Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Media Contagion and Suicide Among the Young

Research continues to demonstrate that vulnerable youth are susceptible to the influence of reports and portrayals of suicide in the mass media. The evidence is stronger for the influence of reports in the news media than in fictional formats. However, several studies have found dramatic effects of televised portrayals that have led to increased rates of suicide and suicide attempts using the same methods displayed in the shows. Recent content analyses of newspapers and films in the United States reveal substantial opportunity for exposure to suicide, especially among young victims. One approach to reducing the harmful effects of media portrayals is to educate journalists and media programmers about ways to present suicide so that imitation will be minimized and help-seeking encouraged. Recently released recommendations for journalists are attached as an appendix. Similar initiatives with the entertainment industry would be highly desirable.
Alcohol consumption among medical university students

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: Due to their future job and the specificity of academic classes, the exposure to alcoholic beverages constitutes the specific threat in the case of medical university students. Despite this, the frequency of alcohol consumption by this group of young people has not been analyzed in detail, thus far. Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of alcohol consumption among students of the Medical University of Białystok. Materials and methods: The study was performed in March 2011 and included a representative group of 504 students from various faculties of the Medical University of Białystok. All participants completed the standardized, anonymous questionnnaire on drinking alcohol. Results: Only 14.4% of students reported never having tasted alcohol. Beer was the most consumed drink by both genders. Almost 16% of respondents declared consuming alcohol at least 40 times in the last 12 months. More than 60% of respondents reported consuming wine, spirit, or beer at least one time in the last month. Only a small percentage (2.8% 5.4%) of students reported consuming alcohol at least 10 times during the analyzed period. Half of the participants reported consuming five drinks per occasion. More than 15% of respondents reported alcohol consumption at least 3-5 times per month. Most respondents neither declared undertaking risky behaviors under the influence of alcoholic beverages nor admitted experiencing consequences of such behavior. Conclusion: Patterns of alcohol consumption among the students participating in this study do not differ markedly from population-based characteristics of the respective age group; they are still associated with specific risks resulting from studying medical disciplines and future employment in a healthcare sector.
Les facteurs de diffusion des innovations managériales en comptabilité et contrôle de gestion : une étude comparative

Quels sont les facteurs qui ont une influence sur la diffusion des innovations dans le domaine de la comptabilite et du controle de gestion ? Apres avoir defini le concept d'innovation manageriale, cet article tente de repondre a une telle question en comparant les resultats de l'etude de la diffusion en France de trois innovations de ce type. Differentes categories d'acteurs, de canaux de communication et variables de contexte ont toutes un impact sur la diffusion de l'ABC, du controle budgetaire et de la methode Georges Perrin.
Oxygen metabolism in plant/bacteria interactions: effect of DPI on the pseudo-NAD(P)H oxidase activity of peroxidase.

Diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) has been used frequently as a specific inhibitor of NADH oxidase activity in studies of plant/pathogen interactions. The present study reports the effect of DPI on the pseudo-oxidative activity of horseradish peroxidase. DPI, like other phenolics, is able to catalytically stimulate NADH oxidation in the presence of exogenous H2O2. The stimulated NADH oxidation has an acidic pH optimum and has an apparent Km of 111 microM NADH. The NADH oxidation rate is linearly proportional to [DPI] and the amount of NADH oxidized is proportional to [H2O2]. Once exogenous H2O2 is depleted, the NADH oxidation is abruptly halted until additional H2O2 is supplied. In some respects DPI appears to mimic the effects of certain anti-oxidants that use HRP to scavenge H2O2 and NAD(P)H as a reductant.
Leader’s intention to support followers’ self-worth

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the role of the followers’ competence, will to achieve, and self-determination on a leader’s intention to support a followers’ sense of self-worth. Design/methodology/approach – Using an experimental scenario study design with a sample of 316 managers, a mediated three-way moderation model was investigated that tested the extent to which a new subordinate’s competence, self-determination, and will to achieve would influence the manager’s positive expectations of them and their willingness to support this subordinate’s sense of self-worth. Findings – The results showed that a subordinate’s competence plays a key role and that a subordinate’s will to achieve and self-determination played an additional role that was mediated by positive expectations of the leader. Practical implications – The key findings emphasize that leaders can benefit from understanding how dyadic relationships form and are influenced by the earliest phases of the development of such re.
Bioabsorbable Polymer Science for the Practicing Surgeon

The structure and function relationships of polymers have long been the purview of engineers and polymer chemists. As bioabsorbable polymer implants continue to make inroads in the medical implant armamentarium, surgeons, long familiar with the properties and handling characterisitcs of metal implants, may find it advantageous to become aware of some of the unique characteristics of these types of materials so that an informed decision can be made regarding their usage. In this article, we present, in relatively nontechnical terms, the salient features of polymers in general and absorbable polymers in particular.
Global environmental change II

This progress report considers the need for developing a critical body of research on deliberate transformation as a response to global environmental change. Although there is a rapidly growing literature on adaptation to environmental change, including both incremental and transformational adaptation, this often focuses on accommodating change, rather than contesting it and creating alternatives. Given increasing calls from scientists and activists for transformative actions to avoid dangerous changes in the earth system, and the likelihood that ‘urgent’ solutions will be imposed by various interests, many new and important questions are emerging about individual and collective capacities to deliberately transform systems and structures in a manner that is both ethical and sustainable. This presents a transformative challenge to global change science itself that calls for new approaches to transdisciplinary research.
Looking for a Grandview: introducing concepts of robust sampling to policymakers and practitioners engaged in measuring the well‐being of children at the local authority level

Local authorities are increasingly required to measure and monitor the well‐being of children. One key aspect of ensuring that these data on child well‐being are robust is that they form an accurate and representative picture of that child population. Rather than being only the purview of researchers, the act of gathering outcome data now falls within the remit of policymakers and practitioners. This article therefore describes the principles and importance of solid sampling methodologies to this audience and also considers the practical reasons as to why policymakers and practitioners may require larger samples than may be necessary for a representative picture of child well‐being. These ideas are illustrated by one local authority in the UK’s approach to measuring child well‐being, using representative sampling techniques and the subsequent expansion of this sample. The consequences of expanding the sample size are illustrated by examining the impact upon key findings related to child well‐being. The potential benefits and limitations of larger samples are discussed, as are some practical solutions to the apparent impasse.
COLLEGE ROOMMATE SATISFACTION AND COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

only other person I know who checks his e-mail as often as I do. I would not have wanted anyone else to advise this project. Matt Lenno and Jeannine Szamreta for their encouragement and empowerment and for helping me to realize my potential. Staci Weber for putting up with me for the last two years, being there through it all, and mostly for being a true friend.
The Chemistry of Regulation of Genes and Other Things

Abstract "(T)he truth of a theory lies in the deductive methods used to establish it and the experimental demonstration of its fundamental premises and consequences. " — Jacques Monod I had the good fortune, early on, to be gripped by a scientific problem — gene regulation — that had ramifications beyond what I imagined. Its unfoldings have kept me enthralled ever since. We began with bacteria — and especially with bacteriophage lambda (λ) — and then moved to work with yeast and mammalian cells. We always sought coherent descriptions, ideas that would apply to apparently disparate cases — regulation of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes, for example, despite the fact that the latter, but not the former, are sequestered in a nucleus and wrapped in nucleosomes. My goal here is to put the various stages of our understanding, from the beginning of my involvement, in an overarching context. I might not say anything that has not been said by others or me, but my hope is that otherwise obscure connections and simplifications will be made clear. I hope I avoid distortions, but I cannot cite all the important contributions of others. More detailed explanations for various experiments and arguments, along with more extensive references, can be found in my two books and in the references here (1, 2). Where I refer to "we", I of course mean to include the crucial roles of this or that student or postdoctoral fellow. They are identified in the reference list but not in the text.
Pulsed-laser testing methodology for single event transients in linear devices

A methodology for testing linear devices for single event transients that uses a pulsed laser to supplement a heavy-ion accelerator is proposed. The method is based on an analysis of plots of transient amplitudes versus width over a range of laser pulse input energies and heavy-ion LETs. Additional data illustrating the method are presented that include the dependence of SETs on circuit configuration in a comparator (LM111) and operational amplifier (LM124). If judiciously used, the methodology has the advantage that the amount of heavy-ion accelerator testing can be reduced.
Object search on a mobile robot using relational spatial information

We present a method for utilising knowledge of qualitative spatial relations between objects in order to facilitate efficient visual search for those objects. A computational model for the relation is used to sample a probability distribution that guides the selection of camera views. Specifically we examine the spatial relation “on”, in the sense of physical support, and show its usefulness in search experiments on a real robot. We also experimentally compare different search strategies and verify the efficiency of so-called indirect search.
Cascleave 2.0, a new approach for predicting caspase and granzyme cleavage targets

MOTIVATION Caspases and granzyme B (GrB) are important proteases involved in fundamental cellular processes and play essential roles in programmed cell death, necrosis and inflammation. Although a number of substrates for both types have been experimentally identified, the complete repertoire of caspases and granzyme B substrates remained to be fully characterized. Accordingly, systematic bioinformatics studies of known cleavage sites may provide important insights into their substrate specificity and facilitate the discovery of novel substrates. RESULTS We develop a new bioinformatics tool, termed Cascleave 2.0, which builds on previous success of the Cascleave tool for predicting generic caspase cleavage sites. It can be efficiently used to predict potential caspase-specific cleavage sites for the human caspase-1, 3, 6, 7, 8 and GrB. In particular, we integrate heterogeneous sequence and protein functional information from various sources to improve the prediction accuracy of Cascleave 2.0. During classification, we use both maximum relevance minimum redundancy and forward feature selection techniques to quantify the relative contribution of each feature to prediction and thus remove redundant as well as irrelevant features. A systematic evaluation of Cascleave 2.0 using the benchmark data and comparison with other state-of-the-art tools using independent test data indicate that Cascleave 2.0 outperforms other tools on protease-specific cleavage site prediction of caspase-1, 3, 6, 7 and GrB. Cascleave 2.0 is anticipated to be used as a powerful tool for identifying novel substrates and cleavage sites of caspases and GrB and help understand the functional roles of these important proteases in human proteolytic cascades. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION http://www.structbioinfor. org/cascleave2/.
Forms of address and terms of reference

This paper examines the relationship between the use of names and other words in address and in reference: how does the way that speaker A addresses B differ from the way that A refers to B, and what are the factors affecting this difference? The study, based on observation and interviews, attempts both to solve a problem in pragmatics and to help historical linguists and others who need to know the extent to which it may be justified to extrapolate from referential to address usage and vice versa.
Multi-view ear recognition based on B-Spline pose manifold construction

In this work, multi-view ear recognition problems are examined in detail. A new multi-view ear recognition approach based on B-Spline pose manifold construction in discriminative projection space which is formed by null kernel discriminant analysis (NKDA) feature extraction is presented. Many experiments and comparisons are provided to show the effectiveness of our multi-view ear recognition approach.
Psychophysiological correlates of attachment organization : linear and non-linear analysis of autonomic regulation during the adult attachment interview

During the last half century, Attachment Theory reached an evermore crucial place inside developmental psychology. In fact, since Bowlby's theoretical groundwork (1962/82, 1973, 1980) in association with Ainsworth's empirical drives (e.g., 1967, 1982, 1983), attachment research grew astonishingly fast not only to explain the normative processes of human development, but also considering psychopathological processes. As an extension of the research, lately, there has been a rising interest on the role of biological measures (electrodermal and cardiac activity) and their relationship with adult attachment organization (Dozier & Kobak, 1992; Roisman, Tsai & Chiang, 2004; Roisman, 2007). Under this umbrella, the present study aims to explore, with linear and nonlinear data analysis models, the relationship between attachment organization and autonomic activity in an non-clinical context. The sample comprised 50 female participants from the north of Portugal, aged between 17 and 27 (M = 21.20, SD = 3.26), which were monitored, with a multimedia system (Bio-Dual channel and Representation of Attachment Multimedia System), for skin conductance and heart rate while answering to the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI, George, Kaplan & Main, 1985). The AAI was scored with Kobak's Q-sort method (Kobak, 1993), allowing to classify each participant in three attachment patterns (secure, dismissing or preoccupied), and two attachment strategies (security vs. insecurity and hyperactivation vs. deactivation). The results, using a linear data analysis approach based on the mean, evidenced an attachment organization patterns differentiation, throughout the AAI questions, only for skin conductance, but not for heart rate. The non-linear data analysis approach, addressed the variability and sudden shifts not explained by the mean, revealed attachment organization differences in terms of heart rate in some of the critical attachment questions of the AAI. The analysis of the heart rate variability, using the LF/HF ration evidenced no differences at all between attachment patterns. The main results are discussed in terms of attachment theory and how the psychophysiological approach may contribute for a deeper understanding of the biological correlates of attachment.
Alpha-lipoic acid affects the oxidative stress in various brain structures in mice with methionine and choline deficiency

Deficiency in methionine or choline can induce oxidative stress in various organs such as liver, kidney, heart, and brain. This study was to examine the effects of alpha-lipoic acid (LA) on oxidative stress induced by methionine and choline deficiency (MCD) in several brain structures. Male mice C57BL/6 (n = 28) were divided into four groups: (1) control – continuously fed with standard chow; (2) LA – fed with standard chow and receiving LA; (3) MCD2 – fed with MCD diet for two weeks, and (4) MCD2+LA – fed with MCD diet for two weeks and receiving LA (100 mg/kg/day intraperitonealy [i.p.]). Brain tissue (cortex, hypothalamus, striatum and hippocampus) was taken for determination of oxidative stress parameters. MCD diet induced a significant increase in malondialdehyde and NOx concentration in all brain regions, while LA restored their content to normal values. Similar to this, in MCD2 group, activity of total SOD, MnSOD, and Cu/ZnSOD was reduced by MCD diet, while LA treatment improved their activities in all brain structures. Besides, in MCD2 group a decrease in catalase activity in cortex and GSH content in hypothalamus was evident, while LA treatment induced an increase in catalase activity in cortex and striatum and GSH content in hypothalamus. LA treatment can significantly reduce lipid peroxidation and nitrosative stress, caused by MCD diet, in all brain regions by restoring antioxidant enzymes activities, predominantly total SOD, MnSOD, and Cu/ZnSOD, and to a lesser extent by modulating catalase activity and GSH content. LA supplementation may be used in order to prevent brain oxidative injury induced by methionine and choline deficiency.
The Puzzle of Self‐Deception

It is commonly accepted that people can, and regularly do, deceive themselves. Yet closer examination reveals a set of conceptual puzzles that make self-deception difficult to explain. Applying the conditions for other-deception to self-deception generates what are known as the ‘paradoxes’ of belief and intention. Simply put, the central problem is how it is possible for me to believe one thing, and yet intentionally cause myself to simultaneously believe its contradiction. There are two general approaches taken by philosophers to account for these puzzles about the self-deceptive state and the process of self-deception. ‘Partitioning’ strategies try to resolve the paradoxes by proposing that the mind is divided in some way that allows self-deception to occur. ‘Reformulation’ strategies suggest that the conditions we use to define self-deception should be modified so that the paradoxes do not arise at all. Both approaches are subject to criticism about the consequences of the strategies philosophers use, but recent cross-disciplinary analyses of self-deception may help shed light on the puzzles that underlie this phenomenon.
Athletic Scholarships as Contracts of Employment: the Rensing Decisions and the Future of College Sports

In 1982 and 1983, the Indiana Court of Appeals and the Indiana Supreme Court, respective ly, reached opposite answers to the question: Is an athletic scholarship an employment contract which entitles an injured athlete to workers' compensation? Both decisions, in Rensing v. Indiana State University, highlight the inability of narrowly drawn judicial rulings to recognize and remedy the most egregious manifestations of professionalism in college athletics. The following article draws two lessons from the limitations of the Rensing decisions. First, judicial involvement is necessary when due process or procedural fairness are implicated, but when the athlete's "conditions of participation" (based upon the scholarship agreement) are at issue, judges must permit educators to make necessary policy choices. Second, the existing system of college athletics is beset by a host of problems which derive from the "employment- like" conditions under which the scholarship athlete lives. Several means of diminishing the resemblance between athletic participation and employment are suggested.
Promoting Excellence and Reflective Learning in Simulation (PEARLS): Development and Rationale for a Blended Approach to Health Care Simulation Debriefing

Summary Statement We describe an integrated conceptual framework for a blended approach to debriefing called PEARLS [Promoting Excellence And Reflective Learning in Simulation]. We provide a rationale for scripted debriefing and introduce a PEARLS debriefing tool designed to facilitate implementation of the new framework. The PEARLS framework integrates 3 common educational strategies used during debriefing, namely, (1) learner self-assessment, (2) facilitating focused discussion, and (3) providing information in the form of directive feedback and/or teaching. The PEARLS debriefing tool incorporates scripted language to guide the debriefing, depending on the strategy chosen. The PEARLS framework and debriefing script fill a need for many health care educators learning to facilitate debriefings in simulation-based education. The PEARLS offers a structured framework adaptable for debriefing simulations with a variety in goals, including clinical decision making, improving technical skills, teamwork training, and interprofessional collaboration.
Social Construction of Personalised Content Interfaces

Introduction We currently live in a society dominated by information and communication. At its centre, the Internet represents the ultimate information space allowing us to retrieve or contribute anytime and anywhere (when using the right tools). More than one billion people are already connected, searching information, communicating with each other, contributing thoughts and knowledge. But with the increasing universality of the medium, combined with growing information overload and a spoiling for choice of available tools and services, mastering the Web can quickly become a burden. A personalised window to this messy world, tailed by and for the individual is what this project hypothesizes. By developing “large scale” prototype environments, restricted to specific informational domains we aim to create a controlable setting, that can be tested, developed and improved together with users of these systems.