Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PARENT-CHILD CULTURAL MARGINALIZATION AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN ASIAN AMERICAN FAMILY MEMBERS

The current study findings refute the recent claim that marginality theory lacks construct validity. Cultural marginalization is significantly related to depressive symptoms in Korean American, Chinese American, and Japanese American parents and adolescents living in the United States. Correlational analyses indicate that adolescents' depressive symptoms are significantly related to Asian and Asian American marginality scores, whereas mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms are significantly related to their levels of Anglo and Asian American marginality. In a structural equation model, adolescents' Asian American marginalization and fathers' Anglo marginalization are significantly related to adolescents' depressive symptoms. It appears that marginality is a significant factor in the depressive symptoms of mothers, fathers, and adolescents. Furthermore, marginality scores of fathers and adolescents are both significant factors in adolescents' depressive symptoms. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Learning influential genes on cancer gene expression data with stacked denoising autoencoders

Cancer genome projects are characterizing the genome, epigenome and transcriptome of a large number of samples using the latest high-throughput sequencing assays. The generated data sets pose several challenges for traditional statistical and machine learning methods. In this work we are interested in the task of deriving the most informative genes from a cancer gene expression data set. For that goal we built denoising autoencoders (DAE) and stacked denoising autoencoders and we studied the influence of the input nodes on the final representation of the DAE. We have also compared these deep learning approaches with other existing approaches. Our study is divided into two main tasks. First, we built and compared the performance of several feature extraction methods as well as data sampling methods using classifiers that were able to distinguish the samples of thyroid cancer patients from samples of healthy persons. In the second task, we have investigated the possibility of building comprehensible descriptions of gene expression data by using Denoising Autoencoders and Stacked Denoising Autoencoders as feature extraction methods. After extracting information related to the description built by the network, namely the connection weights, we devised post-processing techniques to extract comprehensible and biologically meaningful descriptions out of the constructed models. We have been able to build high accuracy models to discriminate thyroid cancer from healthy patients but the extraction of comprehensible models is still very limited.
Reputation Enhancement and Involvement in Delinquency Among High School Students

The present research explored the relationship between high school students' self-reported delinquency and the importance of their social reputations. The prevalence of self-reported delinquency was investigated in a sample of 965 (467 males, 498 females) Years 8 to 12 students attending high schools in Brisbane and Perth, Australia. The results revealed that males are significantly more prone to all forms of delinquent behaviour than their female peers. Most forms of delinquency appeared to peak at Year 9, with the exception of drug use which increased with age. A cluster analysis was performed on the prevalence data and students were separated into two groups: students with high and low involvement in delinquency. The reputations of students with high and low delinquency involvement were investigated. Students identified as having low involvement in delinquency desired a more conforming reputation than those with high involvement. Females also desired a more conforming reputation than their male counterparts. In relation to year level, junior high school students were less conforming than senior high school students. Ways to address the powerful nature of adolescent reputations and the link between reputational status and involvement in delinquent activities are highlighted.
Effect of Foot Intrinsic Muscle Strength Training on Jump Performance

Fifteen subjects, 21–62 years old, participated in a 6-week toe flexor strengthening program using the archxerciser. Pre-and posttraining data for toe strength, vertical jump height simultaneously using the Just Jump and Vertec, and horizontal jump distance were collected for both control and exercise legs. Post hoc paired sample t-tests (p < 0.05) indicated significant improvement in all categories. This supported the hypothesis that the unconventional method of strength training the toe flexors should be considered a valuable adjunct in a training program designed to enhance vertical or horizontal jump ability. The relationship of different testing methods was also assessed. A Pearson correlation coefficient showed a significant (0.001 level) correlation when simultaneously using the Vertec and Just Jump to quantify vertical jump performance. A significant (0.01 level) correlation between individual performance in the vertical and horizontal jump was also identified. These results indicate that the tester is not restricted to a single testing device or method for assessment of jump performance.
The Challenge to be the Best: Reckless curiosity and mischievous motivation

In recent years, 'being the best' as a teacher has become less of a moral imperative based on a sense of integrity and trust, and more of a dictat from governments intent on imposing their performativity agendas on teachers in the name of raising standards. One consequence of the rise of the so-called school reform agenda is that there has been a demise of teacher renewal. Each of the papers in the present issue has addressed this paradox in one way or another. The present paper suggests that the models of teacher development adopted by policy-makers do not adequately address teachers' learning needs over a career or contribute to enhancing motivation and commitment essential to raising standards in the classroom. It concludes by suggesting that universities themselves have a moral commitment to develop further new kinds of sustained knowledge, creating roles with schools and teachers through which teachers' active professionalism will be enriched.
On Clusters in Open Source Ecosystems

This paper seeks to find characteristics of relationships between developers within various clusters of FLOSS ecosystems. We have mined the repository of the open source programming language Ruby, and linked developers and projects on the basis of collaboration. We used Social Network Analysis, and more specifically, the concept of modularity to expose underlying clusters or sub-communities. A survey was constructed to aid in the qualitative part of this research. The data shows that Ruby’s ecosystem consist mostly of single developers who work independently. Developers within clusters of a few developers often have personal relationships formed through friendship, work and the open source community. Personal relationships formed through the open source community grow as clusters consist of more developers. Developers in clusters with large number of developers are often unaware of friend-of-friend relationships. Project administrators, however, fail to list developers that contribute through pull/request issues as authors, making data on Ruby’s repository incomplete.
A study of personality in children aged 8–12 years: Comparing self‐ and parents' ratings

This cross‐sectional study was designed to investigate personality in children aged 8–12 years. Children's self‐perceptions were compared to parent's ratings. Parents of 506 children completed the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children (HiPIC) and children completed a selection of 38 questions from the HiPIC. Results showed that children aged 11–12 years present higher structural congruence, higher reliabilities and higher mean correlation with parents' description than children aged 8–9 years. Interestingly reliabilities of parents' ratings were also higher for older children. Mean levels were higher in younger children for Imagination in parents' ratings and for Benevolence, Conscientiousness and Imagination, in children's ratings. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Circulating plasma vascular endothelial growth factor in mice bearing human ovarian carcinoma xenograft correlates with tumor progression and response to therapy

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) performs as an angiogenic and permeability factor in ovarian cancer, and its overexpression has been associated with poor prognosis. However, models to study its role as a marker of tumor progression are lacking. We generated xenograft variants derived from the A2780 human ovarian carcinoma (1A9), stably transfected with VEGF121 in sense (1A9-VS-1) and antisense orientation (1A9-VAS-3). 1A9, 1A9-VS-1, and 1A9-VAS-3 disseminated in the peritoneal cavity of nude mice, but only 1A9-VS-1, the VEGF121-overexpressing tumor variant, produced ascites. Tumor biopsies from 1A9-VS-1 showed alterations in the vascular pattern and caused an angiogenic response in the chorioallantoic membrane assay. A significant level of soluble VEGF was detectable in the plasma of mice bearing 1A9-VS-1 even at an early stage of tumor growth. Plasma VEGF correlated positively with tumor burden in the peritoneal cavity and ascites accumulation. Cisplatin reduced the tumor burden and ascites in mice bearing 1A9-VS-1; the response was associated with a significant decrease of VEGF in plasma. This 1A9-VS-1 xenograft model reproduces the behavior of human ovarian cancer by growing in the peritoneal cavity, being highly malignant, and producing ascites. Plasma VEGF as a marker of tumor progression offers a valuable means of detecting early tumor response and following up treatments in an animal model.
An Interview with Don Seiden

AbstractThis article is based on an interview with Don Seiden—artist, educator, and regional pioneer in the field of art therapy practice and training in the Midwest. A personal account of his career path features ground-breaking work with two very different institutions and the training program which grew out of his connections to both. Reflections on historical developments in the field are followed by thoughts on future trends in the profession. Central to the conversation is the theme of the unique perspective artists can bring to the fields of mental health and science by their ability to sort and combine information and bring order out of chaos.
The Ideal Voting Interface: Classifying Usability

This work presents a feature-oriented taxonomy for commercial electronic voting machines, which focuses on usability aspects. Based on this analysis, we propose a ‘Just-Like-Paper’ (JLP) classification method which identifies five broad categories of eVoting interface. We extend the classification to investigate its application as an indicator of voting efficiency and identify a universal ten-step process encompassing all possible voting steps spanning the twenty-six machines studied. Our analysis concludes that multi-functional and progressive interfaces are likely to be more efficient versus multi-modal voter-activated machines.
An improved approach for frequency empirical mode decomposition

Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is an adaptive signal processing method. However as an empirical method, EMD not only lacks the mathematical theoretical foundation, but also has end effect, overshoots or undershoots, IMF criteria problem during the sifting process. Especially because of the special sift method, EMD always decomposes wideband signal from high frequency to low frequency, the decomposition sequence may not be chosen. These characteristics bring on the incapability of separating components in structural health monitoring. This paper firstly proposed a modified FFT approach which can make the effective bandwidth up to twice Nyquist frequency, then apply this tools to improve frequency EMD method. From simulated example, it is can be seen that the analysis effect of frequency EMD was improved by this way.
Research Note

The issue of take-up of means-tested benefits is of long standing concern in social policy debates. This paper analyses take-up of Family Income Supplement (FIS) using the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 1986 Income Distribution Survey (illS). Although FIS was replaced by the Family Allowance Supplement in 1987, the IDS is the most recently available data source that can be used to estimate take-up levels and identify possible factors that may explain take-up of similar benefits. This paper estimates take-up by comparing the number and characteristics of persons who said they were currently receiving FIS at the time of the survey with the number whose current income and family characteristics appeared to make them eligible for FIS. Although estimates of take-up are quite low and raise a number of concerns about the effectiveness of income tested supplements in reaching the groups they are intended to assist, the main conclusion of the paper is that results using IDS data should only be regarded as approximations. It is suggested that an appropriate approach to understanding and analysing take-up of FAS in the future may involve a survey specially designed to monitor take-up.
English imperative sentences

The fullest account of English imperative sentences considered in the context of a transformational grammar is contained in Katz & Postal (1964: 74–9). Their account forms part of a discussion of the general thesis that transformations do not affect the meaning of sentences, and of the proposal that follows as a natural corollary of this thesis, that the set of optional singulary transformations be restricted to those usually referred to as ‘stylistic’ transformations. Instead of treating imperative sentences as derived from declarative kernels, therefore, they postulate the occurrence of an imperative morpheme (Imp) in the underlying phrase-markers of imperative sentences. This, they assume, marks these structures as the domain of the imperative transformations and imposes certain selectional restrictions upon them. The notion of the Imp morpheme, which is the most original and most important part of Katz and Postal's analysis of imperative sentences, is adopted in this paper and the occurrence of the morpheme in the deep-structure of all imperative sentences is assumed throughout it. In the rest of their analysis, however, Katz and Postal draw upon more traditional ideas, one of which is disputable.
A game theoretic formulation of the service provisioning problem in cloud systems

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm which allows the on-demand delivering of software, hardware, and data as services. As cloud-based services are more numerous and dynamic, the development of efficient service provisioning policies become increasingly challenging. Game theoretic approaches have shown to gain a thorough analytical understanding of the service provisioning problem. In this paper we take the perspective of Software as a Service (SaaS) providers which host their applications at an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. Each SaaS needs to comply with quality of service requirements, specified in Service Level Agreement (SLA) contracts with the end-users, which determine the revenues and penalties on the basis of the achieved performance level. SaaS providers want to maximize their revenues from SLAs, while minimizing the cost of use of resources supplied by the IaaS provider. Moreover, SaaS providers compete and bid for the use of infrastructural resources. On the other hand, the IaaS wants to maximize the revenues obtained providing virtualized resources. In this paper we model the service provisioning problem as a Generalized Nash game, and we propose an efficient algorithm for the run time management and allocation of IaaS resources to competing SaaSs.
Matching for attractiveness in romantic partners and same-sex friends: A meta-analysis and theoretical critique.

Seventeen studies of similarity in physical attractiveness between members of romantic couples or pairs of same-sex friends, employing 34 independent samples of dyads, were retrieved. Meta-analysis found the interpartner correlation for attractiveness to be higher for romantic couples than for pairs of friends. For couples, the correlations were homogeneous across 27 samples, with an average correlation of . 39 (.49 after correction for attenuation). For pairs of friends, variations among correlations were found but were explained by gender of dyad: the matching effect was obtained only with men. Romantic partners were also similar in their self-ratings of attractiveness. These findings were related to contemporary theories of relationship formation.
Affect regulation strategies and perceived emotional adjustment for negative and positive affect: A study on anger, sadness and joy

This study examines affect regulation and adaptive goals with regard to negative and positive emotional episodes. A sample of 355 undergraduate students were asked to recall an important past-year interpersonal episode of joy, anger, and sadness. Participants reported how they regulated mood and emotions associated with those episodes, filling in an expanded version of Larsen and Prizmic’s Measure of Affect Regulation Styles and also responded to measures of perceived attainment of adaptive goals for each emotional episode and psychological well-being. Affect regulation based on gratitude/self-reward, reappraisal, helping others, and seeking informative and emotional social support showed similarly high frequencies in all emotional episodes. Problem-directed action and planning, low withdrawal, seeking instrumental social support, reappraisal, rumination, active physiological regulation, gratitude/self-reward, acceptance/self-control and regulated emotional expression were related to perceived improvement in adaptive goals in all episodes. Seeking emotional and informative social support, spiritual activities, and humor were associated with adaptive goals in anger and joy. Suppression was dysfunctional in sadness and anger episodes, whereas isolation was only in anger episode. Distraction, wishful thinking, venting and confrontation were functional only in joy episode. Overall, these strategies were congruently associated with dispositional suppression and re-evaluation and psychological well-being. Regulation was globally higher in sadness and anger episodes, but venting and expression of humor and affection were higher in joy. Correlations between affect regulation strategies and adaptive goals were stronger in joy. Regulation of positive emotion is discussed as less intense but more successful than in the case of negative emotion. However, the core of adaptive regulation is importantly common to positive and negative affect.
Modifying SO-PMI for Japanese Weblog Opinion Mining by Using a Balancing Factor and Detecting Neutral Expressions

We propose a variation of the SO-PMI algorithm for Japanese, for use in Weblog Opinion Mining. SO-PMI is an unsupervised approach proposed by Turney that has been shown to work well for English. We first used the SO-PMI algorithm on Japanese in a way very similar to Turney's original idea. The result of this trial leaned heavily toward positive opinions. We then expanded the reference words to be sets of words, tried to introduce a balancing factor and to detect neutral expressions. After these modifications, we achieved a well-balanced result: both positive and negative accuracy exceeded 70%. This shows that our proposed approach not only adapted the SO-PMI for Japanese, but also modified it to analyze Japanese opinions more effectively.
Nonlinear controllability of leader-follower formation for multi-robots

The controllability of the cascade leader-follower formation system for multi-robots is studied based on the controllability rank condition for general nonlinear system. For the cascade robot formation system, bearing-only unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is used for the state estimation of the leader and the follower robots at all levels, which enables the real-time movement control of the follower robots via input-output feedback control. Simulation results prove the controllability of the cascade robot formation system.
Perception of biological motion at varying eccentricity

Purpose: Items in the periphery are harder to see than those in the fovea. The degree of difficulty depends on the task and stimuli used. We investigated the size threshold for determining a point-light walker's direction of motion both in the fovea and in the periphery. The rate at which this threshold increases as stimuli are shown farther into the periphery is described by the eccentricity (E 2) at which a stimulus magnified to twice the size would show equivalent performance in the fovea. Method: Point-light treadmill walkers of different sizes were presented by method of constant stimuli at four levels of eccentricity: 0, 10, 20, and 40 degrees. Participants reported which direction the walker was headed (right or left) without feedback. Results: Threshold size was surprisingly small. Thus a six-foot walker's direction could be discerned at a distance of 1400 feet at the fovea and at about 85 feet at 40 degrees eccentricity. E 2 values ranged from 3.1 to 3.8. Conclusions: In comparison to significantly lower E 2 values for both simple and more complex form tasks, these high E 2 values suggest that the periphery is more efficient in coding complex moving patterns. It is of interest to determine whether other perceived aspects of biological motion, for example gender, have similar E 2 values.
Structure of Swine Vesicular Disease Virus: Mapping of Changes Occurring during Adaptation of Human Coxsackie B5 Virus To Infect Swine

ABSTRACT The structure of swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) was solved and refined at a 3.0-Å resolution by X-ray crystallography to gain information about the role of sequence changes that occurred as this virus evolved from the parental human pathogen coxsackievirus B5 (CVB5). These amino acid substitutions can be clustered in five distinct regions: (i) the antigenic sites, (ii) the hydrophobic pocket of the VP1 β-sandwich, (iii) the putative CAR binding site, (iv) the putative heparan sulfate binding site, and (v) the fivefold axis. The VP1 pocket is occupied by a branched pocket factor, apparently different from that present in the closely related virus CVB3 and in other picornaviruses. This finding may be relevant for the design of new antiviral compounds against this site. Density consistent with the presence of ions was observed on the fivefold and threefold axes. The structure also provided an accurate description of the putative receptor binding sites.
Overcoming Ongoing Digital Transformational Challenges with a Microservices Architecture

This cannot be done with traditional multi-tier Web applications — the de facto standard for building applications that enable today’s era of Internet applications — as they are too difficult to develop, test and maintain. Multi-tier Web apps typically consist of a complex code base, as the result of enormous functionality built into a single Web application. Further, a single change can affect multiple sub-units, creating a much larger and more complicated testing effort, requiring testers to understand various code interdependencies or test the entire application for each change. Lastly, because changing even a single aspect of these monolithic applications affects the entire code base, it slows down the testing process and makes it error-prone.