Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Short communication Cognitive coping, goal self-efficacy and personal growth in HIV-infected men who have sex with men

Objective: The relationships between cognitive coping strategies, goal self-efficacy and personal growth were studied in HIV-positive men who have sex with men. Methods: All members of a national organization for people living with HIV received a call for participation. The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Goal Obstruction Questionnaire and the Personal Growth Scale were filled out at home by 104 HIV-infected men. Results: Thinking about joyful and pleasant issues instead of thinking about being HIV-positive, thinking about what steps to take and how to handle being HIV-positive, thoughts of attaching a positive meaning to being HIV-positive, thoughts of playing down the seriousness of being HIVpositive or emphasizing its relativity when compared to other events, thoughts of putting the blame of being HIV-positive on others (inversely) and the extent to which one considers oneself able to reengage in alternative meaningful goals were related to personal growth. Conclusion: The study showed that both cognitive coping strategies and goal self-efficacy were related to personal growth. The findings suggest that mainly positive ways to handle being HIV-infected are related to personal growth. Practice implications: These findings suggested that intervention programs for people with HIV should pay attention to cognitive coping strategies and goal self-efficacy. # 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
SkM1 and Cx32 improve conduction in canine myocardial infarcts yet only SkM1 is antiarrhythmic.

AIMS Reentry accounts for most life-threatening arrhythmias, complicating myocardial infarction, and therapies that consistently prevent reentry from occurring are lacking. In this study, we compare antiarrhythmic effects of gene transfer of green fluorescent protein (GFP; sham), the skeletal muscle sodium channel (SkM1), the liver-specific connexin (Cx32), and SkM1/Cx32 in the subacute canine infarct. METHODS AND RESULTS Immediately after ligation of the left anterior descending artery, viral constructs were implanted in the epicardial border zone (EBZ). Five to 7 days later, efficient restoration of impulse propagation (narrow QRS and local electrogram duration) occurred in SkM1, Cx32, and SkM1/Cx32 groups (P< 0.05 vs. GFP). Programmed electrical stimulation from the EBZ induced sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF) in 15/22 GFP dogs vs. 2/12 SkM1, 6/14 Cx32, and 8/10 SkM1/Cx32 (P< 0.05 SkM1 vs. GFP). GFP, SkM1, and SkM1/Cx32 had predominantly polymorphic VT/VF, whereas in Cx32 dogs, monomorphic VT predominated (P< 0.05 for Cx32 vs. GFP). Tetrazolium red staining showed significantly larger infarcts in Cx32- vs. GFP-treated animals (P< 0.05). CONCLUSION Whereas SkM1 gene transfer reduces the incidence of inducible VT/VF, Cx32 therapy to improve gap junctional conductance results in larger infarct size, a different VT morphology, and no antiarrhythmic efficacy.
Church Setting Social Support Influences on African Americans Physical Activity Behaviors

CHURCH SETTING SOCIAL SUPPORT INFLUENCES ON AFRICAN AMERICANS’ PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BEHAVIORS by Natasha Renee Burse The purpose of the study was to compare the influence of multiple sources of social support on African American (AA) adults’ physical activity (PA), including support from church members, pastors, family members, and friends. Participants were recruited from two Ohio churches and completed a paper-pencil survey. Participants self-reported their demographic and health-related information, weekly physical activity levels, and daily television (TV) minutes. PA was assessed via the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and computed into metabolic equivalents (METs). Results were analyzed via linear regression analysis. All participants were AA, mostly female participants, with a mean age of 44 years. Participants had a mean body mass index of 31.23, and 84% of the sample was categorized as overweight/obese. Overall, results demonstrated significant associations between participants’ activity levels and social support, which varied by the source and type of social support. Implications were discussed. CHURCH SETTING SOCIAL SUPPORT ON AFRICAN AMERICANS’ PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BEHAVIORS
Tag overflow buffering: an energy-efficient cache architecture

We propose a novel energy-efficient memory architecture which relies on the use of a cache with a reduced number of tag bits. The idea behind the proposed architecture is based on moving a large number of the tag bits from the cache into an external register (tag overflow buffer) that identifies the current locality of the memory references; additional hardware allows us to dynamically update the value of the reference locality contained in the buffer. Energy efficiency is achieved by using, for most of the memory accesses, a reduced-tag cache. This architecture is minimally intrusive for existing designs, since it assumes the use of a regular cache, and does not require any special circuitry internal to the cache such as row or column activation mechanisms. Average energy savings are 51% on tag energy, corresponding to about 20% saving on total cache energy, measured on a set of typical embedded applications.
From awareness to engagement in meaningful conversation : exploring mechanisms of group regulation among beginner English language learners

Taking the sociocultural theory as theoretical framework, this thesis investigates the process of group regulation. It describes how regulatory mechanisms emerge and evolve in interactions among beginner English language learners considering the complexity of the dimensions involved. In an EFL context, many language learners are unlikely to encounter conditions in which they can practice their L2 and participate in meaningful conversation, even in language learning classrooms. This problem is accentuated when it comes to beginning language learners whose participation in communicative activities is likely to be even more limited. The current study starts from the premise that working in groups generates opportunities for learners to communicate in the L2 and share their learning problems with others instead of dealing with them on their own. The research explores regulatory mechanisms in conversations amongst four groups of Mexican adult beginner learners of English as a Foreign language (N=16). It enquires about the ways in which peer interactions in groups of learners mediate conversation during the completion of three open-question tasks. It also aims to explore the ways in which these language learners exert control over their limited resources to achieve their goals and to solve their emerging problems, without the guidance of a teacher. A mixed method research design was employed with a predominantly qualitative methodology. The main data was collected from the participants’ conversations during their weekly learning meetings in a Self Access Centre at a Mexican University over a nine-week period. Microgenetic analysis of their conversations provides a rich description of the moment-by-moment development of the regulatory mechanisms in play. Secondary data (such as learners' diaries, systematic observations, and group feedback) serves to complement the findings. The study resulted in the design of a new model of regulation, which suggests that during the completion of tasks, learners are confronted with the challenge of finding solutions to problems they draw on the group resources, negotiate the management of the task, and engage in meaningful communication. The findings also suggest that language learners at beginning stages can exert control over their cognitive, affective and social domains to engage in meaningful dialogues while using the target language to communicate, despite their limited resources. Understanding how groups can collaborate and regulate their actions leads to important implications for ELT. It can be concluded that language students need to be provided with favourable circumstances for group work in which they can raise their metalinguistic awareness, improve their interpersonal communication skills, experience support from their peers, use strategies to manage their communication and gain insight into their language learning process.
The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: Comparative analysis of reduced genomes

Bacterial symbioses are widespread among insects, probably being one of the key factors of their evolutionary success. We present the complete genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus, the primary endosymbiont of carpenter ants. Although these ants feed on a complex diet, this symbiosis very likely has a nutritional basis: Blochmannia is able to supply nitrogen and sulfur compounds to the host while it takes advantage of the host metabolic machinery. Remarkably, these bacteria lack all known genes involved in replication initiation (dnaA, priA, and recA). The phylogenetic analysis of a set of conserved protein-coding genes shows that Bl. floridanus is phylogenetically related to Buchnera aphidicola and Wigglesworthia glossinidia, the other endosymbiotic bacteria whose complete genomes have been sequenced so far. Comparative analysis of the five known genomes from insect endosymbiotic bacteria reveals they share only 313 genes, a number that may be close to the minimum gene set necessary to sustain endosymbiotic life.
Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry into the Mainstream Labor Market

We estimate the post-release economic effects of participation in prison-based General Educational Development (GED) programs using a panel of earnings records and a rich set of individual information from administrative data in the state of Florida. Fixed effects estimates of the impact of participating in the GED education program show post-release quarterly earnings gains of about 15 percent for program participants relative to observationally similar nonparticipants. We also show, however, that these earnings gains accrue only to racial/ethnic minority offenders and any GED-related earnings gains for this group seem to fade in the third year after release from prison. Estimates comparing offenders who obtained a GED to those who participated in GED-related prison education programs but left prison without a GED show no systematic evidence of an independent impact of the credential itself on post-release quarterly earnings.
Procedural Adaptations for Use of Constant Time Delay to Teach Highly Motivating Words to Beginning Braille Readers

Introduction Constant time delay is an evidence-based practice to teach sight word recognition to students with a variety of disabilities. To date, two studies have documented its effectiveness for teaching braille. Methods Using a multiple-baseline design, we evaluated the effectiveness of constant time delay to teach highly motivating words to three beginning braille readers with developmental disabilities. Procedural variations included a pre-teaching and assessment tool, a higher criterion for mastery, an increased number of trials per session, and remediated instructional feedback. Results A functional relation was established for all three participants. Students reached mastery in four to 12 sessions in less than one hour of instruction. Although the number of correct responses decreased over time, long-term maintenance was demonstrated. Discussion Results suggest that constant time delay is a promising strategy for teaching highly motivating words to early braille readers. Replication is required to establish constant time delay as an evidence-based practice for braille literacy. Implications for practitioners Practitioners are encouraged to incorporate constant time delay into a comprehensive literacy program with opportunities to generalize word reading to other contexts.
RedFixHop with channel hopping: Reliable ultra-low-latency network flooding

A constructive interference (CI) based flooding mechanism, using hardware-generated acknowledgments (ACKs), is proposed to achieve highly reliable source-to-sink communication of very short critical packets within a wireless sensor network (WSN) working in harsh environments. CI is only achieved if the senders synchronize their packet transmissions with sub-microsecond precision. In order to achieve the required synchronization accuracy, the packet retransmissions at the relay nodes are triggered by using hardware ACKs. To further increase packet reception probability, channel diversity is exploited using a predefined hopping sequence. The protocol performance is experimentally evaluated by implementing it using IEEE 802.15. 4 radio transceivers.
Students' perception of the learning environment at Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba: a follow-up study

Xavier University School of Medicine admits students mainly from the United States and Canada to the undergraduate medical program. A previous study conducted in June 2013 used the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure to measure the educational environment and impact of different teaching and learning methods in the program. The present study aims to obtain information about students' perceptions of changes in the educational environment, which underwent modifications in teaching and learning, in January 2014. Information was collected about the participants' semester of study, gender, nationality, and age. Students' perceptions of the educational environment were documented by noting their degree of agreement with a set of 50 statements grouped into five categories. Average scores were compared among different groups. The mean total and category scores were compared to those of the 2013 study. Sixty of the sixty-nine students (86.9%) who enrolled in the undergraduate medical program participated in the survey. The majority were male, aged 20-25 years, and of American nationality. The mean±SD total score was 151.32±18.3. The mean scores for students' perception in the survey categories were perception of teaching/learning (38.45), perception of teachers (33.90), academic self-perceptions (22.95), perception of atmosphere (36.32), and social self-perception (19.70). There were no significant differences in these scores among the different groups. All scores except those for academic self-perception were significantly higher in the present study compared to the previous one (P<0.05). The above results will be of particular interest to schools that plan to transition to an integrated curriculum.
Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Populations in a Cystic Fibrosis Patient

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa chronically infects the lower airways of patients with cystic fibrosis. Throughout the course of infection this organism undergoes adaptations that contribute to its long-term persistence in the airways. While P. aeruginosa diversity has been documented, it is less clear to what extent within-patient diversity contributes to the overall population structure as most studies have been limited to the analysis of only a few isolates per patient per time point. To examine P. aeruginosa population structure in more detail we collected multiple isolates from individual sputum samples of a patient chronically colonized with P. aeruginosa. This strain collection, comprised of 169 clonal isolates and representing three pulmonary exacerbations as well as clinically stable periods, was assayed for a wide selection of phenotypes. These phenotypes included colony morphology, motility, quorum sensing, protease activity, auxotrophy, siderophore levels, antibiotic resistance, and growth profiles. Each phenotype displayed significant variation even within isolates of the same colony morphotype from the same sample. Isolates demonstrated a large degree of individuality across phenotypes, despite being part of a single clonal lineage, suggesting that the P. aeruginosa population in the cystic fibrosis airways is being significantly under-sampled.
Was That Cheating? Perceptions Vary by Sex, Attachment Anxiety, and Behavior

We generated an inventory of 27 interpersonal behaviors and examined the extent to which participants judged each behavior as cheating on a long-term partner. We predicted variation in these judgments based on participant sex and attachment insecurity. Ratings for items ranged considerably; participants rated sexual behaviors as most indicative of cheating, then erotic behaviors, followed by behaviors consistent with a romantic relationship, and then behaviors related to financial support. Women rated ten items higher than did men, and men's ratings were higher on a minor financial support item. Higher attachment anxiety was associated with higher ratings for 18 of 27 behaviors; higher attachment avoidance was associated with lower scores on five items and higher scores on one item. Principle Axis Factoring identified three dimensions; sexual interaction, behaviors indicating close relationships, and casual social interaction. We discuss these results using the framework of attachment theory and sex-specific mating strategies.
A Filtering Microstrip Antenna Array

A new filtering microstrip antenna array is presented. The antenna elements, together with the very compact feeding network, function as a third-order bandpass filter. The feeding network, which consists of one power divider and two baluns, provides the first two stages, and the microstrip antenna elements provide the last stage in the filter design. The equivalent lumped circuit model is analyzed, and the detail synthesis procedure is presented. A third-order filtering 2 × 2 microstrip antenna array is designed at a center frequency of 5 GHz with 3% fractional bandwidth and Chebyshev 0.3-dB equal-ripple broadside antenna gain response. The results from circuit model, full-wave simulation, and measurements agree well. Compared to the conventional patch antenna array, the proposed filtering microstrip antenna array successfully suppresses the unwanted signals in out-of-band, preserves good selectivity at band edges, and retains the flatness of the passband broadside antenna gain response.
Error Analysis of a Mixed Finite Element Method for the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Model

This paper investigates the error analysis of a mixed finite element method with Crank--Nicolson time-stepping for simulating the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) model. The fourth-order differential equation of the MBE model is replaced by a system of equations consisting of one nonlinear parabolic equation and an elliptic equation. Then a mixed finite element method requiring only continuous elements is proposed to approximate the resulting system. It is proved that the semidiscrete and fully discrete versions of the numerical schemes satisfy the nonlinearity energy stability property, which is important in the numerical implementation. Moreover, detailed analysis is provided to obtain the convergence rate. Numerical experiments are carried out to validate the theoretical results.
Affect as a predictor of innovative behaviour in entrepreneurship

This paper theorises that innovation by entrepreneurs is influenced by affective activation and valence. State affect (moods and emotions) has a proven link with behavioural and cognitive performance, yet evidence on this issue is seemingly fragmented, and further lacking from the entrepreneurship and innovation literatures. This article utilises the circumplex model of affect to reconcile these inconsistencies. High activating affect, both positively (inspired, excited) and negatively (worried, tense) valanced, is expected to correlate strongly with entrepreneurs’ daily innovative behaviours. Furthermore, personality and affective depositions are argued to moderate the strength of this relationship. Additionally, the role that mood regulation via sleep quality plays as a construct between mood and innovative work behaviour is explored. This leads to practical implications for entrepreneurs. Key measures are presented to help test four sets of propositions via a two week twice-daily experience sampling methodology with an entrepreneurial sample, and a conceptual model is presented.
Sim-SODA : A Unified Framework for Architectural Level Software Reliability Analysis

Semiconductor transient faults (soft errors) are becoming an increasingly critical threat to reliable software execution. With the advent of the billion transistor chip era, it is impractical to protect the entire hardware. As a result, it is crucial that the tradeoffs between reliability and performance be made at the architecture design stage. To achieve this goal, researchers need a framework to evaluate software vulnerability to transient errors at a high level. This paper describes Sim-SODA (SOftware Dependability Analysis), a unified framework for estimating microprocessor reliability in the presence of soft errors at the architectural level. Compared with previous studies, Sim-SODA covers more hardware structures and provides fine-grained reliability analysis. We present a detailed architectural reliability profile of an Alpha-21264-like superscalar microprocessor running workloads from various application domains. Additionally, we obtain program vulnerability phases and correlate them with microprocessor performance metrics.
The effect of cholinesterase inhibitors on sleep in the patients with Alzheimer’s disease: an observational prospective study

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to evaluate the essential effects of cholinesterase inhibitors between the first days of the medication and after 1 month in the patients have not the history of disease, the patients not used the medicines which effect the sleep or the patients started new medication. METHODS: Patients diagnosed with mild to moderate stage Alzheimer’s disease according to DSM-IV criteria (age: 55–85) were admitted in this multi-centred study between December 2014 and January 2017. Thirty five patients with mini mental test score between 14 and 24 were included in the study. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD), Beck Anxiety Scale (BAS) and Standardized Mini Mental Test (SMMT) were given to all patients were used in first days of treatment and at least after 1 month. RESULTS: Twenty patients (57%) were using Donepezil and 15 patients (43%) were using Rivastigmine. Gender, marital status, educational status and family history of dementia were not statistically significant difference for both of the groups. There was no statistically significant difference between the first and second evaluation for two treatment groups in SMMT, CSDD and BAS scores (p values .748, .232 and .611, respectively). In both groups, positive effect were observed in PSQI scores after 1 month of treatment, but this positive effect was not found to be statistically significant (p: .558). DISCUSSION: When donepezil and rivastigmine were compared in this study, it was observed that they had similar positive effects on sleeping quality, but there was not statistically significant difference.
Social factors in aesthetic talent

Talented children are usually thought of as those for whom abstract thought comes easily and who thrive on conceptual and theoretical teaching methods. But the pervading realisation that intellect is more than the sum of the intelligence test profile is bringing 'non-essentials' like aesthetics to the researcher's notice. As yet, such information, from the educational psychological point of view, remains sparse.