Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Peer Influence in a School for Youth With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Despite research on peer dynamics in mainstream classrooms and in mental health interventions, investigations of peer dynamics in self-contained classrooms for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) are limited. This study examined the influence of classroom behavior norms on individual behavior in a school for students with behavior challenges. Ratings of respectful behavior and rule-following behavior were collected for each marking period of one academic year during reading instruction and during lunch at both individual and classroom levels. Two sets of hierarchical linear models examined whether individual behavior trajectories were independent of classroom grouping (i.e., unconditional growth models) and whether classmate behavior norms predicted individual behavior (i.e., conditional growth models). Overall, individual trajectories for respectful behavior and rule-following behavior were not dependent on classroom groupings. However, across behaviors and settings, classroom norms significantly predicted individual behavior. These findings extend classroom norms research into an EBD setting and suggest that classroom norms may promote or inhibit positive behavior within self-contained classrooms for students with EBD. Behavior support programs within self-contained settings should account for influence of classroom norms (e.g., incorporation of group contingencies) to enhance social functioning of students with EBD.
Recent biomedical advances enabled by HaloTag technology

The knowledge of interactions among functional proteins helps researchers understand disease mechanisms and design potential strategies for treatment. As a general approach, the fluorescent and affinity tags were employed for exploring this field by labeling the Protein of Interest (POI). However, the autofluorescence and weak binding strength significantly reduce the accuracy and specificity of these tags. Conversely, HaloTag, a novel self-labeling enzyme (SLE) tag, could quickly form a covalent bond with its ligand, enabling fast and specific labeling of POI. These desirable features greatly increase the accuracy and specificity, making the HaloTag a valuable system for various applications ranging from imaging to immobilization of POI. Notably, the HaloTag technique has already been successfully employed in a series of studies with excellent efficiency. In this review, we summarize the development of HaloTag and recent advanced investigations associated with HaloTag, including in vitro imaging (e.g., POI imaging, cellular condition monitoring, microorganism imaging, system development), in vivo imaging, biomolecule immobilization (e.g., POI collection, protein/nuclear acid interaction and protein structure analysis), targeted degradation (e.g., L-AdPROM), and more. We also present a systematic discussion regarding the future direction and challenges of the HaloTag technique.
Amplified Piezoelectric Stack Actuators for Harvesting Electrical Energy From a Backpack

Over the past few decades the use of portable and wearable electronics has grown steadily. These devices are becoming increasingly more powerful, however, the gains that have been made in the device performance has resulted in the need for significantly higher power to operate the electronics. This issue has been further complicated due to the stagnate growth of battery technology over the past decade. In order to increase the life of these electronics, researchers have begun investigating methods of generating energy from ambient sources such that the life of the electronics can be prolonged. Recent developments in the field have led to the design of a number of mechanisms that can be used to generate electrical energy, from a variety of sources including thermal, solar, strain, inertia, etc. Many of these energy sources are available for use with humans, but their use must be carefully considered such that parasitic effects that could disrupt the user’s gait or endurance are avoided. This study develops a novel energy harvesting backpack that can generate electrical energy from the differential forces between the wearer and the pack. The goal of this system is to make the energy harvesting device transparent to the wearer such that his or her endurance and dexterity is not compromised. This will be accomplished by replacing the strap buckle with a mechanically amplified piezoelectric stack actuator. Piezoelectric stack actuators have found little use in energy harvesting applications due to their high stiffness which makes straining the material difficult. This issue will be alleviated using a mechanically amplified stack which allows the relatively low forces generated by the pack to be transformed to high forces on the piezoelectric stack. This paper will develop a theoretical model of the piezoelectric buckle and perform experimental testing to validate the model accuracy and energy harvesting performance. © 2007 ASME
The development and validation of the Resilience Index

Abstract Resilience comprises various neurobiological, developmental, and psychosocial components. However, existing measures lack certain critical components, while having limited utility in low-to-middle-income settings. We aimed to develop a reliable and valid measure of resilience encompassing a broad range of components and that can be used across different income settings. We also set out to develop empirical cutoff scores for low, moderate, and high resilience. Results from 686 participants revealed the emergence of three components: positive affect (α = 0.879), early-life stability (α = 0.879), and stress mastery (α = 0.683). Convergent and incremental validity was confirmed using an existing resilience measure as the benchmark. Concurrent validity was also confirmed with significant negative correlations with measures of depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and sleep disruption. Finally, we successfully determined cutoff scores for low, moderate, and high resilience. Results confirm that the Resilience Index is a reliable and valid measure that can be utilized in both high- and low-to-middle-income settings.
Apply Paraphrase Generation for Finding and Ranking Similar News Headlines in Punjabi Language

Paraphrase generation is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and is successfully applied in various applications such as question-answering, information retrieval & extraction, text summarization and augmentation of machine translation training data. A lot of research has been carried out on paraphrase generation but it is missing to apply it for finding similar news headlines. However, no approach is available for finding similar news headlines by using paraphrase generation in Punjabi Language. Hence, this paper presents an approach for finding similar news headlines by applying a paraphrase generation system to plug in the gap. Similar news is being detected by comparing the sentence vectors of news headlines. The input headline is compared with all available headlines using a combination of cosine and Jaccard similarity to find similar headlines. The detected news headlines are then ranked by comparing them with the given headline. To represent news headlines as sentence embeddings, RNN based Seq2Seq with different hyper-parameter settings and attention mechanisms is used. The direct method can restrict the process, so the proposed approach has applied a paraphrase generation system to rephrase the given headline for finding more relevant news headlines. To generate a paraphrase of the given headline, the current state-of-the-art transformer with an augmented encoder is being used as transformers can learn long-term dependencies. The effect of Jaccard and cosine similarity has also been tested along with the combination of both metrics but the combination of Jaccard and cosine similarity performs better for finding similar headlines. The news headlines extracted from four newspapers have been used for evaluation in this article. Further, different evaluation metrics have been applied for in-depth comparisons, the BLEU score has been calculated between detected and input headlines. Another evaluation is done by comparing embeddings of the detected headlines and inputs along with human judgements. The generation of sentence vectors further enhanced the evaluation measure and showing that the proposed approach produced state-of-the-art results.
“Me Dieron Vida”: The Effects of a Pilot Health Promotion Intervention to Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk and Improve Behavioral Health among Older Latinos with HIV

There are significant gaps in knowledge about the synergistic and disparate burden of health disparities associated with cardiovascular health issues, poorer mental health outcomes, and suboptimal HIV-care management on the health of older Latinos living with HIV (OLLWH). This pilot study sought to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of an innovative application of an already established health-promotion intervention—Happy Older Latinos are Active (HOLA)—among this marginalized population. Eighteen self-identified Latino men with an undetectable HIV viral load and documented risk of cardiometabolic disease participated in this study. Although the attrition rate of 22% was higher than expected, participants attended 77% of the sessions and almost 95% of the virtual walks. Participants reported high satisfaction with the intervention, as evident by self-report quantitative (CSQ-8; M = 31, SD = 1.5) and qualitative metrics. Participants appreciated bonding with the community health worker and their peers to reduce social isolation. Results indicate that the HOLA intervention is an innovative way of delivering a health promotion intervention adapted to meet the diverse needs and circumstances of OLLWH, is feasible and acceptable, and has the potential to have positive effects on the health of OLLWH.
Treatment Outcomes Across Ten Months of Combined Inpatient and Outpatient Treatment In a Traumatized and Dissociative Patient Group

Thirty-seven inpatients in a hospital-based Trauma Program completed a set of measures at admission and at 6 and 10-months follow-up. On the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule, the average number of secondary features of dissociative identity disorder at baseline was 3.6 (SD ⇤ 4.2), and the average score on the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) was 37.8 (SD ⇤ 21.9). At 10 months follow-up, average scores on the DES had declined significantly from 37.8 to 31.1; average scores on the Beck Depression Inventory-II had declined from 36.9 to 24.3; and average scores on the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire had declined from 41.5 to 32.5. Treatment outcomes for complex dissociative disorders are supported by replicated prospective studies and are evidence based at Level II according to the criteria of the United States Preventive Services Task Force
The Origin of Abnormal Beta Oscillations in the Parkinsonian Corticobasal Ganglia Circuits

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative brain disorder associated with motor and nonmotor symptoms. Exaggerated beta band (15–30 Hz) neuronal oscillations are widely observed in corticobasal ganglia (BG) circuits during parkinsonism. Abnormal beta oscillations have been linked to motor symptoms of PD, but their exact relationship is poorly understood. Nevertheless, reduction of beta oscillations can induce therapeutic effects in PD patients. While it is widely believed that the external globus pallidus (GPe) and subthalamic nucleus (STN) are jointly responsible for abnormal rhythmogenesis in the parkinsonian BG, the role of other cortico-BG circuits cannot be ignored. To shed light on the origin of abnormal beta oscillations in PD, here we review changes of neuronal activity observed in experimental PD models and discuss how the cortex and different BG nuclei cooperate to generate and stabilize abnormal beta oscillations during parkinsonism. This may provide further insights into the complex relationship between abnormal beta oscillations and motor dysfunction in PD, which is crucial for potential target-specific therapeutic interventions in PD patients.
Labioplastia y técnicas de cirugía estética genital en Medellín, Colombia

Introducción. La cirugía estética genital femenina presenta una creciente demanda; sin embargo, su técnica y resultados no son bien conocidos. Objetivos. Describir los datos sociodemográficos, manifestaciones clínicas, resultados postoperatorios y la satisfacción en un grupo de mujeres a quienes se aplicó cirugía estética genital femenina. Métodos. Estudio descriptivo, retrospectivo de una base de datos institucional, en el periodo 6 de marzo de 2007 a 14 de enero de 2021. Se analizó los datos demográficos y clínicos de los registros médicos utilizando estadística descriptiva. Resultados. Se recuperaron los datos de 713 pacientes, con edad media de 34,3 años y 12 de las cuales tenían menos de 18 años. Antes de la intervención, el 87,5 % (n= 624) de pacientes estaban inconformes con el aspecto de sus genitales externos, el 74,1 % (n= 528) tenía incomodidad con sus genitales y 53,4 % (n= 381) manifestaron pérdida de gratificación sexual. Los hallazgos más comunes al examen físico fueron la hipertrofia de los labios menores (n= 616; 86,4 %) y el capuchón de clítoris redundante (n= 577; 80,9 %). La cirugía más efectuada consistió en labioplastia (n= 609; 85,4%) y reducción del capuchón del clítoris (n= 564; 79,1 %). La satisfacción global a los 8 y 30 días fue de 99,4 % (n= 709) y 93,3 % (n= 665), respectivamente. Conclusiones. En la cohorte estudiada, las mujeres lograron altas tasas de satisfacción cosmética con los resultados quirúrgicos, y también experimentaron mejora en su satisfacción funcional. Existió una tasa baja de complicaciones.
Students' Modernist Socio-Political Attitude in the View of Family and University Effects

Introduction Attitude refers to a positive or negative orientation towards an object, a person, a particular group of people. The attitude construct continues to be a major focus of theory and research in the social and behavioral sciences. This paper examines how students' modernist socio-political attitudes may be influenced by their family and university. We want to know to what extent are people's attitudes related to their atmosphere. The major issue to be discussed here is whether or not attitudes have systematic and close relationship to their social setting. People's worldviews are important: they clearly affect the way people think and behave, at the personal, social and societal levels. Sociopolitical attitudes refer to a general ideological tendency based on attitudes and beliefs about socio-political issues (Hastie, 2007: 259). In this paper, socio-political attitudes are based on four dimensions, including democratic attitudes, liberalism, critical thinking and individualism. Alexander (2006) believes that to form a democracy we need special motives which are counter codes to nondemocratic ones. As he puts it, democracy depends on self control and individual initiatives, the people who compose it are described as being capable of activism and autonomy rather than as being passive and dependent. They are seen as rational and reasonable rather than irrational and hysterical, as calm rather than excited, as controlled rather than passionate, as sane and realistic rather than fantastical or mad (Alexander, 2006: 57). The family is the institution where human beings first experience non-heteronymous priority of the whole over the part. Family members do not relate to each other as independent persons but rather as members of a larger whole where they find their essential identity. For Hegel, this non-individualistic dimension of the family is important (Luther, 2009: 158). Family is the first and the most important social context through which interindividual relationships are formed. Through this relationships and interactions one's mind is formed. The amount of parental influence over a young child's behavior and attitudes is so great that some authors have referred to childhood as a "total institution" comparable in its degree of control to confinement in a penal institution or a concentration camp. Parents have almost total control over the child's informational input, the behaviors demanded of the child, and the rewords and punishments meted out. Thus they have great power to shape the child's attitudes, particularly because the infant has no preexisting attitudes that would be contrary to the parental influence. Thus many childhood attitudes are probably a combination of the child's own experience and what he or she has heard parents say or seen them do.
Learning apart or together? The relationships of the social interdependence orientation and social competence of owner-managers with their social learning behaviour and firm performance within a Korean small-business context

ABSTRACT The present study aims to contribute to the body of knowledge on HRD in small businesses by providing a detailed investigation of the role that owner-managers play in enabling social learning and performance in small firms. The investigation focusses particularly on the specific relationships of the social-interdependence orientation and social competence of owner-managers with their social learning behaviour, as well as with the performance of their small-businesses within the pig-production sector in the Republic of Korea. A survey was conducted amongst nearly 200 Korean owner-managers of pig farms. The results indicate that social interdependence orientations and social competencies have a significant relationship with social learning behaviour. Self-promotion and a cooperative orientation are especially important, with self-promotion taking precedence for social learning behaviour of a more ‘internal’ nature, and a cooperative attitude being more important social learning behaviour of a more ‘external’ nature. Social competence and social interdependence did not have a significant relationship with performance, but social learning behaviour did. The results further highlight the importance of individual social characteristics to social learning behaviour occurring outside highly structured educational settings, in addition to demonstrating that the competence and attitudes required are determined by the type of interaction partner.
iTRAQ-Based Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Antibacterial Mechanism of Milk-Derived Peptide BCp12 against Escherichia coli

BCp12 is a novel casein-derived antibacterial peptide with a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect. However, its action mechanism against E. coli is unknown. In this study, the growth curve showed that BCp12 had excellent antibacterial activity against E. coli. Red (propidium iodide staining) and green (fluorescein isothiocyanate staining) fluorescence signals were detected at the edges of the E. coli cells treated with BCp12. scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images showed that E. coli cells became rough and shrunken, and part of the cell contents leaked to form a cavity. Furthermore, the iTRAQ proteome analysis showed that 193 and 174 proteins were significantly up-regulated and down-regulated, respectively, after BCp12 treatment. Four enzymes involved in fatty acid degradation of E. coli were down-regulated, disrupting the synthesis of cell membranes. Molecular docking and gel retardation assays showed that BCp12 could bind to genes encoding four key enzymes involved in the fatty acid degradation pathway through hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions, thus significantly inhibiting their activities. Overall, the results indicate that BCp12 inhibits the growth of E. coli, causing metabolic disorders, thus destroying the structure of cell membranes.
Compact triple-band ground radiation antenna using two inner rectangular loops enclosed by two outer loops

A triple-band ground radiation antenna is proposed that can cover the 1575 MHz global positioning system (GPS) band and the 2.45 and 5.5 GHz WLAN bands, within a 6 × 9 mm ground clearance. The proposed triple-band antenna is comprised of two inner rectangular loops, each enclosed by a larger outer loop. Each band can be adjusted for impedance matching by means of respective matching circuits. The −10 dB return loss bandwidths were simulated to be 17, 130 and 1000 MHz. Measurements indicated that sufficient bandwidth and good radiation performance were also achieved.
Good survival rate, moderate overall and good respirator quality of life, near normal pulmonary functions, and good return to work despite catastrophic economic costs 6 months following recovery from Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Introduction: Long-term quality of life, return to work, economic consequences following Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) are not well described in India. This study was aimed to address the question. Methods: A prospective cohort study of 109 ARDS survivors were followed up for a minimum of 6 months following discharge. Quality of life was assessed using the SF-36 questionnaire. Respiratory quality was assessed using the St Georges Respiratory Questionnaire. Time to return to work was documented. Costs-direct medical, as well as indirect were documented up to 6 months. Results: At 6 months, 6/109 (5.5%) had expired. Low energy/vitality and general heath were noted in the SF-36 scores at 6 months; overall a moderate quality of life. Pulmonary function tests had mostly normalized. Six-min walk distance was 77% of predicted. Respiratory quality of life was good. It took at the median of 111 days to go back Interquartile range (55–193.5) to work with 88% of previously employed going back to work. There were no significant differences in the severity of ARDS and any of these outcomes at 6 months. The average total cost from the societal perspective was ₹ 231,450 (standard deviation 146,430-, 387,300). There was a significant difference between the 3-ARDS severity groups and costs (P < 0.01). There were no independent predictors of return to work. Conclusion: ARDS survivors have low 6-month mortality. Pulmonary physiology and exercise capacity was mostly normal. Overall, quality of life is average was moderate, while respiratory quality of life was good. Return to work was excellent, while cost of care falls under a catastrophic heath expense.
Development and Validation of a Tool to Examine Program-Wide Implementation of the Pyramid Model

In recent years, there has been increased attention regarding systems-level implementation to support the sustained use of evidence-based interventions and supports in authentic early childhood settings. With this comes a need to accurately measure implementation fidelity of the critical features within a framework as well as individual practices. Program-Wide Support for Pyramid Model Implementation (PWS-PMI) provides an approach for early childhood programs to develop such a framework that can underpin evidence-based practices in their classrooms. This article describes an evaluation of the technical properties of the Supporting Program-wide Implementation Fidelity Instrument (SPIFI), a fidelity tool that was developed to be used by typical evaluators to measure PWS-PMI in these settings. Findings suggest that the instrument reliably demonstrated construct validity when used by typical evaluators to assess PWS-PMI and provides initial validation of the SPIFI as an objective measure for use in evaluative research and technical assistance.