Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Parenting Practices of Mothers of Children with ADHD: The Role of Maternal and Child Factors.

BACKGROUND We examined the relationships among child behavioural and demographic characteristics and parent characteristics in understanding the effectiveness of parenting practices used by mothers of children diagnosed with ADHD. METHOD One hundred and fifty Australian mothers of children diagnosed with ADHD were interviewed and asked to assess the severity of their child's disruptive behaviour, their own parenting sense of competence, perceptions of social isolation and parenting practices. The hypothesis was that severity of child disruptive behaviour, higher child age, 'only' child status, lower parental sense of competence and greater social isolation would be associated with the use of less effective parenting practices. RESULTS The regression analysis indicated that the combination of these variables was significantly associated with parenting practices, accounting for 32% of the variance. Unique contributions were evident for severity of overall behavioural disturbance and parental sense of competence. CONCLUSIONS Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed together with methodological limitations of the study.
Understanding DSM-5 Hoarding Disorder: A Triple Vulnerability Model

Objective: Whereas a triple vulnerability model has been used to evaluate several anxiety- and mood-related conditions, no research has purposefully examined hoarding from this perspective. Method: Using a multivariate approach, the current study evaluated the unique relations between hoarding and a general biological (e.g., neuroticism), psychological (e.g., anxiety sensitivity), and hoarding-specific vulnerability (e.g., saving cognitions) within 526 individuals. Results: A structural equation model (SEM) including all three vulnerabilities as well as hoarding symptoms provided good fit to the data. Consistent with the model, the vulnerabilities accounted for a substantial percentage (66%) of the variance in hoarding severity. Conclusions: These findings suggest that, similar to other emotional distress disorders, risk for hoarding can be conveyed through a constellation of general and specific vulnerabilities. Future research should continue to examine this model, particularly utilizing a prospective design and clinical sample.
Transgene expression and differentiation of baculovirus‐transduced human mesenchymal stem cells

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have drawn considerable attention as vehicles for cell‐ or gene‐based therapies, yet various problems still exist for current gene delivery vectors. On the other hand, baculovirus has emerged as a novel gene therapy vector, but its transduction of stem cells has not been reported.
The Feasibility of Radar-Based Remote Sensing of Barometric Pressure

This study assesses the feasibility of radar-based remote sensing of barometric pressure of the air at the sea surface. Currently, sea surface barometric pressure measurements can only be obtained from in situ observations including buoy and dropsonde measurements, which are sparse in spatial coverage and expensive to implement. There are no operational remote sensing methods available even in experimental stages. The proposed technology is to use differential absorption radar working at the 50-56 GHz O2 bands to fill the observational gap. The numerical simulation results for homogeneous sea surface backgrounds show that with an airborne radar working at these O2 absorption bands, the rms errors of the instantaneous radar surface pressure estimates with 15 dB signal-to-noise ratios can be as low as 4–7 mb. With multiple measurements over an area about 10 km the uncertainty in radar sea surface pressure estimates would drop to about 1 mb which is similar to conventional in situ buoy measurements. A radar system that covers the O2 absorption wavelengths over the ocean will have great potential for weather observations and other meteorological applications, especially for forecasts of hurricanes. Case studies show that with the capability of remotely sensed sea surface barometric pressure data, the errors of hurricane center pressure, the most important indicator of hurricane intensity, in weather prediction models would reduce from about 48 mb to about 1.5 mb. The increased accuracy is about 1/3 of whole range of possible variations of hurricane center pressure. The uncertainties in the weather model predicted landfall positions or tracks of hurricanes also shrink greatly from ~350 km to within 100 km. Based on conventional radar system design and radar engineering models, our assessment clearly illustrates that it is realistic to develop our proposed airborne radar system with existing technology. That is, all major subsystems of the proposed instrument could be built using available Commercial Off The Shelve (COTS) components. An investment would be required to integrate and test the whole instrument as well as to install it onto the aircraft or UAV. The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessment before this feasibility analysis was based upon the basic principle and technology concept and resulted in TRL 2. The current analysis and assessment, especially the analytical results of the O2-band radar, applications, sea surface air pressure retrievals, and airborne radar system designs, advances the O2-band radar technology to TRL 3. Finally, a roadmap for further studies on the radar system to advance the TRL to higher levels, such as 6 and higher, is shown in this report.
Security protocols from the software verification perspective

We believe that it is important to verify not just the correctness of abstract security protocols, but also to verify the correctness of real implementations of security protocols. Considerable research is needed to facilitate the development process for such implementations both in terms of mathematical formalisms to describe protocols, and tools that carry out their verification. For starters, it is no longer sufficient to consider abstract, idealised (fragments) of security protocols, but we have to consider complete real-life security protocols, warts and all. The goal of this paper is to stimulate discussion on what would be the best formal languages to specify these procotols and what would be suitable methods to express and verify formal properties of their implementations.
Jane: Open Source Machine Translation System Combination

Different machine translation engines can be remarkably dissimilar not only with respect to their technical paradigm, but also with respect to the translation output they yield. System combination is a method for combining the output of multiple machine translation engines in order to take benefit of the strengths of each of the individual engines. In this work we introduce a novel system combination implementation which is integrated into Jane, RWTH’s open source statistical machine translation toolkit. On the most recent Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation system combination shared task, we achieve improvements of up to 0.7 points in BLEU over the best system combination hypotheses which were submitted for the official evaluation. Moreover, we enhance our system combination pipeline with additional n-gram language models and lexical translation models.
radicincitans , a beneficial bacteria that promotes radish growth under field conditions

Conserving arable soils is a major challenge in agronomy. Using beneficial native microorganisms such as plant growth-promoting bacteria contributes to sustainability in agricultural systems and helps maintain stable yields and product quality. However, the growth-promoting effects of candidate strains observed in pot trials often disappear under field conditions. Therefore, we studied here the bacterial colonization of Kosakonia radicincitans, a known plant growthpromoting bacteria, and the effect ofK. radicincitans on radish. We measured plant growth and glucosinolate profile when plants were grown under glasshouse and field conditions. K. radicincitans cells were applied onto seeds or plants when two leaves had emerged. Our results show an increase of up to 25% of leaf and tuber weights of inoculated radish plants under glasshouse and field conditions, compared to non-inoculated plants. Glucosinolate contents remained unchanged, except when leaves were sprayed withK. radicincitans. We also found that K. radicincitans suppressed aromatic 2-phenylethyl glucosinolates in leaves. To sum up, we demonstrate for the first time the capability of K. radicincitans to persist and promote plant growth in a member of the Brassicaceae family under field conditions. Therefore,K. radicincitans is a promising candidate for further processing as a growth-promoting product in sustainable agriculture.
The Evaluation of the Vector System in Removal of Carious Tissue

The aim of this study was to evaluate the Vector system in comparison to the conventional technique in cavity preparation. Four extracted primary teeth with no restorations and similar fissure carious lesions and four permanent teeth extracted for orthodontic reasons were used. Class I preparations were made provided that the caries depth remained within the dentin limits. Two teeth were treated with an aerator, the other two had carious tissue removed with the Vector system. Prepared cavities were evaluated with scanning electron microscopy for the surface roughness of the dentine and enamel and for the carious tissue removal efficiency. This pilot study determined that it is possible to remove carious tissue and perform cavity preparation with the Vector system. According to this preliminary evaluation of surface quality, a cavity prepared with the Vector treatment system, allows for a slicker floor, and a more regular enamel-dentine line than that prepared with an aerator. However, the Vector system requires a longer treatment time which we believe may be a negative point, especially for young patients.
SSX2IP expression in acute myeloid leukaemia: an association with mitotic spindle failure in t(8;21), and cell cycle in t(15;17) patients

We show that SSX2IP is affected in two ways which relate to the cell cycling of AML cells. In patients harbouring the t(15;17) translocation overexpression of SSX2IP is associated with an abnormal elevation in the expression of genes involved in cell cycle. Conversely in AML cells harbouring the t(8;21) translocation, the low levels of SSX2IP are associated with low levels of CDC20 protein, part of the anaphase-promoting complex which is thought to contribute to the development of aneuploidy seen in these patients
On Non-Binary Constellations for Channel-Coded Physical-Layer Network Coding

We investigate channel-coded physical-layer network coding in a two-way relaying scenario, where the end nodes A and B choose their symbols, S_A and S_B, from a small non-binary field, \mathbb{F}, and adopt a non-binary PSK modulation. The relay then directly decodes the network-coded combination {aS_A+bS_B} over \mathbb{F} from the noisy received superimposed channel-encoded packets. The advantage of working over non-binary fields is that it offers the opportunity to decode according to multiple decoding coefficients (a,b). As only one of the network-coded combinations needs to be successfully decoded, a key advantage is then a reduction in error probability by attempting to decode against all choices of (a,b). In this paper, we compare different mappings between \mathbb{F} and the PSK constellation, and prove that many have identical performance in terms of frame error rate (FER). Moreover, we derive a lower bound on the performance of decoding the network-coded combinations. Simulation results show that if we adopt either i) concatenated Reed-Solomon and convolutional coding or ii) low-density parity check codes, our non-binary constellations can outperform the binary case significantly in the sense of minimizing the FER and, in particular, the ternary constellation has the best FER performance among all considered cases.
Alternative Sources of Information and the Selection Decision Making Process

Personal information available on networking websites such as and Facebook © and LinkedIn © is being used more frequently in the workplace. This study examined the effect of alternative sources of information (i.e., information beyond that provided on a formal resume) on applicant evaluations and selection decision making. Alternative information was provided in a format similar to that utilized on social networking websites. Specifically, information was provided about job candidates’ alcohol consumption and gambling habits, information not typically found on resumes. It was hypothesized that evaluations of job candidates would be negatively influenced by the provision of negative information through a non resume source. The results indicated that alcohol consumption negatively affected evaluations of job candidates in five areas (likelihood of extending an interview invitation, assessment of qualifications, recommendation for hire, expected work performance, and expected work tenure). Gambling was found to negatively affect evaluations of job candidates in one area (expected work tenure), and the interaction between alcohol consumption and gambling was found to negatively affect evaluations of job candidates in three areas (assessment of qualifications, recommendation for hire, and expected work tenure). Consistent with the hypothesis, it appears that exposure to negative information through a non resume source negatively affected evaluations of job candidates.
Effects of β-caryophyllene and Murraya paniculata essential oil in the murine hepatoma cells and in the bacteria and fungi 24-h time–kill curve studies

Abstract Context: Orange Jessamine [Murraya paniculata L. (Rutaceae)] has been used worldwide in folk medicine as an anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and analgesic. Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the in vitro antioxidant, cytotoxic, antibacterial and antifungal activity and the time-kill curve studies of orange jessamine essential oil and β-caryophyllene, as well as the chemical composition of the essential oil. Material and methods: The cytotoxic activity of M. paniculata and β-caryophyllene (7.8–500 μg/mL) was evaluated using the MTT assay on normal fibroblasts and hepatoma cells. The minimal inhibitory concentration and time–kill curves (24 h) were evaluated against those of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Enterococcus faecallis, Aspergillus (niger, fumigates and parasiticum) and F. solani by the broth microdilution method. The antioxidant activity was measured by the DPPH and ABTS assays. Chemical composition was evaluated by GC/MS analyses. Results: GC/MS analyses identified 13 compounds, with β-caryophyllene as the major compound. The oil exhibited moderate antibacterial activity (MIC <1.0 mg/mL) and strong antifungal activity. Time–kill curve studies showed that either the essential oil or β-caryophyllene presented rapid bacterial killing (4 h for S. aureus) and fungicidal effect (2-4 h for F. solani); however, both displayed weak free radical scavenger capacity. The cytotoxic activity exhibited a prominent selective effect against hepatoma cancer cells (IC50 value =63.7 μg/mL) compared with normal fibroblasts (IC50 value =195.0 μg/mL), whereas the β-caryophyllene showed low cytotoxicity. Discussion and conclusion: The experimental data suggest that the activities of M. paniculata essential oil are due to the synergistic action among its components.
Prayer, Contentious Politics, and the Women of the Wall: The Benefits of Collaboration in Participant Observation at Intense, Multifocal Events

Social scientists who engage in qualitative fieldwork typically follow the ethnographic model of the single scholar in the field. We argue that collaboration in on-site participant observation is an underutilized but vital methodological tool, particularly in the case of one common form of communal conflict in the late-modern period: intense, multifocal events. At mass demonstrations, rallies with small groups of opposing forces, and other public events involving multiple actors, sights, sounds, and interactions, collaboration provides multiple perspectives in a given research moment that one researcher cannot, by definition, experience and observe alone. By joining forces, two researchers may exploit variations in their physical vantage points, disciplinary training, range of area knowledge, and personal background (including gender, ethnicity, religion, and class) to produce more accurate and more meaningful studies. We support our claims with evidence from our own impromptu on-site collaboration in the case of a women’s prayer session at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in June 2000.
Frequency and impact of nonadherence to immunosuppressants after renal transplantation: a systematic review

Nonadherence to immunosuppressants is recognized to occur after renal transplantation, but the size of its impact on transplant survival is not known. A systematic literature search identified 325 studies (in 324 articles) published from 1980 to 2001 reporting the frequency and impact of nonadherence in adult renal transplant recipients. Thirty-six studies meeting the inclusion criteria for further review were grouped into cross-sectional and cohort studies and case series. Meta-analysis was used to estimate the size of the impact of nonadherence on graft failure. Only two studies measured adherence using electronic monitoring, which is currently thought to be the most accurate measure. Cross-sectional studies (n=15) tended to rely on self-report questionnaires, but these were poorly described; a median (interquartile range) of 22% (18%–26%) of recipients were nonadherent. Cohort studies (n=10) indicated that nonadherence contributes substantially to graft loss; a median (interquartile range) of 36% (14%–65%) of graft losses were associated with prior nonadherence. Meta-analysis of these studies showed that the odds of graft failure increased sevenfold (95% confidence interval, 4%–12%) in nonadherent subjects compared with adherent subjects. Standardized methods of assessing adherence in clinical populations need to be developed, and future studies should attempt to identify the level of adherence that increases the risk of graft failure. However, this review shows nonadherence to be common and to have a large impact on transplant survival. Therefore, significant improvements in graft survival could be expected from effective interventions to improve adherence.
Biometric identification using the dynamic features of the eyes

This work investigates the feasibility of using the dynamic features of the eyes for biometric identification. By leveraging the fusion of eye movement features and iris constriction and dilation parameters, we show that such dynamic features of the eye can yield a good level of accuracy for biometric systems. This was achieved by recording then classifying eye movements into segments consisting of saccades and fixations, and examining changes in the pupil size during these movements. The velocity and acceleration were computed for each segment to form a vector of features for biometric identification. We tested four types of stimuli to hypothesize which will provide a viable stimulating method for extracting eye features. The results suggest that simple stimuli such as images and graphs can excite the dynamic features of the eye for the purpose of biometric identification.
Reliability of Measurements with Semmes-Weinstein Monofilaments in Individuals with Diabetes

The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of measurements with Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments as presented with a six piece foot kit. Sixteen females and six males who had diabetes and ranged in age from 47 to 95 years were tested three times during one session: two times by one tester to determine intratester reliability and another time by a second tester to determine intertester reliability. During each of these times the participants were tested for the sensation to a point of pressure with one to six monofilaments on nine sites of the right foot. Since Spearman correlation coefficients of the measurements of only two sites for intratester reliability and three sites for intertester reliability represented good reliability, the measurements overall did not demonstrate an adequate level of reliability. When the data were re-organized, Kappa values of all of the sites demonstrated substantial levels of agreement or excellent agreement for the determination of absence of protective sensation.
Regulation of the Noradrenaline Neurotransmitter Phenotype by the Transcription Factor AP-2β*

AP-2 family transcription factors are essential for development and morphogenesis of diverse tissues and organs, but their precise roles in specification of neural crest stem cell (NCSC)-derived cell types have not been determined. Among three members known to be expressed in the NCSC (i.e. AP-2α, AP-2β, and AP-2γ), we found that only AP-2β is predominantly expressed in the sympathetic ganglia of developing mouse embryos, supporting its role in sympathetic development. Indeed, AP-2β null mice expressed significantly reduced levels of both noradrenaline (NA) and NA-synthesizing dopamine β-hydroxylase in the peripheral nervous system. Strikingly, we also found that NA neuron development was significantly compromised in the locus coeruleus as well. Pharmacological treatment with an NA intermediate during pregnancy significantly rescues the neonatal lethality of AP-2β-/- mice, indicating that NA deficiency is one of the main causes for lethality found in AP-2β-/- mice. We also showed that forced expression of AP-2β, but not other AP-2 factors, in NCSC favors their differentiation into NA neurons. In summary, we propose that AP-2β plays critical and distinctive roles in the NA phenotype specification in both the peripheral and central nervous system during development.
Maximum likelihood estimation of SNR using digitally modulated signals

The problem of estimating two measures of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is investigated, both for static and slowly fading channels without memory. Maximum likelihood SNR estimators that use digitally modulated signals are derived for sampled signal processing receivers as well as continuous time signal processing receivers. The performances of the estimators are examined analytically in terms of biases and root-mean-squared errors. Numerical results are presented to show their good performances
Ekstraksi dan Seleksi Fitur untuk Klasifikasi Sel Epitel dengan Sel Radang pada Citra Pap Smear

Penelitian ini dilakukan seleksi fitur menggunakan Fisher Criterion, sedangkan pada proses klasifikasi data menggunakan algoritma Backpropagation terhadap 16 fitur yang terlebih dahulu diekstrak dari citra Pap smear. Adapun ke-16 fitur yang digunakan dibagi menjadi 3 kategori, yaitu: Fitur bentuk, Fitur tekstur, dan Fitur intensitas warna. Pada naskah ini terdapat 2 tahap utama, yaitu: 1) Ekstraksi Fitur; dan 2) Seleksi Fitur. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis kinerja seleksi fitur pada klasifikasi data dan mencari fitur yang secara signifikan mempengaruhi klasifikasi sel epitel dengan sel radang. Sebagai pembanding, penelitian ini juga membandingkan hasil seleksi fitur antara Fisher Criterion dangan Feature Subset Selection. Hasil yang diperoleh dari proses perbandingan tersebut menunjukkan kesamaan fitur yang secara signifikan mempengaruhi proses klasifikasi sel radang dengan sel epitel. Tingkat akurasi klasifikasi pada penelitian ini adalah 92.5%.