Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Guilt on the Relationship Between Burnout and Depression

Burnout is a serious problem that can be expressed as psychological symptoms, such as depressive mood. Earlier studies have shown that feelings of guilt appear to be involved in the burnout process. However, the exact nature of the relationships among burnout, guilt, and depression is unclear. The purpose of this study was to test the mediator role of guilt in the relationship between burnout and depression. The sample of this cross-sectional study consisted of 700 employees working with intellectually disabled persons. Hypotheses were tested together in a path model. Two models were constructed to test the relationships among the variables. The difference between the models was the order of the Guilt-Depression relationship. The Hypothesized model (i.e., Indolence → Guilt → Depression) showed an adequate fit to data, and all hypothesized relationships were significant. The fit of the Alternative model (i.e., Indolence → Depression → Guilt) was worse than the fit of the Hypothesized model. The hypothesize.
How would you gesture navigate a drone?: a user-centered approach to control a drone

Gestural interaction with flying drones is now on the rise; however, little work has been done to reveal the gestural preferences from users directly. In this paper, we present an elicitation study to help in realizing user-defined gestures for drone navigation. We apply a user-centered approach in which we collected data from 25 participants performing gestural interactions for twelve drone actions of which ten are navigational actions. The analyses of 300 gesture data collected from our participants reveal a user-defined gestural set of possible suitable gestures to control a drone. We report results that can be used by software developers, engineers or designers; and included a taxonomy for the set of user-defined gestures, gestural agreement scores, time performances and subjective ratings for each action. Finally, we discuss the gestural set with implementation insights and conclude with future directions.
Mid-Rotation Silviculture Timing Influences Nitrogen Mineralization of Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-South USA

Intensively managed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations often develop nutrient deficiencies near mid-rotation. Common silvicultural treatments for improving stand nutrition at this stage include thinning, fertilization, and vegetation control. It is important to better understand the influence of timing fertilization and vegetation control in relation to thinning as part of improving the efficiency of these practices. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of fertilization and vegetation control conducted within a year prior to thinning and within a year after thinning on soil N supply in mid-rotation loblolly pine plantations on a gradient of soil textures. Net N mineralization (Nmin) and exchangeable N were measured monthly. Fertilization increased annual Nmin at all sites irrespective of timing relative to thinning, with the increase more pronounced when combined with vegetation control. This finding suggests some management flexibility in the timing of mid-rotation fertilization relative to thinning for increasing soil N supply. However, the site with the highest total soil N and the lowest C:N ratio was more prone to NO3-N increases after fertilization conducted pre- and post-thinning. At all sites, fertilization with vegetation control promoted increases in NO3-N when done after thinning, which may indicate that this practice increased soil N supply to levels that exceeded stand N demand.
Listeria monocytogenes Cytoplasmic Entry Induces Fetal Wastage by Disrupting Maternal Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cell-Sustained Fetal Tolerance

Although the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes has an established predilection for disseminated infection during pregnancy that often results in spontaneous abortion or stillbirth, the specific host-pathogen interaction that dictates these disastrous complications remain incompletely defined. Herein, we demonstrate systemic maternal Listeria infection during pregnancy fractures fetal tolerance and triggers fetal wastage in a dose-dependent fashion. Listeria was recovered from the majority of concepti after high-dose infection illustrating the potential for in utero invasion. Interestingly with reduced inocula, fetal wastage occurred without direct placental or fetal invasion, and instead paralleled reductions in maternal Foxp3+ regulatory T cell suppressive potency with reciprocal expansion and activation of maternal fetal-specific effector T cells. Using mutants lacking virulence determinants required for in utero invasion, we establish Listeria cytoplasmic entry is essential for disrupting fetal tolerance that triggers maternal T cell-mediated fetal resorption. Thus, infection-induced reductions in maternal Foxp3+ regulatory T cell suppression with ensuing disruptions in fetal tolerance play critical roles in pathogenesis of immune-mediated fetal wastage.
Prevalence and correlates of dating violence in a national sample of adolescents.

OBJECTIVE Dating violence is an important but understudied public health concern in adolescents. This study sought to examine the lifetime prevalence of serious forms of dating violence in 12- to 17- year-olds, risk and protective factors associated with dating violence, and the relation between dating violence and mental health. METHOD A nationally representative sample of adolescents (N = 3,614) completed a telephone-based interview that assessed serious forms of dating violence (i.e., sexual assault, physical assault, and/or drug/alcohol-facilitated rape perpetrated by a girlfriend, boyfriend, or other dating partner). RESULTS Prevalence of dating violence was 1.6% (2.7% of girls, 0.6% of boys), equating to approximately 400,000 adolescents in the U.S. population. Risk factors included older age, female sex, experience of other potentially traumatic events, and experience of recent life stressors. Findings also suggested that dating violence is associated with posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive episode after controlling for demographic variables, other traumatic stressors, and stressful events. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that dating violence is a significant public health problem in adolescent populations that should be addressed through early detection, prevention, and intervention.
Differential Effects of the Peroxynitrite Donor, SIN-1, on Atrial and Ventricular Myocyte Electrophysiology

Abstract: Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis of heart failure and atrial fibrillation and can result in increased peroxynitrite production in the myocardium. Atrial and ventricular canine cardiac myocytes were superfused with 3-morpholinosydnonimine-N-ethylcarbamide (SIN-1), a peroxynitrite donor, to evaluate the acute electrophysiologic effects of peroxynitrite. Perforated whole-cell patch clamp techniques were used to record action potentials. SIN-1 (200 µM) increased the action potential duration (APD) in atrial and ventricular myocytes; however, in the atria, APD prolongation was rate independent, whereas in the ventricle APD, prolongation was rate dependent. In addition to prolongation of the action potential, beat-to-beat variability of repolarization was significantly increased in ventricular but not in atrial myocytes. We examined the contribution of intracellular calcium cycling to the effects of SIN-1 by treating myocytes with the SERCA blocker, thapsigargin (5–10 µM). Inhibition of calcium cycling prevented APD prolongation in the atrial and ventricular myocytes, and prevented the SIN-1–induced increase in ventricular beat-to-beat APD variability. Collectively, these data demonstrate that peroxynitrite affects atrial and ventricular electrophysiology differentially. A detailed understanding of oxidative modulation of electrophysiology in specific chambers is critical to optimize therapeutic approaches for cardiac diseases.
Molecularly Imprinted Polymer/Metal Organic Framework Based Chemical Sensors

The present review describes recent advances in the concept of molecular imprinting using metal organic frameworks (MOF) for development of chemical sensors. Two main strategies regarding the fabrication, performance and applications of recent sensors based on molecularly imprinted polymers associated with MOF are presented: molecularly imprinted MOF films and molecularly imprinted core-shell nanoparticles using MOF as core. The associated transduction modes are also discussed. A brief conclusion and future expectations are described herein.
Creating My Own Story: Catholic Women’s College Students Narrating their Lives

Given the complex and gendered messages college women receive about their future professional and personal lives, a woman’s college experiences play an important role in helping her make difficult life choices. In this article, we present a narrative analysis of the envisioned futures of students at two Catholic women’s colleges in the Midwestern United States. Participants drew on a number of narrative themes when creating their rhetorical future lives, including sequencing or juggling multiple priorities, opting out of future work or family roles, using overarching principles to make decisions about future roles, and maintaining resistance to planning. Our findings suggest that holistic understandings of students’ experiences must consider the complex ways in which identities, such as gender, are positioned within social narratives.
Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage: Contesting Culture, Embracing Change

When anthropologists spend long periods of time in other cultures, they become acculturated to other-ways of looking at the world. This is expected; but what is not expected is the inexplicable experience that might subsequently challenge their own belief systems in ways that had been thought inconceivable, and for which they have no explanation. In past, anthropological studies of other cultures omitted such experiences from their published accounts. (p. 144)
Golgi membrane dynamics.

The organization and function of the Golgi complex has intrigued cell biologists for many years (Farquhar and Palade, 1998 ; Mazzarello and Bentaivoglio, 1998 ). This is due both to the Golgi’s central role in secretory membrane traffic and sorting, and to its unique structure and dynamics. The Golgi complex receives newly synthesized proteins and lipid from the ER, covalently modifies them, and then repackages them for delivery to plasma membrane, lysosomes, or secretory granules. It also recycles membrane components back to the ER for continued use. These diverse functions depend on small membrane-bound transport intermediates that shuttle protein into and out of the Golgi’s stack of flattened cisternae and associated tubules and vesicles. Such transport intermediates regulate protein and membrane flux into and out of the Golgi complex and thereby control the steady-state size and location of this organelle. In so doing, they ensure the proper functioning of the Golgi complex, enabling the cell to tailor its biosynthetic and secretory products for specific cellular needs. The emergence of green fluorescent protein (GFP) technology has enabled proteins to be visualized in the unperturbed environment of the living cell (Chalfie et al., 1994 ). This allows direct observation of intracellular structures, whose life history and pathways previously have only been deduced. In the movies shown below, membrane proteins fused to GFP were used to visualize the dynamics of the Golgi complex and the transport intermediates that shuttle membrane proteins into and out of this organelle. Included are time-lapse sequences that show the formation, translocation, and fate of Golgi-targeted/ derived transport intermediates. Also shown are movies revealing how the distribution/morphology of the Golgi complex is affected when such processes are perturbed. In addition, results of photobleaching experiments characterizing the lateral mobility of proteins residing within the Golgi complex are presented. These movies demonstrate the dynamic, steady-state nature of the Golgi complex and provide insight into the tubule-vesicular carriers that mediate membrane flow into and out of this organelle.
Automating Argumentation for Deliberation in Cases of Conflict of Interest

One approach to deliberation about the choice of what to do in a particular situation is to use an argument scheme based on the practical syllogism to supply a presumptive reason for the action, which is then subjected to a process of critical questioning to see if the presumption can be maintained. In this paper we describe an implemented realisation of this approach. We describe a representation which permits the instantiation of the argument scheme and the generation and consideration of critical questions to it. In order to automate the process we supply operational interpretations of the argument scheme, the critical questions and rebuttals to those questions. Our realisation is illustrated with a detailed example of a particular case.
Baryogenesis below the electroweak scale

We propose a new alternative for baryogenesis which resolves a number of the problems associated with GUT and electroweak scenarios, and which may allow baryogenesis even in modest extensions of the standard model. If the universe never reheats above the electroweak scale following inflation, GUT baryon production does not occur and at the same time thermal sphalerons, gravitinos and monopoles are not produced in abundance. Nevertheless, non-thermal production of sphaleron configurations via preheating could generate the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe.
GRAAL: A Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Enabling Nanometric Technologies

Silicon-based CMOS technologies are fast approaching their ultimate limits. By approaching these limits, power dissipation, fabrication yield, and reliability worsen steadily making further nanometric scaling increasingly difficult. These problems would stop further scaling of silicon-based CMOS technologies at channel lengths between 10 and 20 nm. But even before reaching this level of integration, these problems could become show-stoppers unless new techniques are introduced to maintain acceptable levels of power dissipation, yield and reliability. The paper describes the principles of GRAAL (global reliability architecture approach for logic), a new fault tolerant architecture for logic designs. This architecture is aimed to provide a global solution for mitigating the flaws of deep nanometric technologies related to power dissipation, yield and reliability.
Strategy as performative practice

This article focuses on the relation between strategy-as-practice and its power effects in the context of a strategy project (Sustainable Sydney 2030) undertaken by the City of Sydney. The following three interrelated questions guided the enquiry: How is strategy practised? What knowledge is it based upon? And what are its power effects? Based on a detailed empirical analysis of the strategy-making process, the article charts how strategy rendered the city knowable and how performative effects of strategizing mobilized the public and legitimized outcomes of the process while silencing other voices. The article’s theoretical contribution is threefold: first, it shows that strategizing is performative, constituting its subjects and shaping its objects; second, that strategizing has to be understood as aesthetic performance whose power resides in the simultaneous representation of facts (traditionally the domain of science) and values (the realm of politics); third, and consequently, that strategy is a sociopolitical practice that aims at mobilizing people, marshalling political will and legitimizing decisions. The article concludes with reflections on five practical implications of the study.
Splatting with Shadows

In this paper we describe an efficient approach to add shadows to volumetric scenes. The light emitted by the lightsource is properly attenuated by the intervening volumetric structures before it is reflected towards the eye. Both parallel and perspective lightsources can be efficiently and accurately modeled.We use a two-stage splatting approach. In the first stage, a light volume is constructed in O(N3) time, which is about the same time it takes to render a regular image. This light volume stores the volumetric attenuated light arriving at each grid voxel and only needs to be recomputed if the light source is moved. If only diffuse shading is required, then the contribution of any number of lightsources can be stored in the same space. The second stage is formed by the usual rendering pipeline. The only difference is that the light contributions are interpolated from the light volume, instead of using the constant light source intensity. Once the light volume is computed, the actual rendering is only marginally more expensive than in the unshadowed case. The rendered images, however, convey three-dimensional relationships much better and look considerably more realistic, which is clearly needed if volume graphics is to become a mainstream technology.
Binaural Interaction Effects of 30–50 Hz Auditory Steady State Responses

Objectives: Auditory stimuli modulated by modulation frequencies within the 30 to 50 Hz region evoke auditory steady state responses (ASSRs) with high signal to noise ratios in adults, and can be used to determine the frequency-specific hearing thresholds of adults who are unable to give behavioral feedback reliably. To measure ASSRs as efficiently as possible a multiple stimulus paradigm can be used, stimulating both ears simultaneously. The response strength of 30 to 50Hz ASSRs is, however, affected when both ears are stimulated simultaneously. The aim of the present study is to gain insight in the measurement efficiency of 30 to 50 Hz ASSRs evoked with a 2-ear stimulation paradigm, by systematically investigating the binaural interaction effects of 30 to 50 Hz ASSRs in normal-hearing adults. Design: ASSRs were obtained with a 64-channel EEG system in 23 normal-hearing adults. All participants participated in one diotic, multiple dichotic, and multiple monaural conditions. Stimuli consisted of a modulated one-octave noise band, centered at 1 kHz, and presented at 70 dB SPL. The diotic condition contained 40 Hz modulated stimuli presented to both ears. In the dichotic conditions, the modulation frequency of the left ear stimulus was kept constant at 40 Hz, while the stimulus at the right ear was either the unmodulated or modulated carrier. In case of the modulated carrier, the modulation frequency varied between 30 and 50 Hz in steps of 2 Hz across conditions. The monaural conditions consisted of all stimuli included in the diotic and dichotic conditions. Results: Modulation frequencies ≥36 Hz resulted in prominent ASSRs in all participants for the monaural conditions. A significant enhancement effect was observed (average: ~3 dB) in the diotic condition, whereas a significant reduction effect was observed in the dichotic conditions. There was no distinct effect of the temporal characteristics of the stimuli on the amount of reduction. The attenuation was in 33% of the cases >3 dB for ASSRs evoked with modulation frequencies ≥40 Hz and 50% for ASSRs evoked with modulation frequencies ⩽36 Hz. Conclusions: Binaural interaction effects as observed in the diotic condition are similar to the binaural interaction effects of middle latency responses as reported in the literature, suggesting that these responses share a same underlying mechanism. Our data also indicated that 30 to 50 Hz ASSRs are attenuated when presented dichotically and that this attenuation is independent of the stimulus characteristics as used in the present study. These findings are important as they give insight in how binaural interaction affects the measurement efficiency. The 2-ear stimulation paradigm of the present study was, for the most optimal modulation frequencies (i.e., ≥40 Hz), more efficient than a 1-ear sequential stimulation paradigm in 66% of the cases.
IDEA CONTRIBUTION IN CONSTRUCTION : IN SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN IDEA GENERATION AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION

To innovate, retain competitiveness, succeed and flourish, construction firms need a constant stream of innovative ideas and suggestions from highly motivated and committed employees. This drive for employee engagement in the innovation process becomes even more apparent in the construction sector with problems of multi-tiered subcontracting and the widespread reliance on self employment. This study investigates idea contribution as a crucial interface between idea generation (i.e. creativity) and its implementation (i.e. innovation). Based on the critical review of construction and mainstream literature on innovation, creativity and employee engagement this study proposes a conceptual framework for employees' perceptions of ideas contribution involved in the processes of converting ideas into new products, processes or services. The framework is derived under the assumption that decisions on whether or not to contribute new ideas for organisational improvement is influenced by personal characteristics (knowledge, perceived radicality of ideas, favouring of ideas, openness to experience, self-confidence and curiosity), group and organisational factors (rewards, managerial support, collaborative team culture, position in the company and in the team) that might well be unique to each organisational unit. The philosophical epistemology adopted in this study is realism that shares positions of positivism and interpretivism where the conceptual framework is based on explanations, understanding, argumentation and is tested using a mixed methods research design (experimental tasks, questionnaires and observations). The preliminary results confirmed the influence of assumed factors on idea contribution where personal characteristics were valued higher than group and organisational factors. Discussion of recommendations for the future research is provided.
Beating the Market: The Allure of Unintended Value

Consumers face many options that are presented to them as bargains, but in reality, they only subjectively construe a fraction of them as valuable. The authors propose that consumers are particularly attracted to offers they perceive as more valuable than the marketer presumably intended. Consistent with this analysis, six experiments indicate that consumers may perceive customized offers that are presented as tailored to their individual preferences or circumstances as less valuable than offers that seem to fit their preferences and provide value without the marketer's explicit intent. The experiments also suggest that the urge to exploit unintended value reflects a competitive desire to outsmart the market. The findings have theoretical implications for understanding consumers’ subjective perceptions of value as well as important practical implications for designing customized offers and targeted promotions.