Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Understanding American college students’ perceptions of Asians on television

Abstract Asian portrayals in the media can affect viewers’ beliefs about Asians in real life. Based on questionnaire responses from 429 undergraduate students, this study sought to examine college students’ perceptions of Asians on television. Participants were asked to identify television programs with Asian characters and to think about their perceptions regarding these programs. Findings from this study uncovered that college students’ perceptions of Asian representation in television media do indeed affect the way they perceive Asian Americans, further reinforcing stereotypical message perception and evaluations of Asians. These findings suggest that television can affect the way college students view reality regarding Asians.
The Nature of Nonresponse in a Medicaid Survey: Causes and Consequences

This study examines the effect of multiple phases of data collection on 1) the representativeness of the respondents and 2) survey responses to substantive items. A version of the CAHPS survey instrument was used to collect information from 1,600 adults covered by Massachusetts Medicaid about their experiences with getting health care through their health plans. In order to gain a better understanding of the significance of nonresponse, intensive follow-up with nonrespondents was done utilizing three phases of data collection: mail, telephone, and inperson protocols in successive waves of contact. Using administrative data, we were able to compare demographic and health characteristics of respondents to each phase, as well as cumulatively, with the characteristics of the total sample. The results indicate that the addition of completed surveys from each successive phase of data collection yielded a final group of respondents that is more representative of the total population with respect to age, race, presence of a chronic condition, and annual medical costs. Responses to 40 key survey items were also analyzed by phase and cumulatively. Responses from mail and telephone respondents were significantly different for eleven of these items; responses collected from in-person interviews were significantly different from the combined data from mail and telephone respondents for three of these items.
A Counting Function

We define a counting function that is related to the binomial coefficients. An explicit formula for this function is proved. In some particular cases, simpler explicit formuls are derived. We also derive a formula for the number of (0,1)-matrices, having a fixed number of 1's, and having no zero rows and zero columns. Further, we show that our function satisfies several recurrence relations. The relationship of our counting function with different classes of integers is then examined. These classes include: different kind of figurate numbers, the number of points on the surface of a square pyramid, the magic constants, the truncated square numbers, the coefficients of the Chebyshev polynomials, the Catalan numbers, the Dellanoy numbers, the Sulanke numbers, the numbers of the coordination sequences, and the number of the crystal ball sequences of a cubic lattice. In the last part of the paper, we prove that several configurations are counted by our function. Some of these are: the number of spanning subgraphs of the complete bipartite graph, the number of square containing in a square, the number of coloring's of points on a line, the number of divisors of some particular numbers, the number of all parts in the compositions of an integer, the numbers of the weak compositions of integers, and the number of particular lattice paths. We conclude by counting the number of possible moves of the rook, bishop, and queen on a chessboard. The most statements in the paper are provided by bijective proofs in terms of insets, which are defined in the paper. With this we want to show that different configurations may be counted by the same method.
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention

This qualitative, exploratory research study is positioned within the field of Family Language Policy (FLP). Contextualised in bilingual Malta, where Maltese is the majority language, the study inquires into the effects of a plurilingual family language programme on the language ideologies within English-speaking Maltese families. The programme was followed by four such families over a four-week period, during which data were collected via the participants’ weekly entries into semi-structured family language journals. Upon the programme’s completion, a second set of data was collected via one-off, semi-structured, family focus group interviews, for the purpose of triangulation. The findings highlight interrelated issues across the macro, meso and micro levels of language ideology, contributing to existing research by postulating the potential of a family language programme to prompt ideological shifts in support of heritage-language engagement, transmission and maintenance.
Using Pathological Traits for the Assessment of Suicide Risk: A Suicide Indicator Proposal for the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2

This study aimed to investigate the discriminative capacity of IDCP-2 factors to identify people with suicide risk. Moreover, we are providing a suicide total score for IDCP-2. Participeted 346 people aged between 18 and 72 years who responded to ASIQ, IDCP-2, and PID-5. We divided participants into three groups: low-risk group moderate-risk and high-risk group. We conducted mean comparisons, linear regression analysis, and ROC curve verification. The IDCP-2 factors were able to discriminate between the groups, with the high-risk presenting the highest means. The regression indicated Self-devaluation and Hopelessness as variables with a significant single contribution in explaining suicidal behavior. Suicide risk indicators demonstrated adequate performance in identifying people according to the risk group. Our findings indicate that the IDCP-2 factors can discriminate groups of people according to suicidal behavior. Besides, the index developed showed sensitivity in the identification of people who reported attempted suicide. How to cite this article: Gonçalves, A.P., Machado, G.M. , Pianowski, G. , Carvalho, L.F. Using pathological traits for the assessment of suicide risk: a suicide indicator proposal for the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 31 (1), 65-76. https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v31n1. 85513
Diagnosis of Hymenoptera Venom Allergy: State of the Art, Challenges, and Perspectives

Hymenoptera venom allergy is the most common cause of anaphylaxis in adults and the second-most frequent in children. The proper diagnosis of this life-threatening allergy remains a challenge. This review focuses on the current knowledge regarding diagnostics of Hymenoptera venom allergy. The paper includes a brief description of the representatives of Hymenoptera order and the composition of their venoms. Then, diagnostic tests for allergy to Hymenoptera venom are described. Common diagnostic problems, especially double positivity in tests for IgE antibodies specific to honeybee and wasp venom, are also discussed. Special attention is paid to the search for new diagnostic capabilities using modern methodologies. Multidimensional molecular analysis offers an opportunity to characterize changes in body fluids associated with Hymenoptera venom allergy and yields a unique insight into the cell status. Despite recent developments in the diagnostics of Hymenoptera venom allergy, new testing methodologies are still needed to answer questions and doubts we have.
Comparing single-wheel attachable tracks to chains and bare tires on skidders for mitigating soil disturbance during harvesting operations

ABSTRACT Tree-length harvesting with skidders is common in the Northeast US. Traditional rubber-tired skidders (with and without chains) make repeated passes over skid trails during a timber harvest. This traffic causes rutting and compaction which can lead to concentrated surface run-off and sediment delivery to streams. An innovation referred to as attachable tracks for wheeled logging equipment is designed to improve traction and reduce ground disturbance. In theory, increased traction could reduce rutting (negative soil displacement) and improve tire flotation and compaction while providing loggers with an accessible and durable tool. We examined rutting, soil bulk density and mechanical resistance using attachable single-wheel tracks versus traditional chains and bare tires in a randomized controlled study. Soil bulk density did not differ among the three tire cover types. Bare tires caused the least mechanical resistance followed by tracks then chains. After one year of recovery of the skid trails, bare tires resulted in the lowest mechanical resistance and single-wheel tracks the highest. Soil profile measurements were similar across the three tire cover types with very shallow rutting that was less than 5 cm; however, tracks did create statistically significantly deeper ruts than bare tires and chains. These results do not make a compelling case that single-wheel tracks have less impact on forest soils compared to either chains or bare tires.
Evaluating simplified macromodeling approaches of simulating infilled reinforced concrete frames with openings

Simulating the contribution of masonry infills on the reaction of reinforced concrete (RC) frames have been the concentration point of numerous numerical studies. However, the effects of openings are often neglected by technical codes, which may lead to sensible errors in predicting the seismic behavior of masonry infilled frames. In this study, the simplified macromodeling approaches of equivalent diagonal strut model (EDSM) and two‐dimensional discrete macroelement model (DMEM) compared to a finite element model (FEM) and the influence of the modeling approach on the lateral response of infilled frames, with different percentages of openings, was investigated. A nonlinear static pushover analysis for conveying the terms of the monotonic loading procedure of the benchmark experimental program has been employed. Concerning the results, the stiffness of the masonry infilled frames by increasing the amount of opening was decreasing. The outcomes of this study may increase the knowledge of comparing the possible methods for modeling masonry infilled frames with openings.
The Arrival of Gene Therapy for Patients with Hemophilia A

Historically, the standard of care for hemophilia A has been intravenous administration of exogenous factor VIII (FVIII), either as prophylaxis or episodically. The development of emicizumab, a humanized bispecific monoclonal antibody mimicking activated FVIII, was a subsequent advance in treatment. However, both exogenous FVIII and emicizumab require repeated and lifelong administration, negatively impacting patient quality of life. A recent breakthrough has been the development of gene therapy. This allows a single intravenous treatment that could result in long-term expression of FVIII, maintenance of steady-state plasma concentrations, and minimization (or possibly elimination) of bleeding episodes for the recipient’s lifetime. Several gene therapies have been assessed in clinical trials, with positive outcomes. Valoctocogene roxaparvovec (an adeno-associated viral 5-based therapy encoding human B domain-deleted FVIII) is expected to be the first approved gene therapy in European countries, including Italy, in 2022. Some novel challenges exist including refining patient selection criteria, managing patient expectations, further elucidation of the durability and variability of transgene expression and long-term safety, and the development of standardized ‘hub and spoke’ centers to optimize and monitor this innovative treatment. Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift, and may become a new reference standard for treating patients with hemophilia A.
Investigation of Photosystem II Functional Size in Higher Plants under Physiological and Stress Conditions Using Radiation Target Analysis and Sucrose Gradient Ultracentrifugation

The photosystem II (PSII) reaction centre is the critical supramolecular pigment–protein complex in the chloroplast which catalyses the light-induced transfer of electrons from water to plastoquinone. Structural studies have demonstrated the existence of an oligomeric PSII. We carried out radiation inactivation target analysis (RTA), together with sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation (SGU) of PSII, to study the functional size of PSII in diverse plant species under physiological and stress conditions. Two PSII populations, made of dimeric and monomeric core particles, were revealed in Pisum sativum, Spinacea oleracea, Phaseulus vulgaris, Medicago sativa, Zea mais and Triticum durum. However, this core pattern was not ubiquitous in the higher plants since we found one monomeric core population in Vicia faba and a dimeric core in the Triticum durum yellow-green strain, respectively. The PSII functional sizes measured in the plant seedlings in vivo, as a decay of the maximum quantum yield of PSII for primary photochemistry, were in the range of 75–101 ± 18 kDa, 2 to 3 times lower than those determined in vitro. Two abiotic stresses, heat and drought, imposed individually on Pisum sativum, increased the content of the dimeric core in SGU and the minimum functional size determined by RTA in vivo. These data suggest that PSII can also function as a monomer in vivo, while under heat and drought stress conditions, the dimeric PSII structure is predominant.
Conformal motion of contact manifolds with characteristic vector field in the $k$-nullity distribution

It is known (see for example, 17]) that if an m-dimensional Riemannian manifold admits a maximal, i.e., an (m + 1)(m + 2)/2-parameter group of conformal motions, then it is conformally flat. It is also known [9] that a conformally flat Sasakian (normal contact metric) manifold is of constant curvature 1. This shows that the existence of maximal conformal group places a severe restriction on the Sasakian manifold. Thus one is led to examine the effect of the existence of a single 1-parameter group of conformal motions on a Sasakian manifold. All the transformations considered in this paper are infinitesimal. Okumura 10] proved that a non-isometric conformal motion of a Sasakian manifold M of dimension 2n + (n > 1) is special concircular and hence if, in addition, M is complete and connected then it is isometric to a unit sphere. The proof is based on Obata’s theorem [8]: "Let M be a complete connected Riemannian manifold of dimension m > 1. In order for M to admit a non-trivial solution p of the system of partial differential equations VVp -c2pg (c a constant > 0), it is necessary and sufficient that M be isometric to a unit sphere ofradius 1/c. " The purpose ofthis paper is (i) to extend Okumura’s result to dimension 3 and (ii) to study conformal motion of the more general class of contact metric manifolds (M, r/, se, p, g) satisfying the condition that the characteristic vector field belongs to the k-nullity distribution N(k): p --> Np(k) {Z in TpM: R(X, Y)Z k(g(Y, Z)X-g(X, Z)Y) for any X, Y in TpM and a real number k} (see Tanno [15]). For k 1, M is Sasakian. For k 0, M is flat in dimension 3 and in dimension 2n + > 3, it is locally the Riemannian product En+l S" (4) (see Blair [3]). We say that a vector field v on M is an infinitesimal contact transformation 12] if for some function f where denotes the Lie-derivative operator. We also say that a vector field v on M is an automorphism of the contact metric structure if v leaves all the structure tensors r/, , p, g invariant (see [13]).
Overall Cost Overrun Estimate in Residential Projects: A Hybrid Dynamics Approach

Residential projects are described as complex, dynamic systems that are subject to uncertainty. Cost performance is a fundamental challenge. As a result, project managers must adequately identify risks that might lead to cost overruns in residential construction projects. Simulation is noticed to be a useful technique for dealing with these complications. Therefore, this study developed a hybrid dynamic approach to study the effect of different risks on the cost performance of construction projects. The proposed approach combines system dynamics (SD) and discrete event simulation (DES), which can take into consideration the dynamics of the project environment, which contains various continuous influencing factors as well as the construction operations. The developed hybrid model is validated through serial model structure tests and model behavior tests, with the aid of data collected from a real construction project used in the simulation process. Based on the simulation results, it is concluded that the proposed hybrid dynamic approach is helpful to enhance the process performance by permitting construction managers to identify possible process improvement areas that traditional methods may miss.
Vision‐Based Trajectory Tracking System for an Emulated Quadrotor UAV

In this paper, a vision‐based system is proposed, using the KINECT sensor (KS), for three‐dimensional (3D) trajectory tracking. A target object to track in the 3D space is defined in order to describe its trajectory on a virtual reality environment by an emulated quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The 3D position vector for the centroid of the target to track is recovered from image processing and information from the depth camera. A color‐based object tracking approach is used. A stable fuzzy controller, as well as a LQR controller, for the emulated quadrotor UAV are implemented and compared, where the estimated 3D position of the target is given as reference signal. Important benefits of the proposed object tracking method are its efficiency in the use of the information provided by the KS with a low computational cost for image processing to estimate the target object position and the possibility of improving robustness of the image segmentation by online adjustment of the color filtering parameters. The main contribution of the paper is the use of the estimated position as the reference for the simultaneous control of attitude and translation of a quadrotor from a single controller. Experimental simulation results validate the proposed approach.
The Effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on Muhammadiyah University Students’ Reading Comprehension and Their Perceptions

Abstract: Reading is a language modality in which the sense of urgency is palpable despite the task difficulty. This study examined the hypotheses that CSR improves reading comprehension and fosters positive perceptions of the implementations. The result supported that using CSR produced levels of reading comprehension superior to conventional teaching instruction. The analysis of posttest among the groups revealed 5.56 greater effects for students in the experimental group. The t-test also reported that students had favorable impressions about CSR implementation. They recognized some reading strategies of CSR which assisted them at most in elevating comprehension. Abstrak: Membaca merupakan modal Bahasa yang urgensinya sangat nyata namun penugasannya tidak mudah. Penelitian ini menjabarkan hipotesis yang menyebutkan bahwa CSR meningkatkan pemahaman membaca dan mencipatakan persepsi positif pasca implementasi. Hasil penelitian mendukung bahwa melalui CSR dapat menghasilkan tingkat pemahaman membaca yang lebih tinggi daripada pengajaran konvesional. Analisa posttes antar grup menunjukkan ada pengaruh sebesar 5.56 untuk mahasiswa kelas eksperimental. Uji t juga menemukan bahwa mahasiswa memiliki kesan yang positif tentang implementasi CSR. Mereka menyadari adanya beberapa strategi membaca pada CSR yang paling bermanfaat dalam peningkatan pemahaman.
Evolutionary Trajectories of Primary and Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Based on Genomic Variations

Liver metastases are common in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) patients and they are considered a poor prognostic marker. This study aims to analyze the spatiotemporal patterns of genomic variations between primary and metastatic tumors, and to identify the key related biomolecular pathways. We performed next-generation sequencing on paired tissue specimens of primary PanNETs (n = 11) and liver metastases (n = 12). Low genomic heterogeneity between primary PanNETs and liver metastases was observed. Genomic analysis provided evidence that polyclonal seeding is a prevalent event during metastatic progression, and may be associated with the progression-free survival. Besides this, copy number variations of BRCA1/BRCA2 seem to be associated with better prognosis. Pathways analysis showed that pathways in cancer, DNA repair, and cell cycle regulation-related pathways were significantly enriched in primary PanNETs and liver metastases. The study has shown a high concordance of gene mutations between the primary tumor and its metastases and the shared gene mutations may occur during oncogenesis and predates liver metastasis, suggesting an earlier onset of metastasis in patients with PanNETs, providing novel insight into genetic changes in metastatic tumors of PanNETs.
Communicating Unexpected and Violent Death: The Experiences of Police Officers and Health Care Professionals

Background: The notification of unexpected and violent death represents a challenging experience for police officers and health workers. These professionals are exposed to very intense emotions during this task. Aim: We aimed to investigate the degree of preparation, and the emotions and attitudes of police officers and health professionals while communicating such a death. Method: An ad hoc online questionnaire was created and disseminated through Qualtrics software. The participants were recruited through the institutional channels of Police, the College of Physicians, the ONG De Leo Fund and the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua. In this qualitative study, thematic content analysis was used to examine the responses. Results: A total of 155 individuals participated in the study (44 females, 111 males): 102 individuals were police officers, 23 were doctors and were 30 nurses. Five main themes were identified: (1) how the communication took place; (2) the experiences during the communication; (3) the difficulties encountered; (4) coping strategies, and (5) forms of support. Most communications were performed in person, and most represented an intense emotional experience for the notifiers. There is a generalised lack of specific preparation and training for this practice. The recipient’s characteristics (culture of origin, language, age, health conditions, psychological vulnerability) may add to the difficulties of the notification process. Professionals unload their tension by practicing sport, relying on their hobbies or interacting socially. The presence of other colleagues during and after the death notification is usually able to alleviate the burden of the communication. Conclusions: Communication modalities can have a profound impact on the recipients and intensify the trauma of the loss; however, they also have the possibility of mitigating it. The notification of a violent and unexpected death remains a difficult and challenging task for the notifier, which is potentially stressful and emotionally charged. The topic is of great relevance and more research should be promoted in this area.