Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationships between golf range users’ participation motivation, satisfaction, and exercise adherence intention

Purpose This paper aims to identify the relationship between participation motivation, satisfaction and exercise adherence intention of golf range users on the basis of self-determination theory. Design/methodology/approach For this purpose, the authors proposed research questions and a conceptual research model as well. Then, the authors surveyed users of golf ranges located in Seoul Metropolitan City and Gyeonggi-do province. Findings By applying convenience sampling, the authors received a total of 313 questionnaires. Results were as follows. First, among the participation motivation sub-factors, health-oriented motivation, achievement motivation, pleasure-oriented motivation and self-displayed motivation had a significant effect on emotional satisfaction, while achievement motivation and pleasure-orientation motivation had a significant effect on performance satisfaction. Second, the following participation motivation factors had a significant effect on exercise adherence intention: health-orientation motivation, achievement motivation and pleasure-orientation motivation. Third, among the satisfaction factors, emotional satisfaction and performance satisfaction both had a significant effect on exercise adherence intention. Originality/value This is one of the first papers to examine the relationships that exist between golf range users’ participation motivation, satisfaction and exercise adherence intention.
Phthalate Diesters and Their Metabolites in Human Breast Milk, Blood or Serum, and Urine as Biomarkers of Exposure in Vulnerable Populations

Background Phthalates may pose a risk for perinatal developmental effects. An important question relates to the choice of suitable biological matrices for assessing exposure during this period. Objectives This study was designed to measure the concentrations of phthalate diesters or their metabolites in breast milk, blood or serum, and urine and to evaluate their suitability for assessing perinatal exposure to phthalates. Methods In 2001, 2–3 weeks after delivery, 42 Swedish primipara provided breast milk, blood, and urine samples at home. Special care was taken to minimize contamination with phthalates (e.g., use of a special breast milk pump, heat treatment of glassware and needles, addition of phosphoric acid). Results Phthalate diesters and metabolites in milk and blood or serum, if detected, were present at concentrations close to the limit of detection. By contrast, most phthalate metabolites were detectable in urine at concentrations comparable to those from the general population in the United States and in Germany. No correlations existed between urine concentrations and those found in milk or blood/serum for single phthalate metabolites. Our data are at odds with a previous study documenting frequent detection and comparatively high concentrations of phthalate metabolites in Finnish and Danish mothers’ milk. Conclusions Concentrations of phthalate metabolites in urine are more informative than those in milk or serum. Furthermore, collection of milk or blood may be associated with discomfort and potential technical problems such as contamination (unless oxidative metabolites are measured). Although urine is a suitable matrix for health-related phthalate monitoring, urinary concentrations in nursing mothers cannot be used to estimate exposure to phthalates through milk ingestion by breast-fed infants.
An inherited bleeding disorder linked to a defective interaction between ADP and its receptor on platelets. Its influence on glycoprotein IIb-IIIa complex function.

Much discussion has concerned the central role of ADP in platelet aggregation. We now describe a patient (M.L.) with an inherited bleeding disorder whose specific feature is that ADP induces a limited and rapidly reversible platelet aggregation even at high doses. Platelet shape change and other hemostatic parameters were unmodified. A receptor defect was indicated, for, while epinephrine normally lowered cAMP levels of PGE1-treated (M.L.) platelets, ADP was without effect. The binding of [3H]2-methylthio-ADP decreased from 836 +/- 126 molecules/platelet for normals to 30 +/- 17 molecules/platelet for the patient. Flow cytometry confirmed that ADP induced a much lower fibrinogen binding to (M.L.) platelets. Nonetheless, the binding in whole blood of activation-dependent monoclonal antibodies showed that some activation of GP IIb-IIIa complexes by ADP was occurring. Platelets of a patient with type I Glanzmann's thrombasthenia bound [3H]2-methylthio-ADP and responded normally to ADP in the presence of PGE1. Electron microscopy showed that ADP-induced aggregates of (M. L.) platelets were composed of loosely bound shape-changed platelets with few contact points. Thus this receptor defect has a direct influence on the capacity of platelets to bind to each other in response to ADP.
Efficient development is impeded by : – Starting OSS development with a clean slate – Reanalysis

The increasing number of network services has highlighted the need to develop operation support systems (OSSs) for these services. It seems efficient to develop OSSs by reusing models of existing OSS developments and by sharing these models among developers. Using ontologies to develop new OSSs would make it possible to find models similar to the ones to be developed. The scheme described in our paper is as follows: using task/domain ontologies during the OSS development and reusing models from previous OSS developments. To show the effectiveness of task/domain ontologies, we have created a technical map concerning ontological technologies. We give an example of a task ontology for a Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GE-PON) OSS that demonstrates the reusability concept.
Resetting Mechanism of Central and Peripheral Circadian Clocks in Mammals

Almost all organisms on earth exhibit diurnal rhythms in physiology and behavior under the control of autonomous time-measuring system called circadian clock. The circadian clock is generally reset by environmental time cues, such as light, in order to synchronize with the external 24-h cycles. In mammals, the core oscillator of the circadian clock is composed of transcription/translation-based negative feedback loops regulating the cyclic expression of a limited number of clock genes (such as Per, Cry, Bmal1, etc.) and hundreds of output genes in a well-concerted manner. The central clock controlling the behavioral rhythm is localized in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), and peripheral clocks are present in other various tissues. The phase of the central clock is amenable to ambient light signal captured by the visual rod-cone photoreceptors and non-visual melanopsin in the retina. These light signals are transmitted to the SCN through the retinohypothalamic tract, and transduced therein by mitogen-activated protein kinase and other signaling molecules to induce Per gene expression, which eventually elicits phase-dependent phase shifts of the clock. The central clock controls peripheral clocks directly and indirectly by virtue of neural, humoral, and other signals in a coordinated manner. The change in feeding time resets the peripheral clocks in a SCN-independent manner, possibly by food metabolites and body temperature rhythms. In this article, we will provide an overview of recent molecular and genetic studies on the resetting mechanism of the central and peripheral circadian clocks in mammals.
Categorization and Monitoring of Internet Public Opinion Based on Latent Semantic Analysis

Rapid progress of network arouses much attention on Internet public opinion. To address this issue, we propose a novel system for categorization and monitoring of Internet public opinion. Due to the text format of Internet public opinion and the semantic relationship between words in such documents, we introduce latent semantic analysis (LSA) to represent document of public opinion. Compared to the traditional vector space model (VSM), LSA overcomes the problem of high dimensional space. We use two classifiers to perform text categorization on a corpus collected from a hot Website. For the monitoring, we give the structure of this module and introduce its main functions.
Interactive Intent Modeling from Multiple Feedback Domains

In exploratory search, the user starts with an uncertain information need and provides relevance feedback to the system's suggestions to direct the search. The search system learns the user intent based on this feedback and employs it to recommend novel results. However, the amount of user feedback is very limited compared to the size of the information space to be explored. To tackle this problem, we take into account user feedback on both the retrieved items (documents) and their features (keywords). In order to combine feedback from multiple domains, we introduce a coupled multi-armed bandits algorithm, which employs a probabilistic model of the relationship between the domains. Simulation results show that with multi-domain feedback, the search system can find the relevant items in fewer iterations than with only one domain. A preliminary user study indicates improvement in user satisfaction and quality of retrieved information.
How about work demands, recovery, and health? A neuroendocrine field study during and after work

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which nature of work and work characteristics are related to the course of neuroendocrine reactivity and recovery from work. Methods Neuroendocrine reactivity and recovery were studied by measuring urinary excretion of adrenaline, noradrenaline, and Cortisol during and after three working days, one consecutive day off, and a baseline day. This was assessed in three groups of Dutch male workers (n=60), differing in the nature (mental, physical, and combined mental/physical demands) of their work. Multi-level analyses were performed to fit linear mixed-effects models for each hormone. Results Main and/or interaction effects with time of day were found between the mental/physical workers and the two other groups of workers for Cortisol, adrenaline, as well as for the noradrenaline excretion. In addition, the baseline levels of the three hormones were higher in the mental/physical workers compared to the other two groups. The excretion rates during the working days were higher than those on the day off-work, but a trend towards mobilising less activity was found from the first to the third working day. Job demands were negatively related to Cortisol excretion. Job control and social demands at work did not effect the excretion rates of the hormones. Conclusions Unfavourable effects in Cortisol and adrenaline reactivity and/or recovery were found for workers with combined mental/physical demands compared to mainly mental or mainly physical workers. The results of the present study are in accordance with the cognitive activation theory.
ANALYTICAL COMPUTATION OF MAGNETIZING INDUCTANCES FOR THE SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR WITH AXIALLY-LAMINATED ROTOR Ileana Torac

The performances of the synchronous reluctance motor are essentially dependent on the magnetic dissymetry of the machine, respectively of its rotor, as in [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. The last one is made from grain-oriented steel laminations, alternating with insulation and non-magnetic material. The fastening is realized with clamping plates and screws made from non-magnetic material (brass or non-magnetic stainlesssteel), to avoid the increase of the q-axis reluctance. Both width of the clamping plates and domain occupied of screws depends on the rotor dimensions and on the number of pole pairs. In Fig. 1 are shown two examples of rotor shapes for the two-pole machine.
Fast teleconnections to the tropical Atlantic sector from Atlantic thermohaline adjustment

We examine the first decade of adjustment of the North Atlantic climate following an abrupt freshening of the high North Atlantic and resulting slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in a coupled model, with reference to previously proposed teleconnection mechanisms. After an initial ocean‐driven cooling at the subtropical‐subpolar gyre boundary, subsequent equatorward progression is dominated by an atmosphere‐surface ocean mechanism driving evaporative cooling in the tropical North Atlantic, and resulting in an anomalous southward ITCZ displacement by year 2. The tropical cooling is countered by fast ocean baroclinic adjustment to the reduced overturning that increases the volume of tropical surface waters, as well as ocean circulation changes to the increased northeasterly trades. However, it is the atmosphere‐surface ocean teleconnection that explains the hemispheric asymmetric nature of the tropical Atlantic surface climate impact to AMOC slowdown, underlining its crucial importance in high‐to‐low latitude teleconnections.
Ribosomal Alteration-Derived Signals for Cytokine Induction in Mucosal and Systemic Inflammation: Noncanonical Pathways by Ribosomal Inactivation

Ribosomal inactivation damages 28S ribosomal RNA by interfering with its functioning during gene translation, leading to stress responses linked to a variety of inflammatory disease processes. Although the primary effect of ribosomal inactivation in cells is the functional inhibition of global protein synthesis, early responsive gene products including proinflammatory cytokines are exclusively induced by toxic stress in highly dividing tissues such as lymphoid tissue and epithelia. In the present study, ribosomal inactivation-related modulation of cytokine production was reviewed in leukocyte and epithelial pathogenesis models to characterize mechanistic evidence of ribosome-derived cytokine induction and its implications for potent therapeutic targets of mucosal and systemic inflammatory illness, particularly those triggered by organellar dysfunctions.
Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Network: a survey

Recent advances in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have led to many new promising applications including habitat monitoring and target tracking. However, data communication between nodes consumes a large portion of the total energy consumption of the WSNs. Consequently, data aggregation techniques can greatly help to reduce the energy consumption by eliminating redundant data traveling back to the base station. The security issues such as data integrity, confidentiality, and freshness in data aggregation become crucial when the WSN is deployed in a remote or hostile environment where sensors are prone to node failures and compromises. There is currently research potential in securing data aggregation in the WSN. With this in mind, the security issues in data aggregation for the WSN will be discussed in this paper. Then, the adversarial model that can be used in any aggregation scheme will be explained. After that, the "state-of-the-art" proposed secure data aggregation schemes will be surveyed and then classified into two categories based on the number of aggregator nodes and the existence of the verification phase. Finally, a conceptual framework will be proposed to provide new designs with the minimum security requirements against certain type of adversary. This framework gives a better understanding of those schemes and facilitates the evaluation process.
Time domain system identification of unknown initial conditions

System identification is a method for using measured data to create or improve a mathematical model of the object being tested. From the measured data however, noise is noticed at the beginning of the response. One solution to avoid this noise problem is to skip the noisy data and then use the initial, conditions as active parameters, to be found by using the system identification process. This paper describes the development of the equations for setting up the initial conditions as active parameters. The simulated data and response data from actual shear buildings were used to prove the accuracy of both the algorithm and the computer program, which include the initial conditions as active parameters. The numerical and experimental model analysis showed that the value of mass, stiffness and frequency were very reasonable and that the computed acceleration and measured acceleration matched very well.
Recurrent germline mutation in MSH2arises frequently de novo

INTRODUCTION An intronic germline mutation in the MSH2 gene, A→T at nt942+3, interferes with the exon 5 donor splicing mechanism leading to a mRNA lacking exon 5. This mutation causes typical hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) and has been observed in numerous probands and families world wide. Recurrent mutations either arise repeatedly de novo or emanate from ancestral founding mutational events. The A→T mutation had previously been shown to be enriched in the population of Newfoundland where most families shared a founder mutation. In contrast, in England, haplotypes failed to suggest a founder effect. If the absence of a founder effect could be proven world wide, the frequent de novo occurrence of the mutation would constitute an unexplored predisposition. METHODS We studied 10 families from England, Italy, Hong Kong, and Japan with a battery of intragenic and flanking polymorphic single nucleotide and microsatellite markers. RESULTS Haplotype sharing was not apparent, even within the European and Asian kindreds. Our marker panel was sufficient to detect a major mutation arising within the past several thousand generations. DISCUSSION As a more ancient founder is implausible, we conclude that the A→T mutation at nt942+3 of MSH2 occurs de novo with a relatively high frequency. We hypothesise that it arises as a consequence of misalignment at replication or recombination caused by a repeat of 26 adenines, of which the mutated A is the first. It is by far the most common recurrent de novo germline mutation yet to be detected in a human mismatch repair gene, accounting for 11% of all known pathogenicMSH2 mutations.
The Natural History of Type B Niemann-Pick Disease: Results From a 10-Year Longitudinal Study

Objectives. Type B Niemann-Pick disease (NPD-B) caused by acid sphingomyelinase deficiency is a rare, autosomal recessive, lysosomal storage disorder with a broad range of disease severity. The objectives of this study were to document the natural history of the disease in a large, clinically heterogeneous patient population that was followed for a period of 10 years and to determine how genotype influences phenotype. Methods. Twenty-nine patients with NPD-B had serial evaluations at least 9 months apart. Organ volumes, hematologic indices, lipid concentrations, pulmonary function, and hepatic activity were studied, and individual phenotypic severity was compared with genotype. Results. All patients with intact spleens had splenomegaly (mean value: 12.7 multiples of normal [MN]; range: 4.5–27.3 MN), and all but 1 had hepatomegaly (mean volume: 1.91 MN; range: 0.93–3.21 MN). At initial visit, 39% had thrombocytopenia and 3% had leukopenia. At final visit, the percentages increased to 54% and 34%, respectively. Mean annual decreases in platelet count and leukocyte count were 7 × 103 and 0.2 × 103 per mm3, respectively. The typical atherogenic lipid profile was worse in older patients. A total of 69% of patients had low diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide, and more than one third had low forced expiratory volume in 1 second, forced vital capacity, and forced expiratory volume in 1 second/forced vital capacity at initial visit. All measurements of pulmonary function showed a gradual deterioration over time. Liver dysfunction was characterized by stable elevation of hepatic transaminases and bilirubin. Homozygotes for ΔR608, P323A, and P330R had milder disease than patients with all other genotypes. Conclusions. The natural history of NPD-B is characterized by hepatosplenomegaly with progressive hypersplenism, worsening atherogenic lipid profile, gradual deterioration in pulmonary function, and stable liver dysfunction.
Digital Traces in Context| Social Media Giveth, Social Media Taketh Away: Facebook, Friendships, and APIs

The early aughts saw an explosion of interest in social network sites. Many such sites, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter expanded to become “platforms,” meaning they are both websites and distributors of data. These data would typically be distributed to third parties in privacy-sensitive ways and regulated by the platform. Such access is based on balancing three issues: user privacy, generativity (i.e., capacity for novelty) for third parties, and control for platforms. Platforms appear to be seeking progressively more control at the cost of generativity by severely restricting third-party access to data about the user’s friends. The reductions or outright lack of access means that the insights from our digital traces are no longer as knowable to either third parties or users. This article unpacks this shift by clarifying some of the technical issues involved (particularly APIs, the main means of external data access). The case study of social network visualization is used to exemplify how social network sites seek control at the expense of generativity. The article notes how this shift was done with little oversight.
Creating Realistic Laboratory Settings: Comparative Studies of Three Think-Aloud Usability Evaluations of a Mobile System

This paper addresses the issue of creating a realistic laboratory setting when evaluating the usability of mobile systems. Three laboratory-based think-aloud evaluations of the same mobile system were designed and conducted for the purpose of comparing the impact of different approaches to creating realistic laboratory environments on the results subsequently produced. The three evaluations spanned the use of test subjects with and without domain specific knowledge and the use of low and high fidelity simulations of the use context. The results show similarities and differences in the results of the three evaluations. First, an equal number of usability problems are identified in the evaluations, and a standard laboratory involving non-domain subjects can identify severe problems. On the other hand, employing domain test subjects in a simulated laboratory seems to generate some additional problems which would be difficult to identify in the standard laboratory.
Voluntary direction of attention through alpha oscillations: Electrophysiological signatures of adaptive and maladaptive attentional orientation

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a recording of electrical activity of the brain. Certain patterns in the EEG can be related to specific cognitive operations. Neurons synchronize their activity when a sensory brain region is inactive, thereby producing rhythmic activity. These slow waves with a frequency of ~10 Hz are called alpha oscillations. Sensory information will be processed or ignored depending on the amount of alpha activity in brain regions associated with processing this information. Modulating alpha activity is thereby a mechanism to select important information for further processing. Resources for information processing can be allocated to specific sensory modalities, but also to select information based on location (spatial attention) or attributes such as color (feature-based attention). Even though the inhibitory influence of alpha activity is found to be pulsed, depending on the phase angle of the oscillation, experiments described in the current thesis do not support the hypothesis that information selection is also based on phase adjustment.