Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Benefits of Religious Fundamentalism

The purpose of this study was to experimentally analyze the benefits of religious fundamentalism. We hypothesized that there would be a significant difference between conditions for our dependent variables: hope, spiritual well-being, spiritual anxiety, and self-concept. We tested our hypotheses using a sample of undergraduate psychology students (N = 83) who each completed a religious fundamentalism measure and then several measures of relevant dependent variables. We found that those in the experimental condition had lower average scores of religious doubt than those in the control condition and higher average scores of spiritual well-being. Our results were partially consistent with existing theory about the potential benefits of religious fundamentalism, though further study is required to refine our understanding of these benefits given that this is an under-researched area of the psychology of religion. Thesis Mentor: _____________________________ Dr. Michael Nielsen Honors Director: _____________________________ Dr. Steven Engel April 2015 Department of Psychology University Honors Program Georgia Southern University THE BENEFITS OF RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM 2
Protective effect of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells on PC12 cells apoptosis mediated by TAG1.

OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore the protection effect of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) on PC12 cells apoptosis mediated by transient axonal glycoprotein 1 (TAG1). METHODS PC12 cells were divided into control group, Aβ25-35 group and BMSCs + Aβ25-35 group. The effects of BMSCs on PC12 cells treated by Aβ25-35 were detected using MTT, Hoechst 33258 and Annexin V-FITC/PI staining methods. The expression levels of TAG1, β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), AICD and p53 were determined by RT-PCR and Western blotting methods. The expression levels of Bax and Bcl-2 were determined by Western blotting method. The activity of Caspase 3 was detected by spectrophotometric method. RESULTS MTT results showed that cell activity decreased after the treatment of 20 μM Aβ25-35 for 48 h (P<0.01) while it increased in BMSCs + Aβ25-35 group (P<0.01). Hoechst 33258 and Annexin V-FITC/PI staining results showed that Aβ25-35 could induce the apoptosis of PC12 cells while the apoptosis of PC12 cells was inhibited in BMSCs + Aβ25-35 group. RT-PCR and Western blotting methods showed that 20 μM Aβ25-35 could increase the expression levels of TAG1, APP, AICD and p53 (P<0.01) while they decreased in BMSCs + Aβ25-35 group (P<0.01). 20 μM Aβ25-35 could increase the expression levels of Bax and decrease the expression levels of Bcl-2 (P<0.01), while the expression levels of Bax decreased and the expression levels of Bcl-2 increase in BMSCs + Aβ25-35 group (P<0.01). 20 μM Aβ25-35 could enhance Caspase 3 activity while it decreased in BMSCs + Aβ25-35 group (P<0.01). Conclusions BMSCs with Aβ25-35 could inhibit the apoptosis of PC12 cells, which maybe related with TAG1/APP/AICD signal pathway.
The acquisition of Dutch

In this chapter, we will consider how two Turkish learners, Ergün and Mahmut, and two Moroccan informants, Mohamed and Fatima, learn how to express temporality in Dutch. One informant per source language is described in some detail, and the second informant's development is then compared against what has been found for the core informant. We first characterise the data used in this chapter; then, brief sketches of the Dutch and Arabic systems of temporality are given. Section 5.2 is devoted to the Turkish informants, section 5.3 to the Moroccan informants, and in section 5.4, the results are compared, and some general conclusions are drawn.
Pessimistic Heuristics Beat Optimistic Ones in Real-Time Search

Admissibility is a desired property of heuristic evaluation functions, because when these heuristics are used with complete search methods, such as A* and RBFS, they guarantee that an optimal solution will be found. Since every optimistic heuristic function is admissible, optimistic functions are widely used. We show, however, that with incomplete, real-time search, optimistic functions lose their appeal, and in fact they may hinder the search under quite reasonable conditions. Under these conditions the exact opposite is to be preferred, i.e. pessimistic heuristic functions that never underestimate the difficulty of the problem. We demonstrate that such heuristics behave better than optimistic ones of equal quality on a standard testbed using RTA* search method.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BODY LANGUAGE IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS

Bu calisma vucut dilinin ne oldugunu ve kulturlerarasi iletisimde olan onemini belirtmeyi amaclar. Insanlar kulturlerarasi iletisimde degisik kulturlere ait olan insanlarin vucut dilini ve vucut hareketlerini yorumlarken ciddi problemler yasayabilirler ve bunun sebebi bu vucut hareketlerinin degisik kulturlerde farkli anlamlarinin oldugunu bilmemelerinden kaynaklanir. Bir kulturde belirli bir hareketin anlami ve yansimasi baska bir kulturde tamamen farkli ve hatta hos olmayan nitelikte olabilir bu sebepten dolayi, bu kulturlerarasi iletisim durumlarinda problemlerin ortaya cikmasi muhtemeldir. Kulturlerarasi iletisime bagli olarak, sozsuz iletisimde konusma uzakligi bilgisi de cok onemlidir. Konusma uzakligi bilgisi, iletisim halindeki iki kisi arasindaki uzakliga hitap eder ve vucut dilinden bahsederken bundan da bahsedilmesi gerekir. Gabriel ve Raam (2007) iki kisi arasindaki uzakligin, bu kisilerin arasindaki iliskiyi yansittigini vurguluyorlar ve bu uzakligin farkli kulturlerde farkli anlamlar tasidigini savunuyorlar. Temel vucut hareketlerinden bazilari el, bas ve ayak hareketlerini; ayrica gulumseme, isaret etme, bakma, dinleme gibi unsurlari da icerir ve bunlar kulturlerarasi iletisimde buyuk rol oynarlar. Bundan dolayi mevcut olan calisma bu vucut hareketlerinin onemini vurgulamak ve bunlarin kulturlerarasi iletisimlerde nasil ciddi yanlis anlasilmalara yol actigini gostermek icin ornekler icermektedir.
Protein phosphatase 1 regulates the cytoplasmic dynein-driven formation of endoplasmic reticulum networks in vitro

Interphase Xenopus egg extracts form extensive tubular membrane networks in vitro. These networks are identified here as endoplasmic reticulum by the presence of ER resident proteins, as shown by immunofluorescence, and by the presence of single ribosomes and polysomes, as shown by electron microscopy. The effect of phosphorylation on ER movement in interphase was tested using the phosphatase inhibitor, okadaic acid. Okadaic acid treatment resulted in an increase of up to 27-fold in the number of ER tubules moving and in the extent of ER networks formed compared to control extracts. This activation was blocked by the broad-specificity kinase inhibitor 6- dimethylaminopurine. Okadaic acid had no effect, however, on the direction of ER tubule movement, which occurred towards the minus end of microtubules, and was sensitive to low concentrations of vanadate. Inhibition of phosphatases also had no effect on the speed or duration of ER tubule extensions, and did not stimulate the activity of soluble cytoplasmic dynein. The sensitivity of ER movement to okadaic acid closely matched that of protein phosphatase 1. Although the amount of ER motility was greatly increased by inhibiting protein phosphatase 1 (PP1), the amount of cytoplasmic dynein associated with the membrane was not altered. The data support a model in which phosphorylation regulates ER movement by controlling the activity of cytoplasmic dynein bound to the ER membrane.
Identification of a putative Bacillus subtilis rho gene

Transposon Tn917 mutagenesis of Bacillus subtilis BD99 followed by selection for protonophore resistance led to the isolation of strain MS119, which contained a single Tn917 insertion in an open reading frame whose deduced amino acid sequence was 56.6% identical to that of the Escherichia coli rho gene product. The insertional site was near the beginning of the open reading frame, which was located in a region of the B. subtilis chromosome near the spoOF gene; new sequence data for several open reading frames surrounding the putative rho gene are presented. The predicted B. subtilis Rho protein would have 427 amino acids and a molecular weight of 48,628. The growth of the mutant strain was less than that of the wild type on defined medium at 30 degrees C. On yeast extract-supplemented medium, the growth of MS119 was comparable to that of the wild type on defined medium at 30 degrees C. On yeast extract-supplemented medium, the growth of MS119 was comparable to that of the wild type at 30 degrees C but was much slower at lower temperatures; sporulation occurred and competence was developed in cells of the mutant grown at 30 degrees C. To determine whether the protonophore resistance and sensitivity to low growth temperature resulted from the insertion, a chloramphenicol resistance cassette was inserted into the wild-type B. subtilis rho gene of strain BD170; the resulting derivative displayed the same phenotype as MS119.
Assessment of ocular hypotensive effect and safety 12 months after changing from an unfixed combination to a latanoprost 0.005% + timolol maleate 0.5% fixed combination

Background Latanoprost 0.005% + timolol maleate 0.5% combined eyedrops were recently made available in Japan. We prospectively investigated the intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering effect, visual preservation effect, and adverse reactions of a one-year administration of this fixed combination. Methods The subjects included 162 eyes from 162 patients diagnosed with either primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension and using an unfixed combination of latanoprost 0.005% and timolol maleate 0.5%. The unfixed combination was discontinued and replaced with the latanoprost 0.005% + timolol maleate 0.5% fixed combination with no washout period. IOP was measured before (baseline) and 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after the change. The mean deviation value of Humphrey field analysis was compared. Adverse reactions were examined at every follow-up. Results No significant differences were found between mean IOP values obtained at baseline (mean ± standard deviation, 15.2 ± 3.3 mmHg) 3 months (15.1 ± 3.2 mmHg), 6 months (15.3 ± 3.1 mmHg), 9 months (15.3 ± 3.1 mmHg), and 12 months (15.1 ± 3.2 mmHg) after the change from the unfixed to the fixed combination of eyedrops (P = 0.212). In addition, no significant differences were observed between mean deviation values obtained at baseline (−9.11 ± 6.94 dB) and 12 months (−10.08 ± 7.24 dB) after the change (P = 0.114). Thirty-one patients discontinued the fixed combination within 12 months of replacement, due to an insufficient IOP decrease (20 patients, 12.3%) and adverse reactions (11 patients, 6.8%). Conclusion Following replacement of two eyedrop medications (latanoprost 0.005% and timolol maleate 0.5%) by one fixed combination (latanoprost 0.005% + timolol maleate 0.5%), IOP and visual field were preserved. However, 20% of the patients discontinued the new treatment because of an insufficient IOP decrease and complaints of adverse reactions.
Inherited and de novo von Willebrand disease ‘Vicenza’ in UK families with the R1205H mutation: diagnostic pitfalls and new insights

von Willebrand disease (VWD) caused by the R1205H mutation has distinct and reproducible clinical and laboratory features. This report describes the phenotypic and molecular investigation of seven kindreds with VWD Vicenza R1205H. All affected individuals have historically been diagnosed with moderate to severe type 1 VWD. Amongst all families with highly penetrant type 1 VWD investigated at our centre, heterozygosity for the R1205H mutation was found to be the most common underlying molecular defect. A severe laboratory phenotype associated with a bleeding history that was milder than expected was commonly observed, consistent with previous published case reports; however, abnormal ultralarge high molecular weight multimers were not detected in resting plasma samples. We also provide evidence that the R1205H mutation may arise de novo– evidence that a common genetic origin for this mutation is unlikely.
YOUNG PEOPLE, THE INTERNET AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

Do young people participate in politics? Some claim that young people are not as much involved in politics as their parents were, others argue that young people are interested in politics but in a different way than previous generations. The Internet is said to play an important role in ‘new politics’. This raises the question whether the Internet triggers new forms of political participation by young people. We use the results of a large scale web questionnaire, among 2,163 students in three countries (Italy, Spain and the Netherlands) to answer this question. We conclude that the Internet reinvigorates political participation but does not trigger a shift from ‘old’ to ‘new’ politics. Traditional politics has managed to rethink its communication formats and therefore plays an important role in political participation by young people on the Internet.
An investigation into the relationship between music preference, personality and psychological wellbeing

VII EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.1 INTRODUCTION.3 MUSIC.3 MUSIC PREFERENCE.5 SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY . 10 PERSONALITY . 12 COPING. 16 Self­Esteem. 17 Depression and Mood . 20 OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS. 22 Music Preference . 22 Personality . 24 Self­esteem . 25 Anxiety and Depression . 26 METHOD . 28 PARTICIPANTS . 28 SCALES . 28 Rosenberg Self­Esteem Scale. 28 Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale ­ 21. 28 Self­Attributes Questionnaire . 29 Self­Liking/Self­Competence Scale – Revised . 29 Ten­Item Personality Inventory. 30 Short Test Of Music Preference – New Zealand . 31 PROCEDURE . 32 ANALYSIS. 32 RESULTS . 35 DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND STRESS SCALE – 21 SCORES. 35 ROSENBERG SELF – ESTEEM SCALE SCORES . 37 SELF – ATTRIBUTES QUESTIONNAIRE SCORES . 37 SELF‐LIKING/SELF‐COMPETENCY SCALE – REVISED SCORES. 38 TEN‐ITEM PERSONALITY INVENTORY SCORES . 41 SHORT TEST OF MUSIC PREFERENCE – NEW ZEALAND. 41 GENDER AND AGE EFFECTS . 42 Association between gender and psychological wellbeing. 42 Association between gender and personality . 43 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES . 43 Hypothesis One: That music preference, as an aspect of social identity, will display a correlation with self­esteem scores. 43 Hypothesis Two: There will be a relationship between music preference and personality traits. 44 Hypothesis Three: There will be an association between psychological wellbeing and music preference . 47 Total Music Preference and Psychological Wellbeing Variables . 50 DISCUSSION . 52 SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY . 52 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC PREFERENCE AND PERSONALITY. 52 Music Preference and Conscientiousness. 53 Music Preference and Extraversion . 53 Music Preference and Openness . 54 Music Preference, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability. 54 CORRELATION BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AND MUSIC PREFERENCE. 55 LIMITATIONS. 57 FUTURE RESEARCH . 58 CONCLUSION . 59 REFERENCES.60 APPENDIX A:. 77 APPENDIX B: . 82 APPENDIX C:. 85 APPENDIX D . 87 APPENDIX E: . 90 APPENDIX F: . 92 APPENDIX G.94 APPENDIX H:. 95 APPENDIX I: . 97
Larval rearing of an African catfish Heterobranchus longifilis (Teleostei, Clariidae): effect of dietary lipids on growth, survival and fatty acid composition of fry

Legendre M. , N. Kerdchuen, Ci. Corraze, P. Bergot. Aquat. Living Resour. , 1995, 8, 355-363. With the aim of improving dry diets for first feeding of Heterobranchus long$lis larvae, the effect of dietary lipid sources on growth rate, survival rate and fatty acid composition of fry from 2 days up to 17 days of age was evaluated. Six feeding regimes were tested: Artemia nauplii which served as a reference, and 5 experimental dry diets diffenng only by the lipid source. The different oils used for the different expenmental diets were the following: cod liver oil, palm oil, copra oil, peanut oil and cotton seed oil. Each diet was tested on duplicate groups of 400 larvae placed in the 40 1 tanks of a recirculating system (27-29°C) and fed to excess six times per day every 4 hours. Separation and identification of the fatty acids of diets, eggs and fry were carried out by gas-liquid chromatography. After 15 days of feeding, survival rates were high for al1 treatments (71-87%) and did not differ significantly. By contrast, growth rates were largely influenced by the feeding regime. Fry fed with Artemia were significantly bigger (289 mg) than those fed artificial dry diets (79-1 15 mg). However, it was found that the specific growth rate of fry fed Artemia was supenor to that of fry receiving dry diets only for fish of less than 50 mg body weight, indicating that Artemia presents a nutritional advantage only for fry at their youngest stages of development (first 6 days of feeding). Among the artificial dry diets, the best results were obtained with diets containing palm or copra oil, the lowest growth rate being observed with the cod liver oil diet. Peanut and cotton seed oil diets led to intermediate results. The fatty acid composition of the whole fry reflected that of the experimental diets. Al1 together, the results indicated the existence of an optimal ratio between n-3 and n-6 fatty acids for covenng essential fatty acids requirement of the fry. Growth rates tended to be reduced by an excess of n-3 fatty acids (cod liver oil) or by an excess in n-6 fatty acids (cotton seed oil) as well. Evidence of the occurrence of HUFA (20:4n-6 and 22:6n-3) biosynthesis are given.
Mediated attention with multimodal augmented reality

We present an Augmented Reality (AR) system to support collaborative tasks in a shared real-world interaction space by facilitating joint attention. The users are assisted by information about their interaction partner's field of view both visually and acoustically. In our study, the audiovisual improvements are compared with an AR system without these support mechanisms in terms of the participants' reaction times and error rates. The participants performed a simple object-choice task we call the "gaze game" to ensure controlled experimental conditions. Additionally, we asked the subjects to fill in a questionnaire to gain subjective feedback from them. We were able to show an improvement for both dependent variables as well as positive feedback for the visual augmentation in the questionnaire.
Autonomic Ranking  and Characterization of Data Sources and Query Processing Sites Using Ant Colony Theory

This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of discovering and ranking the characteristics of the data sources and query processing sites in a distributed database system. We model the network as a graph with nodes representing data sources and query processing sites, some of which might be replicated.We introduce a heuristic technique inspired in Ant Colony Theory to dynamically discover,assess and catalog each data source or query-processing site. Our goal is to find possible paths to access the computational resources or data provided by the highest quality sites and define the quality of this sites and data sources. The concept of quality could be defined in terms of performance, freshness, completeness or other metrics. We describe a simulation of the system using Java CSIM and also a preliminary performance and freshness studies designed to analyze the quality of paths found by the Ant Colony algorithm and the accurate of the freshness estimators. These experiments show that our approach is promissory and could do the job than we expect offering the information that the system needs to optimize a query request in a middleware system.
A Framework to Examine Gateway Relations in Drug Use: An Application of Latent Transition Analysis

A progressive and hierarchical sequence of drug use suggests that a sequence of stages of drug use can describe the order by which adolescents try drugs. We propose an operational definition to test gateway relations by providing a framework with the aim of describing a set of conditions to guide the evaluation of whether a drug serves as a gateway for another drug. We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to demonstrate how using latent transition analysis we can estimate the odds of using a drug at a later time conditional on having used a gateway drug at an earlier time. We provide three empirical demonstrations for testing the gateway relations using a national and longitudinal data of adolescents (e.g., gateway relation between cigarettes and marijuana, alcohol and marijuana, and alcohol and cigarettes).
Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning

Database management system (DBMS) configuration tuning is an essential aspect of any data-intensive application effort. But this is historically a difficult task because DBMSs have hundreds of configuration "knobs" that control everything in the system, such as the amount of memory to use for caches and how often data is written to storage. The problem with these knobs is that they are not standardized (i.e., two DBMSs use a different name for the same knob), not independent (i.e., changing one knob can impact others), and not universal (i.e., what works for one application may be sub-optimal for another). Worse, information about the effects of the knobs typically comes only from (expensive) experience. To overcome these challenges, we present an automated approach that leverages past experience and collects new information to tune DBMS configurations: we use a combination of supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods to (1) select the most impactful knobs, (2) map unseen database workloads to previous workloads from which we can transfer experience, and (3) recommend knob settings. We implemented our techniques in a new tool called OtterTune and tested it on two DBMSs. Our evaluation shows that OtterTune recommends configurations that are as good as or better than ones generated by existing tools or a human expert.
The Need for Randomization in Animal Trials: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

Background and Objectives Randomization, allocation concealment, and blind outcome assessment have been shown to reduce bias in human studies. Authors from the Collaborative Approach to Meta Analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies (CAMARADES) collaboration recently found that these features protect against bias in animal stroke studies. We extended the scope the work from CAMARADES to include investigations of treatments for any condition. Methods We conducted an overview of systematic reviews. We searched Medline and Embase for systematic reviews of animal studies testing any intervention (against any control) and we included any disease area and outcome. We included reviews comparing randomized versus not randomized (but otherwise controlled), concealed versus unconcealed treatment allocation, or blinded versus unblinded outcome assessment. Results Thirty-one systematic reviews met our inclusion criteria: 20 investigated treatments for experimental stroke, 4 reviews investigated treatments for spinal cord diseases, while 1 review each investigated treatments for bone cancer, intracerebral hemorrhage, glioma, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and treatments used in emergency medicine. In our sample 29% of studies reported randomization, 15% of studies reported allocation concealment, and 35% of studies reported blinded outcome assessment. We pooled the results in a meta-analysis, and in our primary analysis found that failure to randomize significantly increased effect sizes, whereas allocation concealment and blinding did not. In our secondary analyses we found that randomization, allocation concealment, and blinding reduced effect sizes, especially where outcomes were subjective. Conclusions Our study demonstrates the need for randomization, allocation concealment, and blind outcome assessment in animal research across a wide range of outcomes and disease areas. Since human studies are often justified based on results from animal studies, our results suggest that unduly biased animal studies should not be allowed to constitute part of the rationale for human trials.