Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Work–Family Conflict and Facilitation on Women’s Perceptions of Role Balance

This study investigated married women’s feelings of balance between their occupational and family roles. Data from 274 married and full-time employed women were collected and structural equation modeling techniques were used to assess the connection between their work and leisure lives, work–family conflict and work–family facilitation, and role balance. Women’s satisfaction with their experiences at work and at home, the time they spent in each sphere, and the social support they received from others in each domain were considered. Women’s satisfaction with their workplace and family experiences, most notably, spousal support, were positively related to feelings of role balance. The results of this study suggested that satisfaction with experience in one sphere is stronger and more important than the hours spent doing activities in that sphere when accounting for married women’s role balance.
Is Science Progressive

1. The Nature of Science. - 2. How is Philosophy Possible as a Science? - 3. Notes on Popper as Follower of Whewell and Peirce. - 4. The Evolution of Knowledge. - 5. Scientific Progress. - 6. The Growth of Theories: Comments on the Structuralist Approach. - 7. Truthlikeness, Realism, and Progressive Theory-Change. - 8. The Growth of Knowledge in Mathematics. - 9. Realism, Worldmaking, and the Social Sciences. - 10. Finalization, Applied Science, and Science Policy. - 11. Paradigms and Problem-Solving in Operations Research. - 12. Remarks on Technological Progress. - Index of Names.
Salesperson's listening ability as an antecedent to relationship selling

Purpose – In this study, active empathetic listening is purposed as being an antecedent to a salesperson's communication skill, ability to maintain quality relationships and build trust. The study proposes that communication skill, relationship quality and trust all moderate the relationship between AEL and sales performance.Design/methodology/approach – Survey research using salespersons was conducted; structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses of the model.Findings – The findings confirmed that AEL was positively related to salespersons' communication skills, relationship quality and trust. The proposed moderators of communication and trust received support when predicting sales performance.Research limitations/implications – This was the first empirical study to examine the role of AEL in a relationship selling model. AEL was found to directly affect levels of trust, relationship quality and overall communication skills of salespeople. More research on the role of AEL in the relations.
Social anxiety in learning: stages of change in a sample of UK undergraduates

Social anxiety in learning is prevalent amongst traditional-age students and has a marked effect on their engagement with higher education. It receives little attention from academic or support services and there is a presumption that students will manage their anxieties. Yet it is unclear what psychosocial resources they might bring to this task and how these may develop through the undergraduate years. This study sought to identify possible change processes in student social anxiety by analysing qualitative responses obtained from Level 2 undergraduate students (n=39) in relation to their experience of learning situations such as lectures, seminars and group presentations. Thematic analysis suggested a four-stage developmental progression for students in terms of their experience and orientation to coping with social anxiety. Implications for staff development and student support are outlined.
Are hormone levels and cognitive ability related during early adolescence?

The present study assessed the longstanding question of whether there is a relationship between sex hormones and cognitive ability in young adolescent girls and boys. Three “theories” of the relationship between hormone levels and cognition were identi” ed from a broad literature base and were used to formulate hypotheses regarding the relationship between sex hormones and cognitive ability in early adolescents. Fifty-six boys, aged 10-14, and 52 girls, aged 9-14, completed two standardised spatial ability tests and one standardised test of verbal ability. Three blood samples, at 20-minute intervals, were obtained to determine levels of estradiol and testosterone. Data were collected on three occasions for all measures at 6-month intervals. A positive linear relationship between testosterone and spatial ability was identi” ed for boys at each time of measurement for both measures of spatial ability (i.e., mental rotation and block design). For girls, a positive linear relationship was identi” ed between testosterone and mental rotation only at time 3. In addition, longitudinal relationships were identi” ed between change in testosterone levels and change in spatial ability for both girls and boys. The conclusion was that testosterone is related to cognitive functioning during pubertal development for boys and to a lesser extent for girls.
Electrophysiological correlates of morphological processing in Chinese compound word recognition

The present study investigated the electrophysiological correlates of morphological processing in Chinese compound word reading using a delayed repetition priming paradigm. Participants were asked to passively view lists of two-character compound words containing prime-target pairs separated by a few items. In a Whole Word repetition condition, the prime and target were the same real words (e.g., , manager-manager). In a Constituent repetition condition, the prime and target were swapped in terms of their constituent position (e.g., , the former is a pseudo-word and the later means nurse). Two ERP components including N200 and N400 showed repetition effects. The N200 showed a negative shift upon repetition in the Whole Word condition but this effect was delayed for the Constituent condition. The N400 showed comparable amplitude reduction across the two priming conditions. The results reveal different aspects of morphological processing with an early stage associated with N200 and a late stage with N400. There was also a possibility that the N200 effect reflect general cognitive processing, i.e., the detection of low-probability stimuli.
Combining multiple segmentation methods for improving the segmentation accuracy

In this paper, an alternative method based on decision fusion is presented to improve the segmentation accuracy. The proposed method concludes multiple methods instead of a single one. It consists of a set of segmentation methods that are consulted in parallel. The decisions of the various methods are then combined by a fusion module. The individual methods, in this case, are capable of independent and simultaneous operation. Then, we apply and compare the fusion schemes to the area of image segmentation. We seek answers to the questions: Can combining multiple segmentation methods achieve better, final partitioning of an image? If so, how much is this improvement? And which fusion scheme may perform best of all?
Identification of genes transcribed by Pasteurella multocida in rabbit livers through the selective capture of transcribed sequences.

Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative nonmotile coccobacillus, is the causative agent of fowl cholera in poultry, hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle, atropic rhinitis in swine, and snuffles in rabbits. The differentially expressed gene profile of P. multocida in infected rabbit livers was identified and compared with that from in vitro culture by selective capture of transcribed sequences. A total of 31 genes were identified, of which 28 encoded enzymes for amino acid biosynthesis and metabolism, intermediary metabolism, and energy metabolism, or proteins for regulatory adaptive responses, general microbial stress response, transport proteins, and secreted proteinases. Three were unknown, novel genes. Five genes representing different categories were chosen randomly and verified by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis. All were upregulated by P. multocida in infected rabbit livers, with changes ranging from 1.61- to 13.55-fold when compared with in vitro cultures. This study has identified genes of P. multocida that are upregulated during infection of rabbit livers when compared with in vitro growth conditions. The genes will provide a molecular basis for further study of the pathogenesis of P. multocida.
A Quantitative Comparison of 5‐Aminolaevulinic Acid‐ and Methyl Aminolevulinate‐Induced Fluorescence, Photobleaching and Pain During Photodynamic Therapy

The characteristics of protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) fluorescence in superficial basal cell carcinoma (sBCC) and carcinoma in situ (Bowen’s Disease, BD) following application of 5‐aminolaevulinic acid (5‐ALA) and its methyl ester (methyl aminolevulinate [MAL]) before, during and after photodynamic therapy (PDT) were investigated in 40 patients. Photosensitizer prodrug penetration can limit PDT efficacy and understanding the characteristics of PPIX fluorescence through fluorescence spectroscopy, may improve knowledge of photosensitizer delivery. Fluorescence intensity was assessed quantitatively, and the rate of photobleaching was determined by fitting an exponential decay. As a secondary end‐point, PDT‐induced pain was also measured continuously during treatment using a novel hand‐held device, known as a pain logger. In vivo PPIX fluorescence was shown to decrease during irradiation, allowing the in vivo photobleaching of PPIX to be monitored. No significant difference was found between ALA‐ or MAL‐induced PPIX fluorescence in lesions of sBCC and BD (P > 0.05), indicating no detectable difference in PPIX kinetics for the two prodrugs as assessed by these measures. Pain, as assessed by the logger device, showed high interindividual variability and pain levels tended to be higher initially, decreasing during treatment. No difference was seen in pain experienced during ALA‐or MAL‐PDT (P > 0.05).
Thermodynamic properties of MgSiO$_3$ majorite and phase transitions near 660-km depth in MgSiO$_3$ and Mg$_2$SiO$_4$: a first principles study

[1] Thermodynamic properties of MgSiO3 tetragonal majorite have been calculated at high pressures and temperatures within the quasi‐harmonic approximation based on density functional theory using the local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). The LDA results compare exceptionally well with measured thermodynamic properties. A classical Monte Carlo simulation based on results from a cluster expansion method demonstrates that disorder between magnesium and silicon in the octahedral sites in MgSiO3 majorite does not occur below 3600 K at transition zone pressures. The ensuing calculations on phase boundaries of MgSiO3 between majorite, perovskite, and ilmenite show that a much better agreement with experiment can be obtained by using GGA rather than LDA, for LDA underestimates the transition pressures by as much as 11 GPa. The Clapeyron slopes predicted by GGA and LDA are close to each other: 0.9–1.7 MPa/K for majorite‐perovskite transition, 6.9–7.9 MPa/K for majorite‐ilmenite transition, and −7–−3 MPa/K for ilmenite‐perovskite transition. The triple point predicted by GGA is located at 21.8 ± 1 GPa and 1840 ± 200 K which is ∼400 K lower in temperature than most experimental estimates. This result suggests that ilmenite is restricted to lower temperatures and that the majorite to ilmenite transition may occur in cold subducting slabs in the transition zone. Our calculation also reveals that wadsleyite decomposes to an assemblage of majorite plus periclase above 2280 K with a large negative Clapeyron slope (−22–−12 MPa/K) and that ringwoodite decomposes to ilmenite plus periclase below 1400 K (1.2 MPa/K). These two decomposition transitions may influence hot plumes and cold slabs near 660 km depth, respectively. Further calculations show that discontinuities in density, bulk modulus, and bulk sound velocity associated with the majorite to perovskite transition in MgSiO3 are much larger than those from the postspinel transition in Mg2SiO4 at conditions close to 660 km depth. This suggests that the large density discontinuity at 660 km depth as proposed by PREM (9.3%) might be accounted by a piclogite compositional model or marginally accounted by a pyrolite compositional model with, for example, 50 vol % ringwoodite, 45 vol % majorite, and 5 vol % other phases (such as calcium perovskite) at the bottom of the transition zone, provided that the density contrast between majorite and perovskite will not be greatly altered by the presence of other elements such as Fe, Al, Ca, and H. On the other hand, the smaller density discontinuity at 660 km depth as derived from impedance studies (4–6%) disfavors sharp contributions to seismic discontinuities from the majorite to perovskite transition.
Human Capital Pricing in Financial Sector - A Case of China's Listed Banks

The problem of constraints and incentives to the financial human capital has been increasingly prominent. Within the theoretical frame of the pricing of the human capital and compensation in the financial sector, this paper analyses the mechanism of the executive compensation in China's bank sector. This paper selected some important indicators such as performance and corporate governance from 16 listed banks by establishing the factor analysis model to make the empirical analysis and based on which, it gives the logic of pricing of human capital and the transition of China's financial system.
The relative influence of patients’ self-reported depressive symptoms of cognitive deficit and cognitive bias on total depression in prostate cancer patients: implications for psychotherapy interventions

Perceptions of the depressive symptoms of cognitive deficit and cognitive bias were investigated in 492 prostate cancer (PCa) patients. Mean patient reports of the depressive symptoms of cognitive deficit were significantly higher than their reports of the depressive symptoms of cognitive bias, and more than six times as many patients had a high score for cognitive deficit as for cognitive bias depressive symptoms. Cognitive deficit symptomatology was a more powerful predictor of total depression score for the entire sample as well as for those patients with more severe depression. Assessment of PCa patients’ depressive status should include differentiation between these two types of depression-related cognitive difficulties so that appropriate psychotherapy treatment decisions might be made.
Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), part II: the Australian and southwest Pacific fauna

Abstract The Australasian and southwest Pacific species of Oxyscelio (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.) are revised. A total of 80 species are recognized as valid, 13 of which are redescribed: O. atricoxa (Dodd), O. concoloripes (Dodd), O. flavipes (Kieffer), O. grandis (Dodd), O. hyalinipennis (Dodd), O. magniclava (Dodd), O. mirellus (Dodd), O. montanus (Dodd), O. nigriclava (Dodd), O. nigricoxa (Dodd), O. rugulosus (Dodd), O. shakespearei (Girault), and O. solitarius (Dodd). Oxyscelio glabriscutellum (Dodd) syn. n. is placed as a subjective junior synonym of O. rugulosus. Sixty-seven new species are described, many representing new distributional records for the genus - O. aciculae Burks, sp. n. , O. anfractus Burks, sp. n. , O. bellariorum Burks, sp. n. , O. bicoloripedis Burks, sp. n. , O. brevitas Burks, sp. n. , O. catenae Burks, sp. n. , O. caudarum Burks, sp. n. , O. circulorum Burks, sp. n. , O. clivi Burks, sp. n. , O. clupei Burks, sp. n. , O. conjuncti Burks, sp. n. , O. contusionis Burks, sp. n. , O. corrugationis Burks, sp. n. , O. croci Burks, sp. n. , O. cuspidis Burks, sp. n. , O. densitatis Burks, sp. n. , O. dissimulationis Burks, sp. n. , O. divisionis Burks, sp. n. , O. exiguitatis Burks, sp. n. , O. fluctuum Burks, sp. n. , O. foliorum Burks, sp. n. , O. funis Burks, sp. n. , O. gressus Burks, sp. n. , O. hamorum Burks, sp. n. , O. incisurae Burks, sp. n. , O. lenitatis Burks, sp. n. , O. leviventris Burks, sp. n. , O. limbi Burks, sp. n. , O. liminis Burks, sp. n. , O. linguae Burks, sp. n. , O. lintris Burks, sp. n. , O. livens Burks, sp. n. , O. mystacis Burks, sp. n. , O. nasi Burks, sp. n. , O. nitoris Burks, sp. n. , O. obliquiatis Burks, sp. n. , O. oblongiclypei Burks, sp. n. , O. obturationis Burks, sp. n. , O. oculi Burks, sp. n. , O. palati Burks, sp. n. , O. pectinis Burks, sp. n. , O. pollicis Burks, sp. n. , O. proceritatis Burks, sp. n. , O. productionis Burks, sp. n. , O. radii Burks, sp. n. , O. rami Burks, sp. n. , O. rupturae Burks, sp. n. , O. sarcinae Burks, sp. n. , O. scismatis Burks, sp. n. , O. sciuri Burks, sp. n. , O. scutorum Burks, sp. n. , O. sepisessor Burks, sp. n. , O. sinuationis Burks, sp. n. , O. sordes Burks, sp. n. , O. spatula Burks, sp. n. , O. stipulae Burks, sp. n. , O. stringerae Burks, sp. n. , O. tenuitatis Burks, sp. n. , O. truncationis Burks, sp. n. , O. tubi Burks, sp. n. , O. umbonis Burks, sp. n. , O. uncinorum Burks, sp. n. , O. valdecatenae Burks, sp. n. , O. velamenti Burks, sp. n. , O. verrucae Burks, sp. n. , O. viator Burks, sp. n. , and O. wa Burks, sp. n. The fauna is divided into nine diagnostic species groups, with five species unplaced to group.
Supporting Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP in wireless meshed networks using random linear network coding

This work studies the potential and impact of the FRANC network coding protocol for delivering high quality Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) in wireless networks. Although DASH aims to tailor the video quality rate based on the available throughput to the destination, it relies on the TCP protocol for reliability in data delivery. TCP is known to drop its throughput performance by several fold in the presence of even 1% or 2% packet losses, which are common in wireless systems. This will force DASH to settle at a much lower video resolution, thus reducing the user's quality of experience. We show that the use of FRANC, an adaptive network coding protocol that provides both low delay and high throughput to upper layers, as a reliability mechanism for TCP can significantly increase video quality. As part of our analysis, we benchmark the performance of various TCP versions, including CUBIC, Reno, Veno, Vegas, and Westwood+, under different packet loss rates in wireless systems using a real testbed with Raspberry Pi devices. Our goal was to choose the most promising TCP version in terms of delay performance, in this case TCP Reno, and make a fair comparison between TCP running alone and using FRANC underneath for reliability. Our demonstrator with DASH in Raspberry Pi devices using the DASH benchmark, shows that the video rate delivered is 4× higher when using FRANC. Even in harsh packet loss conditions, FRANC is able to deliver higher data rates (increase 4×), while experiencing significantly shorter (decrease 10×) video lags.
Synthesis and potential cytotoxic activity of some new benzoxazoles, imidazoles, benzimidazoles and tetrazoles

2 The present work deals with the synthesis of some novel heterocyclic compounds such as benzoxazoles , 7, 13 and 19, imidazoles 3, 8, 14 and 20, benzimidazoles 4, 9, 15 and 21, and tetrazoles 10, 16, and 22. The synthesized compounds were characterized by IR, 1H NMR, mass spectrometry and elemental analysis. The compounds were evaluated for cytotoxicity against human cancer cell lines such as MCF-7 (breast cancer) and HT-29 (colon cancer) by the MTT assay method. Among the tested compounds, 4,4’-sulfonylbis(N-(2-(1H-benzo[d]imidazol- -2-yl)ethyl)aniline (9), N-bis(2-(benzo[d]oxazol-2-yl)-ethyl)- 6-phenyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine (13), N-bis(2-(1H-benzo[ d]imidazol-2-yl)ethyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine (15) and N-tris(2-1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)ethyl)- 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine (21) showed potent cytotoxicity.
Advanced active sampling for remote sensing image classification

A novel approach to active sampling is proposed for the semi automatic selection of training patterns in a given pool of candidates. In the method proposed, each candidate is ranked with a double criterion: first, informativeness of the candidate is assessed using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) real valued decision function. Then, diverse sampling is ensured by considering the relative position of the candidate in the SVM feature space. Such position is evaluated by using partitioning of the feature space via nonlinear clustering. Among all candidates belonging to the same cluster, the winner is the pixel minimizing the weighted combination of the distances from both the SVM hyperplane and the cluster center. This way, the proposed approach provides a way to i) account for and minimize the redundancy of the sampled pixels and ii) maximize the speed of convergence to an optimal classification accuracy. In order to discover clusters and to evaluate the distance between the cluster center and the samples, the kernel k-means algorithm is used in a hierarchical way. By its kernel nature, the algorithm partitions data in the SVM induced space, thus ensuring coherent diversity with respect to the linear model therein. The reliability of the proposed heuristic is evaluated on a QuickBird VHR image of the city of Zurich, Switzerland.
Relationships and Resilience

Organizations in the health care industry and beyond face pressures to lower their costs while maintaining quality, resulting in high levels of stress for their workers. In a nine-hospital study, this article explores the role that relationships play in enabling resilient responses to external pressures and the organizational practices that enable workers to respond in a resilient way when organizational change is required. The article argues that relational coordination—communicating and relating for the purpose of task integration—is a resilient response to external threats that require a coordinated collective response across multiple functions or roles. Findings suggest that workers engage in higher levels of relational coordination when they perceive this type of threat but that the presence of a particular type of high performance work system—a relational work system—greatly strengthens this resilient response.
A Multimarker Prognostic Assay for Primary Cutaneous Melanoma

Purpose: To determine the prognostic significance of a multimarker assay incorporating expression levels of three molecular markers in primary cutaneous melanoma. Experimental Design: We assessed expression levels of NCOA3, SPP1, and RGS1 using immunohistochemical analysis in a tissue microarray cohort of 395 patients. For each marker, we identified optimal cut-points for expression intensity to predict disease-specific survival (DSS) and, as a secondary endpoint, sentinel lymph node (SLN) status. The cumulative overexpression of all three markers was embodied in a multimarker index, and its prognostic effect on DSS and SLN status was assessed using Cox regression, Kaplan-Meier analysis, and logistic regression. The prognostic effect of this multimarker assay on DSS was assessed in an independent cohort of 141 patients, in which marker expression levels were scored using immunohistochemical analysis of stained tissue sections. Results: Increasing multimarker index scores were significantly predictive of reduced DSS and increased SLN metastasis in the 395-patient cohort. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed multimarker expression scores as an independent predictor of SLN status (P = 0.001). Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed the independent effect of the multimarker index on DSS (P < 0.001). The multimarker index was the most significant factor predicting DSS when compared with other clinical and histologic factors, including SLN status (P = 0.002). Multimarker expression scores were also the most significantly predictive of DSS in the independent cohort (P = 0.01). Conclusions: These results describe a multimarker assay with independent prognostic effect on the prediction of survival associated with melanoma in two distinct cohorts. (Clin Cancer Res 2009;15(22):698792)