Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessing Conflict Management in the Couple

Weak management of interpersonal conflicts can lead to dysfunctional relationships with relevant consequences for couple and family well-being. Our purpose was to devise a single dimension scale to assess conflict management in romantic relationships. We focused on five relevant conflict aspects: competition, collaboration, avoidance, accommodating attitude, and compromise. Study 1 (N = 405) confirmed the existence of a single latent dimension, which was defined as the Conflict Management Scale (CMS), and consists of 8 items unbiased by gender. In Study 2 (N = 205), the CMS convergent validity with attachment, empathic self-efficacy, satisfaction, and decision-making in the couple was analyzed. In Study 3 (N = 120), the CMS was administered to 60 heterosexual couples in order to further examine the validity of the newly developed single dimension scale. Results showed that the CMS might be considered a valid and handy tool for planning couple and family therapies.
Relationships among self-construal, control, and positive affect in Japanese undergraduate students’ leisure experience

ABSTRACT Previous studies have indicated that control and positive affect, which are known to be important aspects of leisure experience, contribute to our psychological well-being. Recently, Ito and Walker’s (2016. Cultural commonality and specificity in Japanese and Euro-Canadian undergraduate students’ leisure experiences: An exploratory study on control and positive affect. Leisure Sciences, 38, 249–267) experience sampling method (ESM) study identified that Japanese undergraduate students experienced primary control, the adjustment aspect of secondary control, and high- and low-arousal positive affect more, and the acceptance aspect of secondary control less, during leisure versus non-leisure participation. This follow-up ESM study, conducted with 41 Japanese undergraduate students, furthers their work by examining the roles of self-construal and types of leisure activities in regard to the significant relationships between leisure participation and experience. Hierarchical linear modelling results indicated that: (a) the moderator effects of self-construal did not exist between leisure participation and experience, and (b) the relationship between leisure participation and experience did not largely vary across types of leisure activities. This study contributes to the growing, yet still understudied, research theme of non-Western leisure and self-construal.
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Drug Use Disorders Identification Test–Extended (Turkish DUDIT-E) in substance-dependent adults under probation

ABSTRACT Objective: Motivation is a widely used concept in substance use treatment, which is related to the change during treatment. The Drug Use Disorders Identification Test–Extended (DUDIT-E) is one of the instruments to measure motivation. Among clients who have been screened already for drug-related problems, DUDIT-E maps the frequency of illicit drug use (D), the positive (P) and negative (N) aspects of drug use, and treatment readiness (T). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Turkish DUDIT-E in adult male patients with substance use disorder (SUD) in Turkey. Methods: We examined the psychometric characteristics of this instrument in a population of outpatients with SUD and who are under probation (n = 196). The participants were administered the Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT), the DUDIT-E, and the Addiction Profile Index (API). Results: Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.96 for P score, 0.95 for N score, and 0.85 for T score. Principal component analysis supported construct validity for P, N, and T scores. The DUDIT-E subscales were mild to moderately correlated with the DUDIT and the API. Conclusions: The findings showed that the Turkish version of the DUDIT-E, when used together with the DUDIT, could effectively identify substance use problems in outpatients with SUD who are under probation.
Combined Squee-SARTM and GPS ground deformation study of Nisyros-Yali volcanic field (Greece) for period 2002–2012

This study presents the spatial and temporal ground-deformation pattern of the Nisyros-Yali volcanic field after the period of the seismic crisis (1996-1998) based on the local GPS network remeasurement and the analysis of Interferometric data (2003-2010) applying the SqueeSARTM technique. The GPS results indicated intense subsidence in the northern and central parts of Nisyros that caused the western and eastern flanks of the island to “collapse” towards its center. The observed LOS velocity field of the SqueeSARTM analysis revealed a nearly linear type of ground deformation, exhibiting values ranging between -3 to +3mm/yr with small standard deviations. The interferometric results have also shown subsidence along the northern and central parts of the island, and an inherent eastward horizontal component at its southeastern part. The overall pattern of the observed subsidence in the area after 2000 is consistent with decrease of pressure in the associated magma chambers and hydrothermal system.
Semantically Enriched Integration Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environment

Miniaturization, reduced costs of electronic components, and advanced information technologies now open practical possibilities to design, develop and deploy thousands of the coin-sized sensors and mechanical devices at multiple locations. This kind of softwarehardware systems, pervasively available to the user in everyday activities, is named Ubiquitous Computing Environment (UCE) (Abowd & Mynatt, 2000; Niemela & Latvakoski 2004), or even Ubiquitous Smart Space (Jeng, 2004 ; Kawahara et al., 2004). Establishing ad hoc communication via wireless media numerous elements of the UCE provide the user with real-time global sensing, context-aware informational retrieval, and enhanced visualization capabilities. In effect, they give extremely new abilities to look at and interact with our habitat. Many researches made a contribution to developing of Sensors and Actuators Networks (SANET), which became a foundation of UCE. There are tiny hardware devices available in practice for building SANET, embedded operating systems, wireless network protocols, and algorithms of effective energy management (Misc.Tinyos, 2010; Feng et al., 2002; Tilak et al., 2002; Crossbow, 2010). Now researchers’ community demonstrates growing interest to resolving the next important problem that will be faced by the developers and the users of UCE since a short time. That is the problem of semantic interoperability in the joint context of SANET, existing IT-infrastructure and people society. Resent results (Branch et al., 2005 ; Curino et al., 2005 ; Tsetsos et al., 2005; Ahamed et al., 2004; Tokunaga et al., 2004 ; Chan et al., 2005) show applicability of the middleware paradigm for the solution of that problem, and provide for approaches facilitating integration of SANET on the application level of enterprise systems. However in the case of actual wide-area UCE, multiple SANETs spread across administrative borders, enterprises, and even social cultures. Deep involving of tiny computing devices in our everyday activities requires closer coincidence of computer interfaces with people’s way of perception and mental world models. As activities and social experience are different, the mental world models also differ. So, interfacing with the same sensors can be absolutely dissimilar in respect with the style, modality and informational contents. The same raw data collected by sensors can be interpreted differently and can be applied in absolutely divergent contexts. This simple fact breaks a “closed world” assumption, and requires shedding light of researcher’s attention on such
Comparison of the large-scale clustering in the APM and the EDSGC galaxy surveys

Clustering statistics are compared for the Automatic Plate Machine (APM) and the Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue (EDSGC) angular galaxy surveys. Both surveys were independently constructed from scans of the same adjacent UK IIIa-J Schmidt photographic plates with the APM and COSMOS microdensitometers, respectively. The comparison of these catalogues is a rare practical opportunity to study systematic errors, which cannot be achieved via simulations or theoretical methods. On intermediate scales, 0°⊙1 < θ < 0°⊙5, we find good agreement for the cumulants or reduced moments of counts in cells up to sixth order. On larger scales there is a small disagreement owing to edge effects in the EDSGC, which covers a smaller area. On smaller scales, we find a significant disagreement which can only be attributed to differences in the construction of the surveys. Visual inspection of nine high-density regions reveals that a likely reason is the dissimilar deblending of crowded fields. The overall agreement of the APM and EDSGC surveys is encouraging, and shows that the results for intermediate scales should be fairly robust. On the other hand, the systematic deviations found at small scales are significant in a regime where comparison with theory and simulations is possible. This is an important fact to bear in mind when planning the construction of future digitized galaxy catalogues.
Cost-effectiveness of first-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected African children less than 3 years of age

Background:The International Maternal, Pediatric, and Adolescent Clinical Trials P1060 trial demonstrated superior outcomes for HIV-infected children less than 3 years old initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) with lopinavir/ritonavir compared to nevirapine, but lopinavir/ritonavir is four-fold costlier. Design/methods:We used the Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications (CEPAC)-Pediatric model, with published and P1060 data, to project outcomes under three strategies: no ART; first-line nevirapine (with second-line lopinavir/ritonavir); and first-line lopinavir/ritonavir (second-line nevirapine). The base-case examined South African children initiating ART at age 12 months; sensitivity analyses varied all key model parameters. Outcomes included life expectancy, lifetime costs, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios [ICERs; dollars/year of life saved ($/YLS)]. We considered interventions with ICERs less than 1× per-capita gross domestic product (South Africa: $7500)/YLS as ‘very cost-effective,’ interventions with ICERs below 3× gross domestic product/YLS as ‘cost-effective,’ and interventions leading to longer life expectancy and lower lifetime costs as ‘cost-saving’. Results:Projected life expectancy was 2.8 years with no ART. Both ART regimens markedly improved life expectancy and were very cost-effective, compared to no ART. First-line lopinavir/ritonavir led to longer life expectancy (28.8 years) and lower lifetime costs ($41 350/person, from lower second-line costs) than first-line nevirapine (27.6 years, $44 030). First-line lopinavir/ritonavir remained cost-saving or very cost-effective compared to first-line nevirapine unless: liquid lopinavir/ritonavir led to two-fold higher virologic failure rates or 15-fold greater costs than in the base-case, or second-line ART following first-line lopinavir/ritonavir was very ineffective. Conclusions:On the basis of P1060 data, first-line lopinavir/ritonavir leads to longer life expectancy and is cost-saving or very cost-effective compared to first-line nevirapine. This supports WHO guidelines, but increasing access to pediatric ART is critical regardless of the regimen used.
A Comparison between the hp-version of Finite Element Method with EIDORS for Electrical Impedance Tomography

In this study, a hp-version of Finite Element Method (FEM) was applied for forward modeling in image reconstruction of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT). The EIT forward solver is normally based on the conventional Finite Element Method (h-FEM). In h-FEM, the polynomial order (p) of the element shape functions is constant and the element size (h) is decreasing. To have an accurate simulation with the h-FEM, a mesh with large number of nodes and elements is usually needed. In order to overcome this problem, the high order finite element method (p-FEM) was proposed. In the p-version, the polynomial order is increasing and the mesh size is constant. Combining the advantages of two previously mentioned methods, the element size (h) was decreased and the polynomial order (p) was increased, simultaneously, which is called the hp-version of Finite Element Method (hp-FEM). The hp-FEM needs a smaller number of nodes and consequently, less computational time and less memory to achieve the same or even better accuracy than h-FEM. The SNR value is 42db for hp-FEM and is 9db for h-FEM. The numerical results are presented and verified that the performance of the hp-version is better than of the h-version in image reconstruction of EIT.
Organ preconditioning: the past, current status, and related lung studies

Preconditioning (PC) has emerged as a powerful method for experimentally and clinically attenuating various types of organ injuries. In this paper related clinical and basic research issues on organ preconditioning issues were systemically reviewed. Since lung injuries, including ischemia-reperfusion and others, play important roles in many clinical results, including thromboembolism, trauma, thermal injury, hypovolemic and endotoxin shock, reimplantation response after organ transplantation, and many respiratory diseases in critical care. It is of interest to uncover methods, including the PCs, to protect the lung from the above injuries. However, related studies on pulmonary PC are relatively rare and still being developed, so we will review previous literature on experimental and clinical studies on pulmonary PC in the following paragraphs.
1 Intron evolution in Saccharomycetaceae

© The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Genome Biology and Evolution Advance Access published September 9, 2014 doi:10.1093/gbe/evu196
Image quality assessment based on the contourlet transform

Contourlet transform has excellent properties for image representation, such as multiresolution, localization and directionality, which are the key characteristics of human vision system. In this paper, a novel image quality assessment metric based on the characteristics of contourlet coefficients of images is proposed. Firstly, the original image and the distorted images are decomposed into several levels by means of contourlet transform respectively. The contourlet coefficients of the original image and the distorted images are as the referenced matrixes and the comparative matrixes respectively. Secondly, calculate the correlativity indexes between the referenced matrixes and the comparative matrixes respectively. Moreover, image quality assessment vector of every distorted image can be constructed based on the correlativity indexes values and image quality can be assessed. Performance experiments are made on image quality database with four different distortion types. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves accuracy and robustness of image quality prediction.
Audio-Aerotactile Integration in Infant Speech Perception

A growing body of literature provides evidence for the importance and integration of sensory modalities other than auditory in speech perception (e.g. vision, McGurk and MacDonald, 1976). Recent work (Gick & Derrick, 2009) has shown that aero-tactile information can influence speech perception. In this study, native English speakers were significantly more likely to perceive a consonant as aspirated when puffs of air were inaudibly applied to participants' skin, even if the token was unaspirated. One possible source of a learned mapping between the auditory and aerotactile modalities in this effect could be the sensation of air puffs produced during one's own speech. To test this possibility, the current study tests whether this effect requires production experience with aspiration, by testing for the effect in prelinguistic (6-8 month-old) English-acquiring infants. If one's own speech production experience is not necessary, the infants should show the same effect as adults. English-acquiring infants participated in an alternating/non-alternating sound presentation task, with a puff of air applied every other syllable to their neck. The tactile stimulus either reinforced or interfered with the aspiration distinction, thereby influencing the infant's perception of whether the trial was alternating. Measures of looking time, reflecting infants’ baseline ability to discriminate between two sounds, will be presented. Results provide insight into the developmental trajectory and origins of aero-tactile integration.
Could CD4 Capture by CD8+ T Cells Play a Role in HIV Spreading?

CD8+ T cells have been shown to capture plasma membrane fragments from target cells expressing their cognate antigen, a process termed “trogocytosis”. Here, we report that human CD4, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) receptor, can be found among the proteins transferred by trogocytosis. CD4 is expressed in a correct orientation after its capture by CD8+ T cells as shown by its detection using conformational antibodies and its ability to allow HIV binding on recipient CD8+ T cells. Although we could not find direct evidence for infection of CD8+ T cells having captured CD4 by HIV, CD4 was virologically functional on these cells as it conferred on them the ability to undergo syncytia formation induced by HIV-infected MOLT-4 cells. Our results show that acquisition of CD4 by CD8+ T cells via trogocytosis could play a previously unappreciated role for CD8+ T cells in HIV spreading possibly without leading to their infection.
Index reduction for differential‐algebraic equations by minimal extension

In this paper a new index reduction technique is discussed for the treatment of differential‐algebraic systems for which extra structural information is available. Based on this information reduced derivative arrays are formed and instead of using expensive subspace computations the index reduction is obtained by introducing new variables. The new approach is demonstrated for several important classes of differential‐algebraic systems, where the structural information is available. These include multibody systems and circuit simulation problems. The effectiveness of the new approach is demonstrated via numerical examples.
Novel Adaptive PID Control of Flexible Joint Robot Manipulator withBounded Disturbances

A novel robust adaptive PID control scheme is proposed with known upper bound of the external disturbances, to solve the dynamic coupling and strong nonlinearity problems in flexible joint robot manipulator control. Invoking the proposed controller, the bounded external disturbances can be compensated and the global asymptotical stability with respect to the manipulator positions and velocities is able to be guaranteed. The designed control law can enlarge the tolerable external disturbances, enhance the accuracy of trajectory tracking error, and improve the dynamic performance of the manipulator systems. The stability and convergence properties of the closed-loop system are analytically proved using Lyapunov stability theory and Barbalat's lemma. Simulation for the proposed control system is performed for a two-degree of freedom flexible joint robot, each joint modeled by two-equations of second order to illustrate its viability, and advantages.
Comparison of TCP Variants Over Self-Similar Traffic

Network traffic of Internet will continue to expand in terms of both volume and users, and transmission congestion protocol (TCP) is accounting for more than 90% the Internet traffic. In addition to this, it is well known that Internet traffic exhibits self-similarity, which cannot be described by traditional Markovian models such as the Poisson process. In this paper we focus on experimental quantitative comparisons of four TCP variants namely Tahoe, NewReno, Vegas, and SACK running over self-similar traffic. With the aid of network simulator, NS2, aggregated network traffic of selfsimilarity behavior is simulated and will act as the background traffic. The impact of one TCP microflow will be observed, and data analysis such as congestion window, round trip time, throughput, and the behavior of the data received over time is analyzed. In measuring the degree of self-similarity we employed optimization method to determine Hurst parameter. From our analysis, TCP variants tend to demonstrate self-similar traffic flow even though initially the departure rate of TCP packets is constant With respect to performance, TCP-NewReno outperform other TCP variants with higher throughput and efficacy. In addition, we have also investigate the LAN traffic behavior of FSKSM, UTM, and proved that Internet Protocol (IP) dominated the total traffic where 90% is TCP and has a Hurst value of 0.88.
Age and space structured tumour invasion: A theoretical mathematical formulation

In this article, the mathematical model used originally proposed by Bruce and co-workers was reviewed and extended. By assuming spherical symmetry of tumour, there were mathematical expressions in the form of partial differential equations along with some suitable conditions for density of proliferating tumor cells, quiescent tumor cells, surrounding tissue macromolecule (MM) and concentration of matrix degradative enzyme (MDE) and oxygen. Key words: Mathematical modeling, tumour invasion, partial differential equations.
Sketching the data center network traffic

Data center networks are expected to support emerging types of bandwidth-hungry applications to perform real-time search and data analysis. They impose significant challenges to identify the cause of congestion down to the flow level on a physical port of a switch/router in real time with high accuracy, low computational complexity and good scalability with the exploding data. In this article, we propose two sketch-based algorithms, called α-CU and P(d)-CU, based on the existing Conservative Update (CU) approach. α-CU adds no extra implementation cost to traditional CU, but successfully trades off the achieved error with time complexity. P(d)-CU fully considers the amount of skew for different network services to aggregate traffic statistics of each service type at individual horizontally partitioned sketches. We also introduce a way to produce the real-time moving average of the reported results. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is verified by sufficient experiments by a real DCN trace.
A sociology of everyday violence: interactional encounters in intimate partner abuse

Sociology has sometimes been accused of overlooking the sociological significance of domestic violence, and intimate partner abuse/violence (IPA&V). Phenomenological sociology provides a specific sociology of the everyday, offering powerful insights into the production of interactional routines, including abuse and violence. Drawing upon data from a qualitative study of IPA&V, this article focuses on an in-depth life-history of a British male victim/survivor, who endured unilateral violence from his wife for over 20 years. Data were gathered via six topical life-history interviews and a personal diary. Employing insights from the sociology of the everyday, the article analyses the domestic interactional domain of IPA&V, drawing upon a sociological-phenomenological framework to explore the lived, everyday experience of abuse and violence from the standpoint of a male survivor. This constitutes a relatively under-researched perspective in extant sociological literature.