Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Postural Correction and Orthopedic Massage Therapy on the Frequency of Headaches and Tenderness of Muscles in Migraine Patients

Background: Due to controversial information about the effect of different physiotherapy methods used in the treatment of migraine patients, the aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of postural correction and orthopedic massage as interventions against headache, and neck and shoulder area muscles tenderness, on improving active range of cervical motion and upper body posture in episodic migraine patients (n = 10) before, after five-week therapy program and 6 months after the therapy. Methods: Effectiveness of interventions against headache was measured by the Headache Under-Response to Treatment (HURT) Questionnaire. Neck and shoulder area muscles tenderness was assessed using Total Tenderness Score (TTS) and active range of cervical motion (caAROM) by cervical goniometry. Upper body alignment from lateral and posterior view was assessed by observation. Results: HURT-3 score was significantly lower both after five-week therapy program (P < 0.05, g = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.06, 1.91) and 6 months after the therapy (P < 0.05, g = 1.08, 95% CI = 0.14, 2.02) as compared to the respective characteristics before the therapy. TTS was significantly lower after five-week therapy program (P < 0.01, g = 1.40, 95% CI = 0.42, 2.38), increasing during half a year, but not significantly (P > 0.05, g = 0.51, 95% CI = -0.38, 1.40). Six different directions of caAROM increased after five-week therapy, but significant increase was registered only in lateral flexion to the right 6 months after the therapy (P < 0.05, g = -1.17, 95% CI = -2.12, -0.22). Upper body posture from lateral view was significantly improved after five-week therapy (P < 0.05, g = -1.25, 95% CI = -2.21, -0.29) and 6 months after the therapy (P < 0.05, g = -1.22, 95% CI = -2.18, -0.27). From posterior view significant postural correction was registered only after five-week therapy program (P < 0.05, g = -1.37, 95% CI = -2.34, -0.39). Conclusions: Half a year after the postural correction and orthopedic massage therapy the frequency of headaches is lowered, but neck and shoulder area muscles tenderness has increased. Significant positive effect on the frequency of headaches and correct upper body posture from lateral view is maintained 6 months after the therapy. Characteristics of cervical motions are comparable to standard values both after five-week therapy program and 6 months after the therapy. Postural correction and orthopedic massage are effective in reducing frequency of headaches in episodic migraine patients.
Premenstrual Symptoms among Chinese Female Undergraduates: Relationship with Stress and Mental Health

Objective: Premenstrual symptoms are associated with substantial distress and functional impairment. Although studies on premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are advancing at a rapid pace in the Western literature, little is known of the condition among Chinese women. Studies among Western women suggested that psychological factors play an important role in PMS. The present study examined premenstrual symptoms among Chinese female undergraduates in light of their relationship with stress and general mental health. Methods: A total of 279 Chinese female undergraduates were surveyed. Symptoms of PMS were assessed by the Chinese Perimenstrual Distress Questionnaire. Both the number and the severity of premenstrual symptoms were assessed. Stress and general mental health were measured by the Life Experience Survey and the General Health Questionnaire respectively. Results: Symptoms of PMS were common among Chinese female undergraduates. More than three-quarters (76%) of the respondents reported at least one premenstrual symptom. A total of 11.5% reported more than 15 symptoms. The most commonly reported symptoms were abdominal cramps, mood swing, irritability, fatigue, and losing temper easily. A weak but significant relationship was found between the total number and severity of premenstrual symptoms on the one hand, and stress and poor mental health on the other. Conclusion: Contrary to the traditional notion that PMS is a Western culture-bound phenomenon, symptoms of PMS were found to be common among Chinese female undergraduates. Both emotional and somatic symptoms were prominent, suggesting both similarities and differences from the situation in the West. In this cohort, premenstrual symptoms were associated with stress and poor mental health. However, their relationship is weak, suggesting that other factors are implicated in the development of premenstrual symptoms, and that the pathophysiology may be different from that among Western women. HKJGOM 2005; 5:10-21
ALMA reveals a warm and compact starburst around a heavily obscured supermassive black hole at z = 4.75

We report ALMA Cycle 0 observations at 1.3 mm of LESS J033229.4-275619 (XID403), an ultraluminous infrared galaxy at z = 4.75 in the Chandra Deep Field South hosting a Compton-thick QSO. The source is not resolved in our data at a resolution of ~0.75 arcsec, placing an upper-limit of 2.5 kpc to the half-light radius of the continuum emission from heated-dust. After deconvolving for the beam size, however, we found a ~3σ indication of an intrinsic source size of 0.27 ± 0.08 arcsec (Gaussian FWHM), which would correspond to rhalf ~ 0.9 ± 0.3 kpc. We build the far-infrared SED of XID403 by combining datapoints from both ALMA and Herschel and fit it with a modified blackbody spectrum. For the first time, we measure the dust temperature Td = 58.5 ± 5.3 K in this system, which is comparable to what has been observed in other high-z submillimeter galaxies. The measured star formation rate is SFR = 1020 ± 150 M⊙ yr-1, in agreement with previous estimates at lower S/N. Based on the measured SFR and source size, we constrain the SFR surface density to be ΣSFR > 26M⊙ yr-1 kpc-2 (~200M⊙ yr-1 kpc-2 for rhalf ~ 0.9 kpc). The compactness of this starburst is comparable to what has been observed in other local and high-z starburst galaxies. If the gas mass measured from previous [CII] and CO(2–1) observations at low resolution is confined within the same dust region, assuming rhalf ~ 0.9 ± 0.3 kpc, this would produce a column density of NH ~ 0.3−1.1 × 1024 cm-2 towards the central SMBH, similar to the column density of ≈1.4 × 1024 cm-2 measured from the X-rays. Then, in principle, if both gas and dust were confined on sub-kpc scales, this would be sufficient to produce the observed X-ray column density without any need of a pc-scale absorber (e.g. the torus postulated by Unified Models). We speculate that the high compactness of star formation, together with the presence of a powerful AGN, likely produce an outflowing wind. This would be consistent with the ~350 km s-1 velocity shift observed between the Lyα emission and the submm lines ([CII], CO(2–1), [NII]) and with the highly-ionized Fe emission line at ~6.9 keV rest-frame tentatively observed in the X-ray spectrum. Finally, our observations show that, besides the mass, star formation rate and gas depletion timescale, XID403 has also the right size to be one of the progenitors of the compact quiescent massive galaxies seen at z ~ 3.
Value versus growth: stochastic dominance criteria

In this paper, we study the relative performance of value versus growth strategies from the perspective of stochastic dominance. Using half a century US data on value and growth stocks, we find no evidence against the widely documented fact that value stocks stochastically dominate growth stocks in all three orders of stochastic dominance relations over the full sample period as well as during economic boom (good) periods. However, we observe no significant stochastic dominance relation between value and growth stocks during recession (bad) periods, which is inconsistent with the risk-based predictions but is better explained by behavioural models.
Size and Value Matter, But Not the Way You Thought

Fama and French risk premiums do not reliably estimate the magnitude of the size or book-to-market effects, inducing many researchers to inflate the number of factors. We object that controlling ex ante for noise in the estimation procedure enables to keep a parsimonious set of factors. We replace Fama and French’s independent rankings with the conditional ones introduced by Lambert and Hubner (2013). This alternative framework generates much stronger “turn-of-the-year” size and “through-the-year” book-to-market effects than conventionally documented. Furthermore, the factors deliver less specification errors when used to price portfolios, especially regarding the “small angels” (low size – high B/M stocks).
Addiction and Recovery: Perceptions among Professionals in the Swedish Treatment System

Aims The objective of the study was to explore perceptions of different addictions among Swedish addiction care personnel. Data A survey was conducted with 655 addiction care professionals in the social services, health care and criminal care in Stockholm County. Respondents were asked to rate the severity of nine addictions as societal problems, the individual risk to getting addicted, the possibilities for self-change and the perceived significance of professional treatment in finding a solution. Results The images of addiction proved to vary greatly according to its object. At one end of the spectrum were addictions to hard drugs, which were judged to be very dangerous to society, highly addictive and very hard to quit. At the other end of the spectrum were smoking and snuff use, which were seen more as bad habits than real addictions. Some consistent differences were detected between respondents from different parts of the treatment system. The most obvious was a somewhat greater belief in self-change among social services personnel, a greater overall change pessimism among professionals in the criminal care system and a somewhat higher risk perception and stronger emphasis on the necessity of treatment among medical staff. Conclusion Professionals' views in this area largely coincide with the official governing images displayed in the media, and with lay peoples' convictions.
Encoder Decoder Conditioning motion Seed motion PredictionPredictor Groundtruth Real or Generated Discriminator Training : Inference : Encoder Decoder Predictor Predicted Motions Demonstration of Prediction Skeleton Generation Conditioning motion

Teaching a robot to predict and mimic how a human moves or acts in the near future by observing a series of historical human movements has great application potential in human-robot interaction and collaboration. In this paper, we endow a robot with such ability of predicting and demonstrating human motion by leveraging recent deep learning and computer vision techniques. Our system takes images from the robot camera as input and produces the human skeleton based on real-time human pose estimation from the OpenPose library. Conditioning on this historical sequence, the robot then forecasts plausible motion through a motion predictor and generates the corresponding demonstration. Due to lack of high-level fidelity check, existing forecasting algorithms suffer from error accumulation and inaccurate prediction. Inspired by generative adversarial networks (GANs), we introduce a global discriminator that examines whether the predicted sequence is smooth and realistic. Our resulting novel motion GAN predictor achieves superior performance over the state-of-the-art deep learning approaches when evaluated on the standard Human 3.6M dataset. Based on this motion GAN predictor, the robot demonstrates its ability to replay the predicted motion in a human-like manner when interacting with a person.
Beef Quality Systems : Application of TQM Principles to Produce Tender Beef

Reciprocal Meat Conference Proceedings, Volume 51, 1998. Introduction The U.S. beef industry’s strategies for stabilizing and increasing consumer demand for beef were recently outlined in the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Long Range Plan (NCBA, 1998). Improving product quality and consistency was identified by NCBA as a critical element in the industry’s efforts to arrest the steady decline in beef’s market share. This is based on the premise that “meeting and exceeding consumer expectations for quality and consistency will provide the opportunity to increase demand. ” A primary goal established by NCBA for improving the eating quality and consistency of beef was: “Reduce consumer dissatisfaction due to variability in eating quality (especially tenderness) by 50 percent by the year 2005. ” To accomplish this goal, it was recommended that the beef industry “develop and implement Total Quality Management-like systems to enhance quality and consistency. ” This report summarizes work commissioned by the NCBA and conducted at Colorado State University to develop a TQM approach for improving beef tenderness.
A monthly interception equation based on the statistical characteristics of daily rainfall

This paper presents a simple analytical equation for monthly interception on the basis of the combination of a daily threshold model with the probability distribution of daily rainfall. In this paper, interception has a wider definition than merely canopy interception. It is the part of the rainfall that evaporates after it has been stored on the wetted surface, which includes the canopy, the understory, the bottom vegetation, the litter layer, the soil, and the hard surface. Interception is defined as the process of evaporation from intercepted rainfall. It is shown that this process has a typical timescale of 1 day. Monthly interception models can be improved by taking the statistical characteristics of daily rainfall into account. These characteristics appear to be less variable in space than the rainfall itself. With the statistical characteristics of daily rainfall obtained at a few locations where reliable records are available (for example, airports) monthly models can be improved and applied to larger areas (20–200 km). The equation can be regionalized, making use of the Markov property of daily rainfall. The equation obtained for monthly interception is similar to Budyko's curve.
Assessment of emotional detachment in psychopathy via self-report and an emotion detection task

The personality construct of psychopathy is subject of growing research, but data on psychopathy in female incarcerated and in non-institutionalized samples are rare. In this thesis emotional detachment as one factor of psychopathy is investigated in general population, in patients and in incarcerated samples. After verifying the validity of the Psychopathy Personality Inventory Revised (PPI-R) measuring emotional detachment, the sensitivity of the questionnaire concerning emotional detachment has been proven. Additionally it has been shown that symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder can be distinguished from psychopathic traits by emotional detachment. In addition, these results confirm the core role of the feature emotional detachment for psychopathy. Furthermore, two emotion recognition tasks have been conducted in a criminal female inpatients sample. Compared to the low psychopathic patients, the high psychopathic patients showed deficits in categorization only in shortly presented sad facial expressions, but rated emotional facial expressions as less arousing. These results point to emotional detachment as a core characteristic of psychopathy, and is specific even in non-incarcerated and female incarcerated samples. It can be measured with the PPI-R as well as with emotion detection tasks.
Journey towards independent living : a grounded theory investigation of leaving the care of Girls & Boys Town South Africa

The journey out of care and towards independent living is a challenge for many care-leavers. There has been little research into the social processes involved in this care-leaving journey. This paper presents the results of a grounded theory investigation into the care-leaving journeys of nine young men who had, several years previously, been in the care of Girls & Boys Town in South Africa. Working from a resilience perspective, with an ecological emphasis, four central social processes emerged that together explain the care-leaving experiences of the participants. These processes are striving for authentic belonging; networking people for goal attainment; contextualised responsiveness and building hopeful and tenacious self-confidence. These four processes are located within contextual boundaries and at the social environmental interface. The paper presents these processes in detail, drawing on selected narratives of the participants and integrated with additional theory. It is hoped that this paper may.
STRESS ON THE ACTIVITY OF ADENOSINE DEAMINASE IN DIFFERENT ORGANS OF RABBITS

Long-term restriction of motor activity is a factor that significantly complicates the processes of vital activity of the organism, accompanied by stress reaction and corresponding shifts in metabolism. The processes ensuring the change of immunity under stress depend on the activity of AMP-deaminase, 5'-nucleotidase, adenosine deaminase (ADA). Inosine, formed during deamination of adenosine activates the enzymes of lysis of necrotic masses, accelerates the maturation of connective tissue, increases the activity of antitumor and antioxidant enzymes. The result of the studies show, that with a 3 hour-immobilization of rabbits the activity of ADA in organs (liver, kidneys, brain) of animals decreases. Metal ions (Cd, Cu, Mg) also affect the activity of ADA in rabbits organs, even at a concentration of 1 μM ions, the activity of ADA is significantly reduced. The results obtained can be used to asses the immunological status of the organism.
Recurrent Disruptions of Rituals and Routines in Families with Paternal Alcohol Abuse.

Changes in rituals and routines between drinking and sobriety were examined in families in treatment due to paternal alcohol abuse. Information was gathered through a semistructured family inter- view. Recurrent disruptions of rituals and routines were found between different phases in the drinking cycle. Disruptions were found typically with regard to the fathers' participation in rituals and routines, the parental roles and responsibility, the affective quality of the rituals, and the general family climate. Four categories of families were distinguished based on amount and type of disruptions in family rituals and routines (i.e., protecting, emotional disruptive, exposing, and chaotic families). Implications for intervention are described.
Competitive advantage as a legitimacy-creating process

Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws upon interviews with key actors in the firms under study to explore their experiences with consumers and other constituents in determining how competitive advantage is constructed in this environment. These data are complemented data with interviews with governmental representatives and material from secondary sources. Findings – The results reveal efforts of firms to construct and increase organizational legitimacy through the prominence of discourses of professionalism based on artistry and medicine/public health. These bases of competitive differentiation are not the clear result of exogenous pressure, rather they arise through the active efforts of the firm to construct value guidelines for consumers and other constituents. Practical implications – Strategic management in small firms is a complex and dynamic process that does not necessarily mirror that of large organizations. Constructing competitive advantage is an interacting process between key actors of small firms and various constituents. Originality/value – The paper extends the application of institutional theory in strategic management by illuminating the active role that firms play in creating industry norms, especially in industries where norms are not well established or no longer entrenched. Moreover, exploring an alternative site of study offers a means through which to see well-studied issues in new ways.
Linear stability of inviscid vortex rings to axisymmetric perturbations

We consider the linear stability to axisymmetric perturbations of the family of inviscid vortex rings discovered by Norbury (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 57, 1973, pp. 417–431). Since these vortex rings are obtained as solutions to a free-boundary problem, their stability analysis is performed using recently developed methods of shape differentiation applied to the contour-dynamics formulation of the problem in the three-dimensional axisymmetric geometry. This approach allows us to systematically account for the effects of boundary deformations on the linearized evolution of the vortex ring. We investigate the instantaneous amplification of perturbations assumed to have the same the circulation as the vortex rings in their equilibrium configuration. These stability properties are then determined by the spectrum of a singular integro-differential operator defined on the vortex boundary in the meridional plane. The resulting generalized eigenvalue problem is solved numerically with a spectrally accurate discretization. Our results reveal that while thin vortex rings remain neutrally stable to axisymmetric perturbations, they become linearly unstable to such perturbations when they are sufficiently ‘fat’. Analysis of the structure of the eigenmodes demonstrates that they approach the corresponding eigenmodes of Rankine’s vortex and Hill’s vortex in the thin-vortex and fat-vortex limit, respectively. This study is a stepping stone on the way towards a complete stability analysis of inviscid vortex rings with respect to general perturbations.
Kelantan Flood 2014: Reflections from Relief Aid Mission to Kampung Kemubu, Kelantan

Almost every year Kelantan is experiencing flood phenomenon, and flooding is seen as a common natural disaster in the area. December 2014 heavy rains fell caused massive flooding in many areas in Kelantan leading to destruction of livelihood of local communities. This paper presents researchers’ experiences on the site of flood area in Kampung Kemubu, Kelantan, Malaysia in January 2015 while acting as volunteers working in a relief aid mission for the flood disaster. The paper utilized a qualitative design to meet the objective. Qualitative data was gathered through field observations on the affected areas in terms of live and livelihoods aspects of local settlement. Physical aspects such as houses, roads, schools, community halls, and other public facilities in the community are lost. Nearly 90 percent of the houses in the area were destroyed. The economic loses from the flood are unexpected and typically spread beyond the flooded area and may last longer than the flood itself. In terms of psychosocial consequences, adults and older persons vary in terms of their impacts and acceptance of disaster. For the ones who are more religious are seem to be less vulnerable than the ones who are less religious. Villagers who are less religious are likely to manipulate the situation to get sympathy from the relief aid mission. Thus, management, particularly coordination of all volunteers working in relief aid mission for floods disasters is extremely important. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015. v6n3s2p340