Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique.

Although personality research has made much progress in developing an individual-difference psychology of creativity, the nature of this phenomenon can only be fully illuminated if a social psychology of creativity is developed as well. Yet experimental studies of social and environmental influences on creativity are extremely rare. A major obstacle to such research is the criterion problem: the lack of a clear operational definition and an appropriate assessment methodology. For a variety of reasons, both the popular creativity tests and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of creativity is presented and, as a refinement of previous subjective methods, a reliable subjective assessment technique based on that definition is described. Several studies testing the methodology in both artistic and verbal domains are presented, and the advantages and limitations of this technique are discussed. The present methodology can be particularly useful for the development of a social psychology of creativity because of the nature of the tasks employed and the nature of the creativity assessments obtained. In the discussion, creativity assessment is considered as one instance illustrating the more general issue of the divergent aims and methods of personality psychology and social psychology.
Die revidierte Fassung des Eysenck Personality Questionnaire und die Konstruktion des deutschen EPQ-R bzw. EPQ-RK

Zusammenfassung: Der Bericht beschreibt die Konstruktion der deutschen Standard- und Kurzfassung des Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-revised (EPQ-R) von Eysenck und Eysenck (1991). Eine Pilotform des EPQ mit 140 Items wurde 2914 Probanden vorgelegt. Eine Faktorenanalyse der 100 Items der englischen Fassung erbringt in zwei nach Geschlecht getrennten Analysestichproben (N ≅ 800) jeweils die Eysenck'schen Superfaktoren. Die Ladungen der P-Skala erweisen sich jedoch durch Unterschiede in der Itemschwierigkeit verzerrt, so das eine Analyse mit maximumskorrigierten Koeffizienten durchgefuhrt wird. Aufgrund der Ergebnisse von Faktoren- und Itemanalysen werden die 102 bzw. 50 Items der deutschen Fassung bzw. deutschen Kurzfassung EPQ-RK ermittelt. Die Kennwerte werden in einer Replikationsstichprobe abgesichert. Die Skalen erweisen sich als reliabel; wahrend die innere Konsistenz der P-Skala geringer ausfallt, sind die Retest- und Testhalbierungsreliabilitaten der Kurz- und Standardskala gut. Die Alters- und G.
Siblings as Selfobjects in Childhood: An Interview Study of Factors and Consequences

This study explores the factors psychotherapists working with adult clients identify as contributing to their clients' use in childhood of relationships with siblings to meet selfobject needs or the use of clients by their siblings for selfobject purposes in childhood, and the consequences of this to the children's intrapsychic development as evidenced in their adult psychotherapy. Using interviews with six psychotherapists practicing within the framework of self psychology, this research determines that the emotional and physical unavailability of parents was a common factor causing children to use their siblings for selfobject purposes. The research also explores the lasting impact of these selfobject ties on the psychological development of both the child using a sibling for selfobject purposes and the child who serves this function for another, as well as the role of psychotherapy in understanding these relationships. These findings give psychotherapists from a variety of disciplines, including social work, an enhanced conceptual framework from which to consider the role of siblings in psychological development.
Subtle acquired renal injury as a mechanism of salt-sensitive hypertension.

Salt sensitivity is present in about half of people with essential hypertension; decreasing salt intake ameliorates the hypertension. This review provides an explanation of how initially subtle renal injury promotes a tendency toward hypertension. The kidneys, initially normal in many persons with early primary hypertension, sustain subclinical injury over time, resulting in arteriolosclerosis and tubulointerstitial disease that lead to established hypertension.
Investigation of Double-Band Electrophoretic Pattern of ITS-rDNA Region in Iranian Isolates of Leishmania tropica

Background Leishmania tropica is a genetically divergent species. Amplification of entire internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of L. tropica isolates obtained from Bam district, one of the well known focus of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in Iran, revealed a double-band pattern in agarose gel electrophoresis. This study explains how this pattern occurs. Methods Twenty seven L. tropica smear preparations were collected from Bam district, south east Iran, and eight L. major and one L. infantum smear preparations were gathered from Shiraz, south west Iran. Furthermore one L. major and one L. infantum cultured standard strains were tested using entire ITS-PCR to survey their electrophoretic pattern. The ITS sequences of L. tropica, L. major, and L. infantum already deposited in GenBank were analyzed. Analysis of GenBank sequences of L. tropica revealed two groups of sequences based on length size, one group having a 100 bp gap. Therefore, a new reverse primer namely LITS-MG was designed to exclude this gap in PCR products. Results Whole ITS fragment amplification resulted in a double-band pattern in all L. tropica cases, while a sharp single band was observed for L. infantum and L. major isolates. This result was corresponding to the result obtained from in silico analysis of GenBank sequences. Use of LITS-MG primer was expectedly resulted in a single band including ITS1, 5.8s and partial ITS2 product for L. tropica which is appropriate for following molecular studies such as sequencing or restriction analysis. Conclusion Sequences analysis of GenBank L. tropica sequences and following practical laboratory tests revealed at least two alleles in L. tropica which were confirmed in Bam isolates. This especial double-band pattern is because of a 100 bp fragment difference within ITS-rDNA alleles.
The Role of Organizational Culture in Organizational Innovation in Higher Education Institutions - A Study of Libyan Public Universities

This paper investigates the relationship between organizational culture types and organizational innovation and, in particular, to identify the type of culture that has the greatest impact on organizational innovation in higher education institutions in Libya. In the paper, two critical variables related to the organization are given emphasize: (a) organizational culture, and (b) organizational innovation. A few studies have introduced evidence on the role of organizational culture in organizational innovation (Obenchain & Johnson, 2004). Furthermore, the study proposed that four culture types are related with organizational innovation types. To test the hypotheses, data were collected from 390 employees in higher education institutions in Libya. Respondents for the study included executives, administrators, and faculty members at three universities located in Tripoli, Benghazi, and Sirte. The researcher had used the Competing Values Model (Cameron & Quinn, 1999) to develop a research framework, and has employed a quantitative method to determine the relationship between organizational culture and organizational innovation within universities in Libya. The regression analysis results suggest that the clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy culture types were significant predictors of organizational innovation types. Specifically, market culture had the greatest impact on technical innovation as the dependent variable. Likewise, the hierarchy culture had the greatest impact on administrative innovation as the dependent variable.
Improved EXIT Analysis for Turbo Decoding

Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart is a useful tool for analyzing iterative decoding behavior. One crucial challenge in realizing it is that a precise estimate of the probability density function (PDF) of the extrinsic information at the output of a soft-input soft-output decoder must be made to obtain mutual information. To achieve this, we employed a kernel density estimator (KDE), as opposed to using the traditional histogram estimator, when a fairly small interleaver size is available. Simulation results showed that the KDE approach outperformed the histogram method for estimating the PDF in the EXIT band analysis in terms of bit error rate prediction.
Natural hazard preparedness in an Auckland community: child and community perceptions

Community engagement in natural hazard preparedness is crucial to ensure sustainable initiatives. Children are important members of communities, and can actively contribute to community preparedness. This article presents research undertaken with 11- to 12-year-old students from a school in Auckland, New Zealand, and leaders associated with the school community regarding their perceptions of the role of schools, communities and children in natural hazard preparedness. The findings show that the students believe they can be effective in promoting preparedness in their school, homes and community, and act as leaders in this capacity. Community leaders stated that preparedness actions should be culturally relevant, community initiated and owned and inclusive of child perspectives. From the combined perspectives of students and community leaders, this work concludes that emergency management must engage in culturally responsive ways with Māori and Pacific communities to enable community preparedness initiatives that are tailored to the cultural values and practices of communities most at risk from natural hazards. Further, it concludes that children have an important voice in community preparedness, which could be encouraged through school and community initiatives.
Physiological and Proteomic Responses of Different Willow Clones (Salix fragilis X alba) Exposed to Dredged Sediment Contaminated by Heavy Metals

High biomass producing species are considered as tools for remediation of contaminated soils. Willows (Salix spp.) are prominent study subjects in this regard. In this study, different willow clones (Salix fragilis x alba) were planted on heavy-metal polluted dredging sludge. A first objective was assessment of the biomass production for these clones. Using a Gupta statistic, four clones were identified as high biomass producers (HBP). For comparison, a group of four clones with lowest biomass production were selected (LBP). A second objective was to compare metal uptake as well as the physiological and proteomic responses of these two groups. All these complementary data's allow us to have a better picture of the health of the clones that would be used in phytoremediation programs. Cd, Zn, and Ni total uptake was higher in the HBPs but Pb total uptake was higher in LBPs. Our proteomic and physiological results showed that the LBPs were able to maintain cellular activity as much as the HBPs although the oxidative stress response was more pronounced in the LBPs. This could be due to the high Pb content found in this group although a combined effect of the other metals cannot be excluded.
Herschel/PACS photometry of transiting-planet host stars with candidate warm debris disks

Dust in debris disks is produced by colliding or evaporating planetesimals, which are remnants of the planet formation process. Warm dust disks, known by their emission at ≤24 μm, are rare (4% of FGK main sequence stars) and especially interesting because they trace material in the region likely to host terrestrial planets, where the dust has a very short dynamical lifetime. Statistical analyses of the source counts of excesses as found with the mid-IR Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) suggest that warm-dust candidates found for the Kepler transiting-planet host-star candidates can be explained by extragalactic or galactic background emission aligned by chance with the target stars. These statistical analyses do not exclude the possibility that a given WISE excess could be due to a transient dust population associated with the target. Here we report Herschel/PACS 100 and 160 micron follow-up observations of a sample of Kepler and non-Kepler transiting-planet candidates’ host stars, with candidate WISE warm debris disks, aimed at detecting a possible cold debris disk in any one of them. No clear detections were found in any one of the objects at either wavelength. Our upper limits confirm that most objects in the sample do not have a massive debris disk like that in β Pic. We also show that the planet-hosting star WASP-33 does not have a debris disk comparable to the one around η Crv. Although the data cannot be used to rule out rare warm disks around the Kepler planet-hosting candidates, the lack of detections and the characteristics of neighboring emission found at far-IR wavelengths support an earlier result suggesting that most of the WISE-selected IR excesses around Kepler candidate host stars are likely due to either chance alignment with background IR-bright galaxies and/or to interstellar emission.
Religion and older men in prison

The objective of the study was to examine the religious characteristics and background of inmates age 50 or over confined to a federal correctional institution. Ninety‐six of 106 eligible inmates (91%) consented and received complete evaluations. Forensic, demographic and health data were collected on all inmates, including detailed information on religious affiliation, background, belief, public and private activities, experience, intrinsic religiosity and religious coping. Over 80% of inmates were currently affiliated with a denomination different from the one in which they were raised, with a net movement from conservative Protestant to mainline traditions. Contrary to expectation, religious characteristics of older inmates were not greatly different from those of non‐incarcerated older adults. There was weak support for a relationship between religiousness and positive forensic factors (first prison term, fewer disciplinary actions). Religion was reported by 32% of inmates to be the most important factor that enabled them to cope. Inmates' intrinsic religiosity and perceived importance of religion to their primary caretaker (person who raised them) were both inversely related to depressive symptoms. This study suggests that religious background, belief, activities, experience and intrinsic religiosity are important factors to the adjustment and behavior of older prisoners.
Statistical analysis of GA based PID controller optimization for robotic manipulator

The robotic manipulators have extensively been used in many industry like manufacturing, assembly etc., space and medical applications for the purpose of pick and place, positioning and path following etc. This requires accurate control of an end-effector of robotic manipulators as these are Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO), nonlinear and coupled systems. Being complex in nature tuning of the controllers is a critical issue and have been an area of research in the control community. In this paper, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used for optimization of gains of the two Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers applied to each link of a two-link planar rigid robotic manipulator. Performance indices namely Integral Square of Error (ISE) and Integral Square of Change in Controller Output (ISCCO) with equal weightage for both the links are considered for optimization. As GA is a global search technique, normally there are several solutions available in a given search space for same performance indices. The PID controllers used in the said two-link planar rigid robotic manipulator were optimized 2000 times and a statistical analysis is carried out on the obtained optimal gains and fitness function values to estimate the diversity of optimized solutions. The motivation behind this simulation study has been to provide an overall knowledge to the user for choosing the appropriate controller gains yielding suitable controller signals which should be preferred for system design specifications and cost effective hardware implementation of robotic manipulators while maintaining the desired tracking performance.
Mobile phones and information capture in the workplace

Smartphones (mobile phones with downloadable applications) are being used for far more than making calls and reading email. We investigated the use of phones for information capture for work purposes through interviews, multiple free response surveys, and two multiple choice surveys. While we expected and found taking pictures to be useful for work, we were surprised at the extent of audio, video, and note taking done on the phone, and the impact on other devices. Our work also suggests future mobile information capture for work will increase more due to cultural changes than technological improvements.
Human Characteristics and School Learning

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Assessment of efficacy of endovascular embolization for central arteriovenous malformations (AVM) in the jaw.

OBJECTIVE To study the angiographic properties of central AVMs in the jaw, and to investigate the efficacy of embolization of them. METHODS Eleven cases of central AVMs underwent angiography and embolization, nine cases experienced surgery after embolization, and the other two cases were embolized alone; all these cases were followed up after treatment. The angiographic features and embolization results were analyzed. RESULTS Large venous pouches were angiographically opacified in 9 of 11 AVMs. Of the nine operated cases, curettage was safely performed. The intraoperative bleeding was evidently decreased, and the continuity of the jaw was preserved. Five of these operated cases were free of recurrence during 18 - 27 months in follow-up. The two cases embolized alone were free of recurrence during 24 months' follow-up. CONCLUSIONS Via arterial and venous approaches, embolization could greatly decrease the intraoperative bleeding and thus help to preserve the continuity and potentiality of development of the jaw for intraosseous AVMs, moreover, it may be curative in some cases.
The Role of Sales and Marketing in Market-Oriented Companies

Since little is known about whether both marketing and sales functions pay off in market-oriented companies, this research analyzes the interaction between market orientation and the departmental power of marketing and sales within the firm. Data collected across five industries on the marginal effect of marketing’s departmental power on business performance show that market-oriented companies benefit from a strong marketing function, but a powerful marketing department cannot compensate for low levels of market orientation. Surprisingly, the power of sales impedes successful market orientation implementation. This has important implications for future sales management research. We highlight the significance of these findings for both theory and practice.
Test of a model of coping with involuntary job loss following a company closing.

This study presented and tested a model of response to involuntary job loss based on R. S. Lazarus and S. Folkman's (1984) theory of stress, appraisal, and coping. The sample included 202 individuals who provided self-report survey data at approximately 6 and 12 months following a company closing. Structural equation modeling provided support for the fit of the overall model and partial support for the hypotheses. Specifically, results indicated that coping resources are related both to the cognitive appraisal of job loss and the coping strategies developed in response to job loss, cognitive appraisal is related to the use of coping strategies, and coping strategies are related both to the level of distress felt by the individual and to the level of reemployment attained.
of the 2 nd International Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories and the 1 st International Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization for the Future

Knowledge based applications require linguistic, terminological and ontological resources. These applications are used to fulfill a set of tasks such as semantic indexing, knowledge extraction from text, information retrieval, etc. Using these resources and combining them for the same application is a tedious task with different levels of complexity. This requires their representation in a common language, extracting the required knowledge and designing effective large scale storage structures offering operators for resources management. For instance, ontology repositories were created to address these issues by collecting heterogeneous ontologies. They generally offer a more effective indexing of these resources than general search engines by generating alignments and annotations to ensure their interoperability. However, these repositories treat a single category of resources and do not provide operations for reusing them. The aim of this research is building a large repository of knowledge resources. This repository is a collection of heterogenous resources represented in different languages and offers a set of operations to generate new resources based on the existing ones.
Clinical response augments NK cell activity independent of treatment modality: a randomized double-blind placebo controlled antidepressant trial

Background. Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been associated with alterations in immune function. Suppression of natural killer (NK) cell activity (NKCA) reliably characterizes immunological alterations observed in MDD. Antidepressant pharmacotherapy has been associated with modulation of NKCA. Previous investigations into antidepressant modulation of NKCA have not employed randomized double-blind placebo controlled designs. Thus, it is unknown whether treatment-associated changes in immune function are due to drug, placebo, or spontaneous remission effects. The present investigation examined the effect of antidepressant treatment on NKCA utilizing a randomized double-blind placebo controlled experimental design. Method. Patients (N=16) met DSM-IV criteria for MDD and were randomly assigned to drug (N=8; citalopram, 20 mg/day) or placebo (N=8) under double-blind conditions. Severity and pattern of depressive symptoms were assessed by the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS). NK cell function was measured using a standard chromium-release assay and NK cell number assessed by flow cytometry. HDRS scores, NK cell function, and NK cell numbers were collected at 0, 1, 2 and 4 weeks of treatment. Results. Clinical response was associated with augmented NKCA independent of treatment condition. Failure to respond to treatment resulted in significantly reduced NKCA over treatment interval. Conclusions. The present results suggest that alterations in the depressive syndrome, regardless of therapeutic modality, may be sufficient to modulate NKCA during antidepressant trials and thus may significantly impact on co-morbid health outcomes in MDD.