Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Active red sports car and relaxed purple–blue van: affective qualities predict color appropriateness for car types

Research suggests that color appropriateness differs as a function of object type. Thus, a color may be perceived as appropriate for one product and inappropriate for another product. We argue that perceived appropriateness depends upon the congruity of the affective qualities of a color with those of the product. This assumption was addressed in two studies in which participants assigned the best matching color out of 13 Munsell colors to each of seven car types. Additionally, affective qualities of both colors and car types were measured on semantic differential scales. The first study showed that color appropriateness varied according to car type. As predicted, the affective qualities of the assigned colors tended to be congruent with the affective qualities of the car types. Affective congruity along the potency dimension of the semantic differential was of particular importance in explaining assignments of colors to car types. The second study was a replication of the first study but with a different sample. The results confirmed what we found in the first study. An interesting difference was, however, that activity (not potency) turned out to be the most important dimension of the semantic differential in explaining assignments of colors to car types. Implications for product development and marketing practice are discussed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Study of Treatments and their Effects on Behaviour Improvement of Children with Problem Behaviour such as ADHD

This study tried to verify effectiveness of treatments for children who received Early Intervention Service (EIS) for children with problem behaviour. The research evaluated the validity of treatment service in improvement of problem behaviour in the areas of internalizing, externalizing, attention and sociality, and verified differences of effectiveness between methods of treatment. One hundred and ninety seven children participated in this study. They received the treatment services from 5 different branches of H Center, specialized center for emotional and psychological treatment, which was providing EIS on problem behaviour. According to the analysis of pre-post test on problem behaviours, the treatment which EIS centre provided had positive influence on behaviours change of object children, especially Play Therapy and Art Therapy made greater improvement of children’s behaviours. These results suggest the need of continuous study and development in intervention programs related to Play Therapy and Art Therapy.
Transformations of the backpacking food tourist: Emotions and conflicts

This article focuses on sensations relating to food, consumption and digestion, and will specifically seek to address the conflicting emotions surrounding food, tastes and eating practices while embarking on a backpacking journey. There has been a growing interest in food tourism within the social sciences, exploring the significance of food and drink to the tourist experience. However, there is little focus on the heightened and often problematic emotions associated with food and eating for backpackers who are travelling independently for an extended period of time. Drawing on fieldwork data that explored the emotional and embodied experiences of women travellers, I will describe some of the strong emotions determined by the everyday practice of consumption while moving through different travelling spaces. Moreover, this article will discuss the temporal context of the production of emotions around food. Mealtimes often provide structure and rhythm to backpacker’s everyday lives ‘on the road’, but their emotional responses to food also follow a process of change over an extended period of time. I will argue that the realm of the backpacking journey intensifies both positive and negative emotions relating to food and consumption, and discuss how this fits into wider theories of embodiment and temporality in backpacking tourism.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Clinical Outcome and Prognostic Correlates

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) poses a major threat to the health of people worldwide. We performed a retrospective case series analysis to assess clinical outcome and identify pretreatment prognostic correlates of SARS, managed under a standardized treatment protocol. We studied 127 male and 196 female patients with a mean age of 41±14 (range 18–83). All patients, except two, received ribavirin and steroid combination therapy. In 115 (36%) patients, the course of disease was limited. Pneumonitis progressed rapidly in the remaining patients. Sixty-seven (21%) patients required intensive care, and 42 (13%) required ventilator support. Advanced age, high admission neutrophil count, and high initial lactate dehydrogenase level were independent correlates of an adverse clinical outcome. SARS-associated coronavirus caused severe illnesses in most patients, despite early treatment with ribavirin and steroid. This study has identified three independent pretreatment prognostic correlates.
Memoria y envejecimiento: recuerdo, reconocimiento y sesgo positivo

Memory and aging: Recall, recognition and positive bias. The aim of the present study was to analyze the decay and maintenance of various aspects of the mnemic performance among the aged population and its potential relationship with a positive information processing bias. Thus, we compared recall and recognition performance in two groups of different ages (young, old). Results indicated that the free recall deficit found among the aged participants did not affect the serial position curve evenly, but took its toll in the absence of the primacy effect, whereas it left the recency effect intact. The data also showed that the ability to recognize information did not change with age, and revealed the presence of a positive recall bias even when the stimuli had no emotional content. A re-interpretation of Carstensen and colleagues’ socio-emotional selectivity theory was used to account for the results.
Response to: A Retrospective Analysis of AIDS-Associated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Patients With Undetectable HIV Viral Loads and CD4 Counts Greater Than 300 cells/mm3

We read with interest a report from Mani et al characterizing demographic, immunologic, and clinical characteristics of a retrospectively collected cohort of patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), most of whom were entered into the AIDS Malignancy Consortium studies. In a previous letter, we prospectively identified 9 individuals who developed KS with at least 2 years of good immunologic control (CD4 counts >300 cells/mm and undetectable viral load [VL]). Their KS has been persistent and indolent throughout follow-up. In Mani’s group, 20 (22%) of 91 had KS despite CD4 >300 cells/mm and undetectable VL; however only 7 (7%) of 90 had CD4 counts >300 cells/mm and undetectable VL at the time of KS diagnosis. The duration of immunologic control before the diagnosis of KS is not clear from this description. In our description, we are drawing attention to that group similar to the 7 patients in Mani’s report, who developed KS in the setting of concurrent, well-controlled HIV infection. While we and others agree that this is not a new phenomenon, it is perhaps more unusual than the prototypic patient who develops KS with lower CD4 counts and detectable VL only to resolve their KS with better immunologic control or develop persistent KS in spite of this. Making a distinction among these different groups may be important as they may be clinically and immunologically distinct. It is yet to be determined whether the characteristics that we described still persist in larger prospective studies. These characteristics include longer duration of HIV infection, older age at diagnosis of KS with higher CD4 counts, and higher CD4 nadir. Finally, it should be noted that we are in agreement with Mani et al in that in our letter we state that patients were on both protease inhibitor (PI) and non-PI antiretroviral (ARV) regimens and that there did not seem to be an association of persistent KS with either regimen.
Coolness: An Empirical Investigation

Some people are routinely described as “cool,” but it is unknown whether this descriptor conveys trait-like information beyond mere likability or popularity. This is the first systematic quantitative investigation of coolness from a trait perspective. Three studies of North Americans (N = 918) converged to identify personality markers for coolness. Study 1 participants described coolness largely by referring to socially desirable attributes (e.g., social, popular, talented). Study 2 provided further evidence of the relationship between coolness and social desirability, yet also identified systematic discrepancies between valuations of coolness and social desirability. Factor analyses (Studies 2 and 3) indicated that coolness was primarily conceptualized in terms of active, status-promoting, socially desirable characteristics (“Cachet coolness”), though a second orthogonal factor (“Contrarian coolness”) portrayed cool as rebellious, rough, and emotionally controlled. Study 3, which examined peer valuations.
Strategies and Barriers in Facilitating Natural Supports for Employment of Adults with Severe Disabilities

The concept of facilitating natural supports as a resource for obtaining and maintaining employment has received considerable attention, and a number of strategies for facilitating natural supports from an individual's network of family and friends and an employee's co-workers and employers on the job have been proposed. Interviews were conducted with key personnel in 17 schools and 16 adult service organizations in Massachusetts to obtain descriptive information regarding which practices are currently used and what barriers exist to the implementation of such practices. Each organization was nominated as representing current best practices. Results indicate wide use of some practices as well as much confusion about the concept of natural supports and the role of human service providers in facilitating involvement.
Deep learning versus traditional machine learning methods for aggregated energy demand prediction

In this paper the more advanced, in comparison with traditional machine learning approaches, deep learning methods are explored with the purpose of accurately predicting the aggregated energy consumption. Despite the fact that a wide range of machine learning methods have been applied to probabilistic energy prediction, the deep learning ones certainly represent the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence methods with remarkable success in a spectrum of practical applications. In particular, the use of Multi Layer Perceptrons, recently enhanced with deep learning capabilities, is proposed. Furthermore, its performance is compared with the most commonly used machine learning methods, such as Support Vector Machines, Gaussian Processes, Regression Trees, Ensemble Boosting and Linear Regression. The analysis of the day-ahead energy prediction demonstrates that different prediction methods present significantly different levels of accuracy in the case of a challenging dataset that comprises an interesting mix of consumers, wind and solar generation. The results show that Multi Layer Perceptrons outperform all the eight methods used as a benchmark in this study.
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications an Efficient Algorithm for the Transversal Hypergraph Generation

The Transversal Hypergraph Generation is the problem of generating, given a hypergraph, the set of its minimal transversals, i.e., the hyper-graph whose hyperedges are the minimal hitting sets of the given one. The purpose of this paper is to present an efficient and practical algorithm for solving this problem. We show that the proposed algorithm operates in a way that rules out regeneration and, thus, its memory requirements are polynomially bounded to the size of the input hypergraph. Although no time bound for the algorithm is given, experimental evaluation and comparison with other approaches have shown that it behaves well in practice and it can successfully handle large problem instances.
What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher, 1975-2004: Reflections and Reanalysis of John Wooden’s Teaching Practices

This paper revisits a 1970s study of Coach John Wooden’s teaching practices in light of new information. The original study reported discrete acts of teaching, including the number of instructions, hustles, praises, among other instructional moves. Using qualitative notes recorded during the original study, published sources, and interviews with Coach Wooden and a former UCLA player, we reexamined the 1970s quantitative data to better understand the context of Wooden’s practices and philosophy. We conclude that exquisite and diligent planning lay behind the heavy information load, economy of talk, and practice organization. Had qualitative methods been used to obtain a richer account of the context of his practices, including his pedagogical philosophy, the 1974-1975 quantitative data would have been more fully mined and interpreted.
Current diagnostics and treatment of the cubital tunnel syndrome in Austria

According to the vote of the Austrian Society for Surgery of the Hand (ÖGH) an investigation to collect data on the current state of the treatment of cubital tunnel syndrome was initiated. Over one year a total of 875 patients with cubital tunnel syndrome were operated in Austria, this means an incidence of this nerve entrapment of 0.011%. Most of the operations were done by trauma surgeons (287; 33%). For diagnosis most of the centers rely on clinical symptoms, electroneurophysiology, and elbow X-ray. 40% of the institutions regard conservative therapy as useless and not indicated. If conservative treatment modalities are applied, physiotherapy (97%), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication (77%), and glucocorticoid injections (30%) are primarily used. In case of simple nerve entrapment most of the surgeons (72%) prefer simple nerve decompression. If there is additional pathology subcutaneous cubital nerve transposition is recommended (62%). Endoscopic techniques are only use by 3% of the surgeons. In the postoperative care, physiotherapy is favored in 51%, whereas 24% do not judge any postoperative care as beneficial. The three most often encountered complications were incomplete remission, scar contracture and hypertrophy, and postoperative bleeding.
Predicting the time to recall computer command abbreviations

A GOMS theory of stimulus-response compatibility is shown to predict response-time performance on a command/abbreviation encoding task. Working with parameters that were set by an earlier study and which have rational, task-meaningful interpretations as mapping, motor, perception and retrieval operators, zero-parameter predictions were made that fit the observed performance with r2 = 0.776 (p<0.05). The reasonableness of the parameters, the algorithms used to generate the predictions, and the weighting assumption used to combine algorithms into a single prediction are discussed.
Two Worlds of Participation: Young People and Politics in Germany

Germany's political system is, in large part, based on John Stuart Mill's (1958) idea of a representative democracy, which aims to involve people in policy-forming processes. However, the constitution of a parliamentary democracy fosters tendencies towards a professionalization of participation, which leads to a strong cleavage between elites and other citizens. Drawing on original, quantitative and qualitative, empirical data we seek to show that this political culture fosters the existence of two parallel worlds: one is characterized by statutory regulated forms of engagement and qualified members; the other is inhabited by young people who engage rather in self-organized projects and institutions distant from patterns of conventional political engagement. There is, moreover, relatively little mutual exchange between these two worlds, which potentially endangers the essence of democracy. In this article a typology of different forms of political engagement is developed in order to better explain such parallel worlds and their consequences.
Endocarditis Due to Neisseria bacilliformis in a Patient with a Bicuspid Aortic Valve

ABSTRACT We report a case of endocarditis due to the rod-shaped Neisseria species Neisseria bacilliformis. The phenotypic characterization of this recently characterized bacteria is difficult, and the identification requires the sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The resolution of the disease was complete after appropriate antibiotic therapy, and surgery was not required.
Combined Medial and Lateral Anatomic Ligament Reconstruction for Chronic Rotational Instability of the Ankle

Background: This study aimed to extend knowledge on the arthroscopic evaluation of the unstable ankle joint and the outcome of ligament reconstruction on rotational instability. In contrast to previous studies, we investigated the combined repair of lateral and medial ligaments. Methods: Ninety-six patients underwent medial and lateral ligament reconstruction between 2006 and 2008, 81 of whom, with a mean age of 31.9 (range, 14 to 44) years, completed the 12-month followup and were therefore included in this study (Table 1). Clinical, radiographic, and concomitant arthroscopic examination was performed prior to the ligament stabilization. Postoperative followup included clinical and radiographic evaluation after 3, 6, and 12 months. Results: Arthroscopy showed a lesion of the anterior fibulotalar ligament (AFTL), calcaneofibular ligament (CFL), and tibiocalcanear ligament (TCL) (Deep part of deltoid ligament complex) in 67 patients. An avulsion of the proximal insertion point of the ATTL was additionally found in 14 cases. Clinical results 3 months after surgery showed a significant increase in the AOFAS-Hindfoot Score as well as a significant decrease of the Visual Analogue-Scale for pain (VAS) (p < 0.0001). This outcome persisted at the 12-month examination. Conclusion: Rotational instability of the ankle joint in most cases has an injury of the lateral ligaments and a component of the deltoid, the TCL, but rarely with a combined lesion of the TCL and the anterior tibiotalar ligament (ATTL) (Superficial part of deltoid ligament complex). The combined lateral and medial ligament reconstruction with an anchor technique had a good clinical outcome with high patient satisfaction with few complications. Level of Evidence: IV, Retrospective Case Series
Rapid Communication: Blockade of Angiotensin II Receptors Reduces the Expression of Receptors for Advanced Glycation End Products in Human Endothelial Cells

Objectives—Receptors for advanced glycation end products (RAGEs) play crucial roles in atherogenesis. Because tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) is expressed and upregulates RAGE expression in atherosclerotic lesions, the TNFα-RAGE interaction might be involved in the inflammatory process of atherogenesis. On the other hand, an angiotensin II type-1 receptor blocker (ARB), widely used as an antihypertensive drug, has been reported to have also antiatherosclerotic effects. Thus we investigated whether an ARB exerts antiatherosclerotic effects via inhibiting the TNFα-RAGE interaction. Methods and Results—Stimulation of human endothelial cells with candesartan as well as olmesartan decreased TNFα-induced RAGE expression in both mRNA and protein levels along with the decrease in the activity of nuclear factor &kgr;B and the expression of inflammatory mediators such as vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1. Both candesartan and olmesartan inhibited the binding of nuclear factor &kgr;B to the RAGE gene promoter. Furthermore, gene silencing of RAGE by RNA interference decreased the expression of TNFα-induced VCAM-1 in both mRNA and protein levels. Conclusions—RAGE contributes at least partially to the TNFα-induced VCAM-1 expression in both mRNA and protein levels. Blockade of angiotensin II receptors might exert antiatherosclerotic effects via reducing TNFα-RAGE interaction.
V-H+ -ATPase translocation during blood alkalosis in dogfish gills: interaction with carbonic anhydrase and involvement in the postfeeding alkaline tide.

We investigated the involvement of carbonic anhydrase (CA) in mediating V-H(+)-ATPase translocation into the basolateral membrane in gills of alkalotic Squalus acanthias. Immunolabeling revealed that CA is localized in the same cells as V-H(+)-ATPase. Blood plasma from dogfish injected with acetazolamide [30 mg/kg at time (t) = 0 and 6 h] and infused with NaHCO(3) for 12 h (1,000 microeq.kg(-1). h(-1)) had significantly higher plasma HCO(3)(-) concentration than fish that were infused with NaHCO(3) alone (28.72 +/- 0.41 vs. 6.57 +/- 2.47 mmol/l, n = 3), whereas blood pH was similar in both treatments (8.03 +/- 0.11 vs. 8.04 +/- 0.11 pH units at t = 12 h). CA inhibition impaired V-H(+)-ATPase translocation into the basolateral membrane, as estimated from immunolabeled gill sections and Western blotting on gill cell membranes (0.24 +/- 0.08 vs. 1.00 +/- 0.28 arbitrary units, n = 3; P < 0.05). We investigated V-H(+)-ATPase translocation during a postfeeding alkalosis ("alkaline tide"). Gill samples were taken 24-26 h after dogfish were fed to satiety in a natural-like feeding regime. Immunolabeled gill sections revealed that V-H(+)-ATPase translocated to the basolateral membrane in the postfed fish. Confirming this result, V-H(+)-ATPase abundance was twofold higher in gill cell membranes of the postfed fish than in fasted fish (n = 4-5; P < 0.05). These results indicate that 1) intracellular H(+) or HCO(3)(-) produced by CA (and not blood pH or HCO(3)(-)) is likely the stimulus that triggers the V-H(+)-ATPase translocation into the basolateral membrane in alkalotic fish and 2) V-H(+)-ATPase translocation is important for enhanced HCO(3)(-) secretion during a naturally occurring postfeeding alkalosis.
Subjective and Myographic Responses in Arm and Leg Cycle Exercising

A study was performed to explore possible psychological benefits of additional arm work during cycle exercising. For this, the subjective and physiological responses of 12 healthy young males were studied during arm and leg exercise on a cycle ergometer with movable arm levers (at 2 distances of the handgrips from the body) and during leg exercise with the grips fixed. After warming up, the subjects kept for 20 min. a constant work load leading to heart rates of about 150 to 160 beats • min.−1. Neither the EMG data nor the ratings of discomfort showed a substantial relief by arm work, but the subjects had different preferences for arm and leg exercise and just leg work, accompanied by differences in discomfort and physiological responses.
What Are Panelists Thinking When They Participate in Standard-Setting Studies?

Panelists in an operational standard-setting study were asked to share their thoughts in written form at important points in the process itself—before the meeting started, after training, after completing the 1st and 2nd sets of ratings, immediately following the discussion between Rounds 1 and 2, and so on. The item mapping method of Plake and Impara (1997) was implemented with a Grade 5 and 6 English as a Second Language Test intended for statewide use. Several conclusions follow from the research: (a) Panelists' understanding of the purpose for the standard-setting meeting, the performance categories, and details of training is important; (b) panelists' feedback about the process may not be consistent across modes of student assessment; (c) performance tasks with polytomous scoring create special challenges for panelists; and (d) panelists' rate of work may impact their understanding of the tasks and ratings.