Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Narcissism and Self-Control on Reactive Aggression

v Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Theoretical and Empirical Background on the Relationships among Narcissism, Self-Control and Aggression 5 Subtypes of Aggression 6 Provocation and Aggression 9 Definition and Measurement of Narcissism 10 Narcissism and Aggression 12 Narcissism and Insufficient Self-Control 14 Empirical Studies of Narcissism, Self-Control and Aggression 20 Limitations of Past Research 22 Measurement of Aggression 22 Mediators of Reactive Aggression 24 Summary 25 Hypotheses of the Current Study 26 Chapter Three: Method 29 Procedure 30 Manipulated Variable 31 Measures of Individual Difference 32 Demographics 32 Narcissism 32 Self-Control 33 Measures of Aggression 34 Evaluation of Confederate 34 The Social Problem-Solving Task 34 Aggressive Responses on SPST 37 Manipulation Check 37 Post-Experiment Questionnaire 37 Planned Analyses 38
Detection of large-scale intrinsic ellipticity—density correlation from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and implications for weak lensing surveys

The power spectrum of weak lensing shear caused by large-scale structure is an emerging tool for precision cosmology, in particular for measuring the effects of dark energy on the growth of structure at low redshift. One potential source of systematic error is intrinsic alignments of ellipticities of neighbouring galaxies [the intrinsic ellipticity-intrinsic ellipticity (II) correlation] that could mimic the correlations due to lensing. A related possibility pointed out by Hirata & Seljak is correlation between the intrinsic ellipticities of galaxies and the density field responsible for gravitational lensing shear [the gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity (GI) correlation]. We present constraints on both the II and GI correlations using 265 908 spectroscopic galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and using galaxies as tracers of the mass in the case of the GI analysis. The availability of redshifts in the SDSS allows us to select galaxies at small radial separations, which both reduces noise in the intrinsic alignment measurement and suppresses galaxy-galaxy lensing (which otherwise swamps the GI correlation). While we find no detection of the II correlation, our results are none the less statistically consistent with recent detections found using the SuperCOSMOS survey. Extrapolation of these limits to cosmic shear surveys at z ∼ 1 suggests that the II correlation is unlikely to have been a significant source of error for current measurements of σ 8 with ∼ 10 per cent accuracy, but may still be an issue for future surveys with projected statistical errors below the 1 per cent level unless eliminated using photometric redshifts. In contrast, we have a clear detection of GI correlation in galaxies brighter than L. that persists to the largest scales probed (60 h -1 Mpc) and with a sign predicted by theoretical models. This correlation could cause the existing lensing surveys at z ∼ 1 to underestimate the linear amplitude of fluctuations by as much as 20 per cent depending on the source sample used, while for surveys at z ∼ 0.5 the underestimation may reach 30 per cent. The GI contamination is dominated by the brightest galaxies, possibly due to the alignment of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) with the cluster ellipticity due to anisotropic infall along filaments, although other sources of contamination cannot be excluded at this point. We propose that cosmic shear surveys should consider rejection of BCGs from their source catalogues as a test for GI contamination. Future high-precision weak lensing surveys must develop methods to search for and remove this contamination if they are to achieve their promise.
The influence of mindfulness during the travel anticipation phase

ABSTRACT Previous studies have established the influence of mindfulness on the tourists’ experience when they are on-site at an attraction or in a destination. However, the travel experience begins during the anticipation phase when tourists embark on the vacation planning process. This study considered the influence that mindfulness during the travel anticipation phase has on the traveller’s confidence that they chose the best destination for the trip, their satisfaction with the trip, and their loyalty to the destination. The results of the analysis found that mindfulness during the travel anticipation phase had significant positive influences on confidence, satisfaction and loyalty, suggesting the potential benefits for destinations to encourage mindfulness in future visitors as they plan their trip. The major contribution of this study is to establish that mindfulness during the anticipation phase influenced the travel experience. Future research should consider the role of mindfulness in all five travel phases, as well the development of promotional strategies that encourage mindfulness in potential visitors.
Limited Weight Loss or Simply No Weight Gain following Lifestyle-Only Intervention Tends to Redistribute Body Fat, to Decrease Lipid Concentrations, and to Improve Parameters of Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Children

Objectives. To investigate whether lifestyle-only intervention in obese children who maintain or lose a modest amount of weight redistributes parameters of body composition and reverses metabolic abnormalities. Study Design. Clinical, anthropometric, and metabolic parameters were assessed in 111 overweight or obese children (CA of 11.3 ± 2.8 years; 63 females and 48 males), during 8 months of lifestyle intervention. Patients maintained or lost weight (1–5%) (group A; n: 72) or gained weight (group B). Results. Group A patients presented with a decrease in systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ( and , resp.), BMI (), z-score BMI (), waist circumference (), fat mass (), LDL-C (), Tg/HDL-C ratio (), fasting and postprandial insulin (), and HOMA (), while HDL-C () and QUICKI increased (). Conversely, group B patients had an increase in BMI (), waist circumference (), SBP (), and in QUICKI (), while fat mass (), fasting insulin (), and HOMA () decreased. Lean mass, DBP, lipid concentrations, fasting and postprandial glucose, postprandial insulin, and ultrasensitive C-reactive protein (CRP) remained stable. Conclusions. Obese children who maintain or lose a modest amount of weight following lifestyle-only intervention tend to redistribute their body fat, decrease blood pressure and lipid levels, and to improve parameters of insulin sensitivity.
PARKINSON ’ S DISEASE ASSESSMENT USING SPEECH ANOMALIES : A REVIEW

This paper presents a detailed systematic literature review on Parkinson’s disease severity assessment methods based on speech impairment. Techniques that cope up the challenges of voice signal processing in real-time have been reviewed. An analysis on finding relevant acoustic parameters that are robustly influenced by Parkinson’s disease symptoms and medication-related changes was done. Time-series analysis of voice acoustics, feature extraction and pattern recognition methods are evaluated on the basis of portability and compatibility to mobile devices. A twotier review methodology is developed based on the applicability of pathological voice recognition methods in real-time. The goal is to design an algorithm based on the review synthesis that can tackle real-time constraints in pathological voice recognition for the assessment of Parkinson’s disease severity. Pause detection, peak to average power rate clipping and zero thresholding rate calculations are proposed for human voice segmentation. Previous work depicts that these methods produce rich voice features in real-time. We suggest that these features may be further processed using wavelet transforms and used with a neural network for detection and quantification of speech anomalies related to Parkinson’s disease. General Terms Algorithms, Measurement, Reliability, Experimentation.
Implicit Theories of Change as a Barrier to Change on College Campuses: An Examination of STEM Reform

This study examines the role of implicit theories of change in inhibiting STEM reform and identifies a range of approaches to help change agents alter their implicit beliefs in order to develop more explicit theories of change. Through observations and interviews, we focus on the experience of reform teams on 11 campuses that were involved in a statewide STEM reform project. The findings provide empirical evidence that change agents’ views can serve as a barrier to implementation and success of changes, and we offer strategies for changing implicit views to garner greater success in change.
Enabling Technology for Knowledge Sharing

Building new knowledge-based systems today usually entails constructing new knowledge bases from scratch. It could instead be done by assembling reusable components. System developers would then only need to worry about creating the specialized knowledge and reasoners new to the specific task of their system. This new system would interoperate with existing systems, using them to perform some of its reasoning. In this way, declarative knowledge, problem- solving techniques, and reasoning services could all be shared among systems. This approach would facilitate building bigger and better systems cheaply. The infrastructure to support such sharing and reuse would lead to greater ubiquity of these systems, potentially transforming the knowledge industry. This article presents a vision of the future in which knowledge-based system development and operation is facilitated by infrastructure and technology for knowledge sharing. It describes an initiative currently under way to develop these ideas and suggests steps that must be taken in the future to try to realize this vision.
Determination of the Trainability of Deception Detection Cues

Abstract : The Air Force and the rest of the Department of Defense rely on valid information to make National Security decisions. The veracity of the information used to make those decisions can dramatically affect which course of action our military will take. Therefore, it is important that our leaders be able to recognize if they are being deceived. This study examines the results of training five categories of deception cues to 190 Air Force Officers. The officers were tested to determine their baseline deception detection abilities, then trained on the deception cues, Arousal, Emotion, Cognitive Effort, Communicator Tactics, and Memory Processes, then retested to determine how much information they retained. The results of this study show that there is a return on the investment in training deception detection for at least four of the deception cues.
Theoretical Analysis for the Flow Ripple of a Tandem Crescent Pump with Index Angles

This paper presents a theoretical approach for lowering the outlet flow ripple of a crescent pump by applying a tandem crescent pump consisting of two gear pairs with an index angle between them. The outlet flow of the tandem pump is obtained by summing the flow produced by the two gear pairs, and the flow ripple of the tandem pump can be attenuated by properly selecting the design parameters in terms of the index angle and the displacement ratio between the two gear pairs. A lumped parameter model is presented for evaluating the crescent pump’s flow ripples, and experiments were performed on a single crescent pump to validate the model from the aspects of the steady-state flow-pressure characteristics and the outlet pressure ripples. In this way, the main causes of the flow ripple could be identified by comparing the kinematic flow with the actual flow evaluated by the model. Additionally, simulation results suggested that a tandem pump with an index angle of 13.85° and displacement ratio of 0.5 could lead to a more than 45% decrease in the outlet flow ripple than a single pump with the same displacement in a wide range of operating conditions.
A Hungarian Sentiment Corpus Manually Annotated at Aspect Level

In this paper we present a Hungarian sentiment corpus manually annotated at aspect level. Our corpus consists of Hungarian opinion texts written about different types of products. The main aim of creating the corpus was to produce an appropriate database providing possibilities for developing text mining software tools. The corpus is a unique Hungarian database: to the best of our knowledge, no digitized Hungarian sentiment corpus that is annotated on the level of fragments and targets has been made so far. In addition, many language elements of the corpus, relevant from the point of view of sentiment analysis, got distinct types of tags in the annotation. In this paper, on the one hand, we present the method of annotation, and we discuss the difficulties concerning text annotation process. On the other hand, we provide some quantitative and qualitative data on the corpus. We conclude with a description of the applicability of the corpus.
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis in Michigan

We summarize the first reported case of acquired lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection in Michigan to be investigated by public health authorities and provide evidence of the focal nature of LCMV infection in domestic rodents. Results of serologic and virologic testing in rodents contrasted, and negative serologic test results should be confirmed by tissue testing.
Unique features of non-compaction of the ventricular myocardium in Arab and African patients

Summary Non-compaction of the ventricular myocardium (NCVM) is an under-diagnosed cardiomyopathy. Patients diagnosed with NCVM at the King Abdulaziz Cardiac Centre, Riyadh, KSA from January 2000 to July 2004 and at the Sudan Heart Centre from August 2004 to July 2007 were included. Fifty-two patients with NCVM were identified (22 per 10 000 echocardiograms). Patients were divided into three groups, namely, group 1: isolated NCVM (21 patients), group 2: NCVM associated with congenital heart disease (CHD) (26 patients), and group 3: NCVM associated with mitral regurgitation (MR) (seven patients). Group 1 included 14 females and four males. Five patients (27%) had a positive family history with a lethal outcome in five other siblings; 14 patients (76%) presented with myocardial dysfunction and two had left ventricle thrombus. Group 2 included CHD; the most common pathologies were ventricular septal defects (VSD), pulmonary and tricuspid atresia and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Sixteen patients (61%) had myocardial dysfunction, seven had surgical repair/palliation, and four (80%) developed serious post-operative complications. Group 3 included seven patients with MR associated with deformity of the anterior mitral leaflet and malcoaptation. Myocardial function was preserved in all patients with this pathology. In four patients of the whole cohort there was clinical as well as echocardiographic improvement. In two patients, left ventricular hypertrophy was noted. There were significantly more females in the group with isolated NCVM than in the group with associated CHD (p = 0.03, odds ratio = 4.2, 95% CI = 0.529−16.1). We presented the largest series of NCVM in our area and found it to be not as rare as was thought, with females being more affected. Spontaneous improvement and left ventricular hypertrophy were unique features, and mitral valve deformity leading to MR was an established association.
Health or harm? Exercise dependence and its effects on body satisfaction and self-esteem

The purpose of the present study was to better understand the inconsistent outcomes of exercise and exercise dependence on body satisfaction and self-esteem. Ninety-nine women completed measures assessing exercise dependence (i.e., excessive and compulsive exercise), reasons for exercising, positive and negative perfectionism (i.e., whether high standards are pursued to achieve positive outcomes or to avoid negative ones, respectively), body satisfaction, and self-esteem. A series of mediation analyses, hierarchical regression analyses, and a path analysis revealed that women who are positive perfectionists experience better body satisfaction and self-esteem in association with exercise, and women who are negative perfectionists experience worse. Further, it was determined that a combination of high levels of both exercise dependence and positive perfectionism was associated with better body satisfaction. Additionally, the motivation to exercise out of a desire to improve appearance and control weight mediated the relationships between exercise dependence and both perfectionism types. Effects of Exercise Dependence v Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Ken Cramer, for his support and assistance throughout my thesis. I would like to thank as well my committee members Dr. Stewart Page and Dr. Dale Rajacich for their thoughtful suggestions and the interest they showed in my research ideas. I am also very grateful to Sherri Simpson at the University of Windsor’s Information Technology Services for her tremendous assistance in getting my online survey up and running, and to fellow student Craig Ross who provided me with a wealth of advice on conducting online research. Effects of Exercise Dependence vi TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR’S DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY iii ABSTRACT iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v CHAPTER
Carcass and muscle yields of ostriches as influenced by genotype

Live, carcass, leg and muscle weight (kg) as well as dressing percentage were compared between South African Black (Struthio camelus var. domesticus) ostriches, purebred Zimbabwean Blue Neck (Struthio camelus australis) ostriches and the progeny of Zimbabwean Blue Neck males crossed with South African Black females, commercially slaughtered at 14 months of age. South African Black ostriches had the lowest live (84.9 kg) and carcass (43.3 kg) weights, compared to Zimbabwean Blue Necks (100.9 and 51.2 kg, respectively). In general, crossbred birds resembled Zimbabwean Blue Necks more closely for the quantitative meat traits. However, dressing percentage (51.1%) and yields of different carcass components (bone, leg) did not differ between genotypes. Six of the major muscles present in the ostrich leg (M. gastrocnemius, M. femorotibialis accessorius, M. iliotibialis cranialis, M. iliotibialis lateralis, M. iliofibularis and M. iliofemoralis) showed significant weight differences between genotypes, with South African Black ostriches yielding the lowest values.
Dynamic and complex microclimate responses to warming and grazing manipulations

Synthesis efforts that identify patterns of ecosystem response to a suite of warming manipulations can make important contributions to climate change science. However, cross‐study comparisons are impeded by the paucity of detailed analyses of how passive warming and other manipulations affect microclimate. Here we document the independent and combined effects of a common passive warming manipulation, open‐top chambers (OTCs), and a simulated widespread land use, clipping, on microclimate on the Tibetan Plateau. OTCs consistently elevated growing season averaged mean daily air temperature by 1.0–2.0°C, maximum daily air temperature by 2.1–7.3°C and the diurnal air temperature range by 1.9–6.5°C, with mixed effects on minimum daily air temperature, and mean daily soil temperature and moisture. These OTC effects on microclimate differ from reported effects of a common active warming method, infrared heating, which has more consistent effects on soil than on air temperature. There were significant interannual and intragrowing season differences in OTC effects on microclimate. For example, while OTCs had mixed effects on growing season averaged soil temperatures, OTCs consistently elevated soil temperature by approximately 1.0°C early in the growing season. Nonadditive interactions between OTCs and clipping were also present: OTCs in clipped plots generally elevated air and soil temperatures more than OTCs in nonclipped plots. Moreover, site factors dynamically interacted with microclimate and with the efficacy of the OTC manipulations.
Depression Dimensions: Integrating Clinical Signs and Symptoms from the Perspectives of Clinicians and Patients

Background Several studies have recognized that depression is a multidimensional construct, although the scales that are currently available have been shown to be limited in terms of the ability to investigate the multidimensionality of depression. The objective of this study is to integrate information from instruments that measure depression from different perspectives–a self-report symptomatic scale, a clinician-rated scale, and a clinician-rated scale of depressive signs–in order to investigate the multiple dimensions underlying the depressive construct. Methods A sample of 399 patients from a mood disorders outpatient unit was investigated with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), and the Core Assessment of Psychomotor Change (CORE). Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were used to investigate underlying dimensions of depression, including item level analysis with factor loadings and item thresholds. Results A solution of six depression dimensions has shown good-fit to the data, with no cross-loading items, and good interpretability. Item-level analysis revealed that the multidimensional depressive construct might be organized into a continuum of severity in the following ascending order: sexual, cognitive, insomnia, appetite, non-interactiveness/motor retardation, and agitation. Conclusion An integration of both signs and symptoms, as well as the perspectives of clinicians and patients, might be a good clinical and research alternative for the investigation of multidimensional issues within the depressive syndrome. As predicted by theoretical models of depression, the melancholic aspects of depression (non-interactiveness/motor retardation and agitation) lie at the severe end of the depressive continuum.
Implementation of an intervention to reduce population-based screening for vitamin D deficiency: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND We describe the implementation of an intervention in Alberta in support of the Choosing Wisely Canada recommendation against population screening for vitamin D deficiency (as determined by serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D testing). We hypothesized that the introduction of a specialized requisition for vitamin D testing would reduce the annual number of vitamin D tests performed. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional observational study that included all vitamin D tests ordered in Alberta between Apr. 1, 2015, and Mar. 31, 2016. There were no exclusion criteria. A special requisition for ordering vitamin D tests in Alberta was introduced on Apr. 1, 2015. Using an interrupted time series model, we compared predicted versus observed vitamin D test volumes for the 12-month period following the introduction of the new requisition. The sole outcome measure was the monthly change in volume of vitamin D testing. In addition, we calculated any cost savings as a result of reduced testing. RESULTS Over the first 12 months of the intervention, there was a reduction in the number of tests ordered from a predicted 342 477 tests to 29 525 tests (91.4% reduction). This decrease represented a direct spending decrease of Can$938 856-$1 564 760 per year in Alberta. INTERPRETATION A provincially led implementation of a Choosing Wisely Canada recommendation resulted in a large and sustained reduction in serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D testing in Alberta. This study shows that provincially led interventions based on Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations can result in substantial reductions in laboratory tests.