Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Maternal Attachment Behaviors with their Children Having Atopic Dermatitis

Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD), known as one of the psychosomatic disorders, is a chronic skin disease challenging to the mother-child relationship and affecting the socio-emotional development of young children. This study aimed to elaborate the unique patterns of mothers’ attachment behavior in relation their children suffering from atopic dermatitis. Methods: Using Q-methodology, the final 50 Qstatements were obtained from the in-depth interviews with the mothers of children with atopic dermatitis; 25 P-samples did the Q-sorting. The PQ method was used for analyzing Q-sort data. Results: Five distinctive types of maternal attachment behavior with their children having atopic dermatitis were obtained: Ⅰ. Sensitive Affectionate, Ⅱ. Attentive Concerned, Ⅲ. Burdened Reactive, Ⅳ. Self-assured Responsive, and Ⅴ. Distant Engaged. These types demonstrate that mothers of children having atopic dermatitis seemingly hold complex and contradictory attachment behaviors toward their children. The derived types were expanded and discussed in terms of both ‘Mother’s Attribution to Child Personality’ and ‘Devotion to the Atopic Dermatitis Condition’, which delineate the unique and/or shared common themes across five types. Conclusions: We obtained the various type of maternal attachment relationship with their children having atopic dermatitis depending on mothers’ attribution to personality of their children and their devotion to their child’s AD conditions. In caring for families of young children suffering with atopic dermatitis, the delineation of mothers’ attachment behavior with their child based on the five types derived would be beneficial for the health care provider to build an individualized care not only to enhance children’s physical condition but to endorse the secure mother-child relationship, subsequently improve children’s health.
Cholesterol is a critical cellular component for T-lymphocyte cytotoxicity.

Preincubation of cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTLs) generated in secondary C57BL/6 anti-DBA/2 mixed leukocyte cultures with an inhibitor of cellular cholesterol synthesis (25-OH-cholesterol) for 24 hr strongly depressed the cytolytic activity as determined in a 3-hr 51Cr assay. The effect of the inhibitor was reversed by the simultaneous addition of cholesterol or of mevalonic acid during the preincubation period (mevalonate is the product of the regulatory enzyme in the sterol synthesis pathway, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (NADP) [mevalonate:NADP+ oxidoreductase (CoA-acylating), EC 1.1. 1.34]). Because, under the same culture conditions, inhibition of DNA synthesis had no effect on CTL activity, the experiments suggest that the effect of 25-OH-cholesterol is related to its inhibitory effect on sterol synthesis, resulting in decreased levels of membrane-bound cholesterol, rather than to inhibition of cellular proliferation.
DEVELOPMENT OF A MEASURE FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT : AN EMPIRICAL TEST AND VALIDATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ORIENTATION CONSTRUCT

In spite of abundant literature on knowledge management the intricacy of knowledge management performance remains relatively under researched. Current understandings of knowledge management performance are either wholly conceptual or case anecdotes. There is a severe paucity in empirical evidence, and what evidence exists is largely of a descriptive nature. The lack of effective knowledge management measurement constructs is a key reason for the lack of empiricism in the field. This lack hinders both corporate practice as well as academic research into the role of knowledge management in yielding performance outcomes. Through extensive literature review this paper adopts a capability-based view to develop a construct, named knowledge management orientation. The construct consists of five components, namely the knowledge system, organisational memory, knowledge sharing, a learning culture and knowledge benchmarking. The construct is tested using confirmatory factor analysis performed in AMOS 4.0. The construct validity and reliability are reported in this paper. Theoretical and methodological issues for adoption of the knowledge management orientation construct are discussed.
Modelling of UWB antenna perturbed by human phantom in spherical harmonics space

In this paper we study how the antenna radiation pattern is perturbed in the presence of a human phantom in terms of changes in the coefficients of the spherical harmonic antenna representation. The spherical harmonic basis allows for a compact representation of the antenna pattern which is attractive for simulation purposes. We propose a simple model for the spherical harmonics coefficients allowing to predict the antenna behavior perturbed by a human phantom. The model is based on knowledge of the spherical harmonic coefficients of antenna in free space and the antenna-phantom distance.
Déploiement adaptatif d'applications parallèles. Algorithme de vol de travail appliqué au déploiement d'applications parallèles sur des grappes de grande taille

This article presents a library named Taktuk for the deployment of applications on large sized clusters (thousands of nodes). This library is conceived for the development of interactive tools and thus has to complete a whole deployment in the shortest time. With this objective in mind, we show that the behavior of standard communication tools that we use can be modelized as a classical communication and we deduce from this a theoretical algorithm for optimal deployment. We then present our implementation choices that take into account the possible heterogeneity of the execution platform and the uncertainties about the value of some parameters. The evaluation of our tool highlights its near optimality and its adaptability that are essentially due to the work-stealing algorithm which is the heart of our system.
A mean-field approach for an intercarrier interference canceller for OFDM

The similarity of the mathematical description of random-field spin systems to the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme for wireless communication is exploited in an intercarrier interference (ICI) canceller used in the demodulation of OFDM. The translational symmetry in the Fourier domain generically concentrates the major contribution of ICI from each subcarrier in the subcarrier’s neighbourhood. This observation in conjunction with the mean-field approach leads to the development of an ICI canceller whose necessary cost of computation scales linearly with respect to the number of subcarriers. It is also shown that the dynamics of the mean-field canceller are well captured by a discrete map of a single macroscopic variable, without taking the spatial and time correlations of estimated variables into account.
Robust Tracking of Small Displacements With a Bayesian Estimator

Radiation-force-based elasticity imaging describes a group of techniques that use acoustic radiation force (ARF) to displace tissue to obtain qualitative or quantitative measurements of tissue properties. Because ARF-induced displacements are on the order of micrometers, tracking these displacements in vivo can be challenging. Previously, it has been shown that Bayesian-based estimation can overcome some of the limitations of a traditional displacement estimator such as normalized cross-correlation (NCC). In this work, we describe a Bayesian framework that combines a generalized Gaussian-Markov random field (GGMRF) prior with an automated method for selecting the prior's width. We then evaluate its performance in the context of tracking the micrometer-order displacements encountered in an ARF-based method such as ARF impulse (ARFI) imaging. The results show that bias, variance, and mean-square error (MSE) performance vary with prior shape and width, and that an almost one order-of-magnitude reduction in MSE can be achieved by the estimator at the automatically selected prior width. Lesion simulations show that the proposed estimator has a higher contrast-to-noise ratio but lower contrast than NCC, median-filtered NCC, and the previous Bayesian estimator, with a non-Gaussian prior shape having better lesion-edge resolution than a Gaussian prior. In vivo results from a cardiac, radio-frequency ablation ARFI imaging dataset show quantitative improvements in lesion contrast-to-noise ratio over NCC as well as the previous Bayesian estimator.
Interventions to Assist Students with Disabilities through School Transitions

School personnel are mandated to provide transition planning services to students with disabilities as they prepare for postsecondary activities. A variety of student skill and knowledge areas have been recommended as important during this process. Students with disabilities encounter a variety of additional transitions throughout their schooling, however, and school counselors can play integral roles in facilitating those transitions. Recommendations are presented for school counselor interventions to address the various transition needs of students with disabilities.
Regional differences in awareness of tobacco advertising and promotion in China: findings from the ITC China Survey

Objective To examine whether levels of, and factors related to, awareness of tobacco advertising and promotion differ across six cities in China. Methods Data from wave 1 of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Survey (April to August 2006) were analysed. The ITC China Survey employed a multistage sampling design in Beijing, Shenyang, Shanghai, Changsha, Guangzhou and Yinchuan. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with a total of 4763 smokers and 1259 non-smokers. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify factors associated with awareness of tobacco advertising and promotion. Results The overall levels of noticing advertisements varied considerably by city. Cities reporting lower levels of advertising tended to report higher levels of point of sale activity. Noticing tobacco industry promotions was associated with more positive attitudes to tobacco companies. Conclusion The awareness of tobacco advertising and promotional activities was not homogeneous across the six Chinese cities, suggesting variations in the tobacco industry's activities and the diversity of implementing a central set of laws to restrict tobacco promotion. This study clearly demonstrates the need to work with the implementation agencies if national laws are to be properly enforced.
AR4VI: AR as an Accessibility Tool for People with Visual Impairments

Although AR technology has been largely dominated by visual media, a number of AR tools using both visual and auditory feedback have been developed specifically to assist people with low vision or blindness – an application domain that we term Augmented Reality for Visual Impairment (AR4VI). We describe two AR4VI tools developed at Smith-Kettlewell, as well as a number of pre-existing examples. We emphasize that AR4VI is a powerful tool with the potential to remove or significantly reduce a range of accessibility barriers. Rather than being restricted to use by people with visual impairments, AR4VI is a compelling universal design approach offering benefits for mainstream applications as well.
Optimal Eavesdropping in Quantum Cryptography: Choice of Interaction Is Unique up to a Rotation of the Underlying Basis

A general framework of optimal eavesdropping on BB84 protocol was provided by Fuchs et al. in 1997. An upper bound on mutual information was derived in their work, which could be achieved by a specific type of interaction and the corresponding measurement. However, uniqueness of an optimal interaction was left as an open problem there. We resolve this problem here and establish the uniqueness. Nevertheless, the description of an optimal interaction changes as the basis of description gets rotated. The specific choice of optimal interaction by Fuchs et al. is shown to be a special case of the form provided in our work.
Outcomes of conduct problems in adolescence: 40 year follow-up of national cohort

Objective To describe long term outcomes associated with externalising behaviour in adolescence, defined in this study as conduct problems reported by a teacher, in a population based sample. Design Longitudinal study from age 13-53. Setting The Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (the British 1946 birth cohort). Participants 3652 survey members assessed by their teachers for symptoms of externalising behaviour at age 13 and 15. Main outcome measures Mental disorder, alcohol abuse, relationship difficulties, highest level of education, social class, unemployment, and financial difficulties at ages 36-53. Results 348 adolescents were identified with severe externalising behaviour, 1051 with mild externalising behaviour, and 2253 with no externalising behaviour. All negative outcomes measured in adulthood were more common in those with severe or mild externalising behaviour in adolescence, as rated by teachers, compared with those with no externalising behaviour. Adolescents with severe externalising behaviour were more likely to leave school without any qualifications (65.2%; adjusted odds ratio 4.0, 95% confidence interval 2.9 to 5.5), as were those with mild externalising behaviour (52.2%; 2.3, 1.9 to 2.8), compared with those with no externalising behaviour (30.8%). On a composite measure of global adversity throughout adulthood that included mental health, family life and relationships, and educational and economic problems, those with severe externalising behaviour scored significantly higher (40.1% in top quarter), as did those with mild externalising behaviour (28.3%), compared with those with no externalising behaviour (17.0%). Conclusions Adolescents who exhibit externalising behaviour experience multiple social and health impairments that adversely affect them, their families, and society throughout adult life.
Curvelet Based Multi-Focus Medical Image Fusion Technique : Comparative Study With Wavelet Based Approach

Limited depth of focus of optical lenses results in blurred representation of some of the relevant objects in any image. Multi focus image fusion is used to solve this problem. Both curvelet based and wavelet based image fusion methods are implemented and compared in this paper. Comparison is done based on various parameters called “fusion performance index”. Wavelet and curvelet coefficients are calculated and represented in the form of images . Experiments showed that curvelet decomposition based fusion increases the quality of obtained fused images.
2.2 Psychophysical Experiments................... 5

Images of everyday scenes are frequently used as input for texturing 3D models in computer graphics. Such images include both the texture desired and other extraneous information. In our previous work, we defined dominant texture as a large homogeneous region in an input sample image and proposed an automatic method to detect dominant textures based on diffusion distance manifolds. In this work, we explore the identification of cases where diffusion distance manifolds fail, and consider the best alternative method for such cases. We conducted a psychophysical experiment to quantitatively study the human perception of dominant texture, by asking subjects to compare the analysis and synthesis results of dominant texture detection from different input images generated using different techniques. We then applied Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to determine significant preference of one technique over another; paired comparison scaling (PC-Scaling) to quantitatively evaluate technique performance; multidimensional scaling (MDS) to further classify texture samples based on their paired comparison scales; and correlation estimation to reveal certain conventional texture descriptors that are suitable to predict dominant texture detection technique performance for texture samples. Our experiment confirmed that diffusion distance manifolds produce the best results for texture selection for a large number of image classes. Based on our experiment, we propose a technique for identifying cases where diffusion distance manifolds may fail, and suggesting the best alternative method for these cases. ∗This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0528204.
Positional cloning of the wheat vernalization gene VRN1

Winter wheats require several weeks at low temperature to flower. This process, vernalization, is controlled mainly by the VRN1 gene. Using 6,190 gametes, we found VRN1 to be completely linked to MADS-box genes AP1 and AGLG1 in a 0.03-centimorgan interval flanked by genes Cysteine and Cytochrome B5. No additional genes were found between the last two genes in the 324-kb Triticum monococcum sequence or in the colinear regions in rice and sorghum. Wheat AP1 and AGLG1 genes were similar to Arabidopsis meristem identity genes AP1 and AGL2, respectively. AP1 transcription was regulated by vernalization in both apices and leaves, and the progressive increase of AP1 transcription was consistent with the progressive effect of vernalization on flowering time. Vernalization was required for AP1 transcription in apices and leaves in winter wheat but not in spring wheat. AGLG1 transcripts were detected during spike differentiation but not in vernalized apices or leaves, suggesting that AP1 acts upstream of AGLG1. No differences were detected between genotypes with different VRN1 alleles in the AP1 and AGLG1 coding regions, but three independent deletions were found in the promoter region of AP1. These results suggest that AP1 is a better candidate for VRN1 than AGLG1. The epistatic interactions between vernalization genes VRN1 and VRN2 suggested a model in which VRN2 would repress directly or indirectly the expression of AP1. A mutation in the promoter region of AP1 would result in the lack of recognition of the repressor and in a dominant spring growth habit.
A Study on Penile Doppler

Pre Injection: 2.1. 1. The examination should be performed in a quiet relaxed environment free of interruption71. The examination should be explained in detail and verbal and written consent obtained. The low risk of priapism should be clearly stated.7 A high-frequency linear transducer is used to perform a B-mode/colour Doppler examination of the penis. There are variable techniques to scanning this region however using a gown or towel to fix the penis with the dorsal aspect accessible can be very useful. The corpus cavernosa, corpus spongiosum and glans are evaluated. The dividing penile septum is a valuable echogenic landmark. Prior to injection, the cavernosal arteries will be seen as fine echogenic parallel lines. Variations in vascular anatomy are common and rarely of clinical significance.
Finite-Size Effects on Thermionic Emission in Metal–Graphene-Nanoribbon Contacts

A finite-size effect leads to more electrons to occupy high-energy states in a graphene nanoribbon. Therefore, the thermionic-emission (TE) current density of a metal/graphene nanoribbon changes with its width when the graphene nanoribbon is a semiconductor. This letter demonstrates that the TE current density increases rapidly with the decreasing width of the graphene nanoribbon. It is also found that the finite-size effect on TE current density is more significant at low temperatures.
Defining Effective Engagement For Enhancing Cancer Patients' Well-being with Mobile Digital Behavior Change Interventions

Digital Behavior Change Interventions (DBCIs) are supporting development of new health behaviors. Evaluating their effectiveness is crucial for their improvement and understanding of success factors. However, comprehensive guidance for developers, particularly in small-scale studies with ethical constraints, is limited. Building on the CAPABLE project, this study aims to define effective engagement with DBCIs for supporting cancer patients in enhancing their quality of life. We identify metrics for measuring engagement, explore the interest of both patients and clinicians in DBCIs, and propose hypotheses for assessing the impact of DBCIs in such contexts. Our findings suggest that clinician prescriptions significantly increase sustained engagement with mobile DBCIs. In addition, while one weekly engagement with a DBCI is sufficient to maintain well-being, transitioning from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation may require a higher level of engagement.
Conduction channels of one-atom zinc contacts

We have determined the transmission coefficients of atomic-sized Zn contacts using a different type of breakjunction, which contains a whisker as a central bridge. We find that in the last conductance plateau the transport is unexpectedly dominated by a well-transmitting single conduction channel. We explain the experimental findings with the help of a tight-binding model that shows that in a one-atom Zn contact the current proceeds through the $4s$ and $4p$ orbitals of the central atom.
Defining Natural Antibodies

The traditional definition of natural antibodies (NAbs) states that these antibodies are present prior to the body encountering cognate antigen, providing a first line of defense against infection thereby, allowing time for a specific antibody response to be mounted. The literature has a seemingly common definition of NAbs; however, as our knowledge of antibodies and B cells is refined, re-evaluation of the common definition of Nabs may be required. Defining Nabs becomes important as the function of NAb production is used to define B cell subsets (1) and as these important molecules are shown to play numerous roles in the immune system (Figure 1). Herein, we aim to briefly summarize our current knowledge of NAbs in the context of initiating a discussion within the field of how such an important and multifaceted group of molecules should be defined.
The use of a group blog to actively support learning activities

Despite the widespread use of blogs in higher education, there remains a lack of knowledge and consensus about the use and value of blogging in higher education, particularly when used for long periods. This article investigates the use of a group blog to assist traditional teaching activities and foster collaborative learning through the development of a sense of community. It describes how the blog project was implemented and the experiences of administrators and students in using the blog providing insights to educators. To assess students’ experience, a survey was administered to a sample of 135 undergraduate and graduate students. The results show that students find blogging a useful learning tool and that blogs can effectively be used to support learning activities for longer than one semester based on the blog visitors’ statistics and feedback. However, its capacity to build and sustain a sense of community was not as strong as expected. Students were more positive about the use of the blog as an information and promotional tool to share marketing news and information and publicize the degree, rather than for community building. Findings suggest that although the majority of students thought the system was helpful for sharing discipline-related knowledge and information, they are reluctant to participate in a regular and active way by posting – a resistance that applies also to teachers. Nevertheless, the findings also indicate that students’ participation levels can be successfully increased by means of the grading system.