Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Paper : Comparing of Symptoms , Defense Mechanisms and Coping Styles in Women and Men With Borderline Personality Disorder

1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Electronic Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 2. Behavioral Disorder and Substance Abuse Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. 3. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Social Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 4. Spiritual Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Time Warping Under Dynamic Constraints With Application to Non-Stationary Action Alignment and Classification

Action and event recognition from video require com- paring temporal sequences of images, or of intermedi- ate representations derived from them. Such a compari- son should be insensitive to intrinsic temporal variations within the same class - for instance the speed of execu- tion of a particular gesture - and at the same time retain the discriminative power that enable classifying differ- ent actions. In this paper, we propose a technique to compare temporal sequences that accounts for dynamic constraints implicit in the data generation process. Our technique is more flexible than those previously used for quasi-periodic actions such as walking gaits, but more discriminative than others based on dynamic time warp- ing that do not satisfy dynamic constraints. We illustrate our approach on public datasets including stationary and non-stationary actions, using both motion-capture and image data. In all the experiments we have con- ducted, our approach outperforms competing ones. We highlight experiments where it exhibits limitations.
Academic Performance of Pre-Clinical and Clinical Medical Students ’ of East Coast Malaysian Peninsula : A Cross-Sectional and Descriptive Study That Stimulates Their Life

Article history: Received on: 21/02/2017 Accepted on: 12/04/2017 Available online: 30/06/2017 The education of medical students is held in high esteem in any nation due to the greater responsibility the profession is saddled with. Academic achievement of the students reflects their competency in their future profession. Although the knowledge, skill and desired attitude of the students improve as they gain experience, it is occasionally perceived that there is a dissimilarity in achievement because of diverse factors that impact on the academic performance of the students. The present study assesses various issues affecting the clinical and pre-clinical East Coast Malaysian medical students’ academic performance. A self-reported questionnaire which assesses various factors potentially affecting the academic performances of medical students was administered to a total of 232 students of both clinical and pre-clinical years, and Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used in this study to analyze the data gathered. The study results found no significance difference in the GPA scores amongst gender and marital status across all the students, P>0.05. A statistically significant difference in GPA scores was found between the clinical and pre-clinical students P<0.001. However, on various factors affecting students’ performance, only family income and favoring particular place while reading were discovered to have significant effects on the students’ performance P < 0.05 while other factors did not vary between the groups P>0.05. The results from the current study might be beneficial to the students by allowing them to comprehend better the factors that can affect their academic performance.
A confirmatory factor analysis and validation of the forms of self-criticism/reassurance scale among teachers

Purpose: The present study investigated the psychometric properties of a Persian version self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory in the male and female teachers. Materials & Methods: This study was of a validation type. The participants were 444 teachers selected through a multistage-cluster random sampling among the teachers in high school second period in the city of Bojnord of the 2015-16 years. The three scales administrated in this study were: self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory, self-efficacy Scale and happiness Inventory. A Cronbach’s and test-retest reliability was calculated to examine the reliability of the self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory and to check the validity of the method convergent validity, divergent validity and confirmatory factor analysis was used. Findings: The calculated α for the inventory was for self-criticism 0.69 and for and self-reassurance 0.77. Neutralizing dimensions respectively self-criticism and for and self- reassurance examined through correlating it to the self-efficacy scale and happiness Inventory given signification. Using factor exploratory analysis confirmed the two-factor structure. Discussion: The Persian version of the self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory seems satisfactory for measuring self- reassurance/ self-criticism symptoms in teacher's samples. Future research is, however, needed to confirm these data in a sample of OCD teacher's.
Designing for Proactive Network Configuration Analysis

Human operators are an important aspect of any computing infrastructure; however, human errors in configuring systems pose reliability and security risks, which are increasingly serious as such systems grow more complex. Numerous studies have shown that errors by human administrators have contributed significantly to misconfigurations of networks. The research community has reacted with development of solutions that largely directed at detecting and correcting misconfigurations statically, after they have been introduced into the configuration files. This is done either by checking against known good configuration practices or by data mining configuration files. Though to some extent such approaches are useful, they are in fact “treatments” rather than “preventions”. Automated tools that abstract complex sets of network administration tasks have also been seen as a potential solution. On the other hand, such tools simply remove the possibility of human error one step, to the development of the workflow, and can have the effect of magnifying the risk of such mistakes due to their speed of operation. There is a need for a proactive solution that examine consequences of a proposed configuration before it is implemented. In this paper, we describe the research design towards developing a proactive solution for misconfiguration problem. Then present the design and implementation for SanityChecker-an SDN-based solution for intercepting incoming configurations and inspecting them for human errors before committing to the devices. SanityChecker was tested by real-world network administrators and the results show that it can successfully improve network operations by overseen incoming configuration for human errors.
Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation ( IEO ) of University Students

Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia are expected to produce entrepreneurial graduates and graduate entrepreneurs. However, university students are showing low interest in entrepreneurship. Individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) is a crucial competency in becoming a successful entrepreneur, but few studies have scrutinized the issue. Therefore, this paper provides some basic insights on IEO among university students. Based on the questionnaire survey conducted on 157 undergraduates, this paper found that overall students scored highest for innovativeness but lowest for risktaking. Furthermore, business students scored higher in overall IEO, risk-taking, innovativeness and proactiveness than non-business students. However, it only found significant differences in risk-taking and innovativeness between business students and nonbusiness students. This paper concluded that university students were quite innovative but risk-averse. The paper proposed that developing entrepreneurial competency is a crucial strategy in producing entrepreneurial graduates. Specifically, entrepreneurial education or training has to be carefully designed to suit the needs of students from different areas of studies and to equip them with the required
Effects of Mergers , Acquisitions and Consolidation on Efficiency and Competition in the Korean Banking Sector

Market concentration in the Korean banking industry has markedly increased since the financial crisis of 1997-1998 because of M&As, P&As, and consolidation of banks. With this change, there has been a growing concern over market power in the Korean banking sector. We examine the effects of market concentration on bank efficiency and competition for the period of 1992-2006. Three different indicators of bank inefficiency are used in this study, including Xinefficiency which is derived from the directional technology distance function. This method treats nonperforming loans as an undesirable by-product inevitably arising from the production of loans. The level of competition is measured by both the H-statistic of the Panzar-Rosse model and the level of the net interest margin and its standard deviation. Empirical results indicate that market concentration has not improved bank efficiency through scale economies or scope economies. Instead, recent mergers, acquisitions and consolidation of banks resulted in an increase in inefficiency measured by the three different indicators: X-inefficiency, labor inefficiency and asset inefficiency. While an increase in market share of individual banks improved bank efficiency, an increase in the overall market concentration ratio resulted in lower efficiency. Our study also finds that the Korean banking sector has been monopolistically competitive throughout the sample period except for the crisis period according to the H-statistic. Although an increase in market concentration ratio has not changed the overall level of bank competition, it has a positive significant effect on the level of the average interest margin.
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Polypharmacy among Elderly Persons.

Background: Polypharmacy especially in elderly is a challenging public health problem all over the world that leads to increased hospitalization, poor quality of life and represents an economic burden especially in developing countries like Egypt. Objectives: To detect the prevalence of polypharmacy and factors associated with it among elderly persons. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted from August to December 2017, in Benha city, Qalubiya Governorate, Egypt. Study population aged 60 years and over. They were interviewed by the researcher using a standardized valid questionnaire. Results: A total of 300 elderly persons were enrolled. Approximately 67%aged between 60 and 70 years,73.7%of them live with their families, and 51.7% of them had a monthly income more than 2000 LE,80% of them was non-smokers, and 85.3% of them reported using five or more medications. Logistic regression revealed that the significant predictors of polypharmacy use were sex (adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR), 0.1; 95% CI 0.04-0.28, p <0.001), residence (aOR, 3.29; 95% CI 1.18-9.14, p = 0. 02), monthly income (aOR, 0.33; 95% CI 0.13-0.18, p = 0. 02) and Co-morbidity (aOR, 2.56; 95% CI 1.75-3.74, p <0.001). On the other hand, polypharmacy was not significantly associated with age (aOR, 0.84; 95% CI 0.34-2.07, p =0.71), smoking (a OR, 0.83; 95% CI 0.23-2.88, p =0.77), educational level (a OR, 1.19; 95% CI 0.62-2.29, p =0.59) or Marital status (aOR, 0.71; 95% CI 0.47-1.07, p=0.1) Conclusion: The prevalence of polypharmacy was 85.3%. Sex, residence, monthly income and comorbidity were significant predictors of polypharmacy use.
Letter: A new compensation pixel circuit with metal oxide thin‐film transistors for active‐matrix organic light‐emitting diode displays

This paper presents a novel compensation pixel circuit for active‐matrix organic light‐emitting diode displays, in which the coupling effect mask technology is developed to compensate the threshold voltage of driving thin‐film transistor whether it is positive or negative. Twenty discrete compensation pixel circuits have been fabricated by In‐Zn‐O thin‐film transistors process. It is measured that the non‐uniformity of the proposed pixel circuit is significantly reduced with an average value of 8.6%. Furthermore, the organic light‐emitting diode emission current remains constant during 6 h continuous operation, which also confirms the validity of the proposed pixel circuit.
Software Engineering Methodologies: A Review of the Waterfall Model and Object- Oriented Approach

This paper discusses two main software engineering methodologies to system development, the waterfall model and the object- oriented approach. A review of literature reveals that waterfall model uses linear approach and is only suitable for sequential or procedural design. In waterfall, errors can only be detected at the end of the whole process and it may be difficult going back to repeat the entire process because the processes are sequential. Also, software based on waterfall approach is difficult to maintain and upgrade due to lack of integration between software components. On the other hand, the Object Oriented approach enables software systems to be developed as integration of software objects that work together to make a holistic and functional system. The software objects are independent of each other, allowing easy upgrading and maintenance of software codes. The paper also highlighted the merits and demerits of each of the approaches. This work concludes with the appropriateness of each approach in relation to the complexity of the problem domain.
Clinicopathological Findings of Retinoblastoma: A 10-Year Experience from a Tertiary Hospital in Kampala, Uganda

Background Retinoblastoma (RB) is one of the most common cancers occurring in young children in sub-Saharan Africa. The incidence rate reported in the literature is 9,000 new cases per year, which corresponds to 1 in 15,000 births. This study aimed at analyzing the clinicopathological findings in children with RB in Uganda. Purpose The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the clinicopathological findings in the patients with RB. Design This was a cross-sectional analytical study involving 234 eyeball surgical specimens from 214 patients with RB diagnosed between January 2006 and December 2015. Results The mean age of the patients was 27.8 months (SD = 21.413, range: 1–132 months). More than half of the cases, 50.9%, presented with leucokoria. Invasion of choroid, sclera, anterior chamber, and optic nerve was found in 26.5% (n = 58), 51.2% (n = 88), 26.2% (n = 45), and 29.2% (n = 49), respectively. Twenty-six percent (n = 56) of the cases with intraocular tumour were at stage I and all patients with metastasis 4.7% (n = 11) had stage IV. The correlation between postlaminar optic nerve invasion and massive choroidal invasion was statistically significant (P = 0.002). Also, there was a statistical significance difference between metastasis and postlaminar invasion (P = 0.004). Conclusion The majority of children with RB in Uganda present clinically with leucokoria, and their parents or guardians seek medical intervention at a later stage. Moreover, there was a noticeably significant lag period for the patients to begin treatment after the diagnosis was done.
A Preliminary Evaluation of Pedestrian Detection on Real-World Video Surveillance

Pedestrian detection has been shown as an important task for many different real-world application areas such as robotics, human behavior analysis, assistive technology, autonomous vehicles, health care and public security. In this work, we evaluate the performance of wellknown object/pedestrian detectors on our introduced realworld surveillance dataset composed of 7,927 frames from more than 20 video cameras with 28,510 annotated pedestrian bounding boxes. Our hypothesis is that the previous evaluations of such detectors do not reflect their performance in real-world scenarios. We theorize that the commonly evaluated datasets are visually different from practical surveillance environments. Our experiments showed that all the evaluated models have their performance decreased when running in our dataset. The results are compared with those achieved in the PASCAL VOC challenge. Outperforming the Faster R-CNN and SSD detectors, YOLOv2 attained better accuracy and speed, when using default models and configurations in all of them. We also discuss some future directions from this preliminary work.
The Flap over Butterflies

I P A N 24 June 1999, Greenpeace activists dressed as butterflies picketed a meeting of European Union environment ministers in Luxembourg with a banner reading ‘Give butterflies a chance— Stop Genetix Crops’. They urged—successfully as it turned out—the ministers to take a precautionary approach and prevent the commercial growing of genetically modified (GM) crops. The scientific basis for this demand was a piece of research published in a letter to the journal Nature which indicated that monarch butterfly larvae fed with milkweed dusted with pollen from GM maize suffered adverse reactions, including death. The case has become a notorious example of the misuse of both science and the precautionary principle for political effect. It also demonstrates the need for careful risk-analysis in the development of regulatory approaches to technologies such as GM. The precautionary principle is subject to growing abuse by environmental groups, to the point that it is becoming a seriously debased maxim. While it appears in numerous versions, it makes a recommendation in favour of caution when the risks of environmental harm are serious or irreversible. This is sensible enough, although the principle cannot alone be operationalized, because it cannot tell us how much caution we should exercise. The precautionary principle asks us to act with care under conditions of uncertainty, and not to allow the absence of scientific certainty to serve as a reason for deferring action. It is this aspect which, in the butterfly case, demonstrates the extent to which the principle is being abused by Greenpeace, since it is invoking the precautionary principle on the basis of a single piece of scientific research. The precautionary principle talks about lack of certainty, and a single scientific paper is a very long way from that. All manner of scientific papers are published which turn out to be wrong, and were we to act in a precautionary AYNSLEY KELLOW The Flap over Butterflies
Review on Leader Member Exchange Theory: Antecedent and The Effect on Employee Performance

This study aims to examines three elements shape leadership in Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory as a relationship and process. LMX quality is important for the company, because it relates to employee behavior and attitudes, including improving employee performance. The research method applied literature review using description logic and systematics. In this article the theory will be observed specially the effect of LMX on employee performance and antecedents of LMX. The results of the study found that the effect of LMX quality on performance is determined by the characteristics of the task as antecedent LMX in the company.
Utilizing QCA to Study Business-Unit Performance

The authors present qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) as a viable method for strategic management research. Specifically, they demonstrate its ability to examine the potential interdependence and complexity among effects through a study of how industry, corporate, and business-unit attributes combine in determining business-unit performance. They present in an accessible manner the consecutive phases of the QCA approach by analyzing a sample of 2,841 cases of business-unit performance, and they examine the insights that the QCA analysis provides for this particular stream of literature. The authors conclude with a discussion of the benefits and limitations QCA poses for strategic management research more generally, including major contingencies under which QCA or linear methods may be more appropriate for strategy research.
Bone Mineral Density , Carotid Artery Intimal Medial Thickness , and the Vitamin D Receptor Bsm I Polymorphism in Mexican American Women

Low bone mineral density (BMD) is a predictor of cardiovascular mortality, suggesting that osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease may share common risk factors. We assessed the relationship between BMD and intimal medial thickening (IMT) of the common carotid artery, a marker of sub-clinical atherosclerosis, in 471 women examined as part of the San Antonio Family Osteoporosis Study, a populationbased study of osteoporosis risk conducted in Mexican American families. Because of the documented role of vitamin D metabolism in bone metabolism and its possible role in cardiovascular function, we further evaluated whether allelic variation at the vitamin D receptor locus (VDR) influenced joint variation in BMD and IMT. The association of BMD with IMT depended on age, with low BMD being correlated with high IMT in older women, but with low IMT in younger women [age by IMT interaction effects significant at the spine (P = 0.042), radius ultradistal (P = 0.010), and hip (P = 0.006)]. In all women, the VDR BsmI BB genotype was associated with significantly higher forearm BMD (P = 0.005 for both radius ultradistal and midpoint), higher IMT (P = 0.05), and higher spine BMD in older women (P = 0.06), but not with hip BMD. The association of the VDR genotype with IMT was independent of its association with BMD. Although a functional consequence of the BsmI polymorphism on vitamin D metabolism has not been established, these findings support a possible biological relationship among VDR, bone metabolism, and atherosclerosis. We conclude that VDR polymorphisms may be one of multiple factors influencing the joint risk of atherosclerosis and osteoporosis.
The Development of Academic Self-Efficacy among First-Year College Students in a Comprehensive Public University

This qualitative study investigated the intrapersonal and environmental factors that affect the development of academic self-efficacy in freshman college students in an ethnically diverse, comprehensive, public institution in the western United States. Utilizing Bandura’s (1997) model as a conceptual framework, findings from thematic analysis of focus groups employing 146 participants are presented. Results revealed three primary environmental factors nested within Bandura’s (1997) model: family/home environment, peer environment, and academic environment. Similarly, results demonstrating intrapersonal factors found themes of student resiliency to affect academic self-efficacy. Descriptions of how factors reported by Bandura (1997) function within the intrapersonal and environmental framework are offered.
Oit depletion in hdpe geomembranes used in contact with solutions having very high and low ph

Heap leaching is one of several leaching methods (in-situ leaching, dump leaching, pressure leaching and tank leaching) whereby metal and other ores are leached with various chemical solutions to extract valuable minerals. Commonly HDPE is used in the pad under the ore to protect the environment and to preserve the leached solution containing the desired mineral. The most extensive application of heap leach pads is for copper ore processing. In this application, weak sulphuric acid is usually used to dissolve copper from the mineral ore. Typically copper pregnant leach solution has a pH less than 2.0 with a concentration of copper that varies from 1 to 5g/l and iron concentration up to 5g/l. A program for examining the effect on the aging of HDPE geomembranes of these and other solutions relevant to heap leach pads at both very low and high pH and to low level radioactive waste facilities where the leachate has a high pH is described. Tests are being conducted at temperatures of 40, 65, 75, 85, and 95 o C. The geomembrane properties and solution chemistry being used are also presented. Preliminarily antioxidant depletion rates for geomembrane incubated in a solution with a pH=0.5 are presented and a preliminary extrapolation to field temperature is provided.