Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Childhood maltreatment increases risk for personality disorders during early adulthood.

BACKGROUND Data from a community-based longitudinal study were used to investigate whether childhood abuse and neglect increases risk for personality disorders (PDs) during early adulthood. METHODS Psychosocial and psychiatric interviews were administered to a representative community sample of 639 youths and their mothers from 2 counties in the state of New York in 1975, 1983, 1985 to 1986, and 1991 to 1993. Evidence of childhood physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect was obtained from New York State records and from offspring self-reports in 1991 to 1993 when they were young adults. Offspring PDs were assessed in 1991 to 1993. RESULTS Persons with documented childhood abuse or neglect were more than 4 times as likely as those who were not abused or neglected to be diagnosed with PDs during early adulthood after age, parental education, and parental psychiatric disorders were controlled statistically. Childhood physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect were each associated with elevated PD symptom levels during early adulthood after other types of childhood maltreatment were controlled statistically. Of the 12 categories of DSM-IV PD symptoms, 10 were associated with childhood abuse or neglect. Different types of childhood maltreatment were associated with symptoms of specific PDs during early adulthood. CONCLUSIONS Persons in the community who have experienced childhood abuse or neglect are considerably more likely than those who were not abused or neglected to have PDs and elevated PD symptom levels during early adulthood. Childhood abuse and neglect may contribute to the onset of some PDs.
A case study on the genetic origin of the high oleic acid trait through FAD2-1 DNA sequence variation in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)

The safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is considered a strongly domesticated species with a long history of cultivation. The hybridization of safflower with its wild relatives has played an important role in the evolution of cultivars and is of particular interest with regards to their production of high quality edible oils. Original safflower varieties were all rich in linoleic acid, while varieties rich in oleic acid have risen to prominence in recent decades. The high oleic acid trait is controlled by a partially recessive allele ol at a single locus OL. The ol allele was found to be a defective microsomal oleate desaturase FAD2-1. Here we present DNA sequence data and Southern blot analysis suggesting that there has been an ancient hybridization and introgression of the FAD2-1 gene into C. tinctorius from its wild relative C. palaestinus. It is from this gene that FAD2-1Δ was derived more recently. Identification and characterization of the genetic origin and diversity of FAD2-1 could aid safflower breeders in reducing population size and generations required for the development of new high oleic acid varieties by using perfect molecular marker-assisted selection.
Outsiders' business : A critical review of research on immigrant entrepreneurship

In the Netherlands, a significant proportion of the immigrant population has established itself as self-employed entrepreneurs in the past few years, a process which has caught the attention of researchers. This article critically examines the output of these researchers. It is concluded that although research in the Netherlands has brought to light a number of interesting facts, it has not contributed a great deal to our understanding of immigrant entrepreneurship. The harvest is one-sided, local and theoretically not very far-reaching. Research on immigrant entrepreneurship has been dominated by social scientists, who show a great deal of interest in ethnocultural characteristics and processes of ethnocultural incorporation. In so doing, they reduce immigrant entrepreneurship to an ethnocultural phenomenon existing within an economic and institutional vacuum. It is suggested that researchers seek linkages with the latest developments in international theory-building and that they pay more systematic att.
Transfer factors for Lie Algebras

Let G be a quasi-split connected reductive group over a local field of characteristic 0, and fix a regular nilpotent element in the Lie algebra g of G. A theorem of Kostant then provides a canonical conjugacy class within each stable conjugacy class of regular semisimple elements in g. Normalized transfer factors take the value 1 on these canonical conjugacy classes.
On the Performance of MIMO-ARQ Systems with Channel State Information at the Receiver

This paper investigates the performance of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback. We show that, for a large range of performance metrics, the data transmission efficiency of the ARQ schemes is determined by a set of parameters which are scheme-dependent and not metric-dependent. Then, the results are used to study different aspects of MIMO-ARQ such as the effect of nonlinear power amplifiers, large-scale MIMO-ARQ, adaptive power allocation and different data communication models. The results, which are valid for various forward and feedback channel models, show the efficiency of the MIMO-ARQ techniques in different conditions.
Cosmetic Sequelae After Conservative Treatment for Breast Cancer: Classification and Results of Surgical Correction

After conservative treatment for breast cancer, 20% to 30% of patients have a residual deformity that sometimes requires surgical correction. Thirty-five of these patients were operated between 1990 and 1995 at the Institut Curie. The authors classify these sequelae into three types: type I, asymmetrical breasts with no deformity of the treated breast; type II, deformity of the treated breast, compatible with partial reconstruction and breast conservation; and type III, major deformity of the breast, requires mastectomy. Fourteen patients had a type I deformity; all but 1 patient were treated with maromaplasty. Seventy-one percent underwent unilateral surgery contralateral to the irradiated breast; 80% had a satisfactory cosmetic result (good or very good). Seventeen patients had a type II deformity. They were treated by various techniques (implant, mammaplasty, latissimus dorsi flap, or transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap). Only 43.8% of patients in this group had a late satisfactory cosmetic result. Four patients had a type III deformity. They were treated with mastectomy and immediate reconstruction using a musculocutaneous flap. All 4 patients had a very good cosmetic result. This classification is a valuable guide for technique selection. For type I deformities, surgery to the irradiated breast should be avoided when possible. Type II deformities raise the most difficult therapeutic problems. Because they are mainly postoperative, optimal treatment should be preventive—by performing immediate remodeling of the treated breast before radiotherapy. This pleads for integration of plastic surgical techniques at the time of the original lumpectomy, thus reducing the need for delayed reconstructive surgery.
Overview of the genetic tools in the Archaea

This section provides an overview of the genetic systems developed in the Archaea. Genetic manipulation is possible in many members of the halophiles, methanogens, Sulfolobus, and Thermococcales. We describe the selection/counterselection principles utilized in each of these groups, which consist of antibiotics and their resistance markers, and auxotrophic host strains and complementary markers. The latter strategy utilizes techniques similar to those developed in yeast. However, Archaea are resistant to many of the antibiotics routinely used for selection in the Bacteria, and a number of strategies specific to the Archaea have been developed. In addition, examples utilizing the genetic systems developed for each group will be briefly described.
Discovering Hierarchical Patterns in Event-Based Systems

Expressive and powerful event-pattern rules are key to successful applications of Complex Event Processing (CEP). However, the definition of complex pattern-detection logic may place heavy demands on business users. In this work we present a model for hierarchical event-patterns, allowing users to compose complex patterns from encapsulated, fully-abstracted sub-pattern definitions with a visual decision graph. Pattern definitions can be reused across business scenarios, thereby encouraging the creation of pattern libraries. In the course of this paper we give a brief overview of the event-based system SARI and describe a number of extensions to its ruling model. We present an algorithm for evaluating hierarchical ruling logic and demonstrate our approach with a use case from the fraud-detection domain.
Blueprinting Approach in Support of Cloud Computing

Current cloud service offerings, i.e., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings are often provided as monolithic, one-size-fits-all solutions and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability of Service-based Application (SBA) developers to configure and syndicate offerings from multiple SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS providers to address their application requirements. Furthermore, combining different independent cloud services necessitates a uniform description format that facilitates the design, customization, and composition. Cloud Blueprinting is a novel approach that allows SBA developers to easily design, configure and deploy virtual SBA payloads on virtual machines and resource pools on the cloud. We propose the Blueprint concept as a uniform abstract description for cloud service offerings that may cross different cloud computing layers, i.e., SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. To support developers with the SBA design and development in the cloud, this paper introduces a formal Blueprint Template for unambiguously describing a blueprint, as well as a Blueprint Lifecycle that guides developers through the manipulation, composition and deployment of different blueprints for an SBA. Finally, the empirical evaluation of the blueprinting approach within an EC’s FP7 project is reported and an associated blueprint prototype implementation is presented.
García Badaracco y la terapia familiar.

The author summarises the professional career of Jorge Garcia Badaracco since his return from Paris. In 1968, due to the different ups and downs in the political-institutional life in the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Garcia Badaracco left and set up a private clinic where he developed and went into his healthcare philosophy in greater depth and managed it for 25 years (DITEM). As a result of this experience he published his book “ La Comunidad Terapeutica Psicoanalitica de Estructura Multifamiliar ” (The Multifamily Structure Psychoanalytic Therapeutic Community) and later developed in his last book “ El Psicoanalisis Multifamiliar ” (Multifamily Psychoanalysis) work focused on the multifamily group, with new contributions on clinical medicine and in psychoanalytic meta-psychology, which are in keeping with the complex line of thought which allows a single therapeutic approach to work the individual, family and social dimensions of the mind at the same time. During the decade of his hospital experience he developed the foundations of his therapeutic ideology where the therapeutic process takes centre stage of the healthcare, giving meaning to the integration of therapeutic processes, and he continued his healthcare work with multifamily groups in the J.T. Borda and B. Moyano Neuropsychiatric Hospitals in the city of Buenos Aires. He continues publishing his work and gives conferences in his country and abroad.
On the Structure of Armstrong Relations for Functional Dependencies

An Armstrong relation for a set of functional dependencies (FDs) is a relation that satisfies each FD implied by the set but no FD that is not implied by it. The structure and size (number of tuples) of Armstrong relatsons are investigated. Upper and lower bounds on the size of minimal-sized Armstrong relations are derived, and upper and lower bounds on the number of distinct entries that must appear m an Armstrong relation are given. It is shown that the time complexity of finding an Armstrong relation, gwen a set of functional dependencies, is precisely exponential in the number of attributes. Also shown ,s the falsity of a natural conjecture which says that almost all relations obeying a given set of FDs are Armstrong relations for that set of FDs. Finally, Armstrong relations are used to generahze a result, obtained by Demetrovics using quite complicated methods, about the possible sets of keys for a relauon.
The evolution of public services from co-production to co-creation and beyond: New Public Management's unfinished trajectory?

Purpose – Based on the concept of “intelligent public organisation” as a new theoretical trajectory for New Public Management (NPM) theory, this paper brings together the recent critical discussion on NPM as it relates to public services and service science while specifically pinpointing the nature of public sector intelligence, evaluation, as well as management and leadership of public services. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper highlights the ongoing discussion on service-dominant logic and reflects the major innovations in service research, innovation studies, organisational learning, development methods, and evaluation from the public services’ perspective. Findings – It is argued that contemporary public management theories and practices – and theories reflecting the role of public services – should make more use of that body of literature focusing on substantive service-dominant theories found in marketing and business studies. The paper concludes that t.
Nuclear-Localized and Deregulated Calcium- and Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Activates Rhizobial and Mycorrhizal Responses in Lotus japonicus[W]

Calcium- and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CCaMK) is a protein kinase that is crucial for plant-microbe symbioses. This work shows the importance of nuclear localization of CCaMK for its function in plant symbiotic responses. Moreover, activation of CCaMK in the nucleus induces cytological changes similar to those important for fungal infection, without presence of the symbiotic fungi. The common symbiosis pathway is at the core of symbiosis signaling between plants and soil microbes. In this pathway, calcium- and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CCaMK) plays a crucial role in integrating the signals both in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AMS) and in root nodule symbiosis (RNS). However, the molecular mechanism by which CCaMK coordinates AMS and RNS is largely unknown. Here, we report that the gain-of-function (GOF) variants of CCaMK without the regulatory domains activate both AMS and RNS signaling pathways in the absence of symbiotic partners. This activation requires nuclear localization of CCaMK. Enforced nuclear localization of the GOF-CCaMK variants by fusion with a canonical nuclear localization signal enhances signaling activity of AMS and RNS. The GOF-CCaMK variant triggers formation of a structure similar to the prepenetration apparatus, which guides infection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host root cells. In addition, the GOF-CCaMK variants without the regulatory domains partly restore AMS but fail to support rhizobial infection in ccamk mutants. These data indicate that AMS, the more ancient type of symbiosis, can be mainly regulated by the kinase activity of CCaMK, whereas RNS, which evolved more recently, requires complex regulation performed by the regulatory domains of CCaMK.
Adaptive inverse control with IMC structure implementation on robotic arm manipulator

In this paper, an adaptive inverse control with internal model control (IMC) structure is proposed and implemented on a robotic arm manipulator system. The plant is stabilized using a simple lead-lag controller and the inverse of the plant is estimated using normalized least mean square (nLMS) algorithm. Radial base transfer function is used as an input mask to the adaptive algorithm. A delayed version of the reference signal is compared with the plant output to produce the error for the adaptive algorithm. The error signal is masked by a hyperbolic tangent sigmoid transfer function and the learning rate is adjusted automatically. A rate limiter is used in the model identification part to eliminate oscillatory plant output behavior. Comparison between adaptive inverse control and IMC structure is implemented and results are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method
Personality under stress : who gets angry and why? Individual differences in cognitive appraisal and emotion

We conducted three experiments in a carefully designed emotion induction procedure, a dyadic "social intelligence test", and examined if a specific personality variable, "explanatory style", would systematically influence cognitive evaluations of causal attribution and blame. We predicted that individuals who generally attribute causality of negative situations externally (Externals) would be more likely to blame the partner for poor performance in the test and to report anger than those who generally attribute causality of negative situations internally (Internals). Although we found that Externals were more likely to blame the partner than Internals, we also found that Internals reported more anger than Externals. However, anger reported by Internals was primarily directed at the self, whereas anger reported by Externals was often directed at the interaction partner. Other results suggest that blaming may partially be an emotion regulation strategy. Implications for understanding of anger and work relationships are discussed.
Design of a damping controller for a SMES unit to suppress tie-line active-power fluctuations of a large-scale wind farm

This paper designs a damping controller for a superconducting magnetic energy-storage (SMES) unit to simultaneously achieve stability improvement and suppress tie-line active-power variations of a large-scale wind farm (WF) subject to wind-speed fluctuations. A complete system model based on a synchronously rotating reference frame for the studied WF combined with the SMES unit is properly derived and established. The proposed control scheme of the SMES unit is by means of adjusting phase angle of a bi-directional power converter using tie-line active-power deviation as a feedback signal. The performance of the studied WF combined with the SMES unit joined with the designed PID damping controller is demonstrated using calculated operating conditions, eigenvalue analysis, and time-domain nonlinear-model simulations. It can be concluded from the simulation results that the proposed PID SMES damping controller can effectively suppress tie-line active-power fluctuations and render proper damping characteristics to enhance stability of the studied WF under various wind-speed disturbances.
Examination of the Feasibility and Utility of Flexible and Conditional Administration of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form

Over the past several decades, use of broadband personality assessments has decreased, with some clinicians favoring shorter, symptom-focused measures with a shorter administration time. The purpose of this study is to describe, derive rules for, and evaluate a flexible and conditional administration of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF). In this approach, elevated scores on higher level scales are used to trigger administration of lower-level scales within the same assessment domain to minimize administration time. We conducted a real-data simulation to derive rules for and evaluate this administration strategy using the MMPI-2-RF normative sample and a community mental health center comparison group. These samples allow for comparing the utility of the method in populations with relatively low and high base rates of psychopathology, respectively. The flexible and conditional administration strategy resulted in minimal loss of information in separate subsamples used to evaluate the method. However, item savings were more pronounced in the normative sample, in which administration time was decreased by 40% to 80% depending on the number of substantive domains assessed. Overall, flexible and conditional administration of the MMPI-2-RF appears to hold substantial promise in settings with time constraints and relatively low base rates of psychopathology, such as medical patient and neuropsychological evaluations as well as assessments of candidates for public safety positions. Other implications of these findings and limitations of this study are discussed.
Bisimulation-based Approximate Lifted Inference

There has been a great deal of recent interest in methods for performing lifted inference; however, most of this work assumes that the first-order model is given as input to the system. Here, we describe lifted inference algorithms that determine symmetries and automatically lift the probabilistic model to speedup inference. In particular, we describe approximate lifted inference techniques that allow the user to trade off inference accuracy for computational efficiency by using a handful of tunable parameters, while keeping the error bounded. Our algorithms are closely related to the graph-theoretic concept of bisimulation. We report experiments on both synthetic and real data to show that in the presence of symmetries, run-times for inference can be improved significantly, with approximate lifted inference providing orders of magnitude speedup over ground inference.
Substantial Differences in Specificity of HIV-Specific Cytotoxic T Cells in Acute and Chronic HIV Infection

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) play a vital part in controlling viral replication during human viral infections. Most studies in human infections have focused on CTL specificities in chronic infection and few data exist regarding the specificity of the initial CTL response induced in acute infection. In this study, HIV-1 infection in persons expressing human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*0201 was used as a means of addressing this issue. In chronic infection, the dominant HLA-A*0201–restricted CTL response is directed towards the epitope SLYNTVATL (“SL9”) in p17 Gag (residues 77–85). This epitope is targeted by 75% of HLA-A*0201–positive adults, and the magnitude of this A*0201-SL9 response shows a strong negative association with viral load in progressive infection. Despite using the highly sensitive peptide–major histocompatibility complex tetramer and intracellular cytokine assays, responses to the SL9 epitope were not detectable in any of 11 HLA-A*0201–positive subjects with acute HIV-1 infection (P = 2 × 10−6), even when assays were repeated using the SL9 peptide variant that was encoded by their autologous virus. In contrast, multiple responses (median 3) to other epitopes were evident in 7 of the 11 A*0201–positive subjects. Longitudinal study of two subjects confirmed that the A*0201-SL9 response emerged later than other CTL responses, and after viral set point had been reached. Together, these data show that the CTL responses that are present and that even may dominate in chronic infection may differ substantially from those that constitute the initial antiviral CTL response. This finding is an important consideration in vaccine design and in the evaluation of vaccine candidates.
Les symboliques de l'après-mort. Effets de génération, de stratification et d'affiliation

Les symboliques de l'apres-mort et leur evolution intergenerationnelle obeissent tendanciellement a des effets de stratification sociale. Ceux-ci renvoient a divers facteurs sous-jacents, dont les sentiments d'affiliation eprouves par les sujets. Ces sentiments et leurs effets semblent se distribuer eux-memes inegalement selon les strates sociales