Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Client emotional productivity—optimal client in-session emotional processing in experiential therapy

Abstract Objective: The goal of this investigation was to examine the predictive validity of Client Emotional Productivity (CEP), an operationalization of optimal client in-session emotional processing, possessing seven features: Attending, symbolization, congruence, acceptance, regulation, agency and differentiation. Method: CEP was related to improvement in depressive and general symptoms, in 74 clients (66% female, 34% male) who received experiential therapy of depression and this was compared to the relationship between client high expressed emotional (CHEEA) arousal and the working alliance (WAI) and outcome. Results: Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that working phase CEP predicted significant reduction of depressive and general symptoms over and above that predicted by beginning phase CEP, the working alliance and working phase CHEEA. Working phase CEP emerged as the sole, independent predictor of outcome for both depressive and general symptoms. Conclusion: Productive emotional processing, thus, mediates the relationship between the alliance and outcome and seems to go beyond mere activation and expression of emotional experience. It rather seems to involve an increase in the ability to process activated primary emotion in a productive manner specified by CEP.
The Glare Hypothesis of Macular Pigment Function

Purpose. Discomfort and reduced visual performance due to glaring light conditions are common complaints for most individuals. Past studies have shown that macular pigment (MP) reduces discomfort due to glare. In this study, we evaluated whether MP was related to visual performance under glare conditions. Methods. Thirty-six healthy subjects participated (age range, 18 to 41). Spatial profiles of MP optical density were measured using heterochromatic flicker photometry with a Newtonian-view macular densitometer. Photostress recovery and grating visibility under veiling conditions were assessed in a Maxwellian-view optical system. Both experiments used six monochromatic lights (from 440 to 620 nm) and a broadband xenon white. For the veiling glare experiment, subjects fixated a 1°-diameter disk containing a black and white 100% contrast grating stimulus. The intensity of an annulus (the glare source) with an 11° inner and 12° outer diameter was adjusted by the subject until the grating stimulus was no longer seen. For the photostress recovery experiment, the time required to detect a 1°-diameter grating stimulus (detailed above) after a 5-s exposure to a 2.5 &mgr;W/cm2, 5°-diameter disk was recorded. Both central and eccentric (10° temporal retina) viewing conditions were assessed. Results. MP at 30′ eccentricity ranged from 0.08 to 1.04 OD, and was found to dramatically reduce the deleterious effects of glare. Visual thresholds under glare conditions were strongly related to MP density (e.g., r = 0.76, p = 0.0001 when using white light). Photostress recovery time, after exposure to xenon-white light, was significantly shorter for subjects with higher MP levels (r = −0.79, p = 0.0001). Both photostress recovery and veiling glare functions were well-described by the photopic spectral sensitivity function (V&lgr;). Conclusions. MP is strongly related to improvements in glare disability and photostress recovery in a manner consistent with its spectral absorption and spatial profile.
History, preliminary results, complications, and future prospects of intraoperative radiotherapy

Intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy (IORT) is a new combined modality therapy in the treatment of cancer. IORT is delivered during a surgical procedure to a tumor or tumor bed and areas of possible local regional spread, with the ability to shield or physically move normal tissues and organs out of the treatment volume. IORT is feasible for various intraabdominal, retroperitoneal, pelvic, and other malignancies. It is possible to increase the total radiation dose, thereby improving the therapeutic ratio; a better local control without an increasing morbidity. Although the optimum use of IORT is still unknown, it is believed that its greatest value is in combination with maximal surgical resection of the tumor with or without external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). IORT is still an experimental treatment modality combining surgery, EBRT, and if necessary, chemotherapy. Because IORT is an expensive treatment method, it is important to determine which method is the best and most convenient for the patient. The answer can be given only when prospective, randomized clinical IORT trials and cost‐effectiveness studies are initiated.
Early childhood education and care: poverty and access. Perspectives from England

English early childhood education and care provision (ECEC) has featured on governmental policy agendas and benefitted from public funding for a long time compared to ECEC in other highand medium-income nations. Yet, the recent history of ECEC policy change in England illustrates how shifts in the relative weight accorded to different policy aims over time may have far-reaching consequences for children in low-income families’ access to high quality provision (Penn, 2009; Moss, 2014a). This relates to their access within the private-for-profit childcare market, a prominent feature of the English early childhood service system, as much as to access to early childhood education within state funded primary and nursery schools (Mathers and Smees, 2014; Gambaro et al., 2013).
Fears and Perceptions Associated with Regional Anesthesia: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Aims: To assess the patients' fears and their perception about regional anesthesia and to study the correlation between fears and perception and demographic profile. Design: A prospective cross-sectional survey on 150 patients scheduled for surgery under regional anesthesia (RA). Materials and Methods: The structured questionnaires composed of patients' demographic data and questions regarding patients' fears about RA. Questionnaires along with consent forms were sequentially distributed to patients. American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status Classes I and II patients aged between 18 and 80 years scheduled for surgery under RA at the preanesthesia clinics were included in the study. Statistical Analysis: Statistical analysis was done by calculating percentages using Chi-square test. Results: One hundred and fifty participants were studied, and their responses were analyzed. Overall, 75.3% (n = 113) patients had preoperative fear. Fear of pain during surgery, i.e., 49.3% (n = 56) and fear of needles 48.7% (n = 55) were the most common fears that were observed in the study population. Patients had less fear regarding nausea, vomiting, and headache. Patients' demographic details did not have a significant correlation with their fears except for gender, with women being more afraid (86.3% vs. 67.7% of men, P = 0.01). Six patients (4%) revealed dissatisfaction and 10 patients were neutral with RA. Ten patients (6.7%) opted for GA in the future and one patient opted for RA with sedation. Conclusion: There is a significant prevalence of fear for RA and its procedures which can affect the patients' decision and postoperative anxiety. The study replicated the high prevalence of anxiety and fear and has clinical implication of improving the education and specifically targeting the fears and anxiety to help the patients' better cope during and after the surgical procedure.
Board Gender Diversity and Firm Financial Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Abstract Numerous empirical studies have been conducted to analyze the impact of board gender diversity (BGD) on firm performance without being able to establish a clear relationship. In this paper, we reassess the relationship between BGD and firm performance by using a quantile regression approach. Our results indicate that BGD matters only across a subset of the firm performance distribution. Moreover, when the possible endogeneity of the relationship between BGD and firm performance is taken into account, there are some conditions under which a positive and significant relationship is observed for the eight lowest quantiles.
[Factors and validity analysis of Mini-Mental State Examination in Chinese elderly people].

OBJECTIVE To examine factors that may have impact on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) screening validity, which could lead to further establishing the general model of the MMSE score in Chinese health elderly and to improve the screening accuracy of the existing MMSE reference. METHODS Based on the data of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), the MMSE scores of 19,117 normal elderly and 137 dementia patients who met the inclusion criteria were used for the analysis. The area under the curve (AUC) and validity indexes were used to compare the screening accuracy of various criteria. Multiple linear regression was used to identify factors that had impact on the MMSE score for both the normal and dementia elderly. Descriptive analysis was performed for differences in the MMSE scores by age trends and gender between the normal and dementia elderly. RESULTS The AUC of MMSE was ≥0.75(P<0.05). The MMSE score of the normal elderly declined nonlinearly as the age grew older(male: R2=0.924, P<0.05; female: R2=0.951, P<0.05), and increased nonlinearly as the education level rose(male: R2=0.948, P<0.05; female: R2=0.859, P< 0.05). The females had significantly lower MMSE scores than the males, with a faster decline trend with age than the males (95%CI of female partial regression coefficient was not overlapped with 95%CI of male partial regression coefficient). The dementia elderly showed a much lower MMSE score (male: difference of Z score:-1.573, P<0.05; female: difference of Z score:-1.222, P<0.05) and tended to with a faster decline speed than that of the normal elderly (95%CI of dementia partial regression coefficient included 95%CI of normal partial regression coefficient). CONCLUSION The screening validity of MMSE in CLHLS is not affected by educational level. The analysis of factors that may impact on the MMSE screening validity are gender, age, vision and residence which with validity identification. These four factors can be used as assist tool of MMSE in the screening of dementia to improve the screening accuracy.
Prediction of protein subcellular localization

Because the protein's function is usually related to its subcellular localization, the ability to predict subcellular localization directly from protein sequences will be useful for inferring protein functions. Recent years have seen a surging interest in the development of novel computational tools to predict subcellular localization. At present, these approaches, based on a wide range of algorithms, have achieved varying degrees of success for specific organisms and for certain localization categories. A number of authors have noticed that sequence similarity is useful in predicting subcellular localization. For example, Nair and Rost (Protein Sci 2002;11:2836–2847) have carried out extensive analysis of the relation between sequence similarity and identity in subcellular localization, and have found a close relationship between them above a certain similarity threshold. However, many existing benchmark data sets used for the prediction accuracy assessment contain highly homologous sequences—some data sets comprising sequences up to 80–90% sequence identity. Using these benchmark test data will surely lead to overestimation of the performance of the methods considered. Here, we develop an approach based on a two‐level support vector machine (SVM) system: the first level comprises a number of SVM classifiers, each based on a specific type of feature vectors derived from sequences; the second level SVM classifier functions as the jury machine to generate the probability distribution of decisions for possible localizations. We compare our approach with a global sequence alignment approach and other existing approaches for two benchmark data sets—one comprising prokaryotic sequences and the other eukaryotic sequences. Furthermore, we carried out all‐against‐all sequence alignment for several data sets to investigate the relationship between sequence homology and subcellular localization. Our results, which are consistent with previous studies, indicate that the homology search approach performs well down to 30% sequence identity, although its performance deteriorates considerably for sequences sharing lower sequence identity. A data set of high homology levels will undoubtedly lead to biased assessment of the performances of the predictive approaches—especially those relying on homology search or sequence annotations. Our two‐level classification system based on SVM does not rely on homology search; therefore, its performance remains relatively unaffected by sequence homology. When compared with other approaches, our approach performed significantly better. Furthermore, we also develop a practical hybrid method, which combines the two‐level SVM classifier and the homology search method, as a general tool for the sequence annotation of subcellular localization. Proteins 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The Relation of the Actuarial Profession to the State

Even within comparatively recent years it was not uncommon to hear the question asked, “What is an Actuary”? ; and, before dealing with our subject proper, it would therefore seem necessary, or very desirable at least, to trace to some extent the origin and development, so to speak, of the Actuary, and the rise and progress of the Actuarial Profession.
PENGARUH NON INTEREST INCOME, GROWTH OF ASSET, LOAN TO ASSET, CAR, DAN LOAN LOSS PROVISION TO ASSET TERHADAP RISIKO BANK(Studi Pada Bank Umum yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia pada periode 2011-2015)

This research was conducted to examine the effect of bank income diversification (non interest income), Growth of assets (ΔTA), Loan to asset, CAR, and Loan loss provision to asset towards bank risk measured by SDROA (Deviation Standard of Return on Asset) and SDROE (Deviation Standard of Return on Equity). We use commercial banks that listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) through period 2011-2015 as a sample of the research and based on purposive sampling, we selected 24 banks as the sample of this research. We use multiple regression analysis to examine the effect, and the analytical methods we used are classical assumptions test that consist of normality test, multicollinearity test, autocorrelation test, and heteroscedasticity test. To test the hypothesis, we used t-statistics and F-statistics at 5% of significance level. The Result shows that simultantly using F test, NNII, ΔTA, Loan to Asset, CAR, and Loan Loss Provision to asset influence significantly towards SDROA and SDROE. Using t test, the effect of partially variable explained. NNII is negative significant towards SDROA and SDROE with significant level of 0.042 to SDROA and 0.000 to SDROE. ΔTA is positive insignificant towards SDROA but significant to SDROE with significant level 0.078 and 0.007 sequentially, which means ΔTA positive significant towards SDROE but insignificant to SDROA. Loan to asset is negatively significant to SDROA with significance level 0.023 but insignificant toward SDROE with significance level of 0.210. CAR are insignificant for both SDROA and SDROE with significant level of 0.545 and 0.275 sequentially. Loan Loss provision to asset is positively significant for both SDROA and SDROE with significance level 0.000 for both risk measures. The adjusted r square is 39.2% for SDROA and 45.1% for SDROE which means 39.2% SDROA and 45.1% SDROE variation could explained by NNII, ΔTA, Loan to Asset, CAR, and Loan Loss Provision to asset. Meanwhile 61.8% and 54.9% were explained by another variables which not include in these research model.
Expression of myeloid-associated and lymphoid-associated cell-surface antigens in acute myeloid leukemia of childhood: a Pediatric Oncology Group study.

PURPOSE Although the expression of both myeloid- and lymphoid-associated cell-surface antigens in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has been described, the clinical significance of such antigen expression remains unknown in the pediatric population. We sought to define an antibody panel for optimal diagnostic antigenic analysis and to test associations among antigen expression and a number of clinical features at presentation and prognosis in pediatric AML. PATIENTS AND METHODS We reviewed the extensive immunophenotypic analysis performed at the time of diagnosis on 132 assessable patients registered on a single Pediatric Oncology Group AML protocol between 1984 and 1988. RESULTS Eighty-eight percent of patients were identified by testing for expression of CD33 and CD13. Overall, 61% of patients expressed at least one lymphoid-associated antigen, most commonly CD4, CD7, or CD19. Expression of CD5, CD10, CD20, or CD22, commonly detected in T- or B-lineage pediatric acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL), was uncommon; coexpression of multiple lymphoid-associated antigens was also uncommon. Expression of the monocyte-associated antigen CD14 correlated with French-American-British (FAB) M4 or M5 morphology. Otherwise, no correlation between antigen expression and FAB classification was noted. None of the myeloid, lymphoid, natural-killer (NK), or progenitor-associated antigens were associated with significant differences in the likelihood of remission induction or event-free survival when expressor versus nonexpressor groups were compared. CONCLUSIONS The distribution of cell-surface antigen expression in pediatric acute leukemia usually permitted the discrimination of AML from ALL by using a limited panel of antibodies. Although the expression of lymphoid-associated antigens was common, such expression did not seem to be associated with an adverse prognosis in pediatric AML.
Apolipoprotein A-V variant (T-1131>C) affects plasma levels of non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in Caucasians.

BACKGROUND The importance of apolipoprotein A-V (APOAV) gene variants in the determination of plasma triglyceride levels in humans has been proven in several population studies. OBJECTIVES To investigate whether APOAV gene variants are associated with the different plasma cholesterol fractions. METHODS The influence of APOAV polymorphisms (T-1131>C, Ser19>Trp and Val153>Met) on plasma cholesterol fractions was evaluated in 1191 men and 1368 women representatively selected from the Czech population. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, non-high-density lipoprotein (non-HDL) cholesterol and HDL cholesterol levels were analyzed. RESULTS The T-1131>C variation in the APOAV gene was found to affect plasma non-HDL cholesterol, showing significantly higher levels in C-1131 carriers than in T/T-1131 homozygotes. This association was observed in both men (4.61+/-1.09 mmol/L in C-1131 carriers versus 4.47+/-1.07 mmol/L in T/T-1131 homozygotes; P<0.01) and women (4.46+/-1.22 mmol/L in C-1131 carriers versus 4.24+/-1.17 mmol/L in T/T-1131 homozygotes; P<0.01). Interestingly, when low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (obtained by the Friedewald formula) or HDL cholesterol levels were analyzed, no significant association was detected. CONCLUSION The APOAV gene variant T-1131>C may play a role not just in the genetic determination of triglyceride levels but may also influence plasma levels of non-HDL cholesterol.
Culturally Contingent Electronic Word-of-Mouth Signaling and Screening: A Comparative Study of Product Reviews in the United States and Japan

Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) is an important source of influence on consumer decision making, yet little is known about cross-cultural differences in both the occurrence of eWOM and the relationship between eWOM and sales. The authors draw on signaling theory to develop a conceptual model and assess the relationships between country and the occurrence of eWOM, as well as between online ratings and relative product sales according to country. Online reviews and sales rank data for books, CDs, and DVDs were collected from Amazon U.S. and Amazon Japan in 2009 and 2017. Results suggest cross-national differences in both the occurrence of eWOM (eWOM signaling) and the relationship between eWOM and relative product sales (eWOM screening). These national differences appear to change over time: some remain stable, some disappear, and others emerge. The proposed culturally contingent signaling and screening model may be adopted as a framework for future research on cross-cultural eWOM. The results also inform the literature on cultural change by suggesting that cultural differences in eWOM change in nuanced patterns over time.
Critical Communications: A Retrospective Look at the Use of Social Media among American Sierra Leoneans during the Ebola Outbreak

This study explores perceptions of the role of social media in facilitating communication and information sharing between Sierra Leoneans in Sierra Leone and the United States during the Ebola outbreak. Using the model of identity-congruent communication as the conceptual framework, a series of focus groups revealed four major themes: social media source of information, topics of communicated information, implementation of communication strategies, and consequences of inaccurate or incomplete information. The use of WhatsApp was reported as the main source of communication with family and friends in Sierra Leone during the outbreak. Participants felt they received up-to-date information on deaths, outbreak updates, and conspiracy theory updates from the Ebola outbreak. Discussions on inaccurate and misleading information on Ebola prevention was common and fueled fear and created distrust in interpersonal relationships.
Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in panic disorder and attacks.

Panic disorder, which is found in about 1.5 percent of the population at some time in their lives, includes recurrent episodes of sudden, unpredictable, intense fear accompanied by symptoms such as palpitations, chest pain, and faintness. Panic attacks, which do not meet these diagnostic criteria fully, are two to three times more prevalent. Since panic symptoms can mimic those of other medical disorders, patients with these symptoms use medical services frequently. To determine the risk of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in panic disorder and attacks, we studied a random sample of 18,011 adults drawn from five U.S. communities. Subjects who had panic disorder, as compared with other psychiatric disorders, had more suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, with an adjusted odds ratio for suicide attempts of 2.62 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.83 to 3.74). The odds ratio was 17.99 (95 percent confidence interval, 12.18 to 26.58) when the group with panic disorder was compared with subjects who had no psychiatric disorder. Twenty percent of the subjects with panic disorder and 12 percent of those with panic attacks had made suicide attempts. These results could not be explained by the coexistence of major depression or of alcohol or drug abuse. We conclude that panic disorder and attacks are associated with an increased risk of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Physicians working in general medical settings and emergency departments should be alert to this problem.
Performance of Cross Listed Dual-Class Firms: Evidence from Chinese Firms Cross Listed on US Exchanges

ABSTRACT We compare operating and market performance of Chinese single- and dual-class firms cross listed on US exchanges. We find evidence in line with researchers who argue that a dual-class structure allows insiders to invest in long-term value-enhancing projects. We find that dual-class firms underperform prior to their initial public offering (IPO) and then improve and have better operating performance than single-class firms in the second year after IPO. We find that dual-class firms also have better market performance than single-class firms beginning in the initial year, which is contrary to the finding in most other studies. The reason for this might be that firms that list on US exchanges show a credible commitment to shareholder rights.