Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Examining the Effects of Gain-Framed Messages on the Activation and Elaboration of Possible Sport Selves in Middle-Aged Adults

Using an online cross-sectional randomized design, we explored whether messages emphasizing benefits of sport (sport gain-framed messages) would activate and elaborate hoped-for possible sport selves in 40- to 59-year-olds. One group viewed a video containing sport gain-framed messages, and a comparison group completed a sport and physical activity quiz. Results showed that the message group attended to a health and fitness message most frequently and demonstrated more frequent activation of possible selves than the quiz group. The message group's possible selves also contained more elaborate content related to delaying the effects of aging through sport and the social benefits of sport.
Raised to Dissent: Family-of-Origin Family Communication Patterns as Predictors of Organizational Dissent

This article extends Kassing's (1997, 1998) model of organizational dissent by evaluating the extent to which family-of-origin communication predicts upward (i.e., to superior) and lateral (i.e., to peer) dissent. Specifically, building from Koerner and Fitzpatrick's theory of family communication schemas, we predicted that family communication patterns (i.e., conversation and conformity orientations) would serve as an individual factor that meaningfully predicts employee dissent. Significant findings emerged for upward dissent but not lateral dissent, with both a main effect for conformity orientation and interaction between conversation and conformity orientations. Decomposition of the interaction effect indicated that, as hypothesized, employees from pluralistic (high conversation, low conformity) families were more likely to express upward dissent than employees from consensual (high conversation, high conformity) families. This pattern of results informs both organizational practice and the theoretical intersection between family and organizational communication.
Reconstruction-error-based learning for continuous emotion recognition in speech

To advance the performance of continuous emotion recognition from speech, we introduce a reconstruction-error-based (RE-based) learning framework with memory-enhanced Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). In the framework, two successive RNN models are adopted, where the first model is used as an autoencoder for reconstructing the original features, and the second is employed to perform emotion prediction. The RE of the original features is used as a complementary descriptor, which is merged with the original features and fed to the second model. The assumption of this framework is that the system has the ability to learn its ‘drawback’ which is expressed by the RE. Experimental results on the RECOLA database show that the proposed framework significantly outperforms the baseline systems without any RE information in terms of Concordance Correlation Coefficient (.729 vs .710 for arousal, .360 vs .237 for valence), and also significantly overcomes other state-of-the-art methods.
Fermionic Functional Integrals and the Renormalization Group

The Renormalization Group is the name given to a technique for analyzing the qualitative behaviour of a class of physical systems by iterating a map on the vector space of interactions for the class. In a typical non-rigorous application of this technique one assumes, based on one’s physical intuition, that only a certain nite dimensional subspace (usually of dimension three or less) is important. These notes concern a technique for
A revealing generation? Exploring the blogging of adolescent girls in Sweden

Blogging has become one of the most common Internet activities among young females, but research on this phenomenon is scarce. This study explores the blogging of Swedish adolescent girls. Seeing that blogs is a forum for self-expression, this also gives a unique opportunity for the adolescent girls' own voices to be heard. A directed content analysis was conducted on 204 blog entries, written by 34 female adolescent bloggers (aged 13–19). Major topics, major actors, and emotional tone, among other elements, were analyzed. Results showed that the bloggers most frequently wrote about daily routines, expressed strong emotions, and were themselves the major actors in the entries. A majority revealed detailed information about themselves, but there was also a degree of self-censoring. The findings are further discussed in relation to identity and developmental aspects of adolescence. In conclusion, we suggest that blogs may bring a sense of control to young females in how they represent themselves, as well as an opportunity to process and reflect on past and present events in their daily lives.
Individual and institutional productivity of racial and ethnic minority research in the Journal of Counseling Psychology

This study examined individual and institutional productivity of research pertaining to racial and ethnic minorities in the Journal of Counseling Psychology (JCP). Full-length articles appearing in JCP from 1988 to 1997 were examined. Two distinct methods to calculate productivity scores were used to obtain rankings of individual authors (G. S. Howard, D. A. Cole, & S. E. Maxwell, 1987) and institutions (D. J. Tinsley & H. E. Tinsley, 1979). Our findings identified the top most productive authors and institutions of ethnic and racial research published in JCP from 1988 to 1997. Implications of these findings and areas for future research are discussed.
Nuptiality Patterns and Household Structure On the Greek Island of Mykonos, 1849-1959

The focus of the study is the population of the Cycladic island of Mykonos, Greece, from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. An overwhelming preponderance of nuclear households was found there in the mid-nineteenth century. The inheritance system facilitated the observed rules of neolocality. At the same time, the marriage pattern was clearly Mediterranean, i.e. with rather low age at first marriage for females, high for males, and low levels of permanent celibacy. Over the period of the study a gradual move away from this pattern was observed, mainly due to an increase in the female age at marriage. These findings are in line with other evidence from southern Mediterranean Europe, and indicate the strong influence of common socioeconomic and probably cultural elements.
High‐resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging of cortical activation during tactile exploration

Cortical activation during tactile exploration of macrogeometric objects was investigated in six healthy individuals with the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensitized to changes in cerebral blood oxygenation. Dynamic measurement of task‐related signal alterations were performed at 2.0 T using a rapid gradient‐echo MRI sequence (TR/TE=63/30 ms, flip angle 10°, measuring time 6 s) at high spatial resolution (0.8 × 1.6 mm2). Four contiguous sections (thickness 4 mm) parallel to the bicommissural plane covered the hand area of the primary sensorimotor cortex (M1, S1), the supplementary motor area (SMA), premotor areas (PMA), and superior parts of the parietal cortex (PC). Task‐related activation was determined by correlating signal intensity time courses with the stimulus protocol on a pixel‐by‐pixel basis. In contrast to predominantly contralateral M1 activation, effects in the hand area of S1 were not restricted to the contralateral side but were equally present in the posterior section of ispilateral S1. Furthermore, bilateral responses were encountered in SMA and PC, while observations within PMA remained inconsistent. These findings in single subjects readily demonstrate a highly resolved and interindividually reproducible pattern of cortical activation in relation to exploratory finger movements and associated intergration of somatosensory information. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Coworker Exchange, Leader-Member Exchange, and Work Attitudes:P A Study of Coworker Dyads

The purpose of this study is to examine how leader-member exchange (LMX) similarity might affect exchange quality between coworkers. This research also investigates the relationships of LMX and CWX (coworker exchange) to employees’ organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Each respondent from 76 nurses at three hospitals in Semarang were asked to rate the quality of the relationship he/she had with his/her supervisor, resulting in 76 LMX ratings. They were also asked to rate the quality of their relationships with each of their coworkers. A dyad was created where we had complete information on two employees rating one another. Once paired, a total of 146 dyads with complete LMX, CWX, and work attitude data were acquired. The results of this research indicate that the interaction between two coworkers’ LMX scores predicts CWX quality for the coworker dyad. After controlling for CWX, LMX quality is positively related to job satisfaction, but not to organizational commitment. Furthermore, after controlling for LMX, a greater diversity in a worker’s CWX relationship is negatively associated to his/her organizational commitment, but not to his/her job satisfaction. The interaction of CWX quality and CWX diversity, however, does not predict work attitude.
Management of Internal Root Resorption on Permanent Teeth

Internal root resorption (IRR) is a particular category of pulp disease characterized by the loss of dentine as a result of the action of clastic cells stimulated by pulpal inflammation. This review article explains the etiology, the prevalence of IRR, and, in addition to the clinical data, the contribution of the three-dimensional imaging (CBCT) to the diagnosis, the clinical decision, and the therapeutic management of IRR. The authors discussed the various therapeutic options including the orthograde or retrograde fillings of the root canal resorption area. Root canal treatment remains the treatment of choice of internal root resorption as it removes the granulation tissue and blood supply of the clastic cells. The authors describe with different clinical cases the modern endodontic techniques including optical aids, ultrasonic improvement of chemical debridement, and the use of alternative materials such as calcium silicate combined with thermoplastic filling (warm gutta-percha). In these conditions, the prognosis of the conservative treatment of internal resorptions, even if root walls are perforated, is good.
Audiovisual Temporal Correspondence Modulates Human Multisensory Superior Temporal Sulcus Plus Primary Sensory Cortices

The brain should integrate related but not unrelated information from different senses. Temporal patterning of inputs to different modalities may provide critical information about whether those inputs are related or not. We studied effects of temporal correspondence between auditory and visual streams on human brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Streams of visual flashes with irregularly jittered, arrhythmic timing could appear on right or left, with or without a stream of auditory tones that coincided perfectly when present (highly unlikely by chance), were noncoincident with vision (different erratic, arrhythmic pattern with same temporal statistics), or an auditory stream appeared alone. fMRI revealed blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) increases in multisensory superior temporal sulcus (mSTS), contralateral to a visual stream when coincident with an auditory stream, and BOLD decreases for noncoincidence relative to unisensory baselines. Contralateral primary visual cortex and auditory cortex were also affected by audiovisual temporal correspondence or noncorrespondence, as confirmed in individuals. Connectivity analyses indicated enhanced influence from mSTS on primary sensory areas, rather than vice versa, during audiovisual correspondence. Temporal correspondence between auditory and visual streams affects a network of both multisensory (mSTS) and sensory-specific areas in humans, including even primary visual and auditory cortex, with stronger responses for corresponding and thus related audiovisual inputs.
Using a cultural lens to explore challenges and issues in culturally diverse schools for Teach First beginning teachers: implications for future teacher training

This article explores some of the challenges faced by Teach First teachers during their first year of teaching in a culturally diverse school, and describes some of the strategies they employ to overcome them. Using a variety of methods, both qualitative and quantitative data are collected, focusing on the perspectives of the teachers over the course of the academic year. Three common themes emerged from the findings; firstly, there is evidence from all datasets that cultural challenges exist for the participants, and that they have developed strategies for overcoming them during the course of the year. Secondly, the cultural gap revealed by the data is not necessarily that between staff and pupils, but exists more between curriculum and pupils, in the eyes of the participants. Thirdly, while cultural differences have caused some problems for the participants, they have come to recognise that although they cannot change the whole culture of the school and its pupils, they can make a difference in their classrooms. The Bourdieuian cultural lens provided ideas to better prepare future trainees for this type of situation in schools, and also added to a growing body of knowledge in this area. To better prepare trainees, we may need to see culture differently from how we have previously done, and to raise our awareness and that of our trainees to the issues that might arise in situations such as the one described here.
Λ-lookdown model with selection

The goal of this paper is to study the lookdown model with selection in the case of a population containing two types of individuals, with a reproduction model which is dual to the Λ-coalescent. In particular we formulate the infinite population “Λlookdown model with selection”. When the measure Λ gives no mass to 0, we show that the proportion of one of the two types converges, as the population size N tends to infinity, towards the solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by a Poisson point process. We show that one of the two types fixates in finite time if and only if the Λ-coalescent comes down from infinity. We also consider the general case of a combination of the Kingman and the Λ-lookdown model. Subject classification 60G09, 60H10, 92D25.
Cooperative Data Offload in Opportunistic Networks: From Mobile Devices to Infrastructure

Opportunistic mobile networks consisting of intermittently connected mobile devices have been exploited for various applications, such as computational offloading and mitigating cellular traffic load. In contrast to existing work, in this paper, we focus on cooperatively offloading data among mobile devices to maximally improve the probability of data delivery from a mobile device to intermittently connected infrastructure within a given time constraint, which is referred to as the cooperative offloading problem. Unfortunately, the estimation of data delivery probability over an opportunistic path is difficult and cooperative offloading is NP-hard. To this end, we first propose a probabilistic framework that provides the estimation of such probability. Based on the proposed probabilistic framework, we design a heuristic algorithm to solve cooperative offloading at a low computation cost. Due to the lack of global information, a distributed algorithm is further proposed. The performance of the proposed approaches is evaluated based on both synthetic networks and real traces. Experimental results show that the probabilistic framework can accurately estimate the data delivery probability, cooperative offloading greatly improves the delivery probability, the heuristic algorithm approximates the optimum, and the performance of both the heuristic algorithm and distributed algorithm outperforms other approaches.
(Leader/Randomization/Signature)-free Byzantine Consensus for Consortium Blockchains

This paper presents a new Byzantine consensus algorithm targeting consortium blockchains. To this end, it first revisits the consensus validity property by requiring that the decided value satisfies a predefined predicate, which does not systematically exclude a value proposed only by Byzantine processes, thereby generalizing the validity properties found in the literature. Then, the paper presents a simple and modular Byzantine consensus algorithm that relies neither on a leader, nor on signatures, nor on randomization. It features the fastest multivalued reduction to binary consensus we know of and a time optimal binary Byzantine consensus algorithm. The multivalued reduction runs multiple instances of binary consensus concurrently, which result in a bitmask that is then applied to a vector of multivalued proposals to filter out a valid proposed value that is decided. To ensure eventual decision deterministically, the underlying binary consensus algorithm assumes eventual synchrony.
Expression of Human Hepatic Lipase in the Rabbit Model Preferentially Enhances the Clearance of Triglyceride‐Enriched Versus Native High‐Density Lipoprotein Apolipoprotein A‐I

Background We have shown previously that triglyceride (TG) enrichment of HDL, as occurs in hypertriglyceridemic states, contributes to HDL lowering in humans by enhancing the clearance of HDL apolipoprotein (apo) A‐I from the circulation. In the New Zealand White rabbit, an animal naturally deficient in hepatic lipase (HL), we demonstrated that TG enrichment of HDL per se is not sufficient to enhance HDL clearance in the absence of ex vivo lipolysis by HL. Here, we examined in the rabbit the interaction between in vivo HL lipolytic action and HDL TG enrichment on the subsequent metabolic clearance of HDL apoA‐I. Methods and Results The clearance of HDL, TG‐enriched with human VLDL (12% mass TG), was compared with a simultaneously injected native rabbit HDL tracer (8% TG) 5 to 7 days after injection of recombinant (r) adenovirus expressing either the human HL or lacZ transgene (n=6 animals each). In rHL‐Adv rabbits, HL activity levels were 2‐ to 7‐fold higher (versus rlacZ‐Adv controls; P<0.01), and there were significant (P<0.05) reductions in HDL TG (−18%), cholesterol (−21%), cholesteryl ester (−24%), and phospholipid (−14%). Moreover, the clearance of TG‐enriched versus native HDL was significantly greater (by 50%; 0.122±0.022 versus 0.081±0.015 pools/h; P<0.01) in rHL‐Adv rabbits but not in controls. Conclusions These studies have shown that TG enrichment of HDL in the presence but not in the absence of in vivo expression of moderate levels of lipolytically active HL results in enhanced HDL clearance, demonstrating the important interaction between TG enrichment and HL action in the pathogenesis of HDL lowering in hypertriglyceridemic states. (Circulation. 2003;107:3066‐3072.)
Contexts of possibility in simultaneous language learning: using the L2 Motivational Self System to assess the impact of global English

Abstract Motivation in simultaneous L2 learning situations is an area of research largely overlooked and studies from contexts where people are engaged in learning more than one L2 are rare. In their large-scale Hungarian research, Dörnyei, Csizér and Németh found that pupils' positive attitudes to one L2 could cause interferences with attitudes to others, with English being the greatest source of such interference. In this article it is suggested that, as an alternative to interference, Markus and Nurius' theory of the working self-concept may offer a theoretically more coherent explanation for between-language effects in situations of simultaneous learning. Using a specially designed instrument, three hypotheses were tested for a sample of Swedish pupils actively engaged in learning two L2s. First, it was hypothesised that learners would have separate L2 self-concepts as speakers of different L2s, secondly, that FL self-concepts would be interpreted negatively in relation to English self-concepts and, finally, that a high degree of FL-to-English negative self-concept referencing would be associated with low FL motivation. Whilst tentative support was found for all three hypotheses, with negative effects of English being most noticeable among boys, the results need to be followed up by further research employing more exacting methodologies.
Morphology and Taxonomic Status of Two Little-Known Nematode Species Parasitizing North American Fishes

Abstract Examination of some freshwater and brackishwater (estuarine) fishes in South Carolina in October 2009 yielded, in addition to other parasites, 2 little-known nematode species identified as Dichelyne fastigatus Chandler, 1935 (Cucullanidae), from the red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus), from an estuary, and Rhabdochona ovifilamenta Weller, 1938 (Rhabdochonidae), from the shorthead redhorse, Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur), from Lake Moultrie. Light and scanning electron microscopy (the latter used for the first time for these species) made it possible to describe several important, but previously unreported, taxonomic features in D. fastigatus, such as the location of the excretory pore and deirids, the shape of deirids and a gubernaculum, the shape and size of eggs, the presence of precloacal ventral oblique muscle bands, and 11 pairs of caudal papillae and a pair of phasmids. It distinctly differs from the most similar Dichelyne cotylophora (Ward and Magath, 1917), a parasite of North American freshwater percids, in the number and arrangement of postanal papillae and by a markedly elevated cloacal region. Records of Dichelyne lintoni Barreto, 1922, from S. ocellatus probably concern D. fastigatus. Examination of R. ovifilamenta revealed a high degree of morphologic and biometric variability in this species. Based on our analysis, Rhabdochona laurentiana Lyster, 1940, Rhabdochona milleri Choquette, 1951, and Rhabdochona catostomi Kayton, Kritsky, and Tobias, 1979, are synonymized with R. ovifilamenta Weller, 1938, typically a parasite of North American catostomids.
The Defense Style Questionnaire: A Psychometric Examination

The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the shortened 36-item Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) administered as a separate instrument. The DSQ, the Symptom Checklist-90, and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire were presented to three groups: a normal population (n = 234), and psychiatric patients with (n = 545) and psychiatric patients without a DSM-III-R diagnosis (n = 115). A three-factor solution was found (immature, neurotic and mature defenses). Defense styles could be ranked in the order immature, neurotic, and mature on the basis of their intercorrelations and the correlations of defense factor scores with measurements of current symptoms and neuroticism. Moreover, the three defense factors differentiated between psychiatric subgroups and normal controls. However, none of the item response distributions was normal, the amount of variance explained by principal components analysis was relatively small, and the reliability of the factor scales was insufficient. Moreover, d.
Visitor Management at a Buddhist Sacred Site

While there exists an abundant literature on the way religious sites deal with tourists, little has been written specifically on how Buddhist monasteries visited by large numbers of believers and nonbelievers strive to preserve their physical fabric and atmosphere of sanctity. This article describes and analyzes how the resident monastic orders of Pu-Tuo-Shan, China, protect their monasteries and nunneries and maintain their lifestyle of prayer and meditation while hosting nearly six million visitors a year. The findings, based on observation and grounded research methods, reveal the use of “soft” visitor management techniques inspired by the spirit of Buddhism. It is also found that the visitors are classified by the monks and nuns into three categories, one of which—not the tourists—is more problematic, namely the Xianke, or “incense burners. ” It is concluded that currently these methods are effective, although growing numbers pose an increasing challenge.