Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Overcoming the Cancer Experience: Narrative Identity in Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

Although young adult survivors of childhood cancer (YAs) face a series of significant physical and psychosocial challenges, only a portion of these survivors will actually develop mental health difficulties. Research on narrative identity and posttraumatic growth suggests that developing a coherent life-story narrative, making meaning, and finding benefits from negative life events, can contribute to better psychosocial adjustment. The aim of the present study was twofold: understanding the mechanisms that link young adults’ cancer experience with positive psychosocial adjustment outcomes (i.e., empathy, attributional style, and coping), and investigating maternal distress-related communication and young adult attachment style as predictors of narrative identity and psychosocial adjustment. One hundred and eighteen YAs completed an adapted version of McAdams’ life-story interview (2001), which was coded for meaning making and coherence. YAs could choose to talk about cancer or non-cancer-related turning points. YAs completed online questionnaires assessing posttraumatic growth, attachment style, and three measures of psychosocial adjustment. Ninetyfive mothers of YAs wrote a narrative of a past experience with their child’s cancer, and completed measures of distress-related disclosure, cancer-talk, and dispositional optimism. iii Results revealed that meaning making was higher for cancer-related than for non-cancer related turning points. Posttraumatic growth mediated the associations between cancer meaning making and both coping and empathy. Mothers’ cancer-talk frequency was related to YA cancer meaning making, and mothers’ distress-related disclosure was associated with YA posttraumatic growth. Mothers’ narrative coherence about a memory of their child’s cancer was unrelated to YA narrative coherence, but was positively related to YA negative attribution style, but only for mothers who scored low on optimism. Finally, secure attachment style was associated with YA narrative coherence about their cancer experience, and YA overall narrative coherence (cancer and non-cancer) mediated between YA secure attachment and YA empathy. These findings indicate that YA’s successful incorporation of the cancer experience into their narrative identities through meaning making and posttraumatic growth processes is linked to positive psychosocial adjustment outcomes. Also, mothers who engage in distress-related conversations with their children contribute to YA’s capacity to overcome their cancer experience. Implications for research on narrative identity development and clinical practice are
Preschool Children’s Social Play and Involvement in the Outdoor Environment

ABSTRACT Research Findings: The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between social play and involvement in the outdoor preschool environment. The study included 173 children ranging in age from 3 to 6 years (Mage = 3.95, SD = 0.82) and attending 19 preschools in the Basque Country (Spain). A total of 51 teachers (50 women, 1 man) also participated. Our results indicated that there is a relationship between social participation and involvement and that group play is the type of play that best predicts greater involvement. No significant differences in levels of involvement were found between boys and girls, although gender was found to have a moderating effect on the relationship between the type of group play and involvement. Practice or Policy: The results are discussed with reference to the need to implement innovations in the outdoor preschool environment that have a positive effect on child development. The outdoor environment should promote social participation as well as gender equality and inclusion, and consequently it should be designed to offer both access to a natural environment and multiple opportunities for play.
“To fill the emptiness”: The importance of work in life history narratives of older adults with schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses

Objective: This study’s purpose was to develop an understanding of the importance and meaning of vocational histories, present-time employment status, and vocational goals for older adults who were in treatment for schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses. Methods: The theory of cumulative adversity and advantage focused 35 semistructured interviews and 43 field observation points that developed life history narratives of seven older adults in treatment for schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses. Thematic narrative analysis was the primary analytic strategy. Results: Five shared themes within the life history narratives connected to vocational histories: “Purpose is provided by work,” “identity in work,” “perseverance toward value-based vocational goals,” “the importance of an income,” and “illness symptoms and their treatment disrupted work. ” Discussion: Findings connect to practice implications for vocational programs for persons with serious mental illnesses, suggesting that vocational services for older adults could be rehabilitative and that vocational assessments should be holistic and values oriented. Psychiatric rehabilitation programs developed specifically for older adults might benefit from the inclusion of vocational rehabilitation options that do not rule out competitive employment. Social workers must be aware of bias in the profession toward persons on the basis of age and serious mental illnesses. Conclusion: In line with current vocational rehabilitation literature, the study concludes that psychiatric rehabilitation treatment that inhibits work can have unintended negative consequences for all persons with serious mental illnesses. Those negative consequences have to potential extend into later life challenges that range from identity challenges to challenges in day-to-day survival.
Rural Development

Rural development is not a charity program and its objective is to raise the capacity of producing more crops, better crops, variety crops, greater output per unit of input and higher quality of output. It is concerned with creation of increased incentives for putting more efforts and investments for raising efficiency per worker. Therefore education, information, training, research, and application of research is within the range of rural development. The term ‘rural development’ is of focal interest and is widely acclaimed in both the developed and the developing countries of the world. There is however no universally acceptable definition of rural development and the term is used in different ways and in vastly divergent context. As a concept, it can notes overall development of rural areas with a view to improve the quality of life of rural people. In this sense it is a comprehensive and multidimensional concept and encompasses the development of agriculture and allied activities-village and cottage industries and crafts, socioeconomic infrastructure, community services and facilities, and above all, the human resources in rural areas. As a phenomenon, it is the result of interactions between various physical, technological, economic, socio-cultural, and institutional factors. As a strategy, it is designed to improve the economic and social well-being of a specific group of people the rural poor. As a discipline, it is multidisciplinary in nature representing an intersection of agriculture social behavioral, engineering and management sciences. In the words of Robert Chambers, “Rural Development is a strategy to enable a specific group of people poor rural women and men, to gain for themselves and their children more of what they want and need. It involves helping the poorest among these who seek a livelihood in the rural areas to demand and control more of the benefits of rural development. The group includes small scale farmers, tenants and
Decomposition and Carbon Dynamics of Crop Residue Mixtures in a Semiarid Long Term No-Till System: Effects on Soil Organic Carbon

Plant residues decomposition transfers organic matter and nutrients to soil, and plays a decisive role in carbon (C) cycling. The aims of our study were to analyze under realistic field conditions the annual decomposition and C dy- namics of crop residues mixtures under long-term no-till management and their effect on soil organic carbon (SOC). Three treatments were evaluated: soybean monoculture, soybean rotation (maize as preceding crop), and maize rotation (soybean as preceding crop). In each treatment soil samples and crop residue samples were collected. In crop residues samples we determined: total residue mixture biomass, soybean residue biomass, maize residue biomass, non identifiable residue biomass, total C, soluble C, insoluble fiber. In soil samples, SOC were analyzed. Decomposition rates were calcu- lated for residues mixture, soybean and maize residue before and after deposition of fresh residue. Decomposition rates of all residues analyzed showed a high variability between treatments. Total C, soluble C and insoluble fiber concentrations of the residues mixtures showed a great similarity among treatments. Contrarily, their annual dynamics differed between sampling dates in all treatments. We concluded that decomposition and C dynamics of crop residues mixtures in long- term no-till systems in the semiarid central Argentina are strongly influenced by: the interaction of the chemical quality of the residues, the proportion of the residues from different crops and/or with different decomposition degree,and the sea- sonal effect. The greater C amount in residues mixture of rotation was not reflected in SOC contents, and further studies are recommended.
Comparison of HE4, CA125, and Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Algorithm in the Prediction of Ovarian Cancer in Korean Women

This study is a multi-center clinical study, which aimed to compare CA125, HE4, and risk of ovarian malignancy algorithm (ROMA) in predicting epithelial ovarian cancer of Korean women with a pelvic mass. Prospectively, serum from 90 Korean women with ovarian mass was obtained prior to surgery. For control group, serum from 79 normal populations without ovarian mass was also obtained. The HE4 and CA125 data were registered and evaluated separately and ROMA was calculated for each sample. Total 67 benign tumors and 23 ovarian cancers were evaluated. Median serum levels of HE4 and CA125, and ROMA score were significantly higher in patients with ovarian cancer than those with benign ovarian tumor and normal population (P < 0.001). In ROC curve analysis for women with a pelvic mass, area under the curve (AUC) for HE4 and ROMA was higher than CA125. Statistical differences in each study compared to CA125 were marginal (P compared to CA125; 0.082 for HE4 and 0.069 for ROMA). Sub-analysis revealed that AUC for HE4 and ROMA was higher than AUC for CA125 in post-menopausal women with a pelvic mass, but there were no statistically significant differences (P compared to CA125; 0.160 for HE4 and 0.127 for ROMA). Our data suggested that both HE4 and ROMA score showed better performance than CA125 for the detection of ovarian cancer in women with a pelvic mass. HE4 and ROMA can be a useful independent diagnostic marker for epithelial ovarian cancer in Korean women.
Accelerating real-time embedded scene labeling with convolutional networks

Today there is a clear trend towards deploying advanced computer vision (CV) systems in a growing number of application scenarios with strong real-time and power constraints. Brain-inspired algorithms capable of achieving record-breaking results combined with embedded vision systems are the best candidate for the future of CV and video systems due to their flexibility and high accuracy in the area of image understanding. In this paper, we present an optimized convolutional network implementation suitable for real-time scene labeling on embedded platforms. We show that our algorithm can achieve up to 96GOp/s, running on the Nvidia Tegra K1 embedded SoC. We present experimental results, compare them to the state-of-the-art, and demonstrate that for scene labeling our approach achieves a 1.5x improvement in throughput when compared to a modern desktop CPU at a power budget of only 11 W.
Peer Group and Distance: When Widening University Participation is Better

We analyze the welfare effect of allowing a new university in a local area where another university is already operating. We use a two-city model in which individuals, whose education depends on the average peer ability (peer group effect), can sort across cities by facing a mobility cost. Com- paring monopoly with a two-university system we find that introducing the second university is always welfare improving. We obtain a symmetric Nash equilibrium for every mobility costs and asymmetric Nash equilibria only for sufficiently low mobility costs. In particular, in the symmetric scenario both universities have the same peer groups (lower than the peer group under monopoly) and the same number of students. The asymmetric scenario instead is such that the "top" ("bottom") university has a peer group higher (lower) than the monopolistic one. Moreover, we find that the symmetric scenario always induces the highest welfare. After checking for equilibrium refinements we find that asymmetric equilibria are never strong Nash whereas the symmetric equilibrium is strong Nash only for sufficiently high mobility costs.
The mediating role of maladaptive perfectionism in the association between psychological control and learned helplessness

Despite the extensive research on parental psychological control, no study has explored the relation between parental and teacher psychological control, maladaptive perfectionism and learned helplessness (LH). The purpose of this study was to investigate (1) whether perceived teacher psychological control predicts positively LH, (2) whether perceived parental psychological control predicts maladaptive perfectionism, and (3) whether the association between perceived parental and teacher psychological control and LH is mediated by maladaptive perfectionism. In a sample of 433 participants, 268 females (61.9%) and 165 males (38.1%), ranged in age from 13 to 19 years (M = 15.38, standard deviation (SD) = 1.18), it was found that teacher psychological control has a more relevant role in the prediction of LH than parental control. Moreover, maladaptive perfectionism was a full mediator of the relationship between perceptions of teacher psychological control and LH. These results extend previous studies on teacher psychological control and, for the first time, provide evidence for the relation with LH, identifying maladaptive perfectionism as a variable that accounts for the relation between teacher psychological control and LH.
Psychosocial safety climate buffers effects of job demands on depression and positive organizational behaviors

Abstract In a general population sample of 2343 Australian workers from a wide ranging employment demographic, we extended research testing the buffering role of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) as a macro-level resource within the health impairment process of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. Moderated structural equation modeling was used to test PSC as a moderator between emotional and psychological job demands and worker depression compared with control and social support as alternative moderators. We also tested PSC as a moderator between depression and positive organizational behaviors (POB; engagement and job satisfaction) compared with control and social support as moderators. As expected we found PSC moderated the effects of job demands on depression and further moderated the effects of depression on POB with fit to the data that was as good as control and social support as moderators. This study has shown that PSC is a macro-level resource and safety signal for workers acting to reduce demand-induced depression. We conclude that organizations need to focus on the development of a robust PSC that will operate to buffer the effects of workplace psychosocial hazards and to build environments conducive to worker psychological health and positive organizational behaviors.
The Impossibility of ‘Legal Transplants’

[A] comparative study [shjould not aim at finding ‘analogies’ and ‘parallels’, as is done by those engrossed in the currently fashionable enterprise of constructing general schemes of development. The aim should, rather, be precisely the opposite: to identify and define the individuality of each development, the characteristics which made the one conclude in a manner so different from that of the other. This done, one can then determine the causes which led to these differences. Max Weber1
A light-weight data preprocessing and integrative scheduling framework for health monitoring

The aging of population presents a severe challenge to the traditional "face-to-face" diagnosis mode. Household health monitoring systems play a more and more important role in identifying health conditions, diagnosing diseases, assisting daily lives, etc. However, most existing health monitoring systems are incomplete. They always leave out some function, e.g., data preprocessing and scheduling mechanism, which decrease the accuracy and efficiency of health services. In this paper, we propose a multi-function health monitoring system which integrates data acquisition, wireless data transmission, data storage, and data visualization. Moreover, we put forward a light-weight data preprocessing algorithm (LDPA) and an integrative scheduling mechanism (ISM) based on the amount of data and the semaphore. The LDPA can identify and eliminate abnormal data, while the ISM is able to significantly reduce the total time consuming. Experimental results based on 97 elderlies approved the high performance of LDPA in identifying abnormal breathing waves (the precision and the recall are 92.14% and 93.26% respectively) and the significant time reduction of ISM (saving 34.24% to 56.30% time overhead), compared with three other scheduling mechanisms.
Assessing, Comparing, and Combining State Machine-Based Testing and Structural Testing: A Series of Experiments

A large number of research works have addressed the importance of models in software engineering. However, the adoption of model-based techniques in software organizations is limited since these models are perceived to be expensive and not necessarily cost-effective. Focusing on model-based testing, this paper reports on a series of controlled experiments. It investigates the impact of state machine testing on fault detection in class clusters and its cost when compared with structural testing. Based on previous work showing this is a good compromise in terms of cost and effectiveness, this paper focuses on a specific state-based technique: the round-trip paths coverage criterion. Round-trip paths testing is compared to structural testing, and it is investigated whether they are complementary. Results show that even when a state machine models the behavior of the cluster under test as accurately as possible, no significant difference between the fault detection effectiveness of the two test strategies is observed, while the two test strategies are significantly more effective when combined by augmenting state machine testing with structural testing. A qualitative analysis also investigates the reasons why test techniques do not detect certain faults and how the cost of state machine testing can be brought down.
Representation in the Human Brain of Food Texture and Oral Fat

Important factors that influence food palatability are its texture and fat content. We investigated their representation in the human brain using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. It was shown that the viscosity of oral stimuli is represented in the (primary) taste cortex in the anterior insula, in which activation was proportional to the log of the viscosity of a cellulose stimulus (carboxymethyl cellulose), and was also produced by sucrose. Oral viscosity was also represented in a mid-insular region that was posterior to the taste cortex. Third, it was found that oral delivery of fatty vegetable oil activates both of these insular cortex regions, the hypothalamus, and the dorsal midanterior cingulate cortex. Fourth, it was found that the ventral anterior cingulate cortex, where it borders the medial orbitofrontal cortex, was activated by oral fat independently of its viscosity and was also activated by sucrose taste. This ventral anterior cingulate region thus represents two indicators of the energy content and palatability of foods. These are the first investigations of the oral sensory representation of food texture and fat in the human brain, and they start to reveal brain mechanisms that may be important in texture-related sensory properties of foods that make them palatable and that may accordingly play a role in the hedonic responses to foods, the control of food intake, and obesity.
STAT3 mediates resistance of CD44+CD24−/low breast cancer stem cells to tamoxifen in vitro

We sought to determine whether STAT3 mediated tamoxifen resistance of breast cancer stem cells in vitro. The capacities for mammosphere formation and STAT3 expression of CD44+CD24−/low MCF-7 and MCF-7 were observed. The CD44+CD24−/low subpopulation ratio and its sensitivity to adriamycin were analyzed in MCF-7 and TAM resistant (TAM-R) cells. Cell cycle, apoptosis, STAT3 and phospho-STAT3 changes were observed after treatment with tamoxifen. Small interference RNA-mediated knockdown of STAT3 in TAM-R cells was also performed. CD44+CD24−/low MCF-7 showed higher capacities for mammosphere formation and STAT3 expression than total MCF-7. The CD44+CD24−/low subpopulation was also upregulated in TAM-R cells with less sensitivity to adriamycin than MCF-7. Cell cycle changes, anti-apoptotic effects and STAT3 changes were also found. Meanwhile, the knock-down of STAT3 in TAM-R resulted in an increase in sensitivity to tamoxifen. It is concluded that STAT3 plays an essential role in breast cancer stem cells, which correlated with tamoxifen resistance.
Effects of Xenon on Cerebral Blood Flow and Cerebral Glucose Utilization in Rats

BackgroundThe effects of xenon inhalation on mean and local cerebral blood flow (CBF) and mean and local cerebral glucose utilization (CGU) were investigated using iodo-[14C]antipyrine and [14C]deoxyglucose autoradiography. MethodsRats were randomly assigned to the following groups: conscious controls (n = 12); 30% (n = 12) or 70% xenon (n = 12) for 45 min for the measurement of local CBF and CGU; or 70% xenon for 2 min (n = 6) or 5 min (n = 6) for the measurement of local CBF only. ResultsCompared with conscious controls, steady state inhalation of 30 or 70% xenon did not result in changes of either local or mean CBF. However, mean CBF increased by 48 and 37% after 2 and 5 min of 70% xenon short inhalation, which was entirely caused by an increased local CBF in cortical brain regions. Mean CGU determined during steady state 30 or 70% xenon inhalation remained unchanged, although local CGU decreased in 7 (30% xenon) and 18 (70% xenon) of the 40 examined brain regions. The correlation between CBF and CGU in 40 local brain structures was maintained during steady state inhalation of both 30 and 70% xenon inhalation, although at an increased slope at 70% xenon. ConclusionEffects of 70% xenon inhalation on CBF in rats are time-dependent. During steady state xenon inhalation (45 min), mean values of CBF and CGU do not differ from control values, and the relation of regional CBF to CGU is maintained, although reset at a higher level.