Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Meta-Analytic Review of Play Therapy With Emphasis on Outcome Measures

A meta-analysis of 100 studies of outcomes of play therapy interventions was conducted to determine overall effect of intervention. Different from the Bratton, Ray, Rhine, and Jones (2005), but more consistent with the Lin and Bratton (2015), findings, there was a significant moderate effect for play therapy interventions across all outcomes (d = .44). When 4 studies with aberrantly large effects were removed, this effect was d = . 36. These moderate effects are consistent with other meta-analyses that find lower effect sizes for nonbehavioral interventions. Overall study quality was poor with no studies meeting the criteria of randomized control trials. Research on play therapy interventions also does not use diagnostic criteria as part of study inclusion, thus preventing play therapy interventions from being considered as empirically supported treatments. Meta-analytic findings differed by type of measure used, with measures of family functioning/relationships finding larger results than other types of measures. There was not strong consistency in measures used across the studies, with only a few measures being used across more than 1 or 2 studies. Of the more frequently used measures, the Measurement of Empathy in Adult Child Interaction (MEACI) resulted in much larger effects than other measures used, and should be further evaluated in terms of appropriate interpretation and use. Effect sizes also differed based on the reporting source, with teachers tending to rate lower impacts of treatment than other reporters.
A new family of yeast nuclear pore complex proteins

We have identified a novel family of yeast nuclear pore complex proteins. Three individual members of this family, NUP49, NUP100, and NUP116, have been isolated and then characterized by a combination of molecular genetics and immunolocalization. Employing immunoelectron and immunofluorescence microscopy on yeast cells, we found that the binding of a polyspecific monoclonal antibody recognizing this family was predominantly at the nuclear pore complexes. Furthermore, the tagging of NUP49 with a unique epitope enabled the immunolocalization of this protein to the nuclear pore complex by both fluorescence and electron microscopy. DNA sequence analysis has shown that the amino-terminal regions of NUP49, NUP100, and NUP116 share repeated "GLFG" motifs separated from each other by glutamine, asparagine, serine and threonine rich spacers. All three proteins lack a repetitive domain found in the two precisely described yeast nuclear pore complex proteins. Only NUP49 is essential for cell viability. NUP116-deficient cells grow very slowly and are temperature sensitive, whereas the lack of NUP100 has no detectable phenotype. NUP100 and NUP116 are homologous over their entire lengths. Interestingly, NUP100 and NUP116 are both flanked by a histidine tRNA gene and a transposon element suggesting that they may have arisen by gene duplication. We propose that subfamilies of pore complex proteins can be defined by their characteristic combinations of different modular domains.
Sleep latency and duration estimates among sleep disorder patients: variability as a function of sleep disorder diagnosis, sleep history, and psychological characteristics.

STUDY OBJECTIVES Insomnia patients often report greater sleep disturbance than found via polysomnography; yet the specific patient factors related to such sleep time misperceptions are poorly understood. We sought to characterize the extent to which a diverse group of patients complaining of insomnia (n=104) misperceive overnight total sleep time and sleep latency, and to identify patient factors associated with these variations. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING University based sleep disorders center. PATIENTS Sleep disorder groups consisted of patients with psychophysiological insomnia (n=19), sleep state misperception (n=8), insomnia with depressive disorder (n=11), insomnia secondary to Axis I psychiatric disorder other than depression (n=21), periodic limb movement disorder (n=24), and obstructive sleep apnea (n=21). MEASUREMENT AND RESULTS Patients completed a sleep history questionnaire and the MMPI, underwent overnight diagnostic polysomnographic assessment, and then estimated their total sleep time and sleep latency the subsequent morning. On average, patients overestimated sleep latency, but were equally likely to underestimate vs. overestimate total sleep time. Sleep time misperception was associated with longer periods of wakefulness following sleep onset, greater self-perceived sleep impairment, as well as several psychological dimensions. CONCLUSIONS Patient factors, including sleep quality, perceptions of habitual sleep time, and current psychopathology, potentially influence sleep time estimation. Whereas psychological factors may lead to exaggeration of sleep disturbance among some patients, sleep quality itself may also influence the congruence between subjective and objective indices of sleep.
Strong Uniqueness of the Ricci Flow

In this paper, we derive some local a priori estimates for Ricci flow. This gives rise to some strong uniqueness theorems. As a corollary, let $g(t)$ be a smooth complete solution to the Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{3}$, with the canonical Euclidean metric $E$ as initial data, then $g(t)$ is trivial, i.e. $g(t)\equiv E$.
Shy People and Facebook Continuance of Usage: Does Gender Matter?

In this paper, we propose a research model of the continuance of usage intention of a social networking site (Facebook) based on the theory of planned behavior and taking into account users’ gender and their perceived shyness degree. Our findings suggest that for men and women alike, the continuance of usage intention is determined by the attitude and the perceived behavioral control (PBC). Both hedonic and utilitarian outcomes are important to shape the users’ attitude towards Facebook. While non-shy people (male and female) behave exactly the same and are only led by attitude to decide to continue using Facebook, for shy people, the gender effect seems to be significant in shaping the attitude towards the SNS and in determining the role of PBC: for shy men, the decision to continue using Facebook is only affected by PBC whereas for shy women both attitude and PBC are important. For all the categories of users considered, social influence does not play any significant role.
Energy-Aware Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Inter-Channel Interference Cancellation for Cognitive Radio Networks

As the precondition of dynamic spectrum access (DSA), the accuracy and efficiency of spectrum sensing (SS) have an important impact on performance of cognitive networks. However, the performance of energy-aware SS is greatly compromised by the accompanying inter-channel interference (ICI). Aiming to alleviate ICI, this paper proposes an energy-aware cooperative SS method with ICI cancellation. The proposed method consists of two parts: the determination of the optimal threshold and the ICI cancellation. The optimal threshold is obtained by minimizing the sum of probabilities of false alarm and missed detection. The ICI cancellation is implemented indirectly by solving a non-homogeneous linear equation set with a coefficient matrix depending only on the distances between the secondary users and the transmitters of primary users. Simulation shows that the proposed SS method can efficiently cope with the ICI and can achieve much better performance in the range with low signal to interference-plus-noise ratio.
Perceived Partner Generosity as a Predictor of Marital Quality during the Transition to Parenthood for Black and White Couples

By LANCE TAYLOR PETERSON A vast literature on married couples who transition to parenthood generally reveals that marital quality declines for both wives and husbands. However, research on factors that strengthen or weaken marital quality during the transition to parenthood is still in its infancy. Moreover, most of this research has been conducted with samples of predominantly White couples. This study sought to expand knowledge on the transition to parenthood in two ways. First, using perspectives from marital virtues theory and perceived partner responsiveness, this study sought to determine if perceived partner generosity would moderate the relationship between the transition to parenthood and marital quality. Second, this study sought to test this relationship with a sample consisting of a strong representation of Black couples. A descriptive, secondary analysis was used to investigate respondents from the first (Y1) and third (Y3) years of the Early Years of Marriage (EYM) Project. The original sample consisted of all eligible Black couples (n=199) and a random sample of White couples (n=174) from Wayne County, Michigan in 1986. For this study, eligible participants were couples who either transitioned to parenthood or remained childless between Y1 and Y3. Marital quality was conceptualized as consisting of positive evaluations (marital well-being) and negative
Competing capitalisms : Capital investment in American, German, and Japanese firms

This study explains one way the home country institutional environment causes strategy differences across firms from different countries. It contrasts the investment conduct of American, German, and Japanese firms in the 10 largest manufacturing industries. We find profound national differences among these firms that are stable across industries. These differing conducts are tied to the institutional environments of the home market. The shareholder firms of the United States make investments primarily in response to expected investment returns, measured by Tobin’s Q ratio. The coalitional firms of Germany and Japan make investments primarily in response to the availability of internal finance, measured by operating cash flow. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Exploring Rehabilitation Counseling Supervisors’ Role in Promoting Counselor Development of Ethical Fluency

Clinical supervision plays an integral role in the professional development of counselors, particularly for developing their awareness of ethical service delivery and decision making. This grounded theory study queried eight rehabilitation counseling supervisors, four from a state rehabilitation agency and four from a nonprofit community rehabilitation organization. The purpose of the study was to determine supervisor perspectives regarding their role in the development of ethical decision making in their supervisees. The emergent construct from the data is termed ethical fluency. Ethical fluency is a cognitive ability representing the interaction between acculturation knowledge, fluid reasoning, and the speed and accuracy with which ethical dilemmas are recognized and processed. Supervisors in this study reported playing a key role in developing ethical fluency in counselors, and the supervisory working alliance was an integral platform from which to approach discussions on ethics. Recommendations for improved practice and future research are provided.
Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development

6 1. INTRODUCTION . 8 1.1 GEOSS components under the GeoViQua framework . 8 1.2 GEOSS Common Infrastructure recent improvements . 11 1.3 Exploring the GCI . 14 1.4 User requirements surveys in GeoViQua . 15 1.5 Existing/Scanning Quality encodings . 17 1.6 Ongoing activities . 18 2. QUALITY APPROACH AND ENCODING . 20 2.1 Quality approach and tracking procedures . 20 2.2 Standards description . 21 2.3 Quality indicators and measures . 25 3. QUALITY EXTRACTION FROM METADATA . 28 3.1. Recollection of metadata: preliminary tests . 28 3.2. Selection of quality elements . 29 3.3 Methodology: structuring metadata XML contents into databases . 29 4. RESULTS . 31 4.1 General results . 31 4.2 Data Quality Scope . 34 4.3 Quality measures analysis . 35 4.4 Lineage . 41 4.5 Usage . 44 5. DISCUSSION . 45 5.1 Corrective actions proposal . 48 5.2 Dissemination and ongoing activities . 51 5.3 Next steps . 52 6. CONCLUSIONS . 53 7. GLOSSARY . 55 8. REFERENCES . 72 FP7 Project Nr: 265178 Project start date: 01 Feb 2011 Acronym: GeoViQua Project title: QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems Theme: ENV.2010. 4.1.2‐2 Theme title: Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development
A Dynamic Control Law for the Wave Equation *

A l m m d B W e consider a system described by the onedimensional linear wave equation in a bounded domain with appropriate boundary conditions. To stabilize the system, we propose a dynamic boundary controller applied at the free end of the system. The transfer function of the proposed controller is restricted to be a positive real function which could be strictly proper. We then show that, if the transfer function of the controller is strictly proper, then the resulting closed-loop system is asymptotically stable, and if proper but not strictly proper, then the resulting dosed-loop system is exponentially stable.
I Discretely Observed Diffusions : Approximation of the Continuous-time Score Function

We discuss parameter estimation for discretely observed, ergodic diffusion processes where the diffusion coefficient does not depend on the parameter. We propose using an approximation of the continuous-time score function as an estimating function. The estimating function can be expressed in simple terms through the drift and the diffusion coefficient and is thus easy to calculate. Simulation studies show that the method performs well.
Correlating fourier descriptors of local patches for road sign recognition

The Fourier descriptors (FDs) is a classical but still popular method for contour matching. The key idea is to apply the Fourier transform to a periodic representation of the contour, which results in a shape descriptor in the frequency domain. FDs are most commonly used to compare object silhouettes and object contours; the authors instead use this well-established machinery to describe local regions to be used in an object-recognition framework. Many approaches to matching FDs are based on the magnitude of each FD component, thus ignoring the information contained in the phase. Keeping the phase information requires us to take into account the global rotation of the contour and shifting of the contour samples. The authors show that the sum-of-squared differences of FDs can be computed without explicitly de-rotating the contours. The authors compare correlation-based matching against affine-invariant Fourier descriptors (AFDs) and WARP-matched FDs and demonstrate that correlation-based approach outperforms AFDs and WARP on real data. As a practical application the authors demonstrate the proposed correlation-based matching on a road sign recognition task.
School District Educational Infrastructure and Change at Scale: Teacher Peer Interactions and Their Beliefs About Mathematics Instruction

While current reform efforts press for ambitious changes to teachers’ instructional practice, teachers’ instructional beliefs are also consequential in such efforts as beliefs shape teachers’ instructional practice and their responses to instructional reforms. This article examines the relationship between teachers’ instructional ties and their beliefs about mathematics instruction in one school district working to transform its approach to elementary mathematics education. Quantitative results show that while teachers’ beliefs did not predict with whom they interacted about mathematics instruction, teachers’ interactions with peers about mathematics instruction were associated with changes in their beliefs over time. Qualitative analysis confirms and extends these findings, revealing how system-level changes in the district’s educational infrastructure facilitated change in teachers’ beliefs about mathematics instruction at scale.
Creativity Under Attack: How People’s Role in Competitive Conflict Shapes Their Creative Idea Generation

Although creativity is helpful if not needed to deal with conflicts, research on the effects of conflict on creativity shows inconsistent findings. In this study, the possibility that effects may depend on people’s role in conflict was considered. Whether, when, and why assuming the role of attacker or defender in conflict affects creative idea generation was therefore investigated. The prediction was tested if attackers are more creative than defenders. In addition, control over the situation as a moderating variable and anxiety as a mediator were considered. Participants (n = 115, Mage = 22.06, SDage = 2.75, 83 women) were recruited in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and were randomly assigned to an attacker, defender, or role control condition. Controllability over the situation was manipulated within-subjects and anxiety and creativity were measured during 2 rounds of idea generation. Results revealed no differences in creative performance and anxiety between defenders and attackers and that defenders generated a greater number of ideas than people in the role control condition. Exploratory analyses further revealed that attackers and defenders generated a greater number of aggressive ideas. Finally, attackers and defenders experienced more anxiety, but increased anxiety did not account for observed differences in the number of (aggressive) ideas. The effect of controllability could not be investigated due to a failed manipulation. Limitations and implications are discussed.
Toward performance-diverse small-molecule libraries for cell-based phenotypic screening using multiplexed high-dimensional profiling

Significance A large compound screening collection is usually constructed to be tested in many distinct assays, each one designed to find modulators of a different biological process. However, it is generally not known to what extent a compound collection actually contains molecules with distinct biological effects (or even any effect) until it has been tested for a couple of years. This study explores a cost-effective way of rapidly assessing the biological performance diversity of a screening collection in a single assay. By simultaneously measuring a large number of cellular features, unbiased profiling assays can distinguish compound effects with high resolution and thus measure performance diversity. We show that this approach could be used as a filtering strategy to build effective screening collections. High-throughput screening has become a mainstay of small-molecule probe and early drug discovery. The question of how to build and evolve efficient screening collections systematically for cell-based and biochemical screening is still unresolved. It is often assumed that chemical structure diversity leads to diverse biological performance of a library. Here, we confirm earlier results showing that this inference is not always valid and suggest instead using biological measurement diversity derived from multiplexed profiling in the construction of libraries with diverse assay performance patterns for cell-based screens. Rather than using results from tens or hundreds of completed assays, which is resource intensive and not easily extensible, we use high-dimensional image-based cell morphology and gene expression profiles. We piloted this approach using over 30,000 compounds. We show that small-molecule profiling can be used to select compound sets with high rates of activity and diverse biological performance.
"Wow! you are so beautiful today!"

Beauty e-Experts, a fully automatic system for hairstyle and facial makeup recommendation and synthesis, is developed in this work. Given a user-provided frontal face image with short/bound hair and no/light makeup, the Beauty e-Experts system can not only recommend the most suitable hairdo and makeup, but also show the synthetic effects. To obtain enough knowledge for beauty modeling, we build the Beauty e-Experts Database, which contains 1,505 attractive female photos with a variety of beauty attributes and beauty-related attributes annotated. Based on this Beauty e-Experts Dataset, two problems are considered for the Beauty e-Experts system: what to recommend and how to wear, which describe a similar process of selecting hairstyle and cosmetics in our daily life. For the what-to-recommend problem, we propose a multiple tree-structured super-graphs model to explore the complex relationships among the high-level beauty attributes, mid-level beauty-related attributes and low-level image features, and then based on this model, the most compatible beauty attributes for a given facial image can be efficiently inferred. For the how-to-wear problem, an effective and efficient facial image synthesis module is designed to seamlessly synthesize the recommended hairstyle and makeup into the user facial image. Extensive experimental evaluations and analysis on testing images of various conditions well demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system.
Methodology matters: comparing sample types and data collection methods in a juror decision-making study on the influence of defendant race

ABSTRACT Researchers have expressed concerns that using online and/or student samples in juror decision-making studies significantly diminishes the trustworthiness of results. The purpose of this study was to test whether these samples might yield different demographics, attentiveness to a trial stimulus, and verdict decisions. Participants read a fabricated robbery trial transcript – in which we manipulated the defendant’s race (White, Black, Aboriginal Canadian) – then made verdict decisions and completed manipulation checks. We tested four Canadian samples: non-student community members online, non-student community members in-lab, students online, and students in-lab. Addressing one of the common criticisms of online samples, those who participated online were no more likely to fail manipulation checks than those who completed the study in-lab. We also found an interaction among data collection method, defendant race, and verdict – participants who completed the study online were more lenient towards White defendants, suggesting that the presence of a research assistant (and/or other participants) in the room while participants completed the study affected the expression of racial bias. Our findings allay some common concerns about online and student samples, but also show some limitations, including clear demographic differences.
Effect of Inulin on the Survival of Lactic Acid and Probiotic Bacteria in Ice Cream By Najah Boughida A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree In Food

This study investigated the effect of inulin (0% control, 1.5% and 3.0% w/w) on the survival of lactic acid (LAB) and probiotic bacteria in ice cream. A mixed culture of probiotic bacteria was added into a standard formulation ice cream recipe at a level of 10 6 CFU/g prior to freezing the mix using a Lolla Musso Pola 5030 freezer. Inulin levels were tested to determine protective effects on bacterial survival. Ice cream samples were taken before and after freezing, and during storage under steady-state (-20 ̊C) and repeated thaw-freeze conditions (-20 ̊C/-5 ̊C) over 28-days to enumerate for bacterial survival. Yield stress test and viscosity analysis of ice cream samples were conducted at the end of storage period. LAB and probiotic bacteria had no significant decrease in populations during the storage period. Addition of inulin to ice cream had no effect on bacterial survival at steady-state storage (-20 ̊C) or during thaw-freeze cycles over 28-days. The freezing phase had no destructive effect on bacterial populations. Difference in yield stress values between ice cream samples was not
Dispersive Quantization

Abstract The evolution, through linear dispersion, of piecewise constant periodic initial data leads to surprising quantized structures at rational times, and fractal, nondifferentiable profiles at irrational times. Similar phenomena have been observed in optics and quantum mechanics, and lead to intriguing connections with exponential sums arising in number theory. Ramifications of these observations for numerics and nonlinear dispersion are proposed as open problems.