Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Avaliação psicológica e da personalidade e o estudo normativo do rorschach para o uso em crianças brasileiras

The psychological assessment and personality assessment encompasses a complexity of factors associated with limitations and range for this professional activity. By using of the Rorschach one can analyze important aspects of personality and behavior trends, factors associated with psychopathological and tolerance and ability to cope with stress situations - to mention a few examples. This research presents some prelim discussions resulting from normative studies of the R-PAS (Rorschach Performance Assessment System) with children, given relevant repercussions of using this system to our population.
Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest: implementation and outcome in Finnish intensive care units

Background: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has been shown to increase survival after out‐of‐hospital resuscitation. The aim of our study was to find out nationwide implementation and the actual utilization of TH after cardiac arrest in Finnish intensive care units (ICUs). We also determined the outcomes and describe demographic variables of the patients treated with TH.
On being included: racism and diversity in institutional life

previous analysis of the French and Canadian examples. Bassel suggests reframing issues within spaces between ‘“external” borders of immigration status as well as the “internal” borders drawn around integration’ (26). Given the complexity of the issues she tackles in the book, Bassel’s core argument represents an equally intricate approach to rendering the depth of resettled refugee women’s experiences. Bassel is not afraid of telling us who she is so that we understand how she thinks. Her constant and consistent presence using the first person in her writing emulates an intelligently crafted conversation on issues she is passionate about. She clearly establishes her own discomfort as a worker in the refugee field, as well as her struggles to make sense of ‘neat’ theoretical knowledge in the face of chaotic and exclusionary circumstances she has witnessed among asylum seekers. Her migrant background paired with intense fieldwork and concern for democratic agency give Bassel a unique vantage point to consider the limitations of ‘two paradigmatic debates over the boundaries of accommodation of cultural and religious difference in the public sphere, and women’s rights’ (158 and 159). She does not shy away from the difficult questions but recurrently addresses the reader to keep the book’s aim in sight and understand each part of her sophisticated argument. The language and style Bassel utilizes to convey participants’ perspectives are respectful and engaging. First, the quotes used to illustrate Somali women’s lived realities are striking reminders of the diverse forms of exclusion that Muslim women can encounter, based solely on the public expression of their religion. Second, Bassel considerately inserts French words and phrases alongside translated equivalents out of concern to ensure that the intended meaning is accurately conveyed. For a reader who is French-speaking like myself, this represents a delightful encounter with verbatim words, phrases and colloquial expressions that the English translation may not fully convey. However, the overall language used to build her theoretical arguments is mostly addressed to an academic or policy audience. Although the content has clear potential to assist practitioners at the grassroots level, the complexity of the language may discourage this group to engage with the text. I noted with great interest Bassel’s title as ‘New Blood Lecturer’ and reflected on the appropriateness of this appellation, as new blood is exactly what she achieves to inject in this ongoing debate, which promises to get more complex. If anything, the manuscript’s title sells it short. This is a book about the diverse challenges, opportunities and interconnected aspects of displacement, migration and resettlement for Muslim women, which was missing on my bookshelf.
Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Cancer Risk

Obesity is a known cause of metabolic syndrome which includes Type II diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. It is well documented that insulin resistance contributes to the mortality and the incidence of metabolic syndromes including central obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension. Both obesity and diabetes are emerging topics for researchers to consider as having a possible causal association with cancer since the two factors have been viewed as risk factors for cancer. The present paper introduced the hypothesis of a possible causal relationship between obesity, insulin resistance and cancer and reviews relevant existing studies in this area. More efforts and studies are needed to clarify the mechanisms and the common risk factors which might be incorporated into interventions to prevent cancer and cardiovascular diseases as top causes of death.
Inclusion of Part-Time Faculty for the Benefit of Faculty and Students

The new majority of faculty in today's colleges and universities are part-time, yet sizable gaps exist in the research on their needs, interests, and experiences. Further, the peer-reviewed scholarship is largely quantitative. Principally, it focuses on the utility of the adjunct work force, comparisons between part-time and full-time faculty, and personal, institutional, or systemic stressors related to institutional reliance on a part-time workforce. The purpose of this study is to ascertain, through qualitative inquiry, the experiences of part-time faculty at a mid-sized, comprehensive public university. Data from 85 participants were coded, analyzed, and integrated into three core themes. The first, receiving outreach, speaks to inconsistent outreach, messaging, and communication from and across the institution. Mentoring was identified as a prevailing sub-theme and a plausible method of mitigating extant disconnects. The second core theme, navigating challenges, classified the teaching quandaries revealed by this cadre: student engagement and learning, quality of work-life interaction, and community disconnect. The third theme, developing skills, reflected part-time faculty members' needs and interests related to cultivating additional knowledge required for advancing university teaching. While responses are localized, their meanings may be transferred to other campuses through the incremental adoption of programs, services, and advocacy efforts.
Moving between rooms--moving between life and death: nurses' experiences of caring for terminally ill patients in hospitals.

AIM This study describes the meanings of generalist registered nurses' experiences of caring for palliative care patients on general wards in hospitals. BACKGROUND Earlier research shows that work with patients in palliative care is demanding. More research concerning palliative care is undertaken in oncological care, in hospice and in home-care settings than in general wards. It is therefore important to examine the palliative care in the context of acute-care settings to discover more about this phenomenon, to understand the experiences of nurses in this situation and to develop patient care. DESIGN Qualitative, descriptive and interpretive study. METHOD Eight registered nurses in two different hospitals in Sweden were interviewed. The patients on these wards suffered from surgical and medical conditions, i.e. both curative and palliative care were administered. The interviews were analysed using a phenomenological hermeneutical approach inspired by Ricoeur's philosophy. RESULTS The registered nurses' experiences are presented as seven themes and a comprehensive, interpreted whole. This latter revealed the significance of contrasts, contradictions and movement between the material and psychological experiences of the room and nursing care in this care context. CONCLUSIONS The registered nurses say that something momentous occurred during the care process and they showed a strong determination and commitment to being part of the ending of the patient's life circle, despite the situation often being one of stress. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE The findings highlight the need for various forms of support for the nurses to meet their need for new and updated knowledge and support in existential matters. This may promote a better quality of care and confirm the nurses in their caring practice. Moreover, there is a need to introduce the hospice philosophy into acute-care settings in hospitals.
Selective action of anesthetics on synapses and axons in mammalian sympathetic ganglia.

ANESTHETIC SUBSTANCES, in suitable concentrations, depress certain functions of the central nervous system, while leaving relatively unimpaired the capacity for activity in sensory nerve endings, peripheral nerve fibers, and various effector organs. In order to explain this selective action on the central nervous system it is usually assumed that synaptic mechanisms are more readily modified by anesthetics than are conduction or excitation in peripheral nerves and end-organs. Little is known, however, about the reasons for such an important sensitivity of synapses to anesthetic agents. It is accordingly our purpose in the present paper to describe the effects of a number of anesthetics on a simple synaptic system and to discuss some possible reasons for the differing degrees of selective action exhibited by different agents. Experiments were performed on synapses and fibers of mammalian sympathetic ganglia. The synapses of these ganglia are sensitive to anesthetic agents, some of which depress transmission in concentrations as low as those occurring in the blood during surgical anesthesia (Table 1 and (21)). Moreover, sympathetic ganglia, because of their simplicity, have certain advantages over the central nervous system for a precise study of the effects of changes in chemical environment. Fibers entering a ganglion over preganglionic nerves make synaptic contacts with nerve cells whose axons leave over postganglionic nerves: there are no internuncial neurones. By sui section a ganglion can be isolated from the rest of the nervous table ner ve system, so that activity in the presynaptic and postsynaptic neurones can be controlled. Finally, to permit application of chemical agents in known concentration, the capacity of ganglion cells to respond to presynaptic impulses can be preserved for long periods by pIerfusing with artificial solutions or by bathing a ganglion with oxygenated fluid after removal from the body.
Belief in psychological effects on cancer

The present study surveyed 135 oncology care‐givers' and 442 university students' beliefs about psychological influences in cancer. Care‐givers were more sensitive than students to the potential risks of such beliefs and physicians were in general more reserved than other care‐givers. Overall, the majority agreed strongly that psychological factors can influence physical health and that stress and coping style can influence the course of cancer, including its curability. Many also agreed that stress and coping style may be contributing causes of cancer. Both groups rated various psychological tasks and strategies as being very helpful physically to persons with cancer and most indicated that they would adopt such approaches if they themselves had cancer. The paper distinguishes believers from non‐believers and presents a cluster analysis of believers' responses to the claims that psychological factors can influence health and cancer. The distinct patterns of response that emerged provide empirical support for the distinction made by Doan and Gray (1992) between Strong and Weak formulations of psychological influence and for the distinctions made by Northouse and Wortman (1990) between Moral, Compensatory and Medical models of helping and coping. The limitations of the study are addressed along with the implications of the findings for cancer care.
Sleep Duration, Sleep Quality, Body Mass Index, and Waist Circumference among Young Adults from 24 Low- and Middle-Income and Two High-Income Countries

Obesity and its comorbidities have emerged as a leading public health concern. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and sleep patterns, including duration and disturbances. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey and anthropometric measurements were conducted with undergraduate university students that were randomly recruited in 26 universities in 24 low- and middle-income and two high-income countries. The sample included 18,211 (42.1% male and 57.9% female, mean age 21.0 in male and 20.7 years in female students) undergraduate university students. The overall BMI was a mean of 22.5 kg/m2 for men and 22.0 kg/m2 for women, and the mean WC was 78.4 cm for men and 73.8 cm for women. More than 39% of the students reported short sleep duration (≤6 h/day) and over 30% reported moderate to extreme sleep problems. In a linear multivariable regression, adjusted for sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, short sleep duration was positively associated with BMI in both men and women, and was positively associated with WC among women but not among men. Sleep quality or problems among men were not associated with BMI, while among women mild sleep problems were inversely associated with BMI, and poor sleep quality or problems were positively associated with WC both among men and women. The study confirmed an association between short sleep duration and increased BMI and, among women, increased WC, and an association between poor sleep quality and increased WC but not BMI. Further, differences in the association between sleep characteristics and BMI and WC were found by region and country income.
Job demands, work‐family conflict, and emotional exhaustion in police officers: A longitudinal test of competing theories

We propose and test a comprehensive theory designed to explain seemingly contradictory relations between job demands, emotional exhaustion, and work-family conflict (WFC) reported in the literature. Using job demands-resources theory, effort-recovery theory, and personal resources theory we hypothesized that job demands would spillover to emotional exhaustion as mediated by WFC (causality model), and alternatively that job demands would also spillover to WFC as mediated by emotional exhaustion (reverse causal model). Further, we also hypothesized using loss spiral theory that a more comprehensive model representing reciprocal and cross-linked effects (causal and reverse causal simultaneously) would best fit the data. The hypotheses were tested in a longitudinal study of 257 Australian (Victorian) frontline police officers at two time points approximately 12 months apart. We used structural equation modelling and found in support of the simultaneous reciprocal effects hypothesis, that the more comprehensive model fitted the data better than either the causality or the reverse causal model. Future research should more comprehensively model the important relationships between job demands, emotional exhaustion, and WFC to reflect their complex interplay. Interventions to reduce work demands arising from work pressure and emotional demands are indicated to prevent conflict at home and emotional exhaustion in police officers.
Prevention of Dementia by Intensive Vascular Care (PreDIVA): A Cluster-randomized Trial in Progress

Background and PurposeCardiovascular risk factors are associated with an increased risk of dementia. Treatment of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia is associated with a decrease in incident dementia. Whether interventions aimed at cardiovascular risk factors in late life also reduce dementia risk is unknown. Here, we report the outline of a pragmatic study that will attempt to answer this question and we describe the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the target population. MethodsWe designed a large cluster-randomized trial with a 6-year follow-up in 3700 elderly subjects (70 to 78 y) to assess whether nurse-led intensive vascular care in primary care decreases the incidence of dementia and reduces disability. Secondary outcome parameters are mortality, incidence of vascular events, and cognitive functioning. Intensive vascular care comprises treatment of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and reducing overweight, smoking cessation, and stimulating physical exercise. ResultsBaseline data of 1004 subjects show that 87% of the subjects have 1 or more cardiovascular risk factors and 44% have even 2 or more risk factors amenable to treatment. Seventy-nine percent of the subjects receiving antihypertensive medication still have a systolic pressure of >140 mm Hg. ConclusionsIn this older age group, the very high percentage of elderly subjects with cardiovascular risk factors illustrates the large window of opportunity for therapies directed to lower the cardiovascular risk and potentially also the risk for dementia.
Gendered Power Relations in the School:Construction of Schoolgirl Femininities in a Turkish High School

In this paper our aim is to explore the construction of schoolgirl femininities, drawing on the results of an ethnographic study conducted in a high school in Ankara, Turkey. In this case study which tries to explore the complexities of gender discourses, we were initially motivated by the questions that have been put forward by critical and feminist literature on education which emphasize the necessarily conflicting and partial nature of both reproduction and resistance and the importance of gendered power relations in the school context. Drawing on this paradigm our research tries to address to a more specific question: how are multiple schoolgirl femininities constructed within the context of gendered school culture, and especially in relation to hegemonic masculinity? Our study reveals that the general framework of multiple femininities is engendered by a tension between two inter-related positions. The first one is different strategies of accommodation and resistance to the gender-related problems of education. The second one is the school experience of girls which is conditioned by their differential position vis-a-vis the masculine resistance culture that is dominant in the school.
Black-box integration of heterogeneous bilingual resources into an interactive translation system

The objective of interactive translation prediction (ITP) is to assist human translators in the translation of texts by making context-based computer-generated suggestions as they type. Most of the ITP systems in literature are strongly coupled with a statistical machine translation system that is conveniently adapted to provide the suggestions. In this paper, however, we propose a resource-agnostic approach in which the suggestions are obtained from any bilingual resource (a machine translation system, a translation memory, a bilingual dictionary, etc.) that provides targetlanguage equivalents for source-language segments. These bilingual resources are considered to be black boxes and do not need to be adapted to the peculiarities of the ITP system. Our evaluation shows that savings of up to 85% can be theoretically achieved in the number of keystrokes when using our novel approach. Preliminary user trials indicate that these benefits can be partly transferred to real-world computer-assisted translation interfaces.
Simulating the fluid dynamics of natural and prosthetic heart valves using the immersed boundary method

The immersed boundary method is both a general mathematical framework and a particular numerical approach to problems of fluid-structure interaction. In the present work, we describe the application of the immersed boundary method to the simulation of the fluid dynamics of heart valves, including a model of a natural aortic valve and a model of a chorded prosthetic mitral valve. Each valve is mounted in a semi-rigid flow chamber. In the case of the mitral valve, the flow chamber is a circular pipe, and in the case of the aortic valve, the flow chamber is a model of the aortic root. The model valves and flow chambers are immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid, and realistic fluid boundary conditions are prescribed at the upstream and downstream ends of the chambers. To connect the immersed boundary models to the boundaries of the fluid domain, we introduce a novel modification of the standard immersed boundary scheme. In particular, near the outer boundaries of the fluid domain, we modify the construction of the regularized delta function which mediates fluid-structure coupling in the immersed boundary method, whereas in the interior of the fluid domain, we employ a standard four-point delta function which is frequently used with the immersed boundary method. The standard delta function is used wherever possible, and the modified delta function continuously transitions to the standard delta function away from the outer boundaries of the fluid domain. Three-dimensional computational results are presented to demonstrate the capabilities of our immersed boundary approach to simulating the fluid dynamics of heart valves.
A Review on Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Phenylpropanoids Found in Essential Oils

The search for alternative drugs capable of disrupting the inflammatory process has become an important issue in scientific research, especially with reference to the use of natural substances and the reduction of undesirable side effects. Essential oils represent an important source of such substances, since their active constituents often exhibit an array of pharmacological properties, including anti-inflammatory activity. This review presents an overview of the anti-inflammatory action exerted by phenylpropanoids from essential oils and discusses possible mechanisms of action involved in the anti-inflammatory response, assessed through specific experimental models.
Biodiversity Through Sexual Selection

What engenders biodiversity? Natural selection certainly adapts species to their ecological niches, but does it really create all of the new niches and new species to ll them? Consider: the most successful, complex, and numerous species on earth are composed of sexually-reproducing animals and owering plants. Both groups typically undergo a form of sexual selection through mate choice: animals are selected by conspeci cs and owering plants are selected by heterospeci c pollinators. This common feature suggests that the evolution of biodiversity may be driven not simply by natural-selective adaptation to ecological niches, but by subtle interactions between natural selection and sexual selection. This paper presents theoretical arguments and simulation results in support of our view that sexual selection creates new tness peaks (and thus new niches), helps species escape from old local optima to nd new, better peaks, and promotes speciation to increase the number of lineages searching for peaks. Natural selection is a precondition for biodiversity (because it permits ecological adaptation), but sexual selection may often be a more direct cause of species diversity for animals and owering plants. The paper concludes with implications for evolutionary engineering, human evolution, and conservation priorities.