Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genes on the Couch : Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy

Part I: Theory and Principles. Gilbert, Bailey, McGuire, Evolutionary Psychotherapy: Why it Matters. Troisi, McGuire, Psychotherapy in the Context of Darwinian Psychiatry. Bailey, Evolution, Kinship, and Psychotherapy: Promoting Psychological Health Through Human Relationships. Part II: Evolutionary Psychotherapies. Kriegman, Evolutionary Psychoanalysis: Toward an Adaptive, Biological Perspective on the Clinical Progress in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Stevens, Jungian Analysis and Evolutionary Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach. Gilbert, Social Mentalities: Internal "Social" Conflicts and the Role of Inner Warmth and Compassion in Cognitive Therapy. Allen, Gilbert, Social Intelligence, Self Deception, and Vulnerability to Psychotherapy: A Challenge for the Cognitive Therapies? Glantz, Moehl, Reluctant Males: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Psychology in Couples Therapy. Ragsin, McGuire, Troisi, Gender and Psychotherapy - An Evolutionary Role. Part III: Special Issues. Erickson, Incest. Liotti, Disorganized Attachment: Models of Borderline States in Evolutionary Psychotherapy. The Syndrome of Rejection Sensitivity. O'Connor, Pathogenic Beliefs and Guilt in Human Evolution: Implications for Psychotherapy. Harder, Greenwald, Shame. Part IV: Overview and Concluding Comments. Bailey, Gilbert, Evolutionary Psychotherapy: Where to from Here?
The treatment of phobic anxiety by zimelidine

Seven patients who were diagnosed as suffering from phobic anxiety were treated with a new antidepressant which causes relatively selective inhibition of serotonin uptake. This compound, zimelidine, was given for five weeks in doses of up to 300 mg per day. One patient dropped out of the study. Of the remaining six patients all but one made an improvement, which in most cases is thought to have been a drug effect. One patient relapsed some months following treatment and responded again to treatment with zimelidine having failed to respond to other psychotropic drugs.
Nutritional Guidance Is Needed During Dietary Transition in Early Childhood

Objective. To assess dietary nutritional quality during dietary transition to a modified adult-style diet in the second year of life. Design. A total of 55 children from 12 to 18 months old and their parents were studied. Dietary intake and indices of growth were measured monthly. Dietary data were collected monthly and tabulated using the Minnesota Nutrient Data System. Data were evaluated using repeated-measures analysis of variance, time trend, and correlational analyses. Results. Mean energy intake increased from 12 to 18 months of age (926 ± 24 kcal to 1062 ± 33 kcal) with contributions from energy-yielding macronutrients remaining relatively constant. Throughout the study, fat intakes were below 30% of energy for 22% to 33% of the sample. Micronutrient intake patterns were diverse with intake for some nutrients (vitamins A, C, B6, B12, and D and calcium) remaining above recommended levels despite changes over the course of the study. Folate intakes increased from 79% of the recommended value at 12 months old to ∼100% at 18 months old. Zinc and vitamin E intakes were well below recommended levels throughout the study, and iron decreased markedly from 96% of the recommended level at 12 months old to 76% at 18 months old. Applications/Conclusions. These data show that intakes of some key nutrients are low during the period of dietary transition in early childhood, and intakes for some nutrients actually decrease despite increases in energy intake. Furthermore, because a considerable portion of children studied were consuming low-fat diets, it is clear that many parents are not following the only pediatric nutrition recommendations that currently exist. These findings argue strongly for the development of dietary guidance that not only addresses fat restriction, but also assists parents in selecting diets that support optimum growth and development in young children. nutrient intake, infants, dietary density.
Rateless Codes for MIMO Channels

Two rateless code constructions are developed for efficient communication over multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Gaussian channels. The key ingredients in both architectures are layering, dithering, and repetition. Both employ successive cancellation decoding along with minimum mean-square error (MMSE) combining and convert the MIMO channel into a scalar channel to which classical Gaussian base codes can be applied. The first construction based on simple layering induces an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) scalar channel and with perfect base codes achieves a substantial efficiency gain over a baseline repetition scheme. At typical spectral efficiencies, this scheme can achieve better than 85% of capacity for a rateless construction with two effective rates. The second construction which uses a diagonal layering (DL) structure is capacity achieving at any SNR and induces a particular time-varying scalar channel. This holds even if the MIMO channel is block constant but time-varying.
On the opportunistic connectivity of large-scale urban vehicular networks

Understanding and characterizing the properties of vehicular networks has become hugely important because of their wide applications and fast development. Due to the unique property of vehicular networks that nodes change their locations at high speed in anytime, their connectivity is an important and unique property. In this poster, based on realistic vehicular mobility traces, we reveal the opportunistic connectivity property of large-scale urban vehicular networks. Moreover, through analysis, we unveil the fundamental relationships and tradeoffs between the opportunistic connectivity and network parameters in terms of data size, delivery delay, transmission energy, etc.
Impaired Inhibition by Dexamethasone of Cytokine Release by Alveolar Macrophages from COPD Patients

System for processing digital images includes a system of n fixed real cameras whose individual fields of view merge for recording a panoramic scene. An image construction system simulates a mobile, virtual camera continuously scanning the panoramic scene (Iv) to furnish an arbitrary sub-image, referred to as a digital target image (Iv) constructed from adjacent source images of the real cameras. A luminance equalizing system includes modules which apply correction laws (Gi, Gj), respectively, to the sets (R and F(R)) of the corresponding luminance levels, in portions (Ivi, Ivj) of a digital target image (Iv) constructed from two adjacent digital source images (Ii, Ij) to equalize these corresponding levels in accordance with the relation Gi(R)=Gj[F(R)].
Cooperative Enhancement of Position Accuracy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become very popular for civil as well as military purposes, ranging from small quadcopters up to plane sized drones. UAVs are usually controlled manually or autonomously, both ways often heavily relying on the use of a global positioning system such as GPS. However, especially the wide spread GPS suffers form large positioning errors of 10-30 m on average. In this paper it is shown how UAVs can improve the accuracy of their position estimates by cooperating with each other. By using ranging hardware, UAVs can create a local positioning frame of reference, and use this to reduce the average positioning error of the global positions. This is done by finding an optimal 3D-rotation between the local and global coordinates. By using simulation, we demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, as well as the influence of parameters like vehicle speed and area size on the average positioning error.
Age Affects the Expression of Maternal Care and Subsequent Behavioural Development of Offspring in a Precocial Bird

Variations of breeding success with age have been studied largely in iteroparous species and particularly in birds: survival of offspring increases with parental age until senescence. Nevertheless, these results are from observations of free-living individuals and therefore, it remains impossible to determine whether these variations result from parental investment or efficiency or both, and whether these variations occur during the prenatal or the postnatal stage or during both. Our study aimed first, to determine whether age had an impact on the expression of maternal breeding care by comparing inexperienced female birds of two different ages, and second, to define how these potential differences impact chicks’ growth and behavioural development. We made 22 2-month-old and 22 8-month-old female Japanese quail foster 1-day-old chicks. We observed their maternal behaviour until the chicks were 11 days old and then tested these chicks after separation from their mothers. Several behavioural tests estimated their fearfulness and their sociality. We observed first that a longer induction was required for young females to express maternal behaviour. Subsequently as many young females as elder females expressed maternal behaviour, but young females warmed chicks less, expressed less covering postures and rejected their chicks more. Chicks brooded by elder females presented higher growth rates and more fearfulness and sociality. Our results reveal that maternal investment increased with age independently of maternal experience, suggesting modification of hormone levels implied in maternal behaviour. Isolated effects of maternal experience should now be assessed in females of the same age. In addition, our results show, for first time in birds, that variations in maternal care directly induce important differences in the behavioural development of chicks. Finally, our results confirm that Japanese quail remains a great laboratory model of avian maternal behaviour and that the way we sample maternal behaviour is highly productive.
Building community-centric information exploration applications on social content sites

Social content sites [4], which integrate traditional content sites with social networking features, have recently emerged as an exciting new trend on the Web. Users on those sites share content and form various communities based on explicit friendship, shared interest and common user properties. Recently, we proposed SOCIALSCOPE, a three-layered architecture to address the information management challenges in social content sites. In this paper, we focus on the information discovery and the information presentation layers, and describe how our previously proposed language, Jelly [3], is supported in SOCIALSCOPE to build community-centric information exploration applications on social content sites.
Agonists of the Mas-Related Gene (Mrgs) Orphan Receptors as Novel Mediators of Mast Cell-Sensory Nerve Interactions1

IgE-dependent activation of mast cell activation is often associated with symptoms attributed to activation of sensory nerves. Depending on the tissues involved such symptoms include itching, sneezing, irritation, vasodilation, and reflex secretions. In the present study, we hypothesize that sensory neuroactive mediators released from mast cells may include agonists of recently discovered orphan receptors referred to as sensory nerve specific receptors or products of mas related genes. HEK-293 cells expressing MrgC11 receptors and wild-type HEK-293 cells were loaded with the calcium indicator Fura-2. A known stimulant of MrgC11 receptors the RF-amide, neuropeptide FF, evoked a rapid increase in cytosolic calcium in the MrgC11 expressing cells but not in the wild-type HEK-293 cells. IgE-dependent stimulation of either rat basophilic leukemia-2H3 cells (RBL-2H3 cells) or mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells, released a substance(s) that stimulated increases in cytosolic calcium in the MrgC11 expressing cells that far exceeded that seen in control cells. RT-PCR revealed that both mouse mast cells and RBL-2H3 cells express the RF-amide precursor gene proneuropeptide FF (A). Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated RF-amide immunoreactivity in mouse skin mast cells in situ and in mast cells isolated from mouse skin. These data support the hypothesis that agonists of certain sensory nerve specific receptors or mas related genes may participate in mast cell sensory nerve interactions.
Sports injuries and illnesses during the Winter Olympic Games 2010

Background Identification of high-risk sports, including their most common and severe injuries and illnesses, will facilitate the identification of sports and athletes at risk at an early stage. Aim To analyse the frequencies and characteristics of injuries and illnesses during the XXI Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010. Methods All National Olympic Committees' (NOC) head physicians were asked to report daily the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of newly sustained injuries and illnesses on a standardised reporting form. In addition, the medical centres at the Vancouver and Whistler Olympic clinics reported daily on all athletes treated for injuries and illnesses. Results Physicians covering 2567 athletes (1045 females, 1522 males) from 82 NOCs participated in the study. The reported 287 injuries and 185 illnesses resulted in an incidence of 111.8 injuries and 72.1 illnesses per 1000 registered athletes. In relation to the number of registered athletes, the risk of sustaining an injury was highest for bobsleigh, ice hockey, short track, alpine freestyle and snowboard cross (15–35% of registered athletes were affected in each sport). The injury risk was lowest for the Nordic skiing events (biathlon, cross country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined), luge, curling, speed skating and freestyle moguls (less than 5% of registered athletes). Head/cervical spine and knee were the most common injury locations. Injuries were evenly distributed between training (54.0%) and competition (46.0%; p=0.18), and 22.6% of the injuries resulted in an absence from training or competition. In skeleton, figure and speed skating, curling, snowboard cross and biathlon, every 10th athlete suffered from at least one illness. In 113 illnesses (62.8%), the respiratory system was affected. Conclusion At least 11% of the athletes incurred an injury during the games, and 7% of the athletes an illness. The incidence of injuries and illnesses varied substantially between sports. Analyses of injury mechanisms in high-risk Olympic winter sports are essential to better direct injury-prevention strategies.
NRC Publications Archive Archives des publications du CNRC

Cis -regulatory motifs are often overrepresented in promoters and may exhibit frequency biases in sub-promoter regions (SPRs). Many probabilistic algorithms have been used to predict such motifs, but they tend to generate many false positives. We devised a novel algorithm, MotifFilter, that computes Representation Indices (RIs) for putative motifs. MotifFilter’s RI is a ratio of the actual over expected frequency of a motif in promoters, SPRs or random genomic DNA that takes into account of the nucleotide probability distributions in these regions. This approach was applied to a genome-wide survey of putative cAMP-response elements (CREs) for motifs generated by a profile hidden Markov model. Twenty of 144 putative CRE motifs found in the survey were retained by the MotifFilter.
Real-Time Sonography Simulation for Medical Training

With the increasing role played by ultrasound in clinical diagnostics, ultrasound training in medical education has been becoming very important. The clinical routine is for ultrasound to be trained on real patients; therefore, monitored and guided examinations involving medical students are quite time constrained. To be realistically effective, a computerized ultrasound simulation would provide ample time and opportunity for sonograph training. We have investigated a real time ultrasound simulation methodology based on 3-dimentional (3-D) mesh model of the organ. A virtual echocardiogram displays various sonograph orientation in real time according to the placement of a virtual transducer without the need of an actual patient. Keyword — Biomedical imaging, ultrasound simulation, image synthesis, medical training.
Role of personality in coronary heart disease: implications for behavioral cardiology.

Psychologists make the temporal distinction between traits and states in describing psychological phenomena. Traits refer to enduring psychological characteristics of an individual in terms of their action, emotion and thought. The combination of these characteristics constitutes an individual’s personality. States refer to transient psychological experiences such as anxiety or happiness. The current consensus is that there are five broad personality dimensions. These are extraversion versus introversion, neuroticism versus emotional stability, conscientiousness versus unreliability, agreeableness versus antagonism and openness to experience versus closed mindedness [1]. Personality traits have been associated with a range of physical, psychological and social outcomes with moderate consistency [2]. In the case of coronary heart disease (CHD), personality has been linked to both physiological responses and health and illness behaviors, and there is some evidence for the independence of these mechanisms [3]. This work has demonstrated plausible biological and behavioral mechanisms underpinning the observed associations between personality and health outcomes in CHD. The use of patient personality data in clinical cardiology, however, has yet to be established.
A Survey of Information Retrieval Interfaces

Information Retrieval has become common-place with the advent of the Internet with most Internet users being familiar with the use of search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and the like. Indeed, with the amount of information on the Internet growing so rapidly, search engines are crucial in finding what we want. The problem is the interface used for performing such searches has changed very little from those proposed in the 1950s, despite many alternative interfaces being proposed and developed by various researchers. Users still provide a list of keywords, and are presented with a list of pages that contain those keywords, and are faced with the task of scanning the result list one-byone for the information they seek. This paper enumerates some of the main alternatives to ranked list result displays, discusses their advantages and disadvantages, and discusses how researchers have evaluated their interfaces.
Towards Tight Bounds on Theta-Graphs

We present improved upper and lower bounds on the spanning ratio of $\theta$-graphs with at least six cones. Given a set of points in the plane, a $\theta$-graph partitions the plane around each vertex into $m$ disjoint cones, each having aperture $\theta=2\pi/m$, and adds an edge to the `closest' vertex in each cone. We show that for any integer $k \geq 1$, $\theta$-graphs with $4k+2$ cones have a spanning ratio of $1+2\sin(\theta/2)$ and we provide a matching lower bound, showing that this spanning ratio tight. Next, we show that for any integer $k \geq 1$, $\theta$-graphs with $4k+4$ cones have spanning ratio at most $1+2\sin(\theta/2)/(\cos(\theta/2)-\sin(\theta/2))$. We also show that $\theta$-graphs with $4k+3$ and $4k+5$ cones have spanning ratio at most $\cos(\theta/4)/(\cos(\theta/2)-\sin(3\theta/4))$. This is a significant improvement on all families of $\theta$-graphs for which exact bounds are not known. For example, the spanning ratio of the $\theta$-graph with 7 cones is decreased from at most 7.5625 to at most 3.5132. These spanning proofs also imply improved upper bounds on the competitiveness of the $\theta$-routing algorithm. In particular, we show that the $\theta$-routing algorithm is $(1+2\sin(\theta/2)/(\cos(\theta/2)-\sin(\theta/2)))$-competitive on $\theta$-graphs with $4k+4$ cones and that this ratio is tight. Finally, we present improved lower bounds on the spanning ratio of these graphs. Using these bounds, we provide a partial order on these families of $\theta$-graphs. In particular, we show that $\theta$-graphs with $4k+4$ cones have spanning ratio at least $1+2\tan(\theta/2)+2\tan^2(\theta/2)$. This is somewhat surprising since, for equal values of $k$, the spanning ratio of $\theta$-graphs with $4k+4$ cones is greater than that of $\theta$-graphs with $4k+2$ cones, showing that increasing the number of cones can make the spanning ratio worse.
Single-Dipole Analyses of the N100m Are Not Suitable for Characterizing the Cortical Representation of Pitch

In several previous studies, the deflection N100m of the auditory evoked field (AEF), occurring about 100 ms after the onset of a sound, has been used to investigate whether complex tones are represented in the auditory cortex by their spectrum or their periodicity pitch. However, the results partially contradict each other. Moreover, the basic assumption that N100m originates from a single cortical source has been questioned. To gain clarity, the AEF elicited by a complex tone with a periodicity of 4 ms (pitch 250 Hz) and a spectrum between 1000 and 2000 Hz was compared with the AEF in response to pure tones of 250 and 1000 Hz, respectively (on 12 subjects). While a previous analysis [Audiol Neurootol 2001;6: 263–278] was exclusively devoted to the N100m latency, this article presents source analyses with two variants of a single-dipole model (moving dipole and fixed dipole). Earlier reports, suggesting that N100m arises from a cortical source representing the pitch rather than the spectrum of the sound, could not be reproduced, independent of the method used. It appears that an investigation of the functional organization of the human auditory cortex based on N100m source modeling requires a much higher degree of sophistication than a single-dipole model can provide.
Joint angle estimation using the distribution of the muscle bulge on the forearm skin surface of an upper limb amputee

A novel joint angle estimation method is proposed using a new bio-signal for an amputee subject. We used the muscle bulge movement on the forearm skin surface as a new bio-signal for estimating the extent of motion in a previous study. We found that it is feasible to estimate the intended wrist joint angle using the distribution of the muscle bulge for intact subjects. Thus, in the present paper, we validate the feasibility of our method for an amputee. In applying our method to an amputee subject, we improved our distance sensor device so that it can accommodate the position of the muscle, which is variable for an amputee subject. In addition, we improved the algorithm that estimates the wrist joint angle using linear multiple regression for calculating the relationship between the intended wrist joint angle and the distribution of the muscle bulge. As a result, we found that the distribution of the muscle bulge changes for the amputee as for intact subjects. The movement of the position of the muscle bulge on the forearm skin corresponded to the extent of the intended wrist joint angle. According to the result of the estimation of the wrist joint angle, the root-mean-square error of the estimated angle with respect to the measured angle for the amputee was slightly larger than the error for intact subjects. Nevertheless, the root-mean-square error for the amputee was smaller than that when employing the previous method for intact subjects. Finally, it is feasible to use the muscle bulge movement on the forearm skin to estimate the intended wrist joint angle for the upper limb amputee.