Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effectiveness of video self-modeling to teach play and adaptive skills to a young preschooler with developmental disabilities

iii LIST OF FIGURES v CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTION 1 Background Literature 1 Research Question 7 II.METHODS 8 Participant 8 Setting 8 Materials/Equipment 8 Experimental Design 9 Procedures 9 Data Collection/Inter-rater Agreement 11 Treatment Fidelity 12 III.RESULTS 14 Discussion 16 Limitations 19 Conclusion/Social Validity 19 REFERENCES 21 APPENDIX A.DATA COLLECTION FORMS 23 B.VSM FAMILY CHECKLIST 26 VITA 28
Hen harrier foraging success in relation to land use in Scotland

In the UK, hen harriers (Circus cyaneus) are illegally killed on moorland that is managed for red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus), and they produce fewer young per female on grouse moorland than on either unmanaged moorland or forestry. However, those breeding attempts on grouse moorland that escape nest destruction produce more young than in other land‐use classes. One explanation for this difference is that food is more available to harriers on managed moorland than elsewhere. To examine this hypothesis, we compared the capture rates of hunting male harriers on sites across Scotland. Four of these sites were managed for grouse whilst the remaining three consisted of either unmanaged moorland or a mixture of unmanaged moorland and young forestry plantations. We found a significant difference in capture rates, with harriers on managed grouse moorland capturing prey at a greater rate than elsewhere, supporting the idea that prey were more available on grouse moorland. However, there was no difference in strike rates between the land‐use classes, suggesting that prey were not necessarily more abundant on grouse moors. Males on unmanaged moorland tended to catch larger prey, though this was insufficient to compensate fully for the reduced capture rates. The improved hunting success on grouse moorland means that this habitat is likely to be more attractive to breeding harriers, thereby increasing the conflict between those interested in maximizing grouse numbers and those interested in conserving rare raptors.
The conjugate locus for the Euler top I. The axisymmetric case

The flow of the Euler top is a geodesic flow on SO(3) with a left invariant metric. We determine the conjugate locus for this geodesic flow in the case that the metric has an S1 invariance, which is the case when two of the three moments of inertia are equal. Depending on the ratios of these moments, the conjugate locus is either a segment or circle (if the body is oblate) or a non–injective mapping of an astroid of revolution (if the body is prolate). Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C20
The Predictive Potentiality of Salivary Microbiome for the Recurrence of Early Childhood Caries

The aim of this study was to investigate the variation of the salivary microbiota in the recurrence of early childhood caries (ECC), and to explore and verify the potential microbial indicators of ECC recurrence. Saliva samples from kindergarten children were tracked every 6 months for 1 year. Finally, in total 28 children and 84 samples were placed on the analysis phase: 7 children with ECC recurrence made up the ECC-recurrence (ER) group, 6 children without ECC recurrence constituted the non-ECC-recurrence (NER) group, and 15 children who kept ECC-free were set as the ECC-free (EF) group. DNA amplicons of the V3-V4 hypervariable region of the bacterial 16S rDNA were generated and sequencing was performed using Illumina MiSeq PE250 platform. No statistically significant differences of the Shannon indices were found in both cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons. Furthermore, both principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) and heatmap plots demonstrated that the salivary microbial community structure might have potentiality to predict ECC recurrence at an early phase. The relative abundance of Fusobacterium, Prevotella, Leptotrichia, and Capnocytophaga differed significantly between the ER and NER groups at baseline. The values of area under the curve (AUC) of the four genera and their combined synthesis in the prediction for ECC recurrence were 0.857, 0.833, 0.786, 0.833, and 0.952, respectively. The relative abundance of Fusobacterium, Prevotella, Leptotrichia, and Capnocytophaga and their combination showed satisfactory accuracy in the prediction for ECC recurrence, indicating that salivary microbiome had predictive potentiality for recurrence of this disease. These findings might facilitate more effective strategy to be taken in the management of the recurrence of ECC.
Clinical characteristics and antifungal susceptible patterns of yeast-like fungal isolates during 2004-2009 in Japan

The frequency of invasive mycoses due to opportunistic fungal pathogens has increased dramatically past two decades and Candida species ranks as the major common cause of nosocomial infections. However, the pattern of these fungal isolates has not been elucidated in mid-Japan. Our aim was to characterize the yeast-like fungi isolated from aseptic site in hospitalized patients at the Nagoya City University Hospital. A retrospective analysis was conducted from 2004 to 2009 by reviewing medical records of patients from Nagoya City University Hospital. The total of 74 yeast-like fungi was analyzed. They were obtained from blood sample 69 (91.5%), ascites 2 (2.7%), spinal cord fluid 1 (1.3%), and miscellaneousness 2 (4.5%). The following species were Candida albicans 27 (36.5%), Candida parapsilosis 17 (23%), Candida glabrata 10 (13.5%), Candida krusei 8 (10.8%), Candida guilliermondi 3 (4%), Cryptococcus laurentii 2 (2.7%), and other yeast like fungi 6 (9.5%). All Candida albicans isolates were susceptible for antifungal drug. The numbers of amphotericin-B-, flucytosine-, fluconazole-, itraconazole-, and micafungin- resistant Candida non-albicans isolates were 4, 3, 7, 24, and 1, respectively. Appropriate usage of antifungal drug based on local antifungal pattern can certainly help the physician in reducing the mortality rate of yeast-like fungal infection.
Fixed Points of Absorbing Maps in Fuzzy Metric Space

Using notions of absorbing maps, compatible and commuting mappings, we prove some common fixed point theorems for six mappings which are not necessarily continuous. Our results generalize many known results of Cho [1], Chung [2], Kutukchu [8], Mishra, Mishra and Singh [11], Singh and Chauhan [12], Singh et al. [13, 14, 15]. A related example is also provided.
Does Inclusion of Stroke Severity in a 30-day Mortality Model

Background—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is considering developing a 30day ischemic stroke hospital-level mortality model using administrative data. We examined whether inclusion of the NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), a measure of stroke severity not included in administrative data, would alter 30-day mortality rates in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Methods—2562 veterans admitted with ischemic stroke to 64 VHA Hospitals in fiscal year 2007 were included. First, we examined the distribution of unadjusted mortality rates across the VHA. Second, we estimated 30-day-all-cause-risk standardized-mortality rates (RSMR) for each hospital by adjusting for age, gender and comorbid conditions using hierarchical models with and without inclusion of the NIHSS. Finally, we examined whether adjustment for the NIHSS significantly changed RSMRs for each hospital compared to other hospitals. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Salomeh Keyhani, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement (111A1), San Francisco, CA 94121, Tel: 415-221-4810 ex t 5819, salomeh.keyhani@va.gov. Disclosures We have no conflicts of interest to report NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 January 03. Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2012 July 1; 5(4): 508–513. doi:10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES. 111.962936.
Literature review on income inequality and the effects on social outcomes

In 2009, two epidemiologists, Wilkinson and Pickett, published a book entitled ‘‘The Spirit Level, Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better’’ in which they claim that inequality and its acute perception by the average EU citizen is a toxic element of today’s European societies and one that seems to be associated with decreased levels of trust, civic engagement and participation, as well as to a host of other social challenges from poor health to crime, to underage pregnancies. Despite Wilkinson and Pickett’s intuitively convincing story of the link between higher income inequality and worse social outcomes, the empirical tests are based on simple bivariate correlations, implying that the authors fail to control for all the other numerous factors, which might have had an impact on both the social outcomes and income inequality. In doing so, the empirical associations reported in their book are likely to lead to misleading causal inferences. Nonetheless, Wilkinson and Pickett’s book attracted a lot of attention and called for a more careful analysis of the consequences of rising income inequality. The aim of this report is, hence, to look into sound empirical studies based on multivariate analysis which examine the effect of income inequality on important social outcomes related to (i) well-being, (ii) criminality, (iii) health, (iv) social capital, (v) education, (vi) political participation and (vii) female labor market participation. The upshot of this literature review is that higher criminality, reduced political agency and, to some extent, lower social capital formation and well-being appear to be tangible illustrations of the wastage produced by rising income inequality. In addition, there are a number of self-reinforcing loops linked to inequality. A clear illustration of this is the role of inequality in reducing the voting participation of the low income groups and the concomitant consequences in terms of redistributive policies and therefore on income disparities.
Marker-assisted reduction of redundancy in a genebank collection of cultivated lettuce

To reduce the level of redundancy in a collection of cultivated lettuce, data from 160 amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) fragments and 10 polymorphic microsatellites were used in combination with passport data and morphological data, the latter obtained from an experimental field trial performed for verification purposes. Based on the observed distribution of the number of marker differences between and within accessions, a minimum of three AFLP differences and two microsatellite differences were regarded as levels warranting distinction between accessions in the redundancy analysis. The strategy followed in the redundancy analysis was mainly based on the confirmation of duplication by each of two independently generated data sources. The molecular data were used for the validation as well as the identification of potential duplicates, revealing a total number of 198 redundancies, corresponding to 12.9% of the total collection. Trueness to type, number of characterization and evaluation data, and collection management considerations, such as available seed quantities and germination percentages, were used as primary, secondary and tertiary criteria to decide which accession from duplication groups to maintain in the collection. Removal of accessions showed negligible effects on total collection diversity, as quantified for AFLPs and microsatellites, characterization and evaluation traits and resistance profiles against downy mildew pathotypes, indicating that the applied strategy was effective.
THE STRONG DRAGON BOAT RACE PRECIPITATION OF GUANGDONG IN 2008 AND QUASI-10-DAY OSCILLATION

Guangdong suffered from the most serious precipitation of its corresponding time during the dragon-boat race of 2008 since 1951. The relationship between the strong dragon-boat precipitation in 2008 and atmospheric low-frequency oscillation was analyzed with the methods of wavelet analysis, correlation and Lanczos filter. Results showed that the daily rainfall exhibits a significant 7 to 12-day quasi-periodic oscillation (namely quasi-10-day oscillation) during the precipitation, the daily 500 hPa height over Guangdong exhibits a significant 8 to 13-day quasi-periodic oscillation, and the daily 850 hPa zonal wind averaged over the north of the South China Sea presents a significant quasi-12-day periodic oscillation. The Guangdong rainfall during the annually first rainy season is most closely correlated with monsoon over the north of South China Sea, and less closely with an upper-level trough at 500 hPa affecting Guangdong. Strong monsoon surges induced two heavy rainfall processes in 2008. The monsoon surges joined with a westward-propagating quasi-10-day oscillation that originated from the central Pacific and was enhanced in a strong convective region east of the Philippines and a northward-propagating monsoon that originated from the southern South China Sea was enhanced. With composite analysis of typical phases, the common evolution characteristics of atmospheric circulation of the two heavy rainfall processes were analyzed for different phases. These features can be used as reference for medium prediction of heavy rainfall processes in Guangdong.
An Analytical Framework on Service Perception in Indian Airlines before and After Corporate Restructuring

The present study aims to identify the major problem areas related to the passenger service quality in Indian Airlines, before and after the corporate restructuring undertaken. For this purpose, descriptive research design was developed with personal interviews and close ended questionnaire (for passengers), on the basis of 22 parameters of passenger service quality. For this study, data were collected from the passengers travelling to and from Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore airport. After collecting data from 306 respondents through questionnaire survey, Factor analysis and ChiSquare Test had been used with the help of SPSS software and Statistics Calculator, to analyze the data and to identify the most fragile areas related to passengers service quality in pre and post restructuring.
Asthma in HIV-Infected Population: A Review of Respiratory Symptoms, Pulmonary Function Abnormalities and Pathophysiology

Asthma is prevalent around the world, requiring frequent hospital admissions and resulting in significant morbidity. National surveillance for asthma in the United States estimated the prevalence of asthma from 2006-2008 to be approximately 7.3% in adults, with the prevalence being higher in females (8.9%) than males (5.5%). The pathophysiology of asthma is characterized by inflammation and hyper-responsiveness of lung bronchioles. There is emerging evidence indicating an association between asthma and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, but much remains to be learned. The article will review the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function abnormalities and asthma in the HIV-infected population and summarize recent research focusing on potential mechanisms linking the two disease processes. In addition, we review important asthma treatment considerations in HIV-infected individuals.
Worker Productivity and Wages: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm-level analysis, we follow Hellerstein, Neumark and Troske (1999) and provide improved estimates based on an extended set of covariates including the intensity of firm-provided training. In the worker-level analysis we take a new turn and generate a proxy for unobserved worker productivity. Our results point to the presence of sizeable spillover effects from schooling and training as their impact is bigger on firm-level productivity equations than on the corresponding worker-level equations. In turn, our fully disaggregated model at worker level shows that, by using all possible combinations of worker attributes, we obtain that the wage differences across different worker groups are mostly productivity based and that the gap can be as high as 33%.
VALORISATION OF ACADEMIC R&D: THE INTERVALUE PLATFORM

This paper presents an organizational framework and a methodology toolkit that tackles one of the major hurdles of economic development in South East Europe (SEE), the missing link of the innovation triple helix: the valorisation of research performed in the region’s universities and research centres. SEE region is lagging behind in terms of innovation even though it includes many active research centres and university labs, producing results that cannot find their way to the market. The concept of a deficit in RD weak knowledge transfer mechanisms; communication barriers between academia and industry; failure to meet a critical mass of R&D results due to isolation and lack of cooperation. Based on the work performed within the INTERVALUE project (funded by the SEE Territorial Cooperation Program), a methodology and a web-based toolset has been developed that allows innovation intermediaries (such as knowledge transfer offices within Universities) to identify potentially marketable R&D and provide valorisation plans that could lead to market commercialisation of R&D. The toolset guides IP valorisation agreements based on detailed examination of each R&D result with regard to its technical feasibility, IP protection, market potential, and investment/ funding opportunities.
Analysis of 38 GHz mmWave Propagation Characteristics of Urban Scenarios

The 38 GHz mm-wave frequency band is a strong candidate for the future deployment of wireless systems. Compared to lower frequency bands, propagation in the 38 GHz band is relatively unexplored for access networks in urban scenarios. This paper presents a detailed measurement-based analysis of urban outdoor and outdoor-to-indoor propagation characteristics at 38 GHz. Different sets of measurements were performed in order to understand, quantify and model the behavior of the different underlying propagation mechanisms. The study considers line-of-sight propagation, reflection, scattering, diffraction, transmission, as well as polarization effects. The measurement results confirm that, at this particular frequency, propagation in urban scenarios is mainly driven by line-of-sight and reflection. The proposed models are practical for implementation in system level simulators or ray-tracing tools. The different observations presented along the paper are useful for future radio network planning considerations.
Conilurine Rodent Evolution: The role of ecology in modifying evolutionary consequences of environmental change

Conilurine rodents are the most speciose and ecologically diverse rodent group within Australia. Previous research has demonstrated that conilurines are members of a larger Australasian Murid tribe, the Hydromyini, and are generally thought to be an endemic Australian radiation with a fossil history dating to the mid Pliocene. However, monophyly of conilurines is not well established due to the distant placement of some genera in recent systematic studies. I investigated the evolution of conilurine rodents using a combination of molecular and ecological techniques. I examined phylogenetic relationships among all Australian rodent genera using the mitochondrial control region and a nuclear intron (DHFR 1). These results suggested that conilurines are monophyletic, and that unresolved generic relationships within the group are the product of an early savannah radiation. Building on the results of systematic studies, I examined patterns of speciation and population divergence in model species and species groups. Bioclimatic range modelling and some ecological studies were performed to aid interpretation of molecular evolution within these groups. The overall goal of this thesis is to provide a detailed account of some evolutionary processes affecting an interesting group for which such information is lacking, and to highlight the potential of conilurines for evolutionary study in an Australian context. A more specific goal is to investigate the effect that species ecology has on altering the evolutionary response of different species to the same environmental stimuli. Molecular studies identified a number of taxonomic issues within the group. The genera Notomys, Mastacomys and Pseudomys formed a monophyletic group identified by previous studies. Mastacomys was placed within Pseudomys, with which it was recently synonymised, and Notomys was not clearly separable from Pseudomys. Both Notomys and Mastacomys should be recognised as genera. As a result, Pseudomys was split into several smaller genera. These included resurrection of the genus Thetomys for P. gracilicaudatus and P. nanus, and creation of a new genus Phorolithomys for the recently described pebblemound mice. A further three groups are apparent within Pseudomys, but splitting of these at the generic level is contingent on further resolving the placement of several species among them. Some individuals previously described as P. delicatulus from north-western Australia
The Effects of Calcium Chloride and Ascorbic Acid Treatment on Ready-to-use Carrot Shreds

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of calcium and ascorbic acid treatments on the quality of carrot shreds during storage. Towards this aim, carrot shreds were dipped into a 5 L solution of 2 g/L ascorbic acid containing 1%, 3%, or 5% CaCl2 (Ca + AA) for 3 min at room temperature (~20 °C). In case of the control group (control, C), samples were dipped into distilled water for the same time interval. Subsequent to treatment, carrot shreds were stored in a cold room at 5 ± 1 °C, 85-90% RH for a period of 11 days. Color values (L*, a* b*), whiteness index, saturation index, hue angle values, visual quality, firmness scores, bitterness scores, total soluble solids (TSS) and electrolyte leakage measurements were conducted at various sampling dates. The results from this study demonstrated that brightness of carrot shreds was augmented by calcium and ascorbic acid treatments irrespective of the dosage used. Whiteness index values for the 5% Ca + AA treated samples were observed to be low whereas saturation indices of 5% Ca + AA and 3% Ca + AA treated carrot shreds were higher as compared to other treatments. This study concludes that treatment with calcium at high doses improves the color quality of carrot shreds under storage conditions. Visual quality and firmness of carrot shreds was maintained till day 4 of storage, thereafter it declined as compared to the control group. Bitterness of carrot shreds was also observed to increase upon treatment with calcium and ascorbic acid. However, calcium treatment of the test carrot shreds was seen to decrease weight loss and cause an increase in the TSS under storage conditions.
Awareness of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): A study of Post- Graduate Students of Commerce & Management in Kashmir

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has announced its decision to adopt IFRS in India with effect from 1 April, 2011. The standards will have a significant impact on capital markets but students and investors know remarkably little about these standards. Many European countries shifted to IFRS as early as 2005. They are ahead of India in including IFRS in the curriculum for students. An understanding of Indian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS standards is an urgent need for today's students. The commerce and management post- graduates are the future accounting professionals working in various companies s; thus, they must be aware about the newer concepts in accounting. In this backdrop, the study seeks to explore the degree of awareness about the newer concept of accounting standards called as the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) amongst students of Commerce and Management in Kashmir.