Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Male Perpetration of Physical Violence Against Female Partners

Sixty men arrested for domestic violence and court referred to a batterer intervention program completed measures offrequency of physical violence enacted toward their female partner, need for dominance in a relationship, social desirability, and adult attachment style. A hierarchical regression analysis indicated that, after adjusting for the effect of social desirability, adult attachment style significantly moderated the relationship between need for dominance and frequency of violence. As expected, insecurely attached men who also indicated a need for dominance in their relationship reported the most violence toward their female partners. These findings highlight the importance of drawing on multiple and diverse theories to explain battering. Implications of the findings for intervention and policy are addressed.
Local and Global Gestalt Laws: A Neurally Based Spectral Approach

Abstract This letter presents a mathematical model of figure-ground articulation that takes into account both local and global gestalt laws and is compatible with the functional architecture of the primary visual cortex (V1). The local gestalt law of good continuation is described by means of suitable connectivity kernels that are derived from Lie group theory and quantitatively compared with long-range connectivity in V1. Global gestalt constraints are then introduced in terms of spectral analysis of a connectivity matrix derived from these kernels. This analysis performs grouping of local features and individuates perceptual units with the highest salience. Numerical simulations are performed, and results are obtained by applying the technique to a number of stimuli.
The Undoing and Doing of Sexual Identity among Heterosexual Men with HIV in Australia

This article explores the tendency among heterosexual men with HIV in Australia to declare their sexual identity in a way that is otherwise atypical among heterosexuals. This apparent need to articulate heterosexuality tends to create a sense of discomfort within the local HIV sector, partly because it seems curiously anomalous, and partly because, on the face of it, it lends itself to a perception of homophobia. The author seeks to examine this phenomenon more closely in order to identify and unpack the meanings surrounding it. In doing so, the author draws on qualitative interviews with heterosexual men with HIV and on her long-term collaboration with an HIV health promotion service for heterosexuals living with HIV. The author argues that, to understand these men’s compulsion to name their sexual identity, we need to understand the intersections between the cultural force of heteronormativity and the profoundly homosexual history of the HIV epidemic in Australia, which brings into sharp focus the “undoing” and “doing” of heterosexual masculinity.
Measuring Progress Toward a Goal

This article develops a procedure for measuring how much is gained by students in a pretest and posttest situation against a target score on the posttest. The author defines a productivity index, Mj, for teacher j as the ratio of estimated gains to an estimated standard that is the distance between an estimate of the pretest and target score. Using language, mathematics, and reading scores on the SAT 9 for 1999 and 2000 from 75 public elementary classrooms (Grades 3-6 in 2000), the author employs a Bayesian implementation of a multivariate mixed model for repeated test scores from individual students. The analysis points to statistically significant gains on the whole for Grades 3, 4, and 6. The strength of the approach lies in a straightforward estimation of the productivity index and a procedure for representing its uncertainty in the form of a productivity profile. This approach also facilitates a Bayesian effect size analysis free from frequentist appeals to noncentral t or F distributions.
The Cultural Relationship Interview Matrix: Four Activities for Couples

An understanding of one's own and his or her partner's cultural heritage is an essential aspect to enhancing the relationship. In this article, the authors introduced the Cultural Relationship Interview Matrix. It is a form for couples to complete individually and then to interview each other. The purpose is for bringing awareness to their respective cultural heritage and for enhancing their communication. Four activities and seven tables are included in the suggested exercises.
Preservice Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Taiwan.

In Taiwan, a teacher is perceived as a central educational figure who is to mediate in translating Chinese social values into the daily school reality. Considering the important roles of teachers, research on efficacy beliefs of preservice teachers helps us understand professional development of teachers in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to compare efficacy beliefs of preservice teachers in Taiwan who were at the beginning of early childhood teacher preparation with those who were near the end of their preparation programs, and to determine whether there were differences between these two samples of prospective teachers on the efficacy scale. In addition, this study examined the validity of a modified version of Gibson and Dembo's (1984) 16-item Teacher Efficacy Scale. The response of 298 preservice teachers were examined by means of confirmatory factor analysis, using the two factors from Gibson and Dembo. Since that analysis did not yield an adequate fit, exploratory factor analysis, using maximum likelihood extraction and direct oblimin rotation, was performed as a follow-up procedure, resulting in a four-factor structure. Similar analysis was performed separately for each group (beginning and ending), also resulting in four-factor structures, but the factor loadings were different for each group. Inspection of the results of the exploratory analysis suggests that teacher efficacy in Taiwan is conceptually different from teacher efficacy in the USA. Changes in the factor loadings for students at the beginning and at about the end of their preparation programs also suggest that preservice teachers' beliefs about their roles as teachers and their potential for success change with experience.
THE INTERSUBJECTIVITY OF ISSUES AND ISSUES OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY

This paper describes research concerned with assisting groups in organizations handle their complex, ill-structured policy issues in ways which we believe are significantly different from many typical policy analysis projects. It is our belief that many systems research, operational research and management science projects have concentrated on ‘objective’, usually quantitative data at the expense of losing their clients' interest and commitment. Our work is concerned with taking account of intersubjectivity in policy analysis and evaluation. It is orientated to the construction of models that will be owned by our clients because they recognize as legitimate, and explicitly take account of, the subjective and particular knowledge of individuals within organizations. They also explicitly take account of the interaction of shared and individual knowledge as a group comes to define an intersubjective group issue.
Short-term effects of population-based screening for prostate cancer on health-related quality of life.

BACKGROUND Population-based screening for prostate cancer is currently being evaluated in randomized clinical trials in the United States and in Europe. Side effects arising from the process of screening and from the earlier treatment of screen-detected prostate cancer may be important factors in the evaluation. To examine health-related quality of life (or health status) among men screened for prostate cancer, we conducted a longitudinal study of 626 attenders to the Rotterdam (The Netherlands) prostate cancer screening program and of 500 nonparticipants. METHODS Attenders of the screening program and nonparticipants completed self-assessment questionnaires (SF-36 [i.e., Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey] and EQ-5D [i.e., EuroQol measure for health-related quality of life] health surveys) to measure generic health status, as well as an additional questionnaire for anxiety and items relating to prostate cancer screening. RESULTS Physical discomfort during digital rectal examination and during transrectal ultrasound was reported by 181 (37%) of 491 men and by 139 (29%) of 487 men, respectively; discomfort during prostate biopsy was reported by 64 (55%) of 116 men. Mean scores for health status and anxiety indicated that the participants did not experience relevant changes in physical, psychological, and social functioning during the screening procedure. However, high levels of anxiety were observed throughout the screening process among men with a high predisposition to anxiety. Similar scores for anxiety predisposition were observed among attenders and nonparticipants. CONCLUSIONS At the group level, we did not find evidence that prostate cancer screening induced important short-term health-status effects, despite the short-lasting side effects related to the biopsy procedure. However, subgroups may experience high levels of anxiety. The implication is that unfavorable health-status effects of prostate cancer screening occur mainly in the treatment phase.
Assessing the value of cooperation in Wikipedia

Since its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers. Despite the apparent lack of order, the 50 million edits by 4.8 million contributors to the 1.5 million articles in the English-language Wikipedia follow strong certain overall regularities. We show that the accretion of edits to an article is described by a simple stochastic mechanism, resulting in a heavy tail of highly visible articles with a large number of edits. We also demonstrate a crucial correlation between article quality and number of edits, which validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort.
Using a Visual Attention Model to Improve Gaze Tracking Systems in Interactive 3D Applications

This paper introduces the use of a visual attention model to improve the accuracy of gaze tracking systems. Visual attention models simulate the selective attention part of the human visual system. For instance, in a bottom‐up approach, a saliency map is defined for the image and gives an attention weight to every pixel of the image as a function of its colour, edge or intensity.
Capability of single hardware channel for automotive safety applications according to ISO 26262

There is no doubt that electromobility will be the future. All-electric vehicles were already available on the market in 2011 and 14 new vehicles will be commercially available in 2012. Due to the fact that automotive applications are influenced by the safety requirements of the ISO 26262, nowadays the use of new technologies requires more and more understanding for fail-safe and fault-tolerant systems due to increasingly complex systems. The safety of electric vehicles has the highest priority because it helps contribute to customer confidence and thereby ensures further growth of the electromobility market. Therefore in series production redundant hardware concepts like dual core microcontrollers running in lock-step-mode are used to reach ASIL D requirements given from the ISO 26262. In this paper redundant hardware concepts and the coded processing will be taken into account, which are listed in the current standard ISO 26262 as recommended safety measures.
Review of exercise studies in breast cancer survivors: attention to principles of exercise training.

OBJECTIVES Research supports the use of exercise to improve quality of life and reduce the side effects of breast cancer treatment, such as fatigue and decreased aerobic capacity. Previously published reviews have focused on reporting the outcomes of exercise interventions, but have not critically examined the exercise prescriptions. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the application of the principles of exercise training in the exercise prescriptions reported in intervention studies for breast cancer survivors. METHODS Databases were searched for randomised controlled trials of exercise in women diagnosed with breast cancer. Data were extracted to evaluate the application of the principles of exercise training, the reporting of the components of the exercise prescription and the reporting of adherence to the exercise prescription. RESULTS Of the 29 papers included, none applied all principles of exercise training. Specificity was applied by 64%, progression by 41%, overload by 31%, initial values by 62% and diminishing returns and reversibility by 7% of trials. No study reported all components of the exercise prescription. CONCLUSION The application of the principles of exercise training varied greatly, and reporting of the exercise prescribed and completed was incomplete. When principles of exercise training are applied to the development of exercise protocols, there is greater confidence that non-significant findings reflect lack of efficacy of exercise rather than deficiencies in the prescription. Incomplete reporting of the exercise prescription and adherence to the prescription limits the reproducibility of the intervention, and the ability to determine the dose of exercise received by participants.
A Pilot Study of Readability Prediction with Reading Time

In this paper we report the results of a pi- lot study of basing readability prediction on training data annotated with reading time. Although reading time is known to be a good metric for predicting readabil- ity, previous work has mainly focused on annotating the training data with subjec- tive readability scores usually on a 1 to 5 scale. Instead of the subjective assess- ments of complexity, we use the more ob- jective measure of reading time. We create and evaluate a predictor using the binary classification problem; the predictor iden- tifies the better of two documents correctly with 68.55% accuracy. We also report a comparison of predictors based on reading time and on readability scores.
A novel approach towards integration of propulsion machine inverter with energy storage charger in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have a larger battery pack which can be charged from an AC outlet. This paper deals with an integrated module which can power the electric propulsion machine (defined as Mode-1 further in this paper), can charge the battery pack during the process of regeneration (defined as Mode-2), can charge the battery pack from AC outlet (defined as Mode-3) and can be used as single phase inverter in standalone mode (defined as Mode-4) and also in grid connected mode to inject power to the grid (defined as Mode-5). This integrated module has reduced the number of components used to operate in different modes.
A Branch-and-Price Algorithm and New Test Problems for Spectrum Auctions

When combinatorial bidding is permitted in auctions, such as the proposed FCC Auction #31, the resulting full valuations and winner-determination problem can be computationally challenging. We present a branch-and-price algorithm based on a set-packing formulation originally proposed by Dietrich and Forrest (2002, "A column generation approach for combinatorial auctions," in Mathematics of the Internet: E-Auction and Markets. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 127, Springer-Verlag, New York, 15-26). This formulation has a variable for every possible combination of winning bids for each bidder. Our algorithm exploits the structure of the XOR-of-OR bidding language used by the FCC. We also present a new methodology to produce realistic test problems based on the round-by-round results of FCC Auction #4. We generate 2,639 test problems, which involve 99 items and are substantially larger than most of the previously used benchmark problems. Because there are no real-life test problems for combinatorial spectrum auctions with the XOR-of-OR language, we used these test problems to observe the computational behavior of our algorithm. Our algorithm can solve all but one test problem within 10 minutes, appears to be very robust, and for difficult instances compares favorably to the natural formulation solved using a commercial optimization package with default settings. Although spectrum auctions are used as the guiding example to describe the merits of branch and price for combinatorial auctions, our approach applies to auctions of multiple goods in other scenarios similarly.
Male urinary paracetamol and semen quality

The endocrine‐disrupting properties of paracetamol have been previously demonstrated in rodent studies of abnormal sperm morphology and diminished testosterone production, in addition to epidemiologic studies of diminished couple fecundity. In this study, we examined the relationship between paracetamol and its metabolite p‐aminophenol quantified in a single spot urine and semen quality among 501 male partners of couples planning for pregnancy. Men provided a urine specimen and two fresh semen samples collected approximately one month apart and underwent 24‐h analysis for 35 semen quality parameters. Paracetamol and p‐aminophenol were quantified in urine by ultra‐high‐performance liquid chromatography coupled with an electrospray triple quadrupole mass spectrometry. The relationship between natural‐log‐transformed urinary paracetamol and p‐aminophenol rescaled by their standard deviation and 21 Box‐Cox‐transformed, 14 non‐transformed semen parameters was assessed using linear mixed‐effects models. The median concentrations (IQR) of urinary paracetamol and p‐aminophenol were 15.5 ng/mL (5.44, 73.5) and 978 ng/mL (500, 1596), respectively. Following adjustment for creatinine and age, a 1‐standard deviation increase in log‐transformed urinary paracetamol was associated with a reduction in beat cross‐frequency and an increase in DNA fragmentation [β (95% CI): −0.59 Hz (−1.16, −0.03) and 0.05% (0.01, 0.09), respectively]. These findings were corroborated in models of categorical chemical concentrations; higher concentrations of paracetamol remained associated with reduced beat cross‐frequency and increased DNA fragmentation. A 1‐standard deviation increase in log‐transformed urinary p‐aminophenol was associated with a reduction in sperm head area [β (95% CI): −0.1 μm2 (−0.18, −0.02) and width −0.02 μm (−0.04, −0.01)]. However, only the association with sperm head area remained statistically significant in models of p‐aminophenol quartiles. Our findings suggest that adult male urinary paracetamol is associated with sperm motility and DNA fragmentation, while the metabolite, p‐aminophenol, is predominantly associated with sperm head morphometry.
The Mn1 transcription factor acts upstream of Tbx22 and preferentially regulates posterior palate growth in mice

The mammalian secondary palate exhibits morphological, pathological and molecular heterogeneity along the anteroposterior axis. Although the cell proliferation rates are similar in the anterior and posterior regions during palatal outgrowth, previous studies have identified several signaling pathways and transcription factors that specifically regulate the growth of the anterior palate. By contrast, no factor has been shown to preferentially regulate posterior palatal growth. Here, we show that mice lacking the transcription factor Mn1 have defects in posterior but not anterior palatal growth. We show that Mn1 mRNA exhibits differential expression along the anteroposterior axis of the developing secondary palate, with preferential expression in the middle and posterior regions during palatal outgrowth. Extensive analyses of palatal gene expression in wild-type and Mn1-/- mutant mice identified Tbx22, the mouse homolog of the human X-linked cleft palate gene, as a putative downstream target of Mn1 transcriptional activation. Tbx22 exhibits a similar pattern of expression with that of Mn1 along the anteroposterior axis of the developing palatal shelves and its expression is specifically downregulated in Mn1-/- mutants. Moreover, we show that Mn1 activated reporter gene expression driven by either the human or mouse Tbx22 gene promoters in co-transfected NIH3T3 cells. Overexpression of Mn1 in NIH3T3 cells also increased endogenous Tbx22 mRNA expression in a dose-dependent manner. These data indicate that Mn1 and Tbx22 function in a novel molecular pathway regulating mammalian palate development.
Role of social media in information-seeking behaviour of international students: A systematic literature review

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the information-seeking behaviour of international students in terms of their information needs and to highlight the role of social media. ,In this paper, a systematic literature survey was conducted in order to investigate information-seeking trends among international students while using social media. As a result, an exhaustive systematic literature review (SLR) was carried out in order to investigate social media as a source for the observation of the behaviours of international students. For this purpose, 71 articles were selected from various well-known sources after an intensive SLR process of searching, filtering and enforcing the inclusion and exclusion criteria. ,As an outcome of this study, the information-seeking behaviour of international students was highlighted with respect to social media as a source of information. In addition, this research identifies the information needs of the international students and categorizes them by the roles played by the social media in fulfilling the information needs. ,A comparative study that highlighted the dearth of studies which merge the social media and information-seeking behaviour of international students as well as identify the future direction for the researchers and for benefits of international students. ,A detail SLR which highlights the need of shifting the information seeking behaviour from libraries to social media in regard to the new environment for international students.