Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dynamics of Peak Performance

Are there common elements in experiences of high level performance in different activities? This exploratory study initiates a research basis for understanding superior use of human potential. Peak performance, defined operationally as behavior that exceeds one's predictable level of functioning, represents superior use of potential in any human endeavor. Examined were episodes of peak performance reported by adult subjects in four groups: psychology, creative arts, adult education, and graduate counseling. Factor analyses and ANOVA of factor scores were used to compare reported experiences of superior funcioning with those of average behavior. Results indicated that peak performance is an independent entity with distinguishing phenomenological dimensions. These dimensions of peak performance include : (a) absorption and clarity which comprise clear focus upon both object and self, (b) sponteneity and unrestrained behavior, and (c) expression of self.
Comprometimento organizacional em organizações autentizóticas: um estudo Luso-Brasileiro

The paper aims to show how the perceptions of six authentizotic organizational characteristics – spirit of camaraderie, credibility of the leader, open and frank communication with the leader, opportunities for learning and self-development, equity, work-family conciliation – explain three dimensions of organizational commitment. In the first step, a study carried in Portugal to build and validate the authentizotic organizations construct was replicated in Brazil. In the second step, confirmatory studies were carried out in Portugal and Brazil. Empirical evidence suggests the good psychometric properties of the construct and shows that authentizotic dimensions explain commitment, mainly the affective component. The authentizotic dimensions suggesting the higher predictive power are the spirit of camaraderie, the credibility of the leader and the opportunities for learning and self-development.
From mother to daughter: changes in intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in Germany

Recent decades have seen a dramatic expansion in the educational attainment and occupational opportunities of German women. Both the educational and occupational positions of the mothers and those of their daughters are continuously changing across cohorts. Our study aims to detect the probability of daughters to experience maternal-line intergenerational educational and occupational mobility. Using new data from the National Educational Panel Study of adult cohorts, we analyse successive cohorts of German women born between 1944 and 1984. We demonstrate that the relation between mothers’ and daughters’ educational and occupational career has changed over time. Maternal-line female mobility has decreased over cohorts. Our results also reveal that the relationship between educational careers and female job mobility has changed. The tertiary level of education has become more relevant across cohorts in preventing downward intergenerational mobility and it has become a prerequisite for taking part in the completion for upward intergenerational mobility.
Complicaciones de la cirugía bucal ambulatoria en pacientes mayores de 65 años

Serious systemic disorders such as hypertension, cerebrovascular or heart disease, diabetes and psychiatric problems are common in elderly patients, and lead to the prescription of different drugs. This may in turn influence oral health, and the dentist should be familiarized with these situations when providing dental treatment in elderly patients. A retrospective study was made of 196 patients over age 65 years to evaluate the type of ambulatory surgery performed under locoregional anesthesia, taking into account the presence of background systemic pathology, multiple drug therapy, oral and dental health, the cause of consultation and the type of anesthesia used, relating these parameters to the development of intra- or postoperative systemic and/or local complications. Some systemic disease was documented in 88% of the patents ' hypertension being the most frequent disorder (in 45% of subjects with systemic disease). On the other hand, 78% of the patients used some medication, and 77% presented for hardtissue treatment (tooth extractions, bone remodeling, etc.); 61% of all treatments comprised the removal of root fragments (54% of all hard-tissue interventions), symptomatic third molars (15%) or other dental inclusions. Only mild or moderate complications were recorded (13%) ' either local (n = 25) or systemic (n = 1). No significant relation was observed between the development of intra- or postoperative complications and the type of treatment provided or the medication used by these patients. Only diabetes was associated with a significant increase in intra- and postoperative local complications (p<0.003).
Impact of early English language teaching on L1 and L2 development in children in Dutch schools

This article reports on the outcomes of a project aimed at the evaluation of early English language teaching (EELT) in Dutch primary education, starting at age 4. Between 2003 and 2008 four cohorts of first- and second-grade children receiving one to three hours of English language teaching per week were tested with standardized Dutch and English versions of the Reynell tests for language development. The outcomes show that all children acquire some basic skills in English leading to a native age equivalent of 2.5 years for comprehension and 2.1 years for language production. First language (L1) development is not affected by the EELT program in the sense that the majority of the children are within the age equivalent range. Furthermore, children with a non-Dutch background do not suffer from EELT in the sense that their L2 Dutch development is within the normal range though significantly lower than that of their Dutch peers. It is concluded that some of the arguments against early foreign language teaching, in particular the problems it might have for L1 development and the additional problems in language acquisition it could pose for non-native children, are not supported by our data.
The Dominant Segment of the British Business Elite

Defining the business elite to consist of the directors of approximately one thousand of the largest British companies, it is proposed that those who serve simultaneously on two or more of these boards constitute a distinct class segment. Because the interlocking-directorship network that is the foundation of this segment overarches nearly all large firms, and because its members have an exceptional span of experience and influence in corporate matters, it is anticipated that the dominant segment plays a leading role in carrying the collective needs of large enterprise to both government and the non-profit sector. This thesis is examined using information collected from a variety of sources on 1,972 directors of 196 large companies. It is found that dominant segment members are far more likely than other company directors to serve on advisory and governing bodies associated with a variety of government and non-profit organizations. It is also found that dominant segment members disproportionately enter these governing circles because of their favourable position in both the formal business associations, exemplified by the Confederation of British Industry, and informal associations of business leaders, most visibly manifest in exclusive-club networks. The observed patterns suggest that the dominant segment is positioned to promote the class-wide interests of all large companies. Some revision is required in the prevailing conceptions of the relations between big business and the state.
The WT hemochromatosis protein HFE inhibits CD8+ T‐lymphocyte activation

MHC class I (MHC I) antigen presentation is a ubiquitous process by which cells present endogenous proteins to CD8+ T lymphocytes during immune surveillance and response. Hereditary hemochromatosis protein, HFE, is involved in cellular iron uptake but, while structurally homologous to MHC I, is unable to bind peptides. However, increasing evidence suggests a role for HFE in the immune system. Here, we investigated the impact of HFE on CD8+ T‐lymphocyte activation. Using transient HFE transfection assays in a model of APCs, we show that WT HFE (HFEWT), but not C282Y‐mutated HFE, inhibits secretion of MIP‐1β from antigen‐specific CD8+ T lymphocytes. HFEWT expression also resulted in major decreases in CD8+ T‐lymphocyte activation as measured by 4–1BB expression. We further demonstrate that inhibition of CD8+ T‐lymphocyte activation was independent of MHC I surface levels, β2‐m competition, HFE interaction with transferrin receptor, antigen origin, or epitope affinity. Finally, we identified the α1–2 domains of HFEWT as being responsible for inhibiting CD8+ T‐lymphocyte activation. Our data imply a new role for HFEWT in altering CD8+ T‐lymphocyte reactivity, which could modulate antigen immunogenicity.
Evaluating the Significance of Placement on Recall of Advertisements during the Super Bowl

Abstract This study investigates whether the specific placement of ads during a television program affects ad and brand recall. Subjects were surveyed the day after Super Bowl XXXIV and Super Bowl XXXVI to determine unaided recall of brands and ads shown during the game. The results indicate that those ads placed first in a group (pod) of ads and those placed at the beginning of the program were recalled significantly more than ads later in the pod and later in the program.
Implementation through force or Measure? How Institutional pressures Shape National eHealth Implementation Programs

Theoretical contributions on ‘user resistance’ have recently received increasing attention with regards to explaining the failed integration of various types of information systems. Unlike the yet more widespread technology acceptance theories, user resistance offers an alternative view to systemrelated antecedents by taking into account antecedents at the level of the user and their perceived organizational environment. However, previous models have ignored the possible influence of institutional pressures, namely coercive, mimetic and normative pressure, on an individual user’s decision to resist a technology. These are particularly applicable in national IS implementation programs like e.g. large-scale eHealth programs, where factors outside the organization, such as government pressure or public opinion, affect user behaviour. Our study focuses on the introduction of the German Electronic Health Card, an eHealth program, which has been resisted by resident medical doctors for years. The authors introduce an extended ‘Status Quo Bias Model’ and test it amongst a sample of 351 German doctors examining the effects of coercive, mimetic and normative pressures on resistance to this eHealth program. We add a quantitative analysis to the literature on national eHealth programs and user resistance theory, two areas of study, which are predominantly based on findings from case study data.
Performance analysis of distributed Internet system models using QPN simulation

The paper presents creating web system models. The aim of the work was to develop models of the distributed Internet system that allow the performance evaluation. From many possible methods we have selected Queueing Petri Nets consisted of two classes of formal models (Queuing Nets and Petri Nets). In the paper web systems are modeled by Queueing Petri Nets tool. The paper includes the selected results of models simulation. Our approach predicts the performance of distributed Internet system.
Diagnosing multiple drug hypersensitivity in children

Multiple drug hypersensitivity (MDH) has been defined as a hypersensitivity to two or more chemically different drugs. Two types of MDH have been reported: the first one, which develops to different drugs administered simultaneously and the second type, in which sensitizations develop sequentially. In children, studies which diagnose MDH on the basis of positive allergologic tests to 2 or more chemically different drugs are lacking.
A synthesis of Martian aqueous mineralogy after 1 Mars year of observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Martian aqueous mineral deposits have been examined and characterized using data acquired during Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's (MRO) primary science phase, including Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars hyperspectral images covering the 0.4–3.9 μm wavelength range, coordinated with higher–spatial resolution HiRISE and Context Imager images. MRO's new high-resolution measurements, combined with earlier data from Thermal Emission Spectrometer; Thermal Emission Imaging System; and Observatoire pour la Mineralogie, L'Eau, les Glaces et l'Activitie on Mars Express, indicate that aqueous minerals are both diverse and widespread on the Martian surface. The aqueous minerals occur in 9–10 classes of deposits characterized by distinct mineral assemblages, morphologies, and geologic settings. Phyllosilicates occur in several settings: in compositionally layered blankets hundreds of meters thick, superposed on eroded Noachian terrains; in lower layers of intracrater depositional fans; in layers with potential chlorides in sediments on intercrater plains; and as thousands of deep exposures in craters and escarpments. Carbonate-bearing rocks form a thin unit surrounding the Isidis basin. Hydrated silica occurs with hydrated sulfates in thin stratified deposits surrounding Valles Marineris. Hydrated sulfates also occur together with crystalline ferric minerals in thick, layered deposits in Terra Meridiani and in Valles Marineris and together with kaolinite in deposits that partially infill some highland craters. In this paper we describe each of the classes of deposits, review hypotheses for their origins, identify new questions posed by existing measurements, and consider their implications for ancient habitable environments. On the basis of current data, two to five classes of Noachian-aged deposits containing phyllosilicates and carbonates may have formed in aqueous environments with pH and water activities suitable for life.
Boundaryless Careers: Bringing Back Boundaries

Boundaryless career theories are increasingly prominent in career studies and management studies, and provide a new ‘status quo’ concerning modern careers. This paper contextualizes the boundaryless careers literature within management studies, and evaluates its contributions, including broadening concepts of career and focusing interorganizational career phenomena. It acknowledges the considerable stimulus given to career studies by this literature, but also offers a critique based on five issues: inaccurate labelling; loose definitions; overemphasis on personal agency; the normalization of boundaryless careers; and poor empirical support for the claimed dominance of boundaryless careers. Because these problems render the boundaryless career concept increasingly obsolete as a ‘leading edge’ construct in career studies, we offer new directions for theory and research. In particular we re-examine the role of career boundaries, and suggest the development of new, boundary-focused careers scholarship based on boundary theory, to facilitate studies of the processes whereby career boundaries are created, and their effects in constraining, enabling and punctuating careers.
Serum lipoproteins in rats with carbon tetrachloride-induced fatty liver.

After the administration of ccl4 to male rats, liver triglycerides began to increase after a lag period of about 1 hr; the level of serum triglycerides fell sharply during the first 30 min of intoxication. Three classes of serum lipoproteins were isolated by flotation in the ultracentrifuge and their concentrations and chemical compositions were determined. Within 4 hr of the administration of CCll the level of the very low density (VLD-) lipoproteins fell to 25% of that in the control rats. Smaller decreases in the levels of the other two classes of lipoproteins were evident. The serum concentration of all the components of the VLD-lipoproteins were reduced, but proportionally more lipids were bound to the protein moiety in the CCl,-treated rats than in the controls. The concentrations of protein and triglycerides of the VLD-lipoproteins declined most steeply during the first hour of intoxication. The results are interpreted as further evidence that the fatty liver induced by CCl, is due to a block in the release of hepatic triglycerides to the plasma, the primary lesion being, very probably, inhibition of the synthesis of the protein moiety of serum lipoproteins.
The Importance of Attitude in Foreign Language Learning

good or poor attitude that makes life easy or difficult in the foreign language classroom. The teacher reading this title also assumes that the attitudes in question are probably of the unfavorable kind, otherwise there would be no problem to present and no solutions to offer. If this is, as I suspect, the typical reaction of foreign language teachers to the title of this article, it reveals two attitudes they hold commonly as a group: (1) it is the student's attitude that is the crucial factor in foreign language learning, and (2) this factor is ignored unless it presents a problem. Teachers think in terms of problems. Ten years ago the words attitude and motivation were not of primary importance to the foreign language teaching community. We were busy remodeling our profession with the help of linguistics, language labs, and government sponsored training programs. We thought that the future of foreign language instruction was assured. And in fact enrollments increased; we were thriving. By the mid-sixties disquieting feelings began to emerge on the pages of all the foreign language journals. Something was amiss. Something had been overlooked, an important factor that we are only now beginning to investigate: attitudes, not only the student's but attitudes of teachers, parents, administrators, and the community at large. What is an attitude? How is it formed? Can it be changed? And how can we change it if it is unfavorable? The range of individual preferences, beliefs, values, or attitudes is staggering. There are many reasons why this is true. Breer and Locke have attempted a fairly complete enumeration: "A complete explanation (of the wide variety in individual attitudes) would presumably include references to family socialization, peer group influence, specific events in the individual's past, sources of anxiety, basic strivings, mechanisms of defense, education, income, occupation, mass media, class affiliation, residence, religion, and a host of personal variables including intelligence, age, sex, interests, and aptitudes. "' Let us now look at a specific definition of attitude. I offer this one of Milton Rokeach: "An at-
Substantive Members Should Receive Financial Aid

Policy makers have not reached a reasonable consensus on whether undocumented immigrants should receive financial aid nor developed a consistent set of conditions for eligibility. This article builds on an earlier case study and explores some of the critical issues that prevent actors from creating policy that reflects our underlying attitudes of membership. It addresses critical points of tension so that readers and policy makers can possibly reconcile intuitions and actions.
Essential Role of the NADPH Oxidase Subunit p47phox in Endothelial Cell Superoxide Production in Response to Phorbol Ester and Tumor Necrosis Factor-&agr;

A phagocyte-type NADPH oxidase complex is a major source of endothelial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, but its biochemical function and regulation remain unclear. In neutrophils, the p47phox subunit is centrally involved in oxidase activation in response to agonists such as phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA). We investigated the role of p47phox in endothelial cell ROS production in response to PMA or tumor necrosis factor-&agr; (TNF&agr;) stimulation. To specifically address the role of p47phox, we studied coronary microvascular endothelial cells (CMECs) isolated from p47phox−/− mice and wild-type controls. p47phox was absent in hearts of knockout mice whereas the essential oxidase subunit, p22phox, was expressed in both groups. In the absence of agonist stimulation, the lack of p47phox did not result in a reduction in NADPH-dependent ROS production in p47phox−/− CMECs compared with wild-type CMECs. Prestimulation with PMA (100 ng/mL) or TNF&agr; (100 U/mL) for 10 minutes significantly increased NADPH-dependent O2− production in wild-type CMECs, assessed either by lucigenin (5 &mgr;mol/L) chemiluminescence or dichlorohydrofluorescein (DCF) fluorescence. This response was completely lost in p47phox−/− cells. Transfection of the full-length p47phox cDNA into p47phox−/− CMECs caused expression of p47phox protein and restoration of the O2− response to PMA and TNF&agr;. In wild-type CMECs, transfection of antisense p47phox cDNA substantially reduced p47phox expression and caused loss of the O2− response to PMA and TNF&agr;. These data show that endothelial cell p47phox is critical in the upregulation of NADPH oxidase activity by PMA and TNF&agr;.
Nurse's Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment according to Hospital Ethical Climate Types

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify ethical climate factors in hospitals and analyze their influence on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Methods: A convenience sample of 196 nurses from one national university hospital in J city participated in this descriptive study survey. Instruments included the Ethical Climate Questionnaire, Job Satisfaction Scale, and Organizational Commitment Scale. Cronbach’s ⍺ and factor analysis were done to test reliability and construct validity of the scales. Data were collected from March 15 to March 25, 2013 and analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, t-test, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 18.0. Results: Seven ethical climate factors were identified; laws and professional codes, social responsibility, company rules and procedures, self-interest, personal morality, efficiency, and friendship. Factors influencing job satisfaction were friendship (β=.25), social responsibility (β=.20), laws and professional codes (β=.20), and educational level (β=.27), explaining 37.6% of variance in job satisfaction. Factors influencing organizational commitment included social responsibility (β=.29), friendship (β=.27), laws and professional codes (β=.23), and age (β= .19), with explanatory power of 44.6%. Conclusion: Results can be used as preliminary data for developing new strategies to establish positive ethical climates in hospital environments and thus enhance nurses’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment.