Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Taste of Healthy Living: A Recreational Opportunity for People at Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes

The Saanich Peninsula Diabetes Prevention Project was a participatory research project exploring the contribution of recreation programs to the prevention of type 2 diabetes among at-risk populations. Addressing active living, healthy eating, and fostering social inclusion, “A Taste of Healthy Living” was one of the initiatives emerging from the extensive community assessment phase. The purpose of this article is to describe the program's influence on participants' lives. The findings showed that the program encouraged healthy and active lifestyles, and nurtured social capital. Public recreation served as a mechanism for the redistribution of “social wealth. ”
Marital Disruption and Accidents/Injuries Among Children

A vast literature has examined the effects of marital disruption on child well-being, however medically attended childhood accidents/injuries have not been considered as an outcome. This article investigates this association as well as possible intervening pathways using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-linked mother-child file. Findings reveal that marital disruption decreases girls’ accidents/injuries. Boys are not directly affected. Parenting practices, childhood aggression, and precipitous drops in household income appear to do little to the relationship between marital disruption and childhood accidents/injuries for boys. For girls, however, the potential benefits of a marital disruption are suppressed until considering mother’s use of discipline and household income decline. Results are discussed in terms of stress theory and the effect of mother-daughter versus mother-son dynamics following marital disruption.
Survivin expression in cardiac myxoma.

BACKGROUND Cardiac myxoma, the most common primary tumor of the heart, has variable clinical presentations and an immunohistochemical profile. Survivin, an antiapoptosis protein, may play an important role in the causes of cardiac myxoma. This investigation will report the expression pattern of survivin in cardiac myxomas. METHODS This study included 40 patients with cardiac myxoma, who were treated with surgical excision of the lesion. Detailed clinical parameters were reported and the expression of survivin was studied by immunohistochemical staining. RESULTS The patient population was comprised of 24 (60%) women and 16 (40%) men. The mean age of the patients was 42 years, with an age range of 30 to 63 years. All study cases were sporadic myxomas rather than familial myxoma. Patients were asymptomatic (20%), or had dyspnea (40%), stroke (15%), chest pain (12%), and fever (12%) on presentation. All lesions were located in the left atrium. The location of the myxoma and clinical events did not differ in terms of pathological changes, such as vascular proliferation, inflammation, cellularity, hyaline, calcification and thrombosis. Cardiac myxoma was characterized by a survivin dependent pathway with 100% immunohistochemical staining in the cytoplasm and the distribution in scoring system of survivin expression were 1 case (2.5%) in score 1; 12 cases (30%) in score 2; 12 cases (30%) in score 3 and 15 (37.5%) in score 4. CONCLUSION Cardiac myxomas demonstrate strong expression of survivin in the cytoplasm. This implies survivin may play an important role in the apoptosis pathway in cardiac myxomas.
Achievable rates with quantised channel state information in a multiple-access channel with one cognitive transmitter

The authors investigate the achievable rates of a multiple-access channel with one cognitive transmitter in a fading channel. The cognitive transmitter uses dirty-paper coding to mitigate the known interference. They assume partial transmit channel state information which is obtained through a quantised limited feedback. In this model, the receiver sends as feedback only a finite number of bits describing the fading coefficients. Numerical results show that different quantisation schemes must be used for different transmitters (cognitive and non-cognitive) in order to maximise their rates. Also, the number of quantisation bits allocated to each channel coefficient (i.e. the channels from the non-cognitive and cognitive transmitters to the receiver), for a fixed total feedback bits, can affect the achievable rates of the transmitters, and even for each channel coefficient, how to dedicate the considered quantisation bits between the coefficient magnitude and phase can have substantial effects on the rate.
Discriminant Profile of Young Internet Dependents: The Role of Family Relationships

Estudos internacionais tem apontado repercussoes das relacoes familiares na dependencia de internet em jovens. Esta pesquisa buscou tracar um perfil discriminante de jovens classificados como dependentes e nao dependentes de internet em relacao as variaveis sociobiodemograficas, praticas educativas parentais, conflito pais-filho e conflito interparental. A amostra foi constituida por 200 jovens, com idades de 15 a 24 anos, 85,5% residentes no Rio Grande do Sul e 14,5% em outros estados brasileiros. Os participantes responderam individualmente ao protocolo disponivel on-line. Os resultados mostraram que o conflito interparental, o conflito pais-filhos e a pratica educativa de supervisao de comportamento paterno discriminam os dependentes de internet. A pratica educativa de apoio emocional materno foi a unica variavel discriminante para os nao dependentes. Esses achados do contexto nacional corroboram estudos internacionais e reforcam a importância da inclusao da familia nas acoes de promocao e prevencao a saude mental dos jovens.
roduction Process Modeling and Simulation in Subassembly Lines at a Shipyard

To simulate material flow in a subassembly line at a shipyard, the product, process and resources are modeled for the subassembly process. The subassembly line at a large shipyard was selected. It consists of several sub-processes such as base joining, piece alignment, tack welding, and robot welding processes. The analysis and modeling were carried out by using the UML(Unified Modeling Language), an object-oriented modeling method as well as IDEF, a functional modeling tool. Initially, the characteristics of the shop resources were analyzed using the shipyard data, and the layout of the subassembly line was designed with the resources. A production process was then modeled using the resources and the layout. The production process modeling of the subassembly lines was performed using the discrete event simulation method. Using the constructed resource and process model, the productivity and efficiency of the line were investigated. The number of workers and the variations in the resource performance such as that of a new welding robot were examined to simulate the changes in productivity. The bottleneck process floated according to the performance of the new resources. The proposed model was viewed three-dimensionally in a virtual environment so that interferences among objects and space allocations for the resources could be easily investigated.
The Puzzle of Prosociality

How is cooperation among large numbers of unrelated individuals sustained? Cooperation generally requires altruism, where individuals take actions that are group-beneficial but personally costly. Why do selfish agents not drive out altruistic behavior? This is the puzzle of prosociality. Altruism is supported by culture. Sociology treats culture as a set of norms that are transmitted by socialization institutions and internalized by individuals. Altruism, in this approach, is thus sustained by the internalization of norms. Biology treats culture as knowledge that is passed to children from parents (vertical transmission), from other prominent adults (oblique transmission), and from peers (horizontal transmission), such that individuals with higher payoffs have a higher level of biological fitness, leading norms to follow a dynamic of Darwinian selection. Altruism, in this approach, can be sustained only if group selection is feasible, which it rarely is. Economics uses evolutionary game theory to model culture as strategies deployed in social interaction that evolve according to a replicator dynamic, in which individuals shift from lower to higher payoff norms. In this approach, altruism cannot be sustained, but cooperation is possible with repeated interactions and a sufficiently low discount rate. This paper integrates these approaches and shows that altruism, as well as norms that reduce both individual and group payoffs, can be supported in a stable equilibrium.
When should expenditure per life saved vary?

Huge variations in expenditure per life saved have been documented in the USA, Sweden, and Japan. Using an original-position argument, this paper examines normative rationales that might permit departures from equalization of marginal lifesaving investments. The conclusion is that adjustment for identifiability, as reflected in strict benefit-cost analysis, is not justified yet adjustments for consideration of longevity, quality of life and productivity are compelling. It is less clear as to whether factors such as ability to pay, voluntariness and catastrophic potential should influence lifesaving expenditures.
Community Service in Higher Education: A Look at the Nation's Faculty

Motivated by increasing attention to citizenship development in American higher education, this exploratory study examines the level of involvement in and commitment to community service among higher education faculty. Although most report performing some form of community or volunteer service, women, non-White, and lower-ranking faculty tend to be the most involved. The personal values of altruism, service, and community orientation appear to be the primary determinants of commitment to this type of activity.
Brook Spec V0.2 0.2 Streams

Streams and Stream Elements The purpose of declaring streams is to express a collection of objects which can be operated on in parallel. The collection of objects is referred to as a stream while each object is a stream element. The stream variable is a reference to a collection of stream elements. The type of the stream variable determines the stream element type but not necessarily the number of elements contained in the stream. Example of stream declarations,
A Combining Approach for Chinese Word Segmentation

In Chinese and many other Asian languages which are based on non-ASCII alphabet, words are not delimited with whitespace (space, tab etc.), and word boundaries must therefore be reconstructed. Further syntactic analysis is based on the output of word segmentation result. Ambiguity and unregistered words are the most important problems in Chinese word segmentation. In this paper we analyzed the ambiguous reasons and presented a one-pass scan method for the detection and modification of ambiguous cases. To deal with the unregistered words and special words (such as names), we proposed a combination method that can recognize new words, hence the accuracy can be increased. In the realization, we used the bisection search method to look up words in a large dictionary (more than 40,000 items), and the average search cost for a word is less than 16 operations, so the speed is satisfactory if the system is embedded into Chinese understanding systems or Chinese speech processing systems.
Analysis of the dynamic behavior of a doped silicon U-shaped electrothermal actuator

The dynamic behavior of a U-shaped electrothermal actuator is investigated in this paper based on experimental findings and FEM simulations. Few previous works are found in the literature that have addressed the dynamic response of U-shaped actuators. A lack of data on the transient displacement of the actuator in the heating and cooling cycles is noted. Experiments are made in order to characterize the dynamic response of the actuator. The actuators are micro-fabricated on doped SOI wafers and the displacement is recorded with a high speed camera. FEM simulations are in good agreement with the experimental findings. Simulations and experiments show that the shape of displacement follows evolution of the temperature distribution inside the actuator. The influence of the dynamic behavior on the control of the actuator is finally discussed.
The assessment of dysfunctional attitudes and their role in the onset, persistence and recurrence of clinical depression

Dysfunctional attitudes have been proposed as an important vulnerability factor in the cognitive model of depression. Yet it has often proved difficult to demonstrate their existence in non‐symptomatic populations. We examine the ways in which dysfunctional attitudes have been conceptualized and assessed, from self‐report methods to information‐processing tasks. A s dysfunctional attitudes are typically viewed as latent in non‐symptomatic groups, the importance of priming or activating such variables is emphasized, together with recommendations as to how this may best be achieved. Comparative studies of depressed, control, and at‐risk groups are then considered, together with longitudinal studies that have directly testedpredictions of the cognitive model. Prospective studies of non‐depressed, non‐clinical samples have so far had mixed results in demonstrating that dysfunctional attitudes precede depression or that specific attitudes interact with congruent events in the way the model predicts, although more consistent results emerge from clinical samples with a past history of depression. Possible reasons for the variability in findings are presented, together with suggestions for further research and a revised cognitive model of depression.
Guns and Fear

Surveys show that more than one half of gun owners report owning their firearm for self-protection. Although research has examined the effect of fear of crime on gun ownership, the issue of reciprocity and temporal order has been largely ignored. Furthermore, the effect of firearm acquisition and relinquishment on fear has not been evaluated empirically. We hypothesize that the relationship between fear and gun ownership is reciprocal. As James Wright and Peter Rossi noted, it may be that “the initially most fearful may arm themselves and then feel psychologically safer because of it. ” Using two-wave panel data, we found, as expected, that higher fear among nonowners encourages them to become gun owners, but lower fear among gun owners does not encourage gun relinquishment. We also found that gun acquisition does not reduce fear, but relinquishment increases fear, suggesting the relationship between guns and fear may be asymmetrical.
Acoustic Energy Transfer: A Review

Acoustic energy transfer (AET) is a relatively new form of contactless energy transmission that uses sound waves to wirelessly convey energy. In contrast to inductive coupling, it is suited for energy transmission over distances that are large in comparison to the transmitter and receiver dimensions. The frequencies that are used are low, minimizing losses and keeping the electronics simple. This review summarizes the work done on AET by various researchers.
Internet-Initiated Sexual Abuse: Adolescent Victims' Reports About On- and Off-Line Sexual Activities

The purpose of the present study was to investigate how adolescent girls, who had been sexually (on- and off-line) deceived and abused by an Internet hebephile, reported about these acts. As we had access to documentation of 68 girls' conversations (i.e. chat logs) and involvement with the perpetrator, we were able to gauge what the victims reported during the police interview against this detailed documentation. In contrast with findings from previous research, the majority of victims reported about the off-line activities (real-life meetings) with the perpetrator. However, the victims omitted and/or denied more of the on-line activities, specifically the more severe sexual on-line acts (sending nude photos and participating in sexual web shows). There is probably a gap between what the victims reported and what they presumably remembered about the on-line activities. Factors that might have affected the victims' pattern of reports are discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Using eye-tracking data for automatic film comic creation

A film comic is a kind of art work representing a movie story as a comic. It uses the images of the movie as panels. Verbal information such as dialogue and narrations is represented in word balloons. A key issue in creating film comics is how to select images which are significant in conveying the story of the movie. Such significance of images is inherently semantic and context-dependent and hence, technologies purely based on image analysis usually fail to produce good results. On the other hand, the word balloon arrangement requires understanding not only the semantic of images but also the verbal information, which is difficult except for the case the script of the movie is available. This paper describes a new attempt to use eye-tracking data for the automatic creation of a film comic from a movie. Patterns of eye movement are analyzed for detecting the change of scenes and gaze information is used for automatically finding the location for inserting and directing the word balloons. Our experiments showed that the proposed technique can largely improve the selection of significant images compared with the method using image features only and realize the automatic balloon arrangement.
Stellar models: firm evidence, open questions and future developments

Abstract During this last decade our knowledge of the evolutionary properties of stars has significantly improved. This result has been achieved thanks to our improved understanding of the physical behavior of stellar matter in the thermal regimes characteristic of the different stellar mass ranges and/or evolutionary stages. This notwithstanding, the current generation of stellar models is still affected by several, not negligible, uncertainties related to our poor knowledge of some thermodynamical processes and nuclear reaction rates, as well as the efficiency of mixing processes. These drawbacks have to be properly taken into account when comparing theory with observations, to derive evolutionary properties of both resolved and unresolved stellar populations. In this paper we review the major sources of uncertainty along the main evolutionary stages, and emphasize their impact on population synthesis techniques.
Survey of kinesiologists' functional capacity evaluation practice in Canada.

BACKGROUND In Canada, functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) are commonly administered by several health care professions including kinesiologists. Kinesiologists have been recently regulated as health care professionals in Ontario and we know little about their demographics, the frequency of FCE administration, or the types of FCEs used by this group. OBJECTIVE The purposes of this study were to identify: 1) the demographic characteristics and FCE education of kinesiology FCE practitioners; 2) the FCE systems most used by these practitioners and 3) the constructs from assessments used to determine functional capacity. METHODS A survey was distributed to members of the Canadian Kinesiology Alliance. Descriptive statistics and frequency distributions were calculated from the survey responses (n = 77). RESULTS FCE practitioners were represented by kinesiologists (79%) practicing more than 15 years and 1-5 years, who received FCE training from a certification course. ARCON (23%) was the most common FCE system used. Low-level lifting (43%), mid-lift (38%), pulling (38%) and walking (38%) are the most common FCE task components used to assess functional capacity. Although kinesiologists consider multiple factors when making decisions about task component endpoints, biomechanical observations/body mechanics are the primary methods used. CONCLUSIONS Kinesiologists are conducting FCEs for the primary purpose of preparing return-to-work or workplace accommodation recommendations. Although functional capacity is determined using multiple factors, there is an emphasis on biomechanics and body mechanics. Focusing FCE training and research on these constructs may provide opportunities to further strengthen the reliability and validity of FCE outcomes.
Politics, Policy and Research Synthesis

Speeches and Addresses is an occasional feature, not in article format, in which presentations at conferences and other public gatherings are seen as likely to be of interest to a wider audience. Sometimes these speeches and addresses will undoubtedly be contentious, in which case responses and counter-arguments are to be expected and are welcome. Contributions to this section are intended to make accessible relevant material for academic, policy-making and practitioner audiences. The following address is by Eleanor Chelimsky, who at the time it was given was Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation and Methodology in the United States General Accounting Office. This was a 'Keynote Address' at the National Conference on Research Synthesis sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation, Washington DC, in June 1994.
Molecular analysis of the coiled body

SUMMARY There is increasing interest in studying how specific metabolic activities within the nucleus are organised into functional domains. The best known example is the nucleolus where rRNA genes are transcribed and rRNA processed and assembled into ribosomal subunits. Other subnuclear domains have been known for many years through morphological studies but are only recently being analysed at the molecular level. Here we focus on an evolutionarily conserved nuclear domain, called the coiled body, which contains splicing snRNPs. We review recent literature on the coiled body and discuss a possible model for its biological function.
TNF-related Activation-induced Cytokine (TRANCE) Induces Angiogenesis through the Activation of Src and Phospholipase C (PLC) in Human Endothelial Cells*

Angiogenesis is an essential step for many physiological and pathological processes. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily cytokines are increasingly recognized as key modulators of angiogenesis. In this study, we tested whether TNF-related activation-induced cytokine (TRANCE), a new member of the TNF superfamily, possesses angiogenic activity in vitro andin vivo. TRANCE stimulated DNA synthesis, chemotactic motility, and capillary-like tube formation in primary cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Both Matrigel plug assay in mice and chick chorioallantoic membrane assay revealed that TRANCE potently induced neovascularization in vivo. TRANCE had no effect on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in HUVECs and TRANCE-induced angiogenic activity was not suppressed by VEGF-neutralizing antibody, implying that TRANCE-induced angiogenesis may be the result of its direct action on endothelial cells. TRANCE evoked a time- and dose-dependent activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases ERK1/2 and focal adhesion kinase p125FAK in HUVECs, which are closely linked to angiogenesis. These signaling events were blocked by the Src inhibitor PP1 or the phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor U73122. Furthermore, these inhibitors and the Ca2+ chelator BAPTA-AM suppressed TRANCE-induced HUVEC migration. These results indicate that the angiogenic activity of TRANCE is mediated through the Src-PLC-Ca2+ signaling cascade upon receptor engagement in endothelial cells, suggesting the role of TRANCE in neovessel formation under physiological and pathological conditions.