Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluación conductual y programa de asesoramiento personalizado a entrenadores (PAPE) de deportistas jóvenes

In this paper, we start by highlighting the importance of observing the behaviour of coaches at children and adolescents sporting events as an initial step prior to any psychological guidance or other form of intervention. Secondly, a review is made of behavioural interventions that has been carried out with basketball and soccer coaches. Thirdly, a description is made of the design, implementation and evaluation of the Programa de Asesoriamiento Personalizado a Entrenadores (PAPE) (Personalized Programme for Coaches Counselling), aimed at promoting a positive style of communication with players. In order to assess the coaches behaviour, Coaching Behaviour Assessment System (CBAS) was used and the coaches assessed the PAPE by completing a Training Programme Effectiveness Questionnaire. The results show that three of the four coaches changed their behaviour as was hoped, increasing the frequency of the supportive behaviors they gave and reducing punitiveness. By taking an individualized approach, the specific needs of each coach could be identified and worked on, without changing their individual style. Additionally, each coach could carry out a process of self-improvement.
Lessons Still to Learn

Long after “globalization” has been reduced to the status of a meaningless buzzword, European and U.S. scholars in psychology, sociology, and education are still trying to make sense of Japan. The problem is Japan is simply different, and it shouldn’t be. Perry’s “Black Ships” forced Japan’s feudal lords to open its ports to the world; Americans served as some of its very first teachers and high-level consultants, influencing the building of Japan’s modern school system in the late 1800s. And, during the occupation of Japan, a panel of U.S. educators and administrators remade the Japanese school system in the U.S. image. So, why isn’t Japan just like the United States? And why do we still care? The second question is easier to answer. We care because in psychology, sociology, and education, several major theoretical traditions are based on postulations that indicate that Japan long ago should have ended up like the United States. Psychology’s “Japan problem,” as Robert Levine notes in Japanese Frames of Mind (xi), is that its cultural variation undermines attempts to formulate universal psychological postulates. Levine, a former member of the now classic six cultures study of child development (Whiting and Whiting 1975), recognizes that many of the core theories of psychology fail to account for the range of behavior we see in Japan. For sociologists, Japan is particularly
Progressive Differential Thresholding for Network Anomaly Detection

In this paper, we propose a Progressive Differential Thresholding (PDT) framework for coordinated network anomaly detection. Under the proposed framework, nodes present on a packet's path progressively encode their opinion (malicious or benign) inside a packet. Subsequent nodes on the path use the encoded opinion as side-information to adapt their anomaly detection thresholds and in turn improve their classification accuracies. Accuracy benefits of PDT are evaluated through experimental evaluations of multiple non-proprietary anomaly detectors on a publicly-available attack dataset. These evaluations indicate that, while being distributed and having negligible complexity and communication overheads, the proposed PDT framework provides considerable and consistent improvements in anomaly detection accuracy. We observe upto 54% improvements in ADS detection accuracy while upto 4 times reduction in the false alarm rates.
Integration of IRF6 and Jagged2 signalling is essential for controlling palatal adhesion and fusion competence

In mammals, adhesion and fusion of the palatal shelves are essential mechanisms during the development of the secondary palate; failure of these processes leads to the congenital anomaly, cleft palate. The mechanisms that prevent pathological adhesion between the oral and palatal epithelia while permitting adhesion and subsequent fusion of the palatal shelves via their medial edge epithelia remain obscure. In humans, mutations in the transcription factor interferon regulatory factor 6 (IRF6) underlie Van der Woude syndrome and popliteal pterygium syndrome. Recently, we have demonstrated that mice homozygous for a mutation in Irf6 exhibit abnormalities of epithelial differentiation that results in cleft palate as a consequence of adhesion between the palatal shelves and the tongue. In the current paper, we demonstrate that Irf6 is essential for oral epithelial differentiation and that IRF6 and the Notch ligand Jagged2 function in convergent molecular pathways during this process. We further demonstrate that IRF6 plays a key role in the formation and maintenance of the oral periderm, spatio-temporal regulation of which is essential for ensuring appropriate palatal adhesion.
Estimating MEMS gyroscope g-sensitivity errors in foot mounted navigation

Errors in gyroscope measurements due to linear accelerations are often overlooked in foot mounted navigation systems. Accelerations of foot mounted IMUs can reach 5 g while walking and 10 g while running, but vary depending on the sensors location and mounting. These accelerations are often very short and can induce large biases in the gyro which can produce attitude errors when the measurements are integrated. This paper proposes a real time method for the mitigation of g-sensitivity errors whereby the coefficients are estimated in the navigation Kalman filter. Variations of the estimation scheme are given including estimating the diagonal terms of the 3×3 matrix or all nine elements of the matrix. Accuracy (RMS) improved by 45% and 61% in two data sets using two different sensors in different environments. Convergence rates of the estimated variance are also shown.
Learning at the Back Door: Reflections on Non-Traditional Learning in the Lifespan

Is learning a natural ability that schools, colleges, and universities gradually stifle in individuals, replacing it with a learning dependency? Charles A. Wedemeyer stressed that learning is a natural, idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource. It is not dependent upon teaching, schooling, or special environments, although properly used these resources enhance learning. "Learning at the Back Door" examines this kind of learning and relates it to schooling, suggesting ways in which all learning whether traditional or non-traditional can be encouraged and improved through new kinds of educational institutions and processes. "
Evaluating the release, delivery, and deployment processes of eight large product software vendors applying the customer configuration update model

For software vendors the processes of release, delivery, and deployment to customers are inherently complex. However, software vendors can greatly improve their product quality and quality of service by applying a model that focuses on customer interaction if such a model were available. This paper presents a model for customer configuration updating (CCU) that can evaluate the capabilities of a software vendor in these processes. Eight extensive case studies of medium to large product software vendors are presented and evaluated using the model, thereby uncovering issues in their release, delivery, and deployment processes.
Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia

Hearing about the destructive compulsion of bulimia nervosa, outsiders may wonder, "How could you ever start? " Those suffering from the eating disorder ask themselves in despair, "How can I ever stop? " How do you break the cycle of bingeing, vomiting, laxative abuse, and shame? While many books describe the descent into eating disorders and the resulting emotional and physical damage, this book describes recovery. Psychologist Sheila M. Reindl has listened intently to women's accounts of recovering. Reindl argues compellingly that people with bulimia nervosa avoid turning their attention inward to consult their needs, desires, feelings, and aggressive strivings because to do so is to encounter an annihilating sense of shame. Disconnected from internal, sensed experience, bulimic women rely upon external gauges to guide their choices. To recover, bulimic women need to develop a sense of self - to attune to their physical, psychic, and social self-experience. They also need to learn that one's neediness, desire, pain, and aggression are not sources of shame to be kept hidden but essential aspects of humanity necessary for zestful life. The young women with whom Reindl speaks describe, with great feeling, their efforts to know and trust their own experience.
Gamma‐ray bursts: optical afterglows in the deep Newtonian phase

Gamma-ray burst remnants become trans-relativistic typically in days to tens of days, and they enter the deep Newtonian phase in tens of days to months, during which the majority of shock-accelerated electrons will no longer be highly relativistic. However, a small portion of electrons are still accelerated to ultra-relativistic speeds and are capable of emitting synchrotron radiation. The distribution function for electrons is re-derived here so that synchrotron emission from these relativistic electrons can be calculated. Based on the revised model, optical afterglows from both isotropic fireballs and highly collimated jets are studied numerically, and compared to analytical results. In the beamed cases, it is found that, in addition to the steepening due to the edge effect and the lateral expansion effect, the light curves are universally characterized by a flattening during the deep Newtonian phase.
Characterization and implications of Enterobacter cloacae strains, isolated from Italian table olives "Bella di Cerignola".

Enterobacter cloacae can be recovered in the spontaneous fermentations of Italian table olives. In this study, the effects of salt (20 to 100 g/L), temperature (10 to 37 degrees C), pH (4 to 5 and 8 to 10), p-coumaric and vanillic acids (0.5 to 2 g/L), and the acidification of the medium through lactic, citric, and ascorbic acids were investigated on 15 strains of E. cloacae, isolated from Italian table olives "Bella di Cerignola. " Finally, a confirmatory experiment in synthetic brine was run. The strains were inhibited only by an NaCl amount of 70 to 80 g/L and by p-coumaric acid; on the other hand, they showed the ability to grow also at low temperatures (10 to 15 degrees C). The confirmatory experiment highlighted their ability to survive both at 15 degrees C and at pH 5. Enterobacter cloacae could be a real problem for the fermentation of table olives in southern Italy; some hurdles could be used (salt or brine acidification), but some environmental conditions (for example, the temperature) should be controlled carefully to maintain olive safety at acceptable levels.
A tool for ownership and confinement analysis of the Java object graph

This poster presents a tool for the analysis of Java heap snapshots. The tool supports a flexible query language to measure various aspects of the object graph related to the studies of uniqueness, ownership, encapsulation and confinement. One of the applications of our tool was the verification of the power law dependency in the distribution of incoming and outgoing references to objects.
Morphological variations of the shell of the bivalve Lucina pectinata (Gmelin, 1791)

In Martinique, the species Lucina pectinata (Gmelin, 1791) is called "mud clam, white clam or mangrove clam" by bivalve fishermen depending on the harvesting environment. Indeed, the individuals collected have differences as regards the shape and colour of the shell. The hypothesis is that the shape of the shell of L. pectinata (P. pectinatus) shows significant variations from one population to another. This paper intends to verify this hypothesis by means of a simple morphometric study. The comparison of the shape of the shell of individuals from different populations was done based on samples taken at four different sites. The standard measurements (length (L), width or thickness (E - A©paisseur) and height (H)) were taken and the morphometric indices (L/H; L/E; E/H) were established. These indices of shape differ significantly among the various populations. This intraspecific polymorphism of the shape of the shell of P. pectinatus could be related to the nature of the sediment (granulometry, density, hardness) and/or the predation. The shells are significantly more elongated in a loose muddy sediment than in a hard muddy sediment or one rich in clay. They are significantly more convex in brackish environments and this is probably due to the presence of more specialised predators or of more muddy sediments.
Generating English summaries of time series data using the Gricean maxims

We are developing technology for generating English textual summaries of time-series data, in three domains: weather forecasts, gas-turbine sensor readings, and hospital intensive care data. Our weather-forecast generator is currently operational and being used daily by a meteorological company. We generate summaries in three steps: (a) selecting the most important trends and patterns to communicate; (b) mapping these patterns onto words and phrases; and (c) generating actual texts based on these words and phrases. In this paper we focus on the first step, (a), selecting the information to communicate, and describe how we perform this using modified versions of standard data analysis algorithms such as segmentation. The modifications arose out of empirical work with users and domain experts, and in fact can all be regarded as applications of the Gricean maxims of Quality, Quantity, Relevance, and Manner, which describe how a cooperative speaker should behave in order to help a hearer correctly interpret a text. The Gricean maxims are perhaps a key element of adapting data analysis algorithms for effective communication of information to human users, and should be considered by other researchers interested in communicating data to human users.
Notch ligands Delta‐like1, Delta‐like4 and Jagged1 differentially regulate activation of peripheral T helper cells

The Notch pathway is involved in cell differentiation processes in various organs and at several developmental stages. The importance of Notch for early T lymphocyte development is well established. Recently, Notch has been implicated in directing naive T helper cell differentiation towards the Th1, Th2 or regulatory T cell lineages. However, the molecular events underlying these processes are poorly understood.We show that the Notch ligands Delta‐like1, Delta‐like4 and Jagged1 differentially affect early T cell activation and proliferation following T cell receptor cross‐linking. Delta‐like1 and Jagged1 induce a dose‐dependent inhibition of early activation markers CD69 and CD25, as well as inhibition of proliferation after anti‐CD3 stimulation of purified CD4+ T cells. Similarly, the rapid activation of transcription factors NF‐AT, AP‐1 and NF‐κB is suppressed. In contrast, triggering of Notch by Delta‐like4 enhances T cell activation and proliferation. The observed effects are dependent on simultaneous cross‐linking of TCR and Notch but independent of γ‐secretase‐mediated cleavage of Notch. These data suggest direct interference between Notch and early TCR signal transduction events, independent of the classical Notch pathway via release of the Notch intracellular domain. A Notch‐mediated alteration of TCR signaling strength may contribute to the recently described modulation of naïve T cell differentiation by Notch ligands.
A Density-Based Seed-Centric Community Detection Algorithm

Although many different community detection algorithms have been proposed to detect community structures in complex networks, how to effectively detect community structures is still a great challenge. Seed-centric methods is one of the most effective solutions for community detection. To more, in this paper, we propose a novel density-based seed expansion algorithm, namely, DenSeC, which can easily find cores of communities. By taking nodes with higher density locally as cores of communities, DenSeC first detects cores by searching from sparsely connected area to densely connected area. Then, starting from cores, along the path from densely connected area to sparsely connected area, it constructs a community by iteratively adding nodes which are similar to the nodes in the community. Numerical experiments have verified the effectiveness of DenSeC.
Column oriented Database Systems

Column-oriented database systems (column-stores) have attracted a lot of attention in the past few years. Column-stores, in a nutshell, store each database table column separately, with attribute values belonging to the same column stored contiguously, compressed, and densely packed, as opposed to traditional database systems that store entire records (rows) one after the other. Reading a subset of a table's columns becomes faster, at the potential expense of excessive disk-head seeking from column to column for scattered reads or updates. After several dozens of research papers and at least a dozen of new column-store start-ups, several questions remain. Are these a new breed of systems or simply old wine in new bottles? How easily can a major row-based system achieve column-store performance? Are column-stores the answer to effortlessly support large-scale data-intensive applications? What are the new, exciting system research problems to tackle? What are the new applications that can be potentially enabled by column-stores? In this tutorial, we present an overview of column-oriented database system technology and address these and other related questions.
Clinical Case Management with Persons Having Mental Illness: A Relationship-Based Perspective

PART I: INTRODUCTION. 1. An Introduction to Clinical Case Management. 2. The Policy Context of Case Management. PART II: A THEORETICAL BASE FOR CLINICAL CASE MANAGEMENT. 3. Symbolic Interactionism and Relationship Development. 4. Social Support Theory and the Community Context of Practice. PART III: WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS. 5. The Case Manager and Psychotropic Medications. 6. Persons with Schizophrenia. 7. Persons with Bipolar Disorder. 8. Persons with Major Depression. 9. Persons with Schizotypal Personality Traits. 10. Persons with Paranoic Ideation. 11. Incorporating Existential Themes Into Clinical Case Management. PART IV: WORKING WITH FAMILIES. 12. Engaging the Family of the Person with Mental Illness. 13. Case Managers as Family Educators about Mental Illness. 14. The Family Education and Support Group. 15. The Role of the Facilitator in Support Group Development. PART V: WORKING WITH PERSONS HAVING MENTAL ILLNESS IN GROUPS. 16. Effective Leadership in Treatment Groups. 17. Facilitating Self-Help Groups. EPILOGUE.
LRV1 viral particles in Leishmania guyanensis contain double-stranded or single-stranded RNA

The 32-nm-diameter spherical viral particles found in the cytoplasm of Leishmania guyanensis CUMC1-1A sediment at 130S and have a buoyant density of approximately 1.4 g/ml in cesium chloride gradients. These particles contain a 5.3-kb double-stranded RNA, while single-stranded RNA that corresponds to the viral positive strand is associated with less-dense particles. These results suggest a conservative and sequential mode of LRV1 viral RNA replication that is exemplified by the ScV L-A virus of yeast.
Poor condition and infection: a vicious circle in natural populations

Pathogens may be important for host population dynamics, as they can be a proximate cause of morbidity and mortality. Infection dynamics, in turn, may be dependent on the underlying condition of hosts. There is a clear potential for synergy between infection and condition: poor condition predisposes to host infections, which further reduce condition and so on. To provide empirical data that support this notion, we measured haematological indicators of infection (neutrophils and monocytes) and condition (red blood cells (RBCs) and lymphocytes) in field voles from three populations sampled monthly for 2 years. Mixed-effect models were developed to evaluate two hypotheses, (i) that individuals with low lymphocyte and/or RBC levels are more prone to show elevated haematological indicators of infection when re-sampled four weeks later, and (ii) that a decline in indicators of condition is likely to follow the development of monocytosis or neutrophilia. We found that individuals with low RBC and lymphocyte counts had increased probabilities of developing monocytosis and higher increments in neutrophils, and that high indices of infection (neutrophilia and monocytosis) were generally followed by a declining tendency in the indicators of condition (RBCs and lymphocytes). The vicious circle that these results describe suggests that while pathogens overall may be more important in wildlife dynamics than has previously been appreciated, specific pathogens are likely to play their part as elements of an interactive web rather than independent entities.
Lipschitz Extensions for Node-Private Graph Statistics and the Generalized Exponential Mechanism

Lipschitz extensions were proposed as a tool for designing differentially private algorithms for approximating graph statistics. However, efficiently computable Lipschitz extensions were known only for 1-dimensional functions (that is, functions that output a single real value). We study efficiently computable Lipschitz extensions for multi-dimensional (that is, vector-valued) functions on graphs. We show that, unlike for 1-dimensional functions, Lipschitz extensions of higher-dimensional functions on graphs do not always exist, even with a non-unit stretch. We design Lipschitz extensions with small stretch for the sorted degree list and degree distribution of a graph, viewed as functions from the space of graphs equipped with the node distance into real space equipped with l1. Our extensions are from the space of bounded-degree graphs to the space of arbitrary graphs. The extensions use convex programming and are efficiently computable. We also develop a new tool for employing Lipschitz extensions in differentially private algorithms that operate with no prior knowledge of the graph (and, in particular, no knowledge of the degree bound). Specifically, we generalize the exponential mechanism, a widely used tool in data privacy. The exponential mechanism is given a collection of score functions that map datasets to real values. It returns the name of the function with nearly minimum value on the dataset. Our generalized exponential mechanism provides better accuracy than the standard exponential mechanism when the sensitivity of an optimal score function is much smaller than the maximum sensitivity over all score functions. We use our Lipschitz extensions and the generalized exponential mechanism to design a node differentially private algorithm for approximating the degree distribution of a sensitive graph. Our algorithm is much more accurate than those from previous work. In particular, our algorithm is accurate on all graphs whose degree distributions decay at least as fast as those of "scale-free" graphs. Using our methodology, we also obtain more accurate node-private algorithms for 1-dimensional statistics.