Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comorbid Hoarding and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Manifested During Early Childhood

This case report outlines the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) used to treat an 11-year-old female, “Gabriela,” with comorbid hoarding and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Gabriela participated in treatment involving CBT and exposure and response prevention (ERP) sessions for OCD and hoarding, following a cognitive rehabilitation software program designed for cognitive impairment. Upon completion of the treatment, Gabriela no longer exhibited behaviors consistent with a comorbid hoarding and OCD diagnosis and demonstrated marked improvements in her presenting problems (mental rituals; hoarding items for magical thinking purposes). This case report supports the focus of research, continuing to explore hoarding and comorbidity diagnoses across the life span.
Metastable black Saturns

Black Saturns have multiple horizons and so offer a testing ground for the ideas of black hole thermodynamics. In this note, we numerically scan for phases that are in equilibrium by extremizing total entropy in the 2-dimensional moduli space of stationary, singly rotating black Saturns with fixed total mass and angular momentum. On top of the known TH = TR, ΩH = ΩR configurations, we find phases that do not balance the temperature and angular velocity of the ring and the hole. But these (and most of the balanced Saturns) go away when we demand that the system is metastable, by imposing that the Hessian of the entropy is negative definite. Metastablity occurs when the dimensionless total angular momentum lies in a narrow window 0.92457 < j < 0.92463 of the thin ring branch. This is consistent with the expected range of classical stability of black Saturns and therefore may imply that thermal stability is tied to classical stability, in analogy with Gubser-Mitra in the translationally-invariant case. We also comment on the possibility of constructing plasma configurations that are dual to black Saturns in AdS.
Language Abilities, Phonological Awareness, Reading Skills, and Subjective Fatigue in School-Age Children With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss

Although reading outcomes for children with hearing loss are improving, too many of these children continue to display persistent reading difficulties. Because of these difficulties, there is an ongoing need to understand the nature of the relationships among decoding abilities, language skills, and reading achievement in this population more fully. Coincidentally, there has also been an emerging literature on the subjective fatigue in children with hearing loss, which could be directly or indirectly linked to reading ability. The purpose of this study was to examine associations among language abilities, reading skills, and subjective fatigue in 56 children with mild to moderate hearing loss (CMMHL). The results indicated that both phonological awareness and receptive language ability predicted reading achievement in CMMHL, which replicates findings for children without hearing loss. The results also indicated that CMMHL who had poor reading skills reported significantly higher levels of subjective fatigue relative to the other children with mild to moderate hearing loss in the sample.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY ISSUES IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud computing is a double-edged sword from the privacy and security standpoints. Despite its potential to provide a low cost security, organizations may increase risks by storing sensitive data in the cloud. In this paper, we analyze how the cloud’s characteristics such as newness, nature of the architecture, and attractiveness and vulnerability as a cybercrime target are tightly linked to privacy and security. We also investigate how the contexts provided by formal and informal institutions affect privacy and security issues in the cloud.
The Mass Function of Supergiant Molecular Complexes and Implications for Forming Young Massive Star Clusters in the Antennae (NGC 4038/4039)

We have used previously published observations of the CO emission from the Antennae (NGC 4038/4039) to study the detailed properties of the supergiant molecular complexes with the goal of understanding the formation of young massive star clusters. Over a mass range from 5 × 106 to 9 × 108 M☉ the molecular complexes follow a power-law mass function with a slope of -1.4 ± 0.1, which is very similar to the slope seen at lower masses in molecular clouds and cloud cores in the Galaxy. Compared with the spiral galaxy M51, which has a similar surface density and total mass of molecular gas, the Antennae contain clouds that are an order of magnitude more massive. Many of the youngest star clusters lie in the gas-rich overlap region, where extinctions as high as AV ~ 100 mag imply that the clusters must lie in front of the gas. Young clusters found in other regions of the galaxies can be as far as 2 kpc from the nearest massive cloud, which suggests that either young clusters can form occasionally in clouds less massive than 5 × 106 M☉ or that these young clusters have already destroyed their parent molecular clouds. Combining data on the young clusters, thermal and nonthermal radio sources, and the molecular gas suggests that young massive clusters could have formed at a constant rate in the Antennae over the last 160 Myr and that sufficient gas exists to sustain this cluster formation rate well into the future. However, this conclusion requires that a very high fraction of the massive clusters that form initially in the Antennae do not survive as long as 100 Myr. Furthermore, if most young massive clusters do survive for long periods, the Antennae must be experiencing a relatively short burst of cluster formation to prevent the final merger remnant from exceeding the observed specific frequency of star clusters in elliptical galaxies by a wide margin. Finally, we compare our data with two models for massive star cluster formation and conclude that the model in which young massive star clusters form from dense cores within the observed supergiant molecular complexes is most consistent with our current understanding of this merging system.
Mindfulness at work: implications for leaders and followers

This dissertation investigates the benefits of mindfulness from the point of view of leaders (Study 1) and employees (Study 2). In Study 1, I draw on Conservation of Resources (COR) and dual process theory (Strack & Deutsch, 2004) to develop a framework that outlines the mediating mechanisms explaining the relationship between leader resource depletion (emotional exhaustion) and leadership style (transformational leadership and abusive supervision). Using Glomb, Duffy, Bono and Yang’s (2011) framework of self-regulation, I identify empathy and negative emotion as mediators that are of particular importance for leaders. In addition, I propose that leader mindfulness would disrupt this process to improve leadership style. Using a time-lagged survey of leader follower pairs (N = 63; follower perceptions of leadership style as the criterion), Study 1’s model was not supported. However, using the larger sample of leaders’ (N = 505; leader self-reported leadership style as the criterion), I found that leader empathy and negative emotion mediated the relationships between emotional exhaustion and leadership style. Furthermore, I found that leader mindfulness significantly moderated the indirect effect of leader emotional exhaustion on leadership style through negative emotion. However, leader mindfulness did not moderate the relationship between emotional exhaustion and empathy. In Study 2, I shift focus to the benefits of mindfulness from the followers’ perspective in terms of the relationship between leadership style and employee wellbeing. I define well-being in terms of four key categories: physical, social, psychological, and cognitive. I again use COR theory to suggest that employee mindfulness will boost the positive relationship between transformational leadership and employee well-being, and will buffer the negative relationship between abusive supervision and employee wellbeing. I found, using a time-lagged survey of 246 employees, that employee mindfulness boosted the positive relationship between transformational leadership and psychological well-being (null results for the other facets of well-being). Contrary to my hypothesis, employee mindfulness intensified, rather than buffered, the relationship between abusive supervision and employee psychological well-being. This study shows the benefits of employee mindfulness in certain contexts, and reveals one potential dark side of mindfulness at work. I conclude with a general discussion of both studies and outline future directions for research.
DRUG USE EVALUATION OF ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS IN OUTPATIENT EPILEPSY CLINIC OF BISHOFT GENERAL HOSPITAL, EAST SHOA, ETHIOPIA

Background: Epilepsy, a chronic condition defined as two or more recurrent, unprovoked seizures, which has the highest incidence at the end of life. Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are primary therapeutic mode for epilepsy. AED treatment has been demonstrated to control seizure, which decreases morbidity and mortality associated with epilepsy. Nevertheless, the risks of significant adverse effects and drug interaction increase when more than one drug is used. Hence, drug use evaluation (DUE) programs play a key role in helping managed health care systems understand, interpret, and improve the prescribing, administration, and use of AEDs. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate use of antiepileptic drugs in epilepsy Outpatient Clinic of Bishoftu General Hospital (BGH), East Shewa, Ethiopia. Method: A retrospective cross-sectional study was applied and all the necessary data was collected from the epileptic patient cards using the pre-developed data collection format. The data collection was conducted from March 10 to April 10, 2014. Result: A total of 259 patients’ information cards which contain AEDs were studied. Among them 135 were males and 124 were females. Out of total 15, 65, 172 and 7 of the patients were in the age group of 65years, respectively. Generalized tonic-clonic (48.6%) were the most common type of epileptic seizure seen. Monotherapy (88%) was most frequently used. Headache (47.8%) was the commonest adverse effect complained by the patients. The most commonly prescribed AED was phenobarbitone (92.8%), followed by Phenytoin (3.8%). Fifty four percent (54.4%) of AED use was in accordance with the indication set in the national standard treatment guideline while 2.9% were inappropriate. Also, 121(44%) of the indications were found to be difficult to know whether they are correct or incorrect indications since the type of epilepsy was not identified & written on the patient card. There were 16.5% under dose, 1.1% over dose and 12.7% AED use was with incorrect duration. There were potential drug-drug interactions in 5%. Conclusions and recommendations: The present study has attempted to reveal the practical use of AEDs in epilepsy Outpatient Clinic of Bishoftu General Hospital (BGH), East Shewa, Ethiopia. Consequently, the classification of seizure as well as the use of drugs with potential drug interaction, dose and duration problem needs urgent interventions.
Developing cross-cultural competence : a guide for working with children and their families

As the U.S. population grows more and more diverse, how can professionals who work with young children and families deliver the best services while honoring different customs, beliefs, and values? The answers are in the fourth edition of this bestselling textbook, fully revised to reflect nearly a decade of population changes and best practices in culturally competent service delivery.The gold-standard text on cross-cultural competence, this book has been widely adopted by college faculty and trusted as a reference by in-service practitioners for almost 20 years. For this timely NEW edition, the highly regarded authors have carefully updated and expanded every chapter while retaining the basic approach and structure that made the previous editions so popular. Professionals will Get a primer on cultural competence. Readers will examine how their own cultural values and beliefs shape their professional practice, how the worldviews of diverse families may affect their perceptions of programs and services, and how providers can communicate more effectively with families from different cultural backgrounds. Deepen their understanding of cultural groups. Learn from in-depth chapters with nuanced, multifaceted explorations of nine different cultural backgrounds: Anglo-European, American Indian, African American, Latino, Asian, Filipino, Native Hawaiian and Samoan, Middle Eastern, and South Asian. Readers will get up-to-date insights on history, demographics, traditions, values, and family structure, and they'll examine the diverse ways each culture approaches child rearing, medical care, education, and disability. Discover better ways to serve families. Readers will get concrete recommendations for providing more effective, sensitive, and culturally competent services to children and families. They'll find practical guidance for every step in the service delivery process, from initiating contact with families to implementing and evaluating services. Vivid case stories and photos bring the principles of cultural competence to life, and the helpful appendixes give professionals quick access to cultural courtesies and customs, key vocabulary words, significant cultural events and holidays, and more. Plus an expanded list of resources points readers to books, films, theater, and other media that will enhance their understanding of other cultures. New to this edition is a revised chapter on African American roots; thoroughly updated and expanded chapters; expanded coverage of disabilities; more on spiritual and religious diversity; and strategies for helping families make decisions about language use (English-only vs. preservation of native language). Equally valuable as a textbook and a reference for practicing professionals, this comprehensive book will prepare early interventionists and other professionals to work effectively with families whose customs, beliefs, and values may differ from their own.
Correlations between brain structures and study time at home in healthy children: a longitudinal analysis

Like sleeping and eating habits, the study habits adopted by children when they are at home are important contributors to lifestyle and they affect cognitive ability. It has recently been reported that sleeping and eating habits change the brain structure of children. However, no research on the effect of study habits at home on the brain structure of children has been conducted thus far. We investigated the effects of study habits at home on the brain structures of healthy children by examining correlations between study time at home and changes in brain structure over the course of 3 years.
Evaluation of a new recovery college: delivering health outcomes and cost efficiencies via an educational approach

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate cost efficiencies and health outcomes after one academic year of course delivery, in a recovery college. Design/methodology/approach The paper used service evaluation and review of data. Findings There is significant impact on health outcomes when standardised measures of Patient Activation Measure and Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale were completed pre- and post-intervention, with indications of possible financial efficiencies identified within secondary care mental health pathways. Research limitations/implications The current evaluation sample is only representative of community mental health populations rather than broader communities. However, indications are that the model is effective from a wider public health perspective (early intervention/prevention) in producing significant health outcomes in terms of improved wellbeing and increased levels of activation/self-management. More in-depth research collaboration with an academic institution is now required. Practical implications There is an implication that the recovery college needs to be fully embedded within the mental health pathway as part of the core offer. This would require significant service redesign and culture change within the organisation. Social implications There is a need to continue to work with other statutory service providers, key stakeholders, voluntary and community sectors to embed the college with wider public health services and ensure a holistic approach across local communities and the whole health pathway. Originality/value Although the model is based on the widely recognised national recovery college model, it has moved away from the usual boundaries of access only being for those attached to secondary care mental health services to a more holistic and integrative approach of offering access to the whole population. Social value is indicated in the ownership and co-production of the model by the collaboration of student expertise, experts by experience and experts by expertise. The co-produced integrated volunteering and work pathway offers positive and cost-efficient health outcomes from a co-designed and co-delivered educational approach.
Economy-wide gains from decentralized water allocation in a spatially heterogenous agricultural economy

This paper analyzes the economy-wide gains obtainable from the allocation of surface irrigation water to its most productive use, and evaluates a decentralized mechanism for achieving this result in a spatially heterogeneous environment. The focus country for the analysis is Morocco. The analysis is based on a general equilibrium model that, in addition to the rest of the economy, captures 82 agricultural production activities, 66 of which are in seven separately identified water districts that span the entire country. The results suggest that a decentralized water trading mechanism could increase agricultural output by 8.3 per cent, affect the rental rates of other agricultural inputs at the national level, including labour, and have economy-wide effects that entail a decline in the cost of living, an increase in aggregate consumption, and expansion of international trade.
Web site design with the patron in mind: A step-by-step guide for libraries

Federated search and distributed information retrieval systems provide a single user interface for searching multiple full-text search engines. They have been an active area of research for more than a decade, but in spite of their success as a research topic, they are still rare in operational environments. This article discusses a prototype federated search system developed for the U.S. government's FedStats Web portal, and the issues addressed in adapting research solutions to this operational environment. A series of experiments explore how well prior research results, parameter settings, and heuristics apply in the FedStats environment. The article concludes with a set of lessons learned from this technology transfer effort, including observations about search engine quality in the “real world. ” © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Comparing image classification methods: K-nearest-neighbor and support-vector-machines

In order for a robot or a computer to perform tasks, it must recognize what it is looking at. Given an image a computer must be able to classify what the image represents. While this is a fairly simple task for humans, it is not an easy task for computers. Computers must go through a series of steps in order to classify a single image. In this paper, we used a general Bag of Words model in order to compare two different classification methods. Both K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) and Support-Vector-Machine (SVM) classification are well known and widely used. We were able to observe that the SVM classifier outperformed the KNN classifier. For future work, we hope to use more categories for the objects and to use more sophisticated classifiers.
Inferring the human microRNA functional similarity and functional network based on microRNA-associated diseases

MOTIVATION It is popular to explore meaningful molecular targets and infer new functions of genes through gene functional similarity measuring and gene functional network construction. However, little work is available in this field for microRNA (miRNA) genes due to limited miRNA functional annotations. With the rapid accumulation of miRNAs, it is increasingly needed to uncover their functional relationships in a systems level. RESULTS It is known that genes with similar functions are often associated with similar diseases, and the relationship of different diseases can be represented by a structure of directed acyclic graph (DAG). This is also true for miRNA genes. Therefore, it is feasible to infer miRNA functional similarity by measuring the similarity of their associated disease DAG. Based on the above observations and the rapidly accumulated human miRNA-disease association data, we presented a method to infer the pairwise functional similarity and functional network for human miRNAs based on the structures of their disease relationships. Comparisons showed that the calculated miRNA functional similarity is well associated with prior knowledge of miRNA functional relationship. More importantly, this method can also be used to predict novel miRNA biomarkers and to infer novel potential functions or associated diseases for miRNAs. In addition, this method can be easily extended to other species when sufficient miRNA-associated disease data are available for specific species. AVAILABILITY The online tool is available at http://cmbi.bjmu. edu.cn/misim CONTACT cuiqinghua@hsc.pku. edu.cn SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Acoustic and Perceptual Consequences of Clear and Loud Speech

Objective: Several issues concerning F2 slope in dysarthria were addressed by obtaining speech acoustic measures and judgments of intelligibility for sentences produced in Habitual, Clear and Loud conditions by speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and healthy controls. Patients and Methods: Acoustic measures of average and maximum F2 slope for diphthongs, duration and intensity were obtained. Listeners judged intelligibility using a visual analog scale. Differences in measures among groups and conditions as well as relationships among measures were examined. Results: Average and maximum F2 slope metrics were strongly correlated, but only average F2 slope consistently differed among groups and conditions, with shallower slopes for the PD group and steeper slopes for Clear speech versus Habitual and Loud. Clear and Loud speech were also characterized by lengthened durations, increased intensity and improved intelligibility versus Habitual. F2 slope and intensity were unrelated, and F2 slope was a significant predictor of intelligibility. Conclusion: Average diphthong F2 slope was more sensitive than maximum F2 slope to articulatory mechanism involvement in mild dysarthria in PD. F2 slope holds promise as an objective measure of treatment-related changes in the articulatory mechanism for therapeutic techniques that focus on articulation.