Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Association Between Suicidal Ideation and Childhood and Adult Victimization

ABSTRACT Despite the burgeoning literature on suicidal behavior, there are meager data available on the relationship between suicidal ideation and emotional abuse in childhood; adult physical or sexual victimization; and adult re victimization in those with a history of childhood maltreatment. This study addressed these gaps in the literature. In a sample of 494 female undergraduates, current suicidal ideation was assessed dichotomously using an item from the SCL-90 and victimization was assessed retrospectively with validated multi-item measures. Analyses revealed an association between suicidal ideation and emotional and physical abuse in childhood and a history of partner violence. No relationship was found between childhood sexual abuse or forced sex in adulthood and suicidal ideation. Additionally, results of multiple logistic regression analyses did not support the hypothesis that the relationship between childhood victimization and SI is moderated by revictimization in adulthood.
Variability Assessment of California Infectious Bronchitis Virus Variants

SUMMARY On the basis of the data from the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, 1444 infectious bronchitis (IB) cases were diagnosed between 1997 and 2012. Epidemiologic analyses demonstrated two major IB virus (IBV) outbreak peaks, affecting mainly 35-to-49-day-old broiler chickens. California variant 1737 (CA1737) and California variant 1999 (Cal 99) IBV types were the most prevalent genotypes during the analyzed period. To further understand the increased prevalence of these genotypes, we assessed and compared the variability of the S1 gene hypervariable region of CA1737 and Cal 99 with the variability of IBV strains belonging to the Massachusetts 41 (M41) and Arkansas (Ark) types during serial passages in embryonated chicken eggs. On the basis of the S1 nonsynonymous changes, seven different subpopulations were detected in M41. However, the predominant population of the field strain M41 before passages continued to be predominant throughout the experiment. In contrast, Ark passaging resulted in the detection of 13 different subpopulations, and the field sequence became extinct after the first passage. In IBV Cal 99, eight different subpopulations were detected; one of these became predominant after the second passage. In CA1737, 10 different subpopulations were detected. The field strain major sequence was not detected after the first passage but reappeared after the second passage and remained at low levels throughout the experiment. Compared with M41 and Ark, Cal 99 and CA1737 showed intermediate variability.
Evaluation of the solid state dipole moment and pyroelectric coefficient of phosphangulene by multipolar modeling of X-ray structure factors

The electron density distribution of the molecular pyroelectric material phosphangulene has been studied by multipolar modeling of X-ray diffraction data. The "in-crystal" molecular dipole moment has been evaluated to 4.7 D corresponding to a 42% dipole moment enhancement compared with the dipole moment measured in a chloroform solution. It is substantiated that the estimated standard deviation of the dipole moment is about 0.8 D. The standard uncertainty (s.u.) of the derived dipole moment has been derived by splitting the dataset into three independent data-sets. A novel method for obtaining pyroelectric coefficients has been introduced by combining the derived dipole moment with temperature-dependent measurements of the unit cell volume. The derived pyroelectric coefficient of 3.8(7) x 10-6 Cm 2K-1 is in very good agreement with the measured pyroelectric coefficient of p = 3 +/- 1 x 10-6 Cm-2 K-1. This method for obtaining the pyroelectric coefficient uses information from the X-ray diffraction experiment alone and can be applied to much smaller crystals than traditional methods.
‘The weather is like the game we play’: Coping and adaptation strategies for extreme weather events among ethnic minority groups in upland northern Vietnam

The Vietnamese government, along with country-based non-government organisations, are well aware of the vulnerability of Vietnam’s coastal and low-lying areas to extreme weather events. Yet scant attention has been paid to extreme weather hazards affecting Vietnam’s northern mountainous regions and the livelihoods of ethnic minority farmers residing there. Building on conceptual tools from vulnerability, food security and sustainable livelihoods literatures, we examine the impacts of extreme weather, namely drought and severe cold spells, in Vietnam’s northern uplands. We explore the degree to which these events impact the livelihood portfolios and food security of ethnic minority farmers, and examine the coping strategies households initiate, based on their ecological knowledge as well as recent market integration initiatives. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with ethnic minority Hmong and Yao semi-subsistence households undertaken yearly from 2012 to 2014, we demonstrate that financial capital – now more central to households’ livelihoods than ever before due to state-sponsored agricultural intensification – is an important means for farmers to cope with extreme weather events. Yet concurrently, longstanding culturally rooted social capital, networks and ties remain critical. Nonetheless, shortand long-term adaptation is not widespread, leading us to investigate possible explanations.
High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of the Actinobacterium Nocardia terpenica IFM 0406, Producer of the Immunosuppressant Brasilicardins, Using Illumina and PacBio Technologies

ABSTRACT The bacterium Nocardia terpenica IFM 0406 is known as the producer of the immunosuppressant brasilicardin A. Here, we report the completely sequenced genome of strain IFM 0406, which facilitates the heterologous expression of the brasilicardin biosynthetic gene cluster but also unveils the intriguing biosynthetic capacity of the strain to produce secondary metabolites.
Family relationships, support and care : perspectives of children with spina bifida in central Uganda

In Uganda, public health and education services are poorly equipped to respond to needs of children with spina bifida. Such children are highly dependent on their families for care and support. In this study, we explore the children’s and their siblings’ perceptions of family relationships, support, restrictions and care to inform policy and practice for the children and their families. Semi-structured interviews were held with 30 children with spina bifida, and 30 of their siblings in central Uganda. Using the Family Relations Test, we created a set of local dolls and culturally appropriate messages to evaluate the children's feelings about their family members and themselves. Our findings confirm a highly interdependent and supportive family care model in which mothers play a key role in the children’s lives and care; fathers are relatively absent for both children with spina bifida and their siblings; siblings, and other household members play an important role in the care and social inclusion of children with spina bifida; and children with spina bifida have more negative self-perceptions compared to their siblings. The internal family networks of children with spina bifida in Uganda are wide and varied, and characterized by higher support from mothers and elder siblings and househelps. We argue for an extended family centered approach in health care and social services, in which children with spina bifida, their parents (including their fathers), siblings, house-helps and other family members are included. We believe family led advocacy for inclusive care and support services on community and national level is key to enable a shift in the current service model and thinking about persons with disabilities in the country.
SpotTheLink: A Game for Ontology Alignment

The interoperability of data depends on the availability of alignments among different ontologies. Various approaches to match, merge and integrate ontologies and, more recently, to interlink RDF data sets were developed over. Even though the research area has matured, the full automation of the ontology alignment process is not feasible and the human user is indispensable. Such tasks involve mainly bootstrapping the underlying methods and for validating and enhancing their results. The question of acquiring such input still remains to be solved, in particular when it comes to the motivators and incentives that are likely to make people dedicate labor to ontology alignment tasks. In this paper we build on previous work of ours on using casual games to tackle this problem. We present SpotTheLink, the latest release of the OntoGame framework, which allows for the definition of mappings between Semantic Web ontologies as part of a collaborative game experience.We illustrate the idea of SpotTheLink in an instance of the game aiming to align DBpedia and PROTON, and explain the game background mechanics by which players’ inputs are translated into SKOS-based ontology mappings. A summary of findings of SpotTheLink user evaluation and the experiences we gained throughout the entire life span of OntoGame allow us to derive a number of best practices and guidelines for the design of incentives-minded semantic-content-authoring technology, in which human and computational intelligence are smoothly interwoven.
Exploring blind online scheduling for mobile cloud multimedia services

Mobile cloud is a new emerging technology which can be used to enable users to enjoy abundant multimedia applications in a pervasive computing environment. Therefore, the scheduling of massive multimedia flows with heterogeneous QoS guarantees becomes an important issue for the mobile cloud. Generally, the predominant popular cloud-based scheduling algorithms assume that the request rate and service time, are available for the system operator. However, this assumption can hardly be maintained in many practical scenarios, especially for the largescale mobile cloud. In this article, we consider the scheduling problem for a practical mobile cloud in which the above parameters are unavailable and unknown. Taking into account the performance of the users and the impartial free time among the servers, the highlight of this article lies in proposing a blind online scheduling algorithm (BOSA). Specifically, we assign available multimedia servers based on the last timeslot information of the users' requests, and route all the multimedia flows according to the first-come- first-served rule. Moreover, we design detailed steps to apply the BOSA to a content recommendation system, and show that the proposed BOSA can achieve asymptotic optimality.
Determinants of Nursing Home Discharge Status

Data From the 1977 National Nursing Home Survey show that more than one fourth of admissions are discharged back to the community. Weighted logistical regression analysis was used to assess the impacts of patient, facility, and contextual characteristics on discharge status. Many facility characteristics appear to have little effect on discharge status. The important exception is the proportion of the home's patients supported publicly, especially by Medicaid. Patients in homes that are heavily Medicaid supported have a significantly reduced chance of community discharge. Profit versus nonprofit status of the facility does not prove to be significant, nor does chain membership. Important patient characteristics are marital status, age, diagnosis, physical dependency, mental disorders, and source of payment for charges. Climate is significant, while occupancy rate is not.
Cell death-inducing DNA fragmentation factor A-like effector A and fat-specific protein 27β coordinately control lipid droplet size in brown adipocytes

Adipose tissue stores neutral lipids and is a major metabolic organ involved in regulating whole-body energy homeostasis. Triacylglycerol is stored as unilocular large lipid droplets (LDs) in white adipocytes and as multilocular small LDs in brown adipocytes. Proteins of the cell death-inducing DNA fragmentation factor A-like effector (Cide) family include CideA, CideB, and fat-specific protein of 27 (FSP27). Of these, FSP27 has been shown to play a crucial role in the formation of unilocular large LDs in white adipocytes. However, the mechanisms by which brown adipocytes store small and multilocular LDs remain unclear. An FSP27 isoform, FSP27β, was recently identified. We herein report that CideA and FSP27β are mainly expressed in brown adipose tissue and that FSP27β overexpression inhibits CideA-induced LD enlargements in a dose-dependent manner in COS cells. Furthermore, RNAi-mediated FSP27β depletion resulted in enlarged LDs in HB2 adipocytes, which possess the characteristics of brown adipocytes. Brown adipocytes in FSP27-knock-out mice that express CideA, but not FSP27β, had larger and fewer LDs. Moreover, we confirmed that FSP27β and CideA form a complex in brown adipose tissue. Our results suggest that FSP27β negatively regulates CideA-promoted enlargement of LD size in brown adipocytes. FSP27β appears to be responsible for the formation of small and multilocular LDs in brown adipose tissue, a morphology facilitating free fatty acid transport to mitochondria adjacent to LDs for oxidation in brown adipocytes.
Early Leg Blood Flow Adjustment During Dynamic Foot Plantarflexions in Upright and Supine Body Position

The time courses of leg blood flow, systolic peak velocity, heart rate and blood pressure have been studied in nine health volunteers during dynamic exercise in upright sitting and in a tilted sitting body position. In both positions the subjects performed single and repeated foot plantarflexions against light and moderate forces corresponding to 5%-10% and 25%-30% of maximal voluntary contraction. The following measurement techniques were used: Doppler ultrasound method (blood flow parameters), FINAPRES device (arterial blood pressure) and standard ECG chest leads (heart rate). At rest the supine blood flow parameters measured in the arteria femoralis were significantly higher than in the upright sitting position. In both positions, even one single plantarflexion at the light exercise intensity caused significant increases in blood flow for almost 20s. The major part of the blood flow response to repeated contractions always occurred within the first 10s at virtually unchanged blood pressures. During this initial phase upright leg blood flow increased by factors of 2.5 (light exercise) and 3.1 (moderate exercise). The corresponding values in the tilted sitting posture were 1.7 and 1.9, respectively. The initial increases in the upright position were too large to be attributed only to the increase of the perfusion pressure caused by the withdrawal of the hydrostatic pressure on the venous side ("muscle pump"). Additional, fast decreases in local resistance have to be considered. In the supine posture effects on local resistance have to be taken into account for the early increases in blood flow since hydrostatic effects on arterio-venous pressure differences are too small. The present findings indicate that the effects of repeated contraction-relaxation cycles on the early adjustment of muscle blood flow are not sufficiently described by a "muscle pump" that induces only venous volume shifts and hydrostatic pressure changes. Additional fast effects on local resistance have to be taken into account.
A Study of Role Stress, Organizational Commitment and Intention to Quit Among Male Nurses in Southern Taiwan

&NA; Gender and sex role stereotyping are recognized as having the potential to limit the professional development of males within the nursing profession. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationships between demographic data and the dimensions of role stress, organizational commitment, and intentions to quit among male nurses in southern Taiwan. Research also investigated the correlations with three dependent variables and identified best predictors of male nurse intentions to quit the nursing profession. A total of 91 male nurses volunteered to participate in this cross-sectional research. Research results were based on data collected from questionnaires sent by mail to participants. A total of 76 valid questionnaires were returned and used in analysis (response rate = 83.5%). Findings pointed to patients, colleagues and society as the major sources of role stress for male nurses. These sources of stress, and the resultant intention to quit on the part of male nurses, are due in significant part to the widespread stereotyping of the profession of nursing as a “woman's occupation”. Such stress pressures male nurses to consider quitting to take jobs in other professional fields. Role stress is correlated to intention to quit among male nurses. Role stress and years of service are highly relevant predictors of male nurse intention to quit and leave the nursing profession, explaining 33.8% of variability. We suggest that at various levels of education and society, promotion of male and female equality should be increased. There is also a need for psychological consultation as well as the promotion of male nurse role models to prevent male nurses turning away from nursing careers.
Investigation of The Impacts of Social Capital on Organizational Entrepreneurship in Tehran Municipality

Entrepreneurship is the symbol of endeavor and success in business, and entrepreneurs play a crucial role in economic and social development of communities. Since Organizational Entrepreneurship (OE) contribute to earning stable finance required for administration of urban affairs, it is very important in the case of municipalities. For this reason, this study aims to investigate the role of social capital (SC) in the development of entrepreneurship in Tehran municipality. Research method was descriptive and non-experimental, and required data were collected through 204 questionnaires distributed among managers and experts of the organization. Stratified sampling was used, in which 37 managers and 167 experts participated. Number of male participants was 147, and number of female participants was 57. The mean age of participants was 41 years, and its standard deviation was 0.765. In order to test the research hypothesis, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used. The results of the study showed that social capital and its three dimensions (Cognitive, Relational and Structural dimensions) had positive significant effect on organizational entrepreneurship.
Syndication Network, Centrality and Venture Capital Firm's Performance

The uncertainty in the venture capital market contributed to the dependence of venture capitals on syndication network to maintain advantages. While recent research depicted the importance of syndication network to venture capitals as well as local economy, they ignored the differentiation of their position and hence the performance. Based on the example of IDGVC, this paper analyzed the relationship between centrality of syndication network and its performance and proposed that, venture capitals with higher centrality in the syndication network are more capable to identity opportunities and coordinate the others to gain high performance.
Does unemployment lead to a less healthy lifestyle?

ABSTRACT In this article, we use 22 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and information on plant closures to investigate the effects of unemployment on four indicators of unhealthy lifestyles: diet, alcohol consumption, smoking and (a lack of) physical activity. In contrast to much of the existing literature, which unlike our analysis is unable to assess causality, our results provide little evidence that unemployment gives rise to unhealthy lifestyles.
Evaluation of two phosphorylation sites improves the prognostic significance of Akt activation in non-small-cell lung cancer tumors.

PURPOSE Akt is a serine/threonine kinase that has been implicated in lung tumorigenesis and lung cancer therapeutic resistance. Full activation of Akt requires two phosphorylation events, but only one site of phosphorylation (S473) has been evaluated thus far in clinical non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) specimens, which has resulted in conflicting results regarding the prognostic significance of Akt activation in NSCLC. In this study, we sought to determine whether evaluation of Akt phosphorylation at T308 would improve prognostic accuracy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Phosphospecific antibodies against T308 and S473 were validated and used in an immunohistochemical analysis of tissue microarray slides containing NSCLC specimens (n = 300) and surrounding lung tissue specimens (n = 100). RESULTS Phosphorylation of either S473 or T308 was positive in most NSCSLC specimens, but was detected rarely in surrounding normal tissues. When Akt activation was defined by using both sites of phosphorylation, Akt activation was specific for NSCLC tumors versus surrounding tissue (73.4% v 0%; P < .05), was higher in adenocarcinoma than in squamous cell carcinoma (78.1% v 68.5%; P = .040), and was associated with shorter overall survival for all stages of disease (log-rank P = .041). In multivariate analyses, increased phosphorylation of T308 alone was a poor prognostic factor for stage I patients or for tumors < 5 cm (log-rank P = .011 and P = .015, respectively). CONCLUSION These results suggest that monitoring phosphorylation of Akt at T308 improves the assessment of Akt activation, and show that Akt activation is a poor prognostic factor for all stages of NSCLC.
Hypoxia inhibits Moloney murine leukemia virus expression in activated macrophages

Hypoxia, a local decrease in oxygen tension, occurring in many pathological processes, modifies macrophage (Mφ) gene expression and function. Here, we provide the first evidence that hypoxia inhibits transgene expression driven by the Moloney murine leukemia virus‐long terminal repeats (MoMLV‐LTR) in IFN‐γ‐activated Mφ. Hypoxia silenced the expression of several MoMLV‐LTR‐driven genes, including v‐myc, enhanced green fluorescence protein, and env, and was effective in different mouse Mφ cell lines and on distinct MoMLV backbone‐based viruses. Down‐regulation of MoMLV mRNA occurred at the transcriptional level and was associated with decreased retrovirus production, as determined by titration experiments, suggesting that hypoxia may control MoMLV retroviral spread through the suppression of LTR activity. In contrast, genes driven by the CMV or the SV40 promoter were up‐regulated or unchanged by hypoxia, indicating a selective inhibitory activity on the MoMLV promoter. It is interesting that hypoxia was ineffective in suppressing MoMLV‐LTR‐controlled gene expression in T or fibroblast cell lines, suggesting a Mφ lineage‐selective action. Finally, we found that MoMLV‐mediated gene expression in Mφ was also inhibited by picolinic acid, a tryptophan catabolite with hypoxia‐like activity and Mφ‐activating properties, suggesting a pathophysiological role of this molecule in viral resistance and its possible use as an antiviral agent.