Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Unemployment on Women

In the context of a four-month longitudinal investigation, the reactions of a small group of women to unemployment were compared with those of a larger group of men. The hypothesis that women would be less affected by the loss of their jobs was not supported. However, it was found that only the women who experienced financial distress or who exhibited a strong satisfaction with work were negatively affected, while the mere fact of being unemployed depressed the men.
The Challenge Of Globalization

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Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Silk Fibroin Microparticles as Carriers for Delivery of Human Recombinant Bmps. Physical Characterization and Drug Release

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are cytokines with strong ability to promote new bone formation. Herein, we report the use of silk fibroin microparticles as carriers for the delivery of BMP-2, BMP-9 or BMP-14. BMP-containing fibroin microparticles were prepared by a mild methodology using dropwise addition of ethanol, exhibiting mean diameters of 2.7 ± 0.3 µm. Encapsulation efficiencies varied between 67.9 ± 6.1 % and 97.7 ± 2.0 % depending on the type and the amount of BMP loaded. Release kinetics showed that BMP-2, BMP-9 and BMP-14 were released in two phases profile, with a burst release in the first two days followed by a slower release, for a period of 14 days. The release data were best explained by Korsmeyer's model and the Fickian model of drug diffusion. Silk fibroin microparticles can offer a promising approach for the sustained delivery of different BMPs in tissue engineering applications.
Modelling Gesture Based Ubiquitous Applications

A cost effective, gesture based modelling technique called Virtual Interactive Prototyping (VIP) is described in this paper. Prototyping is implemented by projecting a virtual model of the equipment to be prototyped. Users can interact with the virtual model like the original working equipment. For capturing and tracking the user interactions with the model image and sound processing techniques are used. VIP is a flexible and interactive prototyping method that has much application in ubiquitous computing environments. Different commercial as well as socio-economic applications and extension to interactive advertising of VIP are also discussed.
Signaling pathways mediating cardiac myocyte gene expression in physiological and stress responses

The contractile cells in the heart (the cardiac myocytes) are terminally differentiated. In response to pathophysiological stresses, cardiac myocytes undergo hypertrophic growth or apoptosis, responses associated with the development of cardiac pathologies. There has been much effort expended in gaining an understanding of the stimuli which promote these responses, and in identifying the intracellular signaling pathways which are activated and potentially involved. These signaling pathways presumably modulate gene and protein expression to elicit the end‐stage response. For the regulation of gene expression, the signal may traverse the cytoplasm to modulate nuclear‐localized transcription factors as occurs with the mitogen‐activated protein kinase or protein kinase B/Akt cascades. Alternatively, the signal may promote translocation of transcription factors from the cytoplasm to the nucleus as is seen with the calcineurin/NFAT and JAK/STAT systems. We present an overview of the principal signaling pathways implicated in the regulation of gene expression in cardiac myocyte pathophysiology, and summarize the current understanding of these pathways, the transcription factors they regulate and the changes in gene expression associated with the development of cardiac pathologies. Finally, we discuss how intracellular signaling and gene expression may be integrated to elicit the overall change in cellular phenotype. J. Cell. Physiol. 212: 311–322, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Measuring sexual interest using a pictorial modified Stroop task, a pictorial Implicit Association Test and a Choice Reaction Time task

Abstract Tasks that can measure sexual interest successfully have utility in forensic settings. Prior to use with problematic sexual interest, however, work is needed in validating such tasks. This study focused on the measurement of non-deviant sexual interest. Eleven gay and 14 straight participants each completed a pictorial Implicit Association Test (IAT), a pictorial modified Stroop task (P-MST) and a Choice Reaction Time (CRT) task. Each task was designed to tap into the sexual interest of participants. Stimuli were of males and females in bathing suits, along with control images and sexual and non-sexual words. The IAT was most successful in differentiating between gay and straight participants. The P-MST also performed well, although the task's position within the battery of tasks seemed to affect the results. The CRT task did not show group differences successfully. Theoretical and methodological implications of the effectiveness of the three tasks in tapping into sexual interest are discussed.
Cloning Vectors and Fluorescent Proteins Can Significantly Inhibit Salmonella enterica Virulence in Both Epithelial Cells and Macrophages: Implications for Bacterial Pathogenesis Studies

ABSTRACT Plasmid vectors and fluorescent protein reporter systems are commonly used in the study of bacterial pathogenesis. Here we show that they can impair the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to productively infect either cultured mammalian cells or mice. This has significant implications for studies that rely on these systems.
Muslim Law in Britain: Reflections in the Socio-legal Sphere and Differential Legal Treatment

This paper seeks to demonstrate that the dynamic reconstruction process of Muslim identity in Britain has remarkable re ections in the socio-legal sphere since law is a socio-cultural construct. It is abundantly clear that there are some cultural differences between Muslims in Britain and the British way of life. Thus, in the socio-legal arena, there would appear a number of clashes between these two cultures and their legal systems. Muslim mind as a sujet de droits is under the pressure of these conflicting laws. As we shall see below, a crucial but unfortunate aspect of the issue is the differential legal treatment of the different ethnic minorities in Britain.
Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography and executive dysfunction in children with sickle cell disease.

OBJECTIVE To identify behavioral manifestations of executive dysfunction that are associated with cerebrovasculopathy, as measured by transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography, in children with sickle cell disease (HbSS). METHODS Participants were 62 children and adolescents with HbSS disease who had no documented history of cerebrovascular accident. Children were classified according to the National Institutes of Health Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP) criteria (i.e., normal, conditional, and abnormal). RESULTS Although children with abnormal TCD values were rated by their parents as exhibiting greater executive dysfunction in the areas of inhibitory control, problem-solving flexibility, and modulation of emotional responses compared with children in the conditional group, these differences were not clinically significant. In contrast, teachers rated children in the abnormal TCD group as having clinically significant executive dysfunction as manifested in their ability to solve problems in working memory, plan and organize, and self-monitor. CONCLUSIONS Our findings lend preliminary support for the utility of teacher-completed screening instruments designed to assess everyday behaviors associated with executive dysfunction in children with HbSS disease, especially among those children at greatest risk for neurological impairment as identified by TCD ultrasonography.
Recent mycotoxin survey data and advanced mycotoxin detection techniques reported from China: a review

Mycotoxin contamination in agro-food systems has been a serious concern over the last few decades in China, where the Ministry of Health has set maximum limits for mycotoxins in different agro-products. Overall survey data show that aflatoxin contamination in infant cereals, edible oils, raw milk, ginger and its related products are far below Chinese regulatory limits. The absence of aflatoxin M1 contamination in infant milk powders indicates a high standard of control. Aflatoxins in liquorice roots and lotus seeds have been reported for the first time. For deoxynivalenol, high levels were found in wheat grown in the Yangtze Delta region, which is more prone to rainfall, supporting Fusarium infection. The emerging mycotoxins beauvericins and enniatins have been reported in the medicinal herbs in China. Ochratoxin A in wine was below the European Union regulatory limits, but fumonisins in maize need to be monitored and future regulatory control considered. Overall from all the survey data analysed in this review, it can be concluded that 92% of the samples analysed had mycotoxin levels below the Chinese regulatory limits. In terms of detection techniques in recent years, immuno-based assays have been developed largely due to their excellent sensitivity and ease of use. Assays targeting multiple mycotoxins like aflatoxins, ochratoxin A, zearalenone and deoxynivalenol have been reported using microarrays and suspension arrays targeting in particular maize, rice and peanuts. Aptamer-based assays against ochratoxin A and aflatoxins B1 and B2 have been developed involving fluorescence detection; and surface plasmon resonance immunosensors have been developed targeting wine, maize, wheat, wild rye, hay and peanut oil with high sensitivity (> 0.025 ng l−1). Commercialisation of these technologies is much needed for wider usage in the coming years.
Online Appendix to : Assessing the Effect of Screen Mockups on the Comprehension of Functional Requirements

Over the last few years, the software engineering community has proposed a number of modeling methods to represent functional requirements. Among them, use cases are recognized as an easy to use and intuitive way to capture and define functional requirements. To improve the comprehension of functional requirements, screen mockups (also called user-interface sketches or user interface-mockups) can be used in conjunction with use cases. In this paper, we aim at quantifying the benefits achievable by augmenting use cases with screen mockups in the comprehension of functional requirements with respect to effectiveness, effort, and efficiency. For this purpose, we conducted a family of four controlled experiments, involving 139 participants having different profiles. The experiments involved comprehension tasks performed on the requirements documents of two desktop applications. Independently from the participants’ profile, we found a statistically significant large effect of the presence of screen mockups on both comprehension effectiveness and comprehension task efficiency. While no significant effect was observed on the effort to complete tasks. The main “take away” lesson is that screen mockups are able to almost double the efficiency of comprehension tasks.
Will "Meaningful Use" Bridge the Adoption Gap for Small Physician Practices? Results of a Survey of Hawaii Physicians

Thousands of U.S. physicians have reached the first stage of “meaningful use” and received incentive payments through the HITECH Act. Yet doubts have surfaced about the sustainability of EHR diffusion, as well as about which providers will benefit from program incentives. In this paper we report the findings of a survey conducted among Hawaii physicians, in which we assessed the views of EHR adopters and non-adopters on EHR effects on healthcare practices and on their plans to apply for meaningful use incentives. Our analysis suggests that meaningful use incentives will encourage assimilation among physicians who already have an EHR system but may be less effective to motivate non-adopters to adopt one. We discuss implications of these findings for EHR diffusion in the context of a multi-year action research program to help small, independent physician practices in Hawaii to adopt and assimilate EHRs and consider implications for policy and research.
Jade - a fipa-compliant agent framework

JADE is a software framework to develop agent applications in compliance with the FIPA specifications for interoperable intelligent multi-agent systems. The goal is to simplify development while ensuring standard compliance through a comprehensive set of system services and agents. JADE can then be considered an agent middle-ware that implements an Agent Platform and a development framework. It deals with all those aspects that are not peculiar of the agent internals and that are independent of the applications, such as message transport, encoding and parsing, or agent life-cycle. This paper presents the JADE software describing its intended uses, as well as being a walkthrough of JADE internal architecture. The main architectural issues are discussed, and the major design decisions are outlined.
Identifying Linear Causal Effects

This paper concerns the assessment of linear cause-effect relationships from a combination of observational data and qualitative causal structures. The paper shows how techniques developed for identifying causal effects in causal Bayesian networks can be used to identify linear causal effects, and thus provides a new approach for assessing linear causal effects in structural equation models. Using this approach the paper develops a systematic procedure for recognizing identifiable direct causal effects.
Constructing OLAP cubes based on queries

An On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) user often follows a train of thought, posing a sequence of related queries against the data warehouse. Although their details are not known in advance, the general form of those queries is apparent beforehand. Thus, the user can outline the relevant portion of the data posing generalised queries against a cube representing the data warehouse.Since existing OLAP design methods are not suitable for non-professionals, we present a technique that automates cube design given the data warehouse, functional dependency information, and sample OLAP queries expressed in the general form. The method constructs complete but minimal cubes with low risks related to sparsity and incorrect aggregations. After the user has given queries, the system will suggest a cube design. The user can accept it or improve it by giving more queries. The method is also suitable for improving existing cubes using respective real MDX queries.
An Examination of the Combined Effects of Realistic Job Previews, Job Attractiveness and Recruiter Affect on Job Acceptance Decisions

Cette recherche s'est donnee pour objectif 17apos;etude des effets combines des profils de poste realistes (R.J.P.), de l'interet du travail et de l'impact du responsable de recrutement sur la decision des candidats d'accepter ou non le poste. Soixante etudiants de 1* cycle ont joue le role de candidat a un emploi; its ont ete distribues au hasard dans l'une de trois conditions d'information sur le travail: (1) Un profil de poste realiste decrit oralement pendant l'entretien. (2) Un profil de poste realiste remis avant l'entretien sous forme imprimee. (3) Une information generale sur le travail donnee oralement lors de l'entretien. Les resultats confirment les hypotheses: les effets positifs indirects des profils de poste realistes (l'interet du poste et l'impact du responsable du recrutement) compensent l'effet negatif direct des R.J.P. sur la decision d'acceptation du poste. Ce phenomeme etait particulierement net dans la presentation orale du R.J.P. par comparaison avec la presentation ecrite. Un modele rendant compte des consequences des R.J.P. sur les decisions d'acceptation d'un poste est decrit et teste avec un modele concurrent.
Register relocation: flexible contexts for multithreading

Multithreading is an important technique that improves processor utilization by allowing computation to be overlapped with the long latency operations that commonly occur in multiprocessor systems. This paper presents register relocation, a new mechanism that efficiently supports flexible partitioning of the register file into variable-size contexts with minimal hardware support. Since the number of registers required by thread contexts varies, this flexibility permits a better utilization of scarce registers, allowing more contexts to be resident, which in turn allows applications to tolerate shorter run lengths and longer latencies. Our experiments show that compared to fixed-size hardware contexts, register relocation can improve processor utilization by a factor of two for many workloads.
How Effective Can Simple Ordinal Peer Grading Be?

Ordinal peer grading has been proposed as a simple and scalable solution for computing reliable information about student performance in massive open online courses. The idea is to outsource the grading task to the students themselves as follows. After the end of an exam, each student is asked to rank --- in terms of quality --- a bundle of exam papers by fellow students. An aggregation rule will then combine the individual rankings into a global one that contains all students. We define a broad class of simple aggregation rules and present a theoretical framework for assessing their effectiveness. When statistical information about the grading behaviour of students is available, the framework can be used to compute the optimal rule from this class with respect to a series of performance objectives. For example, a natural rule known as Borda is proved to be optimal when students grade correctly. In addition, we present extensive simulations and a field experiment that validate our theory and prove it to be extremely accurate in predicting the performance of aggregation rules even when only rough information about grading behaviour is available.
Drift-free multiple description video coding with redundancy rate-distortion optimization

Multiple description coding (MDC) has been shown to be robust for video transmission over error-prone channels. By applying the extra prediction loops to the multiple description transform video coder, the mismatching error (drift) incurred by the one-channel pairwise correlating transform reconstruction is decreased. However, the problem of effective redundancy allocation is introduced by the drift coding. In this paper, we propose an approach to optimize the drift-free multiple description video coding scheme. The optimization is in the redundancy rate-distortion sense using the Lagrangian relaxation method for optimum allocation of redundancy amongst the correlating transform and the drift coding. The experimental results show that our algorithm achieves substantial gains over the conventional MDC coder.
Troubling Cultural Fault Lines: Some Indigenous Australian Families' Perspectives on the Landscape of Early Childhood Education

Drawing on Vygotsky's (1997a) concept of fossilized behavior, this study examines the cultural fault lines between the imagined community (Anderson, 1991) of early childhood education and some Australian Indigenous families. Through creating a social space within which Indigenous families could examine dominant and taken-for-granted discourses within early childhood education, participants could make visible assumptions and beliefs about early childhood education in Australia. Through this study, cultural tools were identified for supporting professionals to re-imagine new landscapes for early childhood education in Australia.
Laparoscopic Total Caudate Lobectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

BACKGROUND Caudate lobe is located in the deep dorsal area of the liver between the portal triad and the inferior vena cava (IVC). Torrential bleeding can occur from the IVC and short hepatic veins during dissection. Isolated total caudate lobe resection is still rare and technically demanding. We herein present a video on the technical aspect of laparoscopic total caudate lobectomy. METHOD A 61-year-old woman was admitted for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma detected on imaging. She had history of multifocal hepatocellular carcinoma in July 2015 and underwent open cholecystectomy, segment 6 and segment 8 tumorectomy. Ten months later, the computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging showed a 1 cm arterial enhancing lesion in segment I (S1) with no other foci of recurrence. Laparoscopic total caudate lobectomy was contemplated. RESULTS The operative time was 270 minutes. The intraoperative blood loss was 200 mL and blood transfusion was not necessary. The patient was discharged on the fourth postoperative day without any complications. CONCLUSION This report showed the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic total caudate lobectomy. Nonetheless, it is a technically demanding procedure. It should be performed in carefully selected patients and by experienced hepatobiliary surgeons proficient in laparoscopic liver resection.
Book Review: STEINAR KVALE and SVEND BRINKMANN, Interviews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing (2nd Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009. 354 pp. (including index). ISBN 9780761925422

disputes between qualitative and quantitative researchers, deconstruct traditionally dominant methodological notions, and – hopefully – formulate his or her position with an open mind. This will help them defend their own methodology should the occasion arise. The cross-referencing which takes place at the end of each section can also be of assistance in this direction, as it can offer additional argumentation to enrich that of each particular term. In that sense, the book makes an effort to become more theoretical and avoid the possible claim that as a vocabulary it can only be rather epidermic and shallow. This is not to say, of course, that such a book can ever replace theoretical classics such as the Fieldwork in Educational Settings:Methods, Pitfalls and Perspectives by Sara Delamont. Such an attempt would be ineffective and even dangerous. The research student who decides to use qualitative methodology in their PhD needs without a doubt to look into more theoretical debates about the pros and cons of their choice. They need to reach a deeper understanding of the methodological issues involved and how these affect the very substance of their work. Why and how their work is enriched and gains in depth by the use of qualitative methodology. How and why there are some research questions which cannot be answered but through the use of qualitative methods. How and why they may be attacked for the use of such methods and they need to defend them. Why and how in the end their methodology may end up being the Achilles heel of their whole project if they are not careful, thorough, systematic and passionate about their work, and things do not turn out as expected. The book at hand is a very useful additional reference to the qualitative research methodology bibliography. I would certainly use it in a complementary fashion with more substantial texts in the field, but I have no doubt that it will be a very useful and quick tool when one needs to find quick comprehensive answers to burning research questions. It may also prove invaluable for smaller research projects which insist on going qualitative but may not have the time – these days lots of research projects seem not to have the time – to dive deep into the methodological questions as we once did and as we wish everybody still had the option of doing.