Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Diversity: Reasonable Accommodation of Employees with Attention Deficit Disorder Within the Guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act

This article examines an issue that is likely to become of great importance to employers in the coming years. Recent medical research has shown that Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which had formerly been thought to be a childhood impairment, in many cases persists into adulthood. Due to the projected prevalence of this disorder, employers will increasingly be faced with the conundrum of how to reasonably accommodate workers with ADD into their workforces under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADD). This article presents an overview of what is known about Adult ADD. Then, suggestions are made as to how employers should manage workers who are actually diagnosed with the condition. Do you have trouble concentrating in meetings? Do you find yourself forgetting what you just read? Do you constantly fight a losing battle at "getting organized"? Do you become "depressed" too often? If you answered "yes" to the preceding questions, you are—in all likelihood— perfectly normal! One writer in the Ladies Home Journal went so far as to caution women that just because they have a husband who "channel-surfs" with the television remote control does not automatically make their mate a candidate for having a concentration problem [1]! Indeed, all adults vary (both between indi­ viduals and within one individual at different times) in their ability to concentrate on matters and to organize their work and their life [2]. However, fpr some 19 © 1996, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc. doi: 10.2190/GXYA-BAH3-B4QX-LK75 http://baywood.com
Physics of Bodily Tides in Terrestrial Planets and the Appropriate Scales of Dynamical Evolution

Any model of tides is based on a specific hypothesis of how lagging depends on the tidal- flexure frequency �. For example, Gerstenkorn (1955), MacDonald (1964), and Kaula (1964) assumed constancy of the geometric lag angle � , while Singer (1968) and Mignard (1979, 1980) asserted constancy of the time lagt. Thus, each of these two models was based on a certain law of scaling of the geometric lag: the Gerstenkorn-MacDonald-Kaula theory implied that � ∼ � 0 , while the Singer-Mignard theory postulated � ∼ � 1 . The actual dependence of the geometric lag on the frequency is more complicated and is determined by the rheology of the planet. Besides, each particular functional form of this dependence will unambiguously fix the appropriate form of the frequency dependence of the tidal quality factor, Q(�). Since at present we know the shape of the function Q(�), we can reverse our line of reasoning and single out the appropriate actual frequency-dependence of the lag, �(�): as within the frequency range of our concern, Q ∼ � � , � = 0.2 − 0.4, then � ∼ � � . This dependence turns out to be different from those employed hitherto, and it entails considerable alterations in the time scales of the tide-generated dynamical evolution. Phobos' fall on Mars is an example we consider.
The history of written word in Croatian nursing

Today the development of a unique professional language and publishing of professional and scientific publications is the basis of every profession, including the nursing profession. The task of the unique language specific to the nursing profession is to describe the nursing profession (to make it more familiar to the other team members and clients/customers), improve communication between nurses and other team members, help in health care improvement and administration, enable comparison of health care results, improve health care outcomes, as well as facilitate health care documentation and encourage research related to nursing. From the historical point of view, the development of nursing practice in Croatia was not accompanied by professional writings until the end of the 20th century, especially not by professional articles written by nurses themselves. By analyzing old writings and handbooks, the historical development of the written word of nurses is reconstructed for the first time in the region.
Effects of Cyclic AMP, Sympathomimetic Amines, and Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists on Renin Secretion

Renal vein renin activity was measured by bioassay of plasma obtained from anesthetized dogs during renal arterial infusion of sympathomimetic amines, cyclic AMP, and other nucleotides. Renin secretion was calculated as the product of renal blood flow and the arterial-renal venous renin difference. Infusion of cyclic AMP significantly increased renin secretion, while administration of ATP, ADP, 5′AMP, and adenosine in quantities equimolar to cyclic AMP had no effect. Phentolamine, an α-receptor antagonist, and dl-propranolol, a β-receptor blocker, abolished the cyclic AMP-induced rise in renin secretion. Paradoxically, the increase in renin production induced by infusion of norepinephrine, a predominantly α-receptor agonist, was suppressed by propranolol administration, and the renin-stimluating effect of isoproterenol, a β-receptor stimulator, was blocked by phentolamine administration. In addition, the d- and l-isomers of propranolol were equipotent in suppressing the isoproterenol-induced rise in renin secretion. Administration of AY-21,O11, a β-receptor antagonist which lacks local anesthetic properties, also prevented the isoproterenol-induced rise in renin secretion, but lidocaine had no suppressive effect. The effects on renin secretion of cyclic AMP and sympathomimetic amines alone and in combination with adrenergic receptor antagonists were independent of changes in glomerular filtration rate, sodium excretion, urine flow, systemic blood pressure, and heart rate. The data suggest that cyclic AMP acts within the kidney as an intracellular mediator of renin secretion, and that phentolamine and propranolol suppress ream secretion at a site distal to cyclic AMP production, rather than by blockade of plasma membrane adrenergic receptors or inhibition of adenyl cyclase.
Role of microRNAs in lung development and pulmonary diseases

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNA which exert post-transcriptional gene regulation activity by targeting messenger RNAs. miRNAs have been found to be involved in various fundamental biological processes and deregulation of miRNAs is known to result in pathological conditions. In this review, we provide an overview of recent discoveries on the role played by this class of molecules in lung development and in pulmonary diseases, such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pulmonary artery hypertension. Considering the relevant role of these miRNAs under physiological and pathological conditions, they represent new clinical targets as well as diagnostic and prognostic tools. Therefore, this review pays special attention to recent advances and possible future directions for the use of miRNAs for clinical applications.
The influence of HTTP/2 on user-perceived web application performance

This paper discusses the influence of the HTTP protocol on the performance of Web applications, ranging from HTTP/1.1 through SPDY, and ending with HTTP/2. The custom study of the influence of HTTP/2 on the user-perceived start time of the exemplary Single Page application in simulated Cable, DSL, LTE and 3G networks is described.
Examining the Construct Validity of Enacted Support: A Multitrait–Multimethod Analysis of Three Perspectives for Judging Immediacy and Listening Behaviors

Scholars of supportive communication are primarily concerned with how variations in the quality of enacted support affect individual and relational health and well-being. But who gets to determine what counts as enacted support? There is a large degree of operational heterogeneity for what gets called enacted support, but little attention has been afforded to the issue of whether these assessments are substitutable. In two studies we use self-reports, conversational partner-reports, and third-party ratings of two quintessential behavioral support indicators, namely, listening and immediacy. Using a multitrait–multimethod (MTMM) design, Study 1 found (1) little association between the enacted support assessments and (2) a high degree of common method variance. A second study found moderate-to-high degrees of effective reliability (i.e., consistency of judgments within a set of judgments, or mean judgments) for enacted support evaluations from the perspective of unacquainted and untrained third-party judges. In general, our data provide cautionary evidence that when scholars examine evaluations of enacted support, perspective matters and might ultimately contribute differently to well-being and health.
The Impact of New Technologies on the Literacy Attainment of Deaf Children

To become successful readers, hearing children require competence in both decoding—the ability to read individual words, underpinned by phonological skills and letter–sound knowledge—and linguistic comprehension—the ability to understand what they read—underpinned by language skills, including vocabulary knowledge. Children who are born with a severe–profound hearing loss, or who acquire such a loss in the first months of life, need to develop the same core skills in decoding and linguistic comprehension although they may develop these skills in a somewhat different manner from hearing peers. This review considers the impact on literacy of universal newborn hearing screening and of improvements in the technologies that give access to sound, including the provision of cochlear implants. The review shows that these new technologies have brought some notable improvements, especially in the early years at school, but that many children with severe–profound hearing loss still find reading a challenge and can benefit from continued support for literacy throughout their years at school.
Spanish-English code-switching among US Latinos

The present endeavor evaluates the linguistic attitudes and attributes that characterize and delimit code-switching practice among Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States, so doing with an aim toward establishing the (perceived) linguistic import of this communicative behavior as an intervening or catalytic variable in Spanish language attrition and loss, and its social import as a reflection or reconfiguration of Latino identity. Such an examination will afford a greater appreciation of the multiple and varied factors that enter into Spanish-English code-switching and will, in turn, contribute to our understanding of the linguistic situation of US Latinos more generally.
A simple test of vocal individual recognition in wild meerkats

Individual recognition is thought to be a crucial ability facilitating the evolution of animal societies. Given its central importance, much research has addressed the extent of this capacity across the animal kingdom. Recognition of individuals vocally has received particular attention due, in part, to the insights it provides regarding the cognitive processes that underlie this skill. While much work has focused on vocal individual recognition in primates, there is currently very little data showing comparable skills in non-primate mammals under natural conditions. This may be because non-primate mammal societies do not provide obvious contexts in which vocal individual recognition can be rigorously tested. We addressed this gap in understanding by designing an experimental paradigm to test for individual recognition in meerkats (Suricata suricatta) without having to rely on naturally occurring social contexts. Results suggest that when confronted with a physically impossible scenario—the presence of the same conspecific meerkat in two different places—subjects responded more strongly than during the control, a physically possible setup. We argue that this provides the first clear evidence for vocal individual recognition in wild non-primate mammals and hope that this novel experimental design will allow more systematic cross-species comparisons of individual recognition under natural settings.
Orientation histogram of SIFT displacement for recognizing actions in broadcast videos

Human actions are diversified and complicated, and hence difficult to be recognized by artificial intelligence systems. Recognizing actions in broadcast videos is even more challenging due to low resolution and frame rate. During the past decades, many talented researchers are devoted to this field, and several promising algorithms are developed to achieve great performance. The well known methods include optical flow, 3D Harris, Cuboid detector, 3D SIFT, to name a few. Inspired by preceding algorithms, we propose using SIFT displacement between consecutive frames to extract human motions in broadcast videos. Motion descriptors are orientation histogram computed from displacement vectors voted by moving distances. Geometric information is also employed by dividing frames into sub-regions. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach is effective and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.
A Novel Architecture Description Language for Multi-agent Systems Base on π-net

To narrow the gap between multi-agent formal modeling and multi-agent practical systems, multi-agent systems (MAS) are studied from the point of view of software architecture. As the existing architecture description languages (ADLs) are not suitable for describing the characteristics of architecture and behaviors of MAS, a novel architecture description language for MAS (π-net ADL) rooted in the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model is proposed, which adopts two complementary formalisms—Agent-Oriented Petri nets (AOPN) and π-calculus as a formal theory basis. AOPN are used to visualize the static architecture and model the behaviors of MAS while π-calculus is used to represent the dynamic or evolving architecture of MAS. These two formal methods are effectively integrated in π-net ADL. Furthermore, π-net ADL can visually and intuitively depict a formal framework for MAS from the agent level and society level, and stress the description of dynamic MAS architecture. Most importantly, π-net ADL supports formal analysis of MAS model properties in a variety of well-established techniques—simulation, detection, etc. To illustrate the favorable modeling capability of π-net ADL, an example of multi-agent systems in electronic commerce is provided. Finally, by the use of the existing Petri nets and π-calculus tools, the MAS model and some of its key behaviors properties are analyzed and verified. ACM Classification: D.2. 11 (Software Architectures), D.2. 2 (Design Tools and Techniques), I.2. 11 (Distributed Artificial Intelligence) ∗ Corresponding author. Tel. : 086-029-86382043 Email address: zhenhua yu@163.com (Zhenhua Yu1).
Anisotropic parameters and P-wave velocity for orthorhombic media

Although orthorhombic (or orthotropic) symmetry is believed to be common for fractured reservoirs, the difficulties in dealing with nine independent elastic constants have precluded this model from being used in seismology. A notation introduced in this work is designed to help make seismic inversion and processing for orthorhombic media more practical by simplifying the description of a wide range of seismic signatures. Taking advantage of the fact that the Christoffel equation has the same form in the symmetry planes of orthorhombic and transversely isotropic (TI) media, we can replace the stiffness coefficients by two vertical (P and S) velocities and seven dimensionless parameters that represent an extension of Thomsen's anisotropy coefficients to orthorhombic models. By design, this notation provides a uniform description of anisotropic media with both orthorhombic and TI symmetry. The dimensionless anisotropic parameters introduced here preserve all attractive features of Thomsen notation in treatin.
Industrial Evaluation of Search-Based Test Generation Techniques for Control Systems

The systems and the software in the domain of industrial trucks are becoming increasingly complex due to the rapidly increasing demand for more functionality. This leads to an even faster rising effort for manual verification activities. Therefore, automated testing techniques need to be introduced into the verification process.In this work, a search-based test generation technique has been adapted for the requirements-based black box test of control systems for counterweight forklift trucks. Fitness functions are derived from industrial requirement documents and are utilized to automatically generate test cases consisting of multiple input signals. The designed approach has been evaluated on an industrial control system and the results show that failures can bedetected in the system as well as in the environment model.
Worldwide Increasing Incidence of Thyroid Cancer: Update on Epidemiology and Risk Factors

Background. In the last decades, thyroid cancer incidence has continuously and sharply increased all over the world. This review analyzes the possible reasons of this increase. Summary. Many experts believe that the increased incidence of thyroid cancer is apparent, because of the increased detection of small cancers in the preclinical stage. However, a true increase is also possible, as suggested by the observation that large tumors have also increased and gender differences and birth cohort effects are present. Moreover, thyroid cancer mortality, in spite of earlier diagnosis and better treatment, has not decreased but is rather increasing. Therefore, some environmental carcinogens in the industrialized lifestyle may have specifically affected the thyroid. Among potential carcinogens, the increased exposure to medical radiations is the most likely risk factor. Other factors specific for the thyroid like increased iodine intake and increased prevalence of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis cannot be excluded, while other factors like the increasing prevalence of obesity are not specific for the thyroid. Conclusions. The increased incidence of thyroid cancer is most likely due to a combination of an apparent increase due to more sensitive diagnostic procedures and of a true increase, a possible consequence of increased population exposure to radiation and to other still unrecognized carcinogens.
Kinetic and Kinematic Differences Between Squats Performed With and Without Elastic Bands

Israetel, MA, McBridem, JM, Nuzzo, JL, Skinner, JW, and Dayne, AM. Kinetic and kinematic differences between squats performed with and without elastic bands. J Strength Cond Res 24(1): 190-194, 2010-The purpose of this investigation was to compare kinetic and kinematic variables between squats performed with and without elastic bands equalized for total work. Ten recreationally weight trained males completed 1 set of 5 squats without (Wht) and with (Band) elastic bands as resistance. Squats were completed while standing on a force platform with bar displacement measured using 2 potentiometers. Electromyography (EMG) was obtained from the vastus lateralis. Average force-time, velocity-time, power-time, and EMG-time graphs were generated and statistically analyzed for mean differences in values between the 2 conditions during the eccentric and concentric phases. The Band condition resulted in significantly higher forces in comparison to the Wht condition during the first 25% of the eccentric phase and the last 10% of the concentric phase (p ≤ 0.05). However, the Wht condition resulted in significantly higher forces during the last 5% of the eccentric phase and the first 5% of the concentric phase in comparison to the Band condition. The Band condition resulted in significantly higher power and velocity values during the first portion of the eccentric phase and the latter portion of the concentric phase. Vastus lateralis muscle activity during the Band condition was significantly greater during the first portion of the eccentric phase and latter portion of the concentric phase as well. This investigation indicates that squats equalized for total work with and without elastic bands significantly alter the force-time, power-time, velocity-time, and EMG-time curves associated with the movements. Specifically, elastic bands seem to increase force, power, and muscle activity during the early portions of the eccentric phase and latter portions of the concentric phase.
Contention-Free lambda-Planes in Optically Burst-Switched WDM Networks

This paper proposes a contention-free burst scheduling scheme in optically burst-switched WDM networks. We construct contention-free wavelength planes (λ-planes) by assigning dedicated wavelengths to each ingress node. Bursts are transmitted to their egress nodes on λ-planes, along routes forming a spanning tree. As a result, contention at intermediate core nodes is completely eliminated, and contention at ingress nodes is resolved by means of electric buffer. This paper develops a spanning tree construction algorithm, aiming at balancing input loads among output ports at each ingress node. Further a wavelength assignment algorithm is proposed, which is based on the amount of traffic lost at ingress nodes. We show that the proposed scheme can decrease the burst loss probability drastically, even if traffic intensities at ingress nodes are different.
Mechanisms of oncogene-mediated alterations in metastatic ability.

Transfected ras oncogenes have been shown to induce metastatic properties in some cells. This altered behavior is likely due to changes in ras-mediated signal transduction pathways, resulting in altered expression of genes important to metastasis. Clarification of the mechanisms by which ras is able to induce metastatic ability in model systems will improve our understanding of tumor progression, even in those cells in which ras activation has not been implicated. Many of the consequences of ras expression also have been detected in cells that have become metastatic in the absence of altered ras, suggesting that there is a set of common changes that can lead to metastasis, with multiple signals capable of eliciting these changes. We have identified several changes in metastatic, ras-transformed NIH 3T3 cells that may contribute to their increased malignancy, including expression of proteolytic enzymes and their inhibitors, and adhesive and calcium-binding proteins. Not all cells, however, respond in this way to expression of oncogenic ras. We have found that murine LTA cells, which are tumorigenic but nonmetastatic, are ras resistant and remain nonmetastatic when expressing high levels of transfected ras, in contrast to NIH 3T3 cells, which are ras sensitive and become both tumorigenic and metastatic in response to comparable levels of ras. LTA cells differ in their patterns of gene expression in response to ras when compared with NIH 3T3 cells, suggesting that the two cell lines process the ras signal differently. Here we review our results with ras-transfected NIH 3T3 and LTA cells. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Do Social Workers Make Better Child Welfare Workers Than Non–Social Workers?

Objective: To empirically examine whether the educational background of child welfare workers in Florida impacts on performance evaluations of their work. Method: A proportionate, stratified random sample of supervisor and peer evaluations of child protective investigators and child protective service workers is conducted. ANOVA procedures are used to test if performance scores on a multitude of items differ for workers with university degrees in social work, psychology, sociology, criminology, education, business, and other fields. Results: The ratings of social workers' skills and competency do not statistically differ from those workers with other educational backgrounds on 20 measures of performance. Conclusion: Findings suggest that the educational background of child welfare workers is a poor predictive variable of their performance as evaluated by supervisors and peers. However, more research is needed to determine if performance evaluations of workers are positively correlated with successful service outcomes with clients.