Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of a walking club and a self-directed program physical activity program in increasing moderate intensity physical activity among African-American females /

Inactivity is linked to many health problem, such a s obesity, cardiovascular disease, some cancers, etc. The American subgroup who have the lowest participation in leisure-time physical activity are African-American females. Research shows that up to 82% of this group participate in little or no leisure-time physical activity. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to test the effectiveness of two types of interventions, based on social learning theory (SLT), in increasing moderate intensity physical activity in AfricanAmerican adult females, aged 25 and up. (1 ) The walking club intervention consisted of five weekly 1-1/2 hour classes, having a one-hour instructional period and a half hour activity component. (2) The self-directed intervention consisted of five one-hour instructional c lasses and had no activity component. The two main research questions were (1) To what extent does a walking club, based upon SLT constructs, increase physical activity among AfricanAmerican fem ales? (2) To what extent does a self-directed program, based upon SLT constructs, increase physical activity among African-American fem ales? Results showed that for the walking club, the mean number of days increased from 1 on the pretest to 5 on the post test. The median for minutes per week of participation increased from 0 on the pretest to 230 on the post test. For the self-directed program, days of participation increased from 2 on the pretest to 4 on the post test. The median for minutes of participation increased ii from 0 per week on the pretest to 130 on the post test. It w as concluded that both a walking club and a self-directed program were effective in increasing physical activity among the African-American females who participated in this study. For the walking club, perceived social support accounted for 28.9% of the variance in days of participation and 33.5% of the variance in minutes of participation in moderate intensity physical activity. There were no significant correlations observed between SLT variables and physical activity variables for the self-directed program.
Classed: A Study of Traveller Mothers and their children's schooling.

Irish Travellers have long been marginalised in Irish society, with educational attainment rates well below the national average. The purpose of this research is to elucidate and understand the experience of Irish Traveller mothers as they engage with their children’s schooling. This study draws on in-depth, qualitative, one-to-one interviews with ten Traveller mothers. The research finds that Traveller mothers are interested in their children’s education. Moreover, they are interested in their children’s well-being. The mothers here will forego educational attainment in favour of their child’s well-being, as they understand it. Traveller mothers do not trust the school to provide for the educational or emotional well-being of their children. They feel that, as in their own time, they are dependent on the good nature of key individuals to provide their children with an education and for their well-being in the school situation. This well-being can be defined as academic regard, but also, and more importantly for Traveller mothers, it is defined by social acceptance and inclusion. This definition of well-being resonates with mothers’ experience of their own schooling. This situation of distrust leads to a state of ‘hyper-vigilance’, where Traveller mothers are sensitive to perceived mistreatment of their children, and sometimes of themselves, within the education system. When mothers feel their children are mistreated, they largely ascribe this mistreatment to their Traveller identity. In some cases this perpetuates their sense of isolation and distrust of the system. In other cases their dissatisfaction is directed towards their Traveller identity. In all cases, mothers’ instinct to perceived mistreatment is to remove their children from the teacher or the school, in an effort to find a place or individuals to whom they can safely entrust their children. This thesis locates the current situation and the research in the context of the evolution of national educational policies and national policies in relation to the Traveller Community. This research has implications at local and national level for understanding, communication and engagement between schools and Traveller parents as partners in education. Other implications at national level are in areas such as initial and continuing teacher education, curriculum planning and school development planning, as well as the wider equality agenda.
SCANCPECLENS: A Framework for Automatic Lexicon Generation and Sentiment Analysis of Micro Blogging Data on China Pakistan Economic Corridor

With the growing availability of internet and opinion rich resources such as social networks and personal blogs, the task of mining public opinion and exploring facts has become more popular than ever before during the last decade. The latest trend has deeply transformed the way the governments interact with their citizens and offer them various services through continuous public engagement. The proposed framework SCANCPECLENS is an initiative to support performance assessment framework for e-government in Pakistan. The research takes into account the opinion of masses on one of the most crucial and widely discussed development projects, China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), considered as a game changer due to its promise of bringing economic prosperity to the region. The proposed framework suggests to use machine learning algorithms to automatically discover the public sentiment from microblogs on the matter nationally as well as internationally. We also present an automated way to create sentiment lexicon of positive, negative and neutral words on the subject. To the best of our knowledge, this theme has not been explored for opinion mining before and helps one in effectively assessing public satisfaction over government’s policies in the CPEC region. The research is an initiative to discover new avenues of future research and direction for the government, policy making institutions and other stake holders and demonstrates the power of text mining as an effective tool to extract business value from vast amount of social media data.
HIV Screening Using the $OraQuick^{(R)}$ $ADVANCE^{TM}$ Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test (OraQuick Test) in Dentistry: A Literature Review

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of OraQuick tests in previously reported articles. Methods: The literature was searched using Pubmed Medline with keywords, such as "OraQuick" or "rapid HIV test". Articles that included the specificity and sensitivity of this device were reviewed. Results: A total of 11 journal articles including 3 domestic articles were reviewed. The sensitivity of the OraQuick Test was reported to be 97.8 to 100% and its specificity was 98.8 to 100%. Conclusion: The results indicated that the simple OraQuick assay has proven to be accurate and it can be used to detect patients with HIV and to prevent the spread of HIV on test screens.
Cryptographic Solutions for Cyber-Physical System Security

Since the introduction of Stuxnet, security research of industrial control systems, or cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in general, has become a rapidly growing area. There is a widespread belief that solutions based on cryptographic primitives are generally considered too computationally expensive to realize security properties for CPS in practice. In this dissertation, we will show how to efficiently leverage the limited computational power and storage on CPS devices to secure a CPS under the attacks initiated from sensors, controllers, and networks using cryptographic methods. More specifically, we will present an intrusion-tolerant and privacy-preserving sensor fusion scheme, a lightweight intrusion detection system for industrial control systems, and a multi-factor authenticated key exchange protocol based on historical data. Cryptographic Solutions for Cyber-Physical System Security
The Single Leg Squat Test in the Assessment of Musculoskeletal Function: a Review

Contemporary evidence shows the Single leg squat has evolved into a functional test and is now being used clinically by some practitioners. This review describes the evolution of the Single leg squat test and its role within the examination of musculoskeletal function. It examines the evidence relating clinical assessment using the Single leg squat test to the mechanics of walking and discusses the possible outcomes of the Single leg squat test and its interpretation. Papers were obtained through a search of electronic databases cinahl, medline, science direct, sport discus and ovid from inception, with various combinations of the terms “Single leg”, “Squat,” “Dip,” “Pelvis”, “Stability” and “Test. ” An additional manual search was made of relevant bibliographies without limitation for year of publication.
Tumor immune escape in allogeneic stem cell transplantation: Releasing the brake on graft-versus-tumor immunity

CD8 T cells recognizing minor histocompatibility antigens (MiHA) on leukemic stem and progenitor cells play a pivotal role in effective graft-versus-leukemia reactivity after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Previously, we identified a hematopoiesis-restricted MiHA, designated LRH-1, which is presented by HLA-B7 and encoded by the P2X5 purinergic receptor gene. We found that P2X5 is significantly expressed in CD34 leukemic subpopulations from chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. Here, we demonstrate that LRH-1-specific CD8 T cell responses are frequently induced in myeloid leukemia patients following donor lymphocyte infusions. Patients with high percentages of circulating LRH-1-specific CD8 T cells had no or only mild graft-versus-host disease. Functional analysis showed that LRH-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) isolated from two different patients efficiently target LRH-1-positive leukemic CD34 progenitor cells from both CML and AML patients, while mature CML cells are only marginally lysed due to down-regulation of P2X5. Furthermore, we observed that relative resistance to LRH-1-CTL-mediated cell death due to elevated levels of antiapoptotic XIAP could be overcome by IFN-γ pre-stimulation and increased CTLtarget ratios. These findings provide a rationale for use of LRH-1 as immunotherapeutic target antigen to treat residual or persisting myeloid malignancies after allogeneic SCT.
Does Gender Diversity in the Boardroom Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from Indonesia

This study investigates board gender diversity in Indonesia’s listed firms and its effect on firm performance from 2011–2016. After addressing the endogeneity of diversity, the results in this paper show that the proportion of female in the boardroom marginally improve firm performance. Firms with two or more female in the boardroom have a stronger impact on firm performance than firms with one female in the boardroom, consistent with the critical mass effect. Finally, certain sectors will gain more benefits of appointing females in the boardroom. The results suggest that increasing gender diversity in the boardrooms can have beneficial effects on firm performance, but the benefits may be subject to the critical mass and firm industry.
No Place Like Home: Domiciliary Care Services for Older People in Ireland

"No Place Like Home" is the first major output of the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin. The Centre was established in 2005 with the view to producing and disseminating policy-relevant research in the area of ageing. The domiciliary (in-home) care for older people was selected as the initial flagship project because it represents a policy area of growing concern both in the Irish and international contexts. While much rhetorical emphasis is placed on the importance of enabling older people with care needs to remain living in their own homes (not in the least due to the increasing perception that many older people are in inappropriate institutional care settings in hospitals and nursing homes), the absence of baseline data and lack of a clear understanding of policy structures constitute significant obstacles to achieving this aim. This study, conducted in August 2005-April 2006, involved interviewing 125 informants who are closely involved in planning, financing and delivering home care to older persons across Dublin. It represents the first systematic attempt in the Irish context to map out the respective roles and characteristics of the public, private and non-profit sector organisations involved in financing and delivering home care to older people. The book maps out the considerable shifts in the organisation and delivery of domiciliary care services for older persons over the last 10 years. A historical account is given of the shift from policy emphasis on institutional to domiciliary care. The increasing complexity of the 'care mix' that has resulted from changes in the non-profit (formerly voluntary) sector and the emergence of the private sector care agencies, and their relationship to the State as purchaser of care services are analysed. While the book is highly policy-relevant and includes a number of recommendations for changes in policy and practices, it also makes a major contribution to theory-building and historical analysis in the area of social care. As a result, the book is of interest to academic, policy and practitioner audiences, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students, in the areas of social policy, politics, history of care services (the role of the voluntary sector in particular), sociology and social work. "No Place Like Home" fills a vacuum in an area that has changed rapidly and remained under-researched until now.
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS AMONG EMERGING ADULTS IN COLLEGE

OF DISSERTATION CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS AMONG EMERGING ADULTS IN COLLEGE The purpose of this dissertation was to examine factors associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among emerging adults in college aged 18-25 years. CVD risks that develop during this period often persist into adulthood making it an ideal time to target CVD prevention. The specific aims of this dissertation were to 1) explore perceptions of cardiovascular risk among emerging adult men in college; 2) compare differences in unhealthy behaviors and obesity between emerging adults in college living in rural, Appalachian Kentucky and urban Fayette County, Kentucky; and 3) compare measures of general and abdominal obesity in predicting blood pressure among emerging adults in college. Specific Aim One was addressed by a qualitative study of perceptions of cardiovascular risk in 10 emerging adult males in college. Specific Aims Two and Three were addressed by a study of emerging adult college students living in rural, Appalachian and urban Fayette County, Kentucky. We hypothesized that students in rural, Appalachian Kentucky would engage in more unhealthy behaviors and be obese due to living in an austere environment with barriers to healthy behaviors. Although obesity and hypertension are known to be related, researchers have not determined whether body fat distribution, general vs. abdominal, is predictive of blood pressure in emerging adults. Knowing which body fat distribution is the strongest predictor of blood pressure may help in evaluating cardiovascular risk in emerging adults. Emerging adult men emphasized difficulty engaging in CVD health behaviors while attending college and choose to ignore long-term CVD risk. Overcoming college-specific and developmental barriers to engaging in healthy behaviors is critical to reducing cardiovascular risk in this population. Students living in rural, Appalachian Kentucky had more CVD risk behaviors and more were obese compared to those in urban Fayette County, Kentucky. Reducing CVD risk behaviors and obesity among students in rural Appalachian Kentucky may help decrease the high burden of CVD in this region. Findings suggest that waist circumference was the best predictor of systolic blood pressure among emerging adults in college.
Finding Hierarchical Structure in Neural Stacks Using Unsupervised Parsing

Neural network architectures have been augmented with differentiable stacks in order to introduce a bias toward learning hierarchy-sensitive regularities. It has, however, proven difficult to assess the degree to which such a bias is effective, as the operation of the differentiable stack is not always interpretable. In this paper, we attempt to detect the presence of latent representations of hierarchical structure through an exploration of the unsupervised learning of constituency structure. Using a technique due to Shen et al. (2018a,b), we extract syntactic trees from the pushing behavior of stack RNNs trained on language modeling and classification objectives. We find that our models produce parses that reflect natural language syntactic constituencies, demonstrating that stack RNNs do indeed infer linguistically relevant hierarchical structure.
Outgroup Contact in the Process of Leaving Terrorism Qualitative Study of Deradicalization and Disengagement Among Former Jamaah Islamiyah Members in Indonesia

Leaving terrorism is a real thing that happened among Indonesian terrorists. Nevertheless, some experts and laypersons often do not believe that terrorists will leave their groups and their ideology. This study scrutinized leaving terrorism among Indonesia terrorists and push factors that lead to their transformation to be moderate and refuse violence in the pursuit of their goals. This study is based on interviews with five members Jamaah Islamiyah and twenty-five people that are related to them from friends and families. This study confirms that out-groups contact, including the targeted out-groups contact, becomes an important push factor for the subject to leave terrorism. Banyak ahli dan masyarakat umumnya tidak percaya bahwa teroris dapat meninggalkan ideologi dan kelompoknya. Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang beberapa mantan teroris Jamaah Islamiah yang meningalkan kegiatan teror serta kelompoknya. Selain itu, penelitian ini menjelaskan faktor yang mendorong perubahan mereka menjadi kaum moderat dan bahkan menolak kekerasan sebagai cara meraih tujuan politik dan keagamaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan wawancara mendalam dan telaah literatur sebagai instrumen utama pengumpul data dan informasi. Narasumber penelitian ini adalah lima mantan anggota Jamaah Islamiyah dan dua puluh lima orang yang dianggap memiliki kaitan yang relevan dengan kelima orang tersebut. Temuan penelitian menjelaskan bahwa kontak dengan individu di luar jaringan merupakan faktor pendorong krusial yang mendorong individu keluar dari jaringan dan ideologi teror
Expectations of Reciprocity and Feedback when Competitors Share Information: Experimental Evidence

Informal know-how trading and exchange of information among competitors has been well-documented for a variety of industries, including in science and R&D, and an individualâ€™s expectations of reciprocity is understood to be a key determinant of such flow of information. We establish a feedback loop (as a representation of information trading) in the laboratory and show that an individualâ€™s expectations of the recipientâ€™s intentions to reciprocate matter more than a recipientâ€™s ability to do so. This implies that reducing strategic uncertainty about competitorsâ€™ behavior has a bigger effect on the flow of information than reducing environmental uncertainty (about their ability to generate new information). We also show that the formation of beliefs about a recipientâ€™s intentions to reciprocate are heavily influenced by past experience, where prior experience lingers and can have negative effects on the sustainability of productive and fruitful information exchange.
Approximate optimal control model for visual search tasks

Visual search is a cognitive process that makes use of eye movements to bring the relatively high acuity fovea to bear on areas of interest to aid in navigation or interaction within the environment. This thesis explores a novel hypothesis that human visual search behaviour emerges as an adaptation to the underlying human information processing constraint, task utility and ecology. A new computational model (Computationally Rational Visual Search (CRVS) model) for visual search is also presented that provides a mathematical formulation for the hypothesis. Through the model, we ask the question, what mechanism and strategy a rational agent would use to move gaze and when should it stop searching? The CRVS model formulates the novel hypothesis for visual search as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). The POMDP provides a mathematical framework to model visual search as a optimal adaptation to both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Specifically, the agent is only able to partially observe the environment due to the bounds imposed by the human visual system. The agent learns to make a decision based on the partial information it obtained and a feedback signal. The POMDP formulation is very general and it can be applied to a range of problems. However, finding an optimal solution to a POMDP is computationally expensive. In this thesis, we use machine learning to find an approximately optimal solution to the POMDP. Specifically, we use a deep reinforcement learning (Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic) algorithm to solve the POMDP. The thesis answers the where to fixate next and when to stop search questions using three different visual search tasks. In Chapter 4 we investigate the computationally rational strategies for when to stop search using a real-world search task of images on a web page. In Chapter 5, we investigate computationally rational strategies for where to look next when guided by low-level feature cues like colour, shape, size. Finally, in Chapter 6, we combine the approximately optimal strategies learned from the previous chapters for a conjunctive visual search task (Distractor-Ratio task) where the model needs to answer both when to stop and where to search question. The results show that visual search strategies can be explained as an approximately optimal adaptation to the theory of information processing constraints, utility and ecology of the task.
SCA based Fractional-order PID Controller Considering Delayed EV Aggregators

The EVs battery has the ability to enhance the balance between the load demand and power generation units. The EV aggregators to manage the random behaviour of EV owners and increasing EVs participation in the ancillary services market are employed. The presence of aggregators could lead to time-varying delay in load frequency control (LFC) schemes. The effects of these delays must be considered in the LFC controller design. Due to the dependency of controller effectiveness on its parameters, these parameters should be designed in such a way that the LFC system has desired performance in the presence of time-varying delay. Therefore, a Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA) is utilized to adjust the fractional-order PID (FOPID) controller coefficients. Also, some evaluations are performed about the proposed LFC performance by integral absolute error (IAE) indicator. Simulations are carried out in both single and two area LFC system containing EV aggregators with time-varying delay. According to results, the proposed controller has fewer frequency variations in contrast to other controllers presented in the case studies. The obtained output could be considered as a solution to evaluate the proposed controller performance for damping the frequency oscillations in the delayed LFC system.