Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Positive psychology and adolescents: Where are we now? Where to from here?

The purpose of this paper was to integrate literature on positive psychology and adolescent well-being to provide a cohesive platform for future research and discussion. It is aimed at researchers, and mental health and educational professionals who are interested in the empirical evidence behind using positive psychology interventions with adolescents. The positive psychology concepts reviewed are: the authentic happiness theory, flow, hope, coaching, gratitude, kindness, and strengths-based interventions. Although positive psychology is only in its infancy, and more research in adolescent populations is needed, support for positive psychology interventions in fostering adolescent mental health is steadily accumulating.
Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Making Under Controversy: Implications for Health Promotion Practice

Prostate cancer is a major health problem for U.S. men and is characterized by paradoxes and controversies. Despite the wide availability of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, prostate cancer screening remains a controversial practice mainly because the direct impact of screening on mortality is not yet proven. As the relative value of screening, early detection, and treatment strategies continue to be debated, glaring racial-ethnic disparities persist with African American men experiencing excess morbidity and mortality and demonstrating the lowest screening rates among racial-ethnic groups. Given the prevailing controversy, uncertainty, and known disparities, how can health education messages be framed to assist men and their family members? This article highlights the ethnic disparities, paradoxes, and controversies of prostate cancer and identifies critical challenges and opportunities for health educators and clinical practitioners. Implications for health promotion communications and informed decision making in this era of uncertainty are discussed.
Watershed Modeling and its Applications: A State-of-the-Art Review

Advances in the understanding of physical, chemical, and biological processes influencing water quality, cou- pled with improvements in the collection and analysis of hydrologic data, provide opportunities for significant innovations in the manner and level with which watershed-scale processes may be explored and modeled. This paper provides a re- view of current trends in watershed modeling, including use of stochastic-based methods, distributed versus lumped pa- rameter techniques, influence of data resolution and scalar issues, and the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of a data-driven approach to assist in watershed modeling efforts. Important findings and observed trends from this work include (i) use of AI techniques artificial neural networks (ANN), fuzzy logic (FL), and genetic algorithms (GA) to im- prove upon or replace traditional physically-based techniques which tend to be computationally expensive; (ii) limitations in scale-up of hydrological processes for watershed modeling; and (iii) the impacts of data resolution on watershed model- ing capabilities. In addition, detailed discussions of individual watershed models and modeling systems with their fea- tures, limitations, and example applications are presented to demonstrate the wide variety of systems currently available for watershed management at multiple scales. A summary of these discussions is presented in tabular format for use by water resource managers and decision makers as a screening tool for selecting a watershed model for a specific purpose.
Controlling nucleic acid secondary structure by intercalation: effects of DNA strand length on coralyne-driven duplex disproportionation.

Small molecules that intercalate in DNA and RNA are powerful agents for controlling nucleic acid structural transitions. We recently demonstrated that coralyne, a small crescent-shaped molecule, can cause the complete and irreversible disproportionation of duplex poly(dA)*poly(dT) into triplex poly(dA)*poly(dT)*poly(dT) and a poly(dA) self-structure. Both DNA secondary structures that result from duplex disproportionation are stabilized by coralyne intercalation. In the present study, we show that the kinetics and thermodynamics of coralyne-driven duplex disproportionation strongly depend on oligonucleotide length. For example, disproportionation of duplex (dA)16*(dT)16 by coralyne reverts over the course of hours if the sample is maintained at 4 degrees C. Coralyne-disproportioned (dA)32. (dT)(32), on the other hand, only partially reverts to the duplex state over the course of days at the same temperature. Furthermore, the equilibrium state of a (dA)16*(dT)16 sample in the presence of coralyne at room temperature contains three different secondary structures [i.e. duplex, triplex and the (dA)16 self-structure]. Even the well-studied process of triplex stabilization by coralyne binding is found to be a length-dependent phenomenon and more complicated than previously appreciated. Together these observations indicate that at least one secondary structure in our nucleic acid system [i.e. duplex, triplex or (dA)n self-structure] binds coralyne in a length-dependent manner.
Greedy Learning of Generalized Low-Rank Models

Learning of low-rank matrices is fundamental to many machine learning applications. A state-of-the-art algorithm is the rank-one matrix pursuit (R1MP). However, it can only be used in matrix completion problems with the square loss. In this paper, we develop a more flexible greedy algorithm for generalized low-rank models whose optimization objective can be smooth or nonsmooth, general convex or strongly convex. The proposed algorithm has low per-iteration time complexity and fast convergence rate. Experimental results show that it is much faster than the state-of-the-art, with comparable or even better prediction performance.
The Importance of Framing in Ballots: An Example

In 2000, two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal retirement in Switzerland, led to very difierent approval rates. Using community level and individual (telephone survey) data, we provide evidence on the importance of emphasize framing efiects in political decision making outside the controlled settings of laboratories. The results suggest that frames determine behavior through in∞uencing the perceived content, the importance of beliefs and the interaction of the two. Interest in politics and the existence of prior opinion were found to reduce the susceptibility to emphasize framing efiects. Moreover, we identify age and wealth as signiflcant determinants of the probability to vote difierently. Both aggregated and individual level data suggest that some part of the difierence in approval rates can be attributed to the use of endorsement heuristics. JEL{Classiflcation: D72, H55, J26
Asymptotic Equivalence and Adaptive Estimation for Robust Nonparametric Regression

Asymptotic equivalence theory developed in the literature so far are only for bounded loss functions. This limits the potential applications of the theory because many commonly used loss functions in statistical inference are unbounded. In this paper we develop asymptotic equivalence results for robust nonparametric regression with unbounded loss functions. The results imply that all the Gaussian nonparametric regression procedures can be robustified in a unified way. A key step in our equivalence argument is to bin the data and then take the median of each bin. The asymptotic equivalence results have significant practical implications. To illustrate the general principles of the equivalence argument we consider two important nonparametric inference problems: robust estimation of the regression function and the estimation of a quadratic functional. In both cases easily implementable procedures are constructed and are shown to enjoy simultaneously a high degree of robustness and adaptivity. Other problems such as construction of confidence sets and nonparametric hypothesis testing can be handled in a similar fashion.
LightCast : A Tangible User Interface Creativity Support Tool for Visual Design June

Exploration and experimentation are important aspects of the visual design process. In this paper, we leverage the familiarity and physical mobility of using traditional tools (e.g., paper, marker) to create a novel and engaging creativity supporting system that enables the rapid creation of different visual designs. LightCast is a tangible user interface that utilizes a projector, interactive table, and camera to preserve the nuances of physical action and the strengths of the digital medium. Author
Family influences on adolescent male sexuality: the mediational role of self‐restraint

To assess childhood family influences on adolescent sexual activity, 69 boys were studied in sixth grade and again in tenth grade. Boys' self-restraint in sixth grade was hypothesized to mediate the effects of family influences on number of sexual partners four years later. Family scores included observed family interaction patterns, sons' reports of parents' child-rearing practices (rejection, support, child-centered/indulgence), and household composition. In different models, Time 1 family scores and sons' self-restraint accounts for 34 and 48 percent of the variance in sons' subsequent sexuality. As predicted, regression analysis revealed that restraint mediated family influence at Time 1 on the number of sexual partners at Time 2. Notably, intact family, supportive family and child-centred/indulgent parenting were associated with T1 restraint which in turn, was associated with sexual activity. Additionally, family/parenting scores were directly associated with adolescents' sexuality. In discriminant analyses, family scores predicted boys' status as virgins/nonvirgins four year later with greater than 70% success. Discussion focuses on the nature of the family influences and the mechanisms by which they relate to adolescent male sexuality.
Examining the relationship between burnout and age among Anglican clergy in England and Wales

Previous research examining the links between age and burnout has found that there was a significant negative correlation between age and both emotional exhaustion and depersonalization as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Two theories are often advanced to account for this: those who suffered from emotional exhaustion or depersonalization at a younger age may have left the job either on grounds of ill-health or to seek alternative employment; older workers may have learned how better to pace themselves in their work in order to minimize opportunities for burnout. The present study sought to evaluate these two theories. A sample of 340 Anglican clergy in England and Wales, who had all served one year in ordained ministry, completed a modified form of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, alongside a variety of socio-demographic questions, including age and years in ministry. The results show that it is chronological age, and not years in ministry, that is negatively correlated with the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization subscales of burnout. It is concluded that in order to reduce the incidence of burnout among clergy, particular strategies need to be introduced for the care and support of younger clergy.
SimBow at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Soft-Cosine Semantic Similarity between Questions for Community Question Answering

This paper describes the SimBow system submitted at SemEval2017-Task3, for the question-question similarity subtask B. The proposed approach is a supervised combination of different unsupervised textual similarities. These textual similarities rely on the introduction of a relation matrix in the classical cosine similarity between bag-of-words, so as to get a soft-cosine that takes into account relations between words. According to the type of relation matrix embedded in the soft-cosine, semantic or lexical relations can be considered. Our system ranked first among the official submissions of subtask B.
Long-Term Effects of Specific Stabilizing Exercises for First-Episode Low Back Pain

Study Design. A randomized clinical trial with 1-year and 3-year telephone questionnaire follow-ups. Objective. To report a specific exercise intervention’s long-term effects on recurrence rates in acute, first-episode low back pain patients. Summary of Background Data. The pain and disability associated with an initial episode of acute low back pain (LBP) is known to resolve spontaneously in the short-term in the majority of cases. However, the recurrence rate is high, and recurrent disabling episodes remain one of the most costly problems in LBP. A deficit in the multifidus muscle has been identified in acute LBP patients, and does not resolve spontaneously on resolution of painful symptoms and resumption of normal activity. Any relation between this deficit and recurrence rate was investigated in the long-term. Methods. Thirty-nine patients with acute, first-episode LBP were medically managed and randomly allocated to either a control group or specific exercise group. Medical management included advice and use of medications. Intervention consisted of exercises aimed at rehabilitating the multifidus in cocontraction with the transversus abdominis muscle. One year and three years after treatment, telephone questionnaires were conducted with patients. Results. Questionnaire results revealed that patients from the specific exercise group experienced fewer recurrences of LBP than patients from the control group. One year after treatment, specific exercise group recurrence was 30%, and control group recurrence was 84% (P < 0.001). Two to three years after treatment, specific exercise group recurrence was 35%, and control group recurrence was 75% (P < 0.01). Conclusion. Long-term results suggest that specific exercise therapy in addition to medical management and resumption of normal activity may be more effective in reducing low back pain recurrences than medical management and normal activity alone.
A Lever Function to a New Codomain with Adequate Indeterminacy

The key transform of the REESSE1+ cryptosystem is Ci ≡ (Ai W l(i) ) δ (% M) with l(i) ∈ Ω = {5, 7, …, 2n + 3} for i = 1, …, n, where l(i) is called a lever function. In this paper, the authors give a simplified transform Ci ≡ Ai W l(i) (% M) and a new lever function l(i) from {1, …, n} to Ω± = {+/−5, …, +/−(n + 4)}, where "+/−" means the selection of the "+" or "−" sign, and discuss the necessity of the new l(i) that a simplified private key is insecure if l(i) is only some fixed integer and the sufficiency that a simplified private key is secure at present if l(i) is a one-to-one function. The sufficiency is expounded from four aspects: indeterminacy of the new l(i), every condition for the counteraction of powers of W and W −1 being only necessary with even Ω± = {5, …, n + 4}, verification by examples, and running times of continued fraction attack and parameter intersection attack which are two most efficient algorithms so far but not determinate polynomial time ones. Last, elaborate a relation between a lever function and a random oracle.
New ischemic lesions coexisting with acute intracerebral hemorrhage

Objectives: Acute cerebral infarction may coexist with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) because lacunae and hypertensive ICH share common risk factors and small-vessel pathology. We sought to determine the frequency and predictors of new ischemic lesions (NIL) on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), in patients with acute hypertensive ICH, and to investigate whether NIL predicts subsequent clinical cerebrovascular events. Methods: This prospective study enrolled 97 patients with acute hypertensive ICH diagnosed within 3 days after onset. DWI and gradient echo T2*-weighted imaging were performed 5 days after onset. NIL was defined as hyperintense DWI lesions accompanying low intensity on apparent diffusion coefficient maps. Patients were regularly followed up for subsequent clinical cerebrovascular events or vascular deaths. Results: Forty-nine asymptomatic NILs were observed in 26 (26.8%) patients, with 37 of the 49 NILs (75.5%) located in subcortical white matter or brainstem. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that baseline microbleeds >2 and moderate to severe white matter leukoaraiosis were independently associated with NIL. During a median follow-up of 42 months (interquartile range, 38–47 months), 9 patients experienced clinical cerebrovascular events or vascular deaths. Cox proportional hazards models showed that NILs were independently associated with the composite of clinical cerebrovascular events or vascular death and marginally associated with clinical ischemic stroke. Conclusions: NILs frequently occur during the acute phase of ICH and are mainly associated with small-vessel pathogenesis. NILs occurring together with ICH may be a useful marker to identify patients at high risk of future clinical cerebrovascular events or vascular death.
Phosphonate controls sudden oak death pathogen for up to 2 years

Since its emergence in the late 1990s, sudden oak death has killed mature oak trees and tanoaks in 14 California counties. Treatment options are now available to safeguard these trees from infection by Phytophthora ramorum, the aggressive and exotic pathogen responsible for sudden oak death. We provide an update on current knowledge regarding this emergent disease in California, and present results from three controlled experiments of two chemical treatments to manage the disease in oaks and tanoaks. Phosphonate treatments, legally registered in California to control sudden oak death, were effective in slowing both infection and growth rates for at least 18 months. Conversely, an alternative method consisting of an azomite soil amendment and bark lime wash was always ineffective, and did not reduce either growth or infection rates.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies: Investigation of verbal and non-verbal signs of deception exhibited by criminal offenders and non-offenders

Purpose. This study examined the verbal and non-verbal behaviours exhibited by criminal offender and non-offender participants while they related planned truthful and deceptive accounts about emotional autobiographical events.Methods. In a 2 × 2 (participant group × veracity) quasi-experimental design, offenders (N = 27) and university students (N = 38) provided videotaped accounts of four autobiographical emotional events: two honest and two fabricated (counterbalanced). Patterns of behaviour exhibited during the truthful and the deceptive accounts were then compared.Results. In general, offenders and non-offenders showed similar patterns of deceptive behaviour. Deceptive accounts by both groups contained fewer details than honest accounts. Deception was associated with an increase in illustrator usage and self-manipulations; however, univariate analyses indicated only that offenders exhibited significantly more self-manipulations when lying. A significant interaction emerged in which offenders showed a reduction in smiles when lying about the emotional events, while students showed no difference.Conclusions. Offenders and students showed similar patterns of lying on most cues. However, unlike non-offenders, offenders smiled less and showed an increase in self-manipulations when lying. We theorize that offenders may have been aware that smiling and laughing are negatively related to perceived credibility in the speaker and used self-manipulations to distract listeners from the content of their lies. Language: en
The effects of coping strategies on PTSD in victims of a terror attack and their spouses

Objectives: The study examined the effect of victims’ and spouses’ coping strategies on PTSD in victim-spouse dyads, using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). Method: A total of 72 dyads consisting of injured victims who were exposed to terror attacks, and their spouses who were not injured, participated in the study based on lists prepared by the “One Family” organization in Israel. PTSD symptoms were assessed using PSS-SR, and coping strategies (emotion-focused and problem-focused) were assessed by means of the COPE measure.Results: The APIM model showed that spouse’s emotion-focused coping impacted victim’s and spouse’s PTSD, and victim’s gender impacted spouse’s PTSD.Conclusions: Spousal emotion-focused coping is a significant factor in both victims’ and spouses’ PTSD, while problem-focused coping is not.
Anonymous two-factor authentication for consumer roaming service in global mobility networks

As a mechanism to secure access to a global mobility network (GLOMONET), authentication for consumer roaming service is an essential technology. Moreover, as mobile consumers are getting concerned about how much information network providers gather about them, privacy preservation is a serious concern these days. In this paper, a new authentication scheme is presented that provides a robust anonymous two-factor authentication for consumer roaming service in GLOMONETs. Detailed operational phases of the proposed scheme are provided. Security analysis is provided to confirm that the proposed scheme provides anonymity, authentication, and perfect forward secrecy. In addition, the proposed scheme is analyzed whether it withstands various attacks.
Xenon Ion Beam Detachment From a Helicon Double Layer Thruster

Ion magnetic detachment in the helicon double layer thruster exhaust beam is studied by calculating the orbits of the ions accelerated by the double layer and analyzing the curvature of the trajectories in the diverging magnetic field. An image of the detachment flux surface is presented for standard operating conditions, where a xenon ion beam has been experimentally observed. The results of the simulation are compared with that of the experiment.
Engagement among Students with Intellectual Disabilities and First Year Students: A Comparison

A phenomenon is spreading across institutions of higher education (IHEs)—the participation of students with intellectual disabilities (ID) in inclusive postsecondary education programs. Data on two cohorts of first-year students with ID indicate that these students are experiencing college life, as measured by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), similarly to other first-year college students. These results provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility and value of educating students with cognitive challenges on university campuses.
Topological Symmetry Groups of Graphs in 3-Manifolds

We prove that for every closed, connected, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold there exists an alternating group An which is not the topological symmetry group of any graph embedded in the manifold. We also show that for every finite group G there is an embedding Γ of some graph in a hyperbolic rational homology 3-sphere such that the topological symmetry group of Γ is
Antioxidant Protective Effects of the Resveratrol on the Cardiac and Vascular Tissues from Renal Hypertensive Rats

Background: Accumulating reactive oxygen species (ROS) is involved in cellular signaling and function disturbances due to the oxidative stress, which contributes to several diseases. The consequences of ROS activity represent an im-portant mechanism on the pathogenesis of vascular diseases, such as hypertension. Increased blood pressure observed in renal hypertension of the 2 kidneys-1 clip (2K-1C) model involves increased ROS levels in the cardiovascular system. Resveratrol, a polyphenolic compound primarily found in red wine, has many biological and pharmacological proper-ties. Considering the antioxidant properties of resveratrol, the present study was aimed to investigate the effects of the chronic treatment with resveratrol on cardiovascular system from renal hypertensive rats. Results: 2K-1C hypertension presented increased blood pressure, which was reduced at the end of the fifth week of resveratrol treatment. The cardiac hypertrophy index and the basal levels of ROS in rat aortic rings were also reduced by resveratrol treatment. Conclusions: The present findings clearly show the protective effects from resveratrol on the blood pressure, the car-diac growth and the vascular ROS generation in renal hypertension.