Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Script Fading on the Abilities of Children with Autism to Reciprocate Information.

Effects of Script Fading on the Abilities of Children with Autism to Reciprocate Information by Marc Alan Tedoff Dr. Thomas B. Pierce, Examination Committee Chair Department Chair and Professor of Special Education University of Nevada, Las Vegas Teaching communication skills to children with autism is a primary concern because speech and/or language delay characterize autism. One method of teaching verbal communication skills to children with autism is script fading. This study examined the effects of teaching children with autism to exchange information to peers about objects and pictures using script fading. Six children with autism were recruited from a special program for children with autism at a public elementary school. Participants were formed into dyads that remained intact throughout the study. Two dyads consisted of first grade students, one dyad consisted of a second and a fifth grade student. Prior to the study participants were screened for minimum reading and language skills using the Woodcock-Johnson III Letter-Word Identification and Passage Comprehension subtests; and the Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test and Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test.
Local-global processes: linking globalization, democratization, and the development of women's football in South Africa

In our ever-increasing global world, it is becoming more difficult to understand local and national experiences of competitive athletes without reference to global processes. This is clearly the case when it comes to the global sport of football. This paper takes up the issue of local-global connections within football in Africa by examining the development of and the shifting power relations within South African women's football during the 1990s. The concurrent processes of democratization and globalization make South Africa a particularly intriguing context in which to examine local-global linkages. This analysis is based on multiple sources of data including qualitative interviews, self-administered surveys, archival documents, and direct observations of women's soccer in South Africa. Future directions for research to increase our understanding of contemporary African women's sporting experiences are discussed.
A Dynamic Evaluation of the Effects of Western Hemisphere Integration on US Economy

Regionalism is an integral part of the broader economic policy reforms that have occurred in the Western Hemisphere over the last decade. This chapter examines the dynamic effects of regional integration arrangements in the Western Hemisphere on the U.S. economy, including U.S. agriculture and agricultural trade, by taking into account changes in saving-investment and capital accumulation. Through close linkage between open trade and economic growth, especially through technological spillovers embodied in the trade, countries within the hemisphere, including the United States, will enjoy economic gains from more trade in the Americas. Besides its comparative advantage in trade of agricultural commodities and services, the United States, as a wealthy country, also has a comparative advantage in financial capital markets. This allows U.S. households to further enjoy the benefit of hemisphere-wide economic integration by accumulating assets of other nations in the hemisphere, especially when United States joins the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Effects of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Marker Density on Haplotype Block Partition

Many researchers have found that one of the most important characteristics of the structure of linkage disequilibrium is that the human genome can be divided into non-overlapping block partitions in which only a small number of haplotypes are observed. The location and distribution of haplotype blocks can be seen as a population property influenced by population genetic events such as selection, mutation, recombination and population structure. In this study, we investigate the effects of the density of markers relative to the full set of all polymorphisms in the region on the results of haplotype partitioning for five popular haplotype block partition methods: three methods in Haploview (confidence interval, four gamete test, and solid spine), MIG++ implemented in PLINK 1.9 and S-MIG++. We used several experimental datasets obtained by sampling subsets of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers of chromosome 22 region in the 1000 Genomes Project data and also the HapMap phase 3 data to compare the results of haplotype block partitions by five methods. With decreasing sampling ratio down to 20% of the original SNP markers, the total number of haplotype blocks decreases and the length of haplotype blocks increases for all algorithms. When we examined the marker-independence of the haplotype block locations constructed from the datasets of different density, the results using below 50% of the entire SNP markers were very different from the results using the entire SNP markers. We conclude that the haplotype block construction results should be used and interpreted carefully depending on the selection of markers and the purpose of the study.
Demographic and Socioeconomic Status, Child Support Grant, and Teenage Pregnancy among Blacks in South Africa

While the evidence is internationally inconclusive, social protection systems have been blamed for various perverse incentives or unintended consequences. This article explores one particular case in point. The South African Constitution and the Social Assistance Act of 2004 provide a child support grant (CSG) to low-income single parents/caregivers. There is nevertheless concern regarding possible perverse incentives of the grant, sparking debate that it may encourage teenage pregnancy. Several studies have examined the validity of the claim, yet methodological weaknesses cast doubt on their conclusions. This article examines the probability of being pregnant with another child among black teenagers receiving the CSG in South Africa compared with black teenagers who are not recipients. Results indicate that black teenagers aged 15-18 years receiving the grant have significantly lower odds of being pregnant with another child compared with their peers who do not receive the grant, controlling for demographic and socioeconomic factors. Related Articles Flavin, Patrick, Alexander Pacek, and Benjamin Radcliff. 2011. “State Intervention and Subjective Well-Being in Advanced Industrial Democracies. ” Politics & Policy 39 (2): 251-269. http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011. 00290.x/abstract Coan, James. 2008. “The Value of Proposed Income Tax Credits to the Office of Child Support Enforcement's Caseload: A Comparison and Recommendations. ” Politics & Policy 36 (5): 806-833. http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2008. 00136.x/abstract Luccisano, Lucy, and Amy Romagnoli. 2007. “Comparing Public Social Provision and Citizenship in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Are There Implications for a North American Space? ” Politics & Policy 35 (4): 716-751. http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2007. 00082.x/abstract Related Media PEST Technologies. 2010. “Face the Facts: Teen Pregnancy. ” August 20. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=UDo-EuyFYSg Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2011. “A Message to Health Care Professionals: Teen Pregnancy. ” October 10. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=Vjdd41VbNvk ABC News. 2009. “Teen Pregnancy: After Baby Is Born. ” June 24. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=rb4u46f9fS8
Innovation Subsidies: Does the Funding Source Matter for Innovation Intensity and Performance? Empirical Evidence from Germany

In this paper we analyze the effect of European and national funding on innovation input and output at the firm level. In terms of innovation input, we do not find evidence that one policy crowds out the effect of the other. Instead, the policies are complements. In terms of output, we find that subsidy recipients are more active with respect to patenting. A citation analysis of patents reveals that the subsidy recipients file patents that are more valuable (in terms of forward citations) than those filed in the counterfactual situation of receiving no public support. These results suggest that public funding triggers socially beneficial research projects and that the co-existence of national and European policies does not lead to crowding-out effects when compared to a hypothetical world of a closed economy with no supplemental European policies.
DETERMINAT MINAT INDIVIDU DAN PENGARUHNYA TERHADAP PERILAKU PENGGUNAAN SISTEM INFORMASI BERBASIS TEKNOLOGI DI BANK SYARIAH

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji determinan minat keperilakuan seseorang untuk menggunakan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi. Penelitian ini merupakan replikasi dan pengembangan model Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) yang menguji hubungan antara sikap, norma subyektif, minat dan perilaku aktual. Penelitian ini menguji hubungan antara sikap dengan minat, norma subyektif dengan minat dan minat dengan perilaku aktual penggunaan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi. Studi ini menggunakan metode survey dalam pengambilan data. Sampel studi ini adalah karyawan bank syariah se-Malang Raya yang menggunakan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi. Sebanyak 97 data dapat diolah dengan menggunakan smartPLS. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa sikap tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap minat penggunaan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi. Norma subyektif memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap minat penggunaan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi. Minat berpengaruh positif terhadap perilaku aktual penggunaan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi di Bank Syariah. Variabel minat tidak memediasi penuh norma subyektif terhadap perilaku aktual dalam penggunaan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi. Kata kunci : Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), sikap, norma subyektif, minat, perilaku aktual penggunaan sistem informasi berbasis teknologi.
Maternal risk factors for low birth weight for term births in a developed region in China: a hospital-based study of 55,633 pregnancies

Low birth weight (LBW) is an important risk factor for neonatal and infant mortality and morbidity in adults. However, no large scale study on the prevalence of LBW and related maternal risk factors in China has been published. To explore the effects of maternal factors on LBW for term birth in China, we conducted a hospital-based retrospective study of 55, 633 Chinese pregnancy cases between 2001 and 2008. Maternal sociodemographic data, history of infertility and contraceptive use were obtained. Their medical status and diseases during pre-pregnancy were examined by physical examination at the first antenatal care visit. Maternal medical status before childbirth and pregnancy outcomes, including body weight, infant gender, multiple pregnancy and congenital anomalies, were recorded. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression, and linear regression were used to investigate the relationship between maternal factors and term LBW. The general incidence of term LBW was 1.70% in the developed area of China. After preliminary analysis using the univariate model, low primary education, anemia, hypertensive disorders, placental previa, oligohydramnios and premature rupture of membrane were predicted as independent factors of term LBW in the multivariate model. Furthermore, the decrease in annual frquencies of these risk factors were major causes of gradual decline in the incidence of LBW (from 2.43% in 2001 to 1.21% in 2008). The study demonstrated that among maternal factors, primary education, anemia and hypertensive disorders could contribute to LBW for term birth even in the most developed area of China.
Towards Optimizing Hadoop Provisioning in the Cloud

Data analytics is becoming increasingly prominent in a variety of application areas ranging from extracting business intelligence to processing data from scientific studies. MapReduce programming paradigm lends itself well to these data-intensive analytics jobs, given its ability to scale-out and leverage several machines to parallely process data. In this work we argue that such MapReduce-based analytics are particularly synergistic with the pay-as-you-go model of a cloud platform. However, a key challenge facing end-users in this environment is the ability to provision MapReduce applications to minimize the incurred cost, while obtaining the best performance. This paper firstmotivates the importance of optimally provisioning a MapReduce job, and demonstrates that existing approaches can result in far from optimal provisioning. We then present a preliminary approach that improves MapReduce provisioning by analyzing and comparing resource consumption of the application at hand with a database of similar resource consumption signatures of other applications.
Effects of rehabilitation programmes for patients on long-term sick leave for burnout: a 3-year follow-up of the REST study.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the long-term effects of two different rehabilitation programmes for patients on long-term sick leave for burnout. DESIGN Three-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial with two 1-year group programmes: (A) cognitively oriented behavioural rehabilitation in combination with Qigong; and (B) Qigong alone. PATIENTS A total of 107 patients with burnout (78 women and 29 men), who all completed the 1-year rehabilitation programme per-protocol, were asked to participate in the follow-up. METHODS At the 3-year follow-up, data on psychological measures, sick leave and use of medication were compared between the programmes. RESULTS Patients in programme A reported being significantly more recovered from their burnout (p = 0.02), reported lower levels of burnout (p = 0.035), used more cognitive tools learned from the programme (p < 0.001), and had reduced their use of medication for depression (p = 0.002). No significant differences were found between the groups in terms of sick leave rates; both groups had improved. CONCLUSION A multimodal rehabilitation including cognitively oriented behavioural rehabilitation and Qigong showed positive effects 3 years after the end of intervention. The results indicate that, for many burnout patients on sick-leave, it takes time to implement cognitive tools and to establish new behaviours.
Race effects.

1. One-year graft survival rates for cyclosporine-treated first cadaver donor transplants were 80% for 14,911 White recipients, 74% for 3,845 Blacks, 84% for 951 Asians, and 81% for 1,319 Hispanics reported to the UCLA Renal Transplant Registry between January 1984 and December 1991. 2. One-year graft survival rates for similar transplants reported to the UNOS Scientific Renal Transplant Registry between October 1987 and December 1991 were 83% for 10,518 Whites, 79% for 3,655 Blacks, 82% for 429 Asians, and 84% for 1,277 Hispanic recipients. 3. Transplant half-lives calculated after 6 months were 10 years for Asian recipients, 9 years for Whites, 6 years for Hispanics, and 4 years for Black recipients (UCLA Registry). 4. Patient survival was 93% and 85% at 1 and 3 years, respectively, for both Black and White recipients of first cadaver transplants. Patient survival was 94% and 89% at 1 and 3 years, respectively, for Asian and Hispanic recipients (UCLA Registry). 5. Asian recipients had significantly better graft survival than Whites (4% through 3 years, p less than 0.05). This high survival was not affected by donor race, although HLA-matching was remarkably better in Asian-to-Asian combinations than White-to-Asian, nor by whether the transplant was performed in the United States or Canada, or at other international centers (UCLA Registry). 6. The poor graft survival of Black recipients at 1 and 3 years was strongly influenced by age-dependent factors. Black recipients of either sex aged 16-30 had the poorest graft survival rates (UCLA Registry). 7. Blacks were sensitized more often than Whites (17 vs 15%, p less than 0.01). Even moderate sensitization reduced 1-year graft survival from 76% to 71% (p less than 0.05) in Blacks whereas there was no effect in recipients of other races. By contrast, broad sensitization did not affect 1-year graft survival in Hispanic recipients (UCLA Registry). 8. Blacks received more poorly HLA-matched transplants than recipients of other races. Only 2% received HLA-A,B-matched kidneys and 29% received completely HLA-A,B-mismatched transplants (p less than 0.01). More than 30% received transplants mismatched at 2 HLA-DR antigens (p less than 0.01) (UCLA Registry). 9. Although there were clear racial differences in the original diseases leading to end-stage renal disease, the recipient's race was a stronger predictor of graft outcome than disease (UCLA Registry). (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Glenohumeral Osteoarthritis in Active Patients

In the normal glenohumeral joint, the humeral head and the glenoid articulate via smooth and congruent articular surfaces. In the osteoarthritic shoulder, however, both the articular surface anatomy and orientation may be severely distorted and the soft tissues grossly contracted, leading to pain and loss of function. While replacement arthroplasty is the treatment of choice in the elderly, therapeutic options for young active patients include conservative treatment, arthroplasty, and corrective osteotomy and are directed, whenever possible, toward joint preservation.
Categorical perception: important phenomenon or lasting myth?

Categorical perception, or the perceived equality of instances within a phoneme category, has been a central concept in the experimental and theoretical investigation of speech perception. It can be found as fact in most introductory textbooks in perception, cognition, linguistics and cognitive science. This paper analyzes the reasons for the persistent endurance of this concept. A variety of empirical and theoretical research findings are described in order to inform and hopefully to provide a more critical look at this pervasive concept. Given the demise of categorical perception, it is necessary to shift our theoretical focus to how multiple sources of continuous information are processed to support the perception of spoken language.
Energy-Delay Analysis of MAC Protocols in Wireless Networks

In this paper the tradeoff between energy and delay for wireless networks is studied. A network using a request-to-send (RTS) and clear-to-send (CTS) type medium access control (MAC) protocol is considered. A generic framework is developed that allows us to obtain the joint statistics of energy and delay through their joint generating function, when the effects of an imperfect channel are incorporated in the model. Several energy and delay tradeoffs are studied using the joint generating function. These include the average energy vs. average delay, average delay with energy constraint, etc. The proposed analytical method is verified through simulations.
[Assessment of complex PTSD - internal and external validity of a diagnostic interview].

BACKGROUND The diagnostic construct of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (complex PTSD) describes the consequences of early onset and long-term persisting psychological traumatizations. The interview for complex PTSD (I-kPTBS) - is the German adaptation of the structured interview for disorders of extreme stress (SIDES). The present study reports first data regarding the internal validity of the I-kPTBS as well as on the external validity of the diagnosis of complex PTSD. METHOD The I-kPTBS was applied in 72 consecutive patients of a specialized outpatient clinic. 31 patients fulfilled the criteria of the diagnosis complex PTSD. 25 suffered from a PTSD but did not fulfil the diagnostic criteria of complex PTSD. Both groups where compared regarding their symptoms, resources and reports of childhood events. RESULTS Internal consistence of the I-kPTBS regarding the sample was good to excellent (alpha = 0.88). As expected, patients with the diagnosis of complex PTSD showed more severe dissociative, depressive and general anxiety symptoms than patients with PTSD alone. Patients fulfilling the criteria of complex PTSD reported a lower age at their first traumatic event, more multiple traumatizations and more often a dissociative disorder as comorbid diagnosis. Patients with complex PTSD show a higher traumaload in childhood and a lower level of compensatory resources. DISCUSSION The interview for complex PTSD (I-kPTBS) describes a consistent diagnostic construct. The results demonstrate that the diagnosis of complex PTSD selects a specific group of patients with early childhood trauma and high symptom level. Specific criteria can differentiate this patient group well from patients that suffer from PTSD alone.
Incremental Value of Emotional Intelligence (EI) on Bank Performance in Nigeria

The study was designed to determine the incremental value of emotional intelligence on bank performance and propose strategies for enhancing emotional literacy of Nigerian bank managers. Emotional intelligence is a dispositional variable that is critical to performance outcomes. The study was carried out by using the survey research design. The design for advanced data analysis was employed in analyzing the data of the study. It was found that for a 1% change in "emotional intelligence" "bank performance" changes by 1.42%. The researcher made ten recommendations based on the findings of this study.
Approaches to Increase Arsenic Awareness in Bangladesh

The objective of this study was to design and evaluate a household-level arsenic education and well water arsenic testing intervention to increase arsenic awareness in Bangladesh. The authors randomly selected 1,000 study respondents located in 20 villages in Singair, Bangladesh. The main outcome was the change in knowledge of arsenic from baseline to follow-up 4 to 6 months after the household received the intervention. This was assessed through a pre- and postintervention quiz concerning knowledge of arsenic. Respondents were between 18 and 102 years of age, with an average age of 37 years; 99.9% were female. The knowledge of arsenic quiz scores for study participants were significantly higher at follow-up compared with baseline. The intervention was effective in increasing awareness of the safe uses of arsenic-contaminated water and dispelling the misconception that boiling water removes arsenic. At follow-up, nearly all respondents were able to correctly identify the meaning of a red (contaminated) and green (arsenic safe) well relative to arsenic (99%). The educational program also significantly increased the proportion of respondents who were able to correctly identify the health implications of arsenic exposure. However, the intervention was not effective in dispelling the misconceptions in the population that arsenicosis is contagious and that illnesses such as cholera, diarrhea, and vomiting could be caused by arsenic. Further research is needed to develop effective communication strategies to dispel these misconceptions. This study demonstrates that a household-level arsenic educational program can be used to significantly increase arsenic awareness in Bangladesh.
Holocene African droughts relate to eastern equatorial Atlantic cooling

Here we present evidence that the Holocene African monsoon system (AMS) varied in response to the eastern equatorial Atlantic sea-surface temperature (SST). Several short-term episodes of decreased moisture availability as a result of low eastern equatorial Atlantic SST are suggested by planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios. These episodes promoted a weakening of the AMS and thus determined the timing and intensity of arid periods. Local sea-surface salinities also reveal regional patterns of precipitation in equatorial western Africa. The high eastern equatorial Atlantic SSTs occur in concert with seasonally increased insolation at low latitudes, suggesting a strong response of African monsoonal precipitation to oceanic conditions at low latitudes.