Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effectiveness of Cognitive - Existential Group Therapy on Reducing Demoralization in the Elderly

Introduction and Objective: Elderly people face existential issues such as death, loss of meaning in life, fear of death, lack of life and last chances. If people, cannot effectively confront it, this loss of meaning in life, will form the main core of a set of syndromes that are called “demoralization”. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-existential therapy on reducing demoralization in the elderly. Method: The present study was carried out using a pretest-posttest semi-experimental design with control group and random assignment. The statistical population included all the elderly women in Yas Daily Rehabilitation Center. In this study, 22 people were selected through non-random sampling and after answering the demoralization scale (Kissane, 2004) and Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire (Abdollahzade et al. 2010 quoted from FarmaniShahreza et al. 2016) they were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (each group included 11 people). The experimental group participated in 12 cognitive-emotional group therapy sessions (each session 90 minutes) once a week, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The collected data were processed using SPSS-20 software to calculate covariance analysis. Results: The results showed a significant reduction in the demoralization and cognitive distortions compared to the pretest. Also, in a two month follow-up session, demoralization andcognitive distortion scores were significantly reduced compared to pretest. Conclusion: Cognitive existential group therapy on the one hand, due to addressing the existential issues of the elderly, and, on the other hand, working with their irrational beliefs and replacing rational beliefs, can have an effect on reducing of the demoralization syndrome in the elderly.
Computer-aided music composition with LSTM neural network and chaotic inspiration

In this paper a new neural network system for composition of melodies is proposed. The Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network is adopted as the neural network model. We include an independent melody as an additional input in order to provide an inspiration source to the network. This melody is given by a chaotic composition algorithm and works as an inspiration to the network enhancing the subjective measure of the composed melodies. As the chaotic system we use the Hénon map with two variables, which are mapped to pitch and rhythm. We adopt a measure to conduct the degree of melodiousness (Euler's gradus suavitatis) of the output melody, which is compared with a reference value. Varying a specific parameter of the chaotic system, we can control the complexity of the chaotic melody. The system runs until the degree of melodiousness falls within a predetermined range.
The LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: A photometric redshift survey of submillimetre galaxies

We derive photometric redshifts from 17-band optical to mid-infrared photometry of 78 robust radio, 24-mu m and Spitzer IRAC counterparts to 72 of the 126 submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) selected at 870 mu m by LABOCA observations in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (ECDF-S). We test the photometric redshifts of the SMGs against the extensive archival spectroscopy in the ECDF-S. The median photometric redshift of identified SMGs is z = 2.2 +/- 0.1, the standard deviation is sigma(z) = 0.9 and we identify 11 (similar to 15 per cent) high-redshift (z >= 3) SMGs. A statistical analysis of sources in the error circles of unidentified SMGs identifies a population of possible counterparts with a redshift distribution peaking at z = 2.5 +/- 0.2, which likely comprises similar to 60 per cent of the unidentified SMGs. This confirms that the bulk of the undetected SMGs are coeval with those detected in the radio/mid-infrared. We conclude that at most similar to 15 per cent of all the SMGs are below the flux limits of our IRAC observations and thus may lie at z greater than or similar to 3 and hence at most similar to 30 per cent of all SMGs have z greater than or similar to 3. We estimate that the full S(870 mu m) > 4mJy SMG population has a median redshift of 2.5 +/- 0.5. In contrast to previous suggestions, we find no significant correlation between submillimetre flux and redshift. The median stellar mass of the SMGs derived from spectral energy distribution fitting is (9.1 +/- 0.5) x 10(10)M(circle dot) although we caution that the uncertainty in the star formation histories results in a factor of similar to 5 uncertainty in these stellarmasses. Using a single temperature modified blackbody fit with beta = 1.5, the median characteristic dust temperature of SMGs is 37.4 +/- 1.4K. The infrared luminosity function shows that SMGs at z = 2-3 typically have higher far-infrared luminosities and luminosity density than those at z = 1-2. This is mirrored in the evolution of the star formation rate density (SFRD) for SMGs which peaks at z similar to 2. The maximum contribution of bright SMGs to the global SFRD (similar to 5 per cent for SMGs with S(870 mu m) greater than or similar to 4mJy or similar to 50 per cent extrapolated to SMGs with S(870 mu m) > 1mJy) also occurs at z similar to 2.
A note on random greedy coloring of uniform hypergraphs

The smallest number of edges forming an n‐uniform hypergraph which is not r‐colorable is denoted by m(n,r). Erdős and Lovász conjectured that m(n,2)=Θ(n2n) . The best known lower bound m(n,2)=Ω(n/ln(n)2n) was obtained by Radhakrishnan and Srinivasan in 2000. We present a simple proof of their result. The proof is based on the analysis of a random greedy coloring algorithm investigated by Pluhár in 2009. The proof method extends to the case of r‐coloring, and we show that for any fixed r we have m(n,r)=Ω((n/ln(n))(r−1)/r rn) improving the bound of Kostochka from 2004. We also derive analogous bounds on minimum edge degree of an n‐uniform hypergraph that is not r‐colorable. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg. , 47, 407–413, 2015
A model-based transformational approach to robust speaker recognition

A novel statistical modeling and compensation method for robust speaker recognition is presented. The method speciﬁcally addresses the degradation in speaker veriﬁcation performance due to the mismatch in channels (e.g., telephone handsets) between enrollment and testing sessions. In mismatched conditions, the new approach uses speaker-independent channel transformations to synthesize a speaker model that corresponds to the channel of the testing session. Effectively veriﬁcation is always performed in matched channel conditions. Results on the 1998 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation corpus show that the new approach yields performance that matches the best reported results. Speciﬁcally, our approach yields similar improvements (19.9% reduction in EER compared to CMN alone) as the HNORM score-based compensation method, but with a fraction of the training time.
Pre-service elementary teachers’ perceptions of conducting and consuming research in their future professional practice

Abstract This study aims to explore what pre-service elementary teachers think about the use they will give to research in their future teaching professional practice. Thirty-three pre-service elementary teachers from a Chilean university were interviewed using a phenomenographic approach. Analysis yielded four categories of description, ranging from research as something disconnected from their teaching practice to research as something useful to create educational related knowledge. Three dimensions of variation, namely use of research, foreseen impact and teachers’ role in relation to research, provide a richer picture of the outcome space. Results may guide curricular developers to think of the place of research in teacher education, and thus have relevant practical implications.
Resistance to fear of child birth and stability of mother-child bond

ABSTRACT In order to examine (1) the stability of the mother-child-bond and (2) associations between mother-child-bonding and aspects of maternal-well-being, pregnant women (N = 170) completed measures on well-being and mother-child-bonding at two antepartum and two postpartum time points. We found relatively weak associations between mother-child-bonding at 20 weeks of gestation and mother-child-bonding at 6 months postpartum. Fear of childbirth was weakly, but statistically significantly associated with mother-child-bonding at 6 weeks (but not at 6 months) postpartum. Correlations between antepartum general well-being and social support, on the one hand, and mother-child-bonding, on the other, failed to reach statistical significance. Women with a partner had a better mother-child-bonding at 36 weeks of gestation and 6 months postpartum, than women without a partner, and older women had better mother-child-bonding at 20 weeks of gestation, than younger women. Our findings thus suggest that mother-child-bonding is not a very stable phenomenon, but it is quite robust against potential negative influences of poor maternal mental health.
Greedy Trees, Subtrees and Antichains

Greedy trees are constructed from a given degree sequence by a simple greedy algorithm that assigns the highest degree to the root, the second-, third-, . highest degrees to the root's neighbors, and so on. They have been shown to maximize or minimize a number of different graph invariants among trees with a given degree sequence. In particular, the total number of subtrees of a tree is maximized by the greedy tree. In this work, we show that in fact a much stronger statement holds true: greedy trees maximize the number of subtrees of any given order. This parallels recent results on distance-based graph invariants. We obtain a number of corollaries from this fact and also prove analogous results for related invariants, most notably the number of antichains of given cardinality in a rooted tree.
An Exploration of Occupation in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

Objectives: This study evaluated the sitting room environment of two nursing homes in Ireland, using interactive occupation and social engagement as outcome measures and defining these rooms as occupational spaces. Method: Snapshot observational recordings were made in the main sitting rooms during the periods of time when the rooms were in most active use. Narrative information was also recorded. Results: Residents were more likely to occupy their time in the main sitting room passively, rather than in interactive occupation and social engagement. The nursing home residents with dementia spent approximately 70% of their daily time in the main sitting room areas in states of occupational disengagement. Discussion: Additional insight is provided through pragmatic narrative descriptions of the functioning of the main sitting room environment in terms of interactive occupation and social engagement. Relevance: The research study demonstrates a methodology for evaluating the sitting room areas of a care environment, using interactive occupation and social engagement as outcome measures, which can be used for descriptive and comparative insights into the performance of care environments.
A comparison of hospital adverse events identified by three widely used detection methods.

OBJECTIVE Determine the degree of congruence between several measures of adverse events. DESIGN Cross-sectional study to assess frequency and type of adverse events identified using a variety of methods. SETTING Mayo Clinic Rochester hospitals. PARTICIPANTS All inpatients discharged in 2005 (n = 60 599). INTERVENTIONS Adverse events were identified through multiple methods: (i) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-defined patient safety indicators (PSIs) using ICD-9 diagnosis codes from administrative discharge abstracts, (ii) provider-reported events, and (iii) Institute for Healthcare Improvement Global Trigger Tool with physician confirmation. PSIs were adjusted to exclude patient conditions present at admission. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Agreement of identification between methods. RESULTS About 4% (2401) of hospital discharges had an adverse event identified by at least one method. Around 38% (922) of identified events were provider-reported events. Nearly 43% of provider-reported adverse events were skin integrity events, 23% medication events, 21% falls, 1.8% equipment events and 37% miscellaneous events. Patients with adverse events identified by one method were not usually identified using another method. Only 97 (6.2%) of hospitalizations with a PSI also had a provider-reported event and only 10.5% of provider-reported events had a PSI. CONCLUSIONS Different detection methods identified different adverse events. Findings are consistent with studies that recommend combining approaches to measure patient safety for internal quality improvement. Potential reported adverse event inconsistencies, low association with documented harm and reporting differences across organizations, however, raise concerns about using these patient safety measures for public reporting and organizational performance comparison.
Las Meninas and the Search for Self-representation 1

The article will attempt to show that Velasquez’s Las Meninas can be viewed as an allegorical enactment of some of the current debates and controversies in the philosophy of cognition and self-representation. I will focus on two very different philosophical trajectories, to which the allegory of the painting can be linked. The first, analytic, trajectory relates Las Meninas to the notion of representation and self-representation in the work of philosophers David Rosenthal, Robert Van Gulick, Uriah Kriegel and Bruce Mangan, and neurologists Bernie Baars and Rodolfo Llinas. The second, continental, trajectory begins by relating to the painting Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological ‘embodied self-representation’. This trajectory, which can be further linked to John Ziman’s ‘second person view’ of reality, proceeds to relate Las Meninas to Lacan’s ‘object gaze’ and the ‘unbearable fragility of representation’, ending with Bataille’s (non)concept of ‘sovereignty’ as essential yet non-representable losses in representation. I will conclude by suggesting that the evolution of the cognitive state experienced by an observer of Las Meninas can be viewed as an Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, No. 9, 2008, pp. 7–34 Correspondence: Email: uawret@gmu.edu [1] This paper is based on a paper presented at the 10th annual CEP conference at St. Anne’s College, Oxford in September 2006 titled: ‘Exploring the Boundaries of Experience and Self’. ‘ontogenetic’ recapitulation of the more ‘phylogenic’ progression of the philosophical history of representation and self-representation alluded to by the canvas.
Decreased Modulation of EEG Oscillations in High-Functioning Autism during a Motor Control Task

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are thought to result in part from altered cortical excitatory-inhibitory balance; this pathophysiology may impact the generation of oscillations on electroencephalogram (EEG). We investigated premotor-parietal cortical physiology associated with praxis, which has strong theoretical and empirical associations with ASD symptomatology. Twenty five children with high-functioning ASD (HFA) and 33 controls performed a praxis task involving the pantomiming of tool use, while EEG was recorded. We assessed task-related modulation of signal power in alpha and beta frequency bands. Compared with controls, subjects with HFA showed 27% less left central (motor/premotor) beta (18–22 Hz) event-related desynchronization (ERD; p = 0.030), as well as 24% less left parietal alpha (7–13 Hz) ERD (p = 0.046). Within the HFA group, blunting of central ERD attenuation was associated with impairments in clinical measures of praxis imitation (r = −0.4; p = 0.04) and increased autism severity (r = 0.48; p = 0.016). The modulation of central beta activity is associated, among other things, with motor imagery, which may be necessary for imitation. Impaired imitation has been associated with core features of ASD. Altered modulation of oscillatory activity may be mechanistically involved in those aspects of motor network function that relate to the core symptoms of ASD.
Terminological Resources Acquisition Tools: Toward a User-oriented Evaluation Model

This paper describes the CESART project which deals with the evaluation of terminological resources acquisition tools. The objective of the project is to propose and validate an evaluation protocol allowing one to objectively evaluate and compare different systems for terminology application such as terminological resource creation and semantic relation extraction. The project also aims to create quality-controlled resources such as domain-specific corpora, automatic scoring tool, etc.
Integrating computational activities into the upper-level Paradigms in Physics curriculum at Oregon State University

The Paradigms in Physics project at Oregon State University has reformed the entire upper-level physics curriculum. The reform has involved a rearrangement of content to better reflect the way physicists think about the field and the use of several new pedagogies that place responsibility for learning more firmly in the hands of the students. In particular, we employ a wide variety of computational examples and problems throughout the courses. Students use MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, JAVA, and other software packages to do calculations, visualizations, and simulations that develop their intuition and physical reasoning. These computational activities are indispensable to the success of the curriculum.
Focus of attention in trained distance runners

The superiority of using an external focus of attention for learning and performance benefits has been documented in distance running. However, there is limited research examining the actual attentional focus strategies adopted by distance runners. The purpose of this study was to describe the focus of attention used by distance runners in practice and competition and to better understand where these athletes seek information about improving performance. Sixteen distance runners (32.1 ± 10.0 yr) who run at least 20 mile/week (37.7 ± 10.8 mile/week) completed a questionnaire examining information related to attentional focus during training and competition and where athletes go for educational resources. Results indicate that distance runners do not solely adhere to external focus of attention, rather utilize multiple forms of attentional focus strategies that are not examined in laboratory research. Further, it seems that most training advice is received from coaches or training partners and not scientific literature.
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), provides equal opportunities for employment and access to Michigan's natural resources. Both State and Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, disability, age, sex, height, weight or marital status under the If you believe that you have been discriminated against in any program, activity or facility, or if you desire additional information, please write the Abstract. –Biological, chemical, and physical attributes of aquatic ecosystems are often strongly influenced by groundwater delivery. Nonetheless, access to predictions of groundwater contributions to rivers, lakes, and wetlands at a scale useful to resource managers is generally lacking due to the data requirements of current groundwater models. In this paper, we implement and validate a simple, terrain-based approach for predicting groundwater delivery to streams and other surface water systems using mapped data within a GIS environment. Model output was calculated in units of m day-1 for every 30 m 2 grid cell across Lower Michigan. Validation of the models was performed by accounting for variance in observed low flow yields (48-54%), summer stream temperatures (23-40%), and rates of channel discharge accrual (59-65%). This modeling approach has been useful in describing spatial variation in groundwater contributions to general patterns of stream flow, thermal characteristics, and biotic communities at hundreds of specific sites across Lower Michigan. Such terrain-based ground water modeling can provide the regional " big picture " perspective many resource managers, planners, and policy makers require.
The CCR5-Δ32 mutation: impact on disease outcome in individuals with hepatitis C infection from a single source

Background and aims: Chemokines are small polypeptides, a major function of which is lymphocyte recruitment and trafficking. The aim of this study was to assess the involvement of inherited variations in CCR2, CCR5, and the ligand RANTES in determining disease outcome in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected individuals. Methods: A total of 283 women, all exposed to HCV genotype 1b from a single donor, and including those who had spontaneously cleared the virus and those chronically infected, were genotyped for CCR2, CCR5, and RANTES polymorphisms. The frequencies of these polymorphisms were then compared with disease activity and severity. Results: CCR5, CCR2, and RANTES genotypes were compared with HCV polymerase chain reaction (PCR) status, alanine aminotransferase levels, and liver histology. There was no significant relationship between CCR2 or RANTES polymorphisms and disease outcome or severity. However, CCR5Δ32 heterozygotes were more likely to have spontaneous clearance of the virus than those without the mutation (42% PCR negative v 28.3% negative; p = 0.044, odds ratio 1.83 (95% confidence interval 1.1–3.6)). Among the subgroup of DRB1*03011 negative individuals, previously found to be associated with more severe inflammation, the difference in histological inflammatory score (CCR5WT/WT = 4.9 v CCR5Δ32/WT = 3.53; p = 0.043) was significant. Conclusion: Heterozygosity for CCR5Δ32 was shown to be significantly associated with spontaneous hepatitis C viral clearance and with significantly lower hepatic inflammatory scores in subgroups within this cohort. Both controls and the HCV population had similar heterozygosity frequencies.