Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attachment Patterns in Subjects Diagnosed With a Substance Use Disorder: A Comparison of Patients in Outpatient Treatment and Patients in Therapeutic Communities

The purpose of the present study is to analyze the quality of attachment in substance abuse patients in outpatient treatment vs. patients in therapeutic communities in order to identify the role of attachment insecurity in choosing a care system. The sample consisted of 127 subjects (107 males and 20 females); 97 were outpatients (83 males) and 30 therapeutic community patients (24 males). Attachment with respect to current, significant relationships was assessed using the Relationship Questionnaire. In the outpatient subgroup, the prevailing attachment style was preoccupied; for the therapeutic community patients, the prevailing attachment style was dismissive. The dimensions of care (how the caregiver is perceived as loving and caring) and overprotection (how the caregiver is perceived as intrusive and interfering)—evaluated by means of the Parent Bonding Instrument—were higher in the outpatient subgroup. Scores were higher with respect to maternal subscales regardless of treatment modality. No differences emerged with respect to self-perceived symptoms (SCL-90-R) between the subgroups; however, fearful-avoidant and dismissive-avoidant individuals reported higher self-perceived symptom regardless of treatment modality. Understanding the distribution of different attachment patterns with respect to the treatment modality may improve efficacious interventions, attuning them to the individual and his or her developmental environment.
Model-independent forecasts of CMB angular power spectra for the Planck mission

The Planck mission, designed for making measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with unprecedented accuracy and angular resolution, is expected to release its first data set in the near future. For the first time in the CMB history, extensive measurements of the CMB polarization will be made available for the entire sky. Such precise and rich data are expected to contain a great wealth of information about the Universe. The information in the CMB data is conveniently represented in terms of angular power spectra for temperature and polarization. A proper estimation of these CMB power spectra from data is the first step in making inferences about the Universe and, in particular, cosmological parameters that govern the Universe. In this paper, we provide forecasts for the $TT$, $EE$, and $TE$ angular power spectra for the Planck mission. Our forecasts are made using synthetic data based on the best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model while conforming to the characteristics and parameters of the Planck mission. We have analysed such synthetic data sets using a nonparametric function estimation formalism that is otherwise asymptotically model-independent. Indeed, the power spectra estimated from such synthetic data turn out to be sufficiently close to the corresponding $\Lambda$CDM spectra. Our analysis further indicates that the three angular power spectra are determined sufficiently well for $2 \le l \lesssim l_{max}$, where $l_{max} = 2500 {($TT$),} 1377 {($EE$), and} 1727 {($TE$)}$ respectively. A signature of reionization is evident in the $EE$ and $TE$ power spectra in the form of a bump at low $l$s .
Agronomic and Physiological Traits, and Associated Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Affecting Yield Response in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): A Review

Enhanced grain yield has been achieved in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) through development and cultivation of superior genotypes incorporating yield-related agronomic and physiological traits derived from genetically diverse and complementary genetic pool. Despite significant breeding progress, yield levels in wheat have remained relatively low and stagnant under marginal growing environments. There is a need for genetic improvement of wheat using yield-promoting morpho-physiological attributes and desired genotypes under the target production environments to meet the demand for food and feed. This review presents breeding progress in wheat for yield gains using agronomic and physiological traits. Further, the paper discusses globally available wheat genetic resources to identify and select promising genotypes possessing useful agronomic and physiological traits to enhance water, nutrient-, and radiation-use efficiency to improve grain yield potential and tolerance to abiotic stresses (i.e. elevated CO2, high temperature, and drought stresses). Finally, the paper highlights quantitative trait loci (QTL) linked to agronomic and physiological traits to aid breeding of high-performing wheat genotypes.
ShORR-1, a Novel Tomato Gene, Confers Enhanced Host Resistance to Oidium neolycopersici

A previous complementary cDNA-amplified fragment length polymorphism (cDNA-AFLP) analysis examined responses to the powdery mildew pathogen Oidium neolycopersici (On) of the resistant cultivar Solanum habrochiates G1.1560, carrying the Ol-1 resistance gene, and susceptible cultivar S. lycopersicum Moneymaker (MM). Among other findings, a differentially expressed transcript-derived fragment (DE-TDF) (M14E72-213) was upregulated in near isogenic line (NIL)-Ol-1, but absent in MM. This DE-TDF showed high homology to a gene of unknown function, which we named ShORR-1 (Solanum habrochaites Oidium Resistance Required-1). However, MM homolog of ShORR-1 (named ShORR-1-M) was still found with 95.26% nucleic acid sequence similarity to ShORR-1 from G1.1560 (named ShORR-1-G); this was because the cut sites of restriction enzymes in the previous complementary cDNA-AFLP analysis was absent in ShORR-1-M and differs at 13 amino acids from ShORR-1-G. Transient expression in onion epidermal cells showed that ShORR-1 is a membrane-localized protein. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) of ShORR-1-G in G1.1560 plants increased susceptibility to On. Furthermore, overexpressing of ShORR-1-G conferred MM with resistance to On, involving extensive hydrogen peroxide accumulation and formation of abnormal haustoria. Knockdown of ShORR-1-M in MM did not affect its susceptibility to On, while overexpressing of ShORR-1-M enhanced MM’s susceptibility to On. We also found that changes in transcript levels of six well-known hormone signaling and defense-related genes are involved in ShORR-1-G-mediated resistance to On. The results indicate that ShORR-1-M and ShORR-1-G have antagonistic effects in tomato responses to On, and that ShORR-1 is essential for Ol-1-mediated resistance in tomato.
Long-Term Personalization of an In-Home Socially Assistive Robot for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Socially assistive robots (SAR) have shown great potential to augment the social and educational development of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As SAR continues to substantiate itself as an effective enhancement to human intervention, researchers have sought to study its longitudinal impacts in real-world environments, including the home. Computational personalization stands out as a central computational challenge as it is necessary to enable SAR systems to adapt to each child's unique and changing needs. Toward that end, we formalized personalization as a hierarchical human robot learning framework (hHRL) consisting of five controllers (disclosure, promise, instruction, feedback, and inquiry) mediated by a meta-controller that utilized reinforcement learning to personalize instruction challenge levels and robot feedback based on each user's unique learning patterns. We instantiated and evaluated the approach in a study with 17 children with ASD, aged 3–7 years old, over month-long interventions in their homes. Our findings demonstrate that the fully autonomous SAR system was able to personalize its instruction and feedback over time to each child's proficiency. As a result, every child participant showed improvements in targeted skills and long-term retention of intervention content. Moreover, all child users were engaged for a majority of the intervention, and their families reported the SAR system to be useful and adaptable. In summary, our results show that autonomous, personalized SAR interventions are both feasible and effective in providing long-term in-home developmental support for children with diverse learning needs.
Hormones and Bariatric Surgery Comprehensive Physiology RYGB Gastric pouch Gastric sleeve Bypassed stomach Dissected stomach PancreasPancreas Colon Roux limb

Obesity increases the risks of metabolic disorders including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Bariatric surgery is the most successful therapeutic option that causes sustained weight loss and improvements in obesity comorbidities. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) are two of the most frequently performed bariatric surgeries. Despite their different anatomical rearrangement, they have remarkably similar success in both weight loss and T2DM remission. Interestingly, they also both cause a wide range of endocrine changes. Many of these endocrine changes are reflected specifically within the intestine and are implicated as mechanisms for the metabolic success of surgery. However, while most of the work shows that these hormonal changes are associated with the metabolic changes after surgery, causation has been difficult to ascertain. Here, we review the endocrine changes after RYGB and VSG and explore their mechanistic role in the success of bariatric surgery. Further, we explore important changes in gastrointestinal function and the role of these changes in the increase in postprandial endocrine responses after bariatric surgery. © 2017 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 7:783798, 2017.
Designing opto-mechatronic systems for fatigue process monitoring

Opto-mechatronic systems enable one to conduct long-term fatigue tests where the observation of the surface of the specimen and the monitoring of cracking process are required. The rapid advancement of opto-mechatronic technologies and the functional interaction between opto-electronic and mechatronic components indicate that design and implementation processes of opto-mechatronic systems require specific methodology. The presented methodology describes and considers the interactions between components, particularly inside the vision module. The design process can be supported by simulation models, databases, decision matrices, and the method of conducting the implementation maturity assessment of innovative technological solutions.
CEREBROVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF CATHETER ABLATION Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack

Catheter ablation has become a widely available and accepted treatment to restore sinus rhythm (SR) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who fail antiarrhythmic drug therapy. Although generally safe, the procedure carries a non-negligible risk of complications, including a small risk of periprocedural stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) as well as risk of silent cerebral ischemia (SCI). Embolic events cluster in the first 24 hours after ablation, although the high-risk period extends to at least 2 weeks postablation. Large thromboembolic events mainly relate to dislodgement of pre-formed thrombus. The mechanisms of SCI, on the other hand, are less well understood and may include small thrombotic, tissue, char, and/or air emboli. Uninterrupted anticoagulation, maintenance of an adequate ACT during the procedure, and measures to avoid and detect thrombus build-up on sheaths and catheters during the procedure appears useful to reduce the risk of embolic events. Although a majority of acute SCI lesions regress at medium-term follow-up, it appears prudent to use techniques that minimize SCI until conclusive data are available.
Development of a motivation-based taxonomy of adult sport participants using a self-determination theory perspective.

Self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985, 1991; Ryan & Deci, 2000) has been prominent in investigations of the motivational dynamics of sport participation. SDT posits that motivation for participation in an activity may be either intrinsic, extrinsic, or amotivated. When individuals engage in a behaviour to obtain rewards, pay, or as a result of coercive pressures, the behaviour is said to be extrinsically motivated. In contrast, when the motive for a behaviour is the enjoyment derived from the process of participation, the behaviour is said to be intrinsically motivated. Amotivation is evident when there is a lack of intention to participate in an activity. According to Deci and Ryan (1985) extrinsic motivation can be differentiated into four sub-types, referred to as 'external regulation', 'introjected regulation', 'identified regulation' and 'integrated regulation'. For definitions of these types of extrinsic motivation see Deci and Ryan (1985). In addition, Deci (1975) and Vallerand and associates (Vallerand et al., 1992, 1993) suggested that intrinsic motivation can be differentiated into 'intrinsic motivation to know', 'intrinsic motivation to accomplish' and 'intrinsic motivation to experience stimulation'. These types of motivation (from amotivation to intrinsic motivation) are proposed to lie on a continuum ranging from lower to higher degrees of self-determination (Deci & Ryan, 1985). Research in a variety of life domains has shown that higher self-determination is associated with positive consequences whereas lower self-determination is associated with negative consequences. Vallerand (1997) has suggested that pitting intrinsic against extrinsic motivation is not the most informative way to study human motivation. This is because various types of motives coexist within individuals in different degrees and they interact to influence behaviour. Hence, the purpose of the present study was to examine the configurations of motives for sport participation that characterise the motivation profiles of adult sport participants and to identify the configurations that correspond with the most and least positive consequences.
Behavioral modification according to the Neural mechanisms of context-dependent processing of CO 2 avoidance behavior in fruit flies

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Hypocoercive Diffusion Operators

In many problems coming from mathematical physics, the association of a degenerate diffusion operator with a conservative operator may lead to dissipation in all variables and convergence to equilibrium. One can draw an analogy with the well-studied phenomenon of hypoellipticity in regularity theory, and actually both phenomena have been studied together. Now a distinctive theory of “hypocoercivity” is starting to emerge, with already some striking results, and several challenging open problems. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 35B40; Secondary 35K70, 76P05.
Switching of Cu/MoOx/TiN CBRAM at MoOx/TiN interface

For dynamical observation of CBRAM microstructure, in situ transmission electron microscopy (in situ TEM) was performed on Cu/MoOx/TiN during the resistive switching. It was confirmed that the local area near the MoOx/TiN interface contributes to resistive switching. The Cu deposit at the bottom of the MoOx layer swelled into the oxidized thin layer of the TiN bottom electrode, and a thin filament of 3–5 nm diameter was formed in the Set process. The reversal change was seen in the Reset process. On increasing the switching power, a microstructural change in the MoOx layer was also seen, and the CBRAM film was finally destroyed.
Modeling Technique of Large Signal Dynamics for Electromagnetic Levitation Melting System

The main advantage of Electromagnetic Levitation Melting system (ELM) is to solve the pollution problem in metal melting process. This paper provides an analysis of the system large-signal behavior for modeling the dynamics of ELM that can be used for control design. Moreover, the high frequencies utilized by wireless ELM have posed a challenge for simulation software in the form of long simulation times. In order to reduce simulation time, it is proposed to replace the analysis of the high-frequency-electrical-signals by only the envelope-signals and still get all the information on the system dynamics. A larger than 92% decrease in simulation time is observed. Experimental results are presented to validate the analysis and the simulation results.
Gene expression studies of pregastrulation development: the basement membrane is essential for cell differentiation

Basement membranes (BMs) are sheet-like structures of extracellular matrix. They act as a supporting structure but can also significantly influence cellular behavior in development, tissue homeostasis and disease. Laminins, a major BM component, are multidomain proteins, consisting of three polypeptide chains (α, β and γ). During pregastrulation development, stem cells convert and epithelial tissues are formed. This process is faithfully mimicked in vitro by embryoid body (EB) cultures. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling is crucial when the step-like process of EB development is initiated with the formation of an endoderm. A subendodermal BM is formed, in which the globular domains LG4-5 of the laminin α1 chain (α1LG4-5) are responsible for the induction of the epiblast EBs derived form embryonic stem (ES) cells, modified to repress FGF receptor signaling, have been described before. However, a full-scale analysis of the transcriptome was missing. We therefore analysed these EBs at four time points during differentiation by the use of microarray technique. An extensive catalogue of affected genes was reported. A majority of the genes directed by FGF signalling were encoding BM and endodermal proteins. In addition, we also analysed the expression profile of wild type EBs. In both these studies, we found interesting genes not previously described in early development or identified as FGF targets. Hopefully, our gene catalogue will be a valuable source for the scientific community interested in FGF signaling, developmental biology and stem cell research. Furthermore, a gene expression study was set up to get a better insight of epiblast inducement by α1LG4-5. EBs derived form ES cells with a targeted deletion of the α1LG4-5 domains were analysed. To our surprise, we found several indications of an incomplete differentiation of the visceral endoderm. We therefore hypothesize a novel autocrine mechanism for α1LG4-5 in regulating the developing endoderm. We also suggest novel roles for laminin LG4-5 in the neuromuscular system. Using laminin α2 chain deficient mice overexpressing laminin α1 chain lacking the LG4-5 domains, we show that these domains, and consequently binding to the receptor dystroglycan are not crucial in diaphragm and heart, but essential in the peripheral nervous system. (Less)
Homing blogs as ambivalent spaces for feminine agency

Abstract This article discusses a form of lifestyle blogging where women blog about their homes and everyday lives. In these homing blogs, self-representations are characteristically spatially demarcated within the private sphere of the home. As these repeated representations of women in their homes take place in the public space of the internet, homing blogs work towards naturalizing the home as a women’s sphere. Written and commented on mostly by other women, homing blogs represent a feminine form of self-expression and communication that functions as a discursive expression of ongoing social, economic, and cultural changes in affluent Western societies. In this article, Finnish versions of these homing blogs are analysed in the cultural and political context of contemporary Finland, and discussed as a form of intimate publics that reverses the gender politics of other historical, semi-public spaces for the exercise of women’s agency, such as the salon.
Vision-Based Human Motion Analysis

Interpreting human activity from video is at the core of a wide spectrum of applications such as content-based indexing, intelligent surveillance, human-computer interfacing and sports video analysis. Cheap hardware and growing storage capacity has led to an explosion of video data and there is a critical need for machine vision algorithms that automatically analyze video content. This thesis provides a collection of methods for video-based human action recognition, i.e. the application of semantic labels to a person’s movements over time in a video sequence. We present two approaches for this task, one appearance-based and one posebased. The appearance-based method uses no structural modeling of the human body and relies only on the statistical distribution of appearance features such as edges, shapes and flow to classify actions. The pose-based method, on the other hand, explicitly estimates a 3D articulated pose of the body and classifies the action based on geometric relations between specific joints in a single pose or a short sequence of poses. In addition to determining action labels, we examine how action recognition could be leveraged to help with the closely related task of human pose estimation. We integrate action recognition and pose estimation into a single system, taking output from appearancebased action recognition as a prior for 3D pose estimation. The estimated poses are then used to for pose-based action recognition to refine the action label. Finally, we examine the temporal aspect of labeling actions and propose a method to both segment and classify actions from a continuous stream of body poses.
Principle Differences between B2B and B2C Marketing Communication Processes

Abstract The scientific problem analysed in the article focuses on identifying the differences in the marketing communication process in a framework of business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets. The results show that although it may seem that the process itself is the same in both situations, however, it has many differences as well as many aspects in common.