Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
‘For me, the children come first’: A discursive psychological analysis of how mothers construct fathers’ roles in childrearing and childcare

Previous western studies have shown the division of domestic childcare work between fathers and mothers to be unequal but not always constructed as unfair. Following Dixon and Wetherell’s (2004) suggestion of applying a critical discursive psychology approach to the topic, I aimed to discover some of the discourses available to professional English women when constructing the contributions of the father at home. These included the ‘selfless mother’, the ‘shirking father’, ‘the father restores the “gender order”’ and the ‘high-status mother’. Findings suggest a possible application for discursive research, in raising women’s awareness of the potential for their discourses to perpetuate inequality.
Negotiating (In)Security: Agency, Resistance, and Resourcefulness among Girls Formerly Associated with Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front

When I started looking for girls in numerous war situations, I found silences and empty spaces, punctuated only by a handful of researchers focusing on children in general and girls in particular. Their stories account only for the smallest percentage of scholarly and popular work on social and political violence and systems of injustice. Too often the girls are considered only as silent victims of (sexual) assault—devoid of agency, moral conscience, economic potential or political awareness. We need to ask girls to tell their own stories of war . rather than assuming the right to speak for them. —Carolyn Nordstrom 1997, 5, 36
Relationship Motives, Personality, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Academic Staffs in Indonesia

This study addressed the role of motives and personality in organizational citizenship behavior. Three motives were identified organizational concern motive, prosocial values motive and impression management motive. I provide a framework showing these motives may motivate citizenship behavior. Because organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) may serve different needs or motives for different individual, the measurement of these motives will improve the prediction of OCB. OCB is a kind of contextual performance, a prosocial action, and personality trait involves prosocial thought, feelings, and action. It is suggested that engaging in OCB might affect a person’s self-concept. A survey is conducted by using questionnaires from the previous research. The questionnaires are sent to 400 lecturers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The samples consisted of 370 lecturers. Validity and reliability tests are used to evaluate the questionnaire contents. We employed structural equation modeling for the research framework and AMOS was used to analyze the model. This research analyzed why individual performs OCB throughout the relationship model among attribution theory, personality theory and organizational citizenship behavior. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Variable Linezolid Exposure in Intensive Care Unit Patients—Possible Role of Drug–Drug Interactions

Background: Standard doses of linezolid may not be suitable for all patient groups. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients in particular may be at risk of inadequate concentrations. This study investigated variability of drug exposure and its potential sources in this population. Methods: Plasma concentrations of linezolid were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography in a convenience sample of 20 ICU patients treated with intravenous linezolid 600 mg twice daily. Ultrafiltration applying physiological conditions (pH 7.4/37°C) was used to determine the unbound fraction. Individual pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters were estimated by population PK modeling. As measures of exposure to linezolid, area under the concentration–time curve (AUC) and trough concentrations (Cmin) were calculated and compared with published therapeutic ranges (AUC 200–400 mg*h/L, Cmin 2–10 mg/L). Coadministered inhibitors or inducers of cytochrome P450 and/or P-glycoprotein were noted. Results: Data from 18 patients were included into the PK evaluation. Drug exposure was highly variable (median, range: AUC 185, 48–618 mg*h/L, calculated Cmin 2.92, 0.0062–18.9 mg/L), and only a minority of patients had values within the target ranges (6 and 7, respectively). AUC and Cmin were linearly correlated (R = 0.98), and classification of patients (underexposed/within therapeutic range/overexposed) according to AUC or Cmin was concordant in 15 cases. Coadministration of inhibitors was associated with a trend to higher drug exposure, whereas 3 patients treated with levothyroxine showed exceedingly low drug exposure (AUC ∼60 mg*h/L, Cmin <0.4 mg/L). The median unbound fraction in all 20 patients was 90.9%. Conclusions: Drug exposure after standard doses of linezolid is highly variable and difficult to predict in ICU patients, and therapeutic drug monitoring seems advisable. PK drug–drug interactions might partly be responsible and should be further investigated; protein binding appears to be stable and irrelevant.
Numeracy in Inclusive Early Childhood Classrooms: Embedding Learning Opportunities and Using Effective Instructional Strategies.

This literature review will address issues to consider related to teaching numeracy and mathematics to children with disabilities in inclusive early childhood classrooms. As inclusive settings and instruction in numeracy/mathematics at an early age become more common, it is important to closely examine teaching strategies and make appropriate adaptations for young children with special needs. The purpose of this paper is to examine (a) strategies for embedding opportunities for numeracy/math development across various learning centers in a preschool classroom, and (b) instructional strategies that may be effective when teaching math and/or numeracy skills to children with special needs in inclusive early childhood settings. This dissertation is dedicated to my amazing husband and son, Damian and Fletcher Davenport. Thank you for supporting me in all of my endeavors, as well as for your continued love and encouragement. Without both of you, this dissertation would have never been accomplished. I love you so much.
Two dimensional affective state distribution of the brain under emotion stimuli

Emotions are ambiguous. Many techniques have been employed to perform emotion prediction and to understand emotional elicitations. Brain signals measured using electroencephalogram (EEG) are also used in studies about emotions. Using KDE as feature extraction technique and MLP for performing supervised learning on the brain signals. It has shown that all channels in EEG can capture emotional experience. In addition it was also indicated that emotions are dynamic as represented by the level of valence and the intensity of arousal. Such findings are useful in biomedical studies, especially in dealing with emotional disorders which can results in using a two-channel EEG device for neurofeedback applications.
Autoantibodies and microvascular damage are independent predictive factors for the progression of Raynaud's phenomenon to systemic sclerosis: a twenty-year prospective study of 586 patients, with validation of proposed criteria for early systemic sclerosis.

OBJECTIVE To identify in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) independent markers that predict progression to definite systemic sclerosis (SSc) and to determine in patients with progression to SSc the type and sequence of microvascular damage and its relationship to SSc-specific autoantibodies. METHODS Consecutive patients referred for evaluation of RP who had no definite connective tissue disease were evaluated for microvascular damage by nailfold capillary microscopy (NCM) and for anticentromere (anti-CENP-B), anti-Th/To, anti-topoisomerase I, and anti-RNA polymerase III (anti-RNAP III) autoantibodies by specific assays. Patients were studied prospectively. RESULTS Of the 586 patients who were followed up for 3,197 person-years, 74 (12.6%) developed definite SSc. A characteristic sequence of microvascular damage was identified, starting with enlarged capillaries, followed by capillary loss, and then by capillary telangiectases. Definite SSc was diagnosed in close temporal relationship to capillary loss. Enlarged capillaries, capillary loss, and SSc-specific autoantibodies independently predicted definite SSc. Anti-CENP-B and anti-Th/To antibodies predicted enlarged capillaries; these autoantibodies and anti-RNAP III predicted capillary loss. Each autoantibody was associated with a distinct time course of microvascular damage. At followup, 79.5% of patients with 1 of these autoantibodies and abnormal findings on NCM at baseline had developed definite SSc. Patients with both baseline predictors were 60 times more likely to develop definite SSc. The data validated the proposed criteria for early SSc. CONCLUSION In RP evolving to definite SSc, microvascular damage is dynamic and sequential, while SSc-specific autoantibodies are associated with the course and type of capillary abnormalities. Abnormal findings on NCM at baseline together with an SSc-specific autoantibody indicate a very high probability of developing definite SSc, whereas their absence rules out this outcome.
User acceptance of second life: An extended TAM including hedonic consumption behaviours

Second Life is a 3-D multi-user virtual environment which has gained wide spread popularity amongst academic community in the recent years. However, due to its infancy very little is known about the factors driving users’ intention to use Second Life especially in the educational context. This paper presents findings from an ongoing study about the impacts of using multi-user virtual environments in higher education. In information systems research, several models and frameworks have attempted to predict the acceptance of new technology. However some recent studies suggest that the traditional technology acceptance approaches may not work well with today’s entertainment-oriented technologies such as multi-user virtual environments. They also recommend exploring those facets of human behaviour that are likely to capture the hedonic consumption of such technologies. In this paper, we propose an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) including hedonic consumption behaviours in order to explain the usage and acceptance of Second Life in the educational context. The proposed model is empirically evaluated using survey data collected from 122 users about their perceptions of Second Life. Findings suggest that hedonic consumption behaviours are strong predictors of Second Life usage as compared to traditional motivational constructs of usefulness and ease-of-use.
Effects of goal orientation and task complexity on audit judgment performance / Zuraidah Mohd Sanusi, Takiah Mohd Iskandar and June M. L. Poon

This study examined the predictive effects of goal orientation and task complexity on audit judgment performance. We hypothesized that (a) learning goal orientation would relate positively with audit judgment performance, (b) performance-avoidance goal orientation and task complexity would relate negatively with audit judgment performance, and (c) performance-approach goal orientation would interact with task complexity to predict audit judgment performance.
Antipsychotic Drugs Alter Functional Connectivity between the Medial Frontal Cortex, Hippocampus, and Nucleus Accumbens as Measured by H215O PET

To evaluate changes in functional connectivity as a result of treatment with antipsychotic drugs (APDs) in subjects with schizophrenia (SZ), we identified a limited number of regions that have been implicated in the mechanism of action of APDs and that are part of a neuronal network known to be modulated by dopamine (DA). These regions consisted of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), the hippocampus (Hip), and the medial frontal cortex (MFC). SZ participants were blindly randomized into a haloperidol treatment group (n = 12) and an olanzapine treatment group (n = 17). Using PET with 15O, we evaluated changes in functional connectivity between these regions during rest and task performance at three treatment time points: (1) at baseline, after withdrawal of all psychotropic medication (2 weeks), (2) after 1 week on medication, and (3) after 6 weeks on medication. Results from the two treatment groups were combined during analysis to investigate the common effects of APDs on functional connectivity. We found that the functional connectivity between MFC and NAcc significantly increased at week one, and then significantly decreased from week one to week 6. The functional connectivity between MFC and Hip significantly decreased at week one and week 6 relative to baseline. Critically, the strength of the functional connectivity between the MFC and Hip after 1 week of treatment was predictive of treatment response. This pattern of changes may represent an important biomarker for indexing treatment response. The regulation by APDs of the balance between prefrontal and limbic inputs to the striatum may be crucial to restoring adaptive behavior.
Implicit use of radicals in learning characters for nonnative learners of Chinese

ABSTRACT This study investigated whether beginning nonnative learners of Chinese can use phonological and semantic information of radicals to learn the sounds and meanings of new Chinese characters. Thirty-four seventh- and eighth-grade American adolescents, who received intensive Chinese instruction for one semester, were taught 16 compound pseudocharacters paired with novel pictures over three learning trials. After each learning trial, students were asked to produce the sounds and meanings of pseudocharacters in which semantic transparency and phonetic regularity of radicals were manipulated. Results showed a facilitation effect of transparent semantic radicals in learning character meanings in early trials. There was a trend that students learned to read regular and transparent characters better than irregular and opaque characters. The ability to learn orthography–pronunciation association uniquely predicted Chinese word reading after controlling for semantic and phonetic radical knowledge. These findings suggest a predominant use of semantic strategies and the importance of orthography to phonology mappings in learning to read Chinese for beginning nonnative learners of Chinese.
Effect of calcium-channel blockers on calcium-phosphate metabolism in patients with end-stage renal disease.

BACKGROUND After EDTA-induced hypocalcaemia, healthy volunteers treated with diltiazem display more severe hyperparathyroidism than subjects on felodipine studied under identical conditions. Therefore patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and severe secondary hyperparathyroidism might be particularly sensitive to this side-effect. METHODS To test this hypothesis, seven patients with ESRD on chronic haemodialysis (3 women and 4 men) with serum levels of intact PTH ranging from 204 to 675 pg/ml were studied both before and during the first 180 min of haemodialysis against a dialysate with low calcium concentration (0.75 mmol/l, n = 6 and 1 mmol/l, n = 1) under the following three experimental conditions: control, felodipine (10 mg/day) and diltiazem (120 mg b.i.d.). RESULTS At onset of dialysis, plasma phosphorus level was higher on diltiazem (2.03 +/- 0.08 mM) than on felodipine (1.64 +/- 0.10, P < 0.02), and on the latter it was lower than in control condition (1.88 +/- 0.16, P < 0.02). As a probable consequence, blood ionized calcium concentration was lower on diltiazem (1.14 mM +/- 0.02, mean +/- SEM) than on felodipine (1.2 +/- 0.03, P < 0.05) or in control condition (1.17 +/- 0.01, NS). There was a trend for intact PTH to be higher on diltiazem (324 +/- 47 pg/ml) than on felodipine (246 +/- 55) or in control condition (305 +/- 49) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D was higher indeed on diltiazem (6.70 +/- 0.92 pg/ml) than on felodipine (4.75 +/- 0.91, P < 0.02) or control (3.87 +/- 0.62, P < 0.05). Area under the curve PTH over the first 60 min of dialysis was higher by 16 +/- 7% on diltiazem than on felodipine (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS While on diltiazem rather than on felodipine, patients with ESRD display higher plasma phosphorus levels, and slightly aggravate the degree of severity of hyperparathyroidism recorded during haemodialysis against low-calcium dialysate. The long-term effect of this new observation remains to be evaluated.
Gender Differences in Severity and Correlates of Depression Symptoms in People Living with HIV in Ontario, Canada

This study investigates the differences in severity and correlates of depression symptoms among 1069 men and 267 women living with HIV in Ontario, Canada, who completed the 20-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Women had higher CES-D scores than that of men (median [interquartile range]: 13 [5-26] versus 9 [3-20], P = .0004). More women had total CES-D scores >15 (mild-moderate depression; 44% versus 33%, P = .002) and >21 (severe depression; 31% versus 23%, P = .003). Unlike men, at age 40, women’s scores increased yearly (0.4 per increased year, P = .005). The distribution of scores differed by gender: There was no difference in the 10th percentile of depression scores, 0 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.0-1.0) but the 75th percentile of depression scores for women was 6 (95% CI: 2.0-10.0) points higher than that of men. Important gender differences exist in depression symptoms and in correlates of symptoms in people living with HIV.
Prognostic significance of elevated cyclooxygenase 2 expression in patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.

BACKGROUND & AIMS Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is associated with a reduced risk of cancer in the digestive tract. Cyclooxygenase (COX) is the best-known target of NSAIDs, and expression of the COX-2 isoform is elevated in esophageal carcinomas but its clinical significance remains unclear. We examined COX-2 expression in esophageal adenocarcinomas and its relation to clinicopathologic parameters. METHODS Tumor sections from 145 consecutive patients undergoing intentionally curative surgery for an adenocarcinoma arising from a Barrett's esophagus were immunohistochemically stained using a COX-2-specific anti-human monoclonal antibody. The specimens were scored based on the intensity and extent of COX-2 immunopositivity. RESULTS COX-2 immunoreactivity was negative to weak in 21% (COX-2 low) and moderate to strong in 79% (COX-2 high) of the carcinomas. Patients with high COX-2 expression were more likely to develop distant metastases (P = 0.02) and local recurrences (P = 0.05), and survival was significantly reduced (P = 0.002, log-rank test) among patients with high COX-2 expression when compared with the COX-2 low group. Five-year survival rates were 35% (95% confidence interval [CI], 23-47) and 72% (95% CI, 53-90) in COX-2 high and COX-2 low categories, respectively. Furthermore, expression of COX-2 was recognized as an independent prognostic factor by multivariate analysis (relative risk, 3.5; 95% CI, 1.6-7.9). CONCLUSIONS Elevated expression of COX-2 protein is associated with significantly reduced survival of patients undergoing surgery for esophageal adenocarcinoma. These findings support the effort to initiate clinical studies to investigate the effect of COX-2 inhibitors as a novel (adjuvant) chemotherapeutic modality for the treatment of adenocarcinoma arising from Barrett's esophagus.
Quantification of humeroulnar incongruity in labrador retrievers with and without medial coronoid disease.

OBJECTIVE To quantify humeroulnar incongruity on elbow radiographs in Labrador Retrievers with or without medial coronoid disease (MCD). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study of 92 elbows. SAMPLE POPULATION Radiographic projections of elbow joints from Labrador Retrievers with MCD (n = 42 elbows; 26 dogs) and without MCD (n = 50 elbows; 25 dogs). PROCEDURE The congruity of the humeroulnar joint was measured using an index of subluxation (SI) for each elbow. SI was defined as the distance between the centers of 2 circles drawn along the margins of the incisura trochlearis and the trochlea of humerus on mediolateral digital radiographic projections, normalized by the radius of the circle circumscribing the humeral trochlea. SI was compared between right and left elbows with and without pathology using a Wilcoxon test for paired data, and between normal and abnormal groups with a Wilcoxon test for unpaired data. Mismatch between ulnar curvature and curvature of humeral trochlea and radioulnar incongruency were also noted (Wilcoxon test). The intraobserver repeatability, correlation between SI and radioulnar incongruency, and between SI and mismatch elbow curvature were estimated with a Pearson's correlation coefficient. RESULTS Intraobserver repeatability of SI measurement was high (r = 0.97). Mean ± SD humeroulnar incongruity (SI) was greater in elbows with MCD (18.5 ± 6.6) than in the normal elbows (1.7 ± 2.0, P < 0.001). The difference between the diameters of the curvatures of the ulnar and humeral trochlea was greater in elbows with MCD (12.5 ± 4.4) than in the normal group (10.7 ± 4.1, P < 0.05). A moderate correlation was found between the degree of humeroulnar incongruity and a radioulnar step (r = 0.63); however, no correlation was identified between SI and the difference between the diameters of the curvatures of the ulnar and humeral trochleae (r = 0.14). CONCLUSION We propose a radiographic index to measure humeroulnar incongruity on mediolateral digital radiographic projections. This index (SI) supports the presence of humeroulnar incongruity in Labrador Retrievers with MCD. Further evaluation of its reproducibility and clinical importance are warranted. Although there is a moderate correlation between humeroulnar incongruity and radioulnar incongruency, causation has not been established.
The Effect of Some Plant Extracts on Mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.)

In this study, the biological effects of various concentrations of Melia azedarach, Rhazya stricta, Jatropha curcas, Artemisia herba alba, Calotropis procera, Matricharia chamomella and Diflubenzuron were assayed on an Aedes aegypti (L.) test population under controlled laboratory conditions. Concentration levels of responses were evaluated. Characteristics such as IC50 and IC90 the susceptibility of immature stages to these plant extracts and insect growth regulator and their accumulation effects were studied. The percentage mortality of the fourth instar of Ae. aegypti larvae increased significantly with latex concentrations, indicating a direct relationship between the concentration and different effects. The larval mortalities ranged between low or moderate. According the mode of action of different plant extracts and Diflubenzuron did not appear to give high percentage of mortality against larval stages, although in most cases a clearly delayed inhibition of adult emergence was noted. The survival pupae percentage that produced from treated with different concentrations indicated that increased significantly of pupal survival due to decreasing the concentrations. There were significantly larval mortality and inhibition adult emergency percent in the treated groups compared to the control group. The characteristics investigated here indicate that this plant extracts and insect growth regulators are effective alternatives for controlling the dengue vector.
Team Coordination in Basketball: Description of the Cognitive Connections Among Teammates

This study investigated team coordination in basketball using the course-of-action theoretical framework. The focus was on how the players were connected with their teammates' activities. The activity of five French basketball players (17.60 ± .89 years) was studied during an official match. The data were collected and processed according to a procedure defined for course-of-action analysis. The results were used to characterize the coordination modes among players and the team coordination network that was built. The processes that underlie team coordination are discussed (i.e., mutuality and awareness), and some directions for practical applications are addressed.