Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Many Faces of Education: why are people with lower education more hostile towards immigrants than people with higher education?

Abstract Research differs a great deal as to the reasons why highly educated people in many surveys express more positive views about ethnic and other minorities than the lower educated. Six main types of explanation have been put forward; (1) Tolerance and conception of rights are among the norms that the educators try to impart. The longer the education, the greater the chance of the students’ internalizing these norms. (2) Education will confer knowledge, and thus break down stereotypic beliefs about immigrants. (3) Long‐time education will increase the cognitive competence, and so make people more resistant to hostile propaganda about immigrants and more able to understand actual situations of conflict. (4) High education will lead to jobs with high social status, protected from direct competition with immigrants on the job and housing markets. (5) High education will strengthen the general ability of mastering, thus reducing the danger of situations creating conflicts and aggression. Against these hy.
Correlation distribution of a new sequence family

In this paper a new binary sequence family with 2n + 1 cyclically distinct sequences each having length 2n - 1 is presented for an even integer n. The correlation distribution of the family is fully determined. The family has six-valued correlation distribution and its maximum correlation magnitude equals 1+2n/2+1.
Natural language semantic event extraction pipeline

This paper presents a novel contribution of this research which is an automated NLP pipeline for semantic event extraction and annotation (EveSem). The output from this research is an xml annotated semantic events. Temporal interpretation of event is incorporated by using the linguistic elements made available through the use of the tools. A preliminary evaluation showed that EveSem performed equally well as TIPSem in extracting verbal event with a precision of 85.42 and a recall of 89.13. This work can contribute towards automated annotation of semantic event corpus and event timeline construction as future research.
Contribution of time of drinking onset and family history of alcohol problems in alcohol and drug use behaviors in Argentinean college students.

AIMS The aim of the study was to analyze independent and potential interactive effects of age at drinking onset and family history of alcohol abuse on subsequent patterns of alcohol drinking, alcohol-related problems and substance use. METHODS Participants were college students (60.3% females, mean age = 20.27 ± 2.54 years) from the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Several measures were used to assess alcohol, tobacco and drug use. The Spanish version of the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire was used to assess alcohol-related problems. Factorial analyses of variance, or its non-parametric equivalent, were performed to explore differences in substance use behaviors and alcohol-related problems in subjects with early or late drinking onset and with or without family history of alcohol abuse. Chi-square tests were conducted to analyze the association between these two risk factors and categorical measures of alcohol, tobacco and drug use. RESULTS Early onset of drinking was associated with amount of consumption of alcohol including up to hazardous levels, as well as tobacco and drug use. However, the frequency of alcohol problems and frequency of episodes of alcohol intoxication were only related to age of onset in those with a positive family history of alcohol problems. CONCLUSION Delaying drinking debut is particularly important in the prevention of future alcohol problems in those adolescents who have a family history of such problems.
Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour

* 1. Introduction: political fictions and real oppressions. * 2. Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde: defining domestic work. * 3. A foot in the door: the social organisation of paid domestic work in Europe. * 4. Invisible women I: migrant domestic workers in Southern Europe. * 5. Invisible women II: migrant domestic workers in Northen Europe. * 6. Changing the rules: the case of the UK. * 7. Selling the self: commodification, migration and domestic work. * 8. The legacy of slavery: the American South and contemporary domestic workers. * 9. "Just like one of the family": status and contract. * 10. "Your passport is your life": domestic workers and the state. * 11. Conclusion.
Sertindole: pharmacological and clinical profile and role in the treatment of schizophrenia

Background: Sertindole is a second-generation antipsychotic recently reintroduced in the market for the treatment of schizophrenia after a reevaluation of its risks and benefits. Objective: This article provides an overview of the pharmacological properties of sertindole as well as of its efficacy, tolerability and safety profile. Methods: Several clinical trials and large-scale epidemiological studies have evaluated the efficacy and tolerability of sertindole in patients with schizophrenia. Results/conclusions: Findings from controlled clinical trials have demonstrated that sertindole is at least as effective as haloperidol and risperidone against the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, while it appears superior against negative symptoms. Preliminary evidence suggests that sertindole has beneficial effects on cognitive function. Sertindole is associated with a low rate of extrapyramidal side effects, lacks sedative properties, and may induce a moderate weight gain. No clinically relevant elevations in serum prolactin, glucose or lipid levels have been so far documented in sertindole-treated patients. On the other hand, administration of sertindole may result in a prolongation of the QTc interval, with subsequent risk of serious arrhythmias. However, postmarketing surveillance studies have recently indicated that sertindole is not associated with a higher rate of cardiovascular mortality than other antipsychotic agents.
The Portman Clinic. An historical sketch

The Portman Clinic has been applying a psychoanalytic framework to the understanding and treatment of violent, perverse, criminal and delinquent patients since its foundations in the early 1930’s. All Portman Clinic patients have crossed the boundary from fantasy and impulse to action – action which defies legal and moral boundaries but which also breaches the body boundary of the victims. Ultimately, the violence underlying most of such violent, perverse and delinquent action, also attacks and disturbs the mind of both the victim, be that an individual or society, and that of the perpetrator.
Trayectorias sociales improbables: adolescentes chilenos de estratos bajos competentes en lectura

It is generally believed that students from low-income families are less successful at school, as indicated by theories of social reproduction. This article focuses on Chilean students that, in spite of their social background, have performed well in the Programme for International Student Assessment (pisa) 2009. Using logistic regression analysis we identify factors associated with academic achievement in reading. Results show that student variables have a greater explanatory value than family and school variables.
Randomized phase II placebo-controlled trial of maintenance therapy using the oral triple angiokinase inhibitor BIBF 1120 after chemotherapy for relapsed ovarian cancer.

PURPOSE Inhibiting angiogenesis is one of the most promising avenues for new therapies for ovarian cancer. We investigated the efficacy and safety of a novel agent, BIBF 1120, a triple angiokinase inhibitor, after chemotherapy for relapsed disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a randomized, double-blind, controlled phase II trial in 83 patients who had just completed chemotherapy for relapsed ovarian cancer, with evidence of response, but at high risk of further early recurrence. The patients were randomly assigned to receive maintenance therapy using BIBF 1120 250 mg or placebo, twice per day, continuously for 36 weeks. End points were progression-free survival (PFS), toxicity, and overall survival. RESULTS Thirty-six-week PFS rates were 16.3% and 5.0% in the BIBF 1120 and placebo groups, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.65; 95% CI, 0.42 to 1.02; P = .06). Four patients continued on BIBF 1120, including two patients for another year or more. The proportion of patients with any grade 3 or 4 adverse events was similar between the groups (34.9% for BIBF 1120 v 27.5% for placebo; P = .49; mostly grade 3). However, more patients on BIBF 1120 experienced diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting (mainly grade 1 or 2 and no grade 4). There was a higher rate of grade 3 or 4 hepatotoxicity in patients on BIBF 1120 (51.2%) compared with patients on placebo (7.5%; P < .001), but this was rarely of clinical significance, and patients continued with the trial treatment. A single-level dose reduction to 150 mg was made in 15 patients, all on active drug. CONCLUSION BIBF 1120 is well tolerated and associated with a potential improvement in PFS. The observed treatment effect is sufficient to justify further study within a large phase III trial.
Physiological alignment of the lower limbs changes during childhood . A clinical Study in South-West Greece

It is well known that the physiological alignment of the lower limbs changes during the first years of life. Mild to moderate bowlegs in newborns and knock-knees in early childhood are well-defined and quite common orthopaedic problems. The established reference values of paediatric lower limb alignment are based on clinical or/and radiographic measurements of the tibiofemoral (TF) angle and the Intermalleolar (IM) and Intercondylar (IC) distance. In our study, we determine the mean values and normal limits for the TF angle and the IC/IM distance of 316 normal children in South-West Greece. In total, 160 boys and 156 girls aged from 3 to 9 years were examined using clinical methods. The average value of the tibiofemoral angle starts around 7o at the age of 3 years and gradually decreases to under 4o at the age of 7 to 8 years. The average value of the IM distance ranges from greater than 3.5 cm at the age of 3 years and progressively falls to under 2 cm at the age of 7 to 8 years. We noted significantly different results than other similar reports. These differences may reflect racial differences between Greek children and those of other races.
Comparison of real and idealized cetacean flippers

When a phenomenon in nature is mimicked for practical applications, it is often done so in an idealized fashion, such as representing the shape found in nature with convenient, piece-wise smooth mathematical functions. The aim of idealization is to capture the advantageous features of the natural phenomenon without having to exactly replicate it, and it is often assumed that the idealization process does in fact capture the relevant geometry. We explored the consequences of the idealization process by creating exact scale models of cetacean flippers using CT scans, creating corresponding idealized versions and then determining the hydrodynamic characteristics of the models via water tunnel testing. We found that the majority of the idealized models did not exhibit fluid dynamic properties that were drastically different from those of the real models, although multiple consequences resulting from the idealization process were evident. Drag performance was significantly improved by idealization. Overall, idealization is an excellent way to capture the relevant effects of a phenomenon found in nature, which spares the researcher from having to painstakingly create exact models, although we have found that there are situations where idealization may have unintended consequences such as one model that exhibited a decrease in lift performance.
Investigating street accident characteristics and optimal safe route recommendation: A case study of New York City

With the growing traffic accidents, cities meet the problem of traffic safety. In order to reduce the traffic accidents, vehicle collision's spatio-temporal distributions and characteristics need to be analyzed. This paper focuses on investigating the spatio-temporal distributions and characteristics of vehicle collisions and detecting the accident prone streets. Besides, an optimal safe route method is proposed based on the dangerous index defined in this paper. We calculated the number of collisions on each street by hour from 0 to 23 and got a collision-curve for each street to delineate the temporal characteristics of collisions which indicated the inherent functions and locations of each street. The streets were clustered into several types based on the collision-time curves to find different spatial patterns. A dangerous index was defined and calculated for each street. The accident prone streets were detected using the index to reveal the spatial distributions of dangerous streets. Finally, the optimal safe route method was tested on the data of New York City. This paper's methods and findings may contribute to the governance and planning of the city and the optimal safe routing method provides a new insight to route under some circumstances such as the school bus's travel.
Making recommendations from multiple domains

Given the vast amount of information on the World Wide Web, recommender systems are increasingly being used to help filter irrelevant data and suggest information that would interest users. Traditional systems make recommendations based on a single domain e.g., movie or book domain. Recent work has examined the correlations in different domains and designed models that exploit user preferences on a source domain to predict user preferences on a target domain. However, these methods are based on matrix factorization and can only be applied to two-dimensional data. Transferring high dimensional data from one domain to another requires decomposing the high dimensional data to binary relations which results in information loss. Furthermore, this decomposition creates a large number of matrices that need to be transferred and combining them in the target domain is non-trivial. Separately, researchers have looked into using social network information to improve recommendation. However, this social network information has not been explored in cross domain collaborative filtering. In this work, we propose a generalized cross domain collaborative filtering framework that integrates social network information seamlessly with cross domain data. This is achieved by utilizing tensor factorization with topic based social regularization. This framework is able to transfer high dimensional data without the need for decomposition by finding shared implicit cluster-level tensor from multiple domains. Extensive experiments conducted on real world datasets indicate that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-art algorithms for item recommendation, user recommendation and tag recommendation.
Determination of the In Vitro and In Vivo Antimicrobial Activity on Salivary Streptococci and Lactobacilli and Chemical Characterisation of the Phenolic Content of a Plantago lanceolata Infusion

Introduction. Plant extracts may be suitable alternative treatments for caries. Aims. To investigate the in vitro and in vivo antimicrobial effects of Plantago lanceolata herbal tea (from flowers and leaves) on cariogenic bacteria and to identify the major constituents of P. lanceolata plant. Materials and Methods. The MIC and MBC against cariogenic bacteria were determined for P. lanceolata tea. Subsequently, a controlled random clinical study was conducted. Group A was instructed to rinse with a P. lanceolata mouth rinse, and Group B received a placebo mouth rinse for seven days. The salivary colonisation by streptococci and lactobacilli was investigated prior to treatment and on the fourth and seventh days. Finally, the P. lanceolata tea was analysed for its polyphenolic content, and major phenolics were identified. Results and Discussion. P. lanceolata teas demonstrate good in vitro antimicrobial activity. The in vivo test showed that Group A subjects presented a significant decrease in streptococci compared to Group B. The phytochemical analysis revealed that flavonoids, coumarins, lipids, cinnamic acids, lignans, and phenolic compounds are present in P. lanceolata infusions. Conclusions. P. lanceolata extract could represent a natural anticariogenic agent via an antimicrobial effect and might be useful as an ancillary measure to control the proliferation of cariogenic flora.
Proposal for Using NLP Interchange Format for Question Answering in Organizations

The growth of technology and sciences has greatly influenced the area of management and decision-making procedures, and has dramatically changed the decision-making processes in different levels, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Knowledge management plays a vital role in supporting enterprise learning, since it facilitates the effective collective intellect of the enterprise. Different methods for user-friendly knowledge access have been developed previously. The most sophisticated ones provide a simple text box for a query which takes Natural Language (NL) queries as input. Question Answering (QA) system is playing an important role in current search engine optimization. Natural language processing technique is mostly implemented in QA system for asking user's question and several steps are also followed for conversion of questions to query form for getting an exact answer. Query languages have complex syntax, requiring a good understanding of the representation schema, including knowledge of details like namespaces, class and property names. In this research we proposed an model to implement Conceptual Question Answering and Automatic Information Inferences for the enterprise's operational knowledge management in ontology-based learning organization.
Understanding the Functionality of Human Activity Hotspots from Their Scaling Pattern Using Trajectory Data

Human activity hotspots are the clusters of activity locations in space and time, and a better understanding of their functionality would be useful for urban land use planning and transportation. In this article, using trajectory data, we aim to infer the functionality of human activity hotspots from their scaling pattern in a reliable way. Specifically, a large number of stopping locations are extracted from trajectory data, which are then aggregated into activity hotspots. Activity hotspots are found to display scaling patterns in terms of the sublinear scaling relationships between the number of stopping locations and the number of points of interest (POIs), which indicates economies of scale of human interactions with urban land use. Importantly, this scaling pattern remains stable over time. This finding inspires us to devise an allometric ruler to identify the activity hotspots, whose functionality could be reliably estimated using the stopping locations. Thereafter, a novel Bayesian inference model is proposed to infer their urban functionality, which examines the spatial and temporal information of stopping locations covering 75 days. Experimental results suggest that the functionality of identified activity hotspots are reliably inferred by stopping locations, such as the railway station.
Unbiased Gender Education as a Remedy for Social Inequality in Nigeria

Gender biases exist in form of laws and customs that continue to impede female access to make imputes into developmental process. Economic and domestic workloads also impose severe time burden on the feminine gender. Educationally, feminine gender have mostly affected by these negative factors as the National literacy rate for female is lower compared to that of males. In certain states of the federation, the female literacy enrolment and achievement rates are much lower. This is against the fact that education is a basic and fundamental right of all citizens. This study examines whether or not gender roles assigned to feminine gender affect their school performance; the extent gender is used to discriminate feminine gender for access to school. Findings from this study include: Assisting in rearing the going ones is time consuming and it affects educationally performance of girl child or no payment of school fees and sexual harassment. For gender social equality to be achieved and sustained, there is the need for female education to fill the gap. Negative cultures should be adjusted; teachers should stop devaluing girls by and gender equality should be adhered to in any society.ridiculing them and enhancement of women education.
Controlling access to environment and self: aboriginal perspectives on tourism.

Abstract Selected issues in the relationship between Aborigines and tourism are reviewed, placing data available in a psychological framework. Alternative theoretical standpoints are canvassed concerning Aboriginal interpretations of tourism. Some implications of the special relationship between Aborigines and the natural environment are outlined, noting the relative lack of psychological theory on attachment to places. Control of access to Aboriginal people is considered in terms of privacy and “presentation of self”. While policy and management attention has been directed mainly towards behavioural controls, it is argued that less obvious Aboriginal cognitive controls also have an important role.
Localized phosphorylation of vimentin by Rho‐kinase in neuroblastoma N2a cells

Vimentin, which is one of the intermediate filaments, is the major cytoskeletal component in developing neurones or neuroblastoma cells. Rho‐associated kinase (Rho‐kinase), is rich in neurones and is found downstream of Rho. It is involved in the agonist‐induced neurite retraction of neuronal cells, and phosphorylates vimentin at Ser‐38 and Ser‐71 resulting in in vitro disassembly of the filaments.
Molecular analyses of the intestinal microbiota of chimpanzees in the wild and in captivity

Little information is available regarding the intestinal bacteria of chimpanzees in the wild, due to the technical difficulties of studying intestinal bacteria in the field. In this study, molecular‐based bacterial analyses were performed to overcome this difficulty because polymerase chain reaction (PCR)‐based methods, such as temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE) and amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA), of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene can be applied to ethanol‐fixed fecal samples. The common presence of bacteria belonging to the Clostridium rRNA sub‐group XIVa, such as Ruminococcus obeum and Eubacterium sp. , was indicated for Bossou wild chimpanzees by ARDRA. TGGE on partial 16S rDNA followed by hierarchical clustering analysis showed a systematic difference in the composition of intestinal microbiota between wild and captive chimpanzees. However, several TGGE bands commonly shared by wild and captured chimpanzees were excised, and their sequences were obtained. They were suggested to be the Clostridium leptum subgroup bacteria, Lactobacillus gasseri‐like bacterium, and Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum‐ or B. catenulatum‐like bacterium. These may be considered as common intestinal bacteria for chimpanzees, and may be transmitted vertically over generations. Am. J. Primatol. 69:1–10, 2007. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.