Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Case Study Phonological semantic errors in two Spanish speaking patients with anomic aphasia

Difficulty in finding words is one of the principal characteristics of aphasia. Nevertheless, cognitive neuropsychology models point out that aphasia is not a homogeneous alteration, since it can be caused by di erent alterations depending on the component of the naming process that is damaged. This paper presents additional evidence for what has been found in the English language, with two cases of Spanish speaking patients RMA and JGG that illustrate two di erent types of anomia with different altered components. The first of these demonstrates a semantic alteration resulting from difficulties in representation of the meaning of words, leading to semantic errors in the emission of words. The second case, in contrast to the first, demonstrates a phonological alteration, caused by a deficit in the representation of the sound of words, and resulting in phonological errors in the naming task. Results are also compatible with theories that propose di erent cerebral locations for di erent anomic deficits, con.
Minimizing Cost of Scalable Distributed Least Squares Localization

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been of high interest during the past couple of years. One of the most important aspects of WSN research is location estimation. As a good solution of fine grained localization Reichenbach et al. introduced the Distributed Least Squares (DLS) algorithm, which splits the costly localization process in a complex precalculation and a simple postcalculation which is performed on constrained sensor nodes to finalize the localization by adding locale knowledge. This approach lacks for large WSNs, because cost of communication and computation theoretically increases with the network size. In practice the approach is even unusable for large WSNs. An important assumption of DLS is that each blind node is able to communicate with each beacon node to receive the precalculation and to determine distances to beacon nodes. This restriction have been overcome by scalable DLS (sDLS), which enabled to use the idea of DLS in large WSNs for the first time. In this work we present an adaptation of sDLS, that reduces the cost of update operations which are an integral part of sDLS.
From state neuroticism to momentary task performance: A person × situation approach

The goal of this article was to investigate the mechanisms through which personality relates to task performance. We argue that perceptions of work pressure and task complexity trigger momentary levels of neuroticism (i.e., state neuroticism) and that these momentary levels of neuroticism predict momentary task performance. Moreover, we hypothesized that the relationship between momentary job demands and state neuroticism is moderated by trait neuroticism. To test this model, we conducted an event reconstruction study and a day reconstruction study. The results revealed that trait neuroticism indeed moderated the momentary job demands–state neuroticism relationship, and in three out of four cases state neuroticism was found to mediate the relationship between momentary job demands and momentary task performance. From a practical point-of-view our results suggest that employees’ task performance can be improved by enhancing the way in which individuals perceive job demands. This strategy would be particularly helpful for individuals for whom the momentary job demands–state neuroticism relationship is the strongest (i.e., employees high in trait neuroticism).
Attachment, self-esteem and test anxiety in adolescence and early adulthood

The purpose of this study was to assess how attachment dimensions (anxiety and avoidance), self-esteem, and three subscales of test anxiety – cognitive obstruction, social derogation and tenseness are related in two age groups: adolescents and college students. Participants (N = 327) completed relevant questionnaires. Results showed that college students revealed higher test anxiety than did high school students on the cognitive obstruction and tenseness scales, whereas high school students revealed higher social derogation than college students. Anxious attachment was related to all three sub-scales of test anxiety and avoidant attachment was related to cognitive obstruction among college students and to tenseness among high school students. Most of the correlations between anxious attachment and test anxiety were mediated by self-esteem among high school students. The mediation ability of self-esteem was weaker among college students.
A Tool For Analysing The Information Behaviour Of Expectant And New Mothers

In recent years, there has been an increase in the variety and availability of information resources in nearly every area of life. Unfortunately, variety and availability don’t always signal quality. With health information, it’s important not only to have quality information resources but also to ensure resources meet the needs of their audience. Expectant and new mothers have become active consumers of health information. They access and combine information from offline and online resources when making healthcare decisions. This paper presents a tool that analyses the information behaviour of expectant and new mothers. The Information Behaviour Analysis Tool (IBAT) is based on a theoretical model of information behaviour that is adapted from extant literature. We use interview and activity diary data from the first stage of a longitudinal exploratory study to create and demonstrate the tool. The IBAT can be used to map the information behaviour of new and expectant mothers from beginning to end. Three different search episodes are used to demonstrate the efficacy of the tool and to highlight different types of search strategies. These examples demonstrate the variability of uncertainty as a factor during information behaviour and the interaction it can have when processing different information resources.
Cognitive and Academic Distinctions Between Gifted Students With Autism and Asperger Syndrome

The cognitive and academic profiles of high ability students with autism spectrum disorder were examined. Inclusion criteria were a diagnosis of autism (high functioning) or Asperger syndrome and at least one ability and/or achievement index standard score of 120 or above. Results indicated that despite the restricted range of cognitive abilities, students diagnosed with Asperger syndrome had significantly higher Verbal Comprehension Index scores than did students diagnosed with autism. However, students with autism had significantly higher scores on tests of math fluency and written expression than did students with Asperger syndrome. Implications for assessment, diagnosis, and intervention are discussed.
Complete nucleotide sequence of the structural gene for alkaline proteinase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa IFO 3455

The DNA-encoding alkaline proteinase (AP) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa IFO 3455 was cloned, and its complete nucleotide sequence was determined. When the cloned gene was ligated to pUC18, the Escherichia coli expression vector, the gene-incorporated bacteria expressed high levels of both AP activity and AP antigens. The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence revealed that the mature AP consists of 467 amino acids with a relative molecular weight of 49,507. The amino acid composition predicted from the DNA sequence was similar to the chemically determined composition of purified AP reported previously. The amino acid sequence analysis revealed that both the N-terminal side sequence of the purified AP and several internal lysyl peptide fragments were identical to the deduced amino acid sequences. The percent homology of amino acid sequences between AP and Serratia protease was about 55%. The zinc ligands and an active site of the AP were predicted by comparing the structure of the enzyme with of Serratia protease, thermolysin, Bacillus subtilis neutral protease, and Pseudomonas elastase.
Plant identification using triangular representation based on salient points and margin points

Leaf classification is an important component of living plant identification. A leaf contains important information for plant species identification in spite of its complexity. This paper introduces a method of recognizing leaf images based on triangular representations. A leaf is represented by local descriptors associated with margin sample points and salient sample points. We introduce three new triangular representations - salient triangle area representation (STAR), salient triangle side lengths representation (STSL), and salient triangle area, side lengths and two angles representation (STASLA), and then we combine two local descriptors - one provides a triangular representation of the leaf margin while the other represents the spatial correlation between salient points of the leaf and leaf margin. Experiments on the Image-CLEF 2011 leaf datasets show the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed method.
Presence , Intervention , Insertion : Unifying Attack and Failure Models in Wireless Sensor Networks

As assumptions about adversaries critically influence the correctness and efficiency of protocols, they should be as precise as possible. We propose a general framework for attacker models in wirless sensor networks. The framework is modular since it allows to compose basic attacker models by choosing values from three orthogonal dimensions: presence, intervention, and insertion. All choices of basic attacker models form a lattice according to a well-defined weaker-than relation. Sets of such basic attacker models constitute general attacker models. In a sense, our framework unifies behavioral aspects of attacker models from the area of cryptography and fault-tolerance We show that our modeling framework can be used to formulate all relevant attacker models from the literature on sensor networks. We demonstrate the benefits of our framework by showing how it can be used to (1) compare protocols and establish relations between protocols and (2) to make attacker assumptions more precise and find errors in protocols.
Citizenship Perceptions of Soviet Immigrants in Israel

Migration has been one of the principal forces of change in modern history (Kritz et al., 1992; Findlay and Gould, 1994). Yet, studies of how immigrants associate themselves with a new political culture and become actors in the political arena in the host society are rare. The collapse of the USSR resulted in a massive wave of immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel (Lipshitz, 1997). The transition of Soviet immigrants from a totalitarian regime into a Western democracy provides an opportunity to examine processes of political desocialization and resocialization. How new immigrants perceive and interpret the new political culture? Looking backwards, how do they assess the political world which they had left behind? What are the circumstances which shape their political perceptions, af liations and civic competencies in Israel? The present study attempts to provide some clues to the above queries by examining perceptions of citizenship and politics in Israel and in the USSR among young adults who arrived in Israel in recent years.
Overexpression of latent transforming growth factor-β binding protein 1 (LTBP-1) in dioxin receptor-null mouse embryo fibroblasts

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a transcriptional regulator of genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism. Increasingly clear is also the role of the AhR in the control of cell growth and proliferation. By analyzing differential patterns of gene expression between wild-type (AhR+/+) and null (AhR–/–) mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEF), we have identified latent transforming growth factor-β binding protein 1 (LTBP-1) as a negatively AhR-regulated gene in the absence of xenobiotics. Ltbp-1 mRNA and protein expression were markedly increased in AhR–/– MEF. Furthermore, secreted LTBP-1 was elevated in the culture medium and the extracellular matrix of AhR-null MEF. Actinomycin D inhibited Ltbp-1 mRNA overexpression, suggesting regulation at the transcriptional level. AhR activation by dioxin (TCDD) downregulated Ltbp-1, again suggesting an AhR-regulated mechanism. Treatment of AhR+/+ MEF with transforming growth factor-β(TGF-β) downregulated AhR and, simultaneously, increased Ltbp-1, further supporting the role of this receptor in LTBP-1 expression. AhR–/– conditioned medium had higher levels of active and total TGF-β activity, suggesting a role for LTBP-1 in maintaining extracellular TGF-β concentrations. TGF-β did not appear to directly regulate Ltbp-1 given that addition of TGFβ neutralizing antibody or TGFβ protein to AhR–/– MEF had no effect on Ltbp-1 expression. AhR–/– MEF had lower levels of matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2) activity, which could not be attributable to MMP-2 mRNA downregulation or MMP-inhibitors Timp-1 and Timp-2 overexpression. These data identify LTBP-1 as one of the few AhR-regulated genes not involved in xenobiotic metabolism and also support the implication of the AhR in controlling TGFβ activity and cell proliferation.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS IN CHILDREN (2)

Summary. This paper describes the responses of children to twenty science questions and relates these responses to age and ability represented by scores on a verbal and non-verbal test. A relationship is established for certain types of question between their facility values and the grades obtained by the children on the criteria. Rate of growth of scientific knowledge is found to be similar for boys and girls; boys and girls of 10 years of age show no significant differences in knowledge of science concepts but there is significant differentiation in secondary school children.
Ergononomics, anthropometry and indeterminacy

The anthropometric data used in everyday ergonomics are not always as reliable as one supposes them to be. This is due in part to the difficulty of measuring a large enough sample, and in part to the psychological conditions of the particular subject observed. This work draws attention to the indeterminacy induced by the emotional state of the subject of un observation.
Impact of Patient–General Practitioner Short-Messages-Based Interaction on the Control of Hypertension in a Follow-up Service for Low-to-Medium Risk Hypertensive Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The evaluation in real-life settings of services for the follow-up and control of hypertensive patients is a complex intervention, which still needs analysis of the roles, tasks, and resources involved in the basic items: patient, healthcare professional, and the interaction between the two. To evaluate the impact of patient-general practitioner (GP) short-messages-based interaction, isolated from other items, on the degree of hypertension control in the follow-up of medium-to-low-risk patients in primary care, a randomized controlled trial has been performed: 38 GPs enrolled 285 hypertensive patients who recorded the results of self-blood-pressure (BP) monitoring, heart rate, and body weight, and completed an optional questionnaire in an identical manner over a six-month period. The telemedicine group (TmG) sent the data to a telemedicine-based system that enabled patient-GP interaction; the control group (CG) recorded the data on paper and could only deliver it to their GP personally in the routine visits. In the TmG, the results were better, but not significantly so, for: 1) degree of hypertension control, in terms of the percentage of uncontrolled hypertensives at the final visit (TmG versus CG: 31.7% versus 35.6%; p = 0.47); 2) reduction in hypertension during follow-up, comparing measurements (performed by a professional) at the initial and final visits of systolic BP (15.5 versus 11.9; p = 0.13) and diastolic BP (9.6 versus 4.4; p = 0.40); and 3) adherence to the protocol within compliance levels of interest in a real-life follow-up service: Gt50% (84.8% versus 73.3%) and Gt25% (92.4.8% versus 75.4%) (p = 0.053). Other factors such as average values of self-measured systolic BP, diastolic BP and heart rate, acceptability of the protocol, and median number of consultations and hospital admissions were similar in both groups. Outcomes show that, taken alone, the patient-GP short-messages-based interaction has very little impact on the degree of hypertension control in patients with this profile. In complex interventions, to discriminate the impact of each of its components in isolation will enable us to design an efficient follow-up service, little demanding in terms of healthcare professional dedication, and optimized in other basic aspects.
Cell-Specific Variation in E-Selectin Ligand Expression among Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells: Implications for Immunosurveillance and Pathobiology

Both host defense and immunopathology are shaped by the ordered recruitment of circulating leukocytes to affected sites, a process initiated by binding of blood-borne cells to E-selectin displayed at target endothelial beds. Accordingly, knowledge of the expression and function of leukocyte E-selectin ligands is key to understanding the tempo and specificity of immunoreactivity. In this study, we performed E-selectin adherence assays under hemodynamic flow conditions coupled with flow cytometry and Western blot analysis to elucidate the function and structural biology of glycoprotein E-selectin ligands expressed on human PBMCs. Circulating monocytes uniformly express high levels of the canonical E-selectin binding determinant sialyl Lewis X (sLeX) and display markedly greater adhesive interactions with E-selectin than do circulating lymphocytes, which exhibit variable E-selectin binding among CD4+ and CD8+ T cells but no binding by B cells. Monocytes prominently present sLeX decorations on an array of protein scaffolds, including P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1, CD43, and CD44 (rendering the E-selectin ligands cutaneous lymphocyte Ag, CD43E, and hematopoietic cell E-selectin/L-selectin ligand, respectively), and B cells altogether lack E-selectin ligands. Quantitative PCR gene expression studies of glycosyltransferases that regulate display of sLeX reveal high transcript levels among circulating monocytes and low levels among circulating B cells, and, commensurately, cell surface α(1,3)-fucosylation reveals that acceptor sialyllactosaminyl glycans convertible into sLeX are abundantly expressed on human monocytes yet are relatively deficient on B cells. Collectively, these findings unveil distinct cell-specific patterns of E-selectin ligand expression among human PBMCs, indicating that circulating monocytes are specialized to engage E-selectin and providing key insights into the molecular effectors mediating recruitment of these cells at inflammatory sites.
Testing Moderator and Mediator Effects in Counseling Psychology Research.

The goals of this article are to (a) describe differences between moderator and mediator effects; (b) provide nontechnical descriptions of how to examine each type of effect, including study design, analysis, and interpretation of results; (c) demonstrate how to analyze each type of effect; and (d) provide suggestions for further reading. The authors focus on the use of multiple regression because it is an accessible data-analytic technique contained in major statistical packages. When appropriate, they also note limitations of using regression to detect moderator and mediator effects and describe alternative procedures, particularly structural equation modeling. Finally, to illustrate areas of confusion in counseling psychology research, they review research testing moderation and mediation that was published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology during 2001.
Optimized renormalization group flows

We study the optimization of exact renormalization group (ERG) flows. We explain why the convergence of approximate solutions towards the physical theory is optimized by appropriate choices of the regularization. We consider specific optimized regulators for bosonic and fermionic fields and compare the optimized ERG flows with generic ones. This is done up to second order in the derivative expansion at both vanishing and nonvanishing temperature. We find that optimized flows at finite temperature factorize. This corresponds to the disentangling of thermal and quantum fluctuations. A similar factorization is found at second order in the derivative expansion. The corresponding optimized flow for a proper-time renormalization group is also provided to leading order in the derivative expansion. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64. 105007]
SEPARABILITY , STATIONARITY , AND INFERENCE

Independent component analysis (ICA) is being increasingly applied to functional MRI (fMRI) data. A principal advantage of this approach is its applicability to cognitive paradigms for which detailed a priori models of brain activity are not available. ICA has been successfully utilized to analyze singlesubject fMRI data sets, and we have recently extended this work to provide for group inferences. In order to perform group analysis, we concatenate the single-subject images in time and perform a single ICA estimation, then back-reconstruct individual subject maps and time courses. When applied to fMRI data acquired during a simple visual paradigm, our group ICA analysis revealed task-related components in left and right visual cortex, a transiently task-related component in bilateral occipital/parietal cortex, and a non task-related component in bilateral visual association cortex. In this work, we develop three important areas needed for applying ICA to group data: separability, stationarity, and inference. Our results further demonstrate the utility of using such a method for making group inferences on fMRI data using ICA.
Consumption of NSAIDs and the development of congestive heart failure in elderly patients: an underrecognized public health problem.

BACKGROUND Experimental studies have shown that administration of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to susceptible individuals can lead to the development of congestive heart failure (CHF). There have been few epidemiological investigations of the importance of this adverse effect. OBJECTIVE To estimate the relative risk of first admission to a hospital with CHF in recent users of NSAIDs, compared with nonusers, and to determine whether the estimated relative risk was increased in those with a history of heart disease and the extent to which the level of risk varied with the dose and half-life of the drugs consumed. METHODS We conducted a matched case-control study of the relationship between recent use of NSAIDs and hospitalization with CHF. Cases (n = 365) were patients admitted to hospitals with a primary diagnosis of CHF. Controls (n = 658) were patients without CHF who were admitted to the same hospitals as case patients. Structured interviews were used to obtain information on several study factors, including recent use of aspirin and other NSAIDs. RESULTS Use of NSAIDs (other than low-dose aspirin) in the previous week was associated with a doubling of the odds of a hospital admission with CHF (adjusted odds ratio, 2.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.2-3.3). Use of NSAIDs by patients with a history of heart disease was associated with an odds ratio of 10.5 (95% confidence interval, 2.5-44.9) for first admission with heart failure, compared with 1.6 (95% confidence interval, 0.7-3.7) in those without such a history. The odds of a first admission to a hospital with CHF was positively related to the dose of NSAID consumed in the previous week, and was increased to a greater extent with long half-life than with short half-life drugs. Assuming these relationships are causal, NSAIDs were responsible for approximately 19% of hospital admissions with CHF. CONCLUSIONS The burden of illness resulting from NSAID-related CHF may exceed that resulting from gastrointestinal tract damage. NSAIDs should be used with caution in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease.