Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Imagined identity of ethnic Koreans and its implication for bilingual education in China

Abstract Imagined identity is the way of positioning individuals or being positioned by others in an imagined world, where individuals' cultural identifications interplay with cultural and language practices. This lays the basis for the current research on the construction of imagined memberships by two young ethnic Korean students in China. An analysis of the students' life histories indicates that the negotiation of imagined identities takes place in-between the polarized positions of assimilation and separation, as coined by Berry in the multidimensional categories of acculturation. The process of identity construction suggests that Chinese is an important type of linguistic capital, which to a considerable extent determines an individual's desired membership in the mainstream society, whereas a certain degree of preservation in the Korean language complicates the process of acculturation, through which both Chinese and Korean languages are integratively and instrumentally functional in market-oriented Chinese economy and may open up alternative imagined communities where ethnic Koreans become bilingual users. This research reflects the integrative acculturation, which is illustrative of a selective process and puts forward explicit assumptions about an additive bilingual education in China.
Identification of two small RNAs within the first 1.5-kb of the herpes simplex virus type 1-encoded latency-associated transcript

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latency-associated transcript (LAT) is abundantly expressed in latently infected neurons. In the rabbit or mouse ocular models of infection, expression of the first 1.5 kb of LAT coding sequences is sufficient for and necessary for wild-type levels of spontaneous reactivation from latency. The antiapoptosis functions of LAT, which maps to the same 1.5 kb of LAT, are important for the latency-reactivation cycle because replacement of LAT with other antiapoptosis genes (the baculovirus IAP gene or the bovine herpesvirus type 1 latency-related gene) restores wild-type levels of reactivation to a LAT null mutant. A recent study identified a micro-RNA within LAT that can inhibit apoptosis (Gupta et al, Nature 442: 82–85). In this study, the authors analyzed the first 1.5 kb of LAT for additional small RNAs that may have regulatory functions. Two LAT-specific small RNAs were detected in productively infected human neuroblastoma cells within the first 1.5 kb of LAT, in a region that is important for inhibiting apoptosis. Although these small RNAs possess extensive secondary structure and a stem-loop structure, bands migrating near 23 bases were not detected suggesting these small RNAs are not true micro-RNAs. Both of the small LAT-specific RNAs have the potential to base pair with the ICP4 mRNA. These two small LAT RNAs may play a role in the latency-reactivation cycle by reducing apoptosis and/or by reducing ICP4 RNA expression.
Edge-constrained joint view triangulation for image interpolation

Image-based-interpolation creates smooth and photo-realistic views between two view points. The concept of joint view triangulation (JVT) has been proven to be an efficient multi-view representation to handle visibility issue. However, the existing JVT built only on a regular sampling grid, often produces undesirable artifacts for artificial objects. To tackle these problems, a new edge-constrained joint view triangulation is developed in this paper to integrate contour points and artificial rectilinear objects as triangulation constraints. Also a super-sampling technique is introduced to refine visible boundaries. The new algorithm is successfully demonstrated on many real image pairs.
Patterns of Developmental Dysfunction After Surgery During Infancy to Correct Transposition of the Great Arteries

A randomized clinical trial was conducted to compare the early development of children with d-transposition of the great arteries (N=171) repaired by an arterial switch operation that used either predominantly total circulatory arrest or predominantly continuous low-flow cardiopulmonary bypass. The children assigned to the circulatory arrest group scored lower than those assigned to low-flow bypass on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 1 year of age. Responses to parental questionnaires completed when the children were 2.5 years old indicated that the children in the circulatory arrest group, especially those with a ventricular septal defect, also manifested poorer expressive language and were considered to display more internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. The use of circulatory arrest to protect vital organs during open heart surgery might place children at increased risk of early developmental difficulties, especially in the domains of motor and language function.
Cross-sectional comparison of the prevalence of age-associated comorbidities and their risk factors between HIV-infected and uninfected individuals: the AGEhIV cohort study.

BACKGROUND Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals may be at increased risk of age-associated noncommunicable comorbidities (AANCCs). METHODS Cross-sectional analyses of AANCC prevalence (including cardiovascular, metabolic, pulmonary, renal, bone, and malignant disease) and risk factors in a prospective cohort study of HIV type 1-infected individuals and HIV-uninfected controls, who were aged ≥45 years and comparable regarding most lifestyle and demographic factors. RESULTS HIV-infected participants (n = 540) had a significantly higher mean number of AANCCs than controls (n = 524) (1.3 [SD, 1.14] vs 1.0 [SD, 0.95]; P < .001), with significantly more HIV-infected participants having ≥1 AANCC (69.4% vs 61.8%; P = .009). Hypertension, myocardial infarction, peripheral arterial disease, and impaired renal function were significantly more prevalent among HIV-infected participants. Risk of AANCC by ordinal logistic regression was independently associated with age, smoking, positive family history for cardiovascular/metabolic disease, and higher waist-to-hip ratio, but also with HIV infection (odds ratio, 1.58 [95% confidence interval, 1.23-2.03]; P < .001). In those with HIV, longer exposure to CD4 counts <200 cells/µL, and, to a lesser extent, higher levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and soluble CD14, and longer prior use of high-dose ritonavir (≥400 mg/24 hours) were each also associated with a higher risk of AANCCs. CONCLUSIONS All AANCCs were numerically more prevalent, with peripheral arterial, cardiovascular disease, and impaired renal function significantly so, among HIV-infected participants compared with HIV-uninfected controls. Besides recognized cardiovascular risk factors, HIV infection and longer time spent with severe immunodeficiency increased the risk of a higher composite AANCC burden. There was a less pronounced contribution from residual inflammation, immune activation, and prior high-dose ritonavir use.
Free-form deformations with lattices of arbitrary topology

A new free-form deformation technique is presented that generalizes previous methods by allowing 3-dimensional deformation lat-tices of arbitrary topology. The technique uses an extension of the Catmull-Clark subdivision methodology that successively reﬁnes a 3-dimensional lattice into a sequence of lattices that converge uniformly to a region of 3-dimensional space. Deformation of the lattice then implicitly deﬁnes a deformation of the space. An underlying modelcan be deformed by establishingpositions of the points of the model within the convergingsequenceof lattices and then tracking the new positions of these points within the deformed sequence of lattices. This technique allows a greater variety of deformable regions to be deﬁned, and thus a broader range of shape deformations can be generated.
A Corrective Training Algorithm for Adaptive Learning in Bag Generation

The sampling problem in training corpus is one of the major sources of errors in corpus-based applications. This paper proposes a corrective training algorithm to best-fit the run-time context domain in the application of bag generation. It shows which objects to be adjusted and how to adjust their probabilities. The resulting techniques are greatly simplified and the experimental results demonstrate the promising effects of the training algorithm from generic domain to specific domain. In general, these techniques can be easily extended to various language models and corpus-based applications.
Delayed postirradiation camptocormia

Radiotherapy may cause central or peripheral nervous system complications, reported examples being myelopathy, brachial/lumbosacral plexopathies or predominantly motor lumbosacral radiculopathy. In the literature some studies regard camptocormia as a paravertebral myopathy and others as of neurogenic origin. We present a patient who developed camptocormia, 42 years after radiation therapy to the para-aortic and inguinal area.
Relationship of physical activity to fundamental movement skills among adolescents.

PURPOSE To determine the relationship of participation in organized and nonorganized physical activity with fundamental movement skills among adolescents. METHODS Male and female children in Grade 8 (mean age, 13.3 yr) and Grade 10 (mean age, 15.3 yr) were assessed on six fundamental movement skills (run, vertical jump, catch, overhand throw, forehand strike, and kick). Physical activity was assessed using a self-report recall measure where students reported the type, duration, and frequency of participation in organized physical activity and nonorganized physical activity during a usual week. RESULTS Multiple regression analysis indicated that fundamental movement skills significantly predicted time in organized physical activity, although the percentage of variance it could explain was small. This prediction was stronger for girls than for boys. Multiple regression analysis showed no relationship between time in nonorganized physical activity and fundamental movement skills. CONCLUSION Fundamental movement skills are significantly associated with adolescents' participation in organized physical activity, but predict only a small portion of it.
The Moderating Infl uence of Trust on the Relationship between Institutional Image/Reputation, Perceived Value on Student Loyalty in Higher Education Institution

This survey investigates the moderating infl uence of trust on the relationships between institutional image/reputation, perceived value on student loyalty. The methodology utilises primary data obtained from questionnaire administered to a sample of 304 postgraduate international students in Universiti Utara Malaysia using simple random probability sampling. Multiple regression technique was employed to analyse data via SPSS statistical package. Results established that institutional image and perceived value have signifi cant positive infl uence on student loyalty. Institutional image has signifi cant positive infl uence on perceived value. The infl uence of image on student loyalty is greater followed by image on student perceived value. Furthermore trust was found to insignifi cantly moderate between institutional image and perceived value on student loyalty. It is recommended that to successfully compete in a dynamic and complex world of academic excellence universities must be seen to portray favourable image/reputation in terms of practices and actions that invariably transforms to higher perceived value and student loyalty behaviour.
Comparison of chlorine dioxide and chlorine in wastewater disinfection.

Chlorine has long been favored as a disin fectant in both water and wastewater treatment because of its bactericidal effectiveness, low cost, convenience, and relatively long-lived residual. However, chlorination as normally practiced in water and wastewater treatment results in the formation of trihalomethanes and other chlorinated organics that are undesirable from the viewpoint of water pollution control in general and human health specifically.1 An alternative to chlorine should be cost-effective, provide a measurable residual, be easy and safe to handle, and produce a minimum of undesirable by-products. With respect to the disinfection of wastewater, chlorine dioxide has several desirable characteristics. It is a
Measuring Cultures through Intersubjective Cultural Norms

Core values of a culture may refer to values endorsed by most members of the culture or to values members of the culture generally believe to be widely shared in the culture. The authors propose an intersubjective consensus approach to identifying core cultural values based on the latter definition. In three studies, they illustrated the utility of the intersubjective consensus approach for identifying the cultural values that differentiate two or more nested cultural groups. They showed that endorsement of these values was related to the relative strength of identification with these cultural groups. The findings from the present research have important implications for social identity theories and acculturation research.
Do They Really Think Differently

Our children today are being socialized in a way that is vastly different from their parents. The numbers are overwhelming: over 10,000 hours playing videogames, over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received; over 10,000 hours talking on digital cell phones; over 20,000 hours watching TV (a high percentage fast speed MTV), over 500,000 commercials seen—all before the kids leave college. And, maybe, at the very most, 5,000 hours of book reading. These are today’s “Digital Native” students. 1
Influence of Processing on Yield and Quality of Cloudy Plum Juices

Pressing of plum fruit in producing cloudy juices is difficult due to high amount of pectic substances in plum. Maceration of pulp with enzymes is usual way to make pressing more effective but provided that no negative impact on juice quality and biological value e.g. antioxidant capacity (AC). Content of anthocyanins and other phenolic compounds in juices are related with its AC so better extraction of these compounds from fruit to juice is of great importance to obtain juice with nice colour, health benefits and excellent sensory characteristics. The aim of this work was to investigate the influence of enzyme concentration, maceration temperature and duration on the yield, content of phenolic compounds, anthocyanins, AC and sensory perception in producing cloudy juices. Plum fruit (Prunus domestica L.), cultivar Bistrica, was used to produce cloudy juices on small scale equipment. Before pressing, fruits were pitted and treated with maceration enzymes in concentration of 100 or 140 ppm at 20 or 48oC for one or two hours (eight samples). Anthocyanins were determined by method based on bisulfite bleaching, total phenolics (TP) by Folin-Ciocalteu reagent, the AC by FRAP (Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power) method and sensory evaluation by Quantitative descriptive method. The higher yields were obtained with pre-treatments by 140 ppm of enzyme on 48oC during 1 and 2h, and also in the same juices the highest amount of TP was found. In general, anthocyanin contents increased with enzyme concentration, temperature and duration. Despite some exceptions increasing trend of AC with enzyme concentration and temperature of treatment was observed. Sensory all juices were high evaluated without significant differences. Enzyme treatment on 48oC/2h could be recommended to produce high quality cloudy plum juice due to high yield, high anthocyanin contents and total phenolics, antioxidant capacity and sensory evaluation.
Less Like a Robot: A Comparison of Change in an Inner-City School and a Fortune 500 Company

This study—a comparison of change in an inner-city school and a Fortune 500 company—investigates how the work that we are asking our children to do in elementary school relates to the ways that work is changing in the information economy. The findings for this study are both striking in their simplicity and practical in their implications, showing that the traditional contradiction between socially progressive education and preparation for work is, at least in some areas, waning; that work done by many different specialists in the past is being put back together, allowing workers to do “more of the whole job” and leaving them feeling “less like a robot. ”
Social and personality correlates of gambling attitudes and behavior among Chinese residents of Macau

A survey of 500 Chinese residents in the casino city of Macau assessed several social and personality variables (family emotional support, neuroticism, gregariousness, paranormal beliefs, the illusion of control, Chinese values, and financial security) for their relationships with gambling attitudes and behaviors, which, in turn, were tested for their relationships with esteem from others, coworker support, and life satisfaction. Gambling attitudes were positively associated with neuroticism, gregariousness, paranormal beliefs, and the illusion of control, and negatively with Chinese values. Gambling behavior was positively associated with neuroticism and the illusion of control, negatively with esteem from others, family support, and Chinese values, and was a negative predictor of coworker support and life satisfaction. Results are discussed in terms of interpersonal relationships in Chinese culture.
Transfer heterogeneous unlabeled data for unsupervised clustering

In this paper, we propose a novel method called THUNTER to transfer the heterogenous unlabeled data from the source domain to the target domain for clustering. Suppose the target data are a set of images, then the so-called heterogeneous unlabeled data can be a large set of text data or acoustic data. Our method aims to address how to transfer these large amount of heterogeneous data to the relatively smaller target data set for clustering. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work in the community to transfer the unlabeled data, especially the unlabeled heterogeneous data, for unsupervised clustering. Furthermore, along with our method, a novel dictionary-based data transfer strategy (DicTrans) is introduced in this paper, which measures the fidelity of transferring the target data to the source domain and automatically decides how many to transfer. Through a series of experiments, the effectiveness of THUNTER and DicTrans are demonstrated with very promising performances.
Piezoelectric MEMS: Harmonic and modal analysis response of resonators hollow cylinder

The frequency spectrum of a piezoelectric hollow resonator cylinder is studied by using Legendre polynomials. Formulation is given that allows to take into account the electric source. Normal frequencies and electric input impedance are obtained easily regardless of the type of modes, thickness extensional (TE), thickness shear (TS), edge (E) or radial (R). These quantities are calculated as a function of the diameter to thickness ratio and the results are compared against other calculations from an analytical approach. The numerical results for harmonic and modal analyses such as normalized electric input impedance, the resonance and antiresonance frequencies are presented and compared with the analytical results in order to check the accuracy and range of applicability of the proposed approach. Agreement is obtained.
Ryanodine receptor‐operated activation of TRP‐like channels can trigger critical Ca2+ signaling events in pancreatic β‐cells

There is little information available concerning the link between the ryanodine (RY) receptors and the downstream Ca2+ signaling events in β‐cells. In fura‐2 loaded INS‐1E cells, activation of RY receptors by 9‐methyl 5,7‐dibromoeudistomin D (MBED) caused a rapid rise of [Ca2+]i followed by a plateau and repetitive [Ca2+]i spikes on the plateau. The [Ca2+]i plateau was abolished by omission of extracellular Ca2+ and by SKF 96365. In the presence of SKF 96365, MBED produced a transient increase of [Ca2+]i, which was abolished by thapsigargin. Activation of RY receptors caused Ca2+ entry even when the ER Ca2+ pool was depleted by thapsigargin. The [Ca2+]i plateau was not inhibited by nimodipine or ruthenium red, but was inhibited by membrane depolarization, La3+, Gd3+, niflumic acid, and 2‐aminoethoxydiphenyl borate, agents that inhibit the transient receptor potential channels. The [Ca2+]i spikes were inhibited by nimodipine and ryanodine, indicating that they were due to Ca2+ influx through the voltage‐gated Ca2+ channels and Ca2+‐induced Ca2+ release (CICR). Activation of RY receptors depolarized membrane potential as measured by patch clamp. Thus, activation of RY receptors leads to coherent changes in Ca2+ signaling, which includes activation of TRP‐like channels, membrane depolarization, activation of the voltage‐gated Ca2+ channels and CICR.
Relationship of Dietary Protein and Soy Isoflavones to Serum IGF-1 and IGF Binding Proteins in the Prostate Cancer Lifestyle Trial

Abstract: High levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) are associated with increased risk of prostate cancer, whereas increased levels of some of its binding proteins (IGFBPs) seem to be protective. High intakes of dietary protein, especially animal and soy protein, appear to increase IGF-1. However, soy isoflavones have demonstrated anti-proliferative and apoptotic effects both in vitro and in vivo. We evaluated dietary intakes of total protein and soy isoflavones in relation to the IGF axis in prostate cancer patients making comprehensive lifestyle changes including a very low-fat vegan diet supplemented with soy protein (58 g/day). After one year, intervention group patients reported significantly higher intakes of dietary protein and soy isoflavones compared to usual-care controls (P < 0.001). IGF-1 increased significantly in both groups, whereas IGFBP-1 rose in the experimental group only (P < 0.01). Increases in vegetable protein over one year were associated with increases in IGFBP-1 among intervention group patients (P < 0.05). These results suggest that dietary protein and soy isoflavones, in the context of comprehensive lifestyle changes, may not significantly alter IGF-1. However, given the recent literature indicating that high intake of protein rich in essential amino acids (animal or soy protein) may increase IGF-1, it may be prudent for men with early stage prostate cancer not to exceed dietary protein recommendations.
Urban Elites in England: New Models of Executive Governance

Political leadership has become a much more explicit and widespread feature of English urban governance than it was 20 years ago. It has become particularly high profile since the Labour Government came into power in 1997 and sponsored legislation (Local Government Act 2000) which required all English local authorities to replace or modify the existing committee system of decision-making by adopting one of four prescribed options, the thrust of which was to strengthen executive governance. This article considers the legislative drivers for change against the backdrop of long-established cultural traditions, most notably the continued dominance of the party group which, in many ways, is inimical to the exercise of individual political leadership. It is argued that the way local authorities develop new models of executive governance reflects the local political culture. In other words the 'locality effect' assumes considerable importance when considering new patterns of executive governance in urban England. This article explores the interplay between the changing operational and institutional context and the resilient traditions of party group behaviour. It concludes that, while over a period of time there is likely to be considerable change in the patterns of urban political leadership, the rate of progress to that end will be highly differential. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2004.