Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Estructura de Valores de Schwartz en el personal directivo universitario privado / Structure of Values of Schwartz in the Manager Private’s University

Con el proposito de analizar la Estructura de Valores que poseen los directivos en las instituciones universitarias privadas del Municipio Maracaibo, se realizo una investigacion descriptiva donde la poblacion estuvo representada por 46 sujetos (17 decanos y 29 directores de escuelas a nivel de pregrado). El instrumento empleado para la recoleccion de datos y medir la Estructura de Valores estandarizado fue “Schwartz Value Survey”. Las puntuaciones obtenidas por los sujetos encuestados en la recoleccion de la informacion, fueron procesadas mediante la tecnica estadistica descriptiva, ANOVA, la prueba de multiples rangos de Tukey. Los resultados obtenidos permiten afirmar que el modelo propuesto por Schwartz se reproduce en personal directivo de las instituciones estudiadas.
Olanzapine therapy in elderly patients with schizophrenia.

Compared to young adults, elderly individuals with schizophrenia may have a six-fold increase in the prevalence of tardive dyskinesia. The atypical antipsychotic, olanzapine, may offer particular benefit for this population. This is a prospective, open-label trial of olanzapine therapy in elderly schizophrenic patients. Individuals aged 65 years or older with DSM-IV schizophrenia and a history of neuroleptic responsiveness were given olanzapine as an add-on therapy to their existing medication regimen. Other antipsychotic medication was gradually discontinued. Psychopathology was assessed using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). Abnormal movements were assessed with the Simpson-Angus Neurological Rating Scale (SA), the Barnes Akathisia Scale (BA), and the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS). Cognitive status was assessed with the Mini-Mental State Evaluation (MMSE). Twenty-seven individuals received a mean dosage of 8.4 (+/- 4.2) mg/day. Mean age of the group was 70.6 (+/- 4.1) with a range of 65 to 80 years. Patients had a mean of 1.6 (+/- 1.4) significant comorbid medical illnesses. Change in BPRS scores were not significant for the group as a whole, whereas SA score change was substantial, with a pre-treatment mean of 13.7 (+/- 10.3), compared with a mean of 4.8 (+/- 4.1) for those treated with olanzapine (p < .0002). Changes in AIMS and BA score were also significant on olanzapine therapy. MMSE score change was not statistically significant. Comorbid medical illnesses were not adversely affected. Olanzapine is an effective antipsychotic medication in older adults with schizophrenia, and is associated with significant improvement in extrapyramidal side effects. Implications for effect on cognitive status should be explored in larger, long-term trials.
Wafer Warpage Experiments and Simulation for Fan-Out Chip on Substrate

Fan-out chip on substrate (FOCoS) is defined as the fan-out package flip-chip mounts on high pin counts ball grid array substrate. 12-inch advanced wafer level package (aWLP) process is implemented on FOCoS for cost saving advantage. The fan-out package constructs from multi-chips with short interconnection between die to die (D2D) by re-distribution layer (RDL) process, which has the potential for high speed communication and multi-function application. In this paper, a 45×45 FOCoS package size with interconnection between two large size D2D area by three metal layers RDL process is presented. Wafer level warpage control is critical in large size fan-out package of FOCoS. Warpage performance of FOCoS is examined by advanced warpage metrology analyzer (WMA) and finite element model (FEM) in this report. 12-inch mold wafer warpage is dramatically changed through multi-RDL processes. The reliability performance of FOCoS is also evaluated to show the qualification of mass production.
Pivotal Response Treatments for Autism: Communication, Social, and Academic Development

Section I. Overview of PRT Overview of the Pivotal Response Treatment Outreach, Early Identification and Early PRT Intervention PRT Interventions in General Education Classrooms Incorporating PRT Procedures to Improve Homework Performance PRT Parent Education Programs - From the Perspective of Parents Considering Cultural Diversity in Intervention Programs Section II. Development of Communication Longitudinal Trajectories of Communication Development with PRT Intervention PRT Language Intervention for Extremely Difficult Cases - First Words: Getting Verbal Communication Started The Pivotal Response of Initiations and Long Term Improvement Section III. Social Development Improving Socialization in Inclusive Settings - Social Development Intervention in an Inclusive Summer Camp Play-dates, Social Interactions, and Friendships with Typical Peers Section IV. Reducing Disruptive Behavior and Broadening Children's Interests Reducing Ritualistic Behaviors and Broadening Children's Interests Improving Social-communication, Empathy and Pragmatics in Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism Combining Functional Assessment and Self-Management Procedures to Rapidly Reduce Disruptive Behaviors
Surfing the Edge of Chaos

Every decade or two, a big idea in management thinking takes hold and becomes widely accepted. The next big idea must enable businesses to improve the hit rate of strategic initiatives and attain the level of renewal necessary for successful execution. Scientific research on complex adaptive systems has identified principles that apply to living things, from amoebae to organizations. Four principles in particular are relevant to new strategic work, as activities at Royal Dutch/Shell demonstrate: 1. Equilibrium equals death. The lure of equilibrium poses a constant danger to successful firms. In 1996, Shell was highly profitable, but fissures were forming below the surface. Downstream, Shell's oil products business faced grave competitive threats. Steve Miller, the business's group managing director and a student of complexity theory, recognized that to meet those threats, he would have to disturb equilibrium by bypassing the resistant bureaucracy and involving the front lines in renewal. By 1997, after a series of initiatives, Shell ranked first in share among major oil companies; by 1998, the business had made a contribution of more than $300 million to Shell's bottom line. 2. Complex adaptive systems exhibit the capacity of self-organization and emergent complexity. The living-systems approach focuses on the intelligence in the nodes. To tap the retailing potential of the forecourt of Shell's service stations, Miller drew on the insights of frontline troops. He assembled teams from operating companies around the world into "retailing boot camps," workshops for identifying and exploiting market opportunities. These generated many new ideas for beating the competition. 3. Complex adaptive systems move toward the edge of chaos when provoked by a complex task. Novelty emerges in the space between rigidity and randomness. At Shell, the coaching of country teams and the new project work that resulted led to a more direct, informal, and less hierarchical way of working. 4. One cannot direct a living system, only disturb it. Managers cannot assume that a particular input will produce a particular output. Miller has learned that "top-down strategies don't win ballgames. Experimentation, rapid learning, and seizing the momentum of success is the better approach. " While leaders provide the vision and establish the context, solutions to ongoing challenges are generated by the people closest to the action.
Multi-query scheduling for time-critical data stream applications

Many data stream applications, such as network intrusion detection, on-line financial tickers and environmental monitoring, typically exhibit certain "real-time" traits. In such applications, people are interested in strategies that ensure on-time delivery of query results. In this paper, we point out that traditional operator-based query scheduling strategies are insufficient to handle this class of problem. Therefore we choose to approach the issue from a new angle by modeling multi-query scheduling as a job-scheduling problem, a classical problem in real-time computing. By taking advantage of the wisdom in the real-time computing community, we propose several new scheduling strategies and algorithms to enhance the overall data stream query scheduling performance. Through extensive experiments over both real and synthetic data, we identify the important factors for scheduling performance and verify the effectiveness of our approaches.
ICDAR2015 competition on Multi-script Writer Identification and Gender Classification using ‘QUWI’ Database

This competition targets writer identification and gender classification from offline handwritten documents using the QUWI database. The most interesting aspect of the competition is the use of a dataset with writing samples of the same individual in Arabic as well as English. The competition not only allows an objective comparison of different systems but also permits to investigate the performance of traditional script-dependent systems in a multi-script experimental setup. This paper describes the competition details including the competition tasks, the database employed, the methods used by the participating systems, evaluation and ranking criteria and the overall rankings of the participants. The competition received a total of 13 submissions from 8 different institutions. Writer identification tasks received 5 while the gender classification tasks received 8 submissions.
Interleukin‐31 induces cytokine and chemokine production from human bronchial epithelial cells through activation of mitogen‐activated protein kinase signalling pathways: implications for the allergic response

Interleukin‐31 (IL‐31) is a novel T‐helper‐lymphocyte‐derived cytokine that plays an important role in allergic skin inflammation and atopic dermatitis. It has recently been implicated in bronchial inflammation. We investigated the functions and mechanisms of IL‐31‐induced activation of human bronchial epithelial cells. The gene and protein expressions of candidate cytokines/chemokines from IL‐31‐stimulated human bronchial epithelial BEAS‐2B cells were first quantified by quantitative real‐time polymerase chain reaction and enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay, respectively. The activity of different mitogen‐activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in IL‐31‐stimulated BEAS‐2B cells was assessed by Western blot. The IL‐31 could significantly elevate the gene and protein expressions of epidermal growth factor (EGF), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and monocyte chemoattractant protein‐1 (MCP‐1/CCL2) of BEAS‐2B cells in both time‐dependently and dose‐dependently. Combination of IL‐31 with either IL‐4 or IL‐13 further enhanced VEGF and CCL2 production while IL‐31 could synergistically augment the release of EGF, VEGF, CCL2, IL‐6 and IL‐8 in cocultures of BEAS‐2B cells and eosinophils. In addition, IL‐31 could activate p38 MAPK, extracellular signal‐regulated kinase (ERK) and c‐Jun N‐terminal kinase (JNK) of BEAS‐2B cells. Selective inhibitors of p38 MAPK (SB203580), ERK (PD98059), and JNK (SP600125) could differentially inhibit the production of EGF, VEGF and CCL2, thereby suggesting a role for MAPKs in IL‐31 functions. In conclusion, the activation of MAPKs can be crucial for IL‐31‐mediated activation of bronchial epithelial cells, thereby providing an immunological role for IL‐31 in bronchial inflammation, at least partly, via epithelial EGF, VEGF and CCL2 production.
Delfinoia, a new South American aphid genus (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Macrosiphini) on Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae)

Abstract The genus Delfinoia Nieto Nafría & Mier Durante gen. n. is established, and Utamphorophora peruviana (Essig), originally Amphorophora peruviana and currently Delfinoia peruviana comb. n. , is designated species type of the genus. The synonymy between this species and Wahlgreniella australis Delfino syn. n. is established. Apterous and alate viviparous females of D. peruviana are redescribed; the male is also described. The species is currently known from Peru and Argentina; a plant of the genus Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae) is the only identified host.
Too Scared To Learn: Women, Violence, and Education

Contents: Preface. Part I: Canaries in the Mine. Introduction. What Is "Normal" in a Violent Society? Breaking the Silence in Literacy. Part II: Learning in the Context of Trauma. Beyond "Normal" Appearances: "Hidden" Impacts of Trauma. Learning in the Context of Trauma: The Challenge of Setting Goals. Bringing the Whole Person to Learning Spirit. Part III: Bearing Witness. Bridging the Divide Between Literacy and Therapy. Examining the Costs of Bearing Witness. Part IV: Pulling It All Together. Rethinking Change. Sources and Resources.
Dark personality in the workplace : introduction to the special issue.

This introduction to the Special Issue on Dark Personality in the Workplace outlines the nature of dark personality and why it is relevant in the workplace. In addition, it reviews the articles of the special issue in terms of both their findings and the lessons that can be drawn from them in order to enhance our understanding of dark personality in the workplace. Finally, suggestions are made concerning future directions for research on dark personality in the workplace.
Publish me and protect me: Personalized and flexible location privacy protection in mobile social networks

With the increasing proliferation of the Mobile Social Networks (MSN) and the Location Based Service (LBS), location privacy has attracted broad attention in recent years. Most researches have been done with the assumption that the server is untrusted and a trusted third party is introduced to protect the user location privacy when a user sends queries for the location service. In this paper, we reconsider this assumption and propose a Personalized and Flexible location privacy protection Model (PFM) based on user relationship strength. We conduct researches in the situation that the server is trusted while malicious users in the MSN can disguise as a friend to break location privacy. We present an entropic TF-IDF based approach to measure the bi-directional relationship strength and propose probability distribution based cloaking model to protect user location privacy. We thoroughly evaluate our methods based on Quality of Privacy (QoP) via real and synthetic data.
A New Weighted Average Filter for Removing Camera Shake

Image blurring is one of the major problems in the field of digital image processing. Generally, camera shake causes blurring. As a result, uneven blur kernel is present in the image which is random in nature. Therefore, every image in the burst is blurred in a different way. Deblurred image can be obtained using single image or multiple images. A clean sharp image is recovered by fusing the group of images without calculating the blurring kernel. In this paper, a new technique called a new weighted average filter is introduced for removing camera shake using single or multiple images. This technique takes a burst of images and calculates a weighted average in the Discrete Wavelet domain, where the weights of images depend on their Discrete Wavelet Spectrum magnitudes.
Salud cardiovascular en la mujer: el papel de la ira y su expresión

Cardiovascular health in women: The role of anger and its expression. The relationships between anger expression (in, out, and control) and cardiovascular health (emotional distress, cardiovascular symptoms reported, and preventive health behaviors) were analyzed in 327 women (range 17-60 years). The same criteria (N= 218), as well as blood pressure (BP) registered in medical checkups (N= 90) were recorded one year later. Four groups according to anger-in and anger-control scores, going from the most hostile (high anger-in and low anger-control) to the least hostile (low anger-in and high angercontrol) were considered. The results indicated that the most hostile group, with the least adaptive anger expression, presented worst cardiovascular health than the other three groups, at both temporal moments. Furthermore, the presence of women with pathological BP levels was higher in the groups of high anger-in. These data ratify the role of anger expression, especially its repression (anger-in) and the lack of adequate canalization or control in women’s cardiovascular health from a prospective design. Appropriate management of anger feelings and the practice of preventive health behaviors can protect women from cardiovascular problems.
On the Use of Underspecified Data-Type Semantics for Type Safety in Low-Level Code

In recent projects on operating-system veriﬁcation, C and C++ data types are often formalized usinga semantics that does not fully specify the precise byte encoding of objects. It is well-known thatsuch an underspeciﬁed data-type semantics can be used to detect certain kinds of type errors. Ingeneral, however, underspeciﬁed data-type semantics are unsound: they assign well-deﬁned meaningto programs that have undeﬁned behavior according to the C and C++ language standards. A precisecharacterization of the type-correctness properties that can be enforced with underspeciﬁed data-typesemantics is still missing. In this paper, we identify strengths and weaknesses of underspeciﬁed data-type semantics for ensuring type safety of low-level systems code. We prove sufﬁcient conditionsto detect certain classes of type errors and, ﬁnally, identify a trade-off between the complexity ofunderspeciﬁed data-type semantics and their type-checking capabilities.
Metallothionein Inhibits Peroxynitrite-induced DNA and Lipoprotein Damage*

Previous studies have demonstrated that metallothionein functions as an antioxidant that protects against oxidative DNA, protein, and lipid damage induced by superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radical, and nitric oxide. The present study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that metallothionein also protects from DNA and lipoprotein damage induced by peroxynitrite, an important reactive nitrogen species that causes a diversity of pathological processes. A cell-free system was used. DNA damage was detected by the mobility of plasmid DNA in electrophoresis. Oxidation of low density lipoprotein was measured by a thiobarbituric acid-reactive substance, which was confirmed by lipid hydroperoxide assay. Plasmid DNA damage and low density lipoprotein oxidation were induced by 3-morpholinosydnomine, which produces peroxynitrite through the reaction between nitric oxide and superoxide anion or by synthesized peroxynitrite directly. DNA damage by 3-morpholinosydnomine was prevented by both metallothionein and superoxide dismutase, whereas the damage caused by peroxynitrite was prevented by metallothionein only. The oxidation of low density lipoprotein by 3-morpholinosydnomine and peroxynitrite was also significantly inhibited by metallothionein. This study thus demonstrates that metallothionein may react directly with peroxynitrite to prevent DNA and lipoprotein damage induced by this pathological reactive nitrogen species.
EnvZ-OmpR Interaction and Osmoregulation in Escherichia coli *

EnvZ, a histidine kinase/phosphatase inEscherichia coli, responds to the osmolarity changes in the medium by regulating the phosphorylation state of the transcription factor OmpR, which controls the expression levels of outer membrane porin proteins OmpF and OmpC. Although both ompRand envZ genes are located on the ompB locus under the control of the ompB promoter and transcribed as a single polycistronic mRNA, the expression of envZ is known to be significantly less than ompR. However, to date no accurate estimation for the amounts of EnvZ and OmpR in the cell has been carried out. Here we examined the levels of EnvZ and OmpR in the wild-type strain MC4100 by quantitative Western blot analysis using anti-OmpR and anti-EnvZc (cytoplasmic domain of EnvZ) antisera. It was observed that during exponential growth in L-broth medium there were ∼3500 and 100 molecules per cell of OmpR and EnvZ, respectively. The levels of OmpR and EnvZ in MC4100 cells grown in a high osmolarity medium (nutrient broth with 20% sucrose) were about the same as those grown in L-broth, whereas they were 1.7-fold higher than those in a low osmolarity medium (nutrient broth). With His10-OmpR, we also determined that theK d value for the EnvZc-OmpR complex formation is 1.20 ± 0.17 μm. On the basis of these results, the molecular mechanism of osmoregulation of ompF andompC is discussed.
C-reactive protein is an independent predictor of risk for the development of diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study.

Accumulating evidence implicates inflammation as a potential pathway in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. The objective of the present study was to assess the ability of C-reactive protein (CRP) to predict the development of diabetes in middle-aged men in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study. Baseline plasma samples for CRP measurement were available for 5,245 men of whom 127 were classified as having a transition from normal glucose control to overt diabetes during the study, based on American Diabetes Association criteria. Baseline CRP was an important predictor of the development of diabetes in univariate analysis (hazard ratio [HR] for an increase of 1 SD = 1.55; 95% CI 1.32-1.82; P < 0.0001). In multivariate analysis, CRP remained a predictor of diabetes development (HR 1.30; 95% CI 1.07-1.58; P = 0.0075) independent of other clinically employed predictors, including baseline BMI and fasting triglyceride and glucose concentrations. Moreover, there was a graded increase in risk across CRP quintiles throughout the study, evident at even 1 year of follow-up. The highest quintile (CRP >4.18 mg/l) was associated with a greater than threefold risk of developing diabetes (HR 3.07; 95% CI 1.33-7.10) in a multivariate analysis at 5 years. Thus, CRP predicts the development of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged men independently of established risk factors. Because CRP, the most commonly used acute-phase protein in clinical practice, is very stable in serum, our observations have clinical potential in helping to better predict individuals destined to develop type 2 diabetes. They also add to the notion that low-grade inflammation is important in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes.