Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bilateral neuroretinitis associated with mumps.

BACKGROUND Involvement of the optic nerve is a rare complication of mumps infection. OBJECTIVES To report a case of bilateral neuroretinitis complicating a mumps infection and to review 5 previously reported cases. DESIGN Case report and literature review. SETTING Tertiary hospital. PATIENT A 7-year-old girl had sudden-onset blindness due to bilateral neuroretinitis. Approximately 3 weeks prior to the initial examination, she developed a self-limited febrile illness with parotid swelling and subsequent meningoencephalitis. RESULTS Mumps was determined to be the underlying cause of the meningoencephalitis and bilateral optic neuritis because of the exposure history in this nonvaccinated child, the typical clinical signs and symptoms, and the positive serologic test results. Recovery of visual function was gradual but nearly complete. CONCLUSIONS Physicians should be aware that optic nerve involvement may be a manifestation of mumps infection. The delayed onset of optic neuritis, the bilateral involvement, and the near complete recovery suggest an immune-mediated pathogenesis.
Parallelism of Clonal Selection for PSP on CUDA

Protein structure prediction (PSP) is the process of searching for the min energy of the protein. While many algorithms have being put forward to predict the structure of protein, the complicated computation make the time cost of the algorithms are significantly expensive. CUDA, the newly developing technology, makes us use Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) that is mainly used on Graphic processing at before, much better to develop the general parallel program. So, it gives us a new direction to study the parallelism on PSP. In this paper, we select the clonal selection algorithm for PSP on AB Off-Lattice model and have attempted to fulfill it on the CUDA platform. The results from the experiments showed that it reduced the time cost of the algorithm greatly with a suitable precision. It also provides us a new beginning of the research on PSP.
Get Ready to Mobile Learning : Examining Factors Affecting College Students' Behavioral Intentions to Use M-Learning in Saudi Arabia = الاستعداد للتعلم الإلكتروني باستخدام الأجهزة النقالة : العوامل المؤثرة في نية طلاب الجامعات لاستخدام التعلم الإلكتروني في المملكة العربية السعودية

Mobile learning is a new innovation in the educational technology environment which has received a great deal of attention over the last few years. This paper aims at examining the main factors affecting the adoption intention of Mobile Learning (M-Learning) on the basis of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) given the significance and power of such a theory in the field of Information Systems (IS). To this end, this paper follows a quantitative approach in which a survey questionnaire was developed and utilized as the main instrument for data collection. The questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 300 undergraduate and postgraduate students in Saudi Arabia and 215 valid questionnaires were received. The results of this research show that Performance Expectancy is the main factor affecting students’ adoption intention to use M-Learning in the future. This is followed by Effort Expectancy and Social Influences factors respectively. Nonetheless, the results also show that Facilitating Conditions has no significant effect on the intention to use M-Learning. Further, the findings show that the developed model explains 62.4% of the variance in the adoption intention to use M-Learning. The results of this study are considered fruitful for decision makers in higher education as they reveal important aspects that decision makers need to carefully deliberate when implementing M-Learning solutions.
Dorsal Hippocampal–Dependent Episodic Memory Inhibits Eating

Research regarding how the brain regulates eating behavior has focused largely on homeostatic (i.e., need-based) and hedonic (i.e., pleasure-based) controls. By contrast, there is a large gap in our understanding of how brain areas involved in cognitive processes, such as memory, impact energy intake. Moreover, compared to meal size and satiety, little is known about how the brain controls meal timing and frequency. My research team and I hypothesize that dorsal hippocampal neurons, which are critical for episodic memory of personal experiences, form a memory of a meal, inhibit meal initiation during the period following that meal, and limit the amount ingested at the next meal. I review evidence supporting this hypothesis and raise the possibility that impaired dorsal hippocampal function contributes to diet-induced obesity.
Fast Pose Tracking Based on Ranked 3D Planar Patch Correspondences

A fast robot pose tracking algorithm based on planar segments extracted from range images is presented. A range image obtained from a 3D sensor is transformed to a 2.5D triangle mesh from which planar segments are extracted. Using information provided by each planar segment based on its size and orientation, a directed search hypothesis generation algorithm using a tree structure is presented. The presented approach is experimentally evaluated using 3D data obtained by a Kinect sensor mounted on a mobile robot. Results indicate that the proposed method is much faster than similar previously proposed methods.
Organization Structure and Credibility: Evidence from Commercial Bank Securities Activities Before the Glass-Steagall Act

This paper investigates how organizational structure can affect a firm's ability to compete. In particular, we examine the two ways in which U.S. commercial banks organized their investment banking operations before the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act forced the banks to leave the securities business: as an internal securities department within the bank and as a separately incorporated and capitalized securities affiliate. We document a strong movement toward the use of the affiliate structure during the 1920s, and regulation does not appear to explain this evolution. While departments underwrote seemingly higher quality firms and securities than did comparable affiliates, the departments obtained lower prices for the issues they underwrote. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that there was a perception of potential conflicts of interest when lending and underwriting were closely combined in the departmental structure. We find evidence that bank managers during this period were concerned about such perceptions. We then develop further tests to support the view that by distancing underwriting activities from lending operations, banks could more credibly certify the quality of the issues they underwrote, thereby obtaining higher prices for them. Our results suggest that internal organization may indeed affect the activities and effectiveness of a firm. They also suggest that bank regulators' interest in 'firewalls' between commercial and investment banking may be reasonable, but that the market may propel banks to adopt an internal structure that would address regulators' concerns.
Gene-set analysis is severely biased when applied to genome-wide methylation data

MOTIVATION DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that can stably repress gene expression. Because of its biological and clinical significance, several methods have been developed to compare genome-wide patterns of methylation between groups of samples. The application of gene set analysis to identify relevant groups of genes that are enriched for differentially methylated genes is often a major component of the analysis of these data. This can be used, for example, to identify processes or pathways that are perturbed in disease development. We show that gene-set analysis, as it is typically applied to genome-wide methylation assays, is severely biased as a result of differences in the numbers of CpG sites associated with different classes of genes and gene promoters. RESULTS We demonstrate this bias using published data from a study of differential CpG island methylation in lung cancer and a dataset we generated to study methylation changes in patients with long-standing ulcerative colitis. We show that several of the gene sets that seem enriched would also be identified with randomized data. We suggest two existing approaches that can be adapted to correct the bias. Accounting for the bias in the lung cancer and ulcerative colitis datasets provides novel biological insights into the role of methylation in cancer development and chronic inflammation, respectively. Our results have significant implications for many previous genome-wide methylation studies that have drawn conclusions on the basis of such strongly biased analysis. CONTACT cathal.seoighe@nuigalway.ie SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Cross‐cultural supervision in international settings: experiences of foreign supervisors and native supervisees in Cambodia

With the global expansion of family therapy, it is vital to engage in culturally responsive methods of training and supervision. This is especially critical when international training involves Western-based therapy models and supervision from non-native supervisors. This study explores how native Cambodian therapists experience clinical supervision conducted by non-native supervisors. In this responsive evaluation, data were triangulated across multiple stakeholders (N = 95) and collection methods, including focus groups, interviews, and live supervision observations. Emergent themes highlight the need for intentionally culturally responsive supervision and included challenges with non-native supervisors, unresponsive methods of learning and power imbalances. Therapists emphasized that they were less likely to attend supervision and felt discouraged when it was not culturally responsive. Data-driven suggestions for increasing cultural responsiveness in supervision are provided. Practitioner points Supervisors can challenge personal cultural assumptions and deepen contextual understanding by seeking local cultural knowledge Supervision contracts created with input from stakeholders can attend to likely cultural differences The supervisory relationship can be supported through open discussion and negotiation of cultural differences In cultures with high regard for those in authority, supervisors can use a strengths-based approach to feedback and demonstration
What do college students want? A prioritization of instructional behaviors and characteristics

ABSTRACT Guided by Rhetorical and Relational Goals Theory, this study examined college students’ preferences for effective teaching behaviors and characteristics. Students (n = 209) articulated qualities in their ideal instructor by prioritizing 10 instructional behaviors and characteristics from the rhetorical and relational traditions (assertive, responsive, clear, relevant, competent, trustworthy, caring, immediate, humorous, disclosure). When forced to prioritize, students preferred teacher clarity, competence, and relevance from their instructors, while self-disclosure and immediacy were considered to be luxury behaviors rather than necessities. Lastly, academic entitlement significantly influenced students’ prioritization of effective instructional behaviors.
MOBILE ROBOT DYNAMICS: CHAOS IN REACTIVE CONTROL Architectures

This paper considers the possible limits of reactive control architectures for autonomous robots, in terms of their non-linear dynamics. This validates work [Gat 94] which has suggested that such systems can manifest chaotic dynamics in their response to unstructured environments. Our work has involved two parallel activities, the first being research and development of two B12 robots, which use a Behaviour Synthesis Architecture, (B.S.A) for reactive control, [Barnes et al 93], while the second has been studies of this behavioural control using a dynamic simulator of the B.S.A system, [Eustace 94]. Results from the simulation are presented which appear to confirm Gat’s hypothesis that autonomous robots can display sensitivity to initial conditions, and which display a fractal structure in the system dynamics. From these results we offer several conclusions regarding the control of autonomous robots.
A Statistical Investigation of H I in the Magellanic Bridge

We present results from two statistical analyses applied to a neutral hydrogen (H I) data set of the nearby tidal bridge in the Magellanic System. Primarily, analyses of the spatial power spectrum suggest that the Magellanic Bridge, historically considered to be a single contiguous feature, may in fact be a projection of two kinematically and morphologically distinct structures. The southern and more obviously turbulent parts appear to show structure organized similarly to the adjacent Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), while the northern regions are shown to be relatively deficient in large-scale power. The extent of modification to the spatial power index by the velocity fluctuations is also highly variant across these parts of the Bridge. We find again that the northern part appears distinct from the southern part and from the SMC, in that the power spectrum is significantly more affected by slower velocity perturbations. We also probe the rate of spectral variation of the H I by measuring the spectral correlation function over selected regions. The results from this analysis highlight a tendency for the H I spectra within the bright parts of the Bridge to have a more persistent correlation in the east-west direction than in the north-south direction. These results are considered to be quantitative evidence for the tidal processes that are thought to have been active throughout the evolution of the Magellanic Bridge.
Ownership and Control: A Small-World Analysis

In this chapter we investigate the ownership and control of UK firms using contemporary methods from computational graph theory. Specifically, we analyze a ‘small-world’ model of ownership and control. A small-world is a network whose actors are linked by a short chain of acquaintances (short path lengths), but at the same time have a strongly overlapping circle of friends (high clustering). We simulate a set of corporate worlds using an ensemble of random graphs introduced by Chung and Lu (2002a, 2002b). We find that the corporate governance network structures analyzed here are more clustered (‘clubby’) than would be predicted by the random-graph model. Path lengths, though, are generally not shorter than expected. In addition, we investigate the role of financial institutions: potentially important conduits creating connectivity in corporate networks. We find such institutions give rise to systematically different network topologies.
Working to bring more men into preschools – What are Swedish municipalities doing?

ABSTRACT The focus of this study has been to examine a number of municipalities that work to recruit more men to work in preschools. The aim of the study has been to identify ways of working conducted by municipalities aiming to recruit more men to work in preschools. The study includes seven municipalities, all included in one network specifically aiming at the raising the number of men working in preschool. Interviews and discussions were carried out with key persons involved in the local work to recruit more men to preschools. This analysis can show trends in initiating the concrete work. The results show that an organization is needed and the formulation of objectives provides the organization. The organization and objectives contribute to continuity in the work, something that long-term areas for change often need.
Insider Perspectives: Disability Identity Formation of Two Teachers with Disabilities

ii Dedication . iv Acknowledgements . v List of Tables . x Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 Purpose . 2 Definition of Terms . 4 Organization of Thesis . 7 Chapter 2: Literature Review . 8 Disability Identity Theories . 8 Gill's (1997) Disability Identity Integration Model . 9 Models of Disability . 12 Strategic Disclosure . 16 Test et al. (2005) Conceptual Framework of Self-Advocacy for Students with Disabilities. 16 Teachers with Disabilities . 18 Negotiating Accommodations in the Workplace . 24 Accommodations and the Law . 25 Disclosure and Requesting Accommodations . 26 Student Teachers with Disabilities . 29 Conclusion . 35 Chapter 3: Method . 38 Data Collection . 38 Data Analysis . 41 Limitations of the Study . 42 Chapter 4: Findings: Two Teachers with Disabilities . 44 Laurie . 44 Introduction to Laurie . 44 Disability Identity . 45
Dispositional Optimism and Stock Investments

This paper analyzes the relationship between dispositional optimism and stock investments, controlling for cognitive skills and personality traits such as trust, social interactions and risk aversion. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) on investors aged 50+ in twelve European countries. Our results show that dispositional optimism and personality matter for financial decisions. Optimism is positively and significantly related to both the ownership of stocks and the share of gross financial wealth invested in these assets and its role is especially relevant for risk tolerant investors and investors with little trust in others.
Detection of Fixed and Variable Targets in the Monkey Prefrontal Cortex

Behavioral significance is commonly coded by prefrontal neurons. The significance of a stimulus can be fixed through experience; in complex behavior, however, significance commonly changes with short-term context. To compare these cases, we trained monkeys in 2 versions of visual target detection. In both tasks, animals monitored a series of pictures, making a go response (saccade) at the offset of a specified target picture. In one version, based on “consistent mapping” in human visual search, target and nontarget pictures were fixed throughout training. In the other, based on “varied mapping,” a cue at trial onset defined a new target. Building up over the first 1 s following this cue, many cells coded short-term context (cue/target identity) for the current trial. Thereafter, the cell population showed similar coding of behavioral significance in the 2 tasks, with selective early response to targets, and later, sustained activity coding target or nontarget until response. This population similarity was seen despite quite different activity in the 2 tasks for many single cells. At the population level, the results suggest similar prefrontal coding of fixed and short-term behavioral significance.
Proprioceptor Regulation of Motor Circuit Activity by Presynaptic Inhibition of a Modulatory Projection Neuron

Phasically active sensory systems commonly influence rhythmic motor activity via synaptic actions on the relevant circuit and/or motor neurons. Using the crab stomatogastric nervous system (STNS), we identified a distinct synaptic action by which an identified proprioceptor, the gastropyloric muscle stretch receptor (GPR) neuron, regulates the gastric mill (chewing) motor rhythm. Previous work showed that rhythmically stimulating GPR in a gastric mill-like pattern, in the isolated STNS, elicits the gastric mill rhythm via its activation of two identified projection neurons, modulatory commissural neuron 1 (MCN1) and commissural projection neuron 2, in the commissural ganglia. Here, we determine how activation of GPR with a behaviorally appropriate pattern (active during each gastric mill retractor phase) influences an ongoing gastric mill rhythm via actions in the stomato gastric ganglion, where the gastric mill circuit is located. Stimulating GPR during each retractor phase selectively prolongs that phase and thereby slows the ongoing rhythm. This selective action on the retractor phase results from two distinct GPR actions. First, GPR presynaptically inhibits the axon terminals of MCN1, reducing MCN1 excitation of all gastric mill neurons. Second, GPR directly excites the retractor phase neurons. Because MCN1 transmitter release occurs during each retractor phase, these parallel GPR actions selectively reduce the buildup of excitatory drive to the protractor phase neurons, delaying each protractor burst. Thus, rhythmic proprioceptor feedback to a motor circuit can result from a global reduction in excitatory drive to that circuit, via presynaptic inhibition, coupled with a phase-specific excitatory input that prolongs the excited phase by delaying the onset of the subsequent phase.
Rapidly rotating atomic gases

In this article, we review developments in the theory of rapidly rotating degenerate atomic gases. The main focus is on the equilibrium properties of a single-component atomic Bose gas, which (at least at rest) forms a Bose–Einstein condensate. Rotation leads to the formation of quantized vortices which order into a vortex array, in close analogy with the behaviour of superfluid helium. Under conditions of rapid rotation, when the vortex density becomes large, atomic Bose gases offer the possibility to explore the physics of quantized vortices in novel parameter regimes. First, there is an interesting regime in which the vortices become sufficiently dense that their cores, as set by the healing length, start to overlap. In this regime, the theoretical description simplifies, allowing a reduction to single-particle states in the lowest Landau level. Second, one can envisage entering a regime of very high vortex density, when the number of vortices becomes comparable to the number of particles in the gas. In this regime, theory predicts the appearance of a series of strongly correlated phases, which can be viewed as bosonic versions of fractional quantum Hall states. In this article, we describe the equilibrium properties of rapidly rotating atomic Bose gases in both the mean-field and the strongly correlated regimes, and related theoretical developments for Bose gases in lattices, for multi-component Bose gases and for atomic Fermi gases. The current experimental situation and outlook for the future are discussed in light of these theoretical developments.
Music performance anxiety in ensemble rehearsals and concerts: A comparison of music and non-music major undergraduate musicians

This study assessed music performance anxiety (MPA) in ensemble rehearsals and concerts in 278 undergraduate non-music and music majors drawn from 10 Mid-Atlantic institutions in the US to examine the prevalence and experience of MPA in non-music major undergraduates and to determine whether MPA severity differed between non-music majors and music majors. Results for undergraduate non-music majors using the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory Revised (K-MPAI-r, Kenny, 2009) revealed cognitive, somatic, affective, and behavioral symptoms. Depression, being an instrumentalist, female, and having had a music performance breakdown made significant contributions to K-MPAI-r scores; depression made the strongest unique contribution to prediction of severity of MPA. Greater self-efficacy was correlated with lower MPA for both rehearsals and concert performances. Overall, MPA and depression indicator scores for the sample were higher than other groups that have been previously evaluated with the K-MPAI-r and the same depression screen. Although ensemble rehearsals were confirmed to be less anxiety provoking than performing solo and in ensemble concerts, students reported considerable MPA during both ensemble rehearsing and ensemble performing. The relatively high rates of MPA and indications of depression in the whole sample should merit concern for music educators.