Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Personality Variables as Correlates of Marital Adjustment among Married Persons in Delta State of Nigeria.

This study examined the extent to which emotional expression, communication flow, financial management and work involvement predict marital adjustment among married persons in Delta State, Nigeria. One question was raised and one hypothesis was formulated to guide the study. 2561 married persons were selected through the use of purposive sampling technique to participate in the study. Data were gathered using a questionnaire titled “Marital adjustment and Personality Types Inventory (MAPTI). It has a reliability of . 90. The analysis of the data generated from the respondents revealed that emotional expression, financial management, communication flow, works involvement are significant correlates and predictors of marital adjustment. Consequently, it was recommended that counseling services should focus on acquisition of skills for the general improvement of marital interaction among married persons.
The Importance of Transformational Leadership Behaviors in Team Mental Model Similarity, Team Efficacy, and Intra-Team Conflict

Using data from 36 combat teams, we examined how transformational leadership is connected with team mental model (TMM) similarity. In addition, we investigated the mediating role of TMM similarity and team efficacy in the link between transformational leadership and intra-team conflict. Data analysis revealed that well-defined transformational leadership behaviors were positively associated with TMM similarity, whereas TMM similarity was positively connected with team efficacy. Results also indicated that higher levels of team efficacy were associated with lower levels of intra-team conflict (task, relationship, and process). In addition, both TMM similarity and team efficacy mediated the link between transformational leadership and intra-team conflict. Implications of findings are discussed.
MORPHOLOGY MATTERS IN LEARNING TO READ: A COMMENTARY

This paper provides a review of current research on the relevance of morphological awareness to reading and reading instruction. On the assumption that many educators are relatively unfamiliar with morphology, children’s development of awareness of the morphemic structure of words is discussed, as is the need for children to learn strategies that will help them read, spell, and understand morphologically complex words. Educational practices and implications, based on theory and research findings, are presented. Results suggest that educators and educational researchers need to incorporate more word study into reading and spelling programs, focusing attention to both form and meaning. In addition, the value of instructional goals and programs in morphological awareness for children in the early elementary years needs to be explored.
Soluble aggregates of the amyloid-peptide are trapped by serum albumin to enhance amyloid-activation of endothelial cells

Background: Self-assembly of the amyloid- peptide (A) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As a result, synthetic molecules capable of inhibiting A self-assembly could serve as therapeutic agents and endogenous molecules that modulate A self-assembly may influence disease progression. However, increasing evidence implicating a principal pathogenic role for small soluble A aggregates warns that inhibition at intermediate stages of A self-assembly may prove detrimental. Here, we explore the inhibition of A1–40 self-assembly by serum albumin, the most abundant plasma protein, and the influence of this inhibition on A1–40 activation of endothelial cells for monocyte adhesion. Results: It is demonstrated that serum albumin is capable of inhibiting in a dose-dependent manner both the formation of A1–40 aggregates from monomeric peptide and the ongoing growth of A1–40 fibrils. Inhibition of fibrillar A1–40 aggregate growth is observed at substoichiometric concentrations, suggesting that serum albumin recognizes aggregated forms of the peptide to prevent monomer addition. Inhibition of A1–40 monomer aggregation is observed down to stoichiometric ratios with partial inhibition leading to an increase in the population of small soluble aggregates. Such partial inhibition of A1–40 aggregation leads to an increase in the ability of resulting aggregates to activate endothelial cells for adhesion of monocytes. In contrast, A1–40 activation of endothelial cells for monocyte adhesion is reduced when more complete inhibition is observed. Conclusion: These results demonstrate that inhibitors of A self-assembly have the potential to trap small soluble aggregates resulting in an elevation rather than a reduction of cellular responses. These findings provide further support that small soluble aggregates possess high levels of physiological activity and underscore the importance of resolving the effect of A aggregation inhibitors on aggregate size. Published: 27 April 2009 Journal of Biological Engineering 2009, 3:5 doi:10.1186/1754-1611-3-5 Received: 29 December 2008 Accepted: 27 April 2009 This article is available from: http://www.jbioleng. org/content/3/1/5 © 2009 Barcelo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Distributed Adaptive Multimedia Delivery in Kendra

Currently Metadata is used to locate information on the Internet. The Kendra project’s aim is to exploit metadata further by using it to drive the adaptation of Internet data distribution and delivery architectures. The central hypothesis is that metadata not only can increase retrieval effectiveness but also improve delivery performance and address its temporal characteristics. We are developing a distributed multi-media delivery system which utilises intelligent, distributed caching mechanisms to improve availability, performance and reliability while minimising storage space and network utilisation. In this paper we introduce a metadata reference model for multimedia entertainment data. We show how the model permits specification of metadata describing not only configurations of the delivery system tailored to the data being delivered, thus improving performance, but also adaptations, allowing the delivery system to respond to a degradation in its environment by reconfiguring itself. We illustrate our approach by describing an Internet audio-on-demand service.
Daily Aa‐nat Gene Expression in the Camel (Camelus dromedarius) Pineal Gland

Arylalkylamine N‐acetyltransferase (AA‐NAT) is the rhythm‐generating enzyme for the synthesis of pineal melatonin. Molecular investigations have revealed two biological models for the activation of AA‐NAT. In rodent species, Aa‐nat gene transcription is turned off during the daytime and markedly activated at night. In primates, sheep, and cows, the Aa‐nat gene is constitutively transcripted with no visible daily variations. This inter‐species difference in Aa‐nat gene regulation leads to different daily profiles in melatonin synthesis and release. Thus, the nighttime onset of the rise in circulating melatonin is delayed and slow in rodents, whereas it is fast and sharp in sheep. In the camel (Camelus dromedarius), we have observed that circulating melatonin rises immediately after sunset, suggesting AA‐NAT activity is regulated at the post‐transcriptional level. In agreement with this hypothesis, we report herein the amount of Aa‐nat mRNA in the camel pineal gland is high, during both the day and night with no daily variations, while melatonin concentration in the same pineal tissue is five times higher during the night than daytime. (Author correspondence: simonneaux@neurochem.u-strasbg.fr)
“There Was a Child Went Forth” Commentary on Paper by Steven Stern

In this discussion of Stern's rich and thoughtful contribution to the dialogue between unified- and multiple-self theories, I refer to his earlier conceptualization of repeated and needed relationships. I thus highlight how his current model strikes me as shifting his emphasis toward identificatory factors, both in development and in clinical process, and away from the working through, or negotiation of, repetitions of relational configurations. Through Stern's clinical examples, I engage dialogue about how his construct of an “intersubjective self” relates to the qualities of multiplicity he accounts for in his theory. And I consider the implications for clinical technique of favoring identificatory influences over the analyst's living through the experience of transference repetitions with the patient and thereby introducing ameliorating responses from within, rather than from a stance more external to, embeddedness in transference–countertransference repetitions.
Three-Dimensional Kinematics during the Take-Off Phase in Competitive Long Jumping

The purpose of the present study was to identify the relationships among selected kinematic variables that affect the take-off phase and performance in elite jumpers. The jump distance was found to be related to: I) the athlete's approach speed before the instant of touch down; and ii) the exchange in spatial velocity components at take-off, which results in a gain in maximum vertical velocity of the centre of mass (CM), favoured by the use of an optimum touch-down angle of the take-off leg, an active landing of the foot at touch-down, and a motion of the take-off leg during the compression phase that helps to manage the loss of horizontal velocity. Nonetheless, the results show that an adequate velocity transformation requires an adaptive technical model to help jumpers to build an efficient individual technical pattern.
Strain Energy Harvesting Powered Wireless Sensor System Using Adaptive and Energy-Aware Interface for Enhanced Performance

This paper presents a wireless sensor system (WSS) powered by a strain energy harvester (SEH) through the introduction of an adaptive and energy-aware interface (EAI) for enhanced performance under variable vibration conditions. The interface is realized by an adaptive power management module for maximum power transfer under different loading conditions and an EAI, which manages the energy flow from the storage capacitor to the WSS for dealing with the mismatch between energy demanded and energy harvested. The focus is to realize high harvested power and high efficiency of the system under variable vibration conditions, and an aircraft wing structure is taken as a study scenario. The SEH powered WSS was tested under different peak-to-peak strain loadings from 300 to 600 µ <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\varepsilon$</tex-math></inline-formula> and vibrational frequencies from 2 to 10 Hz to verify the system performance on energy generation and distribution, system efficiency, and capability of powering a custom-developed WSS. Comparative studies of using different circuit configurations with and without the interface were also performed to verify the advantages of the introduced interface. Experimental results showed that under the applied loading of 600 µ<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\varepsilon$</tex-math> </inline-formula> at 10 Hz, the SEH generates 0.5 mW of power without the interface while having around 670% increase to 3.38 mW with the interface, which highlights the value of the interface. The implemented system has an overall efficiency of 70 to 80%, a long active time of more than 1 s, and duty cycle of up to 11.85% for vibration measurement under all the tested conditions.
Mechanical properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes reinforced polymer nanocomposites

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs ) are considered to be one of the novel reinforcement for developing advanced nanocomposites due to their outstanding thermo-mechanical properties. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs ) are developed by arc discharge method. To enhance the dispersion of CNTs in polymer matrix, CNTs are modified with chemical treatment and processed by ultrasonication process. Surface characterization of CNTs is examined by XPS technique to confirm the different functional groups attached to the surface. Epoxy based polymer composites are developed by dispersing of pristine and surface modified CNTs as reinforcement in different concentrations varying from 0.2 to 1.0 wt% and found that with 1 wt% gives the best result. Detailed rheological studies are carried out to know the dispersion of CNTs in matrix. FESEM studies are carried out to observe the morphology of reinforcing materials as well as its dispersion in the polymer matrix and the effect of reinforcement on fractography is also investigated. The thermal stability of the composites is measured using thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) and observed that composites made with surface modified CNT showed higher thermal stability as compared with pure epoxy and pristine CNTs. Enhancement in flexural properties is observed with surface modified CNTs.
Assembling an intermediate filament network by dynamic cotranslation

We have been able to observe the dynamic interactions between a specific messenger RNA (mRNA) and its protein product in vivo by studying the synthesis and assembly of peripherin intermediate filaments (IFs). The results show that peripherin mRNA-containing particles (messenger ribonucleoproteins [mRNPs]) move mainly along microtubules (MT). These mRNPs are translationally silent, initiating translation when they cease moving. Many peripherin mRNPs contain multiple mRNAs, possibly amplifying the total amount of protein synthesized within these “translation factories. ” This mRNA clustering is dependent on MT, regulatory sequences within the RNA and the nascent protein. Peripherin is cotranslationally assembled into insoluble, nonfilamentous particles that are precursors to the long IF that form extensive cytoskeletal networks. The results show that the motility and targeting of peripherin mRNPs, their translational control, and the assembly of an IF cytoskeletal system are linked together in a process we have termed dynamic cotranslation.
A comparison of the varieties of West African Pidgin English

: In recent years, a number of studies on the national varieties of West African Standard English have taken a comparative perspective, mostly dealing with phonetics (e.g. Simo Bobda, 1995, 2000a, b, 2003; Simo Bobda et al., 1999), but also with the lexicon (Wolf and Igboanusi, 2003). Similar efforts with respect to the national varieties of Pidgin English spoken in West Africa. i.e. Ghanaian Pidgin English, Nigerian Pidgin English, and Cameroon Pidgin English, have been lacking so far, if one disregards the listing of diagnostic features in Huber (1999) and some implicit comparisons in Njeuma (1995). Our paper is intended to be the first descriptive and systematic account of features that distinguish these varieties from one another. Considering differences on the phonetic, grammatical, and lexical level, we will draw from findings by other linguists who have investigated individual varieties of West African Pidgin English (e.g. Huber, 1999 on Ghanaian Pidgin English; Elugbe and Omamor, 1991 and Faraclas, 1996 on Nigerian Pidgin English; and Mbassi-Manga, 1973 and de Feral, 1989 on Cameroon Pidgin English), but also on our own research, which is based on dozens of interviews with speakers of West African Pidgin English.
The Trauma Treatment Game: Design Constraints for Serious Games in Psychotherapy

Serious games deliver interactive worlds in support of a wide range of application areas. Addressing the current paucity of scientific empirical studies in game-based psychotherapy, we address scientific and methodological challenges and their implications for the design of serious games for this domain. We do so in the context of a comprehensive multistage design process that preceded the final game concept of the "Trauma Treatment Game", a serious game to support individualised interventions to children of age eight to twelve suffering from trauma.
Experimental and Analytical Study of Xeon Phi Reliability

We present an in-depth analysis of transient faults effects on HPC applications in Intel Xeon Phi processors based on radiation experiments and high-level fault injection. Besides measuring the realistic error rates of Xeon Phi, we quantify Silent Data Corruption (SDCs) by correlating the distribution of corrupted elements in the output to the application’s characteristics. We evaluate the benefits of imprecise computing for reducing the programs’ error rate. For example, for HotSpot a 0.5% tolerance in the output value reduces the error rate by 85%. We inject different fault models to analyze the sensitivity of given applications. We show that portions of applications can be graded by different criticalities. For example, faults occurring in the middle of LUD execution, or in the Sort and Tree portions of CLAMR, are more critical than the remaining portions. Mitigation techniques can then be relaxed or hardened based on the criticality of the particular portions.CCS CONCEPTS• Computer systems organization → Parallel architectures; • Hardware → Fault tolerance;
Lossy Compression via Sparse Linear Regression: Computationally Efficient Encoding and Decoding

We propose computationally efficient encoders and decoders for lossy compression using a sparse regression code. The codebook is defined by a design matrix and codewords are structured linear combinations of columns of this matrix. The proposed encoding algorithm sequentially chooses columns of the design matrix to successively approximate the source sequence. It is shown to achieve the optimal distortion-rate function for independent identically distributed (i.i.d) Gaussian sources under the squared-error distortion criterion. For a given rate, the parameters of the design matrix can be varied to tradeoff distortion performance with encoding complexity. An example of such a tradeoff as a function of the block length n is the following. With computational resource (space or time) per source sample of O((n/log n)2), for a fixed distortion-level above the Gaussian distortion-rate function, the probability of excess distortion decays exponentially in n. The sparse regression code is robust in the following sense: for any ergodic source, the proposed encoder achieves the optimal distortion-rate function of an i.i. d Gaussian source with the same variance. Simulations show that the encoder has good empirical performance, especially at low and moderate rates.
Bias in Meta-Analytic Estimates of the Absolute Efficacy of Psychotherapy

Meta-analytic estimates of the absolute efficacy of psychotherapy indicate an effect size of approximately 0.80. However, various biases in primary and meta-analytic studies may have influenced this estimate. This study examines 4 nonsystematic biases that increase error variance (i.e., nonrandomized designs, methodological deficiencies, failure to use the study as the unit of analysis, and violations of homogeneity), 4 underestimation biases that primarily concern psychometric issues (i.e., unreliability of outcome measures, failure to report nonsignificant effect sizes, nonoptimal composite outcome measures, and nonstandardized outcome measures), and 8 overestimation biases (i.e., excluding nonsignificant effects from calculations of effect size estimates, failure to adjust for small sample bias, failure to separate studies using single-group pre–post designs vs. control group designs, using unweighted average effect sizes, analyzing biased partial samples that reflect treatment dropout and research attrition, researcher allegiance bias, publication bias, and wait-list control group bias). Wherever possible, evidence regarding the magnitude of these biases is presented, and methods for addressing these biases separately and collectively are discussed. Implications of the meta-analytic evidence on psychotherapy for the effect sizes of other psychological interventions are also considered.
Machiavellianism, Job Satisfaction, Job Strain, and Upward Mobility: Some Cross-Organizational Evidence

Machiavellianism is shown to be consistently related to job satisfaction and job strain across a variety of organizational settings, including 34 managers of a small, family-owned firm and 52 managers in a state government agency. Consistent, but modest, trends with organizational mobility are also demonstrated. Factors which may account for differences in the magnitude of these relationships are suggested.
Tipping the Scale from Disorder to Alpha-helix: Folding of Amphiphilic Peptides in the Presence of Macroscopic and Molecular Interfaces

Secondary amphiphilicity is inherent to the secondary structural elements of proteins. By forming energetically favorable contacts with each other these amphiphilic building blocks give rise to the formation of a tertiary structure. Small proteins and peptides, on the other hand, are usually too short to form multiple structural elements and cannot stabilize them internally. Therefore, these molecules are often found to be structurally ambiguous up to the point of a large degree of intrinsic disorder in solution. Consequently, their conformational preference is particularly susceptible to environmental conditions such as pH, salts, or presence of interfaces. In this study we use molecular dynamics simulations to analyze the conformational behavior of two synthetic peptides, LKKLLKLLKKLLKL (LK) and EAALAEALAEALAE (EALA), with built-in secondary amphiphilicity upon forming an alpha-helix. We use these model peptides to systematically study their aggregation and the influence of macroscopic and molecular interfaces on their conformational preferences. We show that the peptides are neither random coils in bulk water nor fully formed alpha helices, but adopt multiple conformations and secondary structure elements with short lifetimes. These provide a basis for conformation-selection and population-shift upon environmental changes. Differences in these peptides’ response to macroscopic and molecular interfaces (presented by an aggregation partner) can be linked to their inherent alpha-helical tendencies in bulk water. We find that the peptides’ aggregation behavior is also strongly affected by presence or absence of an interface, and rather subtly depends on their surface charge and hydrophobicity.
Combining Association Measures for Collocation Extraction

We introduce the possibility of combining lexical association measures and present empirical results of several methods employed in automatic collocation extraction. First, we present a comprehensive summary overview of association measures and their performance on manually annotated data evaluated by precision-recall graphs and mean average precision. Second, we describe several classification methods for combining association measures, followed by their evaluation and comparison with individual measures. Finally, we propose a feature selection algorithm significantly reducing the number of combined measures with only a small performance degradation.
Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar

We introduce the task of incremental semantic role labeling (iSRL), in which semantic roles are assigned to incomplete input (sentence prefixes). iSRL is the semantic equivalent of incremental parsing, and is useful for language modeling, sentence completion, machine translation, and psycholinguistic modeling. We propose an iSRL system that combines an incremental TAG parser with a semantically enriched lexicon, a role propagation algorithm, and a cascade of classifiers. Our approach achieves an SRL Fscore of 78.38% on the standard CoNLL 2009 dataset. It substantially outperforms a strong baseline that combines gold-standard syntactic dependencies with heuristic role assignment, as well as a baseline based on Nivre’s incremental dependency parser.