Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Language by ear and by eye

Sponsored by the Growth and Development Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a research conference on the relationships between speech and learning to read was held at Belmont, Maryland, 16-19 May 1971. The task set up by the conference was to shed some light on the processes involved in listening, speaking and reading, and ultimately to bring us nearer an answer to the following question: why is it that reading needs to be taught, often at enormous costs of time and energy, while speech perception comes easily and without tuition? The proceedings of the conference have been published in the volume reviewed here. The book clearly shows the controversial nature of the subject chosen the solutions proposed to several intricate problems are as numerous as the participants involved in the discussions. The lack of consistency no doubt owes much to the fact that the contributions range from concrete reports of experiments in reading, given by practising research workers in this field, to theoretical papers of a very high level of abstraction. One also has a feeling that terminological uncertainty is a source of confusion in the debates. This is especially true of the discussions on the way in which different orthographies represent different linguistic levels, and on the linguistic codes used by the reader. Difficult and contradictory as its subject-matter may be, the volume nevertheless is inspiring reading, containing fruitful ideas and an impressive amount of knowledge brought together by highly learned specialists in the fields of psychology and linguistics. Also useful are the bibliographies following each paper.
Formative Assessment in Property Education: A Comparison Between Blended and Online Learning

Abstract Formative assessment is of vital importance to enhance student learning. Students are able to apply their knowledge by completing formative exercises and given the opportunity to rectify their mistakes prior to attempting the summative assessment. Feedback provided for formative assessment has been recognised as central in enhancing student learning as students can use this to reinforce their understanding of the subject. The paper is based on an exploratory research project using student survey data as well as records of students’ performance and activities over the first semester of 2012. The purpose is to study how two groups of property students exposed to different modes of learning responded to the online and traditional formative assessment. The student perceptions and the statistical relationship between formative and summative assessment will be analysed using quantitative analysis techniques. The research shows that both groups of students, internal (blended) and external (online) students, have benefited from the range of formative assessments offered in this first-year property course, albeit to a different extent. Property academics should, therefore, make good use of formative assessment to enhance student engagement and virtual classroom might be a solution to further engage external students. Besides highlighting challenges, student perceptions and the usefulness of formative assessment, the paper also provides recommendations for future research.
Cancer Care Ontario Practice Guidelines Initiative

1990-1996 Netherlands, multicentered Squamous cell cisplatin 80 mg/m 2 x 1 day X 2 cycles etoposide 100 mg IV x 2 days + 200 mg/m 2 PO x 2 days x 2 cycles + esophagectomy § 74 18.5 NR NR NR NR NR Significant benefit in median survival favouring CT, p=0.002. 1 toxic death 67 alopecia 10 renal esophagectomy (transhiatal) 74 11 NR NR NR NR NR NR
Pride and popcorn: consuming the idea of community at film screenings in the Turkish diaspora

A range of studies have revealed the interrelatedness of identity construction, community formation and media among diasporas, mostly focusing on domestic contexts. Seeking to add further nuance to the understanding of the social lives of diasporas, we concentrate on media culture in the public environment of the film theatre. The significance of diasporic film consumption is investigated through a local audience study of Turkish film screenings in Antwerp. The phenomenon of the screenings was analysed through a multi-method approach, including 536 questionnaires among audiences, 19 in-depth interviews and 3 group interviews, along with previous findings (on distribution and exploitation) of the same project. The results show that Turkish films are almost exclusively attended by people with Turkish roots, creating a Turkish diasporic space within the boundaries of the urban and the public. The audience study shows that the screenings fulfil a major social role but also affect understandings of community.
Transferring influence: Supervised learning for efficient influence maximization across networks

How to maximize influence through social networks is a key challenge behind many important applications in real life. For instance, marketers are interested in how to use limited resource to promote a new product as widely recognized by consumers. In recent years, researchers have conducted numerous studies to conquer this intriguing problem in single network scenario. In terms of the scale of achieved influence, the best solution is a greedy algorithm based on time-consuming Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. However, it is not scalable to large-scale social networks or the scenario of targeting multiple networks.We propose an innovative Transfer Influence Learning (TIL) method based on the study on three real networks, as well as statistics on network features of results generated by the greedy algorithm. The proposed method uses supervised learning technique to efficiently maximize influence across multiple networks. Once having the result of the greedy algorithm in one network, the TIL algorithm can avoid using MC simulation completely on other networks, which enables the algorithm to run very fast. The experiments show that the proposed TIL algorithm is able to generate a diffusion with closed scale comparing to the result of the greedy algorithm within a much faster time, while outperforms some other state-of-art heuristic algorithms.
Interaction between Dietary Factors and Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Noncardia Gastric Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study in China

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among Helicobacter pylori, dietary factors, and the risk of noncardia gastric cancer in a hospital-based case-control study in China. Methods: A case-control study of noncardia gastric cancer was performed at 3 hospitals in Xi'an, China, between September 2008 and July 2010. Participants were 257 men and women with histologically diagnosed primary noncardia gastric cancer and 514 sex- and age-matched (± 5 years) control subjects selected from the communities where the cases were living when diagnosed. A questionnaire was used to obtain information regarding potential risk factors, including diet, and blood samples were obtained to examine H pylori infection status. Results: Positive H pylori status (odds ratio [OR], 3.2; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.8–5.9) and high consumption of pickled foods (OR, 27.1; 95%, 8.7–79.1) appeared to increase the risk of noncardia gastric cancer, whereas high consumption of vegetables (OR, 0.3; 95% CI, 0.1–0.89), fruits (OR, 0.2; 95% CI, 0.09–0.81), and soya products (OR, 0.04; 95% CI, 0.01–0.3) appeared to decrease the risk. Consumption of meat, cereals, tubers, eggs, oils, nuts, fish, fresh fruit, and red meat was not clearly associated with risk. Effect modification was observed, such that a relatively high consumption of fruit and vegetables appeared to attenuate the association of H pylori with risk of noncardia gastric cancer (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Our data suggest that noncardia gastric cancer is highly preventable through modifications in dietary habits. Given the prevalence of H pylori infection worldwide, information regarding potential interaction between H pylori and lifestyle factors in gastric cancer development, including the dietary factors examined in our study, may prove valuable in future efforts at prevention.
The Relationship Between Feminine Gender Role Stress, Body Image, And Eating Disorders

The Feminine Gender Role Stress (FGRS) scale was used in two studies to determine whether eating disorders could be linked to the cognitive tendency among women to appraise specific situations as highly stressful because of rigid adherence to the traditional feminine gender role. Study 1 showed the FGRS scale could distinguish eating disorders from other psychiatric disorders in an inpatient setting and from normal college women. This suggests that women who have eating disorders report higher than usual levels of stress as a result of rigid adherence to the traditional feminine gender role. Study 2 looked at cardiovascular reactivity to a “feminine” (i.e., body image threat) and a control stressor and determined the FGRS scale could predict which women are threatened by feminine stressors. Results from these studies suggest feminine gender role stress may be the missing link between cultural values of femininity and vulnerability for eating disorders.
Statistical Evaluation of Measure and Distance on Document Classification Problems in Text Mining

This paper discusses the document classification problems in text mining from the viewpoint of asymptotic statistical analysis. By formulation of statistical hypotheses test which is specified as a problem of text mining, some interesting properties can be visualized. In the problem of text mining, the several heuristics are applied to practical analysis because of its experimental effectiveness in many case studies. The theoretical explanation about the performance of text mining techniques is required and this approach will give us very clear idea. The distance measure in word vector space is used to classify the documents. In this paper, the performance of distance measure is also analized from the new viewpoint of asymptotic analysis.
Risk Factors Associated with the Abuse of Video Games in Adolescents

Several studies have revealed the existence of a maladaptive pattern of video game use whose symptoms are quite similar to those of the disorder referred to as “abuse” in the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000). The aim of this paper is to examine the psychosocial characteristics of the adolescent video game abusers and to compare them with the risk factors that the literature associates with substance dependence. For this pur- pose, two groups (“problem” and “social” players) were formed with 236 Spanish adolescents aged be- tween 12 and 17 years, by means of the Problem Video Game Playing questionnaire (PVP; Tejeiro & Bersabe, 2002), and their psychosocial characteristics were then analyzed by means of a wide battery of tests. Only 37.3% of the problem players showed a psychosocial pattern similar to the risk factors for de- pendence; an integral model of maladaptive behavior is discussed as explanation for these persons’ video game abuse. The other 69.6% of “problem players” only differed from the “social players” in their over- use of video games (but not in other psychosocial factors); the social learning approach is suggested for these adolescents’ behavior.
The revenge of Me and THE BAND’its: A narrative inquiry of identity constructions in a rock band of ex-inmates

This article explores the themes of community of practice, rock culture and identity construction in Me and THE BAND’its, a rock band of ex-inmates. Using a narrative inquiry approach, two specific scenarios provide the background for two narratives being presented in the research. The first narrative is rooted in a dramatic life-threatening knife assault in which the lead singer in the band was almost killed. Considering different violent options, Me and THE BAND’its decided to take revenge by not taking conventional revenge. The context of the second narrative is the negotiation between the band and the cultural administration of the community about a performance production. Meeting with a bureaucratic and cumbersome system led to frustration but at the same time strengthened the inner bonds in the band. This resulted in the decision to take “alternative revenge” by developing skills and authenticity of their music instead. Me and THE BAND’its alternative action of doing music instead of taking revenge in traditional violent ways can be viewed as creative adjustment in opposition to the traditional approaches of the Correctional Services. The resource being used by Me and THE BAND’its in the process is mainly the community of practice that their rock band establishes. Me and THE BAND’its is embedded in rock culture, using alteration as a strategic repertoire for identity construction. In conclusion, the identity of members is defined and reinforced in the community of practice.
In Vivo Gene Transfer Using Direct Intramuscular Injection Approach

Naotaka Hashiya, Nobuo Jo, Motokuni Aoki, Kunio Matsumoto, Toshikazu Nakamura, Located Upstream of Angiogenesis Cascade In Vivo Evidence of Angiogenesis Induced by Transcription Factor Ets-1 : Ets-1 Is Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2004 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/01.CIR. 0000130643.41587. DB 2004;109:3035-3041; originally published online June 1, 2004; Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals. org/content/109/24/3035 World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on the
The impact of medical informatics on the confidence of rural physicians caring for patients with chronic hepatitis C viral infections.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to determine whether CD-based medical informatics enhances rural physicians' confidence in the management of patients with chronic hepatitis C viral infections. METHODS A total of 385 Canadian rural physicians were mailed a CD-based medical software programme that outlines all aspects of HCV care including diagnosis, counselling, treatment and follow-up. Accompanying the CD was a brief questionnaire that addressed physicians' confidence in the following areas: (i) identifying HCV patients in their practice; (ii) laboratory use and interpretation; (iii) patient counselling; (iv) selection of candidates for treatment; (v) sharing treatment delivery; and (vi) providing follow-up. Three months thereafter, the same questionnaire was repeated. RESULTS Of the 385 mailings, 59 (15%) physicians returned the initial questionnaire and 57 (15%) the follow-up questionnaire. Twenty-five (44%) respondents indicated they had used the CD. Baseline physician confidence was low in three of the six areas addressed. At follow-up, in addition to now being confident in all areas, CD users were significantly more confident than those who had not used the CD. Increases in physician confidence for CD users were approximately 150-300% in the six areas addressed. The value assigned the CD programme was 8/10. CONCLUSION The results of this study indicate that: (i) rural physicians are uncomfortable in dealing with many aspects of HCV management; (ii) CD-ROM-based medical informatics can significantly enhance rural physicians' confidence in these areas; (iii) approximately 50% of physicians will employ CD-ROM-based medical informatics in their offices; and (iv) physician level of satisfaction with such programmes is high.
Mothers' Storybook Reading and Kindergartners' Socioemotional and Literacy Development

This study assessed storybook reading at home with reference to kindergartners’ empathy, socioemotional adjustment, language, and alphabetic skills. Beyond considering the frequency of storybook reading, measures included maternal expertise in choosing books. Findings indicated various relations between aspects of storybook reading and early development. Frequency of storybook reading was related to the child's language ability, whereas maternal expertise in choosing books was related to the child's empathy and socioemotional adjustment. These results suggest the need for further study of differential connections between shared reading and child development.
Microsurgical Anatomy of the Anterior Commissure: Correlations With Diffusion Tensor Imaging Fiber Tracking and Clinical Relevance

BACKGROUND Detailed anatomy of the anterior commissure is unknown in the literature. OBJECTIVE To describe the anterior commissure with the use of a fiber dissection technique by focusing on the morphology (length and breadth of the 2 portions), the course, and the relations with neighboring fasciculi, particularly in the temporal stem. METHODS We dissected 8 previously frozen, formalin-fixed human brains under the operating microscope using the fiber dissection described by Klingler. Lateral, inferior, and medial approaches were made. RESULTS The anterior olfactive limb of the anterior commissure was sometimes absent during dissection. The cross-sectional 3-dimensional magnetic resonance rendering images showed that fibers of the anterior commissure curved laterally within the basal forebrain. The tip of the temporal limb of the anterior commissure was intermingled with other fasciculi in various directions to form a dense 3-dimensional network. CONCLUSION Functional anatomy and comparative anatomy are described. The anterior commissure can be involved in various pathologies such as diffuse axonal injury, schizophrenia, and cerebral tumoral dissemination.
A systemic functional contribution to planning academic genre teaching in a bilingual education context

Commencing study through a foreign language in senior secondary school brings huge challenges because of the cognitive-linguistic demands of academic subjects. This paper argues for the need to blend sociocultural and systemic functional linguistic (SFL) perspectives to address this enormous task. Firstly, readers’ attention is drawn to the less than successful history, globally, of helping students overcome the challenges. Secondly, the paper sets out the author's intention to respond to the call by Coyle for bilingual educators working in a predominantly sociocultural paradigm to ‘connect’ with other paradigms. Next, aiming to respond to two exploratory questions regarding the power of SFL to inform planning of language-aware teaching, which is richer and more productive than is evident in sociocultural scholarship, the paper proceeds towards descriptive and comparative analyses of a student's written outcome in science, using the SFL framework based on ‘text architecture’. The SFL analyses exemplify what might be taught, with brief mention of how SFL practitioners do so, in order to raise awareness of academic genre creation. Finally, drawing on the paper's analyses and evidence from elsewhere, arguments for the paradigmatic blending are synthesised.
Bidirectional communication between oocytes and ovarian follicular somatic cells is required for meiotic arrest of mammalian oocytes

Significance The fertility of mammalian females depends upon the coordinated development of ovarian follicles and the developing eggs, called oocytes, contained within them. It has been known for many years that the somatic cells of follicles arrest the progression of meiosis in the oocyte until both the follicle and the oocyte are fully developed and ready for ovulation and fertilization. Here we show that, although the somatic compartment of ovarian follicles clearly plays an essential role in the maintenance of oocyte meiotic arrest, this function of the somatic cells is regulated by signals from the oocyte itself. Coordinated regulation of oocyte and ovarian follicular development is essential for fertility. In particular, the progression of meiosis, a germ cell-specific cell division that reduces the number of chromosomes from diploid to haploid, must be arrested until just before ovulation. Follicular somatic cells are well-known to impose this arrest, which is essential for oocyte–follicle developmental synchrony. Follicular somatic cells sustain meiotic arrest via the natriuretic peptide C/natriuretic peptide receptor 2 (NPPC/NPR2) system, and possibly also via high levels of the purine hypoxanthine in the follicular fluid. Upon activation by the ligand NPPC, NPR2, the predominant guanylyl cyclase in follicular somatic cells, produces cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), which maintains meiotic arrest after transfer to the oocyte via gap junctions. Here we report that both the NPPC/NPR2 system and hypoxanthine require the activity of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH), the rate-limiting enzyme required for the production of guanylyl metabolites and cGMP. Furthermore, oocyte-derived paracrine factors, particularly the growth differentiation factor 9–bone morphogenetic protein 15 heterodimer, promote expression of Impdh and Npr2 and elevate cGMP levels in cumulus cells. Thus, although the somatic compartment of ovarian follicles plays an essential role in the maintenance of oocyte meiotic arrest, as has been known for many years, this function of the somatic cells is surprisingly regulated by signals from the oocyte itself.
Epidemiology and Clinical Long-term Outcome of Childhood Aplastic Anemia in Korea for 15 Years: Retrospective Study of the Korean Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology (KSPHO)

Purpose Aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare hematologic disease characterized by pancytopenia and hypocellular marrow. The Korean Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology investigated retrospectively the incidence, survival, and transfusion independency according to treatment strategies in AA. Methods All the questionnaires were sent to members for medical records. We collected and analyzed 702 available data. Results The male and female ratio was 1.2, and the median age at diagnosis was 9.3 years. The annual incidence of Korean children with AA was 5.16 per million per year. Constitutional anemia was diagnosed in 44 children. In acquired AA, causes were identified in 39 children. Severe AA (SAA) at initial diagnosis was more common than nonsevere AA. The overall survival was 47.8% with supportive care, 68.1% with immunosuppressive therapy (IST), and 81.8% with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In IST, response rate was 65.7%, and relapse rate after response was 54.4% within a median of 23.0 months. The factors with overall survival were severity of disease in supportive care, severity and response in IST, donor type, graft failure, and posttransplant events in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Conclusions Long-term outcome in AA was dependent on treatment strategies. These Korean results may help research and prospective international clinical trials for childhood AA.
Extremely Early High Abilities, Sensitive Periods, and the Development of Giftedness: a conceptual proposition

An explanation is proposed of the underlying mechanisms and nature of extremely early high abilities — prodigiousness. It is suggested that prodigiousness be considered as a consequence of accelerated development especially during sensitive periods, which results in the rapid formation of a child's mental resources into unique cognitive experiences, expressed in the prodigy's exceptional perceptions of the world. Other phenomena in the very young prodigy's development (e.g. crystallising experiences, midlife crisis, asynchrony and/or dyssynchrony) are also interpreted in the light of this conception of prodigiousness.
Quasi-Decentralized Functional Observers for the LFC of Interconnected Power Systems

This letter presents a novel approach to the load-frequency control (LFC) of interconnected power systems. Based on functional observers theory, quasi-decentralized functional observers (QDFOs) are designed to implement any given global PI state feedback controller. The designed functional observers are decoupled from each other and also of low-order; thus, they are cost effective and easy to implement. Although the proposed approach is applicable to N- area power systems, an example of a two-area interconnected power system with reheat thermal turbines is considered for simplicity.