Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Motivation and Physical Self-Concept in Physical Education: Differences by Gender

This paper examines the relationship between dispositional goal orientations, the perception of different motivational climates and physical self-concept in physical education classes. An additional purpose was to examine the nature of these relationships among boys and girls. Eight hundred and eighty-four students from a large Spanish metropolitan school district were participants in this study and completed questionnaires assessing the above mentioned variables. Results revealed that sport competence and physical condition were the domains of physical self-concept that had a greater connection with goal orientations and motivational climates. Gender differences were also identified for all variables except for task orientation. In addition, the task-involving motivational climate was the main predictor in the sport competence and physical condition subscales in the case of the girls, while ego and task orientation were, respectively, the strongest predictors for the same physical self-concept subscales in the case of the boys. In order to provide more inclusive teaching, especially for students with low self-concept, this study suggests the need to create classroom participation that favours task-involving motivational environments.
The emotional regulation during test-taking scale

The article describes the development and initial validity efforts for a context-specific measure of Emotional Regulation during Test-taking (ERT). Presented are results from both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis on independent half samples, one used for development and one used for validation, which supported a 39-item, four-dimensional structure (i.e., Task-Focusing, Emotion-Focusing, Regaining Task-Focus, and Cognitive-Appraising Processes). In addition, results examining the relationship between the ERT and relevant measures of test anxiety, mood regulation, and coping showed support for the construct validity of the ERT scale.
Effect of a Structured Arts Program on the Psychosocial Functioning of Youth From Low-Income Communities

This study reports on the longitudinal examination of a structured arts program for Canadian youth, aged 9 to 15 years, from low-income communities. Evaluated were the extent to which community-based organizations successfully recruited and retained youth in the program and whether they demonstrated improvement with respect to artistic ability (combination of theatre, visual, and media arts) and psychosocial indicators. The results suggest successful recruitment and good retention rates. Multilevel growth curve analyses of observational and behavioral outcomes are presented. Observer ratings showed significant gains in artistic and social skills. Comparisons with matched controls using estimated linear propensity scores revealed a significant reduction in emotional problems for the intervention group. The overall conclusion is that youth from low-income communities benefit from structured arts programs.
An individual with blepharophimosis–ptosis–epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) and additional features expands the phenotype associated with mutations in KAT6B

Blepharophimosis–ptosis–epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations in FOXL2. We identified an individual with BPES and additional phenotypic features who did not have a FOXL2 mutation. We used whole exome sequencing to identify a de novo mutation in KAT6B (lysine acetyltransferase 6B) in this individual. The mutation was a 2‐bp insertion leading to a frameshift which resulted in a premature stop codon. The resulting truncated protein does not have the C‐terminal serine/methionine transcription activation domain necessary for interaction with other transcriptional and epigenetic regulators. This mutation likely has a dominant‐negative or gain‐of‐function effect, similar to those observed in other genetic disorders resulting from KAT6B mutations, including Say–Barber–Biesecker–Young–Simpson (SBBYSS) and genitopatellar syndrome (GTPTS). Thus, our subject's phenotype broadens the spectrum of clinical findings associated with mutations in KAT6B. Furthermore, our results suggest that individuals with BPES without a FOXL2 mutation should be tested for KAT6B mutations. The transcriptional and epigenetic regulation mediated by KAT6B appears crucial to early developmental processes, which when perturbed can lead to a wide spectrum of phenotypic outcomes. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Optimization of the monochromatic energy in imaging the celiac artery with dual energy spectral CT angiography

To identify the optimal monochromatic energy of the dual energy spectral CT Angiography (CTA) of celiac artery with high image quality. 32 patients were tested by the contrast-enhanced CT with the dual energy spectral imaging mode. Based on the polychromatic data, images of celiac artery were reconstructed at the optimal monochromatic energy, 70 keV monochromatic energy level and the 140 kVp tube voltage. Object evaluation depending on the Contrast-to-Noise Ratio (CNR), the Signal-to- Noise Ratio (SNR), and the Image Noise (IN) for celiac artery, and the subjective evaluation have been used to rank image quality of the above three reconstruction groups. The optimal energy level was determined at 51 keV which gives the highest CNR of 18.74 ± 7.91, while the CNR values for celiac artery in the 70 keV group and the 140 kVp tube voltage group were 13.89 ± 6.27 and 13.14 ± 6.25, respectively. The corresponding SNR values were 21.38 ± 8.39, 17.50 ± 7.12 and 17.19 ± 7.90. The IN values were 27.49 ± 7.48 HU, 17.53 ± 4.56 HU, 15.75 ± 5.34 HU. The subjective score were 4.69 ± 0.24, 4.14 ± 0.24 and 3.71 ± 0.27 for the above 3 groups. CNR, SNR and subjective score for images in the optimal energy group were significantly superior to those in the 70 keV group and the 140 kVp tube voltage group. The optimal monochromatic energy is identified at 51 keV in dual energy spectral CT Angiography (CTA), which significantly improves the image quality of the celiac artery.
Perceived Transformational Leadership, Organizational Commitment, and Citizenship Behavior: A Case Study in Intercollegiate Athletics

This study tested the propositions that (a) perceived leader-member exchange quality (LMX) between second level managers (e.g., associate, assistant athletic directors) and their subordinates would be associated with perceived transformational leadership behaviors (TL) of the athletic director, and (b) subordinates' organizational commitment (OC) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) would be correlated with both perceived TL and LMX. Seventy-five third tier employees of a large Midwestern university responded to the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire-MLQ (Bass, 1985); LMX-7 (Graen, Novak, & Sommerkamp, 1982), an organizational citizenship scale (MacKenzie, Podsakoff, & Fetter, 1991); and an organizational commitment scale (Meyer & Allen, 1997). Correlational and regression analyses showed that the three dimensions of TL were significantly correlated with LMX. Additionally, the dimensions of TL and LMX were differentially related to OC and OCB.
Stem cells for cell replacement therapy: A therapeutic strategy for HD?

Much interest has been expressed over the last couple of decades in the potential application of stem cells to medicine, both for research and diagnostic tools and as a source of donor cells for therapeutic purposes. Potential therapeutic applications include replacement of cells in many body organs where the capacity for intrinsic repair is limited, including the pancreas, heart, and brain. A key challenge is to generate the relevant donor cell types, and this is particularly challenging in the brain where the number of different neuronal subtypes is so great. Although dopamine neuron replacement in Parkinson's disease has been the focus of most clinical studies, great interest has been shown in this approach for other disorders, including Huntington's disease. Replacing complete neural circuits in the adult brain is clearly challenging, and there are many other complexities with regard to both donor cells and host. This article presents the pros and cons of taking a cell therapy approach in Huntington's disease. It considers the implantation both of cells that are already of the same neural subtype as those lost in the disease process (ie, primary fetal cells derived from the developing striatum) and those derived from stem cells, which require “directing” toward that phenotype. © 2014 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
Career Search Self-Efficacy, Family Support, and Career Indecision With Italian Youth

Family support has been found to influence both career self-efficacy beliefs and career decision making. The purpose of this study was to verify whether career search self-efficacy could mediate the relationship between family support and career indecision.Using a sample of 253 Italian youth, the study found that, for male adolescents attending a university-preparation high school, career search self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between family support and career indecision. Contrary to expectations, for female adolescents there was no direct relationship between family support and career indecision; however, family support was directly associated with career search self-efficacy and career search self-efficacy was associated with career indecision.
Exact Algorithms for L1-TV Regularization of Real-Valued or Circle-Valued Signals

We consider $L^1$-TV regularization of univariate signals with values on the real line or on the unit circle. While the real data space leads to a convex optimization problem, the problem is nonconvex for circle-valued data. In this paper, we derive exact algorithms for both data spaces. A key ingredient is the reduction of the infinite search spaces to a finite set of configurations, which can be scanned by the Viterbi algorithm. To reduce the computational complexity of the involved tabulations, we extend the technique of distance transforms to nonuniform grids and to the circular data space. In total, the proposed algorithms have complexity $\mathcal{O}(KN)$, where $N$ is the length of the signal and $K$ is the number of different values in the data set. In particular, the complexity is $\mathcal{O}(N)$ for quantized data. It is the first exact algorithm for total variation regularization with circle-valued data, and it is competitive with the state-of-the-art methods for scalar data, assuming that the.
Contemporary Taiwanese cultural nationalism

1. Introduction 1.1 The people, language, and history: an outline 1.2 Contemporary scholarship on nationalism and the study of Taiwanese nationalism 1.3 Dominated ethnic groups, nationalism and humanist intellectuals 1.4 Cultural nationalism and political nationalism 1.5 The politics of cultural uniqueness 1.6 Modernization ideology and cultural nationalism 1.7 The question of dissemination channels 1.8 The organization of the book 2. Japanese colonialism and literary and linguistic reforms in colonial Taiwan 2.1 Japanese colonialism and Taiwanese resistance in the 1920s 2.2 Japanese linguistic assimilationism 2.3 Literary and linguistic reforms in colonial Taiwan 2.4 Conclusion 3. Postwar linguistic problems, literary development, and the debate on Hsiang-t'u Literature 3.1 Early Mainlander-Taiwanese contact and the linguistic problem 3.2 Early KMT rule and the 2-28 incident 3.3 The 1947-49 literary discussion 3.4 KMT rule in the 1950s and 1960s 3.5 Combat literature, KMT ideology, and the development of modernist literature in the 1950s and 1960s 3.6 The debate on 'Hsiang-t'u' literature 3.7 Conclusion 4. Crafting a national literature 4.1 Native Taiwanese writers in the 1950s 4.2 The early history of Taiwan literature and Li Poetry Magazine 4.3 KMT rule and the rising of the Taiwanese opposition movement in the 1970s 4.4 The debate on Taiwanese consciousness and 'Hsiang-t'u' literature 4.5 Ch'en Ying-Chen, Yeh Shih-T'ao, and 'Hsiang-t'u' literature: 'pro-China' versus 'pro-Taiwan' 4.6 'De-Sinocizing' Taiwanese literature: the first half of the 1980s 4.7 Political changes since 1986 4.8 Crafting a national culture: the second half of the 1980s and after 4.9 Crafting a national literature 4.10 Conclusion 5. Crafting a national language 5.1 The official language policy and its consequences 5.2 Crafting a national language 5.3 The Hoklo writing system and Taiwanese nationalism 5.4 Hoklo literature and Taiwanese literature redefined: bringing language in 5.5 Conclusion 6. Crafting a national history 6.1 KMT rule and the pro-China view of history 6.2 The development of the pro-Taiwan view of history and Taiwanese nationalism 6.3 Conclusion 7. Conclusion 7.1 Taiwanese nationalism as an historical 'latecomer' 7.2 Taiwanese cultural nationalism reconsidered
Chikusetsusaponin V inhibits inflammatory responses via NF-κB and MAPK signaling pathways in LPS-induced RAW 264.7 macrophages

Abstract Excessive activation of macrophages is implicated in various inflammation resulted injuries. Saponins from Panax japonicus (SPJ) have been shown to possess anti-inflammatory activities. However, whether Chikusetsusaponin V (CsV), the most abundant component of SPJ, can exert anti-inflammatory activities is unknown. The present study was aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory effects of CsV in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophage cells and the underlying mechanisms. Our data showed that CsV dose-dependently inhibited NO, iNOS, TNF-α and IL-1β expressions in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. Increased protein levels of nuclear NF-κB and elevated phosphorylation levels of ERK and JNK in LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 cells were also found downregulated by CsV treatment. Furthermore, the increase of CD14 and TLR4 mRNA expression due to LPS stimulation were significantly reversed by CsV treatment. These results suggested that CsV attenuated LPS-induced inflammatory responses partly via TLR4/CD14-mediated NF-κB and MAPK pathways.
The pragmatics of letter‐writing

This paper focuses on personal letter-writing as a mode of communication between an L2 writer and an L1 reader, a little explored discourse type, yet particularly vital and salient in the process of language teaching and learning. The corpus is composed of 120 personal letters. They are supposed to be written to British English native speakers. The data were analyzed and discussed in the light of the theoretical insights of a number of modern linguists, notably Grice's Cooperative Principle and Leech's Principle of Politeness as well as Brown and Levinson's views of politeness strategies. The main objective of the study is to examine the corpus of letters in terms of the sociocultural background of the writers, that is, to establish interpretive links between the type of material collected and its situational and cultural context. As a non-nativized variety of English, the language used by the students exhibits certain peculiarities likely to be the result of contradiction between two different cultures. The major argument therefore developed in this study is that these peculiarities can be seen as “errors” which are the by-product of incomplete understanding of the sociocultural background of the target language.
Regression of tumor growth and induction of long-term antitumor memory by interleukin 12 electro-gene therapy.

BACKGROUND Interleukin 12 (IL-12) is a proinflammatory cytokine with antitumor activity. Plasmid-based intratumoral gene therapy for treating malignancy with IL-12 or other genes is safe, inexpensive, and simple to carry out. However, effective delivery methods for injecting DNA plasmid into a tumor to generate therapeutic levels of gene product are lacking. To overcome this obstacle, we used electroporation to deliver the IL-12 gene intratumorally in a murine squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) model, SCCVII. METHODS Plasmids with or without mouse IL-12 gene were injected into SCCVII tumors of C3H/HeJ mice (n = 5 per group). Electric pulses were then applied to the tumors, a process termed electro-gene therapy. The first treatment was administered when the tumor reached 4-6 mm in diameter, and the second treatment followed a week later. The tumor size, survival, and ability to generate systemic antitumor memory were assessed at various time intervals. Changes in gene expression were measured using northern blot analysis, and vessel density and T-cell infiltration were examined by immunostaining. The results were analyzed by two-sided Student's t tests. RESULTS Electroporation of 20 microg or 40 microg of IL-12 DNA plasmid eradicated tumors in 40% of mice (P =.031 and.022, respectively). A total of six mice from two separate experiments with regressed tumors were challenged with homologous SCCVII tumor cells multiple times; three of six mice showed no tumor growth for more than 11 months and thus indicated the generation of antitumor memory in these mice. IL-12 electro-gene therapy was associated with increased expression of IL-12, interferon-gamma, monokine induced by interferon-gamma, and interferon-inducible protein 10. IL-12 electro-gene therapy was also associated with decreased vessel density and increased infiltration of CD8(+) T cells after the second administration (P =.02 and.03, respectively). CONCLUSION IL-12 electro-gene therapy appears to be effective in reducing tumor growth by triggering both antiangiogenic effects and an immune response. The antitumor memory was seen to last more than 11 months. Because IL-12 electro-gene therapy is easy to administer and is effective, it could potentially be applicable in the treatment of electrode-accessible malignancies, such as head and neck SCCs.
Whoever is Influential is Creative: How Chinese Undergraduates Choose Creative People in Chinese Societies

This study surveyed 994 undergraduates in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanchang, Nanjing and Xian about their nomination and evaluation of the most creative people in Chinese societies as well as their valuation of collectivistic and individualistic goals of creativity. Politicians and scientists/inventors were mostly nominated and were generally rated higher on social contribution than on creativity. Artists/musicians and writers/poets were rarely nominated and were mostly rated higher on creativity than on social contribution. Collectivistic goals of creativity were significantly more valued than individualistic goals of creativity. There appears to be a social validation of creativity such that meritorious salience of creativity and social influence of the creator were greatly emphasized. Merit-based attribution of creators may have a detrimental effect on perception and promotion of general creativity in Chinese societies.
Creative Thinking Abilities of Mexican Youth

To examine the relationship of bilingualism to the creative thinking abilities of Mexican youth, four subtests from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were administered to Spanish-English coordinate bilingual and Spanish monolingual subjects from two private high schools in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. It was hypothesized that the Spanish-English coordinate bilinguals would score significantly higher on the dependent measures of figural fluency, figural flexibility, figural originality, verbal fluency, verbal flexibility, and verbal originality than the Spanish monolinguals. A multivariate analysis indicated that the main effect of language group was significant in favor of the bilinguals. Neither the main effect of sex nor the interaction effect was significant. Univariate analysis indicated that the dependent measures of verbal flexibility, verbal originality, and figural originality were significant at the . 05 level in favor of the bilinguals, and the dependent measure of figural fluency was significant at the . 01 level in favor of the bilinguals.
‘Well, I’m a lot of things, but I’m sure not a bigot’: Positive self-presentation in confrontational discourse on racism

Drawing on discursive psychology, critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis, this study examines the discursive procedures in which accusations and refutations are made in public discourse on hate speech against immigrants in the United States. The data under study are two extended interviews on CNN regarding illegal immigration. The matter of analytic interest in this article is the verbal formulations of rhetorical devices and their interactive uses in accusing and denying racial hatred. A close analysis of the argumentation in each debate reveals that the use of a rhetorical device may be interactively called for and contextually sensitive in relation to an interactional goal, and its local and global function may be inferred from the sequential procedures wherein participants make an effort at a particular juncture to constrain the course of interaction in an attempt to execute their respective agenda. It is argued here that the performance and the structure of a public discourse on race or ethnicity may be explained in reference to the US societal and cultural orientations to individuals’ positive and negative face wants.
A learning framework for the small business environment

Purpose – The aim of this article is to offer insight into the factors affecting individual and organisational learning in a small business; specifically the identification of the learning relationships that are unique to the small business environment.Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply Crossan et al.'s (1997, 1999) Organisational Learning Framework. The proposed framework is supported by empirical evidence generated through a longitudinal case study carried out in a small business in the Republic of Ireland over a two‐year period. A learning catalyst, in this case the implementation of a new information system (IS), offered an initial point from which to gauge subsequent learning within the studied case.Findings – This framework acknowledges the learning impact of a small workforce, an owner‐centred culture and a simple organisational structure, as well as the time and resource constraints specific to small businesses which affect the learning dynamic. The framework also takes account of the.
Proposed business model for SME farmers in peri-urban Sydney region

Literature indicates that SME (Small to Medium) farmers in peri-urban Sydney, Australia region are faced with uncertainties when selling their produce. Majority of farmers sell produce via agents, some sell produce via markets however in either case farmers do not get the full overview or the transparency of the expected market demands and prices. To identify if a suitable business model could be proposed, a carefully selected group of five peri-urban farmers has been studied in detail. Results indicate that through collaboration and networking farmers would be able to get a comprehensive overview of the markets and the digital-eco-system. In addition it is expected that this would further allow farmers to sell their produce via both traditional sale mediums as well as new more enhance mediums of the digital era.