Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multi-Relational Record Linkage

Data cleaning and integration is typically the most expen- sive step in the KDD process. A key part, known as record linkage or de-duplication, is identifying which records in a database refer to the same entities. This problem is traditionally solved separately for each candidate record pair (followed by transitive closure). We propose to use instead a multi-relational approach, performing simultaneous inference for all candidate pairs, and allowing information to propagate from one candidate match to another via the attributes they have in common. Our formulation is based on conditional random elds, and allows an optimal solution to be found in polynomial time using a graph cut algorithm. Pa- rameters are learned using a voted perceptron algorithm. Experiments on real and synthetic databases show that multi-relational record linkage outperforms the standard approach.
Test of the dual pathway model of bulimia nervosa: Evidence for dietary restraint and affect regulation mechanisms.

Although sociocultural pressures are thought to contribute to bulimia nervosa, little research has examined the mechanisms by which these factors might actually produce eating pathology. The present study tested an integrative model of bulimia that centers around dietary restraint and affect regulation pathways. It also incorporates perceived sociocultural pressure, body-mass, ideal-body internalization, and body dissatisfaction. Using data from 257 female undergraduates, structural equation modeling revealed that the model accounted for 71% of the variance in bulimic symptomatology. The relation between perceived sociocultural pressure and bulimic symptoms was mediated by ideal-body internalization, body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and negative affect. The results support the dual pathway model of bulimia and suggest variables that might be targeted in prevention efforts.
Extent and pattern of burden of care and its associated factors among Eritrean families of persons living with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study

Purpose To assess the caregiving burden and its associated factors among Eritrean families of persons living with schizophrenia. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted for 146 caregivers with their respective known patients with schizophrenia of Saint Mary's Neuropsychiatric National Referral Hospital (SMNNRH). Data were collected using Pai and Kapur's Family Burden Interview Schedule (FBIS), the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and self-prepared sociodemographic sheet. Data were analysed using SPSS V.21. Descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression analysis was employed to analyse the data. Results In this study, 84 (57.5%) were males and 62 (42.5%) were females. The mean age was 33.96+10.37 (median=31) for the patients and 46.76+13.96 (median=48) for the caregivers. Total mean objective score was 29.47+6.67. Family caregivers who were single (F=3.224, p<0.005, effect size (ES)=0.064), had educational level at elementary (F=5.647 p=0.001, ES=0.11), had low monthly income (t=7.727, p<0.001, ES=0.01) and were dissatisfied with family support (t=2.889, p<0.01, ES=0.01) experienced greater burden relative to the counterparts. Caregiver's age (β=0.156; p<0.05), duration of caregiving (β=0.131; p<0.05), monthly household family income (β=−0.298; p<0.001), history of self-injury (β=0.151; p=0.05), positive scale (β=0.344; p<0.001), negative scale (β=0.278; p<0.001) and general psychopathological scale (β=0.146; p<0.01) emerged as significant predictors of objective burden. Conclusions Family caregivers of a person living with schizophrenia experience a significant burden of care. Our findings highlight that there is a need of strengthening social and psychological support to reduce the caregiving burden.
Fear of Personal Death and Positive Life Regard

The purpose of the present study was to investigate differences among college students from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds in their fear of personal death and positive life regard. A total of 280 American subjects from six ethnic groups (Chinese, Mexican, Vietnamese, Black, White/Christian, White/Jewish), filled out the Fear of Personal Death Scale (Florian & Kravitz, 1983) and the Life Regard Index (Battista & Almond, 1973). Results indicated that compared to other ethnic groups. Vietnamese Americans received higher scores on certain aspects of the fear of personal death and lower scores on the Life Regard Index. Compared to other religious groups, Asian-Americans of the Buddhist faith expressed higher concern over the consequences of death to family and friends and fear of punishment in the hereafter, and lower positive life regard. An expected relationship was found between fear of death and positive life regard, but only among White/Caucasian and Black participants, This and other findings are discussed in the context of the applicability of previous research findings to diverse ethnic and religious-affiliated groups.
Interpersonal Compatibility and Workgroup Performance

Schutz hypothesized in his theory of interpersonal relations that more interpersonally compatible groups will exhibit greater productivity. Until recently, this proposition has remained largely untested for workgroups. The present study examined 22 teams of systems analysts working at the corporate headquarters of a large oil company. Interpersonal compatibility was measured by using Schuitz's standard instrument, and productivity measurements utilized paired comparisons. Ranks on the compatibility and productivity measures of paired teams were then compared. The hypothesis was not supported; in fact, the data strongly suggest the opposite notion, that more incompatible groups are likely to be judged as more productive. Reciprocal and interchange incompatibilities were found to be particularly associated with the higher-rated groups. This result suggests that moderate tension within groups, not interpersonal harmony, leads to productivity; however, task interdependence could be an important moderating variable and should be incorporated into future studies.
Diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of severe falciparum malaria in African children

De behandeling van Afrikaanse kinderen tegen malaria met artesunaat in plaats van kinine vermindert de sterfte met 22,5 procent. Bovendien heeft artesunaat minder bijwerkingen en is het makkelijker toe te dienen. Bijna een miljoen Afrikaanse kinderen sterven jaarlijks aan malaria. Ilse Hendriksen beschrijft het grootste gerandomiseerde klinische onderzoek naar ernstige malaria tot nu toe (5425 kinderen in 9 Afrikaanse landen). Ook stelt ze dat je door het meten van de plasmaconcentratie van een eiwit geproduceerd door malariaparasieten, kinderen met ernstige malaria kunt onderscheiden van kinderen met een andere ziekte die gepaard gaat met ernstige koorts.
The Technical Properties of Science Content Maze Passages for Middle School Students

The use of Curriculum-Based Measures is rapidly expanding to the middle school level, where maze passages are frequently used to monitor progress in reading. At secondary grade levels, the focus of reading is on reading to learn, especially in the content areas. Therefore, we were interested in developing maze passages based on grade-level science texts to determine whether maze passages constructed from expository texts would have sufficient reliability and validity to serve as reading and science benchmarking tools. Participants included 367 seventh-grade students from three states. Students completed eight maze passages over three testing periods, a reading measure at two testing periods, and 182 students completed a science state assessment. Alternate form reliability of the science maze passages ranged from . 56 to . 80. Concurrent and predictive correlation coefficients with other measures ranged from . 63 to . 67. Implications for practice and research are discussed.
Coupled Bayesian Matrix Factorization in Recommender Systems

In recommender systems, users' preference and items' attraction are heavily determined by users' and items' attributes information. The aim of this study was to incorporate these attributes information into a matrix factorization model. In this paper, users' and items' attributes were used to calculate similarity, and then a nonparametric Bayesian method was applied to cluster users and cluster items, based on the similarity. These clustering results were used to mine coupling relationships and improve the accuracy of recommendation. Experimental results on Movielens 1M demonstrate the superiority of our proposed model over existing methods.
Participatory Photography as a Qualitative Approach to Obtain Insights into Farmer Groups

Participatory methods and visual tools are increasingly popular as qualitative approaches for enriching and complementing quantitative survey tools for understanding livelihoods and assessing and documenting impacts of development projects. However, the use of visual tools for analyzing and documenting social processes is still in its infancy. This article reports on an innovative attempt in adopting existing methods of using disposable cameras to stimulate interviews and focus group discussions with groups of smallholder farmers and to obtain new insights into farmer group dynamics and social capital of groups.
Narcissism and Self-Evaluation Maintenance: Explorations in Object Relations

This study examined effects of threat to the sef on efforts to maintain a positive self-evaluation in individuals with varying levels of narcissism. Male students (N= 216) with varying levels of narcissism, as measured by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, were given feedback that they had been either slightly or substantially outperformed on an ego-relevant task. Subjects completed personality ratings of the better-performing other believing that the other would or would not see the evaluation. According to Tesser's self-evaluation maintenance model, one way to reduce threat from a better-performing other is to derogate the other More narcissistic individuals reacted to such a threat to self by rating the other more negatively than less narcissistic individuals. However, in contrast to prediction, narcissists were somewhat less negative in public than in private. Discussion centers on the utility of translating a psychoanalytic construct into social cognitive processes.
Extracting rules from DRASiW's "mental images"

DRASiW is an extension of the WiSARD weightless neural model that provides the ability of producing examples/prototypes, called "mental images", from learnt categories. This work introduces a novel way of performing rule extraction by applying the WiSARD/DRASiW RAM- based neural model upon a well-known machine learning benchmark. A functional exploration is offered in order to demonstrate how the new rule extraction mechanism behaves under different system configurations. Experimental results suggest that the rules conformance to data increases proportionally to the corresponding classifier accuracy. Furthermore, com- parison with C4.5 decision tree algorithm shows that the DRASiW-based technique produces more compact sets of rules.
Reliability and Validity of the T‐Test as a Measure of Agility, Leg Power, and Leg Speed in College‐Aged Men and Women

The reliability and validity of the T-test as a measure of leg power, leg speed, and agility were examined. A total of 304 college-aged men (n = 152) and women (n = 152), selected from varying levels of sport participation, performed 4 tests of sport skill ability: (a) 40-yd dash (leg speed), (b) counter-movement vertical jump (leg power), (c) hexagon test (agility), and (d) T-test. For both men and women, significant differences (p < 0.05) in mean scores were found among groups for the T-test. The intraclass reliability of the T-test was 0.98 across 3 trials. For men, the Pearson product moment correlations between the T-test and the 40-yd dash, vertical jump, and hexagon test were r = 0.53, r = −0.49, and r = 0.42, respectively (p < 0.05). For women, the corresponding correlations were r = 0.73, r = −0.55, and r = 0.48 (p < 0.05). Regression analyses showed that for men 48% of the variability and for women 62% of the variability of the T-test scores can be predicted from measures of leg power, leg speed, and agility (p < 0.05). Computing partial correlations assessed the criterion validity of the T-test as a measure of agility, leg power, and leg speed. The T-test appears to be highly reliable and measures a combination of components, including leg speed, leg power, and agility, and may be used to differentiate between those of low and high levels of sports participation.
Women Faculty at an Evangelical University: The Paradox of Religiously Driven Gender Inequalities and High Job Satisfaction

This article examines the job satisfaction of women faculty at an evangelical university. Using mixed methods, the authors compared the job satisfaction of women faculty at an evangelical university with their male counterparts, as well as with men and women faculty at a secular research university in the same region. Paradoxically, they found higher levels of gender inequality at the evangelical university when compared to the secular university, yet also found higher levels of overall job satisfaction among female faculty at the evangelical university when compared to their secular university counterparts. The authors conclude that the evangelical “toolkit” 1 which highly values personal relationships with students combined with a form of “benevolent sexism” 2 on this campus that allows for cordial and warm relationships between male and female faculty while simultaneously excluding women from important information and resources explain these paradoxical results.
Optimized seamless integration of biomolecular data

Today, scientific data is inevitably digitized, stored in a variety of heterogeneous formats, and is accessible over the Internet. Scientists need to access an integrated view of multiple remote or local heterogeneous data sources. They then integrate the results of complex queries and apply further analysis and visualization to support the task of scientific discovery. Building a digital library for scientific discovery requires accessing and manipulating data extracted from flat files or databases, documents retrieved from the Web, as well as data that is locally materialized in warehouses or is generated by software. We consider several tasks to provide optimized and seamless integration of biomolecular data. Challenges to be addressed include capturing and representing source capabilities; developing a methodology to acquire and represent metadata about source contents and access costs; and decision support to select sources and capabilities using cost based and semantic knowledge, and generating low cost query evaluation plans.
The Operation Was a Success but The Patient Died: Aider Priorities Influence Decision Aid Usefulness

The usefulness of quantitative decision aid is often impaired and its usage impeded by the misaligned priorities of analysts and the middlemen who employ them. Analysts' professional orientation may dispose them to attend to analytic processes more than to deciders' needs and to stick with outdated practices. As a result, their analyses may be technically sound but disregard key knowledge, make unrealistic assumptions, or answer the wrong questions. Middlemen's financial or other conflicts of interest exacerbate such defects. Deciders may have to take more control of analyses (and analysts) and, for example, bypass middlemen.
American Journal of Epidemiology Original Contribution Geographic Clustering of Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements and Associations with Geographic Clustering of Pertussis

School immunization requirements are important in controlling vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States. Forty-eight states offer nonmedical exemptions to school immunization requirements. Children with exemptions are at increased risk of contracting and transmitting vaccine-preventable diseases. The clustering of non-medical exemptions can affect community risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. The authors evaluated spatial clustering of nonmedical exemptions in Michigan and geographic overlap between exemptions clusters and clusters of reported pertussis cases. Kulldorf's scan statistic identified 23 statistically significant census tract clusters for exemption rates and 6 significant census tract clusters for reported pertussis cases between 1993 and 2004. The time frames for significant space-time pertussis clusters were Census tracts in exemptions clusters were more likely to be in pertussis clusters (odds ratio ¼ 3.0, 95% confidence interval: 2.5, 3.6). The overlap of exemptions clusters and pertussis clusters remained significant after adjustment for population density, proportion of racial/ethnic minorities, proportion of children aged 5 years or younger, percentage of persons below the poverty level, and average family size (odds ratio ¼ 2.7, 95% confidence interval: 2.2, 3.3). Geographic pockets of vaccine exemptors pose a risk to the whole community. In addition to monitoring state-level exemption rates, health authorities should be mindful of within-state heterogeneity. School immunization requirements have played an important role in controlling vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States (1–3). All states require receipt of vaccines at the time of school entry. Medical exemptions to school immunization requirements are offered in all states, and 48 states offer nonmedical exemptions. There are differences between states in administrative requirements for obtaining exemptions. Between 1991 and 2004, rates of nonmedical exemptions increased in states with relatively easier administrative procedures for obtaining nonmedical exemptions, and from 1986 to 2004, the incidence of pertussis was almost 50% higher in states that easily granted nonmedical exemptions (4). Moreover, pockets of high exemption rates occur within states (5, 6). These pockets could produce the critical mass of susceptible persons required to maintain transmission of vaccine-preventable diseases, even when overall state-level vaccination coverage is high (5, 6). In a Colorado study (7), the incidence of measles and pertussis among vaccinated children in a county was associated with the frequency of exemptions in that county. In addition, at least 11% of non-exempt children who acquired measles were infected through contact with an exempt child with measles. School-based outbreaks have been associated with high exemption rates, and in a recent survey of …
Improving the Detector Performance by Exploiting a Feedback Model

A new watermarking-embedding scheme is proposed to improve the detector performance. The embedder employs the media to control both the fidelity (using a visual model) and the detectability (using a feedback of the watermark detector). Media-content dependent watermark modulation can effectively resist copy attack and removal attack. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme has a distinguished achievement in the detectability.
Social Workers' Ability to Assess How Clients Experience Investigation Sessions — With and Without the ASI

• Summary: Two groups of social workers (n = 19, n = 13) carried out two different forms of assessment session, one involving an ASI (Addiction Severity Index) interview (n = 40) and one without (n = 43). After the sessions the social workers were requested to assess both the clients' experience and their own experience of the session. The clients also reported their own experience of the sessions. • Findings: The results show that the social workers' assessment of the clients' experience differs from the clients' own assessments regarding the sub-scales of alliance and the clients' sense of own competence. However, no difference was observed between the social workers' assessment and the clients' negative experiences of the sessions. The results show the importance of asking the clients for their views when testing new ways of working. This will provide a more balanced picture as social workers are inclined to perceive the negative aspects and misjudge other experiences. The two different forms of session, with or without the ASI, did not affect the social workers' assessment of the clients' experience of the sessions. • Applications : Testing of new methods of working in social work.
Hazardous drinking by first-year college-athletes: The differential roles of drinking motives, alcohol consequences, and season status

College student-athletes and first-year students are two undergraduate populations at risk for heavy-episodic drinking and alcohol-related negative consequences. In this study, 63 (56% female, 62% Caucasian) first-year student-athletes completed a preliminary questionnaire assessing demographic characteristics, athlete-specific drinking motives, alcohol-related negative consequences, and season status. Scores of five or more on the ,4 UDIT-C defined the at-risk subsample. Participants who met the criteria for hazardous drinking (n = 19) reported higher levels of alcohol-related negative consequences and drinking motives. A logistic regression, with these variables, successfully distinguished between the two groups. Sport-related coping2, and positive reinforcement drinking motives, emerged as the most robust predictors of hazardous drinking. Implications for screening, prevention, and brief intervention strategies for first-year student-athletes are discussed.
Evaluating Physical and Perceptual Responses to Exergames in Chinese Children

Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to examine whether exergames could help children reach the recommendations for PA and cardiorespiratory fitness regarding exercise intensity. Differences in perceived physical exertion, EE, VO2, and HR between normal weight (NW) and overweight (OW) children participating in exergames were also examined. Methods: Twenty-one children (age: 10.45 ± 0.88) were assessed for EE, VO2 and HR during rest, in a maximal treadmill test, and while playing different exergames. Ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) (category range: 0 to 10) were also measured during exergaming. Three types of exergames were examined: running, table tennis, and dancing. These games were either performed on a Chinese game console, I-Dong, or another well-developed Western game console (Sony PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii). Results: Exergaming resulted in EE (kcal/min) from 2.05–5.14, VO2 (mL/kg/min) from 9.98–25.54, and HR (beats per minute) from 98.05–149.66. Children reported RPE ranging from 1.29 to 5.29. The Chinese exergame, I-Dong Running, was the only game in which children reached a moderate intensity and met the recommended minimum VO2reserve (50%) for cardiorespiratory fitness. Conclusion: Exergames could provide alternative opportunities to enhance children’s physical activity. They could be used as light-to-moderate PA, and with exergames, children can even reach the recommended intensity for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory fitness.
INQUERY at TREC-5

L'equipe de l'universite du Massachusetts a explore trois techniques de traitement de question : le traitement de la question de base, le traitement de la question centrale (concept cle), l'analyse du contexte local. Les AA. presentent les resultats obtenus lors de leurs experiences sur l'espagnol et le chinois de routing et de filtrage a l'aide du systeme INQUIRY