Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Berpikir Positif untuk Menurunkan Stres Psikologis

The purpose of this research was to test the effectiveness of training on positive thinking for reducing student’s stress level. The proposed hypothesis was that “Positive thinking training is effective for reducing students’ stress level”. The subjects of the research were 48 students from the Faculty of “P” of “K” University in Yogyakarta. They were divided into two groups, namely experimental group and control group. Each group consisted of 24 students. The experimental design used in the research was the pretest-posttest control group design. Herewith, the experimental group received treatment in the form of training on positive thinking. The students’ stress level scale (SSLS) was used to reveal whether they experienced stress disorder or not. After receiving the positive thinking training, it revealed that the stress level of the experimental group decreased compared with that of the control group (waiting list) that did not receive the training. The T-test done by analyzing the gained score differences between experimental group and control group indicated that the positive thinking training is effective for reducing students’ stress level. It was shown that the result of t count of gained score data (the increasing of positive thinking) amounts 8.232 with p=0.001 and of the reducing of positive thinking amounts -8.148 with p=0.001. Keywords : students’ stress level, positive thinking, positive thinking training.
Information From the Voice Fundamental Frequency (F0) Region Accounts for the Majority of the Benefit When Acoustic Stimulation Is Added to Electric Stimulation

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the minimum amount of low-frequency acoustic information that is required to achieve speech perception benefit in listeners with a cochlear implant in one ear and low-frequency hearing in the other ear. Design: The recognition of monosyllabic words in quiet and sentences in noise was evaluated in three listening conditions: electric stimulation alone, acoustic stimulation alone, and combined electric and acoustic stimulation. The acoustic stimuli presented to the nonimplanted ear were either low-pass-filtered at 125, 250, 500, or 750 Hz, or unfiltered (wideband). Results: Adding low-frequency acoustic information to electrically stimulated information led to a significant improvement in word recognition in quiet and sentence recognition in noise. Improvement was observed in the electric and acoustic stimulation condition even when the acoustic information was limited to the 125-Hz-low-passed signal. Further improvement for the sentences in noise was observed when the acoustic signal was increased to wideband. Conclusions: Information from the voice fundamental frequency (F0) region accounts for the majority of the speech perception benefit when acoustic stimulation is added to electric stimulation. We propose that, in quiet, low-frequency acoustic information leads to an improved representation of voicing, which in turn leads to a reduction in word candidates in the lexicon. In noise, the robust representation of voicing allows access to low-frequency acoustic landmarks that mark syllable structure and word boundaries. These landmarks can bootstrap word and sentence recognition.
Impact of chronic and acute academic stress on lymphocyte subsets and monocyte function

This study investigated the effects of a temporally confined naturalistic stressor (academic stress) on immune functions. Furthermore, moderating influences of a number of psychological variables were assessed. Five blood samples were obtained from 20 students during an observation period of 8 weeks, starting 4.5 weeks before an exam period up to 1 week following the last exam. The analysis of 45 immune parameters revealed several time-dependent changes attributable to examination stress. We observed a reduction in the absolute numbers of natural killer (NK) cells and monocytes in peripheral blood and a shift towards more immature and naïve cells within NK and T cell populations. In addition, IL-6 and TNF-α production by LPS-stimulated monocytes was increased. Psychological variables were grouped by means of factor analyses into two factors. One factor, which was interpreted as an indication of chronic stress, moderated the relationships between academic stress and percentages of mature CD57+ NK cells. This chronic stress factor was also associated with an increase in memory and a decrease in naïve CD8 T cells and increased serum levels of IL-17. The present study identifies important potential psychological mediators of stress-induced changes in specific immunological parameters.
Relativistic corrections to the multiple scattering effect on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the isotropic approximation

ABSTRA C T We extend the formalism for the calculation of the relativistic corrections to the Sunyaev ‐ Zel’dovich effect for clusters of galaxies and include the multiple scattering effects in the isotropic approximation. We present the results of the calculations by the Fokker ‐ Planck expansion method as well as by the direct numerical integration of the collision term of the Boltzmann equation. The multiple scattering contribution is found to be very small compared with the single scattering contribution. For high-temperature galaxy clusters of kBT e < 15 keV; the ratio of both the contributions is 20.2 per cent in the Wien region. In the Rayleigh ‐ Jeans region the ratio is 20.03 per cent. Therefore the multiple scattering contribution is safely neglected for the observed galaxy clusters.
Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Abstract Positive illusions appear to be an important component of close relationships, including romantic and parenting relationships. Previous research suggests that parents hold unrealistically positive perceptions about their children, but it is unclear whether these illusions develop as a result of a biological tie or of adopting the parental role. This study investigated the source of positive parental illusions by examining whether stepparents engage in such illusions. If stepparents exhibit positive parental illusions, this would suggest that these illusions develop through the adoption of the parental role. The sample included 67 couples with a stepchild aged 3 to 13. Both biological parents and stepparents exhibited positive parental illusions, but these illusions were stronger in biological parents. Measures of the extent to which stepparents adopted the parental role were directly related to positive illusions about their stepchild. These findings suggest that positive parental illusions develop through the adoption of a parental role. Unrealistically positive perceptions of the parent-child relationship were the most important component of reported parenting satisfaction for both biological parents and stepparents.
Channel mapping using bidirectional long short-term memory for dereverberation in hands-free voice controlled devices

In this article, the reverberation problem for hands-free voice controlled devices is addressed by employing Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural networks. Such networks use memory blocks in the hidden units, enabling them to exploit a self-learnt amount of temporal context. The main objective of this technique is to minimize the mismatch between the distant talk (reverberant/distorted) speech and the close talk (clean) speech. To achieve this, the network is trained by mapping the cepstral feature space from the distant talk channel to its counterpart from the close talk channel frame-wisely in terms of regression. The method has been successfully evaluated on a realistically recorded reverberant French corpus by a large scale of experiments of comparing a variety of network architectures, investigating different network training targets (differential or absolute), and combining with common adaptation techniques. In addition, the robustness of this technique is also accessed by cross-room evaluation on both, a simulated French corpus and a realistic English corpus. Experimental results show that the proposed novel BLSTM dereverberation models trained by the differential targets reduce the word error rate (WER) by 16% relatively on the French corpus (intra room scenario) as well as 8% relatively on the English corpus (inter room scenario).
Screening of phospholipase A activity and its production by new actinomycete strains cultivated by solid-state fermentation

Novel microbial phospholipases A (PLAs) can be found in actinomycetes which have been poorly explored as producers of this activity. To investigate microbial PLA production, efficient methods are necessary such as high-throughput screening (HTS) assays for direct search of PLAs in microbial cultures and cultivation conditions to promote this activity. About 200 strains isolated with selected media for actinomycetes and mostly belonging to Streptomyces (73%) and Micromonospora (10%) genus were first screened on agar-plates containing the fluorophore rhodamine 6G and egg yolk phosphatidylcholine (PC) to detect strains producing phospholipase activity. Then, a colorimetric HTS assay for general PLA activity detection (cHTS-PLA) using enriched PC (≈60%) as substrate and cresol red as indicator was developed and applied; this cHTS-PLA assay was validated with known PLAs. For the first time, actinomycete strains were cultivated by solid-state fermentation (SSF) using PC as inductor and sugar-cane bagasse as support to produce high PLA activity (from 207 to 2,591 mU/g of support). Phospholipase activity of the enzymatic extracts from SSF was determined using the implemented cHTS-PLA assay and the PC hydrolysis products obtained, were analyzed by TLC showing the presence of lyso-PC. Three actinomycete strains of the Streptomyces genus that stood out for high accumulation of lyso-PC, were selected and analyzed with the specific substrate 1,2-α-eleostearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (EEPC) in order to confirm the presence of PLA activity in their enzymatic extracts. Overall, the results obtained pave the way toward the HTS of PLA activity in crude microbial enzymatic extracts at a larger scale. The cHTS-PLA assay developed here can be also proposed as a routine assay for PLA activity determination during enzyme purification,directed evolution or mutagenesis approaches. In addition, the production of PLA activity by actinomycetes using SSF allow find and produce novel PLAs with potential applications in biotechnology.
A educação física na escola e o processo de formação dos não praticantes de atividade física

The objective of the present research was to verify the origins and reasons by which students usually back themselves off regular physical activity practice, analyzing the School Physical Education universe. The study considered the following: a) count up the number of dismissed students from School Physical Education classes; b) investigate students' opinions on Physical Education classes, and how they change along school grades; c) verify when students begin backing off School Physical Education classes, and also outdoors physical activity; and d) search information about how come the "students" backing off. Physical Education classes occurs. Data was collected by a questionnaire, containing 14 questions, that was distributed to 1.172 students, attending public schools in Rio Claro, at 5th to 7th elementary grades, and at junior high school. Results indicated that there is a progressive "students' backing off" Physical Education classes and outdoors physical activity, besides an increase in the number of students who do not attend, participate or appreciate classes in a regular basis.
Obstructive upper airway problems and primary enuresis nocturna relationship in pediatric patients: reciprocal study.

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between primary enuresis nocturna (PEN) and obstructive upper airway problems (OUAPs). DESIGN Prospective, descriptive study. SETTING Tertiary care academic medical centre. METHODS Two groups of patients were included in the study. Newly diagnosed pediatric PEN patients between August 2004 and June 2005 were evaluated for OUAPs in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of our institution and constituted the first group of patients. During the same period, patients who were on the surgery list for upper airway problems were examined for PEN in the Department of Pediatric Psychiatry as the second group. Obtained data were analyzed with regard to patient demographics and the relationship between PEN and OUAPs, and follow-up results are reported. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES There were 32 patients in each group. In the first group, 5 patients (15.6%) had totally obstructing severe septal deviation, 8 patients (25.0%) had moderate septal deviation, 10 patients (31.3%) had allergic rhinitis and inferior turbinate hypertrophy, 3 patients had adenotonsillar hypertrophy (9.4%), and 1 patient (3.1%) had septal perforation. The frequency of OUAP in PEN patients was 65.6%. In the second group, 10 patients (31.3%) had a PEN diagnosis. After at least 3 months (mean 6.3 months) of follow-up, four patients (40%) were free of PEN and two patients (20%) experienced improvement in PEN. Another four patients did not have any change in the severity of PEN. CONCLUSIONS According to our results, OUAPs are very common in PEN patients and PEN is a common symptom of OUAPs.
Determinants of G quadruplex-induced epigenetic instability in REV1-deficient cells

REV1‐deficient chicken DT40 cells are compromised in replicating G quadruplex (G4)‐forming DNA. This results in localised, stochastic loss of parental chromatin marks and changes in gene expression. We previously proposed that this epigenetic instability arises from G4‐induced replication fork stalls disrupting the accurate propagation of chromatin structure through replication. Here, we test this model by showing that a single G4 motif is responsible for the epigenetic instability of the BU‐1 locus in REV1‐deficient cells, despite its location 3.5 kb from the transcription start site (TSS). The effect of the G4 is dependent on it residing on the leading strand template, but is independent of its in vitro thermal stability. Moving the motif to more than 4 kb from the TSS stabilises expression of the gene. However, loss of histone modifications (H3K4me3 and H3K9/14ac) around the transcription start site correlates with the position of the G4 motif, expression being lost only when the promoter is affected. This supports the idea that processive replication is required to maintain the histone modification pattern and full transcription of this model locus.
Scholarly development of a set of field-specific graduate attributes for youth mental health practitioners.

This article describes a process, informed by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), to develop a set of field-specific graduate attributes for youth mental health practitioners as the first phase in a wider course redevelopment project. As teaching staff at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia, we undertook this research to inform the development of a new Master of Youth Mental Health program. The process and results of the research, including the set of graduate attributes that were developed, are reported here.
Culture and the mode of thought: A review

This review highlights studies examining cultural differences in the mode of thought. The theoretical framework of studies from a cross-cultural perspective suggests that views of self, social norms, communication practices, and modes of thought are interconnected. The independent view of self, dominant in Western cultures, promotes low-contextual communication and corresponds to an analytic and logical mode of thought. On the other hand, the interdependent view of self, dominant in East Asian cultures, promotes high-contextual communication and corresponds to a holistic and dialectical mode of thought. The expected cultural variations of the mode of thought have been supported by empirical findings regarding causal attribution, attention, reasoning, categorization, and comprehension of utterances. Moreover, it has become clear that cultural knowledge of ideas and beliefs, which are activated by linguistic symbols and icons, guides the corresponding psychological tendencies including analytic and holistic modes of thought. Furthermore, studies of cultural neuroscience have shown cultural differences in behavioural as well as neural responses. A growing body of research supports cultural differences in the mode of thought; however, there is still much room for this research area to progress. Future directions suggesting further investigations in relation to socialization, cultural products, and gene–culture interaction are discussed.
Mortality among the residents of the Three Mile Island accident area: 1979-1992.

The largest U.S. population exposed to low-level radioactivity released by an accident at a nuclear power plant is composed of residents near the Three Mile Island (TMI) Plant on 28 March 1979. This paper (a collaboration of The University of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Department of Health) reports on the mortality experience of the 32,135 members in this cohort for 1979-1992. We analyzed standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) using a local comparison population and performed relative risk regression modeling to assess overall mortality and specific cancer risks by confounding factors and radiation-related exposure variables. Total mortality was significantly elevated for both men and women (SMRs = 109 and 118, respectively). All heart disease accounted for 43.3% of total deaths and demonstrated elevated SMRs for heart disease of 113 and 130 for men and women, respectively; however, when controlling for confounders and natural background radiation, these elevations in heart disease were no longer evident. Overall cancer mortality was similar in this cohort as compared to the local population (male SMR = 100; female SMR = 101). In the relative risk modeling, there was a significant effect for all lymphatic and hematopoietic tissue in males in relation to natural background exposure (p = 0.04). However, no trend was noted. We found a significant linear trend for female breast cancer risk in relation to increasing levels of TMI-related likely [gamma]-exposure (p = 0.02). Although such a relationship has been noted in other investigations, emissions from the TMI incident were significantly lower than in other documented studies. Therefore, it is unlikely that this observed increase is related to radiation exposure on the day of the accident. The mortality surveillance of this cohort does not provide consistent evidence that radioactivity released during the TMI accident has a significant impact on the mortality experience of this cohort to date. However, continued follow-up of these individuals will provide a more comprehensive description of the morbidity and mortality experience of the cohort. ImagesFigure 1Figure 2Figure 3
Comorbidity Assessment in Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Using the Index of Coexistent Disease

The purpose of this paper is to describe the ICED, summarize outcomes of prior studies in which it was used, and describe the adaptations that have lead to the present instrument. We will then demonstrate its use in quantifying the burden of comorbid conditions in a sample of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients from our center, and show the relationship between ICED levels and outcomes in peritoneal dialysis patients.
The Process-Centered School: Sustaining a Renaissance Community.

Foreword - Peter M Senge Preface - Arthur L Costa and Rosemarie M Liebmann Constructing the Metaphors for Process - Diane P Zimmerman Spreading the Good Word - Alison Preece Communicating with the School Community to Support Change Organizational Learning - Laura Lipton and Robert Melamede The Essential Journey Designing Learning for a New Work Environment - Michael Pennella Key Values and Skills Staff Development - Fred H Wood A Process Approach Preparing New Teachers - Gloria A Slick A Process Approach Developing Adaptive Schools in a Quantum Universe - Robert J Garmston and Bruce Wellman The Norms of Collaboration - Arthur L Costa, William Baker, and Stanley Shalit Attaining Communicative Competence The Process of Coaching - Arthur L Costa and Robert J Garmston Mediating Growth toward Holonomy Developing a Scoring Rubric for a Process School - Charles Lavaroni Capturing the Spirit - Jospeh H Saban Process Pervades the Organization Searching for Evidence - Rosemarie M Liebmann and Arthur L Costa Toward a Renaissance Community Change - Anthony Colella, Arthur L Costa, and Rosemarie M Liebmann The Journey Begins Afterword: The Essence - Lou Rubin Process as Content
Co-Morbid Anxiety and Physical Disorders: A Possible Common Link with Joint Hypermobility Syndrome

As we stated in a previous book chapter titled “Somatic conditions intrinsic to anxiety disor‐ ders” [1], Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773-1843) was the person who introduced for the first time the term ‘psychosomatic’ into medical literature. The psychosomatic approach offers an overall or holistic “body and mind” perception that can be often useful for preven‐ tion purposes. Unfortunately, up to the present day Heinroth’s contributions to the develop‐ ment of medicine and psychosomatics have been little acknowledged. Possibly, the current medical tendency towards specialisation makes it difficult to embody such paradigms in current psychiatric and medical nosology.
Praise and feedback in the primary classroom: Teachers' and students' perspectives

This small scale qualitative study investigated teachers' and students' perceptions of praise and feedback in the classroom using structured interviews and classroom observation. A case study approach was used whereby students and teachers from one school participated. Some 56 students and five teachers were interviewed individually or in small groups. The findings suggested that several factors need to be considered when using praise and feedback in the primary classroom. Careful deliberation should be given to the type of praise and feedback used by teachers in their classrooms and when and how it should be used. Younger students prefer 'ability' feedback, and as they grow older their preference for 'effort' feedback increases. Most importantly, general, non-targeted praise was most commonly used in the classroom, but this type of praise is not effective because it is not linked to a specific behaviour or targeted to the successful completion of a task. The results of this study suggest that teachers should use less general, non-targeted praise, more effort and ability feedback, and give more ability than effort feedback to younger students (grades 1-4) and more effort than ability feedback to older students (grades 5-7).