Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biologia Plantarum Xx (x): Xxx-xxx, 20xx Changes in Antioxidant Enzyme Activities and Gene Expression in Two Muskmelon Genotypes under Progressive Water Stress

Responses of two muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) genotypes (drought tolerant SC-15 and drought susceptible EC-564755) were analyzed at 0, 7, 14, and 21 d of progressive water stress. Although water deficit caused a significant decline in relative water content, the magnitude of reduction was lower in SC-15. Electrolyte leakage, hydrogen peroxide, and malondialdehyde generation were higher in EC-564755, whereas accumulation of proline was higher in SC-15. Higher activities of antioxidant enzymes, such as catalase, superoxide dismutase, ascorbate peroxidase, guaiacol peroxidase, and glutathione reductase, and higher expression of the respective genes were recorded in SC-15 than in EC-564755. Expressions of DREB2C and DREB3 in SC-15 revealed a fluctuating pattern with down-regulation on days 7 and 21 of water stress, whereas up-regulation was observed on day 14. Concurrently, both genes in EC-564755 showed continuous down-regulation on days 7, 14, and 21 of water stress. Expressions of RD22 and dehydrin recorded on days 7, 14, and 21 were lower in SC-15. The cluster analysis showed that, these two genotypes have a clear distinction in physiological and biochemical properties and gene expressions under water stress and the genotype SC-15 has more efficient osmoprotectant mechanism than genotype EC-564755 under water deficit conditions.
Interactions of hydrogen sulfide with myeloperoxidase

The actions of hydrogen sulfide in human physiology have been extensively studied and, although it is an essential mediator of many biological functions, the underlying molecular mechanisms of its actions are ill‐defined. To elucidate the roles of sulfide in inflammation, we have investigated its interactions with human myeloperoxidase (MPO), a major contributor to inflammatory oxidative stress.
The Measurement of Career Interests among At-Risk Inner-City and Middle-Class Suburban Adolescents

This article examines the factor structure and underlying dimensions of Holland's occupational themes with inner-city, at-risk middle school adolescents and middle-class, suburban middle school adolescents. Both groups constructed the occupational world across the Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, and Social Holland themes similarly. However, there were differences in their construals of the relationships between occupations in the Enterprising and Social Themes. Subsequent means analyses indicated significant ethnic differences in medical science careers and within-group ethnic differences in working with hands, working outdoors, professional and fashion arts, social service, and medical service careers.
Sex and Age Correlates of Chlamydia Prevalence in Adolescents and Adults Entering Correctional Facilities, 2005: Implications for Screening Policy

Objectives: To evaluate sex and age correlates of chlamydia prevalence in incarcerated populations. Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of chlamydia prevalence by demographic characteristics from incarcerated females and males entering selected juvenile and adult correctional facilities (jails) in the United States in 2005. Results: A total of 97,681 and 52,485 incarcerated persons aged ≥12 years were screened for chlamydia in 141 juvenile and 22 adult correctional facilities, respectively. Overall, chlamydia prevalence was high in females (14.3% and 7.5%) in both juvenile and adult facilities when compared with that in males (6.0% and 4.6%). The chlamydia prevalence was higher in incarcerated females than in incarcerated males for persons ≤35 years, and prevalence was highest among females aged ≤25 years (range, 11.3%–15.6%). In juvenile facilities, prevalence did not steadily increase with age in females (12.8% in 12–14 years, 15.1% in 15–17 years, and 14.3% in 18–20 years) whereas in males prevalence steadily increased with age (2.4% in 12–14 years to 8.7% in 18–20 years). In females and males the highest prevalence in juvenile facilities was in incarcerated blacks (18.4% and 9.6%, respectively). In adult facilities, the prevalence was consistently highest in younger detainees: in females it was 15.6% in 18- to 20-year olds compared with 1.5% in those >40 years; in males it was 8.8% in 18- to 20-year olds compared with 1.4% in those >40 years. Conclusions: The consistently high chlamydia prevalence among females in juvenile facilities and females (≤25 years) in adult facilities supports a screening policy in correctional settings consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines. Although the prevalence of chlamydia in males is substantial, chlamydia prevalence in females exceeds that of males ≤35 years, and thus screening females for chlamydia in these facilities should take priority over screening males.
Age and sex effects in multiple dimensions of self-concept: Preadolescence to early adulthood.

Les effets de l'âge et du sexe sur l'evolution du concept de soi depuis la pre-adolescence jusqu'a l'âge adulte sont analyses a partir de 3 questionnaires d'auto-description (SDQI) portant sur 12266 sujets et les resultats discutes en relation avec les operationalisations de Shavelson et al. (1976)
The Need of Belonging and Sense of Belonging versus Effectiveness of Coping

The aim of this research was to describe the dependence between the need for and sense of belonging and symptoms of depression vs. one’s capacity to cope effectively. Using path analysis of our data (N = 178), we found direct patterns, in which both depression symptoms and life satisfaction depend to a considerable degree on the sense of belonging. The belonging need influences, in a direct way, the coping focused on the search for social support. Undertaking active techniques of coping, including confrontation with a stressful situation and its negative controlling impact, depends on having a high level of the sense of belonging. In contrast, individuals who cope by means of taking psychoactive drugs show the symptoms of depression.
Reasoning in moral conflicts

Following the assumptions of the mental model theory and its account of moral judgements, we argue for a main role of reasoning in moral judgements, especially in dealing with moral conflicts. In four experiments, we invited adult participants to evaluate scenarios describing moral or immoral actions. Our results confirm the predictions deriving from our assumptions: Given a moral or immoral scenario, the manipulation of the propositions which refer to norms and values results in a scenario eliciting a moral conflict (Experiment 1); when invited to create conflict versions from no-conflict versions of moral or immoral scenarios, individuals manipulate the propositions in the scenario which describe norms and values rather than emotional factors (Experiment 2); the evaluation of conflict scenarios takes longer than the evaluation of no-conflict scenarios (Experiment 3), and this is because conflict scenarios involve more deliberative reasoning (Experiment 4). We discuss our results in relation to competing theories of moral judgements.
Indonesia: Legitimacy, Secular Democracy, and Islam

In the tumultuous final months of the Suharto regime, few predicted that in 2010 Southeast Asia would have one successful democratic nation marked by political openness, social stability, and steady economic growth—and that that nation would be Indonesia. The success of the world's third largest democracy is all the more remarkable because it is also the world's largest Muslim country. Secular democracy and Islam are widely thought to be antithetical. It is commonly believed that either secularism or democracy might prevail in Muslim-majority states but not both together. Indonesia's democratic transition challenges this assumption and draws attention to the generally positive and substantial contribution of Islamic leaders and Islamic civil society movements to reform and democratization. And poor polling by Islamist parties suggests that for the vast majority of Indonesians, secular democracy and Islam are absolutely compatible and that the main source of legitimacy is good governance and its fruits. En los tumultuosos meses finales del regimen de Suharto, pocos predijeron que en 2010 el Sudeste Asiatico tendria una exitosa nacion democratica marcada por la apertura politica, estabilidad social, y un firme crecimiento economico—y que esa nacion seria Indonesia. El exito de la tercera mas grande democracia mundial es aun mas extraordinario porque es tambien el pais musulman mas grande del mundo. La democracia secular y el Islam se conciben generalmente como antiteticos. Se considera comun que en los estados de mayoria musulmana una termine prevaleciendo sobre la otro pero no las dos juntas. La transicion democratica de Indonesia desafia esta suposicion y llama la atencion a las contribuciones generalmente positivas y sustanciales de los lideres islamicos y los movimientos de la sociedad civil islamica de reforma y democratizacion. La baja votacion recibida por los partidos islamicos recalcitrantes sugiere que, para la gran mayoria de los Indoneses, la democracia secular y el Islam son absolutamente compatibles y que la fuente principal de legitimidad es un buen gobierno y sus frutos.
Autonomous motivation for therapy: A new common factor in brief treatments for depression

Abstract The authors propose a new common treatment factor, autonomous motivation (Deci & Ryan, 2000), defined as the extent to which patients experience participation in treatment as a freely made choice emanating from themselves. Ninety-five depressed outpatients were randomly assigned to receive 16 sessions of manualized interpersonal therapy, cognitive–behavior therapy, or pharmacotherapy with clinical management. Self-report and interviewer-based measures of depressive severity were collected at pretreatment and posttreatment. Autonomous motivation, therapeutic alliance, and perceived therapist autonomy support were assessed at Session 3. Autonomous motivation was a stronger predictor of outcome than therapeutic alliance, predicting higher probability of achieving remission and lower posttreatment depression severity across all three treatments. Patients who perceived their therapists as more autonomy supportive reported higher autonomous motivation.
CORILSE: a Spanish Sign Language Repository for Linguistic Analysis

CORILSE is a computerized corpus of Spanish Sign Language (Lengua de Signos Española, LSE). It consists of a set of recordings from different discourse genres by Galician signers living in the city of Vigo. In this paper we describe its annotation system, developed on the basis of pre-existing ones (mostly the model of Auslan corpus). This includes primary annotation of id-glosses for manual signs, annotation of non-manual component, and secondary annotation of grammatical categories and relations, because this corpus is been built for grammatical analysis, in particular argument structures in LSE. Up until this moment the annotation has been basically made by hand, which is a slow and time-consuming task. The need to facilitate this process leads us to engage in the development of automatic or semi-automatic tools for manual and facial recognition. Finally, we also present the web repository that will make the corpus available to different types of users, and will allow its exploitation for research purposes and other applications (e.g. teaching of LSE or design of tasks for signed language assessment).
Experimental investigations of the utility of detailed flowcharts in programming

This paper describes previous research on flowcharts and a series of controlled experiments to test the utility of detailed flowcharts as an aid to program composition, comprehension, debugging, and modification. No statistically significant difference between flowchart and nonflowchart groups has been shown, thereby calling into question the utility of detailed flowcharting. A program of further research is suggested.
Evaluative Conditioning and Conscious Knowledge of Contingencies: A Correlational Investigation with Large Samples

Evaluative conditioning (EC) is a change in the valence of a stimulus that results from pairing the stimulus with an affective stimulus. Two high-powered studies (total N = 1,161) investigated the nature of the relationship between EC and contingency awareness measured as contingency memory. Stronger EC occurred among people with more accurate and more confident memory of the pairings. Awareness was a necessary condition for EC, but EC was not necessary for awareness. Supporting a propositional account of EC, we found evidence for intentional reliance on the contingency for the evaluation of stimuli. We also found evidence that contingency memory was based both on the actual contingency and on preexisting attitudes.
Prevalence and psychological correlates of occasional and repetitive deliberate self-harm in adolescents.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and the associated psychological and social factors of occasional and repetitive deliberate self-harming behavior in adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional self-report survey. SETTING One hundred twenty-one schools in Germany. PARTICIPANTS A representative sample of 5759 ninth-grade students was studied between 2004 and 2005. OUTCOME MEASURES Deliberate self-harm (DSH) and suicidal behaviors, emotional and behavioral problems (Youth Self-Report), living standard, family composition, parental conflict and illness, school type and performance, relationship to peers, bullying, body satisfaction and dieting, media consumption, smoking, and alcohol and drug use. RESULTS Occasional forms of DSH within the previous year were reported by 10.9% of the ninth-grade students. Four percent of the students reported repetitive forms of DSH. Suicidal behavior was strongly associated with repetitive DSH, an association that held for both subtypes of DSH. The findings also indicated that social background factors were important concomitants of occasional DSH but were not related to an increased likelihood of repetitive DSH. Symptoms of depression/anxiety and delinquent/aggressive behavior were associated with self-harming behavior in both adolescent girls and boys. CONCLUSIONS The data suggest that there is a link between social factors and occasional DSH and, especially in repetitive DSH, that there is a strong association between DSH and suicidal behavior as well as DSH and emotional and behavioral problems. These findings indicate a different pathway in the development of DSH in adolescents. The results support a need to investigate the possible neurobiological underpinnings of DSH within a longitudinal model to enhance the knowledge of this poorly understood behavior.
Japanese study confirms findings

EDITOR,--Eric B Rimm and colleagues' findings1 are in line with those of a large cohort study conducted in Japan. The lifestyles of 265118 adults aged 40 and over (122261 men; 142857 women) in six prefectures (Miyagi, Aichi, Osaka, Hyogo, Okayama, and Kagoshima) were studied. Household interviews were conducted by public health nurses in 1965, and the subjects were followed up for 17 years.2 Diabetes mellitus was recorded in the death certificates of 1678 subjects (846 …
Behavioral Economics in Information Systems Research: A Persuasion Context Analysis

In recent years, there has been growth in information systems (IS) research applying psychological theories focusing on peoples’ perception towards use of technology and how technology can motivate positive change. Behavioral economics–grounded in cognitive and psychological principles–on the other hand studies irrationalities in peoples’ behavior from an economics perspective and is a field that has lately been starting to gain credence in IS literature. This study’s aim is to establish the depth of behavioral economics studies in IS research by reviewing the basket of eight journals using the persuasive systems design model as an analytical tool. From this extant literature, similarities and complementary properties with other disciplines can be integrated, and improved methods of understanding users and their actions can be used for better prevention and intervention techniques especially in the domains of health IS and sustainability or
A third beta-galactosidase in a strain of Klebsiella that possesses two lac genes

Klebsiella strain RE1544 contains two lac operons, one on the chromosome and one on a lac plasmid. A mutant of RE1544, in which the lacZ genes of both operons produce no active enzyme, was found to synthesize a beta-galactosidase that hydrolyzes ortho-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside but not lactose. Synthesis of this beta-galactosidase (BGase-III) is induced by lactose but not by isopropyl-1-thio-beta-D-galactopyranoside or methyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside. In both the regulation of synthesis and substrate specificity, BGase-III strongly resembles the ebg0 enzyme of Escherichia coli. Nevertheless, by the criteria of immunological cross-reactivity and subunit molecular weight, BGase-III is not related to the ebg0 enzyme.
Knowledge and practice of prostate cancer screening among general practitioners in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study

Objective Screening for prostate cancer remains controversial. General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in assisting men to make an informed decision on prostate cancer screening. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and practice of prostate cancer screening among private GPs in Malaysia. Design A cross-sectional study. Setting Private general practices in Selangor, Malaysia. Participants 311 randomly selected full-time private GPs were recruited between September 2013 and January 2014. Outcome measures Questionnaires were distributed to the GPs via postal mail and clinic visits. The main outcomes were: knowledge of prostate cancer risk factors and screening tests; GPs' prostate cancer screening practices; and factors influencing GPs' decision to screen for prostate cancer. Associations between covariates and propensity to screen for prostate cancer were determined using logistic regression. Results The response rate was 65%. The proportion of GPs who overestimated the positive predictive values of prostrate-specific antigen (PSA), digital rectal examination (DRE) and a combination of PSA and DRE was 63%, 57% and 64%, respectively. About 49.5% of the respondents would routinely screen asymptomatic men for prostate cancer; of them, 94.9% would use PSA to screen. Male GPs who would consider having a PSA test performed on themselves were six times more likely to screen asymptomatic men than GPs who would not have the test (OR=6.88, 95% CI 1.40 to 33.73), after adjusting for age and duration of practice. Conclusions GPs overestimated the accuracy of PSA in prostate cancer screening. Their intention to screen for prostate cancer themselves predicted their propensity to screen their patients for prostate cancer. This finding highlights the potential of using a new approach to change GPs' screening practices via addressing GPs' own screening behaviour.
Privacy and Attitudes Towards Internet-Based Selection Systems: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

This paper examines perceptions of privacy and how they relate to reluctance to submit employment-related information over the Internet. In addition, possible cross-cultural differences between the US and Belgium regarding these constructs and the role of Internet knowledge are investigated. Based on theories of privacy and cross-cultural differences, a survey methodology was applied to test several hypotheses. Results suggest that privacy considerations may affect reluctance to use an Internet-based selection system. Moreover, as expected, some differences were observed between US and Belgian respondents. Respondents possessing a higher self-rated knowledge of the Internet were less concerned that employment-related data submitted over the Internet would fall into the wrong hands.
Narrative introductions: discourse competence of children with autistic spectrum disorders

This article examines the discourse competence of high-functioning children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) to participate in narrative introduction sequences with family members. The analysis illuminates the children’s own efforts to launch narratives, as well as their ability to build upon the contributions of others. Ethnographic, discourse analytic methodology is integrated with the theory of discourse organization and the weak central coherence account of autism. Introductions of both personal experience narratives as well as fictional narratives (from television programs, computer games and other media) are examined. The children were especially competent in the use of stable introductory practices when launching fictional narratives, pre-organized by the media of expression. Their challenge was not in the introduction, but in the narrative co-telling, which often was not globally organized over an extended course of propositions. The heterogeneity of the ASD children’s discourse competence and its implications for discourse analysis are discussed.
Educating for ethical leadership through web-based coaching

Background: Ethical leadership is important for developing ethical healthcare practice. However, there is little research-based knowledge on how to stimulate and educate for ethical leadership. Objectives: The aim was to develop and investigate the feasibility of a 6-week web-based, ethical leadership educational programme and learn from participants’ experience. Training programme and research design: A training programme was developed consisting of (1) a practice part, where the participating middle managers developed and ran an ethics project in their own departments aiming at enhancing the ethical mindfulness of the organizational culture, and (2) a web-based reflection part, including online reflections and coaching while executing the ethics project. Focus group interviews were used to explore the participants’ experiences with and the feasibility of the training. Participants and research context: Nine middle managers were recruited from a part-time master’s programme in leadership in Oslo, Norway. The research context was the participating leaders’ work situation during the 6 weeks of training. Ethical considerations: Participation was voluntary, data anonymized and the confidentiality of the participating leaders/students and their institutions maintained. No patient or medical information was involved. Findings: Eight of the nine recruited leaders completed the programme. They evaluated the training programme as efficient and supportive, with the written, situational feedback/coaching as the most important element, enhancing reflection and motivation, counteracting a feeling of loneliness and promoting the execution of change. Discussion: The findings seem consistent with the basic assumptions behind the educational design, based partly on e-health research, feedback studies and organizational ethics methodology, partly on theories on workplace learning, reflection, recognition and motivation. Conclusion: The training programme seems feasible. It should be adjusted according to participants’ proposals and tested further in a large-scale study.