Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effectiveness of an Emotional Intelligence Training Program and its Components on the Creativity and Academic Achievement of High School Students

Background: Creativity and academic progress are main issues of the educational system. Objectives: For improving student achievement and increasing creativity and innovation, various methods have been proposed. Materials and Methods: This study enrolled 48 first year high school students. Participants were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. After a description of the research objectives and obtaining participant consent, we used a researcher-generated questionnaire to collect data. Before any intervention we retrieved participants' grade point averages (GPA) from the first semester in order to verify academic progress of both groups. At baselines, both groups were assessed with an Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (Bar-On) and Abebi’s creativity test. The experimental group received a three-month training program on emotional intelligence that was conducted in 10 sessions, for an average of 30 minutes per session. The control group did not receive any special training. At the end of the training program we administered the same questionnaires in both groups as a post-test. For data analysis, analysis of variance, correlation and regression analysis, and the t-test were used. Results: This method significantly increased students' academic progress and creativity. The emotional intelligence factor alone predicted 32% (R2 = 0.32) of variance related to creativity and 18% (R2 = 0.18) of variance related to students' educational progress. Conclusions: The results of this study can be used as a method for increasing and improving student achievement and increasing creativity in high school students. For improving student achievement and increasing creativity and innovation, various methods have been proposed.
Automated oxygen titration and weaning with FreeO2 in patients with acute exacerbation of COPD: a pilot randomized trial

Introduction We developed a device (FreeO2) that automatically adjusts the oxygen flow rates based on patients’ needs, in order to limit hyperoxia and hypoxemia and to automatically wean them from oxygen. Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using FreeO2 in patients hospitalized in the respiratory ward for an acute exacerbation of COPD. Methods We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing FreeO2 vs manual oxygen titration in the respiratory ward of a university hospital. We measured the perception of appropriateness of oxygen titration and monitoring in both groups by nurses and attending physicians using a Likert scale. We evaluated the time in the target range of oxygen saturation (SpO2) as defined for each patient by the attending physician, the time with severe desaturation (SpO2 <85%), and the time with hyperoxia (SpO2 >5% above the target). We also recorded length of stay, intensive care unit admissions, and readmission rate. Fifty patients were randomized (25 patients in both groups; mean age: 72±8 years; mean forced expiratory volume in 1 second: 1.00±0.49 L; and mean initial O2 flow 2.0±1.0 L/min). Results Nurses and attending physicians felt that oxygen titration and monitoring were equally appropriate with both O2 administration systems. The percentage of time within the SpO2 target was significantly higher with FreeO2, and the time with severe desaturation and hyperoxia was significantly reduced with FreeO2. Time from study inclusion to hospital discharge was 5.8±4.4 days with FreeO2 and 8.4±6.0 days with usual oxygen administration (P=0.051). Conclusion FreeO2 was deemed as an appropriate oxygen administration system by nurses and physicians of a respiratory unit. This system maintained SpO2 at the target level better than did manual titration and reduced periods of desaturation and hyperoxia. Our results also suggest that FreeO2 has the potential to reduce the hospital length of stay.
Liberalism in a Realist World

The study of international relations (IR) is a worldwide pursuit with each country having its own theoretical orientations, preoccupations and debates. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the US created its own scholarly traditions of IR. Eventually, IR became an American social science with the US becoming the epicentre for a worldwide IR community engaged in a set of research programmes and theoretical debates. The discipline of IR emerged in the US at a time when it was the world’s most powerful state and a liberal great power caught in a struggle with illiberal rivals. This context ensured that the American theoretical debates would be built around both power and liberal ideals. Over the decades, the two grand projects of realism and liberalism struggled to define the agenda of IR in the US. These traditions have evolved as they attempted to make sense of contemporary developments, speak to strategic position of the US and its foreign policy, as well as deal with the changing fashions and standards of social science. The rationalist formulations of realism and liberalism sparked reactions and constructivism has arisen to offer counterpoints to the rational choice theory.
Visual appearance interacts with conceptual knowledge in object recognition

Objects contain rich visual and conceptual information, but do these two types of information interact? Here, we examine whether visual and conceptual information interact when observers see novel objects for the first time. We then address how this interaction influences the acquisition of perceptual expertise. We used two types of novel objects (Greebles), designed to resemble either animals or tools, and two lists of words, which described non-visual attributes of people or man-made objects. Participants first judged if a word was more suitable for describing people or objects while ignoring a task-irrelevant image, and showed faster responses if the words and the unfamiliar objects were congruent in terms of animacy (e.g., animal-like objects with words that described human). Participants then learned to associate objects and words that were either congruent or not in animacy, before receiving expertise training to rapidly individuate the objects. Congruent pairing of visual and conceptual information facilitated observers' ability to become a perceptual expert, as revealed in a matching task that required visual identification at the basic or subordinate levels. Taken together, these findings show that visual and conceptual information interact at multiple levels in object recognition.
Privacy Aware Demand Response and Smart Metering

Smart meters are a crucial part of the smart grid, yet they arise several privacy concerns. The fine-grained consumption readings, can expose information about the household such as types of devices inside the house. In this paper we introduce two methods which enable a household to hide private issues. The first method, which is called One Level Consumption (OLC), tries to exploit demand response components such as battery, elastic load and distributed generators to maintain a constant consumption throughout the whole day. The second method, which is called Maximum Difference (MD), obfuscates the smart meter readings before sending them to the utility company. Nevertheless, the transmitted values are valid for billing. Taking Electric Vehicle (EV) charging signal as an example, we have shown that it is possible to hide most charging signals.
Reduction of Splenic Immunosuppressive Cells and Enhancement of Anti-Tumor Immunity by Synergy of Fish Oil and Selenium Yeast

Growing evidence has shown that regulatory T cells (Tregs) and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) abnormally increase in cancer cachectic patients. Suppressions of Tregs and MDSCs may enhance anti-tumor immunity for cancer patients. Fish oil and selenium have been known to have many biological activities such as anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation. Whether fish oil and/or selenium have an additional effect on population of immunosuppressive cells in tumor-bearing hosts remained elusive and controversial. To gain insights into their roles on anti-tumor immunity, we studied the fish oil- and/or selenium-mediated tumor suppression and immunity on lung carcinoma, whereof cachexia develops. Advancement of cachexia in a murine lung cancer model manifested with such indicative symptoms as weight loss, chronic inflammation and disturbed immune functionality. The elevation of Tregs and MDSCs in spleens of tumor-bearing mice was positively correlated with tumor burdens. Consumption of either fish oil or selenium had little or no effect on the levels of Tregs and MDSCs. However, consumption of both fish oil and selenium together presented a synergistic effect-The population of Tregs and MDSCs decreased as opposed to increase of anti-tumor immunity when both fish oil and selenium were supplemented simultaneously, whereby losses of body weight and muscle/fat mass were alleviated significantly.
A Normalized Dragon: Constructing China's Security Identity

What has structured Chinese security practice over the last 100 years since the Xinhai (1911) Revolution? Moreover, what are the ideational principles and norms that have influenced China's international relations? Employing an analytical framework concerning norm creation (“security identity”), this article details how different norms originated, became established and subsequently served to orientate Chinese foreign policy behavior. Such a process has been critically informed by China's international interaction, learning and experience across the last 100 years, revealing how past relations can inform present and future conduct. Undertaking an analysis in this fashion implies not so much how a state “should” behave but instead indicates the broad continuities structuring its security practice. From the focus upon security identity (which gives ideational rather than structural explanations of security behavior), our analysis rests upon the elucidation of three inter-related normative sources. These three sources have been tempered via the interplay between China's international interaction and internal political developments, and show the ideational precedents in China's foreign policy behavior. The three sources are: (i) the political (internal political developments); (ii) the physical (relations with neighboring/bordering states); and (iii) the perceptual (conceptions of self, the international system and their mutual relationship). Overall, the article finds a relative consistency to how security has been ideationally conceived of in China, and highlights three core norms essential to such a conception – centralized control, territorial restoration, and (re)becoming a great power.
Modeling HIV-1 Virus Dynamics with Both Virus-to-Cell Infection and Cell-to-Cell Transmission

Direct cell-to-cell transfer of HIV-1 is found to be a more potent and efficient means of virus propagation than virus-to-cell infection. In this paper we propose a mathematical model to consider these two modes of viral infection and spread, in which infection age is also incorporated. By a rigorous analysis of the model, we show that the model demonstrates a global threshold dynamics, fully described by the basic reproduction number, which is identified explicitly. The formula for the basic reproduction number of our model reveals that the basic reproduction number of a model that neglects either cell-to-cell spread or virus-to-cell infection might be underevaluated.
Coverage Criteria for State Transition Testing and Model Checker-Based Test Case Generation

State Transition Testing is an important category of software testing. Our work focuses on coverage criteria which adopt the notion of pair-wise testing. We propose an approach that uses model checking tool NuSMV to generate test cases that satisfy these coverage criteria from a given state chart specification. We also propose to use an algorithm for the set covering problem to reduce the number of test cases.
Why a Sociologist Studies Entrepreneurship

As a metatheory, it encompasses theories as diverse as population ecology (Hannan and Freeman 1989), new institutionalism (Scott 2008), resource dependence (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978) and transaction cost economics (Williamson 1994). At the heart of evolutionary thinking is the assumption that a struggle by entrepreneurs and organizations to obtain scarce resources, both social and physical, drives evolutionary processes (Aldrich and Ruef 2006). Competition among social actors shapes the struggle to obtain resources ahead of competitors or to avoid competition altogether.
Clinical Metabolomics: The New Metabolic Window for Inborn Errors of Metabolism Investigations in the Post-Genomic Era

Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) represent a group of about 500 rare genetic diseases with an overall estimated incidence of 1/2500. The diversity of metabolic pathways involved explains the difficulties in establishing their diagnosis. However, early diagnosis is usually mandatory for successful treatment. Given the considerable clinical overlap between some inborn errors, biochemical and molecular tests are crucial in making a diagnosis. Conventional biological diagnosis procedures are based on a time-consuming series of sequential and segmented biochemical tests. The rise of “omic” technologies offers holistic views of the basic molecules that build a biological system at different levels. Metabolomics is the most recent “omic” technology based on biochemical characterization of metabolites and their changes related to genetic and environmental factors. This review addresses the principles underlying metabolomics technologies that allow them to comprehensively assess an individual biochemical profile and their reported applications for IEM investigations in the precision medicine era.
Le rôle de l'enseignant dans le transfert et l'articulation de différents types de connaissances par des étudiants en formation professionnelle de techniciens supérieurs

Le contexte de l'etude est celui d'une formation professionnelle de technicien superieure en alternance ecole/entreprise. Nous etudions le travail d'un enseignant pour mettre en place puis animer une sequence dont l'objectif est d'amener les etudiants a mobiliser et articuler des connaissances issues de plusieurs modules d'enseignement et/ou de leur activite en entreprise. L'approche theorique est celle de la theorie de l'activite. Les premiers resultats du travail en cours mettent en evidence la variete des strategies deployees par l'enseignant pour favoriser le transfert et l'articulation de differents types de connaissances et l'importance du contexte d'alternance.
Organizing Capabilities Using Formal Concept Analysis

In this paper, we discuss the importance of the concept of capability for describing what an action does from a functional perspective. We introduce a conceptual model for representing capabilities as attribute features entities. Furthermore, we use Formal Concept Analysis to create concept lattices for indexing a repository of capabilities descriptions. We applied this approach on a set of sensor capabilities deployed within the Linked Energy Intelligence dataspace.
Reestruturação industrial no Brasil : uma análise da dinâmica comercial e produtiva da economia

O desenvolvimento da estrutura produtiva brasileira durante as decadas de 1930 a 1980 e sua importância como eixo dinâmico da economia foram objetos de diversos estudos. Com a crise da divida externa e a fragilidade fiscal e financeira do Estado, um novo modelo de desenvolvimento passou a ganhar adeptos, ensejando uma reviravolta na estrategia ate entao adotada. A politica economica empreendida, especialmente a partir da decada de 1990, forjou um periodo de grandes mudancas no ambiente produtivo e competitivo, com reflexos ainda contemporâneos. E com base nessas acepcoes que o objetivo central deste trabalho se volta a investigacao da dinâmica estrutural da economia brasileira, particularmente no que se refere ao seu padrao comercial e produtivo. A fim de consubstanciar a analise historica e teorica, recorre-se ao referencial de insumo-produto, a partir das matrizes estimadas para os anos de 1995 a 2008. Destaca-se o comportamento dos coeficientes de comercio e de insumos importados, em grande medida associados ao descompasso entre a estrutura de oferta e os ciclos de demanda, assim como a rigidez estrutural da industria nacional em termos produtivos e comerciais. Observam-se ainda neste processo os componentes dinamizadores do valor adicionado e do emprego na demanda agregada Abstract
Some remarks on the stability of networked-control systems with periodic scheduling

This paper addresses some stability problems for networked control systems with periodic scheduling. The analysis of such systems is more complicated than single-sampling case as for example, the overall system may be stable even if some subsystems are unstable. In this context, it is important to understand how network-induced delays and hyper-samplings affect the stability of the overall system. Three particular stability problems involving constant and/or time-varying parameters are investigated, and the corresponding stability regions are derived.
Breast Cancer Metastasis Suppressor 1 (BRMS1) Forms Complexes with Retinoblastoma-binding Protein 1 (RBP1) and the mSin3 Histone Deacetylase Complex and Represses Transcription*

Breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1 (BRMS1) suppresses metastasis of multiple human and murine cancer cells without inhibiting tumorigenicity. By yeast two-hybrid and co-immunoprecipitation, BRMS1 interacts with retinoblastoma binding protein 1 and at least seven members of the mSin3 histone deacetylase (HDAC) complex in human breast and melanoma cell lines. BRMS1 co-immunoprecipitates enzymatically active HDAC proteins and represses transcription when recruited to a Gal4 promoter in vivo. BRMS1 exists in large mSin3 complex(es) of ∼1.4-1.9 MDa, but also forms smaller complexes with HDAC1. Deletion analyses show that the carboxyl-terminal 42 amino acids of BRMS1 are not critical for interaction with much of the mSin3 complex and that BRMS1 appears to have more than one binding point to the complex. These results further show that BRMS1 may participate in transcriptional regulation via interaction with the mSin3·HDAC complex and suggest a novel mechanism by which BRMS1 might suppress cancer metastasis.
A gradient based technique for generating sparse representation in function approximation

We provide an RKHS based inverse problem formulation for analytically deriving the optimal function approximation when probabilistic information about the underlying regression is available in terms of the associated correlation functions as used by Poggio and Girosi (1998) and Peney and Atick (1996). On the lines of Poggio and Girosi, we show that this solution can be sparsified using principles of SVM and provide an implementation of this sparsification using a novel, conceptually simple and robust gradient based sequential method instead of the conventional quadratic programming routines.
On prefetching in hierarchical caching systems

Hierarchical caching is deployed to scale up the explosive Web growth, and the expiration-based mechanism is adopted as an economic means to support the weak consistency in this context. However, given a hierarchy, the user perceived performance heavily depends on its position. Normally, a user near the hierarchy leaf suffers higher miss rate and longer response time. Such an intrinsic property can discourage users from participating in any hierarchical caching systems. In this paper, we analyze the performance of a proposed approach, i.e., freshness and retrieval threshold based cache prefetching, to mitigate the bias against leaf users. We also use ns-2 to further substantiate our analysis. By adopting this approach with the appropriate parameters, the fairness among users within a caching hierarchy can be considerably improved.
The ambivalent partisan : how critical loyalty promotes democracy

Chapter 1 Partisan Ambivalence and the Contingent Nature of Political Judgment Chapter 2 Getting it Right, Making it Easy, and Validating Our Partisan Commitments: A Motivational Theory of Political Judgment Chapter 3 Matters of Conceptualization, Measurement, and Antecedents Chapter 4 Partisan Ambivalence and Preference Formation: Experimental and Survey Evidence Chapter 5 Ambivalence and the Partisan Perceptual Screen Chapter 6 Ambivalent Partisans at the Polls Chapter 7 Unmoved Mover or Rational Choice? : Ambivalence and the Dynamic Nature of Partisanship Chapter 8 Partisan Ambivalence, Citizen Competence, and American Democracy
EPR Access Authorization of Medical Teams Based on Patient Consent

Electronic patient records (EPR) may contain highly confidential and personal medical information. It is therefore essential that medical data is properly protected and managed. Today, it is widely recognized that patients have a right to selfdetermination and to exert control of their own medical data by consent. In this paper, we present a cryptographic EPR access authorization scheme that incorporates patient consent as a basis for granting EPR access to medical teams or practitioners. This ensures that only the medical practitioners specified by a consenting patient are granted EPR access. If a patient is unconscious, the variation of the scheme allows an emergency or security team to act on behalf of the patient.
Die Bedeutung der Soziologie psychischer Gesundheit und Krankheit im Zeitalter der biologischen Psychiatrie

In spite of the growing health policy and the economical relevance of mental illness the current contribution of the social sciences to the actual discussion on the aetiology of mental illness and the further development of interventions for mental health promotion and mental health is rather small. This is particularly true with regard to the fact that until the middle of the 20th century the phenomenon of mental illness was a main object of sociological theory and research and that sociological theories and research results were of great influence for the reform of mental health care systems. In the beginning the descending impact of the sociological perspective was accompanied the dramatic success of neurobiological research associated with the hope for a technical controllability of mental disorders in the near future. However, the limitations of neurobiological approaches for the etiology and the treatment of mental disorders became more and more obvious. On the other hand, recent research findings indicate that mental disorders are the result of complex interactions between biological and environmental factors. For the sociology of mental health and illness these results provide various opportunities for fruitful interdisciplinary research activities. PD Dr. rer. soc. Reinhold Kilian Universität Ulm Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie II am BKH Günzburg Ludwig-Heilmeyer-Str. 2 89312 Günzburg reinhold.kilian@bkh-guenzburg.de