Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assimilative Integration: Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Treating Affect Phobias

An integrative model of short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP) is presented that assimilates interventions from a variety of therapy orientations to accelerate patient improvement. Affect phobia therapy (APT) is a name given to McCullough's STDP to highlight the main treatment focus and to guide therapists to the most efficient and effective interventions. This treatment model is based on the hypothesis that conflicts about feelings, or “affect phobias,” are the fundamental issues underlying many Axis I and Axis II disorders. Systematic desensitization, or stepwise exposure to feelings and defense response prevention, is hypothesized to be the fundamental agent of therapeutic change. APT focuses primarily on the resolution of affective conflicts in a psychodynamic framework, but videotape review and process studies of this STDP model have discovered that interventions from cognitive, behavior, Cestalt, and experiential therapy, as well as self-psychology, have been instrumental in patient change. Therapy is made briefer by clarifying treatment objectives, simplifying the selection criteria, and using principles of systematic desensitization for the resolution of affect phobias.
Time for work, commuting, and parenting? Commuting parents' involvement with their children

For most Australian parents, there is continuing tension between work and family commitments. This tension is exacerbated by the need not only to have sufficient time available to children in the family but also for that time to be characterized by nurturance and guidance. This article reports on a qualitative study that explored how 21 part-time or full-time working parents, who also commute 10–15 hours a week to work, manage both the quantity and quality of their time with their young children (0–5 years). The study revealed the difficult conditions of commuting and the importance of social support to parents' well-being, as well as a significant pattern of parent–child interaction which we have described as ‘attentive parenting. ’ Parents felt these activities contributed to the parent–child bond and their children's well-being in spite of an acknowledged lack of interactive time.
Limits and Trade-Offs of Topological Network Robustness

We investigate the trade-off between the robustness against random and targeted removal of nodes from a network. To this end we utilize the stochastic block model to study ensembles of infinitely large networks with arbitrary large-scale structures. We present results from numerical two-objective optimization simulations for networks with various fixed mean degree and number of blocks. The results provide strong evidence that three different blocks are sufficient to realize the best trade-off between the two measures of robustness, i.e. to obtain the complete front of Pareto-optimal networks. For all values of the mean degree, a characteristic three block structure emerges over large parts of the Pareto-optimal front. This structure can be often characterized as a core-periphery structure, composed of a group of core nodes with high degree connected among themselves and to a periphery of low-degree nodes, in addition to a third group of nodes which is disconnected from the periphery, and weakly connected to the core. Only at both extremes of the Pareto-optimal front, corresponding to maximal robustness against random and targeted node removal, a two-block core-periphery structure or a one-block fully random network are found, respectively.
Talking at Trena's: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern

Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class, women, relationships, the media, and life in general. May recognizes tavern talk as a form of social play and symbolic performace within the tavern, as well as an indication of the social problems African Americans confront on a daily basis. Following a long tradition of research on informal gathering places, May's work reveals, though close description and analysis of ethnographic data, how African Americans come to understand the racial dynamics of American society which impact their jobs, entertainment--particularly television programs--and their social interactions with peers, employers, and others. Talking at Trena's provides a window into the laughs, complaints, experiences, and strategies which Trena's regulars share for managing daily life outside the safety and comfort of the tavern.
Selected Standardized Noncognitive Measures and Their Utility for the Disadvantaged

During the course of a pilot study designed to determine the effect of basic education instruction on the attitudes of disadvan taged adults, problems were experienced in the use of standardized noncognitive measures. This paper outlines some of the problems of the reliability of these standardized instruments and makes recommendations about their utility. First, there are few standard ized noncognitive measures available for this population, and second, the standardized measures that were used in the study appear to have limited utility for investigating the effects of basic education on disadvantaged adults.
Trusting relationships: a key for cross-cultural engagement

Research that is conducted across divergent contexts and communities presents challenges. This paper explores the importance of building trusting relationships between researchers and participants to overcome some of these challenges. Using a postmodern perspective it describes practices that merged to form a comprehensive strategy for working across cultures. The subject matter for this paper was derived from qualitative research that investigated the repatriation experiences of Saudi Arabian female postgraduate students. Throughout this paper it is argued that long-term, in-depth, trusting relationships between researchers and participants assist in the establishment of common ground that transcends cultural differences while demonstrating respect for individuals' stories.
From a ‘terrorist’ to global icon: a critical decolonial ethical tribute to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of South Africa

This article examines Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s political life and legacy from the perspective of critical decolonial liberation ethics, which privileges a paradigm of peace, humanism and racial harmony and opposes the imperial/colonial/apartheid paradigm of war, racial hatred and separation of races. This system emerged in the 15th century and was driven by the desire to conquer, dispossess, colonise, exploit and segregate people according to race and, alongside imperatives of primitive accumulation, it informed the colonisation of South Africa and the imposition of apartheid. Mandela was a liberation fighter who provided an antidote to the colonial ideology of racial profiling and hierarchisation. What distinguished him from other freedom fighters was his commitment to the cause of human rights as early as the 1960s, long before it attained its status as a constitutive part of global normative order. When Mandela became the first black president of a democratic South Africa, his practical and symbolic overtures to whites and his reconciliatory politics aimed to call them back to a new inclusive humanity. Critical decolonial ethics logically enables a tribute to Mandela that privileges his commitment to a post-racial society and new humanism.
Flexibility in adverbal modification : Reinterpretation as contextual enrichment

This paper is concerned with the fact that a number of adverbal modifications involve a reinterpretation of at least one of the expressions connected by the operation in question. It investigates the question of to what extent such meaning transfers can be viewed as emerging from operations of semantic coercion. Unlike other proposals, the paper offers an approach in which systematic reinterpretations turn out to be a result of contextual enrichments of an underspecified, yet strictly compositional, semantic representation of the given utterance. The approach proposed takes into account reinterpretations in both temporal and non-temporal modification. Moreover, it allows so-called secondary predications to be handled as a particular kind of adverbal modification. In addition, it opens up the possibility of also treating reinterpretations beyond those triggered by direct semantic conflict. The paper outlines a general formal framework of meaning variation that inter alia explains the semantic flexibility we observe in adverbal modification.
Expression of 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (Ogg1) in mouse retina

Purpose The retina is highly exposed to oxidative stress due to the high level of oxygen consumption in this tissue and its exposure to light. The main DNA base lesion generated by oxygen free radicals is 8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG). However, its presence in retinal cells and the mechanisms underlying its repair remain undetermined. Methods 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (Ogg1) gene expression and messenger localization in adult mouse ocular tissues was analyzed by RT–PCR and in situ hybridization. Using immunohistochemistry, we determined the localization of Ogg1 protein and three base excision repair (BER) enzymes: apurinic/apyrimidic endonuclease (APE1), DNA polymerase β, and X-ray repair cross-complementation group 1 (XRCC1). Ogg1 and AP-lyase activities in the neuroretina were obtained using double-stranded oligonucleotides harboring either an 8-oxoG residue or a tetrahydrofuran. Results We report here that 8-oxoG is abundant in the retina. Ogg1, the enzyme responsible for the recognition and excision of the oxidized base, is present in its active form and found mainly in ganglion cells and photoreceptor inner segments. We show that APE1 and DNA polymerase β, two BER proteins involved in 8-oxoG repair, are also present in these cells. The cellular distribution of these proteins was similar to that of Ogg1. XRRC1 is present in both inner nuclear and ganglion cells layers; however, this protein is absent from photoreceptor inner segments. Conclusions This is the first study to demonstrate the presence of a functional 8-oxoG BER pathway in retinal neurons. The study of three BER proteins involved in 8-oxoG elimination demonstrates that XRCC1 localization differs from those of Ogg1, APE1, and DNA polymerase β. This result suggests that the elimination of 8-oxoG is coordinated through two pathways, which differ slightly according to the cellular localization of the abnormally oxidized guanine.
Reform as Political Discourse: A Case Study

Nowhere have the ethical contradictions of school been as strongly expressed as in poor communities. We have a stated commitment to provide equal social and economic opportunities, yet descriptions of inner-city and reservation schools portray educational contexts that fail large segments of its population. The significance of these failures is only partially revealed in low reading achievement and high dropout rates. Studies of classroom interaction suggest that schools operationally define the poor or nonwhite as intellectually and socially inferior. ' Definitions of school deviance tend to discriminate against the poor.2 Diagnosis procedures that label children "disadvantaged," "learning disabilities," or "discipline problems" maintain a peculiar ethnocentricity. The life-styles, languages, values, and normative structures of educators serve as guidelines by which other people's activities are judged. The function of school often seems more to maintain the status and privilege of its professionals than to respond to the aspirations and heritage of those it is to serve. One strategy for altering these failing institutional structures is Teacher Corps. Created by a 1965 act of Congress, Teacher Corps is a nationwide effort to provide comprehensive change in schools of low-income communities. Field-based teacher education programs in local areas are designed to assist in changing school organizational patterns, curriculum, and pol
How Can I Learn With all This Commotion?

This case is intended for student use in a university classroom to examine the complex dilemmas school leaders may face when working to create opportunities for a more inclusive educational environment. Inclusive education may mean different things to different groups and educational leaders need to consider varied perspectives as they develop their own philosophies of inclusive education that balance the interests of students with and without disabilities, drawing upon student, parent, teacher, support staff, and administrator perspectives, and considering these perspectives in terms of academic, social, and personal goals.
Polynomial threshold functions, AC functions and spectrum norms

The class of polynomial-threshold functions is studied using harmonic analysis, and the results are used to derive lower bounds related to AC/sup 0/ functions. A Boolean function is polynomial threshold if it can be represented as a sign function of a sparse polynomial (one that consists of a polynomial number of terms). The main result is that polynomial-threshold functions can be characterized by means of their spectral representation. In particular, it is proved that a Boolean function whose L/sub 1/ spectral norm is bounded by a polynomial in n is a polynomial-threshold function, and that a Boolean function whose L/sub infinity //sup -1/ spectral norm is not bounded by a polynomial in n is not a polynomial-threshold function. Some results for AC/sup 0/ functions are derived. <<ETX>>
Hereditary angio‐oedema with normal C1 inhibitor in a family with affected women and men

Recurrent angio‐oedema is a sign of various acquired and inherited disease entities, including hereditary angio‐oedema types I and II that result from a genetic deficiency of C1 inhibitor, and a recently described type of dominantly inherited angio‐oedema, which does not show a deficiency of C1 inhibitor. Until now, this new type of hereditary angio‐oedema, designated as hereditary angio‐oedema type III, has been assumed to be a disorder specific to females. We now describe a four‐generation family with dominantly inherited angio‐oedema and normal C1 inhibitor in which, in contrast to all previous observations, not only five female but also three male family members were clinically affected. One male patient was mainly affected following the intake of angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors. Our current observation leads to new considerations about the classification of hereditary angio‐oedema with normal C1 inhibitor. Either hereditary angio‐oedema with normal C1 inhibitor can be an entity affecting females predominantly, but not exclusively; in that case, men appear to have a much reduced chance of clinical manifestations. Alternatively, our present observation of hereditary angio‐oedema with normal C1 inhibitor affecting both sexes may represent a new disease entity, presumably with a different underlying defect.
Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces - Covis '09 the Workshop Technical Scope Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (covis) Role of Multiple Display Environments (mdes) Role of Users Role of Design Processes Role of Evaluation Tracking for Multi-user Collaboration on Cam

The ability to distinguish between individual users in collaborative visualization is important for avoiding interference and facilitating cooperation. However, identification can be difficult on camera-based tabletops, where we typically cannot distinguish which tracked touch points belong to which user. Additional mechanisms are needed, such as video input, capacitance, or social and software protocols. We propose a model for the identification process on tabletop displays, and then use this model to suggest a software-based mechanism called interaction workspaces for supporting user identification. An interaction workspace is a movable and resizable region on the full visual space that belongs to a particular user, and inside which only that user is assumed to interact.
An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue

Dialogue act classification is a central challenge for dialogue systems. Although the importance of emotion in human dialogue is widely recognized, most dialogue act classification models make limited or no use of affective channels in dialogue act classification. This paper presents a novel affect-enriched dialogue act classifier for task-oriented dialogue that models facial expressions of users, in particular, facial expressions related to confusion. The findings indicate that the affect-enriched classifiers perform significantly better for distinguishing user requests for feedback and grounding dialogue acts within textual dialogue. The results point to ways in which dialogue systems can effectively leverage affective channels to improve dialogue act classification.
Multivariate analyses of materials found on a sentenced man and on the scene of the crime

In 1957 a girl was brutally murdered in Oslo, Norway, and a 23 year old man, who claimed to be innocent, was sentenced for the crime. To examine that claim, materials collected at various locations on the scene of the crime and on the garments of the sentenced man have been reanalysed using two multivariate techniques, namely cluster analysis and ordination by detrended correspondence analysis (DCA). The cluster analysis divided the different locations in three: one group with locations from the sentenced man, one group for related locations from the scene of the crime, and finally locations with little association with other locations. The main axis of the DCA largely separated the locations so that those on the sentenced man had a low loading while locations on the scene of the crime had a high loading; there was little overlap between the two sets of locations. In further simulations materials found on the scene of the crime were scored for being present on a shoe belonging to the sentenced man. This procedure increased the loading of the shoe on the main axis and drew that location away from the other locations on the sentenced man and towards those at the scene of the crime. This simulation thus suggests that DCA may be a sensitive method for unravelling a possible association between a suspect and the scene of the crime. This study shows no association between the sentenced man and the scene of the crime.
The Legacy and the Challenges: Paul Pintrich's Contributions to Personal Epistemology Research

Across multiple areas of educational psychology, Paul Pintrich's work was characterized by a (a) press for conceptual clarity, (b) focus on developing and refining measures, (c) conviction that researchers interested in learning and cognition should span K-12 and higher education, (d) attention to discipline and context specificity, and (e) interest in connecting constructs to better understand how they relate psychologically. This article addresesses how these 5 aspects of Paul's thinking influenced work in the area of personal epistemology, a construct that encompasses individuals' conceptions of knowledge and knowing. In addition, the article provides examples of progress made by multiple researchers on the earlier challenges identified for the field (Hofer & Pintrich, 1997; Pintrich, 2002), reflects on the areas that need resolution for this particular field to advance, and identifies new challenges and directions that have emerged.
Model-based video content representation

Recurring visual elements in videos commonly represent central content entities, such as main characters and dominant objects. The automated detection of such elements is crucial for various application fields ranging from compact video content summarization to the retrieval of videos sharing common visual entities. Recent approaches for content-based video analysis commonly require for prior knowledge about the appearance of potential objects of interest or build upon a specific assumption, such as the presence of a particular camera view, object motion, or a reference set to estimate the appearance of an object. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised, model-based approach for the detection of recurring visual elements in a video sequence. Detected elements do not necessarily represent an object, yet, they allow for visual and semantic interpretation. The experimental evaluation of detected models across different videos demonstrate the ability of the models to capture potentially high diversity in the visual appearance of the traced elements.
Extraction of levodopa from mucuna pruriens seed using water in fixed bed column

The objective of this research is to determine the overall volumetric mass transfer coefficient (K<sub>c</sub>a) on the extraction of levodopa (L-dopa, L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine) from mucuna pruriens seed using water as solvent in fixed bed column. The parameters studied in this research were solvent (water) flow rate and particle diameter. The effect of those two parameters on the values of K<sub>c</sub>a were studied. The research was carried out in three steps, i.e., seed preparation, extraction process, and results analysis. In the seed preparation step, mucuna pruriens seed was cleaned and sieved to separate solid particles by size. Before being used in the extraction process, the solid particles of seed was dried to attain the moisture content of about 8.8%. The extraction process was carried out by filling the extraction column of 30 mm in diameter and 300 mm in height with solid particle of seed of certain particle diameter. Then water as solvent with a fixed flow rate was flowed from a 5 liters water reservoir pass through seed bed in the column. Water containing with the extracted levodopa then be recycled to the reservoir. The levodopa concentration in the reservoir was analysis using high performance liquid chromatography in every 10 minutes interval until one hour of the extraction process. The results showed that the K<sub>c</sub>a values increased with decreasing the particle diameter of seed for a fixed water flowrate and the K<sub>c</sub>a is also increased with increasing water flow rate for a fixed particle diameter of seed. In this experimens, the K<sub>c</sub>a values were ranged from 0.0273 to 0.0364 with the unit of 1/minute. The relationship between the K<sub>c</sub>a and the influenced parameters is expressed as follows with the relative mean error of 0.05%. k<sub>e</sub>a.p.d<sub>φ</sub><sup>2</sup>/μ=3,28.10<sup>-8</sup>(p.v.D<sub>φ</sub>/μ)<sup>0.71</sup>. The equation is valid for the range of solvent flow rate of 2.25 cm<sup>3</sup>/s to 10.75 cm<sup>3</sup>/s and range of particle diameter of 1.08 mm to 4.33 mm. D<sub>p</sub> is the particle diameter (cm), ν is the liniar velocity of solvent (cm/s), ρ is the solvent density (g/cm<sup>3</sup>), and μ is the solvent viscocity (g/cm·s).
Dnmt2/Trdmt1 as Mediator of RNA Polymerase II Transcriptional Activity in Cardiac Growth

Dnmt2/Trdmt1 is a methyltransferase, which has been shown to methylate tRNAs. Deficient mutants were reported to exhibit various, seemingly unrelated, defects in development and RNA-mediated epigenetic heredity. Here we report a role in a distinct developmental regulation effected by a noncoding RNA. We show that Dnmt2-deficiency in mice results in cardiac hypertrophy. Echocardiographic measurements revealed that cardiac function is preserved notwithstanding the increased dimensions of the organ due to cardiomyocyte enlargement. Mechanistically, activation of the P-TEFb complex, a critical step for cardiac growth, results from increased dissociation of the negatively regulating Rn7sk non-coding RNA component in Dnmt2-deficient cells. Our data suggest that Dnmt2 plays an unexpected role for regulation of cardiac growth by modulating activity of the P-TEFb complex.