Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Competition among Health Plans and Women's Use of Preventive Care: A Multilevel Analysis

Preventive health care services are increasingly considered important, not only for their lifesaving aspects but for their cost-effectiveness, which many assume would prevail in a competitive health care market. This view was supported by empirical evidence until the mid-1990s, but since then the nature of competition among health plans and the utilization of preventive care have constantly been changing. Research has yet to provide a clear answer on how these changes are affecting competition and, in turn, how competition among health plans affects the utilization of preventive care. These primary research questions are addressed in this study through the use of insurance claims data in a multilevel model, not previously used in the study of preventive care. The results of multilevel logistic regression show that the greater the number of insured people enrolled in HMOs, the greater is the likelihood of receiving mammograms and Pap smears. However, if HMOs as a group are increasingly exercising their market power, given the degree of competition among them, the likelihood of receiving both types of preventive care in the market is reduced.
Symptoms of Depression Depend on Rigid Parenting Attitudes, Gender, and Race in an At-Risk Sample of Early Adolescents

Trajectories of depressive symptoms were compared between European American and African American boys and girls from ages 8 to 14 in a longitudinal sample of 130 children born to adolescent mothers. Mixed-effects regression modeling was used to analyze individual and group differences in level of depressive symptoms and their changes over time. Time-varying predictors included rigid parenting attitudes, maternal depression, and maternal educational attainment. African American boys reported more symptoms of depression at age 8 than African American girls or European American boys or girls. Symptoms of depression increased over time only for European American girls. Rigid parenting attitudes, but not maternal depression or maternal educational attainment, were associated with children’s depressive symptoms. Results substantiate the importance of differentiating groups by gender and race in conceptual models of depression.
The Allow-Forbid Asymmetry in Question Wording - a New Look at an Old Problem

L'asymétrie permettre-interdire dans la construction de questionnaire, un regard nouveau sur un vieux problème: L'effet très connu des réponses permettre-interdire dans les questionnaires, commenté d'abord en 1941 par Daniel Rugg, est testé dans une enquête locale en Allemagne avec un échantillon par quota et en entretiens face-à-face (N=620). La question du choix des mots entre dans cette expérience "split-ballot, ainsi que la présentation d'une version longue du questionnaire avec les réponses alternatives explicitées ("permettre ou ne pas permettre", "permettre ou interdire"). L'effet original décrit dans la littérature scientifique est dû à la formulation biaisé et sans alternatif explicite. Le choix des mots a un effet secondaire. Les répondants moins instruits sont influencés par la formulation biaisée; les répondants plus instruits semblent être plus influencés par le choix des mots.
Introduction to Part Two of the Special Section on the Research Agenda for the Development of a Dimensional Classification of Personality Disorder

The American Psychiatric Association (APA), the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse are sponsoring a series of ten international conferences to develop recommendations for research that will be of most use to the authors of the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–V). The first conference, “Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder: Etiology, Pathology, Phenomenology, & Treatment,” was held at the APA headquarters in Arlington, VA on December 1–3, 2004. The prior issue of the Journal of Personality Disorders (JPD) published abbreviated versions of articles presented at this conference. The current volume of JPD provides the remainder of this special journal series, more specifically, the abbreviated versions of the conference presentations by Drs. Juri Allik (“Personality Dimensions across Cultures”), Robert F. Krueger (“Continuity of Axes I and II: Toward a Unified Model of Personality, Personality Disorders, and Clinical Disorders”), Timothy J. Trull (“Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder: Coverage and Cutoffs”), and Roel Verheul (“Clinical Utility of Dimensional Models for Personality Pathology”), along with two discussant papers by Drs. Michael Ashton (“The Lexical Approach to the Study of Personality Structure: Toward the Identification of Cross–Culturally Replicable Dimensions of Personality Variation”) and Peter Tyrer (“The Problem of Severity in the Classification of Personality Disorder”) that were invited by Dr. John Livesley, the Editor of JPD. This special series ends with the overview article by Drs. Widiger, Simonsen, Krueger, Livesley, and Verheul (“Personality Disorder Research Agenda for the DSM–V”). Further details regarding the conference and the APA research agenda for the DSM–V are provided in the prior special issue of JPD. Journal of Personality Disorders, 19(3), 211, 2005 © 2005 The Guilford Press
Validation of an ELISA for the diagnosis of human trichinellosis 1 2 Running title : Serodiagnosis of human trichinellosis 3 4

Validation of an ELISA for the diagnosis of human trichinellosis 1 2 Running title: Serodiagnosis of human trichinellosis 3 4 Maria Angeles Gómez-Morales, 1* Alessandra Ludovisi, 1 Marco Amati, 1 Simona Cherchi, 1 5 Patrizio Pezzotti, 2 and Edoardo Pozio 1 6 7 Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di 8 Sanità, 1 and Agenzia di Sanità Pubblica, 2 Rome, Italy 9 10 Corresponding author: 11 Maria Angeles Gómez-Morales 12 Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, 13 Istituto Superiore di Sanità 14 viale Regina Elena. 299 15 00161 Rome, Italy 16 Tel. +39 06 4990 3379 17 Fax +39 06 4990 3561 18 Email: mariaangeles.gomezmorales@iss.it 19 AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.00257-08 CVI Accepts, published online ahead of print on 30 September 2008
Attachment style, empathy, and helping following a collective loss: Evidence from the September 11 terrorist attacks

Abstract This study examined the relationships between avoidant and ambivalent attachment dimensions, empathy, and helping behavior in the context of one of the most tragic examples of collective loss in the USA. US college students (314 total: 219 females, 95 males) completed questionnaires between 20 and 42 days after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Results from this correlational study confirm previous laboratory experiments finding that attachment style may be related to people's ability to experience empathy and engage in helping behavior. Following the terrorist attacks, those with lower scores on avoidant attachment (i.e., more secure individuals) reported greater empathy with the bereaved. No association was found between the anxious attachment dimension and empathy, most likely due to a curvilinear relationship. Empathy for the bereaved was significantly correlated with helping behavior. Although neither attachment dimension was directly associated with collective helping behavior, avoidant attachment was negatively and indirectly related to collective helping behavior via its relationship with empathy for the bereaved.
The Influence of Positive and Negative Victim Credibility on the Assessment of Rape Victims; An Experimental Study of Expectancy—Confirmation Bias

The influence of prior credibility information about a rape victim on the subsequent questioning and assessment of the victim by the police was studied in two related experiments. It was hypothesized that the number and type of questions asked would be influenced by the type of prior information the subjects had received. Furthermore, evaluation of the victims’ report was expected to be biased toward the manipulated level of victim credibility. In Experiment 1 law students were either given negative, positive or no victim credibility information before participating in a simulated victim interview. Analysis of the number and type of questions asked during the interview, and the attributed victim or assailant responsibility measured after the interview confirmed the hypothesis for the number and type of questions. The expected bias with regard to the final evaluation of the victim and the assailant was only partially confirmed. Irrespective of the prior information on victim credibility, attributions of responsibility were related to stereotypical beliefs about rape and estimated percentage of false crime reports. In Experiment 2 these results were partially replicated using a sample of vice squad detectives. These police officers appeared to be more sympathetic towards rape victims than were the law students. The discussion focused on the complexity of expectancy confirmation research and the rather positive results found in this study.
The Sensitivity of MC-CDMA to Synchronisation Errors

In this contribution, we investigate the sensitivity of MC-CDMA systems to synchronisation errors. We show that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the MC-CDMA system at the input of the decision device in the presence of a carrier frequency offset or a clock frequency offset is a rapidly decreasing function of the number of carriers. For a maximal load, carrier phase jitter and timing jitter give rise to a degradation that is independent of the spectral content of the jitter; moreover, the degradation caused by carrier phase jitter is independent of the number of carriers. A constant carrier phase offset and a constant timing offset cause no degradation of the MC-CDMA system performance.
Sociospatial Sublimation: The Human Resources of Love in Sandals Resorts International, Jamaica

Interactions between visitors and workers are central to tourism. In the Global South, this relationship usually consists of the spatial concentration and division of people with vastly contrasting economic resources and cultural identities. Research on the commodification of tourism in the Global South, then, focuses on the uneasy confluence of poor and dependent service workers who labor so that wealthy and privileged tourists can enjoy. Drawing on the work of Slavoj Žižek, this article argues that the current approaches to these interactions, although exposing the capitalist “contents” concealed behind tourism's alluring commodity form, fail to examine the “secrets” of the form itself; that is, the enjoyment generated between workers and tourists. As a result, researchers have yet to fully explain how—with all its socioeconomic contradictions of smiles and servility, luxury and poverty—the commodity form of tourism in the Global South endures. To elaborate my argument, I use Jacques Lacan's concept of sublimation and an organizational ethnography of the all-inclusive hotel company Sandals Resorts International, headquartered in Jamaica. I explore two ways through which sublimation, a place- and value-making activity par excellence, informs the commodified interactions between Sandals service workers and tourists: first, how management discourses “elevate” workers to the “place of the Thing”—a place that radiates sublime enjoyment; second, how workers avoid the dangers of overwhelming guests with too much enjoyment by following the practices of “love-sublimation” codified in the fantasies of “Guest Courtesy” and “The Sandals Customer Service Checklist. ”
Children's Adjustment to Divorce: Theories, Hypotheses, and Empirical Support.

Comparaison de cinq perspectives prenant en compte l'adaptation des enfants au divorce. Ces perspectives se referent a l'absence du parent qui n'obtient pas la garde de l'enfant, l'adaptation au parent qui obtient la garde, le conflit entre parents, les questions economiques et le stress que genere le changement de vie.
The relevance of using isokinetic measures to evaluate strength

Abstract Isokinetic testing is often used to evaluate the effect of different types of interventions and also to interpret whether an individual is ready to return to physical activity. However, limited research exists concerning the suitability of evaluating the effect of isotonic training using isokinetic testing. The aim with this study was to assess the relation between the development of force during isokinetic and isotonic concentric maximal contractions. Fifty subjects (24 women and 26 men) performed maximal concentric isokinetic and isotonic elbow flexion. The isokinetic tests were performed in an isokinetic dynamometer and the isotonic tests in a pulley apparatus. The relationship between the isokinetic values (peak value and mean force value) and the isotonic values (1RM) was modeled by linear regression analysis. There was a significant linear correlation between both the isokinetic values and the isotonic value that explained 89% (peak) and 88% (mean) of the variation. From the linear regression analysis, two different formulas were derived to estimate the prediction of the isokinetic values. The significant relation between isokinetic and isotonic measures means that it may be possible to evaluate the effects of isotonic training by using an isokinetic dynamometer. However, there was a large variation around the predicted isokinetic values that has to be considered. It is important to point out that the results of this study are applicable only on healthy young men and women with similar strength as our subjects.
Direct visualization of CaMKII at postsynaptic densities by electron microscopy tomography

Ca2+/calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a major component of postsynaptic densities (PSDs) involved in synaptic regulation. It has been previously shown that upon activity CaMKII from the spine reversibly aggregates at the cytoplasmic surfaces of PSDs, where it encounters various targets for phosphorylation. Targets for CaMKII are also present within the PSD, but there has been no reliable method to pinpoint whether, or where, CaMKII is located inside the PSD. Here we show that CaMKII can be mapped molecule‐by‐molecule within isolated PSDs using negative stain electron microscopy tomography. CaMKII molecules found in the core of the PSD may represent a pool distinct from the CaMKII residing at the cytoplasmic surface. J. Comp. Neurol. 520:4218–4225, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Hyphomicrobium nitrativorans sp. nov., isolated from the biofilm of a methanol-fed denitrification system treating seawater at the Montreal Biodome.

A budding prosthecate bacterial strain, designated NL23(T), was isolated from a methanol-fed denitrification system treating seawater at the Montreal Biodome, Canada. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA (rRNA) gene sequences showed that the strain was affiliated with the genus Hyphomicrobium of the Alphaproteobacteria and was most closely related to Hyphomicrobium zavarzinii with 99.4 % sequence similarity. Despite this high level of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, DNA-DNA hybridization assays showed that strain NL23(T) was only distantly related to H. zavarzinii ZV-622(T) (12 %). Strain NL23(T) grew aerobically, but also had the capacity to grow under denitrifying conditions in the presence of nitrate without nitrite accumulation. Growth occurred at pH 7.0-9.5, with 0-1 % NaCl and at temperatures of 15-35 °C. Major fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c or ω6c (84.6 %) and C18 : 0 (8.5 %), and major quinones were Q8 (5 %) and Q9 (95 %). The complete genome of the strain was sequenced and showed a DNA G+C content of 63.8 mol%. Genome analysis predicted open reading frames (ORF) encoding the key enzymes of the serine pathway as well as enzymes involved in methylotrophy. Also, ORF encoding a periplasmic nitrate reductase (Nap), a nitrite reductase (Nir), a nitric oxide reductase (Nor) and a nitrous oxide reductase (Nos) were identified. Our results support that strain NL23(T) represents a novel species within the genus Hyphomicrobium, for which the name Hyphomicrobium nitrativorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NL23(T) ( = ATCC BAA-2476(T) = LMG 27277(T)).
Human strengths, courageous actions, and general and personal courage

College students (N = 298, 54% female) described a time when they acted courageously, then rated their courageous action on each of 24 Values in Action (VIA) strengths (Peterson & Seligman, 2004), and on general and personal courage (Pury, Kowalski, & Spearman, 2007). Three of the four strengths of courage (persistence, integrity, and bravery) had mean ranks placing them in the top five strengths, along with hope, a strength of transcendence, and kindness, a strength of humanity. Multiple strengths were associated with higher general courage (actions that would be courageous for anyone), lower personal courage (actions that are courageous only in the context of the specific actor's life), or both. Thus, the presence of strengths seems to be more strongly associated with general courage compared to personal courage.
Ebola virus glycoproteins: guidance devices for targeting gene therapy vectors

Replacing the native viral envelope protein on the surface of a retrovirus or lentivirus with the glycoprotein of a foreign enveloped virus, a process called pseudotyping, can expand the set of potential target cells for a viral vector or can restrict entry to specific cells. The Ebola virus glycoprotein, because of its evolutionary origins and the route of viral entry promoted by it, possesses distinct advantages in forming the outer shell of such pseudotyped retroviruses for gene therapy applications. Studies of the transduction of human airway epithelia by lentivirus pseudotyped with a modified Ebola virus glycoprotein from which the region of O-glycosylation has been removed have demonstrated that such recombinant viruses possess particular promise for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. This result highlights the synergism between basic studies of virus entry and gene therapy advances.
Personality Predictors of Participation as a Mentor.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the personality characteristics of mentors.Design/methodology/approach – The five factor model of personality was used to examine relationships between personality and participation as a mentor. A sample of 194 practicing veterinarians were surveyed on the five factor model of personality and a scale assessing their participation as a mentor across junior professionals, interns and high school students.Findings – Results indicated that extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience were positively correlated with participation as a mentor. Personality traits also explained significant variance in participation as a mentor after controlling for prior experience with a mentor. These results suggest that participation as a mentor could be influenced to some degree by personality. Mentoring involves active engagement in an environment requiring social, task, and idea‐related capabilities, thus individuals who are extroverted, conscientious, and o.
Role of caveolin-1 expression in the pathogenesis of pulmonary edema in ventilator-induced lung injury

Caveolin-1 is a key regulator of pulmonary endothelial barrier function. Here, we tested the hypothesis that caveolin-1 expression is required for ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). Caveolin-1 gene-disrupted (Cav-1−/−) and age-, sex-, and strain-matched wild-type (WT) control mice were ventilated using two protocols: volume-controlled with protective (8 mL/kg) versus injurious (21 mL/Kg) tidal volume for up to 6 hours; and pressure-controlled with protective (airway pressure = 12 cm H2O) versus injurious (30 cm H2O) ventilation to induce lung injury. Lung microvascular permeability (whole-lung 125I-albumin accumulation, lung capillary filtration coefficient [Kf, c]) and inflammatory markers (bronchoalveolar lavage [BAL] cytokine levels and neutrophil counts) were measured. We also evaluated histologic sections from lungs, and the time course of Src kinase activation and caveolin-1 phosphorylation. VILI induced a 1.7-fold increase in lung 125I-albumin accumulation, fourfold increase in Kf, c’ significantly increased levels of cytokines CXCL1 and interleukin-6, and promoted BAL neutrophilia in WT mice. Lung injury by these criteria was significantly reduced in Cav-1−/− mice but fully restored by i.v. injection of liposome/Cav-1 cDNA complexes that rescued expression of Cav-1 in lung microvessels. As thrombin is known to play a significant role in mediating stretch-induced vascular injury, we observed in cultured mouse lung microvascular endothelial cells (MLECs) thrombin-induced albumin hyperpermeability and phosphorylation of p44/42 MAP kinase in WT but not in Cav-1−/− MLECs. Thus, caveolin-1 expression is required for mechanical stretch-induced lung inflammation and endothelial hyperpermeability in vitro and in vivo.
An interactive augmented reality system for learning anatomy structure

Anatomy, the study of the structure of the human body, is fundamental to medical education. In recent years, the hours devoted to anatomy are declining from the medical curriculum. This decline includes the reduction of course hours and an emphasis on early clinical experience. To adapt to those changes in anatomy education, various complementary methods with technology of three-dimensional visualization have been tried, and the explosion of image technology during the last few decades and this has brought anatomical education into a new world. In this study, we aim to use augmented reality (AR) technology to create an interactive learning system, which help medical students to understand and memorize the 3D anatomy structure easily with tangible augmented reality support. We speculate that by working directly with 3D skull model with visual support and tangible manipulate, this AR system can help young medical students to learn the complex anatomy structure better and faster than only with traditional methods. Augmented reality (AR) technology integrates the computer generated objects into the real word. AR offers an innovative learning space by merging digital learning materials into the physical space. We think of an interactive augmented reality anatomy learning system as a learning material helping young medical students to learn the complex anatomy structure better. Anatomy plays an important role in the medical education. The three main approaches to studying anatomy are regional anatomy, systemic anatomy, and clinical anatomy. The approaches above reflect the body's organization and the priorities. Regional anatomy considers the organization of the human body as segments: a main body, head, neck, trunk, paired upper limbs, and lower limbs. It also recognizes the body's structure by layers: skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscles, skeleton, and cavities. Here we restrict the scope of the study
Aggressive, assertive, and submissive behaviors in disadvantaged, inner-city preschool children

Measured the frequency of socioeconomically disadvantaged preschool children's aggressive, assertive, and submissive behaviors in play interaction with their mothers. Boys were significantly more assertive but not more aggressive or submissive than girls. Sociofamilial predictors including maternal depression, maternal anger, parenting stress, family life stress, and maternal perceptions of children's aggressive behavior were examined. Sex of the child interacted with (a) maternal depression to predict aggressive and assertive behavior and (b) maternal anger to predict submissive behavior. In all cases where child's sex exerted a significant moderating influence, boys' behavior was more vulnerable to differences in levels of maternal depression and anger, with lower rates of boys' behavior associated with higher levels of maternal distress.