Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Aprendizagem motora em crianças com paralisia cerebral

INTRODUCTION: cerebral palsy (CP) has the characteristic of causing changes in posture and movement that hamper the achievement of functional activities. In the face of motor disabilities, rehabilitation becomes essential and is an option based on motor learning. However, it is important to research the motor learning process in individuals with CP to make the organization of treatment programs more effective. OBJECTIVE: Analyse the motor learning in children with CP. METHOD: For the realization of this work, an experimental group (EG) and a control group (CG) was used, comprised of four children matched in relation to gender (one female and three masculine) and age (between seven and twelve years). The task was to conduct a path into a maze in the shortest time possible. The work consisted of two phases, being initially an acquisition phase (AQ) and then transfers (immediate-IM; short-term-ST and long-term-LT). RESULT: It was found that there was no statistical significance difference between AQ and transfers evaluated with the following values: IM (z= -1.83, p=0.07), ST (z= -1.83, p=0.07) and LT [EG (z= -1.83, p=0.07) and CG (z= -1.46, p=0.14)]. CONCLUSION: In the process of maze task learning, when analyzing the results between phases AQ and transfer, significant difference was not observed, which means that individuals with CP showed learning capacity through task adaptation equivalent to individuals without cerevral palsy.
Qualitative accounts of teenage and emerging adult women adjusting to motherhood

Objective: The aim of this study was to better understand how young women in their early 20s transition and adjust to motherhood in the first year postpartum, compared to teenage mothers. Background: A body of research suggests that teen mothers have unique challenges and experiences adjusting to motherhood. However, less research has focussed on mothers in their early 20s, who have increasingly become a minority in Western countries, and are supposedly adjusting to motherhood in a new developmental period characterised by self-focussed identity exploration and individual freedom. Method: Using a semi-structured interview format, 12 Australian women (mean age 20.5 years; mean baby age 6.5 months) were interviewed, and verbatim transcriptions analysed with thematic analysis. Results: Two broad themes identified were Change within the self and Involvement of others. Some of the early 20s women reported more difficulties with identity adjustment compared to that of teen women, and this appeared primarily related to women’s background and circumstance. Social support was important for all women, while experiences of stigma were common and negatively impacted on women’s adjustment to motherhood. Conclusions: The extent to which first-time mothers in their early 20s experience conflict between responsibilities of motherhood and self-focussed identity exploration appeared to be largely dependent on background and prior circumstances, suggesting that emerging adulthood norms do not consistently apply to these women.
Measuring College Environments: Some Uses of Path Analysis

Colleges are not alike. Just As Rose (1964) is perfectly correct in labeling as a myth any reference to the American student, so the American college or university does not exist. Institutions of higher education differ in their institutional characteristics, their culture and social structures, their objectives, and the attributes of their members, to list only a few variables. To capture this variation—in order to describe and classify colleges and universities—a number of approaches have been proposed. Researchers do not agree as to the one best way of categorizing colleges and measuring their environments. There may in fact not be a best way; different methods suit different purposes. The following list of approaches is not meant to be exhaustive nor are the entries necessarily mutually exclusive:
COMPENSATION OF GEOMETRIC DISTORTION EFFECTS ON INTRAOPERATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FOR ENHANCED VISUALIZATION IN IMAGE‐GUIDED NEUROSURGERY

OBJECTIVE Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI, diffusion tensor MRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and positron-emission tomographic scans may be aligned to intraoperative MRI to enhance visualization and navigation during image-guided neurosurgery. However, several effects (both machine- and patient-induced distortions) lead to significant geometric distortion of intraoperative MRI. Therefore, a precise alignment of these image modalities requires correction of the geometric distortion. We propose and evaluate a novel method to compensate for the geometric distortion of intraoperative 0.5-T MRI in image-guided neurosurgery. METHODS In this initial pilot study, 11 neurosurgical procedures were prospectively enrolled. The scheme used to correct the geometric distortion is based on a nonrigid registration algorithm introduced by our group. This registration scheme uses image features to establish correspondence between images. It estimates a smooth geometric distortion compensation field by regularizing the displacements estimated at the correspondences. A patient-specific linear elastic material model is used to achieve the regularization. The geometry of intraoperative images (0.5 T) is changed so that the images match the preoperative MRI scans (3 T). RESULTS We compared the alignment between preoperative and intraoperative imaging using 1) only rigid registration without correction of the geometric distortion, and 2) rigid registration and compensation for the geometric distortion. We evaluated the success of the geometric distortion correction algorithm by measuring the Hausdorff distance between boundaries in the 3-T and 0.5-T MRIs after rigid registration alone and with the addition of geometric distortion correction of the 0.5-T MRI. Overall, the mean magnitude of the geometric distortion measured on the intraoperative images is 10.3 mm with a minimum of 2.91 mm and a maximum of 21.5 mm. The measured accuracy of the geometric distortion compensation algorithm is 1.93 mm. There is a statistically significant difference between the accuracy of the alignment of preoperative and intraoperative images, both with and without the correction of geometric distortion (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION The major contributions of this study are 1) identification of geometric distortion of intraoperative images relative to preoperative images, 2) measurement of the geometric distortion, 3) application of nonrigid registration to compensate for geometric distortion during neurosurgery, 4) measurement of residual distortion after geometric distortion correction, and 5) phantom study to quantify geometric distortion.
A Model of Third Parties' Morally Motivated Responses to Mistreatment in Organizations

We present a theory of why some people who witness or learn about acts of mistreatment against others in organizations are more likely to recognize this injustice and become personally involved. Drawing from theories of moral identity, moral intuitions, and self-regulation, we explain third parties' morally motivated responses to mistreatment and consider the role of power and belief in the disciplinary system in this process. We discuss implications of the theory and propose future research directions.
Color Image Segmentation using Adaptive Mean Shift and Statistical Model-based Method

This paper presents an automatic segmentation approach for natural images based on adaptive mean shift and a statistical model-based approach. We employ the adaptive mean shift to determine the number of modes in a mixture model and to detect their components each mixture mode. We consider the use of the EM algorithm, combined with mean field annealing theory, for parameter estimation by Markov random field models from unlabelled data in the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). Lastly, the color images are segmented by using posterior probability of each pixel computed from the GMM. The experiment shows that the method can effectively and automatically segment natural images without specifying the number of initial components in GMM.
Efficient Online Index Maintenance for SSD-based Information Retrieval Systems

Solid state disks (SSDs) can potentially eliminate the I/O bottleneck for many conventional applications. However, they have a very unique characteristic of erase-before-write, which probably makes existing index maintenance methods inapplicable to SSDs. In this paper, we propose Hybrid Merge, a new online index maintenance strategy for information retrieval systems, which applies SSDs instead of hard disk drives (HDDs) to store inverted indexes. We analyze the existing indexing methods through experiments, and design a new merge-based indexing method with no random writes. We try to take the full advantage of the SSD's fast random reads to overcome the defects of existing methods. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves indexing and query performance with extremely low write traffic compare to existing approaches.
SME management and leadership development: market reorientation

Over the last decade, research has been reported that appears to underline a mismatch between what is supplied by public sector support agencies in the form of small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) management and leadership development programmes and market needs and expectations. Thus, this paper analyses the underlying issues and progresses understanding through the use of a case study of a significant public sector support agency, along with a focus on one particular industry sector – that of tourism. Findings confirm views that historically there has been a degree of market failure, however, currently there is evidence of sound attempts to reorient from a supply‐driven to a market‐driven model of management development provision. Still to be fully addressed is the development of a cohesive framework that co‐ordinates and facilitates management and leadership development as a lifelong learning. Thus, one of the contributions of this paper is the formulation of such a framework that could provide a reorienting model for SMEs.
Symmetric Properties and Subspace Degradations of Linear Operator Channels over Finite Fields

Motivated by the communication through a network employing linear network coding, linear operator channels (LOCs) over finite fields are studied with arbitrarily distributed transfer matrices. Some intrinsic symmetric properties of LOCs are revealed and are used to simplify transition matrix computation and input distribution optimization. Subspace coding for LOCs is studied with the help of the symmetric properties. Our results demonstrate that using constant-dimensional subspace coding are good enough for many typical parameters. For LOCs satisfying certain constraints, the optimal subspace coding is constant-dimensional. Simple method is derived to find an optimal constantdimensional input distribution, as well as the maximum achievable rate using constant-dimensional subspace coding. Index Terms linear operator channel, linear network coding, subspace coding
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Organizational Media Evaluation and Choice.

Managers working in four countries reported the richness of five media, equivocality of 11 situations, preferred media for each situation, and cultural values. The richness and equivocality measures were reliable and unidimensional. Face-to-face was ranked as most, and business memos least, rich. Only E-mail and telephone preferences were significantly correlated with richness. Media preferences for face-to-face and telephone for each situation were highly correlated with the situation's equivocality. Respondents from collectivist countries rated the telephone as less rich, and the business memo as richer, than did the respondents from individualist countries.
Serotonin Inhibits Neuronal Excitability by Activating Two-Pore Domain K+ Channels in the Entorhinal Cortex

The entorhinal cortex (EC) is regarded as the gateway to the hippocampus; the superficial layers (layers I-III) of the EC convey the cortical input projections to the hippocampus, whereas deep layers of the EC relay hippocampal output projections back to the superficial layers of the EC or to other cortical regions. The superficial layers of the EC receive strong serotonergic projections from the raphe nuclei. However, the function of serotonin in the EC is still elusive. In the present study, we examined the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying serotonin-mediated inhibition of the neuronal excitability in the superficial layers (layers II and III) of the EC. Application of serotonin inhibited the excitability of stellate and pyramidal neurons in the superficial layers of the EC by activating the TWIK-1 type of the two-pore domain K+ channels. The effects of 5-HT were mediated via 5-HT1A receptors and required the function of Gαi3 subunit and protein kinase A. Serotonin-mediated inhibition of EC activity resulted in an inhibition of hippocampal function. Our study provides a cellular mechanism that might at least partially explain the roles of serotonin in many physiological functions and neurological diseases.
Automatic text categorization by a Granular Computing approach: Facing unbalanced data sets

Text categorization is an interesting application of machine learning covering a wide range of possible applications, from document management systems to web mining. In designing such a system it is mandatory to correctly define both a suited preprocessing procedure and an effective document representation as closely related as possible to the semantic nature of document categories. To this aim, relying on a Granular Computing approach and considering a document as an ordered sequence of words, we propose a system able to automatically mine frequent terms, considering as a term not only a single word, but also a subsequence of (a few) consecutive words. The whole classification system is tailored to process sequences of atomic elements (i.e., encoded words) by means of an embedding procedure based on clustering methods. However, when dealing with unbalanced data sets, i.e. when classes are not evenly represented in the data set, the frequent substructures search procedure must be carefully designed. We prove the effectiveness of the system over a well-known benchmarking data set, achieving competitive test set classification accuracy results, with a remarkable low structural complexity of the synthesized classification models.
Hibernian Football Club: The Forgotten Irish?

The popular expression of the Irish sporting diaspora in Scotland has traditionally been closely associated with Celtic Football Club, despite Hibernian Football Club (Hibs), formed in 1875 by the Catholic Young Men's Society, being the first prominent Irish Catholic football club in Scotland. During Hibs’ history, with increasing assimilation into Edinburgh and Scottish society, there have been periods when the club's Irish Catholic ethos has been challenged, resulting in its identity having to be renegotiated. For some supporters (Catholic) ‘Irish’ symbols signify a simplistic and pejorative association to ‘sectarian’ and as such there have been periods when they have downplayed this element of their identity. [1] This makes erroneous any claims that Hibs is the Celtic of the East. However, at the same time, it is naive to disregard the efficacy which ‘Irishness’ holds for sections of Hibs' supporters. In the increasingly secularized and corporatized environment of the Scottish Premier League, there are renewed attempts, for different reasons perhaps, at reclaiming Hibs' ‘Irishness’ within the club itself and among some of its supporters. Ironically, this process of Hibs reclaiming its ‘Irishness’ is occurring when sections of Celtic's supporters are increasingly questioning the legitimacy of their ‘Irishness’. [2] This essay attempts to locate and analyse the sense of ‘Irishness’ existing among Hibs supporters today. Hibs' relationship with its main ‘other’, Heart of Midlothian Football Club (Hearts), is shown to exhibit a unique inter-city Edinburgh rivalry that intimately affects the nature of Hibs' ‘Irishness’, ensuring its differences from that of Celtic's. The interconnected nature of Hibs' and Celtic fans' respective sense of ‘Irishness’ is demonstrated in the increased confidence and desire of Hibs FC to begin reclaiming its ‘Irishness’ without fear of being associated with the often disdainfully viewed Celtic or ‘sectarianism’.
Gender differences within the German - language Wikipedia

Abstract: The Wikipedia project constitutes the currently most-used and most comprehensive online encyclopedia in the world (Schneider, 2008, p. 35) and is advertising itself as free and open for everyone, and in terms of an encyclopedia as diverse and balanced at all levels. But from a gender perspective there is a huge discrepancy in sex ratio within Wikipedia’s community. In 2005, researchers at University of Wurzburg found that women constitute only 10 % of German-language Wikipedia authors (Schroer&Hertel, 2009, p. 104). This fact leads to the presumption, that Wikipedia’s reflection of the world mediates and interprets a mainly male conception of the world and thus displays an inequality with reference to modern society. Proceeding from the assumption that women and men have different communication behaviours as well as different perceptions and interpretations of communication in almost all aspects of social interaction including e.g. conversational strategies, conflict management and negotiation skills, we hypothesize that these different ways of communication significantly affect the motivation of female Wikipedia contributors. Keywords: gender differences, Web 2.0, online encyclopedia, collaborative working, online communication *** Resume : Le projet Wikipedia est actuellement l’encyclopedie en ligne la plus utilisee ainsi que la plus complete au monde (Schneider, 2008, p. 35) et il se presente comme etant libre et ouvert a tous. En tant qu’encyclopedie, il affirme etre diversifie et objectif a tous les niveaux. Du point de vue de l’egalite des sexes, il existe cependant une grande difference entre la part d’hommes et de femmes au sein de la communaute composant Wikipedia. En 2005, des chercheurs de l’Universite de Wurtzbourg ont decouvert que seulement 10% des auteurs de Wikipedia en langue allemande sont des femmes (Schroer&Hertel, 2009, p. 104). Ce fait laisse presumer que la representation du monde vehiculee par Wikipedia transmet et interprete une conception principalement masculine de ce meme monde et qu’elle fait donc preuve d’une disparite par rapport a la societe moderne. Partant du principe que les femmes et les hommes ont differents comportements de communication ainsi que differentes perceptions et interpretations de la communication concernant presque tous les aspects de l’interaction sociale dont, entre autres, les strategies de conversation, la gestion des conflits et les competences de negociation, nous emettons l’hypothese que ces differentes methodes de communication exercent une influence considerable sur la motivation des contributrices de Wikipedia. Mots-cles : differences entre les sexes, Web 2.0, encyclopedie en ligne, travail collaboratif, communication en ligne
Integrated Design of a planar maglev system for micro positioning

According to what the 6-DOF magnetic levitation system has proposed at last year. In the continuous work, this research desire to upgrade positioning precision. The redesign concept attempts to keep the good performance in the whole journey of moving rather than the point-to-point positioning precision. Based on these concepts, the force model was modified in considering the variation from the displacement to the magnetic forces first, and avoids the constraint of the attractive levitation in replacing the repulsive levitation. Finally, the concept of relative place to build the measuring system was adopted. All of the performance of the improved framework would be demonstrated in the experimental results.
Attention to Television: Alpha Power and Its Relationship to Image Motion and Emotional Content

A laboratory experiment investigated the impact of image motion and emotional content in brief television clips on attention. Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) as a measure of attention, cortical activity in 25 participants was measured while they viewed either still or moving emotion-provoking images. Spectral analysis of the EEG was done to gauge changes in alpha-wave (8-13 Hz) power because reductions in alpha power are thought to indicate greater attention. The analysis revealed that subjective reports of emotional arousal were directly related to cortical activation (i.e., reduced alpha power), and this was particularly true at the parietal recording site. The relationship between alpha power and ratings of valence was curvilinear; cortical activation was associated with both positive and negative images relative to neutral images. Alpha power was also reduced during the viewing of moving compared with still images, and this effect occurred independent of stimulus valence. The association of greater cortical activation with moving than with still images is consistent with previous research using autonomic measures and suggests that image motion modulates emotional responding-and sustains attention-primarily through increasing "gain" in the arousal dimension.
Business artifacts with guard-stage-milestone lifecycles: managing artifact interactions with conditions and events

A promising approach to managing business operations is based on business artifacts, a.k. a. business entities (with lifecycles). These are key conceptual entities that are central to guiding the operations of a business, and whose content changes as they move through those operations. An artifact type includes both an information model that captures all of the business-relevant data about entities of that type, and a lifecycle model, that specifies the possible ways an entity of that type might progress through the business. Two recent papers have introduced and studied the Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM) meta-model for artifact lifecycles. GSM lifecycles are substantially more declarative than the finite state machine variants studied in most previous work, and support hierarchy and parallelism within a single artifact instance. This paper presents the formal operational semantics of GSM, with an emphasis on how interaction between artifact instances is supported. Such interactions are supported both through testing of conditions against the artifact instances, and through events stemming from changes in artifact instances. Building on a previous result for the single artifact instance case, a key result here shows the equivalence of three different formulations of the GSM semantics for artifact instance interaction. One formulation is based on incremental application of ECA-like rules, one is based on two mathematical properties, and one is based on the use of first-order logic formulas.