Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Spanish Mortgage Crisis and the Re-emergence of Moral Economies in Uncertain Times

During the Spanish housing bubble, the mass access to mortgages for private homeownership, and the subsequent acceptance of the debtor–creditor agreement, was founded on common perceptions of secure income, endless economic growth, rising housing prices, and investing for the future. Assumptions about the prosperity of household economies were consistent with linear understandings of life projects, where the purchase of a home was a landmark event. Since the onset of the economic crisis which triggered an increase in home repossessions, people have questioned the principles of finance capitalism and their own prioritization of homeownership over the substantial risks of investment and indebtedness. The events of the economic crisis have led people to reconsider the moral economy and their basic rights to subsistence. The experience has already had an enduring effect on how people articulate the past times of financial prosperity, the present era of poverty, and their expectations for rebuilding their futures. “Regressions” in the usual course of life projects have meant that people are going “backwards” rather than “forwards” in their life trajectories, spreading confusion and anxiety among those threatened by home repossessions. This line of enquiry invites contemplation on the potential future entanglement of moral economies with the temporalities of capitalist booms and busts.
Origins of Autobiographi cal Memory

This study tested the predictions of M. L. Howe and M. L. Courage's (1993, 1997) theory of infantile amnesia compared with a social-interac tionist account of autobiographi cal memory development (R. Fivush & E. Reese, 1992; K. Nelson, 1993b). Fifty-eight mother-child dyads were assessed for maternal styles of talking about the past and for children's self-recognition, language production, and nonverbal memory when the children were 19 months old. Children's shared and independent memory reports were then assessed from 19 to 32 months. Maternal reminiscing style and self-recognition uniquely predicted children's shared memory reports across time, even with children's initial language and nonverbal memory factored out. Self-recognition skills also predicted children's later independent memory. These results support a pluralistic account of the origins of autobiographi cal memory.
[Quality of life of women with urinary incontinence].

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to estimate a quality of life of women treated for incontinence of urine. The study included 119 women hospitalized in Clinic of Gynecology of Medical University of Lublin for urine incontinence from January 2001 till September 2002. A questionnaire based on King's Health questionnaire was used as a tool. Data obtained from questionnaire prove a strong influence of symptoms of incontinence of urine (p < 0.05) not only on an estimation of health state, but first of all on daily duties and professional work of examined women. Symptoms of incontinence limit an interpersonal communication, participation in active rest, family life and sexual activity. About 2/3 (28.57%) of examined women estimate their psychic state as very bad, (31.93%) as bad and (32.77%) as a little poor and only few women (6.73%) state that problems with incontinence of urine have small influence on their emotional state. CONCLUSION The appearance of urine incontinence symptoms have an influence on quality of life of women suffering from this disease.
A statistical approach for muscle fascicle orientation estimation in ultrasound images

Ultrasound imaging has been widely used to investigate muscle properties. The fascicle orientation is usually measured manually, which is subjective and time consuming In this study, an automatic estimation method based on statistical characteristic of the fascicle region is proposed to detect the fascicle orientation. The performance of the proposed method is compared to manual detection using clinical images from human subject. The experimental results show that the proposed method is robust, and the difference between the two methods is within 1 degree. The proposed method has the potential for widespread application in biology sciences.
Inhibition and flexibility in Hoarding, and OCD: similarities in neuropsychological profile

Introduction Cognitive impairment of executive functioning in patients diagnosed with Hoarding Disorder (HD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), particularly in the domains of mental flexibility and motorand impulse control, is well established in a number of studies. However, research is inconsistent, leading to an ongoing debate on the conceptualization of Hoarding. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine whether there is a linking pin between Hoarding and OCD with respect to ADHD and ASD symptoms and with respect to neuropsychological symptoms. Methods 66 Participants were recruited: 19 OCD patients, 22 Hoarders and 22 Controls. Diagnosis of Hoarding and OCD was based on the Structured Interview of Hoarding Disorder (SIHD), the Saving Inventory-Revisited (SI-R), the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory Revisited (OCI-R) and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis-I Disorders (SCID-I). Screening for ASD and ADHD symptoms was based on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), the Connors Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS) and the Behavioral Inhibition Scale (BIS). ObsessiveCompulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) traits were measured by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis-II Disorders (SCID-II), as an indicator for mental inflexibility. Cognitive function was assessed through a comprehensive and standardized neuropsychological test battery, comprising the Intra-Dimensional Extra-Dimensional Set shift task (ID/EDS), the Stroop-Color-Word Interference task as part of the D-KEFS and the Stop Signal Reaction Time task (SSRT). The executive functions under study were mental flexibility and motorand impulse inhibition. Results The current study showed remarkable similarities between Hoarders and OCD patients, both at the symptom level (OC symptoms, behavioral inhibition, ADHD symptoms) and at the level of executive functions (motor and cognitive inhibition). Results on cognitive flexibility and set shifting pointed into different directions, suggesting that the problems of patients slightly diverge there. However, at the level of symptoms, Hoarding, OCD, ASD and ADHD by and large overlap. Conclusion The data partially confirmed that Hoarders and OCD patients show similar impairments in mental flexibility and motor and cognitive inhibition, deficits that are also seen in ASD and ADHD. These data do not support the conceptualization of Hoarding as a separate disorder in the DSM-V. The findings are a step in the process of identifying shared and non-shared neuropsychological mechanisms underlying Hoarding, OCD, ASD and ADHD.
Visual and Geometric Analysis of Maxillary Sinus Region Variability for Identification of Unknown Decedents

Chairperson: Randall Skelton Positive identification of unknown individuals is highly important in the medicolegal field. Comparison of antemortem and postmortem radiographs is a popular and successful method of making a positive identification, but these methods are often extremely limited due to a lack of antemortem records. A positive identification method utilizing a type of radiograph that is more common in the antemortem record would be very useful for forensic anthropologists and other medicolegal professionals and could increase the likelihood of the individual in question being identified. Panoramic dental radiographs are commonly included in the standard dental exam and provide a clear view of the maxillary sinus region. Visual analysis of the maxillary sinus region of panoramic radiographs was performed by creating an online radiographic matching survey using sets of two radiographs from seven individuals and individual radiographs from seven other individuals. A total of 47 undergraduate and graduate students participated in the online survey. The results from this survey were used to calculate percentages correct for different variables and perform one-way ANOVA and chi-square analyses on the data using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). A preliminary geometric morphometrics analysis was also performed on the maxillary sinus outline shape using Shape 1.3. Results from both the visual and geometric analysis of maxillary sinus shape indicate that elements of the maxillary sinus area could be used as a relatively accurate method for positively identifying unknown individuals.
Motivating people with chronic pain to do physical activity: opportunities for technology design

Physical activity is important for improving quality of life in people with chronic pain. However, actual or anticipated pain exacerbation, and lack of confidence when doing physical activity, make it difficult to maintain and build towards long-term activity goals. Research guiding the design of interactive technology to motivate and support physical activity in people with chronic pain is lacking. We conducted studies with: (1) people with chronic pain, to understand how they maintained and increased physical activity in daily life and what factors deterred them; and (2) pain-specialist physiotherapists, to understand how they supported people with chronic pain. Building on this understanding, we investigated the use of auditory feedback to address some of the psychological barriers and needs identified and to increase self-efficacy, motivation and confidence in physical activity. We conclude by discussing further design opportunities based on the overall findings.
N-Terminal Polypeptide of Annexin A2 Decreases Infection of Mycoplasma hyorhinis to Gastric Cancer Cells

Mycoplasma infection in human and its contamination in cell cultures are worldwide problems. The drugs currently available for preventing or treating mycoplasma infection suffer from low sensitivity, strong resistance and high toxicity. Our previous work showed that Mycoplasma hyorhinis (M. hyorhinis) infection was mediated by the interaction between p37 of M. hyorhinis and Annexin A2 (ANXA2) of host cells, however the translational value of this mechanism was unknown. Herein, we synthesized the N-terminal of ANXA2 polypeptide (A2PP) and found that A2PP could decrease the infection of M. hyorhinis to gastric cancer cells and block M. hyorhinis infection-induced cell migration. Furthermore, we found that A2PP could reduce M. hyorhinis contamination of passage cells. Moreover, compared with the commercial antibiotics commonly used in cell culture to prevent M. hyorhinis infection, A2PP demonstrated a more effectiveness but a low toxicity on cell growth. Thus, our study for the first time revealed A2PP’s potential for the treatment and prevention of M. hyorhinis infection.
Differential Early Secreted Antigen Target (ESAT) 6 kDa-induced IFN-γ and SOCS1 expression distinguishes latent and active tuberculosis.

INTRODUCTION Expression of Suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS)-1 molecules is increased in patients with tuberculosis (TB). Early Secreted Antigen Target (ESAT)-6 kDa - induced IFN-γ responses indicate Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The effect of ESAT6- stimulation on SOCS1 in the host is not known. METHODOLOGY Healthy asymptomatic controls had a negative (n = 16) or a positive ( n = 13) tuberculin skin test (TST). ESAT6-induced IFN-γ responses classified these controls as positive (EC ESAT6 IFN-γ (+), n = 5) or negative (EC ESAT6 IFN-γ (-), n = 24) responders. Patients had pulmonary (n = 21) or extra-pulmonary (n = 30) tuberculosis. Peripheral blood cells were stimulated with ESAT6 and mRNA expression of IFN-γ and SOCS1 was determined. RESULTS ESAT6-induced IFN-γ expression was raised in EC ESAT6 IFN-γ (+) as compared with EC ESAT6 IFN-γ (-), p = 0.019. ESAT6-induced SOCS1 mRNA expression was increased in both pulmonary TB and extra-pulmonary TB patients as compared with both EC groups. ESAT6-induced IFN-γ/SOCS1 mRNA expression ratio was decreased in TB patients as compared with both EC groups. CONCLUSION M. tuberculosis infection induces increased ESAT6-induced IFN-γ responses in both latent and active TB. Our data shows down-regulation of IFN-γ / SOCS1 expression to be induced only in active TB cases, distinguishing them from healthy individuals likely to have latent TB. A decreasing IFN-γ /SOCS1 ratio may leads to reduced Th1 immunity which contributes to inability of the host to control clinical disease.
Clonal analysis of the in vivo differentiation potential of keratinocytes.

PURPOSE This study investigated the in vivo differentiation of conjunctival keratinocytes. METHODS Keratinocytes from the fornical region of the conjunctival epithelium were isolated and plated at low density (5 x 102 per 100-mm dish) in Dulbecco's minimum essential medium containing 20% fetal bovine serum in the presence of mitomycin C-treated 3T3 feeder cells. At this density, only single, isolated cells were attached after overnight culture. Eight days later, small, well-isolated colonies separated from one another by the feeder cells were detached as a sheet from the dish and were injected subcutaneously into the flanks of BALB/c athymic mice through an 18-gauge needle. Within a day, a small firm nodule appeared at the site of injection. At different time points, the animals were killed, and the nodules were excised for morphologic, histogeometric, and cell kinetic analyses. RESULTS Each implanted colony derived from a single cell gave rise to a single epithelial cyst lined with a reconstituted stratified epithelium. Goblet-like cells loaded with periodic acid-Schiff-positive cytoplasmic granules began to appear singularly in some of the cysts by day 8 postimplantation and were observed in approximately 85% of the cysts by day 14. CONCLUSIONS Because the cysts formed were derived from clonal populations of epithelial cells and the majority of cysts had a mixed keratinocyte-goblet cell phenotype, these results suggest strongly the existence of a bipotent precursor cell in conjunctival epithelium that can give rise to both goblet and nongoblet cells. This system can be used to study factors that can influence the commitment of pluripotent epithelial stem cells to divergent pathways of differentiation.
Socially Just Engineering: Power, resistance, and discourse at Site 41

While engineers and their patrons have always claimed that technology has advanced the common good, I intend to show that more often than not engineers have been mercenaries for those at the center of knowledge, power, and wealth. Engineers design technology that marginalizes certain types of knowledge, people, and culture in favor of those at the center. Far from being a common good, engineered systems have advanced social and environmental inequity by being designed using exploitative social, political, and economic methods. In response to the negative impacts of engineered systems, the mainstream engineering profession has committed in recent years to being much more socially and environmentally responsible. However, the discourse of responsibility adopted by the profession is narrow in scope as it does not recognize the context and process in which technology is designed. Seeking a different way, some engineering reformers are attempting to create different cultures in engineering, in which the technology designed by engineers not only minimizes damage but seeks to create more equity in our communities. These new cultures have been articulated as Humanitarian Engineering or Peace Engineering or Social Justice and Engineering. A key component of these cultures is the concern for the needs of the marginalized whether in communities far away i or close to us. While much has already been written about changing the education curriculum, little has been written about how engineers may design technology that values and advances knowledge, people, and culture at the margins. This thesis will theorize as to how engineers may design technology in a socially just manner by articulating an engineering design theory based on power and resistance. This design theory is then validated through discourse analysis of a contentious engineering project, the Site 41 landfill in northern Ontario. I show through the analysis of engineering design discourse at Site 41 that dominant power relations created structures of oppression that marginalized non-experts, Aboriginal communities, and the environment. Alternative design methods that resist these oppressive structures such as participatory, ecofeminist, deep ecological, and decolonized design are proposed as a way for engineers to have worked more justly at Site 41.
Southern Ocean Phytoplankton in a Changing Climate

Phytoplankton are the base of the Antarctic food web, sustain the wealth and diversity of life for which Antarctica is renowned, and play a critical role in biogeochemical cycles that mediate global climate. Over the vast expanse of the Southern Ocean (SO), the climate is variously predicted to experience increased warming, strengthening wind, acidification, shallowing mixed layer depths, increased light (and UV), changes in upwelling and nutrient replenishment, declining sea ice, reduced salinity, and the southward migration of ocean fronts. These changes are expected to alter the structure and function of phytoplankton communities in the SO. The diverse environments contained within the vast expanse of the SO will be impacted differently by climate change; causing the identity and the magnitude of environmental factors driving biotic change to vary within and among bioregions. Predicting the net effect of multiple climate-induced stressors over a range of environments is complex. Yet understanding the response of SO phytoplankton to climate change is vital if we are to predict the future state/s of the ecosystem, estimate the impacts on fisheries and endangered species, and accurately predict the effects of physical and biotic change in the SO on global climate. This review looks at the major environmental factors that define the structure and function of phytoplankton communities in the SO, examines the forecast changes in the SO environment, predicts the likely effect of these changes on phytoplankton, and considers the ramifications for trophodynamics and feedbacks to global climate change. Predictions strongly suggest that all regions of the SO will experience changes in phytoplankton productivity and community composition with climate change. The nature, and even the sign, of these changes varies within and among regions and will depend upon the magnitude and sequence in which these environmental changes are imposed. It is likely that predicted changes to phytoplankton communities will affect SO biogeochemistry, carbon export, and nutrition for higher trophic levels.
The influence of age and gender on ultra-rapid categorization

ABSTRACT In ultra-rapid categorization studies, population-level reaction time differences in performance are consistently reported. In a previous study, we replicated these findings and also observed consistent gender differences in young adults (18–24 years old). We now tested a group of adolescents (11–16 years old) on the same ultra-rapid categorization tasks. Results indicated that age had a significant impact on categorization performance. Although women outperformed men during adulthood, this effect reversed in adolescence (boys faster than girls). This gender x age interaction for categorizing meaningful (non-)social visual scenes could be caused by gender-specific development processes underlying emotion regulation strategies and/or context sensitivity.
The initiating heterosexual contact scale: A factor analysis

Recent studies of college women’s initiation of heterosexual contact have focused on the relationships among predictors of women's heterosexual initiating behaviors, initiating strategies, and theories concerning sexuality and indicate the importance of establishing the psychometric properties of the research measurements. The present study of 212 college women (mean age =22.3 years) investigated the factor structure underlying one of these tools, the Initiating Heterosexual Contact Scale (IHCS). The IHCS was developed to assess behaviors and motives relative to initiating heterosexual contact. subjects were administered a survey that included their self-report of initiating sexual contact with men. Factor analysis of the 26-item scale revealed a 19-item scale comprised of six factors—Sexual Arousal, Hidden Motives, Verbal Pressure, Retaliation or Gain, Physical Force, and Exploitation—accounting for 59.8% of the response variance. The internal reliability of the subscales ranged from . 43 to . 75. Recommendations for further refinement of the IHCS and areas of future research are suggested.
KINEMATIC AND KINETIC ANALYSES OF GAIT PATTERNS IN HEMIPLEGIC PATIENTS UDC

As lack of standardization in the visual and computerized gait analyses different kinetic and kinematic gait analysis methods have been developed. The goal of this study was to further investigate the individually characteristics biomechanical deficits of hemiparetic gait pattern and the resulting compensations that compromise walking. The stance phase was more closely examined by the means of a force plate system and a motion analysis system. Data were obtained for both the affected and unaffected leg of 11 (9 males, 2 females) hemiplegic patients. We found that the shorter stance phase time for the affected side is related to the deficient ability to load and transfer weight through their affected leg. Significantly increased rate of force development was found during foot flat on the affected side while toe off was characterized by markedly lower force development. The impaired range of motion on the hemiplegic side was also leading to compensatory mechanism of the unaffected limb resulting abnormal movement of the ankle, knee and hip joints both the affected and unaffected side. Since during the analysis different patterns were separated and identified, it has become apparent that optimal treatment protocols for each pattern type should be developed.