Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Missing family: the adult child’s experience of parental estrangement

This qualitative study examined the experiences of 25 adult children who initiated or maintained estrangement from one or both parents. Participants often stated that they initiated or maintained estrangement to provide relief and space to heal from a difficult relationship, but it was also experienced as a considerable loss that impacted them across the lifespan. They missed having a family and the benefits of such a relationship, including emotional, financial and physical support. However, the majority stated that they did not miss ‘their own family’ or the person they were estranged from, often taking active measures to keep the estrangement status intact. Estrangement also appeared to affect participant’s experiences of other relationships with non-estranged family members, work colleagues, and potential partners and friends. These findings suggest social work practice that is focused on understanding and addressing grief reactions, a critical examination of family, stress reduction, and reconnection to safe and trusting relationships.
Ieee Transactions on Mobile Computing 1 a Compressive Sensing Approach to Urban Traffic Estimation with Probe Vehicles

—Traffic estimation is crucial to a number of tasks such as traffic management and road engineering. We propose an approach for metropolitan-scale traffic estimation with probe vehicles that periodically send location and speed updates to a monitoring center. In our approach, we use the flow speed on a road link within a time slot to indicate the traffic condition of the road segment at the given time slot, which is approximated by the average value of probe speeds. By analyzing a large da-taset of two-year probe data collected from a fleet of around 4,000 taxis in Shanghai, China, we find that a set of probe data may contain a lot of spatiotemporal vacancies over both time and space. This raises a serious missing data problem for road traffic estimation, which results from the naturally uneven distribution of probe vehicles over both time and space. Through empirical study based on the dataset of real probe data using principal component analysis (PCA), we have observed that there are hidden structures within the traffic conditions of a road network. Inspired by this observation, we propose a com-pressive sensing based algorithm for solving the missing data problem, which exploits the hidden structures for computing estimates for road traffic conditions. Different from existing approaches, our algorithm does not rely on complicated traffic models which usually require costly training with field study and large datasets. With extensive experiments based on the dataset of real probe data, we demonstrate that our proposed algorithm performs significantly better than other completing algorithms, including KNN and MSSA. Surprisingly, our algorithm can achieve an estimate error of as low as 20% even when more than 80% of probe data are missing.
Visual Analysis of Compliance with Clinical Guidelines

Clinical guidelines provide recommendations in the form of applicable actions in a specific clinical context. Computer Interpretable Guidelines (CIG) aim to achieve guideline integration into clinical practice to increase health care quality. Analyzing the compliance with a CIG can facilitate the implementation and assist in the design of CIGs, but to help medical experts in the detection of patterns in the wealth of the data is a challenging task. We suggest an approach based on visual analytics, intertwining interactive visualization and automated data analysis i.e. analysis of compliance with a CIG. Our solution covers highlighting and abstraction for time-oriented patient parameters, and aggregation of repeatedly missing actions into intervals; in addition valid, invalid, and missing actions are represented visually. Furthermore, we discuss a case study showing how the applied techniques can assist in the detection of interesting patterns.
OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF SPACIOUSNESS AND ENVELOPMENT

This paper will discuss current knowledge of spaciousness and envelopment (assumed to be the same perception) with particular attention to measurement techniques that might be applicable to virtual audio systems. We find that all frequencies contribute to the perception of envelopment. At frequencies below 2000Hz envelopment arises from fluctuations in the Interaural Time Delay (ITD) and the Interaural Intensity Difference (IID) at the ears of the listener. Fluctuations that follow the ends of sounds by at least 160ms are the most effective. These fluctuations can be produced by decorrelated sound sources on opposite sides of the listener. The optimum angle for such sources varies with frequency. For frequencies below 700Hz sources should be at 90 degrees from the front. Above this frequency the optimum angle moves toward the medial plane. For broadband signals above 2000Hz, spectral cues characteristic of sound sources behind the listener increase the perceived envelopment. The optimum angle for broadband sound sources with most of their energy above 2000Hz is approximately 150 degrees from the front. We conclude that multiple sound sources (either real or virtual) are necessary for optimal envelopment, consisting of at least a pair of sources at 90 degrees from the front, and a pair at 150 degrees. The effectiveness of these sources will depend on the shape and reflectivity of the room. For measuring the envelopment delivered by the loudspeaker/room system, the Diffuse field Transfer Function (DTF) is recommended.
The Trap of Continual Ownership Change in International Equity Joint Ventures

This article examines how multiple ownership changes unfold in international equity joint venture (IEJV) evolution and how such repeated changes impact short-term performance and long-term survival. By theorizing a new concept---the trap of continual change---in the IEJV context, we challenge the adaptive viewpoint assumed in alliance dynamics research. We propose that partners sometimes respond to an initial dissatisfaction with the venture result with a dysfunctional repetition of rearranging the ownership control structure. This continual change locks the organization into bad choices and sends it into a downward spiral. Acknowledging the mixed motive nature of inter-partner relationships, we incorporate cooperative versus competitive dynamics manifested in shared control arrangements. We propose that shared ownership control lends stability to the IEJV until the initial IEJV agreement is renegotiated; this stability is a result of the cooperative forces of mutual interdependence and mutual forbearance between the partners. However, when the power balance breaks down, the potential for inter-partner conflict increases. When the ownership control structure of the IEJV is restructured, especially multiple times, shared control arrangements become increasingly unstable as behavioral, cultural, and managerial differences are amplified.
Metabolism of sulfur amino acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Sulfur amino acid biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves a large number of enzymes required for the de novo biosynthesis of methionine and cysteine and the recycling of organic sulfur metabolites. This review summarizes the details of these processes and analyzes the molecular data which have been acquired in this metabolic area. Sulfur biochemistry appears not to be unique through terrestrial life, and S. cerevisiae is one of the species of sulfate-assimilatory organisms possessing a larger set of enzymes for sulfur metabolism. The review also deals with several enzyme deficiencies that lead to a nutritional requirement for organic sulfur, although they do not correspond to defects within the biosynthetic pathway. In S. cerevisiae, the sulfur amino acid biosynthetic pathway is tightly controlled: in response to an increase in the amount of intracellular S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet), transcription of the coregulated genes is turned off. The second part of the review is devoted to the molecular mechanisms underlying this regulation. The coordinated response to AdoMet requires two cis-acting promoter elements. One centers on the sequence TCACGTG, which also constitutes a component of all S. cerevisiae centromeres. Situated upstream of the sulfur genes, this element is the binding site of a transcription activation complex consisting of a basic helix-loop-helix factor, Cbf1p, and two basic leucine zipper factors, Met4p and Met28p. Molecular studies have unraveled the specific functions for each subunit of the Cbf1p-Met4p-Met28p complex as well as the modalities of its assembly on the DNA. The Cbf1p-Met4p-Met28p complex contains only one transcription activation module, the Met4p subunit. Detailed mutational analysis of Met4p has elucidated its functional organization. In addition to its activation and bZIP domains, Met4p contains two regulatory domains, called the inhibitory region and the auxiliary domain. When the level of intracellular AdoMet increases, the transcription activation function of Met4 is prevented by Met30p, which binds to the Met4 inhibitory region. In addition to the Cbf1p-Met4p-Met28p complex, transcriptional regulation involves two zinc finger-containing proteins, Met31p and Met32p. The AdoMet-mediated control of the sulfur amino acid pathway illustrates the molecular strategies used by eucaryotic cells to couple gene expression to metabolic changes.
EXPLORING ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE RESILIENCE AND PERSISTENCE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF COLOR

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . iv LIST OF TABLES . x LIST OF FIGURES . xi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction . 1 Problem Statement . 2 Purpose Statement . 2 Research Questions . 4 Significance of the Study . 5 Theoretical Underpinnings . 6 Assumptions . 8 Delimitations . 9 Definitions of Key Terms . 9 Summary . 11 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW Background . 13 Facets of Resilience. 16 Academic Resilience. 16 Academic Resilience and the Four C’s . 18 Social Resilience . 19
Identifying beliefs behind boys’ use of mobile phones to monitor girlfriends and girls’ acceptance: a reasoned-action approach

ABSTRACT Monitoring/controlling behaviours can be present in the early stages of an abusive relationship. Because of the need for evidence-based interventions grounded on behavioural models that identify the determinants of abusive behaviours, we applied the formative research of the reasoned action approach to: (1) conduct an elicitation study on the behavioural and normative beliefs that explain why boys use mobile phones to monitor their girlfriends and why these accept it, (2) analyse the items designed to assess the different constructs in the model and (3) carry out a preliminary exploration of the relationship between constructs. The sample was composed of 119 adolescent girls and boys between 14 and 18 years of age. Boys and girls seem to hold complementary beliefs that could produce a feedback loop that maintains the abusive behaviour. Parents are a protective factor against the behaviour whereas peers are not. Results on the item analysis and reliability of the scales were good. Intention seems an important predictor of the performance (51%) and acceptance (60%) of the behaviour and attitudes and perceived social norms of the intention (boys: 67%; girls: 65%), which suggests the appropriateness of the model for the prediction of the behaviour.
Definitions and Terminology

1 one one one one one conduct disorders: an overview Key messages • Conduct disorders are the most common reason for referral of young children to mental health services. • The prevalence of conduct disorders in 5–10-year-olds is 6.5% for boys and 2.7% for girls. • Sixty-two per cent of three-year-olds with conduct disorders were found to continue these problems through to the age of eight. • Children who become violent as adolescents can be identified with almost 50% reliability as early as age seven. • Approximately 40–50% of children with conduct disorders may develop antisocial personality disorder as adults. • The estimated annual cost per child if conduct disorder is left untreated is £15,270. • Five aspects of parenting which have been repeatedly found to have a long-term association with antisocial behaviour are: poor supervision, erratic harsh discipline, parental disharmony, rejection of the child, and low parental involvement in the child's activities. The term 'conduct disorder' is generally used to describe a pattern of repeated and persistent misbehaviour. This misbehaviour is much worse than would normally be expected in a child of that age. The essential feature is a persistent pattern of conduct in which the basic rights of others and major age-appropriate societal norms and rules are violated (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Professionals and researchers use a variety of terms to describe conduct disorders. These include disobedient, aggressive, antisocial, challenging behaviour, oppositional, defiant, delinquent and conduct problems. For the purposes of this report we have chosen to use the term 'conduct disorders' to cover children who are described as having either conduct disorder (CD) or, as is more frequently the case in young children, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). For the full ICD– 10 and DSM–IV classifications for CD and ODD see Appendix 1. Obviously there are a frequency and a severity of certain disruptive behaviours which are expected in young children and are considered part of 'normal' development, and children will usually grow out of them. These behaviours occur as part of the child's developmental process; although they may be difficult for the parents to deal with, they will not be discussed in this report. A number of programmes are provided by various voluntary organisations to address less severe behaviour problems (Smith, 1996).
Institute of Physics Publishing Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering a Thermal Actuator for Nanoscale in Situ Microscopy Testing: Design and Characterization

This paper addresses the design and optimization of thermal actuators employed in a novel MEMS-based material testing system. The testing system is designed to measure the mechanical properties of a variety of materials/structures from thin films to one-dimensional structures, e.g. carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanowires (NWs). It includes a thermal actuator and a capacitive load sensor with a specimen in-between. The thermal actuator consists of a number of V-shaped beams anchored at both ends. It is capable of generating tens of milli-Newton force and a few micrometers displacement depending on the beams' angle and their number. Analytical expressions of the actuator thermomechanical response are derived and discussed. From these expressions, a number of design criteria are drawn and used to optimize the device response. The analytical predictions are compared with both finite element multiphysics analysis (FEA) and experiments. To demonstrate the actuator performance, polysilicon freestanding specimens cofabricated with the testing system are tested.
Transatlantic Abolitionist Discourse and the Body of Christ in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”

Despite renewed interest in roles played by Christianity in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB), few scholars have discussed her treatment of the body of Christ—understood as both the figure of Christ and his body of followers—in her antislavery poem, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”. This article argues that “The Runaway Slave” reworks portrayals of the body of Christ in transatlantic abolitionist print culture. It examines the poem in its original context of publication in the 1848 issue of The Liberty Bell, the Boston-based antislavery annual. As EBB would have known from earlier issues of the annual that she received before writing her poem, its contributors—primarily though not exclusively privileged northern whites—represented themselves as messianic martyrs whose Christ-like suffering would liberate slaves. EBB’s poem challenges this self-glorifying rhetoric, in part by making a refrain out of words from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s well-known poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This refrain indicates that the symbols used by Liberty Bell authors to portray themselves as messianic martyrs might, to those they labor to liberate, seem perversely bound up in slavery and the color binary used to justify it. “Runaway Slave” further suggests that the Liberty Bell’s messianic rhetoric, like the slave system itself, parodies Christ’s sacrifice of himself for the good of others. In both cases, wittingly or not, whites seek to turn the bodily agony of blacks to their benefit, whether ethical or economic. Stressing that such parodies of the crucifixion only perpetuate racial violence, the poem pursues what we might call a post-secular vision of Christ’s body, suggesting that people can through love act as members of Christ outside of any official church body. EBB’s poem nevertheless risks trading in the abuses it critiques—a risk, the material history of her poem indicates, of which she might have been aware.
Multimodal and intuitionistic logics in simple type theory

We study straightforward embeddings of propositional normal multimodal logic and propositional intuitionistic logic in simple type theory. The correctness of these embeddings is easily shown. We give examples to demonstrate that these embeddings provide an effective framework for computational investigations of various non-classical logics. We report some experiments using the higher-order automated theorem prover LEO-II.
DARK MATTER PARTICLES IN THE GALACTIC HALO: RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS FROM DAMA/NaI

The DAMA/NaI experiment (≃100 kg highly radiopure NaI(Tl)) was proposed, designed and realized to effectively investigate in a model-independent way the presence of a Dark Matter particle component in the galactic halo by exploiting the annual modulation signature. With a total exposure of 107731 kg · day, collected over seven annual cycles deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the I.N. F.N. , it has pointed out — at 6. 3σC. L. — an effect which satisfies all the peculiarities of the signature and neither systematic effects nor side reactions able to mimic the signature were found. Moreover, several (but still few with respect to the possibilities) corollary model dependent quests for the candidate particle have been carried out. In this paper the obtained results are summarized and some perspectives are discussed at some extent.
High Diversity of Planctomycetes in Soils of Two Lichen-Dominated Sub-Arctic Ecosystems of Northwestern Siberia

A wide variety of terrestrial ecosystems in tundra have a ground vegetation cover composed of reindeer lichens (genera Cladonia and Cetraria). The microbial communities of two lichen-dominated ecosystems typical of the sub-arctic zone of northwestern Siberia, that is a forested tundra soil and a shallow acidic peatland, were examined in our study. As revealed by molecular analyses, soil and peat layers just beneath the lichen cover were abundantly colonized by bacteria from the phylum Planctomycetes. Highest abundance of planctomycetes detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization was in the range 2.2–2.7 × 107 cells per gram of wet weight. 16S rRNA gene fragments from the Planctomycetes comprised 8–13% of total 16S rRNA gene reads retrieved using Illumina pair-end sequencing from the soil and peat samples. Lichen-associated assemblages of planctomycetes displayed unexpectedly high diversity, with a total of 89,662 reads representing 1723 operational taxonomic units determined at 97% sequence identity. The soil of forested tundra was dominated by uncultivated members of the family Planctomycetaceae (53–71% of total Planctomycetes-like reads), while sequences affiliated with the Phycisphaera-related group WD2101 (recently assigned to the order Tepidisphaerales) were most abundant in peat (28–51% of total reads). Representatives of the Isosphaera–Singulisphaera group (14–28% of total reads) and the lineages defined by the genera Gemmata (1–4%) and Planctopirus–Rubinisphaera (1–3%) were present in both habitats. Two strains of Singulisphaera-like bacteria were isolated from studied soil and peat samples. These planctomycetes displayed good tolerance of low temperatures (4–15°C) and were capable of growth on a number of polysaccharides, including lichenan, a characteristic component of lichen-derived phytomass.
The analysis of population genetic structure in Alaskan harbor seals, Phoca vitulina, as a framework for the identification of management stocks.

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Eco‐evolutionary differences in light utilization traits and distributions of freshwater phytoplankton

We compiled light utilization traits for 56 species of freshwater phytoplankton to analyze group differences, trait trade‐offs, and allometric scaling relationships. We also used these traits to explain differences in major group distributions along the light availability gradient in 527 lakes in the continental United States. Major taxonomic groups differed significantly in their light utilization traits. Cyanobacteria had the highest initial slope of the growth‐irradiance curve (ɑ) and low irradiance at the onset of photoinhibition, indicating adaptation to low light environments. Green algae had the highest maximal growth rates and low ɑ, indicating adaptation to higher light environments. Groups capable of mixotrophy had traits indicative of poor light competitive abilities and high light requirements. Key light utilization traits scaled allometrically with cell size and exhibited trade‐offs leading to contrasting ecological strategies; ɑ and cell size were conserved at the highest taxonomic level (domain), indicating a fundamental trait divergence between prokaryotic and eukaryotic phytoplankton. In line with these trait differences, major groups showed different responses to light availability in natural conditions. The relative abundances of low light–adapted groups declined with increasing light availability and vice versa. The genera mean values of the initial slopes of the growth‐irradiance curves were significantly negatively correlated with the slopes of the relationships between the genus's relative abundance and light availability characterized by Secchi depth in 527 lakes. This indicates that light utilization traits can be used to explain phytoplankton distributions in nature.
On Code Execution Tracking via Power Side-Channel

With the proliferation of Internet of Things, there is a growing interest in embedded system attacks, e.g., key extraction attacks and firmware modification attacks. Code execution tracking, as the first step to locate vulnerable instruction pieces for key extraction attacks and to conduct control-flow integrity checking against firmware modification attacks, is therefore of great value. Because embedded systems, especially legacy embedded systems, have limited resources and may not support software or hardware update, it is important to design low-cost code execution tracking methods that require as little system modification as possible. In this work, we propose a non-intrusive code execution tracking solution via power-side channel, wherein we represent the code execution and its power consumption with a revised hidden Markov model and recover the most likely executed instruction sequence with a revised Viterbi algorithm. By observing the power consumption of the microcontroller unit during execution, we are able to recover the program execution flow with a high accuracy and detect abnormal code execution behavior even when only a single instruction is modified.