Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multidisciplinary interview to assess distress in patients waiting for breast cancer treatments

Background: Screening for distress is considered a fundamental goal in cancer care. The literature underlines the need to improve the distress assessment instruments. Our proposal is to identify the main themes/narratives freely emerging during a first interview, 3–5 days after the diagnosis of breast cancer. In our hypothesis, these themes simultaneously represent the patient's main concerns and the initial coping. Our goal is to differentiate different types of distress, through building a list of the most frequent thematic nuclei and, subsequently, differentiating two classes of distress which require different interventions in order to be reduced. Methods: One thousand five hundred new-diagnosed breast cancer patients have been undergone to the Multidisciplinary Interview few days after the diagnosis. Any criterion about the type of breast cancer has been applied. For each interview, the main narrative nuclei were classified and analysed and their frequency was calculated in the whole group. Subsequently, we subdivided the narrative nuclei into two subgroups based on the type of distress hypothesized: the distress depending on factors related to therapeutic decisions (type A) from those depending on processes of adaptation and coping (type B). Results: Few days after diagnosis, it is possible to distinguish two different types of distress: indeed, the most frequent distress themes patients talk about are distributed among issues that affect the impact of the disease in personal life (family, marriage, infertility, work) or more directly related to external organizational factors (diagnostic completions, the waiting for therapies) that it can be defined as type B to issues related to decision-making processes about therapeutic strategies to be adopted, type A. Conclusions: The results show how much distress can be attributed to time-dependent factors (start the therapies or coping processes) but also to variables related to the ability to feel active in decision-making processes, particularly with regard to requests for over- and under-medical treatments. On these latter factors, you can reduce distress through timely communication to the entire team about the interview results and through the involvement of the multidisciplinary team.
Comparative surveying of reproductive performance of cows with different milk production levels

This study aimed at correlating reproductive rates with milk production based on the evaluation of cows in different milk production levels in a commercial dairy herd located at Triângulo Mineiro region. A total of 241 cows of the following breeds were monitored: Holstein, Girolando, Jersey crossing with Holstein and Jersey in full stabling system, subjected to three daily milking and treated with recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) from the second month of lactation until 60 days before the subsequent delivery. Conception rates, number of artificial inseminations (NAI), days between calving and first AI (FAI) and calving interval to conception (ICC) were estimated. Cows were grouped according to three independent criteria, average daily production (10-19; 20-29; 30-39; >40 kg day-1), total production in lactation (<900; 1000-4999; 5000-9999; >10,000 L) and days in lactation (<150; 150-300; 300-450; 450-600 days). The results indicated that the days in lactation negatively influenced (P<0.001) the FAI, CIC and NAI. The number of inseminations was also influenced by total production during lactation. The maintenance of milk production through the use of rbST negatively influenced the reproductive rates. Additional keywords: conception rate; days in lactation; fertility; recombinant bovine somatotropin.
Diagnostics of hereditary malignancies

Summary: Significant advances have occurred in our understanding of the cancer etiology in the last decade, as a consequence of the generalized use of molecular biology techniques in human genetics. Cancer is a form of a complex genetic disease. Most forms of cancer are characterised by the accumulation of different genetic alterations affecting genes from a set of genes with pathogenic potential, which is specific for each tumour entity. While in the majority of malignant tumours these changes are somatically acquired, some mutations are transmitted through the germline and account for an inherited tumour predisposition. The next frontier in cancer genetics is to find genes with high prevalence alleles conferring a low increase or decrease of cancer risk.
Agglomeration and regional employment growth

"The advent of the New Economic Geography has spawned a renewed interest in questions of agglomeration. The work expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical literature. A localization index and a cluster index are calculated in order to measure the prevalence of agglomeration. Using these indices, industries and locations that exhibit geographical concentration are identified. The main part of the paper is an econometric analysis. In a dynamic panel data model, the two indices are explicitly used to measure additional dynamic employment growth in agglomerated plants. The study uses panel data that covers all western German employment subject to social security from 1989 to 2006 in 326 districts. I analyze which regional characteristics favor the growth of employment in 191 industries of the manufacturing and service sectors. There is evidence that industrial agglomerations exhibit stronger dynamic growth than other industry/region cells. " (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE: Cooperative Learning in Independent Design Projects

This paper describes an interaction design course that combines the flexibility and self-direction of an independent project with the cooperative learning and social constructivism of the design studio. A small group of second-year interaction design students created a course curriculum in which each week they shared a design challenge, yet individually selected tools, artifacts, and approaches to respond. Through crit sessions, they gave and received feedback, and revised their designs for inclusion and reflection in a design workbook, with the goal of increasing skill and knowledge and producing portfolio-quality designs. This paper elaborates on the process of creating and managing the course, as well as reflections on its effectiveness for student development, recommending the approach for other interaction design students.
The mod 2 equivariant cohomology algebras of configuration spaces -- revised

The mod 2 equivariant cohomology algebras of the classical configuration space $F(\mathbb{R}^d,n)$ was described in an influential paper by Hung (1990). We show with a new, detailed proof that his main result is correct, but that the arguments that were given by Hung on the way to his result are not, as are some of the intermediate results in his paper. This invalidates a paper by three of the present authors, Blagojevic, Luck \& Ziegler (2016), who used a claimed intermediate result from Hung (1990) in order to derive lower bounds for the existence of $k$-regular and $\ell$-skew embeddings. Using our new proof for Hung's main result, we get new lower bounds for existence of highly regular embeddings: Some of them agree with the previously claimed bounds, some are weaker.
Effect of Double-Cropping Systems on Nematode Population in Plastic Film House Soils of Oriental Melon Cultivation

Received: 14 January 2014 / Revised: 6 March 2014 / Accepted: 11 March 2014 Copyright c 2014 The Korean Society of Environmental Agriculture This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Word count : 2 , 971 Abstract : 199 words Women and housing : making women ’ s experience visible

Opportunities for wealth creation, access to affordable housing, sense of security and belonging, level of choice, self-esteem and self-determination are all linked to housing, and more specifically to tenure type with its resulting (often hidden) inequity. In this paper I explore the impact of non-homeownership on a particularly significant and disadvantaged social group, sole mother families who do not own their homes and who subsequently privately rent their housing. I draw on some findings of a qualitative study which I undertook as part of my PhD research which adopted a critical feminist approach and utilised in-depth interviews to ascertain and make visible the experiences and concerns of 32 non-home-owning sole mothers living in Northern NSW. This approach is markedly different to many used in housing related research which often results in the particular concerns of vulnerable social groups being indistinguishable from others that are faring well within the ‘free market’ approach to housing. These women’s concerns are discussed against the backdrop of a decline in housing affordability, availability, choice and security of tenure. In addition, I reflexively draw on personal experience that explicitly positions myself in this paper to further highlight and make visible housing concerns impacting on women.
Effects of fishing on reef fish communities at Pedro Bank and Port Royal Cays, Jamaica

We examined the results of a natural 'experiment' to determine the effects of fishing on Caribbean reef fish communities. We repeated a trap survey in 1986 of reef fish populations at exposed. offshore sites on southeast (SE) and southwest (SW) Pedro Bank and protected, nearshore sites around the Port Royal Cays (PRC), Jamaica, that had been surveyed in 1969-73. The 'control' area SW Pedro Bank was virtually unexploited in 1969-73 and was lightly-to-moderately exploited in 1986. As 'treatment' areas, exploitation of SE Pedro Bank increased from moderate to heavy between surveys, and from heavy to very heavy around PRC. Overall catch rates declined significantly in heavily exploited areas 82 % over SE Pedro Bank and 33 % around PRC but did not decline over SW Pedro Bank. The largest fishes commonly caught in the traps (lutjanids and large serranids and scarids), f a m ~ e s particularly vulnerable to trap fish~ng (acanthurids and bahstids), and other commerc~ally preferred species groups (small serraruds, haemulids, mullids) dechned most consistently. Increases in catch rate were generally found only in commercially less desirable reef fishes, such as chaetodontids, holocentrids, and tetraodontiformes. The catch (i.e. species) composition changed significantly between surveys in h e a d y exploited areas (SE Pedro Bank and PRC) but not over SW Pedro Bank. Similar changes in 2 different reef environments (SE Pedro Bank and PRC) suggest that quantitative relationships of catch rate and composition with fishing effort may be useful in fishery management.
Processamento Tensorial de Sinais e Geometria da Informação: Novos Caminhos para os Sistemas de Comunicações Digitais

Este trabalho apresenta o panorama das novas estrategias logicas para os sistemas de comunicacoes digitais baseadas na algebra multilinear e na geometria da informacao, considerando perturbacoes provocadas por linearidades, nao-linearidades e nao-estacionaridades presentes no meio de comunicacao.
ODRS: Optimal Data Replication Scheme for Time Efficiency In MANETs

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), mobile nodes move freely from one place to another place and link/node failures are common. Due to link/node failures leads to frequent network partitions. When network a network partition occurs, mobile nodes in one partition are not able to access data contained in other partition. For this reason the performance of the data access significantly decreased. To avoid such problems data replication scheme proposed to improve the performance of the data access, and hence data availability and query traffic increased and query delay should decrease,also, query rate query delay decreased and hit ratio increased. KeywordsMANETs, Data Replication, Query delay, Data availability, ODRS, combined access frequency,
Intracellular Occurrence of ε-Proteobacterial 16S rDNA Sequences in the Vestimentiferan Trophosome

Endosymbionts of vestimentiferan tubeworms are generally thought to be γ-Proteobacterial sulfur oxidizers. We have identified two novel 16S ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA), presumably of e-Proteobacteria, from the trophosome content of a vestimentiferan tubeworm. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that the 16S rDNAs were closely related to those of Arcobacter, most of which are known to be associated with animal hosts but are non-chemosynthetic. Intracellular localizations of the 16S rDNAs were confirmed by in situ hybridization using their specific probes. This is the first report of e-Proteobacterial 16S rDNAs associated with a vestimentiferan tubeworm.
Outline of FEM Simulation and Modelling of Hard Turning Process

Hard machining, as attractive replacement for many rough and finish grinding operation, generates high cutting forces and temperature that enhance tool wear when act together. Therefore, the tool geometry and machining parameters have to be carefully optimized for a given material. Because of high cost and time consuming experimental work up-to-date advanced software for modeling and simulation brings quick and adequate solution. The aim of this contribution is to study the influence of cutting parameters and material hardness on accompanying phenomena when hard turning process with mixed oxide ceramic inserts. Hardened steel with different hardness level of HRC 46, HRC 55 and HRC 60, respectively, has been employed in modeling and trials. In order to better understand dynamics of cutting hardened steel, investigation has been performed making use finite element simulation in two dimension, and experimental analysis of cutting force. The potentiality of the model as well as the experimental results are compared and discussed.
Role mechanisms in collaborative systems

Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) systems are computer-based tools that support collaborative activities. They should meet the requirements of normal collaborative efforts among people. They should not only support virtual face-to-face collaboration among people at a distance, but also improve face-to-face collaboration by providing more mechanisms to overcome the drawbacks of face-to-face collaboration among people. Therefore, introducing roles into CSCW systems is extremely important. By roles, one can avoid users of CSCW systems being overwhelmed by too much irrelevant information. One of the major problems in current CSCW systems is determining how to define and specify roles clearly and rigorously while maintaining the flexibility for collaboration. Many traditional CSCW systems based on roles have lost their flexibility after introducing roles because they can only provide static role mechanisms based on intuitive role concepts. There are no flexible mechanisms for role tuning, changing and transitions because there is not a special mechanism to express a role. This paper reviews the applications of roles in traditional collaborative systems, clarifies the general meanings of roles, discusses the functions of roles in collaboration, and suggests a role mechanism and a group of principles to support collaboration based on roles. This paper concludes that roles need more comprehensive research and will be applied widely in different areas.
An Alternative Identification of the Economic Shocks in SVAR Models

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new approach allowing us to identify the structural shocks in the SVAR model. This approach ameliorates substantially the decomposition methods of Bernanke (1986) and Bernanke & Mihov (1998) and improves in the same way the identification procedures pioneered by Blanchard & Quah (1989) and Blanchard & Perotti (2002).
A Confirmatory Factor Analytical Study of a Servant Leadership Measure in South Africa

Orientation: Servant leadership is a value-based leadership practice that plays a critical role in team effectiveness and organisational success. Research purpose: The goal of the study was to validate the Servant Leadership Questionnaire(SLQ), which Barbuto and Wheeler developed, on a South African sample. Motivation for the study: The literature is replete with evidence of the role of follower focused leadership practices in improving team effectiveness, employee engagement and organisational success. We need to complement these efforts with psychometrically sound measuring instruments. Research design, approach and method: The authors drew a convenience sample of 288 school teachers from schools in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. They used the SLQ that Barbuto and Wheeler developed to measure servant leadership. Main findings: The authors found high levels of reliability for the sub-scales of the latent variables. They found good fit with the data for the measurement model of the five latent servant leadership dimensions (altruistic calling, persuasive mapping, emotional healing, wisdom and organisational stewardship) through confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). They obtained reasonable fit for the first- and second-order servant leadership CFA. The authors concluded that the SLQ shows reasonable fit. Practical/managerial implications: The SLQ showed evidence of reliability and construct validity. It can contribute to the scientific selection and development of education leaders in South African schools. Contribution/value add: Servant leadership incorporates a service ethic that fosters participatory management, teacher development and team building. The department of education should increase team effectiveness in schools by selecting and developing servant leadership.
Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century

Most of the Iberian Peninsula has a Mediterranean climate, which strongly determines the objectives, strategies and techniques of forest restoration. This communication addresses a main forest restoration challenge for Mediterranean-climate woodlands in Spain: the transformation of old monospecific pine plantations to more diverse, resistant and resilient forest systems. I also present how afforestation methods and some ideas on plant quality have evolved in the last 80 years. Productivity of Mediterranean forests is low, which discourages private owners to invest in woodland management. Therefore, woodland management strongly relies on public funds. Large-scale afforestation in the 20 th century has created huge areas of monospecific pine plantations, which have been under thinned and are very simple structurally with almost no understory. The stands are very prone to fires, diseases and drought dieback. However, old pine plantations can facilitate the establishment of late successional trees and shrubs when properly thinned. Therefore, pine plantations are an opportunity for restoring several types of oak-dominated forests at a large scale and resources should invested to preserve and gradually transform these plantations into mixed forests. Funds should be invested in thinning progressively rather than to plant new areas. In many plantations close to oak forests remnants, thinning is the only management required. However, many pine plantations are far from seed sources and enrichment plantations together with thinning are needed. Extensive enrichment plantations are expensive. Therefore, an option is to develop a network of small islets strategically placed inside pine plantations and properly managed as seed foci to foster pine plantation colonization. This option is cheaper than conventional extensive low-density enrichment plantations but research is needed to assess its effectiveness for pine plantation transformation.
An Improved CPCA Technique to Detect Outliers Using Online Oversampling Approach

Outlier detection is the process of identifying unusual behavior. It is widely used in data mining, for example, to identify customer behavioral change, fraud and manufacturing flaws. In recent years many researchers had proposed several concepts to obtain the optimal result in detecting the anomalies. But the process of PCA made it challenging due to its computations. In order to overcome the computational complexity, online oversampling PCA has been used. The algorithm enables quick Online updating of the principal directions for the effective computation and satisfying the online detecting demand and also oversampling will improve the impact of outliers which leads to accurate detection of outliers. Experimental results show that this method is effective in computation time and need less memory requirements also clustering technique is added to it for optimization.
Deciphering and Expending Clostridium formicoaceticum Metabolism Based on Whole Genome Sequencing

ii Dedication . iv Vita . v List of Tables . viii List of Figures . ix Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 1.1 Biofuels . 1 1.2 Clostridial Fermentation . 3 1.3 The First-generation and the Second-generation Biofuels . 4 1.4 Clostridium formicoaceticum . 6 Chapter 2: Material and Methods . 8 2.1 Strains and Plasmids . 8 2.2 Cultural Media and Growth Condition . 8 2.2 Analytical Methods . 10 2.3 Sequencing, Gene Prediction, and Annotation . 10 2.4 Characterization of the Restriction Modification System by Restriction Assay . 11 2.5 Nucleotide Sequence Accession Number . 12 Chapter 3: Deciphering and Expending C. formicoaceticum Metabolism Based on Whole Genome Sequencing . 13 3.1 General Features of the C. formicoaceticum Genome . 13 3.2 Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway . 16 3.3 Acetate, Ethanol, and Butanol Production and Utilization . 20 3.4 Substrate Utilization . 23
Planning Gaits for Underactuated Compass-Biped Robot With Torso

A structured approach to gait planning for a planar underactuated 3-link biped robot is presented. The method of virtual holonomic constraints (VHC) is employed to this end. It is shown how this method effectively reduces the dimensionality of the problem and allows for the biped’s dynamics to be re-written in reduced form. The reduced dynamic system is then used to structure requirements for the existence of periodic gait-cycles in the robot’s state-space. The gait planning task is then solved in a structured manner by organizing a numerical search that finds parameterizations of the VHCs that lead to nominal gait cycles for the biped.
Herring (Clupea harengus) as a key species in northeast Atlantic mink whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) diets

Using results from annual studies since 1992 in the Barents Sea, the dynamics in Northeast Atlantic minke whale Baleaenoptera acutorostrata predation upon Norwegian spring spawning herring Clupea harengus, including the effect of the collapse and subsequent increase in the herring stock, were assessed. The location of herring spawning is along the wester11 coast of }-JorvVay, ',,"vhereas the la.rvae are transported northwards to fjord and coastal areas, but in par-Jcular to u"1.e Baients Sea. Here th.e L.T . 1118v.rre herring spend their first 2-4 years. The abundance or imma:tLlfe helling year classes in the Barents Sea has been highly variable. One or a few strong year classes are usually followed· by several years of poor year classes. In the period 1992-1995, the northeast Atlantic minke whale appeared to have consumed 610 000 tonnes of adolescent Norwegian spring spawning herring annually inthe Barents Sea area. The major part of this belonged to the strong 199 i and i 992 year classes. The abundance and distribution of herring appears to be well correlated with its diatary importance for the whales. An example of this was when the major part of the 1992 year class migrated out of the Barents Sea in 1995. This was followed by asubsequent reduction in the dietary importance of herring by 50% (in fact, to virtually absence) compared with the year befoie. Dur'u"lg HIe period! 992-! 995, min.l<e whales may have consumed as much as 1.3-1.4 and 0.8-1.0 1Hillion tons-oft. ~e t'NO strong herring year classes of 1991 and 1992, respectively.