Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Family Narratives, Self, and Gender in Early Adolescence

Past research has suggested that family reminiscing may be a particularly important avenue for the development of children's well-being. In this study, the authors examined the ways in which mothers and fathers scaffold conversations about past emotional events with their preadolescent children. Narratives of positive and negative shared family events were coded for parental expression and explanation of emotion, and these variables were related to measures of children's developing self-esteem and emotional and behavioral adjustment 2 years later. Overall, mothers express and explain more emotion than do fathers, and maternal expression and explanation of emotion within family narratives is generally related to positive self-esteem and adjustment in sons and daughters. However, paternal expression and explanation of emotion within family narratives generally appears to be related to poorer self-esteem and adjustment for sons and daughters. Implications for adolescent development, parental scaffolding of emotion, and gender roles within the family are discussed.
Genome-Wide Analysis of Tandem Repeats in Plants and Green Algae

Tandem repeats (TRs) extensively exist in the genomes of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Based on the sequenced genomes and gene annotations of 31 plant and algal species in Phytozome version 8.0 (http://www.phytozome.net/), we examined TRs in a genome-wide scale, characterized their distributions and motif features, and explored their putative biological functions. Among the 31 species, no significant correlation was detected between the TR density and genome size. Interestingly, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (42,059 bp/Mbp) and castor bean Ricinus communis (55,454 bp/Mbp) showed much higher TR densities than all other species (13,209 bp/Mbp on average). In the 29 land plants, including 22 dicots, 5 monocots, and 2 bryophytes, 5′-UTR and upstream intergenic 200-nt (UI200) regions had the first and second highest TR densities, whereas in the two green algae (C. reinhardtii and Volvox carteri) the first and second highest densities were found in intron and coding sequence (CDS) regions, respectively. In CDS regions, trinucleotide and hexanucleotide motifs were those most frequently represented in all species. In intron regions, especially in the two green algae, significantly more TRs were detected near the intron–exon junctions. Within intergenic regions in dicots and monocots, more TRs were found near both the 5′ and 3′ ends of genes. GO annotation in two green algae revealed that the genes with TRs in introns are significantly involved in transcriptional and translational processing. As the first systematic examination of TRs in plant and green algal genomes, our study showed that TRs displayed nonrandom distribution for both intragenic and intergenic regions, suggesting that they have potential roles in transcriptional or translational regulation in plants and green algae.
Automobile Driver Recognition under different physiological conditions using the electrocardiogram

This paper presents a person identification mechanism of automobile drivers under different physiological conditions. A total of 16 subjects were used in this study from the Stress Recognition in Automobile Driver database (DRIVEDB). Discrete Wavelet Transform was applied to reveal useful hidden information in the ECG signal which is not readily available in a time domain representation. Features are extracted based on coefficients produced due to the wavelet decomposition process. These features sets were then used in Radial Basis Function (RBF) for classification purposes. Our experimentation suggests that person identification is possible by obtaining identification accuracy of 95% as compared to 91% without wavelet analysis. This also indicates the robustness of ECG biometric implemented under different physiological conditions.
Paradigm Warriors: Donaldson versus the Critics of Organization Theory

Chapel Hill, U.S.A. Some observers write about organizational paradigms as if the competition between theories takes place at the level of ideas, with ’good ideas’ battling with ’bad ideas’ in some sort of ideational arena (Astley and van de Ven 1983). Others write of competing theoretical paradigms as if the contest at the idea level were epiphenomenal, with the real struggle occurring at the level of vested economic and political interests (Clegg and Dunkerley 1980). Still others view the competition as driven by hypothesis testing, replications or failures to replicate, and the accumulation of empirical generalizations (Hall 1987). Donaldson’s (1985) position is closest to the last, as he views progress in theorizing about organizations as a function of empirical research findings and their application to the solving of real-world problems. Donaldson’s defence of what he labels ’Organization Theory’ is thus based on the assumption that the relevant arguments are not and should not be at the
Association Between Hemodiafiltration and Hypoalbuminemia in Middle-Age Hemodialysis Patients

AbstractThe advantage of hemodiafiltration (HDF) is well known. One of the disadvantages of HDF is loss of serum albumin, but this issue is still obscure. Some risk factors associated with mortality were age dependent. Studies on serum albumin/hypoalbuminemia and HDF in different age stratification were limited. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the role of HDF and other clinical variables on serum albumin values in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients of different age groups.We recruited a total of 1216 patients on MHD. Patients were divided into 4 groups by age stratification of youth (<30 years old), young-middle age (30–44 years old), middle age (45–64 years old), and old age (≥65 years old). Biochemical, hematological, nutritional, inflammatory parameters, and receiving HDF or not were recorded. The associations between age groups, HDF, and variables mentioned above were analyzed.Only in middle-age group, patients with HDF was significantly (P = 0.013) associated with serum albumin <4 g/dL. In middle-age group, a multivariate-forward logistic regression analysis showed that male sex (2.169 [1.029, 4.574], P = 0.042), inflammation (4.167 [2.043, 8.498], P < 0.001), cardiovascular disease (2.92 [1.019, 8.402], P = 0.046), serum creatinine level (0.639 [0.538, 0.758], P < 0.001), and cholesterol level (0.984 [0.975, 0.993], P = 0.001) were associated with serum albumin level <3.6 g/dL. Hepatitis C virus infection (1.911 [1.186, 3.077], P = 0.008), HDF (2.143 [1.298, 3.540], P = 0.003), inflammation (2.309 [1.549, 3.440], P < 0.001), use of arterio-venous fistula (0.518 [0.327, 0.820], P = 0.005), Kt/V (0.395 [0.193, 0.809], P = 0.011), nonanuria (0.542 [0.337, 0.870], P = 0.011), serum creatinine level (0.744 [0.669, 0.828], P < 0.001), and cholesterol level (0.993 [0.987, 0.998], P = 0.013) were associated with serum albumin level <4 g/dL.HDF can predict serum albumin level <4 g/dL in middle-age HD patients. The effect of age needs to be taken into consideration when interpreting the correlation between hypoalbuminemia and HDF.
GOAL ACHIEVEMENT, PROCEDURAL JUSTICE AND THE SUCCESS OF MEDIATION

This research examined the relationships among a number of outcomes of mediation. The sample consisted of 73 hearings at two dispute settlement centers in New York State. Predictions from goal achievement theory were contrasted with predictions from procedural justice theory. In accordance with goal achievement theory, disputants who attained their goals in the agreement indicated immediate satisfaction with that agreement and with the conduct of the hearing. However, goal achievement was unrelated to long‐run success or long‐run satisfaction with the agreement, a result which may apply primarily to the mediation of interpersonal disputes. The predictions from procedural justice theory were more successful. Disputants who perceived that the underlying problems had been aired, that the mediator had understood what they said and that they had received a fair hearing also showed immediate satisfaction with the agreement and with the conduct of the hearing. In addition, these and related perceptions—especially in the eyes of the respondent—were predictive of several aspects of long‐run success.
Intratumoral regulatory T cells with higher prevalence and more suppressive activity in hepatocellular carcinoma patients

Regulatory T cells (Treg) play a vital role in immunosuppressive crosstalk; however, Tregs from different locations lead to different clinical outcomes. Our aim was, therefore, to compare the prevalences and suppressive phenotypes of Tregs in the peripheral blood, peritumor, and intratumor of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Learner Experience and Efficiency of Instructional Guidance

Interactions between levels of learner knowledge in a domain and levels of instructional guidance were studied in this investigation. Inexperienced mechanical trade apprentices were presented with one of two alternative instructional designs: a series of worked examples or a less guided exploratory-based environment allowing participants to explore the same material on their own. Two levels of task difficulty were used: (a) simple tasks with a very limited problem space with a small number of possible options to explore; and (b) complex tasks with a relatively larger problem space with numerous options to explore. Following instruction subjective mental load ratings and test performance measures were collected. There were only minimal differences between the instructional procedures on the simple tasks. For complex tasks, inexperienced trainees clearly benefited most from the worked examples procedure. This group performed significantly better with lower ratings of mental load than similar trainees who studied the exploratory procedure. When participants became more experienced in the domain, after two specifically designed training sessions, the advantage of a worked examples procedure disappeared. Thus, as the level of experience was raised, the performance of the exploratory group improved more than performance of the worked examples group. Suggestions are made for computer-based instructional procedures that take learner knowledge into account by employing the strategic use of both worked examples and exploratory-based instruction.
Exact Cramer-Rao Bounds for Semi-blind Channel Estimation in Amplify-and-Forward Two-Way Relay Networks

In this paper, we derive for the first time the exact Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) on semi-blind channel estimation for amplify-and-forward two-way relay networks. The bounds cover a wide range of modulation schemes that satisfy a certain symmetry condition. In particular, the important classes of PSK and square QAM are covered. For the case square QAM, we also provide simplified expressions that lend themselves more easily to numerical implementation. The derived bounds are used to show that the semi-blind approach, which exploits both the transmitted pilots and the transmitted data symbols, can provide substantial improvements in estimation accuracy over the training-based approach which only uses pilot symbols to estimate the channel parameters. We also derive the more tractable modified CRB which accurately approximates the exact CRB at high SNR for low modulation orders.
Sustainable Financial Obligations and Crisis Cycles

The ability to distinguish between sustainable and excessive debt developments is crucial for securing economic stability. By studying US private sector credit loss dynamics, we show that this distinction can be made based on a measure of the incipient aggregate liquidity constraint, the financial obligations ratio. Specifically, as this variable rises, the interaction between credit losses and the business cycle increases, albeit with different intensity depending on whether the problems originate in the household or the business sector. This occurs 1–2 years before each recession in the sample. Our results have implications for macroprudential policy and countercyclical capital-buffers.
Product Inventors and Creativity: The Finer Dimensions of Enjoyment

Four product inventors and 2 control participants were interviewed intensively about their creative process and given a series of personality assessments. The inventors expressed a profound level of emotional experience as part of their creative process. Though many emotions were mentioned, the inventors spoke repeatedly and consistently about their enjoyment of innovation work. Personality assessments indicated, however, that personality alone could not explain this high level of career happiness. The inventor discussions of their emotional experience were analyzed using the Russ (1993, 1999) model of affect and creativity. Every dimension of the Russ model was found evident in the inventors' innovation experiences. The inventor discussions encouraged an elaboration and expansion of the model. One category, cognitive integration and modulation of affect, was expanded to include the role of intuition. Four new categories were added: affective pleasure in technical perspective-taking, in focus, in creating, and in self-expression. The resulting expanded model of affect and creativity offers myriad opportunities for future researchers interested in scale development and in qualitative inquiry with other creative professions. Educators, counselors, and managers seeking to understand how to best foster innovation and career happiness may also benefit.
Sociocultural sport studies and the scientific paradigm: a response to John Smith

John K. Smith (2009) offers a useful overview of the shift away from foundationalist, empiricist inquiry in the social sciences over the latter part of the twentieth century and some provocative insights about the futility of seeking to adjudicate competing knowledge claims through appeals to reality and truth. He notes that he has found it helpful to engage in debates about research validity by starting at a personal level and considering how knowledge disputes are resolved – or not – among his family and friends. Private contentions, he has learned from this exercise, are rarely, if ever, resolved because the truth of what happened was discovered; instead, like academic debates, conflicts with loved ones tend to fade away as people move on to other things. In response to his own suggestion that researchers should consider why they do not share their supposedly professional objectivity with lay friends and family, Smith writes: ‘There is no sharing or no final arbiter state because there are no special methods that result in objectivity and researchers are no more adept at finding what-reallyhappened in their personal lives than are lay people’ (p. 98). Smith does not conclude from this that research is pointless or that professional knowledges are equivalent to lay knowledges, but rather that a science of the social can never be achieved and that the ‘closest allies’ of social and educational researchers are located in the humanities (p. 99). They are ‘storytellers and tattlers, novelists and poets, artists and composers’ and their role, and ours, is to enlarge the social conversation and to present new and different ways to think about the world (Smith 2009, p. 99). In my initial reading of Smith’s essay, I found myself wondering if he was preaching to the choir. I do not mean to suggest that I thought his essay redundant or old hat; to the contrary, I thought his case for the potential of giving preference to the personal over the professional in making judgements about research was useful and compelling. Instead, it struck me that his general argument about the impossibility of a science of the social operates as a guiding assumption of most research in the sociocultural study of sport today and is perhaps not something of which most readers of this journal would need to be convinced. If there is a minority research paradigm in the sociocultural field, my thinking went, it is surely occupied by those who practice positivist and quantitative methods, and not by the Gramscians, feminists, critical race theorists, cultural studies scholars and poststructuralists whose work dominates the
Antimicrobial Compounds Produced by Vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus Are Able to Strongly Inhibit Candida albicans Growth, Hyphal Formation and Regulate Virulence-related Gene Expressions

The female vaginal environment contains diverse microorganisms, and their interactions play significant roles in health and disease. Lactobacillus species are the predominant vaginal microorganisms in healthy women and relevant as a barrier to defense against pathogens, including Candida albicans. The yeast-to-hyphae transition is believed to be a determinant of C. albicans pathogenesis. In this study, we investigated the effects of vaginal isolates of L. crispatus (seven strains), L. gasseri (six strains), and L. jensenii (five strains) on growth, hyphal formation and virulence-related genes expression of C. albicans ATCC 10231. We found that the L. crispatus showed the most significant antimicrobial activities in microplate-based liquid medium assay (P < 0.05). All seven cell-free supernatants (CFS) from L. crispatus strains reduced the growth of C. albicans by >60%. The effects might be due to their productions of some secretory antimicrobial compounds in addition to H2O2 and organic acids. Furthermore, each of the CFS of Lactobacillus strains was found to significantly suppress the yeast-to-hyphae transition of C. albicans under hyphae-inducing conditions (RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum). The hyphae inhibition rates of C. albicans treated by CFS from L. crispatus, L. gasseri, and L. jensenii were 88.3 ± 3.02%, 84.9 ± 6.0%, and 81.9 ± 6.2%, respectively. Moreover, the expression of hyphae-specific genes (ALS3, HWP1, ECE1, EAP1, and SAP5) and transcriptional regulatory genes (EFG1, TEC1, and NRG1) were analyzed using quantitative real-time PCR. The results demonstrated that L. crispatus CFS significantly down-regulated the expression of hyphae-specific genes ALS3 (0.140-fold)), HWP1 (0.075-fold), and ECE1 (0.045-fold), while up-regulated the expression of the negative transcriptional regulator gene NRG1 with 1.911-fold. The antimicrobial compounds from L. crispatus B145 against Candida growth were heat stable and protease resistance, but those against hyphal formation were partially sensitive to the same treatments. Our novel findings suggest that L. crispatus, a dominant Lactobacillus species associated with a healthy vagina, could strongly inhibit C. albicans growth and hyphal formation. L. crispatus might repress the expression of hyphae-specific genes (ALS3, HWP1, and ECE1) in a NRG1-dependent manner. Besides, L. crispatus B145 is highly worthwhile for probiotic investigation.
Formal Operations and Academic Achievement

Abstract Although Piaget's theory of cognitive development has been extensively researched cross culturally, not many studies have addressed the question of how it is related to university students' academic performance. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between formal operations and academic achievement among Canadian university students. The results showed a statistically significant relationship between cognitive development and academic achievement; students who had fully attained formal operations performed better than those who had not.
Factors associated with experience of fatigue, and functional limitations due to fatigue in patients with stable COPD

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the influence of selected physiological, psychological and situational factors on experience of fatigue, and functional limitations due to fatigue in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods: In total 101 patients with COPD and 34 control patients were assessed for experience of fatigue, functional limitation due to fatigue (Fatigue Impact Scale), physiological [lung function, 6-minute walk distance (6MWD), body mass index (BMI), dyspnoea, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), surfactant protein D], psychological (anxiety, depression, insomnia), situational variables (age, sex, smoking, living alone, education), and quality of life. Results: Fatigue was more common in patients with COPD than in control patients (72% versus 56%, p < 0.001). Patients with COPD and fatigue had lower lung function, shorter 6MWD, more dyspnoea, anxiety and depressive symptoms, and worse health status compared with patients without fatigue (all p < 0.01). No differences were found for markers of systemic inflammation. In logistic regression, experience of fatigue was associated with depression [odds ratio (OR) 1.69, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.28–2.25) and insomnia (OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.19–2.54). In linear regression models, depression, surfactant protein D and dyspnoea explained 35% (R2) of the variation in physical impact of fatigue. Current smoking and depression explained 33% (R2) of the cognitive impact of fatigue. Depression and surfactant protein D explained 48% (R2) of the psychosocial impact of fatigue. Conclusions: Experiences of fatigue and functional limitation due to fatigue seem to be related mainly to psychological but also to physiological influencing factors, with depressive symptoms, insomnia problems and dyspnoea as the most prominent factors. Systemic inflammation was not associated with perception of fatigue but surfactant protein D was connected to some dimensions of the impact of fatigue
Degree Bounds for Polynomial Verification of the Matrix Cube Problem

In this paper we consider the problem of how to computationally test whether a matrix inequality is positive semidefinite on a semi-algebraic set. We propose a family of sufficient conditions using the theory of matrix Positivstellensatz refutations. When the semi-algebraic set is a hypercube, we give bounds on the degree of the required certificate polynomials
The Role of Perceived Insider Status in Employee Creativity: Developing and Testing a Mediation and Three-Way Interaction Model

This study investigates how perceived insider status influences employee creativity in hospitality industry settings. Specifically, the study examines mediator of promotion focus and three-way interaction roles of perceived insider status and creative process engagement. Using a sample of 232 employees of the Taiwanese hospitality industry, we found that a promotion focus was positively related to employee creativity. Moreover, a promotion focus mediates perceived insider status and creativity. Finally, the study confirms the existence of three-way interactions characterized by creative process engagement, perceived insider status, and a promotion focus on creativity. The results show that a high degree of perceived insider status coupled with a high level of creative process engagement generates a strong relationship between promotional focus and creativity.
Development of the antimicrobial effectiveness test as USP chapter <51>.

The antimicrobial effectiveness test first appeared as a USP General Chapter in the 18th revision, official September 1, 1970. This chapter, at the beginning, was designed to evaluate the performance of antimicrobials added to inhibit the growth of microorganisms that might be introduced during or subsequent to the manufacturing process. As Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) became a governing principal in pharmaceutical manufacturing, the purpose of the test was refined to focus on activity of the preservative system as a protection against inadvertent contamination during storage and usage of the product. This article will review the history of the antimicrobial test; its function, technique, and the background discussions that resulted in the changes from the test that appeared in USP XVIII to that of the current USP 25.