Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Campus climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer undergraduate students at the University of Missouri: A qualitative study

The University of Missouri has been engaging in ongoing campus climate research since 2001. Previous studies have revealed that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students perceive the campus climate as more hostile and experience more harassment than any other identity group. This case study explores further, utilizing qualitative methods, the perceptions of the campus climate at the University of Missouri by LGBTQ-identified undergraduate students as well as the unmet needs of this population. Five broad themes emerged from the data including (a) discrimination, (b) intersecting identities that influence the perception of discrimination, (c) (dis)comfort, (d) support, and (e) suggestions for improvement. Data analysis shows that while the LGBTQ undergraduate population does experience high levels of harassment and discrimination, these students have created their own supportive communities and networks utilizing existing on and off campus resources. Recommendations for campus improvement are included.
Fully-integrated low-consumption BiFET low-noise amplifier for WCDMA applications

This paper presents guidelines to design a fully-integrated low-consumption BiFET low-noise amplifier targeted to WCDMA-FDD (2110-2170 MHz) system applications. It uses a high performance 0.25-mum SiGe:C BiCMOS7RF process from STMicroelectronics. The main motivation of this work is to evidence the advantages of a mixed Bipolar mosFET (BiFET) cascode topology, mainly in terms of linearity and power consumption. The LNA achieves a power gain of around 15.8 dB (250 MHz -1 dB bandwidth), a noise figure of 1.76 dB, an ICP1 and IIP3 of -9 dBm and 0 dBm, respectively. It consumes only 3.3 mW under 2.2 V supply voltage.
THAI SOUTHERN PIG-TAILED MACAQUE ( MACACA NEMESTRINA ) BY MULTICOLOR BANDING

In previous studies origin of human and ape chromosomes have been analyzed by comparative chromosome banding analysis and/or by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). In the present study FISH-banding, i.e. multicolor banding using probes derived from Homo sapiens was applied to reanalyze the chromosomes of Thai southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina). The results agree with those of previous studies in other macaques, e.g. Macaca sylvanus. Thus, genetic differences leading to the observed large morphological differences within the Ceropithecoidae must be in the subchromosomal or even epigenetic level and have to be discovered yet.
The Load Forecasting Model Based on Bayes-GRNN

Comparison with the classical BP neural network, the generalized regression neural network requires not periodic training process but a smoothing parameter. The model has steady and fast speed, and meanwhile, the connection weight of different neurons is not necessary to be adjusted in the training process. The paper establishes the index system of GRNN forecasting model, and then uses Bayes theory to reduce them, which will be inputting variables of GRNN model. The method is testified to get higher speed and accuracy by simulation of actual data and comparison to classical BP neural network.
Review of 54 Cases of Prolonged Field Care.

BACKGROUND Prolonged field care (PFC) is field medical care applied beyond doctrinal planning time-lines. As current and future medical operations must include deliberate and contingency planning for such events, data are lacking to support efforts. A case review was conducted to define the epidemiology, environment, and operational factors that affect PFC outcomes. METHODS A survey distributed to US military medical providers solicited details of PFC encounters lasting more than 4 hours and included patient demographics, environmental descriptors, provider training, modes of transportation, injuries, mechanism of injury, vital signs, treatments, equipment and resources used, duration of PFC, and morbidity and mortality status on delivery to the next level of care. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze survey responses. RESULTS Surveys from 54 patients treated during 41 missions were analyzed. The PFC provider was on scene at time of injury or illness for 40.7% (22/54) of cases. The environment was described as remote or austere for 96.3% (52/54) of cases. Enemy activity or weather also contributed to need for PFC in 37.0% (20/54) of cases. Care was provided primarily outdoors (37.0%; 20/54) and in hardened nonmedical structures (37.0%; 20/54) with 42.6% (23/54) of cases managed in two or more locations or transport platforms. Teleconsultation was obtained in 14.8% (8/54) of cases. The prehospital time of care ranged from 4 to 120 hours (median 10 hours), and five (9.3%) patients died prior to transport to next level of care. CONCLUSION PFC in the prehospital setting is a vital area of military medicine about which data are sparse. This review was a novel initial analysis of recent US military PFC experiences, with descriptive findings that should prove helpful for future efforts to include defining unique skillsets and capabilities needed to effectively respond to a variety of PFC contingencies.
Professional Presence and Soft Skills: A Role for Accounting Education.

Current economic conditions have changed the dynamics of all employment, including accounting, which traditionally has had a supply shortfall. CPA firms are beginning to lay off experienced people for the first time in ten years, while still hiring new staff accountants. The AICPA Vision 2011 Project has added soft skills to the list of core competencies that successful accountants should possess. Therefore, a case can be made that accounting educators have a responsibility to help prepare students to make the transition from unfocused high school seniors to contributing members of a professional service team. It is incumbent upon accounting educators to prepare students to be competitive in the unfolding economic future. In summary, technical skills are necessary but not sufficient for a successful accounting career that includes an individual’s selection, retention and advancement. An incremental laboratory experience was designed to create an environment for soft skill development that does not diminish the attention to accounting theory and technical development. The mandatory experience was added to two required accounting classes starting in the spring of sophomore year. The lab was based on an assessment of needs identified by the profession in a series of interviews and considerations of the professional development literature. The lab experience includes: (1) Professional Motivation, (2) Emotional Intelligence, (3) Soft Skill Development, (4) Career Skills, and (5) Time Management. These specific skills are grounded in the context of emotional intelligence (Golemon, 2004), which focuses on student‘s individual responsibility for creating their own professional futures. This laboratory experience has a dual focus – of satisfying the needs of students and the accounting firms that employ them by creating mature professionals able to maximize the contribution they make over their entire career. The experience is designed to have students take ownership of their professional future early in their accounting education, resulting in their having a satisfying experience in their studies and ultimately, their career.
A language generic solution for name binding preservation in refactorings

The implementation of refactorings for new languages requires considerable effort from the language developer. We aim at reducing that effort by using language generic techniques. This paper focuses on behavior preservation, in particular the preservation of static name bindings. To detect name binding violations, we implement a technique that reuses the name analysis defined in the compiler front end. Some languages offer the possibility to access variables using qualified names. As a refinement to violation detection, we show that name analysis can be defined as a reusable traversal strategy that can be applied to restore name bindings by creating qualified names. These techniques offer an efficient and reliable solution; the semantics of the language is implemented only once, with the compiler being the single source of truth. We evaluate our approach by implementing a language generic rename refactoring, which we apply to two domain specific languages and a subset of the Java language.
Sparsity and “Something Else”: An Approach to Encrypted Image Folding

A property of sparse representations in relation to their capacity for information storage is discussed. It is shown that this feature can be used for an application that we term Encrypted Image Folding. The proposed procedure is realizable through any suitable transformation. In particular, in this paper we illustrate the approach by recourse to the Discrete Cosine Transform and a combination of redundant Cosine and Dirac dictionaries. The main advantage of the proposed technique is that both storage and encryption can be achieved simultaneously using simple processing steps.
A Signal Decomposition Model-Based Bayesian Framework for ECG Components Separation

The paper introduces an improved signal decomposition model-based Bayesian framework (EKS6). While it can be employed for multiple purposes, like denoising and features extraction, it is particularly suited for extracting electrocardiogram (ECG) wave-forms from ECG recordings. In this framework, the ECG is represented as the sum of several components, each describing a specific wave (i.e., P, Q, R, S, and T), with a corresponding term in the dynamical model. Characteristic Waveforms (CWs) of the ECG components are taken as hidden state variables, distinctly estimated using a Kalman smoother from sample to sample. Then, CWs can be analyzed separately, accordingly to a specific application. The new dynamical model no longer depends on the amplitude of the Gaussian kernels, so it is capable of separating ECG components even if sudden changes in the CWs appear (e.g., an ectopic beat). Results, obtained on synthetic signals with different levels of noise, showed that the proposed method is indeed more effective in separating the ECG components when compared with another framework recently introduced with the same aims (EKS4). The proposed approach can be used for many applications. In this paper, we verified it for T/QRS ratio calculation. For this purpose, we applied it to 288 signals from the PhysioNet PTB Diagnostic ECG Database. The values of RMSE obtained show that the T/QRS ratio computed on the components extracted from the ECG, corrupted by broadband noise, is closer to the original T/QRS ratio values ( RMSE=0.025 for EKS6 and 0.17 for EKS4).
Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Invariant Color and Texture Features

Since the last decade, Content-Based Image Retrieval was a hot topic research. The computational complexity and the retrieval accuracy are the main problems that CBIR systems have to avoid. To avoid these problems, this paper proposes a new content-based image retrieval method that uses both color and texture feature. To extract the color feature from the image, the color moment will be calculated where the image will be in the HSV color space. To extract the texture feature, the image will be in gray-scale and Ranklet Transform is performed on it. From the ranklet images generated from the original image, the texture feature is extracted by calculating the texture moments. Experiments results show that using both color and texture feature to describe the image and use them for image retrieval is more accurate than using one of them only.
Early detection of relapse by hypermetaphase fluorescence in situ hybridization after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia.

PURPOSE Standard G-band cytogenetic analysis (CG) provides information on approximately 25 metaphases for monitoring the presence of Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patients, making the detection of a low frequency of Ph+ cells problematic. The purpose of this study was to improve the detection of a low frequency of Ph+ cells. PATIENTS AND METHODS We combined fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with long-term colcemid exposure, capturing several hundred metaphases in bone marrow cultures (hypermetaphase FISH [HMF]). Using probes that identify Ph+ cells, HMF was compared with CG analysis in the follow-up evaluations of 51 patients with CML at various time points after allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT). RESULTS Thirty-five patients never showed the presence of Ph+ cells by either method. In four patients, high frequencies of Ph+ cells were detected by both methods. In the remaining 12 patients, Ph+ cells were detected by HMF at time points after BMT when they were not detected by CG. In seven of the 12 patients, low but statistically significant frequencies of Ph+ cells (0.37% to 5.20%) were detected 3 months or later after BMT, and when no intervention was initiated, all seven patients later relapsed. Based on those data, an eighth patient with mixed chimerism and a similar HMF-detected Ph+ frequency (1.8% at 27 months after BMT) was reinfused with donor lymphocytes and achieved remission with 0% Ph+ cells studied by HMF (up to 50 months after BMT). Ph+ cells detected by HMF but not by CG less than 3 months after BMT disappeared on later examination in two of four patients. After detection of Ph+ cells by HMF only, the median time to cytogenetic progression (detection of Ph+ cells by CG) was 101 days. CONCLUSION The results demonstrate the ability of HMF to detect low but clinically relevant levels of leukemic cells not detected by CG in transplant patients. The data indicate that HMF can detect low levels of Ph+ cells before standard cytogenetics at a time that may be useful in monitoring disease status and planning clinical interventions.
Polar Residues of the Second Transmembrane Domain Influence Cation Permeability of the ATP-gated P2X2 Receptor*

P2X receptors are simple polypeptide channels that mediate fast purinergic depolarizations in both nerve and muscle. Although the depolarization results mainly from the influx of Na+, these channels also conduct a significant Ca2+ current that is large enough to evoke transmitter release from presynaptic neurons. We sought to determine the molecular basis of this Ca2+ conductance by a mutational analysis of recombinant P2X2 receptors. Wild type and 31 mutant P2X2 receptors were expressed in HEK-293 cells and studied under voltage-clamp. We found that the relative Ca2+permeability measured from the reversal potentials of ATP-gated currents was unaffected by neutralizing fixed charge (Asp315, Asp349) near the mouths of the channel pore. By contrast, mutations that changed the character or side chain volume of three polar residues (Thr336, Thr339, Ser340) within the pore led to significant changes in PCa/PCs. The largest changes occurred when Thr339 and Ser340 were replaced with tyrosine; these mutations almost completely abolished Ca2+permeability, reduced PLi/PCs by about one-half, and shifted the relative permeability sequence of Cs+, Rb+, K+, and Na+to their relative mobility in water. Our results suggest that the permeability sequence of the P2X2 receptor arises in part from interactions of permeating cations with the polar side chains of three amino acids located in a short stretch of the second transmembrane domain.
Prevalence and predictors of depressive symptoms among cancer caregivers 5 years after the relative's cancer diagnosis.

OBJECTIVE Few studies address the longer term psychological adjustment of family caregivers who provide care to a relative with cancer. This study aimed to document levels of depressive symptoms among caregivers 5 years after their relative's initial diagnosis and to identify psychosocial factors that may prospectively predict caregivers' depressive symptoms at that time. METHOD Cancer caregivers participated in a prospective longitudinal study (N = 416; mean age = 55, 65.4% female, 92.9% non-Hispanic White). Demographics and caregiving experiences were measured 2 years after their relative's cancer diagnosis at Time 1 (T1). Depressive symptoms were assessed with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (Radloff, 1977) at T1 and again at 5 years postdiagnosis (T2). By T2, caregivers had emerged into 3 groups: former caregivers whose recipients were now in remission, current caregivers, and bereaved caregivers. RESULTS Controlling for T1 depressive symptoms, T1 caregiving stress and lack of social support were both significant prospective predictors of greater depressive symptoms at T2 (ps < .02). Independently, bereaved caregivers reported the greatest depressive symptoms both prior to and after the relative's death. Those who were actively caregiving at T2 displayed the largest increase in depressive symptoms from T1 to T2 (p < .001). CONCLUSIONS The findings highlight the importance of caregiving stress and social support early in caregivership, even for outcomes that emerge 3 years later. Findings suggest that family members who are actively involved in cancer care at the 5-year mark may benefit from programs designed to improve their adjustment to long-term caregiving.
ON MIMO CHANNEL CAPACITY , SPATIAL SAMPLING AND THE LAWS OF ELECTROMAGNETISM

In this paper, we study the limitations imposed by the laws of electromagnetism on achievable MIMO channel capacity in its general form. Our approach is a two-fold one. First, we use the channel correlation argument to demonstrate that the minimum antenna spacing under any scattering conditions is at least half a wavelength. Secondly, using a plane-wave spectrum expansion of a generic electromagnetic wave combined with Nyquist sampling theorem in the spatial domain, we show that the laws of electromagnetism limit the minimum antenna spacing to half a wavelength, / 2 λ , (in the case of 1-D antenna apertures) only asymptotically, when the number of antennas n → ∞ . For a finite number of antennas, this limit is slightly less than / 2 λ . In any case, the number of antennas and, consequently, the MIMO capacity is limited for a given aperture size. This is a scenario-independent limit.
Blind Detection, Separation, and Location of Dense Co-Channel Emitters using Multiplatform Spatial-Coherence Restoral

The multiplatform spatial-coherence restoral (MP-SCORE) algorithm, introduced in 1988 to blindly separate spatially-coherent, temporally featureless signals based on their differing TDOA and FDOA at spatially separated antenna arrays, is extended to blind detection, separation, and location of dense co-channel emitters using wide-baseline collection networks. The original MP-SCORE algorithm is reviewed and related to the ML estimator of the location of a Gaussian-distributed source (or of the location and content of an unknown source) received in the presence of independent Gaussian-distributed interference with arbitrary spatial covariance at each array in the network. False-alarm and miss-rates for the corresponding MP-SCORE detector are also derived, and are shown to be a function of only the time-bandwidth product of the detector and the maximum source SENR attainable at each array in the network. Practical methods for detecting, separating, and locating multiple co-channel sources using MP-SCORE are then presented, and the end-to-end algorithm is demonstrated for a GPS C/A code jamming scenario in which two 8-sensor airborne receivers attempt to detect and locate 100 narrowband (2 MHz) noise-loaded emitters continuously transmitting over a wide (150times150 nmi) geographical region at the center of the GPS L1 frequency band. The simulated algorithm detects and geolocates 27 emitters to within 1/2 nmi over a single 26 ms snapshot, and detects and geolocates 38 emitters to within 445 feet over eleven 26 ms snapshots collected at 15 nmi intervals along the edge of the emission region
Postprandial lipid metabolism in relation to coronary heart disease

The issue of whether chylomicron remnants are atherogenic has been much debated. A number of reports, which will be discussed later, point to a relationship between impaired metabolism of postprandial triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins and the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD). For the purpose of standardization, the levels of plasma lipids and lipoproteins are generally measured in the fasting state, despite the fact that most of our lives are spent between regular meals. For obvious reasons, no consensus has been reached on how postprandial lipoproteins should be quantified in the clinical setting. A large body of studies from the 1950s and 1960s focused on plasma levels of triacylglycerols after a fatty meal in case-control studies. Unfortunately, the interest declined when it was found that the postprandial triacylglycerol level was closely reflected by fasting plasma concentrations (Nestel, 1964). A few fairly recent studies have used vitamin A supple-mentation of the test meal leading to retinyl ester (mainly retinyl palmitate; RP) incorporation into chylomicrons and their remnants as a means of tracing intestinal lipoproteins in plasma. It was shown that postprandial plasma concentrations of RP were higher in CAD patients than in healthy subjects (Simpson et al. 1990; Groot ef al. 1991). With the discovery of the normal truncated variant of apolipoprotein (apo) B, the apo B-48 which in human subjects is the structural protein of intestinally-derived triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins, a specific marker for chylomicrons and their remnants was found (Kane The simultaneous quantification of apo B-48 and apo B-100 in subfractions of triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins after fat intake has led to a better
Put me in coach: A transcendental phenomenological study examining School Wide Positive Behavior Support coaches' experience with program implementation

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to describe lived experience during School Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) implementation for School Wide Positive Behavior coaches in Pennsylvania public schools. Participants, identified as coresearchers throughout this study, included 11 SWPBS coaches selected from seven elementary schools who are implementing the program with fidelity, as defined by Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support Network (PAPBS, n.d.). The literature surrounding the SWPBS program is largely quantitative and does not include the coaches' experiences. Thus, this research filled an important gap in the literature on the crucial issue of providing positive behavior support that is facing schools across the United States today. The central question driving the study was: What are the coaches’ experiences during the school wide implementation year? Data was collected through individual face-to-face interviews, an online bulletin board focus group, and a document analysis comprised of letters written by each of the co-researcher coaches addressed to new or prospective SWPBS coaches giving them insight, advice, and information about this role. Throughout the study I practiced epoche by recording my personal experiences and thoughts in a journal. Data analysis followed Moustakas’ (1994) approach to phenomenological research by defining preliminary groupings though horizonalization, identifying themes, constructing structural and textural descriptions, and finally, producing the essence of the experience. The information gleaned from this study illustrated to schools how this program influenced those leading it within the school.