Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Military Leadership Evaluations: Effects of Sex, Leadership Style and Gender-Role Attitudes

Abstract : Despite a recent increase in women holding leadership or managerial positions, women are still underrepresented in the highest levels of the military and business. On potential reason for this disparity might concern factors in leadership evaluation. In this study, the relationships among officer sex, leader sex, officer gender-role attitudes leadership style and military leadership evaluations were examined with data collected from 108 male and 58 female United States Air Force Field Grade Officers. These officers evaluated the leadership performance of a military leader described in one of four vignettes. These descriptions portrayed either a male or female leader displaying done of two leadership styles, autocratic or democratic. In addition, officers completed measures assessing their gender-role attitudes toward the roles of men and women in society. For male officers, traditional views of women in society were significantly related to traditional views of men in society. Also, male officers reported significantly more traditional gender-role attitudes than female officers concerning men needing status, men not engaging in feminine activities and attitudes toward the role of women in society. With regards to leadership evaluations, male leaders who displayed a democratic leadership style tended to be rated significantly higher in leadership evaluations than autocratic male leaders. As for female leaders, the more non-traditionally the female officer though about the roles of men and women in society, except for the belief that men need status, the significantly higher the ratings given to women occupying a leadership position.
Parameter Automation in a Dynamic Range Compressor

Dynamic range compression is a nonlinear, time dependent audio effect. As such, preferred parameter settings are difficult to achieve even when there is advance knowledge of the input signal and the desired perceptual characteristics of the output. We introduce an automated approach to dynamic range compression where the parameters are configured automatically based on real-time, side-chain feature extraction from the input signal. Parameters are all dynamically varied depending on extracted features, leaving only the threshold as a user controlled parameter to set the preferred amount of compression. We analyze a series of automation techniques, including comparison of methods based on different signal characteristics. Subjective evaluation was performed with amateur and professional sound engineers, which established preference for dynamic range compressor parameters when applied to musical signals, and allowed us to compare performance of our various approaches against manual parameter settings.
Elevated Zinc Transporter-6 in Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer Disease, and Pick Disease

Filamentous cytoplasmic inclusions are hallmarks of Alzheimer disease (AD) and Pick disease (PD). Although previous studies show elevated zinc (Zn) in AD brain, there has been little study of zinc transporter (ZnT) proteins that are critical in the maintenance of Zn homeostasis. Using Western blot analysis, we show significantly elevated ZnT-6, the protein responsible for sequestration of Zn in the trans-Golgi network, in the hippocampus/parahippocampal gyrus (HPG) of AD subjects compared to age-matched controls and a trend toward elevated ZnT-6 in subjects with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Based on these data, we used immunohistochemistry to investigate the cellular distribution of ZnT-6 in the HPG of control subjects and subjects with MCI, AD, and PD. Comparison of immediately adjacent serial sections stained using the modified Bielschowsky method and immunostained for ZnT-6 showed elevated ZnT-6 in 89 ± 7% of neurofibrillary tangle (NFT)-bearing neurons in AD and 100 ± 19% of Pick bodies in PD specimens. Confocal microscopy of HPG from MCI subjects double labeled for ZnT-6 and MC-1, a marker of early NFT formation, showed 85 ± 4% of MC-1-positive cells were strongly ZnT-6-positive. Increased ZnT-6 immunostaining in neurons containing cytoplasmic inclusions in MCI, AD, and PD suggests a role for ZnT-6 in the pathogenesis of these lesions.
Having a ChuQL at XML on the Cloud

MapReduce/Hadoop has gained acceptance as a framework to process, transform, integrate, and analyze massive amounts of Web data on the Cloud. The MapReduce model (simple, fault tolerant, data parallelism on elastic clouds of commodity servers) is also attractive for processing enterprise and scientific data. Despite XML ubiquity, there is yet little support for XML processing on top of MapReduce. In this paper, we describe ChuQL, a MapReduce extension to XQuery, with its corresponding Hadoop implementation. The ChuQL language incorporates records to support the key/value data model of MapReduce, leverages higher-order functions to provide clean semantics, and exploits side-effects to fully expose to XQuery developers the Hadoop framework. The ChuQL implementation distributes computation to multiple XQuery engines, providing developers with an expressive language to describe tasks over big data.
Second language learners' motivation and their perception of their teachers as an affecting factor

International students learning English as a second language in Australia were studied to find how their perception of teachers' level of commitment to teach them English affects their own motivation to study English. A questionnaire survey was administered to the learners at three different levels of proficiency to also identify the relationship between the levels of study and the learners' perception of the teacher as a factor affecting the learners' motivation. The results showed that there is a positive correlation between the learners' motivation and their perception of their teachers' commitment to teach, though there are some differences among the three levels. The results also found that the level of study is an important variable which affects the learners' perception of three major teacher-related factors; behaviour, personality, and teaching introduced by Dornyei and Csizer (1998). These findings support the general claim that language teachers are one of the most important factors influencing learners' motivation, but the learners' level of proficiency may need to be taken into consideration for a further discussion regarding the validity of a certain teaching strategy to motivate second language learners.
Estimation of Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models for Computer Vision Applications

In an errors-in-variables (EIV) model, all the measurements are corrupted by noise. The class of EIV models with constraints separable into the product of two nonlinear functions, one solely in the variables and one solely in the parameters, is general enough to represent most computer vision problems. We show that the estimation of such nonlinear EIV models can be reduced to iteratively estimating a linear model having point dependent, i.e., heteroscedastic, noise process. Particular cases of the proposed heteroscedastic errors-in-variables (HEIV) estimator are related to other techniques described in the vision literature: the Sampson method, renormalization, and the fundamental numerical scheme. In a wide variety of tasks, the HEIV estimator exhibits the same, or superior, performance as these techniques and has a weaker dependence on the quality of the initial solution than the Levenberg-Marquardt method, the standard approach toward estimating nonlinear models
Effective multi-resolution background subtraction

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-resolution background subtraction method. We adopt coarse to fine strategy, which is the essence the multi-resolution scheme, to obtain the foreground mask. The rough mask is first gained relied on the Single Gaussian Model, which holds minor computation cost. Then, the slightly accuracy mask is calculated by the Saliency-based Extraction Model, which contains high accuracy and stability. Finally, Contour-based Refining Model is used to refine the mask edge. Our algorithm is evaluated against several video sequences, and experimental results show that the proposed method is suitable for various scenes and is appealing with respect to robustness.
Consumer complaints and recovery through guaranteeing self-service technology

Self-service technologies are shaping the future of consumer behaviour, yet consumers often experience service failure in this context. This conceptual paper focuses on self-service technology failure and recovery. A consumer perspective is taken. Recovering from self-service technology failure is fraught with difficulty, mainly because of the absence of service personnel. The aim of this paper is to present a theoretical framework and associated research propositions in respect to the positive role that service guarantees can play in the context of self-service technology failure and recovery. It contributes to the consumer behaviour domain by unifying the theory pertaining to consumer complaint behaviour, service recovery, specifically consumers' perceptions of justice, and service guarantees, which are set in a distinctive self-service technology context. It is advanced that service guarantees, specifically multiple attribute-specific guarantees, are associated with consumer voice complaints following self-service technology failure, which is contingent on the attribution of blame in the light of consumers' production role. Service guarantees are argued to be associated with consumers' perceptions of just recovery in the self-service technology context when they promise to fix the problem, compensate only when the problem cannot be remedied, offer a choice of compensation that is contingent on failure severity, afford ease of invocation and collection, and provide a personalised response to failures. Previous classifications of SSTs are used to highlight the applicability of guarantees for different types of SSTs. Managerial implications based on the theoretical framework are presented, along with future research directions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Corneal Refractive Therapy with Different Lens Materials, Part 2: Effect of Oxygen Transmissibility on Corneal Shape and Optical Characteristics

Purpose. To compare the effects of two different oxygen transmissible (Dk/t) lenses on corneal shape and optical performance after one night of corneal refractive therapy (CRT®) for myopia. Methods. Twenty myopic subjects were fit with Menicon Z (MZ) (Dk/t = 90.6, Paragon CRT® lenses) on one eye and an Equalens II (EII) CRT® lens (Dk/t = 47.2) on the contralateral eye (eye randomized). Corneal topography, refractive error and aberrations were measured before lens insertion (baseline), and the following day after overnight lens wear, on lens removal and 1, 3, 6, 12 h later. Root mean square wavefront errors were measured using 4.5 mm pupils. Results. Averaged over position and time, the horizontal corneal curvature was statistically different between the MZ and EII lens-wearing eyes (p = 0.011). The central cornea flattened similarly (p = 0.886) and the mid-periphery steepened in both eyes (p = 0.061) from baseline. The EII lens-wearing eyes were steeper in the mid-periphery than the MZ eyes immediately after lens removal and at the 1-h visit (p ≤ 0.032). Central corneal flattening and mid-peripheral corneal steepening regressed over time (all p < 0.001) but did not recover to baseline by 12 h (all p < 0.004). Myopia was reduced equally by 0.84 ± 0.83 D for the MZ-lens wearing eyes and 0.84 ± 0.87 D for the EII eyes (p = 0.969). Coma increased from baseline 1.85X (0.056 ± 0.081 &mgr;m) for the MZ-lens wearing eyes and 1.72X (0.048 ± 0.084 &mgr;m) for the EII eyes (both p < 0.001). Spherical aberration increased from baseline 4.55X (0.101 ± 0.077 &mgr;m) for the MZ-lens wearing eyes and 4.31X (0.085 ± 0.076 &mgr;m) for the EII eyes (both p < 0.001), but there were no differences between the MZ and EII eyes (all p ≥ 0.308). Coma and spherical aberration did not return to baseline by 12 h (both p ≤ 0.007). Conclusions. After one night of CRT® lens wear, changes in corneal shape were slightly different, with more mid-peripheral steepening in the EII eyes compared to the MZ eyes. Change in central corneal curvature and optical performance were similar in both eyes.
Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients.

Constructing Identity - the Nature and Meaning of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Identity Development, Ellen M. Broido Coming Out -LGB Identity Development - Implications for Practitioners, Amy R. Reynolds and William F. Hanjorgiris Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio - Historical Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Mental health, Esther D. Rothblum Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People of Colour - Understanding Cultural Complexity and Managing Multiple Oppressions, Mary A. Fukuyama and Angela D. Ferguson Pitfalls and Possibilities - Applying Counselling Theories to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, Ruth E. Fassinger First Do No Harm - Therapist Issues in Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, Susan L. Morrow Individual Therapy with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, Sari H. Dworkin Group Counselling Theory and Practice with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, Kurt A. DeBord and Ruperto M. Perez Potential Counselling Concerns of Aging Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, Augustine Baron and David W. Cramer Issues in Counselling Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, Scott L. Hershberger and Anthony R. D'Augelli Focus on the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Family, Connie R. Matthews and Suzanne H. Lease Relationships and Couples Counselling, Shelly M. Ossana Programmatic Research on the Treatment of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients - the Past, the Present and the Course for the Future, Kathleen J. Bieschke et al Training Issues and Considerations, Julia C. Phillips Psychoeducational Programming - Creating a Context of Mental Health for People Who Are Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual, Barry A. Schreier and Doland L. Werden Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Vocational Psychology - Reviewing Foundations and Planning Construction, James M. Croteau et al Religion and Spirituality, Mary Gage Davidson Health Behaviour Relevant to Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, Michael R. Kauth et al.
Modeling magnetic devices using SPICE: Application to variable inductors

In this paper a methodology to develop SPICE-based models of complex magnetic devices is presented. The proposed methodology is based on a reluctance equivalent circuit (REC), which allows the user to study both the magnetic and electric behavior of the structure under any operating conditions. The different elements required to implement the reluctance model, namely, constant reluctances, variable reluctances and windings, are implemented using SPICE behavioral modeling. These elements can thus be used to build a complete model for any magnetic device. The modeling process is illustrated with a particular example for a variable inductor. Simulations and experimental results are presented and compared to evaluate the accuracy and usefulness of the proposed modeling procedure.
Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives

Part 1 What is organization theory? : why study organization theory? histories, metaphors and perspectives in organization theory. Part 2 Core concepts of organization theory: the environment of organization strategy and goals technology organizational social structure organizational culture the physical structure of organizations. Part 3 Key issues and themes in organization theory: organizational decision-making, power and politics conflict and contradiction in organizations control and ideology in organizations organizational change and learning.
Spectral Approaches to Learning Predictive Representations

A central problem in artificial intelligence is to choose actions to maximize reward in a partially observable, uncertain environment. To do so, we must obtain an accurate environment model, and then plan to maximize reward. However, for complex domains, specifying a model by hand can be a time consuming process. This motivates an alternative approach: learning a model directly from observations. Unfortunately, learning algorithms often recover a model that is too inaccurate to support planning or too large and complex for planning to succeed; or, they require excessive prior domain knowledge or fail to provide guarantees such as statistical consistency. To address this gap, we propose spectral subspace identification algorithms which provably learn compact, accurate, predictive models of partially observable dynamical systems directly from sequences of action-observation pairs. Our research agenda includes several variations of this general approach: spectral methods for classical models like Kalman filters and hidden Markov models, batch algorithms and online algorithms, and kernel-based algorithms for learning models in high- and infinite-dimensional feature spaces. All of these approaches share a common framework: the model's belief space is represented as predictions of observable quantities and spectral algorithms are applied to learn the model parameters. Unlike the popular EM algorithm, spectral learning algorithms are statistically consistent, computationally efficient, and easy to implement using established matrix-algebra techniques. We evaluate our learning algorithms on a series of prediction and planning tasks involving simulated data and real robotic systems.
The MRC OX‐45 antigen of rat leukocytes and endothelium is in a subset of the immunoglobulin superfamily with CD2, LFA‐3 and carcinoembryonic antigens.

The MRC OX‐45 cell surface antigen is a glycoprotein of 45,000 apparent mol. wt of rat leukocytes and endothelium. Antibodies against the antigen inhibit T lymphocyte responses by stimulation of suppression by accessory cells. We now report the immunochemical characterization of this antigen and its cDNA sequence. The predicted protein sequence contains 240 amino acids including a leader sequence of 22 residues and a carboxy‐terminal sequence of 23 residues that is replaced in the processed molecule by a glycosyl‐phosphatidylinositol anchor attached at serine 195. Two Ig‐related domains are predicted to account for all of the processed sequence and the circular dichroism spectrum shows pure beta‐structure. The amino‐terminal domain is V‐like, but without a disulphide bond, while the second domain is C‐like (C2‐SET) with two disulphide bonds. The sequence matches particularly well with the extracellular parts of LFA‐3 and CD2 antigens and the first two domains of carcinoembryonic antigen and non‐specific, cross‐reacting antigen.
Childhood Victimization: Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People

1. Child Victims: An Introduction 2. Developmental Victimology 3. Children at Risk 4. Developmental Impact (David Finkelhor and Kathy Kendall-Tackett) 5. Just Kids' Stuff? Peer and Sibling Violence (David Finkelhor with Heather Turner and Richard Ormond) 6. Getting Help: What Are the Barriers? (David Finkelhor with Janis Wolak and Lucy Berliner) 7. Good News: Child Victimization Has Been Declining. Why? (David Finkelhor with Lisa Jones) 8. The Juvenile Victim Justice System: A Concept for Helping Victims (David Finkelhor with Ted Cross and Elise Cantor)
Career priority patterns among managerial and professional women in Turkey

Purpose – This research aims to examine potential antecedents and consequences of different career priority patterns among managerial and professional women working in a large Turkish bank. Two career priority patterns advanced by Schwartz were considered: career‐primary and career‐family. Previous research conducted in other countries has compared these career priority patterns.Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 286 managerial and professional women using anonymously completed questionnaires, a 72 percent response rate.Findings – Career‐primary and career‐family women were similar on personal demographic and work situation characteristics. However, the two groups were significantly different on a variety of other measures. Career‐primary women were more satisfied with their jobs and careers, had more optimistic career prospects, were more work engaged, exhibited higher levels of workaholism and reported higher levels of psychological well‐being. These findings were somewhat different .
In Vitro Matured Oocytes Are More Susceptible than In Vivo Matured Oocytes to Mock ICSI Induced Functional and Genetic Changes

Background Concerns regarding the safety of ICSI have been intensified recently due to increased risk of birth defects in ICSI born children. Although fertilization rate is significantly higher in ICSI cycles, studies have failed to demonstrate the benefits of ICSI in improving the pregnancy rate. Poor technical skill, and suboptimal in vitro conditions may account for the ICSI results however, there is no report on the effects of oocyte manipulations on the ICSI outcome. Objective The present study elucidates the influence of mock ICSI on the functional and genetic integrity of the mouse oocytes. Methods Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) level, mitochondrial status, and phosphorylation of H2AX were assessed in the in vivo matured and IVM oocytes subjected to mock ICSI. Results A significant increase in ROS level was observed in both in vivo matured and IVM oocytes subjected to mock ICSI (P<0.05-0.001) whereas unique mitochondrial distribution pattern was found only in IVM oocytes (P<0.01-0.001). Importantly, differential H2AX phosphorylation was observed in both in vivo matured and IVM oocytes subjected to mock ICSI (P <0.001). Conclusion The data from this study suggests that mock ICSI can alter genetic and functional integrity in oocytes and IVM oocytes are more vulnerable to mock ICSI induced changes.
A typology of music consumption motivations.

This study explores individual music consumption preferences using the existentialphenomenological paradigm of interpretive research. Holt‟s (1995) typology is employed and modified to develop a motivational framework for music consumption. Within the context of the framework, thirteen basic reasons for consuming music are presented: accounting, auditory stimulation, fantasy, memory trigger, identification, inspiration, professional development, ambiance, discussion topic, event preparation, communing, gaining acceptance, and exerting dominance. Implications for marketing practitioners and future research opportunities for marketing academicians are discussed.
Genetical and morphological characterization of cold tolerance at fertilization stage in rice

Cold temperature during the reproductive phase leads to seed sterility, which reduces yield and decreases the grain quality of rice. The fertilization stage, ranging from pollen maturation to the completion of fertilization, is sensitive to unsuitable temperature. Improving cold tolerance at the fertilization stage (CTF) is an important objective of rice breeding program in cold temperature areas. In this study, we characterized fertilization behavior under cold temperature to define the phenotype of CTF and identified quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for CTF. A wide variation in CTF levels has been identified among local cultivars in Hokkaido, which is one of the most northern regions for rice cultivation in the world. Clear varietal differences in pollen germination, and pollen tube elongation due to cold temperature have been observed. These differences may confer a degree of CTF among this population. We conducted QTL analysis for CTF using 120 backcrossed inbred lines derived from a cross between Eikei88223 (vigorous CTF) and Suisei (very weak CTF). Three QTLs for CTF were identified. A clear effect by QTL, qCTF7, for increasing the level of CTF was validated using advanced progeny. These results will facilitate marker-assist selection for desirable QTLs for CTF in rice breeding program.