Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The mediational effect of regulatory focus on the relationships between mindfulness and job satisfaction and turnover intentions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of mindfulness as a predictor of the two components of regulatory focus theory (RFT): promotion and prevention focus. It further examines promotion focus and prevention focus as mediators of the mindfulness-job satisfaction and mindfulness-turnover intentions relationships. Finally, job satisfaction is also examined as a mediator of the mindfulness-turnover intentions relationship. Design/methodology/approach – The model was tested using data collected via a snowball approach. Online surveys were distributed to undergraduate students enrolled in a business course. Students were then given the opportunity to earn extra credit by sending the survey to potential respondents. The relationships were tested using structural equation modeling. Findings – Support was found for four of the six hypotheses. Prevention focus did not negatively mediate the relationship between mindfulness and job satisfaction as well as the relationship between mindfulness and.
0 20 10 79 v 1 2 4 Ja n 20 02 Einstein-Dirac theory on gauge-natural bundles

Building on the results of a recent paper, we present the theory of conserved quantities for Einstein (-Cartan) gravity coupled to Dirac fields in a completely gauge-natural context. Indeed, if we aim at considering the coupling of a natural theory, i.e. a Lagrangian theory whose “configuration space” is a natural bundle, with a non-natural one, we are sometimes forced to redefine our field variables in order to make the coupling physically meaningful. In particular, if one wants to properly describe the interaction and feedback between gravity and spinor fields, spin-tetrads, and not tetrads, are the appropriate variables to be considered. Gaugenatural bundles provide a suitable geometrical framework for such objects. The main result of this reformulation is that any conserved charge associated with the gravitational field is intrinsically indeterminate. Math. Subj. Class. (2000): primary: 83C40; secondary: 53C80, 83D05
Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Trust, and Loyalty in an E-Banking Context

In this study a research model was proposed to examine the relationships between service quality, customer satisfaction in, customer trust of, and loyalty to Taiwanese e-banks. Questionnaires were completed by 442 respondents who had experience with e-banking and data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling. It was found that e-banks must focus on service quality to increase customer satisfaction and trust and to obtain customer loyalty. Implications are discussed in relation to e-bank management.
Madrasa education in South Asia and Southeast Asia: current issues and debates

Madaris (plural of madrasa) face a multitude of challenges in preparing students for life in rapidly modernising societies and emerging globalised knowledge economies. The complexity of the role and tasks of madaris, which are caught in the interface of modernity and tradition, the challenges they face, and the strategies they develop to address these challenges, suggest the need for a very cautious approach when attaining a clear picture of madrasa education and making conclusive statements about them. The literature has contributed more to confusion than clarity about the number of madaris, their rationale, purpose, pedagogy, curricula, funding, administration, relations with the state, and global violence. This paper presents an account of current debates of madrasa education and reform focusing on madaris within the diverse Sunni schools of thought and denominations located across South Asia and Southeast Asia. Based on an extensive review and analysis of over 90 articles, an overview of madrasa education and an examination of the issues and challenges facing Islamic schools that struggle to uphold tradition, and those that have begun to embrace modernisation and integration in the global process of change is given. The extent that some Islamic education systems are willing to collaborate with non-Muslims and in the process potentially enrich their circle of interest while engaging with the rest of the world in dialogue offers promising glimpses and a sense of hope for religious-based education in Muslim communities in the 21st century.
Culture, context, and cognition: The Semantic Procedural Interface model of the self

Several studies have found evidence that social information processing is strongly influenced by the person either primarily defining his or her self as an autonomous entity (independent self-construal) or as related to other people (interdependent self-construal). In this chapter, we describe the psychological mechanisms by which independent and interdependent self-construals affect individual experience. We propose the Semantic Procedural Interface (SPI) model of the self, which distinguishes two such mechanisms. In addition to differences in the semantic content areas from which independent and interdependent self-construals arise (semantic application mechanism), there are also different procedural modes of thinking (procedural application mechanism) associated with them. Independent self-definitions coincide with the tendency to process stimuli unaffected by the context in which they appear. Relating the self to the social contexts within interdependent self-construals facilitates context-bounded thinking (i.e., processing stimuli by paying attention to their relation to the given context). The results of several experiments attesting to the value of the differentiation between both application mechanisms are presented. We discuss how far differences in information processing between members of different cultural groups can be traced back to the mechanisms described in the SPI model.
Oral Administration of a Kampo (Japanese Herbal) Medicine Juzen‐taiho‐to Inhibits Liver Metastasis of Colon 26‐L5 Carcinoma Cells

We have investigated the inhibitory effect of oral administration of Juzen‐taiho‐to, a Kampo Japanese herbal medicine, on liver metastasis by the inoculation of a liver‐metastatic variant (L5) of murine colon 26 carcinoma cells into the portal vein. Oral administration of Juzen‐taiho‐to for 7 days before tumor inoculation resulted in dose‐dependent inhibition of liver tumor colonies and significant enhancement of survival rate as compared with the untreated control, without side effects. We also found that liver metastasis of L5 cells was enhanced in BALB/c mice pretreated with anti‐asialo GM1 serum or 2‐chloroadenosine, and in BALB/c nu/nu mice, compared to normal mice. This indicates that NK cells, macrophages, and T‐cells play important roles in the prevention of metastasis of tumor cells. Juzen‐taiho‐to significantly inhibited the experimental liver metastasis of colon 26‐L5 cells in mice pretreated with anti‐asialo GM1 serum and untreated normal mice, whereas it did not inhibit metastasis in 2‐chloroadenosine‐pretreated mice or T‐cell‐deficient nude mice. Oral administration of Juzen‐taiho‐to activated peritoneal exudate macrophages (PEM) to become cytostatic against the tumor cells. These results show that oral administration of Juzen‐taiho‐to inhibited liver metastasis of colon 26‐L5 cells, possibly through a mechanism mediated by the activation of macrophages and/or T‐cells in the host immune system. Thus, Juzen‐taiho‐to may be efficacious for the prevention of cancer metastasis.
Diagnostic Accuracy of the Overlapping Infinity Loops, Wire Cube, and Clock Drawing Tests for Cognitive Impairment in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

Purpose. To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the overlapping infinity loops, wire cube, and clock drawing tests (CDT) in the detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia. Method. The participants were 60 normal controls (NC), 35 patients with MCI, and 47 patients with mild dementia. Results. The results illustrate that infinity loops, cube, or CDT were not able to discriminate between NC and MCI groups. In dementia detection, the CDT had the highest diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity 76.6% and specificity 87.4%) followed by infinity loops (sensitivity 63.8% and specificity 91.6%) and cube (sensitivity 93.6% and specificity 46.3%). Conclusion. This study demonstrates that the three drawing tests are sensitive detectors of dementia but not MCI.
‘At-risk’ or school-based risk? Testing a model of school-based stressors, coping responses, and academic self-concept for same-sex attracted youth

This study examined same-sex attracted (SSA) students' perceptions of their school climate toward same-sex attraction and their school-based environmental stresses and supports using Margaret Spencer's Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory model. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationship between stressors, coping mechanisms, and academic identity formation. Students' connection to teachers and their school environment had the strongest total impact on their academic self-concept and motivation to learn. Of key import was the indirect impact of students' perceptions of their school climate on both of these important academic outcomes, through their connection to both their school community and general school environment. Findings highlight the deleterious impact of school-based risk factors, including victimization and curricular silences, on educational outcomes for SSAyouth.
A Riemannian Optimization Approach for Computing Low-Rank Solutions of Lyapunov Equations

We propose a new framework based on optimization on manifolds to approximate the solution of a Lyapunov matrix equation by a low-rank matrix. The method minimizes the error on the Riemannian manifold of symmetric positive semidefinite matrices of fixed rank. We detail how objects from differential geometry, like the Riemannian gradient and Hessian, can be efficiently computed for this manifold. As a minimization algorithm we use the Riemannian trust-region method of [P.-A. Absil, C. Baker, and K. Gallivan, Found. Comput. Math., 7 (2007), pp. 303-330] based on a second-order model of the objective function on the manifold. Together with an efficient preconditioner, this method can find low-rank solutions with very little memory. We illustrate our results with numerical examples.
Speaker change point detection using deep neural nets

We investigate the use of deep neural nets (DNN) to provide initial speaker change points in a speaker diarization system. The DNN trains states that correspond to the location of the speaker change point (SCP) in the speech segment input to the DNN. We model these different speaker change point locations in the DNN input by 10 to 20 states. The confidence in the SCP is measured by the number of frame synchronous states that correspond to the hypothesized speaker change point. We only keep the speaker change points with the highest confidence. We show that this DNN-based change point detector reduces the number of missed change points for both an English test set and a French dev set. We also show that the DNN-based change points reduce the diarization error rate for both an English and a French diarization system. These results show the feasibility of DNNs to provide initial speaker change points.
Transcriptomic responses provide a new mechanistic basis for the chemopreventive effects of folic acid and tributyrin in rat liver carcinogenesis

The steady increase in the incidence and mortality of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) signifies a crucial need to understand better its pathogenesis to improve clinical management and prevention of the disease. The aim of this study was to investigate molecular mechanisms for the chemopreventive effects of folic acid and tributyrin alone or in combination on rat hepatocarcinogenesis. Male Wistar rats were subjected to a classic “resistant hepatocyte” model of liver carcinogenesis and treated with folic acid and tributyrin alone or in combination for 5 weeks during promotion stage. Treatment with folic acid and tributyrin alone or in combination strongly inhibited the development of glutathione‐S‐transferase placental form (GSTP)‐positive foci. Microarray analysis showed significant changes in gene expression. A total of 498, 655 and 940 of differentially expressed genes, involved in cell cycle, p53‐signaling, angiogenesis and Wnt pathways, was identified in the livers of rats treated with folic acid, tributyrin or folic acid and tributyrin. A detailed analysis of these differentially expressed genes revealed that treatments inhibited angiogenesis in the preneoplastic livers. This was evidenced by the fact that 30 out of 77 differentially expressed genes common to all three treatments are involved in the regulation of the angiogenesis pathway. The inhibition of angiogenesis was confirmed by reduced levels of CD34 protein. In conclusion, the tumor‐suppressing activity of folic acid and tributyrin is associated with inhibition of angiogenesis at early stages of rat liver carcinogenesis. Importantly, the combination of folic acid and tributyrin has stronger chemopreventive effect than each of the compounds alone.
A comparative study of the prevalence of mandibular osteosclerosis in patients of Asiatic and Caucasian origin.

— Panoramic radiographs from a group of one hundred patients of Chinese or Indo-Chinese origin and one hundred patients of Caucasian origin were examined to assess whether there was a difference in the number of osteosclerotic areas in the mandibles of one group compared with the other. Patients of Chinese or Indo-Chinese origin showed a significantly larger number of areas. The differential diagnosis of radiopaque areas is discussed. Attention is drawn to the need to be aware of the high incidence of osteosclerotic areas in the Indo-Chinese population during differential diagnosis of radiopaque lesions.
Which anaesthetic agents are cost-effective in day surgery? Literature review, national survey of practice and randomised controlled trial.

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Education and Sustainable National Development in Nigeria: Challenges and Way Forward

Education is an important key of achieving a sustainable national development. For a state or society to achieve a sustainable national development, the quality of its education should be improved. This paper attempts to explain the concept of education, the concept of sustainable national development and relationship between education and sustainable national development. The paper provides an insight into various challenges confronting education in Nigeria such as gender inequity in education, dearth of teachers, inadequate infrastructures, overcrowded classrooms etc. It finally suggested way on how to solve challenges confronting education in Nigeria. This is done through creation of conducive atmosphere for learning, allocation of enough funds for educational development, discouraging gender disparity in education by an enlightenment programme, setting up a trustworthy committee that will manage and supervise education etc.
The Coherence Effect: Blending Cold and Hot Cognitions

Previous research has shown that making complex judgments and decisions entails a mental reconstruction of the task in a way that increases the state of coherence between the emerging conclusion and its underlying attributes: The attributes that support the conclusion grow stronger, whereas the attributes that support the losing option weaken. This coherence effect is understood to occur bidirectionally, in that conclusions follow from the decision-maker's evaluation of the attributes, while the evaluations of the attributes shift to cohere with the emerging conclusion. The current studies were designed to extend the coherence effect to encompass cognitions that could be considered "hot," such as valence evaluations, motivation toward outcomes of events, liking and disliking of actors, and emotions toward actors. Study 1 found that evaluations of a complex social relationship were accompanied not only by supportive interpretations of the ambiguous facts, but also by concordant hot cognitions. Studies 2 through 4 included manipulations to demonstrate the spreading of coherence from cold to hot cognitions and in the opposite direction. We observed these effects following a manipulation of the facts (Study 2), a manipulation of participants' emotions toward the actor (Study 3), and a manipulation of participants' motivation toward the outcome of the case (Study 4). These results support the proposition that complex judgments and decisions are performed by coherence-based reasoning: a holistic, connectionist process that maximizes coherence among and between the myriad of factors involved in the tasks and the hot cognitive reactions to them.
Secondary structure of the homeo domain of yeast alpha 2 repressor determined by NMR spectroscopy.

The yeast alpha 2 protein is a regulator of cell type in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It represses transcription of a set of target genes by binding to an operator located upstream of each of these genes. The alpha 2 protein shares weak sequence similarity with members of the homeo domain family; the homeo domain is a 60-amino-acid segment found in many eukaryotic transcriptional regulators. In this paper we address the question of whether alpha 2 is structurally related to prototypical members of the homeo domain family. We used solution 1H and 15N nuclear magnetic resonance [NMR] spectroscopy to determine the secondary structure of an 83-amino-acid residue fragment of alpha 2 that contains the homeo domain homology. We have obtained resonance assignments for the backbone protons and nitrogens of the entire 60-residue region of the putative homeo domain and for most of the remainder of the alpha 2 fragment. The secondary structure was determined by using NOE connectivities between backbone protons, 3JHN-H alpha coupling constants, and dynamical information from the hydrogen exchange kinetics of the backbone amides. Three helical segments exist in the alpha 2 fragment consisting of residues 11-23, 32-42, and 46-60 (corresponding to residues 138-150, 159-169, and 173-187 of the intact protein). The positions of these three helices correspond extremely well to those of the Drosophila Antennapedia (Antp) and engrailed (en) homeo domains, whose three-dimensional structures have recently been determined by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, respectively. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
The organizing principle: microenvironmental influences in the normal and malignant breast.

The current paradigm for cancer initiation and progression rests on the groundbreaking discoveries of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. This framework has revealed much about the role of genetic alterations in the underlying signaling pathways central to normal cellular function and to tumor progression. However, it is clear that single gene theories or even sequential acquisition of mutations underestimate the nature of the genetic and epigenetic changes in tumors, and do not account for the observation that many cancer susceptibility genes (e.g. BRCA1, APC) show a high degree of tissue specificity in their association with neoplastic transformation. Therefore, the cellular and tissue context itself must confer additional and crucial information necessary for mutated genes to exert their influence. A considerable body of evidence now shows that cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions are essential organizing principles that help define the nature of the tissue context, and play a crucial role in regulating homeostasis and tissue specificity. How this context determines functional integrity, and how its loss can lead to malignancy, appears to have much to do with tissue structure and polarity.
The Impact of Exotic Dune Grass Species on Foredune Development in Australia and New Zealand: a case study of Ammophila arenaria and Thinopyrum junceiforme

Abstract Marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and sea-wheat grass (Thinopyrum junceiforme) have been introduced to Australia and New Zealand. This study examines the morphology of incipient foredunes and established foredunes associated with these species at two sites, Mason Bay in southern New Zealand, and the Younghusband Peninsula in South Australia. Both species invaded the existing foredunes very rapidly. In both cases the antecedent topography comprised relatively sparsely vegetated, irregular foredunes. Invasion resulted in continuous, regular, evenly vegetated foredunes. At Mason Bay a massive foredune has formed since 1958, in conjunction with Ammophila. Thinopyrum has formed an incipient foredune, with a ramp or terrace morphology, along the Younghusband Peninsula, South Australia. In both cases gaps in the former foredune have been closed and the indigenous foredune vegetation has been displaced. Both species may decrease the frequency and severity of blowout development. They are likely to be resilient to aeolian processes of sedimentation compared with dunes formed by indigenous species. Ammophila survives burial, is tolerant of drought and is resistant to erosion associated with storm surge and high waves. Thinopyrum is very tolerant of salinity. These species may adversely affect the long-term development of coastal barriers by inhibiting transgressive dune development.
Differential Acuity of the Two Eyes and the Problem of Ocular Dominances

While it has long been thought that no relationship exists between the eye of greater visual acuity and the eye favored in sighting, the data collected suggest the need for a re-examination of this issue. Sighting-dominance and acuity-dominance were associated. In addition, most individuals tested showed acuity-dominance of the left eye.
IS THERE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY

It is widely held that there is a legal right to privacy that plays such a central role in a number of important US Supreme Court decisions. There is however a great deal of dispute about whether there is a moral right to privacy and if there is, what grounds the right. Before this can be determined, we must be clear about the nature of privacy, something that is not clearly understood and that, as we shall see, is often confused with the right to privacy. I shall begin with a critical discussion of various views about the nature of privacy. I shall then present my own account, and show how it meets the objections that have been raised against other views. Lastly, I shall close with a discussion about whether privacy is a moral right.