Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Exploration study of Effectiveness of Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) on Children Internalizing Behavior Problems

The application of positive parenting training for mothers and fathers which affects family members has received little attention and research interest in Iran. Therefore the current research is necessary. More than ever, the family today has a significant role to play in their children's development. The major purpose of this current study is to determine the effect of child-parent relationship therapy (CPRT) on children's internalizing symptoms (anxiety, fearfulness, depression and withdrawal). The study is an experimental research among mothers of children in primary school with internalizing behavioral problems in Tehran, Iran. Respondents comprised of 43 mothers in the experimental group and 43 other mothers in the control group who were randomly assigned. A CPRT as a training program was conducted with the experimental group over ten sessions lasting a total of two months. Instruments for data collection included the Children's Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and one intervention in the form of CPRT, applied in the experimental stage. The results of the present study indicated that there is a significant difference in the internalizing symptoms between pre- and post-tests in the experimental group. They also demonstrated that CPRT as a treatment in the experimental group was effective and led to a significant change in maternal perspective as reflected by a decrease in the internalizing behavior problems of children (F (1, 42) = 85.62, p<. 01, ηp 2 = . 67, F=. 9). In conclusion, the mothers in this program learned reflective listening, recognizing and responding to children's feelings, all of which in turn improved their children's behaviour.
Fostering Sustainable Travel Behavior : Role of Sustainability Labels and Goal-Directed Behavior Regarding Touristic Services

Individuals around the globe engage in sustainable consumption in their everyday life, e.g., when it comes to individual transportation. Although tourism behavior contributes to global carbon emissions to a considerable extent, consumers’ awareness of sustainability in the tourism industry is still underresearched. Placing eco-labels next to tourist offers on websites might direct consumer’s perception towards more sustainable offers. By employing eye-tracking techniques and surveys, this research aimed at linking information about sustainable tourist offers, perception of eco-labels and subsequent perception and preferences of tourism services. In Study 1, eight existing hotel offers with sustainability certification (four different labels) were selected and their websites presented to 48 participants (four websites each), whose eye movements were tracked. After looking at each website, they rated the overall appearance of the website. Based on the results, in the second study, participants’ (n = 642) awareness of labels, their values and attitudes regarding sustainable behavior were found to influence their preference for certified tour operators. In addition, individuals’ ideas of their perfect holidays were captured to allow a better understanding of their motivation. This research proposes implementing appropriate sustainable labeling in the tourism industry to increase awareness about sustainability among travelers and subsequently increase sustainable travel behavior.
Servo DC Motor Position Control Based on Sliding Mode Approach

Abstrac A novel controller based on the sliding mode (SM) approach is designed for controlling DC motor in a servo drive. The modeling and analysis of the servo DC motor are obtained. The sliding mode controller (SMC) design changes such that its performance is substantially improved. To improve the controller performance in steady stat (zero error) the integral sliding mode controller (ISMC) is used. Since the main drawback of SMC is a phenomenon, the so-called chattering and resulting from discontinuous controllers. An ISMC with switched gains is used for chattering reduction and controller robustness. For comparison, the proposed ISM with switched gains is compared with that of a PID controller. Digital simulations have been carried out in order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. The proposed controller offers very good tracking; it is highly robust, reaches the final position very fast. Furthermore the application of the SM ensures reduction of the system order by one. Also, quick recovery from matched disturbance in addition to good tracking ability is evaluated. Moreover, this scheme is robust against the parameters variations and eliminates the influence of modeling.
On Extensions to Fisher's Linear Discriminant Function

This correspondence describes extensions to Fisher's linear discriminant function which allow both differences in class means and covariances to be systematically included in a process for feature reduction. It is shown how the Fukunaga-Koontz transform can be combined with Fisher's method to allow a reduction of feature space from many dimensions to two. Performance is seen to be superior in general to the Foley-Sammon method. The technique is developed to show how a new radius vector (or pair of radius vectors) can be combined with Fisher's vector to produce a classifier with even more power of discrimination. Illustrations of the technique show that good discrimination can be obtained even if there is considerable overlap of classes in any one projection.
"Mechanisms and Relations": A Response to the Comments

Reacting to the original papers outlining the importance of “social mechanisms,” this paper contrasts two views of the social process, the mechanismal and the relational. In the sources here analyzed, the mechanismal perspective is largely based on methodological individualism and generally presupposes rational, or at least intentional, action. A fundamental assumption of this approach is that the meaning of an action is given in itself. The relational view by contrast holds that the meaning of an action arises only from its relation to other actions, both temporally and structurally. The relational view takes not actors but interaction as primitive and focuses on the scene (context) of action rather than the intentions of actors. The paper investigates these differences by examining the Elsterian mechanisms of “endowment” and “contrast,” both theoretically and through the example of application of students to institutions of higher education in America.
Structural Relationships between Factors Affecting M-learners’ Course Satisfaction and Learning Persistence

This study investigated whether college students’ self-efficacy, learning strategy utilization, academic burnout, and school support predict course satisfaction and learning persistence. To this end, self-efficacy, learning strategy utilization, academic burnout, and school support were used as prediction variables; and course satisfaction and learning persistence, as criterion variables. The subjects were 178 students who registered for online and mobile “Culture and Art History” courses at K online university in the second quarter of 2012. They participated in an online survey. Multiple regression analysis revealed that self-efficacy and learning strategy utilization positively predicted course satisfaction and learning persistence, academic burnout negatively predicted them, and school support predicted neither. Accordingly, we suggest that raising self-efficacy and learning strategy utilization, and reducing academic burnout in the learning environment will improve the course satisfaction and learning persistence of online learners.
Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Well-Being: Is it How Often, How Long, or How Much Effort that Matters? A Test of Basic Psychological Needs Theory

The primary objectives of the present study were 1) to examine the relationship between health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) and well-being across the previous day and 2) to examine the role of basic psychological need satisfaction as a potential mediator of the HEPA – well-being relationship. Participants (N = 203) were a convenience sample of undergraduate students with data collected cross sectionally. HEPA was generally associated with well-being (r‟s ranged from .18 to .62). Multiple mediation analyses supported psychological need satisfaction as mechanisms underpinning the HEPA – wellbeing relationship. Subsequent analyses demonstrated that effort put forth in HEPA activities, as opposed to frequency or duration, uniquely predicted well-being. The role of effort was further highlighted in the multiple mediation analyses. As such future research may wish to investigate the utility of a HEPA program that facilitates effortful engagement and fulfillment of basic psychological needs.
Architectural Patterns and Quality Attributes Interaction

Architectural patterns and styles represent common solutions to recurrent problems. They encompass architectural knowledge about how to achieve holistic system quality. The relation between patterns (or styles) and quality attributes has been regularly addressed in the literature. However, there is a lack of a consolidated and systematically built reference capturing this relation and eventually making it available for reuse in the form of patterns-quality attributes knowledge. If captured, this knowledge can be used as an architectural decision framework where solutions (patterns) are strongly intertwined with quality (attributes). Such a framework should also contemplate variants and combinations of patterns. In order to create the framework, we first proposed a lightweight theory on the interaction of patterns/styles and quality attributes. That framework has been built by starting from a key study on the interaction between architectural patterns and quality attributes. We then challenged the theory against the systematic survey of a pilot set of primary studies. This paper presents the preliminary results of this survey on architectural patterns and styles, and their interaction with quality attributes. The preliminary results show that the initial theory can work as a platform for integrating the body of knowledge gathered through the analysis.
ADME of Antibody–Maytansinoid Conjugates

The concept of treating cancer with antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) has gained momentum with the favorable activity and safety of trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1), SAR3419, and lorvotuzumab mertansine (IMGN901). All three ADCs utilize maytansinoid cell-killing agents which target tubulin and suppress microtubule dynamics. Each ADC utilizes a different optimized chemical linker to attach the maytansinoid to the antibody. Characterizing the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of these ADCs in preclinical animal models is important to understanding their efficacy and safety profiles. The ADME properties of these ADCs in rodents were inferred from studies with radio-labeled ADCs prepared with nonbinding antibodies since T-DM1, SAR3419, IMGN901 all lack cross-reactivity with rodent antigens. For studies exploring tumor localization and activation in tumor-bearing mice, tritium-labeled T-DM1, SAR3419, and IMGN901 were utilized. The chemical nature of the linker was found to have a significant impact on the ADME properties of these ADCs—particularly on the plasma pharmacokinetics and observed catabolites in tumor and liver tissues. Despite these differences, T-DM1, SAR3419, and IMGN901 were all found to facilitate efficient deliveries of active maytansinoid catabolites to the tumor tissue in mouse xenograft models. In addition, all three ADCs were effectively detoxified during hepatobiliary elimination in rodents.
CATEGORICAL ALTERNATIVES: AN EDUCATIONAL CRITICISM STUDY

In the writing of this paper, the design of which is based on Elliot Eisner’s Educational Criticism model, both linguistic and non-linguistic description were used to encourage the interpretation and evaluation of a specific and unique alternative educational setting. Five years ago, Ellen’s Learning Annex, a multi-age, one-room school house, was just next door to the researcher, while her son was struggling at the public school a mile away. A day spent observing Ellen and her students yielded data from which three general themes emerged: Heterogeneous age-grouping, place-based education, and sensory integration in a teaching and learning environment.
Predicting touch operations by using hover information in smartphones for data prefetching

This paper presents new methods to predict input operations on smartphones. Frequently occurring poor network conditions such as low signal strength or congestion of the radio link can increase the latency of smartphone operations. Prediction can improve the latency by prefetching the content that is requested by the predicted operation. We developed methods to predict the input operation by using hover detection on the touch screen. Smartphone functions in recent years have included a function to detect the position of a finger several centimeters above the touch screen. The touch position and the type of operation to be performed are predicted by using the detected positions of the finger before the finger touches the screen. We evaluated this method on a smartphone launcher application. The results indicated that our methods were effective for predicting the operation and improving the latency.
OCD Ireland Reaching GPs: a Community-Based Research Project Examing How OCD Ireland's Communication is Received by General Practitioners

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the DIT Access and Civic Engagement Office at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Students Learning with Communities: All of these projects were undertaken in collaboration with community partners and supervised by academic staff members by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact yvonne.desmond@tudublin.ie, arrow.admin@tudublin.ie, brian.widdis@tudublin.ie.
A theory and method of love.

This research was part of a larger research program on love and sex attitudes. Earlier work on love was reported in Hendrick, Hendrick, Foote, and Slapion-Foote (1984). The work on love extends Lee's (1973/1976) theory of six basic love styles: Eros (passionate love), Ludus (game-playing love), Storge (friendship love), Pragma (logical, "shopping list" love), Mania (possessive, dependent love), and Agape (all-giving, selfless love). Theory development has proceeded concurrently with the development of measurement scales. Study I (N = 807) used a 42-item rating questionnaire, with 7 items measuring each of the love styles. Six love style scales emerged clearly from factor analysis. Internal reliability was shown for each scale, and the scales had low intercorrelations with each other. Significant relationships were found between love attitudes and several background variables, including gender, ethnicity, previous love experiences, current love status, and self-esteem. Confirmatory Study II (N = 567) replicated factor structure, factor loadings, and reliability analyses of the first study. In addition, the significant relationships between love attitudes and gender, previous love experiences, current love status, and self-esteem were also consistent with the results of Study I. The love scale shows considerable promise as an instrument for future research on love.
Family Politics, Family Policy, and Family Practice: A Feminist Perspective

This paper examines family practice theory and family policy from a feminist perspective. The conceptual barriers presented by existing language are identified. The ideology which underlies power relationships in families is examined, and the toll exerted by “labours of love” on women's mental health outlined. Strategies for work with families which incorporate a feminist perspective are presented.
Second order Mumford-Shah model for image denoising

A second order Mumford-Shah model is proposed for image denoising. Unlike the original Mumford-Shah model, the proposed new model uses second order derivatives defined in bounded Hessian space as its regulariser. This model is capable of eliminating the undesirable staircase effect associated with the original Mumford-Shah model with a total variation regulariser. Unlike other second order models that use bounded Hessian regulariser, the proposed new model does not blur the edges in the restored image. To improve computational efficiency, the implementation of the proposed model does not directly solve the high order nonlinear partial differential equations and instead exploit the efficient split Bregman algorithm, which uses the fast Fourier transform. Numerical experiments are conducted to compare the performance of the new model in image denoising with those of the original Mumford-Shah model and the pure second order model.
Measuring stellar magnetic fields with the low-resolution spectropolarimeter of the William Herschel Telescope

Although the influence of magnetic fields on the structure and evolution of stars has, to a great extent, been demonstrated theoretically, observational evidence for this in non-degenerated stars is still rather scarce and is mainly restricted to bright objects (V 600, show an internal error of <50 G when selecting the whole interval and <200 G within a Balmer line. Ripples in the Stokes V spectra of HD 3360 result in an instrumental positive magnetic field certainly no larger than 80 G.
Expression of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor in the Cerebral Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

We observe the expression of HIF-1 after middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) by immunohistochemical method.Thirty-six Sprague-Dawley healthy male rats, with body mass of 250-330 g, were used in this study. Thirty-six rats were randomized into 3 groups: pre-ischemia group, sham-operation group and control group, with 12 rats in each.Rats in the pre-ischemia group were created into pre-ischemia models by two embolisms twice. Three days after ischemic preconditioning, middle cerebral artery (MCA) was occluded for 2 hours with the same method. After being perfused for 22 hours, the rats were euthanized. In the sham-operation group, rats were not given the treatment of pre-ischemia. In the first operation, only common carotid artery (CCA) and its crotch were exposed in the first operation, and MCA was not blocked by inserting embolism. At postoperative 3 days, rats were euthanized after being subjected to MCAO for 2 hours and reperfusion 22 hours by the same procedure as that in the pre-ischemia group. As for each rat in the control group, only CCA and its crotch were exposed, and no any other treatment was carried out on them.Brain tissue of each rat was performed immunohisto- chemical staining at reperfusion 22 hours after pre-ischemia, HIF-1 expression and brain infarct volume were detected. Thirty-six Sprague-Dawley rats were involved in the experiment. During the experiment, 8 rats dropped out, and another 8 rats were supplemented. The infarct volume of rats in the pre-ischemia group was significantly smaller than that in the sham-operation group &#65288;P < 0.01&#65289;. HIF-1 expression was not found in the control group, but many HIF-1 positive cells were found in the other two groups. Absorbance in the pre-ischemia group was significantly higher than that in the sham-operation group (P < 0.01). Slight ischemia caused preconditioning can increase HIF-1 content, and it is one of protective mechanisms for nerve cells.
HUMAN CD154 INDUCES ACTIVATION OF PORCINE ENDOTHELIAL CELLS AND UP-REGULATION OF MHC CLASS II EXPRESSION

Background. CD40 is expressed on a number of antigen-presenting cells and also on vascular endothelium. It has been shown that engagement of CD40 on vascular endothelium by CD154 on platelets and CD154-bearing cell lines leads to the induction of adhesion molecule expression. Having cloned porcine CD40, and shown that it is capable of binding human CD154, we investigate whether human CD154 can activate porcine endothelial cells (EC) through CD40 ligation. Methods. Human Jurkat clone D1.1 (CD154+), or clone E6.1 (CD154-), were co-cultured with EC from pig aorta and human aorta and umbilical vein for various times in the presence or absence of blocking antibody to CD154. Results. Human and pig EC were shown to express CD40 by flow cytometry by using soluble human CD154 (CD154C&kgr;). Co-culture of pig EC with CD154-expressing Jurkat D1.1 cells led to the induction of E-selectin by 6 hr (peak 24 hr) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) by 6 hr (peak 48 hr). Similar results were also observed with human EC. Porcine EC were induced to up-regulate major histocompatibility complex class II at 24 hr by co-culture with Jurkat D1.1 cells through a CD40-dependent mechanism. In contrast, no up-regulation was observed on human EC. Conclusions. A number of cells can express CD154, including T cells, natural killer cells, and platelets, and these could signal graft EC through the CD40 pathway. These results demonstrate a possible role for the CD40 pathway in the activation of vascular endothelium in the rejection of porcine xenografts.
Elafin Prevents Lipopolysaccharide-induced AP-1 and NF-κB Activation via an Effect on the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway*

The serine anti-protease elafin is expressed by monocytes, alveolar macrophages, neutrophils, and at mucosal surfaces and possesses antimicrobial activity. It is also known to reduce lipopolysaccharide-induced neutrophil influx into murine alveoli as well as to abrogate lipopolysaccharide-induced production of matrix metalloprotease 9, macrophage inhibitory protein 2, and tumor necrosis factor-α by as-yet unidentified mechanisms. In this report we have shown that elafin inhibits the lipopolysaccharide-induced production of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in monocytes by inhibiting AP-1 and NF-κB activation. Elafin prevented lipopolysaccharide-induced phosphorylation of AP-1, c-Jun, and JNK but had no effect on phosphorylation of p38. The lipopolysaccharide-induced degradation of IL-1R-associated kinase 1, IκBα, and IκBβ was inhibited by elafin but phosphorylation of IκBα was unaffected. Polyubiquitinated protein including polyubiquitinated IκBα was shown to accumulate in the presence of elafin. These results suggest that inhibition by elafin of lipopolysaccharide-induced AP-1 and NF-κB activation occurs via an effect on the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.
Research on Side Channel Attack for USB Key

With the development of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) information technology, USB Key are being more and more used. When the Side Channel Attacks (SCA) caused a huge threat to the smart card, we also concerned about the impact which will be given on USB Key's security. Because of the different implementation and interface protocols, the side channel security characteristics between them are different in collecting the information of side channel. This paper proposes a method for acquiring power trace of USB Key. The method is a kind of driving design, which involves three aspects: Bus driver, card Reader driver and USB Key device driver. In order to confirm the design, we collected power trace from four kinds of USB Key, then the SCA performed to prove that the information we collected can be used. Some specific experimental results will be demonstrated in this paper.