Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A prática da hidroginástica como tratamento complementar para pacientes com transtorno de ansiedade

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the effectiveness of hydrogymnastics as a therapeutic method to the reduction of anxiety in females diagnosed with anxiety disorder. METHODS: This clinical survey had as participants, patients with anxiety, being the depression the existent comorbidade, from Psychiatry Media Residence Program of the Academical Hospital of Maringa, all had medical treatment (n = 16: experimental group = 8; control group = 8). The experiment was accomplished in the warm swimming pool of the Department of Physical Education of the State University of Maringa. The design of the study was developed with two hydrogymnastics sessions per week, during 12 weeks. The instruments used in the data collection were: Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Profile of Mood States (POMS). As to statistics analysis the Friedman test, Wilcoxon test, Mann-Whitney test and Multiple Comparisons were used, with a significance of 5%. RESULTS: Results show that anxiety disorder scores decreased in the experimental group after 12 weeks of intervention (19.12 ± 3.12 to 8.37 ± 4.60, P = 0.0005*) and control group (17.87 ± 14.32 to 12.12 ± 9.58, P = 0.254). As for mood state profile experimental group evidenced a positive mental health profile, while control group showed a negative mood state profile. CONCLUSIONS: It may be concluded that patients from experimental group evidenced significant reduction in anxiety level in relation to control group patients whom used only the conventional medicine treatment. For mood state profile changes were found throughout the study, being that control group experimented negative mood changes during the clinical survey while experimental group patients evidenced positive mood state profile with reduction on tension, depression, anger confusion and enhancement on vigor.
How specific are venous symptoms for diagnosis of chronic venous disease?

Objective The objective of this study is to evaluate whether and which ‘venous’ symptoms are characteristic for patients affected with chronic venous disease compared to patients with other diseases of the lower limbs (e.g. arthrosis, peripheral arterial disease, spinal disc herniation). Methods A cross-sectional study was performed to compare the frequency of venous symptoms among 76 patients with chronic venous disease and reflux and 74 patients with other diseases of the legs without reflux. The VEINES-Sym of the VEINES-QOL/Sym questionnaire was used to evaluate the frequency of symptoms. Demographic, clinical classification and ultrasound findings were also noted. Results A total of 122 patients were included for analysis (response rate of 87%). Presence of venous symptoms was slightly more often reported in the chronic venous disease group than in the non-chronic venous disease group, but differences were small and statistically non-significant. Severity of chronic venous disease as classified by the CEAP classification was not associated with higher proportions of patients reporting symptoms than in non-chronic venous disease patients, except for swelling (p = .016) and itching (p = .007) in C3-C6 patients. The largest difference between the chronic venous disease and non-chronic venous disease group was observed for the time of the day at which symptoms were most intense; patients with chronic venous disease were more likely to experience symptoms at the end of the day (p < .001). Conclusions The small differences in prevalence of reported ‘venous’ symptoms between chronic venous disease patients and patients with other diseases of the legs suggest that these symptoms may be less specific for patients with chronic venous disease and refluxing veins than is usually assumed.
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE VALIDATION OF THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ENJOYMENT SCALE IN AN ITALIAN SAMPLE

Assessing motivation for and enjoyment of physical activity is an important step in the promotion of an active lifestyle. This study assessed the factor structure and reliability of the Italian version of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale in a sample of Italian students (N = 5,934) aged from 11 to 19. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed on subsamples of girls and boys grouped into 4 age categories. Gender and age differences were also examined through a 2 (sex) × 4 (age) multivariate analysis of variance. Findings supported the factor structure and reliability of the Italian version of the PACES.
A Social Equilibrium Existence Theorem*

In a wide class of social systems each agent has a range of actions among which he selects one. His choice is not, however, entirely free and the actions of all the other agents determine the subset to which his selection is restricted. Once the action of every agent is given, the outcome of the social activity is known. The preferences of each agent yield his complete ordering of the outcomes and each one of them tries by choosing his action in his restricting subset to bring about the best outcome according to his own preferences. The existence theorem presented here gives general conditions under which there is for such a social system an equilibrium, i.e., a situation where the action of every agent belongs to his restricting subset and no agent has incentive to choose another action.
Globalisation Effect on Inflation in the Great Moderation Era: New Evidence from G10 Countries

Abstract Dynamic econometric models are built individually for ten countries from G10 during the Great Moderation period, with the aim of analysing counterfactually the globalisation effect on inflation. The main findings are (i) the effect is highly heterogeneous from country to country; (ii) increases in trade openness could be either inflationary or deflationary whereas increased imports from low-cost emerging-market economies are mostly deflationary; and (iii) there is almost no direct globalisation impact as far as inflation persistence is concerned while the impact on inflation variability can be positive as well as negative. Overall, globalisation is found to have contributed positively to lowering rather than stabilising inflation during the Great Moderation era.
Epidemiology of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) in Germany from 2003 to 2009: A Risk Estimation

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a fatal long-term complication of measles infection. We performed an estimation of the total number of SSPE cases in Germany for the period 2003 to 2009 and calculated the risk of SSPE after an acute measles infection. SSPE cases were collected from the Surveillance Unit for Rare Paediatric Diseases in Germany and the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology at the University of Würzburg. The total number of SSPE cases was estimated by capture-recapture analysis. For the period 2003 to 2009, 31 children with SSPE who were treated at German hospitals were identified. The capture-recapture estimate was 39 cases (95% confidence interval: 29.2–48.0). The risk of developing SSPE for children contracting measles infection below 5 years of age was calculated as 1∶1700 to 1∶3300. This risk is in the same order of magnitude as the risk of a fatal acute measles infection.
Mining Transliterations from Web Query Results: An Incremental Approach

We study an adaptive learning framework for phonetic similarity modeling (PSM) that supports the automatic acquisition of transliterations by exploiting minimum prior knowledge about machine transliteration to mine transliterations incrementally from the live Web. We formulate an incremental learning strategy for the framework based on Bayesian theory for PSM adaptation. The idea of incremental learning is to benefit from the continuously developing history to update a static model towards the intended reality. In this way, the learning process refines the PSM incrementally while constructing a transliteration lexicon at the same time on a development corpus. We further demonstrate that the proposed learning framework is reliably effective in mining live transliterations from Web query results.
Tosedostat for the treatment of relapsed and refractory acute myeloid leukemia

Introduction: Despite recent improvements in the scientific understanding of leukemia biology, the overall prognosis for adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains disappointingly poor. Therapeutic options for AML that are relapsed or refractory to front-line chemotherapy are limited, and the development of effective agents for this indication is an unmet need. The aminopeptidase-inhibitor tosedostat (CHR-2797) is a novel metalloenzyme inhibitor that blocks a critical step in the protein degradation and re-synthesizes intracellular pathway. This orally bioavailable agent has shown promising activity in vitro and in early clinical trials for patients with relapsed/refractory AML. Areas covered: This review summarizes the development of tosedostat to date. Specifically, the authors review the literature on its mechanism of action, pharmacoepidemiology and the currently available preclinical and clinical data. Expert opinion: Tosedostat is an oral agent with a novel mechanism of action. Early trials of tosedostat in relapsed/refractory elderly AML have shown encouraging results in a population with an overall very poor prognosis. This is particularly noted in patients with a prior history of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and hypomethylating-agent (HMA) use. Additional studies of tosedostat in rationally designed combinations with cytarabine and HMAs in advanced MDS and refractory AML populations are ongoing. Furthermore, the safety and efficacy evaluation is similarly ongoing, and patient selection will be an important consideration in the continued development of this promising compound.
Basal lamina disorganisation of the acini and ducts of labial salivary glands from patients with Sjögren’s syndrome: association with mononuclear cell infiltration

Objective: To study the expression of laminin and type IV collagen as biomarkers of the organisation of the basal lamina of acini and ducts in labial salivary glands from patients with Sjögren’s syndrome, and to relate this organisation to inflammatory cell invasion of acini and ducts. Methods: Immunohistochemistry for laminin and type IV collagen was undertaken on sections of labial salivary glands from 30 patients with Sjögren’s syndrome, 10 control subjects, and 24 controls with chronic sialoadenitis. Immunohistochemistry reaction, alterations to cell morphology, and the presence of inflammatory cells in acini and ducts were evaluated and scored using a semiquantitative method. Results: Changes in the expression of laminin and type IV collagen in the basal lamina of acini and ducts of labial salivary glands from patients with Sjögren’s syndrome were more pronounced than in labial salivary glands from control groups. A remarkable characteristic was the disorganisation of the basal lamina in the labial salivary glands in Sjögren’s syndrome. The pattern of immunoreactivity of the basal lamina of other structures (for example, blood vessels) did not change. In Sjögren’s syndrome, invasion of cytotoxic T lymphocytes was only observed in acini and ducts which had a disorganised basal lamina. Conclusions: The high state of disorganisation of the basal lamina of acini and ducts could allow invasion of cytotoxic T lymphocytes in Sjögren’s syndrome, contributing to cell death and ductal hyperplasia.
Pre-transplantation thymic function is associated with the risk of acute graft versus host disease and cytomegalovirus viremia after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

ABSTRACT Objectives: To analyze the kinetics of T-cell subsets and thymic function reconstitution after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT); to determine whether sjTREC (signal joint TCR rearrangement excision circle) and CD31-positive recent thymic emigrant (CD31 + RTE) are correlated with acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD) or CMV (cytomegalovirus) viremia after AHSCT. Methods: Forty-nine patients who underwent AHSCT in our institution were prospectively enrolled. Periphery blood samples were collected before conditioning and at 1, 2, 3 months after AHSCT. T-cell subsets were analyzed with flow cytometry. Genomic DNA was purified from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), and sjTREC was quantified by real-time PCR. Impact of sjTREC and CD31 + RTE on aGVHD and CMV viremia was evaluated by univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. Results: The analyzed T-cell subsets and sjTREC of patients before AHSCT were all significantly lower than those of healthy donors (p < 0.05). sjTREC and CD31 + RTE were remarkably decreased in 3 months after AHSCT (p < 0.05). Patients with lower pre-transplantation sjTREC and CD31 + RTE level had higher incidence of CMV viremia after AHSCT (p < 0.05). sjTREC/106 PBMCs was negatively correlated with aGVHD (p = 0.024). Conclusion: Thymic function was impaired before transplantation, and was consistently decreased in 3 months after AHSCT. Patients who had lower pre-transplantation sjTREC level were at high risk of aGVHD and CMV viremia after AHSCT, low pre-transplantation CD31 + RTE was correlated with CMV viremia after AHSCT.
Facilitating Work Team Effectiveness

This case study explored the links between the developmental profiles of three groups working in a semigovernmental organization in Central America, and it suggests strategies to improve the effectiveness and productivity of those groups. The findings suggested that a brief intervention based on a detailed analysis of a group’s developmental level can produce significant changes in that group’s level of functioning and productivity. Although these results are promising, more studies, employing a more rigorous research design, will be necessary to confirm these findings.
A Barycentric Coordinate Based Distributed Localization Algorithm for Sensor Networks

This paper studies the problem of determining the sensor locations in a large sensor network using only relative distance (range) measurements. Based on a generalized barycentric coordinate representation, our work generalizes the DILOC algorithm to the localization problem under arbitrary deployments of sensor nodes and anchor nodes. First, a criterion and algorithm are developed to determine a generalized barycentric coordinate of a node with respect to its neighboring nodes, which do not require the node to be inside the convex hull of its neighbors. Next, for the localization problem based on the generalized barycentric coordinate representation, a necessary and sufficient condition for the localizability of a sensor network with a generic configuration is obtained. Finally, a new linear iterative algorithm is proposed to ensure distributed implementation as well as global convergence to the true coordinates.
Field concentrations and persistence of polybrominated biphenyls in soils and solubility of PBB in natural waters.

Soil samples were collected from 28 fields which had received manure from Michigan's most highly contaminated dairy herds. The number of fields in each concentration range of PBB in soil were: 2, not detectable; 15, 0.0 to 8.0 ppb; 6, 14-102 ppb, and 5, 153 to 371 ppb. Plant tissue sampled from the 10 most highly contaminated fields contained no detectable PBB. No evidence of significant degradation of PBB was noted after 1 year incubation in soil. When 14C hexabromobiphenyl and heptabromobiphenyl isomers were incubated in soil less than 0.2% of the 14C was volatilized. Also gas chromatographic analysis of soil extracts showed no difference in recovery of the six major PBB isomers between sterilized and nonsterilized soil. Analysis of these extracts by thin layer chromatography and autoradiography showed no 14C-PBB intermediates. Photodegradation products of the major hexa- and heptabromobiphenyl isomers showed more but still minor (approximately 3%) biodegradation in soil. Much of the photodegradation products appeared bound to soil, since these products could not be extracted from soil. Photodegradation does not appear to be a significant fate of PBB in manures spread on fields since no change was noted in the relative concentrations of isomers in soil samples from our field survey. Studies with distilled, tap, river, and soil waters showed that PBB solubility was markedly influenced by water composition. ImagesFIGURE 1.FIGURE 2.
Intention of activism and radicalism among Muslim and Christian youth in a marginal neighbourhood in a Spanish city / Intención de activismo y radicalismo de jóvenes musulmanes y cristianos residentes en un barrio marginal de una ciudad española

Abstract The aim of this research is to assess the intended level of religious and political activism and radicalism in a sample of Muslim and Christian youth living in a marginalised neighbourhood in a southern city in Spain. Interrelations between activism and radicalism and other psychosocial factors potentially contributing to religious and political mobilisation processes are analysed, such as group identification, self-esteem, violent disinhibition, religious extremism and perceived oppression. Important differences in religious and national identification were found. Muslims scored higher in a statistically significant way on various indicators of religious extremism. Both perceived oppression and shared ideology inside the endogroup seem to be contributing factors to having an intention of radicalism in the Muslim group where social identity anchored in religion prevails. These results point to the fact that there is a polarisation that can serve as the threshold of conflict and radical mobilisation in the critical context analysed. The results are discussed within the framework of previous research into psychology of radicalisation and terrorism.
Text Flow: A Unified Text Detection System in Natural Scene Images

The prevalent scene text detection approach follows four sequential steps comprising character candidate detection, false character candidate removal, text line extraction, and text line verification. However, errors occur and accumulate throughout each of these sequential steps which often lead to low detection performance. To address these issues, we propose a unified scene text detection system, namely Text Flow, by utilizing the minimum cost (min-cost) flow network model. With character candidates detected by cascade boosting, the min-cost flow network model integrates the last three sequential steps into a single process which solves the error accumulation problem at both character level and text line level effectively. The proposed technique has been tested on three public datasets, i.e, ICDAR2011 dataset, ICDAR2013 dataset and a multilingual dataset and it outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on all three datasets with much higher recall and F-score. The good performance on the multilingual dataset shows that the proposed technique can be used for the detection of texts in different languages.
Conversational Interruptions in Israeli—Palestinian `Dialogue' Events

Previous cross-cultural research has not undertaken in situ analysis of conversational style between groups in severe political conflict. The present study is a quantitative and ethnographic study of conversational interruptions in one Israeli-Palestinian `dialogue' event which took place during the Palestinian Uprising. Findings indicate that the previously documented divergent cultural styles of the two groups underwent a process of change. Specifically, the Israeli dugri interruptive style dominated interactions between Israelis (intragroup) and between Israelis and Palestinians (intergroup). However, fewer interruptions were found in the intergroup interaction. Conversely, the Palestinian musayra style of non-interruptions was more significant in the intragroup Palestinian-Palestinian interaction than in interaction with Israelis, where Palestinian interruptions dominated. The political context of events and the erosion of the musayra style are suggested as factors that explain results. Implications are discussed.
From similarity to inference ∗

We advance a theory of inductive reasoning based on similarity, and test it on arguments involving mammal categories. To measure similarity, we quantified the overlap of neural activation in left Brodmann area 37 (LBA37) in response to pictures of different categories; the choice of LBA37 is motivated by previous literature. The theory was tested against probability judgments for 160 arguments generated from 16 mammal categories and a common predicate. The theory’s predictions (based on neural similarity) correlate strongly with these estimates. Other brain regions previously implicated in semantic cognition yield similarities that also allow the model to predict inductive judgments accurately whereas use of rated similarity in place of neural similarity is less successful. ∗The authors wish to thank three anonymous referees for constructive commentary. Weber acknowledges support from an NSF graduate research fellowship. Osherson acknowledges the Henry Luce Foundation. Contact: mattheww/osherson@princeton.edu.
Investigating adult language input and young children's responses in naturalistic environments: An Observational Framework

This paper reports the design and trial of an original Observational Framework for quantitative investigation of young children's responses to adult language in their typical language learning environments. The Framework permits recording of both the response expectation of the adult utterances, and the degree of compliance in the child's responses. The former are evaluated under the categories of Response Required (RR), Response Not Required (RNR), and Other Directed (OD) spoken to a child other than the one who responds); the latter, based on both verbal and non-verbal behaviours, as Compliance (correct in the context), Valid (correct in another context), Ambiguous (unable to be classified), Acknowledgement, Inappropriate and No Response. Details are given for the initial application of the Observational Framework with 10 children in two- or three-year-old childcare centre classrooms. The findings that RR utterances in the adult input were more frequently addressed to younger children, while RNR utterances were more prevalent in the older classroom are discussed in terms of both adult and child communicative behaviours and the practicality of using the Observational Framework in naturalistic conditions.
Psychological barriers to Internet usage among older adults in the UK

The Internet is an important tool in assisting the older population to lead independent and social lives. However, the majority of Internet users are under 55. This study investigated the following psychological barriers to Internet use by older adults: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, Internet efficacy, perceived complexity of navigation and perceived complexity of terminology. Twenty-three subjects (aged 55 – 75 years) were interviewed in the UK. The influences of age, computer and Internet experience, and training on these psychological barriers were explored. The results showed that the majority of the older adults who had a positive perception of usefulness, ease of use, and efficacy of the Internet or e-mail, used the Internet or e-mail more often. In addition, it was found that computer or Internet experience increased perceptions of ease of use and efficacy of the Internet and reduced perceived complexity of navigation. There was no difference between the two age groups (55 – 65 and 66 – 75 years) in these psychological barriers. It was concluded that increased marketing of the Internet (aimed at the older user), more simple and uniformly designed Internet pages, more user-friendly online help and error message terminology, and increased provision of training for the older user would assist uptake of the World Wide Web.