Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ethnic Variation in Emotion Regulation

Emotion regulation (ER) via cognitive reappraisal has been shown to be superior to the use of expressive suppression regarding several aspects of mental well-being. However, a cultural perspective suggests that the consequences of emotional suppression may be moderated by cultural values. In order to examine whether this also applies to clinical samples, we investigated healthy and depressed German women and healthy and depressed Turkish immigrants living in Germany. Groups were compared in terms of frequency of ER strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and with which different aspects of mental well-being the same are associated. Healthy Turkish immigrants exhibited a greater ER balance (frequent use of suppression plus frequent use of reappraisal), which was associated with more positive outcomes of expressive suppression in Turkish than in German women. None of these differences were found in patient samples, both of which showed a greater use of emotional suppression than cognitive reappraisal. Results suggest that the cultural moderation of the link between emotional suppression and well-being is associated with a greater ER balance in healthy Turkish individuals. Depressed Turkish patients may not profit from suppression due to their more rigid use of it.
In Vivo Antihyperglycemic Activity of a Lanosteryl Triterpene from Protorhus longifolia

Control of postprandial hyperglycemia is crucial in the management of diabetes mellitus. Despite the use of the current hypoglycemic drugs, incidence of diabetes and related diseases continue to increase. This study aimed at evaluating the in vivo antihyperglycemic activity of methyl-3β-hydroxylanosta-9,24-dien-21-oate (RA-3), a lanosteryl triterpene isolated, and characterized from Protorhus longifolia stem bark. Spectroscopic data analysis was used to establish and verify the structure of the triterpene. The antihyperglycemic activity of the triterpene was evaluated in an STZ-induced diabetes rat model. The experimental animals were orally administered with RA-3 (100 mg/kg body weight) daily for 14 days. An oral glucose tolerance test was also performed. The animals were euthanized and biochemical analysis of antioxidant status, some glycolytic enzymes and glycogen content were conducted on serum and liver samples, respectively. RA-3 exhibited hypoglycemic activity by reducing blood glucose levels by 37%. The triterpene also improved glucose tolerance in the diabetic rats. Relatively higher hepatic glycogen content, hexokinase and glucokinase activity with a decrease in glucose-6-phosphatase activity were observed in the triterpene-treated diabetic group when compared with the diabetic control group. The triterpene treatment further increased antioxidant status of the diabetic animals; increased activity of superoxide dismutase and catalase were observed along with a decrease in malondialdehyde content. The results indicate potential pharmaceutical effects of lanosteryl triterpene in the management of diabetes mellitus.
Evaluating the Response of Patients Undergoing Both Allergy Skin Testing and in Vitro Allergy Testing With the ImmunoCAP Technology System

PURPOSE To evaluate the response of patients who underwent both skin and in vitro allergy testing, both of which are accepted methods. DATA SOURCES Retrospective review of the case notes of 100 patients evaluated by both testing methods for allergic disease. CONCLUSIONS A total of 62 patients (62%) tested positive to at least one of the tested allergens via the in vitro method. A total of 65 patients (65%) tested positive to at least one allergen via the skin-testing method. The most frequently elicited allergic response from the in vitro method was to white oak. Indoor mold and dust most frequently elicited response via skin testing. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE Both in vitro and in vivo allergy testing have limitations. Practitioners should be aware of these when establishing a treatment plan based on the results of differing allergy testing methods. Due to differing responses to skin and in vitro testing methods, it may be prudent to perform both tests to obtain a definitive diagnosis for the allergic patient.
Housing First Impact on Costs and Associated Cost Offsets: A Review of the Literature

Objective: Housing First (HF) programs for people who are chronically or episodically homeless, combining rapid access to permanent housing with community-based, integrated treatment, rehabilitation and support services, are rapidly expanding in North America and Europe. Overall costs of services use by homeless people can be considerable, suggesting the potential for significant cost offsets with HF programs. Our purpose was to provide an updated literature review, from 2007 to the present, focusing specifically on the cost offsets of HF programs. Method: A systematic review was performed on MEDLINE and PsycINFO as well as Google and the Homeless Hub for grey literature. Study characteristics and key findings were extracted from identified studies. Where available, impact on service cost associated with HF (increase or decrease) and net impact on overall costs, taking into account the cost of HF intervention, were noted. Results: Twelve published studies (4 randomized studies and 8 quasi-experimental) and 22 unpublished studies were retained. Shelter and emergency department costs decreased with HF, while impacts on hospitalization and justice costs are more ambiguous. Studies using a pre–post design reported a net decrease in overall costs with HF. In contrast, experimental studies reported a net increase in overall costs with HF. Conclusions: While our review casts doubt on whether HF programs can be expected to pay for themselves, the certainty of significant cost offsets, combined with their benefits for participants, means that they represent a more efficient allocation of resources than traditional services.
Low-complexity spectrum shaping for OFDM-based cognitive radios

Cognitive radio (CR) technology provides great flexibility in spectrum utilization with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) as its candidate transmission technique. In this paper, we propose a simple spectrum shaping scheme for OFDM-based CRs to enhance spectral compactness and ensure bandwidth efficiency. By mapping antipodal symbol pairs onto adjacent subcarriers at the edges of the utilized spectrum band, our scheme enables fast power spectral sidelobe decaying without bringing much extra complexity to the transmitter or receiver. Sidelobe suppression and system throughput can be well balanced by adjusting the coding rate while power control on different sets of subcarriers will further deepen the sidelobes. The proposed scheme is also validated by our simulation.
Nuisance caused by aircraft noise in the vicinity of Tehran International Airport

Noise measurement and social questionnaire surveys in three residential areas around Mehrabad International Airport (Tehran, Iran) were based upon randomly selected dwellings in each area. A total of 193 individuals responded and many are annoyed and dissatisfied with aircraft noise and in consequence they would like to move. Aircraft noise is the strongest negative environmental factor affecting the residents in the vicinity of Mehrabad Airport and it could be a hazard for their health.
Crossed cerebro–cerebellar language dominance

In addition to its traditional role in motor control, the cerebellum has been implicated in various cognitive and linguistic functions. Lesion, anatomic, and functional imaging studies indicate a link between left frontal language regions and the right cerebellum. To probe the specificity of this circuit, we examined the association between language‐related lateralized activation of the frontal cortex with lateralized activation of the cerebellum. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was carried out during letter‐cued word generation in 14 healthy subjects: 7 subjects displayed typical left‐hemisphere and 7 subjects displayed atypical right‐hemisphere language dominance. We found activation of the cerebellar hemisphere contralateral to the language‐dominant cerebral hemisphere in each subject. The cerebellar activation was confined to the lateral posterior cerebellar hemisphere (lobule VI, VII B, Cr I, Cr II). This study demonstrates that crossed cerebral and cerebellar language dominance is a typical characteristic of brain organization. The functional significance of the reported activations can now be tested in patients with lesions of the lateral posterior cerebellum. Hum. Brain Mapp 24:165–172, 2005. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Inflammatory markers as selection criteria of hepatocellular carcinoma in living-donor liver transplantation.

AIM To investigate that inflammatory markers can predict accurately the prognosis of hepatocelluar carcinoma (HCC) patients in living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). METHODS From October 2000 to November 2011, 224 patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation for HCC at our institution were enrolled in this study. We analyzed disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) after LT in patients with HCC and designed a new score model using pretransplant neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and C-reactive protein (CRP). RESULTS The DFS and OS in patients with an NLR level ≥ 6.0 or CRP level ≥ 1.0 were significantly worse than those of patients with an NLR level < 6.0 or CRP level < 1.0 (P = 0.049, P = 0.003 for NLR and P = 0.010, P < 0.001 for CRP, respectively). Using a new score model using the pretransplant NLR and CRP, we can differentiate HCC patients beyond the Milan criteria with a good prognosis from those with a poor prognosis. CONCLUSION Combined with the Milan criteria, new score model using NLR and CRP represent new selection criteria for LDLT candidates with HCC, especially beyond the Milan criteria.
Emotional intelligence as a predictor of marital adjustment to infertility

The purpose of the present research was to investigate whether emotional intelligence predicts marital adjustment in fertile and infertile women. A positive relation between the two variables was hypothesized. The study sample consisted of 120 fertile and 120 diagnosed infertile women; with the pre-requisite condition that minimum duration of marital relation without children should be two years. The age range of participants was 20 to 40 years. Marital Adjustment Questionnaire (Kausar, & Khalid, 2003) was used to assess marital adjustment of the two groups. Whereas, emotional intelligence of the participants was assessed with Schutte’s (1990) Emotional Intelligence Scale and was translated into Urdu. The results of the study revealed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and marital adjustment in both groups. The comparison of two groups showed that fertile women’s marital adjustment was better than infertile women. Results also suggested emotional intelligence as predictor of marital adjustment.
Histological Features of Carotid Plaque in Patients With Ocular Ischemia Versus Cerebral Events

Background and Purpose— Patients with carotid artery stenosis and ocular ischemic events have a much lower risk of future ipsilateral ischemic stroke on medical treatment and lower procedural risks for endarterectomy and stenting than patients with cerebral ischemic events, and are closer in risk to patients with asymptomatic stenosis. The reasons for this difference in prognosis are not fully understood, but may reflect differences in carotid plaque pathology. Methods— In consecutive patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy for recently symptomatic stenosis (Oxford Plaque Study, Athero-Express Study), we compared carotid plaque histology (using validated semiquantitative scales) in those who had cerebral events within the last 6 months (n=1317) versus those with ocular events only (n=323). Results— Compared with plaques from patients with ocular events only, those from patients with cerebral events had significantly more large lipid core (odds ratio [OR], 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.05–1.82; P=0.02), inflammation (OR, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.02–1.72; P=0.04) and overall plaque instability (OR, 1.37; 95% CI, 1.05–1.80; P=0.02), and less fibrous content (OR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.54–0.92; P=0.01), and calcification (OR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.54–0.91; P=0.008). The overall number of histological features known to be associated with vulnerable plaque was greater in patients with cerebral events than in those with ocular events (P=0.002). Conclusions— Carotid plaques from patients undergoing endarterectomy for previous ocular ischemic events have fewer vulnerable plaque features than those from patients with recent cerebral ischemic events, possibly explaining some of the differences in risk of stroke between these groups.
Working women positioning themselves in the leader‐follower relationship as a result of pregnancy

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify how pregnant women position themselves in the relationship with their immediate leader as a result of their pregnancy. Secondly, this study explores what kind of discourses pregnant followers' produce and use when they represent the reasons why the relationship with their leader developed the way it did during their pregnancy.Design/methodology/approach – In total, 40 interviews were carried out among 20 working women, adopting a discursive approach in data analysis while focusing on their representations about their periods of pregnancy both during and after the experience.Findings – Women positioned themselves as “accepted” or “dismissed” in the relationship with their leader due to their pregnancy. The study identifies three different discourses relating to the positioning, namely “similarity”, “expectations”, and “rooting deeper”. Originality/value – There is a lack of research exploring the explanations behind the nature of leader‐follower relationshi.
Chronotropic Responses of Chick Atria to Field Stimulation After Various Neural Crest Ablations

Three models of altered autonomic innervation of the chick heart have been developed in the last few years. These include sympathetically aneural heart, para sympathetically aneural heart, and heart with cholinergic innervation reconstituted from the nodose placodes. The neural status of these hearts has been assessed by a variety of morphological and biochemical methods, but the functional status of innervation is not known. In the present study, we have used electrocardiography and field stimulation to determine the functional neural status of the three different innervation models. The RR and QTCc intervals were measured to assess the dominant autonomic tone and autonomic dysfunction in the heart. Even though the RR and QTCc intervals were found to be identical in sham and experimental embryos, field stimulation of superfused atria showed that the sympathetically aneural heart has functional cholinergic innervation but lacks any sympathetic response. Hearts from embryos which were parasympathetically ancural lacked a cholinergic response to field stimulation and were judged to be functionally parasympathetically aneural. Hearts with cholinergic ganglia reconstituted from the nodose placodes have normal RR and QTCc intervals as well as a normal cholinergic response to field stimulation. The results indicate that these neurons are functionally indistinguishable from neural crest-derived neurons.
Unraveling the Relationship Between Family-Supportive Supervisor and Employee Performance

This study examined the role of job satisfaction, relational identification with supervisor, and work-family conflict in explaining the influence of family-friendly supervision (FFS) on supervisor-rated citizenship behavior and task performance using data from a Chinese pharmaceutical company. Hierarchical regression analysis results revealed that job satisfaction mediated the relationship between FFS and supervisor-rated citizenship behavior, whereas relational identification with supervisor mediated the relationship between FFS and supervisor-rated task performance. We also found that work-family conflict moderates the relationship between FFS and job satisfaction. We discuss implications of these findings for theory and practice.
O Efeito do Grau de Internacionalização nas Competências Internacionais e no Desempenho Financeiro da PME Brasileira

The aim of this work is to identify the relationship between the Degree of Internationalization (DOI) of Small and Medium size Brazilian Companies (SME) and both financial performance and the development of international competencies. The increase in DOI, mediated by the development of abilities to deal with the international market (Knight & Kim, 2009) ensures international competencies that can differentiate SMEs with high DOI from those that operate locally (Penrose, 1959; Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997). By means of a survey applied to 114 companies with up to 200 employees (Ministerio do Desenvolvimento da Industria e do Comercio Exterior [MDIC], 2010), this research tested the hypothesis where an increase in DOI involves the development of international competencies and improves financial performance. Due to the complex nature of the constructs used in this study, the presence of errors, and the need to identify multiple relationships simultaneously, we used the structural equation modeling (SEM) statistical technique. The results indicate that with an increase in the degree of internationalization, the SMC develops its international competencies and, therefore, has better performance. The relationship, in the mediation of the development of new competencies, between the increase in DOI and organizational financial performance explores a new approach in international business, particularly for SMCs.
DEAD-SET AGAINST IT? THOUGHTS OF DEATH CAN PROMOTE RESISTANCE TO ATTITUDE CHANGE

Terror Management Theory (TMT) argues that people experience an underlying sense of ‘terror’ when presented with their own mortality, causing them to more strongly defend their ideals (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 2000). Although much support exists for this idea, prior research has not specifically investigated whether mortality reminders will enhance individuals’ resistance to persuasive attempts that are counter to their existing attitudes. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine how reminders of individuals’ mortality affect participants’ attitudes towards persuasive messages that were proor counter-attitudinal. In the presented study, participants’ mortality was or was not made salient. Next, participants read a proor counter-attitudinal essay regarding a tuition plan that was supported by strong or weak arguments, after which message attitudes were assessed. Results indicated that participants formed more favorable attitudes after reading pro-attitudinal essays and less favorable attitudes after reading counter-attitudinal essays. This effect was particularly pronounced in the mortality salience condition. These results are consistent with TMT in that reminders of mortality lead individuals to resist (i.e., form more unfavorable attitudes) counter-attitudinal persuasive appeals.
Paired-Comparisons Intransitivity Related to Age of Subjects

A stratified random sample of 82 subjects, 4 to 25 years of age, was used to examine relationships between intransitivity of paired-comparison responses and age of subjects. Intransitivity scores of early childhood subjects (4-7 years) were significantly higher than those of the middle childhood group (p < .05), adolescents (p < .001), and young adults (p < .01). Comparisons between other group means were not significant. It was concluded that there is a floor level (6-7 years) below which response intransitivity increases significantly. Above the floor level, intransitivity appears to generalize across age groups. Alternative hypotheses based on a cognitive-developmental theory and a content-specific perspective are given as possible explanations for results.
Can we do better than frequency ? A case study on extracting PP-verb collocations

We argue that lexical association measures (AMs) should be evaluated against a reference set of collocations manually extracted from the full candidate data, and that the notion of collocation needs to be precisely defined so that human collocativity judgments and experimental results are reproducible. We show that identification results achieved by particular AMs do not crucially depend on text type, but that some AMs are much better suited for identifying some classes of collocations than others.
Measuring body fatness in children and young adults: comparison of bioelectric impedance analysis, total body electrical conductivity, and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.

OBJECTIVE To determine the level of agreement for body fatness measurements among four body composition measurement techniques. SUBJECTS 99 healthy children and young adults (63 males, 36 females; ages: 5-22 y) MEASUREMENT Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS), total body electrical conductivity (TOBEC), and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measurements of body fat mass, and its percentage of body weight (% Fat). RESULTS Estimates for body fat mass and % Fat were highly correlated (r = 0.72-0.97, P < 0.001) among the four methods. However, a Bland-Altman comparison among the estimates indicated significant differences between methods. The mean differences between methods for body fat ranged from -0.30 +/- 6.7 kg to 4.2 +/- 2.7 kg. Differences for % Fat ranged from 0.8% +/- 3.5% to -9.9% +/- 5.2%. Fatness classification of an individual as normal, overweight, or obese on the basis of his/her % Fat was significantly method dependent. CONCLUSIONS The lack of interchangeability for fatness classification makes it difficult to ensure that similar groups of subjects can be accurately selected for the same true fat content or % Fat range when different methods are used. Furthermore, this limitation may restrict comparison of findings among different studies, such as in weight reduction, exercise, or therapy programs, when the subjects were not originally classified using the same measurement methods. That is, the reported values and changes for body fat or % Fat appear to be highly method dependent.
Teaching Introduction to American Government/Politics: What We Learn from the Visual Images in Textbooks

Political science students learn the fundamental principles and values about the American political system from American government/politics textbooks. Most of the major textbooks used in these courses utilize the traditional institutional and behavioral approaches to the study of American government and politics, which examines institutions and processes from a hegemonic perspective with emphasis being placed on the political actors who dominate these institutions. As a result, the struggles of nondominant groups are not treated as integral in American historical development or political experience. Situated in a literature review of similar studies, we use content analysis to examine visualizations of African Americans in 27 circulating introductory American Government/Politics textbooks to ascertain whether these illustrations reinforce or argue against traditional, hegemonic coverage of politics. To test our hypotheses, we sampled 27 circulating introductory American Government/Politics textbooks published from 2004 to 2007. Our findings support previous studies to indicate continued hegemonic coverage of politics, but with lessening concentration.