Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The ACTive Intervention in Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Meetings: Exploring Family Caregiver and Hospice Team Communication

This paper presents the theoretical framework and rationale for the ACTive intervention which proposes the use of video technology to facilitate patient and family participation in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings where plans of care are determined. It is surmised that patient and family involvement will improve communication and compliance in hospice care. An analysis of data from a pilot project of the ACTive intervention was conducted to explore active participation among family caregivers and the hospice team. Through the use of videophone technology caregivers participated in video-recorded team meetings. The actual communication behaviors of caregivers and team members were analyzed for active participation. Findings revealed that team-prompted caregiver participation was most common, however, team use of supportive talk in this context was considerably less frequent. The study also found that the team's use of active participation behaviors elicits caregiver active participation behaviors. The results of this study suggest the intervention was an effective way to involve family caregivers as active participants in the designing of care for their loved one. Findings also suggest that hospice staff would benefit from education and training on best practices for communicating with caregivers in the team meeting setting.
Practical cone-beam algorithm

A convolution-backprojection formula is deduced for direct reconstruction of a three-dimensional density function from a set of two-dimensional projections. The formula is approximate but has useful properties, including errors that are relatively small in many practical instances and a form that leads to convenient computation. It reduces to the standard fan-beam formula in the plane that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation and contains the point source. The algorithm is applied to a mathematical phantom as an example of its performance.
Violent Crime: Violent Crime

Edited by Beth M. Huebner and Timothy S. Bynum. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The empirical examination of criminal violence typically centers on four interrelated units of analysis: (1) individuals, (2) groups such as gangs and gang networks, (3) events, and (4) places. While there is certainly a high degree of overlap across each of these different units (e.g., gang members are more likely to target suitable victims in high‐risk community contexts), the present chapter attempts to disentangle each of these various dimensions of violent crime. Its overall purpose is to help inform theory and practice and highlight the most promising violent crime prevention approaches that attempt to understand and address each of these various dimensions of violent crime. The chapter is outlined as follows. First, a review of violent crime across individuals, groups, events, and places is provided. Second, for each of the various units of analysis, in‐depth methodological and analytical discussions are presented regarding consistent findings in the literature as well as the latest developments in data analysis and research. Third, the chapter concludes with a discussion of promising police‐led strategies designed to reduce violent crime that focus on places, incidents, individuals, and groups. Evaluation approaches used by researchers to test the utility of these police‐led approaches are also highlighted.
Mortality in Japanese with life-styles similar to Seventh-Day Adventists: strategy for risk reduction by life-style modification.

Using 16 years of follow-up results of a prospective cohort study for 122,261 men, 95% of the census population, aged 40 years and older in 29 Health Center Districts in Japan as subjects, we compared the age-standardized mortality rates for cancer of each site and other causes of death in Japanese with life-styles similar to those of Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA), i.e., no smoking, no drinking, no meat consumption daily and eating green and yellow vegetables daily, with those of Japanese with opposite life-styles. Compared with the latter Japanese, the risks were one-fifth or less in Japanese with SDA-like life-styles for cancers of the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and lung, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Risks were less than one-half for cancers of all sites, stomach, and liver, and for peptic ulcer and heart disease. As a single factor, the addition of daily smoking was observed to elevate the risk most strikingly in Japanese who followed SDA life patterns. Influences of further addition of habits of daily drinking of alcohol and dietary changes were significant for cancers of the esophagus, liver, and bladder and other selected diseases. Strategies for cancer prevention by means of life-style modification, e.g., increased consumption of green and yellow vegetables, were discussed.
Tengsl líkamsmyndar við efnishyggju og gildi neyslusamfélagsins um vaxtarlag

51 Indtroduction. 52 Study 1 . 55 Method . 55 Participants and procedure. 55 Measures . 56 Statistical analysis . 58 Results . 58 Discussion . 59 Study 2 . 60 Method . 60 Participants and procedure. 60 Measures . 61
Otel İşletmelerinde Ortaya Çıkan Yıldırma Davranışlarının İş Tatmini ve İşte Kalma Niyetlerine Etkileri

Bu calismanin amaci, otel isletmelerinde calisan personelin yildirma davranislarina ne oranda maruz kaldigini ve bunun duzeyini olcme, yildirma davranislarinin boyutlarini belirleme ve yildirma boyutlarinin calisanlarin is tatmini ve iste kalma niyetine etkilerini ortaya cikarmaktir. Arastirma, Antalya, Kapadokya ve Bodrum bolgelerinde faaliyet gosteren 3, 4 ve 5 yildizli 12 otel isletmesinde calisan toplam 328 is gorenden toplanan verilerle gerceklestirilmistir. Toplam 328 calisandan 99 tanesi yildirma davranislarina maruz kaldigini bildirmistir. Bu 99 calisandan toplanan verilerle yapilan analizler, is ortaminda karsilasilan yildirma davranislarinin bes boyutta siniflanabilecegini gostermektedir. Bunlar; (1) kisinin yasam kalitesine ve mesleki durumuna saldirilar, (2) sosyal iliskilere saldirilar, (3) cinsel taciz ve itibara saldiri, (4) kisinin sagligina dogrudan saldirilar ve (5) etnik koken ve dini gorusle alay etme olarak belirlenmistir. Yildirma davranislari, calisan personelin is tatminine ve iste kalma niyetine etki etmektedir.
Loss of Communal Sustainability: The Kibbutz Shift from High-Trust to Low-Trust Culture

What is the connection between leaders' morality and the output performance of organizations? Can their morality explain, through trust, continuity and change of organizational cultures? These questions are fraught with so many complexities thatÂ· they can be untied only by Simon's (1992) proposal that organizational research should be analogous to zoology where an attempt is made to understand animals by a profound investigation of their immense variation. However, in the case of humans such investigation depends also on the finding of the right vantage point for proper interpretation of the criss-cross tapestry of cultures (Geertz, 1973), which makes a very complex organization. By studying this tapestry in the case of the kibbutz system a new picture is exposed than that portrayed by customary kibbutz research approach. It enables the explanation of both how most kibbutzim remained adaptive and creative for some six decades, and why have they lost creativity almost of a sudden, recently. A preliminary idea for preventing that process, based on leaders' continuation in office being conditional on growing trust, is herein presented.
Dual Function of CD70 in Viral Infection: Modulator of Early Cytokine Responses and Activator of Adaptive Responses

The role of the TNF family member CD70 in adaptive T cell responses has been intensively studied, but its function in innate responses is still under investigation. In this study, we show that CD70 inhibits the early innate response to murine CMV (MCMV) but is essential for the optimal generation of virus-specific CD8 T cells. CD70−/− mice reacted to MCMV infection with a robust type I IFN and proinflammatory cytokine response. This response was sufficient for initial control of MCMV, although at later time points, CD70−/− mice became more susceptible to MCMV infection. The heightened cytokine response during the early phase of MCMV infection in CD70−/− mice was paralleled by a reduction in regulatory T cells (Treg). Treg from naive CD70−/− mice were not as efficient at suppressing T cell proliferation compared with Treg from naive wild-type mice, and depletion of Treg during MCMV infection in Foxp3–diphtheria toxin receptor mice or in wild-type mice recapitulated the phenotype observed in CD70−/− mice. Our study demonstrates that although CD70 is required for the activation of the antiviral adaptive response, it has a regulatory role in early cytokine responses to viruses such as MCMV, possibly through maintenance of Treg survival and function.
Additive Influence of Extracellular pH, Oxygen Tension, and Pressure on Invasiveness and Survival of Human Osteosarcoma Cells

Background/Purpose: The effects of chemical and physical interactions in the microenvironment of solid tumors have not been fully elucidated. We hypothesized that acidosis, hypoxia, and elevated interstitial fluid pressure (eIFP) have additive effects on tumor cell biology and lead to more aggressive behavior during tumor progression. We investigated this phenomenon using three human osteosarcoma (OS) cell lines and a novel in vitro cell culture apparatus. Materials and Methods: U2OS, SaOS, and MG63 cell lines were cultured in media adjusted to various pH levels, oxygen tension (hypoxia 2% O2, normoxia 20% O2), and hydrostatic gage pressure (0 or 50 mmHg). Growth rate, apoptosis, cell cycle parameters, and expression of mRNA for proteins associated with invasiveness and tumor microenvironment (CA IX, VEGF-A, HIF-1A, MMP-9, and TIMP-2) were analyzed. Levels of CA IX, HIF-1α, and MMP-9 were measured using immunofluorescence. The effect of pH on invasiveness was evaluated in a Matrigel chamber assay. Results: Within the acidic–hypoxic–pressurized conditions that simulate the microenvironment at a tumor’s center, invasive genes were upregulated, but the cell cycle was downregulated. The combined influence of acidosis, hypoxia, and IFP promoted invasiveness and angiogenesis to a greater extent than did pH, pO2, or eIFP individually. Significant cell death after brief exposure to acidic conditions occurred in each cell line during acclimation to acidic media, while prolonged exposure to acidic media resulted in reduced cell death. Furthermore, 48-h exposure to acidic conditions promoted tumor invasiveness in the Matrigel assay. Conclusion: Our findings demonstrate that tumor microenvironmental parameters – particularly pH, pO2, and eIFP – additively influence tumor proliferation, invasion, metabolism, and viability to enhance cell survival and must be controlled in OS research.
Life-history specialization was not an evolutionary dead-end in Pyrenean cave beetles

Research on subterranean organisms has focused on the colonization process and some of the associated phenotypic changes, but little is known on the long-term evolutionary dynamics of subterranean lineages and the origin of some highly specialized complex characters. One of the most extreme modifications is the reduction of the number of larval instars in some Leptodirini beetles from the ancestral 3 to 2 and ultimately a single instar. This reduction is usually assumed to have occurred independently multiple times within the same lineage and geographical area, but its evolution has never been studied in a phylogenetic framework. Using a comprehensive molecular phylogeny, we found a low number of independent origins of the reduction in the number of instars, with a single transition, dated to the Oligocene–Miocene, from 3 to 2 and then 1 instar in the Pyrenees, the best-studied area. In the Pyrenees, the 1-instar lineage had a diversification rate (0.22 diversification events per lineage per million years) significantly higher than that of 3- or 2-instar lineages (0.10), and similar to that seen in other Coleopteran radiations. Far from being evolutionary dead-ends, ancient lineages fully adapted to subterranean life seem able to persist and diversify over long evolutionary periods.
Mean first-passage time of random walks on a random lattice.

Etude du temps moyen de 1er passage de parcours aleatoires sur des segments de reseaux desordonnes a 1 dimension. On considere plusieurs modeles de desordre, et presente des resultats exacts pour chacun de ces modeles. La distribution du temps de passage est gaussienne pour les modeles avec des probabilites de transition symetriques, et non gaussienne pour des modeles avec des probabilites de transition asymetriques
Physics of thin-film ferroelectric oxides

This review covers important advances in recent years in the physics of thin-film ferroelectric oxides, the strongest emphasis being on those aspects particular to ferroelectrics in thin-film form. The authors introduce the current state of development in the application of ferroelectric thin films for electronic devices and discuss the physics relevant for the performance and failure of these devices. Following this the review covers the enormous progress that has been made in the first-principles computational approach to understanding ferroelectrics. The authors then discuss in detail the important role that strain plays in determining the properties of epitaxial thin ferroelectric films. Finally, this review ends with a look at the emerging possibilities for nanoscale ferroelectrics, with particular emphasis on ferroelectrics in nonconventional nanoscale geometries.
Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

Today, nearly every aspect of higher education - including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property - is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. Essentially, it allows us to understand higher education's shift from creating scholarship and learning as a public good to generating knowledge as a commodity to be monetized in market activities. In Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization, Brendan Cantwell and Ilkka Kauppinen assemble an international team of leading scholars to explore the profound ways in which globalization and the knowledge economy have transformed higher education around the world. The book offers an in-depth assessment of the theoretical foundations of academic capitalism, as well as new empirical insights into how the process of academic capitalism has played out. Chapters address academic capitalism from historical, transnational, national, and local perspectives. Each contributor offers fascinating insights into both new conceptual interpretations of and practical institutional and national responses to academic capitalism. Incorporating years of research by influential theorists and building on the work of Sheila Slaughter, Larry Leslie, and Gary Rhoades, Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization provides a provocative update for understanding academic capitalism. The book will appeal to anyone trying to make sense of contemporary higher education.
Lateral entorhinal cortex lesions rearrange afferents, glutamate receptors, increase seizure latency and suppress seizure‐induced c‐fos expression in the hippocampus of adult rat

The entorhinal cortex (EC) provides the predominant excitatory drive to the hippocampal CA1 and subicular neurones in chronic epilepsy. Here we analysed the effects of one‐sided lateral EC (LEC) and temporoammonic (alvear) path lesion on the development and properties of 4‐aminopyridine‐induced seizures. Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis of freely moving rats identified that the lesion increased the latency of the hippocampal seizure significantly and decreased the number of brief convulsions. Seizure‐induced neuronal c‐fos expression was reduced in every hippocampal area following LEC lesion. Immunocytochemical analysis 40 days after the ablation of the LEC identified sprouting of cholinergic and calretinin‐containing axons into the dentate molecular layer. Region and subunit specific changes in the expression of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) were identified. Although the total amount of AMPA receptor subunits remained unchanged, GluR1flop displayed a significant decrease in the CA1 region. An increase in NR1 and NR2B N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunits and KA‐2 kainate receptor subunit was identified in the deafferented layers of the hippocampus. These results further emphasize the importance of the lateral entorhinal area in the spread and regulation of hippocampal seizures and highlight the potential role of the rewiring of afferents and rearrangement of iGluRs in the dentate gyrus in hippocampal convulsive activity.
Everolimus-eluting stent implantation versus repeat paclitaxel-coated balloon angioplasty for recurrent in-stent restenosis lesion caused by paclitaxel-coated balloon failure.

AIMS Although paclitaxel-coated balloon (PCB) angioplasty has been reported to be effective for in-stent restenosis (ISR) lesions, the optimal treatment for recurrent ISR lesions caused by PCB failure remains unclear. This study compared clinical and angiographic outcomes after everolimus-eluting stent (EES) implantation and repeat PCB angioplasty for PCB failure. METHODS AND RESULTS From November 2008 to October 2011, we performed PCB angioplasty for 599 ISR lesions, of which 93 recurrent ISR lesions underwent EES implantation (53 lesions, 52 patients) or repeat PCB angioplasty (40 lesions, 37 patients). The choice of treatment strategy was decided at the operatorÕs discretion. Angiographic outcomes were evaluated by follow-up angiography at six to eight months after procedure. The baseline characteristics were similar between the two groups. At follow-up angiography (93.5% of all lesions), minimum lumen diameter was significantly larger and the binary restenosis rate was significantly lower after EES implantation than after repeat PCB angioplasty (2.08±0.79 mm vs. 1.45±0.68 mm, p<0.001; 20.0% vs. 54.1%, p=0.001; respectively), whereas late lumen loss was not different between the two groups (0.49±0.62 mm vs. 0.59±0.74 mm, p=0.47). At two years, the incidences of both target lesion revascularisation (TLR) and clinically driven TLR were significantly lower after EES implantation than after repeat PCB angioplasty (17.9% vs. 57.5%, p=0.001; 5.9% vs. 18.1%, p=0.01; respectively). CONCLUSIONS EES implantation was more effective for PCB failure in preventing subsequent TLR than repeat PCB angioplasty because of better angiographic results.
Touch in Early Development

Contents: Preface. A. Montagu, Animadversions on the Development of a Theory of Touch. T.B. Brazelton, Fetal Observations: Could They Relate to Another Modality, Such as Touch. M.H. Klaus, Touching During and After Childbirth. G.C. Anderson, Touch and the Kangaroo Care Method. E.Z. Tronick, Touch in Mother-Infant Interaction. S. Schanberg, The Genetic Basis for Touch Effects. M. Leon, Touch and Smell. S.J. Suomi, Touch and The Immune System in Rhesus Monkeys. T.M. Field, Infant Massage Therapy.
3D image reconstruction from 2D CT slices

In this paper, a 3D reconstruction algorithm using CT slices of human pelvis is presented. We propose the method for 3D image reconstruction that is based on a combination of the SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Features) descriptor and SSD (Sum of Squared Differences) matching algorithm using image segmentation with aim to obtain accurate 3D model of human pelvis. Firstly, we apply image filtering for noise removing and smoothing. Next, the filtered image is split into segments using Mean- Shift segmentation algorithm. Secondly, the edges using Canny edge detector are extracted. Then, for each segment we look at the associated corresponding points. The best corresponding points of all the segments using SURF-SSD method were obtained. The smaller is the value of SSD at a particular pixel, the more similarity exists between the first image and the second image in the neighborhood of that pixel. Finally, we have integrated the Mean-Shift segmentation algorithm with the SURF-SSD method. The obtained experimental results demonstrate that the SURF-SSD algorithm in combination with image segmentation provides accurate 3D model of human pelvis.
A Discrepancy Model of Information System Personnel Turnover

Turnover of information system (IS) personnel is a critical problem for organizations. To gain a better understanding of turnover, researchers have explored career orientations that characterize an employee's internal motivations and desires. The inability of an organization to match career desires is often related to measures indicative of turnover in IS employees, including intent to leave and career dissatisfaction, though empirical evidence is indirect and inconclusive. Using career orientations, this study explicitly models the impact of the discrepancy between the wants of employees and employee perceptions of how their organization satisfies those wants. The model is based on discrepancy theory and predicts the gap is closely related to the turnover indicators. Model predictions hold true for a sample of 153 IS personnel. These results indicate the importance of developing career plans that employees perceive as matching their wants.
How Many Subjects Constitute a Study?

In fMRI there are two classes of inference: one aims to make a comment about the "typical" characteristics of a population, and the other about "average" characteristics. The first pertains to studies of normal subjects that try to identify some qualitative aspect of normal functional anatomy. The second class necessarily applies to clinical neuroscience studies that want to make an inference about quantitative differences of a regionally specific nature. The first class of inferences is adequately serviced by conjunction analyses and fixed-effects models with relatively small numbers of subjects. The second requires random-effect analyses and larger cohorts.
Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities

Introduction: Situated Identities/Diasporic Transcription 1. Constructions of the 'Asian' in post-war Britain: Culture, Politics and Identity in Pre-Thatcher Years 2. Unemployment, Gender and Racism 3. Gendered Space: Women of South Asian Descent in 1980s Britain 4. Questions of 'Difference' and Global Feminisms 5. Difference, Diversity, Differentiation 6. 'Race' and Culture in the Gendering of Labour Markets: South Asian Muslim Women and the Labour Market 7. Re-framing Europe: En-gendered Racisms, Ethnicities and Nationalisms in Contemporary Western Europe 8. Diaspora, Border, and Transnational Identities 9. Refiguring the 'Multi': The Politics of Difference, Commonality, and Universalism
Pattern recognition for video surveillance and physical security

We introduce our pattern recognition technologies for video surveillance and physical security. Firstly we explain the system to detect violent actions in an elevator car. The system detects the occurrence of a relevant action via image motion analysis. Secondly we briefly describe our face recognition algorithms by Adaboost. Generally speaking, any face recognition system has operational difficulties caused by facial occlusions, expressions, or aging. Focusing on facial occlusions, we are developing a face recognition system using auto-associative memory. In this paper we show some applied results. In conclusions, we clarify our future directions.