Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Taking Control: Putting Older People at the Centre of Elder Abuse Response Strategies

Abstract Elder abuse is acknowledged to be a significant social problem in Australia, but Australia's elder abuse responses have significant limitations. These responses, as evidenced by state and territory elder abuse strategies, voice important principles and typically seek to improve the knowledge of service providers, potential victims, and the general public about elder abuse. But they tend only to identify and draw upon existing service and community care responses in their attempts to address elder abuse. This article provides a policy analysis of existing elder abuse response strategies and argues that reforms are needed to ensure that the strategies: prioritise the wishes and wellbeing of the person in question; identify and empower lead agencies; and drive collaborative responses.
GABAB Receptor Antagonism: Facilitatory Effects on Memory Parallel Those on LTP Induced by TBS but Not HFS

The present experiments used CGP 35348, a selective GABAB receptor antagonist with a significantly higher affinity for post- versus presynaptic receptors, to dissociate the role of antagonist concentration versus stimulation mode in determining whether GABAB receptor blockade facilitates or suppresses long-term potentiation (LTP). The antagonist was applied by pressure ejection to one of two recording sites in area CA1 of hippocampal slices before LTP was induced at both sites with either theta burst or high-frequency stimulation (TBS or HFS). TBS produced a dose-dependent facilitation of potentiation that turned into depression at the highest concentration tested, a result reflecting the dose-dependent balance between the drug’s postsynaptic disinhibitory effect and its action on presynaptic autoreceptors regulating the release of GABA. In contrast, HFS-induced LTP increased monotonically with drug concentration, suggesting that blockade of postsynaptic GABAB receptors is the only factor contributing to HFS-induced LTP. To test the relevance of the two sets of LTP results, we performed behavioral studies examining the effect of different dosages of antagonist on spatial retention and found that memory was enhanced at intermediate dosages but not at very low and high concentrations, reminiscent of the bell-shaped dose–response curve obtained for TBS-induced LTP. These findings are consistent with the notion that LTP induced by electrical stimulation modeled after endogenous theta-modulated activity patterns bears more relevance to behavior than does potentiation induced by arbitrary tetanic trains.
Cardiovascular reactivity to a marital conflict version of the Trier social stress test in intimate partner violence perpetrators

Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators have been categorized into two groups based on their heart rate (HR) reactivity to stress following Gottman’s studies. Overall, type I perpetrators tend to show autonomic underarousal, whereas type II or reactive perpetrators present a hyper-reactivity in anticipation of stress. In this study, changes in HR, pre-ejection period (PEP), vagal ratio as well as psychological state variables (anxiety and anger) in response to stress were assessed, comparing a group of type II IPV perpetrators (based on violence reports and psychological assessment; n = 17; mean age = 37) with non-violent controls (n = 17; mean age = 35) using modified version of the Trier Social Stress Test. IPV perpetrators had higher HRs and lower vagal ratios than controls, particularly during the recovery period. Moreover, the former presented shorter PEPs than controls. There were no differences between groups in the magnitude of response of the HR, PEP or vagal ratio. High baseline anxiety and anger were associated with an HR increase during the preparation time in IPV perpetrators but not in controls. These findings indicate a different cardiovascular pattern of response to psychosocial stress in IPV perpetrators, especially during recovery. Thus, they contribute to understanding the biological functioning of violence sub-types, supporting the validity of cardiovascular measures as diagnostic indicators for IPV classification.
The Real-time Forecasting Performance of Phillips Curves

Analysts typically use a variety of techniques to forecast inflation. These include both ‘bottom-up’ approaches, for near-term forecasting, as well as econometric methods (such as mark-up models of inflation, which have been found to perform quite well for Australia – see de Brouwer and Ericsson (1998)). One of the econometric approaches to inflation forecasting which is sometimes considered is the use of Phillips curves based on estimates of the output gap. This paper suggests, however, that the real-time capacity of such Phillips curves to forecast inflation is limited, relative even to such simple benchmark forecasting approaches as an autoregressive (AR) model of inflation or a random walk assumption. It appears that the lack of precision with which output-gap-based Phillips curves can be estimated in real time limits their usefulness as a means of forecasting inflation in isolation. Phillips curve-based forecasts may, however, perform a little better than AR model-based ones in at least predicting whether inflation will increase or decrease from its current level. Moreover, combining Phillips curve-based forecasts with those from simple, alternative approaches does seem to offer some scope for improving the real-time forecast accuracy of the latter. These observations suggest that, in spite of their generally disappointing performance as a means of forecasting inflation in isolation, output-gap-based Phillips curves may continue to be useful in real time – as a tool for conditioning gap estimates within a multivariate filtering framework, and as a possible complement to other, alternative inflation forecasting approaches.
Bacteriological Study of Fish Samples Collected from Different Markets in Some Egyptian Governorates and Antimicrobial Sensitivity of Isolates

A total of (80) samples of living diseased cultured Tilapia fish (Oreochromusniloticus), were collected from different fish farms in Egypt (Behera and Kafr El-Sheikh) which showed the clinical signs of loss of scales from some areas of the skin, excessive mucus all over the body surfaces with petechial haemorrhages over the dorsal musculature, large necrotic lesions extending all over the body and darkness of skin. Differentiation and characterization of various isolates was based on their growth characteristics on specific culture media (biochemical and gram staining reactions). The following human pathogenic bacteria were isolated Staph. aureus, Staph. epidermidis, Staph. Saprophytics, Streptococcus spp. , E. coli, Salmonella, P. aeruginosa, P. fluorescens, and Enterobacteriaceae from skin with the incidence of 12.5%, 23.8%, 31.3%, 10%, 25%, 7.5%, 22.5%, 20%, and 18.8% respectively, but from muscle with the incidence of 7.5%, 7.5%, 12.5%, 8.8%, 22.5%, 5%, 20%, 18.8%, and 16.3% respectively. On the other hand these bacteria isolated from intestine with the incidence of8.8%, 7.5%, 12.5%, 13.8%, 25%, 8.8%, 17.5%, 15%, and 16.3% respectively, while from liver with incidence of 15%, 12.5%, 16.3%, 15%, 35%, 6.3%, 25%, 23.8%, and 15% respectively. In vitro sensitivity test indicated that, the most prevalent bacteria isolated from examined fish samples were sensitive to enrofloxacin, norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin and kanamycin. Most of these strains were highly resistant to erythromycin and a moxycillin. PCR panel could help for rapid diagnoses to determine the causative agents from fish samples, Staph. aureus coagulase gene and variable fragments for 16SrRNA genes from the extracted DNA at 228bp. K e y w o r d s
The Role of Emotional vs. Successful Intelligence in New Venture Creation

The question of why some people are better than others at creating new ventures has received considerable attention in the entrepreneurship literature. Two streams of research, focused on successful intelligence – a combination of analytical, practical and creative abilities – and emotional intelligence, have studied the influence of each type of intelligence on the success of a new start-up in silos. This research aims to build on the literature to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of relationship between emotional and successful intelligence, and their impact on the success of a new venture. It does so by exploring three variations of the potential relationships between these variables: 1- emotional intelligence, along with successful intelligence, directly affects new venture creation, 2- successful intelligence mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence and new venture creation, and 3- emotional intelligence moderates the relationship between successful intelligence and new venture creation. Fifty-seven entrepreneurs who own ventures in their start-up phase completed online tests of successful and emotional intelligence, and reported on the performance of their venture. Findings from this study revealed no significant relationships for any of the three models tested. However, they suggest a possible moderation effect of emotional intelligence on the relationship between successful intelligence and new venture creation. The study also revealed unexpected findings between entrepreneurial past experience, successful intelligence and self-reports of venture performance, a research avenue that may be worthy of further investigation.
The effect of Khat Chewing ( Catha edulis ) among college students of Jazan Province , Saudi Arabia : Prevalence and health related factors

Department of Medical Lab Technology, College Applied Medical Sciences, P. O. Box 1289, Jazan, Saudi Arabia *Corresponding Author’s Email: sjohn@jazanu.edu. sa To estimate the prevalence of health related issues associated with Khat (Catha edulis) chewing i.e., Diabetes Mellitus (DM), Cholestrol, Hypertension and other associated factors among the college students of Jazan region, Saudi Arabia. A cross-sectional study using a structured questionnaire was used for collecting the data and determining the other clinical parameters. Standard kit protocols were used to estimate the various parameter SPSS version 17 software program was used for data analysis. The study revealed an overall prevalence of DM of 20% in Jazan Region in the selected participants. The study did not find an independent relationship between diabetes and khat chewing. The habit is highly prevalent among Jazan population. The investigation further documented an association between diabetes and physical activity. There is a significant of 20% students found to be hypoglycaemic. The group with physical activity had the lowest prevalence of diabetes. Furthermore, it was evaluated that there was no association between Khat chewing and BMI. Most of the participants (82%) BMI recorded within the normal range and in addition to that, the prevalence of cholesterol of 14% among the khat chewing students in Jazan Region. This estimate is far less than what has been reported by previous studies in KSA. It was also revealed that a higher percentage of Khat chewing students in Jazan Region are suffering from hypertension and smoking habits in the selected participants. The use of Khat trend is increasing among higher education students in Jazan Region. A multilevel, value based, comprehensive, and strategic long-term intervention plan is needed. The comprehensive plan may include social interventions geared by creating recreations alternatives and opportunities for youths.
Internal media, conceptual metaphors and minority cultural identities

In recent times we have witnessed a growth in the number of groups who are calling for cultural recognition on the basis of a putative discrete ethnicity. In this article we examine one such group, the ‘Ulster-Scots’ in Northern Ireland. We examine how this group metaphorically conceptualize their identity within their internal press media output, specifically the monthly publication The Ulster-Scot. Drawing on the conceptual metaphor approach of Lakoff and Johnson, which argues that metaphors are central to how we define and understand our everyday world, we examine the discursive construction of an Ulster-Scots collective identity and history through an analysis of the metaphors employed. We argue that a focus on the use of conceptual metaphors within discourses of ethnicity provides a valuable insight into ethnic self-understanding at a given point in time, and that, consequently, this approach is a valuable addition to the analytic repertoire for researchers concerned with issues of emergent ethnicity and the construction ethnic identities in general.
Understanding customer malling behavior in an urban shopping mall using smartphones

This paper presents a novel customer malling behavior modeling framework for an urban shopping mall. As an automated computing framework using smartphones, it is designed to provide comprehensive understanding of customer behavior. We prototype the framework in a real-world urban shopping mall. Development consists of three steps; customer data collection, customer trace extraction, and behavior model analysis. We extract customer traces from a collection of 701-hour sensor data from 195 in-situ customers who installed our logging application at Android Market. The practical behavior model is created from the real traces. It has a multi-level structure to provide the holistic understanding of customer behavior from physical movement to service semantics. As far as we know, it is the first work to understand complex customer malling behavior in offline shopping malls.
Patterns in property specifications for finite-state verification

Model checkers and other finite-state verification tools allow developers to detect certain kinds of errors automatically. Nevertheless, the transition of this technology from research to practice has been slow. While there are a number of potential causes for reluctance to adopt such formal methods, we believe that a primary cause is that practitioners are unfamiliar with specification processes, notations, and strategies. In a recent paper, we proposed a pattern-based approach to the presentation, codification and reuse of property specifications for finite-state verification. Since then, we have carried out a survey of available specifications, collecting over 500 examples of property specifications. We found that most are instances of our proposed patterns. Furthermore, we have updated our pattern system to accommodate new patterns and variations of existing patterns encountered in this survey. This paper reports the results of the survey and the current status of our pattern system.
The Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Greek Version of the Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q)

This study investigates the latent structure and the psychometric characteristics of the attitudinal subscales of the Greek translation of the EDE-Q (G-EDE-Q) using two samples. The first sample consisted of 500 university female students and tested the latent structure of the G-EDE-Q. The second sample consisted of 164 female psychology students and examined the internal consistency as well as the concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity of the G-EDE-Q. The results from confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) showed that a three-factor solution fit the data better than the other models examined, providing evidence to contradict the originally proposed structure of the instrument. The results support both, the internal consistency as well as the concurrent, convergent, and dis- criminant validity of the G-EDE-Q global scale and its subscales. The discussion focuses on the critical review of previous statistical procedures employed and the clinical and research implications of the present findings.
Network-based drug discovery by integrating systems biology and computational technologies

Network-based intervention has been a trend of curing systemic diseases, but it relies on regimen optimization and valid multi-target actions of the drugs. The complex multi-component nature of medicinal herbs may serve as valuable resources for network-based multi-target drug discovery due to its potential treatment effects by synergy. Recently, robustness of multiple systems biology platforms shows powerful to uncover molecular mechanisms and connections between the drugs and their targeting dynamic network. However, optimization methods of drug combination are insufficient, owning to lacking of tighter integration across multiple ‘-omics’ databases. The newly developed algorithm- or network-based computational models can tightly integrate ‘-omics’ databases and optimize combinational regimens of drug development, which encourage using medicinal herbs to develop into new wave of network-based multi-target drugs. However, challenges on further integration across the databases of medicinal herbs with multiple system biology platforms for multi-target drug optimization remain to the uncertain reliability of individual data sets, width and depth and degree of standardization of herbal medicine. Standardization of the methodology and terminology of multiple system biology and herbal database would facilitate the integration. Enhance public accessible databases and the number of research using system biology platform on herbal medicine would be helpful. Further integration across various ‘-omics’ platforms and computational tools would accelerate development of network-based drug discovery and network medicine.
Active Learning for Speech Recognition: the Power of Gradients

In training speech recognition systems, labeling audio clips can be expensive, and not all data is equally valuable. Active learning aims to label only the most informative samples to reduce cost. For speech recognition, confidence scores and other likelihood-based active learning methods have been shown to be effective. Gradient-based active learning methods, however, are still not well-understood. This work investigates the Expected Gradient Length (EGL) approach in active learning for end-to-end speech recognition. We justify EGL from a variance reduction perspective, and observe that EGL's measure of informativeness picks novel samples uncorrelated with confidence scores. Experimentally, we show that EGL can reduce word errors by 11\%, or alternatively, reduce the number of samples to label by 50\%, when compared to random sampling.
Talent management as a management fashion in HRD: towards a research agenda

HRD practitioners have long shown concerns about the status and legitimacy of the occupation, and, arguably, this has not been unconnected to the range of titles HRD has been given over the years. Has there been an element of ‘management fashion’ about this, or have they reflected some real change at the level of practice? This paper considers whether ‘talent management’ (TM), as a recently-emerged area of interest for HRD, can be argued to display features of a management fashion. On the basis of a review of three main perspectives, we conclude that it is too early to say with regard to two of them, given TM's recent emergence and the paucity of empirical material, but that TM displays features of institutionalism in TM talk in the business and professional literature. A research agenda, based primarily on institutional theory, is developed and a number of research questions outlined.
Recommendations for Accommodations

When accurately assigned and administered appropriately, testing accommodations help ameliorate the effects of personal characteristics that limit access to critical information and prevent a person from demonstrating his or her true abilities in the tested domain. Inaccurate assignment or misuse of accommodations may counteract the benefits of accommodations and introduce sources of measurement error. In this study, we investigated the consistency of accommodation assignments across 38 third-grade students' Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), teacher recommendations, and student performance data. We found inconsistencies between the accommodations listed on the IEP and the teachers' recommendations. Similar results were observed when comparing either IEP or teacher recommendations with students' performance. These inconsistencies are interpreted in light of federal mandates and best practices.
Effects of Comprehension Skill on Inference Generation during Reading

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between readers with different levels of comprehension skill when engaging in a causal questioning activity during reading, and the varied effects on inference generation. Fourth-grade readers (n = 74) with different levels of comprehension skill read narrative texts aloud and were asked causal questions at specific points during reading. Responses to questions were examined for the types of inferences the readers made during reading. There was no main effect of comprehension skill in terms of readers’ text-based inferences made in response to the causal questions. However, readers differed in their use of knowledge-based inferences in response to the causal questions, and in particular knowledge-based inferences that connected to related text information. Results are discussed in terms of individual differences that can influence attempts at maintaining coherence during reading.
Morphological Differences in the Parietal Lobes within the Human Genus

There have been very few morphological studies regarding brain parietal volumes. This is probably a result of the fact that their boundaries are rather difficult to establish. Functions of the parietal lobes that have already been documented range from visuospatial integration, category recognition, and praxis to orientation, numerical processing, and speech decoding. It has been hypothesized that the parietal lobes have had a major role in the evolution of the human brain because of their morphological changes. As brain size increases, they undergo relative flattening in nonmodern humans. This pattern is stressed in Neanderthals, which show, however, a certain widening of the parietal volumes. Only Homo sapiens shows a generalized enlargement of the entire parietal surface. Comparing the modern endocranial geometry with the configuration from extinct species, it seems that the lower parietal areas are displaced inferiorly. This suggests that the upper areas, or the intraparietal sulcus, have been involved in these morphological variations. The role of the upper parietal lobule in the recognition and codification of the outer spatial environment and the associated integration between the outer frame and the inner perceptions would seem to indicate that such morphological changes may also have been related to important neurofunctional differences.
Conceptualizing Trauma and Resilience Across Diverse Contexts

Abstract This paper offers a multicultural understanding of trauma and resilience as experienced in the lives of individuals from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds. The research and clinical literature on resilience has focused largely if not exclusively on individual personality traits and coping styles, and has neglected to explore all possible sources and expressions of resilience in individuals and groups. For many ethnic minorities, traditional notions of resilience, shaped largely by middle class European and North American values, may not capture culturally more familiar modes of positive adaptation to adverse and traumatic experience. This paper explores the concept of resilience as a multidetermined phenomenon, and considers the implications of this perspective for clinical research and intervention with ethnic minorities.