Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Learning to Coach through Experience: Conditions that Influence Reflection.

The goal of the present article is to describe conditions that influence coach reflection, and to provide suggestions for nurturing coach reflection. Coach reflection varies based on the interaction of four conditions: (a) peer access, (b) stage of learning, (c) issue characteristics, and (d) environment. Data are presented to support the four conditions, and findings are compared to literature on experiential learning, reflection, and coach and teacher education. Eight strategies are suggested for facilitating coach development: (a) issue discussion groups, (b) coaching pods, (c) pre-training coach assessment tools, (d) local coaching resource centers and educational partnerships, (e) issue-based training, (f) creation of shared visions between coaches and sport participants, (g) coaching environments that value reflection, and (h) coaching consultant programs.
Regulation of Differentiation by HBP1, a Target of the Retinoblastoma Protein

ABSTRACT Differentiation is a coordinated process of irreversible cell cycle exit and tissue-specific gene expression. To probe the functions of the retinoblastoma protein (RB) family in cell differentiation, we isolated HBP1 as a specific target of RB and p130. Our previous work showed that HBP1 was a transcriptional repressor and a cell cycle inhibitor. The induction of HBP1, RB, and p130 upon differentiation in the muscle C2C12 cells suggested a coordinated role. Here we report that the expression of HBP1 unexpectedly blocked muscle cell differentiation without interfering with cell cycle exit. Moreover, the expression of MyoD and myogenin, but not Myf5, was inhibited in HBP1-expressing cells. HBP1 inhibited transcriptional activation by the MyoD family members. The inhibition of MyoD family function by HBP1 required binding to RB and/or p130. Since Myf5 might function upstream of MyoD, our data suggested that HBP1 probably blocked differentiation by disrupting Myf5 function, thus preventing expression of MyoD and myogenin. Consistent with this, the expression of each MyoD family member could reverse the inhibition of differentiation by HBP1. Further investigation implicated the relative ratio of RB to HBP1 as a determinant of whether cell cycle exit or full differentiation occurred. At a low RB/HBP1 ratio cell cycle exit occurred but there was no tissue-specific gene expression. At elevated RB/HBP1 ratios full differentiation occurred. Similar changes in the RB/HBP1 ratio have been observed in normal C2 differentiation. Thus, we postulate that the relative ratio of RB to HBP1 may be one signal for activation of the MyoD family. We propose a model in which a checkpoint of positive and negative regulation may coordinate cell cycle exit with MyoD family activation to give fidelity and progression in differentiation.
EMI noise control methods suitable for electric vehicle drive systems

Methods to control electromagnetic interference (EMI) noises, especially common mode currents and radiations that are generated in electric vehicle (EV) drive systems, were studied using an electric vehicle (EV) prototype. Fast fourier transform (FFT) analyses of the voltage and current appearing in the EV drive systems showed that electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise sources are produced by voltage fluctuations occurring at the time of switching operations and the produced noise sources cause common mode currents to flow into the ground when the body frame is connected to the ground. Moreover, the flowing common mode currents induce radiated EMI noises, while the generated EMI noises are transmitted between the inverter, batteries, and motors. Thus, the produced radiated EMI noises have an effect on nearby vehicles. A method was proposed that controls common mode currents produced in EV drive systems so as to prevent a series resonance phenomenon from occurring in common current paths formed in EV drive systems. This method is also effective in controlling radiated EMI noises. Furthermore, to control radiated EMI noises, another method was proposed that cancels the surface currents flowing in P and N power transmission lines between the inverter and batteries. Effectiveness of these proposed EMI noise control methods was verified from simulations and experiments.
Measuring the Importance of Users in a Social Network Based on Email Communication Patterns

Email communication patterns have been long used to derive the underlying social network structure. By looking at who is talking to who and how often, the researchers have disclosed interesting patterns, hinting on social roles and importance of actors in such networks. Email communication analysis has been previously applied to discovering cliques and fraudulent activities (e.g. the Enron email network), to observe information dissemination patterns, and to identify key players in email communication networks. In this paper we are using a large dataset of email communication within a constrained community (i.e. the employees of a single institution) to discover the importance of employees in the underlying network. Contrary to previous attempts, though, we are scrutinizing the delays in answering emails. We base our method on a simple notion of implicit importance: people are more likely to quickly respond to emails sent by people who are being perceived as important. In the paper we propose several methods for building the social network from the email communication data and we introduce various weighting schemes. We aggregate the resulting rankings and compute differences between rankings to observe the stability of our method. We also compare the resulting rankings with an a priori assessment of employees' importance to verify our method. The results of the conducted experiments clearly show the validity and robustness of the proposed method.
Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Resources in Mental Health

Introduction to Self-Help in Mental Health. Abuse. Addictive Disorders and Codependency. Adult Development and Aging. Anger. Anxiety Disorders. Assertiveness. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Career Development. Child Development and Parenting. Communication and People Skills. Death and Grieving. Dementia/Alzheimer's. Divorce. Eating Disorders. Families and Stepfamilies. Love and Intimacy. Marriage. Men's Issues. Mood Disorders. Pregnancy. Schizophrenia. Self-Management and Self-Enhancement. Sexuality. Spiritual and Existential Concerns. Stress Management and Relaxation. Teenagers and Parenting. Weight Management. Women's Issues. Strategies for Selecting Self-Help Resources. Appendices. A. The Five National Studies. B. Ratings of Self-Help Books in the National Studies. C. Ratings of Autobiographies in the National Studies. D. Ratings of Movies in the National Studies.
A novel jasmonate‐ and elicitor‐responsive element in the periwinkle secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene Str interacts with a jasmonate‐ and elicitor‐inducible AP2‐domain transcription factor, ORCA2

Jasmonate (JA) is an important plant stress hormone that induces various plant defense responses, including the biosynthesis of protective secondary metabolites. The induction of the secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene Strictosidine synthase (Str) in Catharanthus roseus (periwinkle) cells by elicitor requires JA as a second messenger. A 42 bp region in the Str promoter is both necessary and sufficient for JA‐ and elicitor‐responsive expression. This region is unlike other previously identified JA‐responsive regions, and contains a GCC‐box‐like element. Yeast one‐hybrid screening identified cDNAs encoding two AP2‐domain proteins. These octadecanoid‐derivative responsive Catharanthus AP2‐domain (ORCA) proteins bind in a sequence‐specific manner the JA‐ and elicitor‐responsive element. ORCA2 trans‐activates the Str promoter and its expression is rapidly inducible with JA and elicitor, whereas Orca1 is expressed constitutively. The results indicate that a GCC‐box‐like element and ORCA2 play key roles in JA‐ and elicitor‐responsive expression of the terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthetic gene Str.
Cellular Characterization of Epidermal Growth Factor-expanded Free-floating Neurospheres

Neural stem cells proliferate in liquid culture as cell clusters (neurospheres). This study was undertaken to characterize the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-expanded free-floating neurospheres derived from rat fetal striatum. We examined the ultrastructural and antigenic characteristics of these spheres. They consisted of two cell types, electron-dense and electron-lucent cells. Lucent cells were immunopositive to actin, vimentin, and nestin, whereas dense cells were immunopositive to actin, weakly positive to vimentin, and nestin-negative. Neurospheres contained healthy, apoptotic, and necrotic cells. Healthy cells were attached to each other by adherens junctions. They showed many pseudopodia and occasionally a single cilium. Sphere cells showed phagocytic capability because healthy cells phagocytosed the cell debris derived from dead cells in a particular process that involves the engulfment of dying cells by cell processes from healthy cells. Sphere cells showed a cytoplasmic and a nuclear pool of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors. They expressed E- and N-cadherin, α- and β-catenin, EGF receptor, and a specific subset of FGF receptors. Because sphere cells expressed this factor in the absence of exogenous FGF-2, we propose that they are able to synthesize FGF-2.
Combining use of a panel of ssDNA aptamers in the detection of Staphylococcus aureus

In this article, a panel of ssDNA aptamers specific to Staphylococcus aureus was obtained by a whole bacterium-based SELEX procedure and applied to probing S. aureus. After several rounds of selection with S. aureus as the target and Streptococcus and S. epidermidis as counter targets, the highly enriched oligonucleic acid pool was sequenced and then grouped under different families on the basis of the homology of the primary sequence and the similarity of the secondary structure. Eleven sequences from different families were selected for further characterization by confocal imaging and flow cytometry analysis. Results showed that five aptamers demonstrated high specificity and affinity to S. aureus individually. The five aptamers recognize different molecular targets by competitive experiment. Combining these five aptamers had a much better effect than the individual aptamer in the recognition of different S. aureus strains. In addition, the combined aptamers can probe single S. aureus in pyogenic fluids. Our work demonstrates that a set of aptamers specific to one bacterium can be used in combination for the identification of the bacterium instead of a single aptamer.
Named Entity Recognition using Word Embedding as a Feature

This study applied word embedding to feature for named entity recognition (NER) training, and used CRF as a learning algorithm. Named entities are phrases that contain the names of persons, organizations and locations and recognizing these entities in text is one of the important task of information extraction. Word embedding is helpful in many learning algorithms of NLP, indicating that words in a sentence are mapped by a real vector in a low-dimension space. We used GloVe, Word2Vec, and CCA as the embedding methods. The Reuters Corpus Volume 1 was used to create word embedding and the 2003 shared task corpus (English) of CoNLL was used for training and testing. As a result of comparing the performance of multiple techniques for word embedding to NER, it was found that CCA (85.96%) in Test A and Word2Vec (80.72%) in Test B exhibited the best performance. When using the word embedding as a feature of NER, it is possible to obtain better results than baseline that do not use word embedding. Also, to check that the word embedding well performed, we did additional experiment calculating the similarity between words.
The laminar distribution of macaque tectobulbar and tectospinal neurons

Abstract The superior colliculus exerts its most direct influence over orienting movements, and saccades in particular, via its descending projections to the brain stem and spinal cord. However, while there is detailed physiological data concerning the generation of saccade-related activity in the primate superior colliculus, there is relatively little data on the detailed connectivity of this structure in primates. Consequently, retrograde transport techniques were utilized to determine the locations of the cells of origin of these descending pathways in macaque monkeys. Tectal cells that projected to the ipsilateral pontine reticular formation were mainly found in the deep gray layer and occasionally in the intermediate gray layer. Tectal cells that projected to the contralateral pontine reticular formation were predominantly located in the intermediate gray layer. The contralaterally projecting population could be subdivided into two groups. The cells in upper sublamina of the intermediate gray layer project primarily to the saccade-related regions of the paramedian reticular formation. Cells in the lower sublamina project primarily to more lateral regions of the pontine reticular formation and to the spinal cord. We conclude that the primate colliculus is provided with at least three descending output channels, which are likely to differ in their connections and functions. Specifically, it seems likely that the lower portion of the intermediate gray layer may be specialized to subserve combined head and eye orienting movements, while the upper sublamina subserves saccades.
Whom to Trust: The Role of Mediation and Perceived Harm in Support Seeking by Cyberbullying Victims

This study focuses on two coping strategies in cyberbullying: talking to parents and talking to peers. The subsample of cyberbullying victims aged 9–16 (N = 1395; 59% female) from the EU Kids Online II project was analysed. We predicted talking to parents and peers according to mediation style, perceived harm, support-seeking tendencies, parental knowledge of the child's activities online, age and gender. The results show that perceived harm and active mediation increase the likelihood of confiding. Parents play a central role and should be encouraged to show their children interest about and understanding of their online activities.
Reducing code size with run-time decompression

Compressed representations of programs can be used to improve the code density in embedded systems. Several hardware decompression architectures have been proposed recently. In this paper, we present a method of decompressing programs using software. It relies on using a software-managed instruction cache under control of the decompressor. This is achieved by employing a simple cache management instruction that allows explicit writing into a cache line. We also consider selective compression (determining which procedures in a program should be compressed) and show that selection based on cache miss profiles can substantially outperform the usual execution time based profiles for some benchmarks.
Using Web Graph Structures to Personalize Search by Francisco Tanudjaja

Personalization is a topic of active research in the information retrieval community. There are many applications developed to personalize users' web experience. In addition, recent advances in graph based search techniques derived from Kleinberg's work [22, 23] has been impressive. This thesis looks at these two aspects from a single perspective. First, we analyze variants of the graph based search algorithm that adapt to user preference [7] and extend them. Second, we develop a persistent user profiling technique, utilizing a web ontology provided by the Open Directory Project. In achieving these goals, we implement a real-time personalized search engine and run sets of controlled experiments to analyze the performance of our system. 3 4 Acknowledgments I would like to thank Professor Szolovits for his support and guidance in foreseeing my thesis. I am forever indebted to Lik Mui, who is the guiding light in my research. I thank him for the infinite amount of time he spared to our discussions and meetings. His indefatigable spirit always churns with new ideas; his focus and dedication push my research into the direction it must be going. I owe much thanks to James Lu and Waikit Koh, who helped me iron out many theoretical issues. Finally, I thank my parents for supporting me through all these years.
INVESTISSEMENT EN R&D ET PERFORMANCE DE L'ENTREPRISE : L'EFFET MODERATEUR DE LA GOUVERNANCE D'ENTREPRISE

L'objectif de cette recherche est d'analyser l'effet moderateur de la structure de propriete et du conseil d'administration, en tant que mecanismes de gouvernance, sur la relation entre l'investissement en recherche et developpement (R&D) et la performance de l'entreprise. L'etude menee sur un echantillon d'entreprises francaises cotees sur Euronext Paris en 2006 montre que l'effet des depenses de R&D sur la performance de l'entreprise est positif et significatif. Toutefois, cet effet varie significativement avec les caracteristiques liees a la structure de propriete et au conseil d'administration. En general, les resultats montrent que la concentration de la propriete, le cumul des fonctions de directeur general et de president du conseil et la presence d'un comite strategique au sein du conseil ont un effet positif sur la relation entre les depenses de R&D et la performance de l'entreprise. Par contre, la propriete institutionnelle, la propriete manageriale, la taille du conseil d'administration et l'independance des administrateurs ont un effet negatif sur la relation entre les depenses de R&D et la performance de l'entreprise. Ces resultats suggerent que l'effet positif des depenses de R&D sur la performance de l'entreprise est plus favorable au niveau des entreprises a propriete fortement concentree, faiblement detenues par les investisseurs institutionnels et les dirigeants, ayant un conseil de taille limitee, compose d'une faible proportion d'administrateurs independants, dont les administrateurs detiennent une forte part dans le capital, optant pour le cumul des fonctions et disposant d'un comite strategique.
Plant extracts from central Asia showing antiinflammatory activities in gene expression assays

Plant natural products remain a good resource for the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals. A mouse macrophage‐based quantitative, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT‐PCR) system was optimized to screen plant extracts for antiinflammatory activities using three well known genetic markers of inflammation. Plants used for extraction were taxonomically identified and vouchered species from two Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, collected through the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) program. The mRNA expression of cyclooxygenase‐2, interleukin 1β and inducible nitric oxide synthase genes in RAW macrophages was determined quantitatively in response to treatment with plant extracts applied at 100 µg/mL. The screening of 1000 extracts from 449 plant species belonging to 68 plant families resulted in 75 extracts (7.5%) showing strong (75% or higher inhibition) activity against at least one target gene. Many extracts showed qualitative and quantitative differences in the levels of activities against each target gene. Extracts identified from this screen were able to reduce inflammatory symptoms in vivo, thereby validating the screening approach. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Hue-preserving multiscale retinex for color images

In this paper, we propose a hue-preserving multi-scale retinex (MSR) for color images. In a color image restoration process, MSR is applied to each channel (i.e., red, green and blue) independently. Since MSR is included logarithm operation and local illumination of each channel is estimated independently, the hue of retinex output is different from the original (input) image. Hue preservation is necessary for color image processing. Distortion may occur if hue is not preserved. It is known that two operations, scaling and shifting, are hue-preserving operations in RGB color space. In the proposed method, we approximate the relationship between input pixel value and MSR output pixel value by the hue-preserving transformation form which is a combination of scaling and shifting. The efficiency of the proposed method is shown by using color checker and natural images.
Robotics-Assisted Control of Steerable Ablation Catheters Based on the Analysis of Tendon-Sheath Transmission Mechanisms

Catheter-based cardiac ablation is a minimally invasive intervention for treating arrhythmia. In this procedure, access to target cardiac tissue in the atrium is provided by steering long flexible catheters through the vasculature. Using the proximal handle, the distal shaft of the ablation catheter is flexed to adjust the orientation of the ablation tip with respect to cardiac tissue. Considering the diameter of an ablation catheter and the necessity for remote actuation of the distal shaft in this case, a pull-wire mechanism is used to translate the linear displacement of the proximal handle to the bending of the distal shaft. In this paper, we study the transmission characteristics of a unidirectional steerable ablation catheter as a tendon-driven mechanism. We then propose a model that estimates the orientation of the distal shaft using only proximal measurements. Based on this model, a control system is designed to flex the distal shaft to reach a desired angle or to follow a defined trajectory in free space. In the case that the catheter tip is in contact with the environment, we show that the proposed controller can compensate for tissue motion by flexing the distal shaft accordingly, and thus, consistent tip–tissue contact is achieved. Extensive simulation studies and experimental implementation demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Using the developed control system, the error in achieving the desired angle in free space is less than 2 $^\circ$, and the similarity between the desired and achieved trajectory is 99%. When the catheter is in contact with the environment, the proposed technique improves the quality of contact by at least 39%.
Functional outcomes and survival in patients with high-grade gliomas in dominant and nondominant hemispheres.

OBJECT The goal of this study was to investigate survival and functional outcomes in patients with high-grade intracranial astrocytomas as a function of the location of the lesion in the dominant or nondominant hemisphere (DH and NDH, respectively), and to suggest management strategies for such patients based on these data. METHODS Data were collected from the Glioma Outcomes Project database, a longitudinal database of demographic, clinical, and outcome data for patients with high-grade intracranial gliomas. From the entire database of 788 patients, a subset of all 280 right-handed patients with newly diagnosed, unilateral gliomas involving potentially eloquent cortex was selected as the sample population. Two cohorts were defined based on the location of the tumor in the right or left cerebral hemisphere. All other relevant demographic and clinical data were nearly identical between the cohorts. A Kaplan-Meier analysis was conducted to assess survival, and Karnofsky Performance Scale scores assigned at 6 and 12 months postoperatively were compared as a measure of functional outcome. The analysis demonstrated no difference in survival between patients with lesions in the DH and those with tumors in the NDH. Additionally, no statistically significant difference in functional outcomes was observed between the two groups. CONCLUSIONS Laterality of high-grade gliomas is not an independent prognostic factor for predicting survival or functional outcome. The findings in this study demonstrate that fears of increased postoperative morbidity or mortality in otherwise resectable tumors of the DH are unfounded, and the authors therefore advocate that the surgeon's decision to operate be guided by validated outcome predictors and not biased by tumor lateralization.