Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Identity formation, online resources, and young adults with type one diabetes mellitus : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

One of the fundamental processes of transitioning from being a teenager to a young emerging adult is the construction of a gendered identity. For a young emerging adult who has been diagnosed with type one diabetes mellitus, an extra layer of complexity has been added to this task. Previous research has found there to be a paucity of information about the interactions between type one diabetes mellitus and gendered identity formation, especially in the young emerging adult population in New Zealand. This study considered how living with type one diabetes mellitus influenced a young adult’s gendered identity construction, and how this identity is portrayed and shaped through the use of social networking internet sites. It also investigates what information is readily available online about type one diabetes mellitus for this population, and whether it mirrors their experiences. Interviews with six young New Zealand adults who had a diagnosis of type one diabetes mellitus were carried out, and four media articles about type one diabetes mellitus were accessed online. A grounded theory analysis was performed using a constant comparison approach. This resulted in a framework which explained how control over the chronic condition is the most important factor for the participants’ identity formation, and how gender issues, support from others and being supportive of others, perceptions of others, and the restrictions type one diabetes creates feeds into this sense of control. It also explained how social networking sites, a now popular mode of internet socialising, are an important mode of socialising and accessing non-type one diabetic support for the individuals studied. If a young adult has control over their condition, they are able to confidently incorporate it into their identity and be happier and healthier as a result. Insight into how this population manages their identity construction whilst incorporating their diagnosis, and also how social networking sites are utilised by this population, has implications for the provision of care by health professionals.
International Finance in the 1990s: Challenges and Opportunities

Part A: Global Considerations 1. Prospects for International Banking and Finance: Anthony D Loehnis (Vice Chairman, S G Warburg & Co, London) 2. International Search for Capital: William B Sechrest (Managing Director, Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC, Dallas, Texas) 3. Innovations in LDC Debt Conversions: Professor Carston Ebenroth (University of Konstanz, Germany) 4. Projecting Trends in International Bank Supervision: Post BCCI: Professor Joseph Norton Part B: International Financing Arrangements 5. Project Financing Concerns: Raymond Auerback (Partner, Heald Nickinson, London) 6. Developments in Eurolending Facilities and Syndicated Loans: Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia: Robert L Drake (Partner, Baker & McKenzie, London) 7. International Capital Market Financings: Selected Issues: Paul Monk (Partner, Allen & Overy, London) 8. US Legal Considerations on Global Offerings of Shares of Foreign Companies: Daniel Braverman (Associate, Clary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York) Part C: Trade Related Financings 9. The Ongoing Relevance of Forfaiting: Howard Waterman (Partner, Cameron Markby Hewitt, London) 10. Official Export Financing Arrangements: US, UK, EC and OECD: Grant D Aldonas (Partner, Miller & Chevalier, Washington) 11. The Increasing Importance of Countertrade: Adrian Montague (Partner, Linklaters & Paine, London) Part D: Niche Financings 12. Asset Securitization Developments: US and UK: David Barbour (Partner, Winstead Sechrest & Minick, Dallas, Texas) and Robin Parsons (Partner, Cameron Markby Hewitt, London) 13. Swap Financing: Schuyler Henderson (Partner, Baker & McKenzie, London) 14. Issues and Trends in Aircraft and Ship Financing from Current Methods: Gordon Hall (Partner, Norton Rose, London) Part E: Special Legal Concerns 15. The Rise of Currency Transaction Reporting and Regulation - The US Example: Professor Stephen K Huber (University of Houston, Texas) 16. International Coordination of Bankruptcy Proceedings: Professor Joel Trachtman (Fletchher School of Law & Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts).
DRAFT : Interactive Dynamic Response for Games

Dynamic response is a technique for employing a physical rea ction to an animated character. The technique utilizes a database of reactions as example motions to transition to following a dynami c simulation of an interaction. The search for the example to foll ow has been the stumbling block for bringing such a system into real time applications and in this paper, we address that issue by prop osing a number of speed-ups which make the approach faster than rea ltime and appropriate for an electronic game implementation . We accomplish this speed-up by using a supervised learning rou tine which trains offline on a large set of dynamic response exampl es and predicts online among the choices found in the database. Al o, we propose a near-optimal routine which finds the alignment o f the selected motion for the given scenario based on a sparse samp ling with an additional speed-up over the original algorthim. Wi th both of these changes in place, we enjoy a tremendous speed-up wit h inperceptable difference in the final motion compared to pre vious published results. Finally we offer a few additional altern atives that allow the user to choose between quality and speed based on th eir individual needs. I.3. 5,I.3. 7Computer GraphicsPhysically based modeling, Animation
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception

People - friends, family members, colleagues, salespeople - lie to us all the time. Daily, hourly, constantly. None of us is immune and all of us are victims. According to studies by several different researchers, most of us encounter nearly 200 lies a day. Now we can do something about it. "Liespotting" links three disciplines - facial recognition training, interrogation training and a comprehensive survey of research in the field - into a specialized body of information developed specifically to help business leaders detect deception and get the information they need to successfully conduct their most important interactions and transactions. Some of the nation's leading business executives have learned to use these methods to root out lies in high stakes situations.
RegMT System for Machine Translation, System Combination, and Evaluation

We present the results we obtain using our RegMT system, which uses transductive regression techniques to learn mappings between source and target features of given parallel corpora and use these mappings to generate machine translation outputs. Our training instance selection methods perform feature decay for proper selection of training instances, which plays an important role to learn correct feature mappings. RegMT uses L2 regularized regression as well as L1 regularized regression for sparse regression estimation of target features. We present translation results using our training instance selection methods, translation results using graph decoding, system combination results with RegMT, and performance evaluation with the F1 measure over target features as a metric for evaluating translation quality.
Associations of Metabolic Variables with Electrocardiographic Measures of Sympathovagal Balance in Healthy Young Adults

Although obesity affects African-Americans disproportionately to their representation in the U.S. population, few studies have been performed to elucidate the mechanisms of maintaining body fat stores in healthy adolescent or young adult African-Americans with low and high percentages of body fat, before they have developed obesity-related diseases. Research has suggested some explanations, such as distrust and hesitancy about invasive procedures, to account for the sparse representation of African-Americans as subjects in research (Hamilton et al., 2006; Farmer et al., 2007; Braunstein et al., 2008). Indeed, advances in our knowledge of the obese phenotype have been impeded by the lack of noninvasive technologies for measuring the impact of body fat on physiological regulatory mechanisms. However, this impediment has effectively been overcome by the advent of heart rate variability analyses for elucidating autonomic mechanisms (Lucini et al., 2002). Such analyses make it possible to differentiate a wide variety of conditions with common autonomic etiologies (Vanninen et al., 1996; Narkiewicz et al., 1998; Salo et al., 2000; Gutierrez et al., 2002; Pichon et al., 2004). Previous studies have shown correlations between increments in vagal signaling and high frequency heart rate variability spectral power during controlled (paced) breathing (De Meersman et al., 1995; Sanderson et al., 1996; Badra, 2001). Although the percentage of body fat may be a determinant of heart rate variability spectral power measured at rest (Nagai et al., 2003; Chen et al., 2008), the influence of body fat on heart rate variability measurements was found to be nil when performed at rest and significant only during an autonomic challenge (Matsumoto et al., 1999). We have demonstrated positive correlations of the low frequency/high frequency heart rate variability spectral power ratio with the respiratory quotient before and after feeding (Millis et al., 2009) and negative correlations with the
THE RANGE AND FINE SPECIFICITY OF THE ANTI‐HAPTEN IMMUNE RESPONSE: PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES

Heterodontus francisci (horned shark) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus (winter flounder) were immunized with furyl‐oxazolone (furyl‐Ox) and phenyl‐oxazolone (phenyl‐Ox) coupled either to bacteria or protein carriers. The antibodies produced were measured by inactivation of furyl‐ or phenyl‐Ox conjugated bacteriophage, and their affinity and fine specificity were estimated by inhibition of phage inactivation with a series of structurally related hapten analogues. In both species, post‐immunization peak titres were 100 to 2000 times higher than preimmunization titres.A number of unique features distinguished Heterodontus antibodies from Pseudopleuronectes or mammalian antibodies. Heterondontus antibodies exhibited a lower affinity for the immunizing hapten (furyl‐Ox or phenyl‐Ox) and a reduced ability to distinguish the homologous immunogenic hapten from its structural analogues. In addition, Heterodontus antibodies exhibited a lower level of inter‐individual variation in affinity and fine specificity than did Pseudopleuronectes or mammalian IgM antibodies; this was especially prominent in anti‐furyl‐Ox responses. Typically the affinity and fine specificity of Heterodontus antibodies did not change over the 146‐day period of immunization and were not influenced by the nature of the carrier. The implications of these findings in terms of the phylogenetic origins of antibody diversity are discussed.
Personal Influence and Power Distance: Acknowledging Local Culture Influence in Conceptualising Public Relations Practices in Asian Countries

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menyajikan bukti-bukti baru yang berkenaan dengan praktek Public Relations di negara-negara Asia. Berbagai penelitian yang terangkum dalam tulisan ini akan menjelaskan mengapa mengaplikasikan teori-teori Barat bergitu saja dalam kajian Public Relations seringkali kurang memberi hasil yang memuaskan. Ada faktor budaya-budaya lokal yang seringkali terlupakan ternyata memberikan kontribusi yang besar dalam pemahaman praktek Public Relations dalam budaya tertentu. Penelitian extensif dari Krishnamurty Sriramesh (1999) telah berhasil mengkonseptualisasikan sebuah Model Public Relations khusus untuk negara-negara Asia. Banyak penelitian Pubilc Relations di berbagai negara Asia telah membuktikan konseptualisasinya tersebut.
Why are we Afraid to Screen Adolescents for Depression

Depression is the fourth leading cause of global burden of disease [1]. Depression is present in all regions of the world, significantly affecting the younger and older age groups (World Health Organization [WHO], 2000; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [IHME], 2013) [2]. It is estimated that upwards of 8% of adolescents meet criteria for depression [3]. Depression during adolescence is a disabling condition that is associated with serious long-term morbidities and an increased risk of suicide [3-6]. It has been reported that among adolescents with major depression, as many as 7% commit suicide in their early adult years [7]. Yet despite these alarming statistics, adolescent depression often goes undiagnosed despite the availability of screening tools that have been demonstrated to be effective (National Institute for Health Care Management [NIHCM], 2010).
Foundations Of Family Therapy: A Conceptual Framework For Systems Change

* Prologue: Behind the Looking Glass * Early Research on Family Groups * The Dynamics of Social Fields * The Second Cybernetics * Typologies of Family Structure * The Concept of Family Paradigms * The Pathological Triad * The Rules of Congruence for Triads * Triads and the Management of Conflict * The Simple Bind and Discontinuous Change * The Thing in the Bushes * Breaking the Symptomatic Cycle * Family Therapy and the Great Originals * Historically Oriented Approaches to Family Therapy * Ecological, Structural, and Strategic Approaches * The Systemic Model * Theories About Therapeutic Binds * Issues on the Cutting Edge * Toward a New Epistemology
Soluble CD14 in children with status asthmaticus.

BACKGROUND Inflammation is a major component in the pathogenesis of asthma. CD14 is an endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide) receptor, and is expressed mainly on monocytes and macrophages. Binding of LPS to CD14 activates the monocyte or macrophage and causes the release of different cytokines. The soluble form of CD14 is present in serum, and its concentration increases in several clinical conditions, including infections, autoimmune disorders, allergic disorders, and lung diseases. The possible role of CD14/sCD14 in asthma has been investigated in a few adult patients only. OBJECTIVES To measure serum concentrations of sCD14 in children with status asthmaticus. METHODS We compared serum concentration of sCD14 in 10 children with status asthmaticus measured within 24 hours of admission and after recovery from the acute episode. RESULTS Levels of sCD14 were significantly higher during acute asthma attacks than at recovery. CONCLUSIONS The elevated serum levels of sCD14 during status asthmaticus may be the result of the activation of monocytes, macrophages or other cells. The influence of medications on serum sCD14 cannot be ruled out. The possible use of sCD14 as a marker of lung inflammation in asthma warrants further investigation.
Lanzamiento asociativo vs. balístico: echar vs. tirar

The aim is to understand what motivates the choice of echar or tirar to express the notion of "throwing". The literature highlights what they have in common rather than what distinguishes them. The hypothesis, however, is that since their framing differs they cannot be synonymous. The analysis tracks the conceptual differences in the preferred lexical associations in the trivalent constructions, as well as in the other constructions avai- lable for each verb. Beyond the variability of the components of the transfer event, each verb conveys its own construal, echar yielding an "associative" view, tirar a "ballistic" one. The difference in relational profile is further corroborated in the respective met- onymic and metaphoric extensions. The prototypical kinetic configuration is summarized in a final typological sketch.
Induction of diverse cardiac cell types by reprogramming fibroblasts with cardiac transcription factors

Various combinations of cardiogenic transcription factors, including Gata4 (G), Hand2 (H), Mef2c (M) and Tbx5 (T), can reprogram fibroblasts into induced cardiac-like myocytes (iCLMs) in vitro and in vivo. Given that optimal cardiac function relies on distinct yet functionally interconnected atrial, ventricular and pacemaker (PM) cardiomyocytes (CMs), it remains to be seen which subtypes are generated by direct reprogramming and whether this process can be harnessed to produce a specific CM of interest. Here, we employ a PM-specific Hcn4-GFP reporter mouse and a spectrum of CM subtype-specific markers to investigate the range of cellular phenotypes generated by reprogramming of primary fibroblasts. Unexpectedly, we find that a combination of four transcription factors (4F) optimized for Hcn4-GFP expression does not generate beating PM cells due to inadequate sarcomeric protein expression and organization. However, applying strict single-cell criteria to GHMT-reprogrammed cells, we observe induction of diverse cellular phenotypes, including those resembling immature forms of all three major cardiac subtypes (i.e. atrial, ventricular and pacemaker). In addition, we demonstrate that cells induced by GHMT are directly reprogrammed and do not arise from an Nxk2.5+ progenitor cell intermediate. Taken together, our results suggest a remarkable degree of plasticity inherent to GHMT reprogramming and provide a starting point for optimization of CM subtype-specific reprogramming protocols.
Subband acoustic waveform front-end for robust speech recognition using support vector machines

A subband acoustic waveform front-end for robust speech recognition using support vector machines (SVMs) is developed. The primary issues of kernel design for subband components of acoustic waveforms and combination of the individual subband classifiers using stacked generalization are addressed. Experiments performed on the TIMIT phoneme classification task demonstrate the benefits of classification in frequency subbands: the subband classifier outperforms the cepstral classifiers in the presence of noise for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) below 12dB.
A Brief History of Linear and Mixed-Integer Programming Computation

For many of us, modern-day linear programming (LP) started with the work of George Dantzig in 1947. However, it must be said that many other scientists have also made seminal contributions to the subject, and some would argue that the origins of LP predate Dantzig’s contribution. It is matter open to debate [36]. However, what is not open to debate is Dantzig’s key contribution to LP computation. In contrast to the economists of his time, Dantzig viewed LP not just as a qualitative tool in the analysis of economic phenomena, but as a method that could be used to compute actual answers to specific real-world problems. Consistent with that view, he proposed an algorithm for solving LPs, the simplex algorithm [12]. To this day the simplex algorithm remains a primary computational tool in linear and mixed-integer programming (MIP). In [11] it is reported that the first application of Dantzig’s simplex algorithm to the solution of a non-trivial LP was Laderman’s solution of a 21 constraint, 77 variable instance of the classical Stigler Diet Problem [41]. It is reported that the total computation time was 120 man-days! The first computer implementation of an at-least modestly general version of the simplex algorithm is reported to have been on the SEAC computer at the then National Bureau of Standards [25]. (There were apparently some slightly earlier implementations for dealing with models that were “triangular”, that is, where all the linear systems could be solved by simple addition and subtraction.) Orchard-Hays [35] reports that several small instances having as many as 10 constraints and 20 variables were solved with this implementation. The first systematic development of computer codes for the simplex algorithm began very shortly thereafter at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. Dantzig’s initial LP work occurred at the Air Force following
The Vicious Circle

ABSTRACT The reaction of citizens deeply disappointed with their government and its decisions differs from country to country, and in some cases, such as Latvia during the recent economic crisis, has been surprisingly passive. In this paper I argue that political passivity can be partly explained by psychological mechanisms triggered by constant under-performance and unresponsiveness of political authorities. Using International Social Survey Program 2006–2007 data, I construct a structural equation model which shows that government's performance can facilitate or hinder the development of civil society through its impact on (1) a sense of political efficacy, (2) political competence, and (3) interpersonal trust. Poor institutional performance and the following loss of trust in political authorities has a negative effect on people's perceptions of politics, of themselves and of each other, discouraging further engagement in all kinds of political activities. Considering the importance of civic participation for the quality of governance this creates a vicious circle which might not be easy to break. Finally, several theoretical perspectives are discussed that help to explain the formation and persistence of the vicious circle.
Network Calculus Modeling and QoS Analysis for Wireless Packet Networks

A modeling method for wireless packet networks based on Network Calculus (NC) theory, employing the concatenation of NC components to represent the effects of the modules constituting wireless packet networks model, is proposed in this paper. Three well-known scheduling algorithms are modified to agree with the proposed NC model. A new scheduling algorithm for packet networks is proposed in the context of NC. Simulations then are done to study the end-to-end QoS characteristics of the networks with different scheduling algorithms. The result shows that, in terms of the criterions defined in NC model, the scheduling algorithm proposed in this paper outperforms the existing three algorithms.
A routing approach to jamming mitigation in wireless multihop networks

Wireless networks are susceptible to localized disruptions, due to the shared nature of the medium. Radio jamming, the most common type of localized disruption causes wireless link failures. Jamming mitigation has been traditionally addressed in the physical and MAC layers. Such approaches come with added complexity and often require specialized hardware. We investigate whether a generally applicable routing layer approach, based on multipath routing coupled with power control, can mitigate the effects of jamming. We propose (1) proactive protection and (2) reactive protection techniques for jamming mitigation in wireless multihop networks with fixed nodes. For reactive protection, we propose a distributed geographic routing algorithm that finds alternative route to the destination, starting from the first node with failed link on the original path. We evaluate the performance of this algorithm using OPNET simulations.
Tagging a Norwegian Speech Corpus

This paper describes work on the grammatical tagging of a newly created Norwegian speech corpus: the first corpus of modern Norwegian speech. We use an iterative procedure to perform computer-aided manual tagging of a part of the corpus. This material is then used to train the final taggers, which are applied to the rest of the corpus. We experiment with taggers that are based on three different data-driven methods: memory-based learning, decision trees, and hidden Markov models, and find that the decision tree tagger performs best. We also test the effects of removing pauses and/or hesitations from the material before training and applying the taggers. We conclude that these attempts at cleaning up hurt the performance of the taggers, indicating that such material, rather than functioning as noise, actually contributes important information about the grammatical function of the words in their nearest context.