Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating the Association between Parenting Styles and Mental Health and Self-Efficacy among Seventh Grade Students in the City of Hamadan in Iran

Objective the purpose of this study is to Investigate the relationship parenting styles, mental health And perfectionism Among Seven grade students in Hamedan city. Method of this research is the descriptive and correlational. Statistical population in this study consisted of all seventh grade students of second area of the city of Hamedan. The statistical sample are consisted of 350 girls and boys. The instrument used in this study was Perfectionism Scale thre & shurs and Baumrind Questionnaire Parenting styles and General Health Questionnaire Goldberg and Miller (GHQ). For data analysis the Pearson correlation and regression analysis were used. Results significant relationship between parenting styles and perfectionism and mental health showed. It was also found that parenting styles predicted for perfectionism and mental health of individuals. As a result, it was found that authoritative parenting style has a significant relationship with the mental health of individuals. The autocratic and permissive styles can reduce individuals mental health. The autocratic style of raising unrealistic expectations about themselves and increase linked perfectionism.
Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition Deficits Associate with Specific Clusters of Psychotic Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Background Patients with schizophrenia perform significantly worse on emotion recognition tasks than healthy participants across several sensory modalities. Emotion recognition abilities are correlated with the severity of clinical symptoms, particularly negative symptoms. However, the relationships between specific deficits of emotion recognition across sensory modalities and the presentation of psychotic symptoms remain unclear. The current study aims to explore how emotion recognition ability across modalities and neurocognitive function correlate with clusters of psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. Methods 111 participants who met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia and 70 healthy participants performed on a dual-modality emotion recognition task, the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2-Taiwan version (DANVA-2-TW), and selected subscales of WAIS-III. Of all, 92 patients received neurocognitive evaluations, including CPT and WCST. These patients also received the PANSS for clinical evaluation of symptomatology. Results The emotion recognition ability of patients with schizophrenia was significantly worse than healthy participants in both facial and vocal modalities, particularly fearful emotion. An inverse correlation was noted between PANSS total score and recognition accuracy for happy emotion. The difficulty of happy emotion recognition and earlier age of onset, together with the perseveration error in WCST predicted total PANSS score. Furthermore, accuracy of happy emotion and the age of onset were the only two significant predictors of delusion/hallucination. All the associations with happy emotion recognition primarily concerned happy prosody. Discussion Deficits in emotional processing in specific categories, i.e. in happy emotion, together with deficit in executive function, may reflect dysfunction of brain systems underlying severity of psychotic symptoms, in particular the positive dimension.
Healthy worker effect in hairdressing apprentices

Background. Hairdressers and hairdressing apprentices have a high incidence of occupational hand eczema, owing to excessive wet work and exposure to chemical substances. Hairdressing apprentices, in particular, seem to be at high risk of developing hand eczema. Previous hand eczema and atopic dermatitis are known risk factors for the development of hand eczema in wet work occupations.
Percepción de inseguridad en polígonos geográficos prioritarios en Acapulco

This paper study factors related with the perception of insecurity in residents of priority geographical polygons in Acapulco, by descriptive and correlational statistical analysis. Data was collected through a survey, following a representative sampling within each polygon, for testing mean differences. The results revealed that the perception of insecurity is associated with schooling, confidence in the police, criminal incidence, the existence of street gangs, and the polygon of residence. Also was found a weak correlation, but statistically significant, between the perception of insecurity and the proportion of modified activities due to fear of crime, which in turn is associated with sex, age group, criminal incidence, and its polygon.
Student-Athletes’ Organization of Activism at the University of Missouri: Resource Mobilization on Twitter

Although social media has been increasingly noted as an outlet for athletes to openly address social issues, there has been very little systematic examination on the organizational capacity of social media. To address this, our study seeks to focus on the strike organized by the football players through Twitter at the University of Missouri in 2015. Specifically, it adopts the theoretical framework of resource mobilization and conducts a comprehensive analysis composed of two parts. First, by identifying geographic characteristics and participant groups for #ConcernedStudent1950, it seeks to reveal the mobilization scope and impact. Second, a social network analysis is used to delineate the organizational dynamics of the players’ protest networks. The results yield both theoretical and practical implications for athletes’ engagement in social activism in the digital era.
PKM2 regulates Gli1 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma

Hedgehog (Hh) signaling and the pyruvate kinase isoenzyme M2 (PKM2 or M2-PK) are often involved in tumorigenesis and growth. Aberrant activation of Hh signaling is found in a variety of malignancies. In tumor cells, PKM2 determines whether glucose is used for the synthesis of cellular building blocks or the production of lactate for energy regeneration; it associated with the Warburg effect. Gli1 is a downstream molecule of the Hh signaling pathway; however, the association between Hh signaling and PKM2 is not well understood. In the present study, it was identified that PKM2 and Gli1 expression levels were significantly elevated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) compared with para-carcinoma. In vitro study revealed that overexpression of PKM2 in HepG2 cells upregulated the transcription of Gli1, while the ablation of PKM2 by shRNA caused the downregulation of Gli1 gene expression. Gli1 transcription could be rescued by PKM2. Overall, these findings suggest that PKM2 is a regulator of Gli1 gene expression in HCC, and may contribute to tumorigenesis through Gli1.
Americans, Not Partisans: Can Priming American National Identity Reduce Affective Polarization?

In recent years, Americans have become more affectively polarized: that is, ordinary Democrats and Republicans increasingly dislike and distrust members of the opposing party. Such polarization is normatively troubling, as it exacerbates gridlock and dissensus in Washington. Given these negative consequences, I investigate whether it is possible to ameliorate this partisan discord. Building on the Common Ingroup Identity Model from social psychology, I show that when subjects’ sense of American national identity is heightened, they come to see members of the opposing party as fellow Americans rather than rival partisans. As a result, they like the opposing party more, thereby reducing affective polarization. Using several original experiments, as well as a natural experiment surrounding the July 4th holiday and the 2008 summer Olympics, I find strong support for my argument. I conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for efforts to reduce polarization more generally.
for Inhibition by Interferon-α Transcription 1 Janus Kinase 2 and Signal Transducer and Activator of Human Malignant Mesothelioma Cell Growth : Activation of Updated

Intrapleural injections of recombinant human IFN-y have shown some efficacy in reducing tumor growth in early stages of diffuse malignant mesothelioma i DMM i. Here, we have addressed the potential therapeutic effect of IFN-y in DMM by investigating the activation of the JAK/STAT signaling pathway in seven human mesothelioma cell lines (HMCLs) that were differentially responsive to the antiproliferative activity of IFN-y. We showed that janus kinase 2 (JAK2) and signal transducer and activa tor of transcription 1 (STATI) were phosphorylated on Ivrosine residues within 15 min in all the HMCLs in which IFN-y (500 units/ml) inhibited proliferation. In addition, STATI binding activity to the gamma-activated sites DNA sequence was detected within 15 min in electrophoretic mobil ity-shift assay analysis, and IFN regulatory factor-1 RNA expression was observed within 6 h in the more responsive cells (72.7-95.2% inhibition of DNA synthesis after 72 h of treatment). Conversely, in several HMCLs, absent or limited growth suppressive effect (less than 22% inhibition of DNA synthesis) was associated with alterations in expression or activation of JAK2 or STATI or, downstream, with low induction of IFN regulatory factor-1 RNA expression and/or STATI protein expression following IFN-y treatment. These data suggest that at least part of the IFN-y effect on proliferation of HMCLs is mediated directly through activation of the JAK/STAT1 signaling pathway, and it could account for the antitumoral activity reported in DMM patients treated with IFN-y.
Optical character recognition for South African languages

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an essential technology in the digitisation of printed media. Many OCR engines are language-specific and available for common languages such as English and other European languages, but less so for smaller languages such as Tshivenda and the other South African languages. In this paper, we describe the process of training OCR engines for South African languages using Tesseract, and compare the accuracy of these engines with the accuracy of using an English engine on the other South African languages. We find that our language-specific engines achieve a high accuracy, with 50% less errors as when using an English engine.
The Fundamental Plane of Cluster Elliptical Galaxies at z = 1.25

Using deep Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging and Very Large Telescope FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph 2 spectra, we determined the velocity dispersions, effective radii, and surface brightnesses for four early-type galaxies in the z = 1.237 cluster RDCS 1252.9-2927. All four galaxies are massive, greater than 1011 M☉. These four galaxies, combined with three from RDCS 0848+4453 at z = 1.276, establish the fundamental plane of massive early-type cluster galaxies at = 1.25. The offset of the fundamental plane shows that the luminosity evolution in rest-frame B is Δ ln = (-0.98 ± 0.06)z for galaxies with M > 1011.5 M☉. To reproduce the observed mass-to-light ratio (M/L) evolution, we determine the characteristic age of the stars in these M > 1011.5 M☉ galaxies to be 3.0 Gyr; i.e., z* = 3.4. Including selection effects caused by morphological bias (the "progenitor bias"), we estimate an age of 2.1 Gyr, or z* = 2.3 for the elliptical galaxy population. Massive cluster early-type galaxies appear to have a large fraction of stars that formed early in the history of the universe. However, there is a large scatter in the derived M/L values, which is confirmed by the spread in the galaxies' colors. Two lower mass galaxies in our = 1.25 sample have much lower M/L values, implying significant star formation close to the epoch of observation. Thus, even in the centers of massive clusters, there appears to have been significant star formation in some massive, M ≃ 1011 M☉, galaxies at z ≃ 1.5.
One dimensional mechanism design

We prove a general possibility result for collective decision problems where individual allocations are one-dimensional, preferences are single-peaked (strictly convex), and feasible allocation profiles cover a closed convex set. Special cases include the celebrated median voter theorem and the division of a non disposable commodity by the uniform rationing rule. We construct a canonical peak-only rule equalizing in the leximin sense individual gains from an arbitrary benchmark allocation: it is efficient, group-strategyproof, fair, and (for most problems) continuous. These properties leave room for many other rules, except for symmetric non disposable division problems.
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Without Detectable Aneurysm: A Review of the Causes

Background In 15% to 20% of patients with a spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage, no aneurysm is found on the first angiogram. This review emphasizes that this group of patients is in fact heterogeneous and describes the clinical features, pattern of hemorrhage on early computed tomographic (CT) scan, prognosis, and proposed management in the several and distinct subsets of these patients. Summary of Review Patients in whom no aneurysm is revealed on the initial angiogram can be subdivided mainly according to the pattern of hemorrhage on an early CT scan. In two thirds of these patients the CT scan shows a perimesencephalic pattern of hemorrhage (ie, blood confined to the cisterns around the midbrain); these patients invariably have a good prognosis, which obviates the need for a second angiogram. Patients with diffuse or anteriorly located blood on CT scan are at risk of rebleeding. In most of these patients the source of hemorrhage is an occult aneurysm, but intracranial artery dissections, dural arteriovenous malformations, mycotic aneurysms, trauma, bleeding disorders, substance abuse, or a cervical origin of the hemorrhage should also be considered. Patients with no blood revealed on an early CT scan but with xanthochromic cerebrospinal fluid are extremely rare. These patients deserve a second reading of the scan for blood in the prepontine cistern, which can be the only site of hemorrhage in perimesencephalic hemorrhage. Conclusions The prognosis and management of patients in whom no aneurysm is found on the initial angiogram depends on the pattern of hemorrhage on the initial CT scan. Patients should no longer be designated with the umbrella term “angiogram-negative subarachnoid hemorrhage. ”
Birth Weight Is Inversely Associated With Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Among Individuals Born in the 1950s: Findings From the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Prospective Cohort Study

Background—Birth weight is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors, but few studies have examined the association with disease end points, in particular with stroke risk. Furthermore, previous studies demonstrating an inverse association between birth weight and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk have been conducted on populations born in the early part of the 20th century, when infant mortality rates were high. If the environmental factors associated with improvements in infant mortality rates over the last century explain the inverse association between birth weight and CHD risk, one would expect weaker associations in more contemporary birth cohorts. Methods and Results—We have examined the association in a large birth cohort of 10 803 (with an average of 239 000 person-years of follow-up) singleton births that occurred between 1950 and 1956. Our outcomes were hospital admissions for, and fatalities from, CHD (n=296) and stroke (n=107). Birth weight was inversely associated with CHD and stroke. The age-adjusted hazards ratio for a 1-kg increase in birth weight was 0.62 (95% CI 0.50 to 0.78) for CHD and 0.38 (95% CI 0.24 to 0.60) for stroke. Adjustment for gestational age, social class at birth, height and body mass index at school entry, gravidity, maternal age at birth, pregnancy-induced hypertension, antepartum hemorrhage, and maternal height did not alter the association with CHD but attenuated the association with stroke to 0.48 (95% CI 0.30 to 0.76). This attenuation resulted largely from adjustment for gestational age, which was linearly inversely related to stroke risk. Adjusted hazard ratios per sex and gestational age standardized z score of birth weight were 0.85 (95% CI 0.73 to 0.97) for CHD and 0.74 (95% CI 0.71 to 0.88) for stroke. Conclusions—Birth weight is inversely associated with CHD and stroke in a population born at a time when environmental circumstances, as indexed by low infant mortality rates, were relatively advantageous for infants.
Design of Balanced Dual-Band Bandpass Filters Using Asymmetrical Coupled Lines

In this paper, we present balanced dual-band bandpass filters (BPFs) using asymmetrical coupled lines. The proposed dual-band BPF has an enhanced common-mode suppression level because the proposed asymmetrical coupled line inherently has the bandstop characteristic on common-mode signals without either additional stubs or lumped elements. The proposed asymmetrical coupled line has dual-band performance on differential-mode signals. The common- and differential-mode equivalent circuits of the proposed filter are given and analyzed to demonstrate the common- and differential-mode responses. Two passbands of the differential-mode response are designed based on a lumped equivalent circuit of the proposed filter. Therefore, two bandwidths can be easily controlled. Two second-order balanced dual-band BPFs are designed and tested at center frequencies of 2.4 and 3.57 GHz with fractional bandwidths (FBWs) of 7.5% and 5% and with FBWs of 7.5% and 6.16%, respectively.
Discrete vector quantization for arbitrary distance function estimation

There are currently many vastly different areas of research involving adaptive learning. Among them are the two areas that concern neural networks and learning automata. This paper develops a method by which the general philosophies of vector quantization (VQ) and discretized automata learning can be incorporated for the computation of arbitrary distance functions. The latter is a problem which has important applications in logistics and location analysis. The input to our problem is the set of coordinates of a large number of nodes whose internode arbitrary "distances" have to be estimated. To render the problem interesting, nontrivial, and realistic, we assume that the explicit form of this distance function is both unknown and uncomputable. Unlike traditional operations research methods, which use optimized parametric functional estimators, we have utilized discretized VQ principles to first adaptively polarize the nodes into subregions. Subsequently, the parameters characterizing the subregions are learned by using a variety of methods (including, for academic purposes, a VQ strategy in the meta-domain). After an initial training phase, a system which achieves distance estimation attempts to yield an estimate of any node-pair distance without actually deriving an explicit form for the unknown function. The algorithms have been rigorously tested for the actual road-travel distances involving cities in Turkey and the results obtained are conclusive. Indeed, these present results are the best currently available from any single or hybrid strategy.
Transitions to adulthood in the context of AIDS in South Africa: report of Wave I.

This report is a prospective study of reproductive behavior and sexual health of adolescents in South Africa as well as their education and employment experiences family and environmental conditions and other factors in their lives that may influence their sexual behavior and choices. The Transitions study is designed to make an important contribution to our understanding of how the national Life Skills Programme works and its effectiveness in changing the behavior of students. The final goal of the Transitions study is to contribute to designing and refining policies and programs that will improve opportunities and capacities of adolescents and may contribute to changing behaviors and choices. The study design includes two rounds of data collection from adolescents (ages 14-22) data on their households and communities and an exploration of some of the principal results from the survey data based on focus groups and other qualitative approaches. Additional data are collected at baseline and follow-up from all schools in the study area regarding the teaching of the Life Skills Programme in those schools. (excerpt)
SDSS-IV MaNGA: bulge-disc decomposition of IFU data cubes (BUDDI)

With the availability of large integral field unit (IFU) spectral surveys of nearby galaxies, there is now the potential to extract spectral information from across the bulges and discs of galaxies in a systematic way. This information can address questions such as how these components built up with time, how galaxies evolve and whether their evolution depends on other properties of the galaxy such as its mass or environment. We present bulge–disc decomposition of IFU data cubes (buddi), a new approach to fit the two-dimensional light profiles of galaxies as a function of wavelength to extract the spectral properties of these galaxies’ discs and bulges. The fitting is carried out using galfitm, a modified form of galfit which can fit multiwaveband images simultaneously. The benefit of this technique over traditional multiwaveband fits is that the stellar populations of each component can be constrained using knowledge over the whole image and spectrum available. The decomposition has been developed using commissioning data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey with redshifts z 22 arcsec, but can be applied to any IFU data of a nearby galaxy with similar or better spatial resolution and coverage. We present an overview of the fitting process, the results from our tests, and we finish with example stellar population analyses of early-type galaxies from the MaNGA survey to give an indication of the scientific potential of applying bulge–disc decomposition to IFU data.
Assessment of the Effect of Memory Page Retirement on System RAS Against Hardware Faults

The Solaris 10 operating system includes a number of new features for predictive self-healing. One such feature is the ability of the fault management software to diagnose memory errors and drive automatic memory page retirement (MPR), intended to reduce the negative impact of permanent memory faults that generate either correctable or uncorrectable errors on system reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). The MPR technique allows memory pages suffering from correctable errors and relocatable clean pages suffering from uncorrectable errors to be removed from use in the virtual memory system without interrupting user applications. It also allows relocatable dirty pages associated with uncorrectable errors to be isolated with limited impact on affected user processes, avoiding an outage for the entire system. This study applies analytical models, with parameters calibrated by field experience, to quantify the reduction that can be made by this operating system self-healing technique on the system interruptions, yearly downtime, and number of services introduced by hardware permanent faults, for typical low-end and mid-range server systems. The results show that significant improvements can be made on these three system RAS metrics by deploying the MPR capability