Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A phenomenological study of living with a partner affected with dementia.

INTRODUCTION Caring for people affected by dementia is a collective effort that involves public health, primary care, and informal care. The third mainly comprises the efforts of spouses. AIM This study aimed to describe spouses' experiences of living with a partner affected with dementia. METHOD The study has a descriptive phenomenological approach based on a reflective life-world perspective. Seven in-depth interviews were conducted with spouses of persons affected with dementia. The interviews were audiotaped and analysed using the procedures described by Giorgi (2009) . FINDINGS The essence of living with a partner affected by dementia formed a comprehensive theme: from togetherness to loneliness, which along with three descriptive categories-changes in their partner's behaviour, changes in everyday life, and a changed future-describes the phenomenon. CONCLUSION The theme 'From togetherness to loneliness' reflects the spouses' descriptions of their life-world. Daily life changed gradually in line with their partners' personality, and their role became that of a care provider rather than a spouse. Information and knowledge about dementia should be provided at an early stage. Health care has a major responsibility to meet their needs, thus ensuring that all parties are satisfied.
Growth hormone treatment for childhood short stature and risk of stroke in early adulthood

Editors' Note: WriteClick this week centers on controversy over the recent article, “Growth hormone treatment for childhood short stature and risk of stroke in early adulthood. ” Drs. Linglart et al. and Drs. Geffner et al. argue strongly for caution in warning patients of short stature treated with growth hormone of a possible increased stroke risk based on the study's findings, the former group pointing to previous false alarms and issues of bias, and the latter group questioning the study's data collection and analysis. Both cast doubt on the appropriateness of the study's chosen control population. Authors Coste et al. defend their methodology and assert that all available information regarding risks and benefits should be communicated to patients. —Megan Alcauskas, MD, and Robert C. Griggs, MD We read with interest the article by Poidvin et al.1 In 2012, an article from the Safety and Appropriateness of Growth hormone treatments in Europe (SAGhE) study group warned of cancer and mortality in growth hormone (GH)–treated patients that turned out to be flawed due to inappropriate controls of normal height.2 The largest SAGhE cohort did not detect any increase in mortality or cerebrovascular events, a report agreed and cosigned by the French team.3 Given this deplorable experience, Poidvin et al.1 …
Surgical treatment for spinal accessory nerve injury

We report on the surgical results of spinal accessory nerve injuries between 1992–2003. We operated on 10 patients (9 female, and 1 male) who had injuries of the spinal accessory nerve. All injuries were iatrogenic. The mean age of patients was 39.2 years (range, 20–57 years). The average interval between date of injury and surgery was 7 months (range, 4–12 months). All patients had stiffness and pain in the shoulder girdle. The average active abduction of the shoulder joint was 79.5° (range, 60–100°) before surgery. End‐to‐end repairs were performed in 7 cases, and graft repairs were indicated in 3 cases. The mean follow‐up period was 18.4 months (range, 8–36 months). The average active abduction of the shoulder joint was 171° (range, 140–180°) at time of final follow‐up. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Microsurgery, 2006.
A gene cluster that regulates both heterocyst differentiation and pattern formation in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Wild‐type Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120, a filamentous nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium, produces single heterocysts at semi‐regular intervals. asr0100 (patU5) and alr0101 (patU3) are homologous to the 5′ and 3′ portions of patU of Nostoc punctiforme. alr0099 (hetZ) overlaps the 5′ end of patU5. hetZ, patU5 and patU3 were all upregulated, or expressed specifically, in proheterocysts and heterocysts. Mutants of hetZ showed delayed or no heterocyst differentiation. In contrast, a patU3 mutation produced a multiple contiguous heterocyst (Mch) phenotype and restored the formation of otherwise lost intercalary heterocysts in a patA background. Decreasing the expression of patU3 greatly increased the frequency of heterocysts in a mini‐patS strain. Two promoter regions and two principal, corresponding transcripts were detected in the hetZ‐patU5‐patU3 region. Transcription of hetZ was upregulated in a hetZ mutant and downregulated in a patU3 mutant. When mutants hetZ::C.K2 and hetZ::Tn5‐1087b were nitrogen‐deprived, PhetC‐gfp was very weakly expressed, and in hetZ::Tn5‐1087b, PhetR‐gfp was relatively strongly expressed in cells that had neither a regular pattern nor altered morphology. We conclude that the hetZ‐patU5‐patU3 cluster plays an important role in co‐ordination of heterocyst differentiation and pattern formation. The presence of homologous clusters in filamentous genera without heterocysts is suggestive of a more general role.
Promises, promises, promises....

1. Promises What they are, how to obtain them, nature of faith, God, etc. a. Have you ever had a promise made to you that was broken? i. Most of us have. Some of us have bitter memories of a parent’s promise to do something for us and their failure to fulfill that promise. ii. I read this week some stories of families whose relationships that were shattered by broken promises, and unfulfilled dreams. b. And yet, there are things that are out of our control that affect our promises and our ability to keep them. i. One story I read was a Dad who promised his son a car for his 16 birthday, ever since he was 10. He built his son’s dreams up for years upon this promise. But when the son was 15, his mother contracted cancer and the medical treatments took every penny they had. The son was torn, saddened by the loss of his mother and crushed by the loss of his dream that was based upon a promise. His disappointment turned to bitterness and to a place where he stopped speaking with his father.
School cultures, teachers, and technology transformation

This article outlines a recent study on school culture and technology adoption. Adapting Hargreaves’ (2003) model of school cultures, research findings are presented on three schools involved in a study on teacher transformation using educational technology to explain how each school represents a separate school culture and school regime. Each school is profiled to demonstrate, through direct quotes from the participants, how a specific school culture or regime can reflect varying degrees of transformation, and subsequent technology adoption. Resume : Cet article presente une etude recente portant sur la culture scolaire et l’adoption de la technologie. En utilisant une adaptation du modele des cultures scolaires de Hargreaves (2003), les resultats de recherche de trois ecoles qui ont participe a une etude sur la transformation des enseignants utilisant la technologie educative sont presentes afin d’expliquer comment chaque ecole represente une culture d’ecole et un regime scolaire distincts. Chaque ecole est profilee dans le but de demontrer, au moyen de citations directes des participants, la facon dont une culture d’ecole ou un regime scolaire donne peut se traduire par divers niveaux de transformation et, consequemment, d’adoption des technologies.
Radioprotective effect of Ocimum sanctum and amifostine on the salivary gland of rats after therapeutic radioiodine exposure.

The current study investigated the radioprotective effect of Ocimum sanctum on the salivary gland of rats administered radioiodine ((131)I) and compared its efficacy with a known radioprotectant, amifostine. The experimental rats were divided in four groups and sacrificed in three different batches at 1, 3, and 6 months of time interval after 18.5 MBq/100g (i.p.) (131)I exposure. Six months duration batch received (131)I exposure twice with the gap of 3 months. Two groups of experimental rats were presupplemented with O. sanctum (40 mg/kg for 5 days, orally) and amifostine (200 mg/kg, s.c) before (131)I exposure separately. Increased Technetium-99m-pertechnetate ((99m)TcO(4)(-)) uptake at 30 minutes post injection in salivary glands of only (131)I exposed rats may imply delay in clearance at 6 months of exposure in comparison to their counterparts sacrificed at 1 month. Parotid gland histology showed atrophy with lipomatosis in only (131)I exposed rats at 3 and 6 months of duration. O. sanctum and amifostine presupplemented and subsequently exposed to (131)I rats at 3 and 6 months duration exhibited comparable histopathology with controls. Our study indicates possible radioprotective effect of O. sanctum and amifostine against high-dose (131)I exposure.
Make Them Feel: How the Disclosure of Pregnancy to a Supervisor Leads to Changes in Perceived Supervisor Support

Personal disclosure at work can help facilitate high-quality relationships; however, these results may depend on people’s reactions to them. We suggest that reactions to a disclosure—particularly supervisor reactions—can relate to abrupt and enduring changes in perceptions of relationship quality. Drawing on theory related to relationship-defining memories [Alea N, Vick SC (2010) The first sight of love: Relationship-defining memories and marital satisfaction across adulthood. Memory 18(7):730–742. ], informational justice [Lind EA (2001) Fairness heuristic theory: Justice judgments as pivotal cognitions in organizational relations. Greenberg J, Cropanzano R, eds. Advances in Organizational Justice (Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA), 56–88. ], and emotions [Van Kleef GA (2009) How emotions regulate social life. Current Directions Psych. Sci. 18(3):184–188. ], we investigate the mechanisms through which supervisor reactions to pregnancy disclosure influence changes in employees’ perceived supervisor s.
Phrase Query Optimization on Inverted Indexes

Phrase queries are a key functionality of modern search engines. Beyond that, they increasingly serve as an important building block for applications such as entity-oriented search, text analytics, and plagiarism detection. Processing phrase queries is costly, though, since positional information has to be kept in the index and all words, including stopwords, need to be considered. We consider an augmented inverted index that indexes selected variable-length multi-word sequences in addition to single words. We study how arbitrary phrase queries can be processed efficiently on such an augmented inverted index. We show that the underlying optimization problem is NP-hard in the general case and describe an exact exponential algorithm and an approximation algorithm to its solution. Experiments on ClueWeb09 and The New York Times with different real-world query workloads examine the practical performance of our methods.
Nobody's Perfect: Living and Growing With Children Who Have Special Needs

This innovative book's straightforward chapters offer parents who have children with special needs a fresh, affirming perspective on the challenges of family life. Practical and nonjudgmental, this book guides parents through the process of adapting to having children with special needs in ways that are positive and fulfilling. It describes specific strategies for success in balancing one's own life; developing a parenting partnership; and interacting with children, friends, relatives, professionals, and others. Candid, inspiring, and often humorous reflections of four mothers who are raising children with disabilities are included throughout. This book provides an exceptionally sensitive portrayal of parenting and reaches across a wide range of special needs.
The Degree/Diameter Problem in Maximal Planar Bipartite graphs

The (? ;D) (degree/diameter) problem consists of nding the largest possible number of vertices n among all the graphs with maximum degree ? and diameter D. We consider the (? ;D) problem for maximal planar bipartite graphs, that are simple planar graphs in which every face is a quadrangle. We obtain that for the (? ; 2) problem, the number of vertices is n = ? +2; and for the (? ; 3) problem, n = 3? 1 if ? is odd and n = 3? 2 if ? is even. Then, we study the general case (? ;D) and obtain that an upper bound on n is approximately 3(2D + 1)(? 2)? D=2? and another one is C(? 2)? D=2? if ? D and C is a sufficiently large constant. Our upper bound improve for our kind of graphs the one given by Fellows, Hell and Seyffarth for general planar graphs. We also give a lower bound on n for maximal planar bipartite graphs, which is approximately (? 2)k if D = 2k, and 3(? 3)k if D = 2k + 1, for ? and D sufficiently large in both cases.
SEPIA: Privacy-Preserving Aggregation of Multi-Domain Network Events and Statistics

Secure multiparty computation (MPC) allows joint privacy-preserving computations on data of multiple parties. Although MPC has been studied substantially, building solutions that are practical in terms of computation and communication cost is still a major challenge. In this paper, we investigate the practical usefulness of MPC for multi-domain network security and monitoring. We first optimize MPC comparison operations for processing high volume data in near real-time. We then design privacy-preserving protocols for event correlation and aggregation of network traffic statistics, such as addition of volume metrics, computation of feature entropy, and distinct item count. Optimizing performance of parallel invocations, we implement our protocols along with a complete set of basic operations in a library called SEPIA. We evaluate the running time and bandwidth requirements of our protocols in realistic settings on a local cluster as well as on PlanetLab and show that they work in near real-time for up to 140 input providers and 9 computation nodes. Compared to implementations using existing general-purpose MPC frameworks, our protocols are significantly faster, requiring, for example, 3 minutes for a task that takes 2 days with general-purpose frameworks. This improvement paves the way for new applications of MPC in the area of networking. Finally, we run SEPIA's protocols on real traffic traces of 17 networks and show how they provide new possibilities for distributed troubleshooting and early anomaly detection.
Hypothesis testing over cascade channels

Binary hypothesis testing over single and parallel cascade channels is considered where sensors communicate with dedicated relays, and these relays with a single final receiver. All relays as well as the final receiver decide on the binary hypothesis governing the joint probability distribution of the observations at the sensors, relays, and final receiver. The quantity of interest is the set of feasible type-II error exponents that allow for the type-I error probabilities to vanish asymptotically as the observation length increases. A coding scheme is proposed and the corresponding set of feasible type-II error exponents is analyzed by means of a modified Han-type analysis that can account for distributed decisions based on different codebooks and for nodes forwarding their decisions to other nodes. The obtained exponent region is optimal in some special cases.
Making modern mothers

What does motherhood mean today? Drawing on interviews with new mothers and intergenerational chains of women in the same family, this exciting and timely book documents the transition to motherhood over generations and time. Exploring, amongst other things, the trend to later motherhood and the experience of teenage pregnancy, a compelling picture emerges. Becoming a mother is not only a profound moment of identity change but also a site of socio-economic difference that shapes women's lives.
Total Ionizing Dose Response of Hafnium-Oxide Based MOS Devices to Low-Dose-Rate Gamma Ray Radiation Observed by Pulse CV and On-Site Measurements

This paper reports on the low-dose-rate radiation response of Al-HfO<sub>2</sub>/SiO<sub>2</sub>–Si MOS devices, where the gate dielectric was formed by atomic layer deposition with 4.7 nm equivalent oxide thickness. The degradation of the devices was characterized by a pulse capacitance-voltage (CV) and on-site radiation response techniques under continuous gamma (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula>) ray exposure at a relatively low-dose-rate of 0.116 rad(HfO<sub>2</sub>)/s. A significant variation of the flat-band voltage shift of up to ± 1.1 V under positive and negative biased irradiation, with the total dose of up to 40 krad (HfO<sub>2</sub>) and the electric field of ~ 0.5 MV/cm, has been measured on the HfO<sub>2</sub>-based MOS devices using the proposed techniques, not apparent by conventional CV measurements. The large flat-b and voltage shift is mainly attributed to the radiation-induced oxide trapped charges, which are not readily compensated by bias-induced charges produced over the measurement timescales of less than 5 ms. Analysis of the experimental results suggest that both hole and electron trapping can dominate the radiation response performance of the HfO<sub>2</sub>-based MOS devices depending on the applied bias. No distinct loop width variation has been found with irradiation in all cases.
Depolarization of synchrotron radiation in a multilayer magneto-ionic medium

Depolarization of diffuse radio synchrotron emission is classified in terms of wavelength-independent and wavelength-dependent depolarization in the context of regular magnetic fields and of both isotropic and anisotropic turbulent magnetic fields. Previous analytical formulas for depolarization due to differential Faraday rotation are extended to include internal Faraday dispersion concomitantly, for a multilayer synchrotron emitting and Faraday rotating magneto-ionic medium. In particular, depolarization equations for a twoand three-layer system (disk-halo, halo-disk-halo) are explicitly derived. To both serve as a ‘user’s guide’ to the theoretical machinery and as an approach for disentangling line-of-sight depolarization contributions in face-on galaxies, the analytical framework is applied to data from a small region in the face-on grand-design spiral galaxy M51. The effectiveness of the multiwavelength observations in constraining the pool of physical depolarization scenarios is illustrated for a twoand three-layer model along with a Faraday screen system for an observationally motivated magnetic field configuration.
Molecular characterization of gag proteins from simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVMne)

A simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) designated SIVMne was isolated from a pig-tailed macaque with lymphoma housed at the University of Washington Regional Primate Research Center, Seattle. To better establish the relationship of SIVMne to other immunodeficiency viruses, we purified and determined the partial amino acid sequences of six structural proteins (p1, p2, p6, p8, p16, and p28) from SIVMne and compared these amino acid sequences to the translated nucleotide sequences of SIVMac and human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). A total of 125 residues of SIVMne amino acid sequence were compared to the predicted amino acid sequences of the gag precursors of SIV and HIVs. In the compared regions 92% of the SIVMne amino acids were identical to predicted residues of SIVMac, 83% were identical to predicted residues of HIV-2, and 41% were identical to predicted residues of HIV-1. These data reveal that the six SIVMne proteins are proteolytic cleavage products of the gag precursor (Pr60gag) and that their order in the structure of Pr60gag is p16-p28-p2-p8-p1-p6. Rabbit antisera prepared against purified p28 and p16 were shown to cross-react with proteins of 60, 54, and 47 kilodaltons present in the viral preparation and believed to be SIVMne Pr60gag and intermediate cleavage products, respectively. SIVMne p16 was shown to contain covalently bound myristic acid, and p8 was identified as a nucleic acid-binding protein. The high degree of amino acid sequence homology between SIVs and HIV-2 around proven proteolytic cleavage sites in SIV Pr60gag suggests that proteolytic processing of the HIV-2 gag precursor is probably very similar to processing of the SIV gag precursor. Peptide bonds cleaved during proteolytic processing of the SIV gag precursor were similar to bonds cleaved during processing of HIV-1 gag precursors, suggesting that the SIV and HIV viral proteases have similar cleavage site specificities.
Variability Tests for Intrinsic Absorption Lines in Quasar Spectra

Quasar spectra have a variety of absorption lines whose origins range from energetic winds expelled from the central engines to unrelated, intergalactic clouds. We present multiepoch, medium-resolution spectra of eight quasars at z ~ 2 that have narrow "associated" absorption lines (AALs, within ±5000 km s-1 of the emission redshift). Two of these quasars were also known previously to have high-velocity mini-broad absorption lines (mini-BALs). We use these data, spanning ~17 yr in the observed frame with 2-4 observations per object, to search for line-strength variations as an identifier of absorption that occurs physically near ("intrinsic" to) the central active galactic nucleus. Our main results are the following: Two out of the eight quasars with narrow AALs exhibit variable AAL strengths. Two out of two quasars with high-velocity mini-BALs exhibit variable mini-BAL strengths. We also marginally detect variability in a high-velocity narrow absorption line system, blueshifted ~32,900 km s-1 with respect to the emission lines. No other absorption lines in these quasars appeared to vary. The outflow velocities of the variable AALs are 3140 and 1490 km s-1. The two mini-BALs identify much higher velocity outflows of ~28,400 and ~52,000 km s-1. Our temporal sampling yields upper limits on the variation timescales from 0.28 to 6.1 yr in the quasar rest frames. The corresponding minimum electron densities in the variable absorbers, based on the recombination timescale, are ~40,000 to ~1900 cm-3. The maximum distances of the absorbers from the continuum source, assuming photoionization with no spectral shielding, range from ~1.8 to ~7 kpc.
Information sharing, self‐directed learning and its implications for workplace learning: A comparison of business student attitudes in Germany and the USA

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between self‐directed learning readiness (SDLR) of business students in Germany and the USA and their attitudes towards information sharing and to ascertain implications for workplace learning.Design/methodology/approach – This empirical study used a survey research design.Findings – The study finds that surveyed US business students have higher SDLR scores than their German counterparts, implying that they are more self‐directed when it comes to learning. In both countries, the higher the SDLR score of a person, the more likely this person is willing to share information. The motivation behind it is primarily to help others. This means that employees with high SDLR scores can support and foster workplace learning as they distribute information more freely.Originality/value – The findings are significant because the relation between SDLR and information sharing, as well as the implications for workplace learning, have not been analyzed.