Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Conceptions of Ability on Self-Regulatory Factors and Motor Skill Acquisition

This study tested the hypothesis that conceptions of ability affect self-regulatory processes and the acquisition rate of a perceptual-motor skill. Subjects performed a rotary pursuit task under induced cognitive sets that task performance reflected inherent aptitude or acquirable skill. Their perceived self-efficacy, affective self-reactions, and performance attainments were measured over a series of trials. Subjects who performed the task under the inherent-aptitude conception of ability displayed no growth in perceived self-efficacy across phases, negative self-reactions to performances, low interest in the activity, and a limited level of skill development. In contrast, those who performed the task under the conception of ability as an acquirable skill displayed growth in perceived self-efficacy, positive self-reactions to their performances, widespread interest in the activity, and a high level of skill acquisition. The stronger the positive self-reactions, the greater the subsequent performance atta.
Multiple Congenital Epulis of the Mandibular Ridge: A Case Report

Congenital epulis is a very rare benign soft-tissue tumor of uncertain histogenesis, which is also known as “gingival granular cell tumor of the newborn”. It occurs almost exclusively as a single tumor along the alveolar ridge of the maxilla in newborn females. Although congenital epulis is strikingly similar to the more common adult granular cell tumor histologically, in contrast to the latter congenital epulis cells are negative for S-100 protein. This case report describes a 15-day-old female infant with multiple congenital epulis of the mandibular alveolar ridge.
Neo-Colonialism in Education

﻿secular state, and all communities which have thought it prudent or necessary to And a place for themselves within the nation as religious, cultural and political units have been reviewing their position. In spite of the existence of a Muslim League in the South, there is no evidence of the Indian Muslims desiring to organise themselves as a political party. " Nothing can be farther from the truth. Unfortunately, Indian Muslims have not yet tried to merge into the Indian political system. On the contrary, they are increasingly trying to consolidate themselves politically so as to influence the political process directly. The most obvious indication of the tendency towards political consolidation by Indian Muslims is provided by the emergence of the Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat as a strong Muslim organisation in the North Indian region. There are reports that, apart from trying to organise Muslims politically, the Majlis is opening up banks for Muslims and starting an organisation on the pattern of the Red Cross for the welfare of the community.
Mitochondrial Autophagy and Injury in the Liver in Alpha-1-antitrypsin Deficiency

Homozygous, PIZZ alpha-1-antitrypsin (a1AT) deficiency is associated with chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma resulting from the toxic effects of mutant a1ATZ protein retained in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of hepatocytes. However, the exact mechanism(s) by which retention of this aggregated mutant protein leads to cellular injury are still unknown. Previous studies have shown that retention of mutant a1ATZ in the ER induces an intense autophagic response in hepatocytes. In this study we present evidence that the autophagic response induced by ER retention of a1ATZ also involves the mitochondria, with specific patterns of both mitochondrial autophagy and mitochondrial injury seen in cell culture models of a1AT deficiency, in PiZ transgenic mouse liver, and in liver from a1AT deficient patients. Evidence for a unique pattern of caspase activation was also detected. Administration of cyclosporin A, an inhibitor of mitochondrial permeability transition, to PiZ mice was associated with a reduction in mitochondrial autophagy and injury and reduced mortality during experimental stress. These results provide evidence for the novel concept that mitochondrial damage and caspase activation play a role in the mechanism of liver cell injury in a1AT deficiency and suggest the possibility of mechanism-based therapeutic interventions.
Empirical evaluation of the understandability of architectural component diagrams

The architecture of a software system plays a crucial role during evolution and maintenance, as it provides the means to cope with the inherent system complexity by abstracting from implementation and design details. Architectural component models represent high level designs and are frequently used as a central view of architectural descriptions of software systems. Hence, understandability of those models is crucial as they play a key role in supporting the architectural understanding of a software system. In this paper we present the results from a study we carried out to examine to which extent the software architecture could be conveyed through architectural component diagrams. The statistical evaluation of the results shows that metrics such as the number of components, number of connectors, number of elements, and number of symbols used in the diagrams can significantly decrease architectural understandability when they are above and below a certain, roughly predicted threshold. Also, our results indicate that architectural understandability is linearly correlated with the perceived precision and general understandability of the diagrams.
Screening and Assessment of Medically At-Risk Drivers

In our aging society, where most people remain dependent on private automobiles to maintain the mobility so essential to a good quality of life, identifying at-risk drivers is a priority for both public and personal safety. As some states move toward greater involvement by licensing authorities to ensure fitness-to-drive, and others encourage private sector initiatives in this arena, a common understanding of core concepts is useful.
Looking beyond numbers: The effects of gender status, job prestige, and occupational gender-typing on tokenism processes.

Researchers of women workers in gender-skewed work groups repeatedly report evidence of visibility, contrast, and role encapsulation. The purpose of the present study was to explore the potential impact of four causal factors frequently confounded in these studies: proportional underrepresentation (tokenism), gender status, job prestige, and occupational gender-inappropriateness. Study participants'expectations for targets suggested that token numbers alone were not sufficient to produce tokenism; subordinated gender status also contributed regardless of the gender-appropriateness or prestige of the occupation. A theory of tokenism based solely on numbers thus is limited by its failure to acknowledge the impact of organizational and societal gender-based discrimination
Structure-Aware Data Consolidation

We present a structure-aware technique to consolidate noisy data, which we use as a pre-process for standard clustering and dimensionality reduction. Our technique is related to mean shift, but instead of seeking density modes, it reveals and consolidates continuous high density structures such as curves and surface sheets in the underlying data while ignoring noise and outliers. We provide a theoretical analysis under a Gaussian noise model, and show that our approach significantly improves the performance of many non-linear dimensionality reduction and clustering algorithms in challenging scenarios.
Exporation cognitive et neuropsychologique du fonctionnement de la mémoire épisodique: Les processus de reconnaissance et la mémoire du contexte temporel

Whether the format of a recognition memory task influences the contribution of recollection and familiarity to performance is a matter of debate. The authors investigated this issue by comparing the performance of 64 young (mean age = 21.7 years; mean education = 14.5 years) and 62 older participants (mean age = 64.4 years; mean education = 14.2 years) on a yes–no and a forced-choice recognition task for unfamiliar faces using the remember–know–guess procedure. Familiarity contributed more to forced-choice than to yes–no performance. Moreover, older participants, who showed a decrease in recollection together with an increase in familiarity, performed better on the forced-choice task than on the yes–no task, whereas younger participants showed the opposite pattern.
Stress Level, Background Variables, Premorbid Health Ratings, and Severity of Psychological Disorders Using DSM-III-R Ratings

This study predicted that individuals diagnosed as having higher levels of stress, based upon DSM-III-R, Axis IV ratings, would also be diagnosed as having more severe forms of mental illness. Conversely, it predicted that individuals with higher premorbid health ratings, according to DSM-III-R, Axis V, would be diagnosed as having less severe forms of mental illness. Highly significant correlations were found between stress ratings and severity of disorder. Significant inverse relationships were also found between Axis V ratings and disorder severity. Additionally, several other demographic variables were significantly correlated with severity of disorder.
Hyponatraemia and cirrhosis

Hyponatraemia is a common complication of advanced cirrhosis related to an impairment in the renal capacity for eliminating solute-free water, causing a retention of water that is disproportionate to the retention of sodium, thus leading to a reduction in serum sodium concentration and hypo-osmolality. The main pathogenic factor responsible for hyponatraemia is a non-osmotic hypersecretion of arginine vasopressin (AVP) or antidiuretic hormone from the neurohypophysis, related to circulatory dysfunction. Hyponatraemia in cirrhosis is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Hyponatraemia is also associated with increased morbidity and impaired short-term survival after transplantation. The current standard of care based on restricting fluids to 1–1.5 L/day is rarely effective. Other approaches, such as albumin infusion and the use of vaptans—which act by specifically antagonizing the effects of AVP on the V2 receptors located in the kidney tubules—have been evaluated for their role in the management of hyponatraemia. The short-term treatment with vaptans is associated with a marked increase in renal solute-free water excretion and improvement of hyponatraemia; however their use in patients with end-stage liver disease is limited by hepatotoxic effects of some of these drugs. Long-term administration of vaptans seems to be effective in maintaining the improvement of serum sodium concentration, but the available information is still limited.
Introducing Farouk’s process consultation group approach in Irish primary schools

Abstract Research has shown that teacher consultation groups increase teachers’ behaviour management skills through discussion and collaborative problem-solving. Unlike the United Kingdom, at the time of this research consultation groups were not widely used in Irish schools. This research introduced Farouk’s process consultation approach in three Irish mainstream primary schools and evaluated the consultation groups over one academic year. The schools were selected based on their level of referrals to the educational psychologist (EP) for pupils presenting with behavioural difficulties. The study utilised a mixed methods design comprising mainly qualitative and some quantitative analysis. The data were obtained from participant and researcher reflections, interviews and questionnaires. Thematic analysis was used to derive themes from the data. The results suggest that the groups provided the teachers with an organised time for discussion, information-sharing and learning, which enhanced their behaviour management skills through the sharing of strategies and their implementation through teamwork. However, due to the poor return of teacher questionnaires it is not possible to derive any definite conclusions.
Aspect Oriented User Requirements Notation

Technologies based on aspects and applied at the early stages of software development allow requirements engineers to better encapsulate crosscutting concerns in requirements models. The Aspect-oriented User Requirements Notation (AoURN) extends the User Requirements Notation (URN) with aspects and thus unifies goal-oriented, scenario-based, and aspect-oriented concepts in one graphical framework. As URN is a standard of the International Telecommunication Union, AoURN is the first standards-based and graphical approach that integrates the three aforementioned techniques. Minimal changes to URN ensure that requirements engineers can continue working with goal and scenario models expressed in a familiar notation. With AoURN, concerns in goal and scenario models, regardless of whether these concerns crosscut or not, can be managed across model types. Typical concerns in URN are non-functional requirements, use cases, and stakeholder goals. As AoURN expresses concern composition rules with URN itself, it is possible to describe rules in an exhaustive and highly flexible way that is not restricted by any specific composition language. In addition, AoURN employs a composition technique that is not based solely on language syntax but takes semantics into account, and therefore is more robust to refactoring of an aspect-oriented model Since composition based on semantics requires precisely defined languages, the semantics of URN is clarified and the concrete syntax enhanced to capture identified semantic variations of the language. A qualitative comparison of aspect-oriented techniques for scenario-based and goal-oriented requirements engineering is presented. An evaluation carried out based on metrics adapted from literature and a task-based evaluation suggest that AoURN models are more scalable than URN models and exhibit better modularity, reusability, and maintainability. A proof-of-concept implementation of AoURN in the jUCMNav tool is also discussed. While AoURN's ability to encapsulate concerns across model types further bridges the gap between goals and scenarios, Early Aspects research benefits from a standardized way of modeling concerns with AoURN.
Monodisperse TiO2 Spheres with High Charge Density and Their Self-Assembly.

Titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) spheres are potential candidates to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals owing to their high refractive index and low absorption in the visible and near-infrared regions. Here, TiO2 spheres with both high surface charge density and uniform size, which are necessary for the self-assembly of TiO2 spheres, have been prepared by means of sol-gel methods in ethanol in the presence of thioglycolic acid as ligand. Thioglycolic acid, which contains two functional groups, not only acts as coordinating ligand for stabilizing and controlling the growth of TiO2 spheres but also endows the resulting TiO2 spheres with high charge density as based on ζ-potential analysis when the pH of the TiO2 aqueous dispersion was 6.5 or higher. The SEM images illustrate that the diameter of the prepared TiO2 spheres can be tuned from 100 to 300 nm by simply controlling the concentration of H2 O. FTIR spectra confirm that thioglycolic acid bonded to the surface of TiO2 spheres through carboxylic groups. As anticipated, the obtained TiO2 spheres could self-assemble to form a 3D opal photonic crystal structure by means of a simple gravity sedimentation method. Then the TiO2 spheres in the 3D opal photonic crystal structure were able to transform into a pure anatase phase by annealing at different temperatures.
Evolution of Hard X-ray Radiation from Clusters of Galaxies

We have calculated the evolution of a non-thermal electron population from super-thermal (but weakly relativistic) to highly relativistic energy range in clusters of galaxies. We investigate the evolution of hard X-ray radiation due to both bremsstrahlung and inverse Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background photons. The bremsstrahlung component is more significant than that of inverse Compton scattering when the momentum spectra of the electron sources are steeper than ∼ P −3.0 e and vice versa in the case of Coma, where Pe is the electron momentum. The resultant hard X-ray spectra are flatter when the bremsstrahlung component is dominant. When the spectral indices of the source term are in the intermediate range (from −2. 5t o−3.5), too much extreme ultraviolet emission is produced. Inverse-Compton-dominant models can reproduce Coma cluster results with reasonable injection rates, which are possible in cluster mergers and/or ambient gas accretion.
PSpace Automata with Blocking for Description Logics

In Description Logics (DLs), both tableau-based and automatabased algorithms are frequently used to show decidability and complexity results for basic inference problems such as satisfiability of concepts. Whereas tableau-based algorithms usually yield worst-case optimal algorithms in the case of PSpace-complete logics, it is often very hard to design optimal tableau-based algorithms for ExpTime-complete DLs. In contrast, the automata-based approach is usually well-suited to prove ExpTime upper-bounds, but its direct application will usually also yield an ExpTime-algorithm for a PSpace-complete logic since the (tree) automaton constructed for a given concept is usually exponentially large. In the present paper, we formulate conditions under which an on-the-fly construction of such an exponentially large automaton can be used to obtain a PSpace-algorithm. We illustrate the usefulness of this approach by proving a new PSpace upper-bound for satisfiability of concepts w.r. t. acyclic terminologies in the DL SI, which extends the basic DL ALC with transitive and inverse roles.
Proliferation and Apoptosis as Markers of Benefit in Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy of Breast Cancer

The study of changes in proliferation as a marker of treatment benefit during presurgical endocrine treatment of breast cancer has become increasingly popular, particularly using the nuclear marker Ki67, and holds the potential for prioritizing new treatments for full clinical development. There are weakly significant relationships between Ki67 change and clinical response that differ according to data handling. In the neoadjuvant Immediate Preoperative Anastrozole, Tamoxifen, or Combined with Tamoxifen trial, suppression of Ki67 at both 2 and 12 weeks was greater with the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole than with either tamoxifen or the combination of anastrozole and tamoxifen. We report here that absolute values of Ki67 after 2 weeks were also significantly lower with anastrozole than with tamoxifen and the combination. This indicates that it may be possible to make such comparisons using surgical samples only. We argue that these changes in proliferation and concurrent changes in apoptosis may be expected to be more predictive of adjuvant benefit from endocrine therapy than clinical response.
Overcoming barriers: the role of providers in improving patient adherence to antihypertensive medications

Purpose of review To provide an overview of recent research assessing the role of physicians and other healthcare providers in facilitating improvements in patient adherence to antihypertensive medications, to provide a framework for addressing patient adherence to antihypertensive therapy, and to propose future directions for assessing the risk of poor adherence in clinical settings. Recent findings Several recent studies have highlighted the role of the healthcare provider in improving patient adherence to antihypertensive therapy. Opportunities exist for providers to improve communication that enhances patients' understanding of their disease and its treatment, to tailor interventions based on whether patients are intentionally or unintentionally non-adherent, to assess and treat side-effects such as erectile dysfunction, to switch to less costly generic alternatives, and to reduce the complexities of medication regimens. Summary Poor adherence to prescribed therapies is common in patients with hypertension, and should be considered in the evaluation of the hypertensive patient with poor blood pressure control. When initiating treatment in patients newly diagnosed with hypertension and when monitoring patients with existent disease, providers should identify barriers to medication adherence and actively engage patients in shared decision-making regarding their treatment. These activities will facilitate adherence, which may lead to improved outcomes for patients with hypertension and other chronic cardiovascular diseases.
Asbestos-Related Diffuse Pleural Thickening

Background: The clinical features of asbestos-related diffuse pleural thickening (DPT) remain unclear. Objectives: To clarify the association between radiological findings of DPT and respiratory function. Methods: Medical data from patients with asbestos-related DPT were collected, including their history of occupational or neighborhood asbestos exposure, initial symptoms, modified Medical Research Council dyspnea grade, smoking history, radiological findings, and respiratory function test results. Results: There were 106 DPT patients between 2005 and 2010 [i.e. 103 men (97.2%) and 3 women (2.8%)]. The median age at diagnosis was 69 years (range 46-88). Patient occupations related to asbestos exposure included: asbestos product manufacturing (n = 17); the shipbuilding industry (n = 14); the construction industry (n = 13); heat insulation work (n = 12); plumbing, asbestos spraying, and electrical work (n = 7 each), and transportation and demolition work (n = 4 each). The median duration of asbestos exposure was 25 years (range 2-54), and the median latency period before the onset of DPT was 46 years (range 25-66). Involvement of the costophrenic angle (CPA) was also negatively correlated with the percent vital capacity (%VC; r = -0.448, p < 0.01). Pleural thickness and the craniocaudal and horizontal extension of pleural thickening, as determined by chest computed tomography (CT), were also negatively correlated with %VC (r = -0.226, p < 0.05; r = -0.409, p < 0.01, and r = -0.408, p < 0.01, respectively). Conclusions: DPT develops after a long latency period following occupational asbestos exposure and causes marked respiratory dysfunction. The extension of DPT should be evaluated by chest CT, and chest X-ray would be important for the evaluation of the involvement of the CPA.
Sub-Pixel Stereo-Matching for DEM Generation from Narrow Baseline Stereo Imagery

We demonstrate an automated stereo-matching algorithm capable of extracting disparity/depth information from stereo image pairs with an unconventionally narrow baseline separation i.e. low base-to-height ratio (B/H), thus potentially allowing digital elevation models (DEMs) to be derived from images that previously might not have been considered suitable for stereo applications. For very small B/H ratios the disparity magnitudes may be reduced to sub-pixel levels that conventional stereo-matching algorithms fail to measure. By utilising a new sub-pixel image matching algorithm, based upon the phase correlation (PC) method, we are able to measure the very subtle, sub-pixel, disparities that result from image pairs with B/H ratios as small as 0.06. Initial tests with this algorithm on SPOT 5 satellite image data have demonstrated that this routine is capable of generating very dense and detailed disparity/depth maps of a scene for DEM generation without prior knowledge of the satellite/sensor parameters, whilst also being exceptionally sensitive to small scale textural features, robust to noise, and efficient to implement.
Time domain modeling of lossy interconnects

A new model for dielectric loss, suitable for time domain modeling of printed circuit boards, is proposed. The model is based on a physical relaxation model. Complete time domain modeling of skin effect and dielectric losses in FR-4 boards are demonstrated and experimentally verified. Finally, the developed model is used to predict that FR-4 boards are useful for data rates up to 10 Gb/s.