Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Motor coordination and kinaesthesis in boys with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.

In the current study, movement ability and underlying kinaesthetic processes of boys with attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were compared with a group of control children. Two groups of 16 boys with either predominantly inattentive subtype ADHD (ADHD-PI) or combined subtype ADHD (ADHD-C) were compared with 16 control boys matched on age and verbal IQ. The findings demonstrated that the children with ADHD had significantly poorer movement ability than the control children. A high percentage of children with ADHD displayed movement difficulties consistent with developmental coordination disorder. In addition, the current study found that the type and degree of movement difficulty differed between subtypes. Children with ADHD-PI had significantly poorer fine motor skill while children with ADHD-C were found to experience significantly greater difficulty with gross motor skill. The severity of the children's inattentive symptomatology was found to be a significant predictor of motor coordination difficulties. Kinaesthetic sensitivity was not found to differ significantly between the groups.
Effect of Supervised Lifestyle Changes on Metabolic Syndrome-Associated Inflammation

249 Acta Endocrinologica (Buc), vol. IX, no. 2, p. 249-262, 2013 *Correspondence to: Bogdan Gurzu MD, “Gr T Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, School of Medicine, Department of Functional Sciences, 16th Universitatii street, Iasi, 700115, Romania, E-mail: bgurzu@yahoo.com Abstract Background. Weight loss associated with long-term lifestyle changes has significant beneficial effects on metabolic syndrome (MetS) features on obese patients; unfortunately, the weight recidivism rate is high and the weight fluctuations could increase the cardiovascular and metabolic risk. On the other hand, there are many data about the endocrine role of adipose tissue. Objective. Taking into account the imbalance between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines secreted by adipose tissue on obese patients, this study assessed the effects of one month-long supervised lifestyle change (SLC) program without weight loss on the MetS-associated inflammatory status. Methods. The study included 29 obese adults with MetS. The SLC program included supervised moderate physical activities and diet for one month. The levels of adipocytokines, lipids and inflammatory markers were analyzed before and after one month SLC program, and 2 months later at follow-up. Results. At follow-up, the leptin, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and hsCRP levels decreased, whereas the interleukin-4 (IL-4) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels increased from their baseline levels. So, an SLC program, even in the absence of weight loss, could have an extended antiinflammatory effect by decreasing the proinflammatory adipocytokines. Conclusion. Our data furthermore emphasize the importance of the adipocytokines gender-related variation for a more personalized evaluation protocol on obese patients.
Learning/Becoming/Organizing

In this paper we rethink and reframe organizational learning in terms of organizational becoming. We see these concepts as two mutually implicating ways of exploring and simultaneously constituting the phenomena of organization. Bearing in mind that the understanding of organization is simultaneously a question of the organization of understanding, we reflect on the complex interrelation between thinking and organizing. In order to connect the processes of learning and becoming, we consider the concept of organization as space in between order and chaos. We propose a perspective that sees learning not as something that is done to organizations, or as something that an organization does; rather, learning and organizing are seen as mutually constitutive and unstable, yet pragmatic, constructs that might enable a dynamic appreciation of organizational life. Further, we argue that the becoming that is in organizing implies a permanent non-rational movement such that organization can never be rationally defined.
Difficulty in eye drop administration for people with rheumatoid arthritis

Introduction Many people require eye drops administered daily, yet many do not instil them as prescribed. This can be due to physical difficulty managing the delivery device yet little research has focused on this. Methods Participants from ophthalmology and rheumatology clinics at hospitals within two regions in Scotland (n = 206) were recruited and asked to complete a questionnaire about eye drop use and difficulties they experienced. Binary logistic regression was used to assess the independent relationship between key explanatory variables and the major outcome variable, which was difficulty in administration. Findings It was found that 62% of people who attended a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) clinic reported difficulty instilling eye drops and that they were four and a half times more likely to have difficulty than people who attended an ophthalmology clinic. A greater proportion of women and younger people attended the RA clinics than the ophthalmology clinics; however, the reasons given for having difficulty and the level of adherence did not differ between the two groups. Conclusion The number of people newly diagnosed with RA is increasing worldwide, particularly among women, and many need eye drops. Experiencing difficulty instilling them is therefore a significant international health issue.
Effects of Foveal Priming and Extrafoveal Preview on Object Identification

The results of three different experiments suggested that the relation between an object in the fovea on fixation n and an object subsequently brought into the fovea on fixation n + 1 affects the time to identity the second object In Experiment 1 we extended previous work by demonstrating that a previously seen related priming object speeded the time to name a target object even when a saccade intervened between the two objects. In Experiment 2 we replicated this result and further showed that the benefit on naming time was due to facilitation from the related object rather than inhibition from the unrelated object. In addition, naming of the target object was much slower in both experiments when there was not a peripheral preview of the target object on fixation n. However, because the effect of the fbveal priming object was greater when the target was not present than when it was present, priming did not appear to make extraction of the extrafoveal information more efficient. In Experiment 3, fixation times were recorded while subjects looked at four objects in order to identify them. Fixation time on an object was shorter when a related object was fixated immediately before it, even though the four objects did not form a scene. The size of the facilitation was roughly comparable to that in several analogous experiments where scenes were used. The results suggest that the effects of a predictive scene context on object identification may be explainable in terms of an object-to-object or "intralevel" priming mechanism.
此处“personality”译法探析

在翟象俊主编的《大学英语》第2册第5单元中，有这样一个句子：“As a boy and then as an adult, I never lost my wonder at the personality that was Einstein. ”教参中指出“the personality that was Einstein”应理解为“the personality which was the most striking characteristic of Einstein”，该句译为“作为一个孩子，到后来作为一个成人，我一直对爱因斯坦的个性惊叹不已”。 很明显，在这里译者把“personality”理解为“个性，人格”，但本人认为应译为“人物，名人”更妥。 “personality”可作“个性，人格”讲，但它还有另外一个重要意思。 在陆谷孙主编的《英汉大词典》（1993年版）中，“personality”第3条释义为：“个人，人物，名人”：“appoint a personality to lead a campaign，派一个人去领导一场运动”。 “a personality in the news，新闻人物”。 在.
Assessment of environmental quality, degree of optimism, and the assignment of responsibility regarding the state of the environment in Latin America

El presente estudio explora las evaluaciones realizadas por los habitantes de ocho paises de America Latina en relacion con su percepcion sobre el estado actual del medio ambiente a escala local, nacional y mundial, asi como las expectativas hacia el futuro del ambiente y la asignacion de responsabilidades en cuanto a la gestion del futuro ambiental. Participaron un total de 944 personas de ocho paises, hombres y mujeres de mas 18 anos con diferentes niveles de educacion. Se aplico la Escala de Futuros Ambientales a la que se le anadieron dos items pertinentes para evaluar el medio ambiente en la region y los items correspondientes a la Escala de Responsabilidad Ambiental. Los resultados muestran diferencias entre los paises, aunque en general son pesimistas sobre el estado actual y futuro del medio ambiente a nivel local, nacional y mundial, con la excepcion de Brasil. Igualmente en general, y con la excepcion de Brasil, en los diferentes paises encuestados las personas asignan un alto nivel de responsabilidad a los agentes sociales externos en los diferentes niveles, siendo mas grande la responsabilidad asignada en los ambitos nacional y mundial. Tambien se discuten las implicaciones de estos hallazgos para la politica del medio ambiente y las implicaciones para la educacion en los paises de esta region.
Cancer Immunotherapy: A Review

BACKGROUND: The goals of treating patients with cancer are to cure the disease, prolong survival, and improve quality of life. Immune cells in the tumor microenvironment have an important role in regulating tumor progression. Therefore, stimulating immune reactions to tumors can be an attractive therapeutic and prevention strategy. CONTENT: During immune surveillance, the host provides defense against foreign antigens, while ensuring it limits activation against self antigens. By targeting surface antigens expressed on tumor cells, monoclonal antibodies have demonstrated efficacy as cancer therapeutics. Recent successful antibody-based strategies have focused on enhancing antitumor immune responses by targeting immune cells, irrespective of tumor antigens. The use of antibodies to block pathways inhibiting the endogenous immune response to cancer, known as checkpoint blockade therapy, has stirred up a great deal of excitement among scientists, physicians, and patients alike. Clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of antibodies that block the T cell inhibitory molecules cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) have reported success in treating subsets of patients. Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) is a highly personalized cancer therapy that involve administration to the cancer-bearing host of immune cells with direct anticancer activity. In addition, the ability to genetically engineer lymphocytes to express conventional T cell receptors or chimeric antigen receptors has further extended the successful application of ACT for cancer treatment. SUMMARY: For cancer treatment, 2011 marked the beginning of a new era. The underlying basis of cancer immunotherapy is to activate a patient’s own T cells so that they can kill their tumors. Reports of amazing recoveries abound, where patients remain cancer-free many years after receiving the therapy. The idea of harnessing immune cells to fight cancer is not new, but only recently have scientists amassed enough clinical data to demonstrate what a game-changer cancer immunotherapy can be. This field is no stranger to obstacles, so the future looks very promising indeed. KEYWORDS: immune checkpoint, adoptive cell transfer, neoantigen, monoclonal antibody
The Effect of Group Counseling "Narrative Therapy" to reduce Depression and Loneliness among older women

Objectives: The main objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of narrative therapy and group counseling on depression and loneliness among elderly women. Methods: This is a quasi experimental research method using post-test design with a control group. 24 women were selected from all the elderly women referring to Iranian Alzheimer‘s Association in 2012 through randomized sampling method and have been assigned to experiment and control groups. The tools for assessing depression and loneliness were the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Loneliness questionnaire. The experiment group had eight 90 -minute sessions of group counseling narrative therapy which took place once a week. The collected data have been statically analyzed using independent t -test in SSPS-19. Results: The findings showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experiment and control group and it can be argued that employing narrative therapy group counseling was influential in reducing depression and loneliness (P<0.01). Discussion: The effect of group counseling narrative therapy on reducing depression and loneliness of elderly women has been confirmed by the results of this study. Based on the findings, conducting narrative therapy group counseling is strongly recommended in health care organizations for the elderly people.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE READING ACHIEVEMENT GAP BETWEEN NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN KANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The rapid increase of ESOL students and the slow increase of qualified ESOL teachers in the public schools of the State of Kansas directed the researcher’s attention to investigate how the reading achievement gap between the non-ESOL and ESOL groups changed over the time of the study. This study examined how the reading achievement gap between the two groups changed over the five years of data collected and how the gap between the groups was expected to differ at the elementary, middle and high school levels. In addition, this study investigated how the number of teachers with ESOL endorsement and the number of ESOL students who received ESOL services influenced the non-ESOL and ESOL groups’ reading achievement. The effects of time, three school levels (i.e. elementary, middle and high school) and two time-varying predictors (i.e. ESOL teacher and ESOL student predictors) were analyzed using a multilevel model of growth. The study found that the effects of the ESOL teacher and ESOL student predictors showed a more significant influence on the outcome of different levels (i.e. class, school, and district) and different school levels of the non-ESOL group rather than the ESOL group. The ESOL student predictor was negatively correlated with the nonESOL group’s outcome at all levels (between-district of all school levels, within-class high school and within-district middle school). Examination of the policy for teachers to become qualified to teach ESOL students suggested that having more teachers who are endorsed in teaching ESOL students would positively impact both the non-ESOL and ESOL groups’ reading growth. Finally, the results of the study confirmed the urgent need for the development of high school ESOL students’ academic literacy because the gap in reading outcomes between the elementary and high school ESOL groups was not
Media exposure and threat of victimization of MTR sex-related crimes among Hong Kong women

Although Hong Kong is regarded as one of the safest cities in the world, sexrelated crimes in MTR has been more prevalent in recent years. Noteworthy, media is the main source for people getting access to crime information. Applying the new concept of “threat of victimization”, this quantitative research investigates the relationship between media exposure and threat of victimization of sex-related crimes in Hong Kong MTR, which is constructed from cultivation theory, through distributing questionnaires to 312 female participants, who are 18-29 year-old and at least achieve territory education level. In addition, the mediating impacts of perceived informativeness and affectivity are tested. Results partially support the cultivation thesis that threat of victimization is predicted by media exposure. Nevertheless, the proposed correlation of media exposure and threat of victimization is completely mediated after considering the two variables respectively. Moreover, it is discovered that those often travel by MTR under crowded situations have higher threat of victimization, whereas confidence in officials is unrelated to threat of victimization. Further studies on the related issues with more considerations of research orientation are
Increasing Participation in After-School Sport and Physical Activity among Children and Youth: A Case Study of Providers in Ontario, Canada

Many children and youth that do not participate in after-school sport and physical activity (ASSPA) programs are opting instead for relatively sedentary activities. This investigation sought how to enhance the experiences and participation rates in ASSPA among children and youth through a mixed-method (survey and personal and focus group interviews) case study of over 300 ASSPA providers (individual practitioners and administrators). The results highlighted the joint role of demographic-intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental factors. Prominent demographic-intrapersonal barriers included participants’ prior experiences, motivation, money, understanding of participation benefits, and an urban or rural setting. The dominant interpersonal recommendation was better engagement of participants in family-oriented and socially-engaging programs. Noteworthy environmental themes were adequate resources, affordable programming, provincial policies, organizational coordination (particularly between schools and community agencies), and ensuring quality, quantity, and inclusivity in ASSPA programming and delivery. Providers prioritized inclusive ASSPA programming for physically active lifestyles, life skills, and movement skills rather than the development of elite athletes.
DOS executable for "Dynamics of the Trade Balance and the Terms of Trade: The J-Curve?"

This is a version of the program used in David Backus, Patrick Kehoe and Finn Kydland, "Dynamics of the Trade Balance and the Terms of Trade: The J-Curve? ," American Economic Review, vol. 84, pp. 84-103, Mar. 1994 The parameter values have to be specified in a separate file.
A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY ON PREVALENCE OF AMBLYOPIA IN SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN

Amblyopia is that condition in which there is deficiency of form or spatial vision sense resulting in the reduction of visual acuity of greater than two lines between the eyes or an absolute reduction in acuity below 6/9 either eye in Snellen's Vision Chart which cannot be corrected by refraction and cannot be attributed directly to the effect of any structural abnormality of the eye or the posterior visual pathway defects The aim of our study is to study the prevalence of amblyopia and different types of amblyopia in children between 6 - 14 years of age This prospective cross sectional study done in tertiary care centre over period of 2years. 2700 children were screened in this study out of which 54 children were found to be amblyopic. Children aged between 6 years and 14 years of age, with no previous history of strabismus surgery, with corrected or uncorrected refractive errors were included in study. RESULTS: Amblyopia was more common in male (63.79%) than female children. It was lower in urban children (32.76%) than in rural children (67.21%). This is because of the lack of awareness among the rural population to have regular eye check-ups. Monocular amblyopic 40(68.96%) cases were common than binocular 18(21.04%) cases. The most common cause of ambylopia in our study were anisometropic (36.20%), strabismic (25.86%), ametropic (12.06%), merdionic and visual deprivation (6.89%). Hypermetropia 18(46.15%) was more common refractive error associated with amblyopia compared to myopia 10(25.64) and astigmatism 11(18.20%). In strabismic amblyopia (25.86%), exotropia 8 patients (53.33%) are more frequent than esotropia 6 patients (40%) and hypertropia 1patient (6.66) CONCLUSION: Early diagnosis and treatment of ametropias can minimize permanent loss of vision by amblyopia. Those at greater risks are children of preschool and school going ages.
Original paper Analysis of the rate of restenosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome without ST elevation and concomitant diabetes mellitus type 2 according to the kind of stent

Background: Acute coronary syndrome without ST segment elevation (NSTEMI) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) has poor prognosis and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the best treatment strategy. However, there are no clear guidelines concerning the choice of optimal invasive treatment strategy. Aim: To evaluate the restenosis rate in patients with NSTEMI and DM depending on the kind of implanted stent. Material and methods: The study group comprised 984 NSTEMI patients hospitalized in the 2nd Department of Cardiology. 352 patients received a bare metal stent (BMS), while 632 pts received a drug-eluting stent (DES) – 238 pts a paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES) and 394 a sirolimus-eluting stent (SES). There were no statistically significant differences concerning age of the groups. Results: After 1-year follow-up there were no significant mortality differences – 7.9% in the BMS group, 8.8% in the PES group and 8.1% in the SES group. There were 6 in-hospital deaths, one in the BMS and PES groups and 4 in the SES group. After 1-year follow-up there were significant restenosis rate differences: 8.24% in the BMS group, 8.4% in the PES group and 6.34% in the SES group (p = 0.003). Stent thrombosis was a rare complication and occurred in 10 patients without differences in stent groups. The predictors of restenosis revealed by univariate logistic regression analysis included female gender, lipid disturbances (p < 0.001), past myocardial infarction (p < 0.001) and peripheral arterial disease (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Percutaneous coronary angioplasty in patients with NSTEMI and coexisting DM is effective and safe. Implantation of sirolimus-eluting stents gives the best long-term results expressed as the lowest restenosis rate.
Bacterial vaginosis in Pregnant Women: A diagnostic approach

Objective: To determine the prevalence of Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) in pregnant women using a simple clinical diagnostic approach. Method: The clinical criteria developed by Amsel`s and colleagues were used as a reference standard for accurate diagnosis of Bacterial vaginosis (BV) infection. This is based on the presence of the following clinical signs 1) Homogeneous thin, white vaginal discharge 2) Presence of clue cells (greater than 20%). 3) Positive amine (whiff) test. 4) Vaginal pH > than 4.5. The presence of any three of the four clinical criteria was considered diagnostic for BV. Samples were collected from 75 pregnant females, irrespective of their gestational duration, presenting with vaginal discharge at the antenatal clinic of Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Results: BV was diagnosed in 14 females giving an incidence of 18.7%. The, most common symptom was a thin white homogeneous vaginal discharge seen in 27(36%) women. The other diagnostic clinical signs observed were the presence of clue cells on wet mount 9(12%), positive `whiff` test 13(17.3%), and elevated pH>4.5 in 18(24%) women. Microscopic analysis of vaginal secretion revealed diminished polymorph epithelial ratio 19(25.3%) and loss of normal vaginal Lactobaclli 22(29.3%). The other associated findings were candidiasis seen in 16(21.3%) women, while Trichomonas infection in only one woman. These findings were confirmed on Gram staining. Gardnerella vaginalis 9(12%) and Gram variable organisms (Mobiluncus) 11(14.7%) were also identified by Gram smear of vaginal discharge. Conclusion: The clinical diagnosis of BV infection can be established by identifying three of Amsel`s four clinical criteria. In most cases it provides a rapid inexpensive and accurate diagnosis. Strategies should be planned to screen and treat women with BV so as to prevent adverse Obstetric outcome associated with it.