Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of underwater treadmill walking training on the peak torque of the knee in hemiplegic patients

[Purpose] This study investigated the effects of underwater treadmill walking training on the peak torque of the knee in hemiplegic patients. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty-two subjects, who were randomly allocated to an experimental group (n=16) and a control group (n=16), performed underwater treadmill walking training and overground treadmill walking training, respectively, for 30 minutes/session, 3 sessions/week, for 6 weeks. An isokinetic dynamometer was used to assess the peak torque. [Results] The subjects in the experimental group showed an increase in the peak knee extension torque compared to the control group. [Conclusion] The results suggested that underwater treadmill walking training has a greater effect on peak knee extension torque at velocities of 60°/sec and 120°/sec than overground treadmill walking training.
Guidelines for psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients.

I n 1975, the American Psychological Association (APA) adopted a resolution stating that "homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgment, stability, reliability, or general social or vocational capabilities" (Conger, 1975, p. 633). This resolution followed a rigorous discussion of the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1974). More than 25 years later, the implications of this resolution have yet to be fully implemented in practice (Dworkin, 1992; Firestein, 1996; Fox, 1996; Garnets, Hancock, Cochran, Goodchilds, & Peplau, 1991; Greene, 1994b; Iasenza, 1989; Markowitz, 1991, 1995; Nystrom, 1997). Many of the.se authors have suggested that there is a need for better education and training of mental health practitioners in this area. This document is intended to assist psychologists in seeking and using appropriate education and training in their treatment of lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. The specific goals of these guidelines are to provide practitioners with (a) a frame of reference for the treatment of lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients and (b) basic information and further references in the areas of assessment, intervention, identity, relationships, and the education and training of psychologists. These guidelines build on APA's (1992) "Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, ''2 two other APA policies, and policies of other mental health organizations. The term guidelines refers to pronouncements, statements, or declarations that suggest or recommend specific professional behavior, endeavors, or conduct for psychologists. Guidelines differ from standards in that standards are mandatory and may be accompanied by an enforcement mechanism. Thus, these guidelines are aspirational in intent. They are intended to facilitate the continued systematic development of the profession and to help ensure a high level of professional practice by psychologists. These guidelines are not intended to be mandatory or exhaustive and may not be applicable to every clinical situation. They should not be construed as definitive and are not intended to take precedence over the judgment of psychologists. These guidelines are organized into four sections: (a) attitudes toward homosexuality and bisexuality, (b) relaEditor's Note. These guidelines were adopted by the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives on February 26, 2000. For more information, contact the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns Office, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242; phone number: (202) 336-6041; e-mail address: http://www.apa. org/pi/lgbc/.
Decision Making In The ERP Community

This paper, although bibliographical in nature, stresses the importance of researching ERP from the perspective of the ERP community, defined here as a triadic group composed of (1) an ERP vendor, (2) an ERP consultant and (3) an implementing organisation; and focuses on understanding the relationships and inter-dependencies that exist between these actors. In this novel perspective, the second contribution of this paper is to introduce the concept of category manipulation – that is to say non-decision making - to the area of IS in general and more specifically to ERP research. As far as the authors are aware, this paper is the first to examine the ERP decision making process under this light. The researchers' objective is to structure their ideas in an effort to lay the foundations for a model of ERP decision making that can inform both the practice and investigation of ERP implementation.
Characteristics of ultramafic rocks and associated magnesite deposits, Nal Area, Khuzdar, Balochistan, Pakistan

The Bela Ophiolite (BO) is part of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt. Rocks of BO were formed in both MORB and suprasubduction zone settings and include both ultramafic and mafic compositions. The ultramafic rocks were serpentinized after harzburgite. Orthopyroxene is more abundant than clinopyroxene. Serpentine commonly occurs as angular and medium sized fragments exhibiting mesh texture and within veins. Serpentine is associated with variable percentages of chlorite, magnetite, actinolite, talc, brucite and calcite. Shearing and faulting obliterated the primary textures and resultant microfractures permeate the rocks. On an AFM diagram samples from the study area plot in the field of metamorphic peridotite and ultramafic rocks of ophiolitic affinity. On a TAS diagram, the samples reflect a tholeiitic source that was generated at very high temperature, most commonly at a MORB setting. High range of Mg# 97.5 - 82.6 and low values of differentiation index (0.7 - 7.7) suggest primitive mantle compositions. The ultramafic rocks of the study area were serpentinized and subsequently altered into hydrothermal magnesite, hydromagnesite and brucite. The magnesite and associated hydromagnesite indicate formation within a low temperature regime. On a Fe versus Mn plot, and the average Cr/Mg, Fe/Mg and Mn/Mg values revealed that the studied magnesites were genetically affiliated with cryptocrystalline Kraubath type of magnesite.
Generation of cyclically permutable codes by galois field Fourier transform

Cyclically permutable codes (CPCs) are important to communication networks, e.g., multiple access collision channels without feedback and frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication channels. A CPC is a block code of length n such that each codeword has full cyclic order n and all codewords are cyclically distinct. This study investigates the characteristics of finite fields to develop an efficient algorithm to find a CPC from a p-ary cyclic code, where p is a prime number. In this paper, the Galois field Fourier transform technique is used to generate a CPC of either primitive or non-primitive length.
Cardiorespiratory events recorded on home monitors: Comparison of healthy infants with those at increased risk for SIDS.

CONTEXT Home monitors designed to identify cardiorespiratory events are frequently used in infants at increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but the efficacy of such devices for this use is unproven. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that preterm infants, siblings of infants who died of SIDS, and infants who have experienced an idiopathic, apparent life-threatening event have a greater risk of cardiorespiratory events than healthy term infants. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study conducted from May 1994 through February 1998. SETTING Five metropolitan medical centers in the United States. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1079 infants (classified as healthy term infants and 6 groups of those at risk for SIDS) who, during the first 6 months after birth, were observed with home cardiorespiratory monitors using respiratory inductance plethysmography to detect apnea and obstructed breathing. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Occurrence of cardiorespiratory events that exceeded predefined conventional and extreme thresholds as recorded by the monitors. RESULTS During 718 358 hours of home monitoring, 6993 events exceeding conventional alarm thresholds occurred in 445 infants (41%). Of these, 653 were extreme events in 116 infants (10%), and of those events with apnea, 70% included at least 3 obstructed breaths. The frequency of at least 1 extreme event was similar in term infants in all groups, but preterm infants were at increased risk of extreme events until 43 weeks' postconceptional age. CONCLUSIONS In this study, conventional events are quite common, even in healthy term infants. Extreme events were common only in preterm infants, and their timing suggests that they are not likely to be immediate precursors to SIDS. The high frequency of obstructed breathing in study participants would likely preclude detection of many events by conventional techniques. These data should be important for designing future monitors and determining if an infant is likely to be at risk for a cardiorespiratory event.
Good job, good pension? The influence of the workplace on saving for retirement

Abstract Most private-sector employees in the United Kingdom (UK) are automatically enrolled into individualised defined contribution (DC) pension accounts. In a DC environment, income adequacy in retirement is highly dependent on the decisions that individuals make earlier in their lives. The ease with which they move into employment, and the pension support that they then receive from their employer, can be critical in determining outcomes. This paper discusses how employees respond to workplace pension schemes and the circumstances under which they assess the suitability of their contributions. The findings are based on an embedded case study comprising qualitative interviews with 25 employees of a large UK utility company. Participants were selected on the basis of socio-economic similarity. The research concluded that fixed-term employment negatively impacted on saving for retirement, both with respect to scheme membership and to the level of saving. Furthermore, it was found that the employment context had an influence upon retirement savings behaviour. The proactive approach of the employer in providing retirement benefits, and the trust that employees had in their employer, positively influenced membership and contribution levels. In addition to employer endorsement effects, both the encouragement of older work colleagues and workplace norms had a role to play in influencing how successfully individuals prepared for retirement.
Model-oriented availability analysis of optical GEO-ground links

The impact of clouds on optical Earth-space links is assessed by means of theoretical analyses. The spacecraft is assumed geostationary so that a stationary model can be considered for the link availability. Binary and continuous attenuations are analysed separately. With a network of ground stations, both spatial diversity and multiplexing are considered. The impact of the ground-station network size and spatial correlation on the availability and throughput is studied. Using a continuous attenuation model, it is shown that an adaptive data rate essentially mitigates thin clouds (on the order of 10-dB attenuation).
Coumestrol inhibits autoantibody production through modulating Th1 response in experimental autoimmune thyroiditis

Coumestrol is a common phytoestrogen found in plants and Chinese medicinal herbs. Its influences on experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (EAT) were investigated in this study. Female adult CBA/J mice were fed with drinking water containing 1% Tween80 only (Control group), 0.8 mg/l (L group) and 8 mg/l coumestrol (H group) from 6 to 15 weeks of age, respectively. Their serum coumestrol concentrations were determined by high performance liquid chromatography, which were undetectable, 43.70 ± 21.74 ng/ml and 135.07 ± 70.40 ng/ml, respectively. In addition, the mice (n = 14–16/group) were immunized twice with thyroglobulin (Tg) and Freund's adjuvant to induce EAT during the meantime. Although no overt changes in the extent of intrathyroidal mononuclear cell infiltration were shown in the two coumestrol-treated groups as compared with the controls, serum anti-Tg IgG2a, IgG3 and IgG1 titers, ratio of IgG2a to IgG1 and the percentage of T helper (Th)1 cells in the splenocytes were significantly reduced in the L group. Another consistent change was the significantly decreased expression of splenic IFN-γ mRNA after low dose of coumestrol exposure. Uterine weight was also markedly reduced in the mice of L group. These findings suggest that coumestrol treatment may have some beneficial actions against thyroid-specific autoantibody production in the development of autoimmune thyroiditis through suppression of Th1 response due to its anti-estrogenic activity.
PERAN KEPEMIMPINAN DALAM KINERJA ORGANISASI MELALUI SISTEM AKUNTANSI MANAJEMEN DAN SISTEM PENGENDALIAN MANAJEMEN

ABSTRA K Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari pengaruh langsung gaya kepemimpinan transformasional dan transaksional terhadap kinerja organisasi. Penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk mempelajari pengaruh gaya kepemimpinan transformasional dan transaksional terhadap kinerja organisasi melalui sistem akuntansi manajemen organisasi dan sistem pengendalian manajemen. Selain itu, tujuan lain dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mempelajari pengaruh langsung sistem akuntansi manajemen organisasi dan sistem pengendalian manajemen terhadap kinerja organisasi. Penelitian ini adalah melibatkan desain deskriptif dan inferensi dalam pemecahan masalah penelitian. Untuk menguji model dan hipotesi s digunakan analisi s SEM. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah seluruh perusahaan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 20 1 2, dengan teknik pemilihan sampel menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Data penelitian juga diambil menggunakan kuesioner yang disebar kepada responden. Responden penelitian ini adalah para manajer perusahaan yang diwakili oleh manajer akuntansi dan manajer keuangan dengan posisi 1 dan 2 level di bawah tim manajemen puncak yang memiliki komunikasi secara langsung dengan manajemen puncak . Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Gaya kepemimpinan transformasional terbukti berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap sistem akuntansi manajemen sistem pengendalian manajemen dan kinerja organisasi. Gaya kepemimpinan transaksional terbukti berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap sistem akuntansi manajemen dan kinerja organisasi , sedangkan terhadap kinerja organisasi tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan. Sistem pengendalian manajemen terbukti berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kinerja organisasi . S istem akuntansi manajemen terbukti tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kinerja organisasi. Variabel dominan adalah gaya kepemimpinan transformasional. Kata Kunci: Gaya Kepemimpinan, Transformasional, Transaksional, Sistem Akuntansi Manajemen , Sistem Pengendalian Manajemen, Kinerja Organisasi.
MidiFind : Fast and Effective Similarity Searching in Large MIDI databases

How can we quickly search millions of MIDI files for similar pieces of music? Our MidiFind system focuses on exactly this problem. It has the following desirable properties: (a) it is effective: thanks to our novel features and corresponding similarity measurements, it outperforms traditional competitors, in terms of precision and recall; (b) it is scalable: thanks to our hybrid (MF) indexing strategy, it scales more than 1000 time faster than naive competitors.
Perinatal and Neonatal Risk Factors for Autism: A Comprehensive Meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: The etiology of autism is unknown, although perinatal and neonatal exposures have been the focus of epidemiologic research for over 40 years. OBJECTIVE: To provide the first review and meta-analysis of the association between perinatal and neonatal factors and autism risk. METHODS: PubMed, Embase, and PsycInfo databases were searched for studies that examined the association between perinatal and neonatal factors and autism through March 2007. Forty studies were eligible for the meta-analysis. For each exposure, a summary effect estimate was calculated using a random-effects model. Heterogeneity in effect estimates across studies was examined, and, if found, a meta-regression was conducted to identify measured methodological factors that could explain between-study variability. RESULTS: Over 60 perinatal and neonatal factors were examined. Factors associated with autism risk in the meta-analysis were abnormal presentation, umbilical-cord complications, fetal distress, birth injury or trauma, multiple birth, maternal hemorrhage, summer birth, low birth weight, small for gestational age, congenital malformation, low 5-minute Apgar score, feeding difficulties, meconium aspiration, neonatal anemia, ABO or Rh incompatibility, and hyperbilirubinemia. Factors not associated with autism risk included anesthesia, assisted vaginal delivery, postterm birth, high birth weight, and head circumference. CONCLUSIONS: There is insufficient evidence to implicate any 1 perinatal or neonatal factor in autism etiology, although there is some evidence to suggest that exposure to a broad class of conditions reflecting general compromises to perinatal and neonatal health may increase the risk. Methodological variations were likely sources of heterogeneity of risk factor effects across studies.
Finding dimensions for queries

We address the problem of finding multiple groups of words or phrases that explain the underlying query facets, which we refer to as query dimensions. We assume that the important aspects of a query are usually presented and repeated in the query's top retrieved documents in the style of lists, and query dimensions can be mined out by aggregating these significant lists. Experimental results show that a large number of lists do exist in the top results, and query dimensions generated by grouping these lists are useful for users to learn interesting knowledge about the queries.
Hull-based approximation to forest fires with distributed wireless sensor networks

Disaster management is one of the most promising application fields of wireless sensor networks. In this application, the role of the sensor network usually consists in obtaining a representation or a model for a physical phenomenon spreading through the area. In this work we focus on forest fire fighting operations, proposing a distributed way for approximating the shape of the fire. In the simplest scenario, assuming the existence of an efficient dissemination layer, each network node obtains a representation of the forest fire starting from the complete list of positions reached by the fire so far. However, this approach makes an intensive use of node and network resources. In order to reduce these requirements, we propose incorporating in-network aggregation techniques. In particular, in this paper we analyze the employ of a shape composed of several convex hulls to represent the forest fire in a more compact way. As we will see, the use of multiple hulls representing different burning areas offers an accurate approximation to the forest fire, without introducing a significant overhead.
Botnet detection revisited: Theory and practice of finding malicious P2P networks via Internet connection graphs

In this paper we review state-of-the-art botnet detection algorithms that reveal the control traffic of malicious peer-topeer (P2P) networks by targeting topological properties of their interconnectivity graph. This class of detection methods does not rely on the exchanged content and therefore is also applicable to encrypted control traffic. However, in practice, an ISP monitoring customer traffic over an edge router will usually see only a fraction of the overall botnet, thus restricting the available bot connectivity information and limiting the applicability of general community detection approaches. In this paper we critically review graph based detection methods suitable for edge router monitoring using two types of real network traces. We show experimentally that using meta-graphs of mutual contacts proposed by Coskun et al. 2010 has the highest potential on result quality. We improve this approach by presenting a computationally less complex algorithm with similar result quality. Furthermore we explain ways to alleviate the cost of dealing with false positives in the result set.
Flexible Structure of Peptide-Bound Filamin A Mechanosensor Domain Pair 20–21

Filamins (FLNs) are large, multidomain actin cross-linking proteins with diverse functions. Besides regulating the actin cytoskeleton, they serve as important links between the extracellular matrix and the cytoskeleton by binding cell surface receptors, functioning as scaffolds for signaling proteins, and binding several other cytoskeletal proteins that regulate cell adhesion dynamics. Structurally, FLNs are formed of an amino terminal actin-binding domain followed by 24 immunoglobulin-like domains (IgFLNs). Recent studies have demonstrated that myosin-mediated contractile forces can reveal hidden protein binding sites in the domain pairs IgFLNa18–19 and 20–21, enabling FLNs to transduce mechanical signals in cells. The atomic structures of these mechanosensor domain pairs in the resting state are known, as well as the structures of individual IgFLN21 with ligand peptides. However, little experimental data is available on how interacting protein binding deforms the domain pair structures. Here, using small-angle x-ray scattering-based modelling, x-ray crystallography, and NMR, we show that the adaptor protein migfilin-derived peptide-bound structure of IgFLNa20–21 is flexible and adopts distinctive conformations depending on the presence or absence of the interacting peptide. The conformational changes reported here may be common for all peptides and may play a role in the mechanosensor function of the site.
Integration of weed management and tillage practices in spring dry pea production

Abstract Spring barley can be used to diversify and intensify winter wheat-based production systems in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The objective of this study was to describe the effects of tillage system and weed management level (WML) on weed control and spring barley grain yield when grown in a winter wheat-spring barley-spring dry pea rotation. A long-term integrated pest management field study examined the effects of three WMLs (minimum, moderate, and maximum) and two tillage systems (conservation and conventional) on weed control and barley grain yield. Total weed biomass at harvest was 8.0 and 59.7 g m−2 for the maximum and minimum WMLs, respectively, in the conservation tillage system, but was similar and averaged 12.2 g m−2 for all three WMLs in the conventional tillage system. Despite greater weed biomass with minimum weed management in the conservation tillage system, barley grain yields averaged 5,060 and 4,780 kg ha−1 for the conservation tillage and conventional tillage systems, respectively.
Fundamental Properties of the Evolution of Mutational Robustness

Evolution on neutral networks of genotypes has been found in models to concentrate on genotypes with high mutational robustness, to a degree determined by the topology of the network. Here analysis is generalized beyond neutral networks to arbitrary selection and parent-offspring transmission. In this larger realm, geometric features determine mutational robustness: the alignment of fitness with the orthogonalized eigenvectors of the mutation matrix weighted by their eigenvalues. "House of cards" mutation is found to preclude the evolution of mutational robustness. Genetic load is shown to increase with increasing mutation in arbitrary single and multiple locus fitness landscapes. The rate of decrease in population fitness can never grow as mutation rates get higher, showing that "error catastrophes" for genotype frequencies never cause precipitous losses of population fitness. The "inclusive inheritance" approach taken here naturally extends these results to a new concept of dispersal robustness.