Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Found in Transition: Our Littlest Transgender People

Abstract An increasing number of children are coming with their parents to seek out mental-health services as they explore, question, or give voice to their gender concerns. This article presents a particular orientation of practice to help those children, the gender affirmative model, proposing that psychoanalytic practitioners are ideally situated to help these children within this approach, using techniques of listening, mirroring, suspension in psychic intermediate spaces, play, and interpretation. Concepts of the true gender self, false gender self, and gender creativity are presented. Particular attention is paid to prepubertal children who affirm that their gender does not match the sex listed on their birth certificate, and examines the question of whether it is in the best interests of these children to allow them to socially transition to the gender they affirm themselves to be. A case example is presented of a five-year-old exploring gender to demonstrate the gender affirmative clinical approach in a psychoanalytic context.
Strategies and automaticity: II. Dynamic aspects of strategy adjustment.

The temporal dynamics of strategic adjustment of response criteria were examined by comparing performance in blocked conditions, in which all stimulus-response mappings were either consistent (CM) or varied (VM), to performance in mixed conditions, in which CM and VM items were presented in the same block of trials. We examined the degree of flexibility that subjects exhibit in deploying differential response strategies. Surprisingly, Ss were unable to use a variety of informative pre-cues to rapidly shift between response strategies associated with automatic (CM) and nonautomatic (VM) processing. However, an analysis of sequential dependencies indicated that repetition of stimuli from the same class (CM vs. VM) gradually led to shifts in response strategies
‘Gouldner’s child?’

The article commences with a personal reflection on reflexive sociology’s methodological emergence from the critique of scientific positivism that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These ‘paradigm wars’ reached something of a zenith around the time of the final opus of a key proponent, Alvin Gouldner, in 1979. An uneasy truce was then reached under new conditions of growing economic rationalism. While mainstream academic sociology plunged into the ‘coming crisis’ foretold by Gouldner, a number of its graduates continued to develop reflexive sociology, particularly in non-academic workplaces. Initially called - after Kuhn - the ‘new paradigm’ or ‘critical interpretivism’, it is now known by many names. Most common descriptors would be participatory or action research, action learning or socio systems-thinking. The approach has gradually achieved surprising critical mass in enormously diverse organizational, workplace and community settings worldwide. The article concludes by noting that many ‘new paradigm’ assumptions have begun to enter mainstream social research, which may be beginning to reengage with the action research field - originally the offspring of sociological thinking three decades earlier.
The Effects of Injury Preventive Warm-Up Programs on Knee Strength Ratio in Young Male Professional Soccer Players

Purpose We aimed to investigate the effect of FIFA 11+ (11+) and HarmoKnee injury preventive warm-up programs on conventional strength ratio (CSR), dynamic control ratio (DCR) and fast/slow speed ratio (FSR) in young male professional soccer players. These ratios are related to the risk of injury to the knee in soccer players. Methods Thirty-six players were divided into 3 groups; FIFA 11+, HarmoKnee and control (n = 12 per group). These exercises were performed 3 times per week for 2 months (24 sessions). The CSR, DCR and FSR were measured before and after the intervention. Results After training, the CSR and DCR of knee muscles in both groups were found to be lower than the published normal values (0.61, 0.72, and 0.78 during 60°.s−1, 180°.s−1 and 300°.s−1, respectively). The CSR (60°.s−1) increased by 8% and FSR in the quadriceps of the non-dominant leg by 8% in the 11+. Meanwhile, the DCR in the dominant and non-dominant legs were reduced by 40% and 30% respectively in the 11+. The CSR (60°.s−1) in the non-dominant leg showed significant differences between the 11+, HarmoKnee and control groups (p = 0.02). As for the DCR analysis between groups, there were significant differences in the non-dominant leg between both programs with the control group (p = 0.04). For FSR no significant changes were found between groups. Conclusions It can be concluded that the 11+ improved CSR and FSR, but the HarmoKnee program did not demonstrate improvement. We suggest adding more training elements to the HarmoKnee program that aimed to enhance hamstring strength (CSR, DCR and FSR). Professional soccer players have higher predisposition of getting knee injuries because hamstring to quadriceps ratio were found to be lower than the average values. It seems that the 11+ have potentials to improve CSR and FSR as well as prevent knee injuries in soccer players.
Transition Planning: How Well Does It Work for Young People with Learning Disabilities and Their Families?.

The legislation and guidance require that transition planning takes place for all children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs. The research reported here was undertaken by Linda Ward, Professor of Disability and Social Policy at the University of Bristol, where she is director of the Norah Fry Research Centre; Robina Mallett, Carer Support Officer at the Home Farm Trust; Pauline Heslop, Research Fellow at the Norah Fry Research Centre; and Ken Simons, Senior Research Fellow at the Norah Fry Research Centre until his untimely death in January 2003, to find out how well this legislation and guidance works in practice from the perspective of young people with learning disabilities and their families. Based on information from questionnaires completed by parents and separate in-depth interviews with youngsters with learning disabilities and their parents, this article reveals that many young people in the study left school without any transition planning, as far as their parents were aware. Where transition planning had occurred, there was a stark mismatch between the topics families wanted to cover and those addressed by the professionals involved. Many of the youngsters who did receive transition planning had little if any involvement in the process; parental involvement was also significantly less than it should have been. In drawing conclusions from their research, the authors review the most positive aspects of the process from the perspective of the young people and their parents; parents' ideas for improving transition planning; and messages from the research for professionals, including those working in education.
Charting the Potential of Landscape Urbanism in Dubai

Abstract Landscape Urbanism has been, to date, a theory emerging primarily from the Western world. This paper counters the Western focus by exploring the potential of Landscape Urbanism theory in Dubai. In a previous article published by the author, landscape architecture in Dubai has been identified as diverging from the tenets of the various charters of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), having apparently scant regard for pressing ecological, social and cultural design issues. Landscape Urbanism in this paper is discussed with respect to its ability to bolster the practice of landscape architecture in Dubai in relation to these issues. The paper argues that a number of key facets of Landscape Urbanism appear difficult to reconcile with the ecological, social and cultural conditions of Dubai. Further to this, it tends to lack the tools by which landscape urbanists in Dubai could link theory with practice.
Diagnosis and Management of Odontogenic Myxoma in a Dog

A three-year-old Jack Russell terrier dog was presented with a large gingival mass of the right mandible extending from the fourth premolar to the first molar teeth. Radiographic examination of the expansile mass revealed moth-eaten, honeycomb-like lyses of the mandible and extended into the mandibular alveolar canal based on computed tomography. The histopathological diagnosis of the biopsy was odontogenic fibromyxoma. Mandibulectomy with resection of the associated soft tissues was performed. Surgical management was curative with no clinical signs of disease 2-years after treatment. These neoplasms are slow growing, locally destructive tumors of odontogenic origin that have been described in the jaw of only one dog. In this paper, the clinico-radiological and pathologic features, diagnostic modalities as well as the factors that might influence treatment outcome of odontogenic myxomas are discussed. These odontogenic tumors are currently excluded from the WHO classification of odontogenic tumors in domestic animals and inclusion in future classifications systems is proposed.
Institutional Contradiction in the Community College

Critical discourse analysis was employed to examine the narratives collected from 40 community college administrators who were asked to recount their experience in an event, activity, or decision that challenged their values.The analysis yielded three findings. First, contradictions emerged between the administrators’ educational and professional values, on the one hand, and managerialism (pressure from above), on the other hand. Second, participants either acquiesced to managerialism or resisted through insubordination or advocacy. Third, the styles enacted by the administrators in the face of these contradictions included the alienated victim (who felt that his or her authority had been usurped), the survivor (who eventually recovered or at least feigned a positive attitude), or the institutional entrepreneur (who successfully aligned a policy or practice with his or her values). The latter successfully advocated for change, suggesting the need for future research on leadership strategies and organizational climates that foster institutional entrepreneurship.
Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions

The context in which language is used provides a strong signal for learning to recover its meaning. In this paper, we show it can be used within a grounded CCG semantic parsing approach that learns a joint model of meaning and context for interpreting and executing natural language instructions, using various types of weak supervision. The joint nature provides crucial benefits by allowing situated cues, such as the set of visible objects, to directly influence learning. It also enables algorithms that learn while executing instructions, for example by trying to replicate human actions. Experiments on a benchmark navigational dataset demonstrate strong performance under differing forms of supervision, including correctly executing 60% more instruction sets relative to the previous state of the art.
Searching for Kinship

Drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 homeless youth, this study depicts a unique aspect of homeless youth street culture—the formation of “street families. ” This article examines youth's motivations for creating street families, their organization and maintenance, and the role gender plays in adopting familial identities. Although many homeless adolescents come from dysfunctional families, street family members often recreate traditional family roles. Membership often mitigates the demands of street life, yet intragroup violence/victimization is common. The findings highlight the unique nature of street families and implications for research, policy, and practice, including the need for involving peers in intervention efforts.
Estudo preliminar para a construção da Escala de Autoconceito Infanto-Juvenil (EAC-IJ)

This research deals with the construction and factorial study of an instrument to be used for the assessment of self-concept for children and juveniles in social, scholastic, family and personal contexts. The answers of 555 students, aged between 8-16 years old, were analyzed. This population consisted of 281 (50.6%) males and 274 (49.4%) females, attending second to eighth grades of elementary school. Items were eliminated on the basis of the factorial saturation and the internal consistency, and 20 items were chosen, distributed in the four proposed factors explaining 41.09% of the variance. The Cronbach s coefficients of internal consistency varied from 0.59 to 0.62 for the factors and for the total score was 0.78. Thus, items characterizing the four contexts were identified. This data corroborates the multidimensional perspective of the self first defended by Mead and James. Keywords: factor analysis; children; adolescent.
The role of macrophages in the generation of T helper cells. III. Influence of macrophage‐derived factors in helper cell induction

Helper cell induction to soluble or particulate antigens in vitro requires the cooperation of T cells and macrophages. A direct contact between macrophages and T cells is not obligatory for this cooperation and factors released from macrophages are as effective in activating T cells as the cells themselves. Two different types of macrophage‐derived factors where found. The supernatant obtained from purified macrophages incubated with antigen for several days generates helper cells in absence of macrophages or additional antigen, but only if obtained from macrophages which were identical at the I‐A subregion of the H‐2 complex as the T cells. This factor was called genetically related macrophage factor (GRF). The other factor(s), which is present in the supernatant obtained from macrophages incubated for several days without antigen, replaces macrophages only if the antigen is particulate. This factor(s), called nonspecific macrophage factor (NMF) is not restricted genetically and is also obtained from allogeneic macrophages. The importance of both these factors in helper cell induction is discussed.
A social cognition approach to health psychology: Philosophical and methodological issues

Abstract Health psychologists working within a “social cognition” framework routinely regard verbal reports as indices of cognitive/mental representations and behavioural dispositions. Social cognition developed within social psychology but the philosophy of science, theoretical assumptions and methodological practices which constitute it are not universally accepted by social psychologists. This paper explores the implications of debates about the validity of a social cognitive perspective for research practice in health psychology. The realist foundations of social cognition are contrasted with the social constructionist perspective underpinning many discourse analysis studies. It is argued that a realist view of potentially accurate verbal reports and an individual cognitive focus are essential to health psychology research. However, it is emphasized that culture-bound self-presentational processes operating in data-collection contexts necessitate methodologies capable of monitoring and controlling the.
Toward Robustness against Label Noise in Training Deep Discriminative Neural Networks

Collecting large training datasets, annotated with high-quality labels, is costly and time-consuming. This paper proposes a novel framework for training deep convolutional neural networks from noisy labeled datasets that can be obtained cheaply. The problem is formulated using an undirected graphical model that represents the relationship between noisy and clean labels, trained in a semi-supervised setting. In our formulation, the inference over latent clean labels is tractable and is regularized during training using auxiliary sources of information. The proposed model is applied to the image labeling problem and is shown to be effective in labeling unseen images as well as reducing label noise in training on CIFAR-10 and MS COCO datasets.
Quality Food, Public Procurement, and Sustainable Development: The School Meal Revolution in Rome

In the last decade the concept of quality has been widely used to describe the dynamics that have been shaping the agrifood system. Despite differences in research focus and approach, scholars agree that quality is the outcome of a contingent and so far underresearched process of negotiation that entails and determines relations of power in the food chain. To understand the nature and implications of the relationship between quality and power in the food sector, this paper focuses on the recent ‘quality revolution’ implemented in the school meals system in Rome. Based on the analysis of documentary material and qualitative data collected through formal and informal interviews, the paper examines the process through which city authorities have integrated different (and at times contrasting) quality conventions. The analysis shows that procurement policies such as those implemented in Rome have the power to create an ‘economy of quality’ that can deliver the economic, environmental, and social benefits of sustainable development.
Joint array combining and MLSE for single-user receivers in multipath Gaussian multiuser channels

The well-known structure of an array combiner along with a maximum likelihood sequence estimator (MLSE) receiver is the basis for the derivation of a space-time processor presenting good properties in terms of co-channel and intersymbol interference rejection. The use of spatial diversity at the receiver front-end together with a scalar MLSE implies a joint design of the spatial combiner and the impulse response for the sequence detector. This is faced using the MMSE criterion under the constraint that the desired user signal power is not cancelled, yielding an impulse response for the sequence detector that is matched to the channel and combiner response. The procedure maximizes the signal-to-noise ratio at the input of the detector and exhibits excellent performance in realistic multipath channels.
Adipose-derived human mesenchymal stem cells induce long-term neurogenic and anti-inflammatory effects and improve cognitive but not motor performance in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.

BACKGROUND Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are easily harvested, and possess anti-inflammatory and trophic properties. Furthermore, MSC promote neuroprotection and neurogenesis, which could greatly benefit neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. METHODS MSC were transplanted one week after 6-hydroxydopamine lesioning and effects were evaluated after 6 months. RESULTS MSC localized around the substantia nigra and the arachnoid mater, expressing pericyte and endothelial markers. MSC protected dopamine levels and upregulated peripheral anti-inflammatory cytokines. Furthermore, adipose-derived MSC increased neurogenesis in hippocampal and subventricular regions, and boosted memory functioning. CONCLUSION Considering that hyposmia and loss of memory function are two major nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease, transplants with modulatory effects on the hippocampus and subventricular zone could provide a disease-modifying therapy.
C‐ versus N‐terminally linked melittin‐polyethylenimine conjugates: the site of linkage strongly influences activity of DNA polyplexes

One major barrier limiting the transfection efficiency of polyplexes is poor endosomal release, especially when small particles are applied. In an approach to overcome this barrier, covalent attachment of the membrane‐active peptide all‐(L)‐melittin to polyethylenimine (PEI) polyplexes was found to enhance gene transfer efficiency.
Resistance to Chronic Wasting Disease in Transgenic Mice Expressing a Naturally Occurring Allelic Variant of Deer Prion Protein

ABSTRACT Prion protein (PrP) is a required factor for susceptibility to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion diseases. In transgenic mice, expression of prion protein (PrP) from another species often confers susceptibility to prion disease from that donor species. For example, expression of deer or elk PrP in transgenic mice has induced susceptibility to chronic wasting disease (CWD), the prion disease of cervids. In the current experiments, transgenic mice expressing two naturally occurring allelic variants of deer PrP with either glycine (G) or serine (S) at residue 96 were found to differ in susceptibility to CWD infection. G96 mice were highly susceptible to infection, and disease appeared starting as early as 160 days postinfection. In contrast, S96 mice showed no evidence of disease or generation of disease-associated protease-resistant PrP (PrPres) over a 600-day period. At the time of clinical disease, G96 mice showed typical vacuolar pathology and deposition of PrPres in many brain regions, and in some individuals, extensive neuronal loss and apoptosis were noted in the hippocampus and cerebellum. Extraneural accumulation of PrPres was also noted in spleen and intestinal tissue of clinically ill G96 mice. These results demonstrate the importance of deer PrP polymorphisms in susceptibility to CWD infection. Furthermore, this deer PrP transgenic model is the first to demonstrate extraneural accumulation of PrPres in spleen and intestinal tissue and thus may prove useful in studies of CWD pathogenesis and transmission by oral or other natural routes of infection.
The social psychology of creativity

I. Understanding and Assessing Creativity. - 1. The Case for a Social Psychology of Creativity. - A Gap in Creativity Research. - Some Social Psychological Stories. - A Recurrent Theme: Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Motivation. - 2. The Meaning and Measurement of Creativity. - Previous Approaches to Creativity Definition. - Previous Approaches to Creativity Measurement. - A Consensual Definition of Creativity. - A Conceptual Definition of Creativity. - 3. A Consensual Technique for Creativity Assessment. - The Consensual Assessment of Artistic Creativity. - The Consensual Assessment of Verbal Creativity. - A Summary of Major Findings. - Comparison with Previous Techniques. - Limitations and Future Possibilities. - A Wider Context. - 4. A Theoretical Framework. - Preliminary Assumptions and Observations. - The Components of Creative Performance. - A Componential Framework. - The Intrinsic Motivation Hypothesis of Creativity. - II. Social and Environmental Influences. - 5. Effects of Evaluation on Creativity. - Intrinsic Motivation, Creativity, and the Nature of the Task. - The Basic Research Paradigm. - Impact of Evaluation Expectation. - Impact of Actual Evaluation. - Summary. - 6. Effects of Reward and Task Constraint. - Previous Research. - Effects of Reward of Children's Creativity. - The Interaction of Reward and Choice. - Choice in Aspects of Task Engagement. - Summary. - 7. Social Facilitation, Modeling, and Motivational Orientation. - Social Facilitation Theories: Implications for Creativity. - Evidence on the Social Facilitation and Inhibition of Creativity. - Modeling Influences on Creative Individuals. - Experimental Studies of Modeling. - Motivational Orientation: A Theoretical Analysis. - Motivational Orientation: An Empirical Demonstration. - Summary. - 8. Other Social and Environmental Influences. - Educational Environments. - Work Environments. - Family Influences. - Societal, Political, and Cultural Influences. - Other Influences on Creativity. - Summary. - III. Implications. - 9. Implications for Enhancing Creativity. - Direct Attempts: Creativity-Training Programs. - A Review of Social Influences on Creativity. - Implications for Education and Child-rearing. - Implications for the Arts, the Sciences, and Industry. - 10. Toward a Comprehensive Psychology of Creativity. - Social Psychology of Creativity: Current Status. - Social Psychology of Creativity: Future Directions. - Integrating Theoretical Perspectives. - References. - Author Index.