Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Growth in a ‘New World’: Case Studies of Peer Leader Experiences in the STEPS Program for People With Acquired Brain Injury

Abstract Background: The Skills To Enable People and CommunitieS (STEPS) Program is a new information, support and skills program that aims to develop sustainable networks of support for individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI) and their families in communities throughout Queensland, Australia. The program adopts a self-management approach and is delivered by trained peer and professional leaders. Aim: To explore the experiences of both peer and lay leaders in the delivery of the STEPS Skills Program and coordination of STEPS Network Groups. Method: A multiple qualitative case study design was utilised to explore the unique experiences of three trained STEPS Program Leaders. Data collection entailed in-depth semistructured interviews with participants and further incorporated routine STEPS Program Leader descriptive data. The data analysis involved a four-stage approach that included assembling the raw case data, constructing case records, producing case narratives and cross-case pattern analysis. Results: Case study narratives were produced to describe participant experiences with the STEPS Program. The cross-case pattern analysis revealed two dimensions of comparison. The first dimension describes the process by which participants became STEPS Program Leaders, while the second dimension reflects the growth outcomes experienced by participants through their involvement with the STEPS Program. Specific growth outcomes are described in relation to the following domains: ‘expansion of social roles and skills’, ‘appreciation of life’, ‘interpersonal relationships and communication’, ‘confidence, personal strength and accomplishment’ and ‘growth in self as a person’. The results are also described with respect to a model that depicts the process of growth through STEPS Program delivery. Conclusion: Posttraumatic growth of peer leaders after brain injury can be facilitated within a therapeutic intervention such as the STEPS Program.
SATELLITE FREQUENCY ASSIGNMENTS USING TRANSIENTLY CHAOTIC NEURAL NETWORKS WITH VARIABLE THRESHOLDS

The objective of the satellite frequency assignment problem (FAP) is to minimize the cochannel interference between two satellite systems by rearranging the frequency assignments. This NP-complete problem is di ﬃ cult to solve, especially for large-size problems, and is yet growing in importance, since we increasingly depend on satellites to ful-ﬁll our communications needs. In this paper, we propose a transiently chaotic neural network with variable thresholds (TCNN-VT) by letting the threshold of a neuron vary with the interference of the assignment which the neuron represents. We apply this new model on the FAP in satellite communications.
Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Regulates the Paracellular Pathway in Human Lung Microvascular Endothelia

From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology,* Division of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Mucosal Biology Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring, New York; and the Departments of Medicine, Anesthesiology, Cell Biology, and Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Theories of Material Agency and Practice: A Guide to Collecting Urban Material Culture

In understanding the objects of urban life, social scientists formerly emphasized formal phases of acquisition; mechanisms such as advertising, retailing, and marketing placed at the forefront of their theorization. The lived trajectories of material culture have taken on a new prescience for museology as contemporary anthropological discourse and everyday urban practice increasingly acknowledge the embeddedness of “things. ” Highlighting examples of the recent intersection of social science discourse, museology, art practice, and popular culture, this article explores concepts of material agency as a source for thinking through future collecting of urban material culture. [material culture, material agency, contemporary museology]
Machaon CVE: cluster validation for gene expression data

UNLABELLED This paper presents a cluster validation tool for gene expression data. Machaon CVE (Clustering and Validation Environment) system aims to partition samples or genes into groups characterized by similar expression patterns, and to evaluate the quality of the clusters obtained. AVAILABILITY The program is freely available for non-profit use on request at http://www.cs. tcd.ie/Nadia.Bolshakova/Machaon.html SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION http://www.cs. tcd.ie/Nadia.Bolshakova/Machaon.html
Religijność a duchowość – różnice i podobieństwa z perspektywy psychologii religii

research currently done in psychology of religion implies existence of a new term “spirituality” which is both related to the concept of religiousness and different from it. The aim of this article is to examine differences and similarities between religiousness and spirituality, and to answer the question whether it is possible to integrate both concepts within methodological issues of psychology of religion. conducted analyses pointed at differences between religiousness and spirituality e.g. in the scope of the concepts, in their relations with personality, and among references to other spheres of human functioning. At the same time many similarities were discovered that occur on structural and functional levels. Therefore, the optimal solution it to consider religiousness and spirituality as not covering, but overlapping constructs. it implies a postulate of conducting further common research on both concepts which can give us a more precise understanding of connections between psychological functioning of individuals and their relations to the transcendent sphere.
ATTACHMENT QUALITY, PARENTAL MONITORING, AND PEER RELATIONS AS PREDICTORS OF RISKY BEHAVIORS AMONG ETHNIC MINORITY YOUTH

OF THE DISSERTATION vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ix LIST OF FIGURES xiv LIST OF TABLES xv CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1 Overview 1 Problem Statement 2 Purpose and Research Questions 4 Research Questions and Hypotheses 5 Statement of Potential Significance 6 Summary of the Conceptual Framework 7 Summary of Methodology 9 Delimitations 10 Definition of Key Terms 11 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW 13 Attachment Theory Foundations 13 x Enduring Role of Attachment into Adolescence 16 Attachment Outcomes in Adolescence 19 Attachment and Parental Monitoring 26 Attachment and Behavior/Adjustment Problems 30 Attachment and Behavior/Adjustment Problems and Ethnicity 39 Attachment and Peer Relations 41 Inferences for Current Study 44 Attachment Theory 44 Attachment in Adolescence 45 Attachment, Behavioral Correlates and Peer Relations 46 Attachment in Specific Populations 47 Conclusion 48 CHAPTER III: METHODS 50 Overview of Methodology 50 Research Design 50 Research Questions 50 Research Hypotheses 51 Research Procedure 52 Participants 52
A Low-Power High-Stability Flexible Scan Driver Integrated by IZO TFTs

This brief presents a low-power high-stability scan driver integrated by In-Zn-O (IZO) TFTs on polyimide substrate. Observed from the experimental results of the scan driver with 48 stages, there is no distortion and good noise-suppressed characteristics for the output waveforms. In one stage of the proposed scan driver, there only needs a small TFT connected to clock signals by using a feedback inverter and a dc output module to minimize the dynamic power consumption. It is measured that the power consumption for one stage of the proposed gate driver is 18.3 μW at the output swing of 15.3 V and the clock frequency of 50 kHz. There is a good noise-suppressed characteristic and high stability for the proposed scan driver as shown from a 300-h test.
Definitions, discourses and dilemmas: policy and academic engagement with the sexualisation of popular culture

While debates around sexualisation are underway in academic, policy, practitioner and popular contexts, there are tensions as well as connections across and within these arenas. This article traces the origins of policymakers' engagement with sexualisation and reflects on the conclusions from the recent reviews commissioned by the current and former Westminster governments, including links with strategic responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG). Within academia, themes of agency, participation and pleasures in sexualised culture(s) are, arguably, more dominant. Here, we explore these differing engagements with the issue of sexualisation. We draw on the practice-based evidence of women's organisations, and suggest this constitutes an ‘epistemic community’ [Haas, P.M. 1992. Introduction: Epistemic communities and international policy co-ordination. International Organization 46, no. 1: 1–35; cited in Walby, S. 2011a. The future of feminism. Cambridge: Polity Press], a vantage point from where sexualisation is primarily viewed as a ‘conducive context’ [Kelly, L. 2007. A conducive context: Trafﬁcking of persons in central Asia. In Human trafﬁcking, ed. M. Lee, 73–91. Cullompton: Willan Publishing] for VAWG.
Hippocampus segmentation by optimizing the local contribution of image and prior terms, through graph cuts and multi-atlas

This paper presents a new method for segmentation of ambiguously defined structures, such as the hippocampus, by exploiting prior knowledge from another perspective. An expert's experience of where to use prior knowledge and where image information, is captured as a local weighting map. This map can be used to locally guide the evolution in a level set evolution framework. Such a map is produced for every training image using Graph-cuts to calculate the most suited balance of current and prior information. Training maps are optimally adapted on the test image, through non-rigid registration, producing the Optimum Local Weighting map, which is anatomically the most suitable to this test image. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy and accuracy of the proposed method.
Can orthodontic treatment improve mastication? A controlled, prospective and longitudinal study.

OBJECTIVES To prospectively and longitudinally evaluate the self-perceived masticatory ability and the tested masticatory efficiency in orthodontically treated and untreated groups. DESIGN Prospective observational cohort. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Three groups of age matched adolescent girls were included. Sixty-five Class II subjects received orthodontic treatment fixed appliance treatment (Orthodontic group), 58 subjects were orthodontically untreated (Class II group) and 60 subjects had a normal occlusion (Normal group). The self-perceived masticatory ability was assessed on a visual analogue scale while the masticatory efficiency was evaluated with a masticatory efficiency test using round silicon tablets. Registrations were performed at the start and after two years when all subjects in the Orthodontic group had finished orthodontic treatment. RESULTS Over the two-year period the self-perceived masticatory ability increased significantly in the Orthodontic group. After treatment, the Orthodontic group perceived their masticatory ability as high as the Normal group did. The masticatory efficiency increased significantly, during the two years, in all three groups. However,the normal occlusion group presented a significantly better masticatory efficiency than both the Orthodontic group and the Class II group on both registrations. CONCLUSIONS Orthodontic treatment was beneficial for the self-perceived masticatory ability. The masticatory efficiency increases with age during adolescence. Normal occlusion subjects had a better masticatory efficiency than subjects with orthodontically treated as well as untreated Class II malocclusion.
Event-based Production Rules for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Traditional sensor networks assume that the sensors are pre-programmed and send their data to a central station where the data is aggregated and analysed. However, energy is a major bottleneck resource in wireless sensor networks, e.g. the lifespan of a node is often determined by its battery lifespan. Since each transmitted bit consumes network power it is necessary to reduce the number of sent messages by pre-processing data. Furthermore scalability issues also demand data processing inside the sensor network. After an introduction and the review of the state of the art with respect to data aggregation, three motivating applications are discussed and then the data aggregation problem is explored by means of event-based production rules. The basic constructs of our aggregation approach are facts, patterns, rules, actions and functions. More energy-rich nodes are used as cluster heads that perform rule-based data processing and aggregation operations within local regions of the network. Rules are usually application specific and provide robust interpretations of sensor readings including the generation of warnings. They are used to encode knowledge and to deal with large sets of rapidly changing data
The international campaign to prohibit child soldiers: a critical evaluation

The use of child soldiers has been universally condemned as abhorrent and inhumane and has been declared a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, (ICC) and the Optional Protocol 2000. Yet over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of children have fought and died in conflicts around the world. In 2006, the UN estimated that more than 300,000 children were actively involved in armed conflict. Given this, in an historic moment in the prosecution of child soldiering, on March 17, 2006, Thomas Lubanga was the first person arrested under warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes against children, charged with enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15 years to participate in hostilities in the mineral rich, North Eastern Ituri district of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between September 2002 and August 2003. The major finding of this article is that there is an abject lack of international support for the major international instruments prohibiting child soldiering, especially by the United States, China and Russia; that many demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration programmes (DDR) face a serious lack of funding, with many girl soldiers falling outside DDR programmes and that the current minimum age of 15 is too low. This article recommends that an international summit be convened and all relevant international instruments be amended to set a new minimum age of 18 for voluntary recruitment, 21 for active combat service and a new international commitment to be made to prohibit and prevent the use of child soldiers.
A 2600-Locus Chromosome Bin Map of Wheat Homoeologous Group 2 Reveals Interstitial Gene-Rich Islands and Colinearity With Rice

The complex hexaploid wheat genome offers many challenges for genomics research. Expressed sequence tags facilitate the analysis of gene-coding regions and provide a rich source of molecular markers for mapping and comparison with model organisms. The objectives of this study were to construct a high-density EST chromosome bin map of wheat homoeologous group 2 chromosomes to determine the distribution of ESTs, construct a consensus map of group 2 ESTs, investigate synteny, examine patterns of duplication, and assess the colinearity with rice of ESTs assigned to the group 2 consensus bin map. A total of 2600 loci generated from 1110 ESTs were mapped to group 2 chromosomes by Southern hybridization onto wheat aneuploid chromosome and deletion stocks. A consensus map was constructed of 552 ESTs mapping to more than one group 2 chromosome. Regions of high gene density in distal bins and low gene density in proximal bins were found. Two interstitial gene-rich islands flanked by relatively gene-poor regions on both the short and long arms and having good synteny with rice were discovered. The map locations of two ESTs indicated the possible presence of a small pericentric inversion on chromosome 2B. Wheat chromosome group 2 was shown to share syntenous blocks with rice chromosomes 4 and 7.
CHANGES IN MEN'S CONSERVATIVE GENDER IDEOLOGIES

Men's gender ideologies have changed more slowly than women's since the 1970s; this article analyzes the period and cohort processes that underlie men's attitude change and how the individual-level characteristics of conservative men differ by birth cohort. Using multidimensional measures of gender role attitudes from the 1974-1998 General Social Surveys, the author finds that changes in men's attitudes have been brought about both by period influences, especially during the 1970s, and by cohort replacement. Analyses of multivariate interaction effects demonstrate that education has become a much less significant predictor of attitudes for men born after 1945.
Conserved Arginines at the P-Protein Stalk Binding Site and the Active Site Are Critical for Ribosome Interactions of Shiga Toxins but Do Not Contribute to Differences in the Affinity of the A1 Subunits for the Ribosome

ABSTRACT The A1 subunits of Shiga toxin 1 (Stx1A1) and Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2A1) interact with the conserved C termini of ribosomal-stalk P-proteins to remove a specific adenine from the sarcin/ricin loop. We previously showed that Stx2A1 has higher affinity for the ribosome and higher catalytic activity than Stx1A1. To determine if conserved arginines at the distal face of the active site contribute to the higher affinity of Stx2A1 for the ribosome, we mutated Arg172, Arg176, and Arg179 in both toxins. We show that Arg172 and Arg176 are more important than Arg179 for the depurination activity and toxicity of Stx1A1 and Stx2A1. Mutation of a single arginine reduced the depurination activity of Stx1A1 more than that of Stx2A1. In contrast, mutation of at least two arginines was necessary to reduce depurination by Stx2A1 to a level similar to that of Stx1A1. R176A and R172A/R176A mutations eliminated interaction of Stx1A1 and Stx2A1 with ribosomes and with the stalk, while mutation of Arg170 at the active site reduced the binding affinity of Stx1A1 and Stx2A1 for the ribosome, but not for the stalk. These results demonstrate that conserved arginines at the distal face of the active site are critical for interactions of Stx1A1 and Stx2A1 with the stalk, while a conserved arginine at the active site is critical for non-stalk-specific interactions with the ribosome. Arginine mutations at either site reduced ribosome interactions of Stx1A1 and Stx2A1 similarly, indicating that conserved arginines are critical for ribosome interactions but do not contribute to the higher affinity of Stx2A1 for the ribosome.
BSRD: a repository for bacterial small regulatory RNA

In bacteria, small regulatory non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are the most abundant class of post-transcriptional regulators. They are involved in diverse processes including quorum sensing, stress response, virulence and carbon metabolism. Recent developments in high-throughput techniques, such as genomic tiling arrays and RNA-Seq, have allowed efficient detection and characterization of bacterial sRNAs. However, a comprehensive repository to host sRNAs and their annotations is not available. Existing databases suffer from a limited number of bacterial species or sRNAs included. In addition, these databases do not have tools to integrate or analyse high-throughput sequencing data. Here, we have developed BSRD (http://kwanlab.bio.cuhk.edu.hk/BSRD), a comprehensive bacterial sRNAs database, as a repository for published bacterial sRNA sequences with annotations and expression profiles. BSRD contains over nine times more experimentally validated sRNAs than any other available databases. BSRD also provides combinatorial regulatory networks of transcription factors and sRNAs with their common targets. We have built and implemented in BSRD a novel RNA-Seq analysis platform, sRNADeep, to characterize sRNAs in large-scale transcriptome sequencing projects. We will update BSRD regularly.
[The significance of admission hs-CRP in patients undergoing primary percutaneous intervention for acute myocardial infarction].

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the role of admission high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) level in estimating myocardial perfusion and in-hospital adverse events in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). STUDY DESIGN The study included 43 consecutive patients (34 males, 9 females; mean age 59+/-11 years) who underwent PCI for STEMI within six hours after the onset of symptoms. Coronary angiograms were evaluated with respect to TIMI flow grade, corrected TIMI frame count, and myocardial blush grade (MBG). Electrocardiograms obtained 90 min after PCI were analyzed for ST-segment resolution. In-hospital adverse events were recorded. hs-CRP level was measured by immunonephelometry in blood obtained immediately before PCI. RESULTS The mean hs-CRP level was 1.35+/-1.17 mg/dl. Based on the median hs-CRP value (0.98 mg/dl), 22 patients with a low hs-CRP level had a lower frequency of hypertension (p=0.047), decreased TIMI frame counts of the left anterior descending (p=0.010) and circumflex (p=0.033) arteries, a higher rate of ST resolution (p=0.000), improved MBG (p=0.015), and shorter hospitalization (p=0.028). Adverse events occurred in six patients (14%), in five of whom (5/21) the hs-CRP level was above 0.98 mg/dl. hs-CRP was significantly correlated with corrected TIMI frame counts of the left anterior descending (r=0.388, p=0.01) and circumflex arteries (r=0.336, p=0.027), length of hospitalization (r=0.357, p=0.019), and inversely correlated with MBG (r=-0.415, p=0.006). In multivariate regression analysis, hs-CRP was found to be an independent predictor of ST resolution (p=0.008). ROC analysis showed that a higher level of hs-CRP than 0.88 mg/dl predicted poor MBG with 73% sensitivity and 31% specificity (95% CI 0.577-0.899, p=0.01). CONCLUSION In STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI, high levels of admission hs-CRP are associated with poor myocardial perfusion and longer hospitalization.