Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MIDLIFE WOMEN'S NARRATIVES OF LIVING ALONE

Women who live alone in the United States maintain connectedness in ways that are not fully understood. The purposes of this study were to (1) describe midlife women's definitions of themselves and how these are related to living alone; (2) identify the role of connections in relation to self; and (3) describe how self-definition is related to well-being. Van Manen's interpretive phenomenology and Riessmann's method of narrative analysis were used to examine the role of connections and well-being. Living alone was a core component of self. Outside connections supported the women's well-being. Women's future concerns included disability and financial viability. Directions for further study include examining the concepts of mattering and belonging in relation to women's emotional health.
The Science Center Movement: contexts, practice, next challenges

As the science center movement expands worldwide, the time seems ripe to stimulate an informed debate centered on the purpose, practices, and achievements of science centers, together with the challenges they face in the next decade. The first section of this paper focuses on current practice, drawing dimensions from artifact to education, from didactic to empowering, from tutti-frutti to story line, from museum to Disney. Programs beyond the exhibition, and links with the formal education system and the local community, are also considered. The second section deals with the diversity of contexts within which science centers operate—cultural, political, financial, educational—and coins the acronym ASSET: Alternative Settings for Science, Engineering, and Technology. The final section looks to the future, identifying funding gaps, the need for longitudinal evaluation studies, and the challenge of new information technologies. Finally, in the spirit of international challenge, the authors pose three leading questions: What lies beyond the existing-exhibit clone? Can an Art/Science divide be defined? How can we communicate contemporary science and scientific issues?
Non-Symbolic Exact Quantity Representation in a Language Impaired Population

English-speakers whose access to number language is artificially compromised by verbal interference and the Pirahã (an Amazonian tribe without exact number words) appear to rely on analog magnitude estimation for representing nonsymbolic exact quantities greater than 3. Here, 16 participants with aphasia performed the 5 counting tasks from these previous studies. Performance was poorest when targets were not visible during response (70% correct, task 4; 71% correct, task 5) and best when targets were presented as subitizable groups of 2 and 3 (98% correct, task 2). Western Aphasia Battery-Revised subtest scores correlated with task performance, suggesting diverse forms of language impairment may contribute to errors. Coefficients of variation for tasks and significant correlations of target magnitude with error rate (r=.88) and error size (r=.87) across tasks suggest participant use of analog magnitude estimation. Experiments involving people with aphasia may further refine our understanding of how language and thought interact.
Clinical Profile and Outcome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Pakistan

Aim: To study was to analyze demographic profile and outcome in a tertiary care hospital PICU in Multan Pakistan. Methods: This prospective study was carried out in Children Complex Hospital, Multan from January 2011 to June 2014. A total of 1573 patients were admitted during the period. Results: Out of total admissions 980(63%) were boys and 593(37%) were girls. The patients were admitted from medical emergency (60%), surgical emergency (10%), medical ward (18.6%), surgical ward (1.16%) and from operation theatre (10%). Mechanical ventilation rate was 473(27.8%). Three hundred patients died in PICU given a mortality rate of 19.07%. Patients admitted from hospital pediatric wards as internal patients had higher mortality rate compared to the patients taken from emergency department and operation theatre. The mean age was 18 months (ranging from 1 day to 14 years) and 42% (660/1573) were less than one-year old. Emergency medical admissions were 1240(78.8%) and surgical admissions were 333(21.1%). Majority of the patients 1101(70%) had severe malnutrition below the 5th percentile for weight for age. Patients who died had statistically worse severity scores. Significant mortality risk factors were high inotropic score and PRISM III-24>8. Conclusions: Demographic profile of our PICU patients showed similar characteristics as those of reported in different relevant studies with minor differences in few aspects. The overall results of this study are encouraging and development of new PICUs in our country is the need of the day.
Somatic Malingering on the MMPI and MMPI-2 in Personal Injury Litigants

Elevations on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI/MMPI-2) scales 1 (Hs) and 3 (Hy) frequently occur in neuropsychological settings, due to symptoms of pain, paresthesias, and malaise. The presence of only one F scale item on Hs and Hy complicates detection of exaggerated somatic complaints. Of 12 medically and neurologically normal litigants claiming brain damage, with objective evidence of malingering, only 3 had elevated F scales, despite elevations on Hs and Hy exceeding those reported for chronic pain samples and for noninjured dissimulators in malingering research. By contrast, 11 of 12 had elevations on the Lees-Haley Fake Bad Scale (FBS). Somatic malingering should be considered when elevations on Hs and Hy exceed T80, and FBS is significantly elevated.
Mapping seismic anisotropy using harmonic decomposition of receiver functions: An application to Northern Apennines, Italy

[1] Isotropic and anisotropic seismic structures across the Northern Apennines (Italy) subduction zone are imaged using a new method for the analysis of teleseismic receiver functions (RFs). More than 13,000 P-wave coda of teleseismic records from the 2003–2007 Retreating-Trench, Extension, and Accretion Tectonics (RETREAT) experiment are used to provide new insights into a peculiar subduction zone between two continental plates that is considered a focal point of Mediterranean evolution. A new methodology for the analysis of receiver functions is developed, which combines both migration and harmonic decomposition of the receiver function data set. The migration technique follows a classical “Common Conversion Point” scheme and helps to focus on a crucial depth range (20–70 km) where the mantle wedge develops. Harmonic decomposition of a receiver function data set is a novel and less explored approach to the analysis of P-to-S converted phases. The separation of the back-azimuth harmonics is achieved through a numerical regression of the stacked radial and transverse receiver functions from which we obtain independent constraints on both isotropic and anisotropic seismic structures. The application of our method to the RETREAT data set succeeds both in confirming previous knowledge about seismic structure in the area and in highlighting new structures beneath the Northern Apennines chain, where previous studies failed to clearly retrieve the geometry of the subducted interfaces. We present our results in closely spaced profiles across and along the Northern Apennines chain to highlight the convergence of the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic microplates which differ in their crustal structure where the Adriatic microplate subducts beneath Tuscany and the Tyrrhenian sea. A signature of the dipping Adriatic Moho is clearly observed beneath the Tyrrhenian Moho in a large portion of the forearc region. In the area where the two Mohos overlap, our new analysis reveals the presence of an anisotropic body above the subducted Moho. There is a strong Ps converted phase with anisotropic characteristics from the top of the Adriatic plate to a depth of at least 80 km. Because the Ps conversion occurs much deeper than similar Ps phases in Cascadia and Japan, dehydration of oceanic crust seems unlikely as a causative factor. Rather, the existence of this body trapped between the two interfaces supports the hypothesis of lower crustal delamination in a postsubduction tectonic setting.
FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH THE TRIMBLE GX SCANNER

Trimble introduced a new generation of terrestrial laserscanners (TLS) in October 2005. It was on the one side a further development of the Mensi GS200 series and on the other hand presented as “the 3D scanner that thinks like a surveyor”. The Trimble GX was tested regarding its precision, accuracy, attitude of reflection at different coloured surfaces and materials. A specific test field was used for the tasks. Furthermore the authors report about first projects in the fields of architectural and topographical applications, as for example the Documentation of the „Pontonniers International High School“ in Strasbourg, were the levelling of the laserscanner and the direct georeferencing of the point clouds with the new workflow has been tested. Specifically very interesting was the testing of the traditional total station workflow which is up to now uncommon for TLS systems: the scanner can be set up over known points measured with flat targets to provide a direct relationship to existing ground control. The workflow available for the Trimble GX laserscanner is close to the standard fieldwork methods where a network of control points measured by GPS or total stations are now also used as reference stations for the laserscanner. Measurements between stations commonly referred to as traverse measurements, provide an instant relationship between multiple stations and allow the user to view homogenous data in the field without additional post processing. The quality and extent of the survey data can thus be verified in the field. A comparison of standard field methods and geodetic adjustments to the corresponding 3D scanner survey workflow are presented, based on experiences with both Pointscape and Pocketscape software.
Automatic object detection using objectness measure

Object detection is an important step towards object recognition. A robust object detection system is one that can detect an object of any class. In this paper, we present a fully automatic approach to object detection based on an objectness measure. The proposed automatic object detection approach quantifies the likelihood for an image window to encompass objects in the image. It can discriminate between multiple objects in a scene, with individual windows capturing each detected object. Most importantly, the proposed approach does not require any manual input. We tested this approach on the challenging PASCAL VOC 07 dataset. Experimental results show that our approach provides a more accurate estimation of the required number of windows for an input image. The proposed technique is computationally efficient and takes less than 4 sec. per image.
Iterative data-based modelling and optimization for rapid design of dynamic processes

We consider an off-line process design problem where the response variable is affected by several factors. We present a data-based modelling approach that iteratively allocates new experimental points, update the model, and search for the optimal process factors. A flexible non-linear modelling technique, the kriging (also known as Gaussian processes), forms the cornerstone of this approach. Kriging model is capable of providing accurate predictive mean and variance, the latter being a quantification of its prediction uncertainty. Therefore, the iterative algorithm is devised by jointly considering two objectives: (i) to search for the best predicted response, and (ii) to adequately explore the factor's space so that the predictive uncertainty is small. This method is further extended to consider dynamic processes, i.e. the process factors are time-varying and thus the problem becomes to design a time-dependent trajectory of these factors. The proposed approach has been demonstrated by its application to a simulated chemical process with promising results being achieved.
Harnessing the apoptotic programs in cancer stem‐like cells

Elimination of malignant cells is an unmet challenge for most human cancer types even with therapies targeting specific driver mutations. Therefore, a multi‐pronged strategy to alter cancer cell biology on multiple levels is increasingly recognized as essential for cancer cure. One such aspect of cancer cell biology is the relative apoptosis resistance of tumor‐initiating cells. Here, we provide an overview of the mechanisms affecting the apoptotic process in tumor cells emphasizing the differences in the tumor‐initiating or stem‐like cells of cancer. Further, we summarize efforts to exploit these differences to design therapies targeting that important cancer cell population.
Short-term evaluation of resin sealing and rebonding on amalgam microleakage: an SEM observation.

AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of two different sealing agents on the microleakage of Class V amalgam restorations with and without resin rebonding. METHODS AND MATERIALS Sixty extracted premolars were divided into six groups with ten teeth in each group. Class V cavity preparations were prepared on the facial surfaces of each tooth with the coronal margins placed in enamel and apical margins in cementum (dentin). The preparations in three groups were treated with Copalite, Scotchbond Multi-Purpose (SBMP), and no sealing agent, respectively. The other three groups received the same sealing agents in conjunction with a rebonding process. This arrangement of specimens provided for a comparison of the groups with and without a rebonding procedure. Amalgam was used as the restorative material. Specimens were thermocycled, stained, and sectioned. Microleakage was graded (0-3) using a stereomicroscope at 40x magnification. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used along with a high resolution elemental analysis. Data were analyzed with Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Withney, and Wilcoxon pair wise statistical tests (alpha=.05). RESULTS The bonded amalgam groups demonstrated significantly less microleakage, whereas the unsealed groups showed the highest microleakage (P=0.001). A significant difference between the mean rank of the microleakage of enamel and dentin margins was observed (P=0.037). Insignificant, lower microleakage was observed in groups receiving a rebonding procedure (P=0.085). CONCLUSION Copalite and a multi-step adhesive system had a significant effect on microleakage of Class V amalgam restorations. The influence of the multi-step adhesive system was significantly greater than Copalite. The rebonding of the amalgam restorations did not have a significant effect on microleakage.
An Immersed Boundary Model of the Cochlea with Parametric Forcing

The cochlea or inner ear has a remarkable ability to amplify sound signals. This is understood to derive at least in part from some active process that magnifies vibrations of the basilar membrane (BM) and the cochlear partition in which it is embedded, to the extent that it overcomes the effect of viscous damping from the surrounding cochlear fluid. Many authors have associated this amplification ability to some type of mechanical resonance within the cochlea, however there is still no consensus regarding the precise cause of amplification. Our work is inspired by experiments showing that the outer hair cells within the cochlear partition change their lengths when stimulated, which can in turn cause periodic distortions of the BM and other structures in the cochlea. This paper investigates a novel fluid-mechanical resonance mechanism that derives from hydrodynamic interactions between an oscillating BM and the surrounding cochlear fluid. We present a model of the cochlea based on the immersed boundary method, in which a small-amplitude periodic internal forcing due to outer hair cells can induce parametric resonance. A Floquet stability analysis of the linearized equations demonstrates the existence of resonant (unstable) solutions within the range of physical parameters corresponding to the human auditory system. Numerical simulations of the immersed boundary equations support the analytical results and clearly demonstrate the existence of resonant solution modes. These results are then used to illustrate the influence of parametric resonance on wave propagation along the BM and explicit comparisons are drawn with results from another two-dimensional cochlea model.
A Bayesian Approach to Norm Identification

When entering a system, an agent should be aware of the obligations and prohibitions (collectively norms) that will affect it. Several solutions to this norm identification problem have been proposed, which make use of observations of either other's norm compliant, or norm violating, behaviour. These solutions fail in situations where norms are typically violated, or complied with, respectively. In this paper we propose a Bayesian approach to norm identification which operates by learning from both norm compliant and norm violating behaviour. By utilising both types of behaviour, our work not only overcomes a major limitation of existing approaches, but also yields improved performance over the state-of-the-art. We evaluate its effectiveness empirically, showing, under certain conditions, high accuracy scores.
Overlapping areas in the motor cortex of the baboon

The use of variable parameters of electrical stimulation in experiments on the motor cortex gives opportunity to reinvestigate the definition of cortical areas (Fulton, 1949; Livingston, 1949). In the classical experiments of Ferrier (1873, 1876) and subsequent workers (Grunbaum & Sherrington, 1901, 1903), the inductorium disclosed circumscribed foci for a large number of movements forming a motor map of relatively constant pattern. On the other hand, from clinical observations Hughlings Jackson (1890), and more lately Walshe (1943), recognized widely overlapping fields of origin-a belief supported by the wellknown stimulations of the brain cortex by Penfield & Boldrey (1937). In observations on the motor cortex of the red monkey (Erythrocebus patas) we found that single pulses of adequate duration (5-25 msec.) elicited solitary movements of thumb and index from a large area which overlapped, medially, another large area from which similar movements of the hallux could be provoked. With pulses 1 msec. in duration at a frequency of 100 c.p.s. , on the other hand, this same cortical territory yielded the usual wide range of fragmentary movements of all parts of the body. The observations were extended to the baboon (Papio papio), which seems to have a brain intermediate in complexity between other old-world monkeys and the great apes (Brown & Sherrington, 1911; Fulton & Keller, 1932).
The Implications of Complexity for Integrated Resources Management

Integrated environmental resources management is a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities. In many cases different goals are in conflict and the notion " Integrated " indicates clearly that resources management should be approached from a broad perspective taking all potential trade-offs and different scales in space and time into account. However, we are yet far from putting integrated resources management taking fully into account the complexity of human-technology-environment systems into practice.The tradition of resources management and of dealing with environmental problems is characterized by a command and control approach. The increasing awareness for the complexity of environmental problems and of human-technology-environment systems has triggered the development of new management approaches. The paper discusses the importance to focus on the transition to new management paradigms based on the insight that the systems to be managed are complex adaptive systems. It provides arguments for the role of social learning processes and the need to develop methods combining approaches from hard and soft systems analysis. Soft systems analysis focuses on the importance of subjective perceptions and socially constructed reality. Soft systems methods and group model building techniques are quite common in management science where the prime target of management has always been the social system. Resources management is still quite slow to take up such innovations that should follow as a logical consequence of adopting an integrated management approach. Integrated water resources management is used as example to provide evidence for the need to implement participatory and adaptive management approaches that are able to cope with increasing uncertainties arising from fast changing socioeconomic conditions and global and climate change. Promising developments and future research directions are discussed. The paper concludes with pointing out the need for changes in the scientific community to improve the conditions for interdisciplinary, system-oriented and trans-disciplinary research.
Integrating human factors in customer support systems development using a multi-level organisational approach

Integrating usability into software development projects involves working across multiple organisational levels. Aligning the Customer Support Platform Usability (CSPU) Teams objectives with those of the organisation allowed more effective integration of usability activities within project teams. Primarily, corporate alignment provided a legitimate mandate for the CSPU Team to develop standards and guidelines, and to require that usability activities be undertaken by project teams. However, at the project team level, integration was achieved by definition of roles, activities and processes according to the objectives, constraints and processes of project teams. Achieving common ground in project teams involved a willingness to work with, and to actively adapt to both organisational and project based needs. ® Was part of a broader strategy spearheaded by Dr. Gitte Lindgaard at the Telstra Research Laboratories, (TRL), to more effectively integrate human factors principles into product development projects, • Depended on preliminary planning to align the CSPU Team's objectives with those of the organisation, • Recruited and utilised senior managers to represent the aspirations of the CSPU Team at senior management levels, ® Selected projects that helped the CSPU Team develop methods and processes for effective involvement in project teams, and, Developed strategies that promoted knowledge transfer and incentives for project team involvement in usability activities.