Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
No isomorphism between the affine $\hat sl(2)$ algebra and the N=2 superconformal algebras

Since 1999 it became obvious that the would be `isomorphism' between the affine $\hat sl(2)$ algebra and the N=2 superconformal algebras, proposed by some authors, simply does not work. However, this issue was never properly discussed in the literature and, as a result, some confusion still remains. In this article we finally settle down, clearly and unambiguously, the true facts: there is no isomorphism between the affine $\hat sl(2)$ algebra and the N=2 superconformal algebras.
Role conflict and burnout: The direct and moderating effects of political skill and perceived organizational support on burnout dimensions.

Drawing from previous research on the effect of role conflict on burnout and the Conservation of Resources theory, the authors propose that individual differences in political skill and perceptions of organizational support will be negatively related to burnout and will also moderate the relationship between perceived role conflict and burnout. In a sample of 120 professional employees, political skill was associated with less depersonalization and feelings of reduced personal accomplishment and moderated the role conflict-reduced personal accomplishment relationship. Perceived organizational support was associated with less emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and moderated the role conflict-emotional exhaustion relationship. Implications of results are discussed and directions for future research are offered.
The group as a basis for emergent stereotype consensus.

The fact that stereotypes are shared within groups is essential to stereotype definition and operationalization. Nonetheless, stereotype consensus remains under-researched and under-explained. To address this problem we present a theoretical analysis of the process through which stereotype consensus develops. Derived from self-categorization theory, this argues that consensus is produced by shared social identification and the collective co-ordination of perception and behaviour that flows from it. This analysis is examined in a review of relevant research and in studies where dynamic processes of category representation and social influence are shown to contribute to consensual stereotypes of both out-groups and ingroups.
Intensity-modulated radiotherapy combined with endocrine therapy for intermediate and advanced prostate cancer: long-term outcome of Chinese patients.

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate acute adverse events and efficacy of three-dimensional intensity- modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) combined with endocrine therapy for intermediate and advanced prostate cancer. METHODS Sixty-seven patients were treated with three-dimensional IMRT combined with maximum androgen blockade. The correlation between radiation-induced rectal injury and clinical factors was further analyzed. RESULTS After treatment, 21 patients had complete remission (CR), 37 had partial remission (PR), and nine had stable disease (SD), with an overall response rate of 86.5%. The follow-up period ranged from 12.5 to 99.6 months. Thirty-nine patients had a follow-up time of ≥ five years. In this group, three-year and five-year overall survival rates were 89% and 89.5%, respectively; three-year and five-year progression-free survival rates were 72% and 63%. In univariate analyses, gross tumor volume was found to be prognostic for survival (χ2 = 5.70, P = 0.037). Rates of leucopenia and anemia were 91.1% and 89.5%, respectively. Two patients developed acute liver injury, and a majority of patients developed acute radiation proctitis and cystitis, mainly grade 1/2. Tumor volume before treatment was the only prognostic factor influencing the severity of acute radiation proctitis (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS IMRT combined with endocrine therapy demonstrated promising efficacy and was well tolerated in patients with intermediate and advanced prostate cancer.
Helping Chinese Children Become More Creative

This article provides information about children's creativity in the People's Republic of China. More specifically, it introduces the Chinese cultural and social background along with the school and family environments as they relate to young children's creativity. The article also provides some suggestions for schools and families to foster creativity as a crucial skill in the twenty-first century.
Cyfokeratin Expression in Corneal Endofhelium in the Iridocorneal Endofhelial Syndrome

The immunocytologic characteristics of two formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded corneas from patients with the iridocorneal endothelial (ICE) syndrome and unaffected control corneas were studied. Binding of polyclonal antisera to Factor VIII, S-100 protein, involucrin, neuron specific enolase (NSE), and the lectins peanut agglutinin and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-1 was performed using the standard peroxidase-anti-peroxidase method. We detected reactive patterns of monoclonal antibodies to cytokeratins (34BE12 is a 56-58 kD mouse IgG reactive to stratified epithelia; Pkkl is a 44-54 kD mouse IgG reactive to simple epithelia; and KL1 is a 55-57 kD mouse IgG reactive to epidermis and simple epithelia) using the standard avidin-biotin complex method. Staining properties were similar for the polyclonal antisera, lectins, NSE, and chromogranin in corneas with ICE syndrome and in the controls. However, the cytokeratins 34BE12, Pkkl, and KL1 were detected in the endothelium of the corneas with the ICE syndrome but not in the controls. These findings suggest that various cytokeratins are expressed in the corneal endothelium in the ICE syndrome that are not expressed in unaffected corneal endothelium. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 33:3581-3585,1992 Iris nevus syndrome, Chandler's syndrome, and essential iris atrophy are characterized by unilateral glaucoma and peripheral anterior synechiae that develops in a previously open anterior chamber angle and occurs mainly in young to middle-aged women. These three diseases probably are variants seen in the spectrum of the iridocorneal endothelial (ICE) syndrome. Interestingly, the acronym ICE also stands for the three clinical disorders. One previous study emphasized the epithelial-like characteristics of endothelial cells in the ICE syndrome. 1 To further characterize the pathologic features of corneal endothelium in the ICE syndrome, we evaluated the immunohistochemical features of two corneas from patients with the ICE syndrome and two control corneas. Monoclonal and polyclonal serum reactive to neuroectodermal, neuroendocrine, and ep
Buddhist Belief in Merit (Punña), Buddhist Religiousness and Life Satisfaction among Thai Buddhists in Bangkok, Thailand

This study operationally defines Buddhist belief in merit (punña), Buddhist religiousness and examines their relationships with life satisfaction. Four hundred Buddhist merit makers at a temple in Bangkok participated in the study. LISREL models show that Buddhist belief in merit predicts Buddhist religiousness and life satisfaction, and Buddhist belief in merit mediates the relationship between Buddhist religiousness and life satisfaction. The different conceptualizations of Buddhist religiousness and life satisfaction and their difference with reference to the future and the present are discussed. Buddhist religiousness-life satisfaction nexus is then examined against western religiousness-life satisfaction relationship.
Gelsolin suppresses gastric cancer metastasis through inhibition of PKR-p38 signaling

The biological function of gelsolin in gastric cancer and its mechanism remained undefined. Here, we demonstrated that gelsolin was down-regulated in human gastric cancer tissues, and lower tumorous gelsolin significantly correlated with gastric cancer metastasis. Functionally, gelsolin suppressed the migration of gastric cancer cells in vitro and inhibited lung metastasis in vivo. In mechanism, gelsolin decreased epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) inducing cytoskeleton remolding through inhibition of p38 signaling to suppress the migration of gastric cancer cell. Moreover, gelsolin bound to and decreased the phosphorylation of PKR, and then inhibited p38 signaling pathway. Finally, similar to the gastric cancer cell lines, PKR-p38 signaling pathway proteins tend to be activated and correlated with low expression of gelsolin in clinical gastric cancer tissues. Altogether, these results highlight the importance of gelsolin in suppression of gastric cancer metastasis through inhibition of PKR-p38 signaling pathway.
Double movements and pendular forces: Polanyian perspectives on the neoliberal age

In the neoliberal era, Karl Polanyi’s notion of the ‘double movement’ has been widely deployed by social scientists as a critique of the prevailing order and a predictor of its demise. This article presents the double movement theorem, drawing upon Polanyi’s published and unpublished writings. It explores parallels between his explanation of the advent of the 19th-century free-market regime in Britain and recent Polanyian accounts of the rise of neoliberalism. Following an analysis of the ‘pendular’ refunctioning of Polanyi’s thesis, it closes by asking whether the recent global financial crisis heralds a pendulum swing from neoliberalism (or ‘market fundamentalism’) towards a form of socially coordinated capitalism, or towards ‘more of the same’. As of 2011, it appears that neoliberal policy and ideology remain hegemonic, not in reinvigorated form but as an ‘undead’ policy regime, one that has spawned a burgeoning literature on ‘zombie capitalism’ and ‘zombie neoliberalism’.
Cofactors of LIM Domains Associate with Estrogen Receptor α to Regulate the Expression of Noncoding RNA H19 and Corneal Epithelial Progenitor Cell Function*

Cofactors of LIM domain proteins, CLIM1 and CLIM2, are widely expressed transcriptional cofactors that are recruited to gene regulatory regions by DNA-binding proteins, including LIM domain transcription factors. In the cornea, epithelium-specific expression of a dominant negative (DN) CLIM under the keratin 14 (K14) promoter causes blistering, wounding, inflammation, epithelial hyperplasia, and neovascularization followed by epithelial thinning and subsequent epidermal-like differentiation of the corneal epithelium. The defects in corneal epithelial differentiation and cell fate determination suggest that CLIM may regulate corneal progenitor cells and the transition to differentiation. Consistent with this notion, the K14-DN-Clim corneal epithelium first exhibits increased proliferation followed by fewer progenitor cells with decreased proliferative potential. In vivo ChIP-sequencing experiments with corneal epithelium show that CLIM binds to and regulates numerous genes involved in cell adhesion and proliferation, including limbally enriched genes. Intriguingly, CLIM associates primarily with non-LIM homeodomain motifs in corneal epithelial cells, including that of estrogen receptor α. Among CLIM targets is the noncoding RNA H19 whose deregulation is associated with Silver-Russell and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndromes. We demonstrate here that H19 negatively regulates corneal epithelial proliferation. In addition to cell cycle regulators, H19 affects the expression of multiple cell adhesion genes. CLIM interacts with estrogen receptor α at the H19 locus, potentially explaining the higher expression of H19 in female than male corneas. Together, our results demonstrate an important role for CLIM in regulating the proliferative potential of corneal epithelial progenitors and identify CLIM downstream target H19 as a regulator of corneal epithelial proliferation and adhesion.
Control space of apparent haptic motion

In this paper we present three experiments to measure the control parameter space of apparent haptic motion using a variety of stimulation attributes and body sites. In Experiment 1 we measured the range of Stimulus Onset Asynchrony (SOA) that created the percept of continuous motion between two vibrating points on the dorsal forearm and on the back by varying the frequency, intensity and duration of stimulation. The SOA space for apparent motion varied with duration and body site but not with frequency and intensity of stimulation. In Experiment 2 we measured the SOA space for moving sensations when direction of motion and spacing between actuators were varied. On the forearm the SOA space was influenced by both the direction and spacing. However, on the back it was only affected by the direction of actuation. Finally, in Experiment 3 we measured the SOA space using four or more actuation points, creating two-dimensional apparent motion. The results of the present study are discussed in the context of designing haptic contents for movies, amusement rides and video games.
Send Orders of Reprints at Reprints@benthamscience.net Barriers to Sustained Return-to-work Reported by Those Returning to Work Post Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Aim: The first aim of this cross-sectional survey was to assess the reasons given by people with traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) for leaving a job that they had secured after sustaining injury. The second aim was to examine the extent to which these reasons were compatible with a previously-developed framework for understanding organizational behaviors such as leaving a position of employment. Method: Thirty tSCI patients who left a position of employment which had been secured following the injury were interviewed, and asked to report the factors associated with their withdrawal from that position of employment. Results: A large number of factors were reportedly involved in the withdrawals. These factors mirrored were those which have been identified as influencing organizational behavior among the general workforce (characteristics of the individual, of the job, and of the wider environment). The ratio of factors involved was, respectively, 8:8:1. Within the environmental factors, micro-level factors were more prevalent than macro-level factors (in the ratio of 2:1). Conclusions: As many of the individual, job, and health-related reasons are essentially immutable, the environmental factors offer more promise for the development of preventive interventions to minimize unnecessary job loss. Prominent among these environmental factors targeted in interventions would be the workplace-related factor of social support.
One-year case fatality rate following stroke in the Mashhad Stroke Incidence Study: a population-based study of stroke in Iran

Background In developing countries, there are few comprehensive studies of mortality following stroke. Aims and/or hypothesis We aimed to determine the one-year case fatality rate following stroke and to identify factors associated with death in a population-based stroke incidence study in Iran. Methods Six hundred eighty-four patients who had suffered a stroke between November 21, 2006, and November 20, 2007, and were recruited to the Mashhad Stroke Incidence Study were followed up at one-year. Most patients were seen in an outpatient visit. When patients had died, a verbal autopsy was conducted by telephone with the next of kin. Results A total of 226 (34.3%) patients died during the first year following stroke. The cumulative one-year case fatality rate was 30.6% following ischemic stroke and 53.0% following hemorrhagic stroke (55.8% after intracerebral hemorrhage and 35.7% after subarachnoid hemorrhage). The majority of these deaths occurred in the first 28 days after stroke (17.7% with ischemic and 43.0% with hemorrhagic stroke). Factors associated with greater mortality at one-year (excluding those who died during the first week) were hemorrhagic stroke [hazard ratio (HR) 3.99; 95% confidence interval 1.90-8.37], age (HR 1.05; 95% confidence interval 1.03-1.08), previous transient ischemic attack (HR 2.45; 95% confidence interval 1.00-5.99), and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on admission (HR 1.14; 95% confidence interval 1.10-1.17). Conclusion Despite the younger age of stroke occurrence in Iran, the one-year case fatality rate following stroke is similar to that reported in developed countries.
Legal Pressure, Treatment Readiness, and Engagement in Long-Term Residential Programs

Abstract Clients are less likely to drop out of residential drug treatment programs prematurely when they are either internally motivated (i.e., having a high level of treatment readiness) or externally pressured by the legal system to enter, participate, and remain in treatment. However, little is known about the combined impact these factors have on treatment engagement and retention. This study focused on a national sample of 2,194 clients admitted to 18 long-term residential facilities. Although there was no significant interaction effect, findings indicated that clients with higher levels of treatment readiness at intake stayed in treatment at least 90 days, regardless of legal pressure. Likewise, those under legal pressure (defined by legal status and supervisory pressures) remained in treatment longer, regardless of treatment readiness. However, motivational readiness for treatment accounted for the greatest improvements in retention and, unlike legal pressure, was related to indicators of therapeutic engagement.
The impact of affect on service quality and satisfaction: the moderation of service contexts

Purpose – As an alternative explanation of incongruent findings in the literature, the purpose of the present study is to introduce the concept of hedonic versus utilitarian service context as a moderating variable in the relationship between the affect (pleasure and arousal) and perceived service quality and satisfaction.Design/methodology/approach – A consumer survey was conducted to test moderation hypotheses, which was analyzed with hierarchical regression equations.Findings – The results show that pleasure had stronger influences on perceived service quality and satisfaction in the hedonic service context than in the utilitarian service context. Arousal is found to influence perceived service quality and satisfaction in the hedonic service context but not in the utilitarian service context.Research limitations/implications – It is likely that in hedonic related services, consumers will often use some affective criteria to evaluate service quality, in addition to the traditional service quality measur.
Factors influencing the concentration gradient of protein in cerebrospinal fluid.

The concentration of protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is about 0.5 per cent that of plasma. This difference in concentration is generally considered (1) to be dependent upon the blood-CSF barrier. The normal concentration gradient of protein from a low level in the ventricles, 6 to 15 mg. per cent, to an intermediate level in the cisterna magna, 15 to 25 mg. per cent, to the highest level in the lumbar sac, 20 to 45 mg. per cent (2), has not been satisfactorily explained. To study the nature of this gradient, two groups of experiments were performed, determining: 1) the exchange of radioiodinated serum albumin (RISA@) between the plasma and the various levels in the CSF, and 2) the relative concentration of the albumin, globulin and "prealbumin" constituents at these levels, employing zone electrophoretic analysis. In previous investigations in the dog (3), it has been shown that the plasma albumin exchanges rapidly with the protein in the CSF. Following intravenous injection, RISA® appeared in the cisternal fluid within 20 minutes, reached a maximumat about 20 hours, and subsequently disappeared at a slower rate than in the plasma. In the present study, RISA® was administered intravenously to infants with communicating hydrocephalus to determine if differences in the rates of RISA® appearance exist at different sites along the neuraxis. The demonstration of such rate differences could then be interpreted to indicate nonuniformity of the blood-CSF barrier to protein at these different levels. Similarly, the concentration of albumin in CSF would be expected to be
The Use of Vacuum-Assisted Closure in Purulent Complications and Difficult-To-Heal Wounds in Cardiac Surgery.

BACKGROUND Sternal wound infections are a serious and potentially fatal complication of cardiac surgery. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to analyze the results of using the vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) system over a 4-year period. MATERIAL AND METHODS Quantitative VAC performance data from a retrospective review of a consecutive cohort of 47 patients treated with VAC for post-cardiac surgery wound complications were collected and statistically analyzed. In the study group 35 patients developed infections of the post-operative chest wound. In 12 other patients wound dehiscence was observed, but repeated cultures did not reveal the presence of any bacteria. RESULTS The statistical analysis identified the following as significant risk factors: age, female sex, being overweight, a high total logistic EuroScore, the use of both internal thoracic arteries for bypass grafting, and diabetes. In the wound negative culture group the total length of hospital stay was significantly shorter than in the wound positive culture group. Mortality in this group was 0.0% vs. 5.7% in the wound positive culture group. In the study material, Gram-negative bacteria were responsible for 77% of the post-operative wound infections, with only 14% Gram-positive wound cultures. No complications were related to VAC use. CONCLUSIONS The use of negative-pressure wound therapy with other concomitant surgical procedures is a good method of treating infected wounds as well as non-contaminated dehiscence of the wound and sternum. Considering that most of the infections within the authors' department are caused by Gram-negative bacteria, it would be beneficial to consider modifying the model of preventive antibiotic treatment to cover the Gram-negative spectrum in addition to the Gram-positive bacteria currently targeted.
Agenda-Setting, Agenda-Reinforcing or Agenda-Deflating? A Study of the 1990 German National Election

If an issue is frequently reported in the news, but in a way that diminishes the urgency of the problem, it may cause a decline in salience. In this two-wave national panel study, it was discovered that interest in political stories on television news was positively associated with an increase in the salience of environmental problems as an issue (agenda-reinforcement). Exposure to campaign coverage in Bild, a high circulation national tabloid, was negatively associated with the salience of problems in the former East Germany (agenda deflation). Among other factors, this study finds that the tone of political coverage, as well as its frequency, is important.
Asymmetry Thesis and Side-Effect Problems in Linear-Time and Branching-Time Intention Logics

In this paper, we examine the relationships between beliefs, goals, and intentions. In particular, we consider the formalization of the Asymmetry Thesis as proposed by Bratman [1987]. We argue that the semantic characterization of this principle determines if the resulting logic is capable of handling other important problems, such as the side-effect problem of beliefgoal-intention interaction. While Cohen and Levesque's [1990] formalization faithfully models some aspects of the asymmetry thesis, it does not solve all the side-effect problems; on the other hand the formalization provided by Rao and Georgeff [1991] solves all the side-effect problems, but only models a weak form of the asymmetry thesis. In this paper, we combine the intuition behind both these approaches and provide a semantic account of the asymmetry thesis, in both linear-time and branching-time logics, for solving many of these problems.
Three Plots, Six Characters and Infinite Possible Educational Narratives

© 2004 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. Oxford, UK EPAT ducational Philosophy and Theory 0013-1857 © 2004 Phi osophy of E ucation Society of Australasia September 2004 36 4 riginal Article Thre Plots, Six Characters and Infinite Possible Educational Narratives Di na Silberman-Keller Three Plots, Six Characters and Infinite Possible Educational Narratives