Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An examination of the moderating role of hormones on the relationship between sleep patterns and mood regulation

A large body of research focuses on the relationship between sleep and mental health. Poor emotional regulation is costly to the individual’s physical and mental health as well as the wellbeing of the community and economy. To further understand emotional regulation, the current study examines the potential interaction of sleep patterns and hormones. The goal of the current study was to isolate the potentially moderating role of hormones, specifically epinephrine and norepinephrine, as moderators in the relationship of sleep patterns and emotional regulation. The hypotheses were that (1) there would be a strong positive relationship between sleep patterns and emotional regulation, (2) there would be a strong positive moderating impact of epinephrine on the relationship between sleep patterns and emotional quality, and (3) there would be a strong negative moderating relationship between sleep patterns and emotional regulation. The sample included 420 participants, ages 24 to 74 years who completed telephone surveys, had a full biological assessment, and wore actigraphy watches to measure their sleep. Analyses were examined using a regression analysis and a moderation model using the PROCESS macro within SPSS. Results revealed a strong positive relationship for all sleep measures except for sleep time in partial support of the first hypothesis. Of the 16 moderation models ran, six were significant. Epinephrine had inconsistent results as a moderator in the relationship between sleep and emotional regulation. Norepinephrine also had inconsistent results in the relationship between sleep and emotional regulation. Hypothesis 2 and 3 were partially supported by the data. Clinical implications of this study are potential hormone-based therapies. Hormone levels may be an indicator of an emotional dysregulation in an individual. Practical implications of this study may be using sleep patterns and epinephrine/norepinephrine levels to assess the potential emotional SLEEP, HORMONES, AND MOOD REGULATION dysregulation habits of that individual. Further studies should investigate alternative relationships of hormones in relation to sleep patterns and emotional regulation.
THE OPERATING ROOM . An observational study

Noise peaks are powerful distractors. This study focuses on the impact of noise peaks on surgical teams’ communication during 109 long abdominal surgeries. We related measured noise peaks during five minute intervals to the amount of observed communication during the same interval. Results show that noise peaks are associated with less case-relevant communication; this effect is moderated by the level of surgical experience; case-relevant communications decrease under high noise peak conditions among junior, but not among senior surgeons. However, case-irrelevant communication did not decrease under high noise level conditions; rather, there was a trend to more case-irrelevant communication under high noise peaks. The results support the hypothesis that noise peaks impair communication because they draw on attentional resources rather than impairing understanding of communication. As case-relevant communication is important for surgical performance, exposure to high noise peaks in the OR should be minimized especially for less experienced surgeons.
A study of the effect of rotational mixing on massive stars evolution: surface abundances of Galactic O7-8 giant stars

Context. Massive star evolution remains only partly constrained. In particular, the exact role of rotation has been questioned by puzzling properties of OB stars in the Magellanic Clouds. Aims. Our goal is to study the relation between surface chemical composition and rotational velocity, and to test predictions of evolutionary models including rotation. Methods. We have performed a spectroscopic analysis of a sample of fifteen Galactic O7-8 giant stars. This sample is homogeneous in terms of mass, metallicity and evolutionary state. It is made of stars with a wide range of projected rotational velocities. Results. We show that the sample stars are located on the second half of the main sequence, in a relatively narrow mass range (25–40 M⊙). Almost all stars with projected rotational velocities above 100 km s-1 have N/C ratios about ten times the initial value. Below 100 km s-1 a wide range of N/C values is observed. The relation between N/C and surface gravity is well reproduced by various sets of models. Some evolutionary models including rotation are also able to consistently explain slowly rotating, highly enriched stars. This is due to differential rotation which efficiently transports nucleosynthesis products and allows the surface to rotate slower than the core. In addition, angular momentum removal by winds amplifies surface braking on the main sequence. Comparison of the surface composition of O7-8 giant stars with a sample of B stars with initial masses about four times smaller reveal that chemical enrichment scales with initial mass, as expected from theory. Conclusions. Although evolutionary models that include rotation face difficulties in explaining the chemical properties of O- and B-type stars at low metallicity, some of them can consistently account for the properties of main-sequence Galactic O stars in the mass range 25–40 M⊙.
Flowering and Morphogenesis of Kalanchoe in Response to Quality and Intensity of Night Interruption Light

The effects of the quality and intensity of night interruption light (NIL) on the flowering and morphogenesis of kalanchoe (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana) ‘Lipstick’ and ‘Spain’ were investigated. Plants were raised in a closed-type plant factory under 250 μmol·m−2·s−1 PPFD white light emitting diodes (LEDs) with additional light treatments. These treatments were designated long day (LD, 16 h light, 8 h dark), short day (SD, 8 h light, 16 h dark), and SD with a 4 h night interruption (NI). The NIL was constructed from 10 μmol·m−2·s−1 or 20 μmol·m−2·s−1 PPFD blue (NI-B), red (NI-R), white (NI-W), or blue and white (NI-BW) LEDs. In ‘Spain’, the SPAD value, area and thickness of leaves and plant height increased in the NI treatment as compared to the SD treatment. In ‘Lipstick’, most morphogenetic characteristics in the NI treatment showed no significant difference to those in the SD treatment. For both cultivars, plants in SD were significantly shorter than those in other treatments. The flowering of Kalanchoe ‘Lipstick’ was not affected by the NIL quality, while Kalanchoe ‘Spain’ flowered when grown in SD and 10 μmol·m−2·s−1 PPFD NI-B. These results suggest that the NIL quality and intensity affect the morphogenesis and flowering of kalanchoe, and that different cultivars are affected differently. There is a need to further assess the effects of the NIL quality and intensity on the morphogenesis and flowering of short-day plants for practical NIL applications.
ON THE STRUCTURE OF PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION

We prove that the two algorithms given in the literature for partial least squares regression are equivalent, and use this equivalence to give an explicit formula for the resulting prediction equation. This in turn is used to investigate the regression method from several points of view. Its relation to principal component regression is clearified, and some heuristic arguments are given to explain why partial least squares regression often needs fewer factors to give its optimal prediction.
A network approach to welfare ∗

This paper investigates the welfare impact of income redistribution for public goods in networks. First, we measure the impact of income redistribution and show that it affects each consumer only insofar as it affects his neighbourhood. Second, we characterise Pareto-improving income redistributions and relate them to the network structure. Third, in the case of Cobb–Douglas preferences, we establish a new link between two well-known concepts of the comparative statics of income redistribution, the neutrality result and the transfer paradox. Collectively, our findings uncover the importance of the −1 eigenvalue to economic and social policy: it is an indication of how the network structure induces consumers to absorb the impact of income redistribution. JEL classification: C72, D31, D60, D85, H41.
Existence and Numerical Approximation of Solutions of an Improved Internal Wave Model

AbstractIn this paper we establish local existence of solutions for a new model to describe the propagation of an internal wave propagating at the interface of two immiscible fluids with constant densities, contained at rest in a long channel with a horizontal rigid top and bottom. We also introduce a spectral-type numerical scheme to approximate the solutions of the corresponding Cauchy problem and perform a complete error analysis of the semidiscrete scheme.
A Novel Coding Scheme for Large-Scale Point Cloud Sequences Based on Clustering and Registration

Due to the huge volume of point cloud data, storing and transmitting it is currently difficult and expensive in autonomous driving. Learning from the high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) framework, we propose a novel compression scheme for large-scale point cloud sequences, in which several techniques have been developed to remove the spatial and temporal redundancy. The proposed strategy consists mainly of three parts: intracoding, intercoding, and residual data coding. For intracoding, inspired by the depth modeling modes (DMMs), in 3-D HEVC (3-D-HEVC), a cluster-based prediction method is proposed to remove the spatial redundancy. For intercoding, a point cloud registration algorithm is utilized to transform two adjacent point clouds into the same coordinate system. By calculating the residual map of their corresponding depth image, the temporal redundancy can be removed. Finally, the residual data are compressed either by lossless or lossy methods. Our approach can deal with multiple types of point cloud data, from simple to more complex. The lossless method can compress the point cloud data to 3.63% of its original size by intracoding and 2.99% by intercoding without distance distortion. Experiments on the KITTI dataset also demonstrate that our method yields better performance compared with recent well-known methods. Note to Practitioners—This article deals with the problem of efficient compression of point cloud sequences that come from light detection and ranging (LiDARs) mounted on autonomous mobile robots. The vast amount of point cloud data could be an important bottleneck for transmission and storage. Inspired by the HEVC algorithm, we develop a novel coding architecture for the point cloud sequence. The scans are divided into intraframe and interframe, which are encoded separately using different techniques. Our method can be used for the compression of LiDAR point cloud sequences or dense LiDAR point cloud map and will significantly reduce the transmission bandwidth and storage spaces. We have to admit that although our method is less effective for real-time solutions, it can be highly efficient for off-line applications. Future studies will concentrate on further optimizing the coding algorithm to reduce the computational complexity and trying to find a balance between them.
ComparisonofTransforaminal PercutaneousEndoscopic Lumbar Discectomy with and without Foraminoplasty for Lumbar Disc Herniation : A 2-Year Follow-Up

Department of Pain Medicine, e Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China China-USA Neuroimaging Research Institute, e Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China Department of Clinical Research Center, e Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China Department of Anesthesiology, e Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
School Improvement Research Series Research You Can Use Close-Up # 13 Developing Empathy in Children and Youth

"Do We Really Want to Produce Good People? " asks education professor, Dr. Nel Noddings, in the title of a 1987 article. Do we concur with philosopher Martin Buber's conviction that "education worthy of the name is essentially education of character"? Is it the business of the schools to seek to develop in young people the character traits we associate with goodnesstraits such as kindness, generosity, compassion, and helpfulness?
Self-Directed Learning: A Key Component of Adult Learning Theory

The relationship between adult learning and self‑directed learning is a topic worth exploring on both theoretical and practical grounds. Mezirow points out that, "no concept is more central to what adult education is all about than self‑directed learning". Knowles describes self‑directed learning as "a process in which individuals take the initiative without the help of others in diagnosing their learning needs, formulating goals, identifying human and material resources, and evaluating learning outcomes". What and who is an adult learner? A person is an adult to the extent that he or she is performing social roles typically assigned by our culture to those it considers adults, and to the extent that the individual perceives him or herself to be essentially responsible for his or her life. A child is not responsible for his or her life even from a legal point of view. According to Neimi, the adult learner is one who returns to study, on a full‑time or part‑time basis, after a period of time spent in other pursuits. Freedman states that the adult learner is someone who is motivated enough to want to pin further education at the end of a working day or is required to come to a program for certification.
Using Delaunay triangulations to investigate the effect of interparticle friction on critical-state DEM simulations

Citation for published version: Hanley, KJ, Huang, X & O'Sullivan, C 2015, Using Delaunay triangulations to investigate the effect of interparticle friction on critical-state DEM simulations. in E Onate, M Bischoff, DRJ Owen, P Wriggers & T Zohdi (eds), Particle-Based Methods IV Fundamentals and Applications. 1st edn, CIMNE International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain, pp. 890-899.
Sonden für die Triplett-Solvatationsdynamik

Die Triplett-Solvatationsdynamik (TSD) ist eine Messmethode, mit der man die lokale Reorientierungsdynamik von Losungsmittelmolekulen messen kann. Dazu werden Farbstoffmolekule in niedriger Konzentration als TSD-Sonden in der zu untersuchenden Flussigkeit gelost. Durch die optische Anregung dieser TSD-Sonden wird dabei eine lokale Storung des Gleichgewichtszustands im Losungsmittel induziert. In Folge dieser lokalen Storung beginnen die Losungsmittelmolekule in nachster Nahe zur TSD-Sonde zu reorientieren, was zu einer spektralen Verschiebung des Phosphoreszenzspektrums der TSD-Sonde fuhrt. In einem TSD-Experiment kann diese spektrale Verschiebung, die die Information uber die lokale Reorientierungsdynamik der Losungsmittelmolekule enthalt, aus der zeitaufgelosten Messung der Phosphoreszenzspektren extrahiert werden. Abhangig vom verwendeten Farbstoffmolekul konnen auf diese Weise lokale mechanische oder dielektrische Solvatationsexperimente durchgefuhrt werden. Dies wurde bisher vor allem bei der Untersuchung grundsatzlicher Fragestellungen der Glasdynamik, sowie bei Confinement-Effekten genutzt. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde die Messmethode in mehrerlei Hinsicht erweitert. Zum einen wurde durch einen optimierten Messaufbau das zugangliche dynamische Zeitfenster vergrosert. Weiterhin wurde das Verstandnis der bislang verwendeten TSD-Sonden vertieft. Dabei konnte gezeigt werden, dass mit dem polaren Farbstoff Quinoxalin lokale dielektrische Experimente durchgefuhrt werden konnen und mit dem unpolaren Farbstoff Naphthalin lokale Schermodulmessungen. Daruber hinaus wurde bei Messungen verschiedener Losungsmittel und den folgenden Analysen erstmals auch ein Debye-artiger Prozess in der TSD detektiert. Zusatzlich konnten weitere Farbstoffe hinsichtlich ihrer Eignung als TSD-Sonde charakterisiert und aufbauend darauf TSD-Sonden so modifiziert werden, dass man sie kovalent an Oberflachen oder Makromolekule anbringen kann. Schlussendlich wurde dies genutzt, um ein biochemisch relevantes Messsystem zu untersuchen, wodurch der TSD-Methode ein vollig neues Anwendungsgebiet eroffnet werden konnte.
The use of topical lidocaine / prilocaine cream prior to childhood circumcision under local anesthesia

A prospective study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of prior application of topical eutectic mixture of local anesthetics, EMLA, in alleviating the pain associated with infiltration local anesthetic (LA) for circumcision in children and to assess its impact on the outcome. A total of 173 children aged 3–13 years requiring circumcision were randomly assigned to have EMLA or placebo cream applied over the root of the penis 1 h before subcutaneous ring block. A blinded observer rated the pain response on a 10-point visual scale during needle insertion, injection of local anesthetic and circumcision. Children needing conversion to general anesthesia (GA) were counted as failures. A total of 89 and 82 boys were included in the EMLA group and placebo group, respectively. Significantly lower pain scores were recorded for needle puncture in the former group (PB0.001), whilst pain scores for injection and during circumcision were not statistically different between the two groups (P=0.037 and 0.138, respectively). A total of 88 out of the 89 boys pre-treated with EMLA completed the procedure, whereas seven boys in the placebo group necessitated conversion to GA (P=0.022). The converted cases had higher values for all pain scores and tended to be younger. Therefore, EMLA cream is a useful adjunct to LA for childhood circumcision because it effectively reduces the sharp pain induced by needle puncture. However, careful patient selection is required for a low conversion rate to GA. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Self-interest is overestimated: Two successful pre-registered replications and extensions of Miller and Ratner (1998)

Self-interest is a central driver of attitudes and behaviors, but people also act against their immediate self-interest through prosocial behaviors, voting incongruously with their finances, or punishing others at personal cost. How much people believe that self-interest causes attitudes and behaviors is important, because this belief may shape regulation, shared narratives, and institutional structures. An influential paper claimed that people overestimate the power of self- interest on others' attitudes and behavioral intentions (Miller & Ratner, 1998). We present two registered, close, and successful replications (U.S. MTurk, N = 800; U.K. Prolific, N = 799) that compared actual to estimated intentions, with open data and code. Consistent with the original article, participants overestimated the impact of payment on blood donation in Study 1, ds = 0.59 [0.51, 0.66], 0.57 [0.49, 0.64], and overestimated the importance of smoking status for smoking policy preferences in Study 4, ds = 0.75 [0.59, 0.90], 0.84 [0.73, 0.96]. These replications included two extensions: 1) communal orientation as a moderator of overestimation and 2) a more detailed measure of self-interest in Study 4 (ordinal smoking status). Communal orientation did not predict overestimation, and the ordinal smoking measure yielded similar results to the main study. Verifying the overestimation error informs behavioral theories across several fields and has practical implications for institutions that require trust and cooperation. All materials, data, and code are available at osf.io/57mdc/.
Optimization of the Laser/Cancer Treatment’s Planning and Thermal Dosimetry Control

During the laser thermal ablation process, it is challenging to control the side effects and optimize the planning of the dosimetry process for all patients. A software tool would help physicians plan and manage the dosimetry process while predicting and organizing the treatment. This would maximize the therapeutic effect and minimize any side effects, so new strategies can be proposed and evaluated. In this paper, we propose a new dosimetry planning approach for the laser surgery/cancer treatment with physician interaction that takes into account all the steps of the management of the dosimetry process. Depending on the impact of the thermal damage to the tissue during the simulation, the software tool will output a dosimetry schedule for each simulation and keep all choices for a final decision. Using Client Server technology, the software tool will also include a public and shared knowledge database to keep track of all simulations and learning process. This will optimize the process by dropping all unwanted simulation by delimiting the tissue tumor size, probe size, laser power, and time range. A case study of the Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) will demonstrate the feasibility of the dosimetry framework. LITT can be a highly complex treatment, with many parameters influencing treatment efficacy.
Recognizing Opportunities across Campus: The Effects of Cognitive Training and Entrepreneurial Passion on the Business Opportunity Prototype

We analyze the effects of the program Cognitive Entrepreneurial Training in Opportunity Recognition on the accurate assessment of prototypical viability of business opportunities. The training integrates the principles of experiential learning and is designed to reach students across campus. We also investigate the moderating role of entrepreneurial passion on opportunity recognition learning. We use a quasi‐experimental design with pre‐test, post‐test in two European universities. The results demonstrate that the training has positive significant effects on the accurate identification of business opportunities' prototypical viability. Intense positive feelings about entrepreneurship moderate the learning process. We provide insights into entrepreneurship education practice across campus.
FIELD EVALUATION OF FIVE WHEAT VARIETES AGAINST INSECT PEST INFESTATION

The experiment was conducted to evaluate the infestation status of insect pest on different wheat variety. Five wheat variety (BARI GOM -24, BARI GOM-25, BARI GOM-27, BARI GOM-28and BARI GOM-29) were used as a test crop to conduct the study. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Total 5 insect pests were found from this experiment among wheat aphid and wireworm as major and leaf hopper, grass hopper and cereal leaf beetle as minor insect of wheat. The highest insect pest was found in grain filling stage and lowest was found in panicle initiation stage. In grain filling stage, the lowest number of aphid (6.26) was recorded from BARI GOM-29 and the highest number of wheat aphid (9.11) was found in BARI GOM-24. Effect of different varieties of plant height, filled grain, unfilled grain, weight of 1000 grain and yield showed significant. The highest yield (3.56 tha) was recorded in BARI GOM-29 and the lowest yield 2.29 tha was recorded in BARI GOM-25. The highest percentage of infested spike hill was recorded in BARI GOM-27 and lowest was found in BARI GOM-29. The lowest yield loss (31.53%) was recorded in BARI GOM-29. This is might be due to physical resistance of the varieties. BARI GOM-29 recommended to wheat growers as it is found the most resistant/tolerant wheat cultivar against wheat insect pest with maximum grain yield as compared to other cultivars. Keywords—Field evaluation, Wheat, Variety, Insect pest,