Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Critical incidents and cultures-of-use in a Hong Kong–Germany telecollaboration

This study explores critical incidents regarding differing cultures-of-use in telecollaboration against the backdrop of Hong Kong and German teacher education contexts. The rationale for the exchange was to model technology use and task design with the ultimate goal of internationalizing teacher education and supporting global citizenship. Participants in this project are 58 English majors in a graduate-level sociolinguistics course at a public research institution in Hong Kong and 15 EFL student teachers in a language teaching and new media elective course at a public education university in Germany. Using social media tools for interaction such as Facebook, Skype, WeChat, and WhatsApp, 11 telecollaborative teams engaged in three sequential tasks: (a) engaging in topical exchanges using Facebook, (b) writing a literature review in Google Docs, and (c) making recommendations on team websites using Wix. Research questions focus on critical incidents identified by participants during these tasks, particularly in relation to tool engagement. Data triangulation includes reflections, surveys, and online interactions. Findings indicate that the majority of Hong Kong teams cite low experience with certain tools, unfamiliarity with alternative tools (e.g., WeChat), and differences in tool access and use as constraints in achieving effective communication. Implications address sensitizing participants to their partners’ tool socialization through implementing the critical incident technique.
Elevation, an emotion for prosocial contagion, is experienced more strongly by those with greater expectations of the cooperativeness of others

A unique emotion, elevation, is thought to underlie prosocial contagion, a process whereby witnessing a prosocial act leads to acting prosocially. Individuals differ in their propensity to experience elevation, and thus their proneness to prosocial contagion, but little is known about the causes of such variation. We introduce an adaptationist model wherein elevation marks immediate circumstances in which generalized prosociality is advantageous, with this evaluation of circumstances hinging in part on prior expectations of others’ prosociality. In 15 studies, we add to evidence that elevation can reliably be elicited and mediates prosocial contagion. Importantly, we confirm a novel prediction–generated by our adaptationist account–that an idealistic attitude, which indexes others’ expected degree of prosociality, moderates the relationship between exposure to prosocial cues and experiencing elevation. We discuss how our findings inform both basic theorizing in the affective sciences and translational efforts to engineer a more harmonious world, and we offer future research directions to further test and extend our model.
OCCLUSAL CHARACTERISTICS IN A GROUP OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY IN ALEXANDRIA EGYPT

INTRODUCTION: Cerebral palsy is the term given for a range of non-progressive syndromes of posture and motor impairment that results from an insult to the developing central nervous system. OBJECTIVES: Assess the occlusal characteristics in children with cerebral palsy and relate them to the degree of their neuromuscular deficit. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included 87 children with cerebral palsy and 84 healthy children from Alexandria, Egypt. Data were collected using a questionnaire and clinical examination. Questionnaire assessed socio-demographics and medical history. Clinical examination assessed facial profile, posterior occlusion, cuspid relationships, posterior crossbite and anterior incisor relationships. RESULTS: Class II cuspid relationship was statistically higher in cerebral palsy children than healthy control (P=0.02 for both sides). 29.9% of cerebral palsy children and 15.5% of healthy children had convex facial profile with significant difference (P=0.04). Cerebral palsy children were more likely to have open bite than healthy children (31.1% and 14.8% respectively) with a statically significant difference between both groups (P=0.02). The mean overjet (mm) was higher in cerebral palsy children than healthy children (2.87 and 2.23 mm respectively) with a statically significant difference (P=0.03) and the mean overbite (%) was also higher in cerebral palsy children than healthy children (40.65% and 25.47% respectively) with a significant difference(P=0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Cerebral palsy children had a convex facial profile with class II cuspid relationship in comparison to the healthy children. Anteriorly, cerebral palsy children exhibited an increased open bite with a higher significant mean number of overbite and overjet than healthy children. The posterior occlusal relationships in children with cerebral palsy were similar to that in healthy children. The severity of the neuromuscular deficit is a risk factor for the development of malocclusion in cerebral palsy children.
The Effect of U.S. Stress Tests on Monetary Policy Spillovers to Emerging Markets

This paper shows that monetary policy and prudential policies interact. U.S. banks issue more commercial and industrial loans to emerging market borrowers when U.S. monetary policy eases. The effect is less pronounced for banks that are more constrained through the U.S. bank stress tests, reflected in a lower minimum capital ratio in the severely adverse scenario. This suggests that monetary policy spillovers depend on banks? capital constraints. In particular, during a period of quantitative easing when liquidity is abundant, banks are more flexible, and the scope for adjusting lending is larger when they have a bigger capital buffer. We conjecture that bank lending to emerging markets during the zero-lower bound period would have been even higher had the United States not introduced stress tests for their banks.
Billy get your guns: fast barrel-shift decoding for in-place execution of Huffman-encoded bytecode streams

The use of ubiquitous computing devices in memory-constrained environments increases the need for techniques that reduce the memory footprint of applications while leaving them in an executable form. Heterogeneous ubiquitous computing platforms require applications to support a variety of CPU architectures. Virtual Machines (VMs) provide hardware abstraction and a code representation with high compression potential. Efficient interpreters are thus ideal for heterogenous memory-constrained ubiquitous computing platforms. We apply Huffman compression to both opcodes and operands of bytecode. Our VM is capable of executing compressed bytecode without prior decompression. The slow-downs due to on-the-fly decoding of compressed bytecode are less than a factor of 7. Compressed bytecode is up to 72% smaller than binary code, and up to 87% smaller than a “plain” bytecode representation.
Flavored N = 4 SYM – a highly entangled quantum liquid

We study N = 4 SYM theory coupled to fundamental N = 2 hypermultiplets in a state of finite charge density. The setup can be described holographically as a configuration of D3 and D7 branes with a non-trivial worldvolume gauge field on the D7. The phase has been identified as a new form of quantum liquid, where certain properties are those of a Fermi liquid while others are clearly distinct. We focus on the entanglement among the flavors, as quantified by the entanglement entropy. The expectation for a Fermi liquid would be a logarithmic enhancement of the area law, but we find a more drastic enhancement instead. The leading contributions are volume terms with a non-trivial shape dependence, signaling extensive entanglement among the flavors. At finite temperature these correlations are confined to a region of size given by the inverse temperature.
Auditory and Visual Emotion Recognition: Investigating why some portrayals are better recognized than others

To understand the factors that influence auditory and visual emotion recognition performance we examined a perception set of stimuli produced by three talkers that differed in how well people could recognise their emotions. Our proposal was that productions based on a model of prototypical emotion attributes will be more consistent and better recognized. To test this, we trained a classification model on a parallel hold-out set of stimuli by the same talkers and examined the consistency of the emotion portrayals. We found that the emotion stimuli from a talker who produced more consistent emotion portrayals were better recognized than those stimuli that were less consistently produced.
STANDARDIZATION OF BEST SOIL MEDIA AND TIME OF GUAVA PROPAGATION THROUGH CUTTINGS UNDER JAMMU SUB TROPICS

Guava (PsidiumguajavaL.) belonging to family Myrtaceae is originated in tropical south America. It is one of the leading fruit crops inIndia due to wide adaptability to varying soil and climaticconditions (Sharma et al., 2013). It is considered to be one of the exquisite, nutritionally valuable and remunerative crop. Itscultivation is getting popularity due to increasing internationaltrade, better nutritional contents and processing of its valueadded products (Sharma et al., 2013). Besides its high nutritional value, it bears heavy crop every year and gives good economic returns. This has prompted several farmers to take up guava orchardingon a commercial scale (Singh et al., 2007). Guavas are commercially propagated sexually through seeds. During sexual propagation plants cannot maintain the genetic purity of the variety due to the segregation and recombination of characters. Several methods have been proposed for guava propagation both by sexual (by seed) (Zamiret al., 2003) and asexual methods (by cutting, layering, budding and grafting). Clonal propagation of guava can be considered to avoid segregation of genetic variety, maintain the quality of fruits and have considerable potential for the improvement of economically important trees within a limited time frame (Giri et al., 2004; Singh et al., 2004). There are several reports, (Ullah et al., 2005; Gautam et al., 2010) which have examined the possibilities of propagation of guava by using stem cutting from seedling originated juvenile stock plants in which genetic segregation is possible. Propagation by cuttings from mature trees may be one of the important options to avoid the genetic segregation and maintain the quality of variety. Propagation by cuttings has significant advantage, since, in addition to obtaining plants with the same type of tree, will ensure production of economically important tree in just one growing season.
Immunological and Virological Responses of HIV-Infected Patients to Herbal Treatment: A Pilot Study

To better understand how HIV-infected patients taking herbal drugs as anti-retroviral therapy respond to the herbal preparation, we investigated, in a pilot study, six HIV-infected persons who consented to use three herbal drugs to treat their infection by looking at the virological and immunological changes that would take place in them. Specifically, we investigated changes in their viral load and CD4+ T-cells kinetics as well as the haematological and biochemical expressions in them. Results obtained revealed that whilst drugs Misparon OA Unity Mixtures and Amansa Boafo may not have shown favourable virologic and immunologic response in the patients who used them probably because of extreme emotional depression and very poor drug adherence, drug MJ GOLDONI from M and Jay Health Management Consult attained favourable virologic and immunologic response in patients. Specifically, drug MJ GOLDONI effectively suppressed the viral load in these patients as well as increasing their CD4 T-cells. The drug also did not lead to any abnormal expression of haematological and biochemical profiles. The health improvement achieved with MJ GOLDONI in patients within the six months indicates that this herbal medicine has a high potential as either supplementary or alternative treatment for HIV/AIDS patients and therefore warrants further research with a larger sample size and rigorous study over a long period of time.
Radiotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx: long term results and multivariate analysis of prognostic factors

Introduction . The aim of the study was to analyse the results of treatment and prognostic factors related to clinical and therapeutic characteristics in patients with oropharyngeal cancer. Methods . 241 patients with proven oropharyngeal cancer were irradiated with radical intent at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw between 1984 and 1995. The total dose ranged between 66 and 72Gy delivered in 2Gy fractions 5-times weekly. The majority of patients presented as advanced cases T3, T4 – 152 patients (63%) and N2, N3 – 89 patients (37%). Curves of overall survival and local, regional control were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Analysis of the prognostic factors was performed using Cox's multivariate proportional risk model. Results . 5-year overall survival probability was 25%. 5-year local regional control probability in patients with complete regression after radiotherapy was 55%. WHO-2 performance status had a significantly negative influence on overall survival, as compared to WHO-0 (p=0.02). T4 stage reduced overall survival probability, as compared with others stages (p=0.04). The analysis has also shown unfavourable influence of the clinical stage N2c on overall survival. Patients with stage N2c had a three-fold higher risk of death, as compared to others (p=0.002). Hemoglobin level higher than 13g/dL reduced the risk of death, as compared to patients with hemoglobin level equal or lower than 13g/dL (0.0002). Patients with breaks during irradiation (prolonged overall treatment time) had worse prognosis, as compared to patients without breaks. This relationship was marginally significant (p=0.06). Loco-regional control analysis showed that only the hemoglobin level was significant. In patients with hemoglobin level over 13g/dL the risk of recurrence was lower than in patients with hemoglobin equal or lower than 13g/dL (p=0.013). Conclusion . Performance status, advanced T and N stage, hemoglobin concentration and breaks during the treatment influence the overall survival of patients with oropharyngeal cancer undergoing radical radiotherapy. The level of hemoglobin was found to be the only factor influencing loco-regional control.
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SENSORS FOR ELASTIC GUIDED WAVES BASED ON 3D LASER VIBROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS AND THE RECIPROCITY RELATION

The development of new Non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) concepts initiated the development and application of new types of sensors and transducers. So, for structural health monitoring with guided elastic waves a variety of piezoelectric transducers were proposed. Examples are disc, foil and fiber transducers. A reliable characterization of these transducers in its various application conditions is necessary, because the transducer performance will depend on a number of factors. Among them are the way of mounting the transducer (e.g. attached or embedded), the type and thickness of a glue layer and also the structure the transducers are mounted to. Analytical and numerical modeling of the transducer behavior is helpful for characterizing the transducer’s behavior, but has also its limitations. It is hard to implement all essential aspects of a transducer and its interaction with the structure. In several cases there is even lack of reliable input parameters to fulfill a model.
Displaced, homeless and abused: The dynamics of sexual and physical abuses of homeless Zimbabweans in South Africa

Erhabor S. Idemudia, Professor of Research, School of Research & Postgraduate Studies, North-West University. Research interests: the application of clinical issues (psychopathology, mental health, wellbeing and therapeutic interventions) in prisons, African migrants, refugees and other vulnerable populations; gender studies and developing African-oriented intervention methods with the understanding of illness attributions based on cultural knowledge in Africa. erhabor.idemudia@nwu.ac. za
An Investigation of International Journal usage by Iranian Medical Researchers

Knowledge of the extent to which information sources are used allows library managers to evaluate a library’s collection and to make holding, archiving and purchasing decisions. The major objectives of this study were to identify a) the format of materials used in Iranian medical research, b) the age of cited items, c) the most frequently used journal titles which are critical to maintaining the core collection; and d) the half-life of the most cited journals. The results show the pattern of citation by type of media cited to have remained constant over the three years of the study, with journals being the most preferred format, accounting for 77.34% of all citations, followed by books (18.67 %) and theses (1.5%). The results show that the age of cited materials varied from one type to the other. However there is a slight tendency to cite more recent issues within each type of media except web resources. The citation half-life of non- Iranian journals was 9 years whilst, on average, 50% of Iranian journals were cited within the last 6 years; however, the trend tends towards more recent issues. Web resources have the lowest half-life of three years. The 108 most cited internationally published journals (zone 1), providing 33% of Iranian medical researchers information needs, were extracted on the basis of their citation frequency. These can be used by Iranian medical libraries as a baseline for subscription. Their corresponding quartiles of usage can be a criterion for storage policy.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF JOB SATISFACTION OF EMPLOYEES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS IN INDIA WITH REFERENCE TO U.P. STATE

The present study assesses the level of job satisfaction and contributing variables experienced by bank employees in India. It finds out the basic reason of satisfaction and dissatisfaction among the employees of public and private sector banks in UP state through a questionnaire which is based on Five point Likert's Scale. Questionnaires validity was confirmed by masters and specialists and questionnaires reliability was computed through the cronbach's Alpha. The method which was preferred in theframe of the study was the quantitative research method.Thesample of the present study consisted of 425 employees of banks. Analysis of data was performed by SPSS software in witht-test and multiple regression. Theresults of the study show the feelings of job satisfaction contributing variables experienced by bank employees occur in quite high levels. Furthermore, there is quite a strong impacton the variables. However, further investigation was carried out in the Indian population, so that the phenomena of job satisfaction and related variables are well studied and promoted.
Use of Core Stabilization Exercise and Medical Exercise Therapy in the Treatment of a Patient with Chronic Post Partum Low Back Pain: A Case Report

• Chronic postpartum low back pain (LBP) can be difficult to manage. • Core stabilization exercises (CSE) have been shown to improve function and reduce pain in patients with chronic LBP due to lumbar instability. 2 • Medical Exercise Therapy (MET) has shown good outcomes in reducing pain in patients with LBP 3 but has not been thoroughly investigated in the treatment of chronic post partum LBP. • There is limited research reporting the use of a combined treatment protocol utilizing CSE and MET in the treatment of chronic LBP in postpartum women. • LBP is a prevalent disorder in postpartum women. Women who experience recurrent back pain after 3 months post-partum are considered at risk for chronic pain. 4 • CSE have been used to treat chronic lumbar instability and improve pain in patients with LBP. 2 Previous research has found that core stabilization exercises are more effective than traditional exercises at treating pain and disability among patients with non-specific LBP. 5 • The MET treatment philosophy focuses on areas of pain and disability with high repetition and low weight training exercises. Prior research has found MET reduces pain and improves function in patients with multiple musculoskeletal disorders.
DIAGNOSTIC IMPORTANCE OF CA-125 IN DETECTION OF RECURRENCE AND PROGRESS OF THE DISEASE IN STAGES III AND IV OF EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CARCINOMA DIJAGNOSTI^KI ZNA^AJ CA-125 U DETEKCIJI RECIDIVA I PROGRESIJE BOLESTI U STADIJUMU III - IV EPITELIJALNIH KARCINOMA JAJNIKA

Summary: In 60 patients operated in stages III and IV of epithelial ovarian carcinoma continuous determination of CA 125 from serum was done during the following 2 years. The main condition for entering the survey were elevated values of CA 125 in serum > 35 U/mL and histologically verified epithelial ovarian carcinoma. The aim of the survey was to perform statistical assessment of serum CA 125 determination in diagnostics of recurrence and progression of the disease in stages III and IV of epithelial ovarian carcinoma, and percentage (%) of false positive and negative results. Determination of CA 125 from serum during 2 postoperative years is a reliable but not completely certain diagnostic parameter in detection of the disease progression in stages III and IV of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (sensitivity 79.3%, specificity 97.1%, positive predictive value 91.2%, negative predictive value 92.4%, test accuracy 92.1%). False positive (0.7%) and false negative results (4.7%) of individual tests were present in 5.4% of all samples.
Cortisol and 17-α-hydroxy-progesterone levels in infants with refractory hypotension born at 30 weeks of gestation or less

Refractory hypotension is frequent in very low-birth weight infants, whose hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis has been suggested to be immature. The objective of the present study was to evaluate basal cortisol and 17-α-OH-progesterone in the first 36 h of life in preterm infants with and without refractory hypotension (mean arterial blood pressure below the lower limit for gestational age throughout the study despite aggressive volume expansion and use of vasopressors). Thirtyfive infants with ≤30 weeks of gestation and a birth weight ≤1250 g, with no postnatal use of corticosteroid or death in the first 48 h were studied. Mean arterial pressure was measured every 4 h during the first 48 h. Cortisol and 17-α-OH-progesterone were determined at 12 and 36 h and patients were divided into refractory hypotensive (N = 15) and control (N = 20) groups. The groups were not different regarding type of delivery, use of prenatal corticosteroid, requirement of mechanical ventilation, use of vasopressor drugs, morphine, fentanyl, prophylactic indomethacin, and mean sample timing. Although refractory hypotensive newborns were more immature, were smaller, suffered more deaths after 48 h of life and had a higher SNAPPE-2 score, their cortisol and 17-α-OH-progesterone levels were not different from controls at 12 h and at 36 h. The increase of cortisol in newborns with refractory hypotension 36 h after birth was significantly higher than in controls. Despite the fact that refractory hypotensive very low-birth weight neonates were submitted to a very stressful condition, their cortisol and 17-α-OH-progesterone levels were similar to controls.