Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hurt Feelings in Women: The Interaction of Social and Individual Difference Factors

Research into the causes of hurt feelings has generally examined the impact of single predictors. The current article builds on previous literature by examining the interactive effects of several key elements of hurtful events in predicting the intensity of hurt. Two studies using community samples of women examined interactions between the type of hurtful event, the importance of the perpetrator, and victim hurt-proneness in predicting variance in hurt intensity. Study 1 (n = 475) used a series of scenarios as the hurtful stimulus while Study 2 (n = 380) used a number of recalled hurtful events. Both studies replicated previous bivariate relationships between perpetrator importance and hurt-proneness and the intensity of hurt, while the first study also demonstrated a significant effect for type of hurtful event. Both studies also found a significant three-way interaction between these variables, indicating that victim hurt-proneness only predicted the intensity of hurt at lower levels of event severity and perpetrator importance. It is concluded that the experience of hurt is multidimensional and contextual. Future directions for research involving gender differences and interventions for individuals and couples are discussed.
Do Bond Mutual Funds Destabilize the Corporate Bond Market?

Corporate bond mutual funds engage in liquidity transformation, raising concerns among academics and policymakers that correlated redemptions will destabilize the corporate bond market. However, estimating regressions that focus within issuer-quarter, I find little evidence that redemptions or resulting sell-offs push corporate bond prices below fundamental values. To reconcile my finding with contrasting findings for equity funds, I analyze both investor flows and portfolio management strategies. While bond fund investors demonstrate bank-run like behavior, bond fund managers hold a significant amount of liquid assets, allowing them to manage redemptions without excessively liquidating corporate bonds, even during the financial crisis.
Smiling, cooing, and "the game."

Two separate lines of my research with infants have recently merged in their implications for the meaning of smiling and cooing in early infancy. One line began as a study of the development of the perception of object orientation, and the other began as a study of early instrumental learning. Recently, data from these two research directions have suggested what might be called an ethological-social cognitive hypothesis concerning the onset of vigorous smiling and cooing in early infancy. This hypothesis is less simple than one might desire, but those who would focus on the limited parsimony rather than the presumed heuristic and explanatory breadth of this hypothesis will at least be pleased that it has been given a short name, "The Game. "
Triangles in H-free graphs

For two graphs T and H and for an integer n, let ex(n, T,H) denote the maximum possible number of copies of T in an H-free graph on n vertices. The study of this function when T = K2 is a single edge is the main subject of extremal graph theory. In the present paper we investigate the general function, focusing on the case T = K3, which reveals several interesting phenomena. Three representative results are: (i) ex(n,K3, H) ≤ c(H)n iff the 2-core of H is a friendship graph, (ii) For any fixed s ≥ 2 and t ≥ (s− 1)! + 1, ex(n,K3,Ks,t) = Θ(n3−3/s), and (iii) ex(n,K3, C5) ≤ (1 + o(1)) √ 3 2 n . The last statement improves (slightly) an estimate of Bollobas and Győri. The proofs combine combinatorial and probabilistic arguments with simple spectral techniques.
Hidden Self Harm Narratives From Psychotherapy

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Ergonomic Guidelines for Traffic Sign Design Increase Sign Comprehension

Objective: This research directly tests the relationship between comprehension probability of highway signs and the extent to which they comply with three ergonomic principles of design: sign-content compatibility, familiarity, and standardization. Background: A recent study that evaluated comprehension of traffic signs in four different countries showed that comprehension level varies widely and is apparently related to the extent that the sign's design incorporates ergonomic guidelines for good design (D. Shinar, R. E. Dewar, H. Summala, & L. Zakowska 2003). Method: Participants were presented with 30 signs and asked to describe each sign's meaning. They then evaluated each sign in terms of each of three ergonomic principles. In addition, a group of human factors/ergonomics experts evaluated each sign on its standardization and compatibility. Results: There were high correlations between the ratings of the students and the ratings of the experts on compatibility (rho = .94) and on standardization (rho = .84), validating the use of the students' evaluations of the signs on these variables. There was a great variability in signs' comprehension and high and statistically significant correlations between the comprehension level of each sign and the extent to which it complied with compatibility (R = .76), familiarity (R = .89), and standardization (R = .88) principles. Conclusions: The more signs conform to universal ergonomic principles of good design, the more likely they are to be comprehended by drivers of different cultural backgrounds. Application: Sign design should be guided by established ergonomics principles to enhance comprehension, especially for drivers who have not had any prior encounters with specific signs.
In Silico Identification of Plant miRNAs in Mammalian Breast Milk Exosomes – A Small Step Forward?

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression by inhibiting the protein translation or targeting the mRNA cleavage. They play many important roles in living organism cells; however, the knowledge on miRNAs functions has become more extensive upon their identification in biological fluids and recent reports on plant-origin miRNAs abundance in human plasma and serum. Considering these findings, we performed a rigorous bioinformatics analysis of publicly available, raw data from high-throughput sequencing studies on miRNAs composition in human and porcine breast milk exosomes to identify the fraction of food-derived miRNAs. Several processing and filtering steps were applied to increase the accuracy, and to avoid false positives. Through aforementioned analysis, 35 and 17 miRNA species, belonging to 25 and 11 MIR families, were identified, respectively. In the human samples the highest abundance levels yielded the ath-miR166a, pab-miR951, ptc-miR472a and bdi-miR168, while in the porcine breast milk exosomes, the zma-miR168a, zma-miR156a and ath-miR166a have been identified in the largest amounts. The consensus prediction and annotation of potential human targets for select plant miRNAs suggest that the aforementioned molecules may interact with mRNAs coding several transcription factors, protein receptors, transporters and immune-related proteins, thus potentially influencing human organism. Taken together, the presented analysis shows proof of abundant plant miRNAs in mammal breast milk exosomes, pointing at the same time to the new possibilities arising from this discovery.
Parabolic equations with VMO coefficients in spaces with mixed norms

An $L_{q}(L_{p})$-theory of divergence and non-divergence form parabolic equations is presented. The main coefficients are supposed to belong to the class $VMO_{x}$, which, in particular, contains all measurable functions depending only on $t$. The method of proving simplifies the methods previously used in the case $p=q$.
The Effect of Basis Selection on Thermal-Acoustic Random Response Prediction Using Nonlinear Modal Simulation

The goal of this investigation is to further develop nonlinear modal numerical simulation methods for prediction of geometrically nonlinear response due to combined thermal-acoustic loadings. As with any such method, the accuracy of the solution is dictated by the selection of the modal basis, through which the nonlinear modal stiffness is determined. In this study, a suite of available bases are considered including (i) bending modes only; (ii) coupled bending and companion modes; (iii) uncoupled bending and companion modes; and (iv) bending and membrane modes. Comparison of these solutions with numerical simulation in physical degrees-of-freedom indicates that inclusion of any membrane mode variants (ii - iv) in the basis affects the bending displacement and stress response predictions. The most significant effect is on the membrane displacement, where it is shown that only the type (iv) basis accurately predicts its behavior. Results are presented for beam and plate structures in the thermally pre-buckled regime.
Córtex Pré-Frontal, Fatores Biopsicossociais e Personalidade: União ou Dissociação?

Background: The human brain evaluates and processes a wide variety of stimuli simultaneously and from multiple coexisting areas. One of those areas is the Prefrontal Cortex, the brain’s executive center, which divides itself in orbitofrontal, dorsolateral and ventromedial areas. These areas can be regulated by internal factors such as personality, or even biological, like sex or age. The researcher investigated the relationship between gender, age, education, profession, current situation, household and clinical history with the ability of planning, emotional recognition of faces and decision-making, while also including the different personality typologies, in a population without brain injury. Material and Methods: For this study, 100 individuals from either gender and with age above or equal 18 were studied, using BADS Key Search, Gandra-BARTA, IOWA Gambling Task and NEO-FFI. Results: We confirmed our hypothesis. A subject with a good performance in planning will most likely also be good at recognizing emotional faces and at making decisions. Furthermore, age and household act with a negative influence on performance, whilst years of education influence positively. Finally, a high Neuroticism level would be adverse for execution of our areas, whilst Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness have their pros and cons. Conclusion: The results from our tests suggests that all these areas are somewhat related, having areas that affect positively and vice versa. Even so, many question remain to be addressed in future studies, especially in the Household variable.
Cyberspace across the Sahara: computing in North Africa

Spanning 7.2 million square kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and encompassing the Great Saharan Desert and Nile River Valley, North Africa embraces Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. Charting the development of information technology (IT) is as challenging as traversing the souks, the labyrinthine ancient marketplaces.
The Recent Star Formation in NGC 6822 from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

We present Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 and STIS imaging of the low-metallicity galaxy NGC 6822, performed as part of a study of the young stellar populations in the galaxies of the Local Group. Eleven WFPC2 pointings, with some overlap, cover two regions extending over 19 and 13 arcmin2, respectively, off the galaxy center. The filters used are F170W, F255W, F336W, F439W, and F555W. One 25″ × 25″ field observed with the STIS FUV- and NUV-MAMA includes Hodge's OB 8 association and the H II region Hubble V, contained in field 1 of Bianchi et al.; this previous study provides additional WFPC2 four-band photometry. We derive the physical parameters of the stars in the fields and the extinction by comparing the photometry to grids of model magnitudes. The environments studied in this work include one of the most luminous (in Hα) H II regions in the Local Group (Hubble V) with a compact star cluster, a typical OB association (OB 15), the sparse field population, and the outskirts of NGC 6822. In the WFPC2 fields, most of the hot massive stars are found in the Hodge OB 15 association, at about 5′ (0.7 kpc) east of the galaxy center, extending ≈90″ (≈200 pc) in our imaging. The color-magnitude diagram indicates a young age, ≤10 Myr, for this association, where we measure 70 stars hotter than ∼16,000 K (earlier than mid-B spectral type) according to their photometric colors. In the compact H II region Hubble V, we measure 80 stars brighter than mNUV < 22.5 mag and find most of them to have high temperatures. The density (per unit area) of hot massive stars in the core of the OB 8 association is higher than in OB 15 by a factor of 12, while the total stellar mass formed is similar (≈4 or 7 × 103 M⊙, when extrapolated to a mass range of 1-100 or 0.1-100 M⊙, respectively). In both OB 15 and OB 8 massive star candidates are found. In the general field outside of the OB 15 association, we find few hot massive stars (0.7 arcmin-2) and several A-type supergiants. No massive star candidates are found in the WFPC2 fields outside the main galaxy body (≈10.′5-14.′5 [1.5-2 kpc] from the galaxy center), where the population is dominated by foreground stars, at least down to V ∼ 22. At fainter magnitudes, we measure in these outer fields a significantly larger number of stars than the model for Milky Way foreground objects would predict. The average extinction is found to vary among the three environments studied: E(B - V) = 0.22 in the outer regions, E(B - V) = 0.27 in the fields east of the galaxy main bar, and E(B - V) = 0.40 in the H II region Hubble V. A quantitative discussion of the applicability of the reddening-free-index method for photometric determination of stellar parameters is provided for the filters used in this work, based on our grids of stellar models.
Robots to make you happy: investigating the effectiveness and acceptance of robots for psychological support

The elderly people population is growing in industrialized countries, leading to a shortage of care personnel, higher risk of unattended needs of elderly people and greater economic costs. Technological solutions have been developed to mitigate this problem, such as assistive technology. A specific example is the use of socially assistive robots that have been employed to assist elderly people. Some of their difficulties are of a psychological and/or social type (e.g. loneliness and depression) and represent the main issues for which socially assistive robots have been developed. There is a lack of studies where socially assistive robots have stayed in the homes of elderly people for a prolonged period. Hence, in this dissertation we include the studies that we carried out to assist independent living elderly people psychologically, through the use of socially assistive robots in their own homes. The robots we used implemented exercises from positive psychology, aiming to benefit users by decreasing their feelings of loneliness and fostering their levels of mindfulness, contentment, compassion towards themselves and other people, etc., depending on the specific study. The first study in which we used a robot incorporating an exercise from positive psychology was lab-based, but it gave us clues regarding the effectiveness of a positive psychology robot-mediated program. The next three studies share the similarities of being long-term studies carried out in the homes of independent living elderly participants. Throughout these three studies we have investigated mainly two things. First, whether the robot-mediated programs were effective at providing psychological assistance. We found positive indications of this for the three long-term studies. Namely, in the first long-term study the robot assisted the user in an exercise on mindfulness meditation, and we found indications that the participant improved at performing the exercise. In the second long-term study, the robot enacted the three-good-things exercise from positive psychology and offered more interactivity, whereby we found signs that the participant felt less lonely and more content in general. Finally, in the last long-term study the robot guided the participants in an exercise of loving-kindness meditation and we found that they acquired more mindfulness and became more compassionate toward themselves and other people.
Switching Memory Systems during Learning: Changes in Patterns of Brain Acetylcholine Release in the Hippocampus and Striatum in Rats

This experiment measured acetylcholine (ACh) release simultaneously in the hippocampus and striatum while rats were trained in a cross maze. Consistent with past findings, rats initially showed learning on the basis of place (i.e., turning to the correct position relative to the room), but after extensive training, rats shifted to learning on the basis of response (i.e., turning to the right/left to find the food). Profiles of ACh release in the hippocampus and striatum were markedly different during training. In the hippocampus, ACh release increased by ∼60% at the onset of training and remained at that level of release throughout training, even after the rats began to show learning on the basis of turning rather than place. In the striatum, increases in ACh release occurred later, reaching asymptotic increases of 30–40%, coincident with a transition from expressing place learning to expressing response learning. These findings suggest that the hippocampal and striatal systems both participate in learning in this task, but in a manner characterized by differential activation of the neural systems. The hippocampal system is apparently engaged first before the striatum is activated and, to the extent the hippocampus is important for place learning, promotes the use of a place solution to the maze. Later in training, although the hippocampus remains activated, the striatum is also activated in a manner that may enable the use of a response strategy to solve the maze. These findings may offer a neurobiological marker of a transition during skill learning from declarative to procedural learning.
Diffusion imaging in humans at 7T using readout‐segmented EPI and GRAPPA

Anatomical MRI studies at 7T have demonstrated the ability to provide high‐quality images of human tissue in vivo. However, diffusion‐weighted imaging at 7T is limited by the increased level of artifact associated with standard, single‐shot, echo‐planar imaging, even when parallel imaging techniques such as generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) are used to reduce the effective echo spacing. Readout‐segmented echo‐planar imaging in conjunction with parallel imaging has the potential to reduce these artifacts by allowing a further reduction in effective echo spacing during the echo‐planar imaging readout. This study demonstrates that this approach does indeed provide a substantial improvement in image quality by reducing image blurring and susceptibility‐based distortions, as well as by allowing the acquisition of diffusion‐weighted images with a high spatial resolution. A preliminary application of the technique to high‐resolution diffusion tensor imaging provided a high level of neuroanatomical detail, which should prove valuable in a wide range of applications. Magn Reson Med 64:9–14, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
On the edge: changing geographies of the global city precariat in London and Hong Kong

ABSTRACT Global cities are marked by precarity, yet little attention has been paid to the spatial overlap between work precarity among migrants and third sector organizations that sustain them. In this paper, we estimate the location of precarious work migrants in two global cities, London and Hong Kong, for both the 2001 and 2011 censuses, using a variety of spatial demographic and quantitative techniques, and then analyze the spatial overlap between this population and immigrant-serving third sector organizations. The results suggest both similarity, in particular between accommodation and work precarity, and difference, with an increasingly tenuous overlap in London by 2011.
Saliency of one's heritage culture: Asian cultural values and its interconnections with collective self-esteem and acculturation/enculturation as predictor of psychological well-being of people of Chinese descent

The purpose of this emic study was to enhance the understanding of one specific Asian ethnic group, the people of Chinese descent, by exploring the saliency of Asian heritage culture to their well-being. Adherence to Asian cultural values as a predictor of psychological well-being was examined. Psychological well-being was operationalized using a composite index extracted from the combination of three indices: life satisfaction, quality of life, and symptoms of depression. Past empirical evidences that suggest one’s identification with one’s heritage culture would have positive influences on one’s life. What are less known empirically are the interconnections between value adherence, collective self-esteem and processes of acculturation/enculturation. The potential moderating effects of collective self-esteem, acculturation, and enculturation were examined. A total of 167 individuals of Chinese descent took part in the study. Participants were recruited from an undergraduate course in Introductory Psychology and Asian student organizations on three college campuses within the same Midwest region. A web-based survey service was used for the data collection of this study. Principal components statistical analysis was used to extract the composite index for psychological