Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Transitioning to University with a Mental Illness: Experiences of Youth and their Parent

Despite extant research suggesting the important role of family in supporting youth with disabilities (e.g., learning disabilities) making the transition to university, family relational influences on youth with mental illness undergoing this transition remains unclear. Adopting a family resilience perspective, this mixed-methods study aimed to examine (a) how parent-child relationship factors relate to youths’ mental illness symptoms and well-being and (b) youth and parent perspectives on how parents can best support youth in this transition. A total of 225 youth with mental illness (aged 17–23, M = 18.43, SD = 0.91, 87% white) completed questionnaires assessing parent-child relationship satisfaction, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and life satisfaction. For 22 of these youth, a parent (aged 45–57, M = 49.77, SD = 3.57, 100% white) completed questionnaires assessing caregiver burden and reward. Parents (and their child) completed written responses addressing what youth most need from parents during this transition. Parent-child relationship factors were moderately associated with youth mental illness and well-being. Thematic analysis indicated much agreement and some difference between youth and caregivers on the aspects of parental support most valued during this transition. Implications for supporting such youth as they adapt to university are discussed.
Effect of Contralateral Noise on Acoustic Reflex Latency Measures.

OBJECTIVE The present study was conducted to determine the effect of contralateral broadband noise on acoustic reflex latency (ARL). MATERIALS AND METHODS Acoustic reflex latency changes for 10 and 90% on- and off-time acoustic reflexes with contralateral broadband noise were measured in 30 adults with normal hearing. RESULTS The results of the study demonstrate that there was a latency prolongation for reflex on-time (10 and 90%) and latency reduction for reflex off-time (10 and 90%). This effect was seen for 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz reflex-eliciting signals. The results also showed that there was no effect of gender on latency changes in acoustic reflexes. CONCLUSIONS Latency changes may explain efferent auditory system mechanisms used for the protection of the cochlea and improvement in speech perception. Thus, contralateral changes of ARL can serve as an additional tool to assess the efferent system functioning.
A meta-synthesis of post-migration changes in marital relationships in Canada.

OBJECTIVES Immigration to a new country constitutes a major life change and challenge that can directly and indirectly affect the health of individuals and families. A systematic review was conducted to identify post-migration changes and understand their impact on immigrants' marital relationships in Canada. METHOD Using Noblit and Hare's meta-ethnography steps and Paterson et al.'s meta-data method, we conducted a meta-synthesis of qualitative articles. SYNTHESIS Four journal articles and one book chapter met the inclusion criteria. Our synthesis of these studies identified three key themes reflecting the major post-migration changes experienced by couples: changes in gender and sexual relations, loss of social networks and support, and de-skilling and de-professionalization. The importance of communication emerged as a fourth theme that cut across the three key themes. These post-migration changes were common across nine ethnic communities, and affected the couple as a unit as well as individuals within this unit, both negatively and positively. The changes were associated with four outcomes: abuse, separation/divorce, staying with each other, and resilience. The synthesis also showed various pathways that link the post-migration changes and their outcomes. CONCLUSION Understanding post-migration changes, their outcomes, and the pathways that link them is useful in developing health promotion activities to promote couples' resilience as well as health interventions to reduce the negative impact of the changes on couples and individuals. These activities and interventions must be planned at micro, meso, and macro levels of society.
Foot tapping for mobile interaction

In this paper we present an initial investigation of foot tapping as a mechanism for interacting with a mobile device without removing it from a pocket. We compare a foot tapping technique for menu interaction with two more traditional situations: one where the user has the phone in hand, and one where the user must remove it from an inside pocket before interacting. Results show that over the course of the full study, all conditions allowed a high level of accuracy in selections. The visual and in pocket conditions were overall faster and more accurate. However, for short selections requiring four or less foot taps or button presses the foot tap condition was faster than the in pocket condition.
Changing a Generation’s Way of Thinking: Teaching Computational Thinking Through Programming

Computational thinking (CT) uses concepts that are essential to computing and information science to solve problems, design and evaluate complex systems, and understand human reasoning and behavior. This way of thinking has important implications in computer sciences as well as in almost every other field. Therefore, we contend that CT should be taught in elementary schools and included in every university’s educational curriculum. Several studies that measure the impact of teaching programming, analytical thinking, and CT have been conducted. In this review, we analyze and discuss findings from these studies and highlight the importance of learning programming with a focus on the development of CT skills at a young age. We also describe the tools that are available to improve the teaching of CT and provide a state-of-the-art overview of how programming is being taught at schools and universities in Colombia and around the world.
Off-loading data distribution mananagement to network processors in HLA-based distributed simulations [mananagement read management]

The high level architecture (HLA) standard developed by the Department of Defense in the United States is a key technology to perform distributed simulation. Inside the HLA framework, many different simulators (termed federates) may be interconnected to create a single, more complex simulator (federation). Data distribution management (DDM) is an optional subset of services that controls which federates should receive notification of state modifications made by other federates. A simple DDM implementation usually generate much more traffic than needed, while a complex one might introduce too much overhead. In this work, we describe an approach to DDM that delegates a portion of the DDM computation to a processor on the network card, in order to provide more CPU time for other federate and RTI computations, while still being able to exploit the benefits of a complex DDM implementation to reduce the amount of information exchange.
Dynamical evolution of the mass function and radial profile of the Galactic globular cluster system

Evolution of the mass function (MF) and radial distribution (RD) of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) system is calculated using an advanced and a realistic Fokker‐Planck (FP) model that considers dynamical friction, disc/bulge shocks and eccentric cluster orbits. We perform hundreds of FP calculations with different initial cluster conditions, and then search a wideparameter space for the best-fitting initial GC MF and RD that evolves into the observed present-day Galactic GC MF and RD. By allowing both MF and RD of the initial GC system to vary, which is attempted for the first time in the present Letter, we find that our best-fitting models have a higher peak mass for a lognormal initial MF and a higher cut-off mass for a power-law initial MF than previous estimates, but our initial total masses in GCs, MT,i = 1.5‐1.8 × 10 8 M� , are comparable to previous results. Significant findings include that our best-fitting lognormal MF shifts downward by 0.35 dex during the period of 13 Gyr, and that our power-law initial MF models well-fit the observed MF and RD only when the initial MF is truncated at �10 5 M� . We also find that our results are insensitive to the initial distribution of orbit eccentricity and inclination, but are rather sensitive to the initial concentration of the clusters and to how the initial tidal radius is defined. If the clusters are assumed to be formed at the apocentre while filling the tidal radius there, MT,i can be as high as 6.9 × 10 8 M� , which amounts to ∼75 per cent of the current mass in the stellar halo.
Collaboration – a Threat to Academic Autonomy?

Universities have historically encouraged individual academics with research expertise in a discrete area of study to undertake research and teaching in their discipline. In this process academics have had full autonomy, from the discovery of knowledge, the method used to integrate and interpret it, and the means used to convey it to students and to assess student learning. In recent times pressures for change have affected universities. First, business requires graduates with broad knowledge and skill capabilities as well as discipline-based content knowledge. Second, universities are required to demonstrate quality control and improvement. Third, private expenditure has replaced a previous almost complete reliance on publicly provided university places. Finally, technological advance has made possible more flexible and innovative learning opportunities. It is argued in this paper that these changes require a new culture of collaboration to supplement academic autonomy. Academics are required to collaborate across disciplines. Cross-functional collaboration is required between academic and non-academics. In so doing the paper calls for university structures and practices that support collaboration.
Activins and Follistatin in Chronic Hepatitis C and Its Treatment with Pegylated-Interferon-α Based Therapy

Pegylated-interferon-α based therapy for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is considered suboptimal as not all patients respond to the treatment and it is associated with several side effects that could lead to dose reduction and/or termination of therapy. The currently used markers to monitor the response to treatment are based on viral kinetics and their performance in the prediction of treatment outcome is moderate and does not combine accuracy and their values have several limitations. Hence, the development of new sensitive and specific predictor markers could provide a useful tool for the clinicians and healthcare providers, especially in the new era of interferon-free therapy, for the classification of patients according to their response to the standard therapy and only subscribing the novel directly acting antiviral drugs to those who are anticipated not to respond to the conventional therapy and/or have absolute contraindications for its use. The importance of activins and follistatin in the regulation of immune system, liver biology, and pathology has recently emerged. This review appraises the up-to-date knowledge regarding the role of activins and follistatin in liver biology and immune system and their role in the pathophysiology of CHC.
A Survey on Video-based Graphics and Video Visualization

In recent years, a collection of new techniques, which deal with videos a s the input data, emerged in computer graphics and visualization. In this survey, we report the state of the art in video-based graphics and video visualization. We provide a comprehensive review of techniques for making photo- realistic or artistic computer-generated imagery from videos, as well as methods for creating summary and/or abs tract visual representations to reveal important features and events in videos. We propose a new taxonomy to ca tegorize the concepts and techniques in this newly-emerged body of knowledge. To support this review, we als o give a concise overview of the major advances in automated video analysis, as some techniques in this field (e.g ., feature extraction, detection, tracking and so on) have been featured in video-based modeling and rendering p ipelines for graphics and visualization.
DETRIMENTAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ORGANIZATIONAL INJUSTICE IN THE WORKPLACE: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS

This study investigated the causes of organizational injustice and how this influences employees’ job outcomes in public sector organizations in Pakistan. Two models were constructed and analyzed to fulfill the research goals. Data were obtained using a simple random sampling technique. Of the sample, 254 employees of public sector organizations filled out self-administered questionnaires. Multiple regression was applied to test direct proposed hypotheses. To evaluate the organizational injustice’s indirect effect on organizational performance due to employees’ job dissatisfaction, the mediation test of Preacher and Hayes (2004) was applied. The results showed that organizational injustice negatively impacts affective commitment and perceived organizational performance. Moreover, job dissatisfaction impacts the relationship in organizational injustice, perceived organizational performance and affective commitment.
QUARK-NOVAE, COSMIC REIONIZATION, AND EARLY r-PROCESS ELEMENT PRODUCTION

We examine the case for quark-novae (QNe) as possible sources for the reionization and early metal enrichment of the universe. QNe are predicted to arise from the explosive collapse (and conversion) of sufficiently massive neutron stars into quark stars (QSs). A QN can occur over a range of timescales following the supernova (SN) event. For QNe that arise days to weeks after the SNe, we show that dual shock that arises as the QN ejecta encounter the SN ejecta can produce enough photons to reionize hydrogen in most of the intergalactic medium (IGM) by z ∼ 6. Such events can explain the large optical depth τe ∼ 0.1 as measured by WMAP, if the clumping factor, C, of the material being ionized is smaller than 10. We suggest a way in which a normal initial mass function for the oldest stars can be reconciled with a large optical depth as well as the mean metallicity of the early IGM post reionization. We find that QN also make a contribution to r-process element abundances for atomic numbers A ⩾ 130. We predict that the main cosmological signatures of QNe are the gamma-ray bursts that announce their birth. These will be clustered at redshifts in the range z ∼ 7–8 in our model.
Position-space renormalisation group for isolated polymer chains?

We develop a cell position-space renormalisation group (PSRG) with which we study the scaling properties of isolated polymer chains. We model a chain by a self-avoiding walk constrained to a lattice. For rescaling factors b S 6, we calculate recursion relations analytically on the square lattice with several different choices for the PSRG weight function. We also calculate implicit cell-to-cell transformations in which a cell of size b is rescaled to a cell of size b'. The results of these PSRGS improve both as b increases and as b/b'+ 1. In addition, we construct a true infinitesimal PSRG transformation, which appears to become exact as the dimensionality d approaches 1; we obtain the closed-form expression for the correlation length exponent, U = (d - l)/(d In d). The Flory formula deviates from this already at first order in (d - 1). We also develop a constant-fugacity Monte Carlo method which enables us to simu- late-in an unbiased way within the grand canonical ensemble-chains of up to lo3 bonds. With this method, we extend the PSRG to larger cells (b s 150) on the square lattice. Our numerical method provides high statistical accuracy for all cell sizes. However, in the range of b we study, the asymptotic behaviour of our results appears to depend on the choice of weight function. One weight function provides smooth behaviour as a function of b, and with it we extrapolate to find U = 0.756* 0.004. Further work is required to resolve the apparent anomalies in the results based on the other weight functions.
Robust Control With Exact Uncertainties Compensation: With or Without Chattering?

The problem of robust exact output control for linear systems with smooth bounded matched unknown inputs is considered. The higher order sliding mode observers provide both theoretically exact observation and unknown input identification. In this paper, a methodology is proposed to select the most adequate output control strategy for matched perturbations compensation. The aim of this paper is to investigate the possibility for exact uncertainties compensation using signals identified by high order sliding mode observers. Towards this aim, we modify the hierarchical super-twisting observer in order to have the best observation and identification accuracy possible. Then, two controllers are compared. The first one is an integral sliding mode controller based on the observed values of the state variables. The other strategy is based on the direct compensation of matched perturbations using their identified values. The performance of both controllers is estimated in terms of the deterministic noise upper bounds, sampling step and execution time. Based on these estimations, the designer may select the proper controller for the system. Experimental results are given for an inverted rotary pendulum system.
Around the world in 17 days - hemispheric-scale transport of forest fire smoke from Russia in May 2003

Abstract. In May 2003, severe forest fires in southeast Russia resulted in smoke plumes extending widely across the Northern Hemisphere. This study combines satellite data from a variety of platforms (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) and Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)) and vertical aerosol profiles derived with Raman lidar measurements with results from a Lagrangian particle dispersion model to understand the transport processes that led to the large haze plumes observed over North America and Europe. The satellite images provided a unique opportunity for validating model simulations of tropospheric transport on a truly hemispheric scale. Transport of the smoke occurred in two directions: Smoke travelling northwestwards towards Scandinavia was lifted over the Urals and arrived over the Norwegian Sea. Smoke travelling eastwards to the Okhotsk Sea was also lifted, it then crossed the Bering Sea to Alaska from where it proceeded to Canada and was later even observed over Scandinavia and Eastern Europe on its way back to Russia. Not many events of this kind, if any, have been observed, documented and simulated with a transport model comprehensively. The total transport time was about 17 days. We compared transport model simulations using meteorological analysis data from both the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) and the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) in order to find out how well this event could be simulated using these two datasets. Although differences between the two simulations are found on small scales, both agree remarkably well with each other and with the observations on large scales. On the basis of the available observations, it cannot be decided which simulation was more realistic.
A New Signal Denoising Method using Iterative Thresholding of the Spectral Intrinsic Decomposition

This paper presents a new signal denoising method based on the classical three step procedure analysis-threshold- synthesis and the Spectral Intrinsic Decomposition (SID). This method consists of an iterative thresholding of the SID components. If the wavelets denoising approach depends on the choice of the wavelet form, the SID-denoising proposed in this paper is self adaptive. The SID-based removal method reduces noise and can retain useful discontinuities of the signal as e ectively as the wavelet techniques based on soft thresholding.
Salvage of urea-nitrogen and protein requirements

The metabolism of N in the colon is dominated in quantitative terms by the metabolic activity of the microflora. The microflora are not found exclusively in the colon, as there are increasing numbers in the terminal ileum towards the ileocaecal valve; however, the working approximation is that functionally significant activity is colonic. There is a complex, and as yet inadequately defined, interaction of the luminal, mucosal and intramucosal populations of bacteria which is almost certainly of functional relevance. As for all organisms, the metabolic profile of the microflora is determined by the availability of substrate, which gives rise to an interdependence of protein, amino acid and N metabolism with the availability of energy; but for the practical purposes of the present analysis the reasonable assumption has been made that for all the work quoted, energy and other nutrients are not limiting.
Students' Organization Strategies of Personal

Abstract. This study uses new powerful data mining methods in order to observe students' personal information space organization strategies in the personal Web space allocated to them on the university servers. The study included 518 users with a personal information space of at least 10 files. Data regarding their personal information space were collected, and a clustering algorithm was applied in order to identify profiles of students' organization strategies. Four clusters were found, refining the classical piling/filing classification: piling, one folder filing, small folders filing and big folder filing. Also, association was found between these profiles and personal information space size. A discussion of these results is provided.
Comparative Assessment of Fetal Malnutrition by Anthropometry and CAN Score

Objectives Fetal malnutrition (FM) implies soft tissue wasting at birth with significant postnatal consequences and morbidity, and is identified by clinical assessment (CAN score) and anthropometry. No previous studies have been done to study all these parameters and evolve a screening method. The aim of this study was identifying the incidence of FM using CAN score and compare the nutritional assessment with anthropometry and evolve a screening tool for rapid assessment of FM. Methods Prospective study in Government district maternity hospital. 300 term newborns were assessed by CAN score and anthropometry recorded. The newborns were classified as per weight for age. Ponderal index (PI), Body mass index (BMI) and midarm circumference/head circumference ratio (MAC/HC) calculated and compared to CAN Score for accuracy in identifying FM. Findings Incidence of FM was 24%. Newborns identified malnourished by PI, BMI, MAC/HC were evaluated by CAN score and significant number of them (31/78 in PI, 60/121 in BMI, 51/81 in MAC/HC) were found well nourished. Similarly those recognized as normal by PI, BMI, MAC/HC were malnourished by CAN score(25/222 in PI, 11/179 in BMI, 42/219 in MAC/HC) with statistical significance(0.0001). BMI had the highest sensitivity and 11 neonates with normal BMI had low CAN score ann 9 of them had normal PI also making a combination of BMI and PI a good indicator of normal nutrition. Conclusion FM is best identified by CAN Score. BMI is the best screening tool for malnutrition and when coupled with PI will identify most normally nourished newborns.