Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Time triage: Exploring the temporal strategies that support entrepreneurship and motherhood

Women who are both mothers and paid workers are often represented as facing intractable temporal conflicts (Maher, 2009; Thompson, 1996) as they struggle to synchronize organizational work demands with family needs. Despite this, increasing numbers of women are entering the workplace, many of whom are setting up their own business with the intention of realizing the benefits of temporal flexibility that entrepreneurship supposedly bestows (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003). In this article we examine the experiences of one particular subset of women entrepreneurs – those for whom starting a business coincides with having children. The article utilizes a qualitative methodology involving 20 interviews with women entrepreneurs. The metaphor of triage is employed to explore the ways in which women entrepreneurs allocate their time and how they experience the process of allocation. The article concludes by discussing how, although many of our interviewees found the experience of self-employment liberating, the time pressures that women face and the continued lack of value given to their contribution, both economically and socially, can create huge conflicts.
Cognitive Appraisal of Pain and 'Other' Chronic Stressors in Adults Living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD): Correlates and Predictors of Emotional and Quality of Life Outcomes

The purpose of this cross sectional descriptive study, guided by Lazarus‟ Stress Appraisal theory (1999), was to: (1) explore the relationships between the cognitive appraisals of patient defined pain and Other chronic stressors, negative mood, and quality of life satisfaction of adults living with SCD, (2) test the mediating effect of pain and non-pain threat appraisals on negative mood and quality of life perceptions,(3) examine the potential moderating effect of health care provider threat appraisal on the relationship between patient defined pain and non-pain stress and quality of life and, (4) collect narrative data that will be used in future research in adults with SCD. According to Lazarus (1999), cognitive appraisals represent an individual‟s personal beliefs about the relevance and meaning of a stressor within transactions in the environment and the significance of its outcome to his/her personal wellbeing. Over a two year period, ninety-seven adults (18 years and older) completed in-person or telephone interviews completing questionnaires that measured pain and non pain SCD stressors, cognitive appraisals of SCD illness, SCD pain, negative mood, and quality of life. Patient defined pain and non pain (Other) stressors were significant predictors of increased negative mood and lower quality of life satisfaction. The most frequently encountered stressor was related to health care provider relationships, and socioeconomic status related to SCD disability was appraised as the most stressful. Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that the ability to control SCD pain mediated the relationship between pain severity and negative mood. The pervasiveness of SCD pain on COGNITIVE APPRAISAL IN SCD viii all aspects of life was the single most important underlying stressor that contributed to both the frequency and severity of patient defined non pain stressors. Gaining a more in depth awareness and understanding of the cognitive appraisal of pain and non pain stressors would help health care providers to focus more intently on the person living with SCD. Moreover, it also would provide the first steps in identifying significant predictors and designing health care provider driven interventions to improve the quality of life of adults living with SCD. COGNITIVE APPRAISAL IN SCD ix
Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Blocks Events in the G 1 Phase of the Cell Cycle

Infection of cells in G1 phase with herpes simplex virus (HSV) prevents their progression into S phase (de Bruyn Kops, A., and Knipe, D. M., 1988, Cell 55, 857–868). We have examined G1-phase events in infected cells to determine whether this effect was the result of inhibition of G1 phase progression or of entry into S phase. We observed that HSV infection decreased pRb phosphorylation and induced a new phosphorylated form of pRb. Furthermore, HSV infection prevented the normal G1 increases in cyclin D1 and D3 protein levels, and blocked the normal G1 appearance of new electrophoretic forms of cdk2 and cdk4. Thus, HSV infection inhibits several events that normally occur in the cell cycle during G1 phase, arguing that the HSV-induced block in the cell cycle occurs in early to mid-G1 phase. © 2000 Academic Press
Defining the relevant perceptual quality space for video and video-telephony

This paper reports the further investigation of the perceptual quality space for video degradations. A study was conducted to explore the space using a Paired Comparison (PC) test paradigm with a subsequent Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). This paper presents the test set-up as well as the analysis of the results. Furthermore, this paper reports the conclusions to further understand, diagnose, and analyse the perceptual quality space of video degradations mainly in the domain of video-telephony.
Primary Treatment and Prognostic Factors of Carcinosarcoma of the Ovary, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneum: A Taiwanese Gynecologic Oncology Group Study

Objective This study aimed to determine the clinical prognostic factors involved in carcinosarcoma of the ovary, fallopian tube, and peritoneum. Materials and Methods This retrospective study was undertaken by the Taiwanese Gynecologic Oncology Group. The retrieved clinical data included demographic characteristics, medical disease, tumor status, extent of surgery, and adjuvant chemotherapy. Results In total, 63 patients with carcinosarcoma of the ovary, fallopian tube, and peritoneum were identified. Sixty-one patients with complete data were enrolled for further data analysis. The mean follow-up period was 1.0 year, and the mean overall survival was 15.4 months. By log-rank tests, age, menopausal status, parity, hypertension, diabetes, primary tumor size, para-aortic lymph node metastasis, pretreatment CA-125, preceding diagnostic surgery, hysterectomy, lymphadenectomy, other surgeries, and paclitaxel use were not predictive of overall survival. Omentectomy, no gross residual implants after surgery, platinum treatment, and no pelvic lymph node metastasis had a trend toward better survival. Early diagnosis at stage I and cisplatin/ifosfamide regimen were significant associated with a better overall survival in log-rank and simple Cox regression tests. Bilateral ovarian tumors and metastatic tumors larger than 2 cm were significantly associated with a poorer overall survival. Conclusions Early diagnosis at stage I, unilateral ovarian tumor, metastatic tumors less than 2 cm, and cisplatin/ifosfamide regimen were predictive of a better survival. Omentectomy and complete debulking surgery also showed a trend toward better survival. Thus, these treatment strategies should be applied in patients with carcinosarcoma of the ovary, fallopian tube, and peritoneum.
The Effects of Perceived Organizational Support and Abusive Supervision on Employee’s Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Psychological Contract and Emotional Exhaustion

Workers (especially, competent personnel) have been recognized as a core contributor to overall organizational effectiveness. Hence, verifying the determinants of turnover intention is one of the most important research issues. This study tested the influence of perceived organizational support and abusive supervision on employee’s turnover intention. In addition, mediating roles of psychological contract and emotional exhaustion were examined. Data from 255 Korean employees supported all hypotheses Implications for research and directions for future research are discussed. Keywords—Abusive Supervision, Emotional Exhaustion, Perceived Organizational Support, Psychological Contract, Turnover Intention.
β2‐Adrenoceptor gene polymorphisms and blood pressure variations in East Anglian Caucasians

Objective The amino-terminal polymorphisms, Arg16Gly and Gln27Glu, of the β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) have been shown to affect regulation of the receptor expression by an agonist in cell culture studies. The Arg16Gly polymorphism has also been recently shown to be associated with essential hypertension. We therefore evaluated whether the amino-terminal polymorphisms of β2AR are associated with hypertension in a Caucasian population. Subjects and methods We performed an association study in 298 hypertensive patients and an equal number of age-matched normotensive controls from the East Anglian region, with blood pressure assessed categorically and quantitatively. We also examined the influence of the amino-terminal polymorphisms on blood pressure response to β-blockade in 144 of the patients randomly assigned to this class of drug. Genotyping of the Arg16Gly polymorphism was undertaken by a newly designed mismatched polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and digestion with Nde I, whereas the Gln27Glu polymorphism was genotyped by PCR followed by Fnu4H I cleavage. Results We found no differences in the genotype or allele frequencies of the β2AR polymorphisms between hypertensive and normotensive participants. There was also no association between the β2AR genotypes and variations in either basal blood pressure or the blood pressure response to a β-blocker. Conclusion These findings suggest that the amino-terminal polymorphisms of the β2AR gene are unlikely to constitute major susceptibility for essential hypertension in the East Anglian population.
Lymphocyte apoptosis in acute respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection may have an effect on the development of T cell memory responses. RSV bronchiolitis in infants is associated with a transient decline in circulating lymphocytes. We hypothesized that the mechanism underlying this lymphopenia is apoptosis. Blood was taken from 32 infants during primary RSV bronchiolitis and three months later. Using flow cytometry, we found that absolute numbers of both CD3+/CD4+ T‐helper lymphocytes (P = 0·029) and CD3+/CD8+ cytotoxic lymphocytes (CTL) (P = 0·043) were significantly reduced during acute infection. Up‐regulated expression both of Fas (P < 0·001) and tumour necrosis factor‐related apoptosis‐inducing ligand (TRAIL) receptor (P < 0·001) was found during acute illness on both CD3+/CD4+ and CD3+/CD8+ lymphocytes, when compared with convalescent samples. Expression of Fas on CD4+ lymphocytes was inversely related to CD4+ number (P = 0·03). Plasma levels of soluble Fas ligand (P = 0·028) and caspase‐1 (P = 0·037), determined by enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay, were increased during bronchiolitis. Plasma interleukin‐18, a product of caspase‐1 activity, was not raised. Taken together, these data suggest that in acute RSV infection, CD4+ helper lymphocytes and CD8+ cytotoxic lymphocytes are primed to undergo apoptosis. This is a mechanism through which lymphopenia may occur and T cell memory may be altered.
Citation Handling for Improved Summarization of Scientific Documents

In this paper we present the first steps toward improving summarization of scientific documents through citation analysis and parsing. Prior work (Mohammad et al., 2009) argues that citation texts (sentences that cite other papers) play a crucial role in automatic summarization of a topical area, but did not take into account the noise introduced by the citations themselves. We demonstrate that it is possible to improve summarization output through careful handling of these citations. We base our experiments on the application of an improved trimming approach to summarization of citation texts extracted from Question-Answering and Dependency-Parsing documents. We demonstrate that confidence scores from the Stanford NLP Parser (Klein and Manning, 2003) are significantly improved, and that Trimmer (Zajic et al., 2007), a sentence-compression tool, is able to generate higher-quality candidates. Our summarization output is currently used as part of a larger system, Action Science Explorer (ASE) (Gove, 2011).
The role of antiepileptic drugs in free radicals generation and antioxidant levels in epileptic patients

Many risk factors are encountered during the pathogenesis of epilepsy. In this study, the effect of seizure frequency on free radical generation and antioxidants levels in epileptic patients was evaluated. This study was carried out on 15 healthy controls (GI) and 60 epileptic patients treated with mono- or poly-therapy of carbamazepine, valproic acid, or phenytoin. The treated epileptic patients were divided into 2 main groups according to the seizure frequency: controlled seizure patients GII (n = 30) and uncontrolled seizure patients GIII (n = 30). GII included the GIIA subgroup (n = 15) which had been seizure free for more than 12 months and the GIIB subgroup (n = 15) which had been seizure free for a period from 6 to12 months. GIII included GIIIA (n = 15) and GIIIB (n = 15) for patients which had a seizure frequency of less than and more than four times/month, respectively. In comparison to the control group (GI), the levels of nitric oxide (NO) and malondialdehyde/creatinine ratio were significantly increased in GIIB, GIIIA, and GIIIB, while vitamins A and E levels were significantly decreased in GIIIB. Serum NO levels had significant negative correlations with serum vitamin E in the GIIA and GIIB groups, and with vitamin A in the GIIIA and GIIIB groups. However, serum NO had positive correlation with urinary MDA/Cr ratio. The imbalance between free radical generation and antioxidant system in epileptic patients may be a factor in seizure frequency.
Multilevel Latent Class Analysis for Large-Scale Educational Assessment Data: Exploring the Relation Between the Curriculum and Students’ Mathematical Strategies

ABSTRACT A ﬁrst application of multilevel latent class analysis (MLCA) to educational large-scale assessment data is demonstrated. This statistical technique addresses several of the challenges that assessment data offers. Importantly, MLCA allows modeling of the often ignored teacher effects and of the joint inﬂuence of teacher and student variables. Using data from the 2011 assessment of Dutch primary schools’ mathematics, this study explores the relation between the curriculum as reported by 107 teachers and the strategy choices of their 1,619 students, while controlling for student characteristics. Considerable teacher effects are demonstrated, as well as signiﬁcant relations between the intended as well as enacted curriculum and students’ strategy use. Implications of these results for both more theoretical and practical educational research are discussed, as are several issues in applying MLCA and possibilities for applying MLCA to different types of educational data.
Randomised, controlled blink reflex in patients with migraine and tension type headache.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the latencies, amplitudes of R1, R2i and R2k responses and R2 habituation; to compare the groups with each other and with the placebo group and to demonstrate new evidences on migraine and tension-type headache TTH mechanisms. METHODS This analytical study was carried out among 40 migraine patients who were admitted to Yuzuncu Yil University, Medical Faculty, Neurology Clinics between May 2009 and December 2009, with or without aura according to the diagnostic criteria of International Headache Society 2004 classification. Forty TTH patients, who were diagnosed with TTH were included, and 40 control group subjects were formed according to the same demographic data. SPSSv13 was used for Chi-square test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficients was used for the determination of the relation between the groups and categorical. RESULTS Mean age was 33.04 +/- 9.07 years. An average of RR2k latency was significantly high in migraine group comparing with TTH and the control groups, and in TTH group comparing with the control group. Similarly, the average of LR2k latency was found to be significantly higher in migraine group than TTH and the control groups, and significantly higher in TTH group than the control group. CONCLUSION Our findings demonstrated that brainstem and trigeminovascular connections play an important role in migraine pathogenesis and that central mechanisms play a role in TTH and concerning these two diseases.
Screen Trauma: Visual Media and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Recent studies in psychiatry reveal an acceptance of trauma through the media. Traditionally restricted to immediate experience, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is now expanding to include mediated experience. How did this development come about? How does mediated trauma manifest itself? What are its consequences? This essay addresses these questions through three cases: (1) ‘trauma film paradigm’, an early 1960s research program that employed films to simulate traumatic effects; (2) the psychiatric study into the clinical effects of watching catastrophic events on television, culminating with the September 11 attacks; (3) reports on drone operators who exhibit PTSD symptoms after flying combat missions away from the war zone. The recognition of mediated trauma marks a qualitative change in the understanding of media effects, rendering the impact literal and the consequences clinical. What informs recent speculations about the possibility of trauma through media is a conceptual link between visual media and contemporary conceptions of trauma.
Active landing and take-off kinematics of the long jump

The aim of this paper was to perform a kinematic analysis of the take-off, and especially to examine the relationships of active landing (AL) and run-up velocity (RUV) with the take-off variables and the length of jump (L), as well as to determine the influence of our model and individual influence of each independent variable on the dependent variable - (L). The authors' intention was to apply the obtained results in practice - with the possibility of helping a population of average women long jumpers to approach the model of an elite woman long jumper. An experimental method was applied in the research to the sample of 25 successful long jumps of different length and the velocity of the approach of the junior world champion Ivana Spanovic. The results were measured by the Qualisys ProReflex MCU 240 motion capture 3D infrared system. The Pearson correlation analysis was used to establish the correlation between the variables. The standard multiple regression was used to measure the percentage of the influence of the model and each variable at L. It was found that the variables of the take-off change with the increase of RUV. The highest correlation with RUV was determined for the variables: (L) r = 0.696 and p = 0.000 and (TA) r = 0.603 p = 0.001. The standard multiple regression was used to calculate that our model (RUV, AL, KATD, AATD, LATD, TA, TOD) explained the variance L with 69%. It was concluded that TOD, LATD and RUV statistically significantly explain the variance L. To realize the maximum length of the jump, the jumpers should achieve the highest possible RUV and minimize the loss of the resulting take-off velocity with AL, the LATD should be about 63°, the KATD and TA should be increased, while the TOD should be shortened with the increase of RUV. It was found that AL does not correlate with RUV, but there is a statistically significant correlation of AL with TOD, which has a large impact on L.
A mind for learning

Social work practice is increasingly subject to scrutiny: from politicians and tax payers want to see value for money and from social work recipients who want respect as well as services that are appropriate and responsive to need. These pressures, together with educational changes across Europe, place emphasis on evidence-based social work practice. This paper gives questions the foundations of evidence-based practice and makes the case for an approach that interconnects reflexive practice with the principles of the learning organization. By such an approach practitioners may engage in generating knowledge rather than simply applying less relevant knowledge generated elsewhere.
What Implementation Components Predict Positive Outcomes in a Parenting Program?

Objectives: To examine the components affecting the quality of the implementation and their impact on the outcomes of the “Growing Up Happily in the Family” program targeted at parents with children aged 0–5. Method: At-risk and non-at-risk parents (N = 196) participated in 26 groups in local social services. Adherence, adaptations, quality of delivery, group and participant responsiveness, and implementation barriers were examined as predictors of attendance rate and changes in parental child-rearing attitudes, parental sense of competence, and parenting stress using hierarchical linear regressions analyses. Results: Greater participant responsiveness and fewer implementation barriers predicted higher attendance rates. These implementation variables, as well as greater program adherence, fewer crucial adaptations, and better didactic functioning of the sessions, predicted positive parental changes. Conclusions: The level of implementation contributes to the program effectiveness, suggesting the need to provide a high-quality and well-coordinated implementation to achieve the intended program outcomes in child welfare populations.
Housing- and exercise-related risk factors associated with the development of hip dysplasia as determined by radiographic evaluation in a prospective cohort of Newfoundlands, Labrador Retrievers, Leonbergers, and Irish Wolfhounds in Norway.

OBJECTIVE To identify housing- and exercise-related risk factors associated with the development of hip dysplasia (HD) as determined by radiographic evaluation in Newfoundlands, Labrador Retrievers, Leonbergers, and Irish Wolfhounds in Norway. ANIMALS 501 client-owned dogs from 103 litters. PROCEDURES Dogs were assessed from birth until official radiographic screening for HD at 12 (Labrador Retriever [n = 133] and Irish Wolfhound [63]) or 18 (Newfoundland [125] and Leonberger [180]) months of age. Information regarding housing and exercise conditions during the preweaning and postweaning periods was obtained with questionnaires. Multivariable random effects logistic regression models were used to identify housing- and exercise-related risk factors associated with the development of radiographically detectable HD. RESULTS Puppies walking on stairs from birth to 3 months of age had an increased risk of developing HD. Factors associated with a decreased risk of developing HD included off-leash exercise from birth to 3 months of age, birth during the spring and summer, and birth on a farm. Significant clustering of dogs with HD was detected within litters. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Results indicated that puppies ≤ 3 months old should not be allowed access to stairs, but should be allowed outdoor exercise on soft ground in moderately rough terrain to decrease the risk for developing radiographically detectable HD. These findings could be used as practical recommendations for the prevention of HD in Newfoundlands, Labrador Retrievers, Leonbergers, and Irish Wolfhounds.