Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adapting Modern Architecture to a Local Context - A Grammar for Hajjar’s Hybrid Domestic Architecture

The purpose of this study is to analyze Abraham William Hajjar's single-family houses in State College, PA, using shape grammar as a computational design methodology. Hajjar was a member of the architecture faculty at the Pennsylvania State College (now The Pennsylvania State University), a practitioner in State College, and an influential figure in the history of architecture in the area. In this study, shape grammars are used specifically to verify and describe influences of modern architecture, as defined by Hitchcock and Johnson (1932), and influences of local traditional American architecture on Hajjar's domestic architecture. The underlying hypothesis is that Hajjar's work is the result of a hybridity phenomenon that can be traced through a computational design methodology. The first step in this endeavor and the study focus is to establish Hajjar's single-family architectural language. Future work will be concerned with verifying and describing the hybridity between modern architecture and traditional architecture expressed in Hajjar's work by comparing his grammar with grammars underlying modern and traditional architecture likewise.
Chapter READY , SET , GO ! A Model of the Relation between Work Engagement and Job Performance

People are the engine of each organization and constitute the foundation upon which it is built. However, unhealthy employees may cause this foundation to crumble due to high levels of absenteeism and subsequent increasing costs. In order to prevent such negative effects, the organizational sciences have paid much attention to the negative aspects of work life (Wright & Cropanzano, 2004), such as job burnout (Halbesleben & Buckley, 2004). But due to this negative focus, the positive aspects of working life have largely been ignored. This is unfortunate, as mentally and physically healthy employees are likely to perform very well (e.g., Fisher, 2003). The current chapter aims to enhance our understanding of the relation between the positive side of employee well-being and job performance. The basic tenet of this chapter is that job performance is optimal if employees are in an affective-motivational state of mind that is called work engagement (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007). We present our ideas on the relation between work engagement and job performance in a theoretical framework. After consideration of previous work on the effect of employee well-being on organizational outcomes, we discuss research on the relation between employee engagement and performance based on the Job Demands-Resources Model (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004). After arguing for more systematic research on this topic, attention is first paid to our current knowledge on job performance followed by introducing a taxonomy of job performance. Finally, this chapter proposes two explanations of why high levels of work engagement make employees better performers than low levels of work engagement. The chapter closes with a short summary of the theoretical framework and an agenda for future research.
POSSIBILITIES OF STAINLESS STEEL LASER MARKING

Laser techniques are one of the technologies that can be used for modification of material surface optical properties. Decorative or identification marking of products is one of possible applications. Basic characteristics of laser technology utilization for stainless steel marking are presented in this contribution. Possibilities and limitations of this technology are discussed, in particular from the point of view of the marked surface corrosion resistivity preservation. Example of results of performed analysis are demonstrated, e.g. the influence of laser parameters on marking contrast properties, laser treated surface roughness and phase composition or corrosion resistance of laser treated surfaces. A possibility of an additional acid picking of laser treated stainless steel surfaces was also tested and it is discussed in this contribution.
Cooperative distributed energy generation and energy trading for future smart grid

In this paper, we investigate the cooperative distributed energy generation and energy trading for future smart grid. In our model, a group of energy users, who are equipped with the capabilities of distributed energy generation, are allowed to trade energy in a cooperative manner with the goal to minimize their total energy-provisioning cost while meeting the local demand of each individual energy user. Moreover, each user also expects to benefit from the cooperative energy generation and trading with the others. Motivated by these objectives, we first jointly determine the optimal energy scheduling decisions for all energy users such that their total energy-provisioning cost can be minimized. Then, based on the optimal energy scheduling decisions, we further determine the optimal transaction costs associated with the users' energy trading to ensure that each of them can positively benefit from the cooperation. Extensive numerical results are provided to show the advantages of the proposed cooperative energy generation and trading model as well as our proposed algorithms to achieve the optimal solutions.
Collective Sensemaking about Reading: How Teachers Mediate Reading Policy in Their Professional Communities

Recent research on the relationship between instructional policy and classroom practice suggests that teachers interpret, adapt, and even transform policies as they put them into place. This paper extends this line of research, using an in-depth case study of one California elementary school to examine the processes by which teachers construct and reconstruct multiple policy messages about reading instruction in the context of their professional communities. Drawing primarily on institutional and sensemaking theory, this paper puts forth a model of collective sensemaking that focuses on the ways teachers co-construct understandings of policy messages, make decisions about which messages to pursue in their classrooms, and negotiate the technical and practical details of implementation in conversations with their colleagues. It also argues that the nature and structure of formal networks and informal alliances among teachers shape the process, with implications for ways in which messages from the policy environment influence classroom practice. Finally, the paper explores the role school leaders play in shaping the sensemaking process.
Triple drug immunosuppression significantly reduces aortic allograft arteriosclerosis in the rat.

We evaluated the effect of triple drug immunosuppression (cyclosporine A 10 mg . kg(-1) . d(-1), methylprednisolone 0.5 mg . kg(-1) . d(-1) on the development of allograft arteriosclerosis (chronic rejection). The recipients of rat aortic allografts from the DA (AG-B4,RT1a) to the WF (AG-B2,RT1u) strain were either treated with triple drug immunosuppression (n=23) or left untreated (n=23) and used as controls. The grafts were removed 7, 14, 30, 90, and 180 days after transplantation, and vascular wall changes were evaluated by quantitative histology, [3H]thymidine autoradiography, and immunohistochemistry. Nonimmunosuppressed aortic allografts developed progressive arteriosclerotic alterations 1 to 6 months after transplantation that were virtually identical to those observed during chronic rejection in human cardiac allografts. Linear regression analysis revealed that triple drug immunosuppression with clinically relevant dosages of drugs significantly reduced intimal thickening (r=.69 versus r=.88, P<.05). Concomitantly, there was a marked reduction in the number of inflammatory cells (P<.01) and their rate of proliferation (P<.025) in the allograft adventitia during the period of acute inflammation (30 days after transplantation). Immunohistochemistry revealed that the number of helper T cells (W3/25) and monocyte/macrophages (OX42) but not cytotoxic T cells (OX8) or natural killer cells (3.2.3) was significantly (P<.05) reduced. The number of adventitial cells expressing interleukin-2 receptor (CD25) (P<.05), MHC class II (OX6) (P<.05) and leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 alpha-chain (CD11a) (P<.025) was also significantly reduced at 30 days. Triple drug immunosuppression downregulated the induction of MHC class II and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 on the graft endothelium but had no significant effect on the number of subendothelial inflammatory cells. In addition, [3H]thymidine autoradiography demonstrated that triple drug immunosuppression significantly reduced the rate of cell proliferation in the media, composed of smooth-muscle cells, 30 and 90 days after transplantation. Thus, triple drug immunosuppression efficiently reduced the development of allograft arteriosclerosis by down-regulating the inflammatory response and the level of immune++ activation in the allograft adventitia during the acute rejection period, resulting in diminished intimal thickening of the graft in the long run. These results support the concept that allograft arteriosclerosis is due to or at least initiated by immune injury of the graft.
The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities

connectées, notamment le Projet franco-québécois de coopération en économie sociale et solidaire soutenu par les gouvernements français et québécois de 1999 à 2001; l’émergence du Réseau intercontinental de promotion de l’économie sociale et solidaire (RIPESS) qui va du Premier Symposium sur la Globalisation de la solidarité tenu au Pérou en 1997 aux Rencontres de Québec (2001), Dakar (2005) et Luxembourg (2009); des Rencontres du Mont-Blanc apparues en 2009 et devenues ESS Forum International depuis 2019. En conclusion, le livre de Gabriel Arsenault constitue un incontournable pour l’étude de l’ESS au Québec, au Canada et ailleurs, au cours de la prochaine décennie.
THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPANT PREFERENCE AND PERCEIVED DIFFICULTY ON EXERCISE ADHERENCE

of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPANT PREFERENCE AND PERCEIVED DIFFICULTY ON EXERCISE ADHERENCE By Katie Allison Rickel May 2005 Chair: Michael G. Perri Major Department: Clinical and Health Psychology This study examined whether (a) assignment to preferred versus non-preferred exercise treatments or (b) perceived difficulty of prescribed exercise predicted adherence to walking programs that varied in intensity and frequency. This study also examined the relationship between pre-exercise treatment preference and perceived difficulty. Participants were 68 female and 84 male sedentary adults (65.1% Caucasian, 20.4% African American, 6.6% Asian, 5.9% Hispanic, 2.0% unspecified; mean age = 49.2 years). Participants were randomly assigned in a 2X2 design to walk 30 min/day at an intensity of either 45-55% or 65-75% of maximum heart rate reserve, at a frequency of either 3-4 days/week or 5-7 days/week. Prior to notification of treatment assignment, each participant indicated a preferred level (moderate versus high) of intensity and frequency for exercise training. After notification of actual treatment assignment but before beginning the exercise program, each participant rated the perceived difficulty associated with completing the assigned treatment. Dependent measures were derived
A Hospital-based Surveillance of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in Children <5 Years of Age in Singapore

Background: In Singapore, 2 rotavirus vaccines were licensed in October 2005 and July 2007, respectively, for vaccinating infants aged ≥6 weeks against rotavirus gastroenteritis. These vaccines are optional and are not included in the National Childhood Immunization Program. This study aimed to determine the incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis-associated hospitalizations among children <5 years of age. Methods: Children <5 years, who were hospitalized for acute gastro enteritis, were enrolled between September 2005 and April 2008. Stool samples were tested for the presence and serotyping of rotavirus. Incidence and proportion of gastroenteritis and rotavirus gastroenteritis cases were calculated with 95% confidence intervals. Results: Among 1976 children included in the according-to-protocol cohort, 781 were rotavirus positive with a median age of 24 months (range: 0–59 months). The overall incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations during the entire study period in children <5 years of age was 4.6 (95% confidence interval: 4.3–4.9) per 1000 person-years with the highest number of cases observed in children 13–24 months of age (26.5%). G1P[8] (18.3%) and G9P[8] (9.9%) were the most common rotavirus types. Rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations peaked between January and March. Conclusion: Rotavirus infection was the primary cause of acute gastro enteritis hospitalizations among children <5 years of age, constituting nearly one-third of gastroenteritis hospitalizations in Singapore. The predominant strain observed in Singapore was G1P[8]. Results of this study suggest the need for implementation of rotavirus vaccination into National Childhood Immunization Program in Singapore.
Phase III results in Genotype 1 naïve patients: predictors of response with boceprevir and telaprevir combined with pegylated interferon and ribavirin

The addition of telaprevir or boceprevir to pegylated interferon (PEG‐INF) and ribavirin (RBV) has improved sustained viral response (SVR) rates in genotype‐1‐infected individuals. The recent publication of Phase III trials has made it possible to examine pretreatment and on‐treatment predictors of response in genotype 1 naïve patients. Both telaprevir‐ and boceprevir‐based therapy improve SVR rates in most treatment groups including individuals who are difficult‐to‐treat such as those with a high viral load, Black patients and those with advanced fibrosis. Although data sets were not complete, patients with IL28B CT and TT genotype appear to significantly improve when these agents are combined with PEG‐INF and RBV. The presence of the IL‐28B CC genotype appears to be predictive for a short duration of therapy. On‐treatment viral response is also predictive of the SVR: approximately half of the patients are successfully treated with short duration and response‐guided therapy.
Same day colposcopic examination and loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) presents minimal overtreatment and averts delay in treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya

Background: Screening for cancer of the cervix at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), follows the recommended three-step strategy; Papanicolaou (Pap) smear, colposcopy/biopsy and loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP)/biopsy. This approach poses the following challenges: multiple clinic visits, costly, time consuming, long turnaround time to treatment, non-compliance and loss-to-follow-up. Objective: To determine the agreement between histologies following colposcopy and LEEP amongst women in KNH as a forerunner for opportunity to shift from the three-step approach to the two-step “see and treat” (same-day colposcopy and LEEP) approach. Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive cohort of Women who underwent LEEP procedure between January 2008 and 31st December 2010 following the three-step approach at KNH, Kenya. Results: A total of 124 patients out of the 132 patients who underwent LEEP were included in the analysis. The 8 patients excluded had missing files. HIV infected, uninfected or unknown women are similar socio-demographically. The mean (SD) age for the HIV infected, uninfected and unknown is 37 (6), 33 (10) and 35 (9) years respectively. Colposcopic and LEEP biopsy histology within patients demonstrated a high weighted kappa statistics agreement of 84%. LEEP increased diagnosis of invasive cancer. Patients had a median (IQR) 5 (4 - 6) clinic visits from Pap smear to LEEP treatment. It took median (IQR) 55 (27 - 116) days between Pap smear to colposcopy result and 167 (101 - 276) days between Pap smear results to LEEP treatment. If a LEEP procedure were to be performed in this cohort of women on the same day of the colposcopy biopsy a median (IQR) 77 (55 - 137) days could have been saved. Conclusion: There is a high agreement between colposcopy and LEEP biopsies in our setting offering a window of opportunity to perform “See and Treat” same-day colposcopy and LEEP treatment procedure, skipping the colposcopy biopsy stage.
Clomiphene – How about including the parent compound in screening procedures ?

Clomiphene has been in use as the first line infertility drug to induce ovulation for almost four decades. It is also used off-label in the treatment of hypogonadism in men and to restore testosterone production that has been compromised by abuse of anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS). In addition, it is used by male athletes to overcome other side effects of extensive AAS use such as gynecomastia. Therefore, the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited the use of clomiphene in sport at all times. Clomiphene is extensively metabolized, and based on available literature, metabolites of clomiphene are the preferable targets for the detection of its misuse. However, our recent data shows that in some cases, the parent compound may be the most abundant form of clomiphene found in urine. The reason for such a rather unexpected excretion profile is unknown. Nevertheless, our results clearly show that including the parent compound in routine screening procedures for doping agents in urine should considerably improve detection capabilities for clomiphene abuse. Introduction Clomiphene is marketed as a mixture of isomers, namely zuclomiphene and enclomiphene (Figure 1), and its use in sport is prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at all times [1]. Both isomers are extensively metabolized and undergo phase I metabolic modifications such as, e.g., hydroxylation and methoxylation at different positions [2-6]. However, formation of phase I metabolites seem to follow different kinetics for the isomers as plasma levels of unchanged zuclomiphene are much higher than those observed for enclomiphene [7]. The stereospecificity of metabolic enzymes seems also to underlie different fates of the formed phase I metabolites; those of zuclomiphene may preferably undergo sulfation whereas metabolites of enclomiphene seem to be rather glucuronated or excreted in the free form [4,6]. The data presented here show that even though clomiphene undergoes extensive metabolism, in some cases, the parent compound may be the most abundant form of clomiphene found in urine samples. Hence, including the parent compound in routine screening procedures for doping agents in urine should considerably improve detection capabilities for clomiphene abuse. Figure 1. Clomiphene is a nonsteroidal, selective modulator of estrogen receptor marketed as a mixture of two isomers.
Activation by Gene Amplification ofpitB, Encoding a Third Phosphate Transporter ofEscherichia coli K-12

ABSTRACT Two systems for the uptake of inorganic phosphate (Pi) in Escherichia coli, PitA and Pst, have been described. A revertant of a pitA pstS double mutant that could grow on Pi was isolated. We demonstrate that the expression of a new Pi transporter, PitB, is activated in this strain by a gene amplification event.
SELECTION PRINCIPLES AND INFINITE GAMES ON MULTICOVERED SPACES

This article is a survey of results included in the forthcoming book [9]. The starting impulse for writing this book came from topological algebra. Trying to find an inner characterization of subgroups of σ-compact topological groups, Okunev introduced the concept of an o-bounded group (see [74]): a topological group G is o-bounded if for any sequence (Un)n∈ω of open neighborhoods of the unit of G there is a sequence (Fn)n∈ω of finite subsets of G such that G = ⋃ n∈ω Fn ·Un where A·B = {ab : a ∈ A, b ∈ B} is the product of two subsets A, B in the group G. The class of o-bounded groups turned out to be much wider than the class of subgroups of σ-compact groups: for example the group Rω contains a non-meager dense o-bounded subgroup. To overcome this difficulty M.Tkachenko introduced the narrower class of so-called strictly o-bounded groups, defined with help of the infinite game “Open-Finite” played by two players, I and II, on a topological group G: at the n-th inning the first player selects a neighborhood Un of the unit in G while the second player responds with a finite subset Fn of G. At the end of the game the second player is declared the winner if G = ⋃ n∈ω Fn ·Un. Following Tkachenko we define a topological group G to be strictly o-bounded if the second player has a winning strategy in the game “Open-Finite” on G. The class of strictly o-bounded groups includes all subgroups of σ-compact groups and lies in the class of all o-bounded groups. (Strictly) o-bounded groups were intensively studied last time, see [3], [4], [6], [8], [37], [38], [49], [56], [74], [77], [91].
KINETIC STUDY OF ACID BLUE 1 DISCOLORATION WITH PERSULFATE

The discoloration of the food colorant Acid Blue 1 (AB1) by persulfate is mainly investigated by UV-VIS spectroscopy. The rate of discoloration is proportional to increase of persulfate and Fe (II) concentration, as well as temperature, whereas it decreases slightly with increase of food colorant and chloride ion concentration. The blue color disappearance is first order with respect to the food colorant and persulfate. The thermodynamic parameters of discoloration of AB1 (Ea, ∆H #, ∆S#, ∆G#) in presence and absence of Fe(II) are calculated. Discoloration of AB1 can be accomplished in both acidic and basic medium, with formation of one or more intermediate(s) depending on the [dye]/[persulfate] ratio and the reaction mixture pH. However, even a 100-fold excess of persulfate does not result in AB1 mineralization. The mechanism(s) of AB1 discoloration based on UV-VIS spectra and comparison to other triphenylmethane dyes degradation patterns are advanced.
Response to the application of glyphosate of beneficial soil fungi associated with Lotus tenuis

In recent years, the Lotus tenuis promotion through glyphosate application has been adopted in Flooding Pampa grasslands, due to the important contribution in forage quantity and quality of this species. However, several studies have shown that the use of glyphosate can cause undesirable effects on beneficial soil microorganisms. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of glyphosate application on the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and dark septate endophytes associated to L. tenuis. Two treatments were applied in plots located in a L. tenuis pasture: promoted Lotus tenuis and established Lotus tenuis. In the first case, plots were sprayed in winter (late August) with 3.5 l/ha of glyphosate, while in the second treatment plots did not receive herbicide application. Our results demonstrated that the number of viable spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi was 52% lower, and the percentage of arbuscules in L. tenuis plants was 40% lower in the Promoted Lotus tenuis treatment in relation to Established Lotus tenuis treatment. Root colonization by dark septate endophytes was not affected by glyphosate application. The loss of functionality of the mycorrhizal symbiosis might in the medium-term affect not only L. tenuis biomass production, but also the diversity and productivity of the complete plant community. The information generated in this study will be useful to redesign management practices that allow food production with a sustainable use of resources.