Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Through silicon vias filled with planarized carbon nanotube bundles

The feasibility of using carbon nanotube (CNT) bundles as the fillers of through silicon vias (TSVs) has been demonstrated. CNT bundles are synthesized directly inside TSVs by thermal chemical vapor deposition (TCVD). The growth of CNTs in vias is found to be highly dependent on the geometric dimensions and arrangement patterns of the vias at atmospheric pressure. The CNT–Si structure is planarized by a combined lapping and polishing process to achieve both a high removal rate and a fine surface finish. Electrical tests of the CNT TSVs have been performed and their electrical resistance was found to be in the few hundred ohms range. The reasons for the high electrical resistance have been discussed and possible methods to decrease the electrical resistance have been proposed.
The Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire: Psychometric validation for an Australian population

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the English‐language edition of the Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire (CD‐Quest) and to examine its utility as a clinical assessment tool of cognitive distortions. Materials and Method The CD‐Quest is a comprehensive assessment measure of 15 cognitive distortions along the dimensions of frequency and intensity. To examine the psychometric properties of the CD‐Quest, a sample of 127 university students (22 male, 105 female) completed an online survey composed of the CD‐Quest, Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ), and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale short‐version (DASS). Results Confirmatory factor analysis supports the unifactorial structure proposed by the Brazilian–Portuguese edition. Internal consistency was adequate at . 80. Strong positive correlations for the subscales of frequency and intensity (r between .78 and .90) demonstrate validity of the subscales. Convergent validity with the ATQ (r = .57) and the DASS subscales of depression (r = .45), anxiety (r = .38), and stress (r = .41) was observed. The sensitivity to delineate between groups with and without symptomology for depression, anxiety, and stress supports the validity of the measure. Conclusions Psychometric analysis demonstrated the CD‐Quest to be a valid and reliable unifactorial assessment tool of cognitive distortions. Although further studies using clinical samples are needed, these findings provide preliminary support for the use of the CD‐Quest in the assessment of cognitive distortions among individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, and stress‐related disorders.
First record of Streptosyllis nunezi Faulwetter et al., 2008 (Annelida, Syllidae) from the United Kingdom, and amendment to the genus Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884

Abstract During a benthic survey of a Marine Conservation Zone located on the Skerries Bank in the English Channel off the south-west coast of England, three specimens of Streptosyllis nunezi Faulwetter et al., 2008 were found. This is the second ever record of the species after its original description, and the first record from waters around the U.K. and a significant northerly range extension for a species previously only recorded from the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean Sea. A single simple ventral chaeta in each of the two posterior-most segments was discovered in this and two other species of Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884. The generic definition of Streptosyllis is emended to include this feature previously unknown for the genus, and an updated key to the Streptosyllis found in UK waters is provided.
Rhythms of “being” at ISIC - Understanding the place of the ISIC conferences in information seeking research

Introduction. The paper reports on findings from a project merging exploring the professional practice of academics, research students and practitioners within the ISIC community, drawn from fieldwork at the 2006 Information Seeking in Context (ISIC 2006) conference in Sydney, Australia. Method. The project used diverse ethnographic and unobtrusive techniques to locate and describe the range of activities taking place during the 2006 ISIC conference. Analysis. Both authors names and conference titles were collected from all conferences and mapped to see if core themes could be identified. Themes were compared to the topics of interest elicited from two conference surveys distributed at ISIC 2006. Results. People attend ISIC conferences because of a desire to connect with researchers, not necessarily because of specific research (areas). However, the interests of ISIC 2006 participants fall well within the core themes and clusters characterising ISIC papers since 1996. Conclusions. The project contributes to a fuller understanding of the interlacing of research and information practices and ISIC's contribution to information behaviour research.
A BEME systematic review of the effects of interprofessional education: BEME Guide No. 39

Abstract Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) aims to bring together different professionals to learn with, from, and about one another in order to collaborate more effectively in the delivery of safe, high-quality care for patients/clients. Given its potential for improving collaboration and care delivery, there have been repeated calls for the wider-scale implementation of IPE across education and clinical settings. Increasingly, a range of IPE initiatives are being implemented and evaluated which are adding to the growth of evidence for this form of education. Aim: The overall aim of this review is to update a previous BEME review published in 2007. In doing so, this update sought to synthesize the evolving nature of the IPE evidence. Methods: Medline, CINAHL, BEI, and ASSIA were searched from May 2005 to June 2014. Also, journal hand searches were undertaken. All potential abstracts and papers were screened by pairs of reviewers to determine inclusion. All included papers were assessed for methodological quality and those deemed as “high quality” were included. The presage–process–product (3P) model and a modified Kirkpatrick model were employed to analyze and synthesize the included studies. Results: Twenty-five new IPE studies were included in this update. These studies were added to the 21 studies from the previous review to form a complete data set of 46 high-quality IPE studies. In relation to the 3P model, overall the updated review found that most of the presage and process factors identified from the previous review were further supported in the newer studies. In regard to the products (outcomes) reported, the results from this review continue to show far more positive than neutral or mixed outcomes reported in the included studies. Based on the modified Kirkpatrick model, the included studies suggest that learners respond well to IPE, their attitudes and perceptions of one another improve, and they report increases in collaborative knowledge and skills. There is more limited, but growing, evidence related to changes in behavior, organizational practice, and benefits to patients/clients. Conclusions: This updated review found that key context (presage) and process factors reported in the previous review continue to have resonance on the delivery of IPE. In addition, the newer studies have provided further evidence for the effects on IPE related to a number of different outcomes. Based on these conclusions, a series of key implications for the development of IPE are offered.
Arachidonic acid cytochrome P450 epoxygenase pathway Work from my laboratory cited in this review was supported by National Institutes of Health grants HL049264 and HL072845. Published, JLR Papers in Press, October 23, 2008.

Cytochrome P450 (CYP) epoxygenases convert arachidonic acid to four epoxyeicosatrienoic acid (EET) regioisomers, 5,6-, 8,9-, 11,12-, and 14,15-EET, that function as autacrine and paracrine mediators. EETs produce vascular relaxation by activating smooth muscle large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels (BKCa). In addition, they have anti-inflammatory effects on blood vessels and in the kidney, promote angiogenesis, and protect ischemic myocardium and brain. CYP epoxygenases also convert eicosapentaenoic acid to vasoactive epoxy-derivatives, and endocannabinoids containing 11,12- and 14,15-EET are formed. Many EET actions appear to be initiated by EET binding to a membrane receptor that activates ion channels and intracellular signal transduction pathways. However, EETs also are taken up by cells, are incorporated into phospholipids, and bind to cytosolic proteins and nuclear receptors, suggesting that some functions may occur through direct interaction of the EET with intracellular effector systems. Soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) converts EETs to dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acids (DHETs). Because this attenuates many of the functional effects of EETs, sEH inhibition is being evaluated as a mechanism for increasing and prolonging the beneficial actions of EETs.
Recognition, Classification and Inversion of Faces in the Multidimensional Space

1.1 The multidimensional space One of the leading models of face recognition is the multidimensional space (MDS) model proposed by Valentine (1991a) which suggests that faces are encoded as points in a metaphoric multidimensional space, and that any characteristic which differentiates among faces can serve as a dimension in that space (Bruce, Burton, & Dench, 1994; Valentine, 1991a; Valentine & Endo, 1992). According to the model, faces are normally distributed along each of the dimensions which share a common center (Bruce et al., 1994; Johnston, Milne, Williams, & Hosie, 1997; Lewis & Johnston, 1999b). Most faces that one encounters are typical, and as such are distributed around the center of the MDS. Distinctive faces, on the other hand, are located far from the center. Therefore, the more typical a face is on the various dimensions, the closer it is to the center of the MDS and to other faces, and consequently the smaller is its representation space (Lewis & Johnston, 1999a; Tanaka, Giles, Kremen, & Simon, 1998). Thus, the greater the similarity among the faces, the more densely they are located and hence their recognition is more difficult (Busey, 1998; Johnston, Milne et al., 1997; Lewis & Johnston, 1999a; Tanaka et al, 1998; Valentine, 1991a,b, 2001; Valentine & Bruce, 1986a,c). As the MDS model suggests, distinctive faces are indeed recognized faster and more accurately than typical ones (Lewis & Johnston, 1997; Valentine, 1991a, 2001; Valentine & Bruce, 1986a,c; Valentine & Ferrara, 1991; Wickham, Morris, & Fritz, 2000).
Goals and objectives: statistical techniques and measures for performance improvement of HEIs in Oman

Research has been conducted on goals, objectives and measures to assess the processes and activities of private or government higher education institutions (HEIs) in a number of countries and international bodies. This study is intended to refine the goals and objectives of HEIs for assessing the performance of higher education institutions in Oman, and as a tool for benchmarking and international comparisons. In order to assess the goals and the relevance between these goals and related objectives, two instruments were distributed to faculty members of several HEIs in the Sultanate of Oman. The respondents were requested to judge the importance of the goals set for HEIs and the relevance between the selected objectives and goals. Some statistical tests and measures were applied to the data collected. The study found out that the proposal has a considerable gain in all statistical tests and measures used therein. Conclusions and numerical results are then reported.
Measures of Job Satisfaction: What Makes a Good Job? Evidence from OECD Countries

Most taxonomies of "good jobs" and "bad jobs" are centred around pay and hours of work. This paper uses uses information on 7 000 workers in OECD countries (emanating from the 1989 wave of the International Social Survey Programme) to complement traditional measures of job quality with workersupplied information regarding a wide variety of characteristics of the current job. The responses to twenty different questions are collapsed into six summary variables measuring workers’ evaluations of: Pay; Hours of work; Future Prospects (promotion and job security); How hard or difficult the job is; Job content: interest, prestige and independence; and Interpersonal relationships (with co-workers and with management). An advantage of asking workers about these job attributes is that many of them, such as interpersonal relationships, job interest and job difficulty, are not measurable in the way that income and hours are. Another is that items may not have a linear relationship .
Social movements, welfare and social policy: a critical analysis

This article proposes that theories of ‘new’ social movements (NSMs) may illuminate contemporary welfare struggles and inform research into collective action in social policy. NSM theory is relevant because it focuses on social movement cultures, identity politics and symbolic struggles for the recognition of difference. However, it does this to the exclusion of ‘traditional’ issues such as material redistribution and inequality. A critical social policy, on the other hand, has retained a regard for these issues, but is also concerned with struggles for recognition. It is argued that all social movements raise issues about redistribution and recognition, although these will coexist to varying degrees. Using work carried out in the United States into women's self-help movements, this article shows how movements that are largely cultural may change social policy by posing symbolic challenges.
Becoming Interculturally Competent

After years of observing all kinds of people dealing (or not) with cross-cultural situations, I decided to try to make sense of what was happening to them. I wanted to explain why some people seemed to get a lot better at communicating across cultural boundaries while other people didn’t improve at all, and I thought that if I were able to explain why this happened, trainers and educators could do a better job of preparing people for cross-cultural encounters.
Cloning and functional characterization of a novel human CC chemokine that binds to the CCR3 receptor and activates human eosinophils

Eotaxin has been found to bind exclusively to a single chemokine receptor, CCR3. Using expression sequence tag screening of an activated monocyte library, a second chemokine has been identified; it was expressed and purified from a Drosophila cell culture system and appears to only activate CCR3. Eotaxin‐2, MPIF‐2, or CKβ‐6, is a human CC chemokine with low amino acid sequence identity to other chemo‐ kines. Eotaxin‐2 promotes chemotaxis and Ca2+ mobilization in human eosinophils but not in neutrophils or monocytes. Cross‐desensitization calcium mobilization experiments using purified eosinophils indicate that eotaxin and MCP‐4, but not RANTES, MIP‐lα, or MCP‐3, can completely cross‐desensitize the calcium response to eotaxin‐2 on these cells, indicating that eotaxin‐2 shares the same receptor used by eotaxin and MCP‐4. Eotaxin‐2 was the most potent eosinophil chemoattractant of all the chemokines tested. Eotaxin‐2 also displaced 125I‐eotaxin bound to the cloned CCR3 stably expressed in CHO cells (CHO‐CCR3) and to freshly isolated human eosinophils with affinities similar to eotaxin and MCP‐4. l25I‐Eotaxin‐2 binds with high affinity to eosinophils and both eotaxin and cold eotaxin‐2 displace the ligand with equal affinity. Eotaxin and eotaxin‐2 promote a Ca2+ transient in RBL‐2H3 cells stably transfected with CCR3 (RBL‐2H3‐CCR3) and both ligands cross‐desensitized the response of the other but not the response to LTD4. The data indicate that eotaxin‐2 is a potent eosinophil chemotactic chemokine exerting its activity solely through the CCR3 receptor. J. Leukoc. Biol. 62: 667–675; 1997.
Intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator therapy for ischemic stroke: Houston experience 1996 to 2000.

CONTEXT Intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) therapy using the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke criteria has been given with variable safety to less than 5% of the patients who have ischemic strokes nationwide. Our center is experienced in treating large numbers of stroke patients with intravenous tPA. OBJECTIVE To report our total 4-year experience in the treatment of consecutive patients who had an ischemic stroke. DESIGN Prospective inception cohort registry of all patients seen by our stroke team and an additional retrospective medical record review of all patients treated between January 1, 1996, and June 1, 2000. SETTING A veteran stroke team composed of fellows and stroke-specialty faculty servicing 1 university and 3 community hospitals in a large urban setting. PATIENTS Consecutive patients with ischemic stroke treated within the first 3 hours of symptom onset. INTERVENTION According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke protocol, 0.9 mg/kg of intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator was administered. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Number and proportion treated, patient demographics, time to treatment, hemorrhage rates, and clinical outcome. RESULTS A total of 269 patients were treated between January 1, 1996, and June 1, 2000. Their mean age was 68 years (age range, 24-93 years); 48% were women. This represented 9% of all patients admitted with symptoms of cerebral ischemia at our most active hospital (over the final 6 months, 13% of all patients with symptoms of cerebral ischemia and 15% of all acute ischemic stroke patients). Before treatment the mean +/- SD National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score was 14.4 +/- 6.1 points (median, 14 points; range, 4-33 points). A tPA bolus was given at 137 minutes (range, 30-180 minutes); 28% of the patients were treated within 2 hours. The mean door-to-needle time was 70 minutes (range, 10-129 minutes). The symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage rate was 5.6% of those patients with a second set of brain scans (4.5% of all patients), with a declining trend from 1996 to 2000. Protocol violations were found in 13% of all patients; the symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage rate in these patients was 15%. At 24 hours, the NIHSS score was 10 +/- 8 points (median, 8 points; range, 0-36 points). In-hospital mortality was 15% and the patients' discharge NIHSS scores were 7 +/- 7 points (median, 3 points; range, 0-35 points). CONCLUSIONS Intravenous tPA therapy can be given to up to 15% of the patients with acute ischemic stroke with a low risk of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage. Successful experience with intravenous tPA therapy depends on the experience and organization of the treating team and adherence to published guidelines.
Teacher Empowerment in Education Practice: Strategies, Constraints and Suggestions

Education is a gradual process through which individuals acquire general to specific knowledge, skills, information and attitude from educators that would enable them develop powers of reasoning and judgment in their everyday experiences. This makes it an empowerment process as individual over time attain rightful status in the society. It is in this that the role of the teacher may not be overlooked but rather be emphasized as they remain to be the main contributors towards student learning. But for educators to be able to accomplish this noble task they need to constantly learn, unlearn and relearn in order to gain more knowledge, skills and right attitude towards their role. This entails empowering themselves with the right knowledge, skills, attitudes and development of competence that would enable them respond adequately to challenging and demanding needs of the modern society. This demands that empowerment be a continuous process where individuals are developed, a journey where people gain lifelong experiences which would enable them exercise power over their own practices and circumstances. As a result of this, educators are therefore expected to respond adequately to the pressing and dynamic demands of the modern world, those of the educational community, to act professionally and be able to use their expertise to guarantee successful education process for our youth. It is for this reasons that the writers of the paper looks into why we need to empower teachers amidst their busy and demanding task, strategies the school management as well as individuals may use to empower themselves and possible constraints that may hamper the empowering process. It is our hope that this will shade light on the importance of empowerment and strategies to be utilized in the 21 st century where there is a
Effects on performance, tissue integrity, and metabolism of vitamin E supplementation for beef heifers fed a diet that contains gossypol.

We conducted an experiment for 112 d with yearling beef heifers to evaluate the effects of cottonseed meal (CSM) fed with various concentrations of vitamin E on hematological and tissue components. Heifers were assigned randomly to four treatments, with eight heifers per treatment. The treatments consisted of the following dietary supplements: 1) CON, based on soybean meal with 30 IU vitamin E/kg; 2) GOS, based on CSM with 30 IU vitamin E/kg; 3) G+2E, based on CSM with 2,000 IU vitamin E x animal(-1) x d(-1); and 4) G+4E, based on CSM with 4,000 IU vitamin E x animal(-1) x d(-1). Supplements based on CSM provided 4.5 g of free and 50.5 g of total gossypol x animal(-1) x d(-1). The total gossypol present in the supplements was 29.1% of the negative isomer (-) and 70.9% of the positive isomer (+). Blood samples were collected at the start of the experiment and every 2 wk thereafter up to 16 wk. There was a time x treatment interaction (P<.01) for plasma alpha-tocopherol ( alpha-T) concentration; however, feeding gossypol did not decrease plasma alpha-T. Weight gain, retinol palmitate, retinol, beta-carotene (beta-C), hemoglobin, and hematocrit were not affected by treatment. Erythrocyte osmotic fragility (EOF) increased (P<.05) in gossypol-fed animals; however, vitamin E supplementation lowered EOF (P<.05). Heifers fed the supplements GOS, G+2E, and G+4E had greater (P<.01) plasma (-)-, (+)-, and total gossypol than heifers fed CON from Collection 2 to the end of the experiment. There was a treatment effect (P<.05) on vitamin E and gossypol concentrations in different tissues, with no effect (P>.05) for trace minerals (Cu, Zn, Fe, and Se). Vitamin E concentration in tissue increased with increased dietary supplementation of vitamin E. In heart and neck muscle, (-)-gossypol was greater (P<.05) than (+)-gossypol, but the reverse was true for liver. Gossypol decreased in vitro lipid peroxidation of liver homogenate in tissues. Gossypol deposition in tissue was liver > heart > muscle. In summary, gossypol from CSM did not decrease concentrations of antioxidant vitamins, including alpha-T, vitamin A, and beta-C, or have any detrimental effect on performance of beef heifers.