Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PARENTAL PERCEPTIONS OF APE TEACHERS & PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM

A collaborative effort between parents and teachers may assist in enhancing the quality of the instruction and services for children with autism in physical education (PE) settings. However, there is a paucity of research exploring parental perceptions of PE/APE teachers and programs for their children with autism. The purpose of this study was to validate an instrument in order to assess parental perceptions toward adapted physical education (APE) teachers and programs. Participants included two expert panels, one to assess content validity of the survey (n = 5), and another to assess item content relevance of survey questions (n = 8). Additional participants (n = 11) were parents of children and youth with autism aged 6-20 currently enrolled in APE or General Physical Education (GPE) through their school districts. The Parental Perceptions Toward APE Teachers (PPTAPET) survey was developed using a multistep approach and a Likert Scale design where parents rated their level of satisfaction regarding communication with APE teachers, qualifications of APE teachers, and rapport with the APE teacher. The culling down of the PPTAPET was done by way of a correlational pair wise matrix and Delphi Method. Lastly α coefficients and split half reliability of the survey were determined. Based on the α coefficients for each of the three subscales it was concluded that the PPTAPET survey had high internal validity. Each subscale on the PPTAPET survey possessed high α values of . 89, . 89, and . 92 respectively. Split half reliability of the scale was determined by the Spearman Brown Prophecy coefficient and determined r” = . 90. In conclusion preliminary evidence for validity and reliability of the PPTAPET was acceptable and demonstrated the survey may be a useful tool in assessing parental perceptions of their child's APE program and teacher.
Embedding the Evidence Information in Guideline Representation Languages

Clinical practice guidelines are widely used to support medical staff in treatment planning and decision-making, whereas, the classification of different recommendations in the CPGs are one of the most important information sources to use. However, there is a lack of consensus amongst guideline developers, regarding those classification schemes. To address this problem, we mapped the different graded and ungraded evidence information used by different guideline developing organizations into our meta schema. In this paper we describe how guideline representation languages, such as Asbru and PROforma can be extended to model our meta schema.
An organizational perspective on business driven IT management

The focus of this paper is a discussion on the organizational integration of BDIM activities into an IT infrastructure. In particular, this paper provides a definition of the usefulness of a center of excellence within information systems, its structure and measurement of capabilities. The organizational capabilities pertaining to BDIM can be measured through the introduction of a maturity model, which assesses the current state but also provides a road map for future development and growth.
Improved genetic algorithm applied to multiple distributed generation optimal allocation considering different load profiles

Distributed generation (DG) allocation is a non-linear mixed integer problem, being the position where a DG will be allocated an integer variable, and the associated electrical values (voltage, current, active and reactive power losses and power flow) the continuous variables. In this paper an improved genetic algorithm (IGA) is presented to solve the distributed generation (DG) allocation problem in radial electrical distribution systems. The proposed formulation uses different load levels to obtain more realistic results. The IGA goal is to determine the optimal position to insert a DG into the system, thus, minimizing costs produced by system losses, maintenance and the DG implementation. The proposed methodology has been successfully tested for distribution systems with 34, 70 and 136 buses, presenting a better computational performance when compared to an exhaustive search method.
Aspect-Driven News Summarization using Event Extraction and Lexical Acquisition

A summary of any event type is only complete if certain information aspects are mentioned. For a court trial, readers will at least want to know who is involved and what the charges and the sentence are. For a natural disaster, they will ask for the disaster type, the victims and other damages. Will a co-occurrence or frequency-based sentence extraction summariser automatically provide the requested information, or are the results better if an information extraction (IE) system first detects the summary-crucial aspects? To answer this question, we compared the performance of a purely co-occurrence-based method with a system that additionally makes use of targeted IE. As each event type requires different information aspects and not all of them were covered by the existing IE software, we used a tool that learns semantically related terms to cover the remaining aspects. The comprehensive evaluation in the TAC’2010 competition showed that event extraction is indeed beneficial for summarisation performance, and that summary quality is directly related to IE quality. Our integrated system was ranked among the top systems participating at TAC.
Role of Status in Strategic Choices and Outcomes in Negotiations

In negotiation settings, individuals’ perception of their position or status can strongly influence strategic choices and outcomes. Although some sources of status (such as race, gender, expertise, and power) have been studied in the context of negotiations, other subtler sources that are more ubiquitous and as strong (such as being part of a large corporation and having community support) have been overlooked. The two studies in this paper examine two situational determinants of status (the presence vs. absence of corporate backing, and the presence vs. absence of social support), and find that both sources increase participant perceptions of being in a strong position, result in the strategic adoption of a maximal goal focus, and in the second study, lead to better outcomes. A maximal goal focus, and not a positive expectancy, was the mechanism linking higher status to better-negotiated outcomes.
Development of the polysomnographic database on CD‐ROM

We have developed a polysomnographic database on CD‐ROM. The data were obtained from 16 subjects with sleep apnea syndrome. The physiological signals include electroencephalogram, electromyogram, electrooculogram, invasive blood pressure, respiratory wave, oxygen saturation, and cardiac volume as measured by VEST method. The CD‐ROM also include programs to analyze polysomnography (PSG) data. The CD‐ROM has values: (i) for researchers investigating clinical physiology or non‐linear dynamics during sleep apnea syndrome; (ii) for engineers developing a new algorithm for the computerized analysis of PSG data related to sleep apnea syndrome; (iii) for students learning sleep physiology.
Distributed change detection in Gaussian graphical models

This paper studies the distributed change detection problem in Gaussian graphical models (GGMs). Statistical analysis in GGM leads to several advantages, including a smaller number of parameters to model a large scale distribution, less samples required for the detection, faster detection and less communication costs. We formulate the hypothesis testing problem for change detection in GGMs and propose a global and centralized solution using the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). We then provide two distributed approximations to this global test based on aggregation of multiple local or conditional tests. We compare the performance of these tests in the context of failure detection in smart grids.
Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative Climate Reconstructions Based on Late-Quaternary Biological Proxies

The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data commonly involve the reconstructions of past environment. Three basic approaches to reconstructing past climate from palaeoecological data are outlined and discussed in terms of their assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses. These approaches are the indicator-species approach involving bioclimateenvelope modelling; the assemblage approach involving modern analogue techniques and response surfaces; and the multivariate calibration-function approach. Topics common to all approaches are reviewed – presentation and interpretation, evaluation and validation, comparison, and general limitations of climate reconstructions. Challenges and possible future developments are presented and the potential future role of quantitative climate reconstructions in palaeoecology is summarised.
Enabling Digital Health by Automatic Classification of Short Messages

In response to the growing HIV/AIDS and other health-related issues, UNICEF through their U-Report platform receives thousands of messages (SMS) every day to provide prevention strategies, health case advice, and counseling support to vulnerable population. Due to a rapid increase in U-Report usage (up to 300% in last 3 years), plus approximately 1,000 new registrations each day, the volume of messages has thus continued to increase, which made it impossible for the team at UNICEF to process them in a timely manner. In this paper, we present a platform designed to perform automatic classification of short messages (SMS) in real-time to help UNICEF categorize and prioritize health-related messages as they arrive. We employ a hybrid approach, which combines human and machine intelligence that seeks to resolve the information overload issue by introducing processing of large-scale data at high-speed while maintaining a high classification accuracy. The system has recently been tested in conjunction with UNICEF in Zambia to classify short messages received via the U-Report platform on various health related issues. The system is designed to enable UNICEF make sense of a large volume of short messages in a timely manner. In terms of evaluation, we report design choices, challenges, and performance of the system observed during the deployment to validate its effectiveness.
Nucleic Acid Isothermal Amplification Technologies—A Review

Nucleic acid amplification technologies are used in the field of molecular biology and recombinant DNA technologies. These techniques are used as leading methods in detecting and analyzing a small quantity of nucleic acids. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the most widely used method for DNA amplification for detection and identification of infectious diseases, genetic disorders and other research purposes. However, it requires a thermocycling machine to separate two DNA strands and then amplify the required fragment. Novel developments in molecular biology of DNA synthesis in vivo demonstrate the possibility of amplifying DNA in isothermal conditions without the need of a thermocycling apparatus. DNA polymerase replicates DNA with the aid of various accessory proteins. Recent identification of these proteins has enabled development of new in vitro isothermal DNA amplification methods, mimicking these in vivo mechanisms. There are several types of isothermal nucleic acid amplification methods such as transcription mediated amplification, nucleic acid sequence-based amplification, signal mediated amplification of RNA technology, strand displacement amplification, rolling circle amplification, loop-mediated isothermal amplification of DNA, isothermal multiple displacement amplification, helicase-dependent amplification, single primer isothermal amplification, and circular helicase-dependent amplification. In this article, we review these isothermal nucleic acid amplification technologies and their applications in molecular biological studies.
Low phase noise 130nm CMOS ring VCO

This paper reports on a voltage controlled ring oscillator fabricated in a 130nm CMOS technology. The oscillator was obtained cascading three delay cells. The schematic of the single delay cell was kept as simple as possible by avoiding the use of cross-coupled pairs. The achieved low phase noise makes the presented ring VCO useful for the design of a correlation radar to be used in medicine for short distance vital signal detection.
Demythologizing the Impersonal "Se" in Spanish

In such a case subject seems to be defined on purely semantic grounds. Chomsky (Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1965) showed that grammatical functions, such as subject, can be best expressed indirectly by the rewriting rules of the base phrase marker which provide the deep structure of sentences, so that subject is a syntactic function defined as [NP,S] (NP under S). If we adhere to Chomsky's definition of subject, then it is easy to show that se is not a subject, because it does not behave syntactically like one. Some evidence to this effect is provided by Negative Particle Placement which in Spanish places the negative particle directly in front of the verb and its clitics (if any are present). One such example is: 2. Juan no habla mucho. John doesn't talk a lot. 3. *Se no habla mucho. 4. No se habla mucho. One doesn't talk a lot.
Interleukin-12 enhances interleukin-3 dependent multilineage hematopoietic colony formation stimulated by interleukin-11 or steel factor.

Interleukin 12 (IL-12: natural killer cell stimulatory factor, NKSF; cytotoxic lymphocyte maturation factor, CLMF) was studied for its effect on colony formation and lineage expression of low-density bone marrow cells from 5-fluorouracil-treated mice, and of sorted stem cells using a semi-solid culture assay in the absence or presence of IL-3, IL-11, Steel factor (SF) and erythropoietin. IL-12 did not support colony formation as a single factor, nor in the presence of IL-11 or SF. In IL-3-containing cultures, IL-12 slightly enhanced neutrophilic and monocyte differentiation. Both SF and IL-11 synergized with IL-3 to increase the percentage of multilineage colonies and the number of colonies containing erythrocytes, megakaryocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, monocytes/macrophages, and blast cells, but not mast cells. In the presence of IL-3 + IL-11, IL-12 greatly enhanced neutrophil, megakaryocyte, erythrocyte, and mast cell development. In IL-3 + SF-containing cultures, IL-12 further increased colony numbers and a higher percentage of colonies expressed neutrophilic, megakaryocytic, erythroid, monocytic, blast cell, and/or mast cell lineages. Colony size and the presence of eosinophils in colonies were unaffected by IL-12 addition. These effects of IL-12 could not be reversed by antibodies against interferon-gamma. Our data show that IL-12 may act as a synergistic factor, stimulating multilineage expression of hemopoietic stem cells, probably via a direct action. The observed activity of IL-12, however, required the presence of a least two factors, i.e. either IL-3 + IL-11, or IL-3 + SF.
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been identified as a means to Business-/IT-Alignment, cost reduction or to facilitate change. Research has been focusing on the effectiveness of EA management while the enterprise architecting process is the process of developing, managing, utilizing and maintaining architectural descriptions (ADs) for EA. In this paper we present the results of a literature review on the process of enterprise architecting. Our research contribution is a consolidated view on the challenges and issues arising throughout the architecting process
The Arabidopsis Auxin-Inducible Gene ARGOS Controls Lateral Organ Size Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.013557.

During plant development, the final size of an organ is regulated and determined by various developmental signals; however, the molecular mechanisms by which these signals are transduced and the mediators involved are largely unknown. Here, we show that ARGOS, a novel Arabidopsis gene that is highly induced by auxin, is involved in organ size control. Transgenic plants expressing sense or antisense ARGOS cDNA display enlarged or reduced aerial organs, respectively. The alteration in organ size is attributable mainly to changes in cell number and the duration of organ growth. Ectopic expression of ARGOS prolongs the expression of AINTEGUMENTA (ANT) and CycD3;1 as well as the neoplastic activity of leaf cells. Moreover, organ enlargement in plants overexpressing ARGOS can be blocked by the loss of function of ANT, implying that ARGOS functions upstream of ANT to affect the meristematic competence of organ cells. The induction of ARGOS by auxin is attenuated or abolished in auxin-resistant1 (axr1), and overexpression of ARGOS partially restores axr1 organ development. These results suggest that ARGOS may transduce auxin signals downstream of AXR1 to regulate cell proliferation and organ growth through ANT during organogenesis.
Screening for Frontotemporal Dementias and Alzheimer’s Disease with the Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition: A Preliminary Analysis

Background: A neuropsychological screening instrument sensitive to neuropsychological deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) would be valuable for diagnostic evaluation. Methods: The Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition (PBAC) assesses working memory/executive control, language, visuospatial operations, verbal/visual episodic memory, and behavior/social comportment and can be administered and scored in 15–20 min. Participants included 149 patients with AD and four groups of FTD patients – i.e., patients with a decline in social comportment, personality, and executive functioning (SOC/EXEC), semantic dementia (SemD), progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), and corticobasal syndrome (CBS). Results: The total PBAC score correlated with the Mini-Mental State Examination. Between-group analysis of PBAC subscales and the results of logistic regression analyses produced substantial between-group differences, emphasizing the sensitivity of the test to differentiate dementia subtypes. AD patients were impaired on tests of episodic memory, SOC/EXEC patients were impaired on a measure of social comportment/behavioral disturbance, PNFA patients obtained low scores on tests of working memory/executive control, SemD patients obtained lower scores on language-mediated measures, and CBS patients were impaired on visuospatial/visual memory tests. Conclusion: These data support the usefulness of the PBAC as a relatively brief screening test of overall dementia severity across a wide range of dementia patients.
Likelihood Distribution for Models with Cosmological Constant from COBE Data

Using COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR) 4 yr data, we find a general expression yielding the likelihood distribution in the three-dimensional parameter space spanned by the spectral index n, the spectral amplitude a10, and the false-vacuum density parameter ΩΛ. Using such simple expression, the range of possible normalizations within a given likelihood interval from top-likelihood normalization is readily found, with fair approximation, for any model with total density parameter Ω0 = 1 and assigned n and ΩΛ.
Membrane Fusion Induced by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Depends on Histidine Protonation*

Entry of enveloped animal viruses into their host cells always depends on a step of membrane fusion triggered by conformational changes in viral envelope glycoproteins. Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infection is mediated by virus spike glycoprotein G, which induces membrane fusion at the acidic environment of the endosomal compartment. VSV-induced membrane fusion occurs at a very narrow pH range, between 6.2 and 5.8, suggesting that His protonation is required for this process. To investigate the role of His in VSV fusion, we chemically modified these residues using diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC). We found that DEPC treatment inhibited membrane fusion mediated by VSV in a concentration-dependent manner and that the complete inhibition of fusion was fully reversed by incubation of modified virus with hydroxylamine. Fluorescence measurements showed that VSV modification with DEPC abolished pH-induced conformational changes in G protein, suggesting that His protonation drives G protein interaction with the target membrane at acidic pH. Mass spectrometry analysis of tryptic fragments of modified G protein allowed the identification of the putative active His residues. Using synthetic peptides, we showed that the modification of His-148 and His-149 by DEPC, as well as the substitution of these residues by Ala, completely inhibited peptide-induced fusion, suggesting the direct participation of these His in VSV fusion.
An Interactional Structure of Medical Activities During Acute Visits and Its Implications for Patients' Participation

Within the context of primary-care, physician-patient visits, researchers have documented both patients' low levels of communicative participation (e.g., question asking) and the advantages of such participation to healthcare (e.g., improved physical health and satisfaction). Prior research has offered a variety of partial, non-exclusive explanations for patients' low levels of participation. This article investigates one underdeveloped source of explanation: the organization of interaction itself. This article argues that the establishment of new medical problems in acute visits makes relevant an organized structure of social action that is composed of an ordered series of medical activities: establishing the reason for the visit, physicians gathering additional information (i.e., history taking and physical examination), physicians delivering diagnoses, and physicians providing treatment recommendations. This "project" of medical activity shapes physicians' and patients' understanding and production of communicative behavior. Using the method of conversation analysis, and analyzing transcribed audio- and videotape data of actual acute visits, this article describes and grounds this project and discusses its implications for research, theory, and improvement on patient participation.
A Life in the Information Trade

This article is a reminiscence of the author's career in information science, with emphasis on the temper of the times rather than specific technical or theoretical developments. The author reviews his transition from mathematics to computer programming to information retrieval; various projects he was involved with, such as the SAGE air defense system, a demonstration of information retrieval for the Department of State, several projects for intelligence agencies; and IIDA, an early user interface for database searchers; plus teaching, writing, and editing experiences. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Understanding the Post‐Industrial Assembly Line: A Critical Appraisal of the Call Centre

As a relatively new form of service sector employment, call centres have been an important issue in the sociology of work for two decades. This article offers a critical review and appraisal of call centre literature, drawing upon an existing typology classifying call centre research in four categories: characteristics and organisational features; choices and strategies of management; the effect of work on employees; and the response of employees to working conditions. The article also explores recent developments that utilise call centres as a tool to investigate emerging social theories and other sociological concepts.