Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Emotion dysregulation and re-regulation: predictors of relationship intimacy and distress

Emotion Dysregulation and Re-regulation: Predictors of Relationship Intimacy and Distress. (May 2005) Brian Vaughn Abbott, B.S., Brigham Young University; M.A., University of Connecticut; M.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Douglas K. Snyder Over the past 20 years, our understanding of emotional processes has grown rapidly. Within the study of emotion, a key area of interest has been how individuals succeed or fail in regulating emotional responses. Although still in its early development, researchers in this field have made progress in identifying the neurological, psychological, and social processes that underlie emotion regulation and dysregulation. Despite these advances, relatively few of these insights have been considered in light of the highly emotional terrain of couple distress. In the present study, one hundred and eight cohabiting couples rated themselves and their partner on key emotion regulation variables (e.g., the tendency to lose control of one’s emotions and the ability to restore emotional control and equilibrium). Analyses using the ActorPartner Interdependence Model (APIM) showed strong links between these variables and individuals’ experience of intimacy and distress in their relationship. Results suggest that there are multiple avenues through which emotion regulation impacts a given individual’s relationship functioning; these include: (1) the individual’s self-
Predicting the readability of short web summaries

Readability is a crucial presentation attribute that web summarization algorithms consider while generating a querybaised web summary. Readability quality also forms an important component in real-time monitoring of commercial search-engine results since readability of web summaries impacts clickthrough behavior, as shown in recent studies, and thus impacts user satisfaction and advertising revenue. The standard approach to computing the readability is to first collect a corpus of random queries and their corresponding search result summaries, and then each summary is then judged by a human for its readabilty quality. An average readability score is then reported. This process is time consuming and expensive. Besides, the manual evaluation process can not be used in the real-time summary generation process. In this paper we propose a machine learning approach to the problem. We use the corpus as described above and extract summary features that we think may characterize readability. We then estimate a model (gradient boosted decision tree) that predicts human judgments given the features. This model can then be used in real time to estimate the readability of new (unseen) web search summaries and also be used in the summary generation process. We present results on approximately 5000 editorial judgments collected over the course of a year and show examples where the model predicts the quality well and where it disagrees with human judgments. We compare the results of the model to previous models of readability, most notably Collins-Thompson-Callan, Fog and Flesch-Kincaid, and see that our model shows substantially better correlation with editorial judgments as measured by Pearson's correlation coefficient. The learning algorithm also provides us with the relative importance of the features used.
Reducing Unwanted Traffic in a Backbone Network

This paper studies the techniques a backbone ISP can employ to reduce unwanted traffic on its network. For this purpose, we extract likely sources of exploit (thus unwanted) traffic from packet traces collected on backbone links using an Internet traffic behavior profiling methodology we developed earlier. We first study the characteristics of exploit traffic from several aspects, such as network origins and severity. Based on these characteristics, we propose several heuristic rules that an ISP may pursue for reducing unwanted traffic, and evaluate their cost and performance. Using packet traces collected from backbone links, we demonstrate that simple blocking strategies could potentially reduce substantial exploit traffic in a backbone network.
Malabsorption due to paromomycin.

Administration of paromomycin sulfate (2 gm/ day) to seven healthy Thai volunteers resulted in malabsorption of xylose and sucrose. Abnormal fat metabolism was demonstrated histologically, although steatorrhea did not occur. Structures with tinctorial and light microscope features consistent with bacteria were observed in macrophages which accumulated in the lamina propria mucosae near the villus tip of the jejunum. All effects were transient and disappeared when therapy was discontinued. It is suggested that aminoglycoside antibiotic-induced malabsorption may result from an effect of the drug upon protein synthesis in the small intestine.
ASIC design of IPSec hardware accelerator for network security

This paper describes ASIC design of IPSec hardware accelerator for network security which can execute tunnel-mode AH and ESP algorithm of IPSec protocol suite. The processor supports AES-128/192/256, TDES, HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA-1 algorithm to encrypt and authenticate the packet data and operates as hardware coprocessor to accelerate cryptographic routine of FreeS/WAN software. The IPSec hardware accelerator consists of AMBA interface, 2KB packet memory, parameter registers, global controller, and cryptographic module. It was designed using 0.25/spl mu/m CMOS standard cell library and consists of about 78K gates and 2KB memory. Its throughput of ESPAES128-HMAC-SHA1 operation is approximately 200 Mbps at 125MHz for 120-byte test packet.
Bacterial reprogramming of PBMCs impairs monocyte phagocytosis and modulates adaptive T cell responses

Septic diseases are characterized by an initial systemic, proinflammatory phase, followed by a period of anti‐inflammation. In the context of the latter, monocytes have been described to display altered functions, including reduced TNF secretion and T cell‐stimulating capacities in response to recall antigens. This hyporesponsiveness is supposed to be detrimental for coping with secondary infections. We here characterize bacterially reprogrammed PBMC‐derived monocytes with special focus on their phagocytic activity. Hence, we have implemented a surrogate model of the early, postinflammatory period by exposing PBMCs to Escherichia coli on d0 and rechallenging them with bacteria on d2. This induced the emergence of a distinct monocytic phenotype with profound phagocytic impairments but a preserved ability for naïve T cell stimulation. The compromising effects on phagocytosis required the presence of bacteria and were not mimicked by TLR4 ligation or exposure to isolated cytokines alone. Moreover, the impairments were specific for the engulfment of bacteria and were coupled to a selective down‐regulation of FcγR and SR expression. Intriguingly, this monocytic phenotype contributed to the stimulation of a TH17‐polarized adaptive immune response in the context of secondary infection. Our findings extend the current knowledge of monocytic reprogramming and identify the phagocytic capacity of monocytes as a putative sepsis biomarker.
Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice

ABSTRACT This paper reflects on a three-year research project involving academics and public, private and third sector partners in the UK and India. The team engaged with innovative international outreach research methods to question how listening to ‘voices of experience’ can inform and ‘outrage’ academic and community perspectives on human rights to create and promote local to international access to justice strategies. During the project Keele University, UK, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Hyderabad, India, hosted field visits and reflective workshops involving academic, legal and third sector colleagues, to consider the comparative engagement and response to contemporary social welfare and social justice issues. The paper reflects on the learning experience, from which the contrasting India and UK perspectives on sexual violence asserts that academic and community partnerships have a significant role to play in understanding and engaging with contemporary issues; to spark outrage, challenge mainstream responses and promote alternative community legal outreach approaches.
The Thickness of a Marangoni-Driven Thin Liquid Film Emerging from a Meniscus

In this paper, we revisit experiments in which a thin liquid film forms at the tip of a capillary meniscus due to the presence of a thermally induced Marangoni shear stress. Starting from basic fluid mechanical equations, we devise a model for which numerical solutions show that it is able to accurately predict the thickness of the film, in contrast to earlier theories [Fanton, Cazabat, and Quere, it Langmuir, 12 (1996), pp. 5875--5880], where discrepancies with the experimental data of up to 20% were observed. We then find that only a few terms of our model yield a significant contribution to the film thickness. For the resulting reduced model, we derive an approximate, matched asymptotic solution, valid for small capillary numbers, which, to leading order, recovers the result of the older theory. Extending the calculation to the next order yields a correction that substantially improves the accuracy.
[In vitro evaluation of the chemopreventive potential of saffron].

UNLABELLED Cancer is a very important national health problem in Mexico, while a significant increase in the total and childhood cancer mortality has been recorded during the last decades. Chemoprevention, defined as the use of natural or synthetic agents to prevent or to block the development of cancer in human beings, is a new and promising strategy in the battle against cancer. Saffron, obtained from the dried red-dark stigmas of Crocus sativus L. , an important spice rich in carotenoids, is commonly consumed in different parts of the world and used as a medical drug to treat numerous diseases. OBJECTIVE To test the toxicity of saffron extract in vivo; to separate different ingredients in saffron extracts; to examine the cytotoxic effect of saffron and its main components on the growth of different human malignant cells in vitro; to evaluate the mutagenic and antimutagenic activities of saffron extract. METHODS HPLC with photodiode-array detection was used for semi-preparative separation of different ingredients of saffron crude extract. Colony formation assay was used to determinate the cytotoxic activity of saffron extract and its components on human tumor cells in vitro. Mutagenicity and antimutagenicity assays were performed by the Ames method. RESULTS Saffron is not toxic, non-mutagenic, non-antimutagenic and non-comutagenic. Twelve components were isolated: crocin-1, crocin-2, crocin-3, picrocroein, acid form of picrocrocin, HTCC-diglycosil-kaempferol trans-crocin-4, trans-crocin-2, trans-crocin-3, safranal, crocetin and cis-crocin-3. Saffron extract itself and some of its ingredients displayed a dose-dependent inhibitory activity against different types of human malignant cells in vitro. HeLa cells were more susceptible to saffron than other tested cells. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, our results and literature data indicate that saffron could be used as a potential cancer chemopreventive agent in clinical trials.
Periodontal infection as a possible severity factor for rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVE Clinical effects of periodontal treatment on biochemical and clinical markers of disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with periodontal disease were evaluated. METHODS Forty-two patients were assigned to two groups, G1 (n=16) and G2 (n=26). G1 patients were submitted to oral hygiene instruction and professional tooth cleaning and G2 patients additionally had full-mouth scaling and root planing (SRP). Clinical periodontal measurements were obtained at baseline and 3 months after periodontal treatment. A Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) was used to evaluate their performance on daily living. Rheumatoid factor (RF), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and drug therapy were assessed. RESULTS Both groups presented a full-mouth improvement in all periodontal clinical parameters (p<0.05), with the exception of clinical attachment level (CAL) and probing pocket depth (PPD) >6 mm for G1. G2 showed greater mean reductions on PPD >4 mm than G1 (p<0.001). HAQ analyses showed a reduction on the degree of disability of G2, but not statistically significant. ESR was significantly reduced for G2 after SRP although RF did not show statistical reductions. CONCLUSION The data suggest that periodontal treatment with SRP might have an effect on the ESR reduction.
Weakened SIV Vaccine Still Kills

An AIDS advocacy group is stepping up a campaign to test "attenuated" HIV vaccines in people, but several monkey experiments suggest that achieving protection without causing disease may be difficult. The new data, which come from several labs, reveal that a vaccine made from weakened SIV--HIV9s simian analog--can cause full-blown AIDS in adult monkeys.
Acute toxicity of 31 different nanoparticles to zebrafish (Danio rerio) tested in adulthood and in early life stages – comparative study

Abstract At present, nanoparticles are beginning to influence our lives in many ways and understanding the environmental health and safety aspect of nanomaterials has become a crucial issue. The aim of the work was to assess and compare the acute toxicity of 31 different nanomaterials to fish mature individuals Danio rerio with that to fish early life stages on using evaluation of the 48- and 96- hour LC50 values. A further aim was to evaluate teratogenicity of the nanoparticles tested to fish eggs. The nanoparticles tested were: 8 pure metals, 10 metal oxides, 5 other metal compounds and their mixtures, 2 silicon compounds, 3 calcium compounds, and 3 carbon compounds. Using 48-h and 96-h tests of acute toxicity (according to OECD 203), we evaluated mortality data, LC50 values, occurrence of malformations, as well as hatching time. In our study, 6 kinds of nanoparticles - calcium oxide, copper, copper in the form of oxide and CuZnFe4O4, magnesium oxide, and nickel - caused cumulative mortality. Two kinds of nanoparticles - copper and silver - were toxic for fish with LC50 values of approximately 3 mg/L. We did not observe marked differences between the 48-hour and 96-hour acute toxicity LC50 values, yet the possibility to evaluate hatching time in the 96-h acute fish toxicity test seems to be an advantage against that of the 48-hour toxicity.
Text-Based Gene Profiling with Domain-Specific Views

The current tendency in the life sciences to spawn ever growing amounts of high-throughput assays has led to the situation were the interpretation of data and the formulation of hypotheses lag the pace with which information is produced. Although the first generation of statistical algorithms scrutinizing single, large-scale data sets found their way into the biological community, the great challenge to connect their results to the existing knowledge still remains. Despite the fairly large number of biological databases that is currently available, we find a lot of relevant information presented in free-text format (such as textual annotations, scientific abstracts, and full publications). Moreover, many of the public interfaces do not allow queries with a broader scope than a single biological entity (gene or protein). We implemented a methodology that covers various public biological resources in a flexible text-mining system designed towards the analysis of groups of genes. We discuss and exemplify how structured term- and concept-centric views complement each other in presenting gene summaries.
THE INFLUENCE OF MOTIVATIONAL STRUCTURE IN A CLASSROOM OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON PERCEIVED ABILITY IN SCHOOL SUBJECTS, SELF-REGULATED LEARNING STRATEGIES, AND ACHIEVEMENT ANXIETY

The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of motivational structures in a classroom of junior high school students on perceived ability in school subjects, self-regulated learning strategies, and achievement anxiety. First, a new scale of perceived ability in school subjects was constructed. The scale included five sub-dimensional scales, i.e., English, Mathematics, Japanese, Science, and Social Studies. Two hundred and nineteen junior high school students were given questionnaires on their perceptions of motivational structures in a classroom and perceived ability in school subjects. Each scale of perceived ability had a high reliability, and the factor analysis revealed a factor pattern of scale of perceived ability. The results showed that a particular scale of motivational structure in a classroom explained some scale of students' perceived ability in school subjects. Secondly, the relationship between motivational structure in a classroom and elements related to achievement motivation, i.e, self-regulated learning strategies and achievement anxiety, was examined. Each scale of motivational structure in the classroom correlated highly with students' self-regulated learning strategies and correlated negatively with achievement anxiety.
VII.D. Technology for Group Dialogue and Social Choice

Usually the best way to discuss and resolve the choices that arise within groups of people is face-to-face and personally. For this reason, city planners and educators alike are calling for new kinds of communities for working, living, and learning, based more on familial relationships between people than on contractual relationships. When people get to know one another, conflicts have a way of being accommodated. Beyond the circle of intimacy the problem of communication is obviously much greater; and while social issues can still be resolved more or less arbitrarily, it is more difficult to resolve them satisfactorily. The "circle of intimacy" is constrained in its radius. One analyst has estimated that the average person in his lifetime can get to know, on a personal, face-to-face basis, only about seven . hundred people-and surely one can know well only a much smaller number. The precise number is not important: the point is that it is dictated by the limitations of human behavior and is not greatly affected by urban population growth, by speed of transportation and communication, by affluence, or by any other technologically induced change in the human condition. Indeed, these changes underlie the problem As we know it. Although the number of people with whom we have intimate face-to-face communication during a lifetime remains constant, we are in close proximity to more and more people. We are, moreover, a great deal more dependent on one another than we used to be when American society was largely agrarian. We are all committed together in planning and paying for highways and welfare. We pollute each other's water and air. We share the risks and the costs of our military-industrial complex and the foreign policy which it serves. Technology, while aggravating the selfishly independent consumption of common resources, has made communications beyond the circle of intimacy both more awkward and more urgent. Beyond the circle of intimacy, what kind of communications make sense? Surely most of us do not demand personal interactions with "all those other people. " Yet in order to participate realistically in the decisions of industry and commerce, and in government programs to aid and regulate the processes which affect us intimately, we as citizens need to communicate with and understand the whole cross-section of other citizens.
Inequality across prefectures in Japan: An S factor analysis

Two datasets of Japanese socioeconomic data for Japanese prefectures (N=47) were obtained and merged. After quality control, there were 44 variables for use in a factor analysis. Indicator sampling reliability analysis revealed poor reliability (54% of the correlations were |r| > .50). Inspection of the factor loadings revealed no clear S factor with many indicators loading in opposite than expected directions. A cognitive ability measure was constructed from three scholastic ability measures (all loadings > .90). On first analysis, cognitive ability was not strongly related to 'S' factor scores, r = -. 19 [CI95: -. 45 to . 19; N=47]. Jensen's method did not support the interpretation that the relationship is between latent 'S' and cognitive ability (r = -.15; N=44). Cognitive ability was nevertheless related to some socioeconomic indicators in expected ways. A reviewer suggested controlling for population size or population density. When this was done, a relatively clear S factor emerged. Using the best control method (log population density), indicator sampling reliability was high (93% |r|>.50). The scores were strongly related to cognitive ability r = . 67 [CI95: . 48 to . 80]. Jensen's method supported the interpretation that cognitive ability was related to the S factor (r = .78) and not just to the non-general factor variance.
Exercise and executive functioning in older women

ABSTRACT Research suggests that exercise can slow the rate of decline in cognitive functioning in older adults. The effects of aerobic and resistance exercise on executive functioning was examined in 68 women over 50 years of age. Participants completed the Tower of London and Benton Controlled Oral Word Association tests. Findings indicated that individuals participating in both aerobic and resistance exercises performed significantly better than individuals not participating in exercise. Individuals who were participating in both aerobic and resistance exercises did not perform disproportionately better. Thus the form of exercise appears to be less important than engaging in some form of exercise.
Severe burns assessment by joint color-thermal imagery and ensemble methods

Burns are some of the most severe forms of accidental trauma across the world. Burn injuries require specialized care and an early and accurate distinction between superficial dermal burns and deep dermal burns which require further surgical procedures, as they do not heal spontaneously. This paper proposes a multispectral imaging based diagnosis support system for the identification of severe burns. The acquisition is performed in both visual and infrared domains, simultaneously, with a thermal camera recording in parallel color and thermal images of the unconstrained patient and patient environment. The classification of burns is developed under a supervised scenario, according to a ground truth defined by specialist surgeons from a large pediatric case database, by an ensemble of methods that gather votes from both convolutional neural network and standard pattern recognition systems.
Preface: Remote Sensing in Flood Monitoring and Management

This Special Issue is a collection of papers studying the use of remote sensing data and methods for flood monitoring and management. The articles contributed span a wide range of topics and present novel processing techniques, review methods and discuss limitations, and also report on current capabilities and outline emerging needs. This preface provides a brief overview of the content. [. ]