Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Workplace Worries: A Preliminary Look at Online Sexual Activities at the Office - Emerging Issues for Clinicians and Employers

Concerns about the impact of online sexual activities (OSA) on work-life are drastically increasing. This study examined 3,466 respondents who reported OSA, 18.5% of whom reported engaging in OSA at work. They were compared with the 81.5% who engaged in OSA at home, on average time spent in OSA, workplace policies regarding OSA, and relationship status. Two themes were identified and discussed: opportunity and sexual distress. Our findings indicate that participants are cognizant of issues of opportunity (e.g., the OSA from home group was more likely to indicate their workplace has established policies regarding OSA), and privacy, representing an important aspect of this theme (e.g., participants engaging in OSA at work were found to be twice as likely to have extra-marital affairs, compared with the OSA from home group). Secondly, our data suggests that many participants, especially from the OSA at work group, experience OSA-related distress. Engaging in OSA at the workplace may result in decreased productivity, issues of sexual harassment, and concerns about employee well-being. Clearly stated and consistently enforced policies regulating OSA are likely to mitigate workplace OSA. However, a significant minority of employees may have difficulties curbing OSA. Therefore, more sophisticated strategies to deal with workplace OSA should be established. Additional implications of importance for organizations and mental health professionals who support them are discussed.
Gender, race, and DSM-III: a study of the objectivity of psychiatric diagnostic behavior.

Sociologists have long been interested in the consequences of psychiatrists' and clients' social location on diagnostic judgment. Previous research provided conflicting evidence on the effects of sex and race on diagnosis, but it has been suggested that with the institution of a formalized diagnostic system, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (Third Edition), the effects of gender and race on diagnosis have become minimal. We assess the accuracy of this claim using an analogue approach in which 290 psychiatrists evaluate two case studies. Case studies are manipulated so that approximately one-fifth of the clinicians, using DSM-III-derived criteria, evaluate a white male, a white female, a black male, a black female, or a client whose sex and race are not disclosed. Results indicate that sex and race of client and psychiatrist influence diagnosis even when clear-cut diagnostic criteria are presented. We conclude that it is premature to close the question of the influence of sex and race on diagnostic assessments.
Poppy Seeds: Implications of Consumption

Three white poppy seed samples of Papaver somniferum L were found to contain total morphine (free and bound) in the range 58.4 to 62. 2μg/g seeds and total codeine (free and bound) in the range 28.4 to 54. 1μg/g seeds. Soaking seeds in water was found to remove 45.6 per cent of the free morphine and 48.4 per cent of the free codeine. In ingesting a curry meal or two containing various amounts of washed seeds (morphine intake: 200.4 to 1002μg; codeine intake: 95.9 to 479.5μg), the urinary morphine levels were found to be in the range 0.12 to 1. 27μg/ml urine and urinary codeine levels in the range 0.04 to 0. 73μg/ml urine. In any large scale screening for abuse of opiate drugs, the possibility of urinary alkaloids arising from consuming food containing poppy seeds must be considered and, if possible, eliminated.
Tapping Test in Patients With Painful Bone Marrow Edema of the Knee

BackgroundAlthough bone marrow edema (BME) of the knee is a common phenomenon, physical tests to diagnose this condition have not been investigated. We hypothesized that a mallet test would be useful as a diagnostic aid and a screening tool. MethodsSeventy patients (36 female, 34 male) were investigated in this controlled study. Group 1 consisted of patients with painful BME in the knee and group 2 of patients with a painful knee without BME. Pain provoked by a reflex mallet was assessed for each quadrant on a visual analog scale (VAS). ResultsThe VAS score was 3.7 (±2.1 cm) for quadrants affected by BME (group 1), 1.59 (±1.44) in nonaffected quadrants of the knee affected by BME (group 1) and, 0.85 (±0.85) in painful knees without BME (group 2). Pain on the tapping test was significantly correlated with the presence of BME in the affected knee (P<0.0001) and the affected quadrant (P<0.0001 for the medial femoral condyle and the medial femoral plateau). A threshold value of VAS 2.0 for a tapping test to be positive in the distinction of BME affected quadrants of group 1 and all quadrants of group 2 sensitivity was 90.4%, specificity 83.7%, positive predictive value 73.4%, and negative predictive value 94.6% was determined. ConclusionThe tapping test is a good screening instrument to diagnose BME in the knee.
The Algorithm for Calculation of the Self and Mutual Inductance of Thin-Walled Air Coils of General Shape With Parallel Axes

The general method of calculation described in this paper is applicable to the calculation of the self and mutual inductance of thin-walled solenoids of general shape with parallel axes in both coaxial and non-coaxial relative positions. The method is based on the solution of integral equation, the validity of which is defined in the text and additionally the physical interpretation of each section of the equation is documented. The manner of utilization of the method is demonstrated for the cases known in systems with a circular solenoid and subsequently applied to the case of two solenoids of rectangular shape in a general relative position. In these cases, a similarly detailed algorithm is compiled and the measurements are then compared with the calculation results.
The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration

The evolutionary relationship between the base and face of the cranium is a major topic of interest in primatology. Such areas of the skull possibly respond to different selective pressures. Yet, they are often said to be tightly integrated. In this paper, we analyzed shape variability in the cranial base and the facial complex in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea. We used a landmark‐based approach to single out the effects of size (evolutionary allometry), morphological integration, modularity, and phylogeny (under Brownian motion) on skull shape variability. Our results demonstrate that the cranial base and the facial complex exhibit different responses to different factors, which produces a little degree of morphological integration between them. Facial shape variation appears primarily influenced by body size and sexual dimorphism, whereas the cranial base is mostly influenced by functional factors. The different adaptations affecting the two modules suggest they are best studied as separate and independent units, and that—at least when dealing with Catarrhines—caution must be posed with the notion of strong cranial integration that is commonly invoked for the evolution of their skull shape.
Soluble βamyloid1‐42: a critical player in producing behavioural and biochemical changes evoking depressive‐related state?

Background and purpose: Depression is common in early phases of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and may represent prodromal symptoms of dementia. Recent reports suggest that early memory deficits and neuropsychiatric symptoms are caused by soluble rather than aggregated βamyloid (Aβ). Thus, we investigated the effects of soluble Aβ1‐42 on working memory and depressive/anxiety‐related behaviour in rats and on 5‐hydroxytryptaminergic neurotransmission and neurotrophin content in various brain regions.
The inheritance of conotruncal malformations: a review and report of two siblings with tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia

Congenital heart defects (CHD) are a group of structural abnormalities that in humans have a combined incidence of approximately 1%. It is estimated that 4–5% of CHD are associated with chromosome abnormalities, 1–2% are associated with single gene syndromes, 1–2% are due to known teratogens, with the rest presumably determined multifactorially. We report on a brother and sister with tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, and review the inheritance of familial conotruncal anomalies. We feel the small number of family clusters and the rare instances of consanguinity in non‐syndromal conotruncal defects are consistent with multifactorial determination. While it is prudent in counseling families with 2 or more individuals with conotruncal CHD to raise the possibility of single gene inheritance, we believe that current empiric recurrence risk estimates most accurately reflect their risks.
Fermented Dairy Products: Starter Cultures and Potential Nutritional Benefits

Fermented dairy products have long been an important component of nutritional diet. Historically, fermentation proc-ess involved unpredictable and slow souring of milk caused by the organisms inherently present in milk. However, modern microbiological processes have resulted in the production of different fermented milk products of higher nutri-tional value under controlled conditions. These products represent an important component of functional foods, and intense research efforts are under way to develop dairy products into which probiotic organisms are incorporated to make them more valuable. This article provides an overview of the different starter cultures and health benefits of fer-mented dairy products, which can be derived by the consumers through their regular intake.
Effect of &agr;4&bgr;7 blockade on intestinal lymphocyte subsets and lymphoid tissue development

Background: Blockade of the integrin &agr;4&bgr;7 has promise as a therapy for inflammatory bowel disease. &agr;4&bgr;7 plays diverse roles in the intestinal immune system, including lymphocyte homing and lymphoid tissue formation; however, the effects of &agr;4&bgr;7 blockade on these processes during inflammation and their relationship to the efficacy of &agr;4&bgr;7 blockade and its potential untoward effects are largely unknown. Methods: &agr;4&bgr;7 function was inhibited by genetic manipulation or antibody blockade. The effects of these manipulations on lymphoid tissues and the presence of lymphocyte subpopulations in the murine small intestine and colon were evaluated in the unchallenged state, during the acute injury dextran sodium sulfate model, and during the splenocyte transfer chronic inflammation model. Results: &agr;4&bgr;7 inhibition resulted in a decrease in the B‐lymphocyte population in the diffuse lamina propria and a decrease in the number of lymphoid aggregates in the uninflamed intestine and in the acute injury model. &agr;4&bgr;7 blockade did not reduce the Foxp3− T‐lymphocyte population but did decrease the Foxp3+ T‐lymphocyte population located selectively within the lymphoid aggregates in the uninflamed intestine and in the acute injury model. In contrast, &agr;4&bgr;7 blockade reduced the intestinal T‐lymphocyte population and decreased the production of inflammatory cytokines in the T‐lymphocyte mediated chronic inflammation model. Conclusions: These findings demonstrate differential use of &agr;4&bgr;7 by B‐lymphocytes, Foxp3− T‐lymphocytes, and Foxp3+ T‐lymphocytes to home to the gut, and suggest that &agr;4&bgr;7 blockade may serve as a targeted therapy that selectively inhibits the accumulation of pathogenic T‐lymphocyte populations in the chronically inflamed intestine. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2010
DETERMINATION OF SOME QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE TRAITS IN LIBYAN NATIVE FOWLS

A total number of 330 native Libyan chicken eggs were collected from smallholders over different areas of south Libya to determine and classify some quantitative and qualitative traits in Libyan native fowls. The quantitative traits studied in the current trial were fertility and hatchability percent, egg weight, eggshell characteristics (weight, thickness, area), chicks weight and body measurements at different ages and rectal temperature. The quantitative traits studied were eggshell color, feather color, shank color, comb type, head shape, ear lobe color and ptilopody. The main results of the current study could be summarized as follows: The fertility of local chicken eggs was slightly better (about 73%) and the hatchability trait was close to fertility measure, the corresponding figure was about 69%. Concerning chick weight and its percent, the corresponding values were 26.4g and 60.4%, respectively. The Libyan native eggs have lost more of their weights as a percent from initial weights; the mean value was 19.5%. The average of body weight in Libyan fowls ranged from 26.7 to 250.4g from hatching weight up to the sixth week of age. At latter ages, there was a significant difference between males and females in body weight trait throughout the later ages, where the body weight of males was significantly heavier than females. With respect to the qualitative traits, The brown/black/white (36.4%), black (24.7%) and brown (14.8%) feathers were the main feathers color in Libyan native fowls beside some other groups of color presented with less frequency. The predominant shank color was black (39.9%) followed by yellow (24.5%), blue (18.7%) and white (17.9%) shanks. In conclusion, the Libyan native chickens show heterogeneity in the phenotypic traits considered. Therefore, further investigation is required to make an extensive survey on the Libyan local chickens over different areas of Libya to classify those birds according to their qualitative and quantitative traits in an attempt to make local meat and layer chicken lines and take into account the uniformity of qualitative characters to make local strains are similar in their morphological and productive characteristics .
Convergence and Mobility: Personal Income Trends in U.S. Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Regions

The authors find evidence of income convergence across all substate labor markets in the lower forty-eight U.S. states during the 1969 to 1999 period. However, convergence is not expressed in a uniform way across metropolitan/nonmetropolitan regions, across time periods, or across census regions. The authors show that catching up within the distribution is more common for nonmetropolitan regions than for metropolitan regions. Furthermore, the largest metropolitan regions show strong tendencies to converge toward the bottom of their income distribution while at the same time showing comparatively little distributional mobility. This contrasts with results for the smallest nonmetropolitan regions, which show no evidence of convergence but high levels of intradistributional mobility. The authors also examine the relationship between human capital accumulation and industry mix and subsequent distributional mobility. The results suggest that educational attainment is positively correlated with growth for metropolitan regions, but it appears to be less correlated with upward mobility within the nonmetropolitan distribution.
The association between miR-499a polymorphism and oral squamous cell carcinoma progression.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of miR-499a genetic polymorphism with the risk of oral leukoplakia, oral submucous fibrosis (OSF), oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), and clinicopathological outcomes of OSCC. METHODS The genotyping of miR-499a T>C (rs3746444) using TagMan assay was conducted in two case-control studies of 1549 subjects. miR-499a-5p and miR-499a-3p were assayed using stem-loop RT-PCR for 63 paired OSCC and adjacent normal tissues. RESULTS T/C+C/C genotypes [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.84, P = 0.032] and C allelic type (AOR 1.91, P = 0.007) at miR-499a T>C were associated with an increased risk of BQ-related OSF as compared to those with T/T genotype or T allelic type, respectively. Conversely, T/C+C/C genotypes and C allelic type decreased the risk of OSCC, especially for non-BQ-related OSCC (for genotype: AOR 0.49, P = 0.010; for allelic type: AOR 0.50, P = 0.007). Additionally, downregulation of miR-499a-5p was found in OSCC tissues (P = 0.001) and correlated with the TT genotype (P = 0.001). CONCLUSION The T/C+C/C genotypes of MiR-499a may contribute to an increased risk of BQ-related OSF, but a decreased risk of OSCC. miR-499a T>C influences the expression levels of miR-499a-5p during the tumorigenesis of OSCC.
In Vivo Ultrasound Assessment of Gastric Emptying in Newborn Mice

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to develop an ultrasonographic approach to comparatively assess gastric emptying in newborn wild-type and guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase knockout hph-1 mice, because we previously reported gastroparesis early in life in this strain. Methods: Stomach transverse, anteroposterior, and longitudinal ultrasonographic measurements were obtained with a 40-MHz transducer in pups immediately after maternal separation and 4 hours later. A conventional equation was used and the predicted values validated by obtaining postmortem gastric content volume measurements. Wild-type and hph-1 mice gastric emptying rates were comparatively evaluated at 1 to 3 and 5 to 8 days of age, respectively. Results: The ultrasound equation closely predicted the newborn stomach content volumes with a correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.93 and 0.81 (P < 0.01) for measurements obtained on full stomach and after 4 hours of fasting, respectively. In wild-type mice, gastric emptying was age dependent and associated with a greater residual volume at 1 to 3 days (65% ± 7%), as compared with 5- to 8-day-old pups (33% ± 4%; P < 0.01), after fasting. In contrast, an equal duration of fasting resulted in a significantly greater residual gastric content volume in 5- to 8-day-old hph-1 mice (68% ± 7%; P < 0.01), as compared with same-age wild-type mice. Conclusions: Ultrasonography offers a sensitive and accurate estimate of gastric content volume in newborn mice. In wild-type newborn mice, gastric emptying rate is age dependent and significantly reduced in the immediate postnatal period. The newborn hph-1 mice have a significantly higher gastric residual volume, as compared with wild-type same-age animals.
Further Results on Computing the Distance to Uncontrollability via LMIs

This paper concerns the computation of the distance to uncontrollability (DTUC) of a given controllable pair A isin Cntimesn and B isin Cntimesm. This problem can be regarded as a special case of the structured singular value computation problems and motivated from this fact, in our preceding work, we derived an semidefinite program (SDP) to compute the lower bounds of the DTUC. In the first part of this paper, we show via convex duality theory that the lower bounds can be computed by solving a very concise dual SDP. In particular, this dual SDP enables us to derive a rank condition on the dual variable under which the computed lower bound coincides with the exact DTUC. This rank condition is surely effective in practice, and we will show thorough numerical examples that we can obtain exactness certificate even for those problems where the common rank-one exactness principle fails. On the other hand, in the second part of the present paper, we consider the problem to compute the similarity transformation matrix T that maximizes the lower bound of the DTUC of (T-1 AT,T-1 B). Based on the SDP for the lower bounds computation, we clarify that this problem can be reduced to generalized eigenvalue problem and thus solved efficiently. In view of the correlation between the DTUC and the numerical difficulties of the associated pole placement problem, this computation of the similarity transformation matrix would lead to an effective and efficient conditioning of the pole placement problem for the pair (A, B).
Building a Diverse and Innovative Ocean Workforce through Collaboration and Partnerships that Integrate Research and Education: HBCUs and Marine Laboratories

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) attract, retain and award science degrees to African Americans at a higher rate than majority institutions. Because they offer life-changing and career-orienting experiences for students, field stations and marine laboratories are well positioned to help increase the number of students opting for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers and ocean science and education careers, in particular. Two kinds of partnerships have developed between Savannah State University (SSU), an HBCU, and marine laboratories as a result of federal funding: a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program between SSU and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, and an internship/graduate program between SSU and the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. These collaborations and other funded projects since 1998 have resulted in an increase in the percent of graduates from SSU's Bachelor of Science in Marine Science degree who had a significant research experience from 25% before 1999 to 66% percent afterwards and an increase in the number graduating with honors from 30% prior to 1999 to 41% after 1999. The growth and productivity of marine science degree and research experience programs at Savannah State University illustrates how collaboration and partnerships can be an effective way to increase access and eventually pay big dividends by increasing diversity in geoscience professions.
Effects of recombinant leptin therapy in a child with congenital leptin deficiency.

Severely obese (ob/ob) mice are deficient in the adipocyte-derived hormone leptin, which acts on the hypothalamus to control appetite and energy expenditure.1 The administration of leptin to these mice corrects their obesity by reducing their food intake and increasing their energy expenditure.2–4 These mice also have hyperinsulinemia, corticosterone excess, and infertility, which also are reversed by treatment with leptin.5 In humans, serum leptin concentrations, in general, correlate positively with indexes of obesity.6,7 We previously described two cousins with severe, early-onset obesity and undetectable serum leptin concentrations who were homozygous for a frame-shift mutation in the leptin .
The particle carriers of field‐aligned currents in the Earth's magnetotail during a substorm

Although the particle carriers of field‐aligned currents (FACs) in the Earth's magnetotail play an important role in the transfer of momentum and energy between the solar wind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere, the characteristics of the FAC carriers have been poorly understood. Taking advantage of multiinstrument magnetic field and plasma data collected by the four spacecraft of the Cluster constellation as they traversed the northern plasma sheet boundary layer in the magnetotail on 14 September 2004, we identified the species type and energy range of the FAC carriers for the first time. The results indicate that part of tailward FACs is carried by energetic keV ions, which are probably originated from the ionosphere through outflow, and they are not too small (~2 nA/m2) to be ignored. The earthward (tailward) FACs are mainly carried by the dominant tailward (earthward) motion of electrons, and higher‐energy electrons (from ~0.5 to 26 keV) are the main carriers.