Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Bicultural Identity on Immigrant Socialization through Television Viewing in the United States

It was found, using a sample of 235 adolescent Asian immigrants in the northwest region of the United States, that the majority of the subjects developed their bicultural identity: keeping their original cultural values while picking up the host cultural values. The results showed that individuals with bicultural identity tend to recognize Western values in the television programs that they watched, evaluate their functionality while watching television programs, and accept Western values learned from television. The differences between the bicultural group and the remainder of the three groups (marginal, Western, and Asian) are statistically significant. Immigrant socialization is a very complicated process. Immigrants need to reconcile two cultural environments: the original culture in which they were born and the host culture in which they find themselves. Upon relocation to a different culture immigrants culturally evolve through a process of adaptation to a bicultural environment. While attempting to resolve this situation immigrants are not only influenced by their dominant cultural values, attitudes, and ideals, but also by their original culture. Through this struggle immigrants obtain a level of bicultural identity in the host environment (Dong & Gundlach, 2004). The concept of bicultural identity has not received an in-depth concentration of study. The studies that have been completed show that biculturalism is closely related to socialization (Bernal & Knight, 1993; Berry, 2004; Buriel, 1993; Lambert & Taylor, 1990; Berry, Kim & Boski, 1987; Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2005). Terms such as ethnic identity, cultural identity, and social identity are all related. They focus on different aspects of bicultural identity. The concept of bicultural identity assumes that immigrants can maintain their unique cultural identity while adopting the host country's values and ideals (Buriel, 1993). In other words, socialization or acculturation can take place among immigrants without a corresponding loss in their ancestral cultural patterns. One important socialization agent in today’s society is television. Television socializes individuals through its messages and images, which are highly loaded with the host culture’s values, ideals, and perspectives. Individual viewers pick up those values, both passively and actively, through recognition of the values in television programs. After recognition, the viewers evaluate the function of the value and then internalize those values that they believe will be beneficial. The purpose of this study is to investigate how television viewing by adolescent Asian immigrants affects the development of their bicultural identity and its influence on their adopted cultural values. 1
Role of Protein Kinase C βII in Influenza Virus Entry via Late Endosomes

ABSTRACT Many viruses take advantage of receptor-mediated endocytosis in order to enter target cells. We have utilized influenza virus and Semliki Forest virus (SFV) to define a role for protein kinase C βII (PKCβII) in endocytic trafficking. We show that specific PKC inhibitors prevent influenza virus infection, suggesting a role for classical isoforms of PKC. We also examined virus entry in cells overexpressing dominant-negative forms of PKCα and -β. Cells expressing a phosphorylation-deficient form of PKCβII (T500V), but not an equivalent mutant form of PKCα, inhibited successful influenza virus entry—with the virus accumulating in late endosomes. SFV, however, believed to enter cells from the early endosome, was unaffected by PKCβII T500V expression. We also examined the trafficking of two cellular ligands, transferrin and epidermal growth factor (EGF). PKCβII T500V expression specifically blocked EGF receptor trafficking and degradation, without affecting transferrin receptor recycling. As with influenza virus, in PKCβII kinase-dead cells, EGF receptor was trapped in a late endosome compartment. Our findings suggest that PKCβII is an important regulator of a late endosomal sorting event needed for influenza virus entry and infection.
Teaching Aids for Modeling and Control of Hybrid Systems (CAMCHS)

Abstract This paper is dedicated to issue of identification of nonlinear functions and nonlinear dynamical systems by Piecewise Affine (PWA) linear model in education of system identification. The article presents new Matlab toolbox for modeling and simulation of nonlinear systems. Functions of the toolbox together with GUI application simplifies and accelerates identification of so called PWA GFS model. The toolbox serves as a guide tool in courses of systems approximation. Identification of nonlinear systems is based on novel method of PWA modeling by Generalized Fourier series. The approach provides identification of nonlinear functions of an arbitrary number of variables and identification of nonlinear dynamical systems in ARX model structure fashion from input-output data.
Unilateral Upper Lung Field Pulmonary Fibrosis Radiologically Consistent with Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis after Thoracotomy: A New Disease Entity Related to Thoracotomy

Background: Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare bilateral idiopathic interstitial pneumonia defined by pleural-parenchymal involvement. In clinical practice, we encountered patients with upper lung field pulmonary fibrosis (Upper-PF), which was radiologically consistent with PPFE, but apparently limited to the unilateral lung. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to clarify the clinical characteristics in those patients. Methods: We examined the medical records of all the consecutive patients from 2012 to 2016 to see whether there were patients having unilateral Upper-PF. Results: We found 6 patients with unilateral Upper-PF. The most common symptom was dyspnea, and all patients had a low body mass index and severe restrictive pulmonary impairment. Notably, all patients had a history of thoracotomy for resecting lung or esophageal cancer, and the lesions were limited to the operated side. Dynamic breathing chest MRI showed an impaired thoracic movement in the operated side. Serial chest CT from prethoracotomy to the first visit was obtained in 5 patients: before thoracotomy, only a slight apical cap, defined as a wedge- and triangle-shaped opacity with broad pleural contact, was observed only in the operated side, but progressed into the lesion after a median of 8.4 years following thoracotomy. After the first visit, the unilateral lesion rapidly deteriorated in all patients. Conclusions: Unilateral Upper-PF had some characteristics in common with PPFE. Because the lesion was limited to the operated side, unilateral Upper-PF would be a new disease entity related to thoracotomy. Our results indicate that thoracotomy impairs thoracic movement in the operated side and subsequently triggers unilateral Upper-PF development, especially in patients with an apical cap.
Cognitive impairment in older patients with breast cancer before systemic therapy: is there an interaction between cancer and comorbidity?

PURPOSE To determine if older patients with breast cancer have cognitive impairment before systemic therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Participants were patients with newly diagnosed nonmetastatic breast cancer and matched friend or community controls age > 60 years without prior systemic treatment, dementia, or neurologic disease. Participants completed surveys and a 55-minute battery of 17 neuropsychological tests. Biospecimens were obtained for APOE genotyping, and clinical data were abstracted. Neuropsychological test scores were standardized using control means and standard deviations (SDs) and grouped into five domain z scores. Cognitive impairment was defined as any domain z score two SDs below or ≥ two z scores 1.5 SDs below the control mean. Multivariable analyses evaluated pretreatment differences considering age, race, education, and site; comparisons between patient cases also controlled for surgery. RESULTS The 164 patient cases and 182 controls had similar neuropsychological domain scores. However, among patient cases, those with stage II to III cancers had lower executive function compared with those with stage 0 to I disease, after adjustment (P = .05). The odds of impairment were significantly higher among older, nonwhite, less educated women and those with greater comorbidity, after adjustment. Patient case or control status, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and surgery were not associated with impairment. However, there was an interaction between comorbidity and patient case or control status; comorbidity was strongly associated with impairment among patient cases (adjusted odds ratio, 8.77; 95% CI, 2.06 to 37.4; P = .003) but not among controls (P = .97). Only diabetes and cardiovascular disease were associated with impairment among patient cases. CONCLUSION There were no overall differences between patients with breast cancer and controls before systemic treatment, but there may be pretreatment cognitive impairment within subgroups of patient cases with greater tumor or comorbidity burden.
Patients with Chronic Focal Cerebellar Lesions Show No Cognitive Abnormalities in a Bedside Test

The aim of the present study was to show whether cognitive deficits are present in chronic cerebellar patients using a self-developed, validated bedside screening test. Twenty-one adults with a history of infarction within the territory of the posterior-inferior (PICA) or the superior cerebellar artery (SCA), and 25 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls participated. Lesion localization was based on individual 3D MRI scans. The test took 10–12 min including subtests of naming, executive functions, attention, figural and verbal memory, reading, long-term memory, mental arithmetic, higher order motor control, and spatial functions. Though individual patients tended to make more errors than controls, neither total error score nor subscores revealed significant group differences. No obvious cognitive deficits appeared to be present in chronic cerebellar patients as assessed by a bedside screening test.
Remote Sensing Data Feature Analysis Using Spatial Linear Embedding (SLE)

Dimensionality reduction has been used to reduce the complexity of the representation of remote sensing data. In this paper, a novel remote sensing data feature analysis method is proposed based on an improved manifold learning algorithm--spatial linear embedding. The purpose of feature extraction is to reduce the dimensionality of the remote sensing data while preserving the significant information. Compared with LLE, spatial linear embedding method emphasizes the relation of neighboring pixels spatially to increase system efficiency.The method makes up the shortage that LLE ignores the relation of neighboring pixels spatially which is extremely important for remote sensing data. In this paper we have obtain experiment results from the analysis of remote sensing data using PCA and spatial linear embedding. The results show that the SLEcan give significantly higher accuracies than the linear method of PCA.
Gene Encodes the AIDS Virus Recepto ressed in the Immune System and the Brain

Paul Jay Maddon,’ Angus G. Dalgleish,t* . Steven McDougai,§ Paul R. Clapham,t Robin A. We&t and Richard Axelll * Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University New York, New York 10032 i institute of Cancer Research Chester Beatty Laboratories London SW3 6JB, England 5 immunology Branch Centers for Disease Control Atlanta, Georgia 30333 il Howard Hughes Medical Institute College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University New York, New York 10032
Metamaterials technology for sub-mm wave imaging

In this paper the design of sub-mm wave imaging systems using metamaterial technology is presented. A dipole antenna placed on top of a woodpile structure is used as radiating element and a Schottky diode is used as the detecting element. Measurements of the EBG structure and of the combination of radiation element and EBG structure are presented which confirm the simulation results
Reference Model of Manufacturing Resources

This article presents a resource reference model that can be incorporated to cost efficiently explain and quantify a manufacturing firm’s hidden productivity potential in currently used human and equipment resources. That information can be used as input to improve the firm’s financial parameters based on shop floor improvements. The representations of manufacturing resources are to some extent founded on the international standard for manufacturing data management (ISO 15531).
IT Skills Portability and Values for Individuals: Resource-Based View and Institutional View Perspectives

This paper reports on a two-phased study designed to examine the perceived importance of a wide range of information technology (IT) skills by mid-level and senior managers in a large public sector organization. The first phase gathered data from 242 lower to mid-level IT professionals. The second phase gathered the same data from the senior supervisors of those professionals to provide some additional perspectives from those in the organization responsible for the career advancement of the individuals sampled in the first phase. The results suggest that both groups perceive interpersonal skills to be the most important IT skill set, followed by managerial skills. Technical skills, while important, were perceived to be the least important (relatively speaking) for current IT professionals within this organization. One possible explanation for the latter finding takes into account the current trend toward outsourcing some of the technical functions within organizations, rather than relying on inhouse skills to provide those services. Recommendations for IT curriculum development and the education of future IT professionals are provided.
Solving the performance puzzle of DSRC multi-channel operations

Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) protocol is a key enabling technology for enhancing road safety and transportation efficiency. Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) 1609.4 is a new amendment that enables multi-channel operations in DSRC. Operating intervals are divided into alternating Control Channel (CCH) Intervals and Service Channel (SCH) Intervals with an identical length. This alternating feature causes high packet losses in CCH and low throughput in SCH, and thus hinders the deployment of this protocol. The goal of our work is to provision sufficient reliability for safety messages in CCH while optimising non-safety service delivery in SCH. We develop analytical models to explore the relationship among traffic density, CCH packet loss ratio, SCH throughput, and the duration of each kind of intervals. We also design a multi-channel coordination algorithm which adaptively adjusts the duration of intervals to achieve better performance and reliability based on these models. Theoretical analysis and extensive simulation results demonstrate the accuracy of our model and the efficacy of the proposed algorithm.
Trade Credit, Creditor Protection and Accounting Standards: Evidence from an International Sample

Trade credit is broadly used by firms around the world. Nevertheless, its use by firms in different locations is not homogeneous. A possible explanation for this are heterogeneous levels of creditor protection or quality in accounting systems among the different countries. Both features may influence the borrowing risk involved in selling goods on credit. Using a dataset containing firms from 13 countries, we explain trade credit policy based on the agency theory, according to which it is a result of a trade-off between the moral hazard and the adverse selection phenomena. The results from the estimation show a positive effect of adverse selection on the trade credit extended and a negative effect of moral hazard on the trade credit extended. Furthermore, our analysis shows that the level of creditor protection and the accounting system mitigate the negative influence of moral hazard on trade credit.
Chlamydia trachomatis antibody detection and diagnosis of reactive arthritis.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether determining the presence of serum or synovial fluid (SF) IgG and IgA of anti-Chlamydia antibodies with two recent commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) using synthetic peptides or recombinant antigen could be helpful to detect possible Chlamydia trachomatis (CT)-involved disease in rheumatological patients without evidence of urogenital CT infection. METHODS The prevalence of such antibodies was determined in samples from patients with well-defined disease, i.e. CT sexually acquired arthritis and from patients with other inflammatory arthropathies unrelated to CT. RESULTS When considering IgG and/or IgA anti-MOMP or anti-LPS antibodies, a sensitivity of 100% was obtained for serum and SF samples, but with a low specificity. A sensitivity and a specificity equal or close to 80% were observed for the SF IgG anti-MOMP antibodies. CONCLUSION Clinically, the most appropriate determination was the SF IgG anti-MOMP antibodies. This commercially available ELISA test could be useful for the diagnosis of probable CT reactive arthritis.
Effective corporate monitoring: independence, motivation and means

A feature of the literature on the role of Boards of Directors is the mixed and contradictory findings. This research used continuous listing compliance as a measure of Board performance. A matched pairs design was employed, using governance data on 30 board attributes for firms listed on the Australian Stock Exchange from 1992 to 2000. Factor analysis was used to identify constructs associated with Board composition and firm performance. Discriminant analysis confirmed that the resultant model of performance was a significant predictor of firms' ability to maintain continuous listing compliance. Neither the independence nor assembled knowledge variables were separately significant. Variables capturing directors' motivation to monitor, and board cohesiveness were significant.
Gravity, stability, and energy conservation on the Randall-Sundrum brane world

We carefully investigate the gravitational perturbation of the Randall-Sundrum (RS) single brane-world solution [L. Randall and R. Sundrum, Phys. Rev. Lett. $83,$ 4690 (1999)], based on a covariant curvature tensor formalism recently developed by us. Using this curvature formalism, it is known that the ``electric'' part of the five-dimensional Weyl tensor, denoted by ${E}_{\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\nu}},$ gives the leading order correction to the conventional Einstein equations on the brane. We consider the general solution of the perturbation equations for the five-dimensional Weyl tensor caused by the matter fluctuations on the brane. By analyzing its asymptotic behavior in the direction of the fifth dimension, we find the curvature invariant diverges as we approach the Cauchy horizon. However, in the limit of asymptotic future in the vicinity of the Cauchy horizon, the curvature invariant falls off fast enough to render the divergence harmless to the brane world. We also obtain the asymptotic behavior of ${E}_{\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\nu}}$ on the brane at spatial infinity, assuming that the matter perturbation is localized. We find it falls off sufficiently fast and will not affect the conserved quantities at spatial infinity. This indicates strongly that the usual conservation law, such as the ADM energy conservation, holds on the brane as far as asymptotically flat spacetimes are concerned.
Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Non-taste Attributes in Beef Products

Beef is the most commonly consumed red meat and a major source of protein for US consumers. High-quality beef products are sold with substantial premiums, but the specific beef attributes by which high-quality standards are determined remain ambivalent. Most attribute studies have focused on palatability characteristics such as tenderness, juiciness, fatness, or marbling. More recent research finds increasing consumer interest in beef attributes that are not directly taste-related, such as food safety, organic, environmental impacts, local production, or DNA traceability. However, these studies have focused on a single non-taste attribute. Questions remain as to which of those attributes might have more of an influence on consumer preferences for beef products and whether there are interactions between these attributes in terms of consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the beef product in question. This study uses results from a national survey of consumers to examine how the presence of multiple quality indicators of attributes influence WTP for beef products, which of these attributes have a relatively greater impact on consumer choice, and how these impacts vary based on consumer demographics. A WTP space modeling framework is used to analyze the survey data, allowing for variability and scaling of preferences.
In vivo motion and force measurement of surgical needle intervention during prostate brachytherapy.

In this paper, we present needle insertion forces and motion trajectories measured during actual brachytherapy needle insertion while implanting radioactive seeds in the prostate glands of 20 different patients. The needle motion was captured using ultrasound images and a 6 degree-of-freedom electromagnetic-based position sensor. Needle velocity was computed from the position information and the corresponding time stamps. From in vivo data we found the maximum needle insertion forces to be about 15.6 and 8.9N for 17gauge (1.47mm) and 18gauge (1.27mm) needles, respectively. Part of this difference in insertion forces is due to the needle size difference (17G and 18G) and the other part is due to the difference in tissue properties that are specific to the individual patient. Some transverse forces were observed, which are attributed to several factors such as tissue heterogeneity, organ movement, human factors in surgery, and the interaction between the template and the needle. However, theses insertion forces are significantly responsible for needle deviation from the desired trajectory and target movement. Therefore, a proper selection of needle and modulated velocity (translational and rotational) may reduce the tissue deformation and target movement by reducing insertion forces and thereby improve the seed delivery accuracy. The knowledge gleaned from this study promises to be useful for not only designing mechanical/robotic systems but also developing a predictive deformation model of the prostate and real-time adaptive controlling of the needle.
Expected economic benefits of meeting nutritional needs through biofortified cassava in Nigeria and Kenya.

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are a significant health problem in much of the developing world, causing illness, disability, mortality and reduced productivity. Biofortification of staple food crops has been proposed as a cost-effective solution. This paper calculates disabilityadjusted life years (DALYs) and economic surplus in order to analyze the potential health and economic benefits of cassava varieties developed to reduce vitamin A and iron deficiency in Nigeria and Kenya. Potential benefits from biofortification with vitamin A alone are estimated at $1,100 to $1,400 million in Nigeria and $67 to $81 million in Kenya, and from biofortification with both vitamin A and iron at $1,200 to $1,600 million in Nigeria and $105 to $110 million in Kenya. Costs per DALY saved are estimated at $4 to $6 for Nigeria, which compares very favorably with the costs for alternative methods such as fortification and supplementation. The estimated cost per DALY saved for Kenya is $56 to $87, which is similar to that for fortification and supplementation.