Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlates of Help-Seeking Following Stalking Victimization: A Study of College Women

The current study explored factors related to college women’s coping processes associated with stalking using an online survey methodology. Results (N= 305 college women reporting stalking victimization within the last three years) showed that 85% of women disclosed their stalking experiences most commonly to female friends. Additionally, women used a variety of coping mechanisms in response to their stalking victimization; although avoiding thinking about or acting on the stalking experience were the most common strategies, victims rated direct forms of coping as more effective in deterring the stalking behavior. Women’s coping responses to stalking were related to a number of personal (e.g., hypergender ideologies), relational (e.g., social support), and assault characteristic (e.g., stalking frequency, self-blame) variables. These data underscore the importance of programs and services aimed towards supporting survivors’ coping from stalking victimization.
3D Analysis of Seepage under Hydraulic Structures with Intermediate Filters

AbstractSeepage flow under hydraulic structures provided with intermediate filters has been investigated. The flow through the banks of the canal has been included in the model. Different combinations of intermediate filter and canal width were studied. Different lengths of the floor, differential heads, and depths of the sheet pile driven beneath the floor were also investigated. The introduction of an intermediate filter to the floor of hydraulic structures reduced the uplift force acting on the downstream floor by up to 72%. The maximum uplift reduction occurred when the ratio of the distance of filter location downstream from the cutoff to the differential head was 1. Introducing a second filter in the downstream side resulted in a further reduction in the exit hydraulic gradient and in the uplift force, which reached 90%. The optimum locations of the two filters occurred when the first filter was placed just downstream of the cutoff wall and the second filter was placed nearly at the middistance betw.
A new type of climate network based on probabilistic graphical models: Results of boreal winter versus summer

In this paper we introduce a new type of climate network based on temporal probabilistic graphical models. This new method is able to distinguish between direct and indirectconnections and thus can eliminate indirect connections in the network. Furthermore, while correlation‐based climate networks focus onsimilarity between nodes, this new method provides an alternative viewpoint by focusing on information flowwithin the network over time. We build a prototype of this new network utilizing daily values of 500 mb geopotential height over the entire globe during the period 1948 to 2011. The basic network features are presented and compared between boreal winter and summer in terms of intra‐location properties that measurelocal memoryat a grid point and inter‐location properties that quantifyremote impactof a grid point. Results suggest that synoptic‐scale, sub‐weekly disturbances act as the main information carrier in this network and their intrinsic timescale limits the extent to which a grid point can influence its nearby locations. The frequent passage of these disturbances over storm track regions also uniquely determines the timescale of height fluctuations thuslocal memoryat a grid point. The poleward retreat of synoptic‐scale disturbances in boreal summer is largely responsible for a corresponding poleward shift of local maxima inlocal memory and remote impact, which is most evident in the North Pacific sector. For the NH as a whole, both local memory and remote impactstrengthen from winter to summer leading to intensified information flow and more tightly‐coupled network nodes during the latter period.
Possible Role or Respiratory Pacemaker Neurons in the Generation of Different Breathing Patterns

Rhythmic output is a common feature of several neuronal networks throughout the brain (Arshavsky 2003; Llinas 1988; Buzsaki & Draguhn 2004; Ramirez et al., 2004; Selverston 1999; Harris-Warrick & Marder 1991). Despite the fact that rhythmogenic networks were initially described for simple motor behaviors produced by invertebrates (Selverston 1999; Harris-Warrick & Marder 1991), there is increasing evidence suggesting that basic mechanisms revealed in these simple networks are conserved in mammalian circuits in the neocortex or other subcortical networks involved in more complex behaviors (Ramirez et al. 2004; Yuste et al., 2005). Recent findings indicate that network oscillations determine synaptic input selection, neuronal assemblies formation as well as synaptic plasticity (for a review see Buzsaki & Draguhn 2004). Rhythmic network activity emerges from the combination of synaptic network interactions and intrinsic cellular properties (Vergara et al., 2005; Peña et al., 2004; Cunningham et al., 2004; Yuste et al. 2005; Peña & Ramirez 2005; Peña et al., 2006; Mellen & Mishra, 2010). However the relative contribution of those mechanisms may be state dependent (Llinas 1988; Yuste et al. 2005; Peña & Ramirez 2005; Doi & Ramirez, 2010). Examples of state-dependency in neuronal network activity can be observed during sleep/wake states in the cortex or normoxia/hypoxia in the respiratory network (Llinas 1988; Yuste et al. 2005; Peña & Ramirez 2005; Peña & Aguileta, 2007). Moreover, neuronal network properties may be altered by several intracellular and extracellular environmental conditions (i.e. the action of neuromodulatory systems; Steriade 2004; Traub et al., 2003; Peña & Ramirez 2002; 2004; Johnson et al., 2003; van den Top et al., 2004; Doi & Ramirez, 2008). Regardless of the old dilemma on the relative contribution of intrinsic and synaptic properties to circuit activity (Vergara et al. 2003; Egorov et al., 2002; Shu et al., 2003; 2006; Cunningham et al. 2004; Cardin et al., 2005), there is increasing evidence supporting the participation of intrinsic pacemaker neurons in the generation of network rhythmic activity (Llinas & Sugimori 1980; Schwindt & Crill 1982; Freund & Antal 1988; King et al., 1998; Stewart & Fox 1989; 1990; Leresche et al., 1991; Tresch & Kiehn 2000; Wang 2002; Sotty et al., 2003; Cunningham et al. 2004; Peña et al. 2004; Ramirez et al. 2004; Sipilä et al., 2005).
Composite Kernel Optimization in Semi-Supervised Metric

Machine-learning solutions to classification, clustering and matching problems critically depend on the adopted metric, which in the past was selected heuristically. In the last decade, it has been demonstrated that an appropriate metric can be learnt from data, resulting in superior performance as compared with traditional metrics. This has recently stimulated a considerable interest in the topic of metric learning, especially using kernel functions, which map data to feature spaces with enhanced class separability, and implicitly define a new metric in the original feature space. The formulation of the problem of metric learning depends on the supervisory information available for the task. In this paper, we focus on semi-supervised kernel based distance metric learning where the training data set is unlabelled, with the exception of a small subset of pairs of points labelled as belonging to the same class (cluster) or different classes (clusters). The proposed method involves creating a pool of kernel functions. The corresponding kernels matrices are first clustered to remove redundancy in representation. A composite kernel constructed from the kernel clustering result is then expanded into an orthogonal set of basis functions. The mixing parameters of this expansion are then optimised using point similarity and dissimilarity information conveyed by the labels. The proposed method is evaluated on synthetic and real data sets. The results show the merit of using similarity and dissimilarity information jointly as compared to using just the similarity information, and the superiority of the proposed method over all the recently introduced metric learning approaches.
A NOTE ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN ENDOGENOUS DISCOUNTING DEPENDING ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Our intention is to study, in the framework of a very simple optimal growth model, the consequences on the optimal paths followed by consumption and the environmental quality of an endogenous discounting. Consumption directly comes from the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as a source of consumption and as an amenity. For a sustainability concern, we introduce an endogenous discount rate growing with the environmental quality, and compare the optimal growth paths with the ones obtained in the usual case of exogenous and constant discounting. We show that the convergence of the environmental quality toward a steady state occurs only for a very special configuration of the parameters in the exogenous discounting case, whereas it occurs generically in the endogenous discounting one. This happens for a utility discount rate becoming sufficiently high when the environmental quality is high and sufficiently low when the environmental quality is poor. In this case, then, endogenous discounting with a positive marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment.
Subnational politics and foreign direct investment in Mexico

ABSTRACT Focusing on Mexico, this article makes two departures from existing studies of the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI): (1) it disaggregates investment into three types (resource-, market- and efficiency-seeking); and (2) it models variation in investment subnationally, across the 32 Mexican states. Using panel data for foreign investment between 2000 and 2009, we find that the predictors of subnational variation in investment go beyond simple geographic and economic conditions and include factors such as local political party control, social stability and the perceived effectiveness of state authorities. Moreover, the three types of investment are shaped by distinct social, political and economic dynamics. Insofar as the location and type of foreign investment can affect economic development and inequality within – and not just between – countries, the subnational distribution of investment is of consequence for both academics and policy makers.
Transforming modal voice into irregular voice by amplitude scaling of individual glottal cycles

Irregular phonation can serve as a cue to segmental contrasts and prosodic structure as well as to the affective state and identity of the speaker. Thus algorithms for transforming between voice qualities, such as regular and irregular phonation, may contribute to building more natural sounding, expressive and personalized speech synthesizers. We describe a semiautomatic transformation method that introduces irregular pitch periods into a modal speech signal by amplitude scaling of the individual cycles. First the periods are separated by windowing, then multiplied by scaling factors, and finally overlapped and added. Thus, amplitude irregularities are introduced via boosting or attenuating selected cycles. The abrupt, substantial changes in cycle lengths that are characteristic of naturally‐occurring irregular phonation can be achieved by removing (scaling to zero) one or more consecutive periods. A freely available graphical tool has been developed for copying stylized pulse patterns (glottal pulse spac.
The Changing Role of the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate for Japanese Monetary Policy

This paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate in the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy reaction function. In contrast to prior estimations of reaction functions based on the Taylor-rule, we allow for regime shifts by estimating rolling coefficients from January 1974 to March 1999. The results show a temporary impact of the exchange rate on monetary policy around 1978/79 and a persistently increasing impact of the yen/dollar exchange rate after 1986. The ris ing importance of the yen/dollar exchange rate for Japanese monetary policy is in line with increasing efforts to stabilize the yen/dollar exchange rate by foreign exchange intervention after March 1999, when the nominal interest rate reached the zero boundary.
Managing Customer Participation Through Customer Education

With the acknowledgement that customers are co-creators of value (Vargo and Lusch, 2004) has come greater prominence for customer education as a crucial aspect of communications that contributes to the management of customers’ participation. This paper proposes an overarching model of the relationship between customer education and customer participation, based on a review of the extant literature. The model consists of four basic parts, namely, forms of customer education, forms of customer participation, psychological mechanisms mediating customer education-participation relationships and contextual factors moderating customer education effects. A review of the extant literature reveals relationships that have been conceptualised and empirically examined; it explores research methods, design, measurement and sampling issues and considers fragmentation in the literature that has left gaps in current knowledge and even obscured our understanding of the customer educationparticipation relationship. The paper concludes with an agenda for future research in this area.
Concentration bounds for geometric Poisson functionals: Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities revisited

We prove new concentration estimates for random variables that are functionals of a Poisson measure defined on a general measure space. Our results are specifically adapted to geometric applications, and are based on a pervasive use of a powerful logarithmic Sobolev inequality proved by L. Wu (2000), as well as on several variations of the so-called Herbst argument. We provide several applications, in particular to edge counting and more general length power functionals in random geometric graphs, as well as to the convex distance for random point measures recently introduced by M. Reitzner (2013).
An evaluation of new parsimony‐based versus parametric inference methods in biogeography: a case study using the globally distributed plant family Sapindaceae

Aim Recently developed parametric methods in historical biogeography allow researchers to integrate temporal and palaeogeographical information into the reconstruction of biogeographical scenarios, thus overcoming a known bias of parsimony‐based approaches. Here, we compare a parametric method, dispersal–extinction–cladogenesis (DEC), against a parsimony‐based method, dispersal–vicariance analysis (DIVA), which does not incorporate branch lengths but accounts for phylogenetic uncertainty through a Bayesian empirical approach (Bayes‐DIVA). We analyse the benefits and limitations of each method using the cosmopolitan plant family Sapindaceae as a case study.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AND SHAME

A suicide attempt constitutes not only a risk factor for suicide, but also an expression of human suffering. As therapists, physicians and caring personnel we have an opportunity to reach out to this suffering individual and offer help. However, suicidal individuals often decline psychiatric follow-up or drop out of treatment prematurely. An improved understanding of these patients’ needs and problems may enhance our capability to treat them. This thesis is focusing on attempted suicide patients’ experiences. In the first study, eighteen patients were interviewed about their experiences of psychiatric inpatient treatment after a suicide attempt. Mixed feelings of relief and shame were common. Since shame is an emotion that triggers avoidance behaviors, and thus could lead to help negation, non-attendance and treatment drop-out, the following studies focused on shame in attempted suicide patients. The second study explored the shame theme in the interviews from the first study. The finding of shame with qualitative method also raised the question whether suicide attempters were generally shame-prone, that is, if suicide attempters in common were inclined to react with shame. A self-rating scale of shame-proneness, the Test of SelfConscious Affect (TOSCA), was translated into Swedish and used as measurement of shame in the last two studies. In the third study, the propensity to shame in suicide attempters was compared with shame-proneness in non-suicidal psychiatric patients and healthy controls. In the fourth study, the TOSCA results of a small group of individuals who completed suicide were explored. The interviews with attempted suicide patients (study I and II) indicated that shame was common after a suicide attempt; thirteen out of eighteen participants described feelings and behaviors that were interpreted as shame reactions. Most women and two thirds of the men described shame reactions in the interviews. In the investigation of shame-proneness in groups of suicide attempters and nonsuicidal controls, a more complex pattern emerged. Large gender differences in shameproneness were found among the attempted suicide patients (but also among the nonsuicidal controls). Female suicide attempters with borderline personality disorder (BPD) had the highest shame scores, while male suicide attempters (without BPD) had the lowest shame scores in the study. Shame-proneness among patients was also investigated with multiple regressions. It was found that shame-proneness in these samples of psychiatric patients was predicted by BPD and depression severity (but not by suicidality) in women, and level of depression and non-suicidality in men. Our studies indicated that shame reactions after attempted suicide are common, but that shameproneness in everyday life is not typical for all groups of suicide attempters. A small group of suicide attempters who subsequently committed suicide did not differ in shame-proneness, from suicide attempters who were alive. ISBN 978-91-7475-640-5
Hydrolysis and oxidation of covering oil in canned dried tomatoes as affected by pasteurization

The effects of pasteurization on the chemical quality of the extra-virgin olive oil used as a covering for canned dried tomatoes were studied during storage through conventional (acidity, peroxide value, p-anisidine value, spectrophotometric indexes) and non conventional (polar compounds) analytical determinations. All the performed analyses show that extra-virgin olive oil from pasteurized samples underwent hydrolytic degradation slightly more than unheated ones but resulted slightly less oxidized than oil from untreated vessels.
A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN MEDICAL STUDENTS OF SARI MEDICAL COLLEGE

The foundation of a healthy society is intellectually and physically healthy people. A society in which people do not have an appropriate level of physical and intellectual health, will not be a healthy society. However, in the meantime, medical students must be in a good condition in terms of mental health. A doctor who suffers from depression, anxiety, or addiction will never be able to fulfill his important task in society. A society in which the educated class, i.e. university students specially a group of the most talented students, i.e. medical students, have low selfesteem, will definitely face with numerous problems. The present study, investigates the relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement in medical students of Sari medical college. KEYWORD: Self-esteem, academic achievement, Sari medical college
ACUTE TOXICITY EVALUATION OF ETHANOL EXTRACT OF CURCUMA MANGGA RHIZOME

Objective: C urcuma mangga is highly valued in traditional medicines. This study was carry out to evaluate the in vivo acute toxicity of C. mangga . Methods: Acute toxicity of ethanol extract of C. mangga rhizome was evaluated in mice. The extract at a single dose of 500, 1000, 2000 and 5000 mg/kg body weight (BW) were orally administered to the test animal. Signs of toxicity, BW and mortality were observed for 14 days. The macropathology dan histopathology examination was also performed. R esults: The highest dose administered (5000 mg/kg BW) did not produce mortality of the test animals. Hence, the lethal dose 50 of ethanol extract of C. mangga was estimated to be more than 5000 mg/kg. No sign of toxicity was observed except lethargy. All the organs displayed normal color and texture. Histopathological examination did not show any lesion except for highest dose. C onclusion: The results indicate the safety of ethanol extract of C. mangga rhizome to the animal tested. Therefore, this plant can be used as a safe and effective alternative medicine. Ke ywords: C urcuma mangga, Acute toxicity, Mortality.
Influence of areal density on the energy absorbed by thin composite plates subjected to high-velocity impacts

This work analyses the influence that the areal density of a composite thin-plate, made of glass-fibre woven laminates and subjected to high-velocity impact, exerts on perforation-threshold energy, contact time, and energy-absorption mechanisms. The perforation-threshold energy increased with the areal density. Also, the contact time increased at impact energies above the perforation-threshold energy and decreased below this threshold. The main energy-absorption mechanisms at impact energies close to that causing perforation were found to be the deformation and failure of the fibres, regardless of the areal density. For higher impact energies, the main mechanisms were fibre failure and the energy absorbed by acceleration of the laminate.
Nickel toxicity induced antioxidant enzyme and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activities in Jatropha curcas L. cotyledons

Jatropha curcas L. embryos were germinated and grown in vitro under nickel concentrations of 100, 200, 400 and 800 µmol to observe the effects of high nickel concentrations on seedling growth. Observed biological makers included biomass, and the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT), and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) in the cotyledons. The fresh weight of cotyledons in all the tested nickel concentrations was lower than that of the control, but dry weight of cotyledons increased with increasing nickel concentrations up to 200 µmol. SOD activity increased significantly up to 400 µmol and then decreased at 800 µmol nickel. POD activities were induced remarkably at 100 and 200 µmol, but the activity decreased with increasing nickel concentrations. Similarly, a negative link between CAT activity and nickel concentrations was observed in this experiment. PAL activity had a positive correlation to nickel concentrations, and the highest activity was found at 400 µmol nickel. Electrophoresis analysis suggested that a significant correlation between nickel concentrations and isoenzyme patterns of SOD and POD was observed, and these results were consistent with the changes of the activity assayed in solutions.
A Brief History of GnRH Agonist Trigger and Directions for Future Research

Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 1000e113 JFIV Reprod Med Genet ISSN: 2375-4508 JFIV, an open access journal The first report of ovulation trigger by a gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) predates development of human in vitro fertilization[1]. Gonen and Casper [2] were the first to use GnRHa trigger in human IVF. They randomized 18 women, who underwent ovarian stimulation without pituitary suppression to receive GnRHa or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) as the trigger to induce final follicular maturation. They reported similar numbers of oocytes collected, fertilization rate, embryo quality and pregnancy rates. However, pituitary suppression with GnRHa in order to prevent ovulation prior to egg retrieval (ER) soon became the norm and GnRHa as a trigger remained in oblivion until the introduction of gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonists (GnRHant) into IVF practice.