Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Between Perceived Teacher and Parental Acceptance, School Conduct, and the Psychological Adjustment of Bangladeshi Adolescents

This study explored the relationship between students’ perceptions of their teachers’ and parents’ (mothers’ and fathers’) acceptance, and teachers’ reports of the students’ conduct in school as well as students’ reports of their own psychological adjustment. The study was conducted on a sample of 200 high school students in Bangladesh. Results showed that, on average, Bangladeshi students perceived their parents and teachers to be fairly loving. In addition, teachers reported students (males, but especially females) to be well behaved in school. Moreover, students reported themselves to be well adjusted, psychologically. Contrary to expectations, students’ perceptions of teacher acceptance and parental acceptance were not correlated significantly with teachers’ reports of student conduct in school. Students’ perceptions of both teacher and parental acceptance were, however, significantly correlated with students’ psychological adjustment. Results of multiple regression revealed that only perceived teachers’ acceptance (but not parental acceptance) made a significant and independent contribution to variations in the adolescents’ (both males’ and females’) psychological adjustment.
Spread of beta-lactam-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a cystic fibrosis clinic.

BACKGROUND Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonisation of the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is associated with considerable respiratory morbidity. Although segregation of colonised patients from non-colonised patients to prevent cross-infection has been recommended, there is little evidence that such cross-infection is widespread. We observed that a high proportion of children attending our CF clinic were colonised with P aeruginosa that was resistant to ceftazidime and other beta-lactam antibiotics. We used two genomic fingerprinting techniques to see whether this may have arisen from epidemic spread of a single strain. METHODS The prevalence of P aeruginosa colonisation and the antibiotic susceptibility of the organisms was determined from review of laboratory reports in the case-notes of 120 children with CF. Isolates were cultured from the sputum of 65 children colonised with ceftazidime-resistant P aeruginosa. Polymorphisms in total bacterial DNA from 92 isolates were analysed with two molecular fingerprinting techniques--pulsed-field gel electrophoresis after restriction enzyme digestion and assessment of flagellin gene polymorphisms by amplification of the whole gene and restriction enzyme digestion. RESULTS 92 (76.7%) of 120 children were colonised with P aeruginosa, and 65 of the 92 harboured isolates that were resistant to ceftazidime. Only three of the 92 children had never been treated with ceftazidime. The results of the two molecular-fingerprinting techniques were concordant and showed that 55 of 65 children harboured the same epidemic strain. This strain was resistant to ceftazidime, azlocillin, and imipenem, and sensitive to tobramycin and ciprofloxacin. INTERPRETATION This study provides the first molecular evidence of a long-term outbreak of P aeruginosa in a CF centre. We suggest that careful surveillance of the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in CF centres should be instituted with measures to prevent cross-infection. We believe that antipseudomonal monotherapy should be considered with caution.
Muslim American University Students’ Perceptions of Islam and Democracy: Deconstructing the Dichotomy

The aftermath of 9/11 and the current surge of revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East have caused Muslim Americans to be either demonized or forgotten altogether, despite the significance of their everyday navigation of both Islamic and democratic values and unique efforts toward identity construction. The neglect of the Muslim American individual experience in the dominant discourse on Islam and democracy has stifled the voices of members of this marginalized population, thereby limiting their self-representation. Through the use of a phenomenological framework and Critical Discourse Analysis, this study complicates the dominant discourses on Islam and democracy by shedding light on the lived experiences of seven Muslim American university students and providing supplemental perspectives from their university professors. These participants constructed an alternative discourse that positioned the Islamic and democratic values of equality, respect, freedom, and education as compatible, albeit with some complications. The article concludes with suggestions toward better understanding and enactment of Islamic and democratic values, including attaining education and engaging in civic participation.
Timbre Similarity: Convergence of Neural, Behavioral, and Computational Approaches

The present study compared the degree of similarity of timbre representations as observed with brain recordings, behavioral studies, and computer simulations. To this end, the electrical brain activity of subjects was recorded while they were repetitively presented with five sounds differing in timbre. Subjects read simultaneously so that their attention was not focused on the sounds. The brain activity was quantified in terms of a change-specific mismatch negativity component. Thereafter, the subjects were asked to judge the similarity of all pairs along a five-step scale. A computer simulation was made by first training a Kohonen self-organizing map with a large set of instrumental sounds. The map was then tested with the experimental stimuli, and the distance between the most active artificial neurons was measured. The results of these methods were highly similar, suggesting that timbre representations reflected in behavioral measures correspond to neural activity, both as measured directly and as simulated in self-organizing neural network models.
Signal Peptide Peptidase- and ClpP-like Proteins ofBacillus subtilis Required for Efficient Translocation and Processing of Secretory Proteins*

Signal peptides direct the export of secretory proteins from the cytoplasm. After processing by signal peptidase, they are degraded in the membrane and cytoplasm. The resulting fragments can have signaling functions. These observations suggest important roles for signal peptide peptidases. The present studies show that the Gram-positive eubacterium Bacillus subtilis contains two genes for proteins, denoted SppA and TepA, with similarity to the signal peptide peptidase A of Escherichia coli. Notably, TepA also shows similarity to ClpP proteases. SppA of B. subtilis was only required for efficient processing of pre-proteins under conditions of hyper-secretion. In contrast, TepA depletion had a strong effect on pre-protein translocation across the membrane and subsequent processing, not only under conditions of hyper-secretion. Unlike SppA, which is a typical membrane protein, TepA appears to have a cytosolic localization, which is consistent with the observation that TepA is involved in early stages of the secretion process. Our observations demonstrate that SppA and TepA have a role in protein secretion in B. subtilis. Based on their similarity to known proteases, it seems likely that SppA and TepA are specifically required for the degradation of proteins or (signal) peptides that are inhibitory to protein translocation.
Relationships between Neonatal Weight, Limb Lengths, Skinfold Thicknesses, Body Breadths and Circumferences in an Australian Cohort

Background Low birth weight has been consistently associated with adult chronic disease risk. The thrifty phenotype hypothesis assumes that reduced fetal growth impacts some organs more than others. However, it remains unclear how birth weight relates to different body components, such as circumferences, adiposity, body segment lengths and limb proportions. We hypothesized that these components vary in their relationship to birth weight. Methods We analysed the relationship between birth weight and detailed anthropometry in 1270 singleton live-born neonates (668 male) from the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (Brisbane, Australia). We tested adjusted anthropometry for correlations with birth weight. We then performed stepwise multiple regression on birth weight of: body lengths, breadths and circumferences; relative limb to neck-rump proportions; or skinfold thicknesses. All analyses were adjusted for sex and gestational age, and used logged data. Results Circumferences, especially chest, were most strongly related to birth weight, while segment lengths (neck-rump, thigh, upper arm, and especially lower arm and lower leg) were relatively weakly related to birth weight, and limb lengths relative to neck-rump length showed no relationship. Skinfolds accounted for 36% of birth weight variance, but adjusting for size (neck-rump, thigh and upper arm lengths, and head circumference), this decreased to 10%. There was no evidence that heavier babies had proportionally thicker skinfolds. Conclusions Neonatal body measurements vary in their association with birth weight: head and chest circumferences showed the strongest associations while limb segment lengths did not relate strongly to birth weight. After adjusting for body size, subcutaneous fatness accounted for a smaller proportion of birth weight variance than previously reported. While heavier babies had absolutely thicker skinfolds, this was proportional to their size. Relative limb to trunk length was unrelated to birth weight, suggesting that limb proportions at birth do not index factors relevant to prenatal life.
The gratuitous form of acceptance as the pathway to the resolution of substance abuse (Acceptance)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the second of two articles about substance abuse and the discussion of acceptance as a two‐pronged description of human thinking, with the primary care physician the intended audience.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is about the presumption of acceptance as an enabler of the learned addiction‐oriented life style.Findings – According to the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global Status Report, there are about 2 billion people consuming alcoholic beverages worldwide, with about 76.3 million diagnosed as having alcohol use disorders.Research limitations/implications – The approach in the article differs from that taken in the discussion of relapse, where substance abuse is presented as a subset of addictive‐oriented thinking with respect to a defined group of persons. Here, there are two parallel tracks, with neither limited to any definable subgroup of a population. The first is a continuation of the focus on substance abuse as a subset of addictiv.
Northern Irish nationalist political culture

Abstract Irish nationalism in Northern Ireland is a complex, internally differentiated ideology, centred on three interrelated concepts ‐ nation, community and justice. The development of Northern nationalism is traced from the 1920s to its reconstruction in the 1970s by the SDLP and Sinn Fein. It is argued that its complex conceptual structure has allowed it to express central aspects of Northern Catholic experience.
rRNA gene restriction patterns and biotypes of Shigella sonnei

SUMMARY Shigella sonnei is a major agent of diarrhoeal disease in developed as well as in developing countries. Several phenotypic methods to define strain differences have been applied to this species of Shigella including, more recently, analysis of extrachromosomal and chromosomal DNA. In this study, 432 endemic and epidemic strains isolated between 1975 and 1991 in Italy, France and Switzerland were submitted to rRNA gene restriction pattern analysis, after digestion of whole-cell DNA by Hinc II, and to concomitant biotyping. Thirteen ribotypes, HI to H13, and five biotypes, a, d, e, f, g, were detected. Xinety-five percent of the sporadic strains were assigned to ribotypes HI to H4, which could be subtvped, except for H4, in different biotypes. Strains from each of seven different outbreaks had indistinguishable ribotype-biotype patterns. In contrast, 65 strains, isolated in Sicily in 1980 over an extended period of apparently epidemic increase of isolations and which had previously been considered to be a single bacterial clone on the basis of resistance pattern and phage type, were found to belong to two different and scarcely related ribotypes. Ribotyping and biochemical subtyping appear to be a useful epidemiological tool in studies on the circulation and distribution of strains of S. sonnei.
The Tie2 receptor antagonist angiopoietin 2 facilitates vascular inflammation in systemic lupus erythematosus

Objective: To investigate the role of the angiopoietin–tyrosine kinase with Ig-like and epidermal growth factor-like domains (Ang–Tie) system in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Endothelial activation is emerging as a key event for leukocyte recruitment and accelerated atherosclerosis in SLE. Recently, the endothelial-specific Ang–Tie ligand–receptor system has been identified as a major regulator of vascular responsiveness to inflammatory stimuli. Methods: Ang1 (by immunoradiometric sandwich assay (IRMA)) and Ang2 (by ELISA) were measured in sera of 43 patients with SLE and 30 healthy controls. Expression of Ang2 was studied by immunohistochemistry in biopsies of human lupus nephritis. Results: Circulating Ang2 concentrations were increased and concentrations of Ang1 decreased in patients with active SLE compared to healthy controls. This tendency was still present in inactive SLE, although less pronounced. Individual Ang2 concentrations correlated well with SLE Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI) score, proteinuria, double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) titre and soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (sVCAM-1). In a multivariate regression analysis, renal involvement was the only independent predictor for elevated Ang2. Serum Ang2 was identified as a strong predictor for disease activity by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) procedures and regression tree models. Protein expression of Ang2 was upregulated in glomeruli of patients with lupus nephritis. Conclusions: These data indicate that Ang2-mediated disruption of protective Ang1/Tie2 signalling is operational in SLE. Ang2 might facilitate endothelial inflammation, permeability and contribute to premature atherosclerosis. Furthermore, circulating Ang2 may be a valuable new biomarker for disease activity in SLE. Strategies to control the deleterious effects of Ang2 may open new perspectives to prevent endothelial inflammation in SLE.
Hydrological ensemble forecasting at ungauged basins: using neighbour catchments for model setup and updating

Abstract. In flow forecasting, additionally to the need of long time series of historic discharges for model setup and calibration, hydrological models also need real-time discharge data for the updating of the initial conditions at the time of the forecasts. The need of data challenges operational flow forecasting at ungauged or poorly gauged sites. This study evaluates the performance of different choices of parameter sets and discharge updates to run a flow forecasting model at ungauged sites, based on information from neighbour catchments. A cross-validation approach is applied on a set of 211 catchments in France and a 17-month forecasting period is used to calculate skill scores and evaluate the quality of the forecasts. A reference situation, where local information is available, is compared to alternative situations, which include scenarios where no local data is available at all and scenarios where local data started to be collected at the beginning of the forecasting period. To cope with uncertainties from rainfall forecasts, the model is driven by ensemble weather forecasts from the PEARP-Meteo-France ensemble prediction system. The results show that neighbour catchments can contribute to provide forecasts of good quality at ungauged sites, especially with the transfer of parameter sets for model simulation. The added value of local data for the operational updating of the hydrological ensemble forecasts is highlighted.
Pattern Recognition Techniques for the Identification of Activities of Daily Living using Mobile Device Accelerometer

The application of pattern recognition techniques to data collected from accelerometers available in off-the-shelf devices, such as smartphones, allows for the automatic recognition of activities of daily living (ADLs). This data can be used later to create systems that monitor the behaviors of their users. The main contribution of this paper is to use artificial neural networks (ANN) for the recognition of ADLs with the data acquired from the sensors available in mobile devices. Firstly, before ANN training, the mobile device is used for data collection. After training, mobile devices are used to apply an ANN previously trained for the ADLs’ identification on a less restrictive computational platform. The motivation is to verify whether the overfitting problem can be solved using only the accelerometer data, which also requires less computational resources and reduces the energy expenditure of the mobile device when compared with the use of multiple sensors. This paper presents a method based on ANN for the recognition of a defined set of ADLs. It provides a comparative study of different implementations of ANN to choose the most appropriate method for ADLs identification. The results show the accuracy of 85.89% using deep neural networks (DNN).
Personalized pricing: A new approach for dynamic pricing in the smart grid

Among many key subjects in the smart grid technology, Demand Side Management (DSM) which is one of the common and popular subjects interests researchers on controlling and monitoring customers' consumption activities. In reality, DSM involves any activities that impress customer's consumption levels in a power grid system. This usually happens by means of employing new policies by utility companies, defining suitable pricing schemes that guarantee grid's continual working and using effective scheduling approaches to adjust hourly customer's consumption levels, especially on peak-time hours. Among them, pricing methods are very important and effective in controlling customer's consumption patterns. Real-Time Pricing (RTP) and Time of Use (TOU) pricing are common approaches which are being employed by many utility companies and are mostly dependent on the grid's dynamic load behavior. In addition, real-time pricing methods adjust real-time prices based on grid's real-time demand level dynamically. In this paper, we propose a new pricing method that not only makes use of grid's real-time consumption data but also considers consumption levels of each customer and define real-time prices individually (Personalized Pricing). This means that the consumption price for each individual customer will be adjusted by the changes that occur during the course of power consumption and also reflect each individual customer's habit of using electricity. In this way, our proposed method can consider both grid and individual customer's consumption level to adjust real-time prices. Generally personalized pricing is a type of an incentive-based DSM model that can impress customer's consumption levels by persuading them to decrease their consumption levels during peak-time hours and updating each customer's consumption prices individually. However, individual satisfaction is a more important capability that lies at the heart of Personalized Pricing. Our results also intensify that most of our customers in the grid will decrease their consumption levels during peak-time hours to reduce their electricity consumption costs.
Repeated Reading versus Continuous Reading: Influences on Reading Fluency and Comprehension

In this research we evaluated two methods to improve the reading fluency of struggling readers. Poor readers in Grades 2 and 4 with (n = 17) and without (n = 20) learning disabilities were randomly assigned to one of two fluency practice variations or to a control group. Students in the treatments practiced reading aloud under repeated or continuous reading conditions with an adult listener in 15-min sessions, 3 days per week for 14 weeks. For students in the treatment conditions, growth curve analyses revealed significant differences in fluency and reading comprehension over students in the control. We found no significant differences between practice conditions.
Tight Bounds on Vertex Connectivity Under Vertex Sampling

A fundamental result by Karger [10] states that for any λ-edge-connected graph with n nodes, independently sampling each edge with probability p = Ω(log n/λ) results in a graph that has edge connectivity Ω(λp), with high probability. This paper proves the analogous result for vertex connectivity, when sampling vertices. We show that for any k-vertex-connected graph G with n nodes, if each node is independently sampled with probability p = Ω([EQUATION]log n/k), then the subgraph induced by the sampled nodes has vertex connectivity Ω(kp2), with high probability. This bound improves upon the recent results of Censor-Hillel et al. [6], and is existentially optimal.
The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy

Experience plays a crucial role in the development of face processing. In the study reported here, we investigated how faces observed within the visual environment affect the development of the face-processing system during the 1st year of life. We assessed 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old Caucasian infants' ability to discriminate faces within their own racial group and within three other-race groups (African, Middle Eastern, and Chinese). The 3-month-old infants demonstrated recognition in all conditions, the 6-month-old infants were able to recognize Caucasian and Chinese faces only, and the 9-month-old infants' recognition was restricted to own-race faces. The pattern of preferences indicates that the other-race effect is emerging by 6 months of age and is present at 9 months of age. The findings suggest that facial input from the infant's visual environment is crucial for shaping the face-processing system early in infancy, resulting in differential recognition accuracy for faces of different races in adulthood.
A Program for Improving Undergraduate Psychology Students' Basic Writing Skills

We examined the effects of in-class writing instruction, practice, peer review, and feedback on writing skills of undergraduates enrolled in a general psychology course. We rated writing for grammar, writing style, mechanics, and American Psychological Association referencing style. Significant differences emerged on the 4 writing skill domains (p< .001). Improvement occurred immediately for referencing, whereas other skills did not improve significantly until the 4th paper. The results show that teaching writing in content courses such as general psychology can yield significant improvement in students' writing. We believe that writing instruction by psychology professors is worth the time and effort to help undergraduate psychology students develop better writing skills.
High mobility group-like protein in bovine milk stimulates the proliferation of osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells.

The active component in bovine milk on the proliferation of osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells was purified and identified. Growth-promoting activity was measured by [(3)H]thymidine incorporation on the cell. The molecular weight of the purified protein was 10 kDa. The amino-terminal sequence of this 10-kDa protein was identical to bovine high mobility group protein (HMG) 1. This 10-kDa protein is suggested to be a basic protein and to have an HMG box, a consensus sequence motif among the HMG family. From these results, we named this protein HMG-like protein. HMG is a ubiquitous nonhistone component of chromatin and considered to be implicated in DNA replication. We found this protein in milk, and it showed a growth-promoting activity. We propose the possibility that HMG-like protein existed in milk and plays an important role for neonate in bone formation by activating osteoblasts.