Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ladders of success: an empirical approach to trust

Developing, maintaining, and disseminating trust in open environments is an important problem. We propose a lattice-based representation, which captures natural relationships among service domains and provides a natural means to accommodate the accrual of trust placed in a given party. In this manner, less important services (e.g., low-value transactions) can be used as gates to more important services (e.g., high-value transactions). Importantly, our lattice-based representation can be applied in conjunction with a social approach, such as one based on referrals. We first show that, where applicable, this approach yields superior efficiency (needs fewer messages) and effectiveness (finds more providers) than a vector representation. Next, we perform a sensitivity analysis of the lattice-based representation to study trade-offs between various factors that affect the performance of the approach.
Severe graft-versus-host disease in a liver-transplant recipient.

CLINICALLY evident generalized graft-versus-host disease is not thought to occur as a consequence of transplantation of most solid organs. The requisite large inoculum of donor lymphoid cells and inability of the recipient to destroy these passenger cells1 are apparently rarely produced by solid-organ transplantation. However, there is a high risk of graft-versus-host disease when normal spleens are included in vascularized pancreas-transplants.2 3 4 5 We report on a case of severe generalized acute graft-versus-host disease in a recipient of a liver transplant, involving documented transient chimerism of donor origin. This life-threatening complication was treated successfully with increases in the corticosteroid dosage and the .
Dust Streaming in Toroidal Traps

Molecular dynamic simulations were performed to study the characteristics of particle flows in a toroidal trap driven by the ion drag under the influence of gravity, interparticle forces, and friction with a neutral gas background. This paper is focused on the influence of the driving force and the strength of friction on the dynamics of the dust flow and its different regimes. For small values of the ion drag, the particle flow exhibits instabilities with strong velocity fluctuations, while for high values of the ion drag, a quiescent particle flow is obtained. The transition from unstable flows to quiescent flows is studied in detail.
Effects of Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Conditions on Children’s Problem-solving Performance

The effects of interpersonal cooperation, competition, and individualistic efforts were compared on a categorization and retrieval, a spatial-reasoning, and a verbal problem-solving task. Forty-five first-grade children were randomly assigned to conditions stratified on the basis of sex and ability, so that an approximately equal percentage of males and females and high, medium, and low ability children were included in each condition. The results indicate that on all three tasks students in the cooperative condition achieved higher than did those in the individualistic condition, and on two of the three tasks students in the cooperative condition achieved higher than did those in the competitive condition. There were no significant differences between the competitive and individualistic condition. Students in the cooperative condition used higher quality strategies on the three tasks than did those in the other two conditions, and they perceived higher levels of peer support and encouragement for learning. High ability students in the cooperative condition generally achieved higher than did the high ability students in the competitive and individualistic conditions.
[Dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs and anxiety, depression and self-esteem among healthy subjects with hallucinatory-like experiences].

AIM This study focuses on the relationship between dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs, depression, anxiety and self-esteem and hallucinatory-like experiences among healthy subjects. METHODS 198 participants (149 women), mostly recruited from universities, took part in the study. Hallucinatory-like experiences were assessed with the Polish version of the Revised Hallucinations Scale (RHS). Based on two sub-scales of RHS that measure visual and auditory hallucinatory-like experiences, two groups were divided: 1--participants with no auditory and visual hallucinatory-like experiences (n = 35) and 2--participants with high frequent hallucinatory-like experiences (n = 40). Meta-cognitive beliefs were assessed with the Metacognitions Questionnaire. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (R-SES) were used for emotional processes assessment. Further correlations between meta-cognitive beliefs, hallucinatory-like experiences and emotional processes were calculated. RESULTS Persons with frequent hallucinatory-like experiences tend to exhibit higher dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs in comparison to those who had no psychotic-like experiences. Moreover, those who had more frequent hallucinatory-like experiences revealed subclinical depression, were more anxious and exhibit lower level of self-esteem. Besides a total score in the RHS scale, dissociative experiences and auditory and visual perceptual alternations were found to be related to more dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs. CONCLUSIONS Hallucinatory-like experiences among healthy subjects are related to dysfunctional meta-cognitive beliefs. In addition, hallucination-like experiences were found to be linked to emotional dysfunctions, which implies that psychotic-like experiences observed in healthy persons may be of clinical interest.
Pour qui et à qui ce parc ? Gentrification et appropriation de l’espace public dans l’arrondissement du Sud-Ouest de Montréal (Canada)

Cet article presente les resultats d’une etude exploratoire dans l’arrondissement du Sud-Ouest a Montreal, relative aux effets de la revitalisation des espaces publics sur les transformations physiques et sociales des quartiers avoisinants. Meme si l’insertion de nouveaux logements luxueux dans le tissu existant peut paraitre statistiquement marginale, les residants traditionnels ont ete et sont temoins de transformations de leur milieu de vie. Ces transformations ont un impact sur leur territoire quotidien. Les resultats de nos enquetes basees sur une approche methodologique mixte indiquent une (re)definition du territoire du chez-soi, excluant le parc du canal de Lachine, parmi les residants traditionnels du secteur.
Strange baryon resonance production in {radical}{ovr s}{sub NN} = 200 GeV p+p and Au+Au collisions.

We report the measurements of {Sigma}(1385) and {Lambda}(1520) production in p+p and Au+Au collisions at {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV from the STAR Collaboration. The yields and the p{sub T} spectra are presented and discussed in terms of chemical and thermal freeze-out conditions and compared to model predictions. Thermal and microscopic models do not adequately describe the yields of all the resonances produced in central Au+Au collisions. Our results indicate that there may be a time span between chemical and thermal freeze-out during which elastic hadronic interactions occur.
Impact of Perception: Third-Person Perception, Anxiety, and Attitude Change

This study investigates (a) how the third-person perception of news coverage is affected by the perceiver's preexisting attitude and the content of the news coverage and (b) how anxiety mediates the relationship between the third-person perception and attitude change. A Web-based experiment was conducted with a 2 (message position: prorestriction vs. antirestriction) × 2 (subject position: prorestriction vs. antirestriction) factorial design with message position and subject position as between-subjects factors. The findings demonstrate that those who read a news article that is inconsistent with their own opinion show a larger third-person perception than those who read a news article that is consistent with their opinion, and the third-person perception has an indirect effect on attitude change through anxiety.
MicroRNA-301a-3p promotes pancreatic cancer progression via negative regulation of SMAD4

Background Aim to determine the clinicopathological and prognostic role of miR-301a-3p in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma(PDAC), to investigate the biological mechanism of miR-301a-3p in vitro and in vivo. Methods By tissue microarray analysis, we studied miR-301a-3p expression in PDAC patients and its clinicopathological correlations as well as prognostic significance. qRT-PCR was used to test miR-301a-3p expression in PDAC tissues and cell lines. Functional experiments including in vitro and in vivo were performed. Results Significantly higher expression of miR-301a-3p were found in PDAC patients with lymph node metastasis and advanced pathological stages and identified as an independent prognostic factor for worse survival. In PDAC samples and cell lines, miR-301a-3p was significantly up-regulated compared with matched non-tumor tissues and normal pancreatic ductal cells, respectively. Overexpression of miR-301a-3p enhanced PDAC cells colony, invasion and migration abilities in vitro as well as tumorigenicity in vivo. Furthermore, SMAD4 was identified as a target gene of miR-301a-3p by cell as well as mice xenograft experiments. In PDAC tissue microarray, a significantly inverse correlation between miR-301a-3p ISH scores and SMAD4 IHC scores were observed in both tumor and corresponding non-tumor tissues. Conclusion MiR-301a-3p functions as a novel oncogene in PDAC and the oncogenic activity may involve its inhibition of the target gene SMAD4.
Psychosocial treatments for cocaine dependence: National Institute on Drug Abuse Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study.

BACKGROUND This was a multicenter investigation examining the efficacy of 4 psychosocial treatments for cocaine-dependent patients. METHODS Four hundred eighty-seven patients were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 manual-guided treatments: individual drug counseling plus group drug counseling (GDC), cognitive therapy plus GDC, supportive-expressive therapy plus GDC, or GDC alone. Treatment was intensive, including 36 possible individual sessions and 24 group sessions for 6 months. Patients were assessed monthly during active treatment and at 9 and 12 months after baseline. Primary outcome measures were the Addiction Severity Index-Drug Use Composite score and the number of days of cocaine use in the past month. RESULTS Compared with the 2 psychotherapies and with GDC alone, individual drug counseling plus GDC showed the greatest improvement on the Addiction Severity Index-Drug Use Composite score. Individual group counseling plus GDC was also superior to the 2 psychotherapies on the number of days of cocaine use in the past month. Hypotheses regarding the superiority of psychotherapy to GDC for patients with greater psychiatric severity and the superiority of cognitive therapy plus GDC compared with supportive-expressive therapy plus GDC for patients with antisocial personality traits or external coping style were not confirmed. CONCLUSION Compared with professional psychotherapy, a manual-guided combination of intensive individual drug counseling and GDC has promise for the treatment of cocaine dependence.
Drawing self and others: How do children with autism differ from those with learning difficulties?

When children draw pictures of human beings, they reveal things not only about their general intellectual and artistic abilities, but also about their awareness and conception of themselves and others. What might the human figure drawings of children with autism reveal about their images of self and other - and what might they disclose about social factors that shape the drawings of children who do not have autism? On the basis of an hypothesis about the restricted social awareness of children and adolescents with autism, we predicted that there would be little differentiation between their drawings of themselves and other people. To test this prediction, we investigated a group of children and adolescents with autism and a group with learning difficulties but not autism (N = 14 per group) who were individually matched for both chronological age and verbal mental age. Participants with autism mostly drew human figures that were little distinguished from one another, but introduced clear contrasts among their houses, whereas most of those with learning difficulties drew distinctive human figures as well as houses. These different profiles of performance occurred despite similarities in the numbers and kinds of feature included in the drawings, and the individuality of participants' drawing styles. Although the results were in keeping with our hypothesis that human figure drawings might reflect abnormalities in the way that children with autism mentally represent themselves and others, we conclude by stressing our tentativeness over this interpretation of the findings.
How the online social networks are used: dialogues-based structure of MySpace

Quantitative study of collective dynamics in online social networks is a new challenge based on the abundance of empirical data. Conclusions, however, may depend on factors such as user's psychology profiles and their reasons to use the online contacts. In this study, we have compiled and analysed two datasets from MySpace. The data contain networked dialogues occurring within a specified time depth, high temporal resolution and texts of messages, in which the emotion valence is assessed by using the SentiStrength classifier. Performing a comprehensive analysis, we obtain three groups of results: dynamic topology of the dialogues-based networks have a characteristic structure with Zipf's distribution of communities, low link reciprocity and disassortative correlations. Overlaps supporting ‘weak-ties’ hypothesis are found to follow the laws recently conjectured for online games. Long-range temporal correlations and persistent fluctuations occur in the time series of messages carrying positive (negative) emotion; patterns of user communications have dominant positive emotion (attractiveness) and strong impact of circadian cycles and interactivity times longer than 1 day. Taken together, these results give a new insight into the functioning of online social networks and unveil the importance of the amount of information and emotion that is communicated along the social links. All data used in this study are fully anonymized.
VARIABLES INFLUENCING THE IN VITRO SUSCEPTIBILITIES OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUSES TO ANTIVIRAL DRUGS

Variables of a microtiter tissue culture method for estimating antiviral susceptibility of herpes simplex viruses (HSV) were studied. Six drugs (5-iodo-2'deoxyuridine, cytosine arabinoside, 9-B-arabinofuranosyladenine, isoprinosine, virazole and 2-deoxy-D-glucose), 3 tissue culture cell lines (primary rabbit kidney, WI-38 and rat brain), 4 inocula (10, 100, 1000 and 2000 TCD50) and 11 HSV isolates were studied. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was defined as complete inhibition of cytopathogenic effect after 72 hours of incubation. There was a direct relationship between viral inocula and MIC. There were also differences between the three tissue culture cell lines and among the strains of HSV; this was independent of type. Cytosine arabinoside was the most active drug with IUDR and ara-A next; no significant cytotoxicity was encountered with these drugs. Isoprinosine, virazole and 2-deoxy-D-glucose were not effective against any of the 11 strains of HSV tested in this in vitro system; a comparison with previous studies indicate that activity may be cell-dependent. These results emphasize the importance of careful evaluation of in vitro test methods for susceptibility testing of antiviral agents against HSV.
Making musical sense: the multimodal nature of clarifying musical listening

The present study concerns the multimodal nature of music education. How children (aged 4–8 years) respond when faced with the challenge of talking about what they hear in pieces of music is studied. The semiotic tools children and their teachers use in these situations and how they transduce between modalities (verbal, sound, colours and gestures) are analysed. Paradoxically, this analytical focus on multimodality results in an emphasis on the importance of verbal language in the learning situations studied. Some implications for music education are discussed.
Mental health and employment: An overview of patterns and policies across Western Europe

Background: The relationship between mental health problems and employment is receiving growing attention across Europe as the cost of lost productivity is appreciated. Aims: This paper reports on the preliminary collection of data on employment of people with mental health problems and related economic issues in 17 countries participating in the Mental Health Economics European Network (MHEEN). Method: A questionnaire was developed with the Network partners and statistical and narrative data collected. These local and national level data were examined for patterns and trends. Results: Across Europe, the impact of mental health problems on lost productivity is substantial and growing. A range of policies have been developed to address this challenge, covering the spectrum of issues from workplace interventions promoting positive mental health to anti-discrimination laws to enable participation in the workforce. Conclusions: While much is being done, data and information on best practice across Europe are scarce. There is a need to share and collect this information to facilitate the sharing of best practice in Europe. Declaration of interest: The Mental Health Economics European Network Phase I was supported by a grant (SPC.2002397) from the European Commission, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate. There are no conflicts of interest.
Consumer Valuation of National Ads

b The question whether advertisements are informative or merely persuasive has been with us a long time; it was discussed by Alfred Marshall in 1919.1 Whether advertising is a n economic waste is another longstanding question, related t o the first. Since information ofsome kind is needed in the market, advertisements which truthfully provide needed information, if they are not published or broadcast in excessive amounts, are not a waste. (We will ignore, here, the important question whether the needed information could be provided, a t a smaller cost in resources, by a n alternative means such as consumer reporting.) On the other hand, advertisements which provide little or no information, or which are excessive in amount, are a social waste, even if profitable for the advertiser. That these questions have yet to be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction is due in part to a confounding of the discussion by the participants’ frequent failure to distinguish between retail and national (and in some cases, even classified) advertisements, generalizing from one to the other as if they were all the same. Such generalizations are usually misleading. It should be noted, as well, that not all national advertisements are even intended t o inform consumers. Schultze has
Where You Live May Make You Old: The Association between Perceived Poor Neighborhood Quality and Leukocyte Telomere Length

Background Strong evidence supports that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods has direct unfavorable impact on mental and physical health. However, whether it also has direct impact on cellular health is largely unknown. Thus we examined whether neighborhood quality was associated with leukocyte telomere length, an indicator of cellular aging. Methods In May 2014, we extracted and analyzed baseline data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA), a large epidemiological study of individuals age between 18–65 years (n=2902). Telomere length was determined using quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Neighborhood quality was assessed using modified measures of perceived neighborhood disorder, fear of crime, and noise. We used multivariable linear regression models to examine association between perceived neighborhood quality and telomere length with comprehensive adjustment for individual and community characteristics related to socioeconomic and demographic status, urbanization level, mental and physical health, and lifestyle. Results Compared to individuals who reported good neighborhood quality, the mean telomere length of those who reported moderate neighborhood quality was approximately 69 base pair shorter (β =-69.33, 95% CI: -119.49, -19.17, p= 0.007), and that of those who reported poor neighborhood quality were 174 base pair shorter (β =-173.80, 95% CI: -298.80, -49.01, p=0.006). For illustrative purposes, one could extrapolate these outcomes to 8.7 and 11.9 years in chronological age, respectively. Conclusion We have established an association between perceived neighborhood quality and cellular aging over and above a range of individual attributes. Biological aging processes may be impacted by socioeconomic milieu.
Interim Testing, Socio-Economic Status, and the Odds of Passing Grade 8 State Tests in New Jersey

Abstract A review of the literature pertaining to the effect and influence of commercially-prepared interim assessments in mathematics and language arts literacy reveals a lack of quantitative data to determine the value of these products for school reform. This study examined the ability of commercially-prepared interim pretest and posttest assessments in language arts literacy (LAL) and math to predict student achievement on the state-mandated summative assessment in those subjects. Analyses were conducted using binary logistic regression models. Data for this study included results from the state-mandated grade 8 assessments (NJ ASK 8) for 291 eighth grade students enrolled in two middle level schools located in a suburban/urban central New Jersey community during the 2009–2010 academic school year. The findings suggest that the predictive value of the students’ pretest results is very similar to that of the posttest results and call into question the efficacy of implementing both interim pretests and posttests.