jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
The Why and How of Transnational Teaching

Most countries today are facing the challenge of trying to increase enrolment in higher education but to do so in ways that are affordable and sustainable and in which increased access represents a reasonable chance of ultimate success. The increasing ubiquity and flexibility of technology creates multiple avenues for institutions to open access to higher education and for students to access this provision. This has yielded a steady increase in cross-border/transnational provisions for higher education. In this, the developing countries of Africa have tended to be consumers of services and materials rather than producers. The potential of TDL in reaching large numbers of people is obvious, but there are still a number of militating factors that need to be addressed if this potential is to be fully realised. This chapter explores some of the reservations that have existed among African higher education institutions, until recently, regarding transnational provisions, and then looks at why this is now changing, with examples of recent developments, and reflects on some lessons for how meaningful transnational engagement can be facilitated.

Topic: International Student and Expatriate Challenges
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases of bananas: present status and outlook. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases held in San Jose, Costa Rica on 20-23 May 2002.

Thriteen years after the 1st international workshop on Sigatoka diseases of Banana held in San José, Costa Rica, in March 1989, the present proceedings offer an overview of the current situation regarding Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases at the global level.

Topic: Banana Cultivation and Research
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Politeness Theory

Politeness theory grew out of the emergent traditions of pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics in the 1970s. It was not, however, until the 1980s and 1990s that research and development of politeness from an academic perspective really blossomed. Linguistic‐politeness researchers are interested in how participants create, maintain, or repair positive social, and hence effective interpersonal relationships within and through linguistic interaction, in a range of sociologically or pragmatically understood settings. This article provides an historical account of politeness theory, showing how each new theoretical formulation led to a critique that, in turn, generated a new family of politeness theorizing.

Topic: Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Effect of wheat flour protein variations on sensory attributes, texture and staling of Taftoon bread

The quality of flat breads depends in part on the textural properties of breads during storage. These properties are largely affected by flour protein quality and quantity. The present study aimed to examine differences between sensory properties, textural and staling of Tandoori breads made from flours of different quality and different quantities of protein. This was implemented by using three flours with 9.4, 11.5 and 13.5% protein contents and different protein qualities shown by Zeleney sedimentation volume 16.25, 22.75 and 23.25 mL respectively. Bread strips were submitted to uniaxial compression between two parallel plates on an Instron Universal Testing machine, and firmness of the breads was determined. Results indicated the differences in the sensory attributes of breads produced by flours of different protein content and quality, demonstrating that high protein high quality flours are not able to sheet and expand under the high temperature - short time conditions employed in Taftoon bread production and are therefore not suitable for this kind of bread. Results showed that flour with 11.5% protein content, produced bread with better sensory characteristics and acceptable storage time.&lt;br&gt;A qualidade do pão tipo flat bread (pão sírio, pita, chapati, paratha, ataif etc.) depende, em parte, de suas propriedades de textura durante o armazenamento. Tais propriedades são amplamente afetadas pela quantidade e qualidade da proteína da farinha utilizada. Este estudo visa examinar as diferenças entre as propriedades sensoriais, textura e deterioração de pães Tandoori feitos de farinha com diferente qualidade e quantidade de proteína. Para isso, foram usadas três farinhas contendo 9.4, 11.5 e 13.5% de proteína e diferentes níveis de qualidade demonstrados por volumes de sedimentação de Zeleney: 16,25, 22,75 e 23,25 mL, respectivamente. Tiras de pão foram submetidas à compressão uniaxial entre duas placas paralelas em uma Máquina Universal de Ensaios Instron para determinar a firmeza do pão. Os resultados apresentaram diferenças nos atributos sensoriais dos pães feitos de farinha com diferente conteúdo e qualidade de proteína demonstrando que farinhas com proteína de alta qualidade não formam lâminas nem expandem sob alta temperatura - condições aplicadas na produção de pães Tatfoon, mas que não são adequadas para este tipo de pão. Os resultados demonstram ainda que a farinha com 11,5% de proteína produziu pão com as melhores características sensoriais e tempo de armazenamento aceitável.

Topic: Food composition and properties
Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Performance improvement of a sigma-delta modulator using fractional-order disturbance observer

This paper proposes a novel design of a high order closed-loop Sigma-Delta modulator using a fractional-order disturbance observer, which can reduce the influence of possible dispersions of the sensing element and offset the effect of the external disturbance. The proof mass can maintain near its position of equilibrium by using the proposed fractional-order disturbance observer, which ensures a better control of the proof mass displacement, and the small proof mass displacement can enhance the sensor resolution and the overall system performance. Fractional-order disturbance observer possesses stronger robust stability of interference elimination, because the introduction of fractional calculus makes Q-filter expanding from an integer domain to a real-number domain. Experimental results from the proposed architecture shows an increase of more than 2X improved in signal quantization noise ratio compared to the pure high-order closed-loop Sigma-Delta modulator, and also the proposed Sigma-Delta modulator with a fractional-order disturbance observer improves the performance of disturbance attenuation and system robustness.

Topic: Advanced Control Systems Design
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Using Kotter’s theory to lead change at University of Khartoum: A qualitative study

Changes in Universities need to be prepared, enforced, and sustained to turn the universities into institutions that can function effectively and efficiently. Kotter’s change model is one of the most widely recognised models for leading change, and yet there are few case studies have been used this model in the academic literature. Therefore, this study aimed to test Kotter’s change model at University of Khartoum. To do so, a qualitative research design was followed. To collect data a semi-structured interview was used with 11 leaders in the University of Khartoum. The thematic analysis has shown that create an environment for change depends on create urgency, and develop a vision for change that convinces staff members to participate in the change process. It is evident that the University of Khartoum has engaged and enabled the staff members in each college and work unit to embrace the change. Besides, the analysis indicated that for the change to be implemented and sustained it needs to removing obstacles and making it the university culture. The paper recommended that the importance of change must be embedded in the vision of the University of Khartoum to create a strong climate for change in the University environment.

Topic: Higher Education Governance and Development
Subfield: Political Science and International Relations
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Jesus Christ as Woman Wisdom? Complicating the Gender of Christ

Feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray’s claim that Christianity lacks a female saviour is countered by the feminist and/or postmodern theologies of Elizabeth A. Johnson, Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza, Graham Ward, and Gavin D’Costa, who together complicate the gender of Jesus Christ using the neglected biblical figure of Woman Wisdom. Since Woman Wisdom’s words, actions, and identity correspond to those of Jesus Christ, such imagery emphasizes that Jesus Christ is divine and therefore beyond male and female. The historical Jesus of Nazareth cannot, however, be neglected, but neither is he straightforwardly male. In feminist/gender theory terms, Jesus can be affirmed as biologically male, but not as conforming to the ‘patriarchal’ socio-cultural male gender of his context, particularly since Woman Wisdom performs many of the same actions. Finally, Jesus Christ is rendered male and female in the members of the Church, which is thus the multi-gendered Body of Christ.

Topic: Karl Barth and Christian Theology
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Down on the farm: preventing farm accidents in children.

Agriculture continues to rank as the most dangerous industry in the United States. The objectives of this pilot study were to identify the incidence of care provided to children involved in farm accidents, examine barriers to utilization of farm safety materiaJs by primary health care practitioners (PHCPs), and determine the percentage of PHCPs who provide anticipatory guidance related to farm safety. Pender's revised Health Promotion Model (2006) was used. A survey was developed and mailed to 110 PHCPs of all levels in North West Pennsylvania. The return rate was 20%. Types of injuries identified by the PHCPs included lacerations and musculosketal injuries caused by animals and farm equipment. Forty-five percent of the PHCPs reporting asked new patients/families if their children lived or worked on a farm. Eighteen percent specifically focused on farm-related injury prevention. Fourteen percent were aware of farm injury prevention materials and 73% were interested in receiving such materials. A larger study needs to be conducted to validate these findings.

Topic: Agriculture and Farm Safety
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Music of the 1980s

Beyond coverage of mainstream 80s music, such as hair band hard rock, pop, new wave, and rap, this compilation of essential musical artists also covers genres like classical, jazz, outlaw country, and music theater. * A bibliography with sources on top musical trends in the 1980s * An index of this decade's top musical artists

Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Why Does the Peso-Dollar Exchange Rate Show a Depreciation Trend?: The Role of Productivity Differentials

Over the last three decades, Mexico’s macroeconomic policy has been driven by a sound orthodox strategy: an open economy via many trade agreements signed since the mid-1980s, a nominal exchange rate under a flexible regime since 1994, central bank autonomy, and responsible fiscal policy, among other benchmarks. Nevertheless, the exchange rate has continued on a path of depreciation against the US dollar. In this paper, we show that although an equilibrium relationship exists between the exchange rate and prices in Mexico and the US (its main commercial partner), there are other forces affecting the former. The main factor in this relentless long-term depreciation is the loss of productivity in Mexico relative to the US. In addition, we show that the extraordinary liquidity supplied by the US during the 2008 crisis caused the Mexican peso to appreciate against the dollar.

Topic: Economic Theory and Policy
Subfield: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Scriptural Reasoning and the Ethics of Public Discourse

Research Article| September 01 2017 Scriptural Reasoning and the Ethics of Public Discourse Gary Slater Gary Slater St. Edward’s University Gary Slater is visiting assistant professor of religious and theological studies at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. His primary research focus is American pragmatism, but he also works in environmental ethics, the ethics of technology, and method and theory in the study of religion. As his article in this issue demonstrates, he also has interests in diagnosing and remediating communication problems within and between diverse religious and political communities. He recently published C. S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2017) 38 (2-3): 123–137. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.38.2-3.0123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gary Slater; Scriptural Reasoning and the Ethics of Public Discourse. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 1 January 2017; 38 (2-3): 123–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.38.2-3.0123 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Journal of Theology & Philosophy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Topic: Religious Education and Schools
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
AN INTEGRATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH FOR HUMAN SCIENCES BASED ON ENVY, ADMIRATION, FEAR AND FATHERHOOD

A proper interdisciplinary approach to the human sciences requires the application of concepts common to all disciplines with the highest relevance in each. We suggest that the concepts of envy, admiration, and fear, together with the concept of fatherhood offer a conceptual framework able to describe human behavior in a wide range of contexts. Indeed, to be a human being is to feel inferior, a condition that gives birth to three major passions: envy, admiration, and fear. On the other hand, to be superior is always to hold the place of a father figure. Then we show that these concepts, which are self-evident in morality, philosophy, theology, and psychology, can be applied broadly as well in anthropology, sociology, economics, and politics. Finally, we conduct a brief case study on gang violence to show the relevance of this conceptual framework.

Topic: Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
<i>The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance</i>. Edited by Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell. London: Routledge, 2014; 352 pp.; illustrations. $205.00 cloth, $49.95 paper, e-book available

March 01 2016 The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance. Edited by Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell. London: Routledge, 2014; 352 pp.; illustrations. $205.00 cloth, $49.95 paper, e-book available Kee-Yoon Nahm Kee-Yoon Nahm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kee-Yoon Nahm Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 ©2016 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2016 TDR/The Drama Review (2016) 60 (1 (229)): 173–175. https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_r_00533 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Kee-Yoon Nahm; The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance. Edited by Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell. London: Routledge, 2014; 352 pp.; illustrations. $205.00 cloth, $49.95 paper, e-book available. TDR/The Drama Review 2016; 60: 1 (229), 173–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_r_00533 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsTDR/The Drama Review Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. ©2016 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Topic: Theater, Performance, and Music History
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Performance measurement using data envelopment analysis and financial statement analysis

This paper is an analysis of performance measurement in some of Taiwan's electronic companies. Most previous studies concerning company performance measurement focus merely on operational efficiency. Operational effectiveness, however, which might directly influence the survival of a company, is usually ignored. This paper constructs a conceptual framework, based on the Financial Statement Analysis (FSA), to define the meaning of performance. Also, this paper presents a study, which uses an innovative two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model that separates efficiency and effectiveness to evaluate the performance of 59 listed corporations of the electronic industry in Taiwan. The empirical results indicate that a company with a better efficiency does not always have better effectiveness. There is no apparent correlation between these two indicators.

Topic: Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
The richness of plants in Art Nouveau gardens

&lt;p&gt;The turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries signified the appearance of a new trend in art called Art Nouveau in England, &lt;em&gt;Stile floreale&lt;/em&gt; in Italy, and in Poland – &lt;em&gt;secesja&lt;/em&gt;. It was an attempt to escape from the style that copied historical forms and set a new direction of development. The main inspiration for the creators of this period became nature, its asymmetry, variety of textures, subtle colors or smooth, and wavy lines. Artistic motifs were drawn from the richness of native flora and fauna. Flowering shrubs, perennials and creepers were especially inseparable decorative and compositional elements of a garden. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secession had a significant impact on painting, sculpture, architecture, and garden design. The space surrounding people was treated comprehensively by blurring the boundaries between different arts. A multitude of shrubs – especially roses and lots of perennials such as &lt;em&gt;Lilium&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Iris&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Phlox&lt;/em&gt;, gave the impression of architecture immersing in the surrounding garden.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The aim of the paper was to briefly analyze the Art Nouveau style and present the diversity of species used in the gardens of that period.&lt;/p&gt;

Topic: Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
Subfield: Plant Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Eating Behavior and its Disorders

This chapter examines the most representative pathological behaviors of the so-called feeding and eating disorders, with a particular attention to the psychopathological meaning of the different behaviors. These behaviors, including restrictive diet, binge eating, purging, or obsessive control of body shape are generally adopted to define the broad category of eating disorders. In particular, it is considered the trans-nosographic and dimensional approach to the eating disorder psychopathology, as most of the symptoms described in this chapter can be observed also in different psychopathological conditions. The chapter considers the subjective transformation in patients of the original meaning of food and alimentation into something negative and dangerous, adopting a phenomenological approach to eating disorders.

Topic: Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
A TEST OF THE ABC MODEL UNDERLYING RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY

The ABC model underlying Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy predicts that people who think more irrationally should respond to daily stressors or hassles differently than do people who think less irrationally. This study tested this aspect of the ABC model. 192 college students were administered the Survey of Personal Beliefs and the Hassles Scale to measure irrational thinking and daily hassles, respectively. Students who scored higher on overall irrational thinking reported a significantly higher frequency of hassles than did those who scored lower on overall irrational thinking, while students who scored higher on awfulizing and low frustration tolerance reported a significantly greater intensity of hassles than did those who scored lower on awfulizing and low frustration tolerance. This indicates support for the ABC model, especially Ellis's construct of irrational beliefs central to this model.

Topic: Psychological Treatments and Assessments
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
The Mother's International: Song of the Cooperative Women's Guild

Round the world a new song’s ringing, Listen, women of all climes, ’Tis the mothers’ song we’re singing, Telling hopes of happier times. We put all hate behind us, We whose hearts are sick and sore, Tired of strife and empty victories — Bear the pangs of war no more.

Topic: Irish and British Studies
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Polymorphism and Bio-information of TGFB3 Gene in Goat

The polymorphism of TGFB3 gene in Qianbeima goat,Inner Mongolia cashmere goat and Guanzhong dairy goat was detected by PCR direct sequence method based on a pair of specific primers selected from TGFB3 genomic sequence(NM_001101183) in cow to provide the theoretical basis for goat breeding.The results showed that there was a polymorphism locus(SNP G-212-A) at 212 bp of the first exon of TGFB3 gene in Qianbeima goat,there were 28 transcription factor binding sites with more than 96 scores(two CdxAs,eighteen HSFs,two ADR1,one AML1a,three GCR11s,one cap and one SRY) by analyzing regulator sequence of TGFB3 5'flank but CpG island was not detected in TGFB3 5'regulator region.

Topic: Medicinal Plant Pharmacodynamics Research
Subfield: Pharmacology
Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Domain: Life Sciences