Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Binge Eating as Related to Negative Self-Awareness, Depression, and Avoidance Coping in Undergraduates

In an investigation of Heatherton and Baumeister's (1991) theory of binge eating, 207 female undergraduate students were grouped as binge eaters (BE) or non-eating-disordered (NED) for analyses. The BE group scored significantly higher than the NED group on avoidance coping and substance use when depression was not controlled; however, after controlling for depression, only substance use remained significant.
The Demise of the D&C

It is now over 150 years since the operation of dilatation and curettage of the uterus (D&C) was invented. This operation became the most common elective surgical procedure in many parts of the developed worldl2. In the days before 'evidence-based medicine' its use as a diagnostic test or treatment was never critically evaluated; then came the suggestion that it was 'diagnostically inaccurate and therapeutically ineffective' 3. This article seeks to place D&C in its historical perspective and to chart the development of other techniques for sampling the endometrial lining of the uterus.
IL-12p40 and IL-18 Modulate Inflammatory and Immune Responses to Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection1

Respiratory syncytial virus-induced bronchiolitis has been linked to the development of allergy and atopic asthma. IL-12 and possibly IL-18 are central mediators orchestrating Th1 and/or Th2 immune responses to infection. To determine a possible role for IL-12 in regulating the immune response to acute respiratory syncytial virus infection, IL-12p40 gene-targeted (IL-12p40−/−) and wild-type mice were intratracheally infected with respiratory syncytial virus, and lung inflammatory and immune responses were assessed. Lung inflammation and mucus production were increased in the airways of IL-12p40−/− mice as compared with those of wild-type mice, concurrent with increased levels of the Th2 effector cytokines IL-5 and IL-13. Respiratory syncytial virus clearance and levels of Th1 effector cytokine IFN-γ were not altered. Interestingly, IL-18, another mediator of IFN-γ production, was significantly increased in the lungs of IL-12p40−/− mice early during the course of infection. Abrogation of IL-18-mediated signaling in IL-12p40−/− mice further enhanced Th2 immune response and mucus production in the airways during respiratory syncytial virus infection but failed to modulate IFN-γ production or viral clearance. These findings implicate a role for IL-12 and IL-18 in modulating respiratory syncytial virus-induced airway inflammation distinct from that of viral clearance.
Financial rumors on investor sentiment in the emerging e-commerce network

This paper describes how the financial rumors can frequently lead to the evolution of investor sentiment in the emerging e-commerce network. It is essential for investors to acquire a better understanding of the financial rumors that give rise to investor sentiment and the most effective strategies for dealing with them. We propose and test a conceptual model that considers financial rumors and how it relates to investor sentiment in the emerging e-commerce network. An experiment that included 216 subjects within an emerging e-commerce market was conducted using data from reviewing. With AMOS4.0, a structural equation modeling approach is used to investigate our hypotheses. Results provide evidence on how financial rumors influences positively investor sentiment in the emerging e-commerce network.
“Bunches of Grapes and Bananas”: Unconstruing the Human Body in Life Drawing

The creativity of human beings may be said to be at the heart of personal construct theory (PCT); the capacity for people to create and recreate their own lived world is the theory's bedrock. Nevertheless, it may be argued that PCT currently offers only a partial understanding of artistic creativity. In this article, the creative activity of life drawing is examined from a PCT perspective. In particular, the creativity cycle—involving both loosening and tightening—is applied to this activity. While loosening may be regarded as necessary, or at least desirable, for the creation of artistic artifacts, it is argued that tightening is held in abeyance. In light of this analysis, it is suggested that “unconstruing” may be a more appropriate concept for understanding this creative activity.
A Free Database of Head Related Impulse Response Measurements in the Horizontal Plane with Multiple Distances

A freely available collection of Head-Related Impulse Response (HRIR) measurements is introduced. The impulse responses were acquired in an anechoic chamber using a KEMAR manikin at four different loudspeaker distances – 3 m, 2 m, 1 m and 0.5 m – reaching from the far field to the near field. The loudspeaker was positioned at ear height and the manikin was rotated with a high-precision stepper motor in one degree increments. Besides the raw HRIRs also datasets are available which have been compensated for the use with specific headphone models. Introduction In order to localize a sound source, the human auditory system takes advantage of the time lag and level difference between the two ear signals as well as cues added by reflection and diffraction by torso, head and external ears [1]. A head-related impulse response (HRIR), acquired under free-field conditions, is able to describe these features. Several databases of HRIRs are freely available [2, 3, 4], but their angular resolution in the horizontal plane is limited and only [4] contains measurements for more than one source distance (0.8 m and 3 m). For distances larger than 1 m the distance between the manikin and the source is assumed to have no influence on the binaural cues, only the amplitude decreases for larger distances [5]. If the source is positioned closer to the listener, changes in the binaural cues have to be considered. This study will provide HRIR databases measured in the horizontal plane with a resolution of 1◦ for sources positioned at a distance of 0.5 m, 1 m, 2 m and 3 m. φ r = 0.5 m, 1 m, 2 m, 3 m Figure: Coordinate system used in this paper. The azimuth angle φ describes the placement of the loudspeaker counter-clockwise around the head. Here φ = −60◦. HRIR Databases The HRIR databases described here are freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license and can be downloaded at http://dev.qu. tu-berlin.de/projects/measurements/wiki The datasets are available in different formats suitable for a variety of applications: . mat files for use in GNU octave and Matlab, . daff files in the Open Directional Audio File Format (OpenDAFF), an emerging open standard for spatial audio data, and . wav files for use in the SoundScape Renderer (SSR).
Context Coding of Depth Map Images Under the Piecewise-Constant Image Model Representation

This paper introduces an efficient method for lossless compression of depth map images, using the representation of a depth image in terms of three entities: 1) the crack-edges; 2) the constant depth regions enclosed by them; and 3) the depth value over each region. The starting representation is identical with that used in a very efficient coder for palette images, the piecewise-constant image model coding, but the techniques used for coding the elements of the representation are more advanced and especially suitable for the type of redundancy present in depth images. Initially, the vertical and horizontal crack-edges separating the constant depth regions are transmitted by 2D context coding using optimally pruned context trees. Both the encoder and decoder can reconstruct the regions of constant depth from the transmitted crack-edge image. The depth value in a given region is encoded using the depth values of the neighboring regions already encoded, exploiting the natural smoothness of the depth variation, and the mutual exclusiveness of the values in neighboring regions. The encoding method is suitable for lossless compression of depth images, obtaining compression of about 10-65 times, and additionally can be used as the entropy coding stage for lossy depth compression.
The Glutathione S-Transferase P1 341C>T Polymorphism and Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of 28 Case-Control Studies

Background GSTP1, which is one major group of the glutathione S-transferase family, plays an important role in the metabolism of carcinogens and toxins, reducing damage of DNA as a suppressor of carcinogenesis. The 341C>T polymorphism of the GSTP1 has been implicated in cancer risk through cutting down its metabolic detoxification activities. However, results from previous studies remain conflicting rather than conclusive. To clarify the correlation and provide more statistical evidence for detecting the significance of 341C>T, a meta-analysis was conducted. Methodology/Principal Findings The relevant studies were identified through searching of PubMed, Embase, ISI Web of Knowledge and China National Knowledge Infrastructure in August 2012, and selected based on the established inclusion criteria for publications, then a meta-analysis was performed to quantitatively summarize the association of GSTP1 341C>T polymorphism with cancer susceptibility. Stratified analyses were employed to identify the source of heterogeneity. Publication bias was evaluated as well as sensitivity analysis. Based on 28 case-control studies with 13249 cases and 16798 controls, the pooled results indicated that the variant genotypes significantly increased the risk of cancer in homozygote comparison (TT versus CC: P = 0.012, OR = 1.40, 95% CI: 1.08–1.81, P het. = 0.575), and recessive model (TT versus CT/CC: P = 0.012, OR = 1.40, 95% CI: 1.08–1.81, P het. = 0.562). This was confirmed when stratified analyses were conducted according to ethnicity, source of control, matched control, quality score and cancer types. Moreover, significantly increased risk of cancer was also found in lung cancer (heterozygote comparison and dominant model). The stability of these observations was confirmed by a sensitivity analysis. Begger's funnel plot and Egger's test did not reveal any publication bias. Conclusions/Significance This meta-analysis suggests that the GSTP1 341C>T polymorphism may contribute to genetic susceptibility to cancer, especially to lung cancer, and in Asian population. Nevertheless, additional well-designed studies focusing on different ethnicity and cancer types are needed to provide a more exact and comprehensive conclusion.
A Review of Multilevel Regulatory Focus in Organizations

Over the past 15 years, regulatory focus has gained prominence as a theory of self-regulatory motivation. Building from personality and social psychology research, the nomological network of regulatory focus spans individuals, groups, and organizations. This review provides an appraisal of regulatory focus from a multilevel perspective as it relates to organizational behavior, human resources, strategic management, and entrepreneurship. We begin with a discussion of the theoretical foundations of regulatory focus, including hierarchical motivation and regulatory fit theory. Using these foundations, we summarize empirical research on regulatory focus and provide actionable avenues for future research on regulatory focus, with particular attention paid to how individuals adjust their motivational strategies on the basis of context. We also consider regulatory focus as a collective function of teams to develop our understanding of motivational processes in the workplace.
'Intelligence Led Policing or Policing Led Intelligence?': Integrating Volume Crime Analysis into Policing

This paper explores the integration of volume crime analysis into policing. Based on qualitative research in two police forces, the paper outlines the importance of analysis for intelligence led policing. However, while the rhetoric of using analysis to target police activity is generally accepted, the practice is different. A poor understanding of analysis amongst police officers, and a lack of understanding of policing amongst analysts, influenced the usefulness of analytical products for operational policing. The paper also addresses police culture and the impact it has on perceptions of analysts and their products. The paper argues that training and development for both police officers and analysts is crucial to develop a productive working relationship.
Improving Signature Testing through Dynamic Data Flow Analysis

The effectiveness and precision of network-based intrusion detection signatures can be evaluated either by direct analysis of the signatures (if they are available) or by using black-box testing (if the system is closed-source). Recently, several techniques have been proposed to generate test cases by automatically deriving variations (or mutations) of attacks. Even though these techniques have been useful in identifying "blindspots" in the signatures of closed-source, network-based intrusion detection systems, the generation of test cases is performed in a random, un- guided fashion. The reason is that there is no information available about the signatures to be tested. As a result, identifying a test case that is able to evade detection is difficult. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to drive the generation of test cases by using the information gathered by analyzing the dynamic behavior of the intrusion detection system. Our approach applies dynamic dataflow analysis techniques to the intrusion detection system to identify which parts of a network stream are used to detect an attack and how these parts are matched by a signature. The result of our analysis is a set of constraints that is used to guide the black-box testing process, so that the mutations are applied to only those parts of the attack that are relevant for detection. By doing this, we are able to perform a more focused generation of the test cases and improve the process of identifying an attack variation that evades detection.
Policy borrowing, policy learning: testing times in Australian schooling

This paper provides a contextualised and critical policy analysis of the Rudd government's national schooling agenda in Australia. The specific focus is on the introduction of national literacy and numeracy testing and the recent creation by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority of the website ‘My School’, which lists the results of these tests for all Australian schools, including school performance against averages and against the performance of 60 other socio-economically ‘like-schools’ across the nation. It is argued that we are seeing the emergence of a national system of schooling (including national curriculum) as part of the reconstitution of the nation in the face of globalization and related economisation of education policy. This is the case despite Australia's federal political structure with the States holding the ostensible Constitutional responsibility for schooling. The analysis locates these and associated developments (a national schooling policy ensemble) within considerations of new accountabilities, the restructured state, neo-liberalism, globalized education policy discourses and policy borrowing and learning. The analysis also suggests that, despite the Prime Minister's swingeing critique of neo-liberalism in the context of the global financial crisis and enhanced state intervention in the economy, this national schooling agenda (the government's so-called ‘education revolution’), is a hybrid mix of the neo-liberal with social democratic aspirations to do with social justice and schooling.
Integrating and Testing a System-Wide Feature in a Legacy System: An Experience Report

This paper describes our experiences with integrating and testing an embedded, system-wide feature called dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) in a software platform for mobile devices. DVFS affects the whole system by scaling the hardware performance levels during run-time. Implementing and testing the basic functionality of DVFS was easy, however verifying that the whole system worked after integration was more difficult. The platform was legacy code which had not been developed with any consideration for this kind of a feature. We had to consider the complex run-time behaviour of the whole platform, including operating system services, device drivers and applications. DVFS could cause problems and failures in almost any part of the system. Based on our experiences, we describe problems in integrating and testing a system-wide feature like DVFS and suggest possible directions for future research to help address some of these problems
Progressive nuclear translocation of somatostatin analogs.

UNLABELLED Optimal cancer radiotherapy using Auger electron emitters requires selective localization of radionuclides in close proximity to tumor DNA. METHODS Intracellular trafficking of (125)I-Tyr1-somatostatin-14 somatotropin-release inhibiting factor (SRIF) and 2 of its analogs, (125)I-WOC 4a and (111)In-pentetreotide, was studied in human neuroblastoma cells. RESULTS After 24-h incubation, SRIF was degraded or recycled, whereas its protease-resistant analogs progressively accumulated in nuclear fractions. (111)In-pentetreotide binding to DNA increased over time in somatostatin receptor-positive cells but not in somatostatin receptor-negative cells. CONCLUSION These in vitro studies show that prolonged exposure to radiolabeled SRIF analogs significantly increases their cellular internalization, nuclear translocation, and DNA binding. Clinically, infusion of radiolabeled somatostatin analogs may enhance tumor uptake and retention and provide more effective in situ radiotherapy.
Life With and Without Coding: Two Methods for Early-Stage Data Analysis in Qualitative Research Aiming at Causal Explanations

Qualitative research aimed at "mechanismic" explanations poses specific challenges to qualitative data analysis because it must integrate existing theory with patterns identified in the data. We explore the utilization of two methods—coding and qualitative content analysis—for the first steps in the data analysis process, namely "cleaning" and organizing qualitative data. Both methods produce an information base that is structured by categories and can be used in the subsequent search for patterns in the data and integration of these patterns into a systematic, theoretically embedded explanation. Used as a stand-alone method outside the grounded theory approach, coding leads to an indexed text, i.e. both the original text and the index (the system of codes describing the content of text segments) are subjected to further analysis. Qualitative content analysis extracts the relevant information, i.e. separates it from the original text, and processes only this information. We suggest that qualitative content analysis has advantages compared to coding whenever the research question is embedded in prior theory and can be answered without processing knowledge about the form of statements and their position in the text, which usually is the case in the search for "mechanismic" explanations. Coding outperforms qualitative content analysis in research that needs this information in later stages of the analysis, e.g. the exploration of meaning or the study of the construction of narratives.
“Media Memory Lane” interventions in an Alzheimer's day care center

The present study developed and systematically evaluated two inventions (Musical Memory Lane and Video Memory Lane) which present nostalgic music and videos to 15 plus day care clients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in an easy-to-access, push button, picture format. Systematic observations indicated that the Memory Lanes had a favorable impact on engagement, stimulated positive affect and activity-related talking, while also reducing fidgeting. There was no impact on sleeping and general interaction. During free time, people chose a Memory Lane activity significantly more often than other activities and remained engaged with it for a longer time. The Memory Lanes show great potential for providing meaningful and easily accessible activities to people with dementia. Additional studies are needed in other care settings and to determine if the Memory Lanes can decrease agitation and enhance memory function.
Personality Correlates of the Stroop Color and Word Test: More Negative Results

Numerous studies have investigated personality correlates of performance on the Stroop Color and Word Test. With one exception, these studies have failed to identify any significant correlates between the two variables. The present study examined this relationship by administering the Stroop Color and Word Test, Cattell's 16 PF, and the Maudsley Personality Inventory to a sample of 210 college students. Results indicated no significant correlates existed between five different measures of Stroop Color and Word Test performance and the personality scales. It was concluded that the Stroop Color and Word Test has little relationship to measures of personality and may best be understood in terms of specific cognitive processes.
Moving into the third, outer domain of teacher satisfaction

Models of teacher satisfaction post‐Herzberg have generally presented two mutually exclusive domains of teacher satisfaction/dissatisfaction. However, use of a survey with 2,000 teachers and school executive in England, New Zealand and Australia has provided evidence for a third domain of teacher satisfaction/dissatisfaction grounded in the wider environment surrounding the school, a domain which has grown in importance and influence and which teachers and school executive find uniformly dissatisfying. This outer domain has acted to erode overall teacher satisfaction in contravention of the general principles of “two‐factor” theories of job satisfaction. It is argued that teachers, schools, and others with an interest in education, need to build bridges, forge partnerships and actively participate in educational discourse with members of this outer domain. Further, educational systems and governments need to look within the outer domain of teacher satisfaction for answers to the problems currently facing teachers, schools and society.
A method for one port and two-port RC circuit synthesis

A new method for the synthesis of RC one ports and two-ports is proposed in this paper. A new model of the human body, computed using this method, is developed. This model proves to be more accurate than the classical Cole model. The proposed synthesis method can be used to compute reduced order models (ROM), preserving the circuit passivity, unlike most known ROM computation methods.
THE LIMITED EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESTIGE AS AN INTERVENTION ON THE HEALTH OF MEDICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Abstract Under the traditional system of peer-reviewed publication, the degree of prestige conferred to authors by successful publication is tied to the degree of the intellectual rigor of its peer review process: ambitious scientists do well professionally by doing well epistemically. As a result, we should expect journal editors, in their dual role as epistemic evaluators and prestige-allocators, to have the power to motivate improved author behavior through the tightening of publication requirements. Contrary to this expectation, I will argue that the publication bias literature in academic medicine demonstrates that editor interventions have had limited effectiveness in improving the health of the publication and trial registration record, suggesting that much stronger interventions are needed.
Schiß und Espenlaub: Idiome der Angst

Cet article presente de nouvelles methodes pour l'analyse des idiomes, qui jouent un role important dans l'ontologisation linguistique des emotions. Les idiomes se referant a un meme concept - ici, le concept de la PEUR - et formant un champ semantique (domaine cible) sont analyses en fonction de leur nature conceptuelle et imaginaire (domaine source). Cette approche permet de considerer les relations semantiques entre les idiomes d'un domaine cible, comme un reseau base sur la connaissance conceptuelle des individus, et releve des relations possibles entre les idiomes et le lexique mental. L'A. montre ainsi que les theories cognitives basees sur la metaphore et les prototypes sont compatibles avec la semantique structurales