Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Computational Infant: Looking for Developmental Cognitive Science

Part 1 Infancy, cognitivism and computation: why a computational theory of infancy? mechanisms intentionality development. Part 2 From low-level computer vision to early infancy vision: vision as computation - Marr's perspective the primal sketch the 2-1/2D sketch the 3-D model description. Part 3 Getting perception into action - taking behaviour seriously functional perception coordinational and control - action programmes action as an organizing construct redrawing the boundaries of computation and cognition implications for explanations. Part 4 Information and meaning: reservations about information "recovery" the "what", "where" and "how" of information trying to "see" versus "see as" meaning in action - the infant as a causally embedded system representation and misrepresentation. Part 5 Action as procedural representation: sensorimotor schemes procedural representation operationalizing action content and process in action-based knowledge comparison with other computational and cognitive approaches to action. Part 6 The structure of infant intention: knowing what you are doing - Piget's developmental framework alternative explanations of the AB error changing coordination and preconditions in action programmes action differentiation and the structure of infant intention need early intentions toward persons be different? procedures and states in infant goals. Part 7 Looking for developmental change and its constraints: the reasoning behind reconstruction - and some alternatives what does continuity of structure mean? action and concept - a discontinuity in experience? actio and "non-triviality" representational systems of representation initial state revisisted. Part 8 How does developmental change work? : programmed models of object concept development - data and assumptions requirements for alearning programme representational redescription representational change in classical vein connectionist insight? constructing the problem of object search through action final state revisted.
Peran Kebiasaan Membaca Label dalam Memediasi Pengaruh Variabel Demografi terhadap Niat Membeli Produk Hijau Merek Natur-E di Kota Denpasar

As for the purpose of this research is to determine the role of reading labels to mediate the effect of demographic variables on purchase intention green product Natur-E in Denpasar. Number of samples of this study was 100 respondents who been through certain criteria. Based on Baron and Kenny Steps and Sobel Test demographic has positive on purchase intention and reading label, and then reading label has positive on purchase intention green product Natur-E in Denpasar. This study also showed that reading label mediate positive demographic on purchase intention green product Natur-E in Denpasar.
Limits for low comlexity beam-steering for UWB antenna arrays

Low complexity beam-steering in UWB array systems uses a constant delay increment between adjacent antenna elements. Such a beam-steering is formally correct only for planar wave fronts in the far-field of the array. In the near-field the UWB signals received/transmitted by low complexity beam-steering do not perfectly overlap in the time domain. Therefore, the energy of received/transmitted signal is reduced. In this paper we use the previously published framework of beam patterns to quantify the reduction of received/transmitted signal energy in order to derive an approximate closed form expression for the minimum distance that is required to guarantee a permissible reduction of the energy of received/transmitted signal, which is application specific, even for low complexity beam-steering.
Point-of-Care Blood Glucose Meter Accuracy in the Hospital Setting

In Brief Point-of-care (POC) tests provide analytical information that can be used to make decisions at patients' bedside, as opposed to laboratory tests that must be run at a central laboratory. POC testing is a widely used tool to enable immediate determination of glucose levels in hospitalized patients and facilitate rapid treatment decisions in response to fluctuations in glycemia. Accurate POC glucose testing requires attention to various factors before, during, and after performance of tests. These include 1) proper preparation of test sites to avoid preanalytical errors, 2) proper identification of tested patients whose physiological status permits sampled capillary specimens to correlate with central venous blood glucose levels to avoid analytical errors, and 3) proper documentation of the fidelity of meter results with the medical record to avoid postanalytical errors.
Self-Management Training With Families of Insulin-Dependent Diabetic Children: A Controlled Long-Term Investigation.

In a control group design with a multiple baseline across behaviors component, insulin dependent diabetic children and their parents were trained in self-managment. Parents and children conducted behavior change projects related to diabetes health care and a metabolic measure of diabetes control was obtained. When compared with control subjects, self-managment subjects reported a large decline in diabetes related family conflict and an increase in compliance with the medical regimen. These changes were maintained at six month follow-up. Both experimental and control subjects exhibited signficant improvements on the metabolic measure of diabetes control. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Hypouricemia in the Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone

WHILE evaluating patients with the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone, it became apparent to me that hypouricemia was common during the period of hyponatremia. Review of the literature showed only one report of hypouricemia associated with the syndrome,1 and in recent reviews of hypouricemia in hospital patients, the syndrome was either not mentioned2 , 3 or not found.4 Therefore, a retrospective study of serum levels of uric acid in hyponatremic patients was performed. The results indicate not only that hypouricemia is the rule in patients with inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone but also that the serum concentrations of urate can .
Sequence of cloned enzyme IIN-acetylglucosamine of the phosphoenolpyruvate:N-acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase system of Escherichia coli.

In Escherichia coli, N-acetylglucosamine (nag) metabolism is joined to glycolysis via three specific enzymes that are the products of the nag operon. The three genes of the operon, nagA, nagB, and nagE, were found to be carried by a colicin plasmid, pLC5-21, from a genomic library of E. coli [Clarke, L. , & Carbon, J. (1976) Cell (Cambridge, Mass.) 9,91-99]. The nagE gene that codes for enzyme IIN-acetylglucosamine of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) was sequenced. The nagE sequence is preceded by a catabolite gene activator protein binding site and ends in a putative rho-independent termination site. The amino acid sequence determined from this DNA sequence shows 44% homology to enzymes IIglucose and IIIglucose of the PTS. Enzyme IIN-acetylglucosamine, which has 648 amino acids and a molecular weight of 68,356, contains a histidine at residue 569 which is homologous to the active site of IIIglc. Sequence homologies with enzymes IIglucose, II beta-glucoside, and IIsucrose indicate that residues His-190, His-213, and His-295 of enzyme IInag are also conserved and that His-190 is probably the second active site histidine. Other sequence homologies among these enzymes II suggest that they contain several sequence transpositions. Preliminary models of the enzymes II are proposed.
Mozart: Portrait of a Genius

"Mozart's need for love had grown uncertain of itself in early childhood. His feeling of being unloved found constant confirmation in his changing experiences over the years, and the intensity of his unsatisfied desire to be loved, detectable as a dominant wish throughout his life, very largely determined what had meaning for him and what did not. " - From the book. One of the most important social thinkers of our time provides a haunting portrait of Mozart's life and creative genius. German sociologist Norbert Elias examines the paradoxes in Mozart's short existence - his brilliant creativity and social marginality, his musical sophistication and personal crudeness, his breathtaking accomplishments and deep despair. Using psychoanalytic insights, Elias examines Leopold Mozart's carefully honed ambitions for his son and protege. From the age of six Mozart traveled with his father, performing in the major courts throughout Europe.The elder Mozart worked on his son "like a sculptor on his sculpture," and this deep bond formed the lietmotif in understanding Mozart's early talent and complicated psyche. Mozart chafed at the constraints of Viennese courtly culture. Growing up in a society which viewed musicians as manual laborers producing entertainment for the court, he fought for an independent livelihood. Vienna's aristocracy ultimately turned its back on the composer, who faced mounting debts, no work, and no prospect of fulfilling his innermost desires. He died feeling that his life had become empty of meaning. Elias ponders the concept of genius, which he sees as a complex marriage of fantasy, inspiration, and convention. In exploring the tension between personal creativity and the tastes of an era, he gives us a book of startling insight and discovery.
DEVELOPING A MEASURE OF AMBIVALENCE ABOUT DRINKING LESS ALCOHOL: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES AND CONSTRUCT VALIDITY

The resolution of ambivalence is an appealing explanation of how at-risk drinkers make changes in their alcohol consumption; however, limited research about this potential mechanism of change exists due to the lack of a specific measure of ambivalence about drinking less alcohol. An initial item pool measuring ambivalence was assessed in two different samples of at-risk drinkers, undergraduate college students participating in the study for research participation credit (N1 = 129) and participants recruited from online sources (N2 = 128) using an online web survey. Three different methods of measuring ambivalence were tested: a double-barreled items method, a difference score method calculated from the sum of items measuring both motivation to change as well as motivation to maintain the status quo, and an Emotion items method. Exploratory Factor Analyses (EFAs) revealed a single factor structure for all three scales, and internally-consistent scales were formed from a subset of well-performing items based on item-scale and factor analytic results. Convergent and discriminant validity correlations were also examined. This study introduces the Change, Ambivalence, Sustain, and Emotion Scales (CASES) for eventual use in investigating if the resolution vii of ambivalence is a mechanism of change in at-risk drinkers. Limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.
Missed opportunities of inclusion in a cohort of HIV-infected children to initiate antiretroviral treatment before the age of two in West Africa, 2011 to 2013

The World Health Organization (WHO) 2010 guidelines recommended to treat all HIV‐infected children less than two years of age. We described the inclusion process and its correlates of HIV‐infected children initiated on early antiretroviral therapy (EART) at less than two years of age in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests Revised/Normative Update (WRMT-R/NU)

Richard W. Woodcock, Ed.D. , is a visiting scholar of special education and rehabilitation at the University of Arizona and director of Measurement/LearningJ Consultants. A former post-doctoral fellow in neuropsychology at Tufts University School Medicine, Dr. Woodcock holds a master's degree in special education and a doctorate in psychoeducat ion and statistics. In addition to directorships at several research institutes, Dr. Woodcock enjoys a wealth of professional experiences that includes elementary teaching, school psychology, special education administration, and university teaching.
Subcutaneous administration of leptin normalizes fasting plasma glucose in obese type 2 diabetic UCD-T2DM rats

Leptin has been shown to reduce hyperglycemia in rodent models of type 1 diabetes. We investigated the effects of leptin administration in University of California, Davis, type 2 diabetes mellitus (UCD-T2DM) rats, which develop adult-onset polygenic obesity and type 2 diabetes. Animals that had been diabetic for 2 mo were treated with s.c. injections of saline (control) or murine leptin (0.5 mg/kg) twice daily for 1 mo. Control rats were pair-fed to leptin-treated animals. Treatment with leptin normalized fasting plasma glucose and was accompanied by lowered HbA1c, plasma glucagon, and triglyceride concentrations and expression of hepatic gluconeogenic enzymes compared with vehicle (P < 0.05), independent of any effects on body weight and food intake. In addition, leptin-treated animals exhibited marked improvement of insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis compared with controls, whereas pancreatic insulin content was 50% higher in leptin-treated animals (P < 0.05). These effects coincided with activation of leptin and insulin signaling pathways and down-regulation of the PKR-like endoplasmic reticulum (ER) kinase/eukaryotic translation inhibition factor 2α (PERK-eIF2α) arm of ER stress in liver, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue as well as increased pro-opiomelanocortin and decreased agouti-related peptide in the hypothalamus. In contrast, several markers of inflammation/immune function were elevated with leptin treatment in the same tissues (P < 0.05), suggesting that the leptin-mediated increase of insulin sensitivity was not attributable to decreased inflammation. Thus, leptin administration improves insulin sensitivity and normalizes fasting plasma glucose in diabetic UCD-T2DM rats, independent of energy intake, via peripheral and possibly centrally mediated actions, in part by decreasing circulating glucagon and ER stress.
‘Megapclicks’: acoustic click trains and buzzes produced during night-time foraging of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) exhibit a variety of foraging behaviours, but neither they nor any baleen whale are known to produce broadband clicks in association with feeding, as do many odontocetes. We recorded underwater behaviour of humpback whales in a northwest Atlantic feeding area using suction-cup attached, multi-sensor, acoustic tags (DTAGs). Here we describe the first recordings of click production associated with underwater lunges from baleen whales. Recordings of over 34 000 ‘megapclicks’ from two whales indicated relatively low received levels at the tag (between 143 and 154 dB re 1 μPa pp), most energy below 2 kHz, and interclick intervals often decreasing towards the end of click trains to form a buzz. All clicks were recorded during night-time hours. Sharp body rolls also occurred at the end of click bouts containing buzzes, suggesting feeding events. This acoustic behaviour seems to form part of a night-time feeding tactic for humpbacks and also expands the known acoustic repertoire of baleen whales in general.
Soluble CD14: Genomewide Association Analysis and Relationship to Cardiovascular Risk and Mortality in Older Adults

Objective—CD14 is a glycosylphosphotidylinositol-anchored membrane glycoprotein expressed on neutrophils and monocytes/macrophages that also circulates as a soluble form (sCD14). Despite the well-recognized role of CD14 in inflammation, relatively little is known about the genetic determinants of sCD14 or the relationship of sCD14 to vascular- and aging-related phenotypes. Methods and Results—We measured baseline levels of sCD14 in >5000 European-American and black adults aged 65 years and older from the Cardiovascular Health Study, who were well characterized at baseline for atherosclerotic risk factors and subclinical cardiovascular disease, and who have been followed for clinical cardiovascular disease and mortality outcomes up to 20 years. At baseline, sCD14 generally showed strong positive correlations with traditional cardio-metabolic risk factors and with subclinical measures of vascular disease such as carotid wall thickness and ankle-brachial index (independently of traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors), and was also inversely correlated with body mass index. In genomewide association analyses of sCD14, we (1) confirmed the importance of the CD14 locus on chromosome 5q21 in European-American; (2) identified a novel African ancestry-specific allele of CD14 associated with lower sCD14 in blacks; and (3) identified a putative novel association in European-American of a nonsynonymous variant of PIGC, which encodes an enzyme required for the first step in glycosylphosphotidylinositol anchor biosynthesis. Finally, we show that, like other acute phase inflammatory biomarkers, sCD14 predicts incident cardiovascular disease, and strongly and independently predicts all-cause mortality in older adults. Conclusion—CD14 independently predicts risk mortality in older adults.
Effects of Prolonged Intensive Lipid-Lowering Therapy on the Characteristics of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques In Vivo by MRI: A Case-Control Study

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with flow suppression not only provides useful information on luminal and wall areas of the carotid artery but also can identify the principal tissue components of the carotid atherosclerotic plaque. The effects of intensive lipid-lowering therapy on these MRI tissue characteristics were examined in patients with coronary disease (CAD). Eight CAD patients who have been receiving intensive lipid-lowering treatment (niacin 2.5 g/d, lovastatin 40 mg/d, and colestipol 20 g/d) for 10 years in the Familial Atherosclerosis Treatment Study (FATS) follow-up were randomly selected from among 60 such treated patients. Eight CAD patients who were matched to the treated patients for age (±3 years), baseline low density lipoprotein (±5 mg/dL), and triglycerides (±50 mg/dL) but who had never been treated with lipid-lowering drugs were selected as controls. For each of these 32 carotid arteries, luminal and plaque areas were measured by planimetry, in a blinded protocol, from the magnetic resonance image that showed most plaque. Fibrous tissue, calcium, and lipid deposits were identified on the basis of established criteria. Plaque composition was estimated as a fraction of total planimetered area. Patients treated with 10-year intensive lipid-lowering therapy, compared with control subjects, had significantly lower low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (84 versus 158 mg/dL, respectively;P <0.001) and higher high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (51 versus 37 mg/dL, respectively;P <0.001). As a group, treated patients, compared with untreated control subjects, had a smaller core lipid area (0.7 versus 10.2 mm2, respectively;P =0.01) and lipid composition (1% versus 17%, respectively). Group differences in luminal area (55 [treated] versus 44 [control] mm2, P =NS) and plaque area (58 [treated] versus 64 [control] mm2, P =NS) tended to favor treatment. MRI appears useful for estimating carotid plaque size and composition. Hyperlipidemic CAD patients frequently (97%) have at least moderate (≥40% area stenosis) carotid plaque. In this case-control study, prolonged intensive lipid-lowering therapy is associated with a markedly decreased lipid content, a characteristic of clinically stable plaques.
Effect of Different Dietary Levels of Energy and Protein on Performance of Japanese Quails (Coturnix coturnix Japonica)

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding diets containing different levels of metabolizable energy (2900 and 2700 kcal ME kg -1 ) and crude protein (high, medium, low, very low) on performance of Japanese quail. 1600 day old quail chicks were assigned into 32 groups of 50 chicks each. Four replicates were allocated to each dietary treatment, randomly. In each level of energy, crude protein levels of high, medium, low and very low were 26, 24, 22, 20%, in the starter period (0-14 d), 24, 22, 20, %18 in the grower period (15-28 d), and 22, 20, 18 and 16%, in the finisher period (29-49 d). There were no significant effects of dietary ME levels on body weight at d 49, daily gain, feed intake and FCR during the whole experimental period (0-49d of age). Nevertheless, increasing dietary protein in different stages of grwoth from very low to low, medium and high levels significantly (P<0.05) increased body weight and daily weight gain of the birds. Generally, the results indicated that feeding Japanese quail during the starter, grower and finisher periods using diets containing 2700 kcal/kg ME and low levels of protein (22, 20 and 18%, respectively) is recommendable to achieve a suitable performance.
Power Relations and International Migration: The Case of Italy and Libya

Building upon the scholarly discussion concerning the growing blurring of domestic and foreign policy domains and the changing spheres of competences of states both within and outside their borders, this article focuses on inter-state cooperation in the field of migration and international relations. I attempt to answer two interrelated questions: how does collaboration on migration affect the bargaining dynamics between migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries? And specifically, how does the contested process of externalisation of border control practices to third countries influence power relations between the two? Particular attention is paid to the agreements on migration between Italy and Libya, mainly between the late 1990s and 2009, and I examine how the putative process of externalisation of migration policies from Italy to Libya impacts upon their negotiations. I argue that this case of externalisation does not merely consist of a univocal delegation of sovereignty. Therefore I conclude that the theoretical debate is still open, both with regard to the applicability of the externalisation concept to this particular case, and to its broader representativeness.
Biventricular Pacing and QT Interval Prolongation

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to examine BiV pacing‐dependent changes in QT interval and the related potential for proarrhythmia. Biventricular (BiV) pacing has emerged as a promising therapy for patients with advanced congestive heart failure (CHF) and bundle branch block (BBB).
Lung Nodule Computer-Aided Detection as a Second Reader: Influence on Radiology Residents

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of a computed tomographic lung nodule computer-aided detection (CAD) software as a second reader for radiology residents. Methods: The study involved 110 cases from 4 sites. Three expert radiologists identified nodules that were 4 to 30 mm in maximum diameter to form the ground truth. These cases were then interpreted by 6 board-certified radiologists and 6 radiology residents. The residents read each case without and then with a CAD software (Lung Nodule Assesment, Extended Brilliance Workspace; Philips Healthcare, Highlands Heights, OH) to identify nodules that were 4 to 30 mm in maximum diameter. Results: The experts identified 91 nodules as the ground truth for the study. The mean sensitivity of the 6 board-certified radiologists was 89%. The mean sensitivity of the residents was 85% without the CAD and 90% (P < 0.05) with the CAD as a second reader. Conclusions: The CAD software can help improve the sensitivity of residents in the detection of pulmonary nodules on computed tomography, making them comparable with board-certified radiologists.