Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Citizenship, Social Inclusion and Confidentiality

Confidentiality has tended to be disconnected from wider debates about citizenship and social inclusion. It has been hived off into self-referential legal and professional discourses concerning the principles that should inform social workers' conduct. The lacuna concerning the significance of confidentiality in wider debates is made more remarkable by the shift towards consumer citizenship, a shift that has ostensibly emphasized service users' rights, including their capacity for active participation in service provision. The rights discourse, as a component of active consumer citizenship, is considered in relation to the perspectives of ‘interests’ and ‘will’. The arguments that support moving in the direction of a critical ‘will’ perspective, through deliberative processes that involve service users in developing and framing information rights, are highlighted and linked to data from a small-scale empirical study. This perspective is regarded as consistent with a politically dynamic formulation of social citizenship. Such a formulation involves seeing citizenship as a practice that requires on-going debates about claims to rights, moves in the direction of seeking to rectify imbalances in power and recognizes the capacity of service users to act in their own interests as citizens.
The Warmth Dimension: Foundations of Parental Acceptance/Rejection Theory

Introduction to Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory Effects of Rejection Mainline Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory Parental Acceptance-Rejection in Life Span Perspective Child Abuse and Neglect Extreme Rejection A Case Study of 'Closet Children' Coping with Perceived Rejection Researching Parental Acceptance and Rejection The Universalist Approach The Sociocultural Systems Model, and Personality Parental Acceptance-Rejection, Expressive Behaviors and Expressive Systems Antecedents of Parental Acceptance and Rejection Etchings on the Tabula Rasa Epitemological Foundations of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory
CD147 facilitates HIV-1 infection by interacting with virus-associated cyclophilin A

Cyclophilin A (CyPA) is specifically incorporated into the virions of HIV-1 and has been shown to enhance significantly an early step of cellular HIV-1 infection. Our preliminary studies implicated CD147 as a receptor for extracellular CyPA. Here, we demonstrate a role for CyPA–CD147 interaction during the early steps of HIV-1 infection. Expression of human CD147 increased infection by HIV-1 under one-cycle conditions. However, susceptibility to infection by viruses lacking CyPA (simian immunodeficiency virus or HIV-1 produced in the presence of cyclosporin A) was unaffected by CD147. Virus-associated CyPA coimmunoprecipitated with CD147 from infected cells. Antibody to CD147 inhibited HIV-1 entry as evidenced by the delay in translocation of the HIV-1 core proteins from the membrane and inhibition of viral reverse transcription. Viruses whose replication did not require CyPA (SIV or mutant HIV-1) were resistant to the inhibitory effect of anti-CD147 antibody. These results suggest that HIV-1 entry depends on an interaction between virus-associated CyPA and CD147 on a target cell.
Modelos teóricos das relações coparentais: revisão crítica

The empirical and theoretical research on coparenting have grown over the last decade. The parenting alliance has been defined as a key element for systemic harmony of the family as well as responsible for children's (des)adjusted pathways. This theoretical article, at first, defines and delimits the construct of coparenting, in a second moment, three conceptual models of coparenting alliance most referenced in the scientific literature will be described and, in the end, the advantages and limitations of the conceptual theoretical frameworks described will be discussed. This article aims to contribute to the clarification of this construct of Psychology of Family and report the potential importance of coparenting in psychological practice.
The Role of Narratives in the Advertising of Experiential Services

Service researchers have postulated that for many services, from the customer’s point of view, the service experience is the key perceptual event. For portraying and conveying experiences, narrative forms of communication tend to be uniquely effective. This experimental study examined whether consumer expertise interferes with the relative effectiveness of story-based appeals in print advertisements portraying experiential services. This study also sought insight into consumers’ affective responses to service ads, a nascent area of inquiry. Overall, this study’s results suggest that consumers with relatively low familiarity with a service category might prefer appeals based on stories to appeals based on lists of service attributes. This relative advantage of narrative ads might be magnified when the novice consumer is in a happy rather than sad mood while encoding the information in the ad. Consumers with relatively high familiarity with the focal service category, however, might be unaffected by the format of the information presentation.
Testing a Risky Sex Behavior Intervention Pilot Website for Adolescents.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Each year, teenagers account for about one-fifth of all unintended pregnancies in the United States. As such, delivering sexual risk reduction educational materials to teens in a timely fashion is of critical importance. Web-based delivery of these materials shows promise for reaching and persuading teens away from risky sexual and substance abuse behaviors. The purpose of this study was to pilot test a web-based program aimed at reducing risky sexual behavior and related outcomes among adolescents in a high school setting. METHODS A beta-test of the website was conducted in three public schools in New Mexico, USA with 173 students in 9th and 10th grades recruited from existing health education classes. Participants spent approximately three hours over a period of two days completing the online program in school computer labs. RESULTS Pretest to posttest results indicated that self-efficacy for condom use and condom use intentions, two theoretical mediators of changes in condom use behavior, were significantly changed. Adolescents also reported high satisfaction with the website content. CONCLUSION BReady4it provided an innovative sex and substance abuse education to teenagers that revealed promising positive changes in cognitive constructs that are inversely related to risky sexual behavior among users.
Determination of the golden proportion and its implications in the esthetic setting of prosthetic teeth in African melanoderm subjects

Introduction: The golden proportion is the sharing considered as the most harmonious of a size in two unequal parts. Its numerical value is of 1.618. Several authors demonstrated that anterior teeth dimensions of the Caucasians are based on the golden section and suggest that the esthetic assembly of the prosthetic teeth holds account of it. The present study searched for a correlation between anterior teeth dimensions and the golden proportion in the African melanoderm. Materials and Methods: Our study has been carried out in the School of Dentistry, Cocody-Abidjan Felix Houphouet Boigny University, Cote d’ivoire, Africa. 80 melanoderm Ivoirian subjects old 18-32 years were selected. Measurements were carried out on the anterior teeth and ratios were calculated between various measurements according to those established for the Caucasians. Diff erent relationships of the coronary mesiodistal diameter of the anterior teeth were calculated between themselves. The statistical parameter used is null hypothesis test. Results: The comparison of our results with the golden value for the Caucasians shows diff erences, not only from 1.618, but it is also inferior. Conclusion: Compared analysis of the median values obtained with the standard of beauty made it possible to note that there is not a correlation between dimensions of the teeth of the subjects of our study and the golden proportion.
Relational identification with parents, parenting, and parent–child value similarity among adolescents

We investigate the role of relational identification with parents in the socialization processes involved in parent–child value similarity. We examine the parenting correlates of identification, of acceptance of perceived parental values, and of value similarity. A total of 547 adolescents reported their own values and the values they perceive that their parents wish for them. Parents reported their socialization values. Identification related positively to accepting perceived parental values. It related positively to value similarity only when adolescents perceived mothers' values accurately. Identification and acceptance related positively to perceived parental warmth and responsiveness but negatively to perceived parental word–deed inconsistency.
Some ternary and quaternary codes and associated sphere packings

Tables of good ternary and quaternary codes are presented, and they are used in the construction of dense sphere packings. Results include (1) tables of the best ternary and quaternary constacyclic codes (including cyclic codes) up to block length 50; (2) a class of optimal (n, 2) codes over GF(q); (3) the (u+v+w mod 2u+v mod u) construction, a new ternary code construction technique that can be used to construct the ternary Reed-Muller codes (and others); and (4) tables of linear ternary and quaternary codes obtained by modifying and combining various codes here and in the literature. Packings are generated in even dimensions up to 100 using these codes and a sphere-packing construction. In dimensions 36 and 60, new record densities appear to have been achieved. >
Frailty, Kidney Function, and Polypharmacy: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

BACKGROUND Frail individuals are at increased risk for poor outcomes, including adverse drug events. Kidney function is often compromised in frailty and is a key consideration in medication choice and dosing; however, creatinine-based measures of kidney function may be biased in frail individuals. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS 4,987 community-dwelling older men and women with complete data who participated in visit 5 of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study (2011-2013). PREDICTORS Kidney measures included glomerular filtration rate (GFR) estimated using serum creatinine (eGFRcr) and serum cystatin C level (eGFRcys) and urine albumin-creatinine ratio. OUTCOME Frailty, defined using established criteria of 3 or more frailty characteristics (weight loss, slowness, exhaustion, weakness, and low physical activity). RESULTS 341 (7%) participants were classified as frail, 1,475 (30%) had eGFRcr<60mL/min/1.73m2, 2,480 (50%) had eGFRcys<60mL/min/1.73m2, and 1,006 (20%) had albuminuria with albumin excretion ≥ 30mg/g. Among frail participants, prevalences of eGFRcr and eGFRcys<60mL/min/1.73m2 were 45% and 77%, respectively. Adjusted for covariates, frailty showed a moderate association with eGFRcr and a strong association with eGFRcys and albumin-creatinine ratio. Frail individuals with eGFRcr of 60 to <75mL/min/1.73m2 were frequently reclassified to lower eGFR categories using eGFRcys (49% to 45-<60, 32% to 30-<45, and 3% to <30mL/min/1.73m2). Hyperpolypharmacy (taking ≥10 classes of medications) was more common in frail individuals (54% vs 38% of nonfrail), including classes requiring kidney clearance (eg, digoxin) and associated with falls and subsequent complications (eg, hypnotic/sedatives and anticoagulants). LIMITATIONS Cross-sectional study design. CONCLUSIONS Frail individuals had a high prevalence of reduced kidney function, with large discrepancies when reduced kidney function was classified by eGFRcys versus eGFRcr. Given the substantial medication burden and uncertainty in chronic kidney disease classification, confirmation of kidney function with alternative biomarkers may be warranted to ensure careful prescribing practices in this vulnerable population.
Serum ionized calcium in newborn infants.

Relationships of serum ionized calcium with several biochemical parameters have been examined in newborn infants under 72 hours of age. Hypocalcemia was defined as plasma total calcium below 7.5 mg/100 ml. There was a linear correlation between plasma total calcium and ionized calcium in the entire group. Other positive correlations included: (1) plasma total calcium and serum total protein, albumin, and globulins and (2) absolute concentrations of ionic calcium and albumin. No statistically significant correlations were observed between either total or ionized calcium and serum phosphorus, percent ionized calcium, capillary pH, or Pco2. The derived values for serum ionic calcium from the McLean-Hastings nomogram did not correlate with the plasma ionic calcium as determined by the ion-specific electrode and may not be used in newborn infants to predict accurately the level of plasma ionic calcium.
Circulating insulin and insulin growth factor-1 are independent determinants of left ventricular mass and geometry in essential hypertension.

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) are independent determinants of left ventricular (LV) mass in essential hypertension. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 101 never-treated nondiabetic subjects with essential hypertension. All had 24-hour noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) monitoring and a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test. We determined fasting glucose, insulin, and IGF-1 and postload glucose and insulin 2 hours after glucose. Insulin resistance was estimated by the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA(IR)) formula. LV mass showed an association with body mass index (BMI) (r=0.47; P<0.01), postload insulin (r=0.54; P<0.01), HOMA(IR) (r=0.39; P<0.01), and IGF-1 (r=0. 43; P<0.01) and a weaker association with average 24-hour systolic and diastolic ABPs (r=0.29 and r=0.26; P<0.05) and basal insulin (r=0.31; P<0.05). Relative wall thickness was positively related to IGF-1 (r=0.39; P<0.01) but not to fasting or 2-hour postload insulin, HOMA(IR), and glucose. In a multiple regression analysis, the final LV mass model (R(2)=0.64) included IGF-1, postload insulin, average 24-hour systolic ABP, sex, and BMI. IGF-1 and postload insulin accounted for >40% of variability of LV mass. The final model (R(2)=0.36) for relative wall thickness included IGF-1 (16% total explained variability), average 24-hour systolic ABP, sex, BMI, and age but not insulin and HOMA(IR). CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that insulin and IGF-1 are powerful independent determinants of LV mass and geometry in untreated subjects with essential hypertension and normal glucose tolerance.
Accelerated Stability and Chemical Kinetics of Ethanol Extracts of Fruit of Piper sarmentosum Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography

The extracts of Piper sarmentosum, a medicinal plant, are being used to prepare phytopharmaceuticals while the information about chemical kinetics of constituents of the extract is unavailable to assign precise shelf life (t90) and find optimum storage conditions of the product for patient safety, and to avoid economic repercussions of launching an unstable product. The extract was exposed to three different conditions of high temperature and relative humidity (RH) for six months. The samples were then analyzed at 0, 1, 2, 4 and 6 months by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using pellitorine, sarmentine and sarmentosine as markers. Different chemical kinetic parameters of the markers were evaluated by Arrhenius equation to predict shelf life (t90) at different storage conditions and at room temperature. The markers in the extract followed the zero order degradation, and the activation energy, pre exponential factor and rate constant of the reaction of the markers were found to be varying in samples stored at different conditions. The contents of the markers were found to be decreasing at high temperature and humidity with the passage of time. The predicted shelf life (t90) of the markers at room temperature was found to be 16 months approximately. Results of this study indicate that extracts of the plant are stable at room temperature for 16 months. Moreover, the chemical kinetic data of the markers and the analytical method used to quantify the markers may be useful for phytopharmaceutical industry to produce efficacious and stable products from extracts of the plant.
Early impaired self-awareness after traumatic brain injury.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate predictors of early impaired self-awareness after traumatic brain injury (TBI); to examine interrelationships of the perceptions of patient, clinician, family, and significant other of how patients are functioning after TBI; and to determine how early impaired self-awareness helps to predict employability at rehabilitation discharge. DESIGN Inception cohort. SETTING Two inpatient rehabilitation programs. PARTICIPANTS A total of 129 patients with TBI seen for inpatient rehabilitation at 1 of 2 rehabilitation centers. All subjects had emerged from posttraumatic amnesia before being assessed for this study. INTERVENTIONS Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Impaired self-awareness as measured by the Awareness Questionnaire (patient self-ratings, clinician ratings) and employability (rated on the Disability Rating Scale) at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation. RESULTS Regression analysis revealed that early impaired self-awareness was predicted by age and functional status (FIM instrument total score) at admission to inpatient rehabilitation. Spearman correlation coefficients revealed that clinician, family, and significant other ratings of patient functioning were related (r(s) =. 42, P<. 001), but were not related to patient self-ratings. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that early impaired self-awareness was predictive of employability at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation. Clinician ratings of patient functioning showed a positive relation to employability (P =.05), whereas patient self-ratings showed a trend toward a negative relation to employability (P =.09). CONCLUSIONS Our results support the importance of early impaired self-awareness assessment, its predictive value for complex functional activities, and the need for further research to determine if treatment programs for impaired self-awareness enhance functional outcomes.
Relations between cardiovascular risk estimates and subclinical atherosclerosis in naïve HIV patients: results from the HERMES study

Summary The aim of the study was to evaluate the cardiovascular risk factors associated with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in antiretroviral therapy-naïve HIV-infected patients. The HERMES (HIV Exposure and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome) study enrolled therapy-naïve patients attending hospitals in the Italian coordination group for the study of allergies and HIV infection (CISAI [Coordinamento Italiano per lo Studio Allergia e Infezione da HIV]) in 2007. It was designed to identify metabolic syndrome (MS) and cardiovascular risk factors. The present analysis is a nested cross-sectional study with a subset of patients examined by carotid ultrasonography. Consecutive antiretroviral therapy-naïve HIV patients attending the facilities involved in the CISAI were included. Their 10-year probability of cardiovascular events was calculated using the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) and three other cardiovascular algorithms (the Global Framingham Risk Score – GFRS, ‘Progetto Cuore’ and ‘SCORE’). Vascular age was estimated using a new model derived from GFRS and was compared with chronological age. The diagnosis of MS was based on the National Cholesterol Education Programme and International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definitions. Subclinical atherosclerosis was determined as ultrasound carotid intima-media thickness >0.9 mm. Out of 140 patients enrolled in the HERMES study by the four centres participating in the nested study, a total of 72 (51.4%) subjects, with no overt cardiovascular disease, were examined using carotid ultrasonography. The median age was 40 years, 79.2% men. The vascular age was 7.6 years higher than the chronological age. The factors associated with subclinical atherosclerosis were age (P < 0.0001), vascular age (P = 0.0002), body mass index (P = 0.003), waist circumference (P = 0.0002), MS (IDF definition, P = 0.004) and all the cardiovascular (CV) models (FRS, P = 0.01, GFRS, P = 0.002, Progetto Cuore, P = 0.018, SCORE, P = 0.03). Independent of other significant factors, waist circumference was significantly associated with pathological results (P = 0.007). The GFRS (area under the receiver-operating characteristic curves, 0.78; P < 0.001) had slightly better predictive accuracy than the other three CV models (FRS, areas under the curve [AUC] = 0.71, P = 0.003; Progetto Cuore, AUC = 0.74, P = 0.0005; SCORE, AUC = 0.77, P < 0.0001); 55% of patients at intermediate risk (6–20%) had subclinical carotid lesions. Subclinical carotid lesions had a highly significant direct association with all the CV risk predictors. The GFRS and vascular age were highly predictive. We recommend a carotid ultrasonographic examination at least among HIV patients with GFRS >6% or with an elevated waist circumference.
Office and Policy Payoffs in Coalition Governments

According to theories on coalition formation, parties with a key position in the coalition game receive higher office and policy payoffs than their coalition partners. In this article, I use two models of government-formation — the portfolio allocation model and the political heart model — to identify key players in the coalition game. Both models are modified to incorporate institutional and political constraints on coalition-formation, and the predictions of key parties from the four models are compared with the governments that actually formed in five European countries: Austria (1983—2002), Belgium (1985—2003), Germany (1980— 2005), Ireland (1982—2002) and The Netherlands (1977—2003). I argue that the modified models are preferred to the original ones on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Using the key parties identified by the modified models, I find that if a coalition member is a key party, then it is able to assert its policy views more effectively than its coalition partners can, but, contrary to expectations in the literature, that it is unable to capture a surpassing share of cabinet offices.
Impairment effects, disability and dry mouth: Exploring the public and private dimensions

Existing accounts of dry mouth concentrate on the medical dimensions and almost completely neglect to consider its social dimensions. Simultaneously, debates on disability have highlighted an apparent split between the individual (medical) and social models of disability. The concept of ‘impairment effects’ aims to address this dichotomised approach. Impairment effects consider the everyday impact of people’s impairments on their lives in conjunction with the disabling impacts encountered through their relations with society, and society’s relations with them. This study indicates that identity and self became entangled with impairment effects and a form of disablism. The authors argue that impairment effects are, at times, a useful concept, but in some instances may actually overcomplicate things. By analysing the public and private dimensions of a chronic condition such as dry mouth, we have been enabled to explore the boundary between public and private lives. As a consequence, using public and private accounts may assist us to better locate the point where impairment ends and disability begins.