Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teaching creative problem solving methods to undergraduate economics and business students

This paper seeks to explore the need for and possibility of teaching current and potential problem solvers – undergraduate students in the economic and business field to define problems, to generate and choose creative and useful ideas and to verify them. It aims to select an array of quick and easy-to-use creative problem solving (CPS) techniques. As the result of our exploratory and descriptive research we compiled an array of CPS techniques, broken down by their primary functions within the CPS. The selected menu of traditional methods proposed in this paper can be adopted for undergraduate study of economics and business. The paper adapts the phases of the CPS process, where multi-criteria decision-making methods are used when choosing alternatives. With adopted knowledge about the selected methods for CPS and the acquired ability to understand and use them to support creating and decision-making, current and potential problem solvers in economics and business can act as coordinators in practice. This way of CPS is a step forward from facilitated modelling: it is not necessary to include an outside facilitator to solve every problem. The selection provided in the paper may encourage problem solvers to adapt the techniques for use in practical situations.
Effects of dietary conjugated linoleic acid on lipid peroxidation in breast and thigh muscles of broiler chickens

Liu Y. , Tang G. , Yang J., Li W. (2017): Effects of dietary conjugated linoleic acid on lipid peroxidation in breast and thigh muscles of broiler chickens. Czech J. Anim. Sci., 62, 331–338. The effect of dietary supplementation with conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) on lipid peroxidation in the breast muscles (Pectoralis major and Pectoralis minor) and thigh muscles of broiler chickens was investigated. A total of ninety-six 21-day-old Arbor Acres male broiler chickens were assigned to 2 dietary treatments (0 and 1.5% CLA) with 8 replicates per 6 chickens each. The left breast and thigh muscles of broiler chickens were excised on day 42. The broilers receiving the CLA diet exhibited lower malondialdehyde content and reactive oxygen species production (P < 0.01) in the breast and thigh muscles than the broilers receiving the control diet. After the dietary CLA supplementation, the glutathione (GSH) content in the breast and thigh muscles of the broiler chickens fed the CLA diet increased by 21.89 and 21.56%, respectively (P < 0.05) while the γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase(γ-GCS)activity increased by 28.57 and 25.80% (P < 0.05), respectively. Dietary CLA significantly increased the CLA content (P < 0.01) and saturated fatty acid content (P < 0.05), and decreased the monounsaturated fatty acid content (P < 0.01) in the breast and thigh muscles. These results showed that dietary CLA may decrease the lipid peroxidation level in the breast and thigh muscles of broiler chickens perhaps through increasing the γ-GCS activity to induce GSH synthesis and changing the fatty acid composition to increase oxidative stability.
Mental status of patients with parkinson disease

abstract This paper presents a detailed review of the literature related to the mental status of patients with Parkinson Disease (PD). Even though Parkinson stated that the intellect remains intact, several authors have shown that dementia is found in a sizeable percentage of patients with PD. Several papers written after 1970 suggest that this percentage is between 40 and 50. Both neuropsychological and neuropathological data indicate that the majority of demented PD patients show findings indistinguishable from Alzheimer Disease (AD). This finding is not related to aging and remains unexplained, even though it has been suggested that this mental status change may be related to dopaminergic drugs.
Parenting Teens With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) presents in childhood with inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity and is associated with functional impairments. These children tend to display a variety of disruptive behaviors, which may worsen in adolescence. Teens with ADHD may show high levels of defiance, posing significant challenges for parents. Early efforts to understand parenting in the context of teen ADHD reveal high levels of parental stress and reactivity in response to the teen’s ADHD symptoms. Subsequent research recognized that some of these parents have ADHD or other psychopathology that may contribute to maladaptive parenting. However, some parents adjust and demonstrate optimism and resilience in the face of their teens’ ADHD. Recent research has identified parental factors (eg, emotional intelligence) and interventions (eg, mindfulness training) that may improve parenting/teen relationships and the developmental outcomes of teens. This article explores parenting teens with ADHD with a focus on these novel interventions.
Reliability and validity of the relationship assessment scale

There has been much debate among family scholars about how to define and measure relationship satisfaction. Much of the disagreement stems from two sources: how to define the construct of interest and whether to use a global or specific measure. The Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) was developed to measure a single construct, namely one's subjective evaluation of a close relationship. This measure is not limited to marriage relationships and has shown strong predictive validity with dating couples. This study examined the criterion-related validity of the RAS by comparing Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) scores to RAS scores in a clinical population of 55 men and 63 women. Findings of zero-order and partial correlations and a multiple regression suggest a high degree of convergence between the two instruments, with the highest correlations being between the RAS total score and DAS total score, and the RAS total score and DAS Satisfaction subscale score. Implications for interpretation and use of RAS score.
Evidence for a new segregant series of B cell antigens that are encoded in the HLA-D region and that stimulate secondary allogenic proliferative and cytotoxic responses

Five new histocompatibility antigens, designated secondary B cell or (SB) antigens, have been identified by secondary allogeneic proliferative and cytotoxic responses. The reagents used to define the SB antigents are lymphocytes primed between donors matched for all known HLA antigens. The SB antigens stimulate weak primary allogeneic proliferative responses (a mean relative response of 8%) but strong secondary proliferative responses. Strong secondary cell-mediated cytotoxicity is generated against target antigens that are distinguishable from the SB antigens defined by proliferation. Studies by direct lysis and by cold-target inhibition indicate that these target antigens are preferentially expressed on B cells relative to T cells. The SB antigens segregate with HLA, and the gene(s) encoding the SB1, 3, and 4 antigens maps centromeric to HLA-B. The SB antigens are major histocompatibility antigens not only because they are encoded by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, but also by the functional criteria that the proliferative and cytotoxic responses to SB antigens are not restricted by HLA-DR or HLA-A,-B. Parallel studies of the SB antigens and the DR antigens with respect to: (a) their preferential expression on B cells, (b) their function in secondary allogeneic proliferative and cytotoxic respones, and (c) the location of their structural gene within the MHC. However, the SB antigens and the DR antigens are clearly distinct antigens, because population studies indicate that they can occur independently, and family studies indicate that specific SB antigens segregate with HLA haplotypes having different D and DR specificities. Our data are consistent with the hypotheses that the SB antigens are a new segregant series of B cell alloantigens, and that the SB gene and the DR gene derive from a duplicated ancestral gene.
SEXUALITY AND OLDER PEOPLE: REVISITING THE ASSUMPTIONS

Anyone who aspires to a fulfilling life would probably accept that this should include a right to sexual fulfillment. Yet modern Western culture continues to deny older people the same opportunities enjoyed by the young to express their sexuality. We review the psychosocial and physiological factors that influence the sexual expression of older people, provide a critical review of research paradigms used in the study of aging and sexuality, and discuss educational issues that health professionals and older people themselves must consider in order to dispel myths about asexual older people. We argue that it should not be assumed that the physical and pathological changes associated with advancing age reduce the opportunity to enjoy sex. Alternative interpretations and expressions of sexuality may be one of the great opportunities of growing older, especially in the absence of societal and culturally adverse expectations and attitudes.
Other-race effects manifest in overall performance, not qualitative processing style

Other-race effects in recognition memory of faces have been well documented: It is often more difficult to recognize other-race (OR) versus same-race (SR) faces (Meissner & Brigham, 2001). However, the mechanisms underlying such effects remain unknown. Recent work has shown that OR and SR faces are processed in the same qualitative manner—both SR and OR faces are processed holistically (Bukach, Cottle, Ubiwa, & Miller, 2012). Here, we manipulate stimulus presentation times to test whether there are quantitative processing differences between OR and SR faces. We found that Caucasian and Asian participants processed both OR and SR faces holistically, but there were differences in overall discrimination ability (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, we observed a similar discrimination advantage for SR faces categorized as belonging to an ingroup versus outgroup (see Hugenberg & Corneille, 2009) but no differences in holistic processing. Together, our results suggest that OR and SR faces differ in the efficiency with which they are encoded and processed, possibly as a consequence of social categorization that discourages individuation of outgroup (and OR) faces.
SHOULD MECHANICAL TREATMENTS AND HERBICIDES BE USED AS FIRE SURROGATES TO MANAGE FLORIDA’S UPLANDS? A REVIEW

Mechanical treatments such as roller-chopping, mowing, chain-sawing, and logging, and herbicide application, are increasingly used to manage fire-maintained Florida ecosystems. Goals include achieving or restoring desired vegetation structure and composition, providing habitat for listed species, and allowing the reintroduction of fire. We review studies evaluating mechanical treatments and herbicide effects on Florida’s plant and animal communities. Mechanical treatments and herbicide often accelerated vegetation structure changes, but ecological benefits were generally greatest when they were combined with fire. Soil disturbances, weedy species increases, and rapid hardwood resprouting were sometimes problems with mechanical treatments. Fire itself was crucial for maintenance of individual species and species diversity. When feasible, mechanical and herbicide treatments should be used as pretreatments for fire rather than as fire surrogates. Managers should segue to fire-only approaches as soon as possible. The effects of removing fire, the most evolutionarily significant disturbance in Florida, on fire-adapted plants and animals requires more study. If we increase the use of mechanical agents, how will this affect ecosystem resilience? We suggest caution in using these evolutionarily novel treatments, with close monitoring of their effects. More information on the long-term effects of repeated non-fire treatments is needed before such approaches are adopted
Observing Young Children in Action to Assess their Development: The High/Scope Child Observation Record Study

The High/Scope Child Observation Record (COR) measures the developmental status of young children 21/2 to 6 years old as affected by early childhood education. A study of COR ratings of children's behavior by 64 teams of COR-trained Head Start teachers and assistant teachers in southeastern Michigan demonstrated the COR's reliability and concurrent validity. COR ratings by teachers had alpha reliability coefficients of . 66 to . 93 and Pearson product-moment correlations of . 57 to . 76 with COR ratings of the same children by assistant teachers. The COR study demonstrated the concurrent validity of COR ratings by teachers by Pearson product-moment correlations of . 37 to . 53 with similar scores on the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities; . 51 to . 61 with children's ages; . 00 to . 07 with children's sex; and . 00 to . 28 with mothers' and fathers' schooling and employment status, respectively.
The Effects of Globalization on Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Trade-Dependent Economy: The Case of Korea

This paper studies the implications of globalization for the dynamics of macroeconomic variables over the business cycle for a small open trade-dependent economy, such as South Korea. We study the impact of globalization through the lens of a structural model. Globalization is modeled as a time-varying degree of openness in the economy. We estimate the model allowing for non-fully rational expectations, learning by economic agents, and incomplete international financial markets. The empirical results show that globalization led to important changes in the macroeconomic environment. Domestic variables have become much more sensitive toward global measures over the 1991-2012 sample. In particular, domestic output and inflation are significantly affected by global output. Fluctuations in Korean output, inflation, and interest rates, which were driven for the most part by domestic shocks in the early 1990s are, by the end of the sample, due in large part (roughly 70%) to global shocks (and shocks that are open-economy in nature).
Short‐term lineage analysis of dorsally derived Olig3 cells in the developing spinal cord

We examined the migration and differentiation of cells expressing Olig3, a basic helix‐loop‐helix transcriptional factor, in the developing spinal cord. Distribution of Olig3 lineage cells was demonstrated with in situ hybridization and X‐gal staining in an Olig3‐lacZ knock‐in mouse. Olig3‐positive cells first appeared in the dorsal spinal cord, except for the roof plate. Some of the dorsal Olig3 lineage cells co‐expressed Islet1/2, Math1, or Brn3a, markers for dorsal interneuron. LacZ‐positive cells were observed in the ventral‐most part of the E10.5 spinal cord, suggesting that some dorsal Olig3 lineage cells migrate into the ventral‐most part by E10.5. Ventral‐ward migration of dorsal cells and contribution to commissural interneurons were substantiated by electroporation of EGFP expression plasmid in the dorsal spinal cord of chick embryo. Dorsal midline cells were also LacZ‐positive during development. These findings suggest that dorsal Olig3 cells contribute to dorsal midline cells and commissural interneurons at intermediate and ventral levels. Developmental Dynamics 234:622–632, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Information trade-offs for optical quantum communication

Recent work has precisely characterized the achievable trade-offs between three key information processing tasks-classical communication (generation or consumption), quantum communication (generation or consumption), and shared entanglement (distribution or consumption), measured in bits, qubits, and ebits per channel use, respectively. Slices and corner points of this three-dimensional region reduce to well-known protocols for quantum channels. A trade-off coding technique can attain any point in the region and can outperform time sharing between the best-known protocols for accomplishing each information processing task by itself. Previously, the benefits of trade-off coding that had been found were too small to be of practical value (viz., for the dephasing and the universal cloning machine channels). In this Letter, we demonstrate that the associated performance gains are in fact remarkably high for several physically relevant bosonic channels that model free-space or fiber-optic links, thermal-noise channels, and amplifiers. We show that significant performance gains from trade-off coding also apply when trading photon-number resources between transmitting public and private classical information simultaneously over secret-key-assisted bosonic channels.
Predicting the timing of leaving home and related developmental tasks: Parents’ and children’s perspectives

In this longitudinal study, we examined the changes in romantic activity, parental support, and the quality of parents’ marital relationships as predictors of the timing of leaving home in a sample of 93 children and their parents. During their adolescent years, on-time leavers received decreasing levels of parental support and were more romantically active, compared with late leavers or those later residing with their parents. The lower romantic activity of the two latter groups continued throughout emerging adulthood. No differences between the three groups emerged with respect to professional career. Parents’ marital quality had no impact on the timing of leaving home. The children’s and parents’ retrospective evaluations of the timing of leaving home were similar, but mothers perceived the transition as being more stressful than fathers did.
An indirect matrix converter with a cost effective protection and control

The cost of protection circuits and transducers for protection and control purposes play an important part when evaluating the potential of a converter topology for mass production. Direct power converters are known to require minimum size of the passive components in the input filter, but they require a large number of semiconductor devices and the use of protection/clamp circuits that further increase the circuit complexity and cost. This paper surveys a few known techniques to simplify and reduce the number of devices involved in protection circuits and control of indirect matrix converters (IMC) and proposes a few new ones
Topic-drop versus pro-drop: null subjects and pronominal subjects in the Spanish L2 of Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese speakers

Recent developments within the so-called Principles and Parameters model of acquisition argue for a clear-cut separation of Universal Grammar (UG) principles from parametric options and locate all parameters within functional categories (Borer, 1984; Lebeaux, 1988; Chomsky, 1991). This has led Tsimpli and Roussou (1991) to propose that adult L2 (second language) learners have access to UG principles but do not reset the parameters of the L2, which amounts to saying that null subjects in the adult Spanish L2 may or may not have the same status as native Spanish null subjects, depending on the speakers’ L1 (first language) and the UG principles at stake. In the case of L1 acquisition, Rizzi (1994) and Hyams (1994) provide a competence account of null subjects in early child English which relate them to adult English Diary Drop and German-style topic-drop rather than to Spanish-style pro-drop. They specifically argue that these missing subjects are restricted to the first position of non-wh root clauses and that fixing the null subject parameter will consist of incorporating the ROOT=CP principle into this grammar. In this paper, we analyse the Spanish L2 oral spontaneous data produced by adult L1 speakers of pro-drop and topic-drop languages in an attempt to provide a competence account of null subjects in adult nonnative Spanish. Our data show that, unlike early English grammars,all the Spanish non-native grammars contain null subjects both in matrix and subordinate clauses, and that this is the case at the early and advanced stages. It also shows that many non-native pronominal subjects do not have the same value as native Spanish subjects and that subject pronouns are used for identification purposes. It is suggested that these data provide evidence for a model of L2 acquisition where adult non-native grammar construction resorts to a default licensing procedure which allows null pronouns provided they can be identified.
Alternative Route Training: Implications for Elementary Education and Special Education

In this paper, we review findings from 19 studies of alternative route programs and conclude that they have not been shown to be inferior to traditional programs. These programs are program evaluations and lack many of the controls typical of experimental work; as a result, the findings may be less trustworthy than necessary for reasoned decision-making. Problems inherent in conducting studies of this sort are discussed and illustrated with examples from this literature. The appropriateness of the secondary content area model for elementary and special education is considered from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Effects of “In-Your-Face” Television Discourse on Perceptions of a Legitimate Opposition

How do Americans acquire the impression that their political foes have some understandable basis for their views, and thus represent a legitimate opposition? How do they come to believe that reasonable people may disagree on any given political controversy? Given that few people talk regularly to those of opposing perspectives, some theorize that mass media, and television in particular, serve as an important source of exposure to the rationales for oppositional views. A series of experimental studies suggests that television does, indeed, have the capacity to encourage greater awareness of oppositional perspectives. However, common characteristics of televised political discourse—incivility and close-up camera perspectives—cause audiences to view oppositional perspectives as less legitimate than they would have otherwise. I discuss the broader implications of these findings for assessments of the impact of television on the political process, and for the perspective that televised political discourse provides on oppositional political views.
Rapid Distance-Based Outlier Detection via Sampling

Distance-based approaches to outlier detection are popular in data mining, as they do not require to model the underlying probability distribution, which is particularly challenging for high-dimensional data. We present an empirical comparison of various approaches to distance-based outlier detection across a large number of datasets. We report the surprising observation that a simple, sampling-based scheme outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness. To better understand this phenomenon, we provide a theoretical analysis why the sampling-based approach outperforms alternative methods based on k-nearest neighbor search.