Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evidence for the Self as a Cognitive Prototype: The "False Alarms Effect"

In a recognition memory study involving personal adjectives, the number of false alarms was found to increase with degree of self-reference of the adjectives. This was interpreted as: (1) evidence that the self is an important aspect of processing personal information, and (2) that the self functions as a cognitive prototype. The self can be seen to be a large and complex prototype that imparts a bias in processing personal information. This bias to perceive new, self-descriptive adjectives as being previously seen, has import for a theory of self and other-referent information processing.
Can alternative education increase children's early school engagement? A longitudinal study from kindergarten to third grade

The current study examines the impact of alternative education on children's early school engagement in terms of school enjoyment and independent participation. A sample of 2,776 children from traditional (e.g., mainstream) and alternative (Freinet and Waldorf) Flemish schools was followed from their 3rd year of kindergarten until 3rd grade. The present study does not evidence a positive effect of alternative education on school engagement. In contrast, it was found that in alternative education children acted less independent compared to traditional schools. Furthermore, differential effects in terms of children's socioeconomic status and initial language achievement are explored. In alternative schools, children's initial level of language achievement tends to be less determinative for their school engagement compared to traditional schools.
The role of Dpp and Wg in compensatory proliferation and in the formation of hyperplastic overgrowths caused by apoptotic cells in the Drosophila wing disc

Non-lethal stress treatments (X-radiation or heat shock) administered to Drosophila imaginal discs induce massive apoptosis, which may eliminate more that 50% of the cells. Yet the discs are able to recover to form final structures of normal size and pattern. Thus, the surviving cells have to undergo additional proliferation to compensate for the cell loss. The finding that apoptotic cells ectopically express dpp and wg suggested that ectopic Dpp/Wg signalling might be responsible for compensatory proliferation. We have tested this hypothesis by analysing the response to irradiation-induced apoptosis of disc compartments that are mutant for dpp, for wg, or for both. We find that there is compensatory proliferation in these compartments, indicating that the ectopic Dpp/Wg signalling generated by apoptotic cells is not involved. However, we demonstrate that this ectopic Dpp/Wg signalling is responsible for the hyperplastic overgrowths that appear when apoptotic (`undead') cells are kept alive with the caspase inhibitor P35. We also show that the ectopic Dpp/Wg signalling and the overgrowths caused by undead cells are due to a non-apoptotic function of the JNK pathway. We propose that the compensatory growth is simply a homeostatic response of wing compartments, which resume growth after massive cellular loss until they reach the final correct size. The ectopic Dpp/Wg signalling associated with apoptosis is inconsequential in compartments with normal apoptotic cells, which die soon after the stress event. In compartments containing undead cells, the adventitious Dpp/Wg signalling results in hyperplastic overgrowths.
An Epidemiologic Study of Orofacial Clefts with Other Birth Defects in Victoria, Australia

Objective: To describe the epidemiological characteristics of oral clefts occurring with other birth defects in Victoria, Australia. Methods: Information on infants and fetuses reported to the Victorian Birth Defects Register from 1983 to 2000 was collected. Birth defects were classified as Pierre Robin Sequence, chromosomal anomaly, nonchromosomal syndrome, single-system defect, or multiple-system defect. Pregnancy outcome and associations with selected infant and maternal features was examined. Results: One third of the 2022 oral clefts recorded had other birth defects. There were more overall cleft cases involving multiple systems and chromosomal anomalies than any other birth defect group. The prevalence ratio of cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) was highest among multiple-system defects and chromosomal anomalies. Perinatal mortality was high, with termination of pregnancy highest in CL/P and chromosomal anomalies and multiple-system defects. There was a nonsignificant excess of clefts among multiple births. Women ≥40 years old had a tendency toward having a child with a cleft palate and another birth defect. There was an increased likelihood that women born in the U.K. would have a baby with CL/P and another birth defect. Conclusions: This is among the first reports in Victoria, Australia, describing oral clefts and other birth defects and associations between infant and maternal factors. Although some findings confirmed other population-based studies, some continued to be at variance. Nonetheless, the data derived support examination of babies diagnosed with clefts for associated comorbidities.
Cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education

Cultural capital is frequently referred to as a construct in the analysis of inequality in higher education. It has been suggested that variations in cultural capital contribute to social class differences in levels of participation, distribution of students between elite and other universities, and the likelihood of dropping out. However, recent analyses of quantitative data suggest that once students’ attainments are included in analysis of levels of participation the effects of social class disappear. One possibility is that cultural capital affects the likelihood of participation in higher education independently of the common measures of social class variation (parental occupation and education). In this analysis we include a measure of students’ cultural capital to investigate whether it exerts an effect on the likelihood of participation that is independent from students’ attainment. We also present and evaluate a practicable method of measuring students’ cultural capital.
Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna

Despite conceptual recognition that indirect effects initiated by large herbivores are likely to have profound impacts on ecological community structure and function, the existing literature on indirect effects focuses largely on the role of predators. As a result, we know neither the frequency and extent of herbivore-initiated indirect effects nor the mechanisms that regulate their strength. We examined the effects of ungulates on taxa (plants, arthropods, and an insectivorous lizard) representing several trophic levels, using a series of large, long-term, ungulate-exclusion plots that span a landscape-scale productivity gradient in an African savanna. At each of six sites, lizards, trees, and the numerically dominant order of arthropods (Coleoptera) were more abundant in the absence of ungulates. The effect of ungulates on arthropods was mediated by herbaceous vegetation cover. The effect on lizards was simultaneously mediated by both tree density (lizard microhabitat) and arthropod abundance (lizard food). The magnitudes of the experimental effects on all response variables (trees, arthropods, and lizards) were negatively correlated with two distinct measures of primary productivity. These results demonstrate strong cascading effects of ungulates, both trophic and nontrophic, and support the hypothesis that productivity regulates the strength of these effects. Hence, the strongest indirect effects (and thus, the greatest risks to ecosystem integrity after large mammals are extirpated) are likely to occur in low-productivity habitats.
Communication Awareness in Married Couples

Forty-six married couples participated in a standard communication task. When encoding messages they made a rating of clarity on a six-point scale, and when decoding they made a rating of confidence. Highly and moderately adjusted subjects were more confident for messages they decoded correctly than for those they decoded incorrectly. Subjects low in marital adjustment were equally confident for messages they decoded incorrectly and correctly. Highly adjusted subjects were also better able to predict whether their spouse would decode the message correctly or not, particularly the wives. There were no differences for clarity related to marital adjustment level. Negative messages were rated as clearer and were predicted more accurately. Neutral messages received lower confidence ratings and correct neutral messages received lower clarity ratings than other correct messages. Neutral messages were also predicted less accurately than other messages.
Development of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory

A combined "emic-etic" approach was adopted to develop an indigenous omnibus personality inventory for the Chinese people. The Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) consists of constructs selected specifically in consideration of the Chinese culture as well as scales covering personality constructs commonly found in English-language psychological tests. Preliminary results confirmed the robust structure of the scales related to Chinese tradition among random samples of subjects in the People's Republic of China and in Hong Kong. This article reports the psychometric properties of the CPAI. It also outlines the steps in the construction of the CPAI, which adapted personality assessment methods used in Western countries for developing a culturally relevant instrument in a non-Western culture. The methodology provides an example for the development of indigenous personality inventories in other non-Western cultures.
Impact of career growth prospects and formal mentoring on organisational citizenship behaviour

Purpose – This study seeks to examine the impact of career growth prospect (CGP) and formal mentoring support (FMS) on overall organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and its five dimensions.Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from 72 supervisors and 182 of their subordinates in branches of a bank located in a city in South‐western Nigeria.Findings – Results indicate that CGP accounted for a significant percentage of the variance in overall OCB (β=0.46, p<0.001), predicting three dimensions: sportsmanship, conscientiousness and civic virtue. Contrary to hypothesis, FMS did not predict overall OCB, but significantly influenced three OCB dimensions: sportsmanship, courtesy and altruism, predicting “sportsmanship” (β=0.26, p<0.001) to be better than CGP (β=0.22, p<0.01). Research limitations/implications – Although generalisation is limited in a study of a single organisation, the findings of the study imply that CGP and FMS have differential relevance in OCB.Practical implications – Altering .
Unsupervised Content Discovery from Concise Summaries

Domain adaptation is a time consuming and costly procedure calling for the development of algorithms and tools to facilitate its automation. This paper presents an unsupervised algorithm able to learn the main concepts in event summaries. The method takes as input a set of domain summaries annotated with shallow linguistic information and produces a domain template. We demonstrate the viability of the method by applying it to three different domains and two languages. We have evaluated the generated templates against human templates obtaining encouraging results.
CROSS-SECTIONAL ESTIMATION OF ABNORMAL ACCRUALS USING QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DATA: Effectiveness in Detecting Event-Specific Earnings Management

Abstract This paper addresses certain methodological issues that arise in estimating abnormal (or discretionary) accruals for detection of event-specific earnings management. Unlike prior studies (e.g., Dechow, Sloan, and Sweeney, 1995; Guay, Kothari, and Watts, 1996) that rely primarily on time-series models, we focus on the specification of cross-sectional models of expected accruals using quarterly as well as annual data. Perhaps more importantly, we present a variation of the Jones model that is shown to be well specified for all cash flow levels. We show that the cross-sectional Jones model yields systematically positive (negative) estimates of abnormal accruals for firms whose cash flows are below (above) their industry median. Using mean squared prediction errors as well as simulation analysis, we show that our model is more powerful than the cross-sectional Jones model in detecting earnings management. In addition, we examine differences in the power of current accrual models in detecting earnings.
An Advanced Cloaking Algorithm Using Hilbert Curves for Anonymous Location Based Service

Location Based Services (LBSs) have recently attracted much attention due to the advancement of GPS facilitates. In LBS, the private and confidential information of user may disclose to others since LBS need a user’s location. To protect the privacy of users, many cloaking algorithms have been proposed to hide user’s actual location. The existing Hilbert cloaking algorithm support location privacy, but it has a drawback that it extends a cloaking region inefficiently due to the dimensionality reduction. In this paper, we propose a new cloaking algorithm which can avoid the unnecessary extension of cloaking region. Our algorithm optimizes the generation of a cloaking region by storing adjacent cell information being not connected by Hilbert curve. From experimental results, it is shown that our proposed cloaking algorithm outperforms the existing Hilbert algorithm.
Understanding Revolutions

Any regular reader of a good newspaper knows that it is possible to explain in some fashion why quite a lot of what happens in societies happens broadly as it does. The practice of social explanation is too important and too prominent in real life for skepticism as to its possibility to be taken very seriously. (Like Monsieur Jourdain's speaking prose, we do it all our lives.) But when it comes to specifying what exactly (apart from human credulity) makes it possible, confidence is much harder to muster. On closer reflection, it can become extraordinarily hard to see how it can be possible at all. Soberly considered, the theory of social explanation is in poor shape. It is so not, as a generalized Yeatsian skepticism might presume, because the best theorists lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity, but rather because even those with the most coherent convictions have perforce and obviously grounded these on a personal choice. ' Given the diversity of personal preferences and the variety of ways, legitimate and illegitimate,2 in which these enter into the formation of explanatory theories, the scope of disagreement in social explanation is unsurprising. Within theoretical disputation the degree of mutual goodwill is often limited; and, even if it were unlimited, mutual understanding between the bearers of sharply distinct viewpoints would be extremely hard to achieve. The attempt of historians, sociologists, and political scientists over the last two decades to explain the incidence and character of revolutions naturally exhibit these difficulties in a fairly blatant manner (Aya 1979; Cohan 1975; Freeman 1972; Hagopian 1975; Hermassi 1976; Hobsbawm 1975; Kramnick 1972; MacIntyre 1973; Maravall 1976; Russell 1974; Salert 1976; Tilly 1973; Zagorin 1973, 1976). Anyone with an irritably nominalist disposition who took the trouble to plough through the now rather extensive literature which has resulted from these efforts would probably conclude that there was something irretrievably silly to the explanatory project as such. But a more balanced judgment of the parlousness but indispensability of social understanding could by now draw mild encouragement from precisely the same experience. Like professional revolutionaries, social scientists seldom clearly understand quite what they are doing. But, again like
Prokinetics in the Management of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

A variety of common and some not common gastrointestinal syndromes are thought to be based on impaired gut motility. For some, the role of motility is well defined, for others and the functional gastrointestinal disorders, in particular, the role of hypo- or dysmotility remains unclear. Over the years pharmacological and physiological laboratories have developed drugs which stimulate gut motility; many have been evaluated in motility and functional disorders with what can best be described as mixed results. Lack of receptor specificity and resultant expected and unexpected adverse events have led to the demise of some of these agents. Newer, more selective agents offer promise but the heterogeneity of the clinical disorders they target continues to pose a formidable challenge to drug development in this area.
Dopaminergic neurons in rat ventral midbrain cultures undergo selective apoptosis and form inclusions, but do not up‐regulate iHSP70, following proteasomal inhibition

Dysfunction of the ubiquitin‐dependent protein degradation system, either at the level of the proteasome itself, or at the level of ubiquitination, may play a role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related neurodegenerative disorders. We have employed a cellular model of this dysfunction in which lactacystin or epoxomicin, selective pharmacological inhibitors of the proteasome, are applied to primary cultures of embryonic rat ventral midbrain. Proteasomal inhibition with either agent led to apoptotic death specifically within phenotypically defined tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)‐positive dopaminergic neurons, with little or no apoptotic death induced in GABAergic neurons. Inhibition of the proteasome also led to the formation of ubiquitin and α‐synuclein‐positive cytoplasmic inclusions in TH‐positive and TH‐negative neurons. Inclusions were observed in viable as well as apoptotic neurons, and required new or ongoing transcription. Tyrosine hydroxylase immunolabeling was often present within the inclusions. Such mislocalization may lead to dysfunction of dopamine biosynthesis. Interestingly, dopaminergic neurons, unlike other neurons within these cultures or cultured cortical neurons, failed to induce the chaperone Hsp70 in response to proteasomal inhibition. This failure may explain in part the increased sensitivity of these neurons to proteasomal inhibitors.
Motivational determinants of reasoning about social relations: The role of need for cognitive closure

The role of need for cognitive closure (NFCC) in reasoning about social relations was investigated. Participants learned pairwise liking/disliking relations between people who could also be categorised on the basis of nationality and then had to group them into social cliques. The social clique structures were either consistent or inconsistent with the nationality categorisation, and the diagnostic information that was necessary to determine the number of cliques appeared either early or late in the information sequence. We expected participants under conditions of high (vs low) NFCC to rely more on heuristic processing. As predicted, high (vs low) NFCC participants were less accurate in their representations of cliques when the clique structure was inconsistent with the nationality category (Study 1 and 2) and when the diagnostic information was presented late (Study 1). The implications regarding the influence of NFCC on reasoning and the role of specific NFCC manipulations are discussed.
The role of gp130-mediated signals in osteoclast development: regulation of interleukin 11 production by osteoblasts and distribution of its receptor in bone marrow cultures

Interleukin (IL)-11 is a multifunctional cytokine whose role in osteoclast development has not been fully elucidated. We examined IL-11 production by primary osteoblasts and the effects of rat monoclonal anti-mouse glycoprotein 130 (gp130) antibody on osteoclast formation, using a coculture of mouse osteoblasts and bone marrow cells. IL-1, TNF alpha, PGE2, parathyroid hormone (PTH) and 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1 alpha,25(OH)2D3) similarly induced production of IL-11 by osteoblasts, but IL-6, IL-4, and TGF beta did not. Primary osteoblasts constitutively expressed mRNAs for both IL-11 receptor (IL-11R alpha) and gp130. Osteotropic factors did not modulate IL-11R alpha mRNA at 24 h, but steady-state gp130 mRNA expression in osteoblasts was upregulated by 1 alpha,25(OH)2D3, PTH, or IL-1. In cocultures, the formation of multinucleated osteoclast-like cells (OCLs) in response to IL-11, or IL-6 together with its soluble IL-6 receptor was dose- dependently inhibited by rat monoclonal anti-mouse gp130 antibody. Furthermore, adding anti-gp130 antibody abolished OCL formation induced by IL-1, and partially inhibited OCL formation induced by PGE2, PTH, or 1 alpha,25(OH)2D3. During osteoclast formation in marrow cultures, a sequential relationship existed between the expression of calcitonin receptor mRNA and IL-11R alpha mRNA. Osteoblasts as well as OCLs expressed transcripts for IL-11R alpha, as indicated by RT-PCR analysis and in situ hybridization. These results suggest a central role of gp130-coupled cytokines, especially IL-11, in osteoclast development. Since osteoblasts and mature osteoclasts expressed IL-11R alpha mRNA, both bone-forming and bone-resorbing cells are potential targets of IL- 11.
Maternal exposure to particulate matter increases postnatal ozone-induced airway hyperreactivity in juvenile mice.

RATIONALE Epidemiologic studies implicate air pollutant exposure during pregnancy as a risk factor for wheezing in offspring. Ozone exposure is linked to exacerbations of wheezing in children. OBJECTIVES To determine if maternal pulmonary exposure to traffic-related particles during pregnancy augments ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness in offspring. METHODS C57BL6 time-mated mice were given NIST SRM#1648 (particulate matter [PM]) 0.48 mg, saline vehicle, or no treatment by tracheal insufflation twice weekly for 3 weeks. PM exposure augmented maternal lung inflammation and placental TNF-alpha, Keratinocyte-derived cytokine (KC), and IL-6 (measured at gestation Day 18). After parturition, dams and litters were exposed to air or ozone 1 ppm 3 h/d, every other day, thrice weekly for 4 weeks. Respiratory system resistance in pups was measured at baseline and after administration of nebulized methacholine. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Ozone increased airway hyperresponsiveness, but the increase was greatest in pups born to PM-treated dams. Whole-lung TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, KC, IL-6, and MCP-1 were increased in ozone-treated pups, with the greatest increase in pups born to dams given PM. Airway epithelial mucous metaplasia estimated by periodic acid-Schiff Alcian blue staining was increased in ozone-exposed pups born to PM-treated dams. Alveolar development, determined by morphometry, and airway smooth muscle bulk, estimated using alpha-actin histochemistry, were unaffected by prenatal or postnatal treatment. CONCLUSIONS Maternal pulmonary exposure to PM during pregnancy augments placental cytokine expression and postnatal ozone-induced pulmonary inflammatory cytokine responses and ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness without altering airway structure.