Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Different for Dads? : the association between paternal OCD, parenting and child functioning

This thesis aims to add to the literature on psychological factors in the development of OCD and the impact of paternal OCD on children. It is concerned with examining parenting style and behaviours in fathers with OCD as a potential route to OCD ‘transmission’ and psychological distress in their children as well as examining the perceived impact of having OCD on parenting. It follows from a preliminary study by Challacombe & Salkovskis (2009) examining these factors in mothers with OCD. Fathers have received little attention in psychological research, yet emerging evidence suggests their role in child rearing and effect on children in the case of psychological disorder may be different to that of the mother. 14 fathers with OCD were compared to 20 healthy control fathers. Perception of impact of OCD on parenting was ascertained by questionnaires given to fathers and mothers. Measures of general parenting behaviours and parenting in OCD-specific scenarios, involvement in parenting and levels of expressed emotion (ascertained using a speech sample) were compared to control fathers. Parents also completed questionnaires on their child’s general well being, and children completed questionnaires measuring anxiety and OCD related symptoms. Findings revealed that fathers viewed OCD as having a significant impact on their parenting, to a greater degree than mothers. Fathers’ perception of impact was unrelated to self-reported OCD severity. Although thematic analysis of speech samples revealed fathers’ concern about the effect on their children, their offspring showed no elevated rate of OCD symptomatology. However they showed lower social and school competence, greater social problems, significantly increased internalising problems and increased anxiety, including separation anxiety and panic. Whilst fathers with OCD showed higher rates of expressed emotion, there were no differences in general or specific parenting behaviours, nor clear associations between aspects of parenting and child functioning. Findings are discussed in the context of social learning theory and the role of the father in facilitating social exploration and development. Clinical implications are also discussed.
UGent Participation in the TAC 2012 Entity-Linking Task

This article describes in detail the system used by the UGent-IBCN team for participating in the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2012 Mono-Lingual Entity-Linking task. The presented system is essentially rule-based, following a generic framework that is highly optimised for each label (i.e. with different rules for persons, organisations,and locations). The main contribution of this work is in identifying a number of label-specific issues and presenting simple heuristic solutions that yet allow building an efficient and effective system. These treated issues include resolving abbreviated organisation names, resolving popular nicknames, or taking into account American vs British spelling.
Optical and Piezoelectric Study of KNN Solid Solutions Co-Doped with La-Mn and Eu-Fe

The solid-state method was used to synthesize single phase potassium-sodium niobate (KNN) co-doped with the La3+–Mn4+ and Eu3+–Fe3+ ion pairs. Structural determination of all studied solid solutions was accomplished by XRD and Rietveld refinement method. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) studies were performed to determine the oxidation state of paramagnetic centers. Optical spectroscopy measurements, excitation, emission and decay lifetime were carried out for each solid solution. The present study reveals that doping KNN with La3+–Mn4+ and Eu3+–Fe3+ at concentrations of 0.5 mol % and 1 mol %, respectively, improves the ferroelectric and piezoelectric behavior and induce the generation of optical properties in the material for potential applications.
An Examination of the Relationship Between Values, Family Environment, and Risk Behaviors Among College Students

The purpose of this study was to examine the roles that values and the family environment play in young adult engagement in risky behavior. One hundred seventy-two male and female college students between the ages of 18-25 completed a demographics questionnaire, the Aspirations Index which measures seven life-goal contents that represent different values, the Cognitive Appraisal of Risky Events that assesses young adults’ perceptions of the risks and benefits associated with involvement in risky activities as well as past involvement in risky behaviors and the Family Environment Scale to assess participants' perceptions of their current family environment. A series of regression analyses were then used to assess the relationship between three dimensions of the family environment and risky behavior involvement and the relationship between participants' intrinsic and extrinsic values and perceived positive consequences and negative consequences of risky behavior. Results from this study supported the idea that certain dimensions of the family environment are related to risk-taking behavior in emerging adults; however, contrary to previous research, the relationship dimension of the family environment was not predictive of young adult risk-taking. Moreover, family activities that communicate family values did not contribute any additional information to the prediction of risk-taking behavior. Findings from this study suggest that emerging adult values are related to emerging adult perceptions of the hazards and benefits of risky behavior. Results from this study also highlighted the importance of gender and first-generation college status in predicting risk-taking frequency as well as perceived benefits and hazards of risk-taking. Implications for findings of the current study, limitations, and recommendations for future research are also discussed.
New ways of predicting violent incidents in clinical settings

Aggressive behaviour in people with intellectual disability is a far reaching problem, estimated to be expressed by 7% of the population of people with intellectual disability. People with intellectual disability who are aggressive often experience an inequality in service provision. Carers who work in aggressive environments can find the management of aggression an overwhelming challenge and may suffer burnout. At a service level, providing suitable care for people who may be aggressive, whilst also providing a comprehensive care package, is very difficult. Aggression in people with intellectual disability is more prevalent than in equivalent cared for groups, but there is little research to date on the sequential nature of that aggression. Like all behaviour, aggression occurs as part of a sequence, and a crucial part of understanding violent behaviour in people with intellectual disability is to understand the nature of their aggression, and especially the (temporal) structure of these episodes, as well as the potential factors involved. Current research in aggression in people with intellectual disability focuses on the nature of static risk factors, mental health issues and the function that aggressive behaviour provides for the individual expressing it. The main aim of this thesis is to document the patterns of aggressive behaviour in people with intellectual disability in order to examine what factors may be involved in increasing the risk of aggression in this population. Guidance as to what those factors may be was taken from research into aggression in the general and intellectual disability population. The first phase of this study involved creating a database of violent incidents from the health care records of 18 participants, drawn from three National Health Service units for Intellectual Disability. These were collated into an aggressive incident database that brought together information from different sources about individual incidents. The patterns in the incidents were used to construct a typology of aggression. The second phase of the study formed the main focus of the research, and involved analysing the aggressive incident database using Sequence Analysis methods. The pattern of these results indicated that reports focused mainly on aggression that involved staff, and found visits, outings and denial of requests by participants were significant factors in the sequence of an aggressive incident. The third phase focused on data drawn from a risk management system called Sentinel, and examined all aggressive incidents occurring across three units for people with intellectual disability over four and a half years to investigate temporal patterns of aggression using time interval analysis. This was used to identify distinct temporal patterns of aggression for each of the three units involved in the study. The results indicated that visits and outings, meal times and requests were part of the sequence of aggression behaviour in people with intellectual disability. The possible implications of this were discussed, and these findings related to the wider literature.
Analysis of the Maternal Filicide in Terms of Forensic Medicine in Turkey: A Clinical Research.

INTRODUCTION In the literature, 15% of the victims of homicide consists of children under 16 years of age; children under the age has been proved that they have the maximum risk. The vast majority of the victims were killed by their mothers. Thus, if mothers are the perpetrators of crime child murders are discussed in different ways, so it is conceptualized under the name of maternal filicide in the literature. This study has been performed for, in Turkey, women who killed their own children between 0-6 years old, victims of crimes, and to determine features of crime regarding on forensic medicine, eventually in order to provide a basis for taking necessary precautions and measures. METHODS This research includes 74 reports of maternal filicide cases came to IV. Board of Specialization at the Council of Forensic Medicine in Istanbul, Ministry of Justice of Republic of Turkey between 1996-2006 years. In the light of data came from these reports, the socio-demographic characteristics of mothers who attempted filicide and children who were killed, and crime occurrence methods and mothers' criminal legal responsibility were examined. RESULTS Mothers, suspected of the filicide crime, are often at a young age, and did not desire pregnancy, 73 of mother's do not have criminal history, and 48 of mothers confessed the crime. Found that 71 of child victims are biological kids, 38 of them were killed around age, and 20 of them were girls, 35 of them were boys. The study group, seven of defendants killed or attempted to kill more than one child at the same time. The majority of mothers committed the crime during the daylight. When filicide methods were examined strangling or throwing up the child from higher were seen the most. The majority of mothers committed crime wiıthout weapon or other objects, just by their hands. Based on decisions of IV. Board of Specialization, no significant difference was observed between the the mothers with criminal liability and mothers with non-criminal liability. CONCLUSION In this study, important data procured from the demographic characteristics of the mothers, findings on conditions during the crime and the method of the crime, and mothers' psychosocial stressors, but it has been discerned that this data is limited to define the crime of filicide. At the end of the study, besides studied the parameters that directed people to commit this crime, other factors, like mental status and/or motives should be probed.
Teaching Children with Autism Three Different Questions

Children with autism often exhibit deficits in question-asking. This study replicated and extended Williams, Donley, and Keller.s (2000) training package: a modeling and reinforcement procedure to teach the use of 3 different questions about hidden objects. Two boys, aged 13 and 12, with primary diagnoses of autism, participated. A multiple baseline design across questions was used. Both children learned to ask all three questions: . What.s that? Can I see (item name)? and . Can I have (item name)? Question-asking generalized to novel locations, people, and stimulus materials with minimal additional training. These results support the efficacy of this training package as an efficient way to teach children with autism to ask questions about objects in their environment.
Age‐dependent remodelling of inhibitory synapses onto hippocampal CA1 oriens‐lacunosum moleculare interneurons

Non‐Technical Summary The main function of the inhibitory synapse is to provide the membrane hyperpolarization and, thereby, to control the level of activity of its target cell. Extensively studied in pyramidal neurons, the properties of inhibitory synapses that target inhibitory interneurons remain largely unknown. We studied the properties of inhibitory synapses formed onto interneurons involved in the hippocampal feedback inhibitory circuit. Our data revealed a significant, age‐dependent strengthening of inhibition of interneurons due to the synaptic incorporation of the α5 subunit of the GABAA receptor. This novel mechanism of age‐dependent refinement of local circuit inhibition may have a direct impact on the hippocampal network activity and performance during development.
OUTPATIENT DRUG PRESCRIBING PATTERN FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER PATIENTS IN SOUTHERN THAILAND

Objective: To examine the psychotropic prescribing pattern among Thai bipolar disorder patients in southern Thailand and to compare results with other studies in developed countries and the study conducted in Bangkok, central Thailand. Method: All clinical outpatients records of bipolar patients who attended the psychiatric clinic of Songklanagarind Hospital were systematically reviewed. Results: There were 298 patients during the study period from January to March 2003. Nearly half of the patients (48.6%) were prescribed mood stabilizers, with lithium (35.2%) and valproate (13.4%) being the two most common drugs. The other half (48.6%) were prescribed antidepressants of which nortriptyline and the generic from of fluoxetine were prescribed in nearly equal numbers. Antipsychotics were also prescribed in about half of the patients (43.3%). For those who received antipsychotics, 93.0% received FGAs; only 6 patients (4.7%) received an SGA. Conclusion: This study shows rather similar prescribing patterns as compared to those of reports from developed countries. The exception was our clinicians’ prescribing of more FGAs, which was a similar finding to that of the study from Bangkok. Further study has been recommended to find out whether prescribing patterns will change in the future. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.10, No.2, July – Dec 2009: XX XX
Self-Organizing Dual Coding Based on Spike-Time-Dependent Plasticity

It has been a matter of debate how firing rates or spatiotemporal spike patterns carry information in the brain. Recent experimental and theoretical work in part showed that these codes, especially a population rate code and a synchronous code, can be dually used in a single architecture. However, we are not yet able to relate the role of firing rates and synchrony to the spatiotemporal structure of inputs and the architecture of neural networks. In this article, we examine how feedforward neural networks encode multiple input sources in the firing patterns. We apply spike-time-dependent plasticity as a fundamental mechanism to yield synaptic competition and the associated input filtering. We use the Fokker-Planck formalism to analyze the mechanism for synaptic competition in the case of multiple inputs, which underlies the formation of functional clusters in downstream layers in a self-organizing manner. Depending on the types of feedback coupling and shared connectivity, clusters are independently engaged in population rate coding or synchronous coding, or they interact to serve as input filters. Classes of dual codings and functional roles of spike-time-dependent plasticity are also discussed.
Effects of Hemoglobin Vesicles on Resting and Agonist-Stimulated Human Platelets In Vitro

Hemoglobin vesicles (HbV) are artificial oxygen carriers that encapsulate a concentrated hemoglobin (Hb) solution with a phospholipid bilayer membrane. The oxygen transporting ability of HbV in vivo has been demonstrated by the transfusion of HbV into hemorrhagic shock rodent models. However, the compatibility of HbV with human blood cells must be evaluated. Preincubation of platelets with concentrations of 20% or 40% HbV had no effect on the binding of PAC-1, a monoclonal antibody that detects activation-dependent conformational changes in αIIbβ3 on platelets, or the surface expression of CD62P in whole blood. ADP-induced increases in PAC-1 binding were significantly enhanced by exposing the platelets to concentrations of either 20% or 40% HbV, whereas the ADP-induced increases in CD62P expression were not affected by HbV treatment at either concentration. Preincubation of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) with HbV minimally reduced the spontaneous release of TXB2 and RANTES, but did not significantly affect the formation of TXB2 or the release of RANTES and β-TG in platelets stimulated with ADP. Similarly, preincubation of PRP with HbV minimally reduced the spontaneous release of RANTES but did not significantly affect the formation of TXB2 or the release of RANTES and β-TG in platelets stimulated with collagen, although collagen-induced serotonin release tended to decrease with HbV pretreatment. These data suggest that the exposure of human platelets to high concentrations of HbV (up to 40%) in vitro did not cause platelet activation and did not adversely affect the formation and secretion of prothrombotic substances or proinflammatory substances triggered by platelet agonists, although one of the earliest events in ADP-induced platelet activation was slightly potentiated by HbV pretreatment at the doses tested. Taken together, these results imply that HbV, at concentrations of up to 40%, do not have any aberrant interactions with either unstimulated or agonist-induced platelets.
Catch me if you can: permissive yet secure error handling

Program errors are a source of information leaks. Tracking these leaks is hard because error propagation breaks out of program structure. Programming languages often feature exception constructs to provide some structure to error handling: for example, the try.catch blocks in Java and Caml. Mainstream information-flow security compilers such as Jif and FlowCaml enforce rigid rules for exceptions in order to prevent leaks via public side effects of computation whose reachability depends on exceptions. This paper presents a general and permissive alternative to the rigid solution: the programmer is offered a choice for each type of error/exception whether to handle it or not. The security mechanism ensures that, in the former case, it is never handled and, in the latter case, it is always handled with the mainstream restrictions. This mechanism extends naturally to a language with procedures and output, where we show the soundness of the mechanism with respect to termination-insensitive noninterference.
Rethinking Scientific Literacy

1. Science as Collective Praxis, Literacy, Power, and Struggle for a Better World 2. Scientific Literacy as Emergent Feature of Collective Praxis 3. Scientific Literacy, Hegemony, and Struggle 4. Politics, Power, and Science in Inner-City Communities 5. Margin and Center 6. Constructing Scientific Dis/Ability 7. Science Education as and for Citizen Science 8. Dangerous Teaching: Using Science as Tool and Context for Social Justice
An investigation of 4D cone-beam CT algorithms for slowly rotating scanners.

PURPOSE To evaluate several algorithms for 4D cone-beam computed tomography (4D CBCT) with slow rotating devices. 4D CBCT is used to perform phase-correlated (PC) reconstructions of moving objects, such as breathing patients, for example. Such motion phase-dependent reconstructions are especially useful for updating treatment plans in radiation therapy. The treatment plan can be registered more precisely to the motion of the tumor and, in consequence, the irradiation margins for the treatment, the so-called planning target volume, can be reduced significantly METHODS In the study, several algorithms were evaluated for kilovoltage cone-beam CT units attached to linear particle accelerators. The reconstruction algorithms were the conventional PC reconstruction, the McKinnon-Bates (MKB) algorithm, the prior image constrained compressed sensing (PICCS) approach, a total variation minimization (ASD-POCS) algorithm, and the auto-adaptive phase correlation (AAPC) algorithm. For each algorithm, the same motion-affected raw data were used, i.e., one simulated and one measured data set. The reconstruction results from the authors' implementation of these algorithms were evaluated regarding their noise and artifact levels, their residual motion blur, and their computational complexity and convergence. RESULTS In general, it turned out that the residual motion blur was lowest in those algorithms which exclusively use data from a single motion phase. Algorithms using the image from the full data set as initialization or as a reference for the reconstruction were not capable of fully removing the motion blurring. The iterative algorithms, especially approaches based on total variation minimization, showed lower noise and artifact levels but were computationally complex. The conventional methods based on a single filtered backprojection were computationally inexpensive but suffered from higher noise and streak artifacts which limit the usability. In contrast, these methods showed to be less demanding and more predictable in their outcome than the total variation minimization based approaches. CONCLUSIONS The reconstruction algorithms including at least one iterative step can reduce the 4 CBCT specific artifacts. Nevertheless, the algorithms that use the full data set, at least for initialization, such as MKB and PICCS in the authors' implementation, are only a trade-off and may not fully achieve the optimal temporal resolution. A predictable image quality as seen in conventional reconstruction methods, i.e., without total variation minimization, is a desirable property for reconstruction algorithms. Fast, iterative approaches such as the MKB can therefore be seen as a suitable tradeoff.
The Economic Benefits of Mega Events: A Myth or a Reality? A Longitudinal Study on the Olympic Games

This study concerns research related to mega events, such as the Olympic Games, to determine whether the economic impact of the Olympic Games on the host countries is significant. This study uses two methods, panel data analysis and event study, to test hypotheses based on the data from 15 countries that have hosted 24 summer and winter Olympic Games. The results indicate that the economic impact of the Olympic Games on the host countries is only significant in terms of certain parameters (i.e., gross domestic product performance and unemployment) in the short term. These findings provide decision makers with comprehensive and multidimensional knowledge about the economic impact of hosting a mega event and about whether their objectives can be realized as expected.