Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using a semi-structured interview to explore imagery experienced during social anxiety for clients with a diagnosis of psychosis: an exploratory study conducted within an early intervention for psychosis service.

BACKGROUND Social phobia frequently occurs as a comorbid condition, with high rates reported among people with psychosis. Little is known about the nature of social anxiety in this population or whether current psychological theories apply. AIMS This paper aims to develop and pilot a suitable measure to explore imagery experienced by participants with comorbid psychosis and social anxiety and to provide preliminary indications as to its nature. METHOD A semi-structured interview exploring imagery was used with seven participants (adapted from Hackmann, Surawy and Clark, 1998) and the results were analysed using qualitative template analysis. RESULTS Initial indications from this sample suggest that some participants experience typical social anxiety images, as identified by Hackmann et al. (1998). However, some experience images that appear more threatening, and may be related to residual psychotic paranoia. Image perspective was also explored: typical social anxiety images tended to be seen from an observer perspective, while those that may have been more related to psychosis tended to be seen from a field perspective. CONCLUSIONS This exploratory study has facilitated the careful adaptation and development of an imagery interview for use in this population and has suggested areas for further research and raised questions around clinical implications.
Chiral 4d String Vacua with D-branes and Moduli Stabilization

We discuss type IIB orientifolds with D-branes, and NSNS and RR field strength fluxes, with D-brane sectors leading to open string spectra with non-abelian gauge symmetry and charged chiral fermions. The closed string field strengths generate a scalar potential stabilizing most moduli. Hence the models combine the advantages of leading to phenomenologically interesting (and even semirealistic) chiral open string spectra, and of stabilizing the dilaton and most geometric moduli. We describe the explicit construction of two classes of non-supersymmetric models on $\IT^6$ and orbifolds/orientifolds thereof, with chiral gauge sector arising from configurations of D3-branes at singularities, and from D9-branes with non-trivial world-volume magnetic fields. The latter examples yield the chiral spectrum of just the Standard Model.
Behavior Problems and Social Skills in Preschool Children: Parent-Teacher Agreement and Relations with Classroom Observations

The goals of the present investigation were to provide basic psychometric information about the use of the Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales (PKBS: Merrill, 1994) with a sample of normally-developing preschool children, to assess agreement between parent and teacher ratings of children on this instrument, and to assess concurrent, criterion-related validity of these instruments in terms of their relations with observations of children's behavior in the classroom. Parents and teachers of 47 preschool children completed the scales and these children were observed naturalistically in the classroom setting. Overall, agreement between parents and teachers was modest (–.09 to .38). Cross-informant correlations were poor (–.09 to .27) for social skills, low (.15 to .36) for internalizing behaviors, and modest (.29 to .38) for externalizing behavior. Both parents and teachers rated boys as having more externalizing behavior problems than girls. Parents perceived their children to have more externalizing, and more overall, behavior problems than did teachers. In general, teacher reports, but not parent reports, were significantly associated with children's independently observed goal-directed activity, sustained attention, inappropriate behavior, peer affiliation, expressed negative affect, and proximity to a teacher in the classroom. Results argue for the clinical utility of the PKBS for teacher-report assessment of child behavior problems and social skills in the preschool years, and suggest the need for cross-contextual assessment. Also, it is clear that children's behavioral and social competence are crucial for optimal functioning in the preschool setting.
Pairwise Multiple Comparisons: New Yardstick, New Results

Abstract Behavioral science researchers often wish to compare the means of several treatment conditions on a specific dependent measure. The author used a Monte Carlo study to compare familywise error controlling multiple comparison procedures (MCPs; e.g., Tukey, Bonferroni) with MCPs that were not developed to control the familywise error rate on the probability of correctly identifying the true underlying population mean configuration (true model rate). Recently proposed MCPs that are not intended to control the familywise error rate had consistently larger true model rates than did familywise error controlling MCPs. Furthermore, of the familywise error controlling MCPs investigated, the popular Tukey and Bonferroni MCPs had consistently lower true model rates than did other familywise error controlling MCPs.
Dental fear in Australia: who's afraid of the dentist?

BACKGROUND This study aimed to describe both the prevalence of dental fear in Australia and to explore the relationship between dental fear and a number of demographic, socio-economic, oral health, insurance and service usage variables. METHODS A telephone interview survey of a random sample of 7312 Australian residents, aged five years and over, from all states and territories. RESULTS The prevalence of high dental fear in the entire sample was 16.1 per cent. A higher percentage of females than males reported high fear (HF). Adults aged 40-64 years old had the highest prevalence of high dental fear with those adults aged 80+ years old having the least. There were also differences between low fear (LF) and HF groups in relation to socioeconomic status (SES), with people from higher SES groups generally having less fear. People with HF were more likely to be dentate, have more missing teeth, be covered by dental insurance and have a longer time since their last visit to a dentist. CONCLUSIONS This study found a high prevalence of dental fear within a contemporary Australian population with numerous differences between individuals with HF and LF in terms of socioeconomic, socio-demographic and self-reported oral health status characteristics.
Supporting Foreign Personalities in a Single Address Space Operating System

A truck having a road oil spreader is equipped with an apparatus for simultaneous application of oil and paving fabric to the road surface. The apparatus includes an assembly for engaging a roll of paving fabric comprising adjustable cone arms mounted on a collapsible boom that rotatably hold the core section of the fabric roll. The fabric is drawn over an idler shaft and beneath a series of longitudinally aligned brushes. The shaft and brushes are connected to each opposing end of the oil spreader by a removable outwardly extending side framework. The framework includes joint and connection means that permit longitudinal and angular adjustment of the idler shaft and brushes. As oil is sprayed over the road surface, the fabric unrolls and becomes embedded in the oil by action of the brushes pushing the fabric into the oil-coated surface.
Dagstuhl Seminar Nº 07291 on " Scientific Visualization " ‐ from Visualization to Visually Enabled Reasoning

Interactive Visualization has been used to study scientific phenomena, analyze data, visualize information, and to explore large amounts of multi‐variate data. It enables the human mind to gain novel insights by empowering the human visual system, encompassing the brain and the eyes, to discover properties that were previously unknown. While it is believed that the process of creating interactive visualizations is reasonably well understood, the process of stimulating and enabling human reasoning with the aid of interactive visualization tools is still a highly unexplored field. We hypothesize that visualizations make an impact if they successfully influence a thought process or a decision. Interacting with visualizations is part of this process. We present exemplary cases where visualization was successful in enabling human reasoning, and instances where the interaction with data helped in understanding the data and making a better informed decision. We suggest metrics that help in understanding the evolution of a decision making process. Such a metric would measure the efficiency of the reasoning process, rather than the performance of the visualization system or the user. We claim that the methodology of interactive visualization, which has been studied to a great extent, is now sufficiently mature, and we would like to provide some guidance regarding the evaluation of knowledge gain through visually enabled reasoning. It is our ambition to encourage the reader to take on the next step and move from information visualization to visually enabled reasoning.
802.15.4, a MAC layer solution for PLC

Technology evolution have made possible to connect all kind of devices to IP network. This becomes an evident objective for sensors networks research. The IETF 6LoWPAN RFC proposal was developed in that sense to use the benefit of IPV6 over wirelessly connected sensors (WSN). The IEEE 802.15. 4 MAC layer stack being popular in the domain of wireless sensors within constrained resources, a few 6LoWPAN adaptations already exist. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using IPv6 for sensor networks connected through powerline communication (PLC) non-wireless mediums and demonstrate possible interoperability. This document propose the first adaptation of the IEEE 802.15. 4 commons standard on PLC medium. Following this standard interface, we demonstrate the possibility to carry out data on PLC with great reliability, and low power energy requirement using our WPC™ physical layer (called Watt Pulse Communication (WPC)). This allows to benefit from the development of WSN research for PLC communication networks. Moreover, such a IEEE 802.15. 4/6LoWPAN communication stack provides a generic communication standard for heterogeneous sensors networks. Thus, we finally demonstrate interoperability with tests between powerline and wireless sensor networks running IEEE 802.15. 4/6LoWPAN stacks.
A Comprehesnive Dynamic Modeling of Grid Connected Hybrid Renewable Power Generation and Storage System

62 Abstract—In this paper, a comprehensive dynamic modeling and power management of hybrid power genaration including renewable power gearation and energy storage system in grid connected applications is presented. The studied system comprises Wind Turbine (WT), Fuel Cell (FC) as power generation systems and super capacitor as storage system. Due to unpredictable dynamic behyvior of Wind, the FC system is used to enhance the reliability of studied system. However, the FC system have slow dynamic. To solve this problem, super capacitor is used to supply load demand completely. The basic target of this system is that the hybrid system satisfies domestic load completely and the excessive power can be sent to grid system. The real datas of weather are used to be this research more applicable.
Scholarly Labour and Digital Collaboration in Literary Studies

Digital technology can facilitate collaboration and data sharing among humanities scholars, and therefore is sometimes seen as a catalyst for attempts to revise problematic canonical traditions in literary history. In this paper, I interrogate how specific ways of organising scholarly labour make possible certain forms of knowledge, and I study the obstacles scholars face when trying to adapt established organisational models. For this purpose I draw on fieldwork in a large European database project, launched to create empirical knowledge about “forgotten” women writers. Literary studies is characterised by monograph-oriented scholarship, situated in regional disciplinary contexts. The collaborative use of a database, however, requires an integration of individual research practices, and it blurs the division of labour between scholars and information professionals. In the present case, the inertia of established infrastructural arrangements manifested itself as a conflict between what was required to generate the specific type of knowledge the project aimed for, and the need for participants to engage in a more traditional form of knowledge production to advance their individual careers. The tension was better manageable in cases where the project conceded organisational authority to local contexts, an empirical finding with implications for established funding models for collaborative digital scholarship.
Substrate integrated waveguide slot-fed grid array antenna

A planar substrate integrated waveguide slot-fed microstrip grid array antenna for the frequency range 76-81 GHz is presented. The antenna is realized on a standard soft RF substrate. It is fed using a transverse slot in a substrate integrated waveguide on a separate substrate layer below the antenna. A wideband microstrip to substrate integrated waveguide is designed to feed the antenna. Measurement results show a 12% S11<;-10 dB bandwidth.
A Printed Circularly Polarized Y-Shaped Monopole Antenna

In this letter, a printed circularly polarized omnidirectional Y-shaped monopole antenna for possible satellite and terrestrial applications is presented. The proposed antenna incorporates the desirable features of wire turnstile antennas while eliminating external coupler networks used in those antennas. Furthermore, the antenna structure is extremely simple and durable, occupies relatively small space, and resists breakage. The antenna is matched to a 50-Ω coaxial cable without any requirement for an external matching. The fabricated antenna operates over the frequency band of 2250-2350 MHz and provides both senses of circular polarization simultaneously resulting in a superior performance over the frequency band of operation.
Collaborative Technology Use in Organizations: A Typology

Implementation of group support technologies is growing in terms of both spread and sophistication of capabilities. There is hence a strong need to understand the phenomenon better. One important aspect of understanding is to be able to adequately measure its use. This paper delineates a comprehensive yet practicable measure of collaborative technology (CT) use in organizations. Two parameters viz. scope and sophistication of use of CT are used and 2 x 2 grid has been developed. Qualitative data collected in two comparable organizations in the insurance industry in India is used to demonstrate the applicability of the typology. The purpose of the framework is to help researchers and managers in assessing and measuring CT use in organizations and adopt suitable mechanisms to shift to an appropriate level.
Do Role Clarity and Job Satisfaction Mediate the Relationship between Telework and Work Effort?

The empirical association between telework and work effort, as well as how this relationship is mediated by role clarity and job satisfaction, is lacking in the literature. As a consequence, the direct and indirect impact of telework on work effort in U.S. federal government agencies was examined in the article. Results indicate that telework was inversely related to work effort. Moreover, role clarity and job satisfaction did not mediate the relationship between telework and work effort. The implications these results have for theory and practice are thoroughly discussed in the article.
Spiritual Experience and Psychopathology: Dichotomy or Interaction?

THE PURPOSE OF Marzanski and Bratton’s paper is to challenge Jackson and Fulford’s (1997) treatment of the area of spiritual experience and psychosis, specifically the perspective of discriminating pathological from spiritual experiences on the basis of action enhancement in contrast to action failure. In my opinion, they are partially successful in this aim, and in their analysis they further the discussion of this complex and controversial area in an interesting and potentially fruitful way. What the paper does not offer, or attempt to suggest, is an alternative way of making a distinction, and in the following discussion I intend to explain why I think that, on the one hand, the status of specific experiences is of practical importance, and on the other hand any distinction should not be conceptualized as mutually exclusive. I also hope to clarify those issues which I perceive as being raised by both Jackson and Fulford’s and Marzanski and Bratton’s papers.
Team Boundary Spanning: A Multilevel Review of Past Research and Proposals for the Future

In response to increased complexity of work tasks, flatter organizational structures, and changing environmental conditions, organizational work teams must increasingly coordinate efforts across their boundaries and actively manage key relationships external to the team itself. Despite evidence of the importance of these processes—referred to as team boundary spanning—for both team and organizational success, significant gaps exist in our understanding of the nature of team boundary spanning, how and when these behaviors are carried out by teams, and the resulting impacts of team boundary spanning beyond that of enhanced team performance. Therefore, this article seeks to advance knowledge in this area by offering a taxonomy of team boundary spanning actions, reviewing the existing stream of team boundary spanning literature across multiple levels of analysis, and integrating this body of work with findings and perspectives from other boundary spanning research areas so as to stimulate fruitful avenues for future research.
Interactions and DNA transfer between Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the Ti-plasmid and the plant host

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a gram-negative bacterium with the unique capacity to induce neoplasmic transformations in dicotyledonous plants. Recently, both the mechanism and the biological significance of this transformation have been elucidated. Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains contain a large extrachromosomal DNA plasmid (the Ti-plasmid). This Ti-plasmid is responsible for the oncogenic properties of Agrobacterium strains. A particular segment of the Ti-plasmid, containing information determining the tumorous growth pattern and the synthesis of so-called ‘opines’, e. g. octopine (N-α-(D-l-carboxyethyl)-L-arginine) and nopaline (N-α-(l, 3-dicarboxypropyl)-L-arginine), is transferred and stably maintained and expressed in the transformed plant cells. This phenomenon can be understood as a ‘genetic colonization’ of the plant cells by bacterial plasmid DNA so that the transformed plant cells will produce and secrete into the medium amino acid derivatives (the opines) that Ti-plasmid carrying agrobacteria can selectively use as carbon and nitrogen sources.
Öğretmen Adaylarına Yönelik Eleştirel Düşünme Standartları Ölçeği: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Critical thinking skill allows individuals efficiently to get benefit of all aspects of life. Although the construct is of important, the research regarding critical thinking is very limited in national literature. Because the culture-affected skills needs to be measured with national scales, small numbers of national scale cause problems in research. In the current study, 6-factor critical thinking standards scale was aimed to develop for teacher candidates. 586 undergraduate students participated in the present study from Cukurova University Faculty of Education. After the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis performed, 42- item scale was obtained with three factors. The internal consistency coefficient of factor was found as . 89, . 78 and . 63; and as . 75 for the general scale. Finally, as a result of exploratory factor analysis, factors of the scale have been found to explain approximately 36% of the variance.
Length-preserved natural boundary for intrinsic parameterization

This paper proposes a fast approach to generate length-preserved natural boundary for intrinsic parameterization. Given a triangular mesh with disklike topology, we compute an optimal boundary for its parameterization. An optimal boundary is expected to be length-preserved with the length of every triangular edge on the boundary is invariant before and after parameterization; also, the boundary is requested to be natural where the inner angle is close to the angle excess at every boundary vertex on the given mesh. Computation of a length-preserved natural boundary is formulated as a constrained non-linear optimization problem, the procedure of solving which is in general very time-consuming. Here, we speed up the optimization by adopting the scheme of sequential linearly constrained programming. It is shown at the end of this paper that our length-preserved natural boundary could greatly improve the speed and quality of the original intrinsic parameterization.
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Infant Temperament

Intimate partner violence (IPV) during the first year postpartum is common in Bangladesh, and many infants are exposed to hostile and aggressive environment. The aim of the current study was to investigate how IPV (physical, emotional, and sexual) impacts on the mother’s perception of her infant’s temperament 6 to 8 months postpartum, and whether maternal depressive symptom at 6 to 8 months postpartum is a mediator in this association. A total of 656 rural Bangladeshi women and their children 6 to 8 months postpartum were included in this study. Data were collected by structured interviews. The women were asked about physical, sexual, and emotional IPV; depressive symptoms (Edinburgh Postnatal Depressive Symptoms [EPDS]); and their perception of infant temperament assessed by the Infant Characteristic Questionnaire (ICQ). Descriptive analyses were conducted for prevalence of IPV and maternal depressive symptoms. Mediation analysis was conducted with a series of linear regressions with types of IPV as independent variables, ICQ including its subscales as dependent variables and maternal depressive symptoms as potential mediator. All the analyses were adjusted for the woman’s and her husband’s ages and number of children of the couple. Nearly 90% of the mothers reported some kind of IPV at 6 to 8 months postpartum. All types of IPV were directly associated with the mother’s perception of her infant as unadaptable. Maternal depressive symptom was a mediating factor between physical IPV and the ICQ subscales fussy-difficult and unpredictable. In addition, depressive symptoms mediated between sexual and emotional IPV, and the mother’s perception of the infant as unpredictable. The results showed that IPV influenced how mothers perceived their infant’s temperament. It is important that health care professionals at maternal and child health services enquire about IPV with possibilities to refer the family or the mother and infant for appropriate support.