Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Do Mental Health, BMI, and Appearance affect Marital Satisfaction?

This paper examines the relationship between health and marital satisfaction. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, ordered logistic regression estimates show that mentalhealth and BMI significantly correlate with marital satisfaction among women. The results indicate a woman’s depression and physical health limitations have a significant impact on her marital satisfaction, whereas a woman’s appearancedoes not. Evidence suggests that the closer to normal mental health, the happier the marriage. On the other hand, changes in BMI do not cause changes in marital satisfaction. This suggests an asymmetric effect of poor mental and physical health and poor physical appearance (a high body weight) on marital satisfaction.
A Potential Neural Substrate for Processing Functional Classes of Complex Acoustic Signals

Categorization is essential to all cognitive processes, but identifying the neural substrates underlying categorization processes is a real challenge. Among animals that have been shown to be able of categorization, songbirds are particularly interesting because they provide researchers with clear examples of categories of acoustic signals allowing different levels of recognition, and they possess a system of specialized brain structures found only in birds that learn to sing: the song system. Moreover, an avian brain nucleus that is analogous to the mammalian secondary auditory cortex (the caudo-medial nidopallium, or NCM) has recently emerged as a plausible site for sensory representation of birdsong, and appears as a well positioned brain region for categorization of songs. Hence, we tested responses in this non-primary, associative area to clear and distinct classes of songs with different functions and social values, and for a possible correspondence between these responses and the functional aspects of songs, in a highly social songbird species: the European starling. Our results clearly show differential neuronal responses to the ethologically defined classes of songs, both in the number of neurons responding, and in the response magnitude of these neurons. Most importantly, these differential responses corresponded to the functional classes of songs, with increasing activation from non-specific to species-specific and from species-specific to individual-specific sounds. These data therefore suggest a potential neural substrate for sorting natural communication signals into categories, and for individual vocal recognition of same-species members. Given the many parallels that exist between birdsong and speech, these results may contribute to a better understanding of the neural bases of speech.
Loudspeakers Optional: A history of non-loudspeaker-based electroacoustic music

The discipline of electroacoustic music is most commonly associated with acousmatic musical forms such as tape-music and musique concrète, and the electroacoustic historical canon primarily centres around the mid-twentieth-century works of Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and related artists. As the march of technology progressed in the latter half of the twentieth century, alternative technologies opened up new areas within the electroacoustic discipline such as computer music, hyper-instrument performance and live electronic performance. In addition, the areas of electromagnetic actuation and musical robotics also allowed electroacoustic artists to actualise their works with real-world acoustic sound-objects instead of or along side loudspeakers. While these works owe much to the oft-cited pioneers mentioned above, there exists another equally significant alternative history of artists who utilised electric, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic and other sources of power to create what is essentially electroacoustic music without loudspeakers. This article uncovers this ‘missing history’ and traces it to its earliest roots over a thousand years ago to shed light on often-neglected technological and artistic developments that have shaped and continue to shape electronic music today.
Modernity Beyond the West: A Review of Kathleen James-Chakraborty’s Architecture Since 1400

With Architecture Since 1400 another volume has been added to the list of authoritative surveys of architectural history published in recent years. With 30 bit-like chapters and some 300 illustrations, this book is an ambitious attempt to write a global history of architecture that focuses on the arrival of modernity. The central idea of this survey is the shift away from the Weberian approach that views modernization as emanating from the West. Instead, in this book modern architecture is rewritten according to a global approach that allows for multiple perspectives in a multipolar world. This decentring approach is also pivotal for other parts of the book. For example, there is the much-needed effort to include women in the canon. In addition, the author exchanges a stylistic history for a social history and combines this with a narrative that maps the agents of the built environment, thus complementing the narrative of the genius-architect with that of the role played by clients, patrons and critics. In this way, Lina Bo Bardi or Zaha Hadid not only take their place next to Le Corbusier or Brunelleschi, but in addition Eleanor of Toledo is mentioned as an influential sixteenth-century ruler next to her husband Cosimo I, and Hardwick Hall in England is now considered the outcome of the cooperation between the architect Robert Smythson and the landowner Bess of Hardwick.
On the Practical Performance of Minimal Hitting Set Algorithms from a Diagnostic Perspective

Minimal hitting sets (MHSs) meliorate our reasoning in many applications, including AI planning, CNF/DNF conversion, and program debugging. When following Reiter’s ”theory of diagnosis from first principles”, minimal hitting sets are also essential to the diagnosis problem, since diagnoses can be characterized as the minimal hitting sets of conflicts in thebehavior of a faulty system. While the large amount of application options led to the advent of a variety of corresponding MHS algorithms, for diagnostic purposes we still lack a comparative evaluation assessing performance characteristics. In this paper, we thus empirically evaluate a set of complete algorithms relevant for diagnostic purposes in synthetic andreal-world scenarios. We consider in our experimental evaluation also how cardinality constraints on the solution space, as often established in practice for diagnostic purposes, influence performance in terms of run-time and memory usage.
Internet shopping and Internet banking in sequence

This paper presents an empirical investigation into the factors that shape the propensity to use the Internet for shopping and banking through application of bivariate probit regression techniques to data sourced from a survey of 259 respondents in Athens, Greece. Based on the observation that Internet banking usage typically requires familiarity with Internet shopping, we estimate the marginal effects of the determinants of Internet banking use conditioned on the determinants of Internet shopping use. Our results suggest that not controlling for this conditioning will bias estimates and could lead to incorrect policy-recommendations. For instance, personal capacity is found to be an important determinant of the propensity to use Internet banking in a non-sequential approach but it is found to have no significant effect after conditioning. In particular, our results suggest that policy-makers should emphasise usefulness attributes of computer-based innovations when attempting to increase the use of the Internet for banking by people who already use the Internet for shopping.
Dietary calcium and magnesium intakes and the risk of type 2 diabetes : the Shanghai Women ’ s Health Study 1 – 3

Background: Diet plays a key role in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but little is known about the contributions of specific nutrients in populations in which dietary patterns differ from Western populations. Objective: We examined associations between calcium and magnesium intakes and the risk of T2D in a Chinese population. Design: We used data from a population-based, prospective study of 64,191 women who were free of T2D or other chronic diseases at study recruitment and were living in urban Shanghai, China. Dietary intake, physical activity, and anthropometric measurements were assessed through in-person interviews. A Cox regression model was used to evaluate the association of the exposures under study with the risk of T2D. Results: An inverse association between calcium and magnesium intakes and T2D risk was observed. The relative risks for the lowest to the highest quintiles of calcium intake were 1.00, 0.82, 0.73, 0.67, and 0.74 (P for trend , 0.001), and for magnesium they were 1.00, 0.84, 0.84, 0.79, and 0.86 (P for trend , 0.001). Milk intake was also inversely associated with the risk of T2D. Conclusion: Our data suggest that calcium and magnesium intakes may protect against the development of T2D in this population. Am J Clin Nutr 2009;89:1059–67.
The majority and minority models on regular and random graphs

In the two strategy majority/minority game on a network, at time t, an individual observes some subset of its neighbors strategies, and then adopts at time t+1 that strategy which was more/less frequently played by its neighbors at time t. We shall examine in this paper a variety of distinct models which vary the subsets observed, the synchrony of actions, the regularity, or otherwise, of the networks, the mix of majority and minority players. Important measures of the dynamics of such systems such as the nature of the fixed points, and limit cycles are discussed. The expected payoffs under certain games are computed and compared. In particular we shall examine complete networks, hypercubes and a certain class of cubic networks. These graphs have rather different numbers of symmetries which impact on the properties of the dynamics. The work is of an exploratory nature and hopefully will suggest many potential lines of enquiry.
Application framework issues when evolving business applications for electronic commerce

When an organization embarks on e-commerce it rarely has a chance to re-engineer its existing business applications. However, if these business applications were built using an application framework, then one might hope to reuse many of the existing legacy applications in the new e-commerce context. This paper examines the general issues created by migrating applications to e-commerce, and proposes an architecture for application frameworks that must support e-commerce.
Secure Scrum: Development of Secure Software with Scrum

Nowadays, the use of agile software development methods like Scrum is common in industry and academia. Considering the current attacking landscape, it is clear that developing secure software should be a main concern in all software development projects. In traditional software projects, security issues require detailed planning in an initial planning phase, typically resulting in a detailed security analysis (e.g., threat and risk analysis), a security architecture, and instructions for security implementation (e.g., specification of key sizes and cryptographic algorithms to use). Agile software development methods like Scrum are known for reducing the initial planning phases (e.g., sprint 0 in Scrum) and for focusing more on producing running code. Scrum is also known for allowing fast adaption of the emerging software to changes of customer wishes. For security, this means that it is likely that there are no detailed security architecture or security implementation instructions from the start of the project. It also means that a lot of design decisions will be made during the runtime of the project. Hence, to address security in Scrum, it is necessary to consider security issues throughout the whole software development process. Secure Scrum is a variation of the Scrum framework with special focus on the development of secure software throughout the whole software development process. It puts emphasis on implementation of security related issues without the need of changing the underlying Scrum process or influencing team dynamics. Secure Scrum allows even non- security experts to spot security issues, to implement security features, and to verify implementations. A field test of Secure Scrum shows that the security level of software developed using Secure Scrum is higher then the security level of software developed using standard Scrum.
Angiotensin II type-1 receptor regulates RhoA and Rho-kinase / ROCK activation via multiple mechanisms . Focus on “ Angiotensin II induces RhoA activation through SHP 2-dependent dephosphorylation of the RhoGAP p 190 A in vascular smooth muscle cells ”

ANGIOTENSIN II, a crucial regulator of the cardiovascular system, is not only required for physiological functions, such as maintenance of blood pressure and plasma sodium concentration but also is involved in pathophysiological conditions such as hypertension and atherosclerosis (26). Angiotensin II exerts its effect by mainly binding to the angiotensin II type-1 (AT1) receptor. As its seven transmembrane structure suggests, the AT1 receptor couples to several heterotrimeric G proteins including Gq. In addition, the activation of the AT1 receptor leads to increased reactive oxygen species; activation of various protein tyrosine and serine/threonine kinases; and of small G proteins such as Ras, Rac, and RhoA, which may require heterotrimeric G protein-dependent and -independent mechanisms (6, 7, 11, 19). Among the downstream components involved in angiotensin II signal transduction, RhoA and its effecter Rho-kinase/ ROCK have attracted particular interest as novel therapeutic targets (18). RhoA, a member of the Rho family of small GTP binding proteins, is abundantly expressed in vascular smooth muscle (12) and is well known to participate in arterial smooth muscle contraction via Ca sensitization (4). Moreover, the RhoA/ROCK pathway has been implicated in a wide variety of disease conditions in the cardiovascular system, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, arterial restenosis, myocardial ischemia, and cardiac hypertrophy/fibrosis in animal models as well as in humans (9, 15, 23). The Rho protein functions as a molecular switch that cycles between the active GTP-bound form and inactive GDP-bound form. GDP/GTP exchange is facilitated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) that catalyze the exchange of GDP to GTP and by GTPase activating proteins (GAPs) that accelerate the hydrolysis of the GTP to GDP (21). In this regard, many G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are believed to increase RhoA activity via the G12/13 family of G proteins through activation of their effectors, the RGS domain-containing RhoGEFs (p115 RhoGEF, PDZ-RhoGEF, and LARG are the known members) (20, 29). The presence of this “basic” mechanism of RhoA/ROCK regulation by a GPCR has been shown in the AT1 receptor activation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and cardiac myocytes in culture (14, 24) and in vivo for arterial contraction stimulated by angiotensin II (28). However, studies published recently (1, 27) also suggest that the regulation of RhoA/ROCK by the AT1 receptor is not limited to the G12/13/RGS domain-containing RhoGEF pathway. Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: S. Eguchi, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple Univ. School of Medicine, 3500 N. Broad St., MERB Rm. 1051, Philadelphia, PA 19140 (e-mail: seguchi@temple. edu).
Moral Concerns on Tradable Pollution Permits in International Environmental Agreements

We investigate how moral concerns about permit trading affect an endogenous pollution permit trading equilibrium, where governments choose non-cooperatively the amount of permits they allocate to domestic industries. Politicians may feel reluctant to allow permit trading and/or may prefer that abatement is undertaken domestically due to moral concerns. This will have an effect on the initial permit allocations, and, therefore, on global emissions. The impact on global emissions depends on the precise formulation of the moral concerns, but under reasonable assumptions, we show that global emissions may increase. Thus, doing what is perceived as good does not always yield the desired outcome. However, this can be offset by restrictions on permit trading when governments have moral concerns about this trade.
ADVERTISING IN MONOPOLISTICALLY COMPETITIVE MARKETS

In their seminal paper Grossman and Shapiro (1984) find that informative advertising is socially excessive in an oligopoly (entry is also socially excessive). However, the analysis assumed that all consumers receive at least one advertisement. Christou and Vettas (2008), among others, present counter-examples in alternative settings, showing when the assumption does not hold, the equilibrium advertising may, instead, be inefficiently low. Christou and Vettas (2008) also show there may be non-existence due to discontinuities from undercutting, that quasiconcavity may not hold, and present examples in which the equilibrium does not exist as firms would deviate to a higher price. We revisit the question by modeling firms (like consumers) as a continuum, which mitigates the discontinuity that exists in both papers and allows the general analysis to include the cases when some consumers receive no advertisements. As a result, we are able to derive explicit and intuitive conditions for an equilibrium. More importantly, we find, instead, that advertising is socially insufficient regardless of the fraction of the consumers who receive an ad, including when all consumers receive at least one ad. We also find that there is insufficient entry instead of excess entry. We provide intuition for the difference between our and previous results.
Do Fiscal Rules Constrain Fiscal Policy? A Meta-Regression-Analysis

We implement a meta-regression-analysis for the budgetary impact of numerical fiscal rules. Based on 30 studies published in the last decade, we offer a consensus estimate with respect to the level of statistical significance, provide suggestive evidence for the effect size, and identify study features of relevance for the measured impact of fiscal rules. Overall, the results document a constraining impact of rules. However, this impact is weakened if refined identification strategies are employed. Moreover, the results provide evidence for a publication bias in which journals are more likely to report constraining and statistically significant effects compared to working papers. We further provide recommendations for future research on the budgetary impact of fiscal rules.
An analysis of the relationship between the organizational culture and the performance of staff work groups in schools and the development of an explanatory model

This article analyses the concept of organizational culture and the relationship between the organizational culture and the performance of staff work groups in schools. The article draws upon a study of 12 schools in Wales, UK, which despite being in disadvantaged settings have high levels of pupil attainment. A model is developed linking the organizational culture of the staff group to performance as measured by pupil attainment using the conceptual analysis and the interpretation of the research findings. In the model, organizational culture, as a root metaphor, is defined by the organizing metaphors ‘productive’, ‘strong’ and ‘highly inclusive’. The absence of substantial subcultures, the head teacher’s leadership and reflective practice are important influences on the overall organizational culture and play a part in linking organizational culture and performance. In the model, the organizational culture underpins practices that bear directly on the primary task which is in itself of considerable cultural importance. The primary task has two dimensions. The first is concerned with optimizing current teaching for learning and the second with improving future teaching for learning. A task of this kind, its cultural significance and an organizational culture that underpins work on the task are likely to lead to high performance.
Questions in the Management of Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma

Localized Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma is a rare disease with an overall good prognosis but frequent late relapses. Due to it’s rarity there is no standard therapeutic approach and pathological diagnosis may be hard. In this paper we discuss the technical aspects of the radiation therapy and histological issues. The new fields reductions proposed for classical Hodgkin lymphoma cannot be applied to early stages Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin lymphomas which are usually treated with radiation therapy without systemic chemotherapy.
Destination brand equity research from 2001 to 2012

The present study delves into a review of the destination brand equity literature published since 2001, aiming to offer tourism researchers a reference guide to the general context, corresponding methods, and focus of previous works. A multisource search resulted in the identification of 64 relevant papers. Content analysis using multiple classifier variables provides further insights into specific geographical, conceptual, and methodological aspects. Conclusions pertain to the multidimensional character of the construct, the methodology, and context in which destination brand performance has been developed. Destination brand equity appears as a rapidly conceived concept, borrowed from traditional (corporate/product) branding theory, while discussion on its definition and operationalization is still in progress and has yet to mature in a multidisciplinary context. As the first attempt to review destination brand equity within the top tourism and marketing journals and relevant search engines, the study may contribute to a comprehensive overview of the field. The outcomes offer marketing scholars an in-depth view of the concept, providing an overall insight on the various ways destination brands might be evaluated.
Draft 1 Hepatoprotective activity of White Horehound ( Marrubium vulgare ) extract against Cyclophosphamide toxicity in male rats

Complete List of Authors: Ettaya, Amani; Laboratory of Animal Ecophysiology, Faculty of Science of Sfax 3018 Sfax, Tunisia Dhibi, Sabah; Laboratory of Animal Ecophysiology, Faculty of Science of Sfax 3018 Sfax, Tunisia Samout, Noura; Laboratory of Animal Ecophysiology, Faculty of Science of Sfax 3018 Sfax, Tunisia Elfeki, Abdelfattah; Laboratory of Animal Ecophysiology, Faculty of Science of Sfax 3018 Sfax, Tunisia Hfaiedh, Najla; Laboratory of Animal Ecophysiology, Faculty of Science of Sfax 3018 Sfax, Tunisia