Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Second Master Theoretical and Experimental Psychology Master thesis PROCESSING NEUTRAL WORDS, NEGATIVE WORDS AND TABOO WORDS: AN ERP STUDY

Bilinguals have reported that they have a stronger emotional experience in their native language than in their second language. Behavioural studies are inconclusive about this question. However, studies that used skin conductance levels as a dependent variable are clearer about this effect: participants elicit a stronger skin conductance response on emotional and taboo words in the native language compared to the second language (e.g. Harris, Ayçiçegi and Gleason, 2003). Moreover, this skin conductance response was higher for taboo words than for negative words, indicating that taboo words are a special type of emotional words. This study tried to investigate the difference in emotional experience between the native language and the second language with a more direct and online measurement: event related potentials. It consisted of two experiments. The first experiment used neutral and negative words in the first language and the second language, the second experiment used neutral and taboo words in the first and second language. Both experiments used Dutch-English bilinguals that performed a delayed naming task. The results of the event related potentials showed that negative and taboo words elicited a P300 followed by a late positive potential. These components were attenuated when neutral words were being presented. Moreover, the difference in amplitude between negative/taboo words and neutral words was more pronounced in the native language. These findings are in line with our hypothesis. The results are discussed with reference to previous findings on bilingual emotion experience.
Penicilliummarneffei Infection in AIDS

Penicillium marneffei is a dimorphic fungus which is endemic in Southeast Asia. It is an opportunistic pathogen which has emerged to become an AIDS-defining illness in the endemic areas. Early diagnosis with prompt initiation of treatment is crucial for its management. Prompt diagnosis can often be established through careful cytological and histological examination of clinical specimens although microbiological culture remains the gold standard for its diagnosis. Standard antifungal treatment for AIDS patients with penicilliosis is well established. Highly active antiretroviral therapy should be started early together with the antifungal treatment. Special attention should be paid to potential drug interaction between antiretroviral and antifungal treatments. Secondary prophylaxis may be discontinued with a low risk of relapse of the infection once the immune dysfunction has improved.
R 2 1 Computer-Based Writing Instruction

The development of strong writing skills is a critical (and somewhat obvious) goal within the classroom. Individuals across the world are now expected to reach a high level of writing proficiency to achieve success in both academic settings and the workplace (Geiser & Studley, 2001; Powell, 2009; Sharp, 2007). Unfortunately, strong writing skills are difficult to develop, as they require individuals to coordinate a number of cognitive skills and knowledge sources through the process of setting goals, solving problems, and strategically managing their memory resources (Flower & Hayes, 1980; Hayes, 1996). Given the difficulty of this process, students frequently underachieve on national assessments of writing proficiency (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2007, 2011). The successful acquisition of this complex set of skills largely depends on the instruction and feedback provided to students as they develop. Previous research suggests that writing proficiency is best enhanced through strategy instruction (Graham & Perin, 2007), along with extended practice and individualized feedback (Kellogg & Raulerson, 2007). Importantly, curricula aimed to meet these goals can be extremely difficult to implement. This method of writing instruction demands a significant amount of time from teachers, ranging from the time required to prepare materials and instructional content to the process of reading, editing, and providing individualized feedback on students’ essays. Unfortunately, teachers rarely have enough time to devote to this process, as they are faced with increasingly large class sizes and, as a consequence, have reduced time for classroom instruction and planning (The National Commission on Writing, 2004). In response to these issues surrounding effective writing pedagogy, there has been an increased effort to develop computerbased systems for writing assessment and instruction (Shermis & Burstein, 2003, 2013). These systems vary widely in their primary purposes, from the automated scoring of student essays to the provision of formative feedback or the explicit instruction of writing knowledge and strategies (Dikli, 2006; Graesser & McNamara, 2012; Roscoe, Allen, Weston, Crossley, & McNamara, 2014; Weigle, 2013; Xi, 2010). Despite the importance of writing strategy instruction and feedback, the majority of research conducted on this topic has focused on the development of computer-based systems that can provide reliable and valid scores to students’ essays. However, more recently, researchers have placed a stronger emphasis on the development of computer-based systems that incorporate more instructional materiC H A P T E R 2 1
Time-resolved PIV for aeroacoustic source analysis

Time-resolved Particle Image Velocimetry (TR-PIV) has become a valuable tool for spatio-temporally resolved flow measurements. Current camera and laser technology has advanced such that temporal events leading to sound generation can now be well-resolved over reasonable spatial extent. In this paper, the use of TR-PIV is investigated for the analysis of aeroacoustic sources in two test cases, viz. a tandem cylinder pair subject to cross-flow and an open-jet. The localization technique employs the direct correlation of velocity fluctuations in the flow with pressure fluctuations outside of the flow region (Lee & Ribner 1972). The effect of aliasing inherent in TR-PIV on estimates of is considered by comparison to hot-wire anemometer (HWA) measurements. The suitability of the direct correlation method for the location of sound sources is also considered for the open-jet. In addition, a recently developed wavelet filtering technique (Grizzi & Camussi 2012) is used to separate the acoustic and hydrodynamic components of recorded near-field pressure signals, allowing more meaningful source interpretation.
Poverty and economic behavior: gambling on social security paydays

ABSTRACT The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to economic scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly stock of financial resources. Paydays of social security benefits are employed in this study to generate the various degrees of intra-monthly scarcity in financial resources. Using two million observations on daily lottery revenues that cover more than 2,500 lottery outlets in Israel over two years (2015–2016), the empirical analysis suggests that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation results imply that on income support payday aggregate lottery revenues are higher by 5% after taking into account potential determinants of gambling such as day of week, holidays and outlet characteristics. However, the calculated aggregate reaction of lottery revenues on income support payday is quite small and equals 0.5% of the total monthly payments deposited into the bank accounts of income support recipients. In addition, the other social security and salary paydays induce a trivial impact, relative to total monthly payments deposited into the bank accounts of the respective recipients. The findings presented here provide a valuable contribution to gambling studies that examine the relationship between economic conditions and lottery.
Teacher Self-Efficacy Perceptions and Metacognitive Learning Strategies of Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers

This research aims to investigate whether there is a meaningful relationship between “Teacher Selfefficacy Perceptions” and “Metacognitive Learning Strategies” of pre-service Mathematics teachers and whether “Teacher Self-efficacy Perceptions” and “Metacognitive Learning Strategies” of pre-service Mathematics teachers differentiate depending on gender and grade levels. The study was carried out on a total of 191 students, 111 of which were females and 80 of which were male, studying at the Department of Mathematics Teaching at Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education in Ataturk University. The findings were obtained by means of “Teacher Self Efficacy Perceptions Scale” developed by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk (2001) and adopted into Turkish by Çapa, Çakıroğlu and Sarıkaya (2005) and “Metacognitive Learning Strategies Scale” developed by Namlu (2004). According to the research findings, pre-service mathematics teachers’ levels of teacher self-efficacy and their knowledge on the structure and processing of their own cognitive system are at “good” levels. It is understood that while pre-service mathematics teachers’ perceptions of teacher self-efficacy do not vary by gender, they vary according to the levels of grade and the significant variance is between the 4th grade and others, in favour the 4th grade students. When the sub-dimensions of the metacognitive learning strategies scale was analyzed, a significant variance was found in “organization strategies” and “managing strategies” sub-dimensions by gender in favour of female participants. And also pre-service mathematics teachers’ scores of metacognitive learning strategies by grade was found to be significant. In the study, a significant wasn’t found between pre-service mathematics teachers’ perceptions of teacher self-efficacy and their metacognitive learning strategies.
PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES : ARE THEY USEFULL IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF PLEURAL EFFUSIONS? PROINFLAMATUAR SİTOKİNLER : PLEVRAL EFFÜZYONLARIN AYRIMLANMASINDA YARARLIMIDIR?

Interleukin 1beta (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) were measured in pleural fluid from 128 patients with pleural effusion in order to evaluate the diagnostic utility of these cytokines. We studied 42 patients with malignant, 23 patients with parapneumonic, 38 patients with tuberculous, and 25 patients with transudative pleural effusion. Patients samples were taken applied to the Yenişehir Suat Seren Chest Hospital at the clinics 9B an 4B were diagnosed suffereing from pleural effusion. Cytokines were measured by chemiluminescent enzyme immunometric assay using BIODPC commercial kits via IMMULATE 2000 hormone analyzer. In exudative samples the difference between the pleural fluid and serum, IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α levels were found statistically important. Only, IL-6 levels were found dramatically different between serum and pleural fluid in transudative samples. Mean IL-6 and TNF-α levels were significantly higher in pleural fluid than in serum in all three groups of patients (malignant, parapneumonic, and tuberculosis). But, the highest mean level of IL-6 and TNF-α were found in tuberculous pleural fluid. In conclusion, low serum IL-6 and high pleural fluid IL-6 can distinguish transudates due to heart failure from exudates. Also, serum and pleural fluid IL-6 could be useful as a complementary marker in the differential diagnosis of two most common types of exudates (tuberculous and malignant) and TNF-α in the serum and pleural fluid could be useful confirmation differential diagnosis of tuberculous and malignant effusions.
Micro fl uidic platform for studying osteocyte mechanoregulation of breast cancer bone metastasis

Bonemetastasis is a common, yet serious, complication of breast cancer. Breast cancer cells that extravasate from blood vessels to the bone devastate bone quality by interacting with bone cells and disrupting the bone remodeling balance. Although exercise is often suggested as a cancer intervention strategy andmechanical loading during exercise is known to regulate bone remodeling, its role in preventing bonemetastasis remains unknown.We developed a novel in vitromicrofluidic tissuemodel to investigate the role of osteocytes in themechanical regulation of breast cancer bonemetastasis. Metastatic MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells were cultured inside a 3Dmicrofluidic lumen lined with human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), which is adjacent to a channel seededwith osteocyte-like MLO-Y4 cells. Physiologically relevant oscillatory fluid flow (OFF) (1 Pa, 1Hz) was applied tomechanically stimulate the osteocytes. Hydrogel-filled side channels in-between the two channels allowed real-time, bi-directional cellular signaling and cancer cell extravasation over 3 days. The applied OFF was capable of inducing intracellular calcium responses in osteocytes (82.3% cells responding with a 3.71 fold increase averagemagnitude). Both extravasation distance and percentage of extravasated side-channels were significantly reduced withmechanically stimulated osteocytes (32.4% and 53.5% of control, respectively) compared to static osteocytes (102.1% and 107.3% of control, respectively). This is the first microfluidic device that has successfully integrated stimulatory bone fluid flow, and demonstrated thatmechanically stimulated osteocytes reduced breast cancer extravasation. Future work with this platformwill determine the specificmechanisms involved in osteocyte mechanoregulation of breast cancer bonemetastasis, as well as other types of cancermetastasis and diseases.
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We consider a framework for obtaining a sequence of converging primal and dual bounds based on mixed integer linear programming formulations on layered graphs. The proposed iterative algorithm avoids the typically rather large size of the full layered graph by approximating it incrementally. We focus in particular on this refinement step that extends the graph in each iteration. Novel path-based approaches are compared to existing variants from the literature. Experiments on two benchmark problems—the traveling salesman problem with time windows and the rooted distance-constrained minimum spanning tree problem —show the effectiveness of our new strategies. Moreover, we investigate the impact of a strong heuristic component within the algorithm, both for improving convergence speed and for improving the potential of an employed reduced cost fixing step.
Coup-Proofing and Military Effectiveness in Interstate Wars , 1967 – 99

This study examines the influence of civil–military relations on military effectiveness. More specifically, we investigate how coup-proofing, that is, the strategies and tactics employed to prevent the military from seizing power, affects battlefield performance. The main argument claims that coup-proofing has a negative impact on soldiers’ leadership qualities, initiative, and the ability to coordinate different military units. Ultimately, the higher a country’s coup-proofing efforts relative to its opponent, the worse its effectiveness on the battlefield. We test this hypothesis using data on battlefield outcomes and coup-proofing between 1967 and 1999.
HER 2-Positive Trastuzumab-Resistant Breast Cancer Antitumor Activity of the Hsp 90 Inhibitor IPI-504 in Updated

Hsp90 facilitates the maturation and stability of numerous oncoproteins, including HER2. The aim of this study was to assess the antitumor activity of the Hsp90 inhibitor IPI-504 in trastuzumab-resistant, HER2-overexpressing breast cancer cells. Therapy with trastuzumab, IPI-504, and the combination of trastuzumab and IPI-504 was evaluated in trastuzumab-sensitive and trastuzumab-resistant cells. Inhibition of protein targets, cell proliferation, and tumor growth was assessed in vitro and in xenograft models. IPI-504 inhibited proliferation of both trastuzumab-sensitive and trastuzumab-resistant cells. Administration of IPI-504 markedly reduced total levels of HER2 and Akt, as well as phosphorylated Akt and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), to an equal extent in trastuzumab-sensitive and trastuzumab-resistant cells. IPI-504, used as single agent or in combination with trastuzumab, also inhibited in vivo the growth of both trastuzumab-sensitive and -resistant tumor xenografts. As a mechanism for the observed antitumor activity, IPI-504 resulted in a marked decrease in the levels of HER2, Akt, p-Akt, and p-MAPK in trastuzumab-resistant xenografts as early as 12 hours after a single dose of IPI-504. IPI-504–mediated Hsp90 inhibition may represent a novel therapeutic approach in trastuzumab refractory HER2-positive breast cancer. Mol Cancer Ther; 10(5); 817–24. 2011 AACR.
STUDY ON HISTOPATHOLOGICAL , HISTOCHEMICAL AND ENZYMOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS IN STOMACH AND INTESTINE OF ANABAS TESTUDINEUS ( CUVIER ) EXPOSED TO ALMIX 20 WP HERBICIDE

Almix 20WP, a sulfonylurea herbicide is frequently used to control weeds in the agricultural fields. Almix 20WP herbicide is the combination of 10% metsulfuronmethyl and 10% chlorimuronethyl. Indiscriminate use of herbicide may cause harmful effects on non-target aquatic organisms e.g., fish in the adjacent aquatic bodies. Histopatological, histochemical and enzymological alterations in the stomach and intestine of non-target teleost Anabas testudineus (Cuvier) were studied after chronic exposure of Almix 20WP herbicide in the laboratory condition. Fishes were treated with Almix 20WP herbicide at a sublethal dose 66 mg/l for 45 days. Histopathological alterations included distortion of columnar epithelial cells (CEC), damage of gastric glands in the stomach. In intestine, histopathological changes included distortion of columnar epithelial cells (CEC) and secretion of mucus. Acid and neutral mucin content slightly reduced in stomach as confirmed by PAS-AB test in the histochemical study. Acid mucin content was reduced but neutral mucin content was present in a good amount. Digestive enzymes (amylase, protease, and lipase) activities were significantly reduced (p<0.05) after under the laboratory condition after exposure of Almix 20 WP herbicide.
Consumers Decision Making In Buying Private Brand and Manufacturer Brand

Brand has an influence on consumer decision making process. The emergence of private brand creates competition with the manufacturer brand. Consumer perception towards both brands has caught the attention of many researchers. Some researchers claim that consumer perception will lead to consumer decision making. This paper will discuss on consumer’s decision whether to purchase private (store) brand or manufacturer (national) brand. Furthermore, researchers will explore the consumer perceptions on private brand and manufacturer brand. Variables such as quality and price perceptions are most common in distinguishing between private brand and manufacturer brand. Other variables such as brand leadership, brand personality and shelf space are also being discussed in the paper.
Risky sexual behavior and knowledge of STIs / AIDS among university health students

Background: Risky sexual behaviors are associated with the number of sexual partners, and non-use of condom, among other factors. Objective: To identify the profile of health students attending a higher education institution, according to demographic and sexual characteristics. Methods: This is a prospective, cross-sectional and descriptive study with a quantitative approach using a sample of 819 university health students. We used a questionnaire in order to obtain information on the students’ demographic characteristics, sexual behaviors and knowledge of STIs/AIDS. We defined risky behavior as the adoption of 2 or more of the following sexual behaviors: non-use of condom, more than 10 sexual partners, sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol/drugs, and sexual intercourse with little or recently known person. Results: The sample was composed of 77.41% (634) of women and 22.59% (185) of men, with a mean age of 24.4 years (SD ± 6.7). Most participants (52%) reported risky behaviors and insufficient knowledge of STIs. Conclusion: The fact that 52% of the participants reported risky sexual behaviors points to the need for preventive interventions among this population, aimed at raising awareness and reducing the risk of STIs.
Ontogeny and sexual dimorphism in the Middle / Late Devonian rhomboentomozoid ostracod

A large number of three-dimensionally preserved, pyritized specimens of different instars of the rhomboentomozoid ostracod Franklinella (Franklinella) lysogorensis n. sp. were recovered from a mudstone of the Givetian/Frasnian transition beds at Wzdół in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Seven growth stages are identified. Sexual dimorphism is manifested by differences of ribbing pattern in adults. Within the superfamily Entomozoacea, the presence of two types of sexual dimorphism is suggested: ornamental in rhomboentomozoids and domiciliar in entomoprimitiids. Formerly poorly known morphological features of the rhomboentomozoids, including the anteroventral indentation and a contact list ornamented by fine striation, are described. J. Micropalaeontol. 21(1): 9–16, May
Haplotype sharing analysis in maize ex-PVP germplasm and relationships with key founders

The advent of double cross hybrids and eventually single cross hybrids in maize stimulated formation of private breeding programs to develop elite inbred parents. Maize breeding programs in North America have progressed over the last century, driving the formation and evolution of heterotic groups. Modern day maize hybrids are exclusively developed using proprietary inbreds. The Plant Variety Protection Act was passed in 1970 by the U.S. Congress and provides 20 years of legal protection for inbreds and varieties developed for many species. Maize lines with expired Plant Variety Protection (ex-PVP) represent germplasm that is the foundation of many industry seed industry companies. The genetic content of these inbreds can be related back to founder lines through pedigree, molecular data or a combination of the two. Seed companies started with similar genetics from founder lines and have independently used these to evolve their own proprietary germplasm. The structure of this germplasm continues to evolve as breeding programs experiment with different line crosses within each company. Understanding the relationships between ex-PVPs and founder lines will provide insight into the haplotype and heterotic group structure of industry germplasm. In this study, we utilize high-density SNP data to generate high resolution identity-by-state haplotypes (IBS) haplotypes for 212 maize inbred lines. Among these 212 inbred lines are 157 ex-PVPs registered 1976-1992 and 55 public inbreds relevant for PVP germplasm. These lines include ex-PVPs from the major seed industry companies DowDuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta as well as 12 key founders identified through literature review. We summarize haplotype structure and diversity among these 212 inbreds as well as haplotype sharing between the ex-PVPs and the 12 key founders. We