Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Carcinoid Tumors of the Appendix

OBJECTIVE A retrospective study of 41 patients with histologically confirmed diagnosis of appendix carcinoid tumors was undertaken by reviewing the surgical records at Massachusetts General Hospital. METHODS There were 8 male and 33 female patients (mean age 32 years). Twenty-two patients (54%) presented with signs and symptoms suggestive of acute appendicitis. In 19 patients (46%) the lesions were discovered incidentally. The tumors were located in 32 patients at the tip, in 6 patients in the middle third, and in 3 patients at the base of the appendix. The tumor was less than 1 cm in diameter in 32 patients, between 1 and 2 cm in 7 patients, and was bigger than 2 cm in 2 patients. In 29 patients, the depth of tumor penetration was confined to the submucosa or to the muscle layers of the appendix, and in 8 patients the serosa was involved. In 4 patients, evidence of tumor extension into the meso-appendicular fat was present, including one patient with a tumor bigger than 2 cm and local lymph-node metastases. Forty patients underwent appendectomy alone. One patient with a tumor size bigger than 2 cm in diameter with positive lymph nodes in the mesoappendix underwent secondary right hemicolectomy. Complete follow-up was achieved in 35 patients, and all patients remained free of tumor recurrence. CONCLUSIONS The authors conclude that appendiceal carcinoids are rare and most often are asymptomatic. Tumors of less than 1 cm are adequately managed by appendectomy alone. The appropriate treatment for tumors of 1 to 2 cm continues to be controversial. Right hemicolectomy is recommended for all tumors larger than 2 cm, whereas preference for an aggressive approach should be given in young patients.
Mother’s Friendship Quality, Parental Support, Quality of Life, and Family Health Work in Families Led by Adolescent Mothers with Preschool Children

Based on the developmental model of health and nursing, hypothesized relationships between mothers’ friendship quality, parental support, quality of life (QOL), and family health work (health-related problem solving) were tested in a community sample of 58 families led by adolescent mothers during structured interviews in which measures of the study variables were administered. Contrary to theoretical expectations, no relationship was found between mothers’ friendship quality and health work. However, moderate positive relationships were found between parental support and health work and between health work and mothers’ QOL. Using path analysis, mothers’ friendship quality, parental support, and family health work predicted 49% of the variance in mothers’ QOL. Although the initial theory was not supported by the data, the addition of a path between parental support and QOL resulted in a model that was an excellent fit with the data. Parental support had the strongest direct effect on mothers’ QOL.
Social value orientation and intelligence: A test of the goal prescribes rationality principle

The present study examines the influence of pre-existing individual differences in social value orentations, or preferences for certain patterns of outcomes to oneself and others (McClintock, 1978), on perceptions of rationality in a social dilemma. In Experiment 1 conducted in Groningen (the Netherlands), it was found that people with pro-social orientations expected more cooperation from another described as intelligent than from another described as unintelligent, whereas individualists and competitors expected relatively more cooperation from another described as unintelligent. The cross-cultural generalizability of this finding was examined and supported in Experiment 2 which was conducted in Santa Barbara (U.S.A.). Results from both studies are consistent with the Goal Prescribes Rationality Principle (Van Lange, Liebrand and Kuhlman, 1990) which assumes that people with pro-social (cooperative) orientations would perceive rationality in social dilemmas primarily from the collective perspective, whereas individualists and competitors would take a strong egocentric perspective on rationality. In addition, we found a strong relationship between expectations of other's cooperation and own cooperative behaviour when the other was described as intelligent. The strength of this relationship was reduced, particularly for individualists and competitors, when the other person was described as unintelligent.
A mechanism for online diagnosis of hard faults in microprocessors

We develop a microprocessor design that tolerates hard faults, including fabrication defects and in-field faults, by leveraging existing microprocessor redundancy. To do this, we must: detect and correct errors, diagnose hard faults at the field deconfigurable unit (FDU) granularity, and deconfigure FDUs with hard faults. In our reliable microprocessor design, we use DIVA dynamic verification to detect and correct errors. Our new scheme for diagnosing hard faults tracks instructions' core structure occupancy from decode until commit. If a DIVA checker detects an error in an instruction, it increments a small saturating error counter for every FDU used by that instruction, including that DIVA checker. A hard fault in an FDU quickly leads to an above-threshold error counter for that FDU and thus diagnoses the fault. For deconfiguration, we use previously developed schemes for functional units and buffers, and we present a scheme for deconfiguring DIVA checkers. Experimental results show that our reliable microprocessor quickly and accurately diagnoses each hard fault that is injected and continues to function, albeit with somewhat degraded performance.
Response rate of Pakistani children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia to Medical Research Council acute lymphoblastic leukaemia 97 chemotherapy protocol.

BACKGROUND Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), a malignancy of lymphoid lineage cells, has excellent prognosis in children. In Pakistan, a few studies highlighted the response of ALL to chemotherapy. The Present study was planned to see the response rate of Pakistani children with ALL to Medical Research Council ALL 97 (MRCALL97) chemotherapy protocol. This descriptive case series was conducted at the Department of Haematology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Department of Paediatric Oncology, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi from 16th of February 2007 to 16th of August 2007. METHODS Diagnosed children with ALL fulfilling the inclusion criteria were interviewed regarding history of the present, past illnesses, and family history. Physical examination was performed. Presenting clinical features, blood counts and blood and bone marrow blasts percentage were used to see the response on day 29 post chemotherapy. The data was recorded on a structured proforma for statistical analysis. RESULTS A total of 33 patients were studied including 26 males and 7 females. Twenty-five patients belonged to age group 2-9 years, and 8 to < 2 or > 9 years, median age being 4.5 years. Presenting WBC count was < 50 x 10(9)/L in 30 patients and > 50 x 10(9)/L in 3 patients. At the end of induction, complete remission was achieved in 31 out of 33 (94%) patients while two patients did not achieve remission. CONCLUSION Response rate of Pakistani children with ALL to chemotherapy was superior to the previously reported figures from Pakistan.
Sex, Body-Esteem and Self-Esteem

This study investigated the relationship between body-esteem and self-esteem among 215 young men and women (ages 18 to 25 years). It was expected that concern with weight and shape would be strongly associated with women's self-esteem, while men's self-esteem would be more closely linked to concerns about their fitness. Multiple regression analyses indicated that perceived attractiveness and the salience of weight and shape were significant predictors of self-esteem among women. Among men, the significant predictors of self-esteem were perceived attractiveness, body disparagement, and perceived strength and fitness.
Micronutrients, N-Acetyl Cysteine, Probiotics and Prebiotics, a Review of Effectiveness in Reducing HIV Progression

Low serum concentrations of micronutrients, intestinal abnormalities, and an inflammatory state have been associated with HIV progression. These may be ameliorated by micronutrients, N-acetyl cysteine, probiotics, and prebiotics. This review aims to integrate the evidence from clinical trials of these interventions on the progression of HIV. Vitamin B, C, E, and folic acid have been shown to delay the progression of HIV. Supplementation with selenium, N-acetyl cysteine, probiotics, and prebiotics has considerable potential, but the evidence needs to be further substantiated. Vitamin A, iron, and zinc have been associated with adverse effects and caution is warranted for their use.
Empowering Spirituality and Generativity Through Intergenerational Connections

SUMMARY Intergenerational programming has received much attention and has been heralded as beneficial for both children and older adults. However, little has been reported in the literature concerning adult reactions to and benefits of intergenerational activities. A report on the first two years of an ongoing intergenerational project involving a preschool and a retirement community is presented. Four adults who participated regularly were interviewed in depth and findings are reported. All categories from the interviews represented aspects of Erikson's Generativity stage, and indicated that spirituality was enhanced through intergenerational contacts. Opportunities to interact with young children engendered a sense of relatedness to others and hope for the future for the older adult interviewees. Implications of this program that strengthened links to younger generations, and fostered positive affect, well-being, and spirituality in the aging process are discussed.
An Ideal Type of Spiritually Informed Organizations: a Sociological Model

With the insurgence of the spirituality of work phenomenon there is need for an apposite model against which practitioners, researchers and social scientists can empirically study contemporary workplace structures, or even to understand prior types of spiritual organizations. From case studies of a Benedictine monastery and of the Ford Motor Company, the “spiritual-family”, a new ideal type of spiritually informed social structure based on charismatic authority is proposed and compared against Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy. In their purest forms, the spiritual-family elects and Weber's bureaucracy appoints their superiors respectively. A central structural difference between the two is the means for this selection.
STUDENT PERFORMANCE UNDER DIFFERENT ASSESSMENT SITUATIONS

Abstract This paper examines the student performance on an undergraduate honours degree at Middlesex Polytechnic, under four different methods of assessment, where traditional examination is combined with ‘seen’ question, case studies (seen and unseen) and projects. The analysis shows that the traditional examination should be combined with other methods of assessment as the student performance is worst under examination and the performance improves when combined with other methods. Further, the analysis shows that the weaker students benefit by achieving significantly higher marks in the non‐examination component rather than the examination.
The Bases and Use of Power in Organizational Decision Making: The Case of a University.

The authors appreciate the support of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Illinois. They wish to thank Janice Barton and Ray Zammuto for their invaluable assistance in the collection of data for this study. The effects of subunit power on organizational decision making and the bases of subunit power are examined in a large midwestern state university. @ It is hypothesized that subunits acquire power to the extent that they provide resources critical to the organization and that power affects resource allocations within organizations in so far as the resource is critical to the subunits and scarce within the organization. Departmental power is found to be most highly correlated with the department's ability to obtain outside grants and contracts, with national prestige and the relative size of the graduate program following closely in importance. Power is used most in the allocation of graduate university fellowships, the most critical and scarce resource, and is unrelated to the allocation of summer faculty fellowships, the least critical and scarce resource.
Demographics and personal characteristics of urban Malaysian entrepreneurs: an ethnic comparison

The study attempts to investigate whether becoming an entrepreneur is characterised by entrepreneur's personality characteristics. In addition, it attempts to explore the differences between two ethnic groups, namely, Malay and Chinese, with regard to entrepreneur personality, family background and company background. Four demographic variables, three business characteristics variables and six personality variables were found to be significantly different across ethnic groups. Overall, in terms of entrepreneurial personality characteristics, both Malay and Chinese entrepreneurs scored high with respect to the Pursuit of Excellence; moderately high on Work Ethics; moderate on Dominance, Mastery, and Internal Attributing and moderately lower on Powerful Others and Chance Attributing dimensions. The Pursuit of Excellence dimension was statistically significant different across the groups. The rest were statistically not significant. Some interesting results were that Malays derive satisfaction from working hard and seeing the job well done as compared to the Chinese and that Chinese enjoy having power over people as compared to the Malays. The implications of the study are also discussed along with some recommendations.
Microwave Processed NiMgZn Ferrites for Electromagnetic Intereference Shielding Applications

Ni<sub>0.2</sub>Mg<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\mathrm {0.8-}{x}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>Zn<sub><italic>x</italic></sub>Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$x = 0.2$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8) ferrites are synthesized via microwave solid-state reaction method. The diffraction study confirms the cubic spinel structure of samples. The fracture surface is analyzed by scanning electron microscope. In addition, the X-band (8.4–12 GHz) electromagnetic interference (EMI) properties are investigated. The NiMgZn ferrite system attributes the total EMI shielding effectiveness (SE<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{T}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) altering between 9 and 12 dB, which provides the electromagnetic shielding applications. The variation of electromagnetic parameters such as dielectric constant (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\varepsilon ^{\prime }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), loss (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\varepsilon ^{\prime \prime }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), magnetic permeability (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu ^{\prime }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), and magnetic loss (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu ^{\prime \prime }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) as a function of X-band frequency is elucidated.
The Development of Linguistic Attitudes and Preferences.

This paper reports the findings of a study on the preferences and attitudes held by 87 kindergarten and first grade children toward Hawaii Creole English (HCE) and standard English (SE). The subjects were students at two elementary schools in urban Honolulu, one located in one of the least desirable, industrial areas of the city, the other in a more residential neighborhood, inhabited by members of a professional class. The children in the latter school preferred English, as did the first graders in the former. However, the younger children in the lower socio-economic school expressed a preference for, and had positive attitudes toward, HCE. These findings indicate that a switch by speakers of Hawaii Creole English in linguistic preferences and attitudes occurs in the first two grades of school. Tests of fluency in both languages revealed that the children from the higher socio-economic school were more competent in SE than the other children. However, with the exception of the younger children in the lower socio-economic school, all the subjects displayed approximately equal fluency in HCE.
On Delay Constrained Multicast Capacity of Large-Scale Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

This paper studies the delay constrained multicast capacity of large scale mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). We consider a MANET that consists of $n_s$ multicast sessions. Each multicast session has one source and $p$ destinations. Each source sends identical information to the $p$ destinations in its multicast session, and the information is required to be delivered to all the $p$ destinations within $D$ time-slots. Assuming the wireless mobiles move according to a two-dimensional i.i. d. mobility model, we first prove that the capacity per multicast session is $O\left(\min\left\{1, (\log p)(\log \left(n_sp\right)) \sqrt{\frac{D}{n_s}}\right\}\right). $ We then propose a joint coding/scheduling algorithm achieving a throughput of $\Theta\left(\min\left\{1,\sqrt{\frac{D}{n_s}}\right\}\right). $ Our simulation results suggest that the same scaling law also holds under random walk and random waypoint models.
Obesity Is Significantly Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in 2‐ to 9‐Year‐Olds

The objective of this analysis was to estimate the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in ethnically diverse young children. A retrospective medical chart review identified overweight/obese 2‐ to 9‐year‐old children (N=147) from a local pediatric clinic who were matched (for age, sex, and ethnicity) with normal weight patients from the 2005–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (N=294). Comparisons of mean systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure, total, and high‐density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol were conducted. Results showed that compared with the population‐based normal‐weight sample, the local overweight/obese sample was significantly more likely to have diastolic prehypertension (15% vs 75%, P<.0001), systolic prehypertension (10% vs 43%, P<.0001), and the lowest quintile of HDL cholesterol (19% vs 34%, P=.003). At this young age, excess weight is significantly associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors. These results suggest that overweight/obese children in this age group should be monitored closely to prevent potential chronic disease risk.
Stop the boats! Moral panic in Australia over asylum seekers

This article analyses the social reaction to asylum seekers in Australia through the lens of moral panic theory. It argues that the most recent campaigns to deter ‘boat people’ from arriving in Australia have all the hallmarks of a classic moral panic, which have been successful because they resonate with deep-rooted anxieties about Australia's national identity and way of life, relating, among other things, to fear of Asian ‘invasion’ and concern with multiculturalism. However, the article seeks to extend moral panic theory to propose that rather than being episodic (as the original moral panic model suggests), moral panics over asylum seekers, at least, are now relatively permanent, which, it is argued, is largely a function of the inexorable ‘war on terror’ where the figure of the Muslim-terrorist-refugee is constructed as a transnational folk devil. On the other hand, the article argues that while resistance to moral panics seems to challenge the view that moral panics are forged of consensus (a key moral panic ingredient), societal reactions to refugees do resemble classic moral panics insofar as the negative response is broad and unified.
Failure to discriminate between mirror-image objects: A case of viewpoint-independent object recognition?

Abstract There is evidence from the literature, based on normal human subjects and on animals, to suggest that some stages of the object recognition process code images in a manner that carries no enantiomorphy (i.e. mirror-image) information. A patient, RJ, is reported who is severely impaired in discriminating between mirror-image objects. He can successfully discriminate between objects that differ by a minor structural alteration, or by rotation in the picture-plane. He can also discriminate between mirror-image words. In addition, RJ can reliably recognize objects, including those used in the mirror-image task. Various explanations for these unusual findings are discussed, the most probable of which is that RJ lacks a suitable egocentric reference frame, or is unable to compare such a reference frame with the type of representation employed for the purposes of object recognition.
Beginning teachers’ self-efficacy and stress and the supposed effects of induction arrangements

Induction arrangements are implemented in schools all over the world to support beginning teachers (BTs) (novices) in gradually growing into their profession. The aim of this study is to gain more insight into two key psychological processes involved in the work of a qualified beginning teacher, namely perceived stress and self-efficacy. This unfolding is necessary to find a path of influence to lead the way to meaningful support interventions. Support in the form of induction arrangements is hypothesised to decrease perceived stress and to increase self-efficacy and, thus, decrease stress outcomes. To test our hypotheses 30 BTs and their school-based educators, working in 13 different schools, were surveyed. The analyses revealed that stress causes and stress outcomes are indeed interrelated and that self-efficacy affects this relationship in a mediating way. However, besides decreasing a beginning teachers’ perceived lack of learning opportunities, no other influences of induction arrangements were obtained. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
An Explanation for the Role of the Amygdala in Aesthetic Judgments

It has been proposed that the top-down guidance of feature-based attention is the basis for the involvement of the amygdala in various tasks requiring emotional decision-making (Jacobs et al., 2012a). Aesthetic judgments are correlated with particular visual features and can be considered emotional in nature (Jacobs et al., 2016). Moreover, we have previously shown that various aesthetic judgments result in observers preferentially attending to different visual features (Jacobs et al., 2010). Here, we argue that—together—this explains why the amygdalae become active during aesthetic judgments of visual materials. We discuss potential implications and predictions of this theory that can be tested experimentally.
Crime, Women, and the Quality of Urban Life

Although crime and the fear of crime affect both the men and women who live in cities, women are especially affected. In numerous studies they express significantly higher levels of fear than men. For example, according to a 1972 national poll,1 over half the women surveyed, compared with 20 percent of the men, said they were afraid to walk in their neighborhoods at night. The proportion of women reporting such feelings has grown in recent years.2 Accompanying this fear may be an increased use of certain safety precautions, such as staying home at night or avoiding certain parts of the city. This results in what Biderman3 has called "foregone opportunities. " Beyond serving as means of protection for women, such restrictions may serve as instruments of social control. Feminist analyses of one crime, rape, have made this point eloquently: