Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Of local and global fame: A comparative analysis of news items and audience reactions on celebrity news websites People, Heat, and HLN

Worldwide, people follow global celebrities’ lives almost in real time, while communities create their own celebrities, of great local fame but unknown internationally. Examining the People (USA), Heat (UK), and HLN (Flanders) websites, this article provides a quantitative framing-based content analysis of a sample of online celebrity news and the accompanying audience responses. General results show that media focus on celebrities’ professional and love lives, while audiences cover more superficial topics (appearances). Further, media tend to be less and readers more judgmental in discussing celebrities. Examining global/local distinctions, HLN articles are shown to focus on global celebrities, while readers comment more on local stars. Reactions also cover more personal topics when discussing local celebrities, and both HLN articles and reactions judge global celebrities more negatively than locals. Finally, most positive parasocial relationships are maintained with local and most negative with global celebrities. The cultural proximity hypothesis can help explain these differences.
Intravenous albumin does not prevent moderate-severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in high-risk IVF patients: a randomized controlled study.

BACKGROUND Intravenous albumin administration has been described for many years as a debatable, but probably useful preventive measure in ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). The present study details the largest randomized controlled trial to date of albumin infusion versus no treatment in IVF patients with a high risk of developing moderate to severe OHSS. METHODS Between March 1999 and February 2002, women undergoing IVF at the IVI Valencia with >20 retrieved oocytes were included. A total of 988 patients was initially enrolled. Immediately after oocyte retrieval, patients were allocated to two groups based on a computer randomization: the first group received 40 g human albumin; the second group received no treatment. Subjects were weighed and a blood analysis performed immediately after oocyte retrieval and again 7 days later. Women were monitored on an outpatient basis until menstruation, or until fetal heart activity was detected. Twelve subjects were excluded due to follow-up loss, leaving 976 women (377 of them oocyte donors), with 488 in each group. RESULTS No difference was found between the two groups in terms of patient characteristics and outcome. Moderate-severe and severe-only OHSS rates were similar. The incidence of haemoconcentration and liver and renal dysfunction at 7 days after oocyte retrieval was similar in the two groups. In women who developed moderate/severe (n = 66) or only severe (n = 46) OHSS, there was no difference based on prior albumin administration between blood parameters or body weight on the day of oocyte retrieval, 7 days later, and even when comparing variation between both measurements. Moreover, the number of patients with paracentesis, hospital admissions, complications and days of OHSS until resolution did not differ. CONCLUSIONS Albumin infusion on the day of oocyte retrieval is not a useful means of preventing the development of moderate-severe OHSS.
La fragilité des liens nationaux. La reconfiguration de l'élite de pouvoir en Suisse, 1980-2010

Pendant la majeure partie du XXe siecle, la forte cohesion des elites economiques helvetiques s’est appuyee sur leurs interrelations tres denses au sein des conseils d’administration, leurs liens etroits avec les champs politique et militaire ainsi que sur leur appartenance a des institutions de socialisation et de legitimation nationales. Au cours des trente dernieres annees, sous l’effet de la globalisation economique et de la financiarisation, ces elites ont connu de profonds changements. En combinant analyse de reseau et analyse des correspondances multiples des dirigeants des 110 plus grandes entreprises helvetiques en 1980, 2000 et 2010, nous mettons en evidence ces transformations, en montrant notamment le fort declin des reseaux d’interconnexions entre conseils d’administration, la redefinition des rapports a l’Etat ainsi que la modification des curricula de formation et des carrieres des elites. Cette reconfiguration de l’elite du pouvoir traditionnelle est revelatrice de la remise en cause du cadre national dans l’organisation et les processus de legitimation des elites economiques suisses.
www.terror.net – How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet

• While we must better defend our societies against cyberterrorism and Internet-savvy terrorists, we should also consider the costs of applying counterterrorism measures to the Internet. Such measures can hand authoritarian governments and agencies with little public accountability tools with which to violate privacy, curtail the free flow of information, and restrict freedom of expression, thus adding a heavy price in terms of diminished civil liberties to the high toll exacted by terrorism itself. www.usip. org
Motivation Assessment Scale for Learning in Higher Education (EMAPRE-U): Validity Evidence

El uso de instrumentos adecuados para las areas especificas de interes y con buenas cualidades psicometricas es imprescindible en la evaluacion psicologica. En esta perspectiva, este estudio tuvo como objetivo buscar evidencias de validez, mediante el analisis de estructura interna de la Escala de Evaluacion de la Motivacion para el Aprendizaje (EMAPRE) en la ensenanza universitaria, utilizando el analisis factorial confirmatorio. El EMAPRE es una escala tipo Likert de 28 items, con 3 opciones de respuesta: "de acuerdo", "no se" y "en desacuerdo". Participaron 815 estudiantes universitarios de una institucion privada, con edades entre 18 y 63 anos, siendo 58,9% de sexo masculino. Se probaron tres modelos y los resultados indicaron mejores indices de ajuste en el modelo de tres factores, pero con la necesidad de eliminar dos items de la EMAPRE. Fueron encontrados niveles adecuados de confiabilidad que indicaron que el instrumento es util en la evaluacion de la motivacion para aprender, en los estudiantes universitarios.
1-h Postprandial glucose level is related to the serum anti-Müllerian hormone level in women with polycystic ovary syndrome

Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level and parameters related to insulin resistance in Korean women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). A total of 95 Korean women aged 18–33 years who were newly diagnosed with PCOS according to the Rotterdam Consensus at a university hospital were included in this study. Blood samples were collected from all participants during the early follicular phase using tubes without anticoagulants after an overnight fasting to determine the serum AMH level and other biochemical parameters, and then a standard 2-h 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed for all participants. All patients with PCOS were divided into two groups based on the serum AMH level: group 1 (AMH < 10.0 ng/ml) and group 2 (AMH ≥ 10.0 ng/ml). The clinical variables were not significantly different between the two groups. The mean postprandial glucose level at 1 h (PPG1) in group 1 (111.70 ± 4.9 mg/dl) was significantly lower than that in group 2 (136.76 ± 9.86 mg/dl). No significant differences between the two groups were found in the other insulin resistance-related parameters. In conclusion, the serum AMH level may be related to PPG1 in women with PCOS.
The Role of Social Cognitive Career Theory in The Role of Social Cognitive Career Theory in Information Technology based Academic Information Technology based Academic Performance Performance

Positive academic efficacy beliefs elevate educational expectations that lead to academic success (Bandura, 1997; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of the variables: past performance, computer self-efficacy, outcome expectations, academic grade goal, and academic performance within social cognitive career theory’s model of performance (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). The study focused on the effects of social cognitive variables on academic performance in an information technology course. Participants were 193 undergraduate students (82 women and 111 men) who completed a background questionnaire, the Information Technology Proficiency Exam, the Computer Self-Efficacy scale, and the Technology Outcome Expectations scale. Based on path model results, the findings suggest that students’ academic performance is related to past performance. Consistent with theory, the findings suggest that academic performance is influenced by computer self-efficacy via the establishment of an academic grade goal. In the present study, the past performance variable failed to predict academic performance when impacted by outcome expectations.
How are parent–child conflict and childhood externalizing symptoms related over time? Results from a genetically informative cross-lagged study

The present study attempted to determine the direction and etiology of the robust relationship between childhood externalizing (EXT) symptoms and parent–child conflict using a genetically informative longitudinal model and data from the ongoing Minnesota Twin Family Study. Participants consisted of 1,506 same-sex twins assessed at ages 11 and 14, and their parents. The relationship between EXT and parent–child conflict from ages 11 to 14 was examined within a biometrical cross-lagged design. The results revealed three primary findings: first, the stability of conflict and externalizing over time is largely, although not solely, a result of genetic factors. Second, there appears to be a bidirectional relationship between conflict and EXT over time, such that both conflict and EXT at 11 independently predict the other 3 years later. Finally, the results are consistent with the notion that parent–child conflict partially results from parental responses to their child's heritable externalizing behavior, while simultaneously contributing to child externalizing via environmental mechanisms. These results suggest a “downward spiral” of interplay between parent–child conflict and EXT, and offer confirmation of a (partially) environmentally mediated effect of parenting on child behavior.This research was funded in part by USPHS grants (DA05147, DA13240, AA09367, AA00175, MH 65137), a National Institutes of Mental Health training grant (MH17069 to S.A.B.), and a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (S.A.B.). We also thank Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis for the research time that enabled the primary author to conduct this study.
How general practitioners perceive and grade the cardiovascular risk of their patients

Background Although risk assessment charts have been proposed to identify patients at high cardiovascular risk, in everyday practice general practitioners (GPs) often use their knowledge of the patients to estimate the risk subjectively. Design A cross-sectional study aimed to describe how GPs perceive, qualify and grade cardiovascular risk in everyday practice. Methods General practitioners had to identify in a random sample of 10% of their contacts the first 20 consecutive patients perceived as being at cardiovascular risk. For each patient essential data were collected on clinical history, physical examination and laboratory tests, for the qualification of risk. At the end of the process GPs subjectively estimated the overall patient's level of risk. General practitioners grading was compared with the risk estimate from a reference chart. Results Over a mean time of 25 days 3120 patients perceived as being at cardiovascular risk were enrolled. According to the inclusion scheme each GP had contact with more than 200 patients at cardiovascular risk every month. Thirty percent of these patients had atherosclerotic diseases. Up to 72% of patients without any history of atherosclerotic diseases but perceived to be at risk could be classified according to a reference chart as being at moderate to very high risk. Comparing GPs' grading of risk with a chart estimate there was agreement in 42% of the cases. Major determinants of GPs' underestimation of risk were age, sex and smoking habits, while obesity and family history were independently associated with overestimation. Conclusions On the basis of their perception GPs properly identify patients at cardiovascular risk in the majority of cases. General practitioners subjective grading of risk level only partially agreed with that given by a chart.
Crowdsourcing: Global search and the twisted roles of consumers and producers

Crowdsourcing spreads and morphs quickly, shaping areas as diverse as creating, organizing, and sharing knowledge; producing digital artifacts; providing services involving tangible assets; or monitoring and evaluating. Crowdsourcing as sourcing by means of ‘global search’ yields four types of values for sourcing actors: creative expertise, critical items, execution capacity, and bargaining power. It accesses cheap excess capacities at the work realm’s margins, channeling them toward production. Provision and utilization of excess capacities rationalize society while intimately connecting to a broader societal trend twisting consumers’ and producers’ roles: leading toward ‘working consumers’ and ‘consuming producers’ and shifting power toward the latter. Similarly, marketers using crowdsourcing’s look and feel to camouflage traditional approaches to bringing consumers under control preserve producer power.
Stereo-SCIDAR: optical turbulence profiling with high sensitivity using a modified SCIDAR instrument

The next generation of adaptive optics systems will require tomographic reconstruction techniques to map the optical refractive index fluctuations, generated by the atmospheric turbulence, along the line of sight to the astronomical target. These systems can be enhanced with data from an external atmospheric profiler. This is important for Extremely Large Telescope scale tomography. Here we propose a new instrument which utilizes the generalized Scintillation Detection And Ranging (SCIDAR) technique to allow high sensitivity vertical profiles of the atmospheric optical turbulence and wind velocity profile above astronomical observatories. The new approach, which we refer to as ‘stereo-SCIDAR’, uses a stereoscopic system with the scintillation pattern from each star of a double-star target incident on a separate detector. Separating the pupil images for each star has several advantages including increased magnitude difference tolerance for the target stars; negating the need for re-calibration due to the normalization errors usually associated with SCIDAR; an increase of at least a factor of 2 in the signal-to-noise ratio of the cross-covariance function and hence the profile for equal magnitude target stars and up to a factor of 16 improvement for targets of 3 mag difference and easier real-time reconstruction of the wind-velocity profile. Theoretical response functions are calculated for the instrument, and the performance is investigated using a Monte Carlo simulation. The technique is demonstrated using data recorded at the 2.5-m Nordic Optical Telescope and the 1.0-m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope, both on La Palma.
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand shift raising women's relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the observed trends.
Usage, usefulness and quality of defect reports: an industrial case study

In the context of an industry-academia collaboration in the scope of test process improvement, there was a need to assess the usage, usefulness and quality of defect reports. The objective was to assess the extent to which each field of a defect report (e.g., product name, version number) is read/used by developers, ensuring that efforts spent into writing those fields are worthwhile, and also to pinpoint improvement areas in defect reports to increase developers' effectiveness in fixing defects. To address those needs, we conducted a questionnaire survey which gathered input from 38 software developers in the context of a large Turkish software and systems company providing global solutions in the areas of defense and IT. Analysis of survey results helped us to determine the usage and usefulness of various defect report fields and also to pinpoint the necessary improvement areas in defect reports, out of which an improvement effort has already started.
Trends in neuroscience and education

In an age of increasing technology, the possibility that typing on a keyboard will replace handwriting raises questions about the future usefulness of handwriting skills. Here we present evidence that brain activation during letter perception is inﬂuenced in different, important ways by previous handwriting of letters versus previous typing or tracing of those same letters. Preliterate, ﬁve-year old children printed, typed, or traced letters and shapes, then were shown images of these stimuli while undergoing functional MRI scanning. A previously documented ‘‘reading circuit’’ was recruited during letter perception only after handwriting — not after typing or tracing experience. These ﬁndings demonstrate that handwriting is important for the early recruitment in letter processing of brain regions known to underlie successful reading. Handwriting therefore may facilitate reading acquisition in young children. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
Educators confront the ‘science’ of racism, 1898–1925

Abstract The literature depicting educators’ role in scientific racism and eugenics during the early 20th century has tended to approach the topic in dichotomous terms, as an ideology that one was either for or against. In this historical study, the author adds some nuance to this literature by tracing leading educators’ inconsistent and evolving thoughts on eugenics and the ‘science’ of race. By approaching the educational discourse on race as thinking rather than thought, the author explores how scholars such as G. Stanley Hall, John Dewey, Franz Boas, William Bagley, David Snedden, Edward Thorndike and Charles Ellwood struggled to make sense of a rapidly changing ideological landscape, but nevertheless supported the ideology of white supremacy.
Postprandial plasma amino acids in preterm infants: influence of the protein source

Preprandial plasma amino acid concentrations have been used extensively as a marker of the nutritional value of dietary proteins in preterm infants. This study investigated the postprandial plasma amino acid profiles of preterm infants fed with different dietary proteins at similar protein intakes during the first weeks of life. In 12 preterm infants, pre‐ and postprandial plasma amino acid concentrations were measured before the removal of an indwelling central venous catheter placed for parenteral nutrition. All infants received breast milk until the time of study. At the start day of the study, infants were randomized to receive a test meal of 10 ml/kg, either of breast milk fortified with breast milk protein to reach a protein content of 2.0 g/dl or of a bovine milk preterm formula with a protein content of 2.0 g/dl (whey/casein ratio 60/40). Five samples of 100 μl blood were obtained immediately before and 15, 30, 45 and 60 min after the test meal. The plasma amino acid analysis was performed by a reversed‐phase high‐performance liquid chromatography based on o‐phthaldialdehyde/2‐mercaptoethanol pre‐column derivatization. In both groups, the plasma amino acid concentrations increased within the first 30 min and the levels did not return to the preprandial baseline during the observation period. Fifteen minutes after the test meal, the plasma levels of all essential amino acids with the exception of histidine were higher in the bovine milk formula fed infants than in the fortified breast milk fed infants. The sum of plasma essential amino acid levels found in the formula fed infants were significantly (p < 0.05) higher than the levels found in the fortified breast milk fed infants at 15, 30 and 45 min. The kinetics of individual amino acids were influenced by the different quality of the protein even when the intakes in the groups were similar, as demonstrated for histidine and phenylalanine. The data indicate that postprandial plasma amino acid concentrations depend significantly on the dietary amino acid source and cannot simply be calculated from the amino acid composition of dietary proteins. Therefore, postprandial plasma amino acid concentrations should be included in the nutritional evaluation of dietary proteins in preterm infants. □Dietary protein, postprandial plasma amino acids, preterm infants
APOE and APOC1 gene polymorphisms are associated with cognitive impairment progression in Chinese patients with late-onset Alzheimer's disease

Current evidence shows that apolipoprotein E (APOE), apolipoprotein CI (APOC1) and low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) variations are related to late-onset Alzheimer's disease. However, it remains unclear if genetic polymorphisms in these genes are associated with cognitive decline in late-onset Alzheimer's disease patients. We performed a 30-month longitudinal cohort study to investigate the relationship between Alzheimer's disease and APOE, APOC1, and LRP. In this study, 78 Chinese Han patients with late-onset Alzheimer's disease were recruited form Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China. APOE, APOC1, and LRP genotyping was performed using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphisms. The Mini-Mental State Examination and Clinical Dementia Rating Scale were used to assess patients’ cognitive function. After a 30-month follow-up period, we found a significant reduction in Mini-Mental State Examination total score, a higher proportion of patients fulfilling cognitive impairment progression criteria, and a higher proportion of APOC1 H2 carriers in APOE ε4 carriers compared with non-carriers. In addition, the APOE ε4 allele frequency was significantly higher in the cognitive impairment progression group compared with the non-cognitive impairment progression group. In conclusion, APOE ε4 plays an important role in augmenting cognitive decline, and APOC1 H2 may act synergistically with APOE ε4 in increasing the risk of cognitive decline in Chinese patients with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.