Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor in adulthood.

Sir, – Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) is a rare tumor that predominates in infancy. It is an aggressive tumor with dismal outcome. We report a case of AT/ RT in a 44-year-old female who presented with headache. The tumor was localized in the right occipital lobe. Gross total resection, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy were administered, and the patient is alive 9 months since diagnosis with no evidence of disease.
Perspective: Identification of genetic variants associated with dopaminergic compensatory mechanisms in early Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is slowly progressive, and heterogeneity of its severity among individuals may be due to endogenous mechanisms that counterbalance the striatal dopamine loss. In this perspective paper, we introduce a neuroimaging-genetic approach to identify genetic variants, which may contribute to this compensation. First, we briefly review current known potential compensatory mechanisms for premotor and early disease PD, located in the striatum and other brain regions. Then, we claim that a mismatch between mild symptomatic disease, manifested by low motor score on the Unified PD Rating Scale (UPDRS), and extensive Nigro-Striatal (NS) degeneration, manifested by reduced uptake of [(123)I]FP-CIT, is indicative of compensatory processes. If genetic variants are associated with the severity of motor symptoms, while the level of striatal terminals degeneration measured by ligand uptake is taken into account and controlled in the analysis, then these variants may be involved in functional compensatory mechanisms for striatal dopamine deficit. To demonstrate feasibility of this approach, we performed a small "proof of concept" study (candidate gene design) in a sample of 28 Jewish PD patients, and preliminary results are presented.
“I feel better but I don't know why”: The psychology of implicit emotion regulation

Although emotion regulation has traditionally been conceived as a deliberative process, there is growing evidence that many emotion-regulation processes operate at implicit levels. This special issue of Cognition and Emotion showcases recent advances in theorising and empirical research on implicit emotion regulation. Implicit emotion regulation can be broadly defined as any process that operates without the need for conscious supervision or explicit intentions, and aims at modifying the quality, intensity, or duration of an emotional response. Implicit emotion regulation is likely to be pervasive in everyday life and may contribute considerably to the effectiveness of emotion regulation. Research in this area has developed several valid methods for measuring and manipulating implicit emotion. The contributions to this special issue highlight the significance of implicit emotion regulation in psychological adaptation, goal-directed behaviour, interpersonal behaviour, personality functioning, and mental health.
A Neural Model for Part-of-Speech Tagging in Historical Texts

Historical texts are challenging for natural language processing because they differ linguistically from modern texts and because of their lack of orthographical and grammatical standardisation. We use a character-level neural network to build a part-of-speech (POS) tagger that can process historical data directly without requiring a separate spelling normalisation stage. Its performance in a Swedish verb identification and a German POS tagging task is similar to that of a two-stage model. We analyse the performance of this tagger and a more traditional baseline system, discuss some of the remaining problems for tagging historical data and suggest how the flexibility of our neural tagger could be exploited to address diachronic divergences in morphology and syntax in early modern Swedish with the help of data from closely related languages.
Women’s Experience of Motherhood, Violations of Supervision Requirements and Arrests

Though parenting is commonly viewed as an important factor influencing women’s desistance from offending, little is known about how specific aspects of parenting relate to recidivism. The present study investigated the connections of parenting stress, parenting involvement, routine parenting activities and maternal motivations to violations of supervision conditions, including arrests, for a sample of 190 women. The findings support desistance theories that identify involvement in routine prosocial activities, in this case caring for children, as an important explanation for complying with requirements of supervision and avoiding arrest. In contrast, motivations regarding motherhood alone do not appear to provide a strong enough catalyst to shift women away from patterns of lawbreaking.
A three-dimensional construct of the aging eyebrow: the illusion of volume loss.

BACKGROUND The eyebrows and eyebrow fat pads, key structures in upper facial aesthetics, are particularly vulnerable to age-related changes. OBJECTIVES In this study, the authors compare the impact of aging on the eyebrows and eyebrow fat pad volume in men and women through three-dimensional (3D) volumetric analysis. METHODS Electronic medical records of patients seen at the Jules Stein Eye Institute in the Division of Orbital and Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery between 2005 and 2010 were reviewed. Patients were included if they had undergone investigative imaging of the orbit for unilateral pathology. Computed tomography (CT) scans of patients with Graves disease diagnosis, extensive orbital trauma, and/or previous eyebrow surgery were excluded. A total of 52 CT scans (24 men and 28 women) were retained for analysis. A 3D reconstruction software was used to analyze the scans and calculate volumes of the retroorbicularis oculi fat (ROOF), galeal fat (ROOF and subcutaneous fat), and soft tissue muscles. RESULTS Galeal and brow fat volumes showed a significant positive trend toward enlargement in women (P values of .01 and .05, respectively). Although men showed a tendency toward fat enlargement with age, this was not statistically significant. Soft tissue-muscle volume decreased significantly in aging women (9.32 mm(3)/y) (P = .02). Data indicated that soft tissue volume in men tended to increase with age (3.92 mm(3)/y) but not significantly (P = .36). Neither total volume nor brow thickness appeared to change significantly in women (P = .56, P = .73). In men, total volume and brow thickness showed weak evidence of increasing with age (P = .12, P = .22). Linear regressions of Hertel measurements with and without sex interaction showed no statistically significant trend between the amount of proptosis and the galeal or brow fat. CONCLUSIONS Although overall eyebrow volume does not change with age, the relative contribution of fat and soft tissue to the total volume does seem to change. This pattern also differs between males and females. As women age, the fat volume increases and the soft tissue volume decreases. In men, the shift from soft tissue volume to fat volume is less pronounced. Although many clinicians have been drawn to the concept of fat volume deflation as a key element of facial aging, this study does not support this perspective in the eyebrow fat pad. An increasingly refined understanding of the dynamics of facial aging is mandatory for clinical diagnosis and will likely provide the framework from which to develop more innovative treatment options.
On the effectiveness of screen mockups in requirements engineering: results from an internal replication

In this paper, we present and discuss the results of an internal replication of a controlled experiment for assessing the effectiveness of including screen mockups when adopting Use Cases. The results of the original experiment indicate a clear improvement in terms of understandability of functional requirements when screen mockups are present with no significant impact on effort. The data analysis of the replication, conducted also in this case with undergraduate students, confirms the results of the original experiment with slight differences, thus confirming that screen mockups facilitate the understanding of requirements without influencing the effort. We also sketch here some issues related to the documentation and communication between experimenters.
Don't Blame the Weather: Federal Natural Disaster Aid and Public Corruption

Previous research using data on convictions for corruption-related crimes from the Public Integrity Section (PIN) of the Department of Justice points to a positive correlation between the amount of corruption in a state and the amount of federal funds provided to the state for natural disaster relief. We take a closer look at the relation between public corruption and disaster assistance using more detailed data on corruption convictions for an expanded time period. Our analysis provides little support for the hypothesis that the provision of federal disaster aid increases public corruption. It suggests instead that prior evidence of such a linkage arises from an unexplained correlation during the 1990's between disaster aid and convictions of postal employees for crimes such as stealing mail. Convictions for postal service crimes appear to account for a large fraction of the total federal convictions reported by PIN, which could have far reaching implications given that the PIN data have been used so extensively in the corruption literature.
The Fate of Indigenous and Soviet Central Asian Jews in Afghanistan, 1933–1951

Starting in 1933 the government of Afghanistan began excluding Jews from trade, forced them to move from frontiers to the main cities, and declared a policy of forcing all Jews to leave the country. British, British Indian, and American records, including decoded Afghan, German, Japanese, Italian, and Soviet communications, shed light on the stated security rationale for the new practices. While Afghanistan treated other minorities arbitrarily, Afghan Jews and Jewish refugees from Soviet Central Asia suffered the most sustained persecution. The author argues that while Nazi ideology, example, and propaganda had some influence on a key minister, the predominant drivers of policy were an ingrained antisemitism and the assumption that many Soviet Jews who sought refuge in Afghanistan were “Bolshevik” agents; hostility was accentuated from the late 1930s by a sense of Muslim solidarity on Palestine. The author has uncovered evidence that can help us understand why, after 1945, British, British Indian, and American officials neither influenced Kabul to treat its Jewish minority more humanely, nor enabled the emigration of beleaguered and impoverished Jewish communities.
Compactly generated domain theory

We propose compactly generated monotone convergence spaces as a well-behaved topological generalisation of directed-complete partial orders (dcpos). The category of such spaces enjoys the usual properties of categories of ‘predomains’ in denotational semantics. Moreover, such properties are retained if one restricts to spaces with a countable pseudobase in the sense of E. Michael, a fact that permits connections to be made with computability theory, realizability semantics and recent work on the closure properties of topological quotients of countably based spaces (qcb spaces). We compare the standard domain-theoretic constructions of products and function spaces on dcpos with their compactly generated counterparts, showing that these agree in important cases, though not in general.
Configuration of VLSI Arrays in the Presence of Defects

The penalties for configuring VLSI arrays for yield enhancement are assessed. Each dement of the fabricated array is assumed to be defective with independent probability p. A fixed fractmn R of the elements are to be connected into a prespecified defect-free configuration by means of switched interconnections. The probability that this can be done, known as the yield, must be bounded away from zero. The additional interconnections required increase the integrated circuit's area by the area overhead ratio AOR. Propagation delay is determined by the maximum connection length d. The following results are shown. Connection of RN fixed pins to distinct nondefective elements from an N- element linear array requires d = O(log N), AOR = O(log N). Connection of RN pairs of elements from two N-element linear arrays requires only constant d and AOR. Connection of a chain ofRN 2 dements from an N x N array requires only constant d and AOR; this result is closely related to the percolation model of statistical physics. Connection of a V'-RN x d'-RN lattice from an N x N array requires d = (~( IV)-~ N). Algorithms are presented that connect any fraction R < I - p of the dements with yield approaching one as N increases.
Evaluation of Salmonella Growth at Low Concentrations of NaNO2 and NaCl in Processed Meat Products Using Probabilistic Model

This study developed probabilistic models to predict Salmonella growth in processed meat products formulated with varying concentrations of NaCl and NaNO2. A five-strain mixture of Salmonella was inoculated in nutrient broth supplemented with NaCl (0%, 0.25%, 0.5%, 0.75%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.25%, and 1.75%) and NaNO2 (0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, and 120 ppm). The inoculated samples were then incubated under aerobic and anaerobic conditions at 4°C, 7°C, 10°C, 12°C, and 15°C for up to 60 days. Growth (assigned the value of 1) or no growth (assigned the value of 0) for each combination was evaluated by turbidity. These growth response data were analyzed with a logistic regression to evaluate the effect of NaCl and NaNO2 on Salmonella growth. The results from the developed model were compared to the observed data obtained from the frankfurters to evaluate the performance of the model. Results from the developed model showed that a single application of NaNO2 at low concentrations did not inhibit Salmonella growth, whereas NaCl significantly (p<0.05) inhibited Salmonella growth at 10°C, 12°C, and 15°C, regardless of the presence of oxygen. At 4°C and 7°C, Salmonella growth was not observed in either aerobic or anaerobic conditions. When NaNO2 was combined with NaCl, the probability of Salmonella growth decreased. The validation value confirmed that the performance of the developed model was appropriate. This study indicates that the developed probabilistic models should be useful for describing the combinational effect of NaNO2 and NaCl on inhibiting Salmonella growth in processed meat products.
A Framework for an Adaptive Intrusion Detection System using Bayesian Network

The goal of a network-based intrusion detection system (IDS) is to identify malicious behavior that targets a network and its resources. Intrusion detection parameters are numerous and in many cases they present uncertain and imprecise causal relationships which can affect attack types. A Bayesian Network (BN) is known as graphical modeling tool used to model decision problems containing uncertainty. In this paper, a BN is used to build automatic intrusion detection system based on signature recognition. The goal is to recognize signatures of known attacks, match the observed behavior with those known signatures, and signal intrusion when there is a match. A major difficulty of this system is that intrusions signatures change over the time and the system must be retrained. An IDS must be able to adapt to these changes. The goal of this paper is to provide a framework for an adaptive intrusion detection system that uses Bayesian network.
Flash memories: Successes and challenges

Flash memory grew from a simple concept in the early 1980s to a technology that generated close to $23 billion in worldwide revenue in 2007, and this represents one of the many success stories in the semiconductor industry. This success was made possible by the continuous innovation of the industry along many different fronts. In this paper, the history, the basic science, and the successes of fash memories are briefly presented. Flash memories have followed the Moore's Law scaling trend for which finer line widths, achieved by improved lithographic resolution, enable more memory bits to be produced for the same silicon area, reducing cost per bit. When looking toward the future, significant challenges exist to the continued scaling of flash memories. In this paper, I discuss possible areas that need development in order to overcome some of the size-scaling challenges. Innovations are expected to continue in the industry, and flash memories will continue to follow the historical trend in cost reduction of semiconductor memories through the rest of this decade.
Job Insecurity, Burnout and Intention to Quit

This study examines the impact of job insecurity on intention to quit among Syrian private banks employees. Moreover, the mediating role of burnout in the relationship between job insecurity and intention to quit is investigated. A total sample of 172 employees is selected. The research findings indicate that there is a significant positive impact of job insecurity on both job burnout and intention to quit. Additionally, increased levels of burnout significantly affect intention to quit. Finally, the relationship between job insecurity and intention to quit is fully mediated by burnout.
Normative data and factorial structure of the Turkish version of the Borderline Personality Questionnaire (Turkish BPQ)

ABSTRACT Objective: Borderline personality disorder is a psychiatric condition, which is characterized by unstable interpersonal relationships, fear of abandonment, difficulties in regulating emotions, feeling of emptiness, chronic dysphoria and depression, and impulsivity and increased risk-taking behaviors. In this present study, we aimed to translate and establish psychometric properties and factorial validity of the Borderline Personality Questionnaire (BPQ) in a representative Turkish university students sample and obtain normative data for future epidemiological and clinical studies in Turkey. Methods: Participants were 306 (201 females, 105 males) college students at the Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep, Turkey. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Hasan Kalyoncu University. Sociodemographic information of the participants was collected and Turkish BEST, Turkish BPQ, BDI, PBQ, and State-Trait Anxiety scales were administered. All variables were screened for the accuracy of data entry, missing values, and homoscedasticity using SPSS version 23 for Windows. Results: The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients for the Turkish BPQ were ranging from 0.46 to 0.81. The lowest alpha coefficient was observed for the Abandonment (0.46). For the whole scale, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was found to be 0.89. The test–retest (at after 1 month) correlation coefficients for Impulsivity, Affective Instability, Abandonment, Relationships, Self-Image, Suicide/Self-Mutilation, Emptiness, Intense Anger, and Quasi-Psychotic States were found to be 0.50, 0.77, 0.40, 0.68, 0.72, 0.48, 0.73, 0.74, and 0.62, respectively. A positive and statistically significant correlation was found between the Turkish BPQ and BEST (r = 0.337, p < .01), BDI (r = 0.375, p < .01), PBQ (r = 0. 322, r < 0.01), State Anxiety (r = 0.299, p < .01), and Trait Anxiety (r = 0.306, p < .01) scales. Principal axis factor analyzes with Promax rotation were performed and two-factor solution that accounted for 50.03% of the variance observed. Conclusions: Our results suggested that Turkish BPQ was a valid and reliable tool with a robust factorial structure to use in clinical population in Turkey.
Ju n 20 07 STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS DRIVEN BY PURELY SPATIAL NOISE

We study stochastic parabolic and elliptic PDEs driven by purely spatial white noise. Even the simplest equations driven by this noise often do not have a square-integrable solution and must be solved in special weighted spaces. We demonstrate that the Cameron-Martin version of the Wiener chaos decomposition is an effective tool to study both stationary and evolution equations driven by space-only noise. The paper presents results about solvability of such equations in weighted Wiener chaos spaces and studies the long-time behavior of the solutions of evolution equations with space-only noise.
The Effect of Perceptual Salience on Phonetic Accommodation in Cross-dialectal Conversation in Spanish

Phonetic accommodation is the process whereby speakers in an interaction modify their speech in response to their interlocutor. The social-psychological theory of Communication Accommodation Theory (Giles 1973) predicts that speakers will converge towards (become more similar to) their interlocutors in order to decrease social distance, whereas they will diverge from (become less similar to) their interlocutors to accentuate distinctiveness or show disdain. Previous studies have found that phonetic accommodation is affected by many social, situational and linguistic factors (Abrego-Collier et al. 2011; Black 2012; Babel 2009, 2010, 2012; Babel et al. 2012; Kim, Horton & Bradlow 2011; Nielsen 2011; Pardo et al. 2012). With respect to accommodation across dialects, a handful of studies have suggested that the perceptual salience of the various differences between two dialects might affect the pattern; however, these studies make conflicting predictions. Trudgill (1986) predicts that speakers will converge more towards the more salient dialectal differences, while Kim et al. (2011) and Babel (2009, 2010) suggest the opposite: that speakers will converge on the less salient differences. This thesis investigates how the perceptual salience of 6 differences between Buenos Aires Spanish and Madrid Spanish affect the pattern of phonetic accommodation in conversation. The results are considered both in terms of the magnitude of the changes that the participants make as well as the direction of the change (convergence or divergence). The
Silicon Microresonators with MEMS-Actuated Tunable Couplers

We review the current state-of-the-art of tunable microdisk/microtoroidal resonators with MEMS-actuated couplers. They are key enabling elements of many wavelength-division-multiplexing switches and tunable filters. The performance of dynamic add-drop and bandwidth-tunable filters will be discussed.
Modulating activity in the motor cortex affects performance for the two hands differently depending upon which hemisphere is stimulated

We modulated neural excitability in the human motor cortex to investigate behavioral effects for both hands. In a previous study, we showed that decreasing excitability in the dominant motor cortex led to a decline in performance for the contralateral hand and an improvement for the ipsilateral hand; increasing excitability produced the opposite effects. Research suggests that the ipsilateral effects were mediated by interhemispheric inhibition. Physiological evidence points to an asymmetry in interhemispheric inhibition between the primary motor cortices, with stronger inhibitory projections coming from the dominant motor cortex. In the present study, we examined whether there is a hemispheric asymmetry in the effects on performance when modulating excitability in the motor cortex. Anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation were applied to the motor cortex of 17 participants, targeting the non‐dominant hemisphere on one day and the dominant hemisphere on another day, along with one sham session. Participants performed a finger‐sequence coordination task with each hand before and after stimulation. The dependent variable was calculated as the percentage of change in the number of correct keystrokes. We found that the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation depended upon which hemisphere was stimulated; modulating excitability in the dominant motor cortex significantly affected performance for the contralateral and ipsilateral hands, whereas modulating excitability in the non‐dominant motor cortex only had a significant impact for the contralateral hand. These results provide evidence for a hemispheric asymmetry in the ipsilateral effects of modulating excitability in the motor cortex and may be important for clinical research on motor recovery.