Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Protein Geometry Database: a flexible engine to explore backbone conformations and their relationships to covalent geometry

The backbone bond lengths, bond angles, and planarity of a protein are influenced by the backbone conformation (φ,Ψ), but no tool exists to explore these relationships, leaving this area as a reservoir of untapped information about protein structure and function. The Protein Geometry Database (PGD) enables biologists to easily and flexibly query information about the conformation alone, the backbone geometry alone, and the relationships between them. The capabilities the PGD provides are valuable for assessing the uniqueness of observed conformational or geometric features in protein structure as well as discovering novel features and principles of protein structure. The PGD server is available at http://pgd.science. oregonstate.edu/ and the data and code underlying it are freely available to use and extend.
Forming an institutional culture with multinational administrators and teachers at Effat College, Saudi Arabia

This article describes the teaching and learning culture of a newly established women’s college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The academic culture at Effat College in 2002 included administrators and teachers from many nations, which created unique challenges in cross‐cultural communication. These challenges, in turn, affected the development and organization of the institutional culture at Effat. Using a cultural lens, archival data were used to analyze the expectations and relations between the multicultural faculty and administration at the college. Our research revealed that the faculty related to one another through their own cultural perspectives. Faculty from the western nations promoted more reflective and constructivist classrooms, while those from eastern nations were more authoritarian. With a diverse faculty from multiple nations holding significant differences in cultural expectations, it is important to acknowledge that all beliefs hold value and deserve respect. Whether or not people accept one another’s views, just having a more clear understanding of the differences may allow them to seek out commonalities and explain varying perspectives and actions. Therefore, we need to be conscious of the cultural assumptions faculty and administrators bring with them into higher education.
“We are Reindeer People, We Come from Reindeer.” Reindeer Herding in Representations of the Sami in Russia

Abstract Reindeer herding, a tourism emblem of the European North, is also part of a long-lasting tradition of objectification of Sami culture in Russia. Sustained in the popular imagination by Russian ethnography, the dominant order's agent for legitimization of Soviet ethnic policies, in the 1990s the tradition of exoticization and “othering” was strengthened by Western anthropological and political engagement with the indigenous debate in Russia, transposing on the Sami the imagery and ideals of the global indigenous movement. Business aspirations to utilize the persistent imagery of exotic otherness gave birth to ethnographic tourism in the Kola Peninsula, Northwest Russia, which markets indigenous culture as an attraction. In this paper, I analyze how these diverse discourses equally reify and exploit the concept of Sami reindeer herding and the effects that such representational economy has on the community.
Development communication and the paradox of choice: imposition and dictatorship in comparing Sámi and San Bushmen experiences of cultural autonomy

Abstract This research examines the relevance of Kenneth Arrow's (1951) Impossibility Theorem as a criterion for assessing postmodern critical approaches to development media theories. Comparing two distinct indigenous minorities’ experiences with struggles for cultural autonomy, those of Norway's Sámi and Botswana's Basarwa, it was found that the media discourses used by NGOs frequently exploit a narrative that validly permits development to be treated as a species of social welfare implementation. Applying Arrow's conditions for the democratic summation of diverse preferences, and treating cultural, political, and civil society groups as ‘voters’, it was found that indigenous minority concerns may be best accommodated by linking them to broader issues that exploit historical ties between peoples, with a special emphasis on episodes that have led to coordination in achieving independent ends. Popular memories of such coordination appear to moderate relations between minorities and their national co-habitants, reducing the need for the radicalisation of indigenous issues and smoothing the path to autonomy.
Exploring the use of graphics in written health information for people with aphasia

Background: One of the documented design features of aphasia-friendly written information is the inclusion of graphics. People with aphasia have identified a preference for the inclusion of photographic illustrations in printed education materials (PEMs); however this preference contrasts with research suggesting that line drawings may be a more effective graphic type. Few studies have explored how graphics affect reading comprehension for people with aphasia. Aims: The aims of this research were (1) to determine if black and white line drawings and colour photographs affect the reading comprehension of people with and without aphasia, and (2) to explore perceptions of graphic helpfulness and preferences for including line drawings and photographic illustrations in PEMs. Methods & Procedures: A total of 22 people with aphasia and 15 of their significant others completed a purposefully developed cloze reading comprehension task, with multiple-choice response options. Response options contained (1) no illustrations, (2) black and white line drawings, or (3) colour photographs. The reading comprehension task was timed. The impact of no illustrations, line drawings, and photographs on (a) reading comprehension (measured in number of paragraphs correctly completed), and (b) response times (measured in seconds) was examined. Participants also completed a face-to-face graphic preference survey. Outcomes & Results: There were no significant differences on the reading comprehension task for participants with aphasia and those without, between (a) the number of paragraphs correctly completed in the set with no graphics, line drawings, and photographs, (b) the time taken to complete paragraphs in each of the three sets, and (c) the mean time taken to correctly complete paragraphs in each of the three sets. In contrast, the majority of participants perceived that pictures help understanding and make reading quicker. Significantly more participants with aphasia, compared to participants without, reported that they needed pictures to understand writing, and all participants with aphasia preferred health information to contain graphics. Several participants did not have a preference for line drawings or photographs in PEMs. Of those who did have a preference, more participants preferred written health information to contain photographs. Conclusions: Both participants with and without aphasia perceived that graphics in PEMs were helpful, however significantly more participants with aphasia reported that graphics were needed to understand text. The finding that line drawings and colour photographs did not significantly assist comprehension should not discount other benefits graphics may have in PEMs for people with aphasia.
Standardization and Interlaboratory Reproducibility Assessment of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis-Generated Fingerprints of Acinetobacter baumannii

ABSTRACT A standard procedure for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of macrorestriction fragments of Acinetobacter baumannii was set up and validated for its interlaboratory reproducibility and its potential for use in the construction of an Internet-based database for international monitoring of epidemic strains. The PFGE fingerprints of strains were generated at three different laboratories with ApaI as the restriction enzyme and by a rigorously standardized procedure. The results were analyzed at the respective laboratories and also centrally at a national reference institute. In the first phase of the study, 20 A. baumannii strains, including 3 isolates each from three well-characterized hospital outbreaks and 11 sporadic strains, were distributed blindly to the participating laboratories. The local groupings of the isolates in each participating laboratory were identical and allowed the identification of the epidemiologically related isolates as belonging to three clusters and identified all unrelated strains as distinct. Central pattern analysis by using the band-based Dice coefficient and the unweighted pair group method with mathematical averaging as the clustering algorithm showed 95% matching of the outbreak strains processed at each local laboratory and 87% matching of the corresponding strains if they were processed at different laboratories. In the second phase of the study, 30 A. baumannii isolates representing 10 hospital outbreaks from different parts of Europe (3 isolates per outbreak) were blindly distributed to the three laboratories, so that each laboratory investigated 10 epidemiologically independent outbreak isolates. Central computer-assisted cluster analysis correctly identified the isolates according to their corresponding outbreak at an 87% clustering threshold. In conclusion, the standard procedure enabled us to generate PFGE fingerprints of epidemiologically related A. baumannii strains at different locations with sufficient interlaboratory reproducibility to set up an electronic database to monitor the geographic spread of epidemic strains.
Coronary Artery Disease Candidate Gene Association Study of Coronary Artery Calcification in Chronic Kidney Disease FindingsFromtheCRICStudy ( ChronicRenal Insuf fi ciencyCohort )

Candidate Gene Association Study of Coronary Artery Calcification in Chronic Kidney Disease FindingsFromtheCRICStudy (ChronicRenal InsufficiencyCohort) Jane F. Ferguson, PHD,* Gregory J. Matthews, PHD,y Raymond R. Townsend, MD,z Dominic S. Raj, MD,x Peter A. Kanetsky, PHD, MPH,k Matthew Budoff, MD,{ Michael J. Fischer, MD, MSPH,#** Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE,z Radhika Kanthety, MD, MSHS,yy Mahboob Rahman, MD, MS,yy Stephen R. Master, MD, PHD,zz Atif Qasim, MD, MSCE,* Mingyao Li, PHD,k Nehal N. Mehta, MD, MSCE,* Haiqing Shen, PHD,xx Braxton D. Mitchell, MPH, PHD,xx Jeffrey R. O’Connell, PHD,xx Alan R. Shuldiner, MD,xxkk Weang Kee Ho, PHD,{{ Robin Young, PHD,{{ Asif Rasheed, MD,## John Danesh, MB, CHB, PHD,{{ Jiang He, MD, PHD,*** John W. Kusek, PHD,yyy Akinlolu O. Ojo, MD, PHD,zzz John Flack, MD, MPH,xxx Alan S. Go, MD,kkk Crystal A. Gadegbeku, MD,{{{ Jackson T. Wright JR, MD, PHD,### Danish Saleheen, PHD,*{{## Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE,zk Daniel J. Rader, MD,* Andrea S. Foulkes, PHD,y Muredach P. Reilly, MB, CHB, MSCE,* and the CRIC Study Principal Investigators
Business Communication and Composition: The Writing Connection and Beyond

This article considers business communication's current and potential borrowing from composition studies as well as the constraints on such borrowing. It uses a citation analysis and a study of the arguments in business communication articles published in The Journal of Business Communication to identify the current state of composition's impact on research in business writing. After exploring the factors that may impede ad ditional borrowing from composition, it discusses three major areas of composition studies that may profitably influence research in business communication: the historical and theoretical study of composition as a discipline, multicultural and literacy studies, and contemporary critical and social theory.
Updating Ambiguous Beliefs

The Bayesian approach to decision making under uncertainty prescribes that a decision maker have a unique prior probability and a utility function such that decisions are made so as to maximize the expected utility. In particular, in a statistical inference problem the decision maker is assumed to have a probability distribution over all possible distributions which may govern a certain random process.
Visual control of braking: a test of the tau hypothesis.

Deceleration during braking could be controlled by (a) using the time derivative of the relative rate of optical expansion, relative to a -0.5 margin value of tau-dot (D.N. Lee, 1976) or (b) computing the required deceleration from spatial variables (i.e., perceived distance, velocity, or object size). Participants viewed closed-loop displays of approach to an object and regulated their deceleration with a brake. The object appeared on a checkerboard ground surface (providing velocity, distance, and size information) or with no background (providing only optical expansion). Mean tau-dot during braking was -0.51, and estimates of the critical value of tau-dot based on brake adjustments were -0.44 and -0.52, close to the expected value. There were no overall effects of the ground surface or object size. The results are consistent with a tau-dot strategy, where the direction and magnitude of brake adjustments are regulated using tau-dot.
Performance of Canadian adults on the Graded Naming Test

Background: The Graded Naming Test (McKenna & Warrington, 1983) is designed to assess mild naming deficits. In order to do so, it uses relatively uncommon stimuli such as cowl and bellows. There are two studies reporting scores obtained by adults in England, but there is no published study of test–retest reliability. There is no study documenting performance of Canadian adults on this test. Aims: This study examined the performance of English‐speaking Canadian adults on the Graded Naming Test (GNT), in order to: (1) compare their performance to that of the two normative samples; (2) determine whether the 30 test items met the psychometric standards set in the test manual; and (3) assess the test–retest reliability of the GNT. Methods and Procedures: A total of 30 adults, aged 20 to 52 years, named the 30 pictures making up the GNT. The unusual cueing procedures specified in the test manual were not followed. Of the 30 participants, 28 returned for a second test, 7 to 15 days later. Outcomes and Results: The mean score of 17.5 was below that reported in the two studies of English adults. Scores were significantly correlated with level of education, and with estimated frequency of occurrence and age of acquisition. Item difficulty differed in many ways and for many pictures from that reported in the test manual. Problems with multiple names for several pictures and with the instructions for cueing are discussed. The mean score improved significantly on retesting. Conclusions: The Graded Naming Test requires further investigation, including clarification of administration and scoring procedures, and studies of larger samples of adults in other countries to determine local norms.
XML schema

This month’s column deals with metadata for XML, primarily the W3C’s XML Schema Recommendation. XML Schema is often seen as highly complex, but quite powerful. We have worked with Chuck Campbell in several standards arenas, including the SQL standard and XML Query. Chuck is an invited expert to the W3C’s XML Schema WG, so we invited him to write a column outlining the features and futures of XML Schema. Jim Melton and Andrew Eisenberg
Release of cardiac bio-markers during high mechanical index contrast-enhanced echocardiography in humans.

BACKGROUND Recent experimental data have shown that the combined exposure of rodent hearts to high acoustic pressure and ultrasound contrast agents can induce vascular injury and cell damage. The aim of the present work was to test whether similar effects can be observed in humans. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty patients underwent simultaneous arterial and coronary sinus blood sampling during contrast-enhanced echocardiography using Perfluorocarbon-enhanced Sonicated Dextrose Albumin. Control subjects were compared to groups of patients exposed to either high mechanical index (MI = 1.5) triggered second harmonic (1.3-2.6 MHz) imaging or low mechanical index (MI = 0.2) real-time power modulation imaging for 15 min. No significant changes arterio-venous differences in lactate, total creatine kinase (CK) and myoglobin occurred over time in the three groups. Similarly, the arterio-venous difference in CK-MB and troponin I remained stable over time in control and low-MI patients. By contrast, these two parameters progressively increased over time in the high-MI group (P < 0.05 vs. baseline and vs. controls). CONCLUSION Our data suggest that high-MI contrast-enhanced echocardiography can cause subclinical release of cardiac bio-markers in humans, while low-MI real-time imaging appears to be safer.
[Violence, Burnout and Minor Psychiatric Disorders in Hospital Work].

OBJECTIVE Identifying the violence suffered by the health team workers and their association with Burnout and minor psychiatric disorders. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 269 health team professionals of a public hospital in southern Brazil. Data were collected through the use of the Survey Questionnaire: Workplace Violence in the Health Sector, Maslach Inventory Burnout and Self-Report Questionnaire. RESULTS Workplace violence struck 63.2% of workers, prevailing mostly in women (p = 0.001), among nursing auxiliaries/technicians (p=0.014) and was associated with minor psychiatric disorders (p<0.05), as exposure to different forms of violence increased the chances of these disorders by 60% (CI 95%: 1.2-2.1). The three Burnout dimensions were also associated to violence at work (p<0.05). CONCLUSION Health workers experience violence in the workplace and this exposure is associated with Burnout symptoms and minor psychiatric disorders.
The role of the frontal cortex in memory: an investigation of the Von Restorff effect

Evidence from neuropsychology and neuroimaging indicate that the pre-frontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in human memory. Although frontal patients are able to form new memories, these memories appear qualitatively different from those of controls by lacking distinctiveness. Neuroimaging studies of memory indicate activation in the PFC under deep encoding conditions, and under conditions of semantic elaboration. Based on these results, we hypothesize that the PFC enhances memory by extracting differences and commonalities in the studied material. To test this hypothesis, we carried out an experimental investigation to test the relationship between the PFC-dependent factors and semantic factors associated with common and specific features of words. These experiments were performed using Free-Recall of word lists with healthy adults, exploiting the correlation between PFC function and fluid intelligence. As predicted, a correlation was found between fluid intelligence and the Von-Restorff effect (better memory for semantic isolates, e.g., isolate “cat” within category members of “fruit”). Moreover, memory for the semantic isolate was found to depend on the isolate's serial position. The isolate item tends to be recalled first, in comparison to non-isolates, suggesting that the process interacts with short term memory. These results are captured within a computational model of free recall, which includes a PFC mechanism that is sensitive to both commonality and distinctiveness, sustaining a trade-off between the two.
Validating Protestant Denominational Classifications Using the Chaves Inerrancy Scale

Abstract We validate the classification of 16 “mainline” and 97 “evangelical” Protestant denominations in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000 based on Mark Chaves' five-point Biblical “inerrancy” scale. Using Glenmary county data, nearly perfect correlations were derived between the percentage of adherents in “evangelical” denominations and levels three-four on the Chaves scale and between the percentage of adherents in “mainline” denominations and level 1 on the Chaves scale. The distinguishing characteristic of Evangelical or Mainline Protestant denominations, therefore, is Biblical inerrancy or its absence. As a guide for future empirical research, this comprehensive listing of Evangelical and Mainline Protestant denominations should be employed in aggregate studies, especially where county-level analysis is applied to one state or a subset of states.
The Effects of Task Clarification, Feedback, and Goal Setting on Student Advisors' Office Behaviors and Customer Service

Abstract This study evaluated the effects of feedback, task clarification and goal-setting on office behaviors and customer service of ten undergraduate participants that served as university advisors. A multiplebaseline design was implemented across three target behaviors: client greeting, front-desk behaviors, and punctuality. During intervention the advisors received supervisor-delivered verbal group feedback, a task-clarification sheet, and supervisor-delivered goal setting for each target behavior. All target behaviors increased once the intervention was implemented.
A study of intelligent earth work using the process simulation

Because it is a very repetitive and monotonous work and needs lots of construction equipment, the earth work operation for site development is a good field to apply automation technology. This study has analyzed input condition which has carried out in actual earth work. It has deduced simulation which would help to decide ideal combination of earthwork equipment through reflecting capacity of equipment and processing simulation according to input. In kind of construction which characterized specific process has repeated, simulation will have used to effectively as a reasonable decision to plan process of site planning process of u-construction.
Local checkability, no strings attached

In this work we study local checkability of network properties like s-t reachability, or whether the network is acyclic or contains a cycle. A structural property S of a graph G is locally checkable, if there is a prover-and-verifier pair (P, V) as follows. The prover P assigns a label to each node in graphs satisfying S. The verifier V is a constant time distributed algorithm that returns Yes at all nodes if G satisfies S and was labeled by P, and No for at least one node if G does not satisfy S, regardless of the node labels. The quality of (P, V) is measured in terms of the label size. We obtain (asymptotically) tight bounds for the bit complexity of the latter two problems for undirected as well as directed networks, where in the directed case we consider one-way and two-way communication, i.e., we distinguish whether communication is possible only in the edge direction or not. For the one-way case we obtain a new asymptotically tight lower bound for the bit complexity of s-t reachability. For the two-way case we devise an emulation technique that allows us to transfer a previously known s-t reachability upper bound without asymptotic loss in the bit complexity.