Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Information Processing Bias in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

This review considers theory and evidence for abnormal information processing in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Cognitive studies have indicated sensitivity in PTSD for traumatic information, more so than general emotional information. These findings were supported by neuroimaging studies that identify increased brain activity during traumatic cognition, especially in affective networks (including the amygdala, orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortex). In theory, it is proposed that traumatic cognition may interfere with neutral cognition and there is evidence of abnormal neutral stimulus processing in PTSD. Firstly, PTSD patients perform poorly on a variety of neuropsychology tasks that involve attention and memory for neutral information. The evidence from event-related potentials and functional neuroimaging also indicates abnormal results in PTSD during neutral stimulus processing. The research evidence generally provides support for theories of trauma sensitivity and abnormal neutral stimulus processing in PTSD. However, there is only tentative evidence that trauma cognition concurrently interferes with neutral cognition. There is even some evidence that traumatic or novelty arousal processes can increase the capacity for attentive processing, thereby enhancing cognition for neutral stimulus information. Research on this topic has not yet fully explored the mechanisms of interaction between traumatic and neutral content in the cognitive dynamics of PTSD.
Developmental and Lactational Exposure to Dieldrin Alters Mammary Tumorigenesis in Her2/neu Transgenic Mice

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Western women and while its precise etiology is unknown, environmental factors are thought to play a role. The organochlorine pesticide dieldrin is a persistent environmental toxicant thought to increase the risk of breast cancer and reduce survival in the human population. The objective of this study was to define the effect of developmental exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of dieldrin, on mammary tumor development in the offspring. Sexually mature FVB-MMTV/neu female mice were treated with vehicle (corn oil), or dieldrin (0.45, 2.25, and 4.5 µg/g body weight) daily by gavage for 5 days prior to mating and then once weekly throughout gestation and lactation until weaning. Dieldrin concentrations were selected to produce serum levels representative of human background body burdens, occupational exposure, and overt toxicity. Treatment had no effect on litter size, birth weight or the number of pups surviving to weaning. The highest dose of dieldrin significantly increased the total tumor burden and the volume and number of tumors found in the thoracic mammary glands. Increased mRNA and protein expression of the neurotrophin BDNF and its receptor TrkB was increased in tumors from the offspring of dieldrin treated dams. This study indicates that developmental exposure to the environmental contaminant dieldrin causes increased tumor burden in genetically predisposed mice. Dieldrin exposure also altered the expression of BNDF and TrkB, novel modulators of cancer pathogenesis.
PENINGKATAN KINERJA SUMBER DAYA MANUSIA MELALUI MOTIVASI, DISIPLIN, LINGKUNGAN KERJA, DAN KOMITMEN

This study aims to analyze the performance of teachers MTs and MA Salafiyah, Kajen, Margoyoso, Pati. This study uses the variables of motivation, discipline, and work environment to analyze the influence ot the teachers performance. In addition, this study also used a commitment as intervening variables to analyze the influence of teachers level of commitment to school. The population in this study were all teachers MTs and MA Salafiyah, Kajen, Margoyoso, Pati. This population totaled 110 teachers of 52 teachers MTs Salafiyah and 57 teachers MA Salafiyah. This study used cencus method is to give the questionnaire to the entire population of 110 teachers. Data was collected using a questionnaire method is by providing a list of questions or questionnaire directly to the respondensts. Techniques of data analyze in this study using SEM analysis (Structural Equation Model) which is operated through a pogram SMARTPLS. The results showed that the variables of motivation, discipline, and work environments have a significant positive effect on commitment. Variables motivation, discipline, commitment, and the work environment showed significant positive results on the performance of human resources. Key words :Â Human Resources Performance, Commitment, Work Environment, Discipline, Motivation
AGE‐RELATED DECLINE IN SPELLING ABILITY: A LINK WITH FLUID INTELLIGENCE?

In this study, 159 volunteers aged 50 years and older were grouped into age decades (i.e., those in their 50s, 60s, etc.) and tested on measures of spelling, fluid intelligence, and crystallized intelligence. The younger subjects had significantly higher spelling test scores. Statistically removing the effects of crystallized intelligence and length of education by analyses of covariance had no effect on the difference, but removing the effect of fluid intelligence reduced the difference to nonsignificant levels. This implies that in older people spelling, although intuitively considered to be a crystallized skill, relies heavily on fluid intelligence.
A Collective Bayesian Poisson Factorization Model for Cold-start Local Event Recommendation

Event-based social networks (EBSNs), in which organizers publish events to attract other users in local city to attend offline, emerge in recent years and grow rapidly. Due to the large volume of events in EBSNs, event recommendation is essential. A few recent works focus on this task, while almost all the methods need that each event to be recommended should have been registered by some users to attend. Thus they ignore two essential characteristics of events in EBSNs: (1) a large number of new events will be published every day which means many events have few participants in the beginning, (2) events have life cycles which means outdated events should not be recommended. Overall, event recommendation in EBSNs inevitably faces the cold-start problem. In this work, we address the new problem of cold-start local event recommendation in EBSNs. We propose a collective Bayesian Poisson factorization (CBPF) model for handling this problem. CBPF takes recently proposed Bayesian Poisson factorization as its basic unit to model user response to events, social relation, and content text separately. Then it further jointly connects these units by the idea of standard collective matrix factorization model. Moreover, in our model event textual content, organizer, and location information are utilized to learn representation of cold-start events for predicting user response to them. Besides, an efficient coordinate ascent algorithm is adopted to learn the model. We conducted comprehensive experiments on real datasets crawled from EBSNs and the results demonstrate our proposed model is effective and outperforms several alternative methods.
A Study of Internet Addiction through the Lens of the Interpersonal Theory

Previous studies have presented conflicting claims regarding reasons that people become addicted to the Internet. In this study, we attempted to identify predictors of Internet addiction based on Sullivan's interpersonal theory and Internet addiction literature. In our research model, it is hypothesized that good parent-child relationship positively correlates with good interpersonal relationships, which in turn are hypothesized to correlate with undesirable social anxiety. In addition, both parent-child and interpersonal relationships are hypothesized to negatively correlate with Internet addiction, whereas the level of social anxiety is hypothesized to positively correlate with Internet addiction. The results of this study confirm the research model hypotheses, indicating that the quality of parent-child relationship is indeed positively correlated to the quality of our participants' interpersonal relationships and that frustrating interpersonal relationships may raise the level of social anxiety. In addition, interpersonal relationships, the parent-child relationship, and social anxiety all influence Internet addiction, as predicted by the model. Finally, the more social anxiety and discontent with their peer interactions the participants experienced, the more addicted they were to the Internet.
Narrow Framing Effects on Real Options: the Case of IT Application Portfolios

Real options theory has been advocated as a solution to IT investment problems with uncertainty around future outcomes and the inability of traditional financial measures to account for managerial flexibility. On the one hand, it is argued that real option analysis captures and formalizes managers’ intuition, thus creating a disciplined decision making process. On the other hand, the intuitive valuation of the options is criticized due to the prevalent effects of various judgmental biases. Through this study, we try to capture one of the biases that can affect the real option value at exercise time in an IT application portfolio setting i.e. narrow framing. We also explore the impact of uncertainty around outcomes on real option exercise time. By conducting an online experiment using experimental choice analysis with IT managers as subjects, we try to see if they are prone to simplifying complicated real option exercise decisions by isolating them.
Telling friend from foe: Environmental cues improve detection accuracy of individuals with hostile intentions

Purpose Detecting deviant behaviours that precede and are related to crimes can help prevent these crimes. Research suggests that the psychological mindset of wrongdoers may differ from others, such that they are more anxious, self-focussed, and vigilant. As a result, their responses to environmental cues, specifically those that signal risk of exposure, may differ. Method In two randomized controlled trials, participants with high (vs. low) cognitive load walked a pre-defined route to carry out a hostile or non-hostile task. En route, participants were exposed to a strong (vs. mild) cue from a security officer (Study 1), or a cue (vs. no cue) resembling police walkie-talkie static noise (Study 2). Participants filled out a questionnaire measuring psychological constructs. Reactions during the task were recorded and presented to independent observers to determine the participants’ intent. Results Participants with high (vs. low) cognitive load who were exposed to a strong (vs. mild or no) cue while carrying out their task were more often correctly identified by observers as either innocent or hostile based on their behaviour. Analysis of the questionnaire revealed that the experience of hostile intentions is related to anxiety, inhibitory control of anxiety, activation control of normal behaviour, and to other relevant constructs which may explain why cues that signal risk of exposure can improve the detection accuracy of individuals with hostile intentions. Conclusion These studies show that cues that signal risk of exposure can improve the detection of wrongdoers and the role of self-regulation in the suppression of anxiety and deviant behaviours.
Dissociating Cortical Activity during Processing of Native and Non-Native Audiovisual Speech from Early to Late Infancy

Initially, infants are capable of discriminating phonetic contrasts across the world’s languages. Starting between seven and ten months of age, they gradually lose this ability through a process of perceptual narrowing. Although traditionally investigated with isolated speech sounds, such narrowing occurs in a variety of perceptual domains (e.g., faces, visual speech). Thus far, tracking the developmental trajectory of this tuning process has been focused primarily on auditory speech alone, and generally using isolated sounds. But infants learn from speech produced by people talking to them, meaning they learn from a complex audiovisual signal. Here, we use near-infrared spectroscopy to measure blood concentration changes in the bilateral temporal cortices of infants in three different age groups: 3-to-6 months, 7-to-10 months, and 11-to-14-months. Critically, all three groups of infants were tested with continuous audiovisual speech in both their native and another, unfamiliar language. We found that at each age range, infants showed different patterns of cortical activity in response to the native and non-native stimuli. Infants in the youngest group showed bilateral cortical activity that was greater overall in response to non-native relative to native speech; the oldest group showed left lateralized activity in response to native relative to non-native speech. These results highlight perceptual tuning as a dynamic process that happens across modalities and at different levels of stimulus complexity.
KIR-HLA Genotypes in HIV-Infected Patients Lacking Immunological Recovery despite Effective Antiretroviral Therapy

Background In HIV-infected individuals, mechanisms underlying unsatisfactory immune recovery during effective combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) have yet to be fully understood. We investigated whether polymorphism of genes encoding immune-regulating molecules, such as killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and their ligands class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA), could influence immunological response to cART. Methods KIR and HLA frequencies were analyzed in 154 HIV-infected and cART-treated patients with undetectable viral load divided into two groups: ‘immunological non responders’ (INR, N = 50, CD4+ T-cell count <200/mm3) and full responders (FR, N = 104, CD4+ T-cell count >350/mm3). Molecular KIR were typed using polymerase chain reaction-based genotyping. Comparisons were adjusted for baseline patient characteristics. Results The frequency of KIR2DL3 allele was significantly higher in FR than in INR (83.7% vs. 62%, P = 0.005). The functional compound genotype HLA-C1+/KIR2DL3+, even at multivariable analysis, when adjusted for nadir CD4+ T-cell count, was associated with reduced risk of INR status: odds ratio (95% Confidence Intervals) 0.34 (0.13−0.88), P = 0.03. Conclusions Reduced presence of the inhibitory KIR2DL3 genotype detected in INR might provoke an imbalance in NK function, possibly leading to increased immune activation, impaired killing of latently infected cells, and higher proviral burden. These factors would hinder full immune recovery during therapy.
Mother Making: How First Time Mothers Develop a Parenting Practice in Contemporary America

MOTHER MAKING: HOW FIRST TIME MOTHERS DEVELOP A PARENTING PRACTICE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA Stephanie A. Wright Antioch University Seattle Seattle, WA History has shown, time and again, that parenting practices in America change in the face of important social, political, cultural and ideological transitions. Such influences are often concealed, but nonetheless greatly impact not only the way mothers parent their children but also how they think of themselves in their mothering role. Historical and feminist scholars have helped to elucidate how broad historical legacies and current ideologies, such as patriarchy, capitalism, neoliberalism, and feminism itself, continue to shape dominant discursive understandings about motherhood. Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, eight first time mothers from mostly white, middle class, educated and full time working lifestyles were interviewed to explore their experiences with developing a parenting practice, particularly in the face of numerous saturated cultural influences. Results revealed that participants were most likely to seek advice from close trusted peers, they were unlikely to seek or receive advice from their own parents, they tended to only trust the advice of patient-centered healthcare professionals, and their experiences and understandings of mothering were implicitly shaped by the forces of patriarchy, neoliberalism, and scientism, as well as their own intuitive maternal thinking. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA, http://aura.antioch. edu/ and Ohio Link ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink. edu/etd
Construct Measurement in Advertising Research

This article presents an initial inquiry into measurement practices in advertising research based on a review of all research articles published in the Journal of Advertising (JA), the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR), and the International Journal of Advertising (IJA) between 2012 and 2014. The analysis focused on the measurement of attitude toward the ad (AAd), attitude toward the brand (ABrand), and brand purchase intention (PIBrand) because these are the most frequently studied constructs in advertising research. The results show there are weaknesses with the theoretical foundation of measures, in that constructs are often not defined and the measures are not taken from measure development studies. Moreover, there is great diversity in the items included in measures, the number of items in the measures, and in the answer scales used to capture responses, which casts doubts on the comparability of results from different studies. The implications of current measurement practice for advertising research are discussed and suggestions are made for how authors, editors, and reviewers can contribute to improved measurement practice.
Asian Americans: the mediating effects of family on the longitudinal impact of discrimination on self-esteem and wellbeing

The model minority stereotype portrays Asian Americans as resilient, educationally and financially successful, and family-focused, while it downplays the realities of discrimination and its effects on self-esteem. Research suggests that gender roles and immigration experiences are contributing factors to why Asian American women, especially second-generation immigrants, experience greater stress than women of other ethnic groups and Asian American men in general. Considering most Asian Americans are of East and Southeast Asian heritages influenced by Confucian family values and gender roles, this study examined how these values mediated the associated from discrimination to self-esteem during adolescence, and to educational and financial achievement (wellbeing) during adulthood for second-generation immigrants. Using data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (N = 554), results from a partially constrained group-comparison model demonstrated that Confucian values of familism and family cohesion were factors that significantly predicted adolescent self-esteem and adult educational achievement. Men’s level of familism endorsement was also uniquely related to experiences with discrimination. Clinical implications and further research directions are discussed.
Nominal classification is not positive evidence for language relativity: a commentary on Kemmerer (2016)

An English speaker and a Mandarin Chinese speaker see two things. The English speaker says “a hammer” and “a snake”. The Chinese speaker says “yi [ba] chuizi” (one [ba] hammer) and “yi [tiao] she” (one [tiao] snake). [Ba] and [tiao] are nominal classifiers. The former is usually associated with artefacts that have a handle that can be manipulated and the latter with long things. Does this mean that the conceptual representations of hammer and snake are different for English and Chinese speakers? The majority of the current research on conceptual representation focuses on universal aspects of object concepts and has revealed domain-specific and modality-specific knowledge dimensions (Binder & Desai, 2011; Chao, Haxby, & Martin, 1999; Epstein & Kanwisher, 1998; Fernandino et al., 2015; Kanwisher, 2010; Mahon & Caramazza, 2011; Martin, Haxby, Lalonde, Wiggs, & Ungerleider, 1995; Miceli et al., 2001; Patterson, Nestor, & Rogers, 2007). Kemmerer (2016) noted the importance of studying language-related variations in conceptual representations and highlighted nominal classification. He reviewed an impressive range of nominal classification languages, analysed semantic parameters that are associated with classifiers, and related them to the most up-to-date findings of the neurobiology of object concepts. This review leads to two central observations: (1) The nominal classification across languages tends to associate with several types of semantic parameters, including animacy, shape, size, and function, which correspond exactly to the organising dimensions for object representation in the visual ventral pathway (ventral temporal cortex, VTC; see Chen, Garcea, & Mahon, 2016; Grill-Spector & Weiner, 2014; Konkle & Caramazza, 2013; Konkle & Oliva, 2012; Kriegeskorte et al., 2008; Nasr, Echavarria, & Tootell, 2014; Wang et al., 2015); (2) There are also many rather unusual classifiers that are associated with highly specific, narrow semantic parameters within these large structures, such as loopor teardrop-shaped objects, that had not been noticed as salient features in object processing. These analyses of semantic typology and object conceptual representation findings led to the conclusion that
The CoRoT space mission : early results Special feature Asteroseismic analysis of the CoRoT δ Scuti star HD 174936 ,

We present an analysis of the δ-Scuti star HD 174936 (ID 7613) observed by CoRoT during the first short run SRc01 (27 days). A total number of 422 frequencies were extracted from the light curve using standard prewhitening techniques. This number of frequencies was obtained by considering a spectral significance limit of sig = 10 using the software package SigSpec. Our analysis of the oscillation frequency spectrum reveals a spacing periodicity around 52 μHz. Although modes considered here are not in the asymptotic regime, a comparison with stellar models confirms that this signature may stem from a quasi-periodic pattern similar to the so-called large separation in solar-like stars.
Product Recommendation Techniques for Ecommerce - past, present and future

With the advent of emerging technologies and the rapid growth of Internet, the world is moving towards e-world where most of the things are digitized and available on a mouse click. Most of the commercial transactions are performed on Internet with the help of on-line shopping. The huge amount of data puts an extra overload to the user in performing on-line task. Product recommendation techniques are being used widely to reduce this extra overload and recommend the scrutinized product to the customers. Collaborative filtering, Association rules and web mining are on top amongst the techniques that is being used for recommendation technology. In this paper we try to give an overview of these recommendation techniques with suitable examples and illustrative diagrams, and change of trends in it with respect to time. Various diagrammatic representations are illustrated. Also a future direction of research in this area is indicated. And finally we conclude that there is a need of an extra effort to overcome limitations in existing techniques.