Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adaptación española del Cuestionario de creencias sobre los efectos del compartimiento social de las emociones, BSEQ

En este estudio se presenta la adaptacion espanola del Cuestionario de creencias sobre efectos del compartimiento social de las emociones, BSEQ (Zech, enviado). Se describe la valoracion de la validez convergente del cuestionario al relacionarla con otros instrumentos que evaluan la expresion emocional. Se aplico a 390 sujetos una bateria de pruebas, compuesta por ocho cuestionarios que evaluan aspectos relacionados con la expresion emocional. El BSEQ ha mostrado una adecuada consistencia interna, una alta fiabilidad test-retest, asi como una estructura factor factorial compuesta por tres factores congruentes con los beneficios derivados del compartimiento social beneficial de las emociones: beneficios intrapersonales, beneficios interpersonales, asi como beneficios derivados de la no expresion social emocional. Los participantes estan mas de acuerdo con los beneficios intrapersonales que con los beneficios interpersonales del compartir emocional y estan menos de acuerdo con los beneficios de la supresion emocional, como se podia esperar de personas viviendo en una cultura individualista. Los resultados muestran que las mujeres, comparadas con los hombres, creen en mayor medida en los beneficios de la expresion social de las emociones. Se concluye afirmando que la adaptacion espanola del BSEQ es un instrumento psicometricamente sensible para la medida de las creencias sobre los efectos del compartimiento social de las emociones.
Attachment styles of staff and people in care-homes : an investigation into effects on challenging behaviour

There is wide acceptance that challenging behaviour (CB) is a common feature of people with dementia. The current literature has demonstrated that a wide variety of factors may contribute to either the amount of CB or the subjective difficulty of management and burden perceived by those who care for people with dementia. This study is preceded by a literature review that examines the contribution of attachment theory to our understanding of why some people with dementia may show greater levels ofCB and why both family and professional carers may show such wide variations in their response to CB. The focus of the main study was to replicate previous fmdings, ie. that those with 'insecure' attachment styles would demonstrate higher levels ofCB, while addressing a methodological weakness in previous research. The attachment styles of paid staff were also investigated and their relationship to perceived levels ofCB, positive perceptions of work and burnout examined. Finally the possibility of an interactive effect between staff and resident attachment styles was investigated. Results did not support previous fmdings and this is discussed with reference to the change in methodology. Limitations to this study and future research directions are discussed. A review of the contributions to theory, research and practice follows. This paper discusses further the strengths and weaknesses of the current research and the contribution made to original knowledge. Future research directions are indicated and the implications for clinical practice are discussed. Finally personal motivations and process issues arising from this research are presented.
Phenotypic subtypes of Stargardt macular dystrophy-fundus flavimaculatus.

OBJECTIVE To determine if phenotypic subtypes exist in Stargardt macular dystrophy-fundus flavimaculatus (SMD-FFM). METHODS A cross-sectional study of 63 patients with autosomal recessive SMD-FFM was undertaken. The age of onset, duration of symptoms, visual acuity, and clinical features on fundus examination, color fundus photographs, and fundus autofluorescence images were recorded. Electrophysiological tests, including pattern, focal, and full-field electroretinogram (ERG), electro-oculogram, and color-contrast sensitivity measurement, were also performed. RESULTS Based on electrophysiological attributes (ERG), patients with SMD-FFM could be classified into 3 groups. In group 1, there was severe pattern ERG abnormality with normal scotopic and full-field ERGs. In group 2, there was additional loss of photopic function, and in group 3, there was loss of both photopic and scotopic function. Differences in scotopic or photopic function among groups were not explained on the basis of differences in age of onset or duration of disease. CONCLUSIONS Patients with SMD-FFM can be classified into 3 groups based on the absence or presence of generalized loss of either photopic or photopic and scotopic function. It appears that these 3 groups may represent distinct phenotypic subtypes in SMD-FFM.
A simple guide to biochemical approaches for analyzing protein–lipid interactions

Eukaryotic cells contain many different membrane compartments with characteristic shapes, lipid compositions, and dynamics. A large fraction of cytoplasmic proteins associate with these membrane compartments. Such protein–lipid interactions, which regulate the subcellular localizations and activities of peripheral membrane proteins, are fundamentally important for a variety of cell biological processes ranging from cytoskeletal dynamics and membrane trafficking to intracellular signaling. Reciprocally, many membrane-associated proteins can modulate the shape, lipid composition, and dynamics of cellular membranes. Determining the exact mechanisms by which these proteins interact with membranes will be essential to understanding their biological functions. In this Technical Perspective, we provide a brief introduction to selected biochemical methods that can be applied to study protein–lipid interactions. We also discuss how important it is to choose proper lipid composition, type of model membrane, and biochemical assay to obtain reliable and informative data from the lipid-interaction mechanism of a protein of interest.
Ethics of Tax Evasion: A Survey of Slovak Opinion

This study sought the views of three different subsets of Slovak students on the ethics of tax evasion. There were multiple goals. One goal was to determine the extent to which tax evasion is considered ethical. Another goal was to determine which arguments in favor of tax evasion that have appeared in the Western philosophical and theological literature over the last 500 years are the strongest in Slovakia. A third goal was to determine whether different subsets of the population had differing views on the subject. The responses of students majoring in business & economics, theology and philosophy were compared, as were the responses of men and women. Comparisons were made between the scores of younger students (under 25) and older students (25 or older) to determine whether individuals became more averse to tax evasion as they got older. These results were then compared to similar studies that were done on different, sample populations from other countries. The results generally confirmed expectations. Responses were different among the three types of students. The male responses were also different than the female responses. Scores also differed by age. Some of the hypotheses made were confirmed while others were rejected. This study replicates studies that were made of international business professors (McGee 2005a), Romanian business students (McGee 2005b) and Guatemalan business and law students (McGee and Lingle 2005). The relevant literature is discussed elsewhere in this book. Citations to that literature are listed in the reference section at the end of this chapter.
Familial clusters of ANCA small-vessel vasculitis

Small-vessel vasculitides associated with the presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in the serum are characterized by inflammation and necrosis of small vessels. A pauci-immune necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis typically occurs when there is renal damage. Pathogenesis of these diseases remains unclear although infectious, genetic and environmental factors have been involved. Few familial clusters of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies’ small-vessel vasculitis are described in the literature. We report two families with first-degree relatives affected with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies’ small-vessel vasculitis.
How reactions to cigarette packet health warnings influence quitting: findings from the ITC Four-Country survey.

OBJECTIVES To examine prospectively the impact of health warnings on quitting activity. DESIGN Five waves (2002-06) of a cohort survey where reactions to health warnings at one survey wave are used to predict cessation activity at the next wave, controlling for country (proxy for warning differences) and other factors. These analyses were replicated on four wave-to-wave transitions. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Smokers from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Samples were waves 1-2: n = 6525; waves 2-3: n = 5257; waves 3-4: n = 4439; and waves 4-5: n = 3993. MEASURES Warning salience, cognitive responses (thoughts of harm and of quitting), forgoing of cigarettes and avoidance of warnings were examined as predictors of quit attempts, and of quitting success among those who tried (1 month sustained abstinence), replicated across four wave-to-wave transitions. RESULTS All four responses to warnings were independently predictive of quitting activity in bivariate analyses. In multivariate analyses, both forgoing cigarettes and cognitive responses to the warnings predicted prospectively making quit attempts in all replications. However, avoiding warnings did not add predictive value consistently, and there was no consistent pattern for warning salience. There were no interactions by country. Some, but not all, the effects were mediated by quitting intentions. There were no consistent effects on quit success. CONCLUSIONS This study adds to the evidence that forgoing cigarettes as a result of noticing warnings and quit-related cognitive reactions to warnings are consistent prospective predictors of making quit attempts. This work strengthens the evidence base for governments to go beyond the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to mandate health warnings on tobacco products that stimulate the highest possible levels of these reactions.
Exploring a human centered approach to managing visual privacy concerns during collaboration

Human Centered Computing (HCC) systems should be socially aware and HCC applications should act according to the social context in which they are deployed. This paper examines a human centered approach to managing visual privacy during collaboration around a personal computer. We propose an intelligent system that takes into account the current social context of the user. Prior research has found that visual privacy can be a concern when traces of prior activities (i.e. web browsing history) that are inappropriate for the current social viewing context are displayed. Investigations of privacy management approaches have found that the burden of manually classifying traces of prior activity is high. The approach presented here is based on a conceptual model of incidental information privacy in web browsers developed previously. In this paper, we introduce a predictive model of privacy concerns, both for the general case and within the context of two specific viewer types. Our results suggest that an intelligent user interface approach is feasible and that adaptations may be combined with more explicit approaches to reduce users' burden of managing their visual privacy.
High-Speed Idea Filtering with the Bag of Lemons

Open innovation platforms (web sites where crowds post ideas in a shared space) enable us to elicit huge volumes of potentially valuable solutions for problems we care about, but identifying the best ideas in these collections can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. This paper presents an approach, called the "bag of lemons", which enables crowd to filter ideas with accuracy superior to conventional (Likert scale) rating approaches, but in only a fraction of the time. The key insight behind this approach is that crowds are much better at eliminating bad ideas than at identifying good ones. an approach for using the crowd to filter ideas submitted in open innovation engagementsincreases filtering accuracy and reduces rater time compared to conventional (5-point Likert scale) approachkey insight: crowds are better at eliminating bad ideas than identifying good ones.
Inside Organizational Behavioral Management

Members of two Organizational Behavior Management interest groups (N = 159) were surveyed regarding the current status of the field. Individuals responding (N = 63) held both staff and management positions in a variety of organizational settings. The responses provided a) a definition of Organizational Behavior Management, b) an assessment of the common knowledge base, c) a survey of unpublished applications, and d) an assessment of the future of the field. The limitations of the survey methodology as well as some of the implications of the data are discussed.
Characterization of a Defensin from the Sand Fly Phlebotomus duboscqi Induced by Challenge with Bacteria or the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania major

ABSTRACT Antimicrobial peptides are major components of the innate immune response of epithelial cells. In insect vectors, these peptides may play a role in the control of gut pathogens. We have analyzed antimicrobial peptides produced by the sand fly Phlebotomus duboscqi, after challenge by injected bacteria or feeding with bacteria or the protozoan parasite Leishmania major. A new hemolymph peptide with antimicrobial activity was identified and shown to be a member of the insect defensin family. Interestingly, this defensin exhibits an antiparasitic activity against the promastigote forms of L. major, which reside normally within the sand fly midgut. P. duboscqi defensin could be induced by both hemolymph or gut infections. Defensin mRNA was induced following infection by wild-type L. major, and this induction was much less following infections with L. major knockout mutants that survive poorly in sand flies, due to specific deficiencies in abundant cell surface glycoconjugates containing phosphoglycans (including lipophosphoglycan). The ability of gut pathogens to induce gut as well as fat body expression of defensin raises the possibility that this antimicrobial peptide might play a key role in the development of parasitic infections.
Lessons from the panic of 1907

The Bank Panic of 1907 was so serious that it became a catalyst for the creation of America's central bank. This study, which examines the circumstances leading to and the intervention measures taken during the panic, particularly focuses on trust companies' function as a financial intermediary. Unequal regulation among financial organizations, the authors find, led to a concentration of riskier assets in less regulated intermediaries, primarily trusts. Trusts' riskier asset portfolios made them the focal point from which the crisis spread to other segments of the financial market. Allowing various types of institutions comparable access to all assets and investment opportunities, the authors conclude, might reduce the risk that the collapse of one type of asset would threaten the solvency of an entire class of financial intermediary.
Automated Money Detection Application for Trinidad and Tobago Currency Notes

One of the challenges faced by visually impaired persons is the recognition of currency. Mobile phones are becoming more affordable and are being used by the visually impaired community to help them in their everyday lives. This paper investigates the Local Binary Patterns (LBP) as a method to recognise Trinidad and Tobago currency notes. A mobile application was developed and the effectiveness of the LBP algorithm was tested in terms of speed, robustness to illumination, scale and rotation. The LBP algorithm realised a recognition rate of at least 95 percent for Trinidad and Tobago currency. The recognition rates on mobile devices were compared for the LBP and the ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) methods.
Delay-dependent stability analysis of teleoperation systems with unsymmetric time-varying delays

This paper investigates the stability analysis problem of teleoperation system. Compared with previous work, the communication delays are assumed to be both time-varying and unsymmetric. The stability analysis is performed on two classes of controllers: delayed position error feedback and delayed force feedback. By choosing Lyapunov Krasovskii functional, we show that the master-slave teleoperation system is asymptotically stable under specific LMI conditions. With the given controller design parameters, the proposed stability criteria can be used to compute the allowable maximum delay values. Finally, the simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
1 Technical report number 2006-05 Distributed MPC Strategies with Application to Power System Automatic Generation Control ∗

A distributed model predictive control (MPC) framework, suitable for controlling large-scale networked systems such as power systems, is presented. The overall system is decomposed into subsystems, each with its own MPC controller. These subsystem-based MPCs work iteratively and cooperatively towards satisfying systemwide control objectives. If available computational time allows convergence, the proposed distributed MPC framework achieves performance equivalent to centralized MPC. Furthermore, the distributed MPC algorithm is feasible and closed-loop stable under intermediate termination. Automatic generation control (AGC) provides a practical example for illustrating the efficacy of the proposed distributed MPC framework. ∗An abbreviated version of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium on Power Plants and Power Systems Control, Kananaskis, Canada, June 25-28, 2006. †Aswin N. Venkat is a PhD candidate at the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI-53706, USA venkat@bevo.che. wisc.edu ‡Corresponding author. Email: hiskens@engr.wisc.edu §Ian A. Hiskens is with Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI53706, USA hiskens@engr.wisc.edu ¶James B. Rawlings is with Faculty of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI-53706, USA rawlings@engr.wisc.edu ‖Stephen J. Wright is with Faculty of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI-53706, USA swright@cs.wisc.edu
Effect of immunosuppression on the human mesangial cell cycle

The present study investigated the effects of immunosuppressive agents [tacrolimus (Tac), cyclosporine A (CsA), mycophenolic acid (MMF) and methylprednisone (MP)] on the proliferation, cell cycle progression and apoptotic rate of human mesangial cells. Cultured human mesangial cells were treated with several concentrations of the immunosuppressive agents for 24, 48 or 72 h. Cell cycle progression, proliferation and apoptosis were analyzed using an MTT assay and flow cytometry. Tac and CsA significantly inhibited the proliferation of human mesangial cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Cell cycle analysis revealed that Tac and CsA arrested mesangial cells in the G0/G1 phase, preventing them from entering S phase. Similarly, MP inhibited human mesangial cell growth by causing cell cycle arrest in G0/G1 phase. MMF also inhibited mesangial cell proliferation, but accomplished this by preventing progression from S phase to the G2/M phase. The combination of MP and MMF synergistically inhibited mesangial cell proliferation. Tac, CsA, MP and MMF inhibited proliferation of human mesangial cells by blocking progression of the cell cycle. In conclusion, these agents, sequentially or in combination, may be used to effectively treat mesangial proliferative glomerular disease.
The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

The Simple Science of a Healthy LifeFrom fitness to diets to emotional health and longevity, what do people who feel and look healthy do differently than those who are overtired, depressed, or out of shape? Every day we face an avalanche of studies and statistics that tell us what we should or shouldn't eat, how long we need to exercise, or how to protect ourselves from secondhand smoke and the harmful rays from the sun. Not only are these studies often contradictory, but the actual scientific information is usually inaccessible.Moving beyond the myths and misinformation, the advice in these pages is not based on one person's opinions or one expert's study. For the first time the research available on the health of average Americans has been distilled into one hundred essential ways that we can become healthier and happier. Each of the core findings is accompanied by a real life example showing these results in action.Eat more often. Oxford University researchers found that people who ate five or six times a day had a 5 percent lower total cholesterol than average and were 45 percent more likely to be able to sustain their target weight than people who ate once or twice a day.Who says caffeine is bad for you? The majority of scientific evidence shows that, for a healthy adult, moderate quantities of caffeine (about three cups of coffee per day) pose no significant health risks.Home sweet home. People who described their home lives as satisfying were 24 percent more likely to live beyond normal life expectancy, according to a UCLA study.
Near-optimal pilot allocation in sparse channel estimation for massive MIMO OFDM systems

Inspired by the success in sparse signal recovery, compressive sensing has already been applied for the pilot-based channel estimation in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. However, little attention has been paid to the pilot design in the massive MIMO system. To obtain the near-optimal pilot placement, two efficient schemes based on the block coherence (BC) of the measurement matrix are introduced. The first scheme searches the pilot pattern with the minimum BC value through the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) method. The second scheme combines the BC with probability model and then utilizes the cross-entropy optimization (CEO) method to solve the pilot allocation problem. Simulation results show that both of the methods outperform the equispaced search method, exhausted search method and random search method in terms of mean square error (MSE) of the channel estimate. Moreover, it is demonstrated that SPSA converges much faster than the other methods thus are more efficient, while CEO could provide more accurate channel estimation performance.