Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Measuring dimensions of body connection: body awareness and bodily dissociation.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to test the preliminary psychometric properties of the Scale of Body Connection (SBC), a 20-item self-report measure, designed to assess body awareness and bodily dissociation in mind-body intervention research. METHODS The SBC items were based on common expressions of awareness in body therapy. Content validity was established by a panel of experts. The validity and reliability of the scale was examined with an undergraduate sample. To assess the scale's discriminant validity, the respondents were asked to indicate exposure to specific traumas. RESULTS Confirmatory factor analysis, used to examine the scale's construct validity, indicated acceptable goodness-of-fit indices, and revealed uncorrelated subscales, reflecting independent dimensions. Cronbach's alpha revealed equal internal consistency reliability for each subscale for both men and women. Body awareness scores did not differ between individuals with and without reported trauma exposure. Bodily dissociation scores differed between individuals with and without past experience with physical trauma, suggesting the applicability of this subscale for use with populations with trauma histories. CONCLUSIONS The results provide preliminary evidence of the construct validity and internal consistency reliability of the SBC.
The Reduced Folate Carrier (SLC19A1) c.80G>A Polymorphism is Associated with Red Cell Folate Concentrations Among Women

Low folate status may be a consequence of suboptimal intake, transport or cellular utilization of folate and, together with elevated homocysteine, is a recognized risk factor or marker for several human pathologies. As folate transport across cell membranes is mediated in part by the reduced folate carrier (RFC1), variants within SLC19A1, the gene that encodes RFC1, may influence disease risk via an effect on folate and/or homocysteine levels. The present study was undertaken to assess the association between the SLC19A1 c.80G>A polymorphism and folate/homocysteine concentrations in healthy young adults from Northern Ireland.
Cylindrical distributed Bragg reflector resonators with extremely high Q-factors

A simple non-Maxwellian method is presented that allows the approximate solution of all the dimensions of a multilayered dielectric TE/sub 0qp/ mode cylindrical resonant cavity that constitutes a distributed Bragg reflection (DBR) resonator. The analysis considers an arbitrary number of alternating dielectric and free space layers of cylindrical geometry enclosed by a metal cylinder. The layers may be arranged axially, radially or both. Given only the aspect ratio of the cavity, the desired frequency and the dielectric constants of the material layers, the relevant dimensions are determined from only a set of simultaneous equations, and iterative techniques are not required. The formulas were verified using rigorous method of lines (MoL) calculations, and previously published experimental work. We show that the simple approximation gives dimensions close to the values of the optimum Bragg reflection condition determined by the rigorous analysis. The resulting solution is more compact with a higher Q-factor when compared to other reported cylindrical DBR structures. This is because, unlike previous analyses, it properly takes into account the effect of the aspect ratio on the Bragg anti-resonance condition along the z-axis of the resonator. By properly taking the aspect ratio into account, we show that the thickness of the Bragg reflectors is equivalent to the thickness of plane wave Bragg reflectors (or quarter wavelength plates). Thus it turns out that the sizes of the reflectors are related to the free space propagation constant, rather than the propagation constant in the z direction.
Ja n 20 08 SPhT-t 08 / 007 Functional BES equation

We give a realization of the Beisert, Eden and Staudacher equation for the planar N = 4 supersymetric gauge theory which seems to be particularly useful to study the strong coupling limit. We are using a linearized version of the BES equation as two coupled equations involving an auxiliary density function. We write these equations in terms of the resolvents and we transform them into to a system of functional, instead of integral, equations. We solve the functional equations perturbatively in the strong coupling limit and reproduce the recursive solution obtained by Basso, Korchemsky and Kotański. The coefficients of the strong coupling expansion are fixed by the analyticity properties obeyed by the resolvents.
Deflation DFA: Remembering History is Adequate

There is an increasing demand for network devices to perform deep packet inspection (DPI) to enhance network security. In DPI the packet payload is compared against a set of predefined patterns which can be specified using regular expressions (regexes). It is well-known that mapping regexes to deterministic finite automata (DFA) will suffer from the state explosion problem. Through observation, we attribute DFA explosion to the necessity of remembering matching history. In this paper, we investigate how to record the matching history efficiently and propose an extended DFA approach for regex matching called fcq-FA, which can make a memory size reduction of about 1000 times with a fully automated approach. In fcq-FA, we use pipeline queues and counters to help recording the matching history. Hence, state explosion caused by Kleene closure and repetitions can be definitely avoided. Further, it achieves a fully automated signature compilation with polynomial running time and space.
Public Health Benefits of Routine Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for Adults in the Netherlands: A Mathematical Modeling Study.

BACKGROUND Expanding routine human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination to adults could be an effective strategy to improve prevention of HPV infection and cervical cancer. METHODS We evaluated the following adult vaccination strategies for women only and for both women and men in addition to the current girls-only vaccination program in the Netherlands, using the established STDSIM microsimulation model: one-time mass campaign, vaccination at the first cervical cancer screening visit, vaccination at sexual health clinics, and combinations of these strategies. RESULTS The estimated impact of expanding routine vaccination to adult women is modest, with the largest incremental reductions in the incidence of HPV infection occurring when offering vaccination both at the cervical cancer screening visit and during sexually transmitted infection (STI) consultations (about 20% lower after 50 years for both HPV-16 and HPV-18). Adding male vaccination during STI consultations leads to more-substantial incidence reductions: 63% for HPV-16 and 84% for HPV-18. The incremental number needed to vaccinate among women is 5.48, compared with 0.90 for the current vaccination program. CONCLUSIONS Offering vaccination to adults, especially at cervical cancer screening visits (for women) and during STI consultations (for both sexes), would substantially reduce HPV incidence and would be an efficient policy option to improve HPV prevention and subsequently avert cervical and possibly male HPV-related cancers.
Managing the effect of delay jitter on the display of live continuous media

This dissertation addresses the problem of displaying live continuous media (e.g., digital audio and video) with low latency in the presence of delay jitter, where delay jitter is defined as variation in processing and transmission delay. Display in the presence of delay jitter requires a tradeoff between two goals: displaying frames with low latency and displaying every frame. Applications must choose a display latency that balances these goals. The driving problem for my work is workstation-based videoconferencing using conventional data networks. I propose a two-part approach. First, delay jitter at the source and destination should be controlled, leaving network transmission as the only uncontrolled source. Second, the remaining delay jitter should be accommodated by dynamically adjusting display latency in response to observed delay jitter. My thesis is that this approach is sufficient to support the low-latency display of continuous media transmitted over building-sized networks. Delay jitter at the source and destination is controlled by implementing the application as a real-time system. The key problem addressed is that of showing that frames are processed with bounded delay. The analysis framework required to demonstrate this property includes a new formal model of real-time systems and a set of techniques for representing continuous media applications in the model. The remaining delay jitter is accommodated using a new policy called queue monitoring that manages the queue of frames waiting to be displayed. This policy adapts to delay jitter by increasing display latency in response to long delays and by decreasing display latency when the length of the display queue remains stable over a long interval. The policy is evaluated with an empirical study in which the application was executed in a variety of network environments. The study shows that queue monitoring performs better than a policy that statically chooses a display latency or an adaptive policy that simply increases display latency to accommodate the longest observed delay. Overall, the study shows that my approach results in good quality display of continuous media transmitted over building-sized networks that do not support communication with bounded delay jitter.
Dual coding versus relational processing in memory for concrete and abstract words

In two experiments, participants judged whether nouns fitted particular sentence frames and then received an unanticipated recall test with the sentence frames as cues. Concrete nouns were better recalled than abstract nouns, and nouns presented in meaningful sentence frames were better recalled than nouns presented in anomalous sentence frames. In Experiment 2, performance in a test of free recall was positively related to the concreteness of the nouns but unrelated to the meaningfulness of the sentence frames. The increase in performance from free recall to cued recall was positively related to the meaningfulness of the sentence frames but not significantly related to the concreteness of the nouns. The effects of concreteness and meaningfulness showed no sign of any interaction either in their effects on recall performance or in their effects on the advantage of cued recall over free recall. These results are consistent with the dual-coding theory of imagery and verbal processes but are not consistent with either of two different interpretations of the relational-distinctiveness processing theory.
You Like What I Like, but I Don't Like What You Like: Uniqueness Motivations in Product Preferences

Consumers often gauge their own and others' preferences for products through social comparisons. This research examines the role of consumers' need for uniqueness (CNFU) in two common social comparisons: projection and introjection. Consumers project (i.e., rely on their own preferences to estimate those of others), regardless of their CNFU. However, high-CNFU consumers are less likely than low-CNFU ones to introject (i.e., rely on estimates of others' preferences to gauge their own). Moreover, alleviating the introjection-induced threat to the high-CNFU consumers' self-concept by having them deliberate on their differentness from others increases their likelihood of introjection. Together, these findings confirm our basic contention that the process underlying introjection is more motivational in nature than that underlying projection. (c) 2010 by JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, Inc.
Aluminum Alters the Electrophoretic Properties of Neurofilament Proteins: Role of Phosphorylation State

Abstract: Exposure of each of the three neurofilament proteins (NFPs) to AlCl3 resulted in their failure to migrate into sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)‐containing gels. This effect was dependent on length of incubation (minimum, 2 h) and AlCl3 concentrations (minimum, 50 μM) and was not reversed by 20% SDS, 6 M urea, freeze‐thawing, boiling, or extensive dialysis. The migration of vimentin and glial fibrillary acidic protein was not affected by AlCl3. The high‐molecular‐weight neurofilament subunit (NF‐H) entered SDS‐containing gels after exposure to aluminum lactate but migrated aberrantly as a long high‐molecular‐weight streak. Migration of the 160‐kDa α‐chymotryptic cleavage product of NF‐H, which contains the higher phosphorylated tail domain, was also prevented from migrating into SDS‐containing gels by AlCl3. Dephosphorylation of NF‐H and the middle‐molecular‐weight neurofilament subunit (NF‐M) eliminated these effects on gel migration. EDTA, EGTA, MgCl2, CaCl2, or FeCl3 had no effect on NF‐H or NF‐M migration; furthermore, preincubation with, or simultaneous exposure to, CaCl2 or FeCl3 did not alter the effect of AlCl3. One interpretation of these results is that Al3+ interacts with phosphate groups on extensively phosphorylated C‐terminal sidearms of NFPs, resulting in intermolecular cross‐linking. These findings demonstrate a direct effect of aluminum on NFPs and provide a possible mechanism for neurofilament accumulation in perikarya during aluminum intoxication.
Harmony of virgin olive oil and food pairing : A methodological proposal

The growing interest in sensory analysis of olive oil, as required by European Union (EU) law 2568/91 (EEC Reg.) and following revisions (EC Reg. 796/02), calls for the need to define an analytical method to properly describe the sensory attributes for harmonic pairing of virgin olive oil to a specific food. To accomplish that, in February 2006, the sensory analysis panel of the Department of Food Sciences of the University of Bologna (Italy) carried out systematic sensory analyses of extra virgin olive oils and foods to evaluate the harmony of the pairing. Specific scorecards for olive oil, food and pairing harmony were defined; the resulting harmony was visualized graphically. Some examples of virgin olive oil and food pairing were also presented. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS The key finding in this study is its use in the development of a method and relative harmony scorecard for virgin olive oil and food pairing. The results of the study suggest a disharmonic index to evaluate the harmony of pairing.
Efficiency Robust Tests for Survival or Ordered Categorical Data

Summary. The selection of a single method of analysis is problematic when the data could have been generated by one of several possible models. We examine the properties of two tests designed to have high power over a range of models. The first one, the maximum efficiency robust test (MERT), uses the linear combination of the optimal statistics for each model that maximizes the minimum efficiency. The second procedure, called the MX, uses the maximum of the optimal statistics. Both approaches yield efficiency robust procedures for survival analysis and ordinal categorical data. Guidelines for choosing between them are provided.
EWS fli-1 antisense nanocapsules inhibits ewing sarcoma-related tumor in mice.

EWS Fli-1, a fusion gene resulting from a t(11;22) translocation is found in 90% of both Ewing's sarcoma and primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). In the present study, we show that recently developed polyisobutylcyanoacrylate nanocapsules with an aqueous core were able to encapsulate efficiently high amounts of phosphorothioate oligonucleotides (ODN) directed against EWS Fli-1 chimeric RNA. Release of these ODN in serum medium was shown to be biphasic which was explained by the presence of two types of nanocapsules able to release ODN with different kinetics. In addition, nanocapsules were found to provide protection of these oligonucleotides from the degradation in serum. These ODN nanocapsules permitted to obtain inhibition of Ewing sarcoma-related tumor in mice after intratumoral injection of a cumulative dose as low as 14.4 nanomoles. This new type of non viral vector shows great potential for in vivo administration of oligonucleotides.
The Likert Scale's Midpoint in Communications Research

W Rensis Likert first published his pioneering work on the summated scale that bears his name in 1932.1 The scale has become so popular one would be hard pressed to find a recent issue of a social science journal in which a t least one article did not report the use of the Likert scale in measuring attitudes. Subjects typically are asked by those who use Likert scales to indicate the extent to which they agree/disagree with each of several attitude statements. The scales generally have an odd
Metabolic syndrome: risk factor distribution and 18-year mortality in the multiple risk factor intervention trial.

OBJECTIVE To examine the long-term association of metabolic syndrome with mortality among those at high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 10,950 Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) survivors were followed for mortality an additional median 18.4 years (1980-1999). Proportional hazards models examined multivariate-adjusted risks associated with Adult Treatment Panel III-defined metabolic syndrome conditions, with BMI substituted for waist circumference. RESULTS At MRFIT annual visit 6, 4,588 (41.9%) men, mean age (+/-SD) 53.0 +/- 5.9 years, had metabolic syndrome and 6,362 did not. Comparing men with metabolic syndrome to men without, adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) were 1.21 (95% CI 1.13-1.29), 1.49 (1.35-1.64), and 1.51 (1.34-1.70) for 18-year total, CVD, and coronary heart disease mortality, respectively. Among men with metabolic syndrome, elevated glucose (1.54 [1.34-1.78]) and low HDL cholesterol (1.45 [1.17-1.54]) were most predictive of CVD mortality, followed by elevated BMI (1.34 [1.17-1.54]), elevated blood pressure (1.25 [0.98-1.58]), and elevated triglycerides (1.06 [0.86-1.30]). In contrast, for men without metabolic syndrome, the HR for low HDL cholesterol was 1.02 (0.86-1.22). Among metabolic syndrome men with no nonfatal CVD event, smokers with elevated LDL cholesterol showed higher CVD mortality (1.79 [1.22-2.63]) compared with nonsmokers without elevated LDL cholesterol; this additional risk was even greater for metabolic syndrome men with a nonfatal CVD event (2.11 [1.32-3.38]). CONCLUSIONS Metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of mortality. Among those with metabolic syndrome, risk is further increased by having more metabolic syndrome conditions, by cigarette smoking, and by elevated LDL cholesterol. Primary prevention of each metabolic syndrome condition should be emphasized, and presence of each condition should be treated in accordance with current guidelines.
Modeling Disease Incidence Data with Spatial and Spatio Temporal Dirichlet Process Mixtures

Disease incidence or mortality data are typically available as rates or counts for specified regions, collected over time. We propose Bayesian nonparametric spatial modeling approaches to analyze such data. We develop a hierarchical specification using spatial random effects modeled with a Dirichlet process prior. The Dirichlet process is centered around a multivariate normal distribution. This latter distribution arises from a log‐Gaussian process model that provides a latent incidence rate surface, followed by block averaging to the areal units determined by the regions in the study. With regard to the resulting posterior predictive inference, the modeling approach is shown to be equivalent to an approach based on block averaging of a spatial Dirichlet process to obtain a prior probability model for the finite dimensional distribution of the spatial random effects. We introduce a dynamic formulation for the spatial random effects to extend the model to spatio‐temporal settings. Posterior inference is implemented through Gibbs sampling. We illustrate the methodology with simulated data as well as with a data set on lung cancer incidences for all 88 counties in the state of Ohio over an observation period of 21 years. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Social-Cognitive Mediators of the Association between Community Violence Exposure and Aggressive Behavior.

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A Novel Algorithm for Identifying Patterns from Multisensor Time Series

Pattern identification from multisensor time series is an important problem in many measurement, detection, and monitoring related applications. This paper introduces a generic approach to detect varying-length patterns and identify their class using predefined templates. In reality, the measured phenomena representing the same class can occur in slightly different ways which makes the resulting patterns vary in "shape" and time. A template-based approach calls for a sound processing of the manifold sensor signals in order to perform the needed comparisons reasonably. We use a template-specific quantization to normalize the signals and to manage their fluctuations. Dynamic time warping (DTW) handles their temporal variations. Our algorithm detects multiple patterns from a single DTW matrix in a computationally efficient way, without windowing. The background of this paper is in aeronautical fatigue research, and we evaluate the proposed algorithm with flight maneuver identification from flight monitoring data.