Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hand-made well-being: Textile crafts as a source of eudaimonic well-being

Abstract The aim of this study was to examine how textile crafts are described as a psychological well-being-enhancing leisure activity in female textile craft makers’ narratives. To this, the stories of Rose, Ann, Mary and Sheila are depicted to represent how the eudaimonic intrinsic needs of doing, belonging, becoming and being were expressed in crafting. The qualitative study is based on written narratives of 65 female textile crafters aged 31–88 years. The data were analyzed using content analysis drawing on Wilcock’s theory of eudaimonic well-being. The narratives revealed that crafting improved the participants’ well-being in different ways. The results showed that the focus was not on seeking pleasure and satisfaction or on manufacturing need-based products but, above all, on crafting a richer and more purposeful life through self-actualization and excellence in doing, social connectedness in belonging, self-empowerment in becoming, and relief from stress in being.
The effects of passive avoidance learning on the release of amino acids and other putative transmitters in the forebrain of the day-old chick.

' 1 Chapter 1: Amino Acids as Neurotransmitters Introduction , / • / " . 3 . I Amino acid neurotransm itters 3 Pathways of amino acid synthesis and degradation 6 Amino acid release 7 Amino acid receptors 13 Excitatory amino acid receptors 15 Inhibitory amino acid receptors 19 Amino acid uptake systems 22 Chapter 2: Synaptic Plasticity, Learning and M emory, w ith reference to the Domestic Chick Gallus domesticus
The Nurture Effects of Multidimensional Parental Skills on College Attainment

We investigate the nurture effects of parental cognitive and socioemotional skills on child college attainment. By studying a sample of adopted children in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we identify nongenetic effects of parental skills on college attainment. We find that parental intelligence quotient and openness act positively on child college attainment, while agreeableness has a negative impact. A 1 standard deviation difference in each of the skills translates to a 5–6 percentage point difference in college attainment, similar to the effect size of income. Finally, we find that the nurture effects of intelligence quotient and agreeableness are driven largely by fathers, while that of openness is driven by mothers.
Biomedical waste and solid waste management draft rules, 2015: A comment

Waste management is increasingly being given focus and attention throughout the globe in view of its diverse and adverse consequence to human and environmental health. Recently government has released draft biomedical waste and solid waste management rules, 2015 and invited comments from stakeholders. This brief provides update on bio medical waste, solid waste management especially community disposal of sanitary waste and highlights some of the concerns.
Personnalité et dynamique affective : efficacité des stratégies de régulation

Bien que les relations entre personnalite et strategies de regulations emotionnelles aient ete large-ment etudiees, les etudes sur la variabilite intra-individuelle des strategies et leur efficacite sur le vecu affectif en fonction de la personnalite sont rares (Kuppens, Van Mechelen, Nezlok, Dossche & Timmermans, 2007). L’objectif est ici d’etudier l’efficacite de strategies en fonction de la personna-lite via un protocole ESM : 160 adultes tout-venant (de 14 a 80 ans, moyenne 37 ans, ecart-type 17 ans) ont ete interroges 5 fois par jour, a intervalles reguliers, pendant 14 jours. Le protocole permet d’evaluer les affects ressentis (selon le modele circomplexe de Russell, 1999) et l’utilisation de six strategies de regulation. Les participants ont egalement complete un questionnaire de personnalite (sur le modele du Big-Five, concernant l’extraversion, le nevrosisme et le caractere consciencieux). Des modeles lineaires generalises a effet mixte (GLMM), estimes au niveau intra-individuel, ont permis d’analyser l’interaction entre les traits de personnalite et les strategies de regulation emotion-nelle sur les niveaux d’affectivites (positive, negative et active). Les resultats montrent notamment que les personnes avec un faible niveau de nevrosisme n’ont pas besoin d’utiliser de strategies de regulation (reevaluation cognitive et coping probleme) pour ressentir des affects positifs (AP) au contraire des personnes plus instables emotionnellement. Chez les extravertis, la reevaluation cogni-tive est plus rapidement efficace dans l’augmentation des AP. De plus, le coping probleme est moins efficace pour les personnes etant peu consciencieuses que pour celles presentant un plus haut niveau sur ce trait de personnalite.
DO PRODUCTIVE SKILLS OF LANGUAGE ENHANCE LEARNERS’ COGNITIVE ABILITY? : AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SOFT CLIL TO TECHNOLOGY MAJORS

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is one of the subject areas which are being taught in Japan by employing CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Within the framework of teaching methodology, output tasks are considered to be effective in helping learners' cognition with the target language. UBM (Usage-based model) supports this idea as learners can use the language more in the output tasks to explain and illustrate what they are paying attention to. In this study, the hypothesis is examined by teaching English in CLIL methodology to technology majors at a Japanese university. Throughout the semester, the output-focused group (N=54) is oriented to output tasks, while the input-focused group (N=24) is focused on reading material. Both groups are taught by the same English teacher in Soft CLIL. Their improvement of understanding of English involved with logical thinking can be measured by pre- and post-GJTs (Grammaticality Judgement Tests) which contain causal relationship with conjunctions. A t-test of the results shows that both groups shows significant differences between pre- and post-tests (input: t=1.7633, p=0.04181; output: t=1.9017, p=0.03491). However, no significant differences between the input group and output group are observed in both pre- and post-tests.
Evaluation of lapatinib (Lap) plus capecitabine (Cap) in patients with brain metastases (BM) from HER2+ breast cancer (BC) enrolled in the Lapatinib Expanded Access Program (LEAP) and French Authorisation Temporaire d'Utilisation (ATU)

1094 Background: Lap has single agent activity against BM in patients (pts) with HER2+ (ErbB2+) BC. Lap + Cap increases response rate, time to progression, and progression-free survival when compared with Cap alone in pts with refractory HER2+ BC. An exploratory analysis of the latter study (EGF100151) showed fewer pts on Lap + Cap developed BM at first relapse compared with Cap alone. The LEAP and ATU were designed to provide access to Lap before commercial availability and were initiated after EGF100151 enrollment was halted. Eligibility requirements for these programs were similar to EGF100151, i.e., pts had disease progression following prior taxane, anthracycline, and trastuzumab therapy. Although data were not formally collected via case report forms, we surveyed LEAP and ATU sites to ascertain the percent of pts with progressive BM at entry and response to Lap + Cap. Methods: LEAP/ATU sites that enrolled 15 or more pts were queried to provide data via worksheets or narratives regarding progressive .
Profiles of cognitive change in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease using change-point analysis

Change-point analyses are increasingly used to identify the temporal stages of accelerated cognitive decline in the preclinical stages of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). However, statistical comparisons of change-points between specific cognitive measures have not been reported.165 older adults (baseline age range: 61.1-91.2) from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging developed AD during follow-up. Linear and non-linear mixed models were fit for 11 cognitive measures to determine change-points in rates of decline before AD diagnosis. Bootstrapping was used to compare the timing of change-points across cognitive measures.Change-points followed by accelerated decline ranged from 15.5 years (Card Rotations) to 1.9 years (Trail-Making A) before AD diagnosis. Accelerated decline in Card Rotations occurred significantly earlier than all other measures, including learning and memory measures.Results suggest that visuospatial ability, as assessed by Card Rotations, may have the greatest utility as an early predictive tool in identifying preclinical AD.
Conceptualizing school leadership in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cultures: Demarcating challenges for research

Although school turnaround has been studied extensively in Western contexts such as the United States, the applicability of remedies to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has not been extensively studied. The literature that exists predominantly uses a Western cultural lens. This article identifies four key dimensions of leadership for transformation of schools—what is leadership, who becomes a school leader, how are leaders supported, and do school leaders believe they can succeed—, contrasting between the Gulf region and the West; in doing so, the article seeks to explain why the solutions to school failure that originate from the West, widely understood around the globe, are either irrelevant or of limited use in this region. Drawing in part on the authors’ experience in establishing a leadership centre, through collaboration between the Ministry of Education in Bahrain and the Bahrain Teachers College, the article calls for systematic empirical studies to establish how each of the four dimensions inform region-specific approaches to leadership for school transformation and quality improvement. It concludes by arguing that researchers should explicitly consider the extent to which their findings can be translated into practical leadership action in a range of cultural settings.
An Investigation of the Psychometric Properties of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale in an Adolescent Sample

The aim of the present study evaluate psychometric properties of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAAS-A) in Turkish sample. The psychometric properties of SAAS-A were examined ona sample of 453 (235 girls, 218 boys) adolescents between 12-15 years of age. In order to determine the construct validity of SAAS-A, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. The factor analysis resulted in factors. Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) was used for the criterion validity. It was found positive and high correlations between SAAS-A and SAS-A. The Cronbach’s alpha for the SAAS-A was . 91 and the computed test re-test reliability coefficient was . 80. These findings demonstrate that the validity and the reliability of SAAS-A were satisfactory for the Turkish elementary school sample.
Psychodynamic perspectives on personality

Introduction Psychodynamic theory goes back more than 100 years and has been a principal influence in the early history of clinical pastoral education (CPE). It is a way of thinking about personality dynamics in interpreting and understanding both the spiritual care-provider and care-receiver. This module will briefly summarize the basic theory and punctuate psychodynamic concepts that have been significant in the study of psychology of religion and theological reflection in the practice of spiritual care and counselling.
Making sense of an innovation in a safety-critical megaproject

Purpose In megaprojects, changes in scope and organization may occur continuously. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how actors in a project network make sense of a safety-related process innovation introduced during the design phase. Design/methodology/approach An inductive single case study of an ongoing nuclear power plant project in Europe was employed to elucidate sensemaking processes using a narrative approach. Findings The empirical analysis yielded nine distinct narratives regarding the innovation each advancing a different account of the rationale for implementing the new method, and the subjects, objects and implications of the change. The findings suggest that actors’ differing framings of innovation may increase ambiguity and equivocality. Originality/value These insights augment existing knowledge of innovation management and system safety in safety-critical megaprojects by revealing project actors’ discrepant sensemaking processes with regard to innovations. To successfully manage sensemaking and its consequences for innovation adoption, managers need to take account of any such discrepancies in sensemaking processes.
A Positive Deviance Inquiry on Effective Communicative Practices of Rural Indian Women Entrepreneurs

Why do some rural women entrepreneurs in India succeed despite low levels of literacy, staggering household responsibility, unsupportive social structures, and oppressive cultural practices? The present article employed the Positive Deviance (PD) approach to identify the effective communication practices of rural women entrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, who succeed against overwhelming odds. Starting with an initial pool of 21,024 rural Indian women who received microloans for income-generation, and through several sieving rounds of focus group conversations with over 1,100 women, 24 PD women entrepreneurs were identified. A variety of participatory processes and liberating structures—Discovery and Action Dialogues (DADs), improvisational theater and prototyping, personal storytelling, and card-sorting games—were employed to identify the highly uncommon practices of PD entrepreneurs. These uncommon practices included micro interpersonal behaviours to connect deeply with customers, personalised branding of their businesses, daily diary jottings to monitor sales and profits, reframing value propositions to persuade customers, and others.
Toward a Better Understanding of Behavioral Ethics in the Workplace

The emerging field of behavioral ethics has attracted much attention from scholars across a range of different disciplines, including social psychology, management, behavioral economics, and law. However, how behavioral ethics is situated in relation to more traditional work on business ethics within organizational behavior (OB) has not really been discussed yet. Our primary objective is to bridge the different literatures on ethics within the broad field of OB, and we suggest a full-fledged approach that we refer to as behavioral business ethics. To do so, we review the foundations and research foci of business ethics and behavioral ethics. We structure our review on three levels: the intrapersonal level, interpersonal level, and organizational level. For each level, we provide relevant research examples and outline where more research efforts are needed. We conclude by recommending future research opportunities relevant to behavioral business ethics and discuss its practical implications.
Lesson Study in ITE: A Family of Approaches

Lesson study has become a popular approach for supporting the development of student-teachers within initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. In a short space of time, the original model of lesson study, originating in Japan, has been adapted to fit into the work contexts of different national systems and ITE provider structures. This chapter classifies the different emerging models of lesson study into three main groups, university and hybrid approaches, practicum approaches and heterodox approaches. Learning study is also considered, due to its developing popularity, as a practice development approach. Having outlined the different models of lesson study used in ITE, the authors go on to outline some of the main challenges and advantages of participating in lesson study which have been identified in the literature.
Situating Rahel Jaeggi in the Contemporary Frankfurt Critical Theory

ABSTRACT This article aims to show how the originality of Jaeggi’s contribution to recent debates in critical theory clearly emerges if one compares her approach with what in many ways represents its antecedent and constant point of reference: namely, the critical theory of Axel Honneth. This comparison offers a privileged way of grasping the advantages of Jaeggi’s approach with respect to that of Honneth. At the same time, reversing perspective, it permits us to focus on some open problems in Jaeggi’s critical theory, which deserve to be discussed with care. The negativistic, formal and procedural character of her critical theory, while on one hand shielding her approach from the risks to which the most recent theory of Honneth is exposed – historical teleologism and ethical substantialism – on the other hand exposes her approach to the risk of an excess of formalism and proceduralism, rendering it unable to tackle the central problem for any critical theory: namely, the link with a critical praxis and with the struggles for the emancipation of one’s own time.
EFFECTS OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES ON STUDENTS BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM

Recently, it is an increasing agreement in social sciences that experiences to violent media enhances violent behavior (Anderson, Shibuya, Ihori, Swing, Bushman, Sakamoto, & Saleem, 2010). The main purpose of the study was to examine and observe the impact of Violent Video Games on learners behavior in the classroom. It is harmfully effecting on the behavior of students at secondary school level. A mixed method research design was adopted for this study. The target population of this study was the secondary schools of Rawalpindi. Sixty eight students were conveniently selected from five secondary schools of Rawalpindi city. A five point Likert scale type questionnaire was used to collect the quantitative data. The questionnaire was consisted of Twenty one items. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Semistructured interviews were conducted with five secondary school teachers. Interview guide consisted of fourteen questions. Quantitative data was analyzed through descriptive statistics by calculating frequencies and percentages. The qualitative data was analysed thematically. Major findings of the study was that majority of the students play violent video games. Students‟ time, focus and preferences have been changed by the invasion of video games culture. Violent Video Games have changed their lifestyle and directly affect their studies and behavior in classroom.
To study the relation of HPV infection and cervix lesion in Guixi region

Objective:To discuss the relation of HPV infection and cervix lesion.Methods:1 228 reproductive life women in Guixi region who were suspected by HPV infection or cervix lesion were carried through HPV typing and liquid medium cytology examination,the patients who had cytology diagnosis≥ASCUS and HPV positive were put up colposcope biopsy.Results:① Positive rate of HPV was 25.3%(311/1 228). Liquid medium cytology diagnosis ≥ASCUS was 26.3%(324/1 228). Positive rate of HPV in ASCUS,LSIL,HSIL,SCC parted to 50.6%,66.2%,89.3%,100%. ②There was no significant difference between positive of cytology diagnosis≥LSIL19.6%(241/1 228) and histology diagnosis≥CINI 21.7%(266/1 228) (χ2=1.55,P0.05) ,coincidence rate of cytology preventive histology diagnosis,SCC 100%,HSIL92.8%,LSIL88.4%. Positive rate of HPV in histology diagnosis CINⅠ,CINⅡ,CINⅢ,SCC parted to 65.3%,81.5%,89.1%,100%, which to increase progressively in turn. ③ 16 isoforms were checked out in reproductive life women in the Guixi region who had infected HPV,low risk form 17.1%,high risk form 82.9%,single isoforms 80.1%,double or multi-isoforms 19.9%. HPV6,11 were seen mostly in low risk form,HPV16 was checked out the highest in high risk form to 30.1%,then HPV58 16.4%,HPV18 and 31 were to stand side by side the third high risk infected type.Conclusion:Because of high accuracy and definited gene type,HPV typing determination united liquid medium cytology and histology can screen cervix lesion cell more effectively,offer reliable cience bases for clinical prevention and cure cervix cancer.
FRI0266 Hemodynamic complications in systemic sclerosis patients with various stages of pulmonary arterial hypertension

Background Prognosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients is poor. PH is a pathophysiological state defined by an increase in mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) ≥25 mmHg as assessed by right heart catheterization (RHC) and borderline-PH is defined by mPAP ≥21 mmHg. A rise in mPAP is a late marker of the pulmonary arteries remodeling processes, and the pre-clinical phase of SSc (mPAP <21 mmHg) is largely unknown. Objectives To examine the hemodynamic characteristics in SSc with various stages from normal pulmonary pressure to PH stages. Methods Eighty-eight consecutive patients with SSc (80 women and 8 men, 72 limited cutaneous SSc and 16 diffuse cutaneous SSc; mean age 62±11 yr) were assessed by RHC in a single center from May 2005 to December 2011. They were classified into four groups by mPAP (Table): (1) normal pressure (NP) group; mPAP <15mmHg, (2) pre-PH group; 15≤ mPAP <20mmHg, (3) borderline-PH group; 21≤ mPAP <25 mmHg, (4) PH group; mPAP ≥25mmHg. Results Age was not different among 4 groups. The differences in the plasama levels of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), peak VO2, and % vital capacity/% diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (%VC/%DLCO) changed in parallel with PH stage. In only PH group, heart rate (HR) was significantly increased. Even in NP group, pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) was already increased, which might imply that pulmonary arteries in SSc were impaired in the very early stage. In pre-PH group, while PVR slightly increased, cardiac index (CI) markedly decreased below normal limit. Decreases in stroke volume index (StVI) became significant in not only PH but also borderline-PH and pre-PH groups. Conclusions According to our results, pulmonary arterial remodeling progresses faster than expected from mPAP in SSc patients, and earlier pharmacological intervention may be beneficial. Disclosure of Interest None Declared
ATTITUDINAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR THE MOTIVATION OF BEGINNERS IN SHORTHAND AS PERCEIVED BY OTM STUDENTS OF FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, BAUCHI

This work examined the Attitudinal Competencies required for the Motivation of Beginners in Shorthand as Perceived by OTM Students. It was predicated on the fact that students had a strong phobia for the subject shorthand, as well as the fact that there was a high failure rate. Reasons adduced for such feelings and failures included teachers’ poor motivational attitude. Hence, it became necessary to study appropriate attitudinal competencies teachers should possess to adequately motivate students, especially beginners. One hundred and Seventy OTM Students (30% of the entire population) responded to a structured instrument and provided data for the study. The Three research questions were analysed using Mean, patterned after the Five Point Likert Type Rating Scale, while the hypothesis was computer based, using Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The results of the study indicated that the three attitudinal competencies of cognitive, affective and conaitive were highly required for motivating beginner shorthand students, while the hypothesis showed a significant relationship in the opinion of students based on their level of experience. It was therefore, recommended amongst others, that teachers should form the habit of obtaining feedback from their students at the end of each teaching period to enable them improve continually. Key words: Motivation, attitudinal competencies, cognitive, affective, cognitive, Shorthand, Beginners.