Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among California Adults With and Without Cancer

This article examines the extent and correlates of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among a population-based sample of California adults that is highly diverse in terms of sociodemographic characteristics and health status. As a follow-up to a state-wide health survey of 55 428 people, 9187 respondents were interviewed by phone regarding their use of 11 different types of CAM providers, special diets, dietary supplements, mind–body interventions, self-prayer and support groups. The sample included all participants in the initial survey who reported a diagnosis of cancer, all the non-white respondents, as well as a random sample of all the white respondents. The relation of CAM use to the respondents' demographic characteristics and health status is assessed. CAM use among Californians is generally high, and the demographic factors associated with high rates of CAM use are the same in California as have been found in other studies. Those reporting a diagnosis of cancer and those who report other chronic health problems indicate a similar level of visits to CAM providers. However, those with cancer are less likely to report using special diets, and more likely to report using support groups and prayer. Health status, gender, ethnicity and education have an independent impact upon CAM use among those who are healthy as well as those who report suffering from chronic health problems, although the precise relation varies by the type of CAM used.
Narratives in the Making: Teaching and Learning at Corktown Community High School

At Corktown Community High School in Toronto, importance is placed on the education of the whole person. An alternative secondary school, it emphasizes the development of self-knowledge and responsiveness to others, creative and critical thought, and connectedness through the self, the school community, and society. Narratives in the Making is based on a research project carried out at the school as part of a large scale national research study, The Exemplary Schools Project. Corktown (a pseudonym) was selected as a participant in this study because of its unusually high rate of student retention, student engagement, achievement, and success. Using narrative accounts of classroom and school practices, profiles of teachers and students, and language that is accessible to both practitioners and academics, Mary Beattie provides insights and explanations of the meaning of success as it is understood by Corktown teachers, students, parents, alumni, and school administrators. She shows how the whole person concept is incorporated into the school environment, and why relationships are at the heart of teaching and learning.
Phytohormones Signaling Pathways and ROS Involvement in Seed Germination

Phytohormones and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are major determinants of the regulation of development and stress responses in plants. During life cycle of these organisms, signaling networks of plant growth regulators and ROS interact in order to render an appropriate developmental and environmental response. In plant’s photosynthetic (e.g., leaves) and non-photosynthetic (e.g., seeds) tissues, enhanced and suboptimal ROS production is usually associated with stress, which in extreme cases can be lethal to cells, a whole organ or even an organism. However, controlled production of ROS is appreciated for cellular signaling. Despite the current progress that has been made in plant biology and increasing number of findings that have revealed roles of ROS and hormonal signaling in germination, some questions still arise, e.g., what are the downstream protein targets modified by ROS enabling stimulus-specific cellular responses of the seed? Or which molecular regulators allow ROS/phytohormones interactions and what is their function in seed life? In this particular review the role of some transcription factors, kinases and phosphatases is discussed, especially those which usually known to be involved in ROS and hormonal signal transduction under stress in plants, may also play a role in the regulation of processes occurring in seeds. The summarized recent findings regarding particular ROS- and phytohormones-related regulatory proteins, as well as their integration, allowed to propose a novel, possible model of action of LESION SIMULATING DISEASE 1, ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY 1, and PHYTOALEXIN DEFICIENT 4 functioning during seeds life.
Functional Neural Networks of Semantic and Syntactic Processes in the Developing Brain

The functional neuroanatomy of language in the adult brain separates semantic and syntactic processes in the superior temporal gyrus (STG) and in the inferior frontal cortex. It is unknown whether a similar specialization is present in the developing brain. Semantic and syntactic aspects of sentence processing were investigated in 5- to 6-year-old children and in adults using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Although adults demonstrated function-specific activations in the STG and the frontal operculum, children showed a large activation overlap for these two language aspects in the STG. Compared to adults, they engaged additional areas in the left and right inferior frontal gyrus, which are known to support resource demanding processes. Thus, the language networks for semantic and syntactic processes are not yet specialized similarly to adults in the developing brain.
An Empirical Analysis of the Relation between Option Market Liquidity and Stock Market Activity

We empirically investigate the relation between daily activity in the underlying stock and option liquidity for firms included in the German DAX index and with options traded on the electronic exchange EUREX. By means of regression analyses we identify the major determinants of transaction-based and order-based option liquidity. We find that the transaction volume of the underlying stock is indeed a major determinant of transaction-based liquidity in the options market, whereas contrary to standard intuition, return volatility does not consistently exhibit a significant impact. On the other hand short-term measures of uncertainty, represented by the positive and negative parts of stock returns and their lagged values, are important explanatory factors. Order-based liquidity seems to be harder to model than transaction-based liquidity. The negative return part is a common factor influencing both spread and depth variables, while volatility overall significantly increases option market depth. As an important contribution to the empirical literature on option market liquidity, we provide separate regressions for buyer and seller initiated transactions. It becomes clear that especially the relation between stock returns and transaction-based liquidity is asymmetric with respect to option purchases and sales. Call purchases increase with positive returns and decrease on days with negative returns, while put purchases behave exactly the opposite way. However, both call and put sales increase on days with large positive or negative returns.
Myocardial stimulation by pancuronium bromide.

The effect of pancuronium bromide on the canine myocardium was studied by observing several indices of myocardial contractility during i.v. and intracoronary infusion of the drug in an anaesthetized, open-chested dog preparation. Pancuronium produced tachycardia when given for 2 min by i.v. and intracoronary infusion with the heart intact. Following denervation and pacing of the heart the intracoronary infusion of the drug produced increases in maximum acceleration of blood at the aortic root, peak aortic blood flow, maximum dP/dt and (maximum dP/dt)/TP. These changes occurred about 30 s after starting the infusion and returned to control values 5 min after stopping the infusion.
Activation of Nuclear Factor κB In vivo Selectively Protects the Murine Small Intestine against Ionizing Radiation-Induced Damage

Exposure of mice to total body irradiation induces nuclear factor κB (NFκB) activation in a tissue-specific manner. In addition to the spleen, lymph nodes, and bone marrow, the tissues that exhibit NFκB activation now include the newly identified site of the intestinal epithelial cells. NFκB activated by total body irradiation mainly consists of NFκB p50/RelA heterodimers, and genetically targeted disruption of the NFκB p50 gene in mice significantly decreased the activation. By comparing tissue damage and lethality in wild-type and NFκB p50 knockout (p50−/−) mice after they were exposed to increasing doses of total body irradiation, we additionally examined the role of NFκB activation in total body irradiation-induced tissue damage. The results show that p50−/− mice are more sensitive to total body irradiation-induced lethality than wild-type mice (LD50/Day 7: wild-type = 13.12 Gy versus p50−/− = 7.75 Gy and LD50/Day 30: wild-type = 9.31 Gy versus p50−/− = 7.81 Gy). The increased radiosensitivity of p50−/− mice was associated with an elevated level of apoptosis in intestinal epithelial cells and decreased survival of the small intestinal crypts compared with wild-type mice (P < 0.01). In addition, RelA/TNFR1-deficient (RelA/TNFR1−/−) mice also exhibited a significant increase in intestinal epithelial cell apoptosis after they were exposed to total body irradiation as compared with TNFR1-deficient (TNFR1−/−) mice (P < 0.01). In contrast, no significant increase in total body irradiation-induced apoptosis or tissue injury was observed in bone marrow cells, spleen lymphocytes, and the liver, heart, lung, and kidney of p50−/− mice in comparison with wild-type mice. These findings indicate that activation of NFκB selectively protects the small intestine against ionizing radiation-induced damage.
Multiclass support vector machines using adaptive directed acyclic graph

Presents a method of extending support vector machines (SVMs) for dealing with multiclass problems. Motivated by the decision directed acyclic graph (DDAG), we propose the adaptive DAG (ADAG): a modified structure of the DDAG that has a lower number of decision levels and reduces the dependency on the sequence of nodes. Thus, the ADAG improves the accuracy of the DDAG while maintaining low computational requirement.
Strong Expression of Chemokine Receptor CXCR4 by Renal Cell Carcinoma Correlates with Advanced Disease

Diverse chemokines and their receptors have been associated with tumor growth, tumor dissemination, and local immune escape. In different tumor entities, the level of chemokine receptor CXCR4 expression has been linked with tumor progression and decreased survival. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of CXCR4 expression on the progression of human renal cell carcinoma. CXCR4 expression of renal cell carcinoma was assessed by immunohistochemistry in 113 patients. Intensity of CXCR4 expression was correlated with both tumor and patient characteristics. Human renal cell carcinoma revealed variable intensities of CXCR4 expression. Strong CXCR4 expression of renal cell carcinoma was significantly associated with advanced T-status (P = .039), tumor dedifferentiation (P = .0005), and low hemoglobin (P = .039). In summary, strong CXCR4 expression was significantly associated with advanced dedifferentiated renal cell carcinoma.
The contribution of education to health promotion

This chapter will explore the contribution of education to health promotion. Clearly in order to do this we need a clear definition of what we mean by health promotion, but there is not space to debate the various models that potentially exist, which is in any case the role of other chapters in this volume. This chapter will therefore make use of the recent definitions and key concepts and principles of the World Health Organisation (WHO, 1986, 1991, 1997). The vision of health promotion put forward by the WHO is centrally concerned with certain key principles, such as empowerment, democracy, equity and autonomy, but these are values or goals rather than techniques, and do not tell us how we may achieve them. This chapter will be suggesting that education has a key part to play in the realisation of modern health promotion principles and goals. It will put forward a very wide range of educational approaches and strategies that have their uses, as we must not be bedevilled by absolutist thinking, but use whatever works best to achieve our goals.
Surface Reflection: Physical and Geometrical Perspectives

Reflectance models based on physical optics and geometrical optics are studied. Specifically, the authors consider the Beckmann-Spizzichino (physical optics) model and the Torrance-Sparrow (geometrical optics) model. These two models were chosen because they have been reported to fit experimental data well. Each model is described in detail, and the conditions that determine the validity of the model are clearly stated. By studying reflectance curves predicted by the two models, the authors propose a reflectance framework comprising three components: the diffuse lobe, the specular lobe, and the specular spike. The effects of surface roughness on the three primary components are analyzed in detail. >
Sharing the challenge: Using threaded discussion groups to build teacher resiliency

Producing more teachers to address the current teacher shortage is a quick fix that ignores the deeper issue of teacher retention. Teacher educators and school district staff developers should be developing ways to prepare resilient teachers. This article explores the use of threaded discussion groups used in two pre-service reading courses to investigate the potential for online discussions to support the development of the attributes of resiliency in both preand in-service teachers.
Automated Multiword Expression Prediction for Grammar Engineering

However large a hand-crafted wide-coverage grammar is, there are always going to be words and constructions that are not included in it and are going to cause parse failure. Due to their heterogeneous and flexible nature, Multiword Expressions (MWEs) provide an endless source of parse failures. As the number of such expressions in a speaker's lexicon is equiparable to the number of single word units (Jackendoff, 1997), one major challenge for robust natural language processing systems is to be able to deal with MWEs. In this paper we propose to semi-automatically detect MWE candidates in texts using some error mining techniques and validating them using a combination of the World Wide Web as a corpus and some statistical measures. For the remaining candidates possible lexico-syntactic types are predicted, and they are subsequently added to the grammar as new lexical entries. This approach provides a significant increase in the coverage of these expressions.
FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI STRUKTUR MODAL

This research aims to test the influence of company size, business risk, liquidity and profitability of capital structure in listed companies in BEI . Some previous research on capital structure shows different results . Therefore the research needs to be done to analyze the theory of capital structure . The Data used is the manufacturing company listed in BEI 2007-201 1. Research using a purposive sampling and sample as many as 69 research data . Research Data are then tested by multiple linear regression analysis to test the influence of company size, business risk, liquidity, and profitability of capital structure . The results of this study indicate that the size of the company posi tively and not significant, business risk positively and not significant, liquidity negative effect and significant, and profitability negative effect and significant of capital structure Keywords : Size,Business Risk, liquidity, Profitability, and Capital Structur
Distribution of 15 human kallikreins in tissues and biological fluids.

BACKGROUND Kallikreins (KLKs) are a group of 15 secreted serine proteases. Some KLKs are established or candidate cancer biomarkers, but for most the physiological function is unknown. We characterized the protein and mRNA abundance patterns of all 15 KLKs in multiple panels of human tissues and biological fluids. METHODS We used sensitive and specific sandwich-type ELISAs for each KLK. Reverse transcription PCR was used for transcript amplification. Multiple panels of human tissue extracts (adult and fetal) were tested, along with various biological fluids. RESULTS Quantitative protein expression data on 7 sets of adult and 3 sets of fetal tissues were collected for all 15 KLKs. KLKs were also quantified in the following biological fluids: seminal plasma, breast milk, follicular fluid, breast cyst fluid, breast cancer cytosol, amniotic fluid, ovarian cancer ascites, cerebrospinal fluid, cervicovaginal fluid, and urine. The data were used to generate heat maps of KLK concentrations in tissues and fluids and categorize KLK abundance as highly restricted (KLK2 and KLK3 in prostate), restricted (KLK5 in skin, salivary gland, breast, and esophagus; KLK6 in brain and central nervous system; KLK7 in esophagus, heart, liver, and skin; KLK8 in breast, esophagus, skin, and tonsil; KLK13 in esophagus and tonsil), or wide (KLKs 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15). CONCLUSIONS Quantitative KLK concentrations in tissues and fluids aid in the elucidation of KLK function, and coexpression patterns provide clues for KLK participation in proteolytic cascades.
NEW EVIDENCE ON THE TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS OF MONETARY POLICY IN ITALY BEFORE STAGE III OF EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION

The transmission mechanisms of monetary policy have been at the centre of a vast debate in the last decade and it is currently receiving increasing attention because of Stage III of European Monetary Union (EMU). It is common knowledge that focusing on a closed economy, standard transmission channels include an aggregate demand channel and an expectations channel; the aggregate demand channel can be furthermore separated into a ''conventional'' money channel (more precisely an interest rate channel) and a credit channel see e.g. Bernanke and Blinder (1988) (henceforth BB) and Gertler and Gilchrist (1993). This paper focuses on the aggregate demand channel of monetary policy transmission, with special attention to the credit channel; indeed, when commercial banks are a major source of financing for firms and in the presence of asymmetric information between borrowers and lenders (as it has been the case in Italy), indirect control on the supply of credit may have significant impact on real variables.
Author ' s personal copy Capital maintenance and depreciation over the business cycle

This paper develops and estimates a stochastic general equilibrium model with capital maintenance, which affects endogenously the depreciation rate of capital. The estimate of maintenance series is found to track survey-based measures for Canada quite closely and to generate the procyclical pattern of maintenance observed in the data. We use our model estimates to infer the time profile of equipment capital depreciation in Canadian and US manufacturing. The depreciation rate is estimated to be volatile and highly procyclical in both countries. & 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Foreign Ownership and Performance of Banks : The Case of Korea

This paper examines the impact of the increase in foreign ownership on the performances of Korean bank. According to this paper, foreign banks turn out outperforming domestic banks in terms of efficiency, productivity and stability related indicators. This result suggests that Korean government policy that aimed to opening Korean banking market to foreign investors was so far successful. But, this success is not unconditional because the risk of cherry-picking is real. This paper examines also the impact of foreign management control. Unlike simple equity holdings, foreign management control does seldom affect the performance of bank. In Korea, foreign ownership itself is the sole significant factor affecting bank performance and therefore the M&A policy that allowed foreign investors to exercise management control does not seems that much desirable.
Encrypting wireless network traces to protect user privacy: A case study for smart campus

Wireless network traces have been widely used to understand human behaviors and provide value-added services. Sanitization based techniques have been shown to be severely lacking in protecting sensitive user information embedded in such traces. In this paper, we take an encryption based approach that provides much stronger protection of user privacy. One challenge in encrypting wireless network traces is how to encrypt time range while maintaining the utility of the traces. We propose two practical encryption techniques to support queries that involve time range. These two techniques provide much stronger security guarantee than existing order preserving encryption schemes, and present different tradeoffs in complexity, as well as storage and network bandwidth requirement. Last, we quantify the performance of the proposed approach using a smart campus prototype. The results show that our approach only leads to moderate increase in storage, network bandwidth and computation overhead, demonstrating the practicality of our approach.