Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Patterns of violence and self-harm in women prisoners: characteristics, co-incidence and clinical significance

Abstract Self-harm and violence in women’s prisons in England are common and occurring with increasing frequency. We aimed to describe the characteristics and patterns of violent and/or self-harming behaviours in women in prison by conducting a retrospective analysis of routine data about self-harm incidents and adjudications. Incidence rates of self-harm and violence were calculated and associated factors explored using logistic regression. We found that only 6.7% of 5486 women prisoners self-harmed and 7.9% had been violent. Eighty per cent of all self-harm incidents related to 70 women. Almost 4 in 10 women prisoners who self-harmed were also violent. Multiple incarcerations and court movements are associated with incidents of self-harm and violence. Women with high-frequency self-harm (≥6) began self-harming early in their custodial period. We conclude that women prisoners who are very behaviourally disturbed can and should be identified early. They warrant clinical formulation and multi-agency responses to risk. Those with high-frequency self-harm should be cared for by external health services.
Parameters of Herbig Ae/Be and Vega-type stars ⋆

Context. This work presents the characterization of 27 young early-type stars, most of them in the age range 1‐10 Myr, and three ‐suspected‐ hot companions of post-T Tauri stars belonging to the Lindroos binary sample. Most of these objects show IR excesses in their spectral energy distributions, which are indicati ve of the presence of disks. The work is relevant in the fields o f stellar physics, physics of disks and formation of planetary systems. Aims. The aim of the work is the determination of the effective temperature, gravity, metallicity, mass, luminosi ty and age of these stars. An accurate modelling of their disks needs, as a previ ous step, the knowledge of most of these parameters, since they will determine the energy input received by the disk and hence, its geometry and global properties. Methods. Spectral energy distributions and mid-resolution spectra were used to estimate Teff, the effective temperature. The comparison of the profiles of the Balmer lines with synthetic pro files provides the value of the stellar gravity, g∗. High-resolution optical observations and synthetic spectra are used to estimate the metallicity, [M/H]. Once Teff, g∗ and [M/H] are known for each star, evolutionary tracks and isochrones provide estimations of the mass, luminosity, age and distances (or upper limits in some cases). The method is original in the sense that it is distance-indep endent, i.e. the estimation of the stellar parameters does n ot require, as it happens in other works, the knowledge of the distance to the object. Results. Stellar parameters (effective temperature, gravity, metallicity, mass, luminosi ty, age and distances ‐or upper limits) are obtained for the sample of stars mentioned above. A detailed discussion on some individual objects, in particular VV Ser, RR Tau, 49 Cet and the three suspected hot companions of post-T Tauris, is presented. Conclusions. These results, apart from their intrinsic interest, would b e extremely valuable to proceed a step further and attempt to model the disks surrounding the stars. The paper also shows the diffi culty posed by the morphology and behaviour of the system star+disk in the computation of the stellar parameters.
Layout aware visual tracking and mapping

Nowadays real time visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) algorithms exist and rely on consistent measurements across multiple views. In indoor environments, where majority of robot's activity takes place, severe occlusions can occur, e.g., when turning around a corner or moving from one room to another. In these situations, SLAM algorithms can not establish correspondences across views, which leads to failures in camera localization or map construction. This work takes advantage of the recent scene box layout descriptor to make the above mentioned SLAM systems occlusion aware. This room box reasoning helps the sequential tracker to reason about possible occlusions and therefore look for matches in only potentially visible features instead of the entire map. This increases the life of the tracker, as it does not consider itself lost under the occlusion state. Additionally, focusing on the potentially visible portion of the map, i.e., the current room features, it improves the computational efficiency without compromising the accuracy. Finally, this room level reasoning helps in better image selection for bundle adjustment. The image bundle coming from the same room has little occlusion, which leads to better dense reconstruction. We demonstrate the superior performance of layout aware SLAM on several long monocular sequences acquired in difficult indoor situations, specifically in a room-room transition and turning around a corner.
Global 2-D intercomparison of sectional and modal aerosol modules

We present an intercomparison of several aerosol modules, sectional and modal, in a global 2-D model in order to differentiate their behavior for tropospheric and stratospheric applications. We model only binary sulfuric acid-water aerosols in this study. Three versions of the sectional model and three versions of the modal model are used to test the sensitivity of background aerosol mass and size distribution to the number of bins or modes and to the prescribed width of the largest mode. We find modest sensitivity to the number of bins (40 vs. 150) used in the sectional model. Aerosol mass is found to be reduced in a modal model if care is not taken in selecting the width of the largest lognormal mode, reflecting differences in sedimentation in the middle stratosphere. The size distributions calculated by the sectional model can be better matched by a modal model with four modes rather than three modes in most but not all situations. A simulation of aerosol decay following the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo shows that the representation of the size distribution can have a signficant impact on model-calculated aerosol decay rates in the stratosphere. Between 1991 and 1995, aerosol extinction and surface area density calculated by two versions of the modal model adequately match results from the sectional model. Calculated effective radius for the same time period shows more intermodel variability, with a 20-bin sectional model performing much better than any of the modal models.
Loss-of-Function Mutation in Myostatin Reduces Tumor Necrosis Factor α Production and Protects Liver Against Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance

OBJECTIVE Insulin resistance develops in tandem with obesity. Ablating myostatin (Mstn) prevents obesity, so we investigated if Mstn deficiency could improve insulin sensitivity. A loss-of-function mutation (MstnLn) in either one or both alleles of the Mstn gene shows how Mstn deficiency protects whole-body insulin sensitivity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS MstnLn/Ln mice were weaned onto a high-fat diet (HFD) or standard diet. HFD-fed MstnLn/Ln mice exhibited high lean, low-fat body compositions compared with wild types. Wild-type and heterozygous and homozygous mutant mice were bled to determine basal levels of insulin, glucose, and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance. To evaluate postprandial insulin sensitivity between animals of a similar size, glucose and insulin tolerance tests and hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp studies were performed with heterozygous and homozygous mutant mice. Quantitative RT-PCR quantified TNF∝, IL-6, IL-1β, F4/80, GPR43, and CD36 expression in muscle, fat, and liver. Histological analysis measured hepatosteatosis. RESULTS Homozygous mutants were glucose tolerant and protected against overall insulin resistance compared with heterozygous mice. Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp studies revealed a dramatically improved glucose infusion rate, glucose disposal rate, and hepatic glucose production in 11-month-old MstnLn/Ln mice on an HFD. Improvements to muscle and liver insulin sensitivity (∼200–400%) correlated with 50–75% decreased tumor necrosis factor (TNF)α production and coincided with severe Mstn deficiency. Hepatosteatosis appeared to be ameliorated. Short-term treatment of MstnLn/Ln mice with recombinant Mstn led to increased plasma TNFα and insulin resistance. CONCLUSIONS We find that severe Mstn deficiency caused by Ln (lean) mutations in HFD-fed mice protects muscle and liver against obesity-induced insulin resistance.
Electromagnetic Field Coupling between a Probe and a Rectangular Aperture Mounted on Open-ended Cavity

This paper presents the electromagnetic-field coupling between a probe and rectangular aperture mounted on open-ended cavity. The field characteristics of the rectangular aperture primarily depend on the mode distribution of the electromagnetic field inside the structure. The significant parameters that have strong influence to the mode distribution are the size of the aperture cross section, the length of the cavity, the location and the length of the probe. In the design, the aperture cross section should be selected to let only specified mode can be propagated. However, when the probe is contained inside the cavity, the discontinuity inside the cavity is occurred that makes the field distribution to be disturbed. Therefore, the mode distribution becomes complex in the vicinity of the probe. The mode truncation for various distances from the probe is necessary in order to accomplish the accurate results to find the radiation characteristics. The criteria for the mode truncation are first specified to yield efficient field solution. Subsequently, the finite number of the mode summation is determined to achieve the convergent condition. Furthermore, the radiation characteristics are obtained by using the dyadic Green function. The results from this work are significant to further design of this structure in the microwave and millimeter wave devices
Nice, but we can’t afford it: challenging austerity and finding abundance in inclusive education

ABSTRACT This paper argues that it is very possible, even in times of monetary austerity, to decrease the perceived costs of inclusion by resurrecting the vocabulary of belonging, friendship and love. Qualitative research was conducted with special educators’ (n = 33) regarding curricular access decisions for students with significant cognitive disabilities in the northeastern US. Results about academic access were published previously but participants’ use of capitalist economic language remained troubling, and while achievement was described as a necessity, inclusion was a seeming luxury. Intuitive inquiry and principles of economic theory including orthodoxy: the reverence given to economic explanations, and veto economics: words that can stop a discussion or plan from moving ahead offer a different interpretation of austerity and abundance. Healthy economies depend on frequent reciprocal exchanges and problems occur when there is excessive frugality or spending. A disproportionate focus on independence and discreet skill achievement is being too ‘frugal’ with students’ time. Becoming alert to economic orthodoxy and veto words, i.e. ‘individualised’ and ‘independent’ enables educators to challenge the false rationality of exclusion. Rather than being a luxury item, inclusion is a necessity. The cost–benefit trade-off for inclusion must be re-conceptualised to weigh friendship, acceptance and community more heavily.
Multisite electromyographic analysis of quadriceps muscle during exerciserelated fatigue, pain and recovery

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Passing efficacy of young basketball players: test or observation?

Basketball is a combined game demanding elevated physical and technical skills, mental characteristics and tactical behaviour. These characteristics cannot be evaluated only by skill tests, which are considered inadequate to record the mental ability of the athletes. For the complete evaluation of the athletes’ performance observation methods have been proposed, which record all of their efforts during the game. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the athletes’ efficacy in passing skill, with two different methods: (a) the skill test and (b) game observation and correlate the results with the total game performance. For this purpose three basketball teams composed by 33 athletes, aged 14-15 years old, participated in the study. Initially, the athletes performed the passing test and afterwards in order to evaluate their passing efficacy and their overall performance, three games between the teams were recorded. Results indicated that performance in passing skill test was not correlated with passing efficacy or with total performance in the games. On the contrary, passing efficacy in the games was significantly correlated and could clearly predict the overall performance of the athlete. The athletes’ performance in passing skill should not be evaluated only by application of test, but additionally by observation of the games.
Neural decoding of treadmill walking from non-invasive , 1 electroencephalographic ( EEG ) signals 2 3 4

Neural decoding of treadmill walking from non-invasive, 1 electroencephalographic (EEG) signals 2 3 4 Alessandro Presacco, Ronald Goodman, Larry Forrester and Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal 5 6 7 University of Maryland, College Park: 8 Neural Engineering and Smart Prosthetics Research Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, 9 School of Public Health 10 Fischell Department of Bioengineering 11 Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science; 12 13 University of Maryland, Baltimore: 14 Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, University of Maryland School of 15 Medicine 16 Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore 17 18 19 Author Contributions: JLCV conceived the research; JLCV designed the experiment with 20 assistance from LF; AP, LF and RG performed the research at the VAMC; AP and JLCV 21 designed the decoders, and analyzed the data at UMCP; AP and JLCV wrote the paper; and LF 22 and RG edited the manuscript. 23
A Meta-Analysis Study of Satisfaction and Continuance Intention to Use Educational Technology

Satisfaction is known as a major measure of continuance intention to use any information systems (IS). This article provides a systematic review of 30 research articles published on the educational technologies continuance intention between 2005 and 2017. The educational technologies continuance intention literature was analyzed based on a series of dimensions including author, relationship between constructs, type of respondents, contexts and instruments used. The main findings of this study, which is the first of its kind, are: (1) there is a significant relationship between satisfaction and continuance intention from the previous research, (2) most of the previous researchers have studied the relationship between satisfaction and continuance intention in the context of e-learning usage and (3) most of the previous researchers have used the instrument related with satisfaction of e-learning usage to measure the satisfaction in their studies. In order to improve research in IT continuance intention, future researchers could apply greater use of the theoretical and methodological approaches such as qualitative methods to investigate the continuance intention of educational technologies.
22 Lesion Surgeries

About a year since, on waking at night, he found that he had nearly lost the use of the right side, and that his face was much drawn to the left side. His medical attendant saw him the following day, when he found him languid, with a small and quick pulse and without pain in the head or disposition of sleep. Nothing more therefore was done . and in about a fortnight the limbs had entirely recovered from their palsied state. During the time of their having remained in this state, neither the arm nor the leg of the paralytic side was in the least affected with the tremulous agitation; but as the paralyzed state was recovered, the shaking returned.
Mental Health Conditions and Challenging Behaviors in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities : Gap between Research and Care

The term culturally-informed care, unlike trauma-informed care, may be relatively new to service providers (i.e. direct caregivers, therapists, etc.) and other professionals working with people with mental health issues or persons with disabilities. However, its necessity may be dated back to the beginning of the human service field when individuals may have resided in asylums or suffered other forms of social injustices at various cultural and global levels. Oakes (2011) argued that cultural competency has been lauded as an effective, direct intervention to address health care disparity issues; however the clarification of the cultural competency process in the professional development of mental health care providers working with health care disparity populations has been repeatedly identified as a critical empirical need. Considering the aforementioned, this article attempts to initiate or encourage conversations around the significance of culturally-informed care in the delivery of service/treatment to people with mental health issues, developmental disabilities, or intellectual disabilities. Culturally-Informed Care While service/treatment provision for people
Effects of Teacher-Student Ethnoracial Matching and Overall Teacher Diversity in Elementary Schools on Educational Outcomes

ABSTRACT The United States is facing culture gaps between students and teachers in schools. Although the U.S. school-age population is racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse, the teachers are predominantly White. This article investigates whether assignment to same-race teachers affects students’ math and reading achievement growth in early elementary grades. The article also examines if overall teacher diversity in schools moderates the relationship between student-teacher ethnoracial match and achievement growth. This study finds that assignment to same-race teachers has no effect on minority students’ math and reading achievement growth between kindergarten and 3rd grade. However, the overall teacher diversity in school does affect whether minority teachers are effective educators for minority students. This interactive effect is significant for math and reading achievement growth among Hispanic students. Hispanic teachers are most effective as educators for Hispanic students when these teachers also teach in schools with greater teacher diversity. Hispanic teachers are least effective as educators for Hispanic students when these teachers work in schools with low teacher diversity.
Local Macrophage Proliferation, Rather than Recruitment from the Blood, Is a Signature of TH2 Inflammation

Proliferation in situ, rather than immune cell recruitment, drives macrophage expansion in response to parasitic infection. A defining feature of inflammation is the accumulation of innate immune cells in the tissue that are thought to be recruited from the blood. We reveal that a distinct process exists in which tissue macrophages undergo rapid in situ proliferation in order to increase population density. This inflammatory mechanism occurred during T helper 2 (TH2)–related pathologies under the control of the archetypal TH2 cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4) and was a fundamental component of TH2 inflammation because exogenous IL-4 was sufficient to drive accumulation of tissue macrophages through self-renewal. Thus, expansion of innate cells necessary for pathogen control or wound repair can occur without recruitment of potentially tissue-destructive inflammatory cells.
A Dynamic Neural Network-based Reaction Wheel Fault Diagnosis for Satellites

The objective of this paper is to develop a dynamic neural network scheme for fault detection and isolation (FDI) in the reaction wheels of a satellite. Specifically, the goal is to decide whether a bus voltage fault, a current loss fault or a temperature fault has occurred in one of the three reaction wheels and further to localize which wheel is faulty. In order to achieve these objectives, three dynamic neural networks are introduced to model the dynamics of the wheels on all three axes independently. Due to the dynamic property of the wheel, the architecture utilized is the Elman recurrent network with backpropagation learning algorithm. The effectiveness of this neural network-based FDI scheme is investigated and a comparative study is conducted with the performance of a generalized observer-based scheme. The simulation results have demonstrated the advantages of the neural network-based method proposed.
The role of broader context and the communication program in merger and acquisition implementation success

Purpose – To investigate what actually influences a merger and acquisitions (M&As) successful implementation. Despite the significant research interest in this topic our knowledge is still incomplete.Design/methodology/approach – Our approach differs from traditional research efforts in the field. First, it explores the influence of a range of factors including external corporate environment, company characteristics, communication program and the characteristics of the M&A itself. Second, it is based on a comparatively large sample of 72 in‐depth studied M&As which took place in Greece.Findings – Results indicate that the existence of a communication program is among the most influential factors in the successful implementation of an M&A. Other determining factors are aspects of the external corporate environment, the formalization of the decision‐making process and the consequentiality of the M&A.Research limitations/implications – More empirical studies are needed to replicate and extend our study by ex.
Initialization methods for the TSP with Time Windows using Variable Neighborhood Search

This paper presents a General Variable Search heuristic, trying to discover initial, feasible solution for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows. More specifically, we provide all relevant information regarding TSP-TW, Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) and initialization methods, then we quote all related work in the direction on solving this NP-HARD problem, and at last we propose our new implementation for generating initial, feasible solution for the TSP-TW. We are thoroughly focused on the behavior of our main algorithm to different random-based or sorting-based initialization procedures of our main implemented algorithm. At last, we show experimentally that in some cases, the use of a sorting function as an initialization function in this algorithm did not work and never returned a feasible solution in some cases.