Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Soybean/Brown Rice Consumption on Body Fat and Blood Lipids in Overweight Postmenopausal Women

Amenopause-inducedestrogendeficiencymightincreasebody-fataccumu- lation,�insulinresistance,�andabnormalbloodsugarandlipids. �Thus,�postmenopausal� womenhaveahighriskofcardiovasculardiseases. �Somestudiesindicatedthatsoycan� improvethesyndromeofmenopause,�andwhole-grainfoodscanreducebloodcho- lesterolconcentrations. �Inthepresentstudy,�undera�1200-kcaldiet,�overweightpost- menopausalwomeningestedsoybean/brownrice�(SBR)�astheirgrainsforlunchfor�12� weeks,�andtheeffectsontheanthropometricprofile,� bodycomposition,�bloodprofile,� andplasmaisoflavonelevelswereassessed. �After�12�weekofSBRintake,�dietaryfiber� intake�(21.5�±�6.7�g)�washigherthanthatofthecontrolgroup. �Bodyweight�(BW),� waistcircumference�(WC),�hipcircumference�(HC),�andthewaist-hipratio�(WHR)�had� decreasedinbothgroups. �Thebody-fatpercentageandandroid-fatpercentagehadalso� decreasedinbothgroups. �Bloodglucose,�insulin,�homeostasismodelassessmentofin- sulinresistance�(HOMA-IR)�andquantitativeinsulinsensitivitycheckindex�(QUICKI)� didnotchangeduringtheinterventionperiod. �IntheSBRandcontrolgroups,�serumtri- glycerides�(TGs)�decreased,�andhigh-densitylipoproteincholesterol�(HDL-C)�rose. �In� contrast,�serumtotalcholesterol�(TC)�andlow-densitylipoproteincholesterol�(LDL-C)� haddecreasedintheSBRgroupat�12�weekscomparedwithweek�0. �Diastolicblood� pressure�(DBP)�significantlydecreasedintheSBRgroup. �Changesindietaryfiberand� soyproteinintakeweresignificantlynegativelycorrelatedwiththebody-fatpercent- ageandgynoid-fatpercentagechanges. �Inconclusion,�underenergyrestriction,�SBR� intakecanreduceserumTC,�LDL-C,�andDBPinoverweightpostmenopausalwomen.
Hostility and Personality Disorder

The role of hostility in personality disorder (Pd) traits was explored using the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory. Stepwise multiple regression analyses were conducted to ascertain the relative contributions of the eight hostility scales. The criterion variables were the personality disorder scales of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. The participants were 158 first year male and female university students. The results show that Resentment (covert hostility) explains large proportions of variances in borderline, avoidant, schizotypal, passive-aggressive, obsessive-compulsive, and schizoid disorder traits. Verbal hostility (overt hostility) is associated with antisocial, histrionic, and narcissistic Pd traits. Suspiciousness contributes relatively large variances in paranoid disorder traits, whereas guilt is the dominant aspect of dependent Pd traits. The results are explained with reference to the agreeableness versus antagonism facets of the Five-Factor model of personality and Beck's schema construct.
Strategy, Environment and Performance in Two Technological Contexts: Contingency Theory in Korea

This paper examines the range of application of strategic contingency theory. Its thesis is that as technologies and economies become more open to market forces, the tenets of contingency theory become increasingly relevant. The Korean economy seemed an ideal venue for testing this notion as it is very heterogeneous in the effectiveness of its technological regulation. Many Korean companies employing traditional technologies are able to benefit from government intervention, whereas most of those using emergent technolo gies — even in the same industry — are forced to compete internationally and are very much more subject to competitive market forces. We found that Korean companies using emergent technologies were more likely to do well if they heeded contingency prescriptions in making strategy: specifically, if they employed innovative and marketing differentiation strategies in uncertain environments and cost leadership strategies in stable contexts. On the other hand, companies that used traditional technologies were less apt to benefit from matching strategy to environment. In short, strategic contingency literature was found to apply more to businesses employing emergent technologies than to those using traditional technologies. Notions from institutional and contin gency theory and from the literature on cross-cultural management are used to interpret these findings.
Validating Emergency Department Vital Signs Using a Data Quality Engine for Data Warehouse

Background : Vital signs in our emergency department information system were entered into free-text fields for heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen saturation. Objective : We sought to convert these text entries into a more useful form, for research and QA purposes, upon entry into a data warehouse. Methods : We derived a series of rules and assigned quality scores to the transformed values, conforming to physiologic parameters for vital signs across the age range and spectrum of illness seen in the emergency department. Results : Validating these entries revealed that 98% of free-text data had perfect quality scores, conforming to established vital sign parameters. Average vital signs varied as expected by age. Degradations in quality scores were most commonly attributed logging temperature in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius; vital signs with this error could still be transformed for use. Errors occurred more frequently during periods of high triage, though error rates did not correlate with triage volume. Conclusions : In developing a method for importing free-text vital sign data from our emergency department information system, we now have a data warehouse with a broad array of quality-checked vital signs, permitting analysis and correlation with demographics and outcomes.
Class of High-Efficiency Tuned Switching Power Amplifiers

The previous literature on tuned power amplifiers has not made clear the fundamental differences between amplifiers in which the output device acts 1) as a current source, or 2) as a switch. Previous circuits have often operated in contradiction to their design assumptions, resulting in the need for “cut-and-try” design. The new class of amplifiers deseribed here is based on a load network synthesized to hWe a transient response which maximizes power efficiency even if the active device switching times are substantial fractions of the ac cycle. The new class of amplifiers, named “Class E; 1 is defined and is iflustnated by a detailed description and a set of design equations for one simple member of the class. For that circuit the authors measured 96 percent transistor efficiency at 3.9 MHr at 26-W output from a pair of Motorola 2N3735 TO-5 transistors. Advantages of Class E are unusually high efficiency, a priori designability, large reduction in second-breakdown stress, low sensitivityy to activedevice characteristics, and potential for high-efficiency operation at higher frequencies than pI eviously published Class-D circuits. Harmonic output and power gain are comparable to those of conventional amplifiers.
The "Neocortex" Neural Simulator. A Modern Design.

Among the latest developments in simulation techniques, the “Neocortex” simulation environment is based of modern design principles. We present the most important abstractions and building blocks of the system and describing the solutions that overcome many computational challenges of neural simulators. Also, we refer to the scalability of the simulator during the tracing of large neural architectures with different levels of modeling detail.
A Characterization of the Number of Subsequences Obtained via the Deletion Channel

Motivated by the study of deletion channels, this paper presents improved bounds on the number of subsequences obtained from a binary string X of length n under t deletions. It is known that the number of subsequences in this setting strongly depends on the number of runs in the string X; where a run is a maximal substring of the same character. Our improved bounds are obtained by a structural analysis of the family of r-run strings X, an analysis in which we identify the extremal strings with respect to the number of subsequences. Specifically, for every r, we present r-run strings with the minimum (respectively maximum) number of subsequences under any t deletions; we perform an exact analysis of the number of subsequences of these extremal strings; and show that this number can be calculated in polynomial time.
MASKED PRIMING BY TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS IN PROFICIENT BILINGUALS

The responses of English-French bilinguals performing semantic categorisation and lexical decision tasks were facilitated by prime stimuli that were non-cognate translation equivalents of the targets (e.g. arbre-tree) when compared to unrelated primes (e.g. balle-tree). These translation priming effects were observed with very brief prime exposures (29–43 msec) and forward and backward masking of the prime. Using the same stimuli, translation priming effects were significantly stronger in the semantic categorisation task then in the lexical decision task. This suggests that the translation priming effect obtained in semantic categorisation is mediated by semantic representations in memory and not the result of form-level connections between translation equivalents, at least for the highly proficient bilinguals tested in the present experiment.
Formação de professores e cidadania: projetos escolares no estudo do ambiente

Este texto pretende apresentar reflexoes resultantes de um estudo de doutorado focado na analise, por meio da pesquisa-acao, de projetos escolares de educacao ambiental desenvolvidos a partir da formacao continuada de professores em exercicio, e suas contribuicoes na constituicao de novos conhecimentos e procedimentos didatico-pedagogicos para o estudo do ambiente e o exercicio da cidadania. Visando a construcao do olhar geocientifico na escola, os projetos de educacao ambiental utilizaram diferentes praticas de campo para o (re)conhecimento do lugar de estudo associadas a recursos de sensoriamento remoto (imagens de satelite, fotos aereas e mapas), objetivando a construcao de uma visao integrada da realidade socioambiental a partir do estabelecimento de relacoes dialeticas entre o local e o global como suporte a analise de problemas, de suas repercussoes e implicacoes em diferentes escalas de observacao. O desenvolvimento dos projetos oportunizou a formacao de professores-pesquisadores inovadores, criticos e reflexivos ante as realidades escolar e socioambiental. Alem disso, propiciou aos alunos condicoes para observarem e conhecerem seu meio ambiente e o lugar em que vivem, refletirem sobre suas condicoes reais e, com base nesse processo, proporem acoes e construir em intervencoes educativas diante dos problemas estudados, em busca de solucoes. Ao incorporar a questao socioambiental a pratica pedagogica, os projetos escolares buscaram inserir a escola na realidade, contribuindo para a formacao, por meio da aprendizagem social, de cidadaos criticos e participativos em acoes conjuntas e colaborativas (escola, comunidade, poder publico), visando ao desenvolvimento de politicas publicas democraticas e sustentaveis para a melhoria da qualidade de vida.
Some forms of tinnitus may involve the extralemniscal auditory pathway

It has previously been shown that the click‐evoked responses recorded from the intracranial portion of the eighth nerve in patients with incapacitating tinnitus are not abnormal, nor is the latency of peak III of the click‐evoked brainstem auditory‐evoked potentials significantly altered; however, the latency of peak V is slightly (but significantly) shortened in comparison to that of patients with the same degree of hearing loss but no tinnitus. In this study the hypothesis that the extralemniscal auditory system is involved in the generation of tinnitus is tested. We made use of the fact that neurons of the extralemniscal auditory system also receive input from the somatosensory system, and that stimulation of the somatosensory system can influence the processing of auditory information in the extralemniscal system. In 4 of 26 patients with mild‐to‐severe tinnitus whose median nerve was stimulated electrically, the tinnitus increased noticeably during stimulation, in 6 the intensity of the tinnitus decreased noticeably, and in the remaining 16 there was no noticeable change in the tinnitus. In some of the patients the character of the tinnitus changed in a complex way. There were no significant differences in hearing thresholds in these three groups of patients. Electrical stimulation of the median nerve in 12 individuals with normal hearing who did not have tinnitus either had no effect on the loudness of sounds or it caused a slight increase in the loudness.
Prevalence of hypoxemia among children with sickle cell anemia during steady state and crises: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND Patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) are prone to recurrent pain crises related to red blood cell sickling and vaso-occlusion with subsequent tissue hypoxia. Alveolar hypoxia has been shown to be associated with entrapment of sickle cells in the pulmonary microcirculation which may propagate a cycle of further hypoxemia and sickling. Pulmonary complications are common in sickle cell disease (SCD) and may exacerbate microvascular occlusive phenomena. Thus, detecting hypoxemia is of particular importance in SCD. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to determine the prevalence of hypoxemia among children with SCA and compare the oxygen saturation of those in crises with those in steady state. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a prospective observational study involving 46 children with SCA in steady state, 42 with crises, and 42 with HbAA genotype carried out between August and December 2010. The study compared the oxygen saturation of sickle cell anaemic children in steady state and in crises with normal hemoglobin genotype using Nellcon pulse oximeter while the hemoglobin concentration was analyzed using automated Sysmex KX-21N model. RESULTS A total of 130 participants aged 6 months to 18 years were recruited. The overall prevalence of hypoxemia in this study was 13.8%. Hypoxemia was highest among SCA patients in the crisis state (23.8%) compared to 13% and 0% for those in the steady state and in those with normal hemoglobin genotype, respectively (χ² = 6.425, P = 0.04). Hypoxemia was higher among those with hemoglobin less than 5 g/dl (30%) and least among those whose hemoglobin levels were 10 g/dl and above. CONCLUSIONS Hypoxemia was significantly higher among children with SCA during Vaso-occlusion crises. We recommend that one should have a high index of suspicion and take prompt action in managing these individuals especially those with acute chest syndrome.
Neutralizing increases discomfort associated with obsessional thoughts: an experimental study with obsessional patients.

Cognitive-behavioral theories suggest that the development of neutralizing is crucial in the development and persistence of obsessional problems (OCD). Twenty-nine patients with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., American Psychiatric Association, 1994) diagnosis of OCD were randomly allocated to 2 conditions. Both listened to repeated recorded presentations of their intrusive thoughts and either neutralized (experimental group) or distracted themselves (control). Discomfort was rated during this 1st phase and then during a 2nd phase without neutralizing or distraction. The experimental group showed a similar level of discomfort in the 1st phase, which significantly reduced during the period compared with controls. The experimental group experienced significantly more discomfort during the 2nd phase, and significantly stronger urges to neutralize and distract at the end of this phase than controls.
Managing multiple engineering projects in a manufacturing support environment

Business trends require front-line managers to integrate multiproject concepts with those of traditional single-project management since very rarely can one find major organizations managing just one project. A typical situation entails a limited pool of resources which is applied to the management of several projects, with people moving back and forth among different assignments in different projects. Yet, few studies on project management have started to explore the issue of how to manage an organization with multiple inter- or intradepartmental projects. Using a case study method, our exploratory research investigates the specific problems associated with the management of multiple engineering projects in a manufacturing support environment, with the intent to identify common factors of success. Knowing the factors of success is but the first step toward improving multi-project management. Our findings provide insight into how the most important multiple-project success factors in this environment differ from factors of success in traditional single-project management, and are consistent with other emerging research in product development environments. The differences center on resource allocation and flexibility. Some factors, such as ownership, staff experience, and communication, take on additional dimensions when considered in a multiple-versus a single-project environment. Division and assignment of resources, prioritization, and customized management style, which have little relevance in relation to single projects, are shown to play a major role in the success of multiproject management.
Bioimaging for the monitoring of the in vivo distribution of infused mesenchymal stem cells in a mouse model of the graft‐versus‐host reaction

Cell therapy using MSCs (mesenchymal stem cells) might be effective treatment for refractory GVHD (graft‐versus‐host disease). However, the fate and distribution of MSCs after transplantation remains unclear. In this study, an animal model was developed to monitor the dynamic distribution of MSCs in mice with GVHD. A GVHD mouse model was established by transplanting C57BL/6 donor bone marrow cells and C57BL/6 EGFP (enhanced green fluorescent protein) splenocytes into lethally irradiated BALB/c nude recipient mice. Donor MSCs were obtained from MHC‐identical C57BL/6 RFP (red fluorescent protein) mice and infused into the recipient mice on the same transplantation day. In vivo movement of the donor splenocytes (EGFP) and MSCs (RFP) were evaluated by measuring the biofluorescence (IVIS—Xenogen system). Donor splenocytes and MSCs reached the lungs first, and then the gastrointestinal tract, lymph nodes and skin, in that order; the transit time and localization site of these cells were very similar. In the recipient mouse with GVHD, the number of detectable cells declined with time, as assessed by biofluorescence imaging and confirmed by RT (real‐time)‐PCR. This bioimaging system might be useful for preclinical testing and the design of therapeutic strategies for monitoring the dynamic distribution of MSCs with GVHD.
The joint effects of personality and job scope on in-role performance, citizenship behaviors, and creativity

This study examined the relation between personality and three dimensions of job performance (in-role performance, creativity, and citizenship behavior) under differing levels of job scope. The basic premise was that higher job scope would facilitate performance for those who were dispositionally inclined toward a particular dimension of performance and damage the performance of those who were dispositionally disinclined. Among 383 work-unit dyads in 11 organizations, some support was found for the predicted interactions between Big Five personality traits and job scope in predicting various aspects of performance.
Affordances and Prospective Control: An Outline of the Ontology

Actions must be controlled prospectively. This requires that the behavioral possibilities of surface layouts and events be perceived. In this article, the ontolog- ical basis for an understanding of prospective control in realist terms is outlined. The foundational idea is that of affordances and the promoted ontology is materialist and dynamicist. It is argued that research in the ecological approach to prospective control is ultimately the search for objective laws. Because lawfulness is equated with real possibility, this amounts to the study of the affordances (the real possibilities) underlying prospective control and the circumstances that actualize them. The ontological assumptions and hypotheses bearing on this latter proposal are articulated. It is suggested that critical evaluation of the identified ontological themes may benefit the experimental and theoretical study of perception in the service of activity.
Acute Static Stretching Reduces Lower Extremity Power in Trained Children

Several studies utilizing adult subjects have indicated that static stretching may reduce subsequent strength and power production, possibly for as long as an hour following the stretch. This observation has not been evaluated in children, nor in athletes accustomed to performing static stretches during strength/power type training sessions. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if an acute bout of passive, static stretching of the lower extremity would affect jumping performance in a group of young, female gymnasts. Thirteen competitive gymnasts (age 13.3 − 2.6 yrs) performed drop jumps under two conditions: immediately following stretching and without prior stretching. The jumps were performed on separate days. The conditions were randomly ordered among the subjects. Time in the air (AIR) and ground contact time (CT) were measured during the drop jumps using a timing mat. Three different stretches of the lower extremity were conducted on each gymnast twice, each stretch being held for 30 se.
Obesity: is it a mental disorder?

OBJECTIVE Using Wakefield's conceptualization of mental disorder as "harmful mental dysfunction" (Wakefield, Am Psychol, 47, 373-388, 1992), we examined the evidence for including obesity as a mental disorder in DSM-V. METHOD We searched computer databases and examined reference lists from review articles published in the last 10 years to identify empirical papers relevant to the present review. RESULTS Obesity is a condition of heterogeneous etiology that is harmful for most individuals. However, there is scant evidence that obesity, in general, is caused by mental dysfunction. Although recent work examining the neurocircuitry of energy balance has suggested that mental dysfunction may be involved in the etiology of specific obesity phenotypes, findings are too preliminary to support classification of obesity as a mental disorder. Nevertheless, there is evidence that obesity is related to mental disorder and many of the medications used to treat psychiatric illness. DISCUSSION There is little evidence for including obesity as a mental disorder in DSM-V. However, results confirm the importance of monitoring adiposity routinely among patients with psychiatric illness.
Basic characteristic of a two-unit outer rotor type bearingless motor with consequent pole permanent magnet structure

Bearingless motors (BelMs), that can realize shaft suspending without mechanical contacts and lubrication by electromagnetic force, have been proposed. However, in outer rotor type BelMs, one-unit structure with small shaft output alone have been developed. Therefore, this paper introduces a two-unit outer rotor type BelM with consequent-pole permanent magnet structure (CPPM) for high shaft output and the magnetic suspension characteristics of the proposed motor with experimental results. It can be verified that the proposed motor is equipped with the sufficient performance in order to make for practical use.
Virtual Database technology, XML, and the Evolution of the Web

We describe Junglee’s Virtual Database (VDB) technology, which makes the World Wide Web and other external data sources behave as an extension of an enterprise’s relational database (RDBMS) system. We provide examples of powerful applications enabled by the technology. We then consider XML, a new markup language standard; we conjecture how XML will transform the web, and the role that will be played by Virtual Database technology in this transformation.