Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Stress, happiness and psychological well-being among college students: Role of sports in mental health

The importance of sports in a student’s life is invaluable and goes much further than the basic physical benefits. The current study aims to investigate the impact of sports on mental health by exploring stress, happiness and psychological wellbeing among college students. The sample for current investigation consists of 100 (50 who indulge in sports regularly, 50 who are not into any sports activity) students from the colleges of Mohali and Chandigarh. Perceived stress scale (Cohen, 1983), Psychological well being Scale (Ryff, 1995), and General happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999) were administered to the sample. t-test was applied to compare sports playing and non-sports playing individuals. Results indicate significant differences between sports playing and non-sports playing students on levels of stress, happiness and psychological wellbeing.
Joining automatic query expansion based on thesaurus and word sense disambiguation using WordNet

The selection of the most appropriate sense of an ambiguous word in a certain context is one of the main problems in Information Retrieval (IR). For this task, it is usually necessary to count on a semantic source, that is, linguistic resources like dictionaries, thesaurus, etc. Using a methodology based on simulation under a vector space model, we show that the use of automatic query expansion and disambiguation of the sense of the words permits to improve retrieval effectiveness. As shown in our experiments, query expansion is not able by itself to improve retrieval. However, when it is combined with Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), that is, when the correct meaning of a word is chosen from among all its possible variations, it leads to effectiveness improvements.
New conditions for dynamical behaviors of cellular neural networks with time-varying delays

In this paper, a model describing dynamics of cellular neural networks with time-varying delays is considered. Without assuming Lipschitz conditions on activation functions, by employing Brouwer's fixed point theorem and applying inequality technique, some new sufficient conditions on the existence, uniqueness and exponential stability of equilibrium point are obtained. Finally, two examples with their numerical simulations are provided to show the correctness of our analysis.
Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and Asymmetry

An important characteristic of many countries is that they exhibit, to greater or lesser degrees, some 'asymmetry' in the way in which different regions are treated by their intergovernmental fiscal systems. This paper explores some of the varied extents and manners in which such asymmetrical treatment may help or hinder the maintenance of an effective nation-state, where 'effectiveness' encompasses both how effectively, efficiently, and (perhaps) equitably public services are provided throughout the national territory and also the effects asymmetry may have on the very existence of 'fragmented' nation-states
Fetuin-A is related to syndesmophytes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a case control study

OBJECTIVES: New bone formation is one of the hallmark characteristics of ankylosing spondylitis, which is thereby associated with syndesmophytes. Fetuin-A is a molecule that is abundantly found in calcified tissues and it shows high affinity for calcium phosphate minerals and related compounds. Considering the role of fetuin-A in the regulation of calcified matrix metabolism, we compared the fetuin-A levels in ankylosing spondylitis patients with syndesmophytes with those in patients without syndesmophytes and in healthy controls. We also studied other biomarkers that are thought to be related to syndesmophytes. METHODS: Ninety-four patients (49 patients without syndesmophytes, 67.3% male, 40.7±8.7 years; 45 patients with syndesmophytes, 71.1% M, 43.9±9.9 years) and 68 healthy controls (44.2±10.6 years and 70.6% male) were included in this study. Syndesmophytes were assessed on the lateral radiographs of the cervical and lumbar spine. The serum levels of fetuin-A, dickkopf-1, sclerostin, IL-6, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and bone morphogenetic protein-7 were measured with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RESULTS: Patients with syndesmophytes had significantly higher levels of fetuin-A compared with patients without syndesmophytes and controls (1.16±0.13, 1.05±0.09 and 1.08±0.13 mg/ml, respectively). However, fetuin-A was not different between the patients without syndesmophytes and controls. Bone morphogenetic protein-7 was significantly lower; dickkopf-1 was significantly higher in patients with ankylosing spondylitis compared with controls. The sclerostin concentrations were not different between the groups. In regression analysis, fetuin-A was an independent, significant predictor of syndesmophytes. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that fetuin-A may a role in the pathogenesis of bony proliferation in ankylosing spondylitis.
Posaconazole Pharmacokinetics in Healthy Cats after Oral and Intravenous Administration

Background Posaconazole is the most active available azole antifungal drug, but absorption and pharmacokinetics are not available to guide dosing regimens in cats. Objective To determine the pharmacokinetics of posaconazole in cats given an IV solution and PO suspension. Animals Six healthy, adult research cats. Methods After a 12‐hour fast, each cat received 15 mg/kg of posaconazole PO suspension with food. Four cats also received 3 mg/kg IV posaconazole after a 7‐day washout period. Plasma was collected at predetermined intervals for analysis using high‐pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). Concentration data were analyzed using a 2‐compartment pharmacokinetic analysis for IV administration data and a 1‐compartment analysis with first‐order input for PO administration data using Phoenix® software.5 Results After IV dosing, volume of distribution (V SS) was 1.9 (0.3) L/kg (mean, standard deviation), terminal half‐life (T ½) was 57.7 (28.4) hours, and clearance was 28.1 (17.3) mL/kg/h. After PO dosing, peak concentration (C MAX) was 1.2 (0.5) μg/mL and T ½ was 38.1 (15.0) hours. Bioavailability of PO suspension was 15.9% (8.6). No adverse effects were observed with either route of administration. Conclusion and Clinical Importance Despite low PO absorption, these data allow for simulation of PO dosage regimens that could be explored in clinical studies. Two regimens can be considered to maintain targeted trough concentrations of 0.5–0.7 μg/mL as extrapolated from studies in humans: (1) 30 mg/kg PO loading dose followed by 15 mg/kg q48h, or (2) 15 mg/kg PO loading dose followed by 7.5 mg/kg q24h.
Virtual Museum: Playful Visitor Experience in the Real and Virtual World

In this paper we present virtual museum as an extension to the real museum, and outline different possibilities of using technology based display of virtual content to create a unique and individual visitor experience. We look into innovation of virtual museum from the perspective of added value to the displayed content, and innovative interaction with the content. Based on examples three areas of creating a playful visitor experience are explored more in detail: apps and games for using at home or in classroom specifically addressing younger visitors, virtual tours allowing for non-physical field trips, and museum quests that are combining virtual and real world. In conclusions, further deployment possibilities of combining virtual and real for interactive and conversational visitor experience are also discussed.
Shigella flexneri targets the HP1γ subcode through the phosphothreonine lyase OspF

HP1 proteins are transcriptional regulators that, like histones, are targets for post‐translational modifications defining an HP1‐mediated subcode. HP1γ has multiple phosphorylation sites, including serine 83 (S83) that marks it to sites of active transcription. In a guinea pig model for Shigella enterocolitis, we observed that the defective type III secretion mxiD Shigella flexneri strain caused more HP1γ phosphorylation in the colon than the wild‐type strain. Shigella interferes with HP1 phosphorylation by injecting the phospholyase OspF. This effector interacts with HP1γ and alters its phosphorylation at S83 by inactivating ERK and consequently MSK1, a downstream kinase. MSK1 that here arises as a novel HP1γ kinase, phosphorylates HP1γ at S83 in the context of an MSK1‐HP1γ complex, and thereby favors its accumulation on its target genes. Genome‐wide transcriptome analysis reveals that this mechanism is linked to up‐regulation of proliferative gene and fine‐tuning of immune gene expression. Thus, in addition to histones, bacteria control host transcription by modulating the activity of HP1 proteins, with potential implications in transcriptional reprogramming at the mucosal barrier.
Designing SSD-Friendly Applications for Better Application Performance and Higher IO Efficiency

SSD (Solid State Drive) is being increasingly adopted to alleviate the IO performance bottlenecks of applications. Numerous measurement results have been published to showcase the performance improvement brought by SSD as compared to HDD (Hard Disk Drive). However, in most deployment scenarios, SSD is simply treated as a “faster HDD”. Hence its potential is not fully utilized. Though applications gain better performance when using SSD as the storage, the gains are mainly attributed to the higher IOPS and bandwidth of SSD. The naive adoption of SSD does not utilize SSD to its full potential. In other words, application performance improvements brought by SSD could be more significant if applications are designed to be SSD-friendly. In this work, we propose a set of 9 SSD-friendly design changes at application layer. Applying the design changes by applications can result in three types of benefits: (1) improved application performance; (2) increased SSD IO efficiency; and (3) longer SSD life.
The influence of student perceptions about school experience on non-university bound students' motivation to succeed

In Australian high schools today there are increasingly greater numbers of students completing a final two years of post-compulsory secondary schooling without the intention of progressing to a university teniary education. Educators acknowledge that the comparative lack of motivation displayed by these students poses problems within the classroom and the educational system and most are concerned about how best to cater for the distinct and unique needs of this group of students. This thesis investigates the influence of student perceptions about school experience on Year 12 non-university bound students' motivation to succeed. The study focuses on the perceptions students hold about the classroom processes and curriculum they experier.ce in their final year of school and then explores how these perceptions influence the motivational gval orientations students adopt. The study is qualitative in nature and focuses on four students enrolled in a nonuniversity bound course of study at a metropolitan high school presenting their perceptions of schooling and discussing how these influence their motivath.m to succeed. Data were obtained by interviewing the subjects on four occasions over a semester and utilising two questionnaires. The research is presented in the form of case studies and utilises case study techniques for gathering and analysing data. Data were analysed according to student self-perceptions, student perceptions of classroom processes. student perceptions of curriculum and motivational goal orientation.
Financial transfers to sustain international cooperation in the climate change framework

This paper deals with a a cooperative game theoretic analysis of the economics of international agreements on climate change. To cope with the question of the voluntary implementation of the international optimum, a financial transfer scheme is proposed under which no countries nor subgroup (coalition) of countries would have an interest not to join to the international agreement. The transfer scheme presents the originality to be designed in a closed-loop dynamic framework where cooperation is renegotiated at each period taking account of the current stock of pollutant. The transfer scheme is applied to the climate change problem, making use of a simple model inspired by Kverndokk (1994) and Nordhaus and Yang (1996). The results show that with the proposed sidepayments, international cooperation is indeed individually rational and rational in the sense of coalitions.
Sketch Based Image Retrieval System for the Web-A Survey

A proposal for a queried-by-sketch image retrieval system is introduced as an alternative to a text-based image search on the Web. This paper reviews the enlargement of content based image retrieval system and sketch based image retrieval system. We present in this paper the difficult task concerned with the design and creation of CBIR is based on a free hand sketching. The use of the occur a possible result, how to design and implementation a task specific descriptor which can handle the information about a sketch a colored image to make an opportunity for the well organized search. The CBIR system first evaluates the similarity between query and images stored in the database. This paper outlines a description of primitive features of images like textures, colors and shapes as parameters. In these tools, images are manually annotated with retrieved using image-based search methods. This paper aim to introduce the problems and challenges concerned with the design and implementation of CBIR systems, which is based on a free hand sketch (Sketch based image retrieval – SBIR). With the help of the existing methods revealed that the proposed algorithm is better than the be living algorithm. In this paper, we create the mosaic of the images and compared the methods of matching sketches descriptor.
The Effects of Peer Coaching for Technology Integration on Teachers’ Comfort, Practice, and Student Technology Literacy

v Chapter I: Introduction 1 Chapter II: Review of the Literature 15 Chapter III: Methodology 41 Chapter IV: Findings 65 Chapter V: Discussion, Conclusions, and Implications 134 References 160 Appendix A: Technology Integration Coaching Guidelines Handout 1 171 Appendix B: Guidelines for Technology Literacy Handout 2 172 Appendix C: Presentation for Coaches’ Training 174 Appendix D: ISTE Classroom Observation Form 175 Appendix E: Accessing the LoTi Survey 179 Appendix F: TLA Sample Test Questions 182 Appendix G: Coaches Consent Form 186
Dependence of the BALQSO fraction on Radio Luminosity

We find that the fraction of classical Broad Absorption Line quasars (BALQSOs) among the FIRST radio sources in the Sloan Data Release 3, is 20.5^{+7.3}_{-5.9}% at the faintest radio powers detected (L_{\rm 1.4 GHz}~10^{32} erg/s), and rapidly drops to <8% at L_{\rm 1.4 GHz}~3*10^{33} erg/s. Similarly, adopting the broader Absorption Index (AI) definition of Trump et al. (2006) we find the fraction of radio BALQSOs to be 44^{+8.1}_{-7.8}% reducing to 23.1^{+7.3}_{-6.1}% at high luminosities. While the high fraction at low radio power is consistent with the recent near-IR estimates by Dai et al. (2008), the lower fraction at high radio powers is intriguing and confirms previous claims based on smaller samples. The trend is independent of the redshift range, the optical and radio flux selection limits, or the exact definition of a radio match. We also find that at fixed optical magnitude, the highest bins of radio luminosity are preferentially populated by non-BALQSOs, consistent with the overall trend. We do find, however, that those quasars identified as AI-BALQSOs but \emph{not} under the classical definition, do not show a significant drop in their fraction as a function of radio power, further supporting independent claims for which these sources, characterized by lower equivalent width, may represent an independent class with respect to the classical BALQSOs. We find the balnicity index, a measure of the absorption trough in BALQSOs, and the mean maximum wind velocity to be roughly constant at all radio powers. We discuss several plausible physical models which may explain the observed fast drop in the fraction of the classical BALQSOs with increasing radio power, \emph{although no one is entirely satisfactory}. (abridged).
How Do They Get There? An Examination of the Antecedents of Centrality in Team Networks

Drawing on social exchange and similarity-attraction theories, we hypothesized that individuals' demographic characteristics, values, and personality influence their acquisition of central positions in their teams' social networks. Education and neuroticism predicted centrality five months later; individuals who were highly educated and low in neuroticism became high in advice and friendship centrality and low in adversarial centrality. Team members' values similarity to their teammates also predicted advice and friendship centrality; demographic similarity had limited effects.
A test of the vulnerability model: temperament and temperament change as predictors of future mental disorders - the TRAILS study.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to test the vulnerability model of the relationship between temperament and mental disorders using a large sample of adolescents from the TRacking Adolescents Individual Lives' Survey (TRAILS). The vulnerability model argues that particular temperaments can place individuals at risk for the development of mental health problems. Importantly, the model may imply that not only baseline temperament predicts mental health problems prospectively, but additionally, that changes in temperament predict corresponding changes in risk for mental health problems. METHODS Data were used from 1195 TRAILS participants. Adolescent temperament was assessed both at age 11 and at age 16. Onset of mental disorders between age 16 and 19 was assessed at age 19, by means of the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WHO CIDI). RESULTS Results showed that temperament at age 11 predicted future mental disorders, thereby providing support for the vulnerability model. Moreover, temperament change predicted future mental disorders above and beyond the effect of basal temperament. For example, an increase in frustration increased the risk of mental disorders proportionally. CONCLUSION This study confirms, and extends, the vulnerability model. Consequences of both temperament and temperament change were general (e.g., changes in frustration predicted both internalizing and externalizing disorders) as well as dimension specific (e.g., changes in fear predicted internalizing but not externalizing disorders). These findings confirm previous studies, which showed that mental disorders have both unique and shared underlying temperamental risk factors.
The sound of finance: noise, music, and pension fund capitalism in William Gaddis’s JR

ABSTRACT William Gaddis’s JR (1975) is a novel comprised of sounds, published just as reforms on the 1st May 1975 deregulated the New York Stock Exchange. This article analyses this conjuncture of a specifically aural literary form with a nascent financialisation. It seeks to foreground how JR registers and imagines a limited form of resistance to finance capital’s sonic logics, in which the diverse noises of human labour are reified into a managed soundscape. It provides a material context for JR’s literary registration of financialisation that reveals the social functions of three financial processes: the wane of Fordist labour arrangements; the explosion of corporate pension fund capitalism; and the deregulation of the stock market rates, which popularised finance via new junk bond trading. The article concludes by considering Gaddis’s aesthetic treatment of noise as a form of musical resistance to financial logics. It argues that Gaddis aesthetically critiques finance capital’s mimetic logic, which symbolically buries the labour that guarantees capital its value and leaves only the fetish-sign. Challenging this process, Gaddis’s novel presents the social potential for a musical aesthetics that, owing to its representational looseness, allows for finance capital’s social relations to be heard despite broader economic discourses of silencing.
Neural Substrates for Species Recognition in the Time-Coding Electrosensory Pathway of Mormyrid Electric Fish

Mormyrid electric fish have species- and sex-typical electric organ discharges (EODs). One class of tuberous electroreceptors, the knollenorgans, plays a critical role in electric communication; one function is species recognition of EOD waveforms. In this paper, we describe cell types in the knollenorgan central pathway, which appear responsible for analysis of the temporal patterns of spikes encoded by the knollenorgans in response to EOD stimuli. Secondary sensory neurons in the nucleus of the electrosensory lateral line lobe (NELL) act as relays of peripheral responses. They fire a single phase-locked spike to an outside positive-going voltage step. Axons from the NELL project to the toral nucleus exterolateralis pars anterior (ELa). Immediately after they enter the ELa, they send collaterals to terminate on one to three ELa large cells and then continue in a lengthy neuronal pathway that traverses the ELa several times. After a path length of up to 5 mm, the NELL axon terminates on as many as 70 ELa small cells. Thus the large cells appear to be excited first, followed by the small cells, with the intervening length of the axon serving as a delay line. The large cells also respond with phase-locked spikes to voltage steps. Large cell axons extend for ∼1 mm and terminate on several small cells within the ELa. The terminals are known to be GABAergic inputs and are presumed inhibitory. We propose that small cells receive direct inhibition from large cells and delayed excitation from NELL axons. The small cells may act as anti-co-incidence detectors to analyze the temporal structure of the EOD waveform.
Mining multiple comprehensible classification rules using genetic programming

Genetic programming (GP) has emerged as a promising approach to deal with the classification task in data mining. This paper extends the tree representation of GP to evolve multiple comprehensible IF-THEN classification rules. We introduce a concept mapping technique for the fitness evaluation of individuals. A covering algorithm that employs an artificial immune system-like memory vector is utilized to produce multiple rules as well as to remove redundant rules. The proposed GP classifier is validated on nine benchmark data sets, and the simulation results confirm the viability and effectiveness of the GP approach for solving data mining problems in a wide spectrum of application domains.