Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Insider Views of the Emotional Climate of the Classroom: What New Zealand Children Tell Us About Their Teachers' Feelings

To explore children's perceptions of their teachers' feelings in everyday classroom contexts, the authors conducted focus groups with New Zealand primary (elementary) schoolchildren to discuss what they observed about positive classroom teachers' interactional style and emotional behavior. Seventy-nine students between age 8 and 12 years, from low- and high-socioeconomic communities, were divided into small focus groups to answer questions about their school experiences using a novel game-like procedure to foster open communication. Verbatim statements from the children were recorded and organized into major topics using thematic analysis. Age-related developmental differences were noted in the children's ability to recognize teachers' feelings. In general, however, the level of insight that children revealed about their teachers showed considerable emotional competence. Students were acute observers of teachers' feelings as reflected in their teaching style, how they maintained discipline, their relationships with the children, and their overall emotional responsiveness. The authors concluded that emotion permeates all aspects of teaching practice and emerges from the relationship between teachers and members of the class. When positive, this relationship is one of mutual positive respect and enjoyment.
Ventilatory response during an incremental exercise test: A mode of testing effect

Abstract This study compared ventilation patterns during incremental load tests to exhaustion. Ten endurance trained individuals and eight recreationally active trained individuals underwent a maximal oxygen uptake (O2max) determination test on both a cycle (CE) and treadmill (TM) ergometer. Cardiorespiratory variables O2,CO2, RER, E, and R), movement frequency (MF) and entrainment (ENT) were collected and calculated relative to fixed percentages of O2max (isometabolic), ranging from 60 to 100%. Minute ventilation ( E) was similar between groups on both ergometers. Concurrently, VT was significantly higher, while R was significantly lower on the CE compared to the TM in both groups (P<0.05). At isometabolic intensities there were no difference in R or ENT between groups or mode of testing while the endurance trained group reached higher VT values on the CE. Although the endurance trained group reached higher cardiorespiratory values compared to the recreationally active trained group, their ventilatory patterns were similar between modes of testing. These results seem to be dependent on the exercise modality and not necessarily the type of training individuals regularly participate in.
Procaine and Procaine-Base-Infusion: A Review of the Safety and Fields of Application after Twenty Years of Use

The highly-dosed infusion with Procaine-HCl with sodium-bicarbonate as additive was firstly published twenty years ago. The method advanced to a routine in many centers for pain treatment, rehabilitation and natural medicine. The aim of the procedure is the systemic use of the various pharmacological features of Procaine, especially to inhibit pain and inflammation, for vasodilatation, anti-oxidation and to harmonize the vegetative nervous system. The addition of sodium-bicarbonate balances the common latent pH-decrease in the periphery. The degradation products of Procaine, diethylaminoethanol (DEAE) and para-amino benzoic acid (PABA), have a systemic effect. For the safety of the patients after 500.000 applications: the procaine-infusion is safe. To improve the success rate of the method of the classic ProcaineBase-infusion should be realized an acid-base-diagnostic.
Antinuclear Autoantibodies and Lupus Nephritis in Transgenic Mice Expressing Interferon γ in the Epidermis

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a potentially fatal non–organ-specific autoimmune disease that predominantly affects women. Features of the disease include inflammatory skin lesions and widespread organ damage caused by deposition of anti-dsDNA autoantibodies. The mechanism and site of production of these autoantibodies is unknown, but there is evidence that interferon (IFN) γ plays a key role. We have used the involucrin promoter to overexpress IFN-γ in the suprabasal layers of transgenic mouse epidermis. There was no evidence of organ-specific autoimmunity, but transgenic animals produced autoantibodies against dsDNA and histones. Autoantibody levels in female mice were significantly higher than in male transgenic mice. Furthermore, there was IgG deposition in the glomeruli of all female mice and histological evidence of severe proliferative glomerulonephritis in a proportion of these animals. Our findings are consistent with a central role for the skin immune system, acting under the influence of IFN-γ, in the pathogenesis of SLE.
When Online Meets Offline: The Effect of Modality Switching on Relational Communication

Collaborative partnerships developed via text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) commonly shift interactions to alternative formats. Extant research indicates that shifting from one modality to another, or “modality switching,” can have profound positive and negative effects on relational outcomes. Drawing on social presence theory (Short, Williams, & Christie, 1976) and social information processing theory (SIPT; Walther, 1992, 1996), the present study examined the influence of meeting FtF after varying lengths of time interacting via CMC on relational communication. Consistent with predictions, remaining online yielded greater intimacy and social attraction than the other conditions in which FtF contact occurred. With respect to the CMC conditions, modality switching modestly enhanced relational outcomes in the “early” switching partnerships but more strongly dampened those of “late” switching ones.
Effect of temperature on antibiotic properties of garlic ( Allium sativum L.) and ginger ( Zingiber officinale Rosc.)

Garlic and ginger are the two most common herbs used in traditional medicine practice for their antimicrobial activities. Moreover, in many countries, they are also used with boiled food preparations, which can destroy their important medicinal properties. We conducted an agar well diffusion assay with aqueous extracts of garlic and ginger to observe the effect of temperature on their antibiotic properties against three human pathogenic bacteria namely Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The results show that in general, garlic has significantly greater zone of inhibition (mean = 23.3 mm) than ginger (mean = 19.0 mm) at both, room temperature (26°C) (t = 4.91; α = 0.05; P < 0.01) and at higher temperature (100°C); garlic (mean = 15.6 mm); ginger (mean = 0 mm) (t = 17.76; df = 2; α = 0.05; P < 0.001). On observation, it was found that although higher temperature significantly reduced the antibacterial properties of both plants, nevertheless it affected ginger more (t = 32.9, df = 2; α = 0.05; P < 0.001) than garlic (t = 11.5, df = 2; α = 0.05; P < 0.01). From our study, we can conclude that garlic has more prevailing and sustainable antibiotic properties than ginger under normal and higher temperature regimes. We recommend that garlic not only has very promising potential for a broad-spectrum antibiotic drug against many pathogenic bacteria, but also significantly sustains its antibacterial property than ginger even with boiled food preparations. In addition, it can be used as an effective source of natural herbal antibiotics with or without boiling.
Physician Behavior and Bedside Manners: The Influence of William Osler and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The practice of medicine changes with time as we develop better techniques for diagnosis and improved therapies for treatment. The art of medicine remains constant over the millennia because human nature is unchanging. Patients bring fear, anxiety, and self-pity into the exam room. It has always been the doctor's responsibility to calm their fears and provide hope. The accomplished doctor has a bedside manner that is humane and compassionate, empathetic and supportive. Students are taught bedside skills, the art of medicine, by our senior, most experienced clinicians. However, in the past 20 years, more of these professors are laboratory scientists, often deficient or unpracticed in their bedside skills. Bernard Lown, the famous Boston cardiologist, wrote in 1996 in his book The Lost Art of Healing (1) how essential bedside behavior is to good medical care. He expressed his concern that important bedside skills are disappearing in our technology-focused practice of medicine. Several medical schools have recommended a new emphasis on improving professionalism. Jock Murray, former dean of the Dalhousie Medical School, speaking to the American College of Physicians in 2006, commented on the general erosion of professionalism and a growing public cynicism about the profession. He called for a new focus on the three core principles of professionalism: competency, the primacy of patient welfare, and social justice. Professionalism is not an attempt to protect physicians' power and status, he noted, but a call to practice medicine in patients' best interests (2). No physician has exerted a greater influence on how physicians should behave than Sir William Osler. His essays on the practice of medicine, his leadership in medical organizations, and his personal charisma established a paradigm that has served as a model for physician behavior at the bedside. His textbook of medicine, The Principles and Practice of Medicine, first published in 1892 (3), was the bible of rational medical therapy for 30 years. He was the first chief of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, and his leadership at Johns Hopkins transformed American medical care. He led the effort to bring a scientific approach to the care of the patient. Osler famously said, “The practice of medicine is an art based on science” (4) (Figure). Figure Osler at the bedside of a patient. Photo from the Mark Silverman collection. Osler was a unique personality and practiced at a propitious time in medicine. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, medicine was evolving from a practice based on superstition and tradition into a rational biological science. His bedside manners were based on Victorian morals and their notion of the duties of a gentleman. But like the technophobe and iPad enthusiast of today, he eagerly embraced scientific medicine as the new hope for tomorrow. How did William Osler and the Johns Hopkins Medical School influence our current bedside behavior?
Impact of five SNPs in dopamine‐related genes on executive function

Dopamine neurotransmission is a critical factor for executive function, which is controlled by the prefrontal cortex in humans. Although the contribution of genetic factors to the regulation of brain dopaminergic activity is widely acknowledged, identification of a genotype–phenotype association has not yet been clearly established. In this study, we therefore evaluated the effects of five functional single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in specific genes related to dopamine neurotransmission on executive function in a general population.
Staining characteristics of six commercially available monoclonal immunofluorescence reagents for direct diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections

Using purified elementary bodies of 14 Chlamydia trachomatis serovars in an in vitro assay, we compared the staining characteristics of six commercially available monoclonal antibody reagents used for direct immunofluorescent staining of patient smears. Considerable variation in the degree of brightness, consistency of staining, and specificity of the six reagents was found. Monoclonal antibodies against the major outer membrane proteins of C. trachomatis produced brighter fluorescence, more consistent elementary body morphology, and less nonspecific staining than did monoclonal antibodies directed against chlamydial lipopolysaccharide.
Polychronicity and Scheduling’s Role in Reducing Role Stress and Enhancing Sales Performance

Organizations can pursue a competitive advantage by guarding and enhancing one of its most precious marketplace assets—the sales force. Hiring salespeople who are suited for their role is critical within an increasingly global and competitive environment, and doing so generates dividends for increasing sales force retention, sales productivity, and performance. In addition to effective recruiting, reducing role stress is one way to achieve an acceptable sales force retention rate. Today salespeople must overcome the now frazzled pace of a hypercompetitive selling environment and splice their time effectively across customers and opportunities. This study introduces the impact that polychronicity—an employee’s preference for switching between multiple tasks within the same block of time—has on job performance and the components of role stress, role ambiguity, and role conflict. Findings demonstrate that a polychronic orientation has a positive impact on performance and a negative impact on role ambiguity. A salesperson’s propensity for scheduling and meeting deadlines reveals similar effects and highlights the desirability of hiring salespeople who are both disciplined and adaptive with their time.
Flexible spatial models for grouping local image features

A key step for the effective use of local image features (i.e., highly distinctive and robust features) for recognition or image matching is the appropriate grouping of feature matches. Spatial constraints are important in this grouping because, during a recognition process, they allow for the reduction of the number of hypotheses that must be verified and also reduce the number of false positives present in each of these hypotheses. A common choice for this grouping task is to use the Hough transform on the global spatial transformation parameters of the hypothesized matches. Here, instead, we use semi-local spatial constraints which allow for a greater range of shape deformations. A comparison with Hough transform shows that our method is more robust to both rigid and non-rigid deformations. Its functionality is demonstrated in an exemplar-based object recognition system that deals well with severe non-rigid deformations. We also show the efficacy of our flexible spatial grouping far long range motion problems.
Radar-Measured Reaction Times of Unalerted Drivers to Brake Signals

This article concerns the responses of drivers to brake signals in actual traffic. The data were collected in a project investigating the potential benefits of high-mounted brake lights. The responses were obtained from unalerted drivers who at the time of the trial were following behind a test car and in front of a monitoring car. The test car (a compact or a full-size) was equipped on 69% of the trials with one or two supplemental brake lights, mounted just below the rear window or at roof level. A Doppler radar antenna was mounted at the center of the front bumper of the monitoring car. The radar monitored changes in the speed of the subject's vehicle and generated a trace on one track of an event-recorder. A telemetered input from the test car produced a deflection on the second track of the tape, corresponding to the start and end of the brake signal. The trials were run on two different routes, urban and suburban (speed: 32 to 40 km/hr and 56 to 72 km/hr, respectively; inter-car spacing: 1 to 2 car lengths and 3 to 5 car lengths, respectively). Only trials meeting all of the following criteria were included in the analysis: (a) The subject's vehicle did not appear to have braked or decelerated in response to vehicles ahead of or adjacent to the test car, to changes in roadway configuration or a traffic control device, or in preparation for turning off the roadway. (b) The roadway was generally flat. (c) The subject's vehicle was a car, van, or pickup truck. A total of 1,644 data points were collected. On 72% of the trials there was a discernible speed change within the 3 sec. following the signal onset, with a mean delay of 1.21 sec. and a standard deviation of . 63 sec. By including no-responses and responses longer than 3 sec, the distribution of the speed-change delays under the present conditions can be characterized by a 72 percentile value of 3 sec.
Some New Perspectives on South African Indians and ‘Non-Racialism’: Findings from the AKF Non-Racialism Focus Group Data

A significant finding from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation/Gauteng City-Region Observatory non-racialism focus group data is the prevalence of negative attitudes expressed toward Indian South Africans. Using the data as a valuable analytic window into the complex race, class, ethnicity and gender politics that characterise post-apartheid South Africa, this article reflects on the implications of strong anti-Indian sentiments in post-apartheid South Africa. The article critically reflects on the historically configured identity or identities of Indian South Africans in relation to the project of ‘non-racialism’.
How Do You Interact with Your Old Friends on a New Site: Understanding Social Ties among Different Social Network Sites

User footprints analysis across different SNSs have become emerging topics in research areas of social network analysis and social media mining. However, the features leveraged for user footprints analysis always have weak discriminability, high sparsity and impersonability, which motivates us to explore a new feature-social tie in this paper. In our research, we collected 6,841 users' information from two popular SNSs in China (Weibo and Douban) and aimed to investigate the strength consistency and correlation of their cross-site social ties between these two sites. Our results indicate more than 62.62% users have some cross-site social ties between Weibo and Douban, while the strength of these ties and their features shows significant differences between the two sites. However, the features related to user interaction exhibit strong strength correlations, which provides valuable insights for user identity identification across SNSs, cross-site identity cloning attack detection and design of SNSs for newcomer retention.
Phase I Study of Doxil® and Vinorelbine in Patients with Advanced Malignancies

Introduction. This study was designed to define the maximum tolerated dose of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Doxil®) and multiday vinorelbine (VNB), without and with prophylactic filgrastim, and to identify antineoplastic effect. Patients and Methods: Patients with resistant cancers were treated with Doxil 50 mg/m2 every four weeks, and with VNB 15 mg/m2 on the same day. The VNB dose escalations were accomplished in subsequent patient cohorts by adding VNB doses on consecutive days. When the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of VNB with Doxil was defined, prophylactic filgrastim was added to define a second MTD. Results. Of 29 patients entered, two had early adverse events, and 27 received at least one full cycle with at least one month follow-up. The MTD of VNB, combined with Doxil 50 mg/m2, was 15 mg/m2 on day 1, with neutropenia as the dose-limiting toxicity. With prophylactic filgrastim, the MTD was15 mg/m2 daily for two days, with neutropenia and stomatitis as dose-limiting toxicities. Palmar plantar erythrodysesthesia occurred frequently, usually after the third cycle. Objective responses were documented in six patients, all of whom received multiday VNB. Conclusion. Doxil 50 mg/m2 on day 1 of a 28-day cycle can be safely combined with VNB 15 mg/m2 day 1, or with VNB 15 mg/m2 days 1 and 2 with filgrastim prophylaxis. Antineoplastic activity was observed in this heavily pretreated population. Future studies of Doxil 35–40 mg/m2 with multiday VNB may be worthwhile, especially in metastatic breast cancer.
Reactions to Blue-Collar Work

This article compares the levels and determinants of job satisfaction and organizational commitment among blue-collar women and men in an assessment of the gender role and job structure perspectives on work attitudes. The results, based on samples of 2,489 men and 1,070 women who work in midwestern factories, suggest that women's reactions to work are formed in ways which contradict traditional gender role interpretations of the relationship of women to paid work. These women's job satisfaction and organizational commitment are affected most by the intrinsic and financial rewards which their jobs provide, as is true of their male counterparts. Still, there are gender differences in the formation of work attitudes which are consistent with the feminist strand of the gender model. This suggests that both theory and social policy must consider the work-related and nonwork manifestations of the gender role division of labor. Given their different positions in the gender stratification system, there is remarkable similarity between women and men regarding the influences of specific personal and job characteristics on reactions to work.
Developmental Changes in Children's Judgments of Age.

Recent investigations employing drawings of human figures as stimuli have suggested that it is not until approximately age nine that children are able to judge age accurately. It was hypothesed that these results were influenced by the ambiguity of the drawings used, and the present study was designed to investigate children's judgments of age when more realistic stimuli (photographs) were employed. The primary focus of the investigation was on developmental changes in judgments correlating people's age with their physical size. Stimuli consisted of photographs of males and females characterizing four age levels: infant, child, adolescent, and middle-aged adult. Each figure was reproduced in two sizes. Using a paired-comparison procedure, children from ages three through nine years (16 at each age level) were presented with either the male or female stimulus sets by either a male or female experimenter. The ability to judge age correctly increased linearly with age. Accuracy improved from 47% at age three to 59% at age six and to 100% at age nine. Errors were primarily due to basing age judgments on size. Results were discussed in terms of (a) adequacy of stimuli in age perception studies and (b) cognitive development within a Piagetian framework.
What drives consumers to participate into family takaful schemes? A literature review

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the basic determinants of consumers intention to participate in family takaful scheme using decomposed theory of planned behaviour (DTPB) and identifying relevant factors may be moderate the relationship. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive review of the DTPB literature is undertaken, with a particular focus on contribution to family takaful scheme. Findings – The review finds that intention toward participating in family takaful scheme is are not only affected by attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control but also influence by moderating factors like demographic variables, consumer knowledge, situational factors and consumer level of religiosity. Inhibiting factors related to insurance and takaful purchase is also highlighted. Originality/value – Such an extensive review on identifying relevant factors to participate in takaful using DTPB has not been done before. The paper will be useful to researchers, professionals and others concerned wi.