Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Human Figure Drawings as Indicators of Sexual Identification and Inversion

In recent years the use of the Draw-A-Person (D-A-P) technique in personality research and clinical practice has received increasing attention and wider acceptance. In spite of the relative lack of data and information concerning the validity of some of the assumptions underlying the projectivepersonalicy use of the D-A-P, many clinical workers have tended to adopt it uncritically and have made sweeping generalizations concerning its applicability and significance. The purpose of this paper is to examine one of the most common hypotheses of the D-A-P, namely, that the sex of the first-drawn figure reflects the individual's sex-role identification, role preference, and/or sexual orientation. This hypothesis has been made explicit in a number of instances. For example, Machover writes: Some subjects are so identified with the opposite sex that they are unable to draw their own sex image . From the standpoint of sexual identification, it is assumed to be more normal to draw the self-sex 6rst. From an empirical point-of-view, ir is of interest that evidence of some degree of sexual inversion was contained in records of all individuals who drew the opposite sex first in response to the instruction, 'draw a person. ' The drawings in such cases showed considerable sexual confusion (20, p. 101). The adult female is more inclined to shift in which sex is drawn first, expressing ambivalence in the preferred role more than the male. Opposite sex for the male can only express feminine identification . (21, p. 90). Levy reports chat it is ". usual for an unselected group of people to draw their own sex first and that it is usual for a selected group of hornosexuals to draw the opposite sex first" (19, p. 263). The idea of analyzing the sex of the first-drawn human figure, according to Hammer (14), may be traced to Schilder's theory which holds that the person's body image tends to be projected into his drawing, and that confusion in the individual's selfconcept and psychosexual identification is indicated when a figure of the opposite sex is drawn first. Inasmuch as the assumptions inherent in the above interpretations seem to have become widespread without conclusive testing, an examination of the relevant research literature bearing on the relationship of human figure drawing to sex-role identification and inversion is in order. The following review is presented in four sections according to the composition of Ss for whom data were obtained. Specific hypotheses commonly held with respect to each of the groups, i.e., normal adults, patients with behavior disorders, homosexuals, and children, will be indicated. The essential, relevant findings of all available studies reviewed herein have been summarized in Table 1. 'The opinions and conclusions expressed do not necessarily represent those of the Department of the Air Force.
EFL Learnersʼ Reading Strategy Use in Relation to Reading Anxiety

The study investigated EFL learners’ reading strategies use in relation to reading anxiety and gender after their participation in extensive reading as a supplemental course requirement. One hundred and eight EFL college freshmen completed a questionnaire, a survey of Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS), and a modified Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) after eighteen weeks of participation in extensive reading. The results indicate a negative correlation between reading anxiety and reading strategies. It was also found that EFL learners with low anxiety levels tended to use general reading strategies such as guessing, while EFL learners with high anxiety levels employed basic support mechanisms, such as translation, to help themselves understand texts. Some reading strategies were more used by high-anxiety level readers than low-anxiety level readers. Additionally, females tended to be slightly more anxious than males in reading. Language anxiety, a complex psychological construct, is regarded as an affective variable in the language learning process. Research on language anxiety has examined the possible relationship between anxiety and performance, and its interference in language competence (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986; MacIntyre & Gardner, 1989; Sellers, 2000). The majority of studies have centered on the influence of language anxiety on listening or speaking in language classroom (Horwitz et al., 1986; Phillips, 1992; Price, 1991; Young, 1991). However, anxiety also can be a crucial filter for foreign language (FL) learners as they attempt to comprehend reading or listening passages. The literature on foreign language reading suggests that affective variables such as anxiety could be contributing factors in reading performance (Mohd. Zin & Rafik-Galea, 2010; Saito, Horwitz, & Garza, 1999; Sellers, 2000). In a preliminary study, Saito et al. (1999) indicated that foreign language reading anxiety is distinct from general foreign language anxiety and concluded that learners’ levels of reading anxiety were correlated with
Introducing routine HIV screening for patients on an internal medicine residency inpatient service: a quality improvement project

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening for all persons aged 13 to 64 years who present to a health care provider. We sought to improve adherence to the CDC guidelines on the Internal Medicine Resident Hospital Service. We surveyed residents about the CDC guidelines, sent email reminders, provided education, and engaged them in friendly competition. Credit for guideline adherence was awarded if an offer of HIV screening was documented at admission, if a screening test was performed, or if a notation in the resident sign out sheet indicated why screening was not performed. We examined HIV screening of a postintervention group of patients admitted between August 8, 2012, and June 30, 2013, and compared them to a preintervention group admitted between August 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. Postintervention offers of HIV screening increased significantly (7.9% [44/559] vs 55.5% [300/541]; P<.001), as did documentation of residents' contemplation of screening (8.9% [50/559] vs 67.5% [365/541]; P<.001). A significantly higher proportion of HIV screening tests was ordered postintervention (7.7% [43/559] vs 44.4% [240/541]; P<.001). Monthly HIV screening documentation ranged from 0% (0/53) to 17% (9/53) preintervention, whereas it ranged from 30.6% (11/36) to 100% (62/62) postintervention. HIV screening adherence can be improved through resident education, friendly competition, and system reminders. Barriers to achieving sustained adherence to the CDC guidelines include a heterogeneous patient population and provider discomfort with the subject.
Simulating the IHOP_2002 Fair-Weather CBL with the WRF-ARW–Noah Modeling System. Part I: Surface Fluxes and CBL Structure and Evolution along the Eastern Track

Abstract Fair-weather data from the May–June 2002 International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) 46-km eastern flight track in southeast Kansas are compared to simulations using the advanced research version of the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled to the Noah land surface model (LSM), to gain insight into how the surface influences convective boundary layer (CBL) fluxes and structure, and to evaluate the success of the modeling system in representing CBL structure and evolution. This offers a unique look at the capability of the model on scales the length of the flight track (46 km) and smaller under relatively uncomplicated meteorological conditions. It is found that the modeled sensible heat flux H is significantly larger than observed, while the latent heat flux (LE) is much closer to observations. The slope of the best-fit line ΔLE/ΔH to a plot of LE as a function of H, an indicator of horizontal variation in available energy H + LE, for the data along the flight track, was shallower than observe.
PARTICLE ACCELERATION CLOSE TO THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE HORIZON: THE CASE OF M87

The radio galaxy M87 has recently been found to be a rapidly variable TeV emitting source. We analyze the implications of the observed TeV characteristics and show that it proves challenging to account for them within conventional acceleration and emission models. We discuss a new pulsar-type scenario for the origin of variable, very high energy (VHE) emission close to the central supermassive black hole and show that magneto-centrifugally accelerated electrons could efficiently Compton upscatter sub-mm ADAF disk photons to the TeV regime, leading to VHE characteristics close to those observed. This suggests, conversely, that VHE observations of highly under-luminous AGNs could provide an important diagnostic tool for probing the conditions prevalent in the inner accretion disk of these sources.
Attitudes of chinese immigrants and vietnamese refugees toward law enforcement in the United States

The present study identifies areas of concern related to the interaction of recent Asian arrivals with the American police, and differentiates Chinese immigrants from Vietnamese refugees. Community leaders reported their perception of Asian attitudes toward the police. This information was used to construct a questionnaire administered to residents of a Chinese and a Vietnamese community in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. The study found 1) that fear of crime, poor communication with police, and gang activities are the major concerns for the Vietnamese in the sample, and that fear of crime and perceived police prejudice against residents are the primary concerns for the Chinese; and 2) that the Vietnamese consistently rated all the problems as more serious than did the Chinese.
Cross-Talk between F3/Contactin and Notch at Axoglial Interface: A Role in Oligodendrocyte Development

Increasing evidence has shown that the Notch signalling pathway regulates oligodendrogliogenesis. Upon binding to classical Delta/Serrate/Lag-2 ligands, Notch signalling promotes generation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells while inhibiting their further differentiation into myelinating oligodendrocytes. In our recent studies, we have found that two neural cell adhesion molecules, F3/contactin and NB-3 interact with Notch receptors and promote oligodendrocyte development. Remarkably, all these F3 and NB-3/Notch cascade-related events required Deltex1 as the intermediate element. Experiments using several animal models further imply the function of F3/Notch signalling in vivo, which designates Notch signalling as a ligand-dependent, multipotential cascade involved in oligodendrocyte development.
Velocity-free fault tolerant control allocation for flexible spacecraft with redundant thrusters

This paper proposes a novel velocity-free nonlinear proportional-integral (PI) control allocation scheme for fault tolerant attitude control of flexible spacecraft under thruster redundancy. More specifically, the nonlinear PI controller for attitude stabilization without using body angular velocity measurements is firstly designed as virtual control of a control allocator to produce the three axis moments, and can guarantee uniform ultimately boundedness of the closed-loop system in the presence of external disturbances and possible stuck faults. The associated stability proof is constructive and accomplished by the development of a passivity filter formulations together with the choice of a Lyapunov function containing cross/mixed terms involving the various states. Then, a robust least squares based control allocation is employed to deal with the problem of distributing the three axis moments over the available thrusters under redundancy, in which the focus of this control allocation is to find the optimal control vector of actuator by minimizing the worst-case residual, under the condition of thruster faults and control constraints like saturation.
On the Equivalence of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Spectral Clustering

Current nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) deals with X = FG T type. We provide a systematic analysis and extensions of NMF to the symmetric W = HH T , and the weighted W = HSH T . We show that (1) W = HH T is equivalent to Kernel K -means clustering and the Laplacian-based spectral clustering. (2) X = FG T is equivalent to simultaneous clustering of rows and columns of a bipartite graph. Algorithms are given for computing these symmetric NMFs.
CRF-Based Context Modeling for Person Identification in Broadcast Videos

We investigate the problem of speaker and face identification in broadcast videos. Identification is performed by associating automatically extracted names from overlaid texts with speaker and face clusters. We aimed at exploiting the structure of news videos to solve name/cluster association ambiguities and clustering errors. The proposed approach combines iteratively two Conditional Random Fields (CRF). The first CRF performs the person diarization (joint temporal segmentation, clustering and association of voices and faces) jointly over the speech segments and the face tracks. It benefits from contextual information extracted from the image backgrounds and the overlaid texts. The second CRF associates names with person clusters thanks to co-occurrence statistics. Experiments conducted on a recent and substantial public dataset containing reports and debates demonstrate the interest and complementarity of the different modeling steps and information sources: the use of those elements enables us to obtain better performances in clustering and identification, especially in studio scenes.
Antibodies to coronaviruses OC43 and 229E in multiple sclerosis patients

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and matched control sera had similar antibody titers to coronaviruses OC43 and 229E when tested by a radioimmunoassay method. In contrast, cerebrospinal fluid from MS patients contained coronavirus antibodies more frequently and in higher titers than matched controls. Intrathecal antibody synthesis to OC43 and 229E viruses was detected in 41% (9/22) and 26% (7/27) of MS patients, respectively, but was not found in any of the neurologic control patients. This intrathecal antibody synthesis may mean that coronaviruses play an etiologic or pathogenic role in MS. Alternatively, intrathecal synthesis of coronavirus antibodies may be but part of a generalized and variable intrathecal antibody synthesis that is typical for MS patients.
Effects of a Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II Inhibitor on Compound Action Potential Thresholds in Experimental Endolymphatic Hydrops

Hypothesis: Nitric oxide (NO) is likely to be synthesized by nitric oxide synthase Type II (NOS II) action and may partake in the origin of changes of compound action potential (CAP) threshold observed in guinea pigs with induced endolymphatic hydrops. This study aimed to assess the action of a NOS II inhibitor on CAP thresholds in these experimental samples. Background: In guinea pigs with experimental endolymphatic hydrops, there are lesions on the cochlea and progressive increase of CAP threshold. NOS II was found in the cochlea of this animal model, and it was inferred that NO can contribute by such alterations. Methods: The animals were divided into two groups, in which eight received an intake of a NOS II inhibitor, aminoguanidine, and another eight served as a control group. During 16 weeks, CAP thresholds at 1,000, 2,000, 4,000 and 6,000 on electrocochleography were compared between the groups. Results: The group that had an intake of aminoguanidine showed a lower increase on CAP thresholds at 2,000 (p < 0.05) and 6,000 Hz (p < 0.05) at the 12th postoperative week, and at 1,000 (p < 0.05), 2,000 (p < 0.001), 4,000 (p < 0.001), > and 6,000 Hz (p < 0.001) at the 16th week. Conclusion: We conclude that NOS II inhibitor reduced the elevation of CAP thresholds in experimentally induced endolymphatic hydrops.
Preliminary study of coach verbal behaviour according to game actions

Guzman JF, Calpe-Gomez V. Preliminary study of coach verbal behaviour according to game actions. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 376-382, 2012. The aim of this study was to analyse the interaction between game actions in high-level handball and verbal behaviour performed by the coach. For this purpose, a match of the 1 st National Division of male Spanish handball was analysed. The type of behaviour and the content of the message reported by the coach were recorded using a modified version of Coaching Behaviour Assessment System (CBAS) and Coach Analysis and Intervention System (CAIS). About game actions, they were grouped into positive and negative. Statistically significant differences were obtained in both the coach’s type of behaviour (Chi-square = 63.978, df = 13, Sig <0.001) and message content (Chi-square = 19.401, df = 6, Sig = 0.004) according the game action performed previously (positive or negative). After positive actions coach performed more positive feedback and encouragement, and after negative actions coach performed more negative feedback and queries, and content of communication was more related with results of technical-tactical action. Results offer some clues about specific coach behaviours that may be game action dependent. This knowledge may be useful to implement interventions to improve coaches’ behaviour. However, more in depth studies with bigger samples are necessary. Key words: COACHING BEHAVIOUR, FEEDBACK, COMMUNICATION PATTERNS, NOTATIONAL ANALYSIS
Deterministic Diagnostic Pattern Generation (DDPG) for Compound Defects

Scan chain failure diagnosis has become an important means for silicon debug and yield improvement. Although plenty of prior work discussed how to perform scan chain diagnosis, most of the previously proposed techniques made an assumption that the system logic is fault-free, which could be an impractical assumption leading to incorrect diagnostic results. In this paper, we propose a scan chain deterministic diagnostic pattern generation (DDPG) method that can tolerate the faults in the system logic without degradation of chain diagnostic resolution and precision. The entire flow includes three steps. In the first step, patterns are created to propagate the state of a targeted scan cell to as many reliable observation points as possible. In the second step, the load error probability of each targeted scan cell is calculated based on the hamming distances between the observed responses and the expected good or faulty responses. In the last step, a suspect profile is plotted, which can be used to identify the suspect scan cell(s) based on ranking scores. Experimental results show that the diagnostic resolution and precision are not degraded even with dozens of faults injected into the system logic.
Stereotype knowledge and prejudice in children

The present research applies Devine's (1989) distinction between stereotype knowledge and personal beliefs to the early development of racial bias in young children. The responses of 110 South Australian children (66 girls and 44 boys) toward white and black stimuli were examined across the 5-6 and 8-9 age groups. Analyses revealed that both age groups were knowledgeable about the cultural stereotypes associated with black and white skin colour, Negative adjectives were more strongly endorsed for black stimuli than were positive adjectives (the reverse was true for white stimuli). For 5- to 6-year-olds, knowledge of stereotypes and personal beliefs for black stimuli were highly congruent. In contrast, children aged 8-9 years were significantly more likely to report personal beliefs which diverged from their knowledge of pervasive cultural stereotypes, i.e. to endorse negative adjectives as stereotype knowledge rather than personal beliefs, It is tentatively concluded that the concordance of personal beliefs and stereotype knowledge found among very young children is not prejudice as typically conceived, but rather a function of their inability to make personal judgments that diverge from dominant stereotypes. In contrast, older children have an increasing ability to base evaluations on personal beliefs that may be inconsistent with collective societal representations of social groups. Various explanations accounting for the differentiation between personal beliefs and stereotype knowledge in older children are discussed.
Transsphenoidal Surgery for Acromegaly: Endocrinological Follow-up of 98 Patients

OBJECTIVETranssphenoidal surgery is the preferred treatment modality for growth hormone (GH)-secreting pituitary adenomas. In many series, the reported postoperative remission is based mainly on achievement of GH levels less than 2 ng/ml. Strict criteria for insulin-like growth factor I normalization and even lower GH levels (<1 ng/ml) are now suggested to define cure of acromegaly, but the evidence does not yet support such low GH levels in epidemiological follow-up. We analyzed our postoperative results in a large cohort of patients with acromegaly. METHODSNinety-eight patients harboring GH-secreting adenomas (46 microadenomas and 52 macroadenomas) underwent transsphenoidal surgery between 1990 and 1999. Ninety-one patients were operated for the first time, and 12 patients underwent reoperations because of previous surgical failure (7 had undergone surgery elsewhere previously). Biochemical remission was defined as a repeated fasting or glucose-suppressed GH level of 2 ng/ml or less, and a normal insulin-like growth factor I level. RESULTSRemission was achieved in 74% of all patients after one operation, including 84% of patients with microadenomas and 64% of patients with macroadenomas. Seventy-three percent of patients with macroadenomas 11 to 20 mm in size achieved remission, as compared with a 20% remission rate for patients with adenomas larger than 20 mm. Patients with preoperative random GH levels lower than 50 ng/ml had a better outcome (85% remission), whereas GH greater than 50 ng/ml was associated with remission in 30% of the patients. Only one of the patients (8%) with postoperative active disease who underwent a second operation achieved remission. Recurrence was rare (one patient), and all failed surgical attempts could be detected during the immediate postoperative evaluation. CONCLUSIONOn the basis of strict postoperative GH and insulin-like growth factor I criteria to define remission, our series demonstrates the efficacy of transsphenoidal surgery for acromegalic patients with microadenomas and noninvasive macroadenomas. However, patients with large adenomas (>20 mm) and preoperative GH greater than 50 ng/ml have a poor prognosis and require adjunctive medical or radiation therapy to control GH hypersecretion.
Properties of GABAA Receptors Underlying Inhibitory Synaptic Currents in Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons

Rapid applications of GABA (from 10 μm to 10 mm) to outside-out patches were used to study the role that the kinetic properties of GABAA receptors play in determining the time course of IPSCs in neocortical pyramidal neurons. Currents induced by rapid applications of brief (1 msec) pulses of GABA (1 mm) showed a biexponential decay phase that seems to involve the entry of GABAA receptors into desensitized states. This conclusion is based on the similar fast decay kinetics of the response to brief and prolonged pulses of GABA and on the correlation between the degree of paired-pulse depression and the decay rate of the currents induced by brief pulses. Under nonequilibrium conditions we found that the concentration–response curve of pyramidal GABAA receptors has an EC50 of 185 μm (GABA pulse of 1 msec). The decay time course of the patch currents in response to brief applications of GABA was insensitive to agonist concentrations at the range from 50 μm to 10 mm. Faster decay rates were observed only in response to pulses of 10 μm GABA. These data are compatible with the suggestion that briefer openings derive from a monoliganded state and that these are negligible when receptor activation is >2%. Assuming that GABA transients at neocortical synapses are fast, a several millimolar GABA concentration would be needed to saturate the postsynaptic GABAAreceptors.