Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Major Determinants of Serum Homocysteine Concentrations in a Korean Population

The objective of this study was to identify the factors that determine serum homocysteine concentrations in Korean population. In a community-based study, 871 participants completed detailed questionnaires and physical examination. We found that increased age, male sex, family history of stroke, deficiencies of serum folate and vitamin B12, and elevated serum creatinine significantly increased the risk of hyperhomocysteinemia. However, hormonal and behavioral factors (smoking, alcohol drinking, coffee consumption, and sedentary time) were not associated with the risk of hyperhomocysteinemia. The risk of hyperhomocysteinemia was steeply increased in subjects with two or more risk factors among four selected risk factors (deficiencies of serum folate and vitamin B12, elevated creatinine, and family history of stroke) compared to subjects who did not have any risk factors, especially subjects over the age of 65 yr (odds ratio [OR], 33.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.71-302.0 in men; OR, 39.2; 95% CI, 7.95-193.2 in women). In conclusion, increased age, male sex, family history of stroke, deficiencies of serum folate and vitamin B12, and elevated serum creatinine are important determinants of serum homocysteine concentrations with interaction effects between these factors.
A longitudinal study of pubertal timing, parent-child conflict, and cohesion in families of young adolescents with spina bifida.

OBJECTIVE To study longitudinal associations between perceived pubertal timing and family conflict and cohesion during the transition to adolescence in 68 families of children with spina bifida and 68 matched families with able-bodied children. Children were 8 or 9 years old at Time 1 and 10 or 11 years old at Time 2. METHODS Family conflict and cohesion were assessed with observational data and maternal, paternal, and child reports on questionnaires. Perceived pubertal timing was assessed with maternal report. RESULTS Consistent with the literature on typically developing young adolescents, prospective longitudinal analyses revealed that early maturity was associated with higher levels of conflict and decreases in cohesion in families with able-bodied children. Contrary to these findings, perceived pubertal timing had less of an impact (or the opposite impact) in families of children with spina bifida. Findings were robust across respondents and methods of data collection. CONCLUSIONS Findings based on multimethod and multisource data suggest that familial response to developmental change differs across context (spina bifida vs. able-bodied). Possible reasons for differential responses to the adolescent transition are reviewed. Services are likely to be enhanced if health professionals routinely discuss adolescent developmental issues with parents and youths during clinic visits.
Celebrating 20 Years of Publication of Accounting Education: an international journal: 1992–2011

This paper describes the background to the establishment of Accounting Education: an international journal, as well as an outline of its distinctive characteristics, including the international focus of the journal both in relation to the composition of its Editorial Boards and its authorship since its launch in 1992. A thematic analysis of papers for the second decade of the journal is incorporated, together with insights as to the future directions in accounting education. As the 20-year milestone of the journal was reached Professor Richard M. S. Wilson completed his term of office as founding Editor, and a new Editor took over. The paper recognises Professor Wilson's efforts in establishing an international journal devoted to publishing accounting education research relevant to practitioners, academics, trainers, students, researchers and professional bodies.
Subject, action and polis

In this paper, we develop tools for understanding political agency and political events as they unfold contextually in everyday life. We discuss alternative understandings of the subject so as to grasp the scope of the subject’s autonomy as the ground for political subjectivity. We conceive of political agency in terms of subjectivity related to subject positions offered in the flux of everyday life. To bring together political subject and action, we conceptualize the topological settings of political agency in terms of polis. To illustrate the analytical potential of our approach, we analyse a sequence in a movie by Ingmar Bergman.
Patient perceptions of experience with cardiac rehabilitation after isolated heart valve surgery

Background: Little evidence exists on whether cardiac rehabilitation is effective for patients after heart valve surgery. Yet, accepted recommendations for patients with ischaemic heart disease continue to support it. To date, no studies have determined what heart valve surgery patients prefer in a cardiac rehabilitation programme, and none have analysed their experiences with it. Aims: The purpose of this qualitative analysis was to gain insight into patients’ experiences in cardiac rehabilitation, the CopenHeartVR trial. This trial specifically assesses patients undergoing isolated heart valve surgery. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine patients recruited from the intervention arm of the trial. The intervention consisted of a physical training programme and a psycho-educational intervention. Participants were interviewed three times: 2–3 weeks, 3–4 months and 8–9 months after surgery between April 2013 and October 2014. Data were analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. Results: Participants had diverse needs and preferences. Two overall themes emerged: cardiac rehabilitation played an important role in (i) reducing insecurity and (ii) helping participants to take active personal responsibility for their health. Despite these benefits, participants experienced existential and psychological challenges and musculoskeletal problems. Participants also sought additional advice from healthcare professionals both inside and outside the healthcare system. Conclusions: Even though the cardiac rehabilitation programme reduced insecurity and helped participants take active personal responsibility for their health, they experienced existential, psychological and physical challenges during recovery. The cardiac rehabilitation programme had several limitations, having implications for designing future programmes.
The role of immediate work environment factors in the turnover process: a systemic intervention

Cette recherche est l'une des rares tirees de l'immense litterature sur la rotation du personnel ou les resultats des travaux sur ses determinants ont ete effectivement exploites pour la reduire. Des techniques d'enquete ont ete employees pour mettre a jour les aspects de l'environnement quotidien de travail lies au turnover, cela dans les differentes succursales d'une grande banque. Ce sont la charge de travail, le confort physique, le soutien de la hierarchie et l'innovation qui differencient significativement les groupes a forte et a faible rotation. Les resultats concernant l'autonomie et la clarte, quoique non significatifs, vont dans le sens attendu
A Content Analysis of Dion McGregor’s Sleep-Talking Episodes

This article explores the content of the somniloquies of Dion McGregor, the most extensive sleep talker ever recorded, and compares these with dream content from normative male dreams on the Hall and van de Castle Content Scales and Hobson Bizarreness Scales. On the Hall and van de Castle Scales, the somniloquies contained significantly more female characters relative to males than for the norms, more familiar characters and friends, but fewer family members. The dreamer-as-character was much likelier to be either a befriender or an aggressor than in the normative dreams but much less likely to engage in physical aggression specifically. There was less aggression, friendliness, or sex per character in McGregor’s narratives, as well as less of all three of these types of interaction total than for the norms, but much more self-negativity. There were a lower percentage of negative emotions, good fortune, and success, but the somniloquies were similar to the norms in their levels of misfortune and failure. On the Hobson Bizarreness Scales, the McGregor somniloquies were not differentiated from dreams on three of six scales—having similar levels of discontinuity of plot, characters, objects, and actions but had slightly fewer incongruities of plot, and many fewer instances of incongruity or uncertainly of thought. These findings are discussed in terms of presumed brain activation differences—more frontal activation—and also in terms of McGregor’s personal idiosyncrasies.
Generic, phenomenological, on-the-fly renormalized repulsion model for self-limited organization of terminal supraparticle assemblies

Significance Engineering nanoassemblies with uniform characteristic dimensions is of great interest given the unique properties of nanoscale building blocks and their collective response in superstructures. We present a generic, particle-based model that predicts the formation of self-limited, or “terminal,” supraparticle assemblies observed in many inorganic, colloidal, and biological systems. The key factor that leads to the self-limiting behavior is shown to be that the repulsion between particles becomes renormalized “on-the-fly” as the particles aggregate. The model explains the monodispersity of terminal assemblies formed from polydisperse nanoparticles, as observed in recent experiments. Our findings not only deepen the understanding of how self-limited, or terminal assemblies form, but also offer versatile approaches to control the dimension and shape of synthetic nanoassemblies. Self-limited, or terminal, supraparticles have long received great interest because of their abundance in biological systems (DNA bundles and virus capsids) and their potential use in a host of applications ranging from photonics and catalysis to encapsulation for drug delivery. Moreover, soft, uniform colloidal aggregates are a promising candidate for quasicrystal and other hierarchical assemblies. In this work, we present a generic coarse-grained model that captures the formation of self-limited assemblies observed in various soft-matter systems including nanoparticles, colloids, and polyelectrolytes. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate that the assembly process is self-limited when the repulsion between the particles is renormalized to balance their attraction during aggregation. The uniform finite-sized aggregates are further shown to be thermodynamically stable and tunable with a single dimensionless parameter. We find large aggregates self-organize internally into a core–shell morphology and exhibit anomalous uniformity when the constituent nanoparticles have a polydisperse size distribution.
Nonlinear Supervised Locality Preserving Projections for Visual Pattern Discrimination

Learning representations that disentangle hidden explanatory factors in data has proven beneficial for effective pattern classification. Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique that provides a useful representation for classification if the training data is sequential and transitions between classes are rare. The pattern discrimination ability of SFA has been attributed to the equivalence of linear SFA and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) under certain conditions. LDA, however, is often outperformed by locality preserving projections (LPP) when the data lies on or near a low-dimensional manifold. Here, we take a unified manifold learning perspective on LPP, LDA and SFA. We suggest that the discrimination ability of SFA is better explained by its relation to LPP than to LDA, and give an example of a situation where linear SFA outperforms LDA. We then propose a novel supervised manifold learning architecture that combines hierarchical nonlinear expansions, as commonly used for SFA, with supervised LPP. It learns a nonlinear parametric data representation that explicitly takes both the class labels and the manifold structure of the data into account. As an experimental validation, we show that this approach outperforms previously proposed models on the NORB object recognition dataset.
Process-Product Research on Teaching: A Review of Criticisms

Recent criticisms of process-product research on teaching have attacked its conceptualization, methodology, productivity, and interpretation-application. These 4 kinds of criticism are reviewed and evaluated. Conceptual criticisms refer to the treatment of teachers' intentions, the context of teaching, the normative character of teaching, the conception of causality, and theory. Methodological criticisms bear upon plausibility, predetermined coding categories, ignoring of content, the role of cognitive mediation, the need for experiments, and quality of outcome measures. Criticisms of productivity concern the yield in understanding (theory), predictive power, and control (improvement) of teaching. Criticisms of interpretation-application relate to the use of meta-analysis and the conversion of findings into rules for teaching. Whether the criticisms apply to the essence or the accidents (incidental features) of process-product research provides an overall basis for evaluating the criticisms. Finally, an agenda for such research is outlined.
Should we use characteristics of conversation to measure grammatical complexity in L2 writing development

Studies of L2 writing development usually measure T-units and clausal subordination to assess grammatical complexity, assuming that increased subordination is typical of advanced writing. In this article we challenge this practice by showing that these measures are much more characteristic of conversation than academic writing. The article begins with a critical evaluation of T-units and clausal subordination as measures of writing development, arguing that they have not proven to be effective discriminators of language proficiency differences. These shortcomings lead to the question of whether these measures actually capture the complexities of professional academic writing, and if not, what alternative measures are better suited? Corpus-based analyses are undertaken to answer these questions, investigating 28 grammatical features in research articles contrasted with conversation. The results are surprising, showing that most clausal subordination measures are actually more common in conversation than academic writing. In contrast, fundamentally different kinds of grammatical complexity are common in academic writing: complex noun phrase constituents (rather than clause constituents) and complex phrases (rather than clauses). Based on these findings, we hypothesize a sequence of developmental stages for student writing, proposing a radically new approach for the study of complexity in student writing development.
Exploring Educational and Cultural Adaptation through Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites have seen tremendous growth and are widely used around the world. Nevertheless, the use of social networking sites in educational contexts is an under explored area. This paper uses a qualitative methodology, autoethnography, to investigate how social networking sites, specifically Facebook, can help first semester doctoral students adapt to a Ph.D. program and a new national culture. Each week during the semester, a Ph.D. Student Tip and a Cultural Tip was posted. Students would then post related discussions, observations, and/or questions. At the conclusion of the semester the doctoral students shared their thoughts about participating in the FacebookTM group through autobiographical narratives. A technique called open coding was used to analyze the narratives. Our findings suggest three emergent themes. Social networking sites can aid adaptation through: 1) facilitating knowledge exchange, 2) alleviating apprehension, and 3) enabling socialization and building community. The data showed that the FacebookTM discussions aided in various types of knowledge exchange, providing a conceptual map that facilitated greater adaptation. Next, the interactions appeared to help minimize trepidation related to embarking on a new program of study and adjusting to a new national culture. Third, the FacebookTM group was useful fostering socialization and community among the students. We make the following recommendations for professors when implementing SNS (Social Network Site) groups: 1) establish a FacebookTM group with a course-related identity, 2) be sensitive to security and privacy issues, 3) provide tips to “seed” various types of knowledge exchange, 4) encourage participation, and 5) assess and adjust. While our research is exploratory in nature, we believe it provides a foundation for future research in this important and rapidly expanding area of SNS usage.
The Professionalization of the Field of Education in Sweden: A Historical Analysis

This article analyses the professionalization of the education field in Sweden from a historical perspective by tracing efforts towards professionalization of teaching from a clerically consecrated to a scientifically grounded praxis. Some of these efforts seem to be fairly typical for welfare states like Sweden. However, others are more unique, such as the state ambition to create a unified teacher profession based on a scientific knowledge base across elementary and grammar school teacher categories. This ambition failed. Some reasons are speculatively discussed primarily from a Bourdieuan perspective in terms of different teacher habitus, education capital and professionalization strategies among teachers in different positions in the field of education. Primary and secondary data sources are used but National Policy Documents have formed the main data source.
Performance on driving-related tasks during music

The effect of music on driving-related tracking and vigilance tasks was examined. Participants carried out the tasks either singularly (low demand) or together (high demand) under conditions of silence, low-intensity music of high intensity music. The results indicated that while the relatively simple tracking task was not affected by the music, response time to centrally located visual signals was improved under both music conditions and under both low- and high-demand situations. High-intensity music was associated with an increase in response time to peripheral signals under high-demand conditions. The results are discussed in relation to increased selectivity of attention with music-induced arousal.
Preservation of Fertility in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients With Cancer

Many cancers that present in children and adolescents are curable with surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy. Potential adverse consequences of treatment include sterility, infertility, or subfertility as a result of either gonad removal or damage to germ cells from adjuvant therapy. In recent years, treatment of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies has been modified in an attempt to reduce damage to the gonads. Simultaneously, advances in assisted reproductive techniques have led to new possibilities for the prevention and treatment of infertility. This technical report reviews the topic of fertility preservation in pediatric and adolescent patients with cancer, including ethical considerations.
Sub-Cooled Liquid Nitrogen Test System for Cooling HTS Synchronous Motor

A 400 kW radial-axial flux type experimental HTS synchronous motor is designed. There are twelve armature coils using HTS wires in the motor. They are accommodated in the cooling vessels made of FRP material, and twelve cooling vessels are enclosed in the vacuum vessel. In order to cool the HTS coils of the motor, a sub-cooled liquid nitrogen cryogenic system is presented. The operation temperature is below 70 K. This system consists of vacuum system, liquid nitrogen dewar, data acquisition system and a cold box with liquid nitrogen pump, G-M cryorefrigerator, cryogenic valve and a heater inside. The heater can present the heat of the HTS coils. In this paper, the design and the composition of this test cooling system are presented. When liquid nitrogen is injected into the vessel and the cryorefrigerator is operating, the cool down curve of the test system is obtained. After adding heat to the system, the capacity curve of the system is presented in this paper. The results proved that this sub-cooled liquid nitrogen system can be used for cooling the actual armature windings in the HTS motor.
Identification of Speech by Cochlear Implant Recipients with the Multipeak (MPEAK) and Spectral Peak (SPEAK) Speech Coding Strategies I. Vowels

Objective: The main objective was to evaluate differences in performance associated with the two speech coding strategies. To achieve this objective, acoustic and electrical analyses of vowels identified by cochlear implant recipients were compared with their responses when they used the Multipeak (MPEAK) and the Spectral Peak (SPEAK) speech coding strategies of the Nucleus Cochlear Implant System. Design: Nine subjects identified pure and r‐colored English vowels with the two speech coding strategies. The two processing strategies were compared using an ABAB design. Evaluations were conducted at two weekly sessions after at least 3 wk of use with each strategy. Results: Group vowel identification scores with the MPEAK versus the SPEAK strategy were not significantly different (72.3% and 73.4%, respectively). However, hierarchical loglinear analysis of group data showed that transmitted information of r‐color, duration, and second‐formant features was significantly better with the SPEAK than with the MPEAK strategy. In contrast, identification of the first formant feature was significantly better with the MPEAK than with the SPEAK strategy. Individual subjects had different error patterns in response to the 14 vowels. Conclusions: Electrical stimulation with the SPEAK strategy provides clearer spectral representation of second formant and duration information as well as second and third formant change in r‐colored vowels than with the MPEAK strategy. Consequently, there was marked improvement in recognition of r‐colored vowels with SPEAK compared with MPEAK. In contrast, transmitted information for first‐formant features was significantly less with SPEAK than with MPEAK. This may have occurred because four instead of six to eight electrodes were assigned to first formant frequencies with SPEAK versus MPEAK.