Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teacher–Child Relationships in Prekindergarten: The Influences of Child and Teacher Characteristics

The purpose of the current study was to investigate child and teacher characteristics associated with closeness and conflict in prekindergarten teacher–child relationships. Child gender and temperament were significantly associated with closeness and conflict. Specifically, higher levels of shyness correlated with closer relationships for boys than for girls. Additionally, higher levels of child anger were associated with more conflicted relationships for boys and less conflicted relationships for girls. An association was also found between frequency of teacher–child interactions and relationship conflict. Children who had more interactions with teachers had more conflicted relationships. Implications for teacher education and professional development are discussed.
Domain Minimization in English Verb-Particle Constructions

The placement of the particle before or after an object in the English verb-particle construction is influenced by a variety of factors. We argue that many of them can be subsumed under a single simple principle, motivated by considerations of processing efficiency: to the extent that the domains of syntactic and semantic dependencies can be minimized, processing is facilitated. We use a more precise formulation of this idea to make several predictions about the distribution of particles based on the size of the object NP and the semantic dependencies among the verb, the particle, and the object. Corpus studies confirm the predictions, providing evidence for the principle of domain minimization.
Théories financières et endettement des PME en France : une analyse en panel

Nous presentons les hypotheses relatives aux deux principales theories financieres de la structure d’endettement des PME — compromis et financement hierarchique — en mettant l’accent sur les imperfections du financement : fiscalite, couts d’agence et asymetrie d’information. Nous testons ces hypotheses, la variable expliquee etant le taux d’endettement total, grâce a un modele lineaire de donnees de panel, sur un echantillon de 1 520 PME francaises observees durant la periode 2000-2004. Selon nos resultats, a l’exception des garanties qui conditionnent l’acces au credit, la theorie du compromis est infirmee au regard de la relation entre l’endettement et la taille ainsi que l’âge des PME ; la relation entre l’endettement et le taux d’investissement ainsi que le credit interentreprises confirme la theorie du financement hierarchique.
Living with Contradictions: Complementing Activity Theory with the Notion of “Installed Base” to Address the Historical Dimension of Transformation

This article addresses the historical dimension of the relation between information systems innovation and organizational transformation. We analyse findings from a study of ongoing transformations in the healthcare sector in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The process is described with a particular focus on instances where some contradictions in the old activity system were not resolved but inherited by the new activity system. To address this we complement the activity theory framework with the notion of “installed base” from studies of information infrastructures. This helps to illuminate the theme of unresolved and continuing contradictions, and thus contribute to the concept of historicity in CHAT-informed studies.
Inertial Aiding of Inverse Depth SLAM using a Monocular Camera

This paper presents the benefits of using a low cost inertial measurement unit to aid in an implementation of inverse depth initialized SLAM using a hand-held monocular camera. Results are presented with and without inertial observations for different assumed initial ranges to features on the same dataset. When using only the camera, the scale of the scene is not observable. As expected, the scale of the map depends on the prior used to initialize the depth of the features and may drift when exploring new terrain, precluding loop closure. The results show that the inertial observations help to improve the estimated trajectory of the camera leading to a better estimation of the map scale and a more accurate localization of features.
Comparing Judgements of Social, Behavioural, Emotional and School Adjustment Functioning for Korean, Korean American and Caucasian American Children

Social, emotional, behavioural and school adjustment functioning among Korean, Korean American and Caucasian American children was examined with the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC) Self-Report of Personality (SRP) and the Parent Rating Scale (PRS). One hundred and twenty Korean, Korean-American and Caucasian-American children, ages 8 to 11, and their parents participated in this study. Generally, the Korean children were perceived as behaving in a more controlled, less self-reliant and internalizing manner than were the American children. The Korean American children were rated to have more adjustment difficulties. The notion of Korean family collectivism versus western individualism and the inherent conflict in these cultural values was used to discuss the results. Practitioners should be aware that ratings with the BASC PRS and SRP scales of Korean and Korean American children can be influenced by culture to a significant degree. Also it appears that the BASC SRP and PRS are sensitive to conflict created in children and families caught between cultures, particularly related to demands for rapid Americanization.
On the interplay between RPL and address autoconfiguration protocols in LLNs

Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) are an enabling technology for many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To allow LLNs to interoperate with the Internet the IETF is specifying IP-compatible standards that are specifically designed for embedded devices with small memory and limited computing capabilities. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interplay between the recently proposed IETF standard for IPv6 routing in LLNs, called RPL, with state-of-the-art autoconfiguration algorithms that assign network addresses in a hierarchical manner. To this end, we have extended the default RPL implementation available in Contiki operating system to support T-DAAP, LISAA and DAAM addressing schemes. Our experimental results clearly show that the mechanisms used by RPL to configure and maintain a tree-based network topology frequently break address hierarchy, limiting the opportunities for route aggregation. Furthermore, classical techniques used to reduce network instability significantly increase the network set-up times and, in same cases, degrade path qualities.
Outdoor recreation participation and views on resource development and preservation

Abstract Views on the preservation of resources versus their development for recreation are compared among participants in three types of outdoor recreation: “appreciative”; activities (cross‐country skiing, hiking, and canoeing); “consumptive”; activities (fishing and hunting); and “mechanized”; activities (motorboating, snowmo‐biling, and trail biking). The results from a 1984 questionnaire survey conducted in Edmonton and Calgary, Canada, indicate a stronger preservationist orientation among participants in appreciative activities, whereas (with the exception of hunters) participants in consumptive and mechanized activities hold stronger pro‐development views. These differences cannot be attributed to simultaneous variations in socioeco‐nomic characteristics or environmental attitudes among the recreational groups. The findings suggest that differences in outdoor recreational activity preferences represent an important source of variation in views about appropriate levels of preservation versus develop.
Probabilistic Multi-Task Feature Selection

Recently, some variants of the l1 norm, particularly matrix norms such as the l1,2 and l1,∞ norms, have been widely used in multi-task learning, compressed sensing and other related areas to enforce sparsity via joint regularization. In this paper, we unify the l1,2 and l1,∞ norms by considering a family of l1,q norms for 1 < q < ∞ and study the problem of determining the most appropriate sparsity enforcing norm to use in the context of multi-task feature selection. Using the generalized normal distribution, we provide a probabilistic interpretation of the general multi-task feature selection problem using the l1,q norm. Based on this probabilistic interpretation, we develop a probabilistic model using the noninformative Jeffreys prior. We also extend the model to learn and exploit more general types of pairwise relationships between tasks. For both versions of the model, we devise expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms to learn all model parameters, including q, automatically. Experiments have been conducted on two cancer classification applications using microarray gene expression data.
A comparison of the interactive play behaviours between children with albinism and their siblings and children without albinism and their non-albino siblings

The study explored the nature of the interactive play behaviours of children with albinism and children without albinism and compared the interactive behaviours of both children with albinism and children without albinism. Naturalistic observations were conducted during periods of free play, using the interactive play behaviour checklist aided by video recordings, on three different days. The findings of the study showed that children without albinism showed more pro-social play behaviours, aggressive play behaviours, affiliative play behaviours and possession-related behaviours as compared to children with albinism. A significant difference was noted in the pro-social and possession-related play behaviours between the children with albinism and children without albinism. Children without albinism showed more interactive play behaviours as compared with the children with albinism. Both groups of children showed the same amount of aggressive and affiliative play behaviours, while children without albinism showed more pro-social and possession-related behaviours.
Protein-protein interaction network and mechanism analysis in ischemic stroke

Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of mortality and permanent disability, with enormous financial repercussions on health systems worldwide. Ischemic brain injury results from a complex sequence of pathophysiological events that evolve over time. In order to examine the molecular mechanisms underlying middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO)-induced ischemic stroke, the GSE35338 affymetrix microarray data was obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database and the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between samples from patients with MCAO-induced ischemic stroke and sham controls at various time points were identified. Furthermore, protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks were constructed by mapping the DEGs into PPI data to identify the pathways that these DEGS are involved in. The results revealed that the expression of 438 DEGs, which are mainly involved in cell death, oxidant reduction, cell cycle and cell-cell signaling, were altered in MCAO samples. The nodes of CXC motif chemokine 10 (CXCL10) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were large, with degrees of >20. In conclusion, the results suggest that CXCL10 and IL-6 have important roles in the occurrence and progression of MCAO-induced ischemic stroke.
Foraging effectiveness of the altruistic plugging behavior of the army ants

E.burchellii is a type of new world army ant, who is living in the tropical rainforests of the Americas. He has a unique behavior that the members of the species plug potholes by putting their own bodies so that other members can step on them and cross the potholes in the path between the nest and the food. According to a previous study, this behavior allows members of a colony to cross potholes at a higher speed. But it is unclear that this behavior provides effective foraging. In this study, firstly, we develop the simulator of the behavior of the army ants and secondly, we evaluate the effectiveness of the plugging behavior with the developed simulator. As a result, we have developed a simulator, which qualitatively well corresponds to the behavior of the real army ants and It has been found that this plugging behavior yields effective foraging.
Serum Aβ Levels as Predictors of Conversion to Mild Cognitive Impairment/Alzheimer Disease in an ADAPT Subcohort

Recent evidence suggests an association of β-amyloid (Aβ) with vascular risk factors and the medications to treat them, which could potentially obfuscate the usefulness of Aβ for prediction of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer disease (AD). In a subcohort from the Alzheimer’s Disease Anti-inflammatory Prevention Trial (enriched for family history of AD), we investigated whether systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides, serum creatinine, apolipoprotein E, and use of statins and antihypertensives influenced the predictive value of serum Aβ for MCI/AD during a 2-year period. We collected blood samples to quantify serum Aβ from cognitively normal participants (n = 203) at baseline and ascertained the outcome of MCI/AD (n = 24) for a period of approximately 2 years. In an unadjusted model, the lowest quartile of Aβ1–42 (hazard ratio (HR) = 2.93, 95% CI (1.02–8.32), P= 0.04) and of the Aβ1–42/Aβ1–40 ratio (HR = 3.53, 95% CI (1.24–10.07), P = 0.02), compared with the highest quartile, predicted conversion to MCI/AD, but no impact of Aβ1–40 was observed. No relationship between nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug interventions and Aβ on MCI/AD risk was evident. Once data were adjusted for potential confounders (age, sex, and education), vascular risk factors, and the medications listed above, the lowest quartiles of Aβ1–42 (HR = 4.47, 95% CI (1.39–14.39), P= 0.01), and of the Aβ1–42/Aβ1–40 ratio (HR 4.87, 95% CI (1.50–15.87), P = 0.01) became strong predictors of conversion to MCI/AD. In this subcohort of individuals at risk for AD, the association of Aβ with vascular risk factors and medications to treat these conditions did not interfere with Aβ’s predictive value for MCI/AD.
Absorbable implants for the fixation of fractures.

Implants for the internal fixation of fractures have a common property of being needed only temporarily, until the fracture has united. In accordance with this limited requirement, many trauma surgeons, including those of the AO-ASIF school, recommend that all metallic implants used for the fixation of fractures be removed in due course39. The protocol for removal ofthe hardware at trauma centers varies greatly, however, from routine removal from all patients to selective removal only from patients who have symptoms9. The adverse effects of retained metallic devices, the most important of which are osteopenia of cortical bone induced by protection from stress and corrosion, seem to be of minor importance when fractures confined to cancellous bone are managed and modern, biologically inert implants are used. Nevertheless, there will always be patients who request removal of an implant because of chronic irritation of the surrounding soft tissues by prominent hardware. The application of absorbable implants that would negate the need for subsequent removal could offer major clinical advantages for the fixation of fractures. Any financial benefits would be influenced both by the price of the absorbable implant compared with that of a conventional implant and by the rate of removal for any particular fracture.
Sources of input to interneurones mediating group I non‐reciprocal inhibition of motoneurones in the cat.

Intracellular recordings have been made from laminae V‐VI interneurones interposed in pathways of non‐reciprocal inhibition of motoneurones from group I afferents of triceps surae and/or plantaris. A comparison of actions of brief stretches of triceps surae and plantaris with actions of electrical stimulation of nerves of these muscles revealed that I a afferents influenced about a half of the interneurones excited by I b afferents. Electrical stimulation of seven muscles nerves, three cutaneous nerves, posterior knee joint and interosseous nerves, the red nucleus and the pyramidal tract, evoked excitatory post‐synaptic potentials (e.p.s.p.s) in various proportions of interneurones. Most of the interneurones were excited monosynaptically, or both monosynaptically and disynaptically by group I afferents. This, together with a very small proportion of interneurones in which e.p.s.p.s were evoked only disynaptically, indicates that the same last‐order interneurones may subserve di‐ and trisynaptically evoked inhibition of motoneurones. Other fibre systems excited these interneurones monosynaptically (interosseal, rubro‐ and corticospinal), disynaptically (cutaneous, rubro‐ and corticospinal) and polysynaptically. The coupling of the earliest e.p.s.p.s from group II and joint afferents could not be established, but was consistent with their mediation by only one or two interposed interneurones. Inhibition was evoked from all fibre systems with excitatory input to the same or to other interneurones of the sample, except from group II afferents, the effects of which were found in a much smaller number of cells and may not be fully representative.
NEFL mRNA Expression Level Is a Prognostic Factor for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients

Neurofilament, light polypeptide (NEFL) was demonstrated to be ectopically expressed in breast cancer tissues and decreased in lymph node metastases compared to the paired primary breast cancers in our previous study. Moreover, in several studies, NEFL was regarded as a tumor suppressor gene, and its loss of heterozygosity (LOH) was related to carcinogenesis and metastasis in several types of cancer. To explore the role of NEFL in the progression of breast cancer and to evaluate its clinical significance, we detected the NEFL mRNA level in normal breast tissues, primary breast cancer samples and lymph node metastases, and then analyzed the association between the NEFL expression level and several clinicopathological parameters and disease-free survival (DFS). NEFL mRNA was found to be expressed in 92.3% of breast malignancies and down-regulated in lymph node metastases compared to the paired primary tumors. NEFL mRNA level was lower in primary breast cancers with positive lymph nodes than in cancers with negative lymph nodes. Moreover, a low expression level of NEFL mRNA indicated a poor five-year DFS for early-stage breast cancer patients. Thus, NEFL mRNA is ectopically expressed in breast malignancies and could be a potential prognostic factor for early-stage breast cancer patients.
Rites of passage: Novice students' experiences of becoming psychotherapist

This qualitative study examines learning processes in psychotherapy programs, focusing on how skills develop during clinical training. More specifically, the study investigates what psychotherapy students in basic training tell about their own struggling. Three training groups were included (n = 25). Data from written final essays on supervised psychotherapies were analyzed by inductive thematic analysis and identified themes were independently reviewed for accuracy. Themes fitted four categories: reactions during the psychotherapy, thoughts about having two psychotherapies, the influence of the supervisor and the peer group, and finally reflections on what to continue to observe in future psychotherapies. Students were found to be uncertain about whether emotions experienced in their therapeutic work belonged to them and therefore should be kept to themselves, or belonged to the client and thus could be used in the psychotherapy. Students also experienced that their own feelings were being magnified in the psychotherapeutic situation. Conducting two parallel psychotherapies was considered by the students to make it easier to sort out what belonged to their own personality and what belonged to the client. All students underlined the importance of group supervision for gaining perspectives. An important conclusion is that students need help to sort out and understand their feelings in the supervision situation.
Evaluating the semantic memory of web interactions in the xMem project

As the amount of information on the World Wide Web continues to grow, efficient hypertext navigation mechanisms are becoming crucial. Among them, effective history mechanisms play an important role. We therefore decided to provide a new method to access users' navigation histories, called xMem (Extended Memory Navigation), building on semantic-based and associative accesses, so as to imitate some of the features of the human memory. Such a memory may give users better understanding of the context of their searches, intermixing semantic aspects with the temporal dimension.The paper presents the experimental study conducted on the xMem approach to revisit the Web interaction history. Two controlled experiments have been performed with the aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the xMem history mechanism with respect to traditional Web browser histories. The results from the first experiment show a clear advantage, in terms of the time needed to complete a retrieving task, for the subjects that used the xMem prototype. Accordingly, users found retrieving previously visited pages with xMem more satisfying than using Web interaction histories sorted by the only time dimension. The results from the second experiment show the relevance in the process of information retrieval of clusters and keywords semantically related to the context of the search.
A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education: enhancing academic practice (3rd ed.)

important in themselves but so is developing the capacity to extend them into more considered action. Encouraging practitioners and educators to re-examine their own practices through various critical lenses promotes the discovery of connections between the personal and the structural. And, when the political or ideological practices that flow from dominant social understandings or assumptions are exposed, people who hold such ideas are given greater power to change them. Hopefully, this book might also encourage some critical self-reflection amongst those involved with developing professional education and concepts of professional practice. As public confidence in expert authority is waning and professionals’ power and influence are increasingly being questioned, the social and ethical consequences of professional practice and professionals’ judgements are subject to greater examination. Perhaps some stronger critical reflection on the themes and issues that Bradbury et al. raise might lead to what Ulrich (2000) has called ‘deep professionalism’ a state where professionals base their actions on a greater commitment to notions of society and citizenship and where they aim to emancipate ordinary people from the situations of incompetence and dependency in which professional actions so frequently put them.
R3D Align web server for global nucleotide to nucleotide alignments of RNA 3D structures

The R3D Align web server provides online access to ‘RNA 3D Align’ (R3D Align), a method for producing accurate nucleotide-level structural alignments of RNA 3D structures. The web server provides a streamlined and intuitive interface, input data validation and output that is more extensive and easier to read and interpret than related servers. The R3D Align web server offers a unique Gallery of Featured Alignments, providing immediate access to pre-computed alignments of large RNA 3D structures, including all ribosomal RNAs, as well as guidance on effective use of the server and interpretation of the output. By accessing the non-redundant lists of RNA 3D structures provided by the Bowling Green State University RNA group, R3D Align connects users to structure files in the same equivalence class and the best-modeled representative structure from each group. The R3D Align web server is freely accessible at http://rna.bgsu. edu/r3dalign/.