Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Psychological Distance on Perceptual Level of Construal

Three studies examined the effect of primed psychological distance on level of perceptual construal, using Navon's paradigm of composite letters (global letters that are made of local letters). Relative to a control group, thinking of the more distant future (Study 1), about more distant spatial locations (Study 2), and about more distant social relations (Study 3) facilitated perception of global letters relative to local letters. Proximal times, spatial locations, and social relations had the opposite effect. The results are discussed within the framework of Construal Level Theory of psychological distance (Liberman & Trope, 2008; Trope & Liberman, 2003).
Impacts of conventional coronary risk factors, diabetes and hypertension, on coronary atherosclerosis during statin therapy: subanalysis of the TRUTH study

ObjectivePatients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) are at a high risk of coronary artery disease. However, the mechanisms underlying this have not been well characterized. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the impacts of DM and HT on coronary atherosclerosis during statin therapy. Materials and methodsThe effects of 8-month statin therapy on coronary atherosclerosis were evaluated in the TRUTH study using virtual histology intravascular ultrasound. Analyzable intravascular ultrasound data were obtained from 119 patients who were divided into four subgroups, namely, group A: DM (+), HT (+); group B: DM (+), HT (−); group C: DM (−), HT (+); and group D: DM (−), HT (−). The pattern of arterial remodeling, extent of coronary atherosclerosis, and plaque composition were compared among the four subgroups. ResultsAtheroma volume decreased significantly in group D (−3.9%, P=0.01), whereas it tended to increase in group A (1.0%, P=0.77). A significant difference in the mean percent change of atheroma volume was observed between groups A and D (1.0 vs. −3.9%, P=0.03). Furthermore, the frequency of progression in atheroma volume was significantly higher in group A (60, 33, 45, and 24% in groups A, B, C, and D, respectively; P=0.03). No significant differences in the changes in the four plaque components among the four subgroups were observed. ConclusionA combination of DM and HT attenuates the degree of regression of coronary atherosclerosis, but does not influence changes in plaque composition during statin therapy.
A Parse Tree-Based NoSQL Injection Attacks Detection Mechanism

Nowadays, many IT giants such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon adopt non-relational database (NoSQL, Not only SQL) technologies to manage their systems. Although these kind of database technologies have made outstanding contributions to the development of the IT industry, it also exposed some security risks such as SQL injection attacks. Up to now, there are many solutions to counter SQL injection attacks in SQL databases. However, there exist few approaches to counter injection attacks in NoSQL databases. So, how to design an eﬀective NoSQL injection attacks detecting mechanism becomes a subject worthy of in-depth study. In this paper, we based on semantic structure analysis of execution statements to propose a detection approach using parse tree. Based on this approach, we focus on MongoDB to propose a dynamic NoSQL injection attacks detection mechanism in the web environment called DND. It does not require access to or modifying source codes, rewriting source codes with extra libraries, or complex assisted devices. Finally, the experimental results are shown that DND has high accuracy rates, low false positive rates, and low response time.
Therapy with thalidomide in refractory multiple myeloma patients — the revival of an old drug

We have treated 17 refractory or relapsed multiple myeloma patients resistant to chemotherapy with thalidomide at a dose of 200–800 mg/day. Eleven patients responded, five of whom had a very good partial response (> 75% decline in M protein) and another five exhibited a partial response (> 50% decline in M protein). Except for one patient, treatment was well tolerated with only mild side‐effects. Thalidomide should be included in the therapeutic options for refractory myeloma.
Auditory feedback in a multimodal balancing task: Walking on a virtual rope

We describe a multimodal system which exploits the use of footwear-based interaction in virtual environments. We developed a pair of shoes enhanced with pressure sensors, actuators, and markers. Such shoes control a multichannel surround sound system and drive a physically based sound synthesis engine which simulates the act of walking on different surfaces. We present the system in all its compo-nents, and explain its ability to simulate natural interactive walking in virtual environments. The system was used in an experiment whose goal was to assess the ability of subjects to walk blindfolded on a virtual plank. Results show that subjects perform the task slightly better when they are exposed to haptic feedback as opposed to auditory feedback, although no signiﬁcant differences are measured. The combination of auditory and haptic feedback does not signiﬁcantly enhances the task performance.
Naltrexone and alcohol dependence. Role of subject compliance.

BACKGROUND Two previous double-blind, placebo-controlled studies demonstrated that naltrexone (50 mg/d) reduces alcohol drinking in alcohol-dependent subjects. In both studies, treatment compliance was excellent. However, a robust treatment effect size for naltrexone relative to placebo has been shown for compliant subjects but not for subjects who missed research visits. The goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of naltrexone in subjects who received psychosocial treatment in a more naturalistic setting with respect to the role of treatment attendance and medication compliance. METHODS Ninety-seven alcohol-dependent subjects were randomly assigned to receive either naltrexone (n = 48) or matching placebo (n = 49) for 12 weeks. All subjects received individual counseling (twice per week for the first month followed by once per week). RESULTS Overall, naltrexone showed only modest effects in reducing alcohol drinking for the 12 weeks of treatment. However, naltrexone treatment efficacy improved across a variety of outcome measures for subjects who completed treatment and were highly compliant with taking medication. CONCLUSIONS Naltrexone is clinically effective relative to placebo in individuals who comply with the treatment protocol and take medication. The modest treatment effects in the entire sample suggest that the clinical efficacy of naltrexone could be improved by enhancing treatment compliance.
The relations between psychological empowerment, group cohesion, leader-member exchange and job behavior

This research aims to understand the psychological empowerment, group cohesion and leader member exchange that affect on job behavior empirically. With a sample of 403 employees from 6 companies in Macau, we use statistical analysis and find out that perceived psychological empowerment and group cohesion influence positive behavior and withdrawal behavior of employees in the workplace through the mediating effect of leader member exchange; We also confirm the moderating effect of psychological empowerment on relations between leader member exchange and withdrawal behavior, but the moderating effect of psychological empowerment does not exist between leader member exchange and positive behavior of employees.
Preliminary Study of an Increase of a Plasma Apolipoprotein E Variant Associated With Peripheral Nerve Damage: A Finding in Patients With Chronic Spinal Pain

Study Design This two-dimensional gel electrophoretic study analyzed the plasma of six groups of patients to determine the association of an elevated apolipoprotein E variant with peripheral nerve damage (PND). Objectives To find a statistically significant plasma protein alteration in patients with PND including chronic spinal pain. Summary of Background Data A twofold to fivefold increase in human plasma apolipoprotein E may be a physiologic response to PND as a 250-fold local increase in apolipoprotein E was reported in experimental PND studies in mammals. Methods A total of 36 patients with chronic lumbar pain, 28 normal control subjects, and 33 patients with other conditions were studied. Venipuncture was performed and plasma was studied using the technique of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Chi-square analysis was used to evaluate results. Results A statistically significant (P < 0.005) elevation of the plasma apolipoprotein E variant was found in patients with chronic lumbar pain. It also was elevated in patients with chronic cervical pain, extraspinal pain with PND, and chronic inflammatory diseases; but not in extraspinal pain without PND, or asymptomatic biomechanically deficient lumbar spines. Conclusions This quantitative protein alteration, although not specific for PND, may prove useful in the treatment of conditions with this disorder, including chronic spinal pain
Role of disease severity, illness perceptions, and mood on quality of life in muscle disease

Introduction: The aim of this study was to describe the effect of muscle disease upon QoL and to explore the influence of disease severity, mood, and illness perception on the QoL of these patients. Methods: Validated questionnaires assessing QoL (Individualized Neuromuscular QoL and SF‐36), disease severity (Health Assessment Questionnaire), mood (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and illness perception (Illness Perception Questionnaire) were sent to adults with muscle disease. Results: We received 302 responses (return rate 75%). QoL was reduced, particularly for “physical” domains, but “psychological” domains were also affected. Disease severity was the main determinant for the “physical” domains of QoL, but mood and illness perception played a part. Conversely, mood and illness perception were the main determinants for the “psychological” domains of QoL. Conclusions: Because mood and illness perception explain significant variance in QoL in muscle disease, there is scope for devising psychosocial interventions that may improve QoL for those with muscle disease. Muscle Nerve 46: 351–359, 2012
Learning informative pairwise joints with energy-based temporal pyramid for 3D action recognition

This paper presents an effective local spatial-temporal descriptor for action recognition from skeleton sequences. The unique property of our descriptor is that it takes the spatial-temporal discrimination and action speed variations into account, intending to solve the problems of distinguishing similar actions and identifying actions with different speeds in one goal. The entire algorithm consists of two stages. First, a frame selection method is used to remove noisy skeletons for a given skeleton sequence. From the selected skeletons, skeleton joints are mapped to a high dimensional space, where each point refers to kinematics, time label and joint label of a skeleton joint. To encode relative relationships among joints, pairwise points from the space are then jointly mapped to a new space, where each point encodes the relative relationships of skeleton joints. Second, Fisher Vector (FV) is employed to encode all points from the new space as a compact feature representation. To cope with speed variations in actions, an energy-based temporal pyramid is applied to form a multi-temporal FV representation, which is fed into a kernel-based extreme learning machine classifier for recognition. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets consistently show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for skeleton-based action recognition.
Moving the Field of B Lymphopoiesis

A primary research article can safely be considered influential when it has been cited >1100 times. This is certainly the case for Richard R. (Randy) Hardy et al.’s ([1][1]) “Resolution and characterization of pro-B and pre–pro-B cell stages in normal mouse bone marrow. ” In fact, it
Social Interaction and Blood Pressure: Influence of Animal Companions

The effect of the presence of a friendly animal on children's blood pressures and heart rates while resting and their cardiovascular responses to verbalization were examined. The presence of the dog resulted in lower blood pressures both while the children (N = 38) were resting and while they were reading. The effect of the presence of the dog was greater when the dog was present initially than when it was introduced in the second half of the experiment. We speculate that the animal causes the children to modify their perceptions of the experimental situation and the experimenter by making both less threatening and more friendly. This study provides insight into the use of pets as adjuncts in psychotherapy.
Theileriosis in South Africa : a brief review.

Summary: East Coast fever caused by Theileria parva parva has been eradicated from South Africa, but tick-borne infections with other species of Theileria still occur, particularly in cattle and African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). One such infection is Corridor disease caused by T. parva lawrencei, which is controlled by restricting the movement of African buffalo. Other species reviewed are T. parva bovis, T. taurotragi, T. mutans, T. velifera, T. ovis and the genus Cytauxzoon, which are of little or no pathogenic significance.
Chronic Diarrhoea Caused by Monosaccharide Malabsorption

During recent years special attention has been focused on diarrhoea caused by an insufficient absorption of carbohydrates. Such an insufficiency may be part of a general malabsorption disorder, e.g. celiac disease. Apart from this, there may be a selective defect of the absorption of different kinds of carbohydrates. In 1958 Durand [13] reported an infant who from birth presented chronic diarrhoea and lactosuria, presumably caused by a deficiency of lactase. The next year Holzel, Schwan & Sutcliffe [17] described two siblings with a defective lactose ahsorption. Since then diarrhoea caused by deficiency of other disaccharide-splitting enzymes has been reported. Thus Weijers, van de Kamer, Dicke & Ijsseling [24] have published three cases with defective absorption of sucrose, one of which in addition revealed a defective absorption of maltose. In 1961 Auricchio, Prader, Murset & Witt [l] reported five cases of sucrose intolerance. Of these there were two siblings in each of two families. Furthermore, the disorder could be traced back in each family, indicating an enzyme deficiency with an autosonial dominant type of inheritance. A complete review of the reported cases of disaccharide intolerance has been published by Dahlqvist [9]. The diagnosis of disaccharide intolerance has mostly been based on abnormal results of the disaccharide tolerance tests (no rise of the blood glucose and/or a high disaccharide excretion with feces), whereas the tolerance test performed with the constituent monosaccharides has revealed a normal response. Clinically, the diarrhoea disappeared in all of these cases when the patients were fed a formula in which the carbohydrate consisted of glucose. Recently, we have observed an infant who since birth presented watery stools due to an insufficient absorption of sugar. In contrast to the cases hitherto published, digestive studies performed on this infant revealed a defective absorption of certain monosaccharides.
Tyrosyl‐phosphorylated proteins are involved in regulation of meiosis in the rat egg

Fertilization in invertebrates results in tyrosine (Tyr) phosphorylation of several egg proteins. However, the involvement of Tyr phosphorylation in mediating mammalian egg activation has not yet been investigated. Using an antibody specific for phosphotyrosine (P‐Tyr), immunoblotting, and densitometric analysis, we found that maturation of the oocyte is accompanied by a generalized increase in the P‐Tyr content of almost all egg proteins detected. After sperm penetration, 5 of the 17 protein bands detected demonstrated a small increase in their P‐Tyr content, while at the pronuclear (PN) stage the signal was markedly reduced. Ionomycin emulated the changes observed at fertilization in most protein bands detected, demonstrating a small increase in their P‐Tyr content within 15 min of exposure.
Poultry coccidiosis: recent advancements in control measures and vaccine development

Coccidiosis is recognized as the major parasitic disease of poultry and is caused by the apicomplexan protozoan Eimeria. Coccidiosis seriously impairs the growth and feed utilization of infected animals resulting in loss of productivity. Conventional disease control strategies rely heavily on chemoprophylaxis and, to a certain extent, live vaccines. Combined, these factors inflict tremendous economic losses to the world poultry industry in excess of US$3 billion annually. Increasing regulations and bans on the use of anticoccidial drugs coupled with the associated costs in developing new drugs and live vaccines increases the need for the development of novel approaches and alternative control strategies for coccidiosis. This paper aims to review the current progress in understanding the host immune response to Eimeria and discuss current and potential strategies being developed for coccidiosis control in poultry.
Protection des architectures hétérogènes multiprocesseurs dans les systèmes embarqués : Une approche décentralisée basée sur des pare-feux matériels. (Protection of heterogeneous multiprocessor architectures in embedded systems: A decentralized approach based on hardware firewalls)

Les systemes embarques sont presents dans de nombreux domaines et font meme partie de notre quotidien a travers les smartphones ou l'electronique embarquee dans les voitures par exemple. Ces systemes manipulent des donnees sensibles (codes de carte bleue, informations techniques sur le systeme hote. . . ) qui doivent etre protegees contre les attaques exterieures d'autant plus que ces donnees sont transmises sur un canal de communication sur lequel l'attaquant peut se greffer pour extraire des donnees ou injecter du code malveillant. Le fait que ces systemes contiennent de plus en plus de composants dans une seule et meme puce augmente le nombre de failles qui peuvent etre exploitees pour provoquer des attaques. Les travaux menes dans cemanuscrit s'attachent a proposer une methode de securisation des communications et des memoires dans une architecture multiprocesseur embarquee dans un composant reconfigurable FPGA par l'implantation de mecanismes materiels qui proposent des fonctions de surveillance et de cryptographie afin de proteger le systeme contre un modele de menaces predefini tout en minimisant l'impact en latence pour eviter de perturber le trafic des donnees dans le systeme. Afin de repondre au mieux aux tentatives d'attaques, le protocole demise a jour est egalement defini. Apres une analyse des resultats obtenus par differentes implementations, deux extensions sont proposees : un flot de securite complet dedie a la mise en route et la maintenance d'un systeme multiprocesseur sur FPGA ainsi qu'une amelioration des techniques de detection afin de prendre en compte des parametres logiciels dans les applications multi-tâches.
Lipoteichoic Acid Inhibits Remineralization of Artificial Subsurface Lesions and Surface-softened Enamel

Dental plaque produces not only acids by which underlying enamel is demineralized but also compounds which may inhibit repair of the lesions. The aim of this study was to determine how lipoteichoic acid, a bacterial compound that is abundant in dental plaque and inhibits calcium phosphate precipitation in vitro, affects the remineralization of incipient enamel lesions. Subsurface and surface-softened lesions were made in thin sections of bovine enamel, incubated with various amounts of lipoteichoic acid (isolated from Lactobacillus casei), and remineralized in 1.5 mmol/L CaCl2, 0.9 mmol/L KH 2PO4, 130 mmol/L KC1, and 20 mmol/L Hepes, pH 7.0. Remineralization was followed during several weeks by repeated microradiography of the sections, and characterized by the changes in the integrated mineral loss of the lesions and the differential mineral profiles. The results showed that: (1) the effects of lipoteichoic acid on lesion remineralization were dose-dependent; (2) in subsurface lesions only the highest dose of lipoteichoic acid affected remineralization, which was delayed throughout the lesions; and (3) in surface-softened enamel, lipoteichoic acid did not affect the remineralization of the deeper parts, but remineralization of a surface zone of from 25 to 30 um was increasingly inhibited with increasing doses. These effects were explained by different permeabilities of the surfaces of both types of lesions for the inhibitor: In subsurface lesions, lipoteichoic acid may have mainly clogged the porosities in the surface layer, whereas it could penetrate substantially into surface-softened enamel.
Endocrine pathogenesis of postweaning anestrus in swine: response of the persistently anestrous sow to hormonal stimuli.

The endocrine function of the individual components of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal-ovarian axis of the postweaning anestrous sow was evaluated by monitoring the sow's response to exogenous estradiol, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), and gonadotropins. Sows (4 to 6/group) not returning to estrus by 42.8 +/- 3.1 days after weaning were assigned to 1 of the following treatments: 10 micrograms of estradiol benzoate (EB)/kg of body weight; 200 micrograms of GnRH, 1,000 IU of pregnant mare's serum gonadotropin (PMSG); 1,000 IU of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG); or 4 ml of saline solution plus 2 ml of corn oil. A preovulatory-like surge of luteinizing hormone [(LH) greater than 12 hours in duration] was observed in all weaned sows treated with EB. All EB-treated sows exhibited estrus and ovulated but none conceived. Sows given GnRH had transiently increased (less than 3 hours) LH concentrations that were not associated with estrus or ovulation. Treatment with PMSG caused an increase in peripheral concentrations of 17 beta-estradiol that was followed by an LH surge, estrus, ovulation, and conception. Treatment with HCG caused an increase in circulating concentrations of 17 beta-estradiol that was accompanied by a surge of LH in some sows and ovulation in all sows. Not all sows treated with HCG exhibited estrous behavior, but conception occurred in 2 of 3 sows that were mated at estrus. None of the sows treated with saline plus corn oil had consistent changes in circulatory concentrations of 17 beta-estradiol or LH and none exhibited estrus or ovulated. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
MATHEMATICAL MODEL GOVERNING MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECT ON BIO MAGNETIC FLUID FLOW AND ORIENTATION OF RED BLOOD CELLS

In this work a mathematical model is developed for measuring orientation of red blood cells in magnetic field and governing the bio-magnetic fluid flow is presented for the viscous, two-dimensional, incompressible and laminar time dependent heat transfer flow is considered. Expressions describing the variation of the saturation magnetization of the fluid with temperature or the magnetic field intensity are also given. Flow takes place in channel between two porous walls under the influence of the magnetic dipole located beyond the channel. It is assumed that there is no electric field effect and the variation in the magnetic field vector that could occur within the bio-magnetic fluid is negligible. This magneto-thermo-mechanical problem is governed by dimensionless equations. The results obtained from the numerical solution of this problem, showed that the fluid flow is appreciably influenced by the applied magnetic field. The red blood cells were oriented with their disk plane parallel to the magnetic field direction.