Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Child Maltreatment Histories Among Female Inmates Reporting Inmate on Inmate Sexual Victimization in Prison

Despite data indicating that child maltreatment (CM) in various forms is associated with adult sexual victimization among community women, few studies have explicitly explored how types of CM might relate to prison sexual victimization. Because little is known about how CM might give rise to prison sexual victimization, the present study also examined emotion dysregulation emanating from early abuse experiences as a potential mediator in the link between early CM and inmate-on-inmate prison sexual victimization. Approximately 168 incarcerated women completed self-report inventories assessing various types of childhood maltreatment, emotion dysregulation, and coerced or forced sexual experiences in prison. Nearly 77% of the sample endorsed experiencing at least one form of CM, with 64% of inmates reporting that they experienced two or more forms of CM. Approximately 9% of inmates reported sexual coercion and 22% reported a forced sexual experience in prison. Each form of CM was associated with prison sexual coercion; however, fewer associations emerged between CM and forced prison sexual experiences. Emotion dysregulation was found to mediate links between CM, particularly co-occurring CM, and sexual coercion in prison, but it was unrelated to forced prison sexual experiences. Implications are discussed.
Electrical resistivity of copper oxide thin films prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering

Purpose: Investigation the effect of varying r.f. power and oxygen flow rates during deposition on the electrical properties of copper oxide thin films prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering Design/methodology/approach: The films were characterised by AFM, XPS, four point electrical resistivity probe measurements and spectrophotometry. Findings: The electrical sheet resistance of the films was found to vary from greater than 4 x 105 ohms/square for films prepared at 200W r.f. power to as low as 20 ohms/square for films prepared at 800W r.f. power. The variation in the electrical resistivity of the films with deposition conditions has been explained in terms of stoichiometric changes induced by copper or oxygen ion vacancies and neutral defects. Practical implications: The formation of these defects depends on the sticking coefficient, nucleation rates and the migration of impinging copper and oxygen species on the substrate during deposition. Originality/value: This information is expected to underlie the successful development of copper oxide films for solar windows and other semi-conductor applications including gas sensors.
A combinatorial approximation algorithm forthe group

In the group Steiner problem we are given a graph with edge weights w(e) and m subsets of vertices fg i g m i=1. Each subset g i is called a group and the vertices in S g i are called terminals. It is required to nd a minimum weight tree that contains at least one terminal from every group. We present the rst combinatorial poly-logarithmic ratio approximation for this problem when the input graph is a tree, answering an open problem posed in GKR98]. For every xed constant " > 0, our algorithm gives an O((log P i jg i j) 1+" log m) approximation in polynomial time. Our algorithm is a recursive greedy algorithm adapted from the greedy algorithm for the directed Steiner tree problem KP99, CCC+99]. As pointed out in GKR98], approximation algorithms on trees can be extended to arbitrary undirected graphs by probabilistically approximating the graph by tree metrics B96, B98]. Reducing the graph to a tree incurs an additional O(log jV j log log jV j) factor in the approximation ratio, where jV j is the number of vertices in the graph. Previous algorithms for this problem are based on solving linear programming relax-ations: the rst one by Garg et al. GKR98] who gave an O(log(max i jg i j) log m)-approximation and later an algorithm with a similar ratio by by Zosin and Khuller ZK02].
Lwt: a cooperative thread library

We present a cooperative thread library for Objective Caml. The library is entirely written in Objective Caml and does not rely on any external C function. Programs involving threads are written in a monadic style. This makes it possible to write threaded code almost as regular ML code, even though it has a different semantics. Cooperative threads are especially well suited for concurrent network applications, where threads perform little computation and spend most of their time waiting for input or output, at which time other threads can run. This library has been successfully used in the Unison file synchronizer and the Ocsigen Web server.
CT Angiography for the Detection and Characterization of Carotid Artery Bifurcation Disease

Background and Purpose Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is a relatively new and minimally invasive method of imaging intracranial and extracranial blood vessels. The main purpose of this study was to compare CTA to the current gold standard of arterial imaging, digital subtraction angiography (DSA), for the detection and quantification of carotid artery bifurcation stenosis. We also compared Doppler ultrasound (US) with these 2 techniques. Methods In a prospective study, 40 patients (80 carotid arteries) underwent CTA, US, and DSA. Patients chosen for inclusion were symptomatic with TIAs or stroke and had initial US screening that indicated >50% carotid stenosis on the side appropriate for the symptoms. Source axial, maximum intensity projection (MIP), and shaded-surface display (SSD) images were produced for each CTA study. The US, CTA, and DSA images were reviewed, with the degree of stenosis quantified and presence of ulcers determined; each type of imaging was reviewed by a separate investigator blinded to the results of the other 2 modalities. The results of CTA and US imaging were compared with the DSA images for degrees of carotid stenosis. Results CTA source axial images correlated with DSA more closely than MIP or SSD images for all degrees of stenosis. The correlation between US and DSA (0.808) was poorer than that between CTA and DSA (0.892 to 0.922). CTA performed well in the detection of mild (0% to 29%) carotid stenosis, as well as carotid occlusion, with values for sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy near 100%. In determining that a stenosis was >50% by DSA measurement, CTA was again useful, with a sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 89%, 91%, and 90%, respectively. While CTA was quite specific and accurate in identifying degrees of stenoses in either the 50% to 69% or the 70% to 99% ranges, in this task it was much less sensitive: 65% for 50%–69% stenosis and 73% for 70%–99% stenosis. These results did not change significantly when only the data from the most clinically relevant symptomatic arteries were analyzed. CTA was found to correlate quite well with DSA in the detection of ulcers associated with the carotid stenosis. Conclusions CTA was found to be an excellent examination for the detection of carotid occlusion and categorization of stenosis in either the 0%–29% or >50% ranges. However, CTA was unable to reliably distinguish between moderate (50%–69%) and severe (70%–99%) stenosis, which is an important limitation in the investigation and treatment of carotid stenosis.
Reconstruction of joint covariances in networked linear systems

We propose a sample representation of estimation errors that is utilized to reconstruct the joint covariance in distributed estimation systems. The key idea is to sample uncorrelated and fully correlated noise according to different techniques at local estimators without knowledge about the processing of other nodes in the network. In this way, the correlation between estimates is inherently linked to the representation of the corresponding sample sets. We discuss the noise processing, derive key attributes, and evaluate the precision of the covariance estimates.
Non-Negative Multilinear Principal Component Analysis of Auditory Temporal Modulations for Music Genre Classification

Motivated by psychophysiological investigations on the human auditory system, a bio-inspired two-dimensional auditory representation of music signals is exploited, that captures the slow temporal modulations. Although each recording is represented by a second-order tensor (i.e., a matrix), a third-order tensor is needed to represent a music corpus. Non-negative multilinear principal component analysis (NMPCA) is proposed for the unsupervised dimensionality reduction of the third-order tensors. The NMPCA maximizes the total tensor scatter while preserving the non-negativity of auditory representations. An algorithm for NMPCA is derived by exploiting the structure of the Grassmann manifold. The NMPCA is compared against three multilinear subspace analysis techniques, namely the non-negative tensor factorization, the high-order singular value decomposition, and the multilinear principal component analysis as well as their linear counterparts, i.e., the non-negative matrix factorization, the singular value decomposition, and the principal components analysis in extracting features that are subsequently classified by either support vector machine or nearest neighbor classifiers. Three different sets of experiments conducted on the GTZAN and the ISMIR2004 Genre datasets demonstrate the superiority of NMPCA against the aforementioned subspace analysis techniques in extracting more discriminating features, especially when the training set has small cardinality. The best classification accuracies reported in the paper exceed those obtained by the state-of-the-art music genre classification algorithms applied to both datasets.
Clustered Integer 3SUM via Additive Combinatorics

We present a collection of new results on problems related to 3SUM, including: The first truly subquadratic algorithm for computing the (min,+) convolution for monotone increasing sequences with integer values bounded by O(n), solving 3SUM for monotone sets in 2D with integer coordinates bounded by O(n), and preprocessing a binary string for histogram indexing (also called jumbled indexing). The running time is O(n(9+√177)/12, polylog,n)=O(n1.859) with randomization, or O(n1.864) deterministically. This greatly improves the previous n2/2Ω(√log n) time bound obtained from Williams' recent result on all-pairs shortest paths [STOC'14], and answers an open question raised by several researchers studying the histogram indexing problem. The first algorithm for histogram indexing for any constant alphabet size that achieves truly subquadratic preprocessing time and truly sublinear query time. A truly subquadratic algorithm for integer 3SUM in the case when the given set can be partitioned into n1-δ clusters each covered by an interval of length n, for any constant δ>0. An algorithm to preprocess any set of n integers so that subsequently 3SUM on any given subset can be solved in O(n13/7, polylog,n) time. All these results are obtained by a surprising new technique, based on the Balog--Szemeredi--Gowers Theorem from additive combinatorics.
Le chat forestier d'Europe (felis silvestris, Schreber 1777) : Exploitation des ressources et organisation spatiale

Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre general de l'etude des relations fonctionnelles entre les structures sociales developpees par les carnivores et les caracteristiques de dispersion, d'abondance et de previsibilite des ressources ; ressources energetiques (aliments) ou non energetiques (sites de reproduction, gites, etc. . . ). Consacree a un des carnivores europeens les plus mal connus, frequentant des milieux fermes, et nocturnes de surcroit, l'objectif de cette etude n'etait evidemment pas de dresser un tableau de la structure sociale d'une population - techniquement inabordable - mais d'etudier l'un des maillons intermediaires du reseau de relation liant structure sociale et nature des ressources disponibles. En considerant que l'utilisation individuelle de l'espace est la resultante de la structure sociale de la population et de l'exploitation des ressources, l'objet de cette etude etait de rechercher quelles pouvaient etre les relations fonctionnelles entre certaines caracteristiques de l'utilisation de l'espace (superficie et agencement des aires d'activites, deplacements circadiens, rythme d'activite locomotrice), les modalites d'utilisation des ressources alimentaires (composition des regimes alimentaires et techniques de chasse) et l'abondance et la repartition des proies
The long-term lived experience of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators.

n the United States, 350,000 deaths occur annually as a result of malig-nant ventricular arrhythmias. Implantable cardioverter defibrillators(ICDs) have become the preferred option to treat these arrhythmias forpeople of all ages, as opposed to anti-arrhythmic drug therapies(Ezekowitz, Armstrong, & McAllister, 2003). In studies comparing ICDs andanti-arrhythmic drugs, the use of ICDs was associated with improved qual-ity of life as compared to medical management. However, research alsosuggests patients with ICDs experience anxiety and fear, and report avoid-ance behaviors, changes in lifestyle, concerns about intimate relation-ships, reduced income, and loss of independence (Carroll & Hamilton,2005; Lemon, Edelman, & Kirkness, 2004; Steinke, Gill-Hopple, Valdez, W van Ittersum et al., 2003). While these recent studies havebegun to explore the untoward consequences of ICD use, little is knownabout the long-term experiences of individuals who undergo ICD place-ment. This study utilized a phenomenologic approach to understand thelived experiences of patients who had an ICD for 1-2 years.
Cysteine-Functionalized Chitosan Magnetic Nano-Based Particles for the Recovery of Light and Heavy Rare Earth Metals: Uptake Kinetics and Sorption Isotherms

Cysteine-functionalized chitosan magnetic nano-based particles were synthesized for the sorption of light and heavy rare earth (RE) metal ions (La(III), Nd(III) and Yb(III)). The structural, surface, and magnetic properties of nano-sized sorbent were investigated by elemental analysis, FTIR, XRD, TEM and VSM (vibrating sample magnetometry). Experimental data show that the pseudo second-order rate equation fits the kinetic profiles well, while sorption isotherms are described by the Langmuir model. Thermodynamic constants (ΔG°, ΔH°) demonstrate the spontaneous and endothermic nature of sorption. Yb(III) (heavy RE) was selectively sorbed while light RE metal ions La(III) and Nd(III) were concentrated/enriched in the solution. Cationic species RE(III) in aqueous solution can be adsorbed by the combination of chelating and anion-exchange mechanisms. The sorbent can be efficiently regenerated using acidified thiourea.
Can Social Functioning in Schizophrenia Be Improved through Targeted Social Cognitive Intervention?

Efforts to use cognitive remediation in psychosocial intervention for schizophrenia have increasingly incorporated social cognition as a treatment target. A distinction can be made in this work between “broad-based” interventions, which integrate social cognitive training within a multicomponent suite of intervention techniques and “targeted” interventions; which aim to enhance social cognition alone. Targeted interventions have the potential advantage of being more efficient than broad-based interventions; however, they also face difficult challenges. In particular, targeted interventions may be less likely to achieve maintenance and generalization of gains made in treatment. A novel potential solution to this problem is described which draws on the social psychological literature on social cognition.
A Two Dimensional Quasi-Optical Microwave Power Combining System Based On A Dielectric Slab

Hwang, Huan-Sheng A Two Dimensional Quasi-Optical Microwave Power Combining System Based On A Dielectric Slab Under the direction of Michael B. Steer A quasi-optical (QO) power combining system based on a two dimensional hybrid dielectric slab beammode waveguide (HDSBW) with solid-state devices is demonstrated. This 2D QO system can serve as a planar resonator or a planar amplifier system, in which active E-plane taper-slot antennas are embedded on the top surface or underneath the slab. The resonant frequencies and cavity modes of the slab resonator were investigated, and experimental free-running and injection-locked operations are shown and indicate that the 2D resonator is an excellent single-mode source. Impedance matching has been accomplished by studying the propagation constants and wave impedances in the HDSBW and the tapered horn. Theoretical result of the TE mode coupling between the horn and the HDSBW system is accomplished and agrees with the measured data. The active convexand concave-lens HDSBW systems with the MESFET/MMIC amplifier units were also implemented. Measurements of the amplifier gain and system gain, scattering loss due the lenses and antennas, and the surface fields of the combined power are shown, and provide the details of the designing methodology for the future planar QO power combiners. The radiation patterns of the metal-strip leaky-wave antenna located on the top of the passive HDSBW has been characterized. This antenna has the main beam scanning at 10 degrees per 1 GHz shift and can be used as the radiating end for the active HDSBW amplifier system.
Survey of data intensive computing technologies application to to security log data management

Data intensive computing research and technology developments offer the potential of providing significant improvements in several security log management challenges. Approaches to address the complexity, timeliness, expense, diversity, and noise issues have been identified. These improvements are motivated by the increasingly important role of analytics. Machine learning and expert systems that incorporate attack patterns are providing greater detection insights. Finding actionable indicators requires the analysis to combine security event log data with other network data such and access control lists, making the big-data problem even bigger. Automation of threat intelligence is recognized as not complete with limited adoption of standards. With limited progress in anomaly signature detection, movement towards using expert systems has been identified as the path forward. Techniques focus on matching behaviors of attackers to patterns of abnormal activity in the network. The need to stream, parse, and analyze large volumes of small, semi-structured data files can be feasibly addressed through a variety of techniques identified by researchers. This report highlights research in key areas, including protection of the data, performance of the systems and network bandwidth utilization.
Strategi Komunikasi Pemasaran dalam Meningkatkan Brand Awareness Pembeli di Perusahaan Retail

Competition causes more and more companies to look for ways to gain market share. Companies must continue to innovate and develop themselves and understand what consumers want in order to survive in the business world. The clothing industry is one of them. Getting and keeping customers is very important for the continuity of a business. This research was conducted to find out how the marketing communication strategy of the retail company PT Landmark Retail Trading is increasing buyer brand awareness. The results of interviews, as a data collection method, show several marketing communication strategies to increase buyer brand awareness. The company focuses on promotions in the form of affordable prices, providing more knowledge, collaborating with well-known media and conducting various activities to attract visitors to the physical store. Kompetisi menyebabkan semakin banyak perusahaan mencari cara agar dapat meraih pangsa pasar. Perusahaan harus harus terus berinovasi dan mengembangkan diri serta memahami apa yang diinginkan oleh konsumen agar bisa bertahan di dalam dunia bisnis. Industri pakaian salahsatunya. Mendapatkan dan mempertahankan pelanggan sangat penting untuk kelanjutan sebuah bisnis. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui bagaimana strategi komunikasi pemasaran perusahaan retail di PT. Landmark Retail Trading dalam meningkatkan brand awareness pembeli. Dari hasil wawancara, sebagai metode pengumpulan data, menunjukkan terdapat beberapa strategi komunikasi pemasaran untuk meningkatkan brand awareness pembeli. Perusahaan fokus pada promosi berupa harga yang terjangkau, memberikan pengetahuan lebih, bekerja sama dengan media ternama dan melakukan berbagai aktivitas yang dapat membuat pengunjung tertarik untuk datang ke toko fisik.
The Evolution of Igneous Rocks on the Moon: Insights from Lunar Meteorites and Apollo 12

The Northwest Africa (NWA) 773 clan stones are coarse-grained lunar meteorite breccias that provide an opportunity to examine an igneous system on the Moon that includes intrusive and extrusive lithologies, possibly related through a common liquid line of descent. This study focuses on the olivine gabbro (OG), anorthositic gabbro (AG), and ferroan gabbro (FG) lithologies variably contained in NWA 773, NWA 2727, NWA 3160, NWA 3170, NWA 7007, and NWA 10656. The OG lithology is an olivine cumulate composed of olivine, pyroxene, and plagioclase with accessory ilmenite, chromite, troilite, K-feldspar, baddeleyite, apatite, and merrillite. The AG lithology is uniform among the studied sections. The AG is a mesocumulate composed of pyroxene and plagioclase with accessory ilmenite, silica, K-feldspar, troilite, ilmenite, phosphate minerals, and zirconolite. The FG lithology is dominated by Mg-Fe zoned pyroxene and variable amounts of plagioclase. In the most Fe-rich portions of the FG, Kfeldspar, silica, fayalite-hedenbergite-silica symplectites, and fayalite with immiscible Si-rich melt inclusions are common. Minor or accessory minerals include ilmenite, troilite, apatite, merrillite, zircon, baddeleyite, zirconolite, and spinels. Mineral chemistry in the OG, AG, and FG lithologies indicates a chemical relationship that traces crystallization from OG ! AG ! FG. However, petrologic modeling suggests that the relationship among the lithologies is more complex. The OG and basalt component of the NWA 773 clan are modeled to have originated 12 from a parent melt similar the Apollo 14 Green Glass b1 composition through equilibrium crystallization. The AG and FG compositions do not fit into this simple model and requires either a more complex crystallization regime (e.g. in part, fractional crystallization) or a different parent melt. 2.
DIFFERENCE OF IN VIVO AND IN VITRO ANTIMINERALOCORTICOID POTENCY OF PROGESTERONE

Progesterone (P) given intramuscularly increases renal sodium excretion. We tested the in vitro capacity of P to bind to the human mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) with a reticulocyte lysate system and Ps transactivation potency in transfected CV-1 cells. Progesterone binds with higher affinity to the MR than aldosterone, but shows only low transactivation activity. This results in a very strong anti-mineralocorticoid (MC) potency of P in vitro. To test the in vivo anti-MC potency of P we infused aldosterone intravenously to hypo-MC Addison's patients, followed by increasing P infusions. During the study we measured normal aldosterone plasma concentrations and high P concentrations similar to the third trimester of pregnancy. Despite the 1000-fold higher plasma P concentrations, the in vivo anti-MC effect of P (increase of urinary sodium/potassium ratio) was rather small. We suggest that this may be due to effective MR protection mechanisms, such as conversion of P to inactive metabolites.
THE EFFECT OF BEHAVIORAL SKILLS TRAINING FOR DENTAL HYGIENE STUDENTS ON TREATMENT OF SPECIAL NEEDS PATIENTS DURING DENTAL CARE PROCEDURES

i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ii LIST OF FIGURES iv CHAPTERS CHAPTER 1 – Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2 – Method 19 CHAPTER 3 – Results 28 CHAPTER 4 – Discussion 31 FIGURE 42 REFERENCES 43 APPENDICES Appendix A – Training Evaluation Checklist 49 Appendix B – Challenging Behavior Checklist 53 Appendix C – Steps Attempted Checklist 54 Appendix D – Procedural Integrity 55 VITA . 57