Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Standard Drilling Versus Ultrasonic Implant Site Preparation: A Clinical Study at 4 Weeks After Insertion of Conical Implants

Objective: Clinically evaluate implants placed after ultrasonic implant site preparation (UISP) and standard drilling (SD). Materials and Methods: Ten patients received 21 implants placed using UISP (n = 11) or SD (n = 10). Bone quality was hand assessed and final insertion torque (IT), resonance frequency analysis (ISQ) at baseline and ISQ, and removal torque values (RTV) at 4 weeks were recorded and compared. Results: Mean IT values were 70.91 and 72.40 N/cm in UISP and SD groups, respectively, and were not statistically different. IT significantly correlated to bone quality. Mean ISQ values at baseline and 4 weeks were not significantly different and were 74.72 and 74.73 for UISP and 76.70 and 73.20 for SD, respectively. Mean ISQ at baseline significantly correlated to IT values and bone quality in both groups. Mean RTV values in both UISP (51.32 N/cm) and SD (53.1 N/cm) were not significantly different but significantly correlated to IT values. All implants achieved osseointegration and were restored. Conclusion: Implant placement after ultrasonic preparation can be considered a predictable technique leading to clinical and biological responses similar to SD 4 weeks after insertion.
Oestrous red deer hinds prefer male roars with higher fundamental frequencies

Across vertebrates, the observation that lower-pitched vocalizations are typically associated with larger and/or higher quality males has lead to the widespread belief that inter- and intra-sexual selection will produce male calls with low fundamental frequencies (F0). Here we investigated the response of oestrous red deer hinds to playback of re-synthesized male roars characterized by either higher than average or lower than average F0. We found that hinds prefer higher rather than lower ‘pitched’ roars, providing, to our knowledge, the first evidence of such a bias in nonhuman mammals. Our findings can be interpreted in relation to previous observations that the minimum F0 of roars is positively correlated with male reproductive success in free-ranging red deer stags, and that across Cervids the F0 of male mating calls shows extreme variability. Females showing preferences for higher-pitched roars might derive genetic benefits through more competitive male offspring. Our results emphasize the need for further investigations of female preferences in mammals in order to better understand the extreme variation of F0 values observed in male sexual calls.
Parental involvement in residential care and perceptions of their offspring's life satisfaction in residential facilities for adults with intellectual disability

Abstract Background This study examined parental involvement in relocation and post‐placement care of offspring in residential facilities for adults with intellectual disability, as well as the characteristics of residents, parents, and residential institutions and the effect of those variables on parental perceptions of their offspring's life satisfaction. Method Seventy‐one adults who had moved from their family home to a community‐based residence for people with intellectual disability completed the Parental Involvement Questionnaire and the parents' form of the Lifestyle Satisfaction Scale. Results Parents reported a high level of pre‐placement involvement: selecting the current residence, visiting the prospective residence, and attending admissions committee meetings. High post‐placement involvement was expressed by frequent visits to the residence and participation in social activities. Parents perceived themselves as being more involved in relocation than in post‐placement care. Smaller facility size, attendance at admissions committee meetings, and full partnership in residential care were related to higher levels of perceived life satisfaction. Conclusions Professional intervention during and after the process of relocation to a community residence can be an effective way of improving parental perceptions of their offspring's life satisfaction. From the parents' perspective, a smaller residence may ensure a better quality of life for their son or daughter.
The effect of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts

Previous research has found that the performance of introverts on complex cognitive tasks is more negatively affected by distracters, e.g. music and background noise, than the performance of extraverts. The present study extends previous research by examining whether or not background noise would prove to be as distracting as music. In the presence of silence, background UK garage music and background noise, 118 female secondary school students carried out three cognitive tests. It was predicted that introverts would do less well on all of the tasks than extraverts in the presence of music and noise but in silence performance would be the same. A significant interaction was found on all three of the tasks. It was also predicted that there would be a main effect of background sound: Performance would be worse in the presence of music and noise than silence. Results confirmed this prediction with one exception. This study also found a positive correlation between extraversion and intelligence, the implications of which are also discussed. The findings support the Eysenckian hypothesis of the difference in optimum cortical arousal in introverts and extraverts. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Test of a Nonlinear Relationship between Linguistic Acculturation and Ethnic Identification

Following a review of the literature concerning the relationship between acculturation (acquisition of a dominant culture) and ethnic identification (retention of culture of origin), the authors propose that linguistic acculturation is nonlinearly related to ethnic identity. An empirical study was conducted to test this relationship between linguistic acculturation and ethnic identification using data gathered from multiple studies investigating four different ethnic groups in Eastern Canada over a period of 7 years. Regression analysis results indicate that the two underlying dimensions of ethnicity are related and that the postulated function exhibits an excellent fit, thus providing support for the proposition.
Girls and Transition to Second-level Schooling in Ireland: 'Moving on' and 'moving out' Correspondence : Maeve O'Brien, Department of Human Development, St Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, Dublin, 9. E-mail: Obpm@eircom.net

This article explores how groups of Irish girls from different social class backgrounds negotiate the transition from first- to second-level schooling and seeks to understand how their classed and gendered identities are produced and reproduced at this time of change. We hope to argue that the school choice process, although highly significant, is only one step in a series of challenges that girls and their families must negotiate at this disjuncture in schooling. Having made a 'choice' and secured a place at second level, girls face a complex web of emotional, social and academic transitions that shape and are shaped by their social classed and gendered identities. While transition to second level is a highly significant move for all groups, it is especially challenging for groups of working-class girls who experience emotional pain and loss in leaving their familiar and familial primary schools. The experiences of female students suggest that they are included, excluded and differentiated on the basis of their adherence to and acceptance of dominant middle-class and gendered norms, particularly in convent, single-sex secondary schools. Girls' resistance to these controlling mechanisms within their schools leads to alienation and marginalisation even in this first year in the second-level system and signals a step towards moving out of the system while others move on.
Victim-Offender Racial Dyads and Clearance of Lethal and Nonlethal Assault

Previous clearance research provides an incomplete test of theories emphasizing the role of both victim and offender status in police discretion. Using National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data, we investigate the impact of both victim's and offender's race, and, in particular, victim— offender racial dyads on homicide clearance by arrest, using event history (survival) analysis, so that time to clearance and censoring are considered. We also compare models for homicide clearance with those for aggravated assault. For homicides, results indicate that incidents with non-white offenders are more likely to be cleared by arrest than those with white offenders, regardless of victim's race. In contrast, for aggravated assault, dyads are important: incidents involving white victims and offenders are most likely to be cleared, with incidents involving non-white parties least likely to be cleared. Furthermore, the impact of victim—offender racial dyads on clearance is smaller for homicide than for aggravated assault.
Being Gay and Jewish: Negotiating Intersecting Identities

Due to the emphasis on "traditional" gender roles, the "nuclear family," procreation and conservative religious values, many gay and lesbian Jews feel a sense of alienation from the Jewish community and develop an ambivalent or conflicted relationship about their own Jewish identity. As a result, gay Jews often struggle to find ways to successfully negotiate their ethno-religious and sexual identities. Based upon in-depth interviews of thirty gay Jewish men in Toronto, this work offers a case study to empirically and theoretically explore the varied experiences of these intersecting identities for this under-studied population. Recent research on other ethnic minority gays and lesbians tend to simplify this question by suggesting that the minority gay individual will simply choose to prioritize one of these identities while repressing the other. Building upon studies of gay Christians that stress more fluid, dynamic and evolving approaches to identity construction, this paper underscores the complexity and variability of this phenomenon as it applies to gay Jews. I'm tired of fighting. I'm exhausted. I spend most of Shabbat sleeping because I'm just exhausted with the daily fight of my identity. It's hard enough having one minority status to negotiate in a society, but to have two, it's exhausting. Traditional gay Jew in his forties
I am happy in my faith: the influence of religious affiliation, saliency, and practice on depressive symptoms and treatment preference

Religion is thought to significantly impact numerous areas of mental health, including depression. Using a 63-item questionnaire, the influence of religious affiliation, saliency, and practice on levels of depressive symptoms and treatment preference in a non-clinical sample of Christians, Muslims, Atheists, and Agnostics (N = 471) was investigated. No significant differences in depressive symptoms were found between affiliations. Saliency and frequency of practice had a weak negative correlation with depressive symptoms for Christians, but were not significant for Muslim participants. No significant differences of preference were found between affiliations for social, cognitive, and medical treatments. Treatment preference of religious-based treatments differed significantly between affiliations. Findings suggest that affiliation is not significantly related to depressive symptoms or treatment preference, and the influence of saliency and practice differs between religions. Limitations and implications of the current study are discussed, and directions for further research are identified.
The entorhinal cortex of the monkey: I. Cytoarchitectonic organization

As an essential preliminary to a series of experimental studies of the afferent and efferent connections of the monkey entorhinal cortex, we have carried out a detailed analysis of its cytoarchitectonic organization. Primarily on the basis of features observed in Nissl‐ and fiber‐stained preparations, supplemented with Golgi‐stained material and preparations stained for heavy metals by Timm's method and histochemically for acetylcholinesterase, the entorhinal cortex has been divided into seven fields that are named according to their rostrocaudal and mediolateral positions except for one rostrally located field that is named for the prominent input that it receives from the olfactory bulb. At rostral levels, the entorhinal cortex is marked by a number of morphological inhomogeneities. The neurons tend to be organized in patches that are surrounded by large, thick, radially oriented bundles of fibers. At caudal levels, the entorhinal cortex has a more distinctly laminated appearance, reminiscent of that in the neocortex, and most of the neurons and fiber fascicles are arranged in discrete radial columns. The cortical region adjoining the entorhinal cortex laterally, which is commonly known as the “perirhinal cortex,” is in fact composed of two separate fields corresponding to areas 35 and 36 of Brodmann. Area 35 occupies the fundus and part of the lateral aspect of the rhinal sulcus. Area 36 extends from the lateral bank of the rhinal sulcus into the inferior temporal gyrus, where it borders fields TA and TE rostrally, and field TF of the parahippocampal gyrus caudally. The surface extents of each of the entorhinal fields have been determined by making “unfolded” two‐dimensional maps of the region and measuring the areas with a computerized digitizing system.
Predictors of employees’ perceptions of knowledge sharing cultures

This study investigated whether organizational factors such as employees’ perceptions of management’s support for knowledge sharing, their perceptions of the organization’s social interaction culture, the organization’s size, and the organization’s available knowledge sharing technology, as well as whether individual factors such as age, gender, and organizational tenure had a significant impact on employees’ perceptions of a knowledge sharing culture. New measures to assess employees’ perceptions of management’s support for knowledge sharing, their perceptions of the organization’s social interaction culture, and the perceived knowledge sharing culture were developed. We found that perceptions of management’s support for knowledge sharing, and perceptions of a positive social interaction culture were both significant predictors of a perceived knowledge sharing culture. In addition, gender was a significant moderator: female participants required a more positive social interaction culture before they would perceive a knowledge sharing culture as positive as that perceived by their male counterparts.
Psychology data from the Race Implicit Association Test on the Project Implicit Demo website

This data archive includes Race Implicit Association Test (IAT) scores of 2,355,303 Internet volunteers who completed educational/demonstration versions of the Race IAT at https://implicit.harvard. edu from 2002 to 2012. Data in this archive can be downloaded for all years, either separately by year or in a single file. Codebooks, indicating the variable labels and value labels, and changes of variables over years, are available for both individual-year data sets and the entire data set. Participation in the (still on-going) Race IAT “study” at the Project Implicit (PI) demonstration site includes completion of the Race IAT along with demographic questions, self-report measures of racial attitude, and various additional measures received by a portion of the participants. These data allow analyses involving changes in responding over time and interrelations among IAT and self-report measures of race attitudes, as well as the association of each of these with demographics. This archive is available at http://osf.io/project/52qxL/ . Dataset The Data described in this paper is available from the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/52qxl/ [ 1 ]
Perceived Reality of Visually Mediated Hazards and Beliefs about Risk

SUMMARY The aim of the present paper was to explore whether beliefs about risk are affected by media content authenticity as perceived by the viewers. A total of 69 participants were shown either a fictional or a reality-based film on nuclear power. They rated risk perception prior to and after the film as well as ten days later, reactions to the film experience, and items of the scale for Need for Cognition. Results showed that individuals high in need for cognition were more accurate in their judgment of the authenticity of films, but were as influenced in their risk perception as their counterparts. Nuclear risk ratings showed a significant and large increase immediately upon the film session, but had resumed pre-film level when measured ten days later. The potential influence of perceived content authenticity on risk perception is discussed in light of increasingly transformed patterns of media consumption. Copyright # 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The deregulation of the communications industry, in addition to the convergence of mass media and digital technology, has increasingly transformed the exposure patterns of many media consumers. As a result, there may be a more pervasive influence of media content on people’s beliefs about risk. The role of media consumption in risk perception is under
UNDERSTANDING OECD OUTPUT CORRELATIONS

This paper develops an empirical model of the cross-country variation in bilateral output growth correlations for 17 OECD countries. Consideration is given to the role played by explicit mechanisms for transmitting shocks between countries, such as trade in goods and financial assets and the coordination of monetary policy between countries. In addition we identify a number of country characteristics and institutions (including measures of legal origin, accounting standards, and the speed of take-up of new technology) that appear to lead countries to respond similarly to economic shocks. Both transmission mechanisms and common country characteristics have a role to play in explaining output correlations. When we use our empirical results to help to explain the strong correlation observed between Australian and US output growth, we conclude that trade between the two countries is not sufficiently important to account for much of the correlation. Nor does the similarity of monetary policies make much of a contribution. Our results instead suggest that it is the similarity of economic characteristics and institutions that explains much of the observed correlation between Australian and US output growth.
Maximizing Confidence in Married Couple Samples.

Most probability samples of married couples do not have response rates high enough to justify the use of inferential statistics. Recognizing that response rates are likely to be low this paper describes 4 procedures that can be used in study design during data collection and in analysis to partly compensate for this failure. The study describes a research project on the effects of relative occupational statuses of spouses for dual-earner marriages. 489 couples in Hamilton County Ohio were interviewed in 1982-1983; the estimated response rate was 44%. 1) A nonparticipant questionnaire was mailed to an additional 436 couples and answered by 162 thus bringing the response rate up to 63% for some of the questions. This nonparticipant questionnaire showed that participants were younger and had higher socioeconomic status. The study bias is still probably underestimated because many couples neither participated nor returned questionnaires. 2) When a survey is reasonabley close in time to a census and when a sampling area conforms to a census reporting area bias can be estinated by comparing the 2. 3) Data can be weighted so that the sample more closely resembles the parameters of the population. Weighting is not totally understood and may not correct bias. A sample biased on known parameters is probably also biased on unknown ones. 4) Replication can also generate confidence in findings. While replication is not always interesting it may be necessary.
Conducting Experimental Research in Information Systems

This article presents a summary of key success factors for publishing research in top-tier IS journals; it is not intended to be an introduction to research, but to go beyond the "rational model" presented by most introductory works. The paper begins by discussing the processes by which research projects are identified and developed, specifically focusing on where project ideas are found and how projects are selected and refined. Next, we discuss the fundamental role that theory development, testing and refinement plays in research. This discussion is followed by an examination of several interrelated research design issues, including maximizing publication potential, and executing the study's activities. Next, the importance of writing quality as well as the cultivation and refinement of a project’s message is discussed. Finally, a checklist is provided on “how to be rejected” which summarizes the central themes of this article.
Taste bud leptin: sweet dampened at initiation site.

The intriguing observation that leptin decreases sweet-evoked peripheral gustatory responses has aroused much interest (Kawai K, Sugimoto K, Nakashima K, Miura H, Ninomiya Y. 2000. Leptin as a modulator of sweet taste sensitivities in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97(20):11044-11049. ) due to its implied importance in controlling appetite. The effects of this anorexic hormone, however, appear more conditional than originally believed. In this issue of Chemical Senses, a careful study by Glendinning and colleagues, find no effects of leptin on sweet-evoked chorda tympani responses, whereas an equally careful study by Meredith and colleagues, find decreased release of ATP and increased release of 5-HT from taste buds in response to sweet stimuli.
Parental behavior in diverse societies

The United States is currently engaged in a public discourse over what constitutes good child care, who should do it, and what effects it has on children, occasioned by a rapid increase of childbearing women in the labor force and the lack of an established childcare system. By exploring the contexts of parental behavior in other cultures, we uncover universals and variables in the parental predicament and are able to place our current problems in a broader perspective. This volume of New Directions for Child Development proposes a theoretical model and examines its validity in case studies from three continents, including cross-cultural comparisons of mother-infant observations and parental survey data. This is the 40th issue of New Directions for Child Development. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals Page.
Gender considerations in school management: masculine and feminine leadership styles

Little attention has been given to the application of gender concepts to schools as organizations and school leadership. The article explores the relationship between gender concepts and styles of management. After a description of traditional paradigms of gender behaviour expectations the article leads in to an exploration of management styles in both primary and secondary schools. It is suggested that primary schools are generally ‘feminine’ in culture and therefore require appropriate ‘feminine’ styles of management behaviour from heads. This presents a problem for male heads who try to follow ‘masculine’ paradigms of management behaviour. Secondary schools are seen as being predominantly ‘masculine’ or even ‘patriarchal’ in culture and the question is raised as to whether such a culture is appropriate to an organization that could be expected to be nurturing and characterized by needs that would be better attended to by a characteristically ‘feminine’ style of management. It is pointed out that indivi.