Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Temperature profiles of a representative sample of nearby X-ray galaxy clusters

Context. A study of the structural and scaling properties of the temperature distribution of the hot, X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium of galaxy clusters, and its dependence on dynamical state, can give insights into the physical processes governing the formation and evolution of structure. Aims. Accurate temperature measurements are a pre-requisite for a precise knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of the intra-cluster medium. Methods. We analyse the X-ray temperature profiles from XMM-Newton observations of 15 nearby (z < 0.2) clusters, drawn from a statistically representative sample. The clusters cover a temperature range from 2.5 keV to 8.5 keV, and present a variety of X-ray morphologies. We derive accurate projected temperature profiles to ∼0.5 R 200 , and compare structural properties (outer slope, presence of cooling core) with a quantitative measure of the X-ray morphology as expressed by power ratios. We also compare the results to recent cosmological numerical simulations. Results. Once the temperature profiles are scaled by an average cluster temperature (excluding the central region) and the estimated virial radius, the profiles generally decline in the region 0.1 R 200 ≤ R ≤ 0.5 R 200 . The central regions show the largest scatter, attributable mostly to the presence of cool core clusters. There is good agreement with numerical simulations outside the core regions. We find no obvious correlations between power ratio and outer profile slope. There may however be a weak trend with the existence of a cool core, in the sense that clusters with a central temperature decrement appear to be slightly more regular. Conclusions. The present results lend further evidence to indicate that clusters are a regular population, at least outside the core region.
Surface dyslexia and dysgraphia: dual routes, single lexicon

Abstract The dual route interpretation of surface dyslexia as a deficit in word-specific activation has been challenged recently by computational models that incorporate a unitary print-to-sound mechanism. The most current of these makes no allowance for word-specific nodes, but obtains the pronunciation of regular and exception words by weighted connections between graphemic and phonemic units. Damaging the model in a variety of ways produces a pattern that appears consistent with the performance of many surface dyslexic patients. Exception words are mispronounced more often than regular words, though accuracy deteriorates on both categories. In addition, frequency has no clear-cut effect on the probability of reading an exception word correctly. We describe the existence of a variant of the syndrome that is not fully captured by the above simulations. MP, a surface dyslexic, demonstrates a dissociation between lexical and nonlexical pronunciation of written words. We also show that performance on irregu.
X‐linked myotubular myopathy in a family with three adult survivors

We describe a family with an extremely mild form of X‐linked myotubular myopathy. Three affected males survived to adulthood with sufficient muscle strength to enable them to carry out normal daily activities. The mildness of the myopathy in this family is highlighted by the following: no neonatal or infant mortality resulting from the myopathy; one affected male who did not have neonatal asphyxia and had normal early motor milestones – this affected male was able to increase his muscle bulk and strength to normal by weightlifting; and a 55‐year‐old male who still lives an independent life. DNA sequencing identified a novel missense mutation – G469A (E157K) – in exon 7 of the MTM1 gene in this family. To our knowledge, this is the third X‐linked myotubular myopathy family, with multiple adult survivors, to be reported in the literature.
Creating and Rendering Convolution Surfaces

Implicit surfaces obtained by convolution of multi‐dimensional primitives with some potential function, are a generalisation of popular implicit surface models: blobs, metaballs and soft objects. These models differ in their choice of potential function but agree upon the use of underlying modelling primitives, namely, points. In this paper a method is described for modelling and rendering implicit surfaces built upon an expanded set of skeletal primitives: points, line segments, polygons, arcs and planes. An analytical solution to the convolution is described. This solution offers a more accurate and robust representation of the resultant implicit surface than previous methods. An algorithm for ray‐tracing the surfaces formed through convolution of any combination of these primitives is also outlined.
Expression of Neuronal Markers in Differentiated Marrow Stromal Cells and CD133+ Stem-Like Cells

Bone marrow stromal cells, which normally give rise to bone, cartilage, adipose tissue, and hematopoiesis-supporting cells, have been shown to differentiate in vitro and in vivo into neural-like cells. In this study, we examined the expression of neuronal and glial markers in human marrow stromal cells under culture conditions appropriate for neural stem cells, and compared the unsorted cell population to bone marrow CD133+ stem-like cells using immunofluorescence, Western blot, and functional patch-clamp analysis. Overall, the expression of the early neuronal marker β3-tubulin was most pronounced in the presence of DMEM/F12 and neurotrophin 3 (NT3) or brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), when marrow stromal cells were cultured onto fibronectin. Electrophysiological examination, however, could not show fast sodium currents or functional neurotransmitter receptors in differentiated marrow stromal cells. CD133+ mesenchymal stem-like cells, but not CD34+/CD133– cells, generally showed a higher expression of neuronal markers than did unsorted marrow stromal cells, and differentiated CD133+ cells more resembled neuron-like cells.
A Pilot Use of Team-Based Learning in Psychiatry Resident Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Education

ObjectiveDemonstrating psychotherapy competency in trainees will test the resources of psychiatry training programs. The authors outline the phases of team-based learning (TBL). MethodsThe University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa (OUCM-T), Department of Psychiatry reorganized its psychodynamic psychotherapy didactic course using TBL.ConclusionTeam-based learning offers a promising alternative to traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy didactics, potentially increasing resident learning efficiency through a structured learning cycle emphasizing accountability to a learning team.
Religious transnationalism: the case of Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain

This article examines the ways in which mainstream churches engender migrants’ maintenance of transnational ties and improve their integration into British society. It uses the Zimbabwean Catholic congregation in Birmingham as a case study. The central thrust of this article is that African diaspora congregations have emerged as public spaces to construct transnational identities and provide alternative forms of belonging, and have reinvented themselves as agents of re-evangelization to the host society. In contrast to other transnational ties such as remittances and hometown associations whose activities are orientated toward the homeland, reverse evangelization embodies the giving out of something to the host society. It is the awareness and ability to influence and shape the face of Christianity in Britain that gives African Christian migrants the agency to participate in other aspects of British society, providing an alternative path to integration. As the article argues, religious identities among Zimbabwean migrants should be seen not just as a religious phenomenon but also as markers of cultural difference from the host society, which constructs them as ‘other’.
Identification of overexpressed genes in hepatocellular carcinoma, with special reference to ubiquitin‐conjugating enzyme E2C gene expression

This study consisted of 2 aims: (i) to determine genes associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by microarray analysis; and (ii) to evaluate the clinicopathological significance of human ubiquitin‐conjugating enzyme E2C (Ube2c) found to be overexpressed in HCC from microarray analysis. Laser microdissection and cDNA‐microarray were performed to identify genes associated with HCC. We then focused on the Ube2c gene. Using real‐time quantitative reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR), Ube2c expression status and clinicopathological significance were studied in 65 clinical HCC samples. A number of genes upregulated in HCC cells compared to noncancerous liver cells were identified, one of which was the Ube2c gene. Ube2c gene expression in the cancer tissue was higher than in the corresponding noncancerous tissue in 62 of the 65 cases (95.4%, p < 0.01). Tumors with high Ube2c expression showed higher frequencies of tumor invasion to capsular formation (fc‐inf), invasion to portal vein (vp) and tumor de‐differentiation (p < 0.05). Patients with high Ube2c expression also showed significantly worse disease‐free survival rates than those with low Ube2c expression (p < 0.01). In addition, Ube2c expression was found to be an independent prognostic factor for disease‐free survival rate in multivariate analysis. We identified differentially expressed genes between HCC and normal liver tissues. Of those, the Ube2c gene appeared to be associated with HCC progression, and may be useful as a prognostic indicator for HCC patients. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Profiling Antibody Responses to Infections by Chlamydia abortus Enables Identification of Potential Virulence Factors and Candidates for Serodiagnosis

Enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE) due to infection with the obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia (C.) abortus is an important zoonosis leading to considerable economic loss to agriculture worldwide. The pathogen can be transmitted to humans and may lead to serious infection in pregnant women. Knowledge about epidemiology, clinical course and transmission to humans is hampered by the lack of reliable diagnostic tools. Immunoreactive proteins, which are expressed in infected animals and humans, may serve as novel candidates for diagnostic marker proteins and represent putative virulence factors. In order to broaden the spectrum of immunogenic C. abortus proteins we applied 2D immunoblot analysis and screening of an expression library using human and animal sera. We have identified 48 immunoreactive proteins representing potential diagnostic markers and also putative virulence factors, such as CAB080 (homologue of the “macrophage infectivity potentiator”, MIP), CAB167 (homologue of the “translocated actin recruitment protein”, TARP), CAB712 (homologue of the “chlamydial protease-like activity factor”, CPAF), CAB776 (homologue of the “Polymorphic membrane protein D”, PmpD), and the “hypothetical proteins” CAB063, CAB408 and CAB821, which are predicted to be type III secreted. We selected two putative virulence factors for further characterization, i.e. CAB080 (cMIP) and CAB063, and studied their expression profiles at transcript and protein levels. Analysis of the subcellular localization of both proteins throughout the developmental cycle revealed CAB063 being the first C. abortus protein shown to be translocated to the host cell nucleus.
Weight Loss Is Not the Answer: A Well‐being Solution to the “Obesity Problem”

Americans have been gaining weight in recent decades, prompting widespread concern about the health implications of this change. Governments, health practitioners, and the general public all want to know: What is the best way to reduce the health risks associated with higher body weight? The dominant weight-loss solution to this “obesity problem” encourages individuals to lose weight through behavior change. This solution rests on the assumptions that higher body weight causes health problems, that permanent weight loss is attainable, and that weight loss improves health. But comprehensive reviews of the scientific evidence find mixed, weak, and sometimes contradictory evidence for these premises. We suggest that a different solution to the “obesity problem” is needed – a solution that acknowledges both the multifaceted nature of health and the complex interaction between person and situation that characterizes the connection between weight and health. Thus, we use the lens of social psychological science to propose an alternative, well-being solution to the “obesity problem”. This solution has the potential to improve health by encouraging eating and exercising for optimal health rather than weight loss, by developing interventions to reduce weight stigma and discrimination, and by helping higher body-weight people cope with the stress of stigma and discrimination.
Linking an integrated framework with appropriate methods for measuring QoE

Quality of Experience (QoE) has recently gained recognition for being an important determinant of the success of new technologies. Despite the growing interest in QoE, research into this area is still fragmented. Similar - but separate - efforts are being carried out in technical as well as user oriented research domains, which are rarely communicating with each other. In this paper, we take a multidisciplinary approach and review both user oriented and technical definitions on Quality of Experience (including the related concept of User Experience). We propose a detailed and comprehensive framework that integrates both perspectives. Finally, we take a first step at linking methods for measuring QoE with this framework.
Fiber Dynamics in Turbulent Flows: General Modeling Framework

The paper at hand deals with the modeling of turbulence effects on the dynamics of a long slender elastic fiber. Independent of the choice of the drag model, a general aerodynamic force concept is derived on the basis of the velocity field for the randomly fluctuating component of the flow. Its construction as a centered differentiable Gaussian field complies thereby with the requirements of the stochastic k-epsilon turbulence model and Kolmogorov's universal equilibrium theory on local isotropy.
The Effects of Experience on Investor Behavior: Evidence from India's Ipo Lotteries

We exploit the randomized allocation of stocks in 54 Indian IPO lotteries to 1.5 million investors between 2007 and 2012 to provide new estimates of the causal effect of investment experiences on future investment behavior. We find that investors experiencing exogenous gains in IPO stocks (the treatment) are more likely to apply for future IPOs, increase trading in their portfolios, exhibit a stronger disposition effect, and tilt their portfolios towards the sector of the treatment IPO. Treatment effects vary with the characteristics of the treatment (size, variability, and salience of the gain), and are stronger for smaller and younger accounts. Treatment effects persist for larger and older accounts, suggesting that experiencing gains exerts a powerful force even on sophisticated players.
The interest of amyloid PET imaging in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review evaluates the potential clinical utility of amyloid imaging. RECENT FINDINGS Amyloid PET is a valid in-vivo marker of neuritic plaque load and correlates with amyloid plaque surface area. Abundant diffuse plaques, however, with scant neuritic plaques can also give rise to a positive scan, most often reported in association with Lewy body disease. Specificity of amyloid PET for discriminating Alzheimer's disease from healthy controls is higher than that of structural MRI. Sensitivity for discriminating Alzheimer's disease from healthy controls or from frontotemporal lobar degeneration is also higher than that of fluorodeoxyglucose-PET, with higher interreader reliability. Within a same center there is high concordance between dichotomization of cases based on amyloid PET versus cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42. In a tentative algorithm, we restrict clinical-diagnostic use to dementia with age of onset before 60 years, primary progressive aphasia and corticobasal syndrome, cases with objective cognitive deficits that could be due to a neurodegenerative cause but also have significant cerebrovascular or psychiatric comorbidity, and rapidly progressive dementia. SUMMARY Empirical studies that evaluate how amyloid PET can change clinical-diagnostic thinking are starting to emerge. Key questions to be resolved are its role compared with cerebrospinal fluid markers and its impact on patient outcome.
Predictors of Financial Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood

To explore how emerging adults grapple with the increasing demands of fiscal responsibility, the present study tests a model of identity formation in the domain of finance. We draw on Erikson’s theory of identity formation as operationalized by Marcia’s identity status model, which details four identity statuses: achieved, foreclosed, moratorium, and diffused. A sample of college students (N = 1,511) were surveyed at two time points: in their first (ages 18–21, T1) and fourth (ages 21–24, T2) years of college. Primarily, we find evidence for financial identity stability, although we found some evidence for financial identity regression from moratorium to foreclosed status. After controlling for T1 financial identity, T1 variables were most predictive of changes in T2 foreclosure: Increases in foreclosure were predicted by measures of perceived parental socioeconomic status, parental communication, financial education, and subjective norms at T1.
Investigation of Homicides Interred in Concrete—The Los Angeles Experience *

Decedents interred in concrete present unique problems and investigation of these deaths necessitates a team of forensic specialists. The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner has had five such deaths in the past 18 years. The buried cases needed layer‐by‐layer excavation to establish the time and cause of death. Metal detectors are often used in this process. X‐rays of the interred remains were completed to help with locating the decedent’s position in the concrete. The breaking of concrete in some of the cases required the use of a sledgehammer and later a chisel in a manner that would not damage the remains. Postmortem dismemberment was frequent in our cases. The decedents were all female or prepubescent children, and the perpetrators were closely related to the decedents. While concrete can interfere with determination of postmortem interval, it can also preserve the remains and assist with identification.
Asymptotics of nonlinear LSE precoders with applications to transmit antenna selection

This paper studies the large-system performance of Least Square Error (LSE) precoders which minimize the input-output distortion over an arbitrary support subject to a general penalty function. The asymptotics are determined via the replica method in a general form which encloses the Replica Symmetric (RS) and Replica Symmetry Breaking (RSB) ansätze. As a result, the “marginal decoupling property” of LSE precoders for b-steps of RSB is derived. The generality of the studied setup enables us to address special cases in which the number of active transmit antennas are constrained. Our numerical investigations depict that the computationally efficient forms of LSE precoders based on “li-norm” minimization perform close to the cases with “zero-norm” penalty function which have a considerable improvements compared to the random antenna selection. For the case with BPSK signals and restricted number of active antennas, the results show that RS fails to predict the performance while the RSB ansatz is consistent with theoretical bounds.
Comparison of Standard versus Orthogonal ECG Leads for T‐Wave Alternans Identification

T‐wave alternans (TWA), an electrophysiologic phenomenon associated with ventricular arrhythmias, is usually detected from selected ECG leads. TWA amplitude measured in the 12‐standard and the 3‐orthogonal (vectorcardiographic) leads were compared here to identify which lead system yields a more adequate detection of TWA as a noninvasive marker for cardiac vulnerability to ventricular arrhythmias. Our adaptive match filter (AMF) was applied to exercise ECG tracings from 58 patients with an implanted cardiac defibrillator, 29 of which had ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation during follow‐up (cases), while the remaining 29 were used as controls. Two kinds of TWA indexes were considered, the single‐lead indexes, defined as the mean TWA amplitude over each lead (MTWAA), and lead‐system indexes, defined as the mean and the maximum MTWAA values over the standard leads and over the orthogonal leads. Significantly (P < 0.05) higher TWA in the cases versus controls was identified only occasionally by the single‐lead indexes (odds ratio: 1.0–9.9, sensitivity: 24–76%, specificity: 76–86%), and consistently by the lead‐system indexes (odds ratio: 4.5–8.3, sensitivity: 57–72%, specificity: 76%). The latter indexes also showed a significant correlation (0.65–0.83) between standard and orthogonal leads. Hence, when using the AMF, TWA should be detected in all leads of a system to compute the lead‐system indexes, which provide a more reliable TWA identification than single‐lead indexes, and a better discrimination of patients at increased risk of cardiac instability. The standard and the orthogonal leads can be considered equivalent for TWA identification, so that TWA analysis can be limited to one‐lead system.
How Do Different Types of High School Students Respond to Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support Programs?

In this article, the authors examined (a) the accuracy of teacher nominations in identifying (N = 178) high school students with externalizing, internalizing, comorbid, and typical behavior patterns, as well as students who were receiving special education services for high-incidence disabilities, (b) the level of treatment fidelity and access to reinforcement for the different student groups, and (c) the degree to which these different types of students responded to a schoolwide positive behavior support (SW-PBS) intervention program. Results indicated that despite receiving equal access to reinforcement, there were subtle differences regarding how different types of high school students responded to the SW-PBS. It appears that students with internalizing behavior problems were the most responsive, whereas students with comorbid concerns were the least responsive. Limitations and directions for future research are offered.
Migration Control and Narratives of Steering

The dynamics of migration are incredibly complex, creating immense problems for governments attempting to steer immigration. These challenges are well elucidated in literature on societal steering, and especially Luhmann's analysis of the impediments to steering by the political and legal systems. Politics and the law develop highly simplifying models of the dynamics they are seeking to steer, resulting in various problems of distortion and counterproductive effects. We can see examples of this in the case of migration control, where attempts to prevent irregular labour or stay have led to numerous unintended effects. However, it is far from evident how such problems of steering can be addressed. A number of cognitive, social and political factors place pressure on policy-makers to adopt highly simplifying models of these processes. The implication is that policy interventions have a structural tendency to ‘short-circuit’ the complexity of the migratory processes they are attempting to steer.
Volunteering and Work/life Balance

How Australians combine and balance their working lives, family, caring commitments and recreation is a strongly debated issue in the media and academia. Volunteering Australia conducted survey consulting volunteers and not profit organisations involved in volunteering organisations, which showed that the volunteering is vulnerable to pressure form the demands of paid work and caring that many prospective and current volunteers experience.