Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Encouraging Employees to Be More Active: Taking “Steps” Toward Personal Goals

The present study examines the effectiveness of a low-cost organizational wellness program focused on integration of physical activity into employee work routines using core principles of goal-setting theory. Participants were 223 employees (167 women and 56 men) of a small private southwestern university. The program consisted of participants selecting an overall step goal for a 7- or 15-week period (henceforth referred to as a session) from a set of predetermined goals. They used pedometers to track their weekly progress on steps taken toward that overall goal and reported those steps to the program coordinator. Participants who selected a higher goal (more steps per session) achieved more steps on average during the session. Lack of baseline data and the small number of male participants limit the generalizability of the results. This research contributes to the nascent literature on the incorporation of basic physical activity into the daily routine of employees and the promotion of organizational health.
Worldline algorithms for Casimir configurations

We present improved worldline numerical algorithms for high-precision calculations of Casimir interaction energies induced by scalar-field fluctuations with Dirichlet boundary conditions for various Casimir geometries. Significant reduction of numerical cost is gained by exploiting the symmetries of the worldline ensemble in combination with those of the configurations. This facilitates high-precision calculations on standard PCs or small clusters. We illustrate our strategies using the experimentally most relevant sphere-plate and cylinder-plate configuration. We compute Casimir curvature effects for a wide parameter range, revealing the tight validity bounds of the commonly used proximity force approximation (PFA). We conclude that data analysis of future experiments aiming at a precision of 0.1% must no longer be based on the PFA. Revisiting the parallel-plate configuration, we find a mapping between the D-dimensional Casimir energy and properties of a random-chain polymer ensemble.
Pathways to Building Leadership Capacity

Within the complex working of today's schools, as principals share the lead and the load, the success of their performance will be determined by their ability to inspire a culture of empowerment by acting as `hero-makers' rather than heroes. Drawing on the resources of others is essential for the site-based breakthroughs or change in complex school systems and in turn builds human capacity and self-knowledge. In order to develop human potential, the leader needs to know people well, look for strengths in individuals, and build upon them. Effective communication is instrumental in establishing collaborative relationships and is a key aspect of building leadership capacity in a school. These relationships provide the framework within which we come to understand and value each other's experiences, interests, and dreams. In this article, I will discuss the findings of a study that describe how principals used communication strategies and skills to foster the empowerment of other stakeholders within the context of collaborative initiatives. The findings from this qualitative focus group study involving principals, parents and teachers demonstrate that leaders can use several communication techniques to encourage shared leadership and thereby to build human and organizational capacity.
Probing the Viscoelasticity and Mass of a Surface-Bound Protein Layer with an Acoustic Waveguide Device

The aim of this work is to quantify the viscoelastic properties and calculate the density of a protein layer deposited on a solid/liquid interface. Devices, which use shear-horizontal surface acoustic waves propagating in a waveguide configuration at 108 and 155 MHz, were employed in the detection of specific binding and adsorption of IgG antibodies to protein A modified surfaces and gold, respectively. To obtain both viscoelastic and mass information about the biological layers, each device was first calibrated to viscosity changes by introducing a series of glycerol-water solutions to the sensing surface. Via this calibration, an equivalent viscosity of 1.00-1.30 cP for IgG layers in solution was obtained. By modeling the proteins as solid noninteracting particles, the quantitative viscoelastic information was then used to calculate protein surface coverages of 10-300 ng/cm 2 , which was in good agreement with surface plasmon resonance measured surface coverages. Modeling results yield information about the mechanical and chemical interactions between proteins in surface layers. Furthermore, for the first time, simultaneous quantitative, real-time mass and viscoelastic information of protein layers at a solid/ liquid interface was achieved by this technique.
The immediate effects of manual therapy on dorsiflexion and joint position sense at the talocrural joint in participants with a history of lateral ankle sprain

56 INTRODUCTION 57 METHODS 58 Study flow 58 Participants 59 Practitioner 59 Assessor 59 Ethics 59 Joint position sense measure 61 Reliability of measurement 62 Method of reliability 62 Reliability of dorsiflexion measures 62 Reliability of joint position sense measures 62 The interventions 63 Testing Procedure 64 Intervention application 64 Post joint position sense and dorsiflexion measures 64 Data analysis 64 RESULTS 67 Dorsiflexion 67 Joint position sense 69 Results summary 73 Dorsiflexion 73 Joint position sense 73 DISCUSSION 75 Overview 75 Recommendations 79 CONCLUSION 79 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 80 REFERENCES 81 SECTION III: APPENDICES 85 APPENDIX A: PARTICIPANTS CHARACTERISTICS 86 APPENDIX B: RAW DATA 87 APPENDIX C: RELIABILITY DATA 95 APPENDIX D: ETHICS RESOURCES 98 Information sheet 98 Consent form 101 Screening questions 102 Data collection sheet 104 Poster 106
Simplified Approach for Predicting the Starting Performance of Induction Machines Based on Rotor Design Modification

The starting characteristics of induction motors, largely determined by the rotor design, is a critical design factor from an end-users’ perspective. The equivalent circuit model or finite element analysis (FEA) is most commonly used by motor manufacturers for the design to meet the specified starting performance, but is inaccurate or time-consuming. In this paper, a simplified approach for predicting the starting characteristics based on the equivalent circuit model and single-slot pitch 2-D and 3-D FEA is proposed. The influence of the radial cooling ducts, end bar extension, deep bar/skin effects, and magnetic saturation are taken into account for the accurate prediction of starting performance. The results of the proposed method are compared with conventional methods and verified through experimental testing on 6.6 kV and 522 kW induction motors. The results show that the proposed method is capable of providing fast prediction of the starting characteristics for the given rotor design without sacrificing accuracy.
An ensemble approach to activity recognition based on binary sensor readings

Research on activity recognition provides a wide range of ubiquitous computing applications. Once activities are recognized, computers can use this information to provide people with suitable services. In the past decade, many classification algorithms have been applied to activity recognition. However, most of them were based on the use of inertial measurement sensors, such as tri-axial accelerometers and gyroscopes. There is still room for investigating the application of binary sensors in activity recognition. Simple binary sensors such as contact switches and motion detectors are commonly used in home security systems. In addition to low cost and ease of installation, the use of binary sensors is the least invasive approach from a privacy perspective. In this study, we developed an ensemble approach to human activity recognition based on binary sensor data. We verified our ensemble model with a publicly accessible activity dataset. The preliminary results showed that the proposed approach is stable and effective in recognizing activities of daily living (ADLs) in a smart home setting.
The Ms. Stereotype Revisited: Implicit and Explicit Facets

Implicit and explicit stereotypes toward the title Ms. were examined. Participants read a short description of a target person whose title of address varied (Ms., Mrs., Miss, Mr.). They then rated the person on agentic and communal traits and completed an Implicit Association Test. Replicating earlier research (Dion, 1987), at an explicit level, women using the title Ms. were seen as less communal than individuals using the title Mrs. or Mr. and more agentic than individuals using the titles Mrs., Mr., or Miss. This time, however, women using the title Miss were also seen as less communal and more agentic than women using the title Mrs. but not as agentic as women using the title Ms. On the implicit measure, Ms. was relatively more associated with agentic than communal traits compared to Mrs. but not to Miss.
3D BUILDING MODEL GENERATION FROM AIRBORNE LASER SCANNER DATA USING 2D GIS DATA AND ORTHOGONAL POINT CLOUD PROJECTIONS

Human operators use an intuitive procedure of rotating laser scanner point clouds into specific projections when trying to understand the structure of buildings contained in the data. This procedure has been formalized and incorporated into an automatic building model reconstruction procedure. The method derives the building orientation from the analysis of height histogram bins. Using the orientation, orthogonal 2D projections of the point clouds are generated, where roof planes occur as lines of points. These lines representing planes are extracted by a line tracking algorithm. In subsequent processing steps, the lines are extended to planes, and the planes are analysed for deviations from rectangular shape. Two or more neighbouring planes are grouped to generate 3D building models. Existing 2D GIS data may be used in the process to provide a reliable segmentation of airborne laser scanner datasets and to generate hypothesis supporting the actual building reconstruction. The method of 3D building model generation based on airborne laser scanner data and 2D GIS data has been tested on a dataset containing 250 buildings of different complexity. The success rate of correctly modelled buildings was close to 100% in simple regions with new-build residential buildings and dropped to below 50% in rather complex inner city areas or industrial areas.
Health seeking behaviour and diagnosis for pulmonary tuberculosis in an HIV-epidemic mountainous area of Thailand.

SETTING Chiang Rai Hospital, Chiang Rai Province, the epicentre of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Thailand. OBJECTIVE To describe the health seeking behaviour among tuberculosis (TB) patients, to measure patient and provider delays and to analyse factors determining these delays. DESIGN All patients aged over 15 years with new smear-positive pulmonary TB detected in Chiang Rai Hospital (n = 557) were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. RESULTS The median patient delays for HlV-positive and HIV-negative patients and those whose HIV status was unknown were 10, 15 and 15 days respectively, while provider delays were respectively 7, 7.5 and 10 days. HIV-positive patients suffered more symptoms and had a shorter patient's delay. Risk factors of long patient delay (>21 days) included being HIV-negative, having no health insurance, hill tribe ethnicity, no previous visits to the hospital, and borrowing money for hospital visits. Multivariate logistic analysis suggested that being married or widowed and being HIV-positive led to the shortest patient delay. Provider delay was significantly longer in female patients than male patients. CONCLUSION Although patient and provider delays were favourably short, certain specific groups require further attention. Hill tribe people should be targeted to improve accessibility to TB treatment. Active case-finding services for people known to be HIV-positive should be encouraged. The reasons for the longer provider delay in female patients require further investigation.
Hardware Acceleration for Finite-Element Electromagnetics: Efficient Sparse Matrix Floating-Point Computations With FPGAs

Custom hardware acceleration of electromagnetics computation leverages favorable industry trends, which indicate reconfigurable hardware devices such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) may soon outperform general-purpose CPUs. We present a new striping method for efficient sparse matrix-vector multiplication implemented in a deeply pipelined FPGA design. The effectiveness of the new method is illustrated for a representative set of finite-element matrices computed on our highly scalable and fully pipelined FPGA-based implementation
ATB-429 , a hydrogen sulfide-releasing derivative of mesalamine , exerts anti-nociceptive effects in a model of post-inflammatory hypersensitivity

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) functions as a neuromodulator and exerts anti-inflammatory activities. Recent data indicate that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is linked to inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. In this study we have investigated the role of a novel H2Sreleasing derivative of mesalamine (ATB-429) in modulating nociception to colorectal distension (CRD), a model that mimics some features of IBS, in healthy and post-colitic rats. Four, graded (0.4-1.6 ml water) CRD were produced in conscious rats and colorectal sensitivity and pain were assessed by measuring the abdominal withdrawal response (AWR) and spinal c-Fos expression. In healthy rats, ATB-429 dose-dependently (25, 50 or 100 mg/kg) attenuated CRD-induced hypersensitivity and significantly inhibited CRDinduced overexpression of spinal cFOS mRNA, while mesalamine had no effect. ATB-429induced anti-nociception was reversed by glibenclamide, a KATP channel inhibitor. The antinociceptive effect of ATB-429 was maintained in a rodent model of post-inflammatory hypersensitivity (4 weeks after colitis induction). At a dose of 100 mg/kg, ATB-429 reversed the allodynic response caused by CRD in post-colitic rats. Colonic COX-2 and IL1β mRNA and spinal cFOS mRNA expression were significantly down-regulated by ATB429, but not by mesalamine. ATB-429, but not mesalamine, increased blood concentrations of H2S in both healthy and post-colitic rats. Taken together these data suggest that ATB-429 inhibits hypersensitivity induced by CRD in both healthy and postcolitic, allodynic rats by a KATP channel-mediated mechanism. This study provides evidence that H2S-releasing drugs might have beneficial effects in the treatment of painful intestinal disorders. This article has not been copyedited and formatted. The final version may differ from this version. JPET Fast Forward. Published on July 19, 2006 as DOI: 10.1124/jpet.106. 106435 at A PE T Jornals on Sptem er 3, 2017 jpet.asjournals. org D ow nladed from
Musical Parameters and Children's Images of motion

Eitan & Granot (2006) investigated, using a visuokinetic imagery task, how adult listeners associate changes in musical parameters with bodily motion in physical space. Their results indicate that musical parameters significantly affect several dimensions of motion imagery. For instance, pitch contour affected imagined motion along all three spatial axes (not only verticality), as well as velocity and “energy. ” In addition, surprising directional asymmetries were found, as a musical change in one direction often evoked a significantly stronger spatial analogy than its opposite (e.g., the association of pitch direction and verticality applies mostly to pitch falls, rather than rises). This study examines whether Eitan & Granot's findings also apply to children, replicating their experiment with sixty 6 and 11 years old participants. As in the earlier study, participants were asked to associate melodic stimuli with imagined motions of a human character, and to specify the type, directions, energy level and pace change of these motions. The musical stimuli, selected from those in Eitan and Granot, consisted of pairs of brief musical figures, one member of a pair presenting an “intensification” in a specific musical parameter, the other an “abatement” (e.g., crescendo vs. diminuendo, accelerando vs. ritardando). Musical parameters manipulated included dynamics (loudness), pitch contour, and attack rate (IOI). Comparison of results with those of non-musician adults in Eitan and Granot suggests that several music-motion associations (expectedly, dynamics and distance, pitch and verticality, IOI and speed) were shared by adults and children. In addition, some of the asymmetries reported for adults were also found for children. However, unlike adults, children of both age groups relate sound and motion primarily through changes in loudness. Loudness is associated not only with distance, but with verticality, speed, and energy. In contrast, pitch contour and IOI evoke fewer and weaker spatio-kinetic associations in children, as compared to adults.
Self-preservation in abortion care: a grounded theory study.

AIM To seek an explanation as to why nurses concede and conceal their judgements towards women having an abortion. BACKGROUND Recent advances in abortion techniques and pharmacology have resulted in a greater proportion of medical abortions occurring at a lower gestation than previously. As this technique demands more of nurses, it becomes important to ask whether they are equipped to deal with this greater involvement. DESIGN A grounded theory approach using a recognised framework was used. Theoretical sampling was used in this study to increase the depth of focus from a previous study of nurses who were found to concede and conceal their judgement in abortion care. FINDINGS Several important aspects of abortion care were elucidated as to why nurses concealed and conceded their judgements. Lower gestation of abortions was central in determining greater involvement of nurses in the abortion process. It was found that some nurses treated women the same and some treated women differently, but all strived for equitable care. Self-preservation in the form of 'switching off' or 'getting on with it' was employed by nurses when they encountered the foetus or women who were blasé. Self-preservation was found to be a key phenomenon and a major reason why nurses conceded and then concealed their judgement. CONCLUSIONS In rapidly advancing abortion care, there needs to be positive ways of ensuring self-preservation in nurses without compromising care. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE Abortion care demands specific skills of nurses, and this is likely to increase in the near future. Self-preservation needs to be embedded into nurses' professional development by the use of positive strategies such as guided reflection in providing a productive woman-centred service.
In young people with a depressive disorder, does diagnostic specificity matter in the prediction of suicidality?

Abstract While suicidality is clearly associated with depression in young people, predicting which young people with depression will experience suicidal ideation or attempts is an ongoing dilemma for clinicians. This study examined the association of suicidality in young people with major depressive disorder compared to those with dysthymic disorder to investigate whether major depressive disorder, typically considered a more severe disorder, is associated with greater frequency and severity of suicidality. The study showed no distinction between the diagnoses on the basis of the frequency and severity of suicidality. Clinicians should assess the level of depressive disorder symptom severity as well as suicidality when assessing young people, regardless of depressive disorder type. Any suicidality should be treated and carefully monitored.
In vitro analysis of integrin expression in stem cells from bone marrow and cord blood during chondrogenic differentiation

The use of adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in cartilage tissue engineering has been implemented in the field of regenerative medicine and offers new perspectives in the generation of transplants for reconstructive surgery. The extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a key role in modulating function and phenotype of the embedded cells and contains the integrins as adhesion receptors mediating cell–cell and cell–matrix interactions. In our study, characteristic changes in integrin expression during the course of chondrogenic differentiation of MSC from bone marrow and foetal cord blood were compared. MSC were isolated from bone marrow biopsies and cord blood. During cell culture, chondrogenic differentiation was performed. The expression of integrins and their signalling components were analysed with microarray and immunohistochemistry in freshly isolated MSC and after chondrogenic differentiation. The fibronectin‐receptor (integrin a5b1) was expressed by undifferentiated MSC, expression rose during chondrogenic differentiation in both types of MSC. The components of the vitronectin/osteopontin‐receptors (avb5) were not expressed by freshly isolated MSC, expression rose with ongoing differentiation. Receptors for collagens (a1b1, a2b1, a3b1) were weakly expressed by undifferentiated MSC and were activated during differentiation. As intracellular signalling components integrin linked kinase (ILK) and CD47 showed increasing expression with ongoing differentiation. For all integrins, no significant differences could be found in the two types of MSC. Integrin‐mediated signalling seems to play an important role in the generation and maintenance of the chondrocytic phenotype during chondrogenic differentiation. Especially the receptors for fibronectin, vitronectin, osteopontin and collagens might be involved in the generation of the ECM. Intracellularly, their signals might be transduced by ILK and CD47. To fully harness the potential of these cells, future studies should be directed to ascertain their cellular and molecular characteristics for optimal identification, isolation and expansion.
Synectics, a Creative Problem-Solving Technique for the Gifted

Authors Wilson, and Greer worked together under the Direction of Dr. Johnson, at the University of S. Florida College of Education. Only a few years ago, it was commonly thought that creative thinking, the production of new ideas, inventions, and the like had to be left to chance. Indeed, many people still think so. Yet, I do not see how any well-informed person can still hold this view. The amazing record of inventions, achievements amassed through creative problem solving methods (Osborn, 1957), synectics (Gordon, 1961), and bionics (Small, 1962) should convince even the most stubborn skeptics. Experiments involving these deliberate methods of improving creativity have also been rather convincing (Maltzman, 1960; Parnes, 1960; Torrance, 1961). In my own classes and seminars, I have consistently found that these deliberate methods can be taught from the primary grades through the graduate school with the effect that students improve their ability to develop original and useful solutions to problems. In my opinion, the evidence is strong that creativity does not have to be left to chance (Torrance, 1962 ) .