many traditional security mechanisms are not applicable for resource constraint IoT devices. The importance of security for cyber-physical systems (CPS) is even higher, as most systems process confidential data or control a physical process that could be harmed by attackers. While industrial IoT is a hot topic in research, not much focus is put on ensuring information security. Therefore, this paper intends to give an overview of current research regarding the security of data in industrial CPS. In contrast to other surveys, this work will provide an overview of the big CPS security picture and not focus on special aspects.
Design and Development of Efficient Content Independent Genealogy

Whenever researchers go for a literature review for a new topic which is unfamiliar to them, they want to collect all relevant documents which influence the topic most, but while doing all these they need to collect huge number of papers, which makes them difficult to study each and every paper. To solve these problems, this paper proposed Design which focused on, how to find out relevant papers with respect to query, Discrimination of survey paper and Implementation paper, and creation of their genealogy. First it will find out all relevant matching papers with respect to keywords given in query which is preprocessed earlier, again there is a provision for a user to discriminate survey and implementation paper, and then it will create genealogy of those paper, by making association or interlinking among all matching documents on the basis of references of each paper have. This Genealogy will help user to get a quick look at, which papers are relevant for our topic of research, and association among them, so that user will focus on those documents only for literature review problem and not straying us on less important or unwanted documents.
Robust modifications of U-statistics and applications to covariance estimation problems

Let $Y$ be a $d$-dimensional random vector with unknown mean $\mu$ and covariance matrix $\Sigma$. This paper is motivated by the problem of designing an estimator of $\Sigma$ that admits tight deviation bounds in the operator norm under minimal assumptions on the underlying distribution, such as existence of only 4th moments of the coordinates of $Y$. To address this problem, we propose robust modifications of the operator-valued U-statistics, obtain non-asymptotic guarantees for their performance, and demonstrate the implications of these results to the covariance estimation problem under various structural assumptions.
Perception and Production of Spanish Lexical Stress by Spanish Heritage Speakers and English L 2 Learners of Spanish

In the literature on second language phonology, numerous studies have investigated the influence of the speech sounds from the first language (L1) to the second language (L2) (Flege et al., 1995; Flege et al., 1999; Kuhl et al., 2003), while relatively little research has been done in the opposite direction, i.e., the influence from the L2 to the L1. Thus, the present study explores a possible influence from the L2 to the L1 by focusing on heritage speakers in the United States (US). 1 It is of interest whether heritage speakers, who are more dominant in English (L2; majority language) than their heritage language (L1; minority language), have their heritage language influenced by their English. The present study also examines whether heritage speakers show similar patterns in their perception and production of the heritage language. Previous studies support that language-specific patterns emerge in speech perception prior to speech production (Imada et al., 2006; Kuhl et al., 2008; Moore & Guan, 2001; Perani et al., 2003). Although heritage speakers have been exposed to the heritage language from infancy, given that the heritage language is spoken far less frequently than it is heard (Hakimzadeh & Cohn, 2007; Kim, 2010), a discrepancy between these two domains may be found. Focusing on heritage speakers of Spanish and their perception and production of Spanish lexical stress, this study investigates whether heritage speakers of Spanish are able to perceive stress contrasts in Spanish (e.g., páso ‘I pass’ vs. pasó ‘he/she passed’) and whether they successfully distinguish these contrasts in their production. Heritage speakers’ performance was compared to that of monolingual native speakers of Spanish (i.e., control group) and English L2 learners of Spanish in order to determine whether they show a target-like behavior and if not whether their non-target-like behavior is due to influence from English.
Resilience thinking and urban planning in a coastal environment at risks of tsunamis: the case study of Mehuín, Chile

It is critical to understand how to accommodate the 'resilience thinking' approach in city planning, in order for urban environments to adapt to extreme natural events. This study explored from both a conceptual and applied perspective, whether or not the resilience thinking approach has been adressed in urban plan-ning, using Mehuin, Chile, as a case study. The methodology involved a qualitative review of planning tools, in orden to analyze the extent to which urban resilience attributes (e.g. diversity and redundancy) are addressed in Mehuin's planning, do-cuments, along with a quantitative evaluation of resilience dimensions (i.e. physi-cal, environmental and social) for Mehuin's urban environment. Our findings indicated that the environmental dimension has the greatest influence on the adaptive capacity of Mehuin; however, this is not addressed in the urban planning tools. These divergent results are further discussed with respect to the potential challenges that could arise in current planning science, as we know it.
The direction of the academic orientations of students in the process of implementation of the Education course as a value

The current economic change positive trait is fact that the Latvian education and management practices, increasingly more important concepts: interest, attitude . The article analyzes the university pedagogical students' attitude towards study as academic orientation. Discussion: Why pedagogy students formed strong field of interest, presenting certain academic progress? Conclusions: Student's interests-Future teachers work nowadays due to the student's interests in promoting the value of awareness and attitude towards studies
Satellite Images Recovery Based on Wiener filter

As for the problem that ground scenery image interfered causes its quality decreased, and in order to get high-quality data ground scenery, in this paper, firstly analyze the main factors of image degradation and then we adopt wiener filtering to recover image which is interfered by movement blurred and noise. The results show the effectiveness of method.