Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tracing Trajectories of Practice: Repurposing in One Student’s Developing Disciplinary Writing Processes

An extensive body of scholarship has documented the way disciplinary texts and activities are produced and mediated through their relationship to a wide array of extradisciplinary discourses. This article seeks to complement and extend that line of work by drawing upon Witte’s (1992) notion of intertext to address the way disciplinary activities repurpose, or reuse and transform, extradisciplinary practices. Based on text collection and practice-oriented retrospective accounts of one writer’s processes for a number of textual activities, the article argues that the writer’s developing disciplinary writing process as a graduate student in English literature is mediated by practices she repurposed from previous engagements with keeping a prayer journal as a member of a church youth group and generating visual designs for an undergraduate graphic arts class. Ultimately, the article argues for increased theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical attention to the discursive practices persons recruit and reinvigorate across multiple engagements with reading, writing, making, and doing.
Impact of Perceived Organizational Justice on Organizational Commitment of Faculty: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan

Research in perceived organizational justice got paramount importance in business organizations context by management researchers and psychologist for the last more than 35 years considering its empirically endorsed impact on numerous workforce behaviors and attitudes such as job satisfaction, extra-role performance, organizational commitment, job performance, motivation, trust and turnover intentions. However, scant literature shed light on whether or not teachers’ fairness perceptions regarding rewards allocation, its procedures and interpersonal treatment foster their organizational commitment particularly in higher education setting. To this particular end, the researchers conducted survey research to explore what organizational justice dimensions influence organizational commitment of the faculty taking into consideration their position. Regression analysis of responses from 463 faculty members revealed that distributive and procedural justice had significant positive impact on organizational commitment of junior faculty whereas senior faculty experienced improved commitment on the provision of distributive justice only. Implications for academic administrators and future researchers are presented.
A systematic review of heuristics for symmetric-matrix bandwidth reduction : methods not based on metaheuristics

Heuristics for bandwidth reduction of matrices is used to reduce computational and storage costs of resolution of large sparse linear systems. Bandwidth reduction consists of carrying out permutations of lines and columns so that the coefficients remain near the main diagonal. When considering an adjacency matrix of a graph, bandwidth reduction can be considered in the sense of modifying the order in which the graph vertices are numbered. In this study, heuristics for bandwidth reduction are revised aiming at determining which of them offers the best bandwidth reduction at a very low computational cost. Specifically, heuristics not based on metaheuristics are reviewed. Moreover, 44 heuristics tested for bandwidth reduction were found. Among them, 4 are recommended as possible state-of-the-art heuristics for addressing the problem.
Models Cascade for Tree-Structured Named Entity Detection

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a well-known Natural Language Processing (NLP) task, used as a preliminary processing to provide a semantic level to more complex tasks. In this paper we describe a new set of named entities having a multilevel tree structure, where base entities are combined to define more complex ones. This definition makes the NER task more complex than previous tasks, even more due to the use of noisy data for the annotation: transcriptions of French broadcast data. We propose an original and effective system to tackle this new task, putting together the strengths of solutions for sequence labeling approaches and syntactic parsing via cascading of different models. Our system was evaluated in the 2011 Quaero named entity detection evaluation campaign and ranked first, with results far better than those of the other participating systems.
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Support, and the Perception of Ability to Work in Adults with Disability

Objective To examine the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and support on self-reported work inability of adults reporting disability. Participants Adults (ages 18–64) who participated in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 2009 or 2010 and who reported having a disability (n = 13,009). Design and Main Outcome Measures The study used a retrospective cohort design with work inability as the main outcome. ACE categories included abuse (sexual, physical, emotional) and family dysfunction (domestic violence, incarceration, mental illness, substance abuse, divorce). Support included functional (perceived emotional/social support) and structural (living with another adult) support. Logistic regression was used to adjust for potential confounders (age, sex and race) and to evaluate whether there was an independent effect of ACEs on work inability after adding other important predictors (support, education, health) to the model. Results ACEs were highly prevalent with almost 75% of the sample reporting at least one ACE category and over 25% having a high ACE burden (4 or more categories). ACEs were strongly associated with functional support. Participants experiencing a high ACE burden had a higher adjusted odds ratio (OR) [95% confidence interval] of 1.9 [1.5–2.4] of work inability (reference: zero ACEs). Good functional support (adjusted OR 0.52 [0.42–0.63]) and structural support (adjusted OR 0.48 [0.41–0.56]) were protective against work inability. After adding education and health to the model, ACEs no longer appeared to have an independent effect. Structural support remained highly protective, but functional support only appeared to be protective in those with good physical health. Conclusions ACEs are highly prevalent in working-age US adults with a disability, particularly young adults. ACEs are associated with decreased support, lower educational attainment and worse adult health. Health care providers are encouraged to screen for ACEs. Addressing the effects of ACEs on health and support, in addition to education and retraining, may increase ability to work in those with a disability.
Distinguishing Coupon Proneness from Value Consciousness: An Acquisition-Transaction Utility Theory Perspective

Previous research on coupon proneness has measured the construct only in behavioral terms (i.e., consumers who are more responsive to coupon promotions are coupon prone). On the basis of the study premise that at least one other psychological construct, value consciousness, underlies the behavior of redeeming coupons, the authors argue that coupon proneness should be conceptualized and measured at a psychological level and treated as one construct that affects coupon-responsive behavior rather than as isomorphic with the behavior. They offer conceptual definitions of both coupon proneness and value consciousness and make a theoretical distinction based on acquisition-transaction utility theory. Eight hypotheses that reflect theoretical differences between the two constructs are proposed and tested. Results support the study premise that coupon-responsive behavior is a manifestation of both value consciousness and coupon proneness.
Fine-grained change detection in structured text documents

Detecting and understanding changes between document revisions is an important task. The acquired knowledge can be used to classify the nature of a new document revision or to support a human editor in the review process. While purely textual change detection algorithms offer fine-grained results, they do not understand the syntactic meaning of a change. By representing structured text documents as XML documents we can apply tree-to-tree correction algorithms to identify the syntactic nature of a change. Many algorithms for change detection in XML documents have been propsed but most of them focus on the intricacies of generic XML data and emphasize speed over the quality of the result. Structured text requires a change detection algorithm to pay close attention to the content in text nodes, however, recent algorithms treat text nodes as black boxes. We present an algorithm that combines the advantages of the purely textual approach with the advantages of tree-to-tree change detection by redistributing text from non-overlapping common substrings to the nodes of the trees. This allows us to not only spot changes in the structure but also in the text itself, thus achieving higher quality and a fine-grained result in linear time on average. The algorithm is evaluated by applying it to the corpus of structured text documents that can be found in the English Wikipedia.
Acoustic droplet vaporization threshold: effects of pulse duration and contrast agent

The use of superheated liquid perfluorocarbon droplets encased in albumin shells has been proposed as a minimally invasive alternative to current treatment of cancer by means of occlusion therapy. In response to an applied acoustic field, these droplets, which are small enough to pass through capillaries, vaporize into large gas bubbles that subsequently lodge in the vasculature. This technique, known as acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) has been shown to successfully reduce blood flow in vivo, but for in situ conditions where attenuation is present, lower acoustic frequency and ADV threshold may be desirable. Thus, two methods to lower the ADV threshold at a lower 1.44 MHz were explored. The first part of this study investigated the role of pulse duration on ADV. The second part investigated the role of inertial cavitation (IC) external to a droplet by lowering the IC threshold in the host liquid with the presence of Definityreg contrast agent (CA). The threshold was found to be 5.5-5.9 MPa for short microsecond pulses and decreased for millisecond pulses (3.8-4.6 MPa). When CAs were present and long millisecond pulses were used, the ADV threshold decreased to values as low as 0.41 MPa
Self-Efficacy and Sleep Quality as Mediators of Perceived Stress and Memory and Behavior Problems in the link to Dementia Caregivers’ Depression in Taiwan

ABSTRACT Objectives: Caregivers’ perceived stress and reactions to patients’ memory and behavior problems have been commonly regarded as outcomes in caregiving research; however, these variables may also serve as predictors of caregivers’ depressive symptoms. The current study investigated the relationship between perceived stress and reactions to patients’ problems and depression among the family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally, we examined caregiving self-efficacy and sleep quality as possible mediators in the relationship between perceived stress and reactions to patients’ memory and problem behaviors and depression. Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study. The study sample consisted of 72 family members caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease who completed a set of questionnaires that included the Perceived Stress Scale, the Chinese Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, the Revised Scale for Caregiving Self-efficacy, and the Revised Memory and Behavior Checklist (RMBPC). Results: The results indicated that both higher perceived stress and RMBPC reaction scores were directly and indirectly associated with higher depressive symptoms. A specific domain of caregivers’ self-efficacy and sleep quality mediated the indirect path. Conclusion: These findings suggest that caregiving self-efficacy and sleep quality may function as mechanisms through which perceived stress and reactions influence depressive symptoms and that this mechanism may be domain specific.
Implantable Collamer Lens for Myopia: Assessment 12 Years After Implantation.

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term refractive and visual stability and the risks related to the implantation of Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL; STAAR Surgical, Monrovia, CA) phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) for myopia. METHODS This retrospective, consecutive, cumulative clinical study was performed in a group of 144 eyes implanted with ICL PIOL for myopia. Only the cases with clinical data available 12 years after the implantation were included in the series. Corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), uncorrected distance visual acuity, spherical equivalent, refractive astigmatism, endothelial cell density, ICL vaulting, and postoperative complications were analyzed. RESULTS Mean spherical equivalent refraction was -16.90±4.26 diopters (D) preoperatively and -1.77±1.93 D 12 years postoperatively. Mean CDVA at the first and last visit were 0.31±0.19 logMAR and 0.22±0.22 logMAR, respectively (Mann-Whitney U test, P<.001). Twelve years postoperatively, 8.9% of eyes had lost more than two lines of CDVA. The incidence of clinically relevant cataracts (13.88%) was significantly linked to the use of the V3 model ICL (chi-square test, P=.007). During the follow-up period, a significant reduction in PIOL vaulting was observed (Kruskal-Wallis test, P<.05), and the mean endothelial cell density decreased by 19.75%. CONCLUSIONS The ICL PIOL provided good refractive outcomes and stability in the long term. The incidence of cataracts is low when the latest models of this PIOL are used.
A safety net or ties that bind? Women, welfare and self‐employment

Purpose – This paper sets out to examine the challenges facing benefit‐dependent lone mothers who seek to engage with self‐employment.Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach offers a detailed analysis of the experiences of three women considering the transition from benefit dependency to self‐employment.Findings – The current welfare regime discourages lone mothers from entering formal self‐employment.Research limitations/implications – The number of cases is limited by the nature of the study involved. Future work would seek to expand upon this.Practical implications – Questions are raised regarding the efficacy of current welfare to work policies as, in this case, they would appear to impede enterprising behaviour and positively encourage informal working.Originality/value – The paper engages in a novel fashion with the concepts of gender, welfare dependency and enterprise whilst developing a critique of current policy.
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies to Control Symptoms in Women Living With Lung Cancer

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by cancer patients, especially women, is increasing. However, CAM use among patients with lung cancer, who have been reported to have the highest symptom burden, is poorly documented. This study describes types and frequencies of specific CAM therapies used by women with lung cancer to manage symptoms, and examines differences in demographic and clinical characteristics between CAM users and non-CAM users. Participants included 189 women with non-small cell lung cancer and ≥1 of 8 symptoms. Six CAM therapies, used to control symptoms, were assessed, including herbs, tea, acupuncture, massage, meditation, and prayer. Forty-four percent (84 women) used CAM therapies, including prayer (34.9%), meditation (11.6%), tea (11.6%), herbs (9.0%), massage (6.9%), and acupuncture (2.6%). Complementary and alternative medicine use was greatest for difficulty breathing and pain (54.8% each), with prayer the most commonly used CAM for all symptoms. Significant differences (P < .05) were found for age (t = 2.24), symptom frequency (t = −3.02), and geographic location (&khgr;2 = 7.51). Women who were younger, experienced more symptoms, and lived on the West Coast or South (vs Northeast) were more likely to use CAM. We found that CAM use is variable by symptom and may be an indicator of symptom burden. Our results provide important initial data regarding CAM use for managing symptoms by women with lung cancer.
CYP2D6*4 polymorphism is not associated with Parkinson's disease and has no protective role against Alzheimer's disease in the Korean population

Abstract CYP2D6*4 polymorphism is reported to be associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) and to have protective role against Alzheimer's disease (AD). Such findings are not extensively studied in the Oriental population, especially Koreans. The effects of CYP2D6*4 polymorphism on AD and PD were investigated by polymerase chain reaction‐restriction fragment length polymorphism in Korean subjects. Heterozygous mutant allele was found in four of 93 patients with PD, 0 of 32 patients with AD and one of 121 control subjects (59 stroke, 59 normal controls and four other psychiatric disorders), but no homozygous mutant allele was found. There were no statistically significant differences between the AD group and controls, and between the PD group and controls. In conclusion, we suggest that CYP2D6*4 polymorphism does not confer susceptibility to PD in the Korean population. Also, due to such a rare occurrence of the CYP2D6*4 polymorphism, we can not confirm the protective role of the polymorphism against AD in the Korean population.
Cannulation of the internal jugular vein: is postprocedural chest radiography always necessary?

OBJECTIVES To determine whether clinical features can be used in a decision rule to prospectively identify a subgroup of internal jugular catheter placements that are correctly positioned and free from mechanical complications, thus obviating the need for routine postprocedural chest radiographs in selected patients. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS A total of 107 consecutive patients who presented to our catheter service for internal jugular catheter insertion because of clinical indications between November 1995 and April 1996. Exclusion criteria were mechanical ventilation, an altered mental status, an age of <15 years, and a height of <152 cm. INTERVENTIONS Right or left internal jugular vein catheter placement followed by a postprocedural chest radiograph. MEASUREMENTS The operating physician completed a detailed questionnaire for each catheter insertion, designed to detect potential complications and to predict the necessity, or lack of necessity, for a postprocedural chest radiograph. The questionnaire documented patient characteristics, the number of needle passes, difficulty establishing access, operator experience, poor anatomical landmarks, number of previous catheter placements, resistance to wire or catheter advancement, resistance to aspiration of blood or flushing of the catheter ports, sensations in the ear, chest, or arm, and development of signs or symptoms suggestive of pneumothorax. After catheter insertion, chest radiographs were obtained to assess for mechanical complications and malpositioned catheters. MAIN RESULTS In 46 cases, the decision rule predicted either a complication or a malposition and, thus, the need for a chest radiograph. In 61 cases, neither was predicted (no chest radiograph was needed). Radiographs confirmed one complication (pneumothorax) and 15 catheter tip malpositions (nine in the right atrium and six in the right axillary vein). Among the 46 cases predicted to have a potential complication or malposition, there were one actual complication (pneumothorax) and six actual malpositions (three axillary vein malpositions and three right atrial malpositions). The positive predictive value of this decision rule is 15%. Among the 61 cases predicted to be free from complications or malpositions and not to require a postprocedural chest radiograph, there were nine unexpected malpositions (three axillary vein malpositions and six right atrial malpositions). The negative predictive value is 85%. The overall sensitivity of the decision rule for detecting complications and malpositions is 44%, and the specificity is 55%. CONCLUSIONS In experienced hands, internal jugular venous catheterization is a safe procedure. However, the incidence of axillary vein or right atrial catheter malposition is 14%, and clinical factors alone will not reliably identify malpositioned catheters. Chest radiographs are necessary to ensure correct internal jugular catheter position.
Initiation sexuelle et genre : comparaison des évolutions de douze pays européens

Résumé Bozon (Michel), Kontula (Osmo). - Initiation sexuelle et genre Les données des enquêtes menées dans douze pays européens sur les comportements sexuels permettent de reconstituer l'évolution de l'âge au premier rapport dans les cinquante dernières années. Au cours de la période, l'âge des femmes à l'initiation sexuelle baisse de façon marquée, alors que les changements sont plus modestes pour les hommes ; à partir des années 1980, l'âge au premier rapport se stabilise partout. L 'épidémie de sida fait irruption dans ce contexte de pause relative et n'introduit pas de changement dans le calendrier d'initiation, alors même que les conditions du premier rapport se modifient, le préservatif progressant aux dépens de la contraception orale. Dans ce cadre général, deux modèles d'évolution des comportements selon le genre se distinguent nettement. Dans les pays du sud, les comportements des femmes se sont rapprochés de ceux des hommes, mais les femmes restent toujours nettement plus tardives que les hommes. Dans les pays Scandinaves, les âges des hommes et des femmes à l'initiation sexuelle sont proches depuis plusieurs décennies. De nombreux indicateurs montrent cependant qu'au nord comme au sud, l'initiation sexuelle des femmes reste vécue de manière très différente de celle des hommes.
Update on scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease

Purpose of reviewSystemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma, is a heterogeneous and complex autoimmune disease characterized by varying degrees of skin and organ fibrosis and obliterative vasculopathy. The disease results in significant morbidity and mortality, and to date, available treatments are limited. Lung involvement is the leading cause of death of patients with SSc. Over the past year, significant advances have been made in our understanding of SSc-associated lung disease, and this review attempts to encapsulate these most recent findings and place them in context. Recent findingsWe divide our discussion of the most recent literature into the following: first, clinical aspects of SSc lung management, including classification, imaging, biomarkers, and treatment; second, promising new animal models that may improve our ability to accurately study this disease; and third, studies that advance or change our understanding of SSc lung disease pathogenesis, thereby raising the potential for new targets for therapeutic intervention. SummaryRecent advances have resulted in a better understanding of SSc-associated lung disease, the development of new in-vivo models for exploring disease pathogenesis, and the identification of potential novel targets for the development of therapies.