Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparison between the effects of a resistance training combined with massage, PNF and static stretching on performance in non-athlete male students

The purpose of this study was to compare between the effects of a resistance training combined with massage, PNF and static stretching on performance during an 8-week training protocol in non-athlete male students. Forty healthy non-athlete male students (age 21.6 ± 3.2 years, height 173.8 ± 5.2 cm, weight 73.43 ± 2.4 kg; means ± S.D.) were randomly divided into a resistance training (RT) group (n=10), resistance training combined with a massage (RT+MAS) group (n=10), resistance training combined with a static stretching (RT+ST) group (n=10), and resistance training combined with proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching (RT+PNF) group (n=10). The resistance training program was performed 3 days, each week for 8 weeks. The resistance training consisted of 3 sets of 8 repetitions with 80% of the 1RM for triceps pushdown; bench press and lateral pull down. Also, the 8 week’s stretching program consisted of 15 different PNF and static stretches designed to stretch all of the major upper-extremity muscle. Also deep friction massage technique is used for this study. Subjects were tested for performance before and after the 8-week period. The correlated T-test was used for evaluation of programs in pretest and posttest, and the ANOVA test and the Turkey’s post hoc test were used for determining a significant distance between groups in a level of p 0.05) between groups. However, findings showed the RT+PNF group had slightly more improvements when compared the RT, RT+MAS and RT+ST groups.In sum, it can be concluded 8 weeks resistance training combined with massage and stretching (PNF and static) was found to improved muscle volume, strength, explosive power and flexibility, but no difference was found between RT, RT+ST, RT+MAS and RT+PNF groups.
Vitamin E Inhibits Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Formation in Angiotensin II–Infused Apolipoprotein E–Deficient Mice

Background—Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) in humans are associated with locally increased oxidative stress and activity of NADPH oxidase. We investigated the hypothesis that vitamin E, an antioxidant with documented efficacy in mice, can attenuate AAA formation during angiotensin II (Ang II) infusion in apolipoprotein E–deficient mice. Methods and Results—Six-month-old male apolipoprotein E–deficient mice were infused with Ang II at 1000 ng/kg per minute for 4 weeks via osmotic minipumps while consuming either a regular diet or a diet enriched with vitamin E (2 IU/g of diet). After 4 weeks, abdominal aortic weight and maximal diameter were determined, and aortic tissues were sectioned and examined using biochemical and histological techniques. Vitamin E attenuated formation of AAA, decreasing maximal aortic diameter by 24% and abdominal aortic weight by 34% (P<0.05, respectively). Importantly, animals treated with vitamin E showed a 44% reduction in the combined end point of fatal+nonfatal aortic rupture (P<0.05). Vitamin E also decreased aortic 8-isoprostane content (a marker of oxidative stress) and reduced both aortic macrophage infiltration and osteopontin expression (P<0.05, respectively). Vitamin E treatment had no significant effect on the extent of aortic root atherosclerosis, activation of matrix metalloproteinases 2 or 9, serum lipid profile, or systolic blood pressure. Conclusions—Vitamin E ameliorates AAAs and reduces the combined end point of fatal+nonfatal aortic rupture in this animal model. These findings are consistent with the concept that oxidative stress plays a pivotal role in Ang II–driven AAA formation in hyperlipidemic mice.
Racism In The Irish Experience

Ireland's unique position as the only state in the European Union to have been colonised for more than five centuries, coupled with the ambivalent experiences of Irish people within the British Empire, means that issues of 'race' in Ireland are overlaid by complex social and historical forces. This book is a unique analysis of the racialisation of Irish identities. The author examines key phases in the historical development of an Irish 'racial' consciousness, including 16th century colonisation and 19th century immigration to America and Great Britain. He then examines the legacy of this relationship, both in terms of the new migration into Ireland and relations with indigenous minorities -- travellers and Irish Jews. Garner explores the problematic links between nationalist ideologies and racism. He assesses the economic, social and political factors framing the experience of minorities in contemporary Ireland, and places these in a broader European context.
Emotional competence of mothers and psychopathology in preschool children with specific language impairment (SLI).

BACKGROUND This study aims to establish whether mothers of children with specific language impairments (SLI) have reduced emotional competence and whether individual dimensions of maternal emotional competence are related to emotional and behavioral problems in children. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The clinical sample comprised 97 preschool children (23 girls) with SLI from, while the peer sample comprised 60 (34 girls) developmentally normal preschool children. The emotional competence of mothers was evaluated using the Emotional Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ-45). Emotional and behavioral difficulties in children were assessed by mothers, speech therapists, and teachers, using Achenbach's CBCL and CTRF scales. RESULTS A lower emotional competence was found in mothers of children with specific language impairments. Mothers in clinical and peer samples differed in their ability to express emotions, while there was no statistically significant difference in their ability to recognize and manage emotions. Poor emotional regulation in mothers was linked to increased emotional reactivity, anxiety, and depressive manifestations in children with SLI, as well as to their speech comprehension. CONCLUSION Emotional expression in mothers seems to be important for psychopathology in children with SLI, and their expressive and receptive speech. Our findings suggest that, in addition to the rehabilitation of children with SLI, clinical practice should implement preventative work with parents to enhance their emotional competence.
Secure universal mobility for wireless Internet

The advent of the mobile wireless Internet has created the need for seamless and secure communication over heterogeneous access networks such as IEEE 802,11, WCDMA, cdma2000, and GPRS. An enterprise user desires to be reachable while outside one's enterprise networks and requires minimum interruption while ensuring that the signaling and data traffic is not compromised during one's movement within the enterprise and between enterprise and external networks. We describe the design, implementation and performance of a Secure Universal Mobility (SUM) architecture. It uses standard protocols, such as SIP and Mobile IP, to support mobility and uses standard virtual private network (VPN) technologies (e.g., IPsec) to support security (authentication and encryption.) It uses pre-processing and make-before-break handoff techniques to achieve seamless mobility across heterogeneous radio systems. It separates the handlings of initial mobility management and user application signaling messages from user application traffic so that VPNs can be established only when needed, thus reducing the interruptions to users.
The working credos of prison governors in Korea

Prison governors occupy a critical position in applying penal policy. Despite the importance of their role, relatively little is known about how they perceive their work and the prisoners in their care. This study focuses on their working credos in order to understand how and in which ways these affect their working practices. The study adopted a qualitative approach, gathering data through in-depth interviews with twenty-six Korean prison governors. The study aimed to construct an explanatory model of these governors' working credos and identify the characteristic features of each credo in order to understand the interrelationship between the governors' working credos and their practices. In pursuing these aims, with reference to a number of key objectives, the study first found that each governor predominantly held one of four working credos: the punishment, paramilitarist, managerialist and humanitarian credos. The typology of the working credos as Weberian ideal type was constructured by interpreting the features of the Korean prison governors. The characteristic features of each credo were identified with respect to the governors' relationships with the prisoners, staff, government and the outside community. Despite some similarities to those proposed by previous studies, the Korean governors' working credos showed a distinctive pattern of prevalence. The governors were found to have a greater tendency to hold punitive attitudes and cling to a paramilitaristic culture, and were less affected by managerialism and humanitarinanism than their counterparts in England and Wales. The formation of their working credos had been influenced by various organisational and societal factors. The country's past military regimes seem to have influenced the formation of the paramilitarist credo, and, although the evidence was not conclusive. it suggested that the governors' working credos were also influenced by various individual factors to various degrees. for example, by the governors' age. education, period of service in the prison service, and work experience at the Correctional Service Headquarters.
Demo Abstract : Cross-level Simulation in COOJA

Traditional WSN simulators are limited to simulating nodes at one single abstraction level. This makes sys tem development and evolution difficult since developers canno t use the same simulator for both high-level algorithm development and low-level development such as device-driver implement a ions. The Contiki simulator COOJA allows for cross-level simulation, a novel type of wireless sensor network simulation that enables holistic simultaneous simulation at different lev els. In COOJA one simulation can contain nodes from several differe nt abstraction levels. These are the network level, the operat ing system level, and the machine code level. We demonstrate a few different cross-level simulation scen arios using the COOJA simulator.
Isolation and characterization of a minor fimbria from Porphyromonas gingivalis

We have discovered two distinctly different fimbriae expressed by the same Porphyromonas gingivalis strain. The construction of a fimA mutant of P. gingivalis ATCC 33277 has previously been reported by N. Hamada et al. (Infect. Immun. 62:1696-1704, 1994). Expression of fimbriae on the surface of the fimA mutant and the wild-type strain, ATCC 33277, were investigated by electron microscopy. The wild-type strain produced long fimbrial structures extending from the cell surface, whereas those structures were not observed on the fimA mutant. However, short fimbrial structures were seen on the surface of the fimA mutant. The short fimbrial protein was purified from the fimA mutant by selective protein precipitation and chromatography on DEAE Sepharose CL-6B. We have found that the second fimbrial structure of P. gingivalis ATCC 33277 is distinct from the 41-kDa (43-kDa) major fimbrial protein (FimA). We provisionally call this protein minor fimbriae. The molecular mass of the minor fimbriae is 67 kDa as estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing conditions after boiling at 100 degrees C. The component shows a ladder-like pattern at 80 degrees C under nonreducing conditions, suggesting a tendency to aggregate or polymerize. In immunoblotting analysis, anti-minor fimbria serum reacted with both the 100 degrees C- and the 80 degrees C-treated minor fimbriae. The anti-minor fimbria serum also reacts with the same-molecular-size fimbrial preparation from the wild-type strain. Immunogold electron microscopy showed that the anti-minor fimbria serum bound to the minor fimbria on the cell surface of the wild-type strain. This is the first report on the identification of the minor fimbria produced by P. gingivalis. These results suggest that the minor fimbriae appearing on the fimA mutant strain are produced together with numerous long major fimbriae on the wild-type strain. Moreover, the minor fimbriae are different in size and antigenicity from the earlier-reported FimA, a major 41-kDa fimbrial component of P. gingivalis.
Combining Verbal and Nonverbal Features to Overcome the “Information Gap” in Task-Oriented Dialogue

Dialogue act modeling in task-oriented dialogue poses significant challenges. It is particularly challenging for corpora consisting of two interleaved communication streams: a dialogue stream and a task stream. In such corpora, information can be conveyed implicitly by the task stream, yielding a dialogue stream with seemingly missing information. A promising approach leverages rich resources from both the dialog and the task streams, combining verbal and non-verbal features. This paper presents work on dialogue act modeling that leverages body posture, which may be indicative of particular dialogue acts. Combining three information sources (dialogue exchanges, task context, and users' posture), three types of machine learning frameworks were compared. The results indicate that some models better preserve the structure of task-oriented dialogue than others, and that automatically recognized postural features may help to disambiguate user dialogue moves.
Uterine Neoplasia in 13 Cats

Thirteen uterine tumors were diagnosed in 13 cats and accounted for 0.29% of all feline neoplasms received during a 9.6-year period. Age at diagnosis ranged from 3 to 16 years; median 9 years. Six were Domestic Shorthair cats, and 7 were purebred cats of 5 different breeds. Eight adenocarcinomas and 1 mixed Müllerian tumor (adenosarcoma) comprised the endometrial tumors. Myometrial tumors included 3 leiomyomas and 1 leiomyosarcoma. One of the adenocarcinomas developed in the uterine stump of an ovario-hysterectomized cat; the other cats were sexually intact. Concurrent mammary adenocarcinoma was diagnosed in 1 cat with uterine adenocarcinoma and in another with uterine leiomyoma. Tumors were discovered during elective ovariohysterectomy in 2 cats, but at least 3 others had experienced reproductive problems (infertility or pyometra). Five cats presented for abdominal or pelvic masses. Endometrial adenocarcinomas were positive immunohistochemically for cytokeratins and negative for smooth muscle actin (SMA); 1 of 6 cats was positive for vimentin and 4 of 8 were positive for estrogen receptor—α (ERα). Adenosarcoma stromal cells were positive for vimentin and ERα but negative for cytokeratins and SMA. Smooth muscle tumors were positive for vimentin and SMA and negative for cytokeratins. Leiomyomas, but not the leiomyosarcomas, were positive for ERα. Adenocarcinomas in 4 cats had metastasized by the time of ovariohysterectomy. Two other cats were euthanized 5 months after ovariohysterectomy; at least one of these cats had developed an abdominal mass that was not examined histologically. Only 2 cats with endometrial adenocarcinoma had disease-free intervals longer than 5 months after surgery. Metastasis was not detected in any mesenchymal tumor; however, these cats were either euthanized on discovery of the tumor or the tumor was first detected at necropsy.
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence And Alcohol Use Among Students at Minnesota State University - Mankato

The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence And Alcohol Use Among Students at Minnesota State University Mankato Ganisher Davlyatov, M.S. Minnesota State University , Mankato, 2013 The purpose of this study was to examine the role of emotional intelligence, gender, fraternity/sorority membership, and residen ce on alcohol use among undergraduate students enrolled in spring semester, 2013 at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The relationship between emotional intelli g nce and alcohol use was studied. Moreover, the effect of gender, fraternity/sorority membership, and residence on alcohol use was determined. Participants were 390 students of Minnesota State University, Mankato. A quantitative cross-sectional online survey was cond ucted to collect data regarding students’ emotional intelligence status and alcohol use through Schutte Self Report Intentory (SSRI) for emotional intelligence (Schut te, Malouff, Hall, Haggerty, Cooper, Golden, & Dornheim, 1998), and Alcohol Use Disorder s Identification Test (AUDIT) for alcohol consumption (World Health Organization [WHO ], 2012). An inverse relationship was found between emotional intelligence and alcoho l use. Alcohol use was more common among male students. Results from the stepwi s multiple regression analysis indicated that managing own emotions, being male, a nd living off-campus were predictors of alcohol use. Emotional intelligence d idn’t vary between different genders, and fraternity/sorority membership had no effect on emotional intelligence or alcohol use. Table of
Tricyclanos: conformationally constrained nucleoside analogues with a new heterotricycle obtained from a d-ribofuranose unit.

A novel type of nucleoside analogue in which the sugar part is replaced by a new tricycle, 3,7,10-trioxa-11-azatricyclo[5.3. 1.05,11]undecane has been prepared by substrate-controlled asymmetric synthesis. 1,5-Dialdehydes obtained from properly protected or unprotected uridine, ribothymidine, cytidine, inosine, adenosine and guanosine by metaperiodate oxidation reacted readily with tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane to provide the corresponding tricyclic derivatives with three new stereogenic centers. Through a double cyclisation cascade process the tricyclic compounds were obtained in good to high yields, with very high diastereoselectivity. Formation of one stereoisomer, out of the eight possible, was observed in all cases. The absolute configuration of the new stereotriad-containing tricyclic systems was aided by conventional NMR experiments followed by chemical shift calculations using an X-ray crystal structure as reference that was in good agreement with H-H distances obtained from a new ROESY NMR method. The synthesis was compatible with silyl, trityl and dimethoxytrityl protecting groups. A new reagent mixture containing ZnCl2, Et3SiH and hexafluoroisopropanol was developed for detritylation of the acid-sensitive tricyclano nucleosides.
America: A View from Egypt

Cet article nous livre les perceptions des Egyptiens, aussi bien l'elite intellectuelle que les gens de la rue, par rapport aux Etats Unis : une superpuissance, ancienne colonie britannique (comme l'Egypte), qui a atteint sa grandeur en deux siecles. L'opinion de l'elite egyptienne tout au long du 19eme et au debut du 20eme siecle etait positive. Elle commencait a se deteriorer dans les annees 30 et devenait hostile apres 1948, lorsque les Etat Unis ont reconnu l'Etat d'Israel. Cette opinion a varie ensuite selon les administrations des presidents americains, soulevant une vague de compassion apres les attentats de 11 septembre et devenant hostile apres l'invasion de l'Iraq
Joint Pilot Allocation and Robust Beam-Vector Design for Ultra-Dense TDD C-RAN

This paper deals with the unavailability of full CSI in ultra-dense user-centric TDD C-RAN. To reduce the channel training overhead, we consider the incomplete CSI case, where only large-scale inter-cluster CSI is available. Channel estimation for intra-cluster CSI is also considered, where we formulate a joint pilot allocation and user equipment (UE) selection problem to maximize the number of admitted UEs with fixed number of pilots. A novel pilot allocation algorithm is proposed by considering the multi-UE pilot interference. Then, we consider robust beam-vector optimization problem subject to UEs' data rate requirements and fronthaul capacity constraints, where the channel estimation error and incomplete inter-cluster CSI are considered. Simulation results demonstrate its superiority over the existing algorithms.
A prospective study of plasma lipid levels and hypertension in women.

BACKGROUND Although dyslipidemia and hypertension occur together more often than can be explained by chance, few studies have carefully explored the nature of the relationship between plasma lipid levels and the risk of developing hypertension. METHODS We conducted a prospective study of 16 130 middle-aged and older female health professionals in 1992 who provided baseline blood samples and had no history of high cholesterol level (no treatment or diagnosis) or hypertension (no treatment, diagnosis, or elevated blood pressure). Plasma lipid levels were measured, and baseline risk factors were collected. Incident hypertension included a new physician diagnosis, the initiation of antihypertensive treatment, systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or greater, or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or greater. RESULTS During 10.8 years of follow-up, incident hypertension developed in 4593 women. In multivariate-adjusted models, the relative risks of development of hypertension from the lowest (referent) to the highest quintile of baseline total cholesterol level were 1.00, 0.96, 1.02, 1.09, and 1.12 (P = .002 for trend); for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, 1.00, 0.97, 1.00, 1.02, and 1.11 (P = .053 for trend); for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, 1.00, 0.93, 0.87, 0.87, and 0.81 (P < .001 for trend); for non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, 1.00, 1.06, 1.11, 1.12, and 1.25 (P < .001 for trend); and for the ratio of total to high-density cholesterol, 1.00, 1.10, 1.14, 1.20, and 1.34 (P < .001 for trend). Similar relative risks were noted for Adult Treatment Panel III clinical cut points and after the exclusion of obese or diabetic women. CONCLUSION In this large prospective cohort, atherogenic dyslipidemias were associated with the subsequent development of hypertension among healthy women.
EFFECTS OF BARYON DISSIPATION ON THE DARK MATTER VIRIAL SCALING RELATION

We investigate effects of baryon dissipation on the dark matter virial scaling relation between total mass and velocity dispersion and the velocity bias of galaxies in groups and clusters using self-consistent cosmological simulations. We show that the baryon dissipation increases the velocity dispersion of dark matter within the virial radius by ≈5%–10%. The effect is mainly driven by the change in density and gravitational potential in inner regions of cluster, and it is larger in lower mass systems where gas cooling and star formation are more efficient. We also show that the galaxy velocity bias depends on how galaxies are selected. Galaxies selected based on their stellar mass exhibit no velocity bias, while galaxies selected based on their total mass show positive bias of ≈10%, consistent with previous results based on collisionless dark matter only simulations. We further find that observational estimates of galaxy velocity dispersion are unbiased with respect to the velocity dispersion of dark matter, provided galaxies are selected using their stellar masses and their velocity dispersions are computed with more than 20 most massive galaxies. Velocity dispersions estimated with fewer galaxies, on the other hand, can lead to a significant underestimate of dynamical masses. Results presented in this paper should be useful in interpreting high-redshift groups and clusters as well as cosmological constraints derived from upcoming optical cluster surveys.