Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attitudes and Perspectives of Teacher Performers on Pedagogy and Perceived Student Learning in the Elementary and Secondary School Music Classroom.

This study investigated the lives of three active music teacher performers and how their performing experience impacted pedagogy and perceived student learning in the classroom. At the time of data collection, one participant was a full-time elementary school music teacher, and the other two participants were full-time secondary school music teachers. Philosophically, this study intended to discover the central meaning underlying the life experiences of each participant as they relate to pedagogy and perceived student learning (phenomenology). Methodologically, qualitative data (typical of phenomenological inquiry) were collected through both interviews and a focus group session. Furthermore, a traditional thematic exploration of the data was employed. Findings indicate that pedagogy and perceived student learning are positively impacted through the theme of respect and negatively impacted through the themes of fatigue and job dissatisfaction. Such themes invite all educators within the performing arts to reexamine and reflect upon the intricate relationship between performing and teaching.
Point-in-polygon tests by determining grid center points in advance

This paper presents a new method for point-inpolygon tests via uniform grids. It consists of two stages, with first to construct a uniform grid and determine the inclusion property of every grid center point, and the second to determine a query point by the center point of its located grid cell. In this way, the simple ray crossing method can be used locally to perform point-in-polygon tests quickly. When O(Ne) grid cells are constructed, as used in many grid-based methods, our new method can considerably reduce the storage requirement and the time on grid construction and determining the grid center points in the first stage, where Ne is the number of polygon edges. As for answering a query point at the second stage, the expected time complexity is O(1) in general. Experiments show that our new method can be several times faster than existing methods at the first stage and an order of magnitude faster at the second stage. Benefited from its high speed and less storage requirement, our new method is very suitable for treating large-scale polygons and dynamic cases, as shown in our experiments.
Clinical management of a fused upper premolar with supernumerary tooth: a case report

In dentistry, the term 'fusion' is used to describe a developmental disorder of dental hard tissues. In the permanent dentition, fusion of a normal tooth and a supernumerary tooth usually involves the incisors or canines. However, a few cases of fusion involving premolars have also been reported to date. We present a rare case in which fusion of the maxillary left second premolar and a supernumerary tooth in a 13-year-old girl was diagnosed using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT, Alphard-3030, Asahi Roentgen Ind. Co., Ltd.). The tooth was bicuspidized after routine nonsurgical root canal treatment, and the separated teeth underwent appropriate restoration procedures. The second premolar and supernumerary tooth remained asymptomatic without any signs of inflammation after a follow-up period of 9 years. Identification of anatomical anomalies is important for treatment in cases involving fusion with supernumerary tooth, and therefore the microscopic examinations and CBCT are essential for the diagnosis. Fused teeth can be effectively managed by the comprehensive treatment which includes both endodontic and periodontal procedures.
An efficient clock synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), it may be necessary to have a unified time reference for all network nodes. Such a necessity may be imposed by the management strategy in the network, e.g., using time based medium access arbitration, or simply due to the dynamic nature of the application, e.g. target tracking. Since each node more or less operates autonomously, the clocks of the individual nodes have to be synchronized. Contemporary clock synchronization protocols introduce significant messaging overhead and thus do not suit the resource-constrained WSNs. In the paper, we propose a novel solution called Synchronization through Piggybacked Reference Timestamps (SPiRT). SRiRT exploits the popularity of two-tier network architectures in WSN, where nodes are grouped into disjoint clusters and each cluster is lead by a cluster-head that aggregates the data from its members. Each cluster-head synchronizes its clock to that of a reference node in the network through message exchange. Since cluster members can overhear the cluster-head transmissions, SPiRT takes advantages of such synchronization traffic to adjust the clock of the cluster members. SPiRT calls for appending the reference timestamps in the cluster-head messages so that a cluster member can estimate their clock adjustment. This cuts on energy consumption and increases the synchronization efficiency of SPiRT. SPiRT is validated through simulation and implementation on a Micaz based testbed. The validation results confirm the effectiveness of SPiRT and show that it outperforms competing schemes in the literature.
Association analyses suggest multiple interaction effects of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms on timing of menarche and natural menopause in white women

Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether polymorphisms of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene are associated with age at menarche and age at natural menopause in white women. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, a total of 305 randomly selected unrelated white women were genotyped for six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the MTHFR gene (including one common replacement, rs1801133). This sample was comprehensively analyzed for the association of the SNPs with age at menarche. Then a subsample of 210 women who experienced natural menopause was analyzed for the association of the MTHFR gene with age at natural menopause. Results: Duration of breast-feeding was a significant predictor of earlier natural menopause (P < 0.05). No individual SNPs were associated with either age at menarche or age at natural menopause. However, three significant (P < 0.05) SNP-SNP interaction effects (rs2066470/rs1476413, rs2066470/rs4846049, and rs17037390/rs4846049) on the onset of menarche were determined. Three haplotypes were significantly associated with age at menopause (P < 0.05). Four SNPs (rs2066470, rs17037390, rs1801133, and rs4846048) indicated significant interaction effects with various lifestyle factors on age at natural menopause. Conclusions: The results of our study suggest that the MTHFR gene may influence the onset of menarche and natural menopause. This effect is probably due to the multiple SNP-SNP and SNP-environment interactions. More independent studies are needed to further clarify the possible contribution of this gene to the timing of menarche and menopause.
A new strategy for direct generation of tool shape from a CAD model based on a meshless method

A strategy for direct generation of tool shapes from a CAD model expressed by NURBS surfaces is presented in this paper. Several algorithms that are necessary for direct generation of tool shape are developed. The shapes of objects are defined by NURBS surfaces and the NURBS control points are used as nodes in a meshless method of analysis. A new approach to construct N-sided surfaces is proposed in the paper. An iterative meshless method is developed to design a die surface that compensates for springback in stamped sheet metal. All of the emphasis is on the NURBS-based objects and the meshless treatment of large plastic deformation and complicated contact conditions.
Influence of Anti-TNF and Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs Therapy on Pulmonary Forced Vital Capacity Associated to Ankylosing Spondylitis: A 2-Year Follow-Up Observational Study

Objective. To evaluate the effect of anti-TNF agents plus synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) versus DMARDs alone for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with reduced pulmonary function vital capacity (FVC%). Methods. In an observational study, we included AS who had FVC% <80% at baseline. Twenty patients were taking DMARDs and 16 received anti-TNF + DMARDs. Outcome measures: changes in FVC%, BASDAI, BASFI, 6-minute walk test (6MWT), Borg scale after 6MWT, and St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire at 24 months. Results. Both DMARDs and anti-TNF + DMARDs groups had similar baseline values in FVC%. Significant improvement was achieved with anti-TNF + DMARDs in FVC%, at 24 months, when compared to DMARDs alone (P = 0.04). Similarly, patients in anti-TNF + DMARDs group had greater improvement in BASDAI, BASFI, Borg scale, and 6MWT when compared to DMARDs alone. After 2 years of follow-up, 14/16 (87.5%) in the anti-TNF + DMARDs group achieved the primary outcome: FVC% ≥80%, compared with 11/20 (55%) in the DMARDs group (P = 0.04). Conclusions. Patients with anti-TNF + DMARDs had a greater improvement in FVC% and cardiopulmonary scales at 24 months compared with DMARDs. This preliminary study supports the fact that anti-TNF agents may offer additional benefits compared to DMARDs in patients with AS who have reduced FVC%.
Endothelium-Derived C-Type Natriuretic Peptide Myocardial Ischemia / Reperfusion Injury : Novel Cardioprotective Role for Natriuretic Peptide Receptor-C Regulates Coronary Blood Flow and Prevents

Copyright © 2004 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR. 0000141802.29945. 34 2004;110;1231-1235; originally published online Aug 30, 2004; Circulation Adrian Hobbs, Paul Foster, Craig Prescott, Ramona Scotland and Amrita Ahluwalia Endothelium-Derived C-Type Natriuretic Peptide Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: Novel Cardioprotective Role for Natriuretic Peptide Receptor-C Regulates Coronary Blood Flow and Prevents http://circ.ahajournals. org/cgi/content/full/110/10/1231 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is
Contextual equivalence for inductive definitions with binders in higher order typed functional programming

Abstract Correct handling of names and binders is an important issue in meta-programming. This paper presents an embedding of constraint logic programming into the αML functional programming language, which provides a provably correct means of implementing proof search computations over inductive definitions involving names and binders modulo α-equivalence. We show that the execution of proof search in the αML operational semantics is sound and complete with regard to the model-theoretic semantics of formulae, and develop a theory of contextual equivalence for the subclass of αML expressions which correspond to inductive definitions and formulae. In particular, we prove that αML expressions, which denote inductive definitions, are contextually equivalent precisely when those inductive definitions have the same model-theoretic semantics. This paper is a revised and extended version of the conference paper (Lakin, M. R. & Pitts, A. M. (2009) Resolving inductive definitions with binders in higher-order typed functional programming. In Proceedings of the 18th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2009), Castagna, G. (ed), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5502. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, pp. 47–61) and draws on material from the first author's PhD thesis (Lakin, M. R. (2010) An Executable Meta-Language for Inductive Definitions with Binders. University of Cambridge, UK).
PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS MOBILE

Kemajuan dalam bidang pendidikan salah satunya ditandai dengan proses pembelajaran yang tidak lagi berpusat pada guru. Permasalahan tersebut menuntut para ahli untuk mengembangkan pembelajaran yang berimplikasi pada pembelajaran yang berpusat pada peserta didik ( student centered learning) . Salah satu model yang mengarah pada student centered learning adalah mobile learning ( m-Learning ). Adapun tujuan dalam penulisan artikel ini adalah (a) untuk mengetahui dan memperoleh gambaran tentang pembelajaran berbasis mobile, dan (b) untuk mengetahui dan memperoleh gambaran mengenai proses pembelajaran berbasis mobile . Pembelajaran ini menggabungkan beberapa aspek diantaranya perangkat teknologi, aspek sosial, dan peserta didik. Pembelajaran dimulai dengan mengunduh aplikasi materi pelajaran untuk di- instal l di telepon seluler ( handphone ). Setelah instalasi selesai, pengguna dapat memulai menjelajah materi tersebut. Fasilitas yang disediakan masing-masing penyedia aplikasi materi berbeda-beda, tergantung kebutuhan dan tujuan yang ingin dicapai. Kata Kunci: mobile learning, teknologi, peserta didik
Experiments on image texture classification with K-views classifier, Markov random fields and cooccurrence probabilities

We compared three image classifiers which incorporate contextual information to classify each pixel in the raw images in this study. These procedures incorporate contextual information by using different features and classify the pixel into one of several predefined classes based on these features. These spatial classifiers strive to capture the spatial relationships encoded in the aerial photograph. The determination of the window size is a challenging issue in these spatial classifiers. Preliminary experimental results are provided in this report
Effects of anaphylaxis mediators on partitioned pulmonary vascular resistance during ragweed shock in dogs.

We examined the effect of anaphylactic shock on the longitudinal distribution of pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) in ragweed-sensitized dogs in which PVR was partitioned into an upstream arterial component (Rus) and a downstream venous and capillary component (Rds). We also assessed whether Rus and Rds would be reduced by pretreatment with histamine H1- and H2-receptor blocking agents and with cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathway inhibitors. Anesthetized animals were examined on separate occasions 3 wk apart in which one of the treatments was randomly given. The pulmonary arterial occlusion technique was used to determine segmental pressure drops. During ragweed challenge, PVR increased approximately 4 times compared with the preshock value (3.04 vs. 12. 07 mmHg . l-1 . min; P < 0.05). Although both Rus and Rds increased postshock, the greatest relative increase occurred in Rds. None of the treatments reduced partitioned resistances compared with no treatment. Our results show that, under conditions of anaphylactic shock, increases in Rus and Rds could not be ascribed to release of histamine or products of the cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways.
Democratic Therapeutic Community in a Network of “Enabling Environments”: Transformations of Psychotherapeutic Residential Services in Social Postmodern Crisis

The purpose of this article is to present a model for new democratic therapeutic community programmes for seriously ill patients, based on social networks. This model is based on the concept of the Democratic Therapeutic Community in a network of “enabling environments”, in a social context of crisis. It represents an evolution of the tradition of Supported Housing as Therapeutic Environment for people with severe and persistent mental illness, in Sicily. A postmodern transition from old Psychiatric Residential Services to new Psychotherapy Community Based. These programmes have given birth to a range of new type of democratic therapeutic community, understood as a new practices of group-psychotherapy community-focused for severe and persistent mental illness. In this article the authors propose and present three type of new DTCs: 1) GroupApartment (GA); 2) Non-Residential Democratic Therapeutic Community (NRDTC); 3) Guest House of Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Crisis (GHPTC). This new model has been developed in Sicily as a response to the serious economic and political crisis of the last decade. It has encouraged mental health professionals to reconsider in the light of the new international interest in mental health ‘recovery’, the English democratic therapeutic community tradition, and the Italian health care policy choices that with the Law 180/1978, excludes possibility of permanent shelter in psychiatric hospitals, of users with severe mental illness. The Italian health care policy, with the Law 81/2014, definitively closed also the Judiciary Psychiatric Hospitals. So communitarian treatment of these forensic users will be totally in charge of territorial mental health services and of new TCs. Therapeutics processes of this programmes are given by creating ‘enabling environments’, through psychotherapeutic and psychosocial treatments between the house of users and the place of the therapeutic community, in which ‘communal living’ is developed as a contexts of care that identify itself as part of a broader social community of purpose and scope, that we use to define the ‘Local Community’. The ‘therapeutic communal environment’ offer suitable care to ameliorate the post-acute phases of mental illness, and play a role of intermediary between the services offered by the NHS and the social community, on one hand, and the caring work carried out by the family as a whole and the job context, on other hand. Three type of new DTCs have been developed from three programmes of “Supported Housing”, whit evidences of effectiveness in the scientific field of Mental Health Community-Based: 1) Cooperative Apartment (CA), 2) Supportive Leaving (SL) and 3) Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT).
The handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment

I EMOTION ELICITATION 1. Emotion Elicitation Using Films 2. The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) in the Study of Emotion and Attention 3. The Directed Facial Action Task: Emotional Responses without Appraisal 4. Emotional Behaviors As Emotional Stimuli 5. Probing Unconscious Emotional Processes: On Becoming a Successful Masketeer 6. Social Psychological Methods of Emotion Elicitation 7. Emotion Elicitation Using Dyadic Interaction Tasks 8. Combining Music with Thought to Change Mood 9. Emotion Elicited by Primary Reinforcers, and Following Stimulus-Reinforcement Association Learning 10. Emotion Elicitation with Neurological Patients II EMOTION ASSESSMENT 11. Assessing Positive and Negative via Self-Report 12. The Information-Processing Approach to Emotion Research 13. Observer-Based Measurement of Facial Expression with the Facial Action Coding System 14. Use of Automated Facial Image Analysis for Measurement of Emotion Expression 15. Measuring Emotion-Related Vocal Acoustics 16. The Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF) 17. Continuous Measurement of Emotion: The Affect Rating Dial 18. Assessing Understanding and Appraisals During Emotional Experience in Everyday Life Situations 19. The Time Sampling Diary (TSD) of Emotional Experience in Everyday Life Situations 20. Methodological Considerations in the Study of Emotion Across Cultures 21. Considerations in Studying Emotion in Infants and Children 22. Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Issues in Inferring Subjective Emotion Experience: Recommendations for Researchers III METHODS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL BASES OF EMOTION 23. Studying Emotion in Animals: Methods, Materials, and Training 24. The Psychophysiological Laboratory 25. Investigating Human Emotion With Lesions and Intracranial Recording 26. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Study of Emotion
A Study of WI-FI based System for Moving Object Detection through the Wall

WI-FI signals are used as information carrier signals between two stations one is transmitter and another is receiver. This paper gives review about those systems (Ultra Wideband System, WI-VI, WI-SEE) which are operates on WI-FI signal, in which WI-FI signals are not just the information carrier signal, but in these systems WI-FI signals are used to see moving object through wall. This review is initial part of the research for developing the algorithm to extend the results, which are achieved from the previous systems.
EXPOSÉ: EXploring Past news fOr Seminal Events

Recent increases in digitization and archiving efforts on news data have led to overwhelming amounts of online information for general users, thus making it difficult for them to retrospect on past events. One dimension along which past events can be effectively organized is time. Motivated by this idea, we introduce EXPOSÉ, an exploratory search system that explicitly uses temporal information associated with events to link different kinds of information sources for effective exploration of past events. In this demonstration, we use Wikipedia and news articles as two orthogonal sources. Wikipedia is viewed as an event directory that systematically lists seminal events in a year; news articles are viewed as a source of detailed information on each of these events. To this end, our demo includes several time-aware retrieval approaches that a user can employ for retrieving relevant news articles, as well as a timeline tool for temporal analysis and entity-based facets for filtering results.
Differences in mean arterial pressure of young and elderly people measured by oscilometry during inflation and deflation of the arm cuff

Abstract Systemic arterial blood pressure (BP) is one of the most important parameters of the cardiovascular system. An oscillometric NIBP monitor was specifically designed to measure oscillometric pulsations and mean arterial pressure (MAP) during inflation and deflation of the cuff. Nineteen healthy young (age 23.1±1.7 years; mean±SD) and 35 elderly (83.9±7.9 years; mean±SD) subjects were studied. Differential analysis of MAP during inflation and deflation show mean |ΔMAP|=2.9±2.6 mm Hg in the young group (mean±SD) and |ΔMAP|=6.3±5.2 mm Hg for seniors (mean±SD). There was a significant difference (p<0.05) in means of |ΔMAP| measured during cuff inflation and cuff deflation between both groups. In about 50% of elderly subjects |ΔMAP| was higher than 5 mm Hg. Potential clinical relevance of the method needs to be further evaluated.
Out-of-school Use of Irish, Motivation and Proficiency in Immersion and Subject-only Post-primary Programmes

This study examines out-of-school use of Irish and motivation to learn Irish among final year post-primary students from three different instructional backgrounds: mainstream students studying ordinary and higher level Irish as a subject only and immersion students. Information on motivation and use is linked to student proficiency in Irish. Motivation was measured using items adapted from Gardner's Attitude/Motivation Test Battery and out-of-school use using questionnaire scales. Results show the benefits of out-of-school use for proficiency. There are substantial differences between the three groups on all measures with immersion students having the highest levels of proficiency, motivation and use. As well as the obvious advantage of more target language use within the school, the immersion students also benefit from greater access to Irish-speaking networks outside of school compared to their mainstream peers. It is argued that mainstream students' failure to attain the speaking proficiency levels set in curriculum objectives is due to the limited instructional time in Irish and opportunity to use the language for real communication. This in turn affects personal investment in learning Irish. Ways of increasing student motivation and interactional opportunities, both in school and out of school, are explored.