Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Visceral fat accumulation determines postprandial lipemic response, lipid peroxidation, DNA damage, and endothelial dysfunction in nonobese Korean men Published, JLR Papers in Press, September 1, 2003. DOI 10.1194/jlr.M300233-JLR200

Visceral fat has been associated with multiple cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. The aim of this study was to identify anthropometrical measures most closely associated with some well-known CVD risk factors. Because most Asians at risk have normal body mass index (BMI) according to Western standards, we studied healthy nonobese Korean males (n = 102; age: 36.5 ± 0.8 years, BMI: 23.8 ± 0.2 kg/m2). Visceral fat area (VFA) at the fourth lumbar vertebra was associated with increased postprandial triglyceride (TG) response (r = 0.53, P < 0.001) and with plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) (r = 0.36, P < 0.01) and PGF2α (r = 0.24, P < 0.05). When matched for BMI and age, men with high VFA (HVFA) (⩾100 cm2; n = 27) had higher blood pressure (P < 0.01), increased consumption of cigarettes (P < 0.01), and lower ratio of energy expenditure to calorie intake (P < 0.01) as compared with low VFA men (<100 cm2; n = 27). Men with HVFA showed higher TG, glucose, and insulin responses following fat and oral glucose tolerance tests respectively higher plasma concentrations of MDA (P < 0.001), urinary PGF2α (P < 0.05), and lymphocytes deoxyribonucleic acid tail moments (P < 0.01). Conversely, HVFA was associated with lower testosterone, insulin-like growth factor-1, and brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (P < 0.001). In conclusion, our data indicate that visceral fat accumulation, even in nonobese men, is a major factor contributing to increased CVD risk.
Shaped beam synthesis with 4-element conformal array for a semi-smart Picocell sector antenna

We present the shaped beam synthesis with 4-element conformal array for semi-smart Picocell sector antenna. Compared with the conventional circular array synthesis for smart antenna applications, the proposed circular array shaped beam synthesis has much lower system complexity and instrumentation implementation cost. This is because only 4 elements are involved and the circular array factor is simplified for coarse granularity beam. Adding to this, a low-cost Quasi-Newton method is used by the linear/conformal array for the beam optimization. By coding the proposed shaped beam synthesis methodology in C/C++, the advantages of the conformal array over the linear one is demonstrated by avoiding the blind angle and exhibiting better accuracy.
Spiraling Between Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Women's Health Behaviors: A Double Helix Model for Mixed Methods

A double helix spiral model is presented which demonstrates how to combine qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry in an interactive fashion over time. Using findings on women's health behaviors (e.g., menstruation, breast-feeding, coping strategies), we show how qualitative and quantitative methods highlight the theory of knowledge acquisition in women's health decisions. A rich data set of 48 semistructured, in-depth ethnographic interviews with mother—daughter dyads from six ethnic groups (Israeli, European, North African, Former Soviet Union [FSU], American/Canadian, and Ethiopian), plus seven focus groups, provided the qualitative sources for analysis. This data set formed the basis of research questions used in a quantitative telephone survey of 302 Israeli women from the ages of 25 to 42 from four ethnic groups. We employed multiple cycles of data analysis from both data sets to produce a more detailed and multidimensional picture of women's health behavior decisions through a spiraling process.
Grammatical class and context effects in a case of pure anomia: Implications for models of language production

Abstract Numerous variables have been used in previous attempts to account for the performance of aphasic patients on naming tasks. These include lexical/semantic factors such as frequency, and contextual factors such as whether the target is produced as a single word or in a sentence. This paper reports the case of a pure anomic patient (HY) who was strongly affected by both lexical and contextual factors in his naming. Beyond a strong frequency effect, a marked grammatical class difference was noted. Verb production was far superior to noun production in single word naming. Production of nouns was highly facilitated by provision of a semantically relevant sentence frame. These two findings were related to current models of single word and sentence production; a functional locus for HY's naming deficit is proposed.
From Fome Zero to Bolsa Família: Social Policies and Poverty Alleviation under Lula

Under the administrations of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2002) and especially President Lula (2003–), conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have become adopted as mainstream social policy in Brazil. This follows a marked trend since the 1990s in Latin America towards the setting up of targeted safety nets to alleviate poverty. Lula consolidated and expanded CCTs, firstly under Fome Zero and later Bolsa Família, now the largest such scheme in the world. Its four sub-programmes (educational stipends to boost school attendance, maternal nutrition, food supplements and a domestic gas subsidy) benefit some 30 million of Brazil's poorest people, with a target of 44 million by 2006. Since 2003, spending on Bolsa Família has risen significantly to consume over one-third of the social assistance budget for the poorest sectors and it remained a flagship policy in the run-up to the presidential elections of October 2006. Although coverage of Bolsa Família is impressive, however, systematic evaluation of its social and economic impacts is still lacking. Evidence from other CCT programmes in Latin America suggests that positive results may be achieved in terms of meeting some immediate needs of the poor. However, there have been many implementation problems. These include poor beneficiary targeting, lack of inter-ministerial coordination, inadequate monitoring, clientelism, weak accountability and alleged political bias. Given the heightened profile of cash transfers in Brazil's social policy agenda, key questions need to be asked. These concern, firstly, the extent to which Bolsa Família does indeed contribute to poverty alleviation; and secondly, whether it creates greater dependence of the poor on government hand-outs and political patronage at the expense of long-term social investment for development.
Improvements to the Red List Index

The Red List Index uses information from the IUCN Red List to track trends in the projected overall extinction risk of sets of species. It has been widely recognised as an important component of the suite of indicators needed to measure progress towards the international target of significantly reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. However, further application of the RLI (to non-avian taxa in particular) has revealed some shortcomings in the original formula and approach: It performs inappropriately when a value of zero is reached; RLI values are affected by the frequency of assessments; and newly evaluated species may introduce bias. Here we propose a revision to the formula, and recommend how it should be applied in order to overcome these shortcomings. Two additional advantages of the revisions are that assessment errors are not propagated through time, and the overall level extinction risk can be determined as well as trends in this over time.
hormonal signaling during pregnancy and lactation Calcineurin / Nfatc 1 signaling links skin stem cell quiescence to Material

Material Supplemental http://genesdev.cshlp. org/content/suppl/2014/04/07/gad.236554. 113.DC1. html References http://genesdev.cshlp. org/content/28/9/983.full. html#ref-list-1 This article cites 90 articles, 32 of which can be accessed free at: License Commons Creative . http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ at Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International), as described ). After six months, it is available under a http://genesdev.cshlp. org/site/misc/terms.xhtml six months after the full-issue publication date (see This article is distributed exclusively by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press for the first
$\alpha$-Fair Power Allocation in Spectrum-Sharing Networks

To efficiently trade off system sum-rate and link fairness, this paper is dedicated to maximizing the sum of α-fair utility in spectrum-sharing networks, where multiple interfering links share one channel. In the literature, three special cases, including α = 0 (sum-rate maximization), α = 1 (proportional fairness), and α = ∞ (max-min fairness), have been investigated; the complexity for cases 1 <; α <; ∞ and 0 <; α <; 1 is still unknown. In this paper, we prove that the problem is convex when 1 <; α <; ∞ and is NP-hard when 0 <; α <; 1. To deal with the latter case, we transform the objective function and represent it by the difference of two concave functions (D.C.). Then, a power allocation algorithm is proposed with fast convergence to a local optimal point. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can obtain global optimality in two-link cases when 0 <; α <; 1. In addition, we can get a flexible tradeoff between sum-rate and fairness in terms of Jain's index by adjusting α.
Framing the Zone: Political Executives Engaging in a Narrative-Framing Contest During Strategic Decision-making

Storytelling is regarded as an important practice within planning processes. Seminal contributions (Throgmorton, 1992, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 12, pp. 17–31; Flyvbjerg, 1998, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press) as well as recent research (Jensen, 2007, Planning Theory, 6, pp. 211–236; van Hulst, 2012, Planning Theory, 11, pp. 299–318) demonstrate that there are multiple competing stories about the meaning of any specific plan. This paper contributes to this debate by considering stories as building blocks for a collective action frame in the form of a mutual story. Political executives engage in a framing contest in order to influence such a mutual story. Our case study is based on interpretative analysis of contrasting narratives ands shows how political executives negotiate the meaning of a plan in such a way that the chances of its implementation through funding are optimized.
“Diasporic Transnationalism”: Towards a Framework for Conceptualizing and Understanding the Ambivalence of the Social Construction of “Home” and the Myth of Diasporic Nigerian Homeland Return

In the last several decades, a large number of Nigerians have left Nigeria, their native land, to Europe and the Americas, mostly to acquire education and skills for national growth participation and self-actualization. Most who left Nigeria’s shores were certain about the inevitability of their return, or were impressed by significant others on its pertinence, contingent on the dictates of the culture, values, filial piety and other social and cultural ties and encumbrances. Whereas a few completed their studies or whatever educational or skills training they sought and returned to Nigeria, this study found that most remain, even trapped. Although they continue to entertain putative thoughts about returning to be buried among their ancestors, this may never happen, leaving them ambivalent, frustrated and even discomfited about their social, structural and especially psychological construction of “Home. ” Although the social construction of “home” posits no issue for mainstream cultures, it is literally a matter of life and death for Diasporic Africans. The study seeks to highlight this social and psychological discomfiture of “Mental Homelessness” that is the bane of migration and transnational movements among Diasporic Africans, using Nigeria as a backdrop. It also quests for cultural competency by practitioners to seek non-linear ways to assist such Diasporic Transnationalists find a sustainable resolution to an appropriate definition and construction of “home. ” DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013. v3n2p189
Integrating Statistics and Visualization for Exploratory Power: From Long-Term Case Studies to Design Guidelines

Evaluating visual-analytics systems is challenging because laboratory-based controlled experiments might not effectively represent analytical tasks. One such system, Social Action, integrates statistics and visualization in an interactive exploratory tool for social network analysis. This article describes results from long-term case studies with domain experts and extends established design goals for information visualization.
Ten Theses in Search of a Thesis for Late Modern Organizations

Problem statement: Organizational studies frequently fail to integrate major sociological treatments of the problematic nature of contemporar y society into their routine investigations. Approach: This study used the idea of risk management as a l ever for integrating sociological explorations of the risk society and reflexive mode rnization into organizational studies, opening up t he question of the restricted nature of organizational considerations of risk, the reasons for the degree of 'unreflexivity' that exists and how this might be i nvestigated and addressed. The following ten 'these s' state some of the key assumptions that one 'thesis' is making in seeking to open up this debate. Conclusion/Recommendations: My proposal is to adopt a Latourian style that fol lows the actors involved in weaving together the micro and macro, d iscursive and non-discursive, elements of risk and its management.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis thymidylate synthase gene thyX is essential and potentially bifunctional, while thyA deletion confers resistance to p-aminosalicylic acid

Thymidylate synthase (TS) enzymes catalyse the biosynthesis of deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP or thymidylate), and so are important for DNA replication and repair. Two different types of TS proteins have been described (ThyA and ThyX), which have different enzymic mechanisms and unrelated structures. Mycobacteria are unusual as they encode both thyA and thyX, and the biological significance of this is not yet understood. Mycobacterium tuberculosis ThyX is thought to be essential and a potential drug target. We therefore analysed M. tuberculosis thyA and thyX expression levels, their essentiality and roles in pathogenesis. We show that both thyA and thyX are expressed in vitro, and that this expression significantly increased within murine macrophages. Under all conditions tested, thyA expression exceeded that of thyX. Mutational studies show that M. tuberculosis thyX is essential, confirming that the enzyme is a plausible drug target. The requirement for M. tuberculosis thyX in the presence of thyA implies that the essential function of ThyX is something other than dTMP synthase. We successfully deleted thyA from the M. tuberculosis genome, and this deletion conferred an in vitro growth defect that was not observed in vivo. Presumably ThyX performs TS activity within M. tuberculosis ΔthyA at a sufficient rate in vivo for normal growth, but the rate in vitro is less than optimal. We also demonstrate that thyA deletion confers M. tuberculosis p-aminosalicylic acid resistance, and show by complementation studies that ThyA T202A and V261G appear to be functional and non-functional, respectively.
Technological change and human resource development practices in Asia: a study of Singapore‐based companies

Technological change is a constant phenomenon in contemporary organizations. How to prepare employees for technological change has increasingly become an issue for human resource development theory and practice. This study investigated the human resource development practices of organizations in Singapore, where companies are continuously responding to rapid technological changes in order to remain competitive. The results show similar patterns of responses across business sectors; however, some differences were found in the transport and communications sectors. On-the-job training was reported as the most frequently used training method to address organizational change needs. The discussion and recommendations focus on the need for improved change management approaches.
Client Attachment and Perceptions of the Working Alliance with Counselor Trainees

The relationships among 3 dimensions of client attachment (depend, anxiety, and close) and client ratings of the working alliance were examined in a sample of first-time clients (N = 60) seeking services through a university-based counseling clinic. Working alliance ratings were collected from all participants immediately after their 3rd counseling session with a counselor-in-training. A significant association was found between the depend dimension of attachment and client working alliance ratings
Improving foster children’s school performance: a replication of the Helsingborg study

A replication of the Helsingborg study (Tideman, et al., 2011) was conducted in the municipality of Norrköping in 2008–2011. Results confirm the conclusions from the original study that children in foster care can benefit from a working model aimed to improve school performance. Furthermore, a possible way to address poor numeracy skills by computerised working memory training was identified. Implications for further research in active interventions to address underachieving foster children are discussed.
Current-limiting non-linear controller for single-phase AC/DC PWM power converters

In this work, a non-linear controller with an inherent current-limiting property is proposed to achieve dc output voltage regulation and unity power factor operation for single-phase ac/dc converters. The proposed current-limiting non-linear controller (CLNC) acts independently from the system parameters and is proven to guarantee closed-loop system stability using non-linear control theory. Without requiring the instantaneous measurement of the grid voltage, a PLL or external limiters, the CLNC additionally guarantees that the input current will always remain below a given maximum value, even during transients. This represents a significant superiority with respect to the existing techniques, since a given limit for the input current is achieved without changing the controller dynamics or using external protection circuits. Extended simulation results using both Matlab/Simulink and a real-time digital simulator are presented to verify the proposed controller performance under several changes of the reference voltage.
Social scripts in educational technology and inclusiveness in classroom practice

Educational Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be an appropriate tool for creating flexible learning environments. ICT can contribute to flexibility through its potential to keep content up‐to‐date and to address personal learning needs. ICT could, thus, make learning more accessible to a wider group of students. However, doing this requires that educational tools and the ways they are used in the classroom are experienced as challenging and attractive and, most important, inclusive to the students using them. In order to support the learning of all users, differences between students should be taken into account. In four schools for secondary education in the Netherlands, the relationship between social scripts in educational tools and the inclusiveness of the use of these tools in classroom practice has been studied. Our analysis shows that educational tools indeed differ in the extent of inclusiveness for different groups of students, particularly in their instructional structure. Teachers appeared to reinforce the inclusiveness of the more inclusive tools, but, generally, did not affect the inclusiveness of the less inclusive tools. When more inclusive educational tools were used, students participated more actively – they read the texts better, they asked fewer questions and they collaborated more. This is particularly the case for girls and students from minority groups.
Extraction of Deep Web Contents

The World Wide Web is the emerging field available to users to access the contents of the web. This field is parted into two. They are surface web and deep web. The surface web refers to the static and is linked with other pages whereas deep web refers to the web page that is not indexed by the general search engine. The extraction of contents from web pages arise the problem of web – page – programming - language independent. This problem is raised because of the underlying complex structure of the web pages. To overcome this problem, visual features are used and to extract the contents of the deep web visual features are taken as the primary concern. While considering the visual feature as the primary concern, the dependent problems in web pages are eliminated. The extraction of deep web contents from the deep web pages involves both the data record extraction and data item extraction. To evaluate the performance of the extraction process, the method revision is used.
Finding Feasible Timetables Using Group-Based Operators

This paper describes the applicability of the so-called "grouping genetic algorithm" to a well-known version of the university course timetabling problem. We note that there are, in fact, various scaling up issues surrounding this sort of algorithm and, in particular, see that it behaves in quite different ways with different sized problem instances. As a by-product of these investigations, we introduce a method for measuring population diversities and distances between individuals with the grouping representation. We also look at how such an algorithm might be improved: first, through the introduction of a number of different fitness functions and, second, through the use of an additional stochastic local-search operator (making in effect a grouping memetic algorithm). In many cases, we notice that the best results are actually returned when the grouping genetic operators are removed altogether, thus highlighting many of the issues that are raised in the study
The Impact of Job Characteristics on Correctional Staff Members

The job characteristics of job stress, supervision, job variety, and job autonomy have been theorized to affect the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of correctional staff members. Most of the research to date has focused on the impact of these variables on job satisfaction, with little attention being paid to organizational commitment. To determine the effects of these job characteristics on correctional staff members’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment, data from a survey of 272 employees at a midwestern correctional facility were examined using ordinary least squares regression. All four job characteristics had significant effects on correctional staff members’ job satisfaction. Only job stress and supervision had statistically significant effects on organizational commitment. Moreover, job satisfaction had the greatest effect on correctional staff members’ organizational commitment. Additionally, the effects of the job characteristics differed among various groups of correctional staff members.
Analysis of Intertextual Distances Using Multidimensional Scaling in the Context of Authorship Attribution

Abstract Four distance functions were evaluated in order to determine which one better represents two types of style markers (named as static and dynamic) commonly used for authorship attribution tasks. Intertextual distances were analysed from different authors and evaluated if the closest text to another was written by the same author. Classic multidimensional scaling was used to visualize intertextual distances because we consider that this is a method that allows the judges to better understand and visualize the results. The outcome of this paper is that selecting different distance functions considering the type of style marker improves the clustering of texts from the same author. We concluded that while for static features Canberra distance is recomendable, the dynamic features must depend on the style of each author.