Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Linguistic representation of emotion terms: Variation with respect to self‐construal and education

The present study examines the linguistic representations of emotion terms in relation to educational attainment and self-construal through a two-part narration task. Eighty Turkish adults recounted four events that they experienced in the last five years of their lives (event-description task) and then described what they felt during these events (emotion-elicited narration task). The results show that higher levels of educational attainment and autonomous-related self-construal predicted higher levels of linguistic abstractness in emotion terms, whereas higher levels of related self-construal predicted lower levels of linguistic abstractness in emotion terms. Comparisons of the level of abstractness of emotion terms in event-descriptions and emotion-elicited narrations indicate that while the linguistic abstractness of emotion terms was similar across the two tasks in the lower-educated group, it increased in the emotion-elicited narration task in the higher-educated group. The role of formal education and self-construal in emotional language use were discussed as sources of within-culture variation.
La elección de una carrera típicamente femenina o masculina: desde una perspectiva psicosocial: la influencia del género

EL OBJETIVO DE ESTA TESIS HA SIDO BUSCAR, DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DE LA PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL UNA EXPLICACION DEL HECHO DE QUE DETERMINADAS CARRERAS SEAN ELEGIDAS MAYORITARIAMENTE POR MUJERES, MIENTRAS QUE OTRAS SEAN ELEGIDAS FUNDAMENTALMENTE POR HOMBRES.LA INVESTIGACION SE COMPONE DE DOS PARTES: UNA REVISION DE LOS MODELOS Y TEORIAS QUE PODRIAN DAR CUENTA DE ESTAS DIFERENCIAS Y UN ESTUDIO EMPIRICO CENTRADO EN DOS TIPOS DE CARRERAS CARACTERIZADAS EN FUNCION DE LAS TASAS DE HOMBRES Y MUJERES, UNA COMO TIPICAMENTE FEMENINA, PEDAGOGIA Y OTRA COMO TIPICAMENTE MASCULINA, INGENIERIA INDUSTRIAL. LOS RESULTADOS OBTENIDOS AL COMPARAR LA CAPACIDAD DISCRIMINANTE DE LAS VARIABLES DICOTOMIZADAS SEGUN EL GENERO, CON OTRO TIPO DE VARIABLES, PONEN DE MANIFIESTO LA IMPORTANCIA DEL GENERO PARA DIFERENCIAR ENTRE SUJETOS DEL MISMO SEXO QUE ELIGEN UN ROL TIPICAMENTE FEMENINO O MASCULINO. COMO CONCLUSION GLOBAL DE LOS ANALISIS EFECTUADOS SE DESPRENDE QUE LA ASIMETRIA DE HOMBRES Y MUJERES EN LA ELECCION DE DETERMINADAS CARRERAS PARECE ESTAR MARCADA POR LAS DIFERENCIAS PSICOSOCIALES DE GENERO.
PILL-VR Simulation Learning Environment for Teaching Medication Administration to Nursing Students

This paper presents an effective way to provide formal and practical learning in higher education of professionals. The Pharmacology Inter-Leaved Learning-Virtual Reality (PILL-VR) simulation was designed to promote situated and connected learning among nursing students by enabling practice and problem-solving in a safe environment. This study is part of the larger PILL learning environment, which connects the VR to more formal learning of related math and science topics. The purpose was to design and evaluate the effectiveness of the PILL-VR simulation as a setting for learning processes of medication administration in a virtual ward. Sophomore-year nursing students (n=88) role-played nurses in a 3D virtual ward in guided activities. We used both qualitative and quantitative design, and preand post-test questionnaires, interviews and screen capture of the learning process. The results revealed a significant increase in students’ scores following simulation on the Medication Administration Procedure questionnaire. Thematic analysis of the interviews (n=4) showed the greatest improvement in students’ knowledge of guidelines-implementation. Usability measures demonstrated a high sense of presence. Results are discussed in terms of ways to support bridging the theory/practice gap in nursing education and more generally, education in professions.
Multiscale Modeling with Extended Bridging Domain Method ∗

This Chapter describes the concurrent coupling of atomistic methods with continuum mechanics. Such models are useful in the study of phenomena such as fracture and dislocation dynamics, where molecular mechanics and/or quantum mechanics models are required for phenomena such as bond breaking, but the relevant configuration is far too large to permit a completely atomic description. To make such problems computationally tractable, the quantum/atomistic model must be limited to small clusters of atoms in the vicinity of a domain of interest where such high resolution models are necessary and a continuum method should be used for the rest of the domain, see e.g. Khare et al. [1, 2]. In the remainder of the domain, where no bond breaking occurs, the continuum description permits much less expensive computations with sufficient accuracy to describe the behavior of the system. This chapter describes two types of concurrent models
Health gamification

How and whom teach healthy lifestyle to our children? Using gamification through mobile applications, children on school age could implement healthy lifestyle and it would be the method for children from an early age to accept and integrate models of life to enable them to live a long and disease free life. Health Gamification programs for adults, not only would be an educational model to persuade the person to become their lives on a healthy life, it is a way of change a task to an attractive challenge which worthwhile to continue. Gamification is also a management health and a way of encouragement of the person. Family apps, involving children and parents, and all together maintain, establish or improve their lifestyle. Thus, users with high levels of compliance and therefore with less risk of illness caused by social factors would benefit from full health coverage, and and rewarded with redeemable points system by greater health benefits, such as weekends on spas, massages, cardiovascular sports. Those users with less adherent of healthy lifestyle factors will be divided into classes of risk that will cause a higher or lower percentage of your healing is partly taken over by themselves. Gamification to educate and manage health, applied to all ages and with socio-economic integration from the goverment.
Hermitian dual containing BCH codes and construction of new quantum codes

Let q ≥ 3 be a prime power. Maximal designed distances of primitive Hermitian dual containing q2-ary BCH codes (narrow-sense or non-narrow-sense) are determined by a careful analysis of properties of cyclotomic cosets. Non-narrow-sense BCH codes which achieve these maximal designed distances are presented, and a sequence of nested nonnarrow-sense BCH codes that contain these BCH codes with maximal designed distances are constructed and their parameters are computed. Consequently, new nonbinary quantum BCH codes are derived from these non-narrow-sense BCH codes. The nonbinary quantum BCH codes presented here have better parameters than those quantum BCH codes available in the literature.
Detection of tones in reproducible narrow-band noise.

Hit and false-alarm rates were measured for detection of a 500-Hz tone target in each of ten reproducible samples of 1/3-oct bandwidth noise centered at 500 Hz for both NoS pi and NoSo conditions. The effects on hit rates of the starting phase of the target relative to individual noise samples were investigated with two target phase angles for three subjects. The major results are: (1) performance varies significantly over masker waveforms; (2) for NoS pi conditions, the effect of target-to-marker phase angle on hit rates is not significant for these narrow-band maskers; (3) for NoSo conditions, the target-to-masker phase angle has a large effect; (4) no significant correlation between NoSo performance and NoS pi performance is seen across masker waveforms. These results are generally consistent wuth previously reported results for wideband maskers [R.H. Gilkey, D.E. Robinson, and T.E. Hanna, "Effects of masker waveform and signal-to-masker phase relation on diotic and dichotic masking by reproducible noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 78, 1207-1219 (1985)] with an important exception. Specifically, in the wideband experiment, significant correlation between NoSo and NoS pi performance across noise samples was found. In addition, in the wideband experiment, a small yet statistically significant effect of target-to-masker phase was observed in the NoS pi condition.
Media Violence and Youth Violence

The frequency of exposure to media violence and eight additional risk factors were path-analyzed in a 2-year longitudinal study. The exposure to media violence (total score) affected students’ later violence (β = .28) and later violent delinquency (β = .30) more strongly than other risk factors. Direct effects were also caused by risk factors assessed at Time 1, which in turn were reinforced by the remaining risk factors on the second or third stratum of analysis. Of particular importance are the findings that (1) playing violent electronic games is the strongest risk factor of violent criminality and (2) both media-stimulated and real experiences of aggressive emotions associated with the motive of revenge are core risk factors of violence in school and violent criminality. The results of our study show that the more frequently children view horror and violence films during childhood and the more frequently they play violent electronic games at the beginning of adolescence the higher will these students’.
Developmental Regulation of Presenilin mRNA Expression Parallels Notch Expression

Mutations in the presenilin (PS) 1 and 2 genes are associated with autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease. PS1 shares striking homology with sel-12, a C, elegans gene implicated in the function of lin-12/Notch, a protein important in neurogenesis. We studied mRNA expression using RT-PCR and in situ hybridization techniques during neural development in mouse and rat. Strong expression of PSs and Notch1 was observed in embryos, especially in the ventricular zone, which decreased gradually as embryos developed. Very low levels of PSs and Notch were present in adulthood, their signals present primarily in the hippocampus and cerebellum. These observations show that, like Notch, PS1 and PS2 are strongly developmentally regulated, and support the plausibility of an interaction between PSs and Notch.
Computerization and Wage Dispersion: An Analytical Reinterpretation

The United States has recently seen a dramatic rise in income inequality, all the more surprising because the long-term trend had been toward equality. This paper examines one of the leading explanations: computerization in the workplace. I offer a theory of computers? impact on white-collar work which goes far toward explaining the timing, form, and locus of recent labor market changes. The theory looks at the bureaucratic and organizational applications of computers that have been first, largest, and most influential. They have two effects on firms? demand for labor at different skill levels. Computer decisionmaking has been a substitute for human decisionmaking over a limited range of tasks. Low- and middle-skill white collar work has been the most affected. Substitution of computers for high-skill workers has been quite limited. The rising demand for more highly skilled workers is driven by broad changes in the economics of the firm with many causes including computerization. While this theory is in agreement with many recent analyses pointing to computers, the specifics are quite different. Complementarities between computer use and individual workers? skills are not an important component of change. This very different view of the mechanisms of skill biased technical change has new implications for understanding labor markets over the last 25 years, for the policy debate, and for predicting the future evolution of labor demand.
Leucine supplementation improves muscle protein synthesis in elderly men independently of hyperaminoacidaemia

The present study was designed to assess the effects of dietary leucine supplementation on muscle protein synthesis and whole body protein kinetics in elderly individuals. Twenty healthy male subjects (70 ± 1 years) were studied before and after continuous ingestion of a complete balanced diet supplemented or not with leucine. A primed (3.6 μmol kg−1) constant infusion (0.06 μmol kg−1 min−1) of l‐[1‐13C]phenylalanine was used to determine whole body phenylalanine kinetics as well as fractional synthesis rate (FSR) in the myofibrillar fraction of muscle proteins from vastus lateralis biopsies. Whole body protein kinetics were not affected by leucine supplementation. In contrast, muscle FSR, measured over the 5‐h period of feeding, was significantly greater in the volunteers given the leucine‐supplemented meals compared with the control group (0.083 ± 0.008 versus 0.053 ± 0.009% h−1, respectively, P < 0.05). This effect was due only to increased leucine availability because only plasma free leucine concentration significantly differed between the control and leucine‐supplemented groups. We conclude that leucine supplementation during feeding improves muscle protein synthesis in the elderly independently of an overall increase of other amino acids. Whether increasing leucine intake in old people may limit muscle protein loss during ageing remains to be determined.
Prognostic factors in primary cutaneous large B-cell lymphomas: a European multicenter study.

PURPOSE Most primary cutaneous B-cell lymphomas have an excellent prognosis. However, primary cutaneous large B-cell lymphomas (PCLBCLs) of the leg have been recognized as a distinct entity with a poorer prognosis in the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) classification. This distinction on the basis of site has been debated. Our aim was to identify independent prognostic factors in a large European multicenter series of PCLBCL. PATIENTS AND METHODS The clinical and histologic data of 145 patients with PCLBCL were evaluated. According to the EORTC classification, 48 patients had a PCLBCL of the leg and 97 had a primary cutaneous follicle center-cell lymphoma (PCFCCL). Data from both groups were compared. Univariate and multivariate analyses of specific survival were performed using a Cox proportional hazards model. RESULTS Compared with PCFCCL, PCLBCL-leg were characterized by an older age of onset, a more recent history of skin lesions, a more frequent predominance of tumor cells with round nuclei and positive bcl-2 staining, and a poorer 5-year disease-specific survival rate (52% v 94%; P <.0001). Univariate survival analysis in the entire study group showed that older age, a more recent onset of skin lesions, the location on the leg, multiple skin lesions, and the round-cell morphology were significantly related to death. In multivariate analysis, the round-cell morphology (P <.0001), the location on the leg (P =.002), and multiple skin lesions (P =.01) remained independent prognostic factors. The round-cell morphology was an adverse prognostic factor both in PCLBCL-leg and in PCFCCL, whereas multiple skin lesions were associated with a poor prognosis only in patients with PCLBCL-leg. CONCLUSION With site, morphology, and number of tumors taken into account, guidelines for the management of PCLBCL are presented.
Intrasession, Intersession, and Interexaminer Variabilities of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Measurements with Spectral-Domain OCT

Purpose TO evaluate the intrasession, intersession, and interexaminer variabilities of retinal nerve fiber layer measurements (RNFL) with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). Methods A total of 32 healthy individuals and 34 patients with chronic glaucoma underwent RNFL measurements with the Cirrus HD-OCT Model 4000 (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA, USA) 5 times during the same sitting by one examiner to assess intrasession variability. The same examiner performed RNFL measurements in the same patients on 5 different days to assess intersession variability. A second examiner performed RNFL measurements in the same patients to assess interexaminer variability. The coefficients of variation and intraclass correlation coefficients were obtained for the following parameters: average thickness, quadrant thickness, and Clock hour thickness measurements. Results Intrasession variability: In patients with glaucoma, coefficients of variation ranged from 4.51% to 11.84%. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.74 to 0.99. In healthy individuals, coefficients of variation ranged from 2.92% to 6.99%. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.89 to 0.98. Intersession variability: In patients with glaucoma, coefficients of variation ranged from 3.68% to 10.50%. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.82 to 0.99. In healthy individuals, coefficients of variation ranged from 3.13% to 6.92%. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.87 to 0.99. Interexaminer variability: In patients with glaucoma, coefficients of variation ranged from 2.62% to 14.94%. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.55 to 0.98. In healthy individuals, coefficients of variation ranged from 2.04% to 7.31%. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.86 to 0.98. Conclusions These findings indicate that RNFL measurements with spectral-domain OCT display excellent reproducibility, with low intrasession, intersession, and interexaminer variabilities.
EFFECT OF SUN DRYING ON NUTRITIVE AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF LEAFY VEGETABLES CONSUMED IN WESTERN CÔTE D'IVOIRE.

Leafy vegetables are perishable plants foods which are subjected to postharvest losses. Therefore, there is a need to develop preservation and processing methods in order to extend their availability for consumers. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of sun drying method on the nutritive and antioxidant properties of five leafy vegetables (Abelmoschus esculentus, Celosia argentea, Ipomea batatas, Manihot esculenta and Myrianthus arboreus) widely consumed in Western Cote d’Ivoire. After 3 days of drying the contents of moisture, ash, crude fibres, proteins, carbohydrates, oxalates and phytates ranged within the following intervals: 3.81–7.94%, 4.69 - 9.23% , 26.70–48.44%, 8.68–22.12%, 26.46– 47.78%,100 – 1261.2 mg/100g and 46.45 –66.96 mg/100g, respectively. The contents of minerals at 3 days of sun drying were: calcium (100.06– 231.35 mg/100g), magnesium (127.55–248.62 mg/100g), potassium (309.54–759.12 mg/100g), iron (17.61 -49.90 mg/100g) and zinc (9.57–16.89 mg/100g). The registered losses of carotenoids and vitamin C were estimated at 3 days of sun drying as follow: 62.64 - 100% and 58.41 - 100%, respectively. The total phenolic content of the sun dried leafy vegetables increased (65.87 to 351.50 mg/100g) after 3 days of sun drying and the same phenomenon was observed with antioxidant activity (24.70 to 89.96%). All these results showed that sun drying could be used as valuable method for preserving the nutritive potential of leafy vegetables. Thus, the consumption of dried leafy vegetables through various recipes could contribute efficiently to the nutritional requirements and to the food security of Ivorian population.
Ability of Prospective Assessment of Personality Profiles to Predict the Practice Specialty of Medical Students

Medical practice encompasses a diverse spectrum of specialties. Factors that impact selection of clinical disciplines by young physicians may have recently evolved associated with changes in medical school demographics. We assessed whether physicians gravitate to certain practice specialties due to preexisting personality traits. The Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Personality Inventory Revised Test was administered prospectively to 130 first-year students the week before they began medical school. Scores for five traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness) were compared with the selection among nine medical residencies at the conclusion of medical school. Personality scores for medical students selecting psychiatry residencies showed greater degrees of neuroticism (P < 0.01) and openness (P < 0.03). Students electing family practice also deviated from other specialties, showing a lower degree of neuroticism (P < 0.03). Unexpectedly, personality traits in prospective surgical residents did not differ from those of students choosing nonsurgical residencies. Personality profiles present before medical school appear to predict the selection of some residencies and clinical specialties but not others.
The Impact of Employment on Nursing Students’ Academic Performance

As more nursing students are employed, it is essential that schools of nursing examine the relationship between student employment and academic performance. In this study, we found a statistically significant negative relationship between students who work at least 16 hours a week and academic performance, especially in high-attrition courses. Current practices in nursing education must be assessed to ensure that students who must work have every opportunity to succeed.
Pediatric Obesity / Nutrition Nutritional interventions or exposures in infants and children aged up to 3 years and their effects on subsequent risk of overweight , obesity and body fat : a systematic review of systematic reviews

Department of Paediatrics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Pediatrics, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, KCL Division of Women’s Health, Women’s Health Academic Centre, King’s College London and King’s Health Partners, London, UK, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK, Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, University of Munich Medical Centre, Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität München, Munich, Germany, and Department of Paediatrics, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Serum IgA levels induced by rotavirus natural infection, but not following immunization with the RRV‐TV vaccine (Rotashield™), correlate with protection

To directly compare serum rotavirus specific IgA as a marker of protection in children vaccinated with the RRV‐TV (Rotashield™) vaccine and in naturally infected children, we studied pre‐existing rotavirus IgA antibodies by ELISA assays in these groups of children within the first 5 days after the onset of a diarrhea episode, due or not to rotavirus. In immunized children, rotavirus IgA titers were similar between infected and non‐RV infected children. In non‐immunized children, the proportion with rotavirus IgA titers was significantly greater in non‐RV infected children (58%) than in infected children (31%). Additionally, a titer ≥1:800 was associated with 68% protection. Thus, in this study serum rotavirus IgA showed a good correlation with protection in children pre‐exposed to natural infection but not in those immunized with the RRV‐TV vaccine. J. Med. Virol. 76:608–612, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.