Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Temperature Inversions, Meteorological Variables and Air Pollutants and Their Influence on Acute Respiratory Disease in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone, Jalisco, Mexico

The presence of temperature inversions (TI), concentration of air pollutants (AP) and meteorological variables (MV) affect the welfare of the population, creating public health problems (acute respiratory diseases ARDs, among others). The Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone (GMZ) experiences high levels of air pollution, which associated with the presence of temperature inversions and meteorological variations is conducive to the incidence of ARDs in children. The aim of this work is to evaluate the TI, MV, AP and their influence on the ARDs in children under five years in the GMZ from 2003 to 2007. In this period, the moderate and strong TI are the most frequent presenting from November to May. The AP shows a variable behavior during the year and between years, with the highest concentration of particles less than 10 microns (PM10), followed by ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitrogen oxides (NOX), carbon monoxide (CO) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), the most affected areas are the southeast of the GMZ. Annual arithmetic mean is 213,510 ± 41,209 ARDs consultations. The most important diseases are acute respiratory infections (98.0%), followed by pneumonia and bronchopneumonia (1.1%), asthma and status asthmaticus (0.5%) and streptococcal pharyngitis and tonsillitis (0.4%). Months with most inquiries were from October to March, mainly in the southeast, south and center of the city, coinciding with high levels of AP. Statistical analysis shows that the TI have significant correlation with ARDs in three years, temperature (Temp) in two, relative humidity (RH) in two, wind speed (WS) in three, wind direction (WD) in two, while that air pollutants NOX and NO2 showed significant correlation with ARDs throughout the period. CO and SO2 showed significance in two years, while the PM10 and O3 in one.
(Inter)disciplinary research and practice with refugees resettling in Europe: the need for a ‘phronetic’ social science

This paper draws on a narrative literature review in the area of refugee resettlement and adaptation and argues against the polarity found between the various disciplines working in this field. The resettlement and adaptation of refugees in Europe is undoubtedly a complex issue which calls for interdisciplinary research and practice. Yet when reviewing the relevant literature the following dualism emerges: on the one hand, there is material concerning theoretical know why (such as psychological and sociological studies which theorise why the majority of refugees experience post-migration adversity and disadvantage) and on the other hand there is material focusing on technical know how (such as studies from the fields of social work and healthcare which explore the most efficient psychosocial interventions for different groups of refugees). These two types of knowledge- the theoretical and the technical- refer to what Aristotle defined as ‘episteme’ and ‘techne’. There is also a third intellectual virtue Aristotle called ‘phronesis’: phronesis refers to the ethically practical and is the intellectual activity most relevant to social action, which can improve people’s lives and contribute to societies’ development (Flyvbjerg et al., 2012). Phronesis is missing from contemporary social sciences (Flyvbjerg, 2001) and from refugee studies as well. The present paper highlights this by reviewing the past decade’s literature on the theme of refugee resettlement and adaptation in Europe. It concludes by suggesting a ‘phronetic’ turn in research and practice in this field, so that refugee peoples and sending and receiving societies benefit the most.
Women and War, Children and War: Stretching the Bonds of Caregiving.

Many things stretch the bonds between caregiver and child, such as war, stress, and trauma. This paper reviews the literature on children who are in direct contact with war or indirect contact with war through television or others' conversations. It also describes the effects of war on children and their families, and children's psychological response. The introduction discusses the effects of war on women and caretaking, how children create for themselves the illusion of safety, and how stress or trauma disrupt those illusions. This section also provides a rationale for the literature review. The next sections review the literature on children as passive victims of war and as active/warrior victims of war. The paper frequently quotes from Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham's "War and Children," a book written on the psychoanalytic understanding of children, and presents a discussion of the authors' viewpoints and the importance of their work. The lives and work histories of Freud and Burlingham are also described. The paper also discusses the work of many other early childhood educators, such as Ernst Papanek's work on children's fears, Mass's work on the psychology of ;oung adults, Heinicke and Westheimer's study on children who are separated from parents, and Morris Fraser's writing on children's response to disaster. The paper's conclusion touches on resilience and the long-term effects of war on children. This section also notes that the point of understanding the works of Freud and Burlingham and others related to child caregiving is to work harder in public life to prevent war and in private life to maintain the illusion of safety. Contains 25 references. (MOK) ********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION On.ce of EduClOona. desearCn and . mpros,ernent EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERICI 41's,5 document nas peen ,eofociuceo as ece.vecl Irons me person 0 o,ganaabon m.no, changes have oeen rnacle . rnOfove 'etuoducl.onouamy Pomts of ve opmons stated m tn.s doc ment do not necessa my represent orfiC a' OE fal 005.1,0^ 0, prolcy
Human Dna2 Is a Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance Protein

ABSTRACT Dna2 is a highly conserved helicase/nuclease that in yeast participates in Okazaki fragment processing, DNA repair, and telomere maintenance. Here, we investigated the biological function of human Dna2 (hDna2). Immunofluorescence and biochemical fractionation studies demonstrated that hDna2 was present in both the nucleus and the mitochondria. Analysis of mitochondrial hDna2 revealed that it colocalized with a subfraction of DNA-containing mitochondrial nucleoids in unperturbed cells. Upon the expression of disease-associated mutant forms of the mitochondrial Twinkle helicase which induce DNA replication pausing/stalling, hDna2 accumulated within nucleoids. RNA interference-mediated depletion of hDna2 led to a modest decrease in mitochondrial DNA replication intermediates and inefficient repair of damaged mitochondrial DNA. Importantly, hDna2 depletion also resulted in the appearance of aneuploid cells and the formation of internuclear chromatin bridges, indicating that nuclear hDna2 plays a role in genomic DNA stability. Together, our data indicate that hDna2 is similar to its yeast counterpart and is a new addition to the growing list of proteins that participate in both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA maintenance.
Does Student Sorting Invalidate Value-Added Models of Teacher Effectiveness? An Extended Analysis of the Rothstein Critique

Value-added modeling continues to gain traction as a tool for measuring teacher performance. However, recent research questions the validity of the value-added approach by showing that it does not mitigate student-teacher sorting bias (its presumed primary benefit). Our study explores this critique in more detail. Although we find that estimated teacher effects from some value-added models are severely biased, we also show that a sufficiently complex value-added model that evaluates teachers over multiple years reduces the sorting bias problem to statistical insignificance. One implication of our findings is that data from the first year or two of classroom teaching for novice teachers may be insufficient to make reliable judgments about quality. Overall, our results suggest that in some cases value-added modeling will continue to provide useful information about the effectiveness of educational inputs.
Mild Procedure: Single-site Prospective IRB Study

Objective:The mild lumbar decompression procedure is a minimally invasive therapy for the treatment of symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Mild offers LSS patients an early alternative after failed conservative therapy and before open surgery. This report describes 6-month safety and efficacy of mild patients treated at a single center. Methods:From November 2009 through June 2010, 27 consecutive patients were enrolled in a prospective Study at a single center. Efficacy of the mild procedure was evaluated by comparing the Visual Analog Scale, Oswestry Disability Index, and Zurich Claudication Questionnaire (ZCQ) at baseline and 6-month follow-up. Significant mild device or procedure-related adverse events were tracked and patient outcomes reported. Results:There were no significant mild device or procedure-related adverse events observed or reported. No patients required more than 24 hours postoperative observation. At 6-months, Visual Analog Scale showed a statistically significant improvement of 5.2 points. Oswestry Disability Index also showed statistically significant improvement of 24.0 points. Improvement in all ZCQ domains was statistically significant, and the average ZCQ Patient Satisfaction score was 1.86 at 6-month follow-up indicating that patients were “satisfied” to “very satisfied” with the treatment. Discussion:The safety profile of mild, combined with the significant improvement in quality of life for these patients at 6-months is remarkable. Having failed conservative therapy, the high level of effectiveness of the mild procedure is particularly important in this patient population. In this series, mild has been shown to be a safe, effective, and cost-effective treatment for LSS patients with neurogenic claudication.
Speed of Language Comprehension is Impaired in ADHD

Objective: Children with ADHD have an increased risk of poor academic performance. It is important to identify cognitive processes that may be related to this academic failure. In Western schooling systems, especially language processing skills may be of relevance. The present study, therefore, compares the ability to comprehend complex sentences of individuals with and without ADHD. Method: Fifteen children (aged 8-11) and 15 adolescents (aged 12-16) with ADHD combined subtype are matched for age, gender, and parental level of education to 30 control subjects. Language comprehension is measured using the neuropsychological procedure proposed by Luria and an adapted version of the Token Test. Results: Compared with the control group, children and adolescents with ADHD perform significantly slower on language comprehension tasks. Differences in accuracy are limited. No interaction between age and ADHD is found. Conclusions: Children and adolescents with ADHD are slower and less efficient than matched control subjects with regard to complex sentence comprehension. (J. of Att. Dis. 2010; 13(4) 374-385)
Development of power conditioning system (PCS) for battery energy storage systems

This paper presents development of 500kVA and 100kVA type utility-scaled power conditioning systems (PCSs) used in the battery energy storage system. Thanks to appropriate hardware and software design, PCSs are very efficient across a wide working range. Some important functions are equipped, such as softstart, anti-islanding, stand-alone operation and so on, with the purpose of improving stability and reliability in various challenging dynamic working conditions. To account for expanding battery storage capacities, our developed PCSs are very flexible, since several PCS modules can be connected to work in parallel. Factory tests in electrical, control and thermal aspects have demonstrated their excellent performance.
An Investigation into the Ability of Adults with Post-Stroke Aphasia to Learn New Vocabulary

Recent studies have established that adults with post-stroke aphasia can learn to establish connections between familiar words and abstract images, and nonwords with familiar objects. What has not been investigated was whether adults with aphasia could learn non-words with abstract images/ novel meanings i.e. new vocabulary. The main objective of this study was to investigate whether adults with post-stroke aphasia could learn ‘novel’ word forms with ‘novel’ word meanings, despite phonological and/or semantic impairment. Specific research questions included: Can post-stroke adults with aphasia learn new vocabulary? If so, what factors affect their capacity to learn? Is it possible to predict which individuals will learn most successfully? The methodology was developed using preliminary studies both with adults of normal language and cognitive functioning and post-stroke non-aphasic and aphasic adults. It incorporated learning theory and a cognitive neuropsychological model of language. A range of assessments was used to facilitate the capture of new learning. ‘New learning’ was measured not only in terms of the accurate production of the new stimuli but also the recognition and knowledge of the word forms and meanings of this new vocabulary. In the main investigation twenty novel word forms with 20 novel meanings were taught to 12 aphasic adults (< 65 years), over a four day period, using an errorless learning paradigm. Immediate recall of these newly learnt representations was investigated as well as delayed recall. Quantitative and qualitative results from a case series of 12 participants are presented and discussed. Despite semantic and phonological difficulties, all but three participants demonstrated substantial learning of the new vocabulary. The participants’ range of learning ability (from both immediate and delayed recall data) was analysed in relation to severity of aphasia, cognitive factors (including attention, memory and executive function), as well as variables such as age, months post-stroke and number of years in education. With an intensive training period, these participants with aphasia demonstrate varying degrees of ability for new learning. Possible influencing factors and implications for speech and language therapy rehabilitation are discussed.
Evaluation of generalized degrees of freedom for sparse estimation by replica method

We develop a method to evaluate the generalized degrees of freedom (GDF) for linear regression with sparse regularization. The GDF is a key factor in model selection, and thus its evaluation is useful in many modelling applications. An analytical expression for the GDF is derived using the replica method in the large-system-size limit with random Gaussian predictors. The resulting formula has a universal form that is independent of the type of regularization, providing us with a simple interpretation. Within the framework of replica symmetric (RS) analysis, GDF has a physical meaning as the effective fraction of non-zero components. The validity of our method in the RS phase is supported by the consistency of our results with previous mathematical results. The analytical results in the RS phase are calculated numerically using the belief propagation algorithm.
Ln Is a Key Regulator of Leaflet Shape and Number of Seeds per Pod in Soybean[W]

Whether the leaflet shape gene Ln has a pleiotropic effect on the number of seeds per pod (NSPP) trait or not has long been debated in soybean research. This study shows that both the leaflet shape and NSPP traits are regulated by a single gene, which is a homolog of Arabidopsis JAGGED that regulates leaf and flower development, and establishes a novel role for JAGGED in fruit development. Narrow leaflet soybean (Glycine max) varieties tend to have more seeds per pod than broad leaflet varieties. Narrow leaflet in soybean is conferred by a single recessive gene, ln. Here, we show that the transition from broad (Ln) to narrow leaflet (ln) is associated with an amino acid substitution in the EAR motif encoded by a gene (designated Gm-JAGGED1) homologous to Arabidopsis JAGGED (JAG) that regulates lateral organ development and the variant exerts a pleiotropic effect on fruit patterning. The genomic region that regulates both the traits was mapped to a 12.6-kb region containing only one gene, Gm-JAG1. Introducing the Gm-JAG1 allele into a loss-of-function Arabidopsis jagged mutant partially restored the wild-type JAG phenotypes, including leaf shape, flower opening, and fruit shape, but the Gm-jag1 (ln) and EAR-deleted Gm-JAG1 alleles in the jagged mutant did not result in an apparent phenotypic change. These observations indicate that despite some degree of functional change of Gm-JAG1 due to the divergence from Arabidopsis JAG, Gm-JAG1 complemented the functions of JAG in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the Gm-JAG1 homoeolog, Gm-JAG2, appears to be sub- or neofunctionalized, as revealed by the differential expression of the two genes in multiple plant tissues, a complementation test, and an allelic analysis at both loci.
Experiences with GreenGPS—Fuel-Efficient Navigation Using Participatory Sensing

Participatory sensing services based on mobile phones constitute an important growing area of mobile computing. Most services start small and hence are initially sparsely deployed. Unless a mobile service adds value while sparsely deployed, it may not survive conditions of sparse deployment. The paper offers a generic solution to this problem and illustrates this solution in the context of GreenGPS; a navigation service that allows drivers to find the most fuel-efficient routes customized for their vehicles between arbitrary end-points. Specifically, when the participatory sensing service is sparsely deployed, we demonstrate a general framework for generalization from sparse collected data to produce models extending beyond the current data coverage. This generalization allows the mobile service to offer value under broader conditions. GreenGPS uses our developed participatory sensing infrastructure and generalization algorithms to perform inexpensive data collection, aggregation, and modeling in an end-to-end automated fashion. The models are subsequently used by our backend engine to predict customized fuel-efficient routes for both members and non-members of the service. GreenGPS is offered as a mobile phone application and can be easily deployed and used by individuals. A preliminary study of our green navigation idea was performed in [1], however, the effort was focused on a proof-of-concept implementation that involved substantial offline and manual processing. In contrast, the results and conclusions in the current paper are based on a more advanced and accurate model and extensive data from a real-world phone-based implementation and deployment, which enables reliable and automatic end-to-end data collection and route recommendation. The system further benefits from lower cost and easier deployment. To evaluate the green navigation service efficiency, we conducted a user subject study consisting of 22 users driving different vehicles over the course of several months in Urbana-Champaign, IL. The experimental results using the collected data suggest that fuel savings of 21.5 over the fastest, 11.2 percent over the shortest, and 8.4 percent over the Garmin eco routes can be achieved by following GreenGPS green routes. The study confirms that our navigation service can survive conditions of sparse deployment and at the same time achieve accurate fuel predictions and lead to significant fuel savings.
Complex Models of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Human Cognition. Implications for Functional Psychoses

Models of cognition propose a hierarchical structure for human cognitive processes where the sequences of human action are organized into parts or subunits of analysis that can be grouped into progressively more complex, inclusive higher-order functions. The organizational structure from partial to whole might be reflected in the neural representations that underlie human behaviour, and in its genetic underpinnings. The objective of the present study was to explore a putative hierarchical organization of the genetic influences underlying cognitive domains. Thirty four studies of the heritability of cognition on population-based samples were reviewed, which included measures of intelligence, verbal and performance abilities, memory, working memory and speed of processing. Results indicate that specific cognitive domains respond to diverse proportions of genetic underpinnings such that higher-order cognitive functions present high heritability estimates, while lower-order functions respond to small/moderate heritability estimates. Based on current understanding of the developmental processes of the neurobiological substrates of human cognition, the genetic contributions to cognitive abilities seem to be organized in line with the ontogenic maturation of the brain. We discuss the large genetic control of the combinatory capacity of basic cognitive functions, and its interaction with environmental influences.
Person-job fit and its relationship with work attitudes: a study of Christian missionaries from Australasia : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand

Do Christian missionaries who exhibit good person-job fit, (‘aligned’ with host nation colleagues and ‘in harmony’ with expatriate colleagues), experience more positive work attitudes? Personjob fit was conceptualized in terms of competencies. Perspectives on what competencies the role of missionary requires were obtained from 3 groups of subject matter experts: host nation colleagues, missionaries, and mission agency leaders. In Study I, subject matter experts (host nation colleagues, n=22, missionaries, n=25, and agency leaders, n=23) rated the ‘Universal Competency Framework’ (SHL) 20-level competencies. Host nation colleagues differed significantly on 3 of the competencies, suggesting that in this sample, the perspective of expatriates on the role of a missionary was not fully aligned with that of host nation colleagues. In Study 2, a sample of 130 current overseas missionaries self-assessed their performance and provided their own ratings of the importance of the competencies used in Study 1. Measures of Person-Job fit (Demands-Abilities fit, Supplies-Values fit and Perceived Performance) were regressed against outcome variables (job satisfaction, work engagement and satisfaction with life). Results indicated that a person’s fit with the job as described by both host nation colleagues (Alignment) and other expatriates (Harmonization) is positively associated with job satisfaction, work engagement and satisfaction with life. These results offer support for competencies as an effective method of describing missionary roles. Possible implications for enhancing the effectiveness and well-being of missionaries, and other aid and development workers, are discussed. Person-Job Fit of Missionaries 3