Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Richness Imperative and Cognitive Style

This article proposes a new thesis about the role of individual differences in managers' media choice behavior. It argues that individual differences influence media choice only under conditions of low message equivocality. When equivocality is high, a “richness imperative” masks the influence of individual differences. Managers are compelled to use richer media to match the equivocality of the message. However, in low-equivocality situations, richness demands are lowered. Any medium is capable of carrying the message. Thus managers have more freedom to act on their preferences, and individual differences are more likely to influence behavior. The findings of an exploratory study provide some support for this theoretical notion. As hypothesized, the judging/perspective attitude, as measured by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, influenced media choice under conditions of low equivocality but not under conditions of high equivocality. However, tolerance for ambiguity did not significantly influence media choice under either condition. Implications for future research and practicing managers are discussed.
Incidentally detected renal cell carcinoma: Role of ultrasonography

The widespread use of modern diagnostic imaging techniques, especially computed tomography and sonography, has led to the detection of an increasing number of serendipitous renal neoplasms, with no signs nor symptoms related to the neoplastic renal disease. In the last 4 years, 54 consecutive patients (20 females and 34 males) with renal cell carcinoma were reviewed. In 26 patients (48.15 per cent) the diagnosis was made as an incidental finding by an abdominal ultrasound examination. Clear signs and symptoms related to the neoplastic disease were present in 28 cases (51.85 per cent). The pathologic type of each neoplasm was categorized, and each carcinoma was staged. In the patients not surgically treated, the stage was determined on the basis of the diagnostic imaging reports. The results of this study suggest that the incidentally detected tumors are of a significantly lower stage than the symptomatic tumors (Wilcoxon rank sum test: P < 0.0073 and X2 test: P < 0.013). Early detection of renal tumors may improve the prognosis and the overall survival of patients with renal cell carcinoma and allow one to plan radical or partial nephrectomy, since local extension has a considerable impact on the operative strategy. Our experience emphasizes the role of ultrasound in the increased early detection of renal cell carcinoma.
Prospects for Change: Preparing Educators for School, Family, and Community Partnerships

This study explores the preparation of future teachers and administrators to conduct school, family, and community partnerships. Based on a sample of 161 schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDE) in the United States, the survey examined not only the courses and content presently offered to prospective educators, but also leaders' perspectives and projections for the future. The results extend previous studies by identifying structural, organizational, and attitudinal factors associated with differences in SCDEs' coverage of partnership topics, preparedness of graduates to conduct family and community involvement activities, and prospects for change. Specifically, SCDE leaders' beliefs that partnership skills were important, required by accreditation organizations, and preferred by school districts hiring new teachers and administrators were significantly associated with more content covered on partnerships, better preparation of graduates, and future plans to require courses on partnerships for undergraduate and graduate students. SCDE leaders pointed to factors that may limit program change including faculty attitudes, university procedures, and state restrictions on additions to graduation requirements. The data suggest that SCDE leaders must be active change agents and team builders to guide their institutions to prepare future educators to conduct effective family and community involvement programs and practices.
Neuropharmacology of antidepressants that modify central noradrenergic and serotonergic function: a short review

The first generation of antidepressants largely act as ‘dual’ action drugs in that they facilitate both noradrenergic and serotonergic activity either by blocking the reuptake of noradrenaline and serotonin (tricyclic antidepressants) or by inhibiting the catabolism of these amines (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). Largely as a consequence of their unacceptable side effects, these drugs have been partly replaced by the second generation drugs that showed selectivity of either the noradrenaline (viloxazine, maprotiline, reboxetine) or serotonin (fluoxetine, sertraline, etc.) transporter. While these second generation drugs have undoubted advantages in terms of their safety and tolerability, there is growing evidence that the efficacy of some of these selective uptake inhibitors (e.g. SSRIs) in the treatment of the more severe forms of depression is less than that of the TCAs. This has led to the view that ‘dual action’ antidepressants may offer superiority in the treatment of severe depression. Two groups of novel antidepressants have been developed to meet the need of combining increased efficacy with safety. These include the mixed amine reuptake inhibitors such as lofepramine, venlafaxine and milnacipran and the novel tetracyclic antidepressant mirtazepine that facilitates the functional activity of both noradrenaline and serotonin without affecting the reuptake sites. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Polymorphisms and Risk of Primary Lung Cancer

Angiogenesis is an essential process in the development, growth, and metastasis of malignant tumors including lung cancer. DNA sequence variations in the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene may lead to altered VEGF production and/or activity, thereby causing interindividual differences in the susceptibility to lung cancer via their actions on the pathways of tumor angiogenesis. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the potential association between three VEGF polymorphisms (−460T > C, +405C > G, and 936C > T)/haplotypes and the risk of lung cancer in a Korean population. VEGF genotypes were determined in 432 lung cancer patients and 432 healthy controls that were frequency matched for age and sex. VEGF haplotypes were predicted using Bayesian algorithm in the phase program. Compared with the combined +405 CC and CG genotype, the +405 GG genotype found associated with a significantly decreased risk of small cell carcinoma [SCC; adjusted odds ratio (OR), 0.36; 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 0.17-0.78]. The 936 CT genotype and the combined 936 CT and TT genotype were also associated with a significantly decreased risk of SCC compared with the 936 CC genotype (adjusted OR, 0.47; 95% CI, 0.26-0.85 and adjusted OR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.24-0.80, respectively). Haplotype CGT was associated with a significantly decreased risk of SCC (adjusted OR, 0.39; 95% CI, 0.18-0.87), whereas haplotype TCC conferred a significantly increased risk of SCC (adjusted OR, 1.63; 95% CI, 1.14-2.33). None of the VEGF polymorphisms studied significantly influenced the susceptibility to lung cancer except SCC. However, haplotypes TCT and TGT were significantly associated with the risk of overall lung cancer, respectively (adjusted OR, 0.38; 95% CI, 0.25-0.60 and adjusted OR, 3.94; 95% CI, 2.00-7.76, respectively). These effects of haplotypes TCT and TGT on lung cancer risk were observed in three major histologic types of lung cancer. These results suggest that the VEGF gene may be contribute to an inherited predisposition to lung cancer.
Semantic confusion regarding the development of multisensory integration: a practical solution

There is now a good deal of data from neurophysiological studies in animals and behavioral studies in human infants regarding the development of multisensory processing capabilities. Although the conclusions drawn from these different datasets sometimes appear to conflict, many of the differences are due to the use of different terms to mean the same thing and, more problematic, the use of similar terms to mean different things. Semantic issues are pervasive in the field and complicate communication among groups using different methods to study similar issues. Achieving clarity of communication among different investigative groups is essential for each to make full use of the findings of others, and an important step in this direction is to identify areas of semantic confusion. In this way investigators can be encouraged to use terms whose meaning and underlying assumptions are unambiguous because they are commonly accepted. Although this issue is of obvious importance to the large and very rapidly growing number of researchers working on multisensory processes, it is perhaps even more important to the non‐cognoscenti. Those who wish to benefit from the scholarship in this field but are unfamiliar with the issues identified here are most likely to be confused by semantic inconsistencies. The current discussion attempts to document some of the more problematic of these, begin a discussion about the nature of the confusion and suggest some possible solutions.
An Interview with Shaker A. Zahra and Alain Fayolle: ‘The best entrepreneurship research is yet to be written’

This interview reports a question-and-answer session held during the E-lab Symposium 'Entrepreneurship Today' at the University of Bergamo. It featured the participation of Alain Fayolle and Shaker Zahra. These two leading scholars answered questions from participants, highlighting multidisciplinary approaches. Alain Fayolle is Entrepreneurship Professor and Head of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre at EM Lyon Business School, France. Shaker Zahra is the Department Chair, Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy and Organization in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, where he is also the Academic Director of the Gary S. Holmes Entrepreneurship Center.
Multilayer Ferns: A Learning-based Approach of Patch Recognition and Homography Extraction

While local patches recognition is a key component of modern approaches to affine transformation detection and object detection, existing learning-based approaches just identify the patches based on a set of randomly picked and combined binary features, which will lose some strong correlations between features and can not provide stable and remarkable identification ability. In this paper, we proposed a method that select and organize the features in a Multilayer Ferns structure, and show that it is both faster in the run-time processing and more powerful in the identification ability than state-of-the-art ad hoc approaches. Keywords-Image processing; patch recognition; learningbased affine transformation detection; Multilayer Ferns;
Deposition of silver nanoparticles on titanium surface for antibacterial effect

Microbial colonization on implanted devices and biofilm formation is a recurrent complication in implant surgery and may result in loss of implants. The aim of this study was to deposit silver nanoparticles on a titanium surface to obtain antibacterial properties. In the present study, we prepared a silver nanoparticle-modified titanium (Ti-nAg) surface using silanization method. The morphology and chemical components of the Ti-nAg surface were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). Two species of bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, were utilized to test the antibacterial effect of the Ti-nAg treated surface. The SEM examination revealed that a small quantity of silver nanoparticles was sparsely deposited on the titanium surface. The diameter of these nanoparticles ranged from ten to several hundred nm. EDS analyses revealed that there was 4.26% of Ag present on the surface. After a 24-hour incubation, 94% of Staphylococcus aureus and over 95% of Escherichia coli had been killed on the Ti-nAg surface, and the SEM examination of anti-adhesive efficacy test showed that there were less bacteria attached to Ti-nAg surface than to a control surface of untreated Titanium. These data suggest that silver nanoparticle-modified titanium is a promising material with an antibacterial property that may be used as an implantable biomaterial.
A Five-Level Inverter Scheme for a Four-Pole Induction Motor Drive by Feeding the Identical Voltage-Profile Windings From Both Sides

This paper presents a five-level inverter scheme with four two-level inverters for a four-pole induction motor (IM) drive. In a conventional three-phase four-pole IM, there exists two identical voltage-profile winding coil groups per phase around the armature, which are connected in series and spatially apart by two pole pitches. In this paper, these two identical voltage-profile pole-pair winding coils in each phase of the IM are disconnected and fed from four two-level inverters from four sides of the windings with one-fourth dc-link voltage as compared to a conventional five-level neutral-point-clamped inverter. The scheme presented in this paper does not require any special design modification for the induction machine. For this paper, a four-pole IM drive is used, and the scheme can be easily extended to IMs with more than four poles. The proposed scheme is experimentally verified on a four-pole 5-hp IM drive.
Development of entrepreneurial intention in higher education and the effect of gender : a latent growth curve analysis

Purpose – The objectives of this study are threefold: first, to analyze the development of intentions of individuals over time; second, to explore potential gender differences in intention development; and third, to analyze the relatedness of the initial level and development of the antecedents of intentions to the initial level and the development of intentions. Design/methodology/approach – Ajzen's Theory of Planned behavior is applied. Longitudinal data were collected in the fall of 2010, 2011 and 2012 in seven different universities of applied sciences, with students representing seven different study fields. In our data, there are 192 individuals with all three measurement waves and 104 individuals with two measurement waves. The analysis of change on multi-wave panel data is done using latent growth curve analysis with structural equation modeling. Findings – Our empirical results are threefold. First, entrepreneurial intentions of higher education seem to decrease during their studies. Second, ther.
Prediction of protein–protein interaction sites from weakly homologous template structures using meta‐threading and machine learning

The identification of protein–protein interactions is vital for understanding protein function, elucidating interaction mechanisms, and for practical applications in drug discovery. With the exponentially growing protein sequence data, fully automated computational methods that predict interactions between proteins are becoming essential components of system‐level function inference. A thorough analysis of protein complex structures demonstrated that binding site locations as well as the interfacial geometry are highly conserved across evolutionarily related proteins. Because the conformational space of protein–protein interactions is highly covered by experimental structures, sensitive protein threading techniques can be used to identify suitable templates for the accurate prediction of interfacial residues. Toward this goal, we developed eFindSitePPI, an algorithm that uses the three‐dimensional structure of a target protein, evolutionarily remotely related templates and machine learning techniques to predict binding residues. Using crystal structures, the average sensitivity (specificity) of eFindSitePPI in interfacial residue prediction is 0.46 (0.92). For weakly homologous protein models, these values only slightly decrease to 0.40–0.43 (0.91–0.92) demonstrating that eFindSitePPI performs well not only using experimental data but also tolerates structural imperfections in computer‐generated structures. In addition, eFindSitePPI detects specific molecular interactions at the interface; for instance, it correctly predicts approximately one half of hydrogen bonds and aromatic interactions, as well as one third of salt bridges and hydrophobic contacts. Comparative benchmarks against several dimer datasets show that eFindSitePPI outperforms other methods for protein‐binding residue prediction. It also features a carefully tuned confidence estimation system, which is particularly useful in large‐scale applications using raw genomic data. eFindSitePPI is freely available to the academic community at http://www.brylinski. org/efindsiteppi. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A Fast Particle System Framework for Interactive Implicit Modeling

In this paper, we present a controllable, fast and efficient particle system framework for skeletal implicit surfaces defined by the BlobTree model. We propose efficient algorithms for generating sets of particles for every type of skeletal element and for combining those sets for warping, blending and Boolean nodes. Given a target level of detail, our system generates particles which are distributed uniformly over the implicit surface. Our incremental approach lends itself to interactive editing of complex models
Living Space: The Changing Meaning of Home

The home is often viewed as an unproblematic location in which new occupational roles, relationships and uses can be fitted. There has been a marked increase in home-based work, leisure and medical care. How these functions can be accommodated within houses designed for conventional domestic and household activities often remains unclear. Drawing on an in-depth study of teleworking (home-based computer working), this article explores the meaning and experience of real, symbolic and lived household space. The findings suggest that households strive to retain the conventional look, feel and function of the home even when occupants are required to establish new roles and occupations. This resistance to spatial change occurs as a deliberate and rational choice. The article is theoretical in content and does not directly explore the experiences of disabled people. It provides a sociological perspective of the home, which is often missing from medical and rehabilitation literature. It challenges a number of taken-for-granted notions about the social construction of the home, which will be of interest to therapists whose work often involves the incorporation of new roles and daily activities into the home.
The Measurement of Stress in People with an Intellectual Disability: A Pilot Study

This research investigates the feasibility of assessing the self‐perceived stress levels of people with mild intellectual disabilities by self‐report. People with intellectual disabilities generally find it difficult to complete commonly used self‐report checklists when they are administered in the prescribed manner because of unfamiliarity with both the language and the paper and pencil format. A measure of daily stressors was therefore adapted to a standardized interview format and administered to 28 people with mild intellectual disabilities on five consecutive days. The interview format using standardized questions enabled all participants to complete the questionnaire. The use of follow‐up clarifying prompts by the interviewers ensured that the participants understood the questions and gave responses that they could support with explanations or examples. The data appeared to have reasonable levels of internal consistency. On average, each person experienced seven stressful events per day which they g.
Accurately modeling the Internet topology

Based on measurements of the internet topology data, we found that there are two mechanisms which are necessary for the correct modeling of the internet topology at the autonomous systems (AS) level: the interactive growth of new nodes and new internal links, and a nonlinear preferential attachment, where the preference probability is described by a positive-feedback mechanism. Based on the above mechanisms, we introduce the positive-feedback preference (PFP) model which accurately reproduces many topological properties of the AS-level internet, including degree distribution, rich-club connectivity, the maximum degree, shortest path length, short cycles, disassortative mixing, and betweenness centrality. The PFP model is a phenomenological model which provides an insight into the evolutionary dynamics of real complex networks.
Discordance in Recovery Between Altered Locomotion and Muscle Atrophy Induced by Simulated Microgravity in Rats

ABSTRACT Exposure to a microgravity environment leads to adverse effects in motion and musculoskeletal properties. However, few studies have investigated the recovery of altered locomotion and muscle atrophy simultaneously. The authors investigated altered locomotion in rats submitted to simulated microgravity by hindlimb unloading for 2 weeks. Motion deficits were characterized by hyperextension of the knees and ankle joints and forward-shifted limb motion. Furthermore, these locomotor deficits did not revert to their original form after a 2-week recovery period, although muscle atrophy in the hindlimbs had recovered, implying discordance in recovery between altered locomotion and muscle atrophy, and that other factors such as neural drives might control behavioral adaptations to microgravity.
Nondefinability results for expansions of the field of real numbers by the exponential function and by the restricted sine function

Abstract We prove that no restriction of the sine function to any (open and nonempty) interval is definable in 〈R, +, ·, ×, <, exp, constants〉, and that no restriction of the exponential function to an (open and nonempty) interval is definable in 〈R, +, ·, <, sin0, constants〉, where sin0(x) = sin(x) for x ∈ [—π, π], and sin0(x) = 0 for all x ∉ [—π, π].
Hormones and pregnancy: thromboembolic risks for women

During their lifetimes, women face several unique situations with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Doctors in a variety of specialties must advise women on the risks of oral contraceptives (OC), hormone replacement or pregnancy. Modern ‘low dose’ OC are associated with a three to sixfold increased relative risk of VTE. Hormone replacement and selective oestrogen receptor modulators confer a similar two to fourfold increase in thrombotic risk. However, because the baseline incidence of thrombosis is higher in older postmenopausal women, the absolute risk is higher than in younger OC users. The risk of venous thrombosis is six to 10‐fold higher during pregnancy than in non‐pregnant women of similar age. Thrombophilic disorders increase the thrombotic risk of OC, hormone replacement and pregnancy, especially in women with homozygous or combined defects. This review focuses on recent data estimating the thrombotic risk of hormonal therapies and pregnancy in women with and without other thrombotic risk factors.