Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Structures of Introject and Therapist–Patient Interaction in a Single Case Study of Inpatient Psychotherapy

This case study in inpatient psychotherapy attempts to identify characteristic patterns of interactions between therapists and their patients. To this end, we make use of the nonlinear analysis of dominance of interactions, a method of analyzing complex dynamic systems with regard to dominant influences and critical and stable variables. The method is based on Intrex questionnaire data giving evidence of self-directed behavior and therapeutic interactions in relation to the model of the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB). This empirical study endeavors to explain why certain introjective and interpersonal kinds of a patient behaviors seem to be dominant, thus influencing other behavior, whereas other kinds seem to be critical, unstable, and likely to be influenced. We get an impression of what might be termed the patient's intrapersonal and interpersonal psychodynamics. Diese Einzelfallstudie aus dem Bereich dre stationaren Psychotherapie versucht, charakteristische Muster der Interaktion zwisc.
Personality or environment? A comprehensive study on the entrepreneurial intentions of university students

Purpose – This paper aims to describe and empirically test a comprehensive model on the entrepreneurial intentions of the university students in which some individual and environmental factors were included. Also, the strengths of individual and environmental factors’ influence are compared.Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was completed by a random sample (n=356) of business administration, health sciences and law faculty students across two Turkish universities. Results were based on correlation and regression analysis.Findings – Results indicate that as individual factors locus of control and entrepreneurial self‐efficacy (ESE) and as environmental ones social network and access to capital have significant impacts on entrepreneurial intentions of students. However, the results showed that the university environment does not have any significant impact.Research limitations/implications – Self‐report bias and cross‐sectional data are possible limitations. Longitudinal studies in the fu.
Link-Sensitive PageRank: An Improved Ranking Algorithm for Vertical Search Engines

The PageRank algorithm is an important link-based ranking strategy of vertical search engines, but it has a drawback of topic drift. To tackle this problem and yield more accurate search results, we present an improved algorithm to distribute the PageRank value in light of the link sensitive level of the web pages based on keywords set, which we called "Link-Sensitive PageRank". According to the keywords of user's searching, this algorithm, which takes into account the link sensitive level of the web pages' hyperlink to give different importance to different hyperlinks. Experiment results show that the improved PageRank algorithm performs better than the standard PageRank. Furthermore, it can effectively improve the "topic drift" and enhance the accuracy of information collection. The proposed PageRank algorithm can have a good application in the vertical search engines.
How am I enhancing communication within my classroom with traditional stories and using both non-verbal and verbal language?

I am using this enquiry to investigate how I can better support communication in my class, especially for those children who find it difficult to ask for help, who rarely speak or express excitement. Whether they have low self-esteem or are frightened is a part of the enquiry. However my aim is to provide as many opportunities as I can for the children in my class to feel comfortable and able enough to communicate and explore their personalities to me and each other. I do not see learners as empty pots that can be filled with knowledge. In the same way that if I am to improve my own learning, I need to research it myself. Living out what I believe, and strengthening my teaching, is what I intend to do, by reflecting and learning from my own mistakes. This is why I have chosen to use the Action Research process as described by McNiff & Whitehead (2005), rather than other ways of researching. I don’t want to make public a claim about what I might have found out about education, but I do want to make interesting reading for fellow colleagues. Within this enquiry I have asked myself many questions about my practice. It is important to look at what I do already, why I do this, identify difficulties, improve them, reflect and move forwards. I believe Action Research is meaningful to my life as a teacher and a thinker. It is driven by my own values and ideas, but questions, explores and reflects on other theorists.
Rapid Infusion Rituximab for Maintenance Therapy: Is It Feasible?

Rituximab is an anti-CD-20 monoclonal antibody used in the management of lymphoproliferative disorders. The use of maintenance rituximab has improved progression free survival and overall survival in follicular lymphomas. Although rapid rituximab infusions have been studied extensively, there is little data on the use of rapid infusions during maintenance therapy for low grade lymphomas. The primary objective of this retrospective analysis was to evaluate the incidence of Grade 3 and 4 toxicities with maintenance rapid infusion rituximab according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4 (CTC v. 4). Secondary objectives included evaluating all grade infusion related adverse events and correlation of adverse events with varying schedules of rituximab maintenance therapy. All patients who received rapid infusion rituximab as maintenance therapy for low grade lymphoma between December 2007 and November 2011 were included. Rapid rituximab infusions were administered over 90 minutes. Demographic, laboratory and clinical data were collected. A total of 109 patients received 647 rapid rituximab infusions. Three patients experienced an adverse reaction which resulted in one grade 1 infusion reaction and three grade 3 infusion reactions. No patients required hospitalization. All 3 patients received pharmacological and/or supportive care to relieve symptoms associated with the reaction.
Cross‐cultural research in Malaysia

This article takes stock of the state of cross‐cultural management in Malaysia. It first focuses on a number of problems that cross‐cultural management faces generally, namely the lack of integrated knowledge and the possibility of subjectivity influencing the research design. Then the article looks at the state of cross‐cultural management research in Malaysia. It concludes that cross‐cultural management in Malaysia is, as yet, a series of “snapshots” with little follow‐up. Lastly, a number of themes for future research in Malaysia are proposed.
Horizontal and Vertical Self-Adaptive Cloud Controller with Reward Optimization for Resource Allocation

Over-booking or under-booking of computing resources leads to higher cost and performance degradation of web applications. To optimize the performance of web applications, access to the resources has to be dynamically controlled ensuring maximum cost-performance ratio of the application while fulfilling requirements. To simplify the design of dynamic cloud controllers, we propose a horizontal and vertical scalability self-aware agent defined by a self-adaptive fuzzy logic with an oriented random optimizer based on reward and memory. The algorithm dynamically adjusts the membership functions and their relationship, maximizing the reward of the system while considering the cost related to the deployment of new resources. The evaluation of the controller under real cloud workload reveals the ability of the algorithm to maximize the performance of the web application based on the target parameters given by an operator.
Sex Attractant of the Codling Moth: Characterization with Electroantennogram Technique

trans-8, trans-10-Dodecadien-1-ol is a sex attractant of the codling moth, Laspeyresia pomonella. Antennal responses (electroantennograms) to a series of monounsaturated compounds were used in determining the location and configuration of the two double bonds. The synthetic compound is very attractive to male codling moths in the field.
Vagal, cholinergic regulation of pancreatic polypeptide secretion.

THE EFFECT OF EFFERENT, PARASYMPATHETIC STIMULATION UPON PANCREATIC POLYPEPTIDE (PP) SECRETION WAS STUDIED IN THREE WAYS: (a) Plasma PP concentrations increased in response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia in both normal subjects, from 11 pM (9.5-12.5) to 136 pM (118-147), n = 8 (median and interquartile range) and in duodenal ulcer patients, from 33 pM (21-52) to 213 pM (157-233), n = 7. The PP response to hypoglycemia was diminished by atropine in normal subjects (P < 0.005) and completely abolished by vagotomy in the duodenal ulcer patients. (b) Electrical stimulation, 8 Hz, of the vagal nerves in anesthetized pigs induced an increase in portal PP concentrations within 30 s from 32 pM (28-39) to 285 pM (248-294), n = 12. Minimal stimulatory frequency was 0.5 Hz and maximal stimulatory frequency 8-12 Hz. Atropine inhibited the PP response to electrical stimulation. Median inhibition with 0.5 mg of atropine/kg body wt was 74%, range 31-90%, n = 6. The response was eliminated by hexamethonium. Adrenergic alpha and beta blockade did not influence the release of PP in response to vagal stimulation. (c) Acetylcholine stimulated, in a dose-dependent manner, the secretion of PP from the isolated perfused porcine pancreas, half-maximal effective dose being 0.19 muM; maximal PP output in response to 5 min stimulation was 228 pmol, range 140-342 pmol, n = 5. Atropine completely abolished this response.The results of the present study together with the previously demonstrated poor PP response to food in vagotomized patients, indicate that vagal, cholinergic stimulation is a major regulator of PP secretion.
What About the Managers? Contradictions between Lifelong Learning and Management Development

The policy priority of management development in the past 20 years appears to have been overshadowed since the new millennium by the goal of widening participation in learning of low-skilled and excluded groups. This change of emphasis could potentially be damaging if efforts to increase management participation in learning are relaxed, because Britain`s managers are still poorly qualified in comparison with other countries and managers play a key role in widening participation in learning at work. Research into barriers to learning amongst life assurance managers in Scotland has identified intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting participation, suggesting a need for renewed efforts to ensure that management development remains a priority and that appropriate support is provided for learning at work.
Script Formulations

A qualitative analysis of conversational extracts is presented, in which participants formulate the nature of actions and events as "scripted" (typical or routine) or exceptional. Such formulations are shown to be interactionally occasioned and rhetorically oriented constructions of events. The perceptual-realist assumptions of cognitive script theory are questioned. Discourse theory ispreferredfor its capacity to acknowledge thepsychological reality of script-based understandings, while dealing with the empirical details of spontaneous event descriptions. Events may be descriptively offered as singular items, as instances of general patterns, as exceptions, or as generalized patterns themselves. Formulating events as instances of, or exceptions to, scripted patterns attends to issues of accountability and is used to construct the dispositional character of actors. The analysis focuses on the precise event details invoked in spontaneous talk, the construction of events as scripted or otherwise, and the ways in which such event reportings perform actions in their own right.
A Novel Soft-Switching Boost PFC with a Passive Snubber

A novel soft-switching boost converter used in power factor correction (PFC) is introduced in this paper. The basic circuit topology of the proposed converter consists of a traditional single-switch boost PFC and a lossless passive snubber. The snubber is composed of an auxiliary capacitor, an inductor and two diodes which are introduced to achieve ZVS and ZCS mode and let the converter work well under the conditions from light to rating loads. Furthermore, the operating principle of the converter which is different from described and some practical design considerations are discussed. Finally the simulation and experimental results analysed in detail are presented to determine the characteristics.
An improved noise model for the generation of synthetic fingerprints

This paper introduces a new noise model for the generation of synthetic fingerprints. Starting from several visual observations about noise in real fingerprints, the limits of the uniform noise generation adopted in our previous work are pointed out and a new model able to create realistic coherent noise is proposed. The results are very promising: the new images generated are definitely more realistic than those obtained with the original method.
The role of childcare providers in the prevention of childhood overweight

Childhood overweight has received increased national attention as a social and health problem. Childcare providers play an increasingly prominent role in the lives of young children and are therefore important in initiating change. This qualitative study determined the role of childcare professionals in the prevention of childhood overweight. Facilitated focus group sessions were conducted with childcare professionals to ascertain their beliefs and practices in four domains: 1) foods and beverages; 2) physical activity; 3) TV, video, and computer game viewing; and 4) behaviors with respect to eating and/or activity. The researchers and childcare staff then collaboratively identified ways to develop innovative policy and environmental changes to improve the health and fitness of young children. Though more research is needed, engaging the support of the childcare profession is a promising avenue to improve the health and fitness of young children.
Leadership meta-competencies for the future world of work

The purpose of this study was to define the nature and work of leaders within the context of the future world of work. A leadership meta-competence model, based on levels of work theory, was developed. This model was validated by senior managers in the retail industry. Subsequently a questionnaire assessing the perceived importance of these competencies, currently and in the future, was designed and completed by just more than 100 managers from various retail industries. The questionnaire results indicated that there is a significant difference between the perceived current and future definitions of the nature and work of leaders.
The benefits of polyandry in the free‐spawning polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa

In many species, females are thought to benefit from polyandry due to the reduced risks of fertilization by genetically incompatible sperm. However, few studies that have reported such benefits have directly attributed variation in female reproductive success to the interacting effects of males and females at fertilization. In this paper, we determine whether male × female interactions influence fertilization in vitro in the free‐spawning, sessile polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa. Furthermore, we determined whether polyandry results in direct fertilization benefits for females by experimentally manipulating the number of males contributing towards staged spawning events. To test for male × female interaction effects we performed an initial experiment that crossed seven males with six females (in all 42 combinations), enabling us to assess fertilization rates for each specific male–female pairing and attribute variation in fertilization success to males, females and their interaction. This initial experiment revealed a strong interaction between males and females at fertilization, confirming that certain male–female combinations were more compatible than others. A second experiment tested the hypothesis that polyandry enhances female reproductive success by exposing each female's eggs to either a single male's sperm (monandry) or the sperm from three males simultaneously (polyandry). We performed this second experiment at two ecologically relevant sperm concentrations. This latter experiment revealed a strong fertilization benefit of polyandry, independent of the effects of sperm concentration (which were also significant). We suggest that these direct fertilization gains arising from polyandry will constitute an important source of selection on females to mate multiply in nature.
Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff analysis of a cooperative network coding system

This paper addresses the analysis of diversitymultiplexing tradeoff (DMT) for a cooperative system using network coding, called the cooperative network coding (CNC) system, which combines a decode-and-forward (DF) relay with the information mixing and broadcast techniques. The outage probability in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime is also provided in the closed-form. Our scheme has two users' nodes and one relay node. All nodes are half duplex, i.e., they cannot transmit and receive data at the same time. The two users can communicate to each other directly as well as via the relay node indirectly. Our results show that network coding can help the relay nodes provide cooperative multiplexing gain as well as diversity gain. Compared with the pure DF protocol of which maximal diversity and multiplexing gain are 1 and 1/2, respectively, the maximal diversity and multiplexing gain of the CNC protocol are 2 and 2/3, respectively. The CNC protocol has even better DMT performance than an improved version of DF, selection decode-and-forward (SDF), of which maximal diversity and multiplexing gain are 2 and 1/2, respectively. The impact of wireless lossy channel on performance gains of the network coding is analyzed and can be quantitatively evaluated in the presented DMT curve, which gives us more insight than the capacity analysis does. This is because the capacity analysis only tells us about the maximal error-free transmission rate, while the DMT curve gives us the optimal tradeoff between the error rate and data rate.
Side-Lobe Cancelation in DInSAR Pixel Selection With SVA

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems are inherently band limited in both range and azimuth, and hence, the point spread function (PSF) has the shape of a bidimensional sinc function. In addition, all SAR images are slightly oversampled, and as a consequence, the contribution of a single target extends to more than a single cell. The main lobe and the side lobes of strong scatterers are sometimes clearly visible in the images. This characteristic of the SAR images must be considered when applying differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) pixel selection algorithms. For persistent scatterers, the properties, for instance, the amplitude stability, are preserved in both redundant information around the main lobe and side lobes. For this reason, a cluster of pixels rather than just the pixel position corresponding to the exact location of the target will be detected. Spatially variant apodization (SVA) is a nonlinear filter based on cosine-on-pedestal weighting functions able to achieve a total side-lobe cancelation without degrading the original image resolution. When working with complex data under complex scattering scenarios, the PSF moves away from the ideal bidimensional sinc, and the SVA performance worsens. The amplitude and phase of the original images could be distorted by the SVA filtering compromising the pixel selection and the quality of the final DInSAR results. In this letter, SVA is used to method locate in the image the side lobes of high-power scatterers and generate a mask while preserving the amplitude and phase of the original images.
MRI-based Medical Nanorobotic Platform for the Control of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Flagellated Bacteria for Target Interventions in Human Capillaries

Medical nanorobotics exploits nanometer-scale components and phenomena with robotics to provide new medical diagnostic and interventional tools. Here, the architecture and main specifications of a novel medical interventional platform based on nanorobotics and nanomedicine, and suited to target regions inaccessible to catheterization, are described. The robotic platform uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for feeding back information to a controller responsible for the real-time control and navigation along pre-planned paths in the blood vessels of untethered magnetic carriers, nanorobots, and/or magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) loaded with sensory or therapeutic agents acting like a wireless robotic arm, manipulator, or other extensions necessary to perform specific remote tasks. Unlike known magnetic targeting methods, the present platform allows us to reach locations deep in the human body while enhancing targeting efficacy using real-time navigational or trajectory control. We describe several versions of the platform upgraded through additional software and hardware modules allowing enhanced targeting efficacy and operations in very difficult locations such as tumoral lesions only accessible through complex microvasculature networks.
EXPRESSIVE VIRTUAL 3 D CITY MODELS

Virtual 3D city models include components such as 3D building models, transportation network models, and vegetation models. Traditional applications of virtual 3D city models focus on presenting photorealistic views. The potential of 3D city models, however, goes beyond virtual reality. In general, virtual 3D city models can serve as user interfaces to complex, spatial urban information, that is, for exploration, analysis, and communication of thematic and spatial information. For the last decades, the intrinsic concepts of real-time 3D computer graphics lead to near-photorealistic, interactive virtual 3D city models. With the recent advent of non-photorealistic 3D rendering, a new genre in computer graphics, a repertoire of illustrative, expressive, and artistic graphics techniques becomes viable to developers and designers of virtual city models. This contribution outlines main techniques and discusses consequences for cartographic information display based on 3D city models.
Application ontology for the development of case-based intrusion detection systems

This work proposes an application ontology who is capable of formally represent the concepts present in the domain of Information Security together with the intrusion detection systems and case-based reasoning. The ontology was evaluated through the development of an IDS capable of detect computers networks attacks and recommend actions to such attacks. The results showed that the developed IDS presented good effectiveness in the detecting attacks, and so it is concluded that the proposed ontology conceptualizes properly the domain concepts and task.