Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genier Differences in Precompetition Temporal Fattening ami Antecedents of Anxiety and Self-Confidence

This study examined changes in, and antecedents of, cognitive anxiety» somatic anxiety» and self-confidence in a sample of male (w=28) and female (»=28) university athletes. Subjects responded to the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Martens, Burton, Vealey, Bump, & Smith, 1990) and six antecedent items during the week preceding an important competition. In the case of cognitive anxiety, males showed no change across time; females showed a progressive increase as the competition neared. Males and females showed the same patterning in somatic anxiety with increases occurring only on the day of competition. Self-confidence scores revealed a reduction in self-confidence as the competition neared in both genders, but there was a greater decrease in females than in males. Stepwise multiple regression analyses showed that different antecedents predicted cognitive anxiety and self-confidence in males and females. Specifically, significant predictors in the females were associated with personal goals and sta.
Faculty Employment Trends in Criminology and Criminal Justice

The academic job search process is perhaps one of the most important and stressful events for scholars hoping to gain full‐time employment in academia. The stress that this process induces is due, at least in part, to the fact that candidates are forced to make important, life‐changing decisions with very little information. The goal of the present study is to provide an update on faculty employment trends in criminology and criminal justice by examining faculty position announcements posted in The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) from August 2004 to July 2009. Findings reveal that candidates seeking assistant professor positions will have the most choice, as positions posted at this rank make up the largest category of advertisements. Furthermore, when a specialization was included in the announcement, most departments sought those with a law enforcement focus, followed by generalists.
Active flexible concentric ring electrode for non-invasive surface bioelectrical recordings

Bioelectrical surface recordings are usually performed by unipolar or bipolar disc electrodes even though they entail the serious disadvantage of having poor spatial resolution. Concentric ring electrodes give improved spatial resolution, although this type of electrode has so far only been implemented in rigid substrates and as they are not adapted to the curvature of the recording surface may provide discomfort to the patient. Moreover, the signals recorded by these electrodes are usually lower in amplitude than conventional disc electrodes. The aim of this work was thus to develop and test a new modular active sensor made up of concentric ring electrodes printed on a flexible substrate by thick-film technology together with a reusable battery-powered signal-conditioning circuit. Simultaneous ECG recording with both flexible and rigid concentric ring electrodes was carried out on ten healthy volunteers at rest and in motion. The results show that flexible concentric ring electrodes not only present lower skin–electrode contact impedance and lower baseline wander than rigid electrodes but are also less sensitive to interference and motion artefacts. We believe these electrodes, which allow bioelectric signals to be acquired non-invasively with better spatial resolution than conventional disc electrodes, to be a step forward in the development of new monitoring systems based on Laplacian potential recordings.
Evidence that glutathione is involved in thermotolerance of preimplantation murine embryos.

Experiments were conducted to determine whether or not glutathione (GSH) is involved in thermotolerance responses of murine morulae. In the first experiment, morulae were exposed to either homeothermic temperature (37 degrees C), mild heat shock (40 degrees C for 1 h), severe heat shock (43 degrees C for 2 h), or a mild heat shock followed by severe heat shock (to induce thermotolerance). Exposure to mild heat shock did not affect viability and development, but severe heat shock reduced viability (i.e., live/dead staining) and the proportion of morulae that developed to blastocysts. This effect of 43 degrees C was reduced if embryos were first exposed to a mild heat shock of 40 degrees C. In the presence of DL-buthionine-[S,R]-sulfoximine (BSO), an inhibitor of GSH synthesis, the ability of 40 degrees C to confer thermotolerance was reduced. BSO decreased embryonic GSH content but did not decrease overall protein synthesis. In another experiment, administration of S-adenosyl-L-methionine, an inducer of GSH synthesis, decreased the deleterious effects of heat shock of 43 degrees C for 2 h on viability and percentage of embryos that became blastocysts. Addition of 5 microM GSH or GSH ester reduced the effect of 42 degrees C for 2 h on viability but not on continued development. The results suggest a role for GSH-dependent mechanisms in the processes by which murine embryos limit deleterious effects of heat shock.
Job Characteristics and the Creativity of Frontline Service Employees

This study investigates the main and interactive effects of job characteristics on the creativity of frontline service employees. Past research investigates the link between job complexity, an index measure of job characteristics, and employee creativity. This study follows a component-wise approach in studying the influence of each job characteristic on the creativity of employees. The approach overcomes a number of limitations such as the sole reliance on the intrinsic motivation rationale. In addition, we conduct this research in services, whereas past research has focused primarily on other settings. The study tests a model with 460 employees from a service setting and shows that consideration of the effects of each job characteristic has an explanatory power beyond that of job complexity. Furthermore, the results show that job characteristics interact with each other to affect creativity. Finally, the results also indicate that the component-wise approach is useful for managers for prioritizing efforts. In particular, the results indicate that to promote creative behaviors, service managers should consider increasing employee job autonomy, variety, feedback, and identity. However, the interactions between job characteristics also reveal that to build an environment that stimulates creative performance, it is important to find the right balance between job characteristics.
Principles of horticulture

Preface putting horticulture in context plant classification and naming plant organisation water and minerals in the plant plant growth plant development genetics and plant breeding weeds large pests small pests, soil organisms and bees fungi, bacteria and viruses control measures soil as a growing medium soil water soil organic matter plant nutrition alternatives to growing in the soil Index
Evaluating the Role of Physical, Operant, Cognitive, and Affective Factors in the Pain Behaviors of Chronic Pain Patients

Behavioral manifestations of pain, distress, and suffering have been characterized as pain behaviors. Although acquisition and maintenance of pain behaviors have been considered to occur through reinforcement contingencies, empirical evidence suggests that pain behavior is better understood as a multidimensional entity. The present study was designed to evaluate the contributions of physical, operant, cognitive, and affective factors to individual differences in pain behaviors. A total of 63 chronic pain patients diagnosed with the disorder fibromyalgia underwent medical, physical, and psychological evaluations. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the physical, cognitive, and affective factors, but not operant factors, were significantly related to observed pain behaviors. The set of all factors accounted for 53% of the variance in observed pain behavior. The results in this study suggest that pain behaviors should be conceptualized as behavioral manifestation of pain based on a complex interaction of various psychological and physical factors.
Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering Criteria

Since the new ABET accreditation system was first introduced to American engineering education in the middle 1990s as Engineering Criteria 2000, most discussion in the literature has focused on how to assess Outcomes 3a‐3k and relatively little has concerned how to equip students with the skills and attitudes specified in those outcomes. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Its goals are to (1) overview the accreditation process and clarify the confusing array of terms associated with it (objectives, outcomes, outcome indicators, etc.); (2) provide guidance on the formulation of course learning objectives and assessment methods that address Outcomes 3a‐3k; (3) identify and describe instructional techniques that should effectively prepare students to achieve those outcomes by the time they graduate; and (4) propose a strategy for integrating program‐level and course‐level activities when designing an instructional program to meet the requirements of the ABET engineering criteria.
Imazaquin mobility and persistence in a Sharkey clay soil as influenced by tillage systems

Abstract Field studies were conducted at Delta Research and Extension Center, Stoneville, MS, in 1996, 1997, and 1998 to assess the effect of tillage systems (conventional tillage and subsoiling) on the environmental fate of imazaquin in a Sharkey clay soil. Imazaquin was applied preemergence at 140 g ai ha−1. Subsoiling in the fall did not affect imazaquin dissipation, total volume of runoff, imazaquin concentration in runoff, or imazaquin concentration in soil, as determined by chemical extraction. A corn root bioassay revealed no differences due to tillage systems in plant-available imazaquin in soil. Imazaquin concentration measured by chemical extraction or bioassay diminished over time, with a half-life ranging from 8 to 25 d. A field bioassay utilizing cotton and corn was conducted in 1997 and 1998 using plots that had received imazaquin the previous year. In 1997, 2 wk after planting, cotton and corn injury ranged from 3 to 15%, whereas no injury was observed in 1998. Injury symptoms declined over time, with no injury 5 wk after planting in either year. Although early-season cotton stunting and slight discoloration of corn was apparent in 1997, imazaquin residues did not affect subsequent vegetative and reproductive growing patterns of cotton or corn. In 1998, corn and cotton height were significantly greater in subsoiled plots compared to conventional tillage. Nomenclature: Corn, Zea mays L. ‘HyPerformer HS 9773’, ‘Pioneer 3167’; cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L. ‘DPL 50’; soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr. ‘DPL 3589’.
The effects of divorce on intergenerational exchanges in families

Data from the 1992 NESTOR survey 'Living Arrangements and Social Networks of Older Adults' were used to examine the effects of divorce on intergenerational exchanges in families. The incidence of divorce in the older (elderly parents) and younger generation (adult children) was taken into consideration. The results indicate that divorced older adults are less likely to have supportive exchanges with their adult children than non-divorced ones. The reduction in interaction is stronger among divorced fathers than divorced mothers. Parental divorce disrupts parent-child relationships, but this is not the case with younger generation divorce. Younger generation divorce strengthens rather than weakens parent-child ties. The intensity of intergenerational exchanges is highest in families where the parents' marriage remains intact but one or more of their children divorce. However, there also appear to be cumulative effects of parental and child divorce. The likelihood that parents and children will become estranged is greatest in families where members of both generations go through a divorce. The article ends with a discussion of the implications of the results for families of the future
Self-Enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa

November 5, 1997 This paper presents a micro-level historical and theoretical analysis of Genoa's economic and political history during the twelfth and thirteenth century by examining the factors influencing the extent to which its political system was self-enforcing and their change over time. It combines narrative and theoretical analysis to resolve questions that can not be resolved by either narrative or theory alone. Although the Genoese Commune was voluntarily established in the hope to gain from economic and political cooperation, sustaining its self-enforcing nature constrained such cooperation. Cooperation was thus determined by the magnitude of factors, such as external military threat that relaxed this constraint. It took a century before learning and the increasing cost of non-cooperation induced organizational innovation that enhanced economic growth and political order by fostering the extent to which Genoa was a self-enforcing political system irrespectively of external threat.
Self-Reported Cognitive Failures Competing Measurement Models and Self-Report Correlates

The Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) is a well-known and frequently used self-report measure of cognitive lapses and slips, for example, throwing away the candy bar and keeping the wrapping. Measurement models of individual differences in cognitive failures have failed to produce consistent results so far. In this article we establish a measurement model distinguishing three factors of self-reported cognitive failures labeled Clumsiness, Retrieval, and Intention forgotten. The relationships of the CFQ factors with a variety of self-report instruments are investigated. Measures of minor lapses, neuroticism, functional and dysfunctional self-consciousness, cognitive interference, and memory complaints provide evidence across several studies for the interpretation of self-reported cognitive failures as an aspect of neuroticism that primarily reflects general subjective complaints about cognition. We conclude that self-report measures about cognition ought to be interpreted as expressing worries about on.
LDL phospholipid hydrolysis produces modified electronegative particles with an unfolded apoB-100 protein Published, JLR Papers in Press, October 16, 2004. DOI 10.1194/jlr.M400306-JLR200

Electronegative low density lipoprotein (LDL−) formation that structurally resembles LDL− isolated from plasma was evaluated after LDL treatment with snake venom phospholipase A2 (PLA2). PLA2 treatment of LDL increased its electrophoretic mobility in proportion to the amount of LDL− formed without evidence of lipid peroxidation. These changes dose-dependently correlated with the degree of phospholipid hydrolysis. Strong immunoreactivity of LDL− subfraction from plasma and PLA2-treated LDL (PLA2-LDL) to amyloid oligomer-specific antibody was observed. Higher β-strand structural content and unfolding proportionate to the loss of α-helical structure of apolipoprotein B-100 (apoB-100) of LDL− isolated from both native and PLA2-LDLs was demonstrated by circular dichroism (CD) spectropolarimetry. These structural changes resembled the characteristics of some oxidatively modified LDLs and soluble oligomeric aggregates of amyloidogenic proteins. PLA2-LDL was also more susceptible to nitration by peroxynitrite, likely because of exposure of otherwise inaccessible hydrophilic and hydrophobic domains arising from apoB-100 unfolding. This was also demonstrated for plasma LDL−. In contrast, PLA2-LDL was more resistant to copper-mediated oxidation that was reversed upon the addition of small amounts of unsaturated fatty acids. The observed similarities between PLA2-LDL−-derived LDL− and plasma LDL− implicate a role for secretory PLA2 in producing modified LDL− that is facilitated by unfolding of apoB-100.
The Personality Structure of Pre-Service Teachers as Measured by the 16 PF: Estimates of Stability across Time and Gender.

In a study of the personalities of preservice teachers, Cattell's 16 Personality'Factor (PF) Questionnaire was administered to 2,225 applicants to the College of Education of the University of Akron (Ohio). Data were analyzed by gender and by year of application (Year 1, 2, or 3). Results indicated that at the primary factor level, personality factors were found to be stable across time and gender. Results of discriminant analysis revealed statistically significant differences in the primary factor profiles between males and females, but further analysis determined that the differences were not practically significant. Data were analyzed for specific personality traits, such as anxiety, independence, extraversion, superego strength, imaginativeness, and uncontrolled imaginativeness and found to be very similar across time and gender. These results support the use of a single factor structure for both genders. The paper concludes that men and women appl-ing to the teacher education program share similar personality structures, and the personalities of cohorts of preservice teachers appear to be stable from year to year. (Contains 73 references.) (JDD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************
Cig2, a B-type cyclin, promotes the onset of S in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Cdc2, a catalytic subunit of cyclin-dependent kinases, is required for both the G1-to-S and G2-to-M transitions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Cdc13, a B-type cyclin, is required for the M-phase induction function of Cd2. Two additional B-type cyclins, Cig1 and Cig2, have been identified in S. pombe, but none of the B-type cyclins are individually required for the onset of S. We report that Cdc13 is important for DNA replication in a strain lacking Cig2. Unlike deltacdc13 cells, double-mutant deltacdc13 deltacig2 cells are defective in undergoing multiple rounds of DNA replication. The conclusion that Cig2 promotes S is further supported by the finding that Cig2 protein and Cig2-associated kinase activity appear soon after the completion of M and peak during S, as well as the observation that S is delayed in deltacig2 cells as they recover from a G1 arrest induced by nitrogen starvation. These studies indicate that Cig2 is the primary S-phase-promoting cyclin in S. pombe but that Cdc13 can effectively substitute for Cig2 in deltacig2 cells. These observations also suggest that the gradual increase in the activity of Cdc2-Cdc13 kinase can be sufficient for the correct temporal ordering of S and M phases in deltacig2 cells.
Targeting B Cells and Antibody in Transplantation

There has been increasing interest in the role played by B cells, plasma cells and their associated antibody in the immune response to an allograft, driven by the need to undertake antibody‐incompatible transplantation and evidence suggesting that B cells play a role in acute cellular rejection and in acute and chronic antibody‐mediated rejection. A number of immunosuppressive agents have emerged which target B cells, plasma cells and/or antibody, for example, the B cell‐depleting CD20 antibody rituximab. This review describes recent developments in the use of such agents, our understanding of the role of B cells in alloimmunity and the application of this knowledge toward novel therapies in transplantation. It also considers the evidence to date suggesting that B cells may act as regulators of an alloimmune response. Thus, future attempts to target B cells will need to address the problem of how to inhibit effector B cells, while enhancing those with regulatory capacity.
Evaluating Training Programs: Development and Correlates of the Questionnaire for Professional Training Evaluation

Psychometrically sound evaluation measures are vital for examining the contribution of professional training to organizational success in a reliable manner. As training evaluations tend to be both time‐consuming and labor‐intensive, there is an increasing demand for economic evaluation inventories. Simultaneously, evaluation measures have to meet psychometric standards. The present paper develops a time‐efficient training evaluation questionnaire that (1) has psychometrically sound properties; (2) measures more than the participants’ reactions; and (3) is widely applicable across different training contents, thus allowing for comparisons of training programs within and between organizations. The Questionnaire for Professional Training Evaluation is primarily developed for use in practice but is also applicable to field research and covers short‐term as well as long‐term training outcomes. Analyses based on a total of n = 1134 employees show the stability of the factor structure and hint at the questionnaire's differential and discriminant validity. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Some psychological aspects of colour blindness at school: A field study in Calabria and Basilicata (Southern Italy)

Red-green colour blindness, an inherited X-linked anomaly, was analyzed both in its biological aspects (genetic frequency) and its pedagogical and psychological implications (only the latter are the exhaustive subject of this analysis). A mass screening was carried out by means of the Ishihara test between 1998 and 2000 in Calabria and Basilicata (South of Italy). A total of 63,933 male and female schoolchildren were investigated, belonging to 351 towns and 655 secondary schools (age range 11–14 years). Then, a psychological questionnaire was administered to the entire sample, while the psychological statistical analysis was made on the answers given by two sub-samples composed of 34,309 orthochromatic subjects of both sexes and 831 colour-blind subjects of both sexes. Their answers strengthen the hypothesis that dyschromatopsia could affect the human relations of its recipients starting from their childhood, forcing them to manage their diversity in order to adapt to rules, tools and didactic media and, generally, that dyschromates carry a common feeling which presupposes and takes for granted the univocality of the visual experience. Additionally, 3,082 teachers of different subjects have been submitted to a pedagogical questionnaire, consisting of 13 closed-open questions, in order to analyze the behavior of the school toward the colour-blind subject. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 28, 216–220, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/col.10148
Gender differences in two decision-making tasks in a community sample of adolescents

In adolescence, externalized problems such as risk taking and antisocial behavior are more frequent in boys. This suggests that there are differences in the way boys and girls evaluate risk and make decisions during this period. To explore decision making and highlight possible gender differences, 124 adolescents at a junior secondary school completed two decision-making tasks: The Iowa Gambling Task (Bechara, Damasio, Damasio, & Anderson, 1994) and the Rogers Betting Task (Rogers et al., 1999). The results indicate that girls make more advantageous decisions on the Gambling Task and boys take more risks during the Betting Task. These results are discussed in light of the differing development of emotion, cognition, and brain structures in boys and girls.