Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dysfunctional Parenting and Depression: The Mediational Role of Schemas

Dysfunctional parenting has been shown to be related to a variety of forms of psychopathology. Schema Theory proposes that when children's core developmental needs are unmet (“toxic parenting”), maladaptive views of self and others (Early Maladaptive Schemas; EMS) develop. These EMS represent a cognitive vulnerability to future psychopathology. Research has shown that several EMS mediated the relationship between recollections of parenting and depressive symptoms. The goal of the present study is to address limitations in previous research by utilizing multiple mediation models that will examine previously supported mediators in the literature simultaneously. Participants were 222 College students. Results of bootstrap multiple mediation analyses revealed that when shared variance is addressed, only the EMS of vulnerability to harm mediated the relationship between recollections of maternal bonding and current depression. These findings support the role of EMS as a cognitive diathesis in the development of depressive symptoms.
Design of Multiple-Edge Protographs for QC LDPC Codes Avoiding Short Inevitable Cycles

There have been lots of efforts on the construction of quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with large girth. However, most of them focus on protographs with single edges and little research has been done for the construction of QC LDPC codes lifted from protographs with multiple (i.e., parallel) edges. Compared to single-edge protographs, multiple-edge protographs have benefits such that QC LDPC codes lifted from them can potentially have larger minimum Hamming distance. In this paper, all subgraph patterns of multiple-edge protographs, which prevent QC LDPC codes from having large girth by inducing inevitable cycles, are fully investigated based on a graph-theoretic approach. By using combinatorial designs, a systematic construction method of multiple-edge protographs is proposed for regular QC LDPC codes with girth at least 12 and another method is proposed for regular QC LDPC codes with girth at least 14. Moreover, a construction algorithm of QC LDPC codes based on certain liftings of multiple-edge protographs is proposed and it is shown that the resulting QC LDPC codes have larger upper bounds on the minimum Hamming distance than those lifted from single-edge protographs. Simulation results are provided to compare the performance of the proposed QC LDPC codes with progressive edge-growth (PEG) LDPC codes and with PEG QC LDPC codes.
Calidad percibida en una prueba de triatlón

The interest in knowing participant perceptions regarding the quality and value of the service, has moved to sports events popular character. Knowing what are the determining factors for achieving the overall participant satisfaction, the organizers will favor greater loyalty and improved planning of upcoming events. Through a questionnaire, this study analyzes the different dimensions of quality, which has a triathlon, the perceived value and future intentions as perceived by the participant broker in the "XXVI National Triathlon Villa de Fuente Alamo". The results show that the logistics infrastructure dimension as the most valued factor in quality and communication the worse punctuation. The participants with greater experience obtained lower scores than the other groups.
Impact of revenue-driven CDN on the competition among network operators

We investigate the impact of decisions made by a CDN willing to maximize its revenue through the management of cache servers. Based on a model with two network providers, we highlight that revenue-oriented management policies can affect the user-perceived quality of experience, impacting the competition among network access providers in favor of the largest one. Since this contradicts the principle underpinning network neutrality-although not with the technical net neutrality rules-we discuss the necessity to regulate CDN activity.
Biophysical Stimuli: A Review of Electrical and Mechanical Stimulation in Hyaline Cartilage

Objective Hyaline cartilage degenerative pathologies induce morphologic and biomechanical changes resulting in cartilage tissue damage. In pursuit of therapeutic options, electrical and mechanical stimulation have been proposed for improving tissue engineering approaches for cartilage repair. The purpose of this review was to highlight the effect of electrical stimulation and mechanical stimuli in chondrocyte behavior. Design Different information sources and the MEDLINE database were systematically revised to summarize the different contributions for the past 40 years. Results It has been shown that electric stimulation may increase cell proliferation and stimulate the synthesis of molecules associated with the extracellular matrix of the articular cartilage, such as collagen type II, aggrecan and glycosaminoglycans, while mechanical loads trigger anabolic and catabolic responses in chondrocytes. Conclusion The biophysical stimuli can increase cell proliferation and stimulate molecules associated with hyaline cartilage extracellular matrix maintenance.
In-car Speech Data Collection along with Various Multimodal Signals

In this paper, a large-scale real-world speech database is introduced along with other multimedia driving data. We designed a data collection vehicle equipped with various sensors to synchronously record twelve-channel speech, three-channel video, driving behavior including gas and brake pedal pressures, steering angles, and vehicle velocities, physiological signals including driver heart rate, skin conductance, and emotion-based sweating on the palms and soles, etc. These multimodal data are collected while driving on city streets and expressways under four different driving task conditions including two kinds of monologues, human-human dialog, and human-machine dialog. We investigated the response timing of drivers against navigator utterances and found that most overlapped with the preceding utterance due to the task characteristics and the features of Japanese. When comparing utterance length, speaking rate, and the filler rate of driver utterances in human-human and human-machine dialogs, we found that drivers tended to use longer and faster utterances with more fillers to talk with humans than machines.
Single-Carrier Frequency-Domain Equalizer with Multi-Antenna Transmit Diversity

Single-carrier (SC) block transmission with cyclic prefix (CP) is a method with several advantages that has been incorporated into standards. This paper has analyzed the performance of multi-antenna SC-FDE under Alamouti signaling and cyclic-delay diversity (CDD). Our analysis shows that the characteristic of diversity it is depends on data block length and data transmission rate as well as on the channel memory and antenna configuration. At higher rates their diversity diminishes and full diversity is available to both CDD and Alamouti signalling below a certain rate threshold. From our investigation we say that at high rates Alamouti signalling provides twice the diversity of SISO SC-FDE, while the diversity of the SISO SC-FDE under the CDD diversity degenerates. In this paper, we analyze the performance of SC-FDE in conjunction with either cyclic delay diversity (CDD) or Alamouti signaling, fully characterizing the diversity as a function of transmission-block length, number of antennas data rate and channel memory. In the process, we obtain a threshold rate (as a function of data-block length, channel memory, and number of antennas) below which the full spatial-temporal diversity is achieved, while at higher rates the diversity of both schemes diminishes. Our analysis shows that at high rates Alamouti signaling provides twice the diversity of SISO SCFDE, while the CDD diversity degenerates to the diversity of the SISO SC-FDE.
Power Electronic Modelling and Emulation of an Electrostatic Precipitator

In this paper a power electronic emulation of an electrostatic precipitator is presented. Precipitator power supplies can be tested under real power and operating conditions up to 200 kVA. Energy consumption of the system is very low, because the energy which is drawn by the emulation converter is fed back into the power grid. Therefore, just the power losses have to be provided by the grid. It is possible to implement different precipitator models to verify real plant operation conditions or to optimize parameters for new precipitator designs. Precipitator power supplies can be tested as well in static as in dynamic operation points to verify the proper function of the device in the laboratory.
Anin VitroModel of the Rat Dorsal Root Entry Zone Reveals Developmental Changes in the Extent of Sensory Axon Growth into the Spinal Cord

The dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) forms the junction between the dorsal roots of the peripheral nervous system and the spinal cord. In rats older than 1 week, lesioned primary sensory axons regenerate within the dorsal roots but stop at the DREZ, and are thus unable to reconnect with the spinal cord. To analyze the causes of this failure, we have developed a culture model of the interaction of sensory axon growth cones with the intact DREZ, whereby dissociated dorsal root ganglion neurons from rats of various ages are grown on longitudinal cryosections of rat spinal cord, incorporating the DREZ and attached dorsal roots, from neonatal, 1-week-old (P6), or adult animals. Neurites of all ages grew along the roots to the DREZ, where their ability to cross into the spinal cord depended on both their age and that of the spinal cord substrate. Neurites from neonatal neurons failed to cross either the P6 or adult DREZ, but a substantial proportion crossed the immature neonatal DREZ. Early embryonic neurites exhibited substantial crossing on both immature and adult DREZ. These findings strongly suggest that soon after birth, the normal mammalian DREZ acquires growth inhibitory activity that is recognized by the axons of postnatal but not early embryonic sensory neurons.
Benign hereditary chorea: Clinical and neuroimaging features in an Italian family

Benign hereditary chorea is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by early onset nonprogressive chorea, caused by mutations of the thyroid transcription factor‐1 (TITF‐1) gene. Clinical heterogeneity has been reported and thyroid and respiratory abnormalities may be present. We describe 3 patients of an Italian family carrying the S145X mutation in the TITF‐1 gene with mild motor delay, childhood onset dyskinesias, and subtle cognitive impairment. A child in the third generation presented with congenital hypothyroidism and neonatal respiratory distress. Imaging studies in 2 patients showed mild ventricular enlargement and empty sella at magnetic resonance imaging and hypometabolism of basal ganglia and cortex at 18‐Fluoro‐2‐deoxy‐glucose positron emission tomography. © 2010 Movement Disorder Society
Polarization diversity cognitive antenna for WiFi and ZigBee applications

The paper presents a cognitive antenna based on the Self-Structuring Antenna (SSA) technology that dynamically alters its aperture to maximize Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) in varying RF environments. A polarizationdiversity antenna, which is a simple implementation of the SSA, has been built and tested for WiFi applications. The low profile prototype uses self-structuring feed and has proved effective in improving signal strength and data rates, and is compatible with MIMO implementation.
Idiopathic chronic cough: association with organ specific autoimmune disease and bronchoalveolar lymphocytosis

Background: We have recently reported a strong association between organ specific autoimmune disease and idiopathic chronic cough and have suggested that cough may be caused by airway inflammation secondary to aberrant homing of activated lymphocytes to the lung. An immunopathological study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that idiopathic chronic cough is associated with lymphocytic airway inflammation. Methods: Bronchoscopy, bronchial biopsies, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and peripheral blood and BAL flow cytometry were performed in 19 patients with idiopathic chronic cough, 14 with explained chronic cough, and 11 normal subjects. Results: Organ specific autoimmune disease or positive autoantibodies were present in eight of the 19 patients with idiopathic cough, in one of the 14 patients with explained cough, and in one of the 11 normal subjects. Median BAL fluid differential lymphyocyte counts were significantly higher in patients with idiopathic cough (10.0%) than in normal subjects (6.3%, 95% confidence interval of difference 1.5 to 11.9, p = 0.01) or patients with explained cough (5.2%, 95% CI of difference 2.0 to 10.4, p = 0.001). There were no differences in bronchial biopsy T lymphocyte counts between the groups. The mean (SE) proportion of CD3+ peripheral blood mononuclear cells expressing CD4 was significantly higher in normal subjects than in patients with idiopathic cough (69 (3)% v 58 (3)%, mean difference 11%, 95% CI of difference 2 to 20, p<0.02) but not than those with explained chronic cough (63 (2)%). There were no differences in BAL T lymphocyte phenotype between groups. Conclusion: BAL fluid lymphocytosis occurs in some patients with idiopathic chronic cough. The association of idiopathic chronic cough with organ specific autoimmune disease raises the possibility that this might be caused by lymphocyte homing from the primary site of autoimmune inflammation or the result of an autoimmune process in the lung.
Isolation of High Level Macrolide Resistant Bordetella pertussis Without Transition Mutation at Domain V in Iran

Background: Bordetella pertussis, as a causative agent of whooping cough, due to the annual rise y of infection cases, failure of prophylaxis and treatment by macrolides, is considered as the new concern in the health care system. Objectives: The main objective of this study was the determination of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at domain V, as the main binding site for macrolides, following the identification of high level macrolides resistant B. pertussis. Materials and Methods: Following the identification of 11 recovered B. pertussis isolates, from a total of 1084 nasopharyngeal swabs, by using the biochemical and molecular methods, the activities of erythromycin, azithromycin and clarithromycin antibiotics against the recovered isolates were examined. Subsequently, A-G transition mutations in domain V were analyzed by molecular techniques, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and sequencing. Results: After susceptibility testing, one strain was detected as a high level macrolide resistant B. pertussis (Erythromycin = 128 μg/mL, Clarithromycin > 256 μg/mL). After sequencing and PCR-RFLP methods, transition mutations in positions 2047 and 2058 of the mentioned domain were not observed. Conclusions: Although previous studies have shown that A-G transition mutations in 23 SrRNA gene (domain V) are the main reason for the occurrence of high level macrolides resistance in B. pertussis, however, the mentioned single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have not been detected in our resistant strain. This is the first report of high level macrolide resistant B. pertussis, without SNPs in domain V, in Iran.
DICHROWEB, an online server for protein secondary structure analyses from circular dichroism spectroscopic data

The DICHROWEB web server enables on-line analyses of circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopic data, providing calculated secondary structure content and graphical analyses comparing calculated structures and experimental data. The server is located at http://www.cryst. bbk.ac. uk/cdweb and may be accessed via a password-limited user ID, available upon completion of a registration form. The server facilitates analyses using five popular algorithms and (currently) seven different reference databases by accepting data in a user-friendly manner in a wide range of formats, including those output by both commercial CD instruments and synchrotron radiation-based circular dichroism beamlines, as well as those produced by spectral processing software packages. It produces as output calculated secondary structures, a goodness-of-fit parameter for the analyses, and tabular and graphical displays of experimental, calculated and difference spectra. The web pages associated with the server provide information on CD spectroscopic methods and terms, literature references and aids for interpreting the analysis results.
Marrying Features and Use Cases for Product Line Requirements Modeling of Embedded Systems

Software intense defense systems, for example vehicles, are developed in short series and are expected to have an extremely long life span. Furthermore, these systems are always customized for different customer needs. For an organization to be competitive in a market like this it is important to achieve high levels of reuse between different customer projects and to be efficient in maintaining the different systems once developed. An interesting approach to address issues like these is known as product line development. Unfortunately, most published approaches for product line development today has software, not system, focus. In this paper we propose an approach to overcome this issue by introducing domain modeling with features and use cases as part of the system requirements process.
Multimodal Manifold Analysis by Simultaneous Diagonalization of Laplacians

We construct an extension of spectral and diffusion geometry to multiple modalities through simultaneous diagonalization of Laplacian matrices. This naturally extends classical data analysis tools based on spectral geometry, such as diffusion maps and spectral clustering. We provide several synthetic and real examples of manifold learning, object classification, and clustering, showing that the joint spectral geometry better captures the inherent structure of multi-modal data. We also show the relation of many previous approaches for multimodal manifold analysis to our framework.
‘If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect’: Children’s and adults’ perceptions of intellectually arrogant, humble, and diffident people

Abstract Intellectual humility is usually regarded as a virtue. In this paper, we conceptualized intellectual humility along two dimensions: (1) placing an adequate level of confidence in one’s own beliefs; (2) being willing to consider other people’s beliefs. We tested whether children (ages 4 to 11 years) and adults perceived intellectual humility as positive and how these perceptions changed across development. To do so, we asked participants to evaluate an intellectually humble person as compared to an intellectually arrogant person, who readily dismissed other people’s beliefs, or to an intellectually diffident person, who was unsure of a well-supported belief. Young children did not favor the intellectually humble person over the others, but older children and adults liked this person better and tended to consider her nicer than the arrogant one and smarter than the diffident one. These findings suggest that the virtuousness of intellectual humility in others is recognized from mid-childhood on.
The effects of social versus non-social spatial cues on attentional performance in schizophrenia

Results: When analysing only cross-sectional data from the latter follow-up at age 43 years 2.8% (one person) was recovered, 22% had remission, 36% were not on disability pension, and 54% did not use antipsychotic medication or used only low-dose. Regarding maintenance of good outcomes, the one earlier recovered subject with schizophrenia participating to the latter follow-up did not anymore meet our (very strict) recovery criteria. However, he had otherwise very good outcome. Four out of nine (44%) maintained their remission, 9/13 (69%) stayed ‘not on disability pension’, 16/22 (73%) had no or low-dose antipsychotic medication also at the second follow-up. Later age of illness onset associated to good outcomes: not being on disability pension at age 34-years (OR 0.8, 95% CI: 0.73–0.96) and 43-years (0.7, 0.60–0.93), and using no or at most low-dose antipsychotic medication at age 43years (0.7, 0.53–0.89). No other associations between onset age or gender and outcome measures existed.
The battered wife : how Christians confront family violence

Family life is often a place of violence, especially violence against women--in Christian homes as well as in secular ones. Nancy Nason-Clark's sociological investigations allow her to analyze this problem and to reveal how Christian communities respond to family violence in positive ways. She also to suggests how church and secular agencies can cooperate for even more effective action.
If You Are Committed, Then so Am I: The Role of Social Networks and Social Influence on Organizational Commitment

Research on organizational commitment has generally ignored the role that social networks may play in shaping work-related attitudes. In this article, we explore two network-based mechanisms: (a) structural position effects, based on centrality, and (b) social influence, based on direct social contact with peers. Relying on network, survey, and administrative data for more than 400 employees in 21 different organizations, our findings suggest that both structural position and social influence are associated with organizational commitment. These findings have important implications for how public organizations structure work teams, hire and promote employees, and engage in reform efforts.
Alcoholic Beverages and Cigarettes: Complements or Substitutes? A Pseudo Panel Approach

In this paper, using pseudo panel data we analyze the relation between cigarette and alcoholic beverage consumption within the rational addiction framework. We believe that pseudo panel data approach has many advantages compared to aggregate and panel data models. We found that alcoholic beverages are complements for cigarettes, while it is not the same the other way around. Moreover, we found that alcohol is a gateway for cigarette which further supports our conclusion concerning the reinforcing effect of alcohol consumption on cigarette consumption. We believe that drinking works as a trigger for smoking especially in social settings like bars while it is also possible (although less likely) that people who want to cut cigarette consumption might increase alcohol consumption to cope with resulting stress, which induces an asymmetry in cross price elasticities. However we point out that the complementarity relationship is much stronger and significant. Policy implications for the results are explained and the direction for further research is addressed.
3D Representation Models Construction through a Volume Geometric Decomposition Method

Despite the fact of 3D motion tracking has being highly explored in the computer vision researches, it still faces some relevant challenges, such as the tracking of objects using few a priori knowledge. In this context, this work presents the Volume Geometric Decomposition method, capable of constructing representation models of distinct and previously unknown objects. This method is executed over a probabilistic volumetric reconstruction of the interested objects. It adjusts the representation to the reconstructed volume, minimizing the amount of empty space enclosed by the model. Such representation model is composed by an appearance and a kinematic models. The former is comprised of ellipsoids and joints, while the latter is implemented through the Loose-Limbed model, a probabilistic graphical model. The performed experiments and the obtained results shown that the proposed method successfully constructed representation models to highly distinct and a priori