Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Coexisting problem behaviour in severe dyslexia

A small group of children and young adolescent with dyslexia has severely impaired reading skills despite prolonged special education. These are the students in focus. In dyslexia, problem behaviour, internalised as well as externalised, has previously been reported, so also for the participants with dyslexia in this study. The aim of the present study was to obtain more in-depth knowledge of the behaviour problems from various informants, representing different settings. This kind of information is imperative for identifying problem behaviour, and for planning and implementing remedial programmes. A clinical group of 70 students with severe dyslexia, due to phonological problems, and a control group of 70 without reading problems participated. The two groups were pair-wise matched on age, gender, cognitive level and whether they lived in rural or urban areas. Mean age was 150 months, and mean IQ was approximately 100 in both groups. Parents, teachers and participants provided information on behaviour through the Achenbach questionnaires Child Behavior Checklist, Teacher's Report Form and Youth Self Report. Behaviour is, in these questionnaires, divided into eight syndrome areas called Withdrawn, Somatic Complaints, Anxious/Depressed, Social Problems, Thought Problems, Attention Problems, Delinquent Behavior and Aggressive Behavior. The three informant groups reported significantly more problems in the dyslexia group than in the controls in all the syndrome areas. Parents reported more children with dyslexia to be anxious and depressed, and have social problems and attention problems than teachers. They also reported suicidal ideations in nine participants with dyslexia. In addition, parents rated more internalising and total problems in the dyslexia group than teachers.
Gender and forests: climate change, tenure, value chains and emerging issues

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes. Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women's attitudes toward conservation, to a combined qualitative / quantitative international comparative study on REDD+, to a longitudinal examination of oil palm and gender roles over time in Kalimantan. Issues are examined across scales, from the household to the nation state and the global arena; and reach back to the past to inform present and future considerations. The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.
On the Role of Physical Interaction on Performance of Object Manipulation by Dyads

Human physical interactions can be intrapersonal, e.g., manipulating an object bimanually, or interpersonal, e.g., transporting an object with another person. In both cases, one or two agents are required to coordinate their limbs to attain the task goal. We investigated the physical coordination of two hands during an object-balancing task performed either bimanually by one agent or jointly by two agents. The task consisted of a series of static (holding) and dynamic (moving) phases, initiated by auditory cues. We found that task performance of dyads was not affected by different pairings of dominant and non-dominant hands. However, the spatial configuration of the two agents (side-by-side vs. face-to-face) appears to play an important role, such that dyads performed better side-by-side than face-to-face. Furthermore, we demonstrated that only individuals with worse solo performance can benefit from interpersonal coordination through physical couplings, whereas the better individuals do not. The present work extends ongoing investigations on human-human physical interactions by providing new insights about factors that influence dyadic performance. Our findings could potentially impact several areas, including robotic-assisted therapies, sensorimotor learning and human performance augmentation.
Random walks, liquidity molasses and critical response in financial markets

Stock prices are observed to be random walks in time despite a strong, long-term memory in the signs of trades (buys or sells). Lillo and Farmer have recently suggested that these correlations are compensated by opposite long-ranged fluctuations in liquidity, with an otherwise permanent market impact, challenging the scenario proposed in Quantitative Finance, 2004, 4, 176, where the impact is instead transient, with a power-law decay in time. The exponent of this decay is precisely tuned to a critical value, ensuring simultaneously that prices are diffusive on long time scales and that the impact function is nearly lag independent. We provide new analysis of empirical data that confirm and make more precise our previous claims. We show that the power-law decay of the bare impact function comes both from an excess flow of limit order opposite to the market order flow, and to a systematic anti-correlation of the bid–ask motion between trades, two effects that create a ‘liquidity molasses’ which dampens market volatility.
ANALYSIS OF MOOD STATES AMONG CRICKET PLAYERS DURING COMPETITIVE SEASON

The aim of the study was to analyze the mood states of high and low level cricket players during competitive season. 260 cricket players those participated in the Virudhunagar district cricket league during the year 2012-13 were selected as subjects to achieve the study objectives. The subjects confined to this study were classified into two groups as high and low level cricket players on the basis of their competitive standards. The high level group comprising 130 players selected from A Division teams and low level group constitutes 130 players selected from B Division teams. The age of the subjects were ranged between 15 and 34 years. Profile of Mood States Questionnaire developed by McNair et al., (1971) was used in the present study. This questionnaire constitutes 65-items which measures five negative scales such as fatigue, depression, tension, anger, confusion and positive scale vigour. The two-way factorial ANOVA with repeated measures on the last factor showed that tension, depression, anger and confusion showed no difference during cricket season between high and low level cricket players. However, vigor and fatigue interaction is significant and Scheffe S post hoc test was applied. Vigor and fatigue showed significant difference between the groups at start and mid season. However, vigor showed significant difference between the groups at end and within low level cricket players. It is concluded that positive factor vigor showed high in high level cricket players than low level cricket players. The cricket season showed fatigue in the middle of the season.
The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions

Recent research on how contact with the criminal justice system shapes racial perceptions in the United States has shown that incarceration increases the likelihood that people are racially classified by others as black, and decreases the likelihood that they are classified as white. We extend this work, using longitudinal data with information on whether respondents have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated, and details about their most recent arrest. This allows us to ask whether any contact with the criminal justice system triggers racialization, or only certain types of contact. Additional racial categories allow us to explore the racialization of crime beyond the black-white divide. Results indicate even one arrest significantly increases the odds of subsequently being classified as black, and decreases the odds of being classified as white or Asian. This implies a broader impact of increased policing and mass incarceration on racialization and stereotyping, with consequences for social interactions, political attitudes, and research on inequality.
The Acceptance of Moodle: An Empirical Study Based on UTAUT

This study aimed to investigate students’ acceptance and use of Moodle employing the model of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and further understand the four constructs of the model. Data, collected from 47 university students’ questionnaire survey, revealed that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and social influence were the major three keys of the UTAUT model to assess the acceptance of Moodle. Behavioral intention acted as a mediator to urge students to involve in the use of Moodle.
Mental Health Tribunals—Rights, Protection, or Treatment? Lessons from the ARC Linkage Grant Study?

This article reports possible operational or policy implications for Mental Health Tribunals (‘MHTs’) of findings from a multi-year Australian collaborative study of mental health review tribunals in three jurisdictions (Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory) undertaken in conjunction with the New South Wales Law and Justice Foundation. Recognising the tension between human rights and clinical benchmarks for the care and treatment of mental health consumers and resource constraints in the service system and resources for review bodies alike, the paper reflects on stakeholder and consumer concerns about access to quality treatment and associated support services, review of treatment adequacy and drug regimes, and their ‘participation’ or dignity of engagement in review processes. Building on earlier arguments in favour of equipping MHTs to adequately engage the clinical and social domains in addition to the domain of legal rectitude, and for ‘flexibility’ of process more characteristic of case-conferencing modes, this article also reviews some alternative or supplementary policy pathways for supporting the work of MHTs, including advocacy and dispute resolution machinery.
Molecular analysis of Cryptosporidium species isolated from HIV‐infected patients in Thailand

Cryptosporidium isolates from diarrhoeal stools of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‐infected patients in Thailand were genetically analysed by sequencing the variable region in the 18S rRNA gene. Twenty‐nine isolates from four children and 25 adults attending King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok during 1996 and 2000 were analysed. All patients suffered from chronic watery diarrhoea and had low CD4+ lymphocytes (mean ± SD=105.5 ± 133.2 cells/μl). Four Cryptosporidium species were identified, i.e. C. parvum (genotype 1), C. meleagridis, C. muris and C. felis occurring in 24, 3, 1 and 1 isolates, respectively. Oocysts of C. muris were significantly larger than oocysts of other species; C. felis was the smallest in these populations (P < 0.01). Sequences of the ITS1, 5.8S rRNA and ITS2 regions of C. muris and C. meleagridis identified in this study displayed unique sequences from those of other known species. Based on a limited number of isolates analysed, only C. meleagridis and C. muris were found in HIV‐infected children, whereas the genotype 1 of C. parvum predominated in HIV‐infected adults.
Inferring Ecological Networks From Species Abundance Data

Network reconstruction methods are commonly used in molecular biology to construct regulatory networks from information about the expression values of genes in a cell. In ecology, we are presented with a similar problem when trying to reconstruct species interaction networks based on species abundance data. The aim of this project was to see if the methods that proved successful in molecular biology could be applied to this new problem. The methods that I applied and compared were Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO), Sparse Bayesian Regression (SBR), Graphical Gaussian Models (GGMs) and Bayesian Networks (BNs). To evaluate the performance of these methods, I used data derived from a realistic population simulation model, based on a niche model of species interactions. The experiments showed that these methods were successful at reconstructing the species interaction networks, and that the comparatively simple LASSO, SBR and GGM methods performed as well if not better than the more complex Bayesian Network approaches.
Sleep and the menopause

Sleep problems and their consequences are a serious public health issue, imposing a substantial burden on the individual and society. Although sleep occupies one-third of our lives and can be considered to be an important subject, sleep medicine is a young speciality and problems are poorly investigated. Sleeping problems are frequently reported during the menopausal transition. Subjectively women find that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) significantly improves sleep quality. Thus, HRT can be considered as a first-line therapy for insomnia. However, in some cases insomnia coincides with the menopause transition and cannot be considered to result from ovarian failure. Depressive mood, stress and behavioural factors, as well as restless legs and periodic limb movement syndromes may be the underlying cause. Thus, if no relief with HRT has been achieved after a few months, other aetiologies should be explored.
Understanding Organizational Learning Capability

This paper presents data on how learning takes place in four organizations, what gets learned, and the factors and processes that facilitate or impede learning. Seven orientations for describing organizational learning capability and understanding learning styles are identified. Each of these orientations is conceived as a bi-polar continuum that reflect learning processes. Copyright 1996 Basil Blackwell Ltd.
Improving Communication for Children with Autism: Does Sign Language Work?

One of the signature characteristics of children with autism is failure to develop adequate communication skills. Despite efforts to teach oral communication skills to children with autism, many of these children continue to experience difficulties in acquiring functional speech. Therefore, clinicians often are faced with the decision of selecting and implementing an aided or unaided augmentative or alternative communication system for these individuals. Although aided communication systems, ranging from low (e.g., pictures) to high tech (e.g., speech out put devices), have been used with children with autism [see Miranda (2002) for a review], unaided systems of communication (e.g., gestural communication or sign language) continue to be recommended as well to provide children with autism an augmentative or alternative means of communication. Given that a clinician may recommend sign language training for a child with autism, what evidence is available upon which to base this decision? At the heart of evidence–based practice is the integration of the best research evidence in the decision making process. This paper will investigate the evidence available to characterize whether teaching sign language [i.e., sign language alone or total communication (sign + speech)] will improve either the sign or oral communication of children with autism. Background Literature A number of summary review papers are available that discuss the effectiveness of intervention programs for teaching sign language to children
A multicast Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) network routing algorithm with ant colony optimization

Wireless mesh networks (WMN) are believed to be a highly promising technology and will play an increasingly important role in future generation wireless mobile networks. Routing in WMN is a challenging problem as a result of highly dynamic topology as well as bandwidth and energy constraints. The swarm intelligence paradigm, such as ant colony optimization (ACO), has recently been demonstrated as an active approach for routing in both wired and wireless networks. We designed a novel ACO-based multicasting routing algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, a source-based approach is adapted to build a multicast tree among all the multicast members, and an evolutional scheme for the original multicast tree is designed to find a more optimal multicast tree. In addition the evolutional scheme also acts as a local recovery technique when some intermediate nodes move away. Compared with ODMRP and MAODV, the proposed algorithm performs better in terms of average delay, success ratio and efficiency.
Concealed information under stress: A test of the orienting theory in real‐life police interrogations

Purpose. The concealed information test (CIT) is a polygraph test that assesses recognition of critical (e.g., crime) information. Laboratory studies showing stronger heart rate deceleration to concealed compared to control information indicate that the orienting response (OR) accounts for responding in the CIT. An important restriction to these findings is that laboratory circumstances impose little or no stress on the examinees, and that under real-life stress defensive responding may occur. Method. To examine the validity of the CIT under realistic stress, we analysed the data from 65 card tests conducted during real-life police polygraph interrogations. Results. Baseline heart rate was higher than that observed in the laboratory, confirming that the situation was stress inducing. As in the laboratory, the concealed cards elicited greater heart rate deceleration compared to the control cards. Conclusions. The data support the OR theory of the CIT under real-life stress.
Domain-specificity of self-concept and parent expectation influences on short-term and long-term learning of physics

Background: Students’ academic self-concepts are known to be domain specific. Researchers have also identified two related components of self-concept:cognitive (how competent students feel about a subject domain) and affective (their interest in the subject). This paper examines whether both components are domain specific. Research has also shown that parents tend to influence children’s academic behaviours and choices, but it is unclear whether parent influences would also be domain specific. Aim: This paper examined whether both the cognitive and affective components of self-concept in learning were domain specific with regard to learning physics and whether students’ perceived parent support in learning physics would have short-term and long-term influences. Sample: A sample of secondary 1 students (7 th graders) in Singapore responded to 29 items in a survey about their selfconcepts in learning physics (competence and interest), self-concepts in English (competence and interest), perceived parent expectations in physics, engagement in learning physics (a short-term outcome), and aspiration to learn physics in future (a longterm outcome). Method: Structural equation modelling was conducted to establish the 7 factors. Path analysis examined the relations of physics self-concepts to engagement (a short-term outcome) and aspiration (a long-term outcome). The paths from parent expectations were also examined. Result: The cognitive and affective components of self-concept were highly correlated, but only within respective domains. Physics self-concepts were uncorrelated with English self-concepts. The path from competence in physics to engagement was statistically significant, but not the path to aspiration. Paths from interest in physics to both outcomes were positive. Competence in English did not have positive relations with outcomes in physics, but interest in English had a positive relation with engagement in physics. Parent expectations had positive influences on both engagement and aspiration. Conclusion: The results provided partial support for the domain specificity of both the cognitive and affective components of self-concept. Parental influences tended to be strong even when the impacts of self-concepts are controlled.
Mutational Analysis of the Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) Anchor Pathway Demonstrates that GPI-Anchored Proteins Are Required for Cell Wall Biogenesis and Normal Hyphal Growth in Neurospora crassa

ABSTRACT Using mutational and proteomic approaches, we have demonstrated the importance of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor pathway for cell wall synthesis and integrity and for the overall morphology of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Mutants affected in the gpig-1, gpip-1, gpip-2, gpip-3, and gpit-1 genes, which encode components of the N. crassa GPI anchor biosynthetic pathway, have been characterized. GPI anchor mutants exhibit colonial morphologies, significantly reduced rates of growth, altered hyphal growth patterns, considerable cellular lysis, and an abnormal “cell-within-a-cell” phenotype. The mutants are deficient in the production of GPI-anchored proteins, verifying the requirement of each altered gene for the process of GPI-anchoring. The mutant cell walls are abnormally weak, contain reduced amounts of protein, and have an altered carbohydrate composition. The mutant cell walls lack a number of GPI-anchored proteins, putatively involved in cell wall biogenesis and remodeling. From these studies, we conclude that the GPI anchor pathway is critical for proper cell wall structure and function in N. crassa.
Assessing phylogenetic relationships of Lycium samples using RAPD and entropy theory

AbstractAim:To evaluate the phylogenetic relationships among related species of Lycium samples.Methods:Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting and lab-on-a-chip electrophoresis techniques were used to analyze the characteristics of Lycium species. Seven species and 3 varieties of Lycium were studied. Based on RAPD fingerprint data obtained from 11 primers, we proposed a new index, called dispersivity, using entropy theory and projection methods to depict the diversity of the DNA fingerprints.Results:Using the proposed dispersivity, primers were sorted and the dendrograms of the 7 species and 3 varieties of Lycium were constructed synthetically by merging primer information.Conclusion:Phylogenetic relationships among Lycium samples were constructed synthetically based on RAPD fingerprint data generated from 11 primers.
A Time-Motion Analysis of Lightweight Women's Judo in the 2010 World Championships

The Olympic sport of judo has a growing base of performance analysis research considering the technical aspects, the tactical aspects and time motion analysis. This study aimed to further analyse this sport by specifically considering the time motion aspects of work, rest, kumi-kata and ne-waza in lightweight women's judo to establish if there are differences in this specific population of judo athletes. Pre-recorded footage of the women's u48kg, u52kg and u57kg weight divisions (143 contests) from the 2010 world judo championships were coded into temporal sequences. The coding of five KPIs across the three weight groups produced a total of 1756 hajime to matte blocks (work), 1422 matte to hajime blocks (rest), 1786 kumi-kata sequences (gripping sequences), and 516 ne-waza sequences (ground work). The results suggest the time spent in hajime to matte (work) and in matte to hajime (rest) are similar to those seen in other studies. This suggests there is little difference in the work to rest segments for lightweight women's judo compared to heavier weights and males.