Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Psychiatric Symptoms and Dissociation in Conversion, Somatization and Dissociative Disorders

Objective: Conversion, dissociation and somatization are historically related in the long established concept of hysteria. Somewhere along the way they were separated due to the Cartesian dualistic view. The aim of the present study was to compare these pathologies and investigate whether symptoms of these pathologies overlap in their clinical appearance in a Portuguese sample. Method: Twenty-six patients with conversion disorder, 38 with dissociative disorders, 40 with somatization disorder, and a comparison group of 46 patients having other psychiatric disorders answered questions about dissociation (Dissociative Experiences Scale), somatoform dissociation (Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire), and psychopathological symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory). Results: Dissociative and somatoform symptoms were significantly more frequent in dissociative and conversion disorder than in somatization disorder and controls. There were no significant differences between dissociative and conversion patients. Conclusions: Conversion disorder is closely related to dissociative disorders. These results support the ICD-10 categorization of conversion disorder among dissociative disorders and the hypothesis of analogous psychopathological processes in conversion and dissociative disorders versus somatization disorder.
The incorporation of linoleic acid into the tissues of growing steers offered a dietary supplement of formaldehyde-treated casein-safflower oil.

A formaldehyde. treated' casein-safflower oil supplement was included in the diet of nine Friesian steers and the incorporation of linoleic acid in their tissues, their liveweight gain, and their intake of dry matter and energy, were compared with those of nine' steers given a conventional diet. Three steers from each group were slaughtered after 2, 4, and 8 weeks of feeding and the proportion of linoleic acid in samples of muscle and adipose tissue was measured. In addition, two steers were slaughtered prior to the start of the experiment to provide initial values for ,tissue composition. The steers were 9 months old when the experiment began.
The Need for Speed: Mice, Men, and Myocardial Kinetic Reserve.

The in-bred laboratory mouse (hereafter referred to as simply mouse) has in the past decades emerged as the go-to animal model in the arena of cardiovascular research. The reasons are straightforward: the relative ease of genetic manipulation coupled with short gestation times, the much cheaper cost of maintaining large numbers, and a large number of similarities to human genomics, proteomics, and many aspects of function. These advantages make the mouse a powerful tool for a wide array of cardiac research. The resting heart rate in the conscious unrestrained mouse is ≈500 to 700 bpm,1–3 roughly 10× faster than in a resting human. In addition, the mouse modulates heart rate, and, thus, contraction/relaxation kinetics, rather minimally; even during strenuous exercise, it only increases from the resting rate by 50% at most,1 typically by only ≈10% to 20%,3,4 whereas in humans, the heart rate can increase by ≤300%, typically 100% to 200%. As a result, exercise-induced increases in cardiac output (heart rate combined with an increase in stroke volume) can be 5- to 10-fold in the human, but are only 1.3- to maximally 2-fold in the mouse. In this viewpoint, we will convey how the high murine heart rate limits myocardial kinetic reserve (ie, the ability for the cardiac muscle to increase contraction and relaxation speed) and focus on the ramifications for extrapolating the regulation of contractile kinetics to human health and disease. In addition, we will discuss the use of contracting human tissue as a potential powerful ally in our quest to further understand contractile and kinetic regulation in health and disease. Critical differences are evident in the contractile/relaxation kinetics of cardiac muscle. Despite the fact that all the proteins of the contraction process are the same or similar between human and mouse cardiac …
The effect of behavioral synchrony in groups of teammates and strangers

Recent research has shown that individuals tend to have higher pain tolerance after participating in a vigorous activity in synchrony with others compared to after they perform the same activity alone. The current study was designed to examine if the effect of this behavioral synchrony differs according to the social presence of teammates or strangers. Twenty-four individuals rowed on ergometers for 45 min in both individual and group conditions. Half the participants rowed in the group condition with teammates, whereas the other half rowed them with confederates. ANOVA procedures revealed pain tolerance was significantly higher after participating in a group condition than in an individual condition, and that there was no significant difference between a group of strangers and teammates. This higher pain tolerance has been inferred as an indicator of endorphin activity, which may be related to behavioral synchrony.
GRACE, time-varying gravity, Earth system dynamics and climate change

Continuous observations of temporal variations in the Earth's gravity field have recently become available at an unprecedented resolution of a few hundreds of kilometers. The gravity field is a product of the Earth's mass distribution, and these data—provided by the satellites of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE)—can be used to study the exchange of mass both within the Earth and at its surface. Since the launch of the mission in 2002, GRACE data has evolved from being an experimental measurement needing validation from ground truth, to a respected tool for Earth scientists representing a fixed bound on the total change and is now an important tool to help unravel the complex dynamics of the Earth system and climate change. In this review, we present the mission concept and its theoretical background, discuss the data and give an overview of the major advances GRACE has provided in Earth science, with a focus on hydrology, solid Earth sciences, glaciology and oceanography.
3 T BODY MRI

The inherent doubling in signal-to-noise ratio when compared to 1.5T provides unique opportunities for body MR imaging at 3T. The augmented SNR can be used to improve anatomic and/or temporal resolution and reduce breath hold time periods while preserving image quality. However, susceptibility, and chemical shift dispersion are also increased at 3.0T (scaling with field strength) and T1 and T2 are increased. These features impose challenges for certain aspects of body imaging. Our preliminary experience with body imaging at 3.0T shows excellent results for fMRI spectroscopy sensitivity, and MRA conspicuity. The development of a whole body transmit/receive RF coil, (1) is the fundamental achievement enabling whole body aiming at 3.0T. This has allowed for the evaluation beyond a clinical head-only scanner (2) into a clinical wholebody scanner.
Forms of Determinism for Automata

We survey in this paper some variants of the notion of determinism, refining the spectrum between non-determinism and determinism. We present unambiguous automata, strongly unambiguous automata, prophetic automata, guidable automata, and history-deterministic automata. We instantiate these various notions for finite words, infinite words, finite trees, infinite trees, data languages, and cost functions. The main results are underlined and some open problems proposed. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F.1. 1 Models of Computation, F.1. 2 Modes of Computation, F.4. 3 Formal Languages
A2ILU: Auto-accelerated ILU Preconditioner for Sparse Linear Systems

The ILU-based preconditioning methods in previous work have their own parameters to improve their performances. Although the parameters may degrade the performance, their determination is left to users. Thus, these previous methods are not reliable in practical computer-aided engineering use. This paper proposes a novel ILU-based preconditioner called the auto-accelerated ILU, or A$^2$ILU. In order to improve the convergence, A$^2$ILU introduces acceleration parameters which modify the ILU factorized preconditioning matrix. A$^2$ILU needs no more operations than the original ILU because the acceleration parameters are optimized automatically by A$^2$ILU itself. Numerical tests reveal the performance of A$^2$ILU is superior to previous ILU-based methods with manually optimized parameters. The numerical tests also demonstrate the ability to apply auto-acceleration to ILU-based methods to improve their performances and robustness of parameter sensitivities.
From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes.

This study examines the relationship between athletic participation and academic performance among athletes involved in big-time college sports. Drawing on four years of participant observation of a major college basketball program, we trace athletes' involvement in academics throughout their college careers. We show that, contrary to popular belief, most athletes enter college with optimistic and idealistic goals and attitudes about their impending academic careers. However, their athletic, social, and classroom experiences lead them to become progressively detached from academics. As a result, they make pragmatic adjustments, abandoning their earlier aspirations and expectations and gradually resigning themselves to inferior academic performance. We conclude that the structure of universities with big-time athletic programs and the athletes' patterned experiences within these universities undermine their attainment of the professed goals of the educational system. We discuss several policy implications of this research.
Using Weblog in Learning English and Encouraging Adaptation among International Students in Perlis

This study looks at the correlation of the English learning which is by using weblog and the adaptation for international students at Universiti Malaysia Perlis. The study was conducted on the first batch of International students. There were 37 students from three countries with the majority from China followed by Indonesia and Sudan. The students were in the Intensive English Course for nine months which was a pre-requisite before entering into the first year of Bachelor Degree program. The adaptation level is determined using the Sociocultural Adaptation Scale (SCAS) by Searle and Ward (1990). The English proficiency level is determined by using DYNED software. This courseware is designed to help learners acquire the target language in a natural but accelerated mode of learning. The result of the study shows that the students have improved their language competencies after attending the course. Although the language improvements differ individually based on their postings in the blog most of the students show better flow of writing and seemed to be at ease as compared to earlier stages of the course.
Deaf Cooperation and Relay Selection Strategies for Secure Communication in Multiple Relay Networks

In this paper, we investigate the roles of cooperative jamming (CJ) and noise forwarding (NF) in improving the achievable secrecy rates of a Gaussian wiretap channel (GWT). In particular, we study the role of a deaf helper in confusing the eavesdropper in a GWT channel by either transmitting white Gaussian noise (cooperative jamming) or by transmitting a dummy codeword of no context yet drawn from a codebook known to both the destination and the eavesdropper (noise forwarding). We first derive the conditions under which each mode of deaf cooperation improves over the secrecy capacity of the original wiretap channel and show that a helping node can be either a useful cooperative jammer or a useful noise forwarder but not both at the same time. Secondly, we derive the optimal power allocation for both the source and the helping node to be used in each of the two modes of deaf helping. Thirdly, we consider the deaf helper selection problem where there are N relays present in the system and it is required to select the best K deaf helpers, K ≥ 1, that yield the maximum possible achievable secrecy rate. For the case of K=1, we give the optimal selection strategy with optimal power allocation. The computational complexity of the optimal selection strategy when K > 1 is relatively large, especially for large values of K and N. Thus, we propose a suboptimal strategy for the selection problem when K > 1. We derive the complexity of the proposed selection strategies and show that, for K > 1, our suboptimal strategy, which works in a greedy fashion, enjoys a significantly less computational complexity than the optimal strategy. Nevertheless, as demonstrated by numerical examples, our suboptimal strategy gives rise to reasonable performance gains in terms of the achievable secrecy rate with respect to the case of K=1.
Discourse Factors That Influence Online Reading of Metaphor and Irony

Statements such as "children are precious gems" can be interpreted as either a metaphor (children are valuable) or as a sarcastic comment on the metaphor (children are a burden). Katz and Pexman (1997) identified several constraints that biased readers toward either the metaphoric or the sarcastic-ironic interpretation: nature (occupation) of the person making the statement, whether the statement was counterfactual to information in the preceding discourse context, and whether the root metaphor instantiated in the statement was familiar. In this experiment we investigated whether these constraints would be used online during normal reading. In a moving window reading task, results showed that readers used the constraints early in processing the target statement and took longer to resolve the ironic (relative to the metaphoric) sense of the target statement. Also, data from the online reading measures were strongly correlated with ratings and memory data obtained by Katz and Pexman.
Sexual orientation identities, attractions, and practices of female‐to‐male transsexuals

Some processes used by female‐to‐male transsexuals in the formation of their sexual orientation identities were investigated under the assumption that for female‐to‐male transsexuals it is not possible simply to use their own sex or gender, or the sexual orientation identities of their partners, as bases for their own sexual orientation identities. Forty‐six North American and one New Zealand female‐to‐male transsexuals from diverse backgrounds and at different stages of transition were interviewed in depth about their sexual attractions, sexual practices, and sexual orientation identities as part of a larger sociological field study. For analytic purposes, hormone therapy was assumed to initiate sufficient changes in secondary sex characteristics to ensure that female‐to‐male transsexuals could function socially as men. Hormone therapy status was thus used to classify participants into pre‐ and post‐transition groups. Prior to transition, female‐to‐male transsexuals tended to base their sexual orientatio.
Ferrara , Filomena Felicia TITLE Construct Validation of the Child Sex Abuse Attitude Scale ( CSAAS ) through Confirmatory Factor

A validation study was conducted on the Child Sex Abuse Attitude Scale (CSAAS) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine the factor structure of three comparative CFA models. Multitrait multimethod analysis was also used to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the CSAAS. The instrument was developed based on the theory of attitude development of L. Festinger (1957). This resulted in a four-factor first-order structure of cognition, value, affect, and behavior, and a single-factor second-order structure representing attitude. A national sample of 215 school psychologists responded to a survey consisting of 3 measurewnt instruments. The instruments included the CSAAS; the California Personality Inventory (CPI) subscales for intellectual efficiency, tolerance, and well-being; and a demographic survey. CFA results supported the higher-order factor structure of the CSAAS with minor modifications. On examination of the CSAAS subscales and the CPI subscales, convergent validity was found to be statistically significant for two of the CSAAS subscales, although the practical significance of the association was low. (Contains 9 figures, 11 tables, and 77 references.) (Author/SLD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** CONSTRUCT VALIDATION CSAAS 1 Running Head: CONSTRUCT VALIDATION CSAAS CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF THE CHILD SEX ABUSE ATTITUDE SCALE (CSAAS) THROUGH CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS Filomena Felicia Ferrara University of South Florida U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUC IONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY V" /L e"/t/9 FrEto4 TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)
Molecular profiling in unknown primary cancer: accuracy of tissue of origin prediction.

INTRODUCTION This retrospective, multi-institutional study evaluated the accuracy of tissue-of-origin prediction by molecular profiling in patients with carcinoma of unknown primary site (CUP). METHODS Thirty-eight of 501 patients (7.6%) with CUP, seen in 2000-2008, had their latent primary site tumor subsequently identified during life. Twenty-eight of these patients (73.7%) had adequate initial tissue biopsies available for molecular profiling with a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay (Cancer Type ID; bioTheranostics, Inc., San Diego, CA). The assay was performed on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded biopsy specimens in a blinded fashion, and the assay results were compared with clinicopathologic data and the actual latent primary sites. RESULTS Twenty of the 28 (71.4%) RT-PCR assays were successfully completed (eight biopsies had either insufficient tumor or poorly preserved RNA). Fifteen of the 20 assay predictions (75%) were correct (95% confidence interval, 60%-85%), corresponding to the actual latent primary sites identified after the initial diagnosis of CUP. Primary sites correctly identified included breast (four patients), ovary/primary peritoneal (four patients), non-small cell lung (three patients), colorectal (two patients), gastric (one patient), and melanoma (one patient). Three predictions were incorrect (intestinal, testicular, sarcoma) in patients with gastroesophageal, pancreatic, and non-small cell lung cancer, respectively, and two were unclassifiable in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Clinicopathologic findings were helpful in suggesting the correct primary site in some patients and appear to complement the molecular assay findings. CONCLUSIONS These data validate the reliability of this assay in predicting the primary site in CUP patients and may form the basis for more successful site-directed therapy, when used in concert with clinicopathologic data.
CHI2006: what is the next generation of human-computer interaction?

Is there an emerging next generation of human-computer interaction? Or, rather, are there simply “a thousand points of light” of disparate and unrelated, innovative new developments? A wide-ranging group of top HCI researchers gathered to consider this at CHI 2006 in Montreal for what turned out to be the largest and possibly the most interesting preconference workshop. Titled “What Is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction? ,” the workshop brought together researchers in a range of emerging new areas of HCI to look for common ground and a common understanding of a “next generation” human-computer interaction style. If we consider command-line interfaces as the first generation, then direct manipulation and the graphical user interface define the second generation of user interfaces [5] that still dominate the state of practice. We look for the next generation by considering research currently in progress (presented at CHI, for example) to find developments that will move into practice and constitute a third generation. Our goal was to find common elements for understanding and discussing the next generation of HCI and to build a community of researchers who will think about this topic explicitly. Unlike the early days of graphical user interfaces, recent developments in new interaction styles are proceeding independently on unconnected and unrelated fronts, making the next generation more difficult to connect and define. Yet, much current research appears in medical systems, and behaviors specific to the system examined. HCI research could address any of the three; CHI tends to focus on the first. For CHI work within a specific domain, the goal is often results that can be generalized. NordiCHI research was focused on the second, conducted within the domains where the researchers work. Because it is less concerned with generalizing, the research can be more complete at that level. It felt solid and more useful than some findings that strive to be more general. In conclusion, a greater emphasis on domain-centered work is plausibly the future of our science as well as our practice. NordiCHI may be an insightful critique of CHI today, just as Participatory Design critiqued MIS 20 years ago. As then, the critique is of an approach developed by the previous generation. An American graduate student of the CHI persuasion who was in Europe dropped in on NordiCHI. He said, “This was a cool conference. I’ll come back. ” For more information on NordiCHI, see www.nordichi. org. Proceedings of NordiCHI 2006 are available at http://portal.acm. org/ toc.cfm? id=1182475 (Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Changing Roles 2006, Oslo, Norway, October 14 18, 2006.)
Statins and hepatic steatosis: Perspectives from the Dallas Heart Study

Non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and cardiovascular disease are independently associated. Due to the efficacy of 3‐hydroxy 3‐methylglutaryl‐coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, increasing interest has been shown in establishing the safety of these drugs in NAFLD. In this study, the relationship between statin use, hepatic triglyceride content (HTGC), and serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels was examined in 2,264 Dallas Heart Study participants who were using no lipid‐lowering agent (n = 2,124) or using only a statin for lipid management (n = 140). Statin use was not associated with a greater frequency of hepatic steatosis (38% vs. 34%) or elevated serum ALT (15% vs. 13%) by a pair‐matched analysis. Statin use was also not associated with a greater prevalence of elevated serum ALT among subjects with hepatic steatosis (n = 638). This finding persisted when controlling for possible sample bias as a result of current prescribing practices for statins. Among subjects with serum lipid abnormalities who were not using a statin, hepatic steatosis was present in 60% of those with mixed hyperlipidemia and 83% of those with both mixed hyperlipidemia and an elevated serum ALT. In conclusion, statin use was not associated with a higher frequency of hepatic steatosis or serum ALT abnormalities, even among those with hepatic steatosis. Individuals meeting criteria for statin therapy are likely to have coexistent hepatic steatosis. (HEPATOLOGY 2006;44:466–471.)