Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Guided imagery and music: the Bonny method as psychotherapy

The therapeutic value of music has long been recognised. The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM) was developed in the 1970s at a time when LSD treatment and altered states of consciousness were medically sanctioned. BMGIM (without LSD) emerged as a potent and creative therapeutic modality in its own right, and is now practised throughout the world. As a dynamic form of psychotherapy BMGIM draws on multimodal imagery experiences, emotions and embodied experiences to address significant issues in client? s lives. This article explores the foundations of BMGIM within the Australian context, and reports on a study of pivotal moments in BMGIM that indicate how multimodal experiences can bring about sustained changes in interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships. (editor abstract)
Signaling and networking in unstructured peer-to-peer networks

This work deals with the efficiency of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, which are distributed and self-organizing overlay networks. We contribute to their understanding and design by using new measurement techniques, simulations and analytical methods. In this context we first present measurement methods and results of P2P networks concerning traffic and topology characteristics as well as concerning user behavior. Based on these results we develop stochastic models to describe the user behavior, the traffic and the topology of P2P networks analytically. Using the results of our measurements and analytical investigations, we develop new P2P architectures to improve the efficiency of P2P networks concerning their topology and their signaling traffic. Finally we verify our results for the new architectures by measurements as well as computer-based simulations on different levels of detail.
Benefit of Leukocyte- and Platelet-Rich Plasma in Operative Wound Closure in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

This article reports the influence of an autologous leukocyte- and platelet-rich plasma (L-PRP) injection as a minimally invasive method on supporting wound healing processes after a mandibular odontogenic cystectomy and double mandibular fracture fixation. 113 patients were enrolled into a control group (received no L-PRP injection) and 102 patients were enrolled into an L-PRP group with an oral mucosa incision. 18 patients after a double mandibular fracture were operated on using 2 external submandibular approaches receiving no fluids in the right site (a control group) and an L-PRP injection in the left incision (L-PRP group). Clinical observations showed that the oral mucosa healed faster in patients treated with L-PRP, in comparison to cases where inductive biomaterial was not added. Pain at the L-PRP injection site was relieved within few hours after an operation in patients with double mandibular fractures. However, there were no differences observed in the progression of the healing process. L-PRP possesses inductive properties that could stimulate healing processes and it seems to be one of the most promising methods in the future for the treatment of soft tissue defects.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE

This paper explores the relationship between organisational knowledge, organisational culture, and Process Based Systems (PBS), in the U.K. National Health Service (NHS). Links between PBS and organisational culture have been observed before(Perry, 2003); the contribution made by PBS to organisational knowledge has also been suggested (Perry, 2004). However, links between organisational knowledge and organisational culture in the NHS have not been widely studied. A qualitative study of these links across clinical functions has been used in conjunction with a literature review to consider in particular the use of tacit knowledge and the role that might be played by PBS in mediating and sharing this ‘embedded’ or experiential form of knowledge. While there may be some opportunity for ‘externalisation’(Nonaka, 1994) – the conversion of tacit to explicit knowledge, this paper argues that PBS may also contribute to ‘socialisation’ the direct generation of tacit knowledge by tacit knowledge.
Cost‐effectiveness of post‐transplantation quality of life intervention among kidney recipients

Background: The purpose was to demonstrate the cost‐effectiveness of an experimental post‐transplant care program designed to improve kidney transplant recipients’ quality of life (QoL). The intervention program integrated a three‐pronged interdisciplinary approach emphasizing: (i) proactive, patient‐initiated care to prevent transplant‐related morbidities, (ii) employment/vocational counseling, and (iii) enhancement of social support.
The Adsorption of Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, and Cd by Modified Ligand in a Single Component Aqueous Solution: Equilibrium, Kinetic, Thermodynamic, and Desorption Studies

In this investigation, an amino functionalized adsorbent was developed by grafting 4-aminobenzoic acid onto the backbone of cross-linked chitosan beads. The 3 sets of beads including chitosan (CX), glutaraldehyde cross-linked chitosan (CCX), and 4-aminobenzoic acid grafted cross-linked chitosan (FGCX) were characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM, and TGA. The water content and amine concentration of FGCX were determined. The effect of adsorption parameters was studied and the optimum was used for further studies. Equilibrium data was obtained from the adsorption experiment carried out at different initial concentration; the data were applied in isotherm, thermodynamics, and kinetic studies. The Langmuir and Dubinin-Kaganer-Radushkevich (DKR) models were successful in describing the isotherm data for the considered metal ions while the Freundlich and Temkin model fit some of the considered metal ions. Pseudo-second-order and intraparticle model described the kinetic data quite well. Thermodynamic parameters such as Gibb's free energy change (ΔGo), enthalpy change (ΔHo), and entropy change (ΔSo) were calculated and the results showed that the adsorption of Pb, Cu, Ni, Zn, and Cd ions onto FGCX is spontaneous and endothermic in nature. Regeneration of the spent adsorbent was efficient for the considered metal ions.
Hybrid Publish-Subscribe: A Compromise Approach for Large-Scale

The purpose of this article is to propose a scalable, topologically and traffic-wise self-adapting approach to a publish/subscribe paradigm for supporting event-based applications on a wide-area network. Large event systems requiring an efficient group communication as well as anonymity of particular peers tend to be fully decoupled. The publish/subscribe paradigm provides this requirement which enlarges a range of dimensions involving such system. There are two main approaches, namely topic-based and content-based publish/subscribe. The advantages and disadvantages of the approaches are often complementary one to another. This article presents a method of improving efficiency of large-scale systems while preserving scalability by involving cooperation of topic-based and content-based techniques. 1 The Publish/Subscribe Paradigm The publish/subscribe paradigm is a loose communication scheme for modelling the autonomous interaction among participants in event systems and introduces a powerful mechanism for distributed and mobile architectures. On the contrary to the classic interaction models like request/reply, publish/subscribe provides three levels of decoupling: time, space and data flow. The publish/subscribe interaction scheme is represented by three types of participants: a publisher, a subscriber and a broker. Whereas the first two are notification providers or consumers (clients), the last one is a mediator (server) assuring data storage and delivery. A typical publish/subscribe system consists of a number of brokers linked together into a general graph. Publishers register their interest to notify about events (by sending advertisements) to their own broker as well as subscribers register their interest (by sending subscriptions) to be notified about events. It is upon particular broker to effectively disseminate appropriate notifications across the whole network of brokers on the basis of received subscriptions/advertisements. The basic system model for publish/subscribe interaction is illustrated in Figure 1. For detail description we refer to [1]. Subscribers usually register their interest in particular events, rather than in all events. The different approaches to handle the events with respect to subscriptions/advertisements have led to define two characteristic event schemes,
Designing learning services: from content-based to activity-based learning systems

The need for e-learning systems that support a diverse set of pedagogical requirements has been identified as an important issue in web-based education. Until now, significant R&D effort has been devoted aiming towards web-based educational systems tailored to specific pedagogical approaches. The most advanced of them are based on the IEEE Learning Technology Systems Architecture and use standardized content structuring based on the ADL Sharable Content Object Reference Model in order to enable sharing and reusability of the learning content. However, sharing of learning activities among different web-based educational systems still remains an open issue. The open question is how web-based educational systems should be designed in order to enable reusing and repurposing of learning activities. In this paper we propose an authoring system, refered to as ASK-LDT that utilizes the Learning Design principles to provide the means for designing activity-based learning services and systems.
INFORMATION SECURITY WITH IMAGE THROUGH REVERSIBLE ROOM BY USING ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD AND LEAST SIGNIFICANT BIT ALGORITHM

There are also a number of works on data hiding in the encrypted domain. The reversible data hiding in encrypted image is investigated in. Most of the work on reversible data hiding focuses on the data embedding/extracting on the plain spatial domain . This method by reserving room before encryption with a traditional RDH algorithm, and thus it is easy for the data hider to reversibly embed data in the encrypted image. The proposed method can achieve real reversibility, that is, data extraction and image recovery are free of any error. Thus the data hider can benefit from the extra space Emptied out in previous stage to make data hiding process effortless. The proposed method can take advantage of all traditional RDH techniques for plain images and achieve excellent performance without loss of perfect secrecy. Furthermore, this novel method can achieve real reversibility, separate data extraction and greatly improvement on the quality of marked decrypted Images. Experiments show that this method can embed more than 10 times as large payloads for the same image quality as the previous methods . The data extraction and image recovery can be achieved by examining the block smoothness. After encrypting the entire data of an uncompressed image by a stream cipher, the additional data can be embedded into the image by modifying a small proportion of encrypted data. With an encrypted image containing additional data, one may firstly decrypt it using the encryption key, and the decrypted version is similar to the original image. According to the data-hiding key, with the aid of spatial correlation in natural image, the embedded data can be successfully extracted and the original image can be perfectly recovered. [1]
Predictable Disruption Tolerant Networks and Delivery Guarantees

This article studies disruption tolerant networks (DTNs) where each node knows the probabilistic distribution of contacts with other nodes. It proposes a framework that allows one to formalize the behaviour of such a network. It generalizes extreme cases that have been studied before where (a) either nodes only know their contact frequency with each other or (b) they have a perfect knowledge of who meets who and when. This paper then gives an example of how this framework can be used; it shows how one can find a packet forwarding algorithm optimized to meet the 'delay/bandwidth consumption' trade-off: packets are duplicated so as to (statistically) guarantee a given delay or delivery probability, but not too much so as to reduce the bandwidth, energy, and memory consumption.
Corpora for Learning the Mutual Relationship between Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment

In this paper we present the creation of a corpora annotated with both semantic relatedness (SR) scores and textual entailment (TE) judgments. In building this corpus we aimed at discovering, if any, the relationship between these two tasks for the mutual benefit of resolving one of them by relying on the insights gained from the other. We considered a corpora already annotated with TE judgments and we proceed to the manual annotation with SR scores. The RTE 1-4 corpora used in the PASCAL competition fit our need. The annotators worked independently of one each other and they did not have access to the TE judgment during annotation. The intuition that the two annotations are correlated received major support from this experiment and this finding led to a system that uses this information to revise the initial estimates of SR scores. As semantic relatedness is one of the most general and difficult task in natural language processing we expect that future systems will combine different sources of information in order to solve it. Our work suggests that textual entailment plays a quantifiable role in addressing it.
Monolingual Phrase Alignment on Parse Forests

We propose an efficient method to conduct phrase alignment on parse forests for paraphrase detection. Unlike previous studies, our method identifies syntactic paraphrases under linguistically motivated grammar. In addition, it allows phrases to non-compositionally align to handle paraphrases with non-homographic phrase correspondences. A dataset that provides gold parse trees and their phrase alignments is created. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method conducts highly accurate phrase alignment compared to human performance.
Avaliação Psicométrica do Questionário de Atitudes Socioculturais em Relação à Aparência-3 (SATAQ-3) para Adolescentes

Objetivou-se avaliar as qualidades psicometricas do Questionario de Atitudes Socioculturais em Relacao a Aparencia-3 para adolescentes brasileiros. A amostra total foi composta por 600 adolescentes (254 meninos), os quais participaram em fases distintas da pesquisa: avaliacao da compreensao verbal da escala, avaliacao da validade de construto, validade e confiabilidade, e a terceira etapa referiu-se a avaliacao da reprodutibilidade (teste-reteste). Todos os itens apresentaram adequada compreensao verbal entre os adolescentes. O instrumento apresentou estrutura fatorial composta por sete fatores (α > 0,40), cujos indices de ajustamento foram aceitaveis, correlacao positiva e significativa com a satisfacao corporal (r = 0,41, p < 0,001) e estabilidade. As qualidades psicometricas do SATAQ-3 para adolescentes foram parcialmente confirmadas, sendo sua utilizacao indicada para essa populacao.
Multiple affinity domains for the detection, purification and immobilization of recombinant proteins

Affinity systems based on specific molecular recognition are valuable tools for detection, purification and immobilization of recombinant proteins. Here, novel multipartite affinity fusion vectors were assembled and investigated to allow flexible binding and elution conditions. The rationale for the assembly of different combinations of affinity domains was to take advantage of the wide variety of molecular interactions of these domains for purification, solubilization, detection and immobilization. In total, seven different affinity tags representing five different types of tag–ligand interactions were studied: (i) monoclonal antibodies–peptides (T7‐tag and FLAG peptide); (ii) streptavidin–peptide (Strep‐tag); (iii) hexahistidyl–metal ions (His6‐tag); (iv) bacterial receptors–serum proteins (staphylocccal protein A‐Fc and streptococcal protein G‐serum albumin); (v) streptavidin–biotin (in vivo biotinylated peptide). Selected tags were evaluated for the production and purification of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment). On the basis of the results, a vector (pAff2c) was assembled using a novel combination of affinity domains: (1) an in vivo biotinylated peptide; (ii) a His6 sequence, and (iii) a highly soluble serum albumin binding region. Using these three affinities, a wide variety of conditions can be employed for both the binding and the elution steps.
Improving the quality of text summarization using pronoun replacement technique

Automatic text summarization is the process of condensing data in a particular document to a shorter form using a computer program. Due to the abundant amount of data existing in today's world, there is a need to summarize the data into shorter smaller amount for the vivid purposes. This process is done by the program using a technique called word frequency technique, which condenses the data based on the frequency of the words in the document. The paper proposes an improvisation to the technique by replacing pronouns with proper nouns and then considers frequency of words. As most significant words occur more frequently in a document, by replacing pronouns and then finding frequency leads to improving summary, which is demonstrated with experimental results.
Social Semiotics as Appliable Semiotics

Abstract Along with the development of semiotic theories by Saussure and Peirce, there emerged another branch of semiotics, social semiotics, in the last few decades. In a way, it is a natural development of general semiotics, and is complementary with it. In contrast to general semiotics, it focuses on parole and the application of the semiotic theories to other fields. In the present article, it shows its features different from the Saussurian and Peircian semiotics,traces its path of development and proposes six characteristics which characterize it as appliable semiotics; social in nature, practical in orientation, resource for meaning-making, cross-discipline, variable and changeable, and multimodal. As appliable semiotics, social semiotics works with the following four aspects; resources for social interactions, liability to change along with the change of contexts, following certain semiotic principles, and performing two major functions; representational and interactional. The result of the application of social semiotics is multimodal discourses, whose areas of research include the following four aspects; discourse and social practice, genre, style and modality. Multimodal discourses are coherent in terms of the following four aspects; rhythm, composition, information-linking and dialogue. Finally, a relative comprehensive theoretical framework of social semiotics as appliable semiotics is designed and presented.
The Experimental Demonstration of a SASP-Based Full Software Radio Receiver

Many technological bottlenecks prevent from realizing a software radio (SR) mobile terminal. The old way of building radio architectures is now over because a single handled terminal has to address various communication standards. This paper exposes a SR receiver: a sampled analog signal processor (SASP) is designed to perform downconversion and channel presorting. The idea is to process analog voltage samples in order to recover in baseband any RF signal emitted from 0 to 5 GHz. An analog fast Fourier transform achieves both frequency shifting and filtering. An experimental demonstrator of the SASP using 65 nm CMOS technology from STMicroelectronics is here presented and measured. It validates the concept of a new SR receiver with the design of a demonstrator which runs at 1.2 GHz consuming 389 mW.
Silicon interposer with embedded microfluidic cooling for high-performance computing systems

A silicon interposer platform utilizing microfluidic cooling is proposed to address the off-chip signaling and cooling challenges facing future high-performance computing systems. A test vehicle with microfluidic I/Os and a micropin-fin heat sink was used to evaluate microfluidic cooling performance. De-ionized water (~20 °C) was used as the coolant. At a flow rate of 50 mL/min, the measured temperature was 55.9 °C for a power density of 97.0 W/cm2. Compared to air cooling, microfluidic cooling significantly improves cooling performance and thermal isolation. Moreover, 3-D integration of two silicon dice with microfluidic I/Os on a silicon interposer is demonstrated.
Slow cortical potential and theta/beta neurofeedback training in adults: effects on attentional processes and motor system excitability

Neurofeedback (NF) is being successfully applied, among others, in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and as a peak performance training in healthy subjects. However, the neuronal mechanisms mediating a successful NF training have not yet been sufficiently uncovered for both theta/beta (T/B), and slow cortical potential (SCP) training, two protocols established in NF in ADHD. In the present, randomized, controlled investigation in adults without a clinical diagnosis (n = 59), the specificity of the effects of these two NF protocols on attentional processes and motor system excitability were to be examined, focusing on the underlying neuronal mechanisms. Neurofeedback training consisted of 10 double sessions, and self-regulation skills were analyzed. Pre- and post-training assessments encompassed performance and event-related potential measures during an attention task, and motor system excitability assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Some NF protocol-specific effects have been obtained. However, due to the limited sample size medium effects did not reach the level of significance. Self-regulation abilities during negativity trials of the SCP training were associated with increased contingent negative variation amplitudes, indicating improved resource allocation during cognitive preparation. Theta/beta training was associated with increased response speed and decreased target-P3 amplitudes after successful theta/beta regulation suggested reduced attentional resources necessary for stimulus evaluation. Motor system excitability effects after theta/beta training paralleled the effects of methylphenidate. Overall, our results are limited by the non-sufficiently acquired self-regulation skills, but some specific effects between good and poor learners could be described. Future studies with larger sample sizes and sufficient acquisition of self-regulation skills are needed to further evaluate the protocol-specific effects on attention and motor system excitability reported.
A comparison of the clinical utility of p16INK4a immunolocalization with the presence of human papillomavirus by hybrid capture 2 for the detection of cervical dysplasia/neoplasia

Evidence suggests that overexpression of p16INK4a protein indicates infection and genomic integration of high‐risk human papillomavirus (HR HPV) and predicts progression to cervical high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) and carcinoma. The authors compared the ability of p16INK4a and HR HPV detection by Hybrid Capture 2 (HC2) to detect the presence of significant cervical disease.