Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
rac-Carbonyl{1-[(diphenylphosphino)methyl]ethanethiolato}(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(I)

The title compound, [Rh(C15H16PS)(C18H15P)(CO)], was synthesized from the reaction of the ligand rac-[Ph2PCH2CH(CH3)SH] with trans-[Rh(F)(CO)(PPh3)2] in a 1:1 molar ratio in toluene. The Rh atom is four-coordinated in a distorted square-planar geometry with the P—S ligand [Ph2PCH2CH(CH3)S] acting as a chelate and the PPh3 and disordered CO [site occupation factors of 0.61 (5) and 0.39 (5)] ligands completing the coordination.
Endocannabinoid metabolism in human glioblastomas and meningiomas compared to human non‐tumour brain tissue

The endogenous levels of the two cannabinoid receptor ligands 2‐arachidonoyl glycerol and anandamide, and their respective congeners, monoacyl glycerols and N‐acylethanolamines, as well as the phospholipid precursors of N‐acylethanolamines, were measured by gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry in glioblastoma (WHO grade IV) tissue and meningioma (WHO grade I) tissue and compared with human non‐tumour brain tissue. Furthermore, the metabolic turnover of N‐acylethanolamines was compared by measurements of the enzymatic activity of N‐acyltransferase, N‐acylphosphatidylethanolamine‐hydrolysing phospholipase D and fatty acid amide hydrolase in the same three types of tissue. Glioblastomas were characterized by enhanced levels of N‐acylethanolamines (eightfold, 128 ± 59 pmol/μmol lipid phosphorus) including anandamide (17‐fold, 4.6 ± 3.1pmol/μmol lipid phosphorus) and several species of N‐acylphosphatidylethanolamines (three to eightfold). This was accompanied by a more than 60% reduction in the enzyme activities of N‐acylphosphatidylethanolamine‐hydrolysing phospholipase D and fatty acid amide hydrolase. By contrast, meningiomas were characterized by a massively enhanced level of 2‐monoacyl glycerols (20‐fold, 2293 ± 361 pmol/μmol lipid phosphorus) including 2‐arachidonoyl glycerol (20‐fold, 1524 ± 361 pmol/μmol lipid phosphorus). This was accompanied by an enhanced in vitro conversion of phosphatidylcholine to monoacyl glycerol (fivefold). The enhanced level of the 2‐arachidonoyl glycerol, anandamide and other N‐acylethanolamines detected in the two types of tumour tissue may possibly act as endogenous anti‐tumour mediators by stimulation of both cannabinoid and non‐cannabinoid receptor‐mediated mechanisms.
A Semantic Triplet Based Story Classifier

A story is defined as “an actor(s) taking action(s) that culminates in a resolution(s). ” In this paper, we investigate the utility of standard keyword based features, statistical features based on shallow-parsing (such as density of POS tags and named entities), and a new set of semantic features to develop a story classifier. This classifier is trained to identify a paragraph as a “story,” if the paragraph contains mostly story(ies). Training data is a collection of expert-coded story and non-story paragraphs from RSS feeds from a list of extremist web sites. Our proposed semantic features are based on suitable aggregation and generalization of <;Subject, Verb, Object>; triplets that can be extracted using a parser. Experimental results show that a model of statistical features alongside memory-based semantic linguistic features achieves the best accuracy with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier.
"Feeling" Resistance: Exploring the Role of Emotionally Evocative Visuals in Inducing Inoculation

This study explores the role of emotionally evocative visuals in the inoculation process. 127 respondents supportive of medical experimentation with animals either received no inoculation message or were exposed to 1 of 4 versions of an inoculation video in which the identical audio was accompanied by visuals manipulated to evoke relatively high or low affect. All groups were subsequently exposed to an attack video message. Results indicated that the messages with visual affective consistency (i.e., either high or low affect associated with both the counterargument and refutation sections of the pretreatment) conferred greater resistance to a persuasive attack message than the messages with visual affective inconsistency. The implications of this research for both the role of emotion and the role of visuals in conferring resistance are discussed.
Nomadism, identity and the politics of conservation

This paper highlights the continuing importance of nomadism as an aspect of identity in contemporary Mongolia, and one which retains strategic, discursive and material resonance at diverse scales. It examines the contested representations and practices of nomadism with particular reference to conservation and to relations with land and nature. At a national level, nomadism remains a powerful, albeit romanticized, symbol of collective identity, often deployed, for example by urban elites with reference to a ‘glorious past’ (Bruun 2006). At the same time emergent urban identities are increasingly important in informing national self-representations of Mongolia, while contemporary nomadic herders are subject to contrasting discursive portrayals in mainstream conservation debates and policies. Particular concepts of relations with nature, including re-emergent spiritual dimensions, are highlighted as aspects of nomadic identity and practice at local levels, and their contrasts to and accommodation with donor-driven conservation projects explored. Finally, the paper highlights the emergent Global Pastoralists' movement as an important arena wherein Mongolian pastoralists can begin to deploy their own discursive representations of contemporary nomadic identities.
Emotional and Relational Consequences of Coping in Stepfamilies

SUMMARY One hundred and fifty-four remarried couples were interviewed at two time-points 20 months apart and provided ratings of closeness and tension in their relationships with both their own children and their stepchildren. The difference in emotional relationship quality for stepchildren and own children was described as the “stepgap. ” Eighty-one of these couples also completed structured diaries daily for 1 week reporting on daily family stressors and ways of coping. Compromise, confrontation, and interpersonal withdrawal were examined as ways of coping with interpersonal stress. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze family data. Results suggest that in stepfamilies where wives use confrontation to cope with family stressors, husbands withdraw emotionally from stepchildren. When husbands withdraw consistently, emotional closeness between wives and stepchildren deteriorates, and tension between wives and their own children increases
NAD+ Modulates p53 DNA Binding Specificity and Function

ABSTRACT DNA damage induces p53 DNA binding activity, which affects tumorigenesis, tumor responses to therapies, and the toxicities of cancer therapies (B. Vogelstein, D. Lane, and A. J. Levine, Nature 408:307-310, 2000; K. H. Vousden and X. Lu, Nat. Rev. Cancer 2:594-604, 2002). Both transcriptional and transcription-independent activities of p53 contribute to DNA damage-induced cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and aneuploidy prevention (M. B. Kastan et al., Cell 71:587-597, 1992; K. H. Vousden and X. Lu, Nat. Rev. Cancer 2:594-604, 2002). Small-molecule manipulation of p53 DNA binding activity has been an elusive goal, but here we show that NAD+ binds to p53 tetramers, induces a conformational change, and modulates p53 DNA binding specificity in vitro. Niacinamide (vitamin B3) increases the rate of intracellular NAD+ synthesis, alters radiation-induced p53 DNA binding specificity, and modulates activation of a subset of p53 transcriptional targets. These effects are likely due to a direct effect of NAD+ on p53, as a molecule structurally related to part of NAD+, TDP, also inhibits p53 DNA binding, and the TDP precursor, thiamine (vitamin B1), inhibits intracellular p53 activity. Niacinamide and thiamine affect two p53-regulated cellular responses to ionizing radiation: rereplication and apoptosis. Thus, niacinamide and thiamine form a novel basis for the development of small molecules that affect p53 function in vivo, and these results suggest that changes in cellular energy metabolism may regulate p53.
Asperger’s syndrome through the lens of the dramaturgical model

Abstract The symptoms and presentation of Asperger’s syndrome (AS) are explained and accounted for through the dramaturgical model, i.e. understanding of how one uses their self as well as their environment to present and promote a definition of reality. It is asserted that while individuals with AS are effective in structured, routinized roles, that they are ‘poor actors’ when their roles require flexibility, responsiveness, and intimacy. Use of this model allows for an intuitive grasp of AS, and sidesteps pathologizing/stigmatization. Treatment applications derived from this model center on educating the individual and their team members as to how AS affects the individual’s and the team’s performance, and suggests general guidelines for working with these limitations so as to maximize successful performances.
ADHD among young adults born at extremely low birth weight: the role of fluid intelligence in childhood

Poor executive function (EF) has been linked to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children born at extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g) have been found to show both poor EF, as well as elevated levels of symptoms of ADHD. In the present study, we examined whether fluid intelligence moderates the link between birth weight and later ADHD symptoms by prospectively following a cohort of 179 survivors who were born at ELBW. When participants were 8 years-old, they were matched with 145 normal birth weight (NBW; ≥2500 g) control participants. At age 8, fluid intelligence was measured, and during young adulthood (ages 22–26), participants' self-reported levels of ADHD symptoms were examined. We found that ELBW survivors, who also showed poor fluid intelligence, had the highest rates of ADHD symptoms, and particularly, symptoms of inattention. These findings point to the importance of examining developmental trajectories that contribute to risk for psychopathology in those exposed to intrauterine adversity.
Life Skills Training as Part of Employee Assistance Programs in South Africa

SUMMARY The reason employees resign from their jobs is not always for better pay and benefits elsewhere. Statistics show that one of the leading hospital groups in South Africa has a staff turnover rate of 23%. Research by Taute (1992) proved that the social functioning of people is hampered by too much frustration, too little satisfaction and insufficient contentment with life. Competence building through Life Skills education may be the single most effective preventative strategy for dealing with social issues and concerns in most communities (Tschohl, 2004). “Developing your interpersonal skills is not only beneficial in helping you satisfy the demands of the employer. It can also greatly reduce work stress, increase your productivity and ultimately enhance your reputation, perhaps your position within the firm” (Messmer, 2001). Life Skills acquisition should thus become an integral part of any proactive training program, and should be endorsed by the employer as part of the process of lifelong learning toward self-actualization.
Effects of mixing and cueing simple addition and multiplication

Miller and Paredes (1990) found that both children's and adults' performance of simple addition and multiplication tested in mixed-operation blocks was slower and more susceptible to operation errors (e.g., 6 + 2=12 or 6×2=8) compared to pure-operation blocks; but mixed-operation costs were greater for addition than for multiplication. We pursued the source of these effects in adults (n=96) by examining effects of operation switching and cueing. We replicated the asymmetrical costs of mixing addition and multiplication and demonstrated that these owed, in part, to asymmetrical task switching costs. Operation foreknowledge (a visual cue appearing 2 s before the problem) moderated both mixing and switch costs. This suggests that an asymmetry between addition and multiplication in the utility of preparation contributed to asymmetric mixing costs. Miller and Paredes proposed that the asymmetric costs of mixing operations observed in adults echoed an asymmetry developed in childhood when multiplication is initially learned. This might be correct, but our results raise the possibility that the asymmetry reflects operation-specific costs and interference effects that arise during the experiment.
A biometric identification system based on eigenpalm and eigenfinger features

This paper presents a multimodal biometric identification system based on the features of the human hand. We describe a new biometric approach to personal identification using eigenfinger and eigenpalm features, with fusion applied at the matching-score level. The identification process can be divided into the following phases: capturing the image; preprocessing; extracting and normalizing the palm and strip-like finger subimages; extracting the eigenpalm and eigenfinger features based on the K-L transform; matching and fusion; and, finally, a decision based on the (k, l)-NN classifier and thresholding. The system was tested on a database of 237 people (1,820 hand images). The experimental results showed the effectiveness of the system in terms of the recognition rate (100 percent), the equal error rate (EER = 0.58 percent), and the total error rate (TER = 0.72 percent).
Chemical abundances for the transiting planet host stars OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, 132, and TrES-1. Abundances in different galactic populations

Aims. We used the UVES spectrograph (VLT-UT2 telescope) to obtain high-resolution spectra of 6 stars hosting transiting planets, namely for OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, 132, and TrES-1. These spectra are now used to derive and discuss the chemical abundances for C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn. Methods. Abundances were derived in LTE, using 1D plane-parallel Kurucz model atmospheres. For S, Zn, and Cu, we used a spectral synthesis procedure, while for the remaining cases the abundances were derived from measurements of line-equivalent widths. Results. The resulting abundances were compared with those found for stars in the solar neighborhood. Distances and galactic coordinates were estimated for the stars. We conclude that, besides being particularly metal-rich and with small possible exceptions, OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, 132, and TrES-1 are chemically undistinguishable from the field (thin disk) stars regarding their [X/Fe] abundances. This is particularly relevant for the most distant of the targets, located up to ~2 kpc from the Sun. We also did not find any correlation between the abundances and the condensation temperature of the elements, evidence that strong accretion of planetary-like material, tentatively connected to planetary migration, did not occur.
“It’s an Ethical, Moral and Professional Dilemma I Think”

This article investigates the experience and construction of women’s use of violence in relationships by domestic violence workers in Sydney, Australia. Most workers contextualized women’s violence within a critique of the structural powerlessness faced by women in violent relationships. However, the issue of violent women’s agency remains an unresolved dilemma for workers. This article recommends the use of a psychosocial approach to understand the social, biographical, and psychodynamic dimensions of women’s violence.
Inside, Outside, Nowhere: Bisexual Men and Women in the Gay and Lesbian Community

This article examines the impact of antibisexual attitudes on 60 self-identified Australian bisexual men and women, in terms of their perceptions of, and participation in, the gay and lesbian community—the broad network of groups and events held by and for gay men and lesbians. The author examines the range of antibisexual attitudes that exist within the gay and lesbian community and then examines how these are understood by bisexuals, and the impacts these have on their participation in the gay and lesbian community. It was discovered that though some participants were active within the Australian gay and lesbian community, many were not, due to the belief that they would be rejected or discriminated against as bisexual. Furthermore, those who did participate in the gay and lesbian community tended to keep their bisexuality hidden, for fear of being made unwelcome. The findings of this research suggest that bisexual men and women have an ambivalent and complex relationship with the gay and lesbian community in Australia. This raises a number of issues about the maintenance of a bisexual identity, including the impact of secrecy and staying closeted on self-esteem and mental health.
Leadership development as identity formation: middle managers’ leadership learning from MBA study

This article challenges often unquestioned understandings within human resource development (HRD) of leadership as comprising knowledge and skills and leadership development as involving the transfer of such knowledge and skills from formal interventions to workplace performance. Using the notions of leadership as identity and learning as a process of identity formation, the article reports qualitative research showing how a case-study group of middle managers in a sector of the economy undergoing unprecedented turbulence, UK local government, developed a sense of themselves as leaders and how a key HRD intervention, a corporate MBA, facilitated such identity development. In particular, the article uses situated learning theory to examine how informal communities of practice associated with Master of Business Administration (MBA) study provided a forum for identity building of equal developmental value to the formal MBA curriculum. The implications for future HRD research are established and suggestions made for the re-design of HRD interventions to best enable identity-work.
LHDiff: A Language-Independent Hybrid Approach for Tracking Source Code Lines

Tracking source code lines between two different versions of a file is a fundamental step for solving a number of important problems in software maintenance such as locating bug introducing changes, tracking code fragments or defects across versions, merging file versions, and software evolution analysis. Although a number of such approaches are available in the literature, their performance is sensitive to the kind and degree of source code changes. There is also a marked lack of study on the effect of change types on source location tracking techniques. In this paper, we propose a language-independent technique, LHDiff, for tracking source code lines across versions that leverages simhash technique together with heuristics to improve accuracy. We evaluate our approach against state-of-the- art techniques using benchmarks containing different degrees of changes where files are selected from real world applications. We further evaluate LHDiff with other techniques using a mutation based analysis to understand how different types of changes affect their performance. The results reveal that our technique is more effective than language-independent approaches and no worse than some language-dependent techniques. In our study LHDiff even shows better performance than a state-of-the-art language- dependent approach. In addition, we also discuss limitations of different line tracking techniques including ours and propose future research directions.
A Three-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Template for Interactive Human Motion Analysis

This paper describes a new three-dimensional spatiotemporal template, namely the Volumetric Motion History Image (VMHI), for the purpose of human motion analysis. Irregularities in human actions typically occur either in speed or orientation; they carry information about the balance and the confidence level of the human subject performing the activity. The proposed VMHI template handles successfully shortcomings of existing spatiotemporal templates related to motion self -occlusion and speed. Therefore, VMHI allows for interactive visualization, as well as quantification of motion performance. This study focuses on the analysis of sway and speed-related abnormalities, which are among the most common motion irregularities in the studied set of human actions.
Blood-which is best for PAG pregnancy prediction ?

Identification of nonpregnant dairy cows early after AI improves reproductive efficiency and the 21-day pregnancy rate by decreasing the interval between AI services thereby increasing the AI service rate (Fricke, 2002). Thus, new technologies to identify nonpregnant dairy cows early after AI may play a key role in management strategies to improve reproductive efficiency and profitability on dairy farms. Assays for detecting pregnancy-associated glycoprotein (PAG) levels in maternal circulation originating from mononucleated and binucleated cells of the embryonic trophoblast have been developed and commercialized to determine pregnancy status in cattle (Sasser et al., 1986; Zoli et al., 1992; Green et al., 2000).
Simultaneous in-plane motion estimation and point matching using geometric cues only

We present a novel approach that, given two sets of unmatched keypoints, simultaneously estimates the in-plane camera motion and keypoint matches without using photometric information. Standard approaches estimate the epipolar geometry based on putative matches, first established with photometric information, then accepted or rejected using the epipolar constraint. Our method discretizes the space of essential matrices at different levels. It searches for the essential matrix and keypoint matches which are the most geometrically coherent. We maximize geometric coherence, that we define as the number of points that can be matched based on the epipolar and unicity constraints. We applied this general framework to sets of images acquired by a moving tripod. We present promising results on simulated and real data.
Rapid Multiplex Assay for Serotyping Pneumococci with Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies

ABSTRACT We have developed and characterized a rapid semiautomated pneumococcal serotyping system incorporating a pneumococcal lysate preparation protocol and a multiplex serotyping assay. The lysate preparation incorporates a bile solubility test to confirm pneumococcal identification that also enhances assay specificity. The multiplex serotyping assay consists of 24 assays specific for 36 serotypes: serotypes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7A/7F, 8, 9L/9N, 9V, 10A/10B/39/(33C), 11A/11D/11F, 12A/12B/12F, 14, 15B/(15C), 17F, 18C, 19A, 19F, 20, 22A/22F, 23F, and 33A/33F. The multiplex assay requires a flow cytometer, two sets of latex particles coated with pneumococcal polysaccharides, and serotype-specific antibodies. Fourteen newly developed monoclonal antibodies specific for common serotypes and a pool of polyclonal rabbit sera for some of the less-common serotypes are used. The two monoclonal antibodies specific for serotypes 18C and 23F recognize serotype-specific epitopes that have not been previously described. These monoclonal antibodies make the identification of the 14 common serotypes invariant. The specificity of the serotyping assay is fully characterized with pneumococci of all known (i.e., 90) serotypes. The assay is sensitive enough to use bacterial lysates diluted 20 fold. Our serotyping system can identify not only all the serotypes in pneumococcal vaccines but also most (>90%) of clinical isolates. This system should be very useful in serotyping clinical isolates for evaluating pneumococcal vaccine efficacy.