Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Aortic arch reconstruction by transluminally placed endovascular branched stent graft.

BACKGROUND Recently, thoracic aortic stent grafting has emerged as an alternative therapeutic modality for patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms and aortic dissections. However, its application has been limited to descending thoracic aortic aneurysms distal to the aortic arch. We report our initial clinical experience of endovascular branched stent graft repair for aortic arch aneurysms. METHODS AND RESULTS Endovascular grafting with Inoue branched stent grafts was attempted for 15 patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms and aortic dissections under local anesthesia (n=14) or general anesthesia (n=1). Single-branched stent grafts were used in 14 patients, and a triple-branched stent graft in one. The branched stent grafts were delivered through a 22F or a 24F sheath under fluoroscopic guidance and implanted across the aneurysmal aortic arch. In 2 patients, the single-branched stent graft did not pass through the 22F sheath used. Complete thrombosis of the aneurysm was ultimately achieved in 11 patients (73%). Of 4 persistent leaks, 1 minor leak spontaneously thrombosed and 1 major leak was successfully treated by additional straight stent graft placement. In 1 patient, the right external iliac artery ruptured during the withdrawal of the sheath and was successfully repaired by the implantation of a straight stent graft. One patient with severe stenosis of the aortic graft section was successfully managed by additional stent deployment. Peripheral microembolization to a toe occurred in 1 patient, and cerebral infarction occurred in 1 other patient. Two patients who had failed to receive endovascular stent grafts died during an average follow-up of 12.6 months, 1 of pneumonia and the other of rupture of a concomitant abdominal aortic aneurysm. CONCLUSIONS This report demonstrates the technical feasibility of endovascular branched stent graft repair for aneurysms located at the aortic arch. Careful, longer follow-up and further extensive clinical trials are awaited toward establishing this technique as a recommendable alternative to surgical treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms.
Always a footballer? The reconstruction of masculine identity following retirement from elite Australian football

This study utilises a social constructionist and identity theory perspective to explain the processes in Australian football through which masculine identity is socially constructed and then maintained following retirement from the sport. The concepts explored highlight the importance of football in the construction of masculine identity and the changes that occur over time in accordance with circumstance and experience. This paper explores the concept of the ‘jock identity’ that can be the dominant lens through which all other dimensions of identity are viewed. Such is the importance of sport in the development of masculine identity in particular, the impact on the identity of retiring Australian footballers is significant. The experiences of retired Australian footballers with regard to the construction of masculine identity have not yet been conducted, and thus, this research contributes to the body of knowledge on sports retirement and offers important insight to assist in understanding masculine subcultures.
Knowledge Creation In Information Systems Development Teams: The Role Of Pair Programming And Peer Code Review

Software developers increasingly rely on the four-eyes principle to ensure high quality early on in the development process. Implementing this principle, peer code review has recently been proposed as a less costly alternative to the more commonly used pair programming technique. This study examines the implications of these techniques on knowledge creation within information systems development teams. Thereby, it contrasts with prior research on pair programming and peer code review which has primarily focused on comparing direct quality gains to increased costs. Based on a multiple-case study and guided by Nonaka's theory on organizational knowledge creation, this study improves our understanding of the varying effects of pair programming and peer code review, both on an individual and on a team level. Findings show that the techniques may be substitutes on a dyadic level, but may complement each other regarding their effects on team-level knowledge creation: if applied simultaneously, they may collectively enable socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization of knowledge. This study contributes not only to literature on development techniques by explaining the complementary nature of pair programming and peer code review, but also extends current literature by analyzing how development teams come to benefit from knowledge of their single members in daily work with these techniques.
Genomics of elite sporting performance: what little we know and necessary advances

Numerous reports of genetic associations with performance-related phenotypes have been published over the past three decades but there has been limited progress in discovering and characterising the genetic contribution to elite/world-class performance, mainly owing to few coordinated research efforts involving major funding initiatives/consortia and the use primarily of the candidate gene analysis approach. It is timely that exercise genomics research has moved into a new era utilising well-phenotyped, large cohorts and genome-wide technologies—approaches that have begun to elucidate the genetic basis of other complex traits/diseases. This review summarises the most recent and significant findings from sports genetics and explores future trends and possibilities.
Experimental inductions of emotional states and their effectiveness: A review

Several procedures for the experimental induction of mood states have been developed. This paper reviews nearly 250 studies from the last 10 years which concern mood induction procedures. A classification system is introduced. According to the stimuli used to influence subjects, five groups of mood induction procedures (MIPs) are differentiated. The effectiveness of MIPs is analysed and compared. The Film/Story MIP and the Gift MIP proved to be highly effective in inducing elation. For the induction of depression, the Imagination MIP, the Velten MIP, the Film/Story MIP and the Success/Failure MIP can be recommended.
Gender, emotionality, and victim impact statements

Purpose – The present study aims to examine the influence of emotional content and gender pertaining to victim impact statements (VIS) on sentencing outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a 2 (emotionality) £ 2 (participant gender) £ 2 (victim gender) £ 2 (statement gender) factorial design. Participants (n ¼ 715) read a crime vignette and corresponding VIS, and completed questionnaires pertaining to sentencing recommendations, legal attitudes, and levels of emotional empathy (counterbalanced). Findings – Results indicated that participant gender was related to the emotional appeal of the VIS, and ratings of punishment severity. Emotional empathy was positively associated with perceptions of credibility and emotionality. Higher legal attitudes scores were positively correlated with higher minimum sentences, ratings of credibility, emotional appeal, as well as more severe punishments. Originality/value – This study has important implications with respect to perceptions of VIS in relation to how emotional they are, who the victim is, who the statement is written by, and who hears the statement. Given the lack of previous research in this area, the study provides data that warrant further investigation.
Precarious Work and Flexibilization in South and Southeast Asia

This article briefly recapitulates the social, economic, and political factors that led to the rise and consolidation of precarious work in various countries in Asia and the definition of “precarious work. ” The article then considers the utility of precarious work for describing the growth of work that is uncertain and insecure and in which risks are shifted from employers to workers for several countries in South and Southeast Asia, namely, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and India.
Intra-Palm Propagation Signals as Suitable Biometrics for Successive Authentication

We propose the use of intra-palm propagation signals as biometrics. The intra-palm propagation signal is a signal that is propagated in the shallow part of the skin of a palm. In this paper, we prepare dedicated measuring devices and measure intra-palm propagation signals from twenty-one experimental subjects. We also evaluate the verification performance based on Euclidian distance or SVM (support vector machine). The equal error rate in the case of SVM is approximately 24%.
Enhancing First-Grade Students’ Addition-Fact Fluency Using Classwide Cover, Copy, and Compare, a Sprint, and Group Rewards

The authors used a multiple-probe, across-tasks design to evaluate the effects of a classwide, multicomponent intervention on first-grade students’ addition-fact fluency. Intervention components included “cover, copy, and compare,” a 2-min math sprint, and a weekly group reward. Results showed that classwide digits correct per minute averages increased with the staggered introduction of the intervention across problem sets. Baseline phase averages for probe sets A, B, and C were 11.5, 14.3, and 14.3 digits correct per minute and increased to 17.3, 22.7, and 24.4 digits correct per minute during the intervention phase. Discussion focuses on future research related to the classwide academic skill prevention procedures and supplemental procedures designed to enhance intervention effectiveness across contexts.
How Underserved Breast Cancer Patients Use and Benefit From eHealth Programs

This article consolidates insights from 15 years of research examining howthe medically underserved use and benefit from an eHealth program, the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS). The authors outline results from early feasibility tests to determine if the underserved would use CHESS. Distinctive behaviors of underserved populations who have used CHESS are reported with a focus on how online health information and computer-mediated support groups are used. The article then reports on how the underserved benefit from using CHESS. Best practice recommendations for recruitment and training the underserved are offered, and implications for closing the digital divide are discussed.
Aesthetics and Professionalism of Virtual Servicescapes

The authors document the effects of the aesthetics and professionalism of virtual servicescapes on customer feelings of pleasantness, satisfaction, and approach toward service interactions. Data were collected using an experimental manipulation of the physical setting (the servicescape) viewed by customers during a service interaction in a virtual (remote) service situation. Participants interacted with the service provider and reported their reactions through a specially developed interactive program. Experimental conditions varied in the aesthetics and professionalism of the virtual servicescape in which the employee was seated and viewed. Aesthetics were found to influence feelings of pleasantness, satisfaction, and approach toward a service interaction. In this experimental manipulation, professionalism was found to influence satisfaction but not feelings of pleasantness or approach toward a service interaction. However, perceptions of professionalism did influence these variables. Also as predicted, feelings of pleasantness mediated the relationship between aesthetics and satisfaction and between aesthetics and approach toward a service interaction, but not the relationship between professionalism and these variables. The implications of the findings for research and practice are discussed.
Changing Simple Energy-Related Consumer Behaviors

Achieving ambitious CO2 emission reductions require changing mundane consumer behaviors in addition to increasing modern technology’s energy-saving potential. Frequently, energy-related behaviors, however, may occur highly and thus tend to become habitual. On basis of the notion that habits represent automatic reactions to situations, and hence, are hard to control, we examined whether the capability to perform or abstain from performing actions depends on the type of habit established. We tested whether an acting habit (switching off the light upon leaving a room) supports execution of the intention to act (switching it off), but hinders the intention to abstain from acting (not switching it off). Conversely, a habit of not switching off the light (a non-acting habit) is expected to obstruct execution of the intention to switch the light off, but facilitates the intention to not switch it off. Results support these ideas, and underscore the importance of differentiating between habits resulting from frequently acting and frequently not acting.
Biochemical Changes in Premalignant Intestines 1

The immunological properties of thymidine kinase from a variety of human tumors suggest that the form of the tumor enzyme resembles that found in the placenta and in the nondividing colonic flat mucosa. To examine the placenta like characteristics of tumor thymidine kinase, the jejunum and colon from rats ranging in age from fetal to old and from animals treated with dimethylhydrazine (DMH), an in testinal carcinogen, have been studied. In normal jejunum, thymidine kinase activity decreased rapidly with age. Both the activity and the response to phospholipase C and to mercaptans in DMH-induced tumors resembled that of fetal gut, while those in abnormal appearing DMH-treated je junum were intermediate between normal control of the same age and tumor. Similar but less pronounced changes were seen in the colon. In the jejunum, the level of another enzyme normally associated with rapid cell division, omni thine decamboxylase, was found to be over 100 times that of the liver, colon, and stomach. Treatment ofthe animals with acetylaminofluorene and with DMH resulted in elevated 1ev els of the enzyme in liven and in colon, respectively, but had little effect on this enzyme in other tissues. The data pre sented indicate that there were premalignant changes in the levels of both of these enzymes in target tissues of animals treated with carcinogens.
Triggers of Students’ Efficacious Interaction in Collaborative Learning Situations

This article presents a case study that investigated primary school students’ social interaction while working in small groups in science. The aim was to identify what characterizes and triggers students’ efficacious interaction in collaborative learning situations. This was done by exploring and analyzing students’ and groups’ task involvement and the quality of their activity. The micro-level analysis proceeded first by identifying episodes of group task involvement and evaluating the quality of these interaction episodes. Next, the transitions between episodes were explored by identifying what triggered the shifts between task involvement levels. Ten hours of video observation data captured fourth-grade students, aged 9 to 10, in two groups of 3 students studying “the vital conditions of life” for 5 weeks. The main findings indicated that efficacious interaction demanded collaboration between group members and required active participation and productive on-task working. Three types of triggers were found to cause changes in students’ activity, of which the group progress trigger was the most powerful for increasing, and the contextual trigger the most powerful for decreasing the activity. These findings shed light on certain aspects of efficacious interaction that will help us to identify details of efficacious interaction in future studies.
Delusional depression in elderly patients: Characteristics and relationship to age at onset

In a prospective study, 34 patients with delusional depression were compared with 100 non‐psychotically depressed patients and a subgroup of 30 age‐ and sex‐matched control patients. Depressed patients with delusions were more likely to be single, especially single men. The most common delusions were those of persecution and hypochondriasis. There were no striking differences in other depression symptoms and no evidence for the hypothesis that delusional depression is associated with a later age of depression onset.
Human Enteric Microsomal CYP4F Enzymes O-Demethylate the Antiparasitic Prodrug Pafuramidine

CYP4F enzymes, including CYP4F2 and CYP4F3B, were recently shown to be the major enzymes catalyzing the initial oxidative O-demethylation of the antiparasitic prodrug pafuramidine (DB289) by human liver microsomes. As suggested by a low oral bioavailability, DB289 could undergo first-pass biotransformation in the intestine, as well as in the liver. Using human intestinal microsomes (HIM), we characterized the enteric enzymes that catalyze the initial O-demethylation of DB289 to the intermediate metabolite, M1. M1 formation in HIM was catalyzed by cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes, as evidenced by potent inhibition by 1-aminobenzotriazole and the requirement for NADPH. Apparent Km and Vmax values ranged from 0.6 to 2.4 μM and from 0.02 to 0.89 nmol/min/mg protein, respectively (n = 9). Of the P450 chemical inhibitors evaluated, ketoconazole was the most potent, inhibiting M1 formation by 66%. Two inhibitors of P450-mediated arachidonic acid metabolism, HET0016 (N-hydroxy-N′-(4-n-butyl-2-methylphenyl)formamidine) and 17-octadecynoic acid, inhibited M1 formation in a concentration-dependent manner (up to 95%). Immunoinhibition with an antibody raised against CYP4F2 showed concentration-dependent inhibition of M1 formation (up to 92%), whereas antibodies against CYP3A4/5 and CYP2J2 had negligible to modest effects. M1 formation rates correlated strongly with arachidonic acid ω-hydroxylation rates (r2 = 0.94, P < 0.0001, n = 12) in a panel of HIM that lacked detectable CYP4A11 protein expression. Quantitative Western blot analysis revealed appreciable CYP4F expression in these HIM, with a mean (range) of 7 (3-18) pmol/mg protein. We conclude that enteric CYP4F enzymes could play a role in the first-pass biotransformation of DB289 and other xenobiotics.
TotalTrack video intubating laryngeal mask in super-obese patients – series of cases

Background Super-obese patients are at increased risk of difficult mask ventilation and difficult intubation. Therefore, devices that allow for simultaneous ventilation/oxygenation during attempts to visualize the entrance to the larynx, increase patient safety. TotalTrack video intubating laryngeal mask is a new device that allows for ventilation during intubation efforts. Patients and methods Twenty-four super-obese patients (body mass index >50 kg/m2) were divided into two subgroups: intubation efforts using 1) TotalTrack and 2) Macintosh blade standard laryngoscope in induction of general anesthesia. Visualization and successful intubation was evaluated for both groups with ventilation and post-mask complications additionally evaluated for TotalTrack. Results In all cases in the TotalTrack group, the Cormack-Lehane score was 1, ventilation and intubation was successful in 11/12 patients. No hypoxia during intubation efforts was recorded. No serious complications of use of TotalTrack were observed. In the Macintosh blade laryngoscope group, all patients were intubated, but the Cormack-Lehane score was 2 in four cases, and 3 in three cases. Conclusion TotalTrack video intubating laryngeal mask is a device that allows for better visualization of the larynx compared to the standard Macintosh blade laryngoscope, it provides effective ventilation/oxygenation and intubation in super-obese patients.
Detecting Dissimulation in Personality Test Scores: A Comparison between Person-Fit Indices and Detection Scales

The present study examined whether an internal procedure for assessing the scalability of the response patterns, based on item response theory (IRT), can detect deliberate dissimulation (faking good) in the Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism scale scores of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised. The procedure is compared to the traditional approaches, which use the Lie and the Social Desirability (SD) scales. A data set was analyzed in which participants were either administered the measures in standard conditions or given special instructions to fake good. The results showed that the IRT-based measures were not powerful enough to detect dissimulation, whereas the Lie and SD scales performed much better.
Unpredictability and Context Conditioning: Does the Nature of the US Matter?

Abstract Using a conditioned suppression task, we examined the minimal conditions to establish context conditioning as induced by unpredictability of an unconditioned stimulus (US). We investigated whether a biologically significant US is necessary to produce such context conditioning effects. In this between-subjects experiment, we manipulated the nature of the US and US-unpredictability. In the Paired condition, the conditioned stimulus (CS) was always followed by the US, whereas in the Unpaired condition, the CS and the US were presented explicitly unpaired, that is, the CS was never followed by the US. Half of the participants received an aversive, biologically significant human scream, and the other half received a more neutral, biologically non-significant sound as US. Results show more contextual suppression in the Unpaired condition than in the Paired condition. We conclude that in an expectancy-based conditioning task, US-unpredictability, but not a biologically potent US, is crucial to establish context conditioning.
Policing and Gender: Male and Female Perspectives among Members of the New Zealand Police

This study examines possible gender differences among personnel of the New Zealand Police (NZP). Prior research suggests that male and female officers may have similar workplace perceptions. Therefore, two questions guide this study: (a) In terms of perceptions of the workplace, including job satisfaction, level of perceived support, and fairness of their supervisors, are female and male sworn officers in the NZP more like each other or their same-gender nonsworn cohort? (b) What are the effects of variables such as ethnicity, age, length of service, type of work assignment, work location, and orientations toward policing on the relationships between perceptions of the workplace, gender, and sworn status? The analyses suggest that although the men and women who provide policing services in New Zealand have many similar views on policing, their perspectives are due to some what different sets of forces. The policy implications of the findings are also addressed.
Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999

Recent climatic changes have enhanced plant growth in northern mid-latitudes and high latitudes. However, a comprehensive analysis of the impact of global climatic changes on vegetation productivity has not before been expressed in the context of variable limiting factors to plant growth. We present a global investigation of vegetation responses to climatic changes by analyzing 18 years (1982 to 1999) of both climatic data and satellite observations of vegetation activity. Our results indicate that global changes in climate have eased several critical climatic constraints to plant growth, such that net primary production increased 6% (3.4 petagrams of carbon over 18 years) globally. The largest increase was in tropical ecosystems. Amazon rain forests accounted for 42% of the global increase in net primary production, owing mainly to decreased cloud cover and the resulting increase in solar radiation.