Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interassociation recommendations for developing a plan to recognize and refer student-athletes with psychological concerns at the secondary school level: a consensus statement.

During the 2012–2013 academic year, 7.7 million secondary school students took part in organized interscholastic sports, compared with just 4 million participants during the 1971–1972 year.1 Many student-athletes define themselves by their identities as athletes.2 Threats to that identity may come in the form of struggling performance; a chronic, career-ending, or time-loss injury; conflicts with coaches and teammates; or simply losing the passion for playing their sport.3–5 These challenges and associated factors may put the student-athlete in a position to experience a psychological concern or to exacerbate an existing mental health concern.2
International business by SMEs: empirical findings from New Zealand

Why do small firms from small countries internationalize? This study investigates the motives of small-scale entrepreneurs from New Zealand to internationalize via exporting, and particularly evaluate the role of government assistance. Our empirical findings of 139 SMEs situated in the Canterbury region of New Zealand suggest that export is strongly related to government-induced programs. Also important are personal motivations, declining domestic sales, saturated domestic market and excess capacity.
Interbull checks of incoming data

Interbull conducts international genetic evaluations for production, conformation, udder health, longevity, and calving traits for six breeds and 26 countries around the world. The purpose of international genetic evaluation is for participating countries to be able to compare breeding values of bulls across country borders expressed on own country scales. The evaluation schedule currently counts four routine evaluations where international breeding values are predicted, and two test evaluations where genetic correlations among countries are estimated and international breeding values are predicted. The purpose of a routine evaluation and of a test evaluation is different. The purpose of a routine evaluation is to compute international genetic evaluations that subscribing countries can publish, while the purpose of a test run is to test changes in national and/or international genetic evaluations procedures. To ensure a high quality of international genetic evaluation results a high quality of input data is necessary. A high degree of stability of national breeding values submitted for two consecutive routine runs is therefore required. In case data from a modified national genetic evaluation are submitted for a test run, requirements on consistency with the previous national evaluation are relaxed. However, data submitted for a test evaluation are required to pass genetic trend validation test(s) (Boichard et al., 1995; Interbull, 2006). Graphical representation for participation in International Genetic Evaluations is in Figure 1.
Predictive Value of the SF-12 for Sickness Absence Because of Mental, Musculoskeletal, and Other Somatic Disorders

Objective: To investigate the predictive value of the 12-item short form (SF-12) for long-term sickness absence (LTSA) because of mental, musculoskeletal, and other somatic disorders. Methods: In this cohort study with 2-year follow-up of 1381 nurses, baseline SF-12 scores were analyzed against registered mental, musculoskeletal, and other somatic LTSA during follow-up by logistic regression models. Results: The SF-12 dimensions, general health, vitality, emotional role limitations, mental health, and social functioning, predicted mental LTSA. Physical functioning, bodily pain, and vitality predicted musculoskeletal LTSA, and physical role limitations, bodily pain, general health, and social functioning predicted other somatic LTSA. Positive predictive values were low, and negative predictive values were high. Conclusions: Different SF-12 dimensions predicted mental, musculoskeletal, and other somatic LTSA but did not identify nurses at high risk of mental, musculoskeletal, and other somatic LTSA.
Two-grid finite-element schemes for the steady Navier-Stokes problem in polyhedra.

We discretize a steady Navier–Stokes system on a three-dimensional polyhedron by finite-elements schemes defined on two grids. In the first step, the fully nonlinear problem is solved on a coarse grid, with mesh-size H. In the second step, the problem is linearized by substituting into the nonlinear term, the velocity uH computed at step one, and the linearized problem is solved on a fine grid with mesh-size h. This approach is motivated by the fact that the contribution of uH to the error analysis is measured in the L norm, and thus, for the lowest-degree elements on a Lipschitz polyhedron, is of the order of H. Hence, an error of the order of h can be recovered at the second step, provided h = H. When the domain is convex, a similar result can be obtained with h = H. Both results are valid in two dimensions. 0 – Introduction Let us consider the following equation in a bounded domain Ω of R3: −∆u+ u = f in Ω , (0.1) u = 0 on ∂Ω . (0.2) For any f in L2(Ω), it admits a unique solution in the Sobolev space H1 0 (Ω) (i.e. the space of functions φ such that φ and ∂φ ∂xi belong to L 2(Ω) for i = 1, 2, 3, and φ = 0 on ∂Ω). Its variational formulation writes: ∀ v ∈ H 0 (Ω) , a(u, v) + (u, v) = (f, v) , (0.3) Received : May 23, 2000. AMS Subject Classification: 76D05, 65N15, 65N30, 65N55.
Nucleotide sequence analysis of the long terminal repeat of human T-cell leukemia virus type II.

The nucleotide sequence of the human T-cell leukemia virus type II (HTLV-II) long terminal repeat (LTR) and its surrounding regions were determined. Our results show the following structural features: (i) the LTR is 763 base pairs (bp) in length and consists of 314 +/- 1 bp of region U3, 248 +/- 1 bp of region R, and 201 bp of region U5; (ii) the terminal nucleotides in the LTR form an inverted repeat of T-G.C-A; (iii) 6-bp direct repeats of cellular sequences flanking the provirus were present; and (iv) the putative functional signals for initiation or termination of viral RNA synthesis were identified. Comparison of the HTLV-II LTR sequence with that previously published for adult T-cell leukemia virus (ATLV; HTLV-I) shows that the LTRs are distinct. Some small regions are conserved between HTLV-II and ATLV, involving sequences important for transcription and a sequence of 21 nucleotides repeated three times in U3. This 21-bp repeat may be important in regulating viral transcription in lymphoid cells.
Rafts and synapses in the spatial organization of immune cell signaling receptors

The multichain immune recognition receptors (MIRRs), including the T cell and B cell antigen receptors and the high affinity receptor for IgE, play an important role in immune cell signaling. The MIRRs have no inherent kinase activity, but rather associate with members of the Src‐family kinases to initiate signaling. Although a great deal is understood about the biochemical cascades triggered by MIRRs, the mechanism by which signaling is initiated was not known. The evidence now indicates that the Src‐family kinases are concentrated in cholesterol‐ and sphingolipid‐rich membrane microdomains, termed lipid rafts, that exclude the MIRRs. Upon ligand‐induced crosslinking the MIRRs translocate into rafts where they are phosphorylated. The MIRRs subsequently form highly ordered, polarized structures termed immunological synapses that provide for prolonged signaling. An understanding of the biochemical composition of rafts and synapses and the mechanisms by which these form should lend insight into the regulation of immune cell activation.
The Trend in Morning Levels of Salivary Cortisol in Children With ADHD During 6 Months of Methylphenidate Treatment

Objective: To determine the trend in cortisol levels in children with ADHD treated with methylphenidate (MPH) and nontreated healthy controls over a 6-month period. Method: The morning salivary cortisol levels of 50 patients with ADHD (40 boys and 10 girls, mean age = 7.6 years) and 50 age- and gender-matched healthy controls were measured at baseline and at 1, 3, and 6 months from baseline. The neuropsychological performance of the ADHD patients was measured via administration of the Continuous Performance Test. Results: The cortisol levels of ADHD patients increased significantly after 1 month of MPH treatment before decreasing to an intermediate level, but were significantly positively correlated with neuropsychological performance throughout the 6-month treatment period. The cortisol levels of the controls did not change significantly over the 6-month period. Conclusion: MPH administration appears to positively influence the functioning of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis in ADHD patients.
Market Consistent and Sub-Consistent Valuations in Incomplete Markets

From January 2016, all insurance companies that are regulated within Solvency II framework will have to value their asset and liabilities using a market-consistent method. This paper studies market-consistent and sub-consistent valuations in incomplete financial markets with two types (type I and II) of market consistency. While market consistency of type I holds under fairly weak assumptions, the type II consistency, which is the usual definition of market consistency in the literature, holds only if the market prices are linear for fully hedged assets. We also characterize the market consistent and sub-consistent evaluators in several different ways. We discuss how market-consistent and sub-consistent valuations can be regarded as a robust approach to hedging and pricing in the presence of market imperfections such as market incompleteness and frictions.
Share price time series forecasting for effective supply chain information exchange

This article presents the performance analysis of share price prediction using neural network and support vector machine models. The purpose of the research work is to evaluate the best model for the time series forecasting and share price performance prediction of a leading green coffee export company in the Indian stock market, which would in turn help the various stakeholders of the Indian green coffee supply chain, in taking their important business decisions to improve the information exchange among different echelons of the supply chain. The share price data collected was trained and validated using multilayer perceptron, general regression neural network and support vector machine models. The findings and comparative analysis reveals the better performance of support vector machine among other methods.
Optimising quasi-orthogonal STBC through group-constrained linear transformation

The generic algebraic structure of a quasi-orthogonal space-time block code (QO-STBC) has been derived, and group-constrained linear transformation (GCLT) as a mean to optimise the diversity and coding gains of a QO-STBC with square or rectangular QAM constellations has been proposed. Compared with QO-STBC with constellation rotation (CR), QO-STBC with GCLT requires only half the number of symbols for joint detection, hence lower maximum-likelihood decoding complexity. The optimum GCLT parameters for QO-STBC with square QAM constellation have been derived analytically. The optimised QO-STBCs with GCLT are able to achieve full-transmit diversity and have negligible performance loss compared with QO-STBCs with CR at the same code rate.
Examining the use of nutrition labelling with photoelicitation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a study using photoelicitation interviews to investigate the relationship between the habitualised and unconscious aspects of consumers' food choices, the front‐of‐pack nutrition labelling schemes on food products and the healthiness of their diets.Design/methodology/approach – To this end, photographs of ten German middle‐class families at different stages of the family lifecycle were taken at the point of purchase (during a shopping trip made by the main person responsible for meal planning) and at the point of consumption (during a family meal at home). The paper used selected photographs as stimuli for photoelicitation. The interviews were recorded and analysed using a holistic approach.Findings – Four themes concerning food characteristics, participants' food choices and their healthiness emerged from the data: perceived time pressure at the point of purchase; the relevance of nutrition information for making inferences with regard to th.
The Effect of Ratings Announcements, on Firms in Bank-Based Systems

Rating agencies act as intermediaries for investors in evaluating the creditworthiness of borrowers. The role of ratings agencies is particularly crucial in market-based systems, because, in contrast to long-run bank relationships, outside investors are confronted with greater obstacles to in-depth and reliable evaluations of firm credit risk. The financial intermediation in bank-based systems has implications for the role and the focus of credit rating agencies. This study examines the influence of ratings announcements in Germany, one of the premier bank-based systems. During the study period, from January 2000 through June 2014, we examine 189 Standard & Poor’s and 204 Moody’s ratings announcements. Our results show that ratings announcements are less important in the German market than in market-based systems such as the United States.
FMR1 low sub-genotype does not rescue BRCA1/2-mutated human embryos and does not explain primary ovarian insufficiency among BRCA1/2-carriers.

STUDY QUESTION Can we confirm in our population whether FMRI low sub-genotypes are associated with BRCA1/2 mutations, as recently proposed? SUMMARY ANSWER Our results indicate that the distribution of the FMR1 sub-genotypes in female BRCA1/2-mutation carriers is significantly different from what has been reported previously and resembles that of the control population. FMRI low sub-genotypes are not associated with BRCA1/2 mutations and this association is also absent among male mutation carriers. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Recently, BRCA1 mutations were reported to be associated with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) in female carriers. In animal models, BRCA2-deficiency also results in impaired oogenesis. A recent study has reported that the POI in BRCA1/2-mutation carriers is most likely due to low FMR1 sub-genotype (CGG n < 26) and the authors also suggested that low sub-genotypes of the FMR1 gene might be important to rescue the BRCA1/2 embryos, which would otherwise be embryonically-lethal. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION This retrospective study was performed in October and November of 2012, using genetic material of 464 patients who underwent genetic screening in our centre in the past. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS We tested the FMR1 sub-genotypes in 60 female and 29 males with either BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations and 375 controls by PCR amplification and size fragment analysis. MAIN RESULTS We did not find any evidence for an association of FMR1 low sub-genotypes and BRCA1/2 mutations. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION This association study assumes that the female BRCA1/2 population tested has POI. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS Low FMR1 sub-genotypes are not responsible for the presumed rescue of embryos with BRCA1/2 mutations. Furthermore, the molecular mechanism of the POI in BRCA1/2-female carriers is not likely to be associated with low FMR1 sub-genotype. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) The Department of Clinical Genetics of the Maastricht University Medical Centre supported the study. The authors do not have any competing interests to declare.
Equity Options, Credit Default Swaps and Leverage: A Simple Stochastic-Volatility Model for Equity and Credit Derivatives

The aim of this paper is to define a model which allows traders to assess the value of equity and credit derivatives in a unified framework. We propose closed-form formulas which traders could use to evaluate equity, equity options and credit default swaps (CDSs) in a consistent way. The model can also be used to solve the inverse problem, that is to extract credit-risk sensitive information from market quotes of equity/credit derivatives. In particular, we wish to estimate the firm’s leverage, as it is perceived by traders. This goal is achieved within a model a la Leland (1994), where stockholders have a perpetual American option to default. After making the case for modeling debt in terms of a single perpetual-bond equivalent issue, we define leverage, show the stochastic nature of equity volatility and derive the term structures of default probabilities and credit spreads by making use of the first-passage time distribution function. Then, we give new formulas for call and put options written on stockholders’ equity. The formulas, which depend on the leverage parameter L and make use of the univariate normal distribution function, are consistent with the volatility skew observed in the equity options market and converge to the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) equations for L → 1. All the Greeks are simple functions of the standard corresponding letters of the BSM model. The paper concludes with an application of the model to the case of Lehman Brothers and General Motors.
Effect of Multiaxial Forging on Properties of Aluminum Alloys - Review

The present article reviews the properties of aluminum alloys obtained through severe plastic deformation process. The multiaxial forging process one among the severe plastic deformation is considered for this review. The main objective of this paper is to learn the strengthening mechanism which is responsible for grain refinement which in turn influences the properties of aluminum alloys. The aluminum alloys are alternately forged with loading direction changed through 90° and the properties changes are reported in the technical articles. This work aims to collect some of the data and present the findings to bring the attention towards multiaxial forging process.
Early Alterations of Lung Injury Following Acute Smoke Exposure and 21-Aminosteroid Treatment

In a simulated fire-related smoke exposure protocol, New Zealand white rabbits were utilized to investigate the potential effects of the 21-aminosteroid (lazaroid) analog U75412E on the early events of acute lung injury. Inhalation of a total of 1.6 mg/kg U75412E aerosolized at a rate of 1.53 mg/min at 0.5 hr after smoke exposure significantly attenuated the extent of lung injury at 1 hr, as evidenced by decreased bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) concentration of total protein, 6-keto-prostaglandin F1-α, and blood gas defect. Histopathologic examination demonstrated that the lazaroid significantly attenuated smoke-induced lung injury as evidenced by a decrease in wet lung/body weight ratio, necrosis, and sloughing of airway epithelial cells. Electron microscopy showed that the lazaroid decreased smoke-induced interstitial edema and the vacuolization of alveolar type II epithelium (21.6 ± 9.7 vs 8.5 ± 3.6 vacuoled blebs/cell, smoke only vs smoke + lazaroid). However, U75412E did not attenuate smoke-induced changes in BAL concentration of tumor necrosis factor-α, total cell count, and granulocyte percentage. These observations suggest that U75412E may exert its action through cooperative mechanisms, such as the modulation of arachidonic acid metabolism, in addition to its characterized antioxidative effects.
Salinity Effects on the Physiological Parameters and Oxidative Enzymatic Activities of Four Iranian Grapevines (Vitis vinifera L. ) Cultivar

Soil salinity is one of the major stresses especially in arid and semi-arid regions and can limit vine growth and productivity however responses can be different based on genotypes. In this study, effects of different concentration (0, 40, 80 and 120 Mm) NaCl on photosynthetic rate, soluble sugars, proline content and CAT activity of four own-rooted vinifera cultivars (Askari, Yaghoti, Sarghola and Rasha) were analyzed. Photosynthesis rates reduced (P �0.05) by increasing salinity, the highest and lowest reduction in photosynthesis rate was observed in Yaghoti and Rasha cultivars, respectively. Soluble sugars and proline content as an osmoregulation increased markedly at the highest NaCl concentration. Yaghoti had the highest and Rasha showed lowest soluble sugars and proline content. By increasing salt levels from 0 to 120 mM, the activity of CAT in Rasha and Sarghola cultivars increased but, Askari and Yaghoti showed no response to different NaCl concentrations. In conclusion, the Rasha cultivar was more tolerant than other varieties in response to salinity.
The effect of artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) extract on respiratory chain system activity in rat liver mitochondria

The effect of artichoke extract on mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) activity in isolated rat liver mitochondria (including reaction kinetics) was studied. The effect of the extract on the activity of isolated cytochrome oxidase was also studied. Extract in the range of 0.68–2.72 μg/ml demonstrated potent and concentration‐dependent inhibitory activity. Concentrations ≥5.4 μg/ml entirely inhibited MRC activity. The succinate oxidase system (MRC complexes II–IV) was the most potently inhibited, its activity at an extract concentration of 1.36 μg/ml being reduced by 63.3% compared with the control (p < 0.05). The results suggest a complex inhibitory mechanism of the extract. Inhibition of the succinate oxidase system was competitive (Ki = 0.23 μg/ml), whereas isolated cytochrome oxidase was inhibited noncompetitively (Ki = 126 μg/ml). The results of this study suggest that the salubrious effects of artichoke extracts may rely in part on the effects of their active compounds on the activity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain system. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An Investigation of Process Variables in Feminist Group Clinical SupervisionΨ

Using a qualitative research design, this study investigated how three supervision groups, each led by a counseling supervisor with a feminist theoretical orientation, understood process variables of feminist group supervision. Participants each completed one semi-structured individual interview and engaged in one of three respective focus groups to talk about their experiences in group supervision. Data from these interviews were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory; standards of trustworthiness were accounted for using multiple tools. A supervision model emerged from the data, representing various clusters of process variables that affected how the participants understood the process and outcome of their supervision experiences. Implications of the model on theory, research, practice, and advocacy are discussed.
Autotuning divide‐and‐conquer stencil computations

This paper explores autotuning strategies for serial divide‐and‐conquer stencil computations, comparing the efficacy of traditional “heuristic” autotuning with that of “pruned‐exhaustive” autotuning. We present a pruned‐exhaustive autotuner called Ztune that searches for optimal divide‐and‐conquer trees for stencil computations. Ztune uses three pruning properties—space‐time equivalence, divide subsumption, and favored dimension—that greatly reduce the size of the search domain without significantly sacrificing the quality of the autotuned code. We compared the performance of Ztune with that of a state‐of‐the‐art heuristic autotuner called OpenTuner in tuning the divide‐and‐conquer algorithm used in Pochoir stencil compiler. Over a nightly run on ten application benchmarks across two machines with different hardware configurations, the Ztuned code ran 5% –12% faster on average, and the OpenTuner tuned code ran from 9% slower to 2% faster on average, than Pochoir's default code. In the best case, the Ztuned code ran 40% faster, and the OpenTuner tuned code ran 33% faster than Pochoir's code. Whereas the autotuning time of Ztune for each benchmark could be measured in minutes, to achieve comparable results, the autotuning time of OpenTuner was typically measured in hours or days. Surprisingly, for some benchmarks, Ztune actually autotuned faster than the time it takes to perform the stencil computation once.