Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Examination of Actualization and It's Degree of Relationship To Death Concern by

The Threat Index (Tl) is purported to tap the cognitive dimensions of an individuals personal meaning of death. Viewed by many researchers as the best validated measurement of death orientation in the literature today, the test yields an "integration" score, determining the extent that an individual can anticipate death as a personal reality. Recently, research on the TI has included an "actualization" score (ACT) based on the discrepancy between an individual's ratings of self and preferred self on a sample of personal constructs. Although researchers have been investigating the utility of such a measure, it has not been clearly established that this is in fact measuring actualization. Traditionally, the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) is considered by many to be the most widely used and best measure of actualization. This study investigated the relationship of actualization to an individual's death concerns. Specifically, actualization as measured by the TI was compared to actualization as measured by the POI. Questionnaire packages were distributed to 176 introductory Psychology students. Various analyses were conducted to investigate the role of actualization in an individual's concerns over death. The results of these analyses revealed that the POI was a more sensitive measure of actualization than the measure of ACT. Over the last few years there has been a significant increase in the amount of research concerned with attitudes toward death and dying. In particular, fear of death has been closely scrutinized. Unfortunately, the results of this research have been contradictory and confusing (Lester, 1967; Poliak, 1979). In general, research in this area can be divided into two different approaches. The first approach, referred to as the "indirect" method, has utilized response latencies, physiological responses and projective techniques to provide information thought to be relevant to subconcious fears, anxieties, and concerns about death (Alexander, Colley, and Adlerstein, 1957; Meissner, 1958; Feifel, 1974; Golding, Atwood, and Goodman, 1966; Kastenbaum and Costa, 1977; Kurlychek, 1978; Templer, 1971a). The second approach, referred to as the "direct" method, has attempted to evaluate death anxiety, fear of death or death concerns through the use of self-report scales, questionnaires, interviews and so on. An early study using the direct approach was carried out by Middleton (1936) when he administered a 14 item questionnaire related to death and future life to 825 college students (488 males and 337 females). Foremost among his results was the finding that most individuals (93% of the subjects surveyed) rarely entertained thoughts of their own death. Moreover, of those who did think about their own death, 52% only thought of it in terms of being killed in an accident (the majority being automobile
The efficacy of CBCA and RM in discriminating between reports of single, repeated, and fabricated eventsby Jennifer A. A. Lavoie.

The present study examined the diagnostic capabilities of Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) and Reality Monitoring (RM) techniques in successfully distinguishing between reports of an event that were based on a single, repeated, or fabricated experience. Children (aged 7-8, N = 60) participated in a play session once, four times, or were coached to fabricate taking part in the event. One day after the target event, the children were interviewed for their memory of the play session. Recall reports were then coded using CBCA and RM criteria. Results indicated that initial global appraisals of perceived credibility failed to correctly assess authenticity of the account. Although single event reports were more likely to be classified as more credible than the other two conditions, accounts based on repeated experience were perceived only to be as credible as untrue accounts. Two models of Principal Component Analysis were generated in order to identify underlying dimensions of CBCA and RM, as well as to produce factor scores for further analyses. Derived components for the two credibility techniques were entered separately into two series of Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVA). Individual and global evaluations of CBCA criteria did not discriminate real from fallacious accounts irrespective of event frequency. RM was sensitive to the veracity of statements, however the technique was unable to distinguish variability in event frequency. Implications regarding the perceived credibility assessments and the varying success of these credibility measures are discussed in relation to assessing verbal content of child witnesses in the criminal justice system.
Situational Factors Influencing Receptivity to Bullshit

Individuals are motivated to maintain a sense of meaning, and enact cognitive processes to do so (e.g., perceiving structure in the environment). This motivation to find meaning may ultimately impact humans’ interpretation of "bullshit", statements intended to convey profundity without any meaning. Conversely, subtle cues threatening the meaningfulness of bullshit may elicit greater skepticism. Three studies tested situational factors predicted to heighten or diminish susceptibility to bullshit by changing motivations to seek meaning. We employed diverse methods including symbolic meaning threat (Study 1), social exclusion (Cyberball; Study 2), and manipulating cognitive fluency (Study 3). Taken together, the results indicate basic processes shaping the detection of meaning have implications for the appraisal of ambiguously insightful information.
Sleep Researchers are Studying Addiction but Don't Know It.

The purpose of this commentary is to survey published results of currently funded research grants from several institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the topic of sleep. Grants to be included are those whose Aims are focused on the mission of their institutes but also could stimulate new research on the risks and consequences of addiction which is the mission of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. A recent survey [1] showed that drugs of addiction, while on board or during withdrawal, modify different aspects of the sleep architecture (e.g., onset, duration, slow wave sleep, REM sleep, etc.) and that the nature of these effects depended on the specific drug. Accordingly, those studying sleep for their own purposes may not know that they are also studying similar aspects of sleep relevant to addiction.
ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING AUDITOR’S JUDGEMENTS: STUDY OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Audit judgment is necessary because the audit cannot be conducted on all of the evidence. These evidence is used to express an opinion on the audited financial statements, so it can be said that the audit judgment also determining the outcome of the audit. This study aims to identify and analyze the factors that affect the auditor’s judgment in doing audit. This research was explorative research. The research methodology used in this research was factor analysis method. Technique used in collecting the data was questionnaire technique. The questionnaires were delivered to 72 auditors in public accounting firms in Yogyakarta. Fifty-six questionnaires (78%) were returned complete and could be processed. The results of the data analysis show that the auditor’s judgments in doing audit are influenced by factors of audit tenure, risk, professionalism, and attitude. Audit tenure becomes the dominant factor because it has the largest eigenvalues of 6.240. The implications of this study is that public accounting firms are expected to be aware to the audit tenure so close relationship will not exist that would affect the independence and objectivity of the auditor.
Study of correlation between maternal and cord blood vitamin D3 levels

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone with diverse actions in body ranging from calcium and phosphorus homeostasis to recently uncovered non metabolic actions like those related to cancer, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease and infections. One billion people around the world are estimated to be Vitamin D deficient, ironically while it is called ‘sunshine vitamin’ its deficiency is widespread in the tropics. What is especially of concern is the wide prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in pregnant women especially in the Indian subcontinent. During gestation Vitamin D status of the mother acquires greater importance due to the dependence of the growing fetus on maternal vitamin D. In neonates hypocalcemia, impaired growth, skeletal deformity, decreased bone mineral density, seizures and low birth weight are associated with low vitamin D levels. Maternal vitamin D status depends on consumption, absorption and metabolism of dietary Vitamin D.
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE ECONOMICHE ED AZIENDALI “M.FANNO” CORSO DI LAUREA IN ECONOMIA (TreC) PROVA FINALE “TRUST, REPUTATION AND QUALITY IN ONLINE MARKETPLACES” RELATORE: CH.MO PROF PAOLA VALBONESI LAUREANDO: ANDREA DE MORI

3 INTRODUCTION 4 1. THEORY BEHIND REPUTATION MECHANISMS IN E-MARKETS – AN OVERVIEW 6 1.1. Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection 6 1.2. The Trust game model 8 2. ECONOMIC AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES OF REPUTATION MECHANISMS IN ONLINE MARKETPLACES 10 2.1. Feedback systems and online reviews 10 2.1.1. eWOM and UGC, an overview 10 2.1.2. Taobao and the RFF system 11 2.1. 3. Two-sided vs one-sided feedback, the retaliation problem 12 2.1. 4. Consequences of online reviews on firms’ economic performance 14 2.1. 5. Consequences of online reviews on consumers’ behavior 16 2.2. Rating biases 17 2.2.1. Rating bubbles 18 2.2.2. Early adopters enthusiasm 19 2.2.3. Online Social Influence 19 2.3. Certification policies 20 2.3. 1. The eBay case and the policy change of 2009 21 3. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 24 4. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SITOGRAPHY 29
Fabrication and Characterization of Porous Silicon Nitride Bodies through Starch Consolidation Casting and Pressureless Sintering

Porous Si3N4 ceramics were prepared by a novel colloidal method called starch consolidation casting. In this method, starch plays both pore-forming and consolidating roles. The effect of starch content on the viscosity of Si3N4/starch slurry was investigated in this research. Rotational Rheometer was used to study the rheological behavior of Si3N4/starch slurry. Green samples with 5 to 10MPa flexural strength were shaped by casting slurries in a nonporous mold and held at 80°C for 120min. Afterward the samples burned-out and sintered at 1650°C for 4h in an air furnace under a nitride powder bed condition. Thermal behavior, phase evolution, and microstructure of sintered samples were characterized through Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The XRD results showed that was the main phase in the sintered samples. The phase content was as much as 90wt% in the sintered samples. Finally, a porous silicon nitride sample was successfully produced with 44vol% open porosity and Flexural strength of 108.9MPa through the starch consolidation casting method.
Status of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos in Abruzzo

1 Stazione Ornitologica Abruzzese 2 Altura, Associazione per la Tutela degli Uccelli Rapaci e dei loro Ambienti 3 Gruppo Ornitologico Snowfinch, L’Aquila 4 Parco Regionale Sirente-Velino 5 CISDAM, Centro Italiano di Studi e di Documentazione sugli Abeti Mediterranei * Corresponding author: carlo.artese@gransassolagapark.it Carlo artese1,*, stefano allavena2, siro Baliva1, Mauro Bernoni1, faBio Borlenghi2, Maurizio Carfagnini2, MarCo Cirillo1, gino DaMiani1, siMone Di BeneDetto3, giorgio lalli3, Paola Morini4, MassiMo Pellegrini1, franCesCo PinChera5, filoMena riCCi1 Status of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos in Abruzzo
Running Head: TEACHING CONFUSABLE WORDS TO IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS: 3$International$Conference$on$Language,$Innovation,$Culture$and$Education(ICLICE)$$

Confusable words such as confident and confidant refer to those lexical items which sound or look alike, but frequently cause confusion. The purpose of the current study, using a corpus-based approach to teaching confusable words, was to study the role of corpus in learning and retaining confusable words, to probe into the role of frequency in learning confusable words and to find out the learners' feedback and their attitude toward using corpus in learning confusable words. To this end, 43 male and female freshmen Iranian EFL learners, divided into two groups, served as the participants of this study. After 5 weeks of treatment using BNC corpus for the experimental group and traditional method for the control group, a posttest was conducted followed by a one-month delayed post-test. The results indicated that the use of corpus as a new trend was significantly helpful in teaching confusable words. The results also indicated that the use of corpus can be effective in retaining lexical items. However, the frequency effect was not significant. The findings of the study offer practical implications for the inclusion of corpora in the process of second language acquisition.
The Relationship Between the Level of Physical Activity and the Quality of Sleep in Women in the Last Three Month of Pregnancy

This paper is aimed at studying the relationship between different aspects of physical activity and the quality of sleep in women who are in the last three month of pregnancy. The methodology in this study is of a correlation kind. This study is conducted through field research. The population in this study is the women who are in the 28th-36th week of pregnancy and were hospitalized in Imam Hussein hospital of Shahrood in 2013. 76 women were chosen as the sample. PPAQ questionnaire was used to gather the data regarding the level of physical activity and for the quality of sleep PSQI was used. The validity of the all the data gathering tools is approved by the experts and the academician of this major and for the reliability the Cronbach’s alpha was used (0.71, 0.81). To analyze the data SPSS software version 16 was used and to test the hypotheses KolmogorovSmironov test, Pierson’s correlation coefficient, and Spearman’s correlation coefficient were used. The findings show that there is a significant inverse relationship between activities like footwork and the quality of sleep in pregnant women. But there was not a significant relationship between physical activities at home, at work, and the level of exercise with the quality of sleep in pregnant women. According to the findings it can be concluded that intensive footwork in the last three months of pregnancy can lead to sleep disorder. Therefore it is recommended that in addition to regular programs a predefined program is set for physical activities like walking and jogging outside of the house and prevent a lot of footwork.
Interactive comment on “Why CO2 cools the middle atmosphere – a consolidating model perspective” by H. F. Goessling and S. Bathiany

COMMENT: This paper is an interesting, scholarly, thorough and well-motivated piece of work, and I recommend that it be published subject to some modifications. I have to say, though, that having worked in this field for some time, I did not feel it ultimately helped my intuition much beyond what I learn from a rather simpler model (below). But I appreciate that others (as evidenced by the comment already online) may so benefit. It could be that I am too stubborn with my simpler view, or too easily satisfied.
Effects Of a Six-Week Watermelon Supplementation On Insulin Resistance and Food Intake Signaling In Free-Living, Overweight Post-Menopausal Women

Obesity is associated with hormonal disruption involving food intake, and post-menopausal women have a higher propensity to be overweight. PURPOSE: Investigate the effects of six-weeks of watermelon supplementation on insulin resistance and food intake signaling in free-living, overweight, post-menopausal women. METHODS: Subjects (60.1±6.8 years old and 59.5±5.2 years old, control and watermelon, respectively throughout) were overweight (82.5±14.5 kg and 84.2±17.1 kg, respectively) and randomly assigned to either the watermelon or control treatment groups. The watermelon group consumed 710 mL of watermelon puree per day for six weeks. The control group served as a time control. Both groups maintained lifestyle and body mass. Fasting blood was collected pre- and post-six-week supplementation. RESULTS: Watermelon supplementation increased L-arginine (p 0.05). The hunger and satiety peptides also did not change as a result of watermelon supplementation: Ghrelin, leptin, glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide 1, or peptide YY (p>0.05). The control group, however, showed increased levels of PYY (p<0.05). There was also a main effect of time for leptin, insulin, and GLP-1 (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Six-weeks of watermelon supplementation did not impact insulin resistance or food intake signaling in free-living, overweight, post-menopausal women.
Knowledge, attitude and performance of nurses regarding pain assessment and measurement, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Introduction: Infants can not express their pain, therefore, their pain should be evaluated by valid and reliable tools. The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and performance of nurses working in neonatal units on pain assessment and measurement in neonates. Methods: This descriptive and analytic study performed during March-August 2011 in neonatal units and NICU in Bandar Abbas educational hospitals. The number of nurses and nurse-assistances working in neonatal units was 50, where 40 nurses completed the questionnaire. Data collecting tool was a structured questionnaire containing four parts: demographic data and special questions concerning knowledge, attitude and practice. The data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Mean of knowledge score for participants was 10.27 out of 26. Mean score of attitude was 54.22 out of 60 and mean scores of neonates' pain assessment practice was 4.22 out of 10. Nurses had very weak practice regarding pain assessment and measurement and 100 of them did not use any tool for measuring neonate's pain. There was a significant relationship between nurses' knowledge score and level of education and cases with more education had more knowledge. There was no significant relationship between nurse's knowledge scores and marital status as well as work experience. Conclusion: Knowledge of nurses regarding neonate pain assessment and measurement is very low and need continuous and periodic educations regarding measurement procedure.
Young people’s help-seeking for mental health problems

Abstract This paper summarises an ambitious research agenda aiming to uncover the factors that affect help-seeking among young people for mental health problems. The research set out to consider why young people, and particularly young males, do not seek help when they are in psychological distress or suicidal; how professional services be made more accessible and attractive to young people; the factors that inhibit and facilitate help-seeking; and how community gatekeepers can support young people to access services to help with personal and emotional problems. A range of studies was undertaken in New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Data from a total of 2721 young people aged 14–24 years were gathered, as well as information from some of the community gatekeepers to young people’s mental health care. Help-seeking was measured in all the studies using the General Help Seeking Questionnaire (Wilson, Deane, Ciarrochi & Rickwood, 2005), which measures future help-seeking intentions and, through supplementary questions, can also assess prior help-seeking experience. Many of the studies also measured recent help-seeking behaviour using the Actual Help Seeking Questionnaire. The types of mental health problems examined varied across the studies and included depressive symptoms, personal-emotional problems, and suicidal thoughts. The help-seeking process was conceptualised using a framework developed during the research program. This framework maintains that help-seeking is a process of translating the very personal domain of psychological distress to the interpersonal domain of seeking help. Factors that were expected to facilitate or inhibit this translation process were investigated. These included factors that determine awareness of the personal domain of psychological distress and that affect the ability to articulate or express this personal domain to others, as well as willingness to disclose mental health issues to other people. The results are reported in terms of: patterns of help-seeking across adolescence and young adulthood; the relationship of help-seeking intentions to behaviour; barriers to seeking help—lack of emotional competence, the help-negation effect related to suicidal thoughts, negative attitudes and beliefs about help-seeking and fear of stigma; and facilitators of seeking help—emotional competence, positive past experience, mental health literacy, and supportive social influences. The paper considers the implications of the findings for the development of interventions to encourage young people to seek help for their mental health problems, and concludes by identifying gaps in the help-seeking research and literature and suggesting future directions.
Reinventing Protein Microarrays: Multiplexed Analysis in Clinical Samples

Proteins are our window into the physiological state of cells. Most are entwined in a complex biochemical network or pathway, where the activity of one depends on the concentration of those around it. Microarrays help us to understand these protein interactions, invaluable information in disease detection and treatment. Simple and inexpensive, the FoRe microarray simultaneously tests several μl samples for multiple proteins. Its innovative three-dimensional (3D) design combines the high signal-to-noise and multiplexing of microarrays with the speed and sensitivity of immunofiltration. Protein microarrays allow us to monitor many biorecognition reactions in parallel. Miniature test sites immobilised on a planar surface are insensitive to sample volume errors, have high signal-to-noise and throughput, but suffer from long incubation times when detecting dilute analytes. Immunofiltration assays are a complimentary technique, perfectly suited for rapidly analysing dilute samples. Instead of test sites on a planar support, the analyte flows through membranes dense with capture probes. However, difficulties isolating samples results in mm-test sites with limited multiplexing and lower signal-to-noise. The FoRe array merges these two technologies by bringing immunofiltration from the milli-scale to the micro-scale and combining microarray multiplexing with rapid lowconcentration sensing. The concept of the FoRe microarray is “stack-and-separate. ” Capture antibodies are passively adsorbed to membranes, which are then stacked to form a multiplexed affinity column. The device is easily customisable—any combination of test sites can be assembled. As the sample flows through the stack, target proteins are specifically adsorbed on the different layers. To analyse several samples in parallel we introduced hydrophobic