Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
“I Just Drink for That Tipsy Stage”

Many young adults aim for a state of tipsiness, where control is not abandoned when they drink alcohol; however, this level of intoxication is very difficult to get right. Interviews conducted with 60 drinkers aged 18–24 years in Melbourne, Australia, indicate that few counted standard drinks and most spoke of attending to bodily signs that they had had enough and should not drink more. This strategy was ineffective for a small proportion of interviewees who never felt too drunk. To understand young adults’ efforts to manage intoxication, we use Mol and Law’s notion of excorporation. The partial nature of intoxicated self-control led young adults to arrange to be in settings where external restraints to drinking would operate. Alcohol policy should acknowledge the mosaic and embodied nature of self-control for young adults in the nighttime economy and focus on the development of settings where drinking and associated harms are minimized.
Learning to Open Up History for Students: Preservice Teachers’ Emerging Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Given students’ preconceptions of history as fixed information, cultivating students’ interpretive and evidence-based thinking is foundational to advancing their disciplinary understanding. This study examines the ways in which preservice history teachers construct tasks that demand students’ interpretive and evidence-based thinking and attend to such thinking in their field placements while being taught to do so in their methods courses. Analysis of methods course assignments, student teaching observations, and assessments of candidates’ disciplinary knowledge led to the construction of three cases of novice teachers’ efforts to teach these ways of thinking to their students. The one novice who attended to her students’ interpretive and evidentiary thinking translated her disciplinary knowledge into lessons that involved analysis of text in developing interpretations and gave general prompts to provide evidence in support of students’ conclusions. This study highlights the role of preservice teachers’ disciplinary understanding and pedagogical content knowledge in developing students’ interpretive and evidentiary thinking in history classrooms.
Career Choice and Development

Preface. About the Authors. Part One: Introduction and Cases. 1. Introduction to Theories of Career Development and Choice: Origins, Evolution, and Current Efforts (Duane Brown). 2. Case Studies (Duane Brown). Part Two: Sociological Perspective. 3. Career Choice and Development from a Sociological Perspective (Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Jeylan T. Mortimer). Part Three: Developmental and Postmodern Theories. 4. Gottfredson s Theory of Circumscription, Compromise, and Self Creation (Linda S. Gottfredson). 5. Career Construction: A Developmental Theory of Vocational Behavior (Mark L. Savickas). 6. A Contextualist Explanation of Career (Richard A. Young, Ladislav Valach, Audrey Collin). Part Four: Career Development Theories Anchored in Learning Theory. 7. Social Cognitive Career Theory (Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown, Gail Hackett). 8. A Cognitive Information Processing Approach to Career Problem Solving and Decision Making (Gary W. Peterson, James P. Sampson Jr., Janet G. Lenz, Robert C. Reardon). Part Five: Trait Factor Theories and Summation. 9. Holland s Theory of Personalities in Work Environments (Arnold R. Spokane, Erik J. Luchetta, Matthew H. Richwine). 10. Person Environment Correspondence Theory (Rene V. Dawis). 11. The Role of Work Values and Cultural Values in Occupational Choice, Satisfaction, and Success: A Theoretical Statement (Duane Brown). 12. Status of Theories of Career Choice and Development (Duane Brown). Name Index. Subject Index.
What do young children dream about?

Young children's dreams can be a way for teachers and caregivers to share with children and an opportunity for children to describe and even draw dreams. In two different preschool settings, in two different geographical locales, 94 children, aged 3–5 years, shared 266 dreams with a trusted, familiar teacher. Dreams were coded anonymously. The number of words in a dream varied from 3 to 157. Younger preschoolers reported significantly shorter dreams. Three-year-olds, contrary to previous research, were able to report dreams. Over 80% of the preschoolers' dreams included specific actions, and over a third of the dreams included three or more actions. More than 36% of the dreamers encountered and struggled with a ‘monster’ protagonist. Family members, human strangers, TV/movie characters, and friends were prevalent in the dreams of young children. Scenarios differed by gender. Girls dreamed more frequently of family members. Boys reported more fighting and chasing. Dream themes of boys, compared with girls, were twice as likely to include monsters, wild animals, pets, and curiosity. Power themes were four times more prevalent in boys' dreams. Girls were twice as likely as boys to report joyful dreams.
Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Microalbuminuria and Enzymuria in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Increased urinary albumin excretion is a strong predictor for the development of overt diabetic nephropathy and overall cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes. In a previous study, regular aerobic physical activity in overweight/obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was found to have significant beneficial effects on glycemic control, insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk factors, and oxidative stress. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise in the same cohort of type 2 diabetic patients on urinary albumin excretion, serum levels and urinary excretion of enzymes, tubular damage, and metabolic control markers in type 2 diabetic patients. Changes from baseline to 3 and 6 months of aerobic exercise were assessed for urinary albumin excretion, serum activities, and urinary excretion of N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAGA), plasma cell glycoprotein 1 (PC-1) and aminopeptidase N (APN), as well as their association with insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk factors, and oxidative stress parameters in 30 male type 2 diabetic patients (aged 54.8 ± 7.3 years, with a mean BMI of 30.8 ± 3.0 kg/m2). Microalbuminuria was found in six (20%) diabetic patients at baseline, three of them (10%) after three months, and only one patient (3.33%) at the end of the study period. A significant correlation was found for urinary albumin excretion at baseline both with sulfhydryl-groups and catalase, but not for urinary albumin excretion with MDA and glutathione. The prevalence of microalbuminuria tended to decrease after six months of aerobic exercise in type 2 diabetic patients, independently of any improvement in insulin resistance and oxidative stress parameters. Neither between-group nor within-group changes were found for urinary PC-1, APN, and NAGA activity. Serum NAGA was significantly increased (p < 0.05) over the control level in diabetic patients at baseline, but it decreased to the normal level after six months of exercise. This study has shown that a six-month aerobic exercise, without any change in the medication, tended to decrease microalbuminuria without changing enzymuria. However, further studies are needed not only to confirm those findings, but to elucidate potential mechanisms that would clarify the beneficial effects of exercise.
Prediction of Regression and Relapse of Endometrial Hyperplasia With Conservative Therapy

OBJECTIVE: To identify predictors and to estimate their prognostic accuracy for regression and relapse of endometrial hyperplasia treated with levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system or oral progestogens. METHODS: This was a cohort study of women treated with levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system or oral progestogens for complex hyperplasia or atypical complex hyperplasia for women wishing to preserve their fertility or those who were unfit for surgery. Hazard ratios (HRs) with the Cox proportional hazards model and Kaplan-Meier survival estimates for independent predictors were calculated. RESULTS: Regression was evaluated in 344 women over a 12-year period, with a median follow-up of 58.8 months (interquartile range 38.4–96.4, range 12–148.2) for levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system compared with 95.1 months (interquartile range 41.6–124.6, range 13.2–162) for oral progestogens. In women treated with levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system for complex hyperplasia, we found that 221 women regressed (96.5%, 221/229) and body mass index (BMI) 35 or higher was associated with failure to regress (HR 5.51, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.05–28.87; P=.043). Relapse was evaluated in 219 women over a 9-year period, with median follow-up of 67 months (interquartile range 50.4–103.5, range 14.5–146.4) for levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system and 96.8 months (interquartile range 62.3–122, range 6–151.5) for oral progestogens. In women treated with levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system for complex hyperplasia, we found that 18 women experienced relapse (12.7%, 18/142) and BMI 35 or higher was found to be a strong independent predictor of relapsed endometrial hyperplasia (HR 18.93, 95% CI 3.93–91.15; P<.001). Only 3.3% of women with complex hyperplasia treated with levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system and with BMI less than 35 experienced relapse during long-term follow-up compared with 32.6% of women with BMI 35 or higher. CONCLUSION: Body mass index 35 or higher is strongly associated with failure to regress and relapse of complex hyperplasia treated with levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: II
The Use of Rubrics in Benchmarking and Assessing Employability Skills

Calls for employability skill development in undergraduates now extend across many culturally similar developed economies. Government initiatives, industry professional accreditation criteria, and the development of academic teaching and learning standards increasingly drive the employability agenda, further cementing the need for skill development in undergraduate degree programs. Principles and best practice on developing employability skills continue to emerge in international literature, yet educators grapple with ways to determine student learning in targeted employability skills. The purpose of this article is to explore the pedagogical conundrum of how employability skill attainment can be assessed through the use of rubrics. The rationale for using rubrics to promote learning and facilitate assessments through shared understanding by stakeholders of benchmark standards is outlined. Industry will have a clearer picture of what can realistically be achieved during university years, and students will gain a better appreciation of targeted skills and expected outcomes. Furthermore, rubrics may provide a tool for engaging academics and employers in an ongoing dialogue on expected skill attainment and identifying ways in which they may actively collaborate to enhance student learning. The implications of developing and implementing rubrics for determining employability outcomes for key stakeholders are also presented.
A thermoanalytic and kinetic study of sunflower oil

Recently, thermoanalytic methods have frequently been used in the characterization of oils and fats. In this work, thermoanalytic and kinetic parameters of sunflower oils, with and without antioxidants, were evaluated using thermogravimetry / derivative thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry. The thermogravimetric profiles for the sunflower oils had similar characteristics, showing a level stretch indicative of stability up to about 200oC. Thermal decomposition of these oils occurred in three stages, related to the decomposition of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids, respectively. DSC curves show two events that characterize the polymerization and decomposition of triglycerides. The heat capacities of the sunflower oils, obtained by DSC, showed a good correlation and were dependent on the composition of fatty acids. The kinetic parameters, obtained by non isothermal thermogravimetry by the Coats and Redfern, Madhusudanan, Horowitz and Metzger and Van Krevelen methods, were dependent on the antioxidant used. Increasing the frying time produced a decrease in the onset of thermal decomposition temperature in the sunflower oils analyzed.
Imiquimod in dermatology: an overview

Imiquimod is an immune response modifier commercially available as a 3.75 and 5% cream. Topical imiquimod stimulates the innate and adaptive immune responses and induces cytokine production. This allows its use for the treatment of a wide variety of benign and malignant skin conditions due to its potential antiviral, antitumor, and immunoregulatory effects. Currently, topical imiquimod is US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)‐approved for the treatment of anogenital warts, actinic keratosis, and superficial basal cell carcinomas. However, it has also shown a beneficial effect in the treatment of many other skin disorders. In this review, we describe existing evidence on the mechanism of action of topical imiquimod, its FDA‐approved indications, off‐label uses, and side effects.
The Temperature Structure of 30 Nearby Clusters Observed with ASCA: Similarity of Temperature Profiles

We present an analysis of ASCA spatially resolved spectroscopic data for a nearly complete sample of bright clusters with redshifts between 0.04 and 0.09. Together with several clusters analyzed elsewhere using the same method, this sample consists of 30 objects with Te ≳ 3.5 keV for which we obtained projected temperature profiles and, when possible, crude two-dimensional temperature maps. The clusters are A85, A119, A399, A401, A478, A644, A754, A780, A1650, A1651, A1795, A2029, A2065, A2142, A2256, A2319, A2597, A2657, A3112, A3266, A3376, A3391, A3395, A3558, A3571, A3667, A4059, Cygnus A, MKW 3S, and Triangulum Australis. All clusters, with the possible exception of a few with insufficiently accurate data, are found to be nonisothermal with spatial temperature variations (apart from cooling flows) by a factor of 1.3-2. ASCA temperature maps for many clusters reveal merger shocks. The most notable of these are A754, A2065, A3558, A3667, and Cygnus A; merging can also be inferred with lower confidence from the A85, A119, and A2657 temperature maps and from the A3395 and Triangulum Australis entropy maps. About one-half of the sample show signs of merging; in about 60% of the sample, we detect cooling flows. Nearly all clusters show a significant radial temperature decline at large radii. For a typical 7 keV cluster, the observed temperature decline between 1 and 6 X-ray core radii (0.15 and 0.9 h-1 Mpc) can be approximately quantified by a polytropic index of 1.2-1.3. Assuming such a polytropic temperature profile and hydrostatic equilibrium, the gravitating masses within 1 and within 6 core radii are approximately 1.35 and 0.7 times the isothermal β-model estimates, respectively. Most interestingly, we find that temperature profiles, excluding those for the most asymmetric clusters, appear remarkably similar when the temperature is plotted against the radius in units of the estimated virial radius. We compare the composite temperature profile to a host of published hydrodynamic simulations. The observed profiles appear steeper than predictions of most simulations. The predictions for Ω = 1 cosmological models are most discrepant, while models with low Ω are closer to our data. We note, however, that at least two high-resolution Ω = 1 simulations produced clusters with temperature profiles similar to or steeper than those observed. Our results thus provide a new constraint for adjusting numerical simulations and, potentially, discriminating among models of cluster formation.
Building Social Capital Through an `Active Community Club'

The building of social capital at community level is explored by assessing the impact of the Australia Africa 2006 Sport Development Programme's Active Community Clubs Initiative as a catalyst of developing networks and active citizenship in the impoverished rural village of Tshabo, in the Easter Cape Province of South Africa. Main paradigms of neo-classical capital theory (Bourdieu), Coleman's rational choice theory, network theory, Putnam's framework of civil engagement and Verweel's multi-level analysis inform the conceptual framework for analysis. Pre- and post-impact assessments utilized interviews (18 major stakeholders) and focus group sessions during three intervals over a 13-month period which included a representative sample of community leaders (n = 13), households (n = 47), volunteer coaches and administrators ( n = 28) and participants who participated in the programme (n = 121). Participation in the Active Community Club's programmes interfaced with other normative social institutional spheres to generate social capital at an individual and community level.
Complex advice acceptance as a resource for managing asymmetries

Abstract Hutchby (1995: 221) calls advice giving ‘an activity which assumes or establishes an asymmetry between the participants’. The problematic nature of such asymmetry has been convincingly demonstrated by conversation analysts, especially in contexts where advice is uninvited (e.g., Jeerson and Lee 1992). This study turns to a context where advice is expected, but due to competence concerns, asymmetry remains problematic. On the basis of a detailed analysis of 10 graduate peer tutoring sessions, I show how two complex advice acceptance methods can be used by the advice recipient to reconfigure the asymmetrical role relations into less asymmetrical ones: (i) accept with claims of comparable thinking and (ii) accept with accounts. The extended shape of these methods suggests that advice responses, like compliment responses (Pomerantz 1978), may be subject to two competing preferences: Preference for Acceptance and Preference for Autonomy. Finally, consultants may benefit from understanding the complexities involved in advice reception. Recognizing that something else is being accomplished during ‘problem-free’ moments such as acceptance may lead to a more symmetrical relationship, and ultimately, a more satisfying and productive event for both participants.
Robust Generation of Oligodendrocyte Progenitors from Human Neural Stem Cells and Engraftment in Experimental Demyelination Models in Mice

Background Cell–based therapy holds great promises for demyelinating diseases. Human-derived fetal and adult oligodendrocyte progenitors (OPC) gave encouraging results in experimental models of dysmyelination but their limited proliferation in vitro and their potential immunogenicity might restrict their use in clinical applications. Virtually unlimited numbers of oligodendroglial cells could be generated from long-term self-renewing human (h)-derived neural stem cells (hNSC). However, robust oligodendrocyte production from hNSC has not been reported so far, indicating the need for improved understanding of the molecular and environmental signals controlling hNSC progression through the oligodendroglial lineage. The aim of this work was to obtain enriched and renewable cultures of hNSC-derived oligodendroglial cells by means of epigenetic manipulation. Methodology/Principal Findings We report here the generation of large numbers of hNSC-derived oligodendroglial cells by concurrent/sequential in vitro exposure to combinations of growth factors (FGF2, PDGF-AA), neurotrophins (NT3) and hormones (T3). In particular, the combination FGF2+NT3+PDGF-AA resulted in the maintenance and enrichment of an oligodendroglial cell population displaying immature phenotype (i.e., proliferation capacity and expression of PDGFRα, Olig1 and Sox10), limited self-renewal and increased migratory activity in vitro. These cells generate large numbers of oligodendroglial progeny at the early stages of maturation, both in vitro and after transplantation in models of CNS demyelination. Conclusions/Significance We describe a reliable method to generate large numbers of oligodendrocytes from a renewable source of somatic, non-immortalized NSC from the human foetal brain. We also provide insights on the mechanisms underlying the pro-oligodendrogenic effect of the treatments in vitro and discuss potential issues responsible for the limited myelinating capacity shown by hNSC-derived oligodendrocytes in vivo.
Experiencing Processes of Growth Coping and PTG Among Mothers Who Were Exposed to Rocket Attacks

This article presents processes of coping and posttraumatic growth (PTG) as elicited both from an open-ended questionnaire administrated to 52 Jewish Israeli mothers as well as in-depth interviews conducted with 16 of them, following exposure to either long-term or a short period of threat in the form of rocket attacks on their homes. This comparison revealed that all mothers described the same coping mechanisms and perceived themselves as coping well with the threat of terror. However, with regard to PTG, only those who were exposed to rocket attacks for a long duration disclosed a manifest potential for PTG both in relation to self and in relation to others. Concurrently, because of the parental decision to live in an area exposed to missile attacks, the mothers expressed guilt feelings toward their children, fearing for their mental well-being. The differences between the two groups of mothers and possible applications for mental health professionals working with such populations are discussed.
Social Effectiveness and Problem-Solving Thinking of Reformatory Inmates

This study tested the hypothesis that reformatory inmates who are identified by their peers and institutional officials as misfits and disciplinary problems are less able than more successful inmates to address themselves to hypothetical real-life problem situations and to provide solutions to such problems. Using a means-ends story completion technique, differences were found between the performances of inmates judged by peers as misfits (N = 20), inmates judged by officials as disciplinary problems (N = 20), and inmates judged as successful (N = 20) in utilizing institutional resources. The results of this study indicate that problem-solving cognition can discriminate personal-social adjustment.
Beyond ‘Terrorism’ and ‘State Hegemony’: assessing the Islamist mainstream in Egypt and Malaysia

International networks of Islamic ‘terrorism’ have served as the most popular explanation to describe the phenomenon of political Islam since the 11 September attacks. This paper argues that both the self-proclaimed doctrinal Islam of the militants and Western perceptions of a homogeneous Islamist threat need to be deconstructed in order to discover the often ambiguous manifestations of ‘official’ and ‘opposition’ Islam, of modernity and conservatism. As a comparison of two Islamic countries, Egypt and Malaysia, which both claim a leading role in their respective regions, shows, moderate Islamic groups have had a considerable impact on processes of democratisation and the emergence of civil society during the quarter century since the ‘Islamic resurgence’. Shared experiences like coalition building and active participation within the political system demonstrate the influence and importance of groups such as the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Youth Movement of Malaysia (abim) or the Islamic Party of Malaysia (pas). These groups have shaped the political landscape to a much larger extent than the current pre-occupation with the ‘terrorist threat’ suggests. The gradual development of a ‘culture of dialogue’ has rather revealed new approaches towards political participation and democracy at the grassroots level.