Journal articles: 'Highly sensitive person'

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Kushizaki, Masashi. "Highly sensitive person and spirituality." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 83 (September 11, 2019): 1B—004–1B—004. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.83.0_1b-004.

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Pereira, Henrique, and Samuel Monteiro. "PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES AND VALIDATION OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION - HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON SCALE." Psicologia, Saúde & Doença 21, no. 02 (June 2020): 377–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15309/20psd210212.

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Natalia, Jovanka Ris, and Joshualdi Bernathsius. "Highly Sensitive Person dan Dampaknya terhadap Kesehatan Mental." Jurnal Keperawatan Jiwa 7, no. 3 (November 26, 2019): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.26714/jkj.7.3.2019.317-322.

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Highly Sensitive Person atau HSP adalah sifat yang diasosiasikan dengan sensitivitas dan responsitivitas yang lebih tinggi terhadap stimulus dari internal maupun eksternal, lingkungan maupun sosial. Sifat ini dimiliki oleh 20% populasi manusia dan diturunkan secara gentik. Faktor yang berperan dalam terjadinya HSP diketahui adalah genetik dan lingkungan. Aktivitas otak pada HSP lebih tinggi daripada non-HSP hal ini akan menyebabkan overstimulasi pada otak sehingga pada HSP membutuhkan periode istirahat, dan overstimulasi ini seringkali diikuti oleh ketidakmampuan mengontrol emosi sehingga menyebabkan HSP lebih mudah mengalami gangguan kesehatan mental diantaranya adalah depresi, ansietas, dan stress. Tujuan dari artikel literature review ini adalah untuk mengenal tentang HSP, apa perbedaan HSP dengan non-HSP, bagaimana cara mengetahui individu dengan HSP, dan pengaruh HSP terhadap kesehatan mental. Metode yang digunakan dalam artikel ini adalah penelusuran artikel melalui database NCBI dan Google Scholar, lalu artikel dipilih dengan meninjau judul dan abstrak artikel. Tahun penerbitan sumber pustaka adalah dari tahun 2011 sampai 2019. Hasil dari berbagai artikel yang dicantumkan dalam artikel ini untuk menunjukkan adanya hubungan antara HSP dengan gangguan kesehatan mental seperti depresi, ansietas, dan stres. Kata kunci : highly sensitive person, depresi, ansietas, stres HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON AND ITS EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH ABSTRACTHighly Sensitive Person or HSP is a trait associated with higher sensitivity and responsiveness to internal and external stimuli, environmental and social. This trait found in 20% of human population and genetically inherited. Factors that play a role in the occurrence of HSP are known to be genetic and environmental. Brain activity in HSP is higher than non-HSP, this will cause overstimulation of the brain so the HSP requires resting period, and this overstimulation often followed by inability to control emotion that cause HSP more vulnerable to mental health problem such as depression, anxiety, and stress. The purpose of this literature review article is to get to know about HSP, the difference between HSP and non-HSP, how to know the individuals with HSP, and HSPs effects on mental health. The method used in this article uses a review of articles from NCBI and Google Scholar databases, then the article are selected by reviewing the article titles and abstracts. The year of publication of these articles are from 2011 to 2019. The results of various articles included in this article are to show the correlations between HSP and mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, and stress. Keywords : highly sensitive person, depression, anxiety, stress

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Takahashi, Aki. "Development of Japanese version of the 19-item Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS-J19)." JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON EMOTIONS 23, no. 2 (2016): 68–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4092/jsre.23.2_68.

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Benham, Grant. "The Highly Sensitive Person: Stress and physical symptom reports." Personality and Individual Differences 40, no. 7 (May 2006): 1433–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.021.

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Iimura, Shuhei, Kosuke Yano, Aki Takahashi, Masashi Kushizaki, Chieko Kibe, and Mari Hirano. "Research Trends in Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in Japan." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 84 (September 8, 2020): SS—035—SS—035. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.84.0_ss-035.

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Bröhl, Anne Sophie, Karla Van Leeuwen, Michael Pluess, Filip De Fruyt, Elke Van Hoof, Sofie Weyn, and Patricia Bijttebier. "Personality Profile of the Self-Identified Highly Sensitive Person." Journal of Individual Differences 43, no. 2 (April 2022): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000363.

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Abstract. The current paper presents a detailed examination of a lay theory perspective on the Sensory-Processing-Sensitivity (SPS) personality profile within the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality. The lay SPS personality profile was assessed by asking self-identified highly sensitive people to rate themselves on a Five-Factor Model questionnaire (NEO-PI-3). We applied the NEO-PI-3 norms (domains and facets) and examined the inter-rater agreement of the facets. The sample consisted of 560 (female: 86.43%, Mage = 37.36 years, SDage = 6.64 years, 18.17–47.42 years) self-identified highly sensitive adults. Six facets, in particular, stood out with good and very good inter-rater agreement: participants fell within the highest 23% of the population on facets Fantasy, Aesthetics, Feelings (Openness to Experience); Anxiety, Depression (Neuroticism); and the lowest 23% of the population on the facet Gregariousness (Extraversion).

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Smith, Heather L., Julie Sriken, and Bradley T. Erford. "Clinical and Research Utility of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 41, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 221–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.41.3.03.

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This psychometric synthesis reviewed all 29 articles meeting criteria and possessing psychometric results from the 20-year history (1997 to 2017) of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS). Aggregated internal consistency (coefficient alpha) was .874. Convergent comparisons were provided between the HSPS total score and 12 measures of constructs similar to the sensory processing sensitivity construct. Structural validity primarily supported both the original one- and three-factor models, as did the pattern of high intra-subscale and total scale correlations, but a unidimensional interpretation is suggested given the low reliabilities for subscale scores. The HSPS performed adequately for a screening-level instrument. Mental health counselors are well suited to use the HSPS within their regular practice of assessing and valuing normal human development in addition to diagnosing and treating mental health disorders.

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Ershova, R. V., E. V. Yarmotz, T. M. Koryagina, D. A. Shlyakhta, and E. Tarnow. "Operationalization of the Russian Version of Highly Sensitive Person Scale." RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics 15, no. 1 (2018): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-1683-2018-15-1-22-37.

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Mochizuki, Naoto, and Masashi Kushizaki. "A discriminability of highly sensitive person and autism spectrum disorder." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 84 (September 8, 2020): PB—001—PB—001. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.84.0_pb-001.

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Kushizaki, Masashi, and Naoto Mochizuki. "A discriminability of highly sensitive person and autism spectrum disorder." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 84 (September 8, 2020): PB—002—PB—002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.84.0_pb-002.

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Jonsson, Kristoffer, Katarina Grim, and Anette Kjellgren. "Do Highly Sensitive Persons Experience More Nonordinary States of Consciousness During Sensory Isolation?" Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 42, no. 9 (October 26, 2014): 1495–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2014.42.9.1495.

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Our aim was to investigate whether or not highly sensitive persons experienced more nonordinary/altered states of consciousness (ASC) during 45 minutes of sensory isolation in a flotation tank, than did less sensitive persons. Psychology students (N = 57) were allocated to 1 of 2 groups (high and low levels of sensitivity) depending on their score on the Highly Sensitive Person Scale. Prior to the flotation session participants completed questionnaires to assess their degree of depression, anxiety, optimism, absorption, and how often they had experienced a mystical state. After the flotation session we assessed degree of ASC. The main finding was that the highly sensitive individuals experienced significantly more ASC during flotation than did the individuals in the low sensitivity group. Further, the highly sensitive participants had significantly more absorption and anxiety, and had experienced mystical states more frequently prior to flotation, in comparison to individuals with low-level sensitivity.

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Montoya-Pérez, Karina Salud, Jorge Isaac Manuel Ortega, Roberto Montes-Delgado, Ferrán Padrós-Blázquez, Jose Maria De la Roca- Chiapas, and Rocío Montoya-Pérez. "Psychometric Properties Of The Highly Sensitive Person Scale In Mexican Population." Psychology Research and Behavior Management Volume 12 (November 2019): 1081–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/prbm.s224808.

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Ioannou, M., M. Dellepiane, S. Olsson, and S. Steingrimsson. "Understanding the cultural concept of “highly sensitive person” among bipolar patients." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.668.

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IntroductionThe concept of “highly sensitive person” is a cultural concept, which has become popular in western societies including Sweden. A highly sensitive person (HSP) is usually described as having hypersensitivity to external stimuli, different cognitive processing and high emotional reactivity. Although the concept lacks diagnostic validity, psychiatric patients may refer to this concept.AimsTo examine the feasibility of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) and the clinical relevance of cultural concepts of distress among patients with bipolar disorder that report being a HSP.MethodsA case series of three patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder that report HSP. The CFI was conducted with all patients and the applicability of the DSM-5 cultural concepts of distress tested.ResultsIn all three cases, the CFI facilitated the clinical consultation as reported from the patients and in one of the cases also increased the treatment engagement. The HSP-concept could be conceptualized as a cultural syndrome, idiom of distress and as an explanatory model.ConclusionThe CFI and the cultural concepts of distress proved to be useful for understanding the concept of HSP as also they increased the cultural validity of the diagnostic interview. The three cases illustrate the challenges when encountering patients with other cultural references than clinicians. This highlights the necessity to integrate anthropological thinking in our current diagnostic work in order to reduce the “category fallacy” and promote a more person-centered approach in psychiatry.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Yano, Kosuke, and Kazuo Oishi. "The Relationship between Life Skills and Depressive Tendency for Highly Sensitive Person." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 81 (September 20, 2017): 3C—001–3C—001. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.81.0_3c-001.

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Yano, Kosuke, Shunsuke Kimura, and Kazuo Oishi. "Are the general methods to cope with depression effective for Highly Sensitive Person?" Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 82 (September 25, 2018): 1AM—006–1AM—006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.82.0_1am-006.

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Son, Ok-Sun, and Jinsook Kim. "Revalidation of the Korean Version of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (K-HSPS-18)." KOREAN JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 33, no. 3 (August 31, 2021): 1049–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.23844/kjcp.2021.08.33.3.1049.

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Rinn, Anne N., Dianna R. Mullet, Noel Jett, and Tara Nyikos. "Sensory Processing Sensitivity Among High-Ability Individuals: A Psychometric Evaluation of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale." Roeper Review 40, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 166–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2018.1466840.

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Dionigi, Alberto, and Alon Goldberg. "Highly sensitive persons, caregiving strategies and humour: the case of Italian and Israeli medical clowns." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 4 (January 14, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.4.dionigi.

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The medical clown is a healthcare practitioner whose character is strictly associated with the performer’s own personality. In this study, the relationships between level of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), caregiving strategies and humour in Italian and Israeli clowns were compared. Participants were 159 medical clowns (97 Italian and 62 Israeli), ranging from 22 to 74 years of age, who completed a demographic questionnaire, the self-reported Highly Sensitive Person Scale, the Caregiving Strategies Scale and the BenCor. Results showed that higher SPS was related to higher hyperactivation and deactivation, and that hyperactivation was related to lower benevolent humour and greater corrective humour. Hyperactivation negatively predicts benevolent humour but positively predicts corrective humour, beyond the effect of SPS. Deactivation had no relationship to either benevolent or corrective humour. The results are also discussed in reference to differences between the two groups and to previous studies conducted with general populations.

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Mitcham, Rick. "Reconfiguring Regulation: Towards an Empathic, Person-Centred Highly Compulsory Course of Study." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 10, no. 2 (March 31, 2021): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.10n.2p.62.

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This paper offers a model for a highly compulsory course designed to be empathic and person-centred within the parameters of the regulatory environment. Highly compulsory courses are those which require undergraduate students to study general subjects, in addition to subjects in their chosen academic degrees, and to satisfy the requirements within the duration of a first-degree course programme. Students who fail to comply must either remain at university until all highly compulsory courses have been successfully completed or to leave university without a degree. A relatively recent phenomenon, the highly compulsory course blueprint is being reproduced in university settings across Asia. The empathic person-centred highly compulsory course model described in the paper emerged through the interplay of three elements: an understanding of the modern regulatory environment informed by the work of philosopher-historian, Michel Foucault; an approach to writing ordinary lives extrapolated from the work of cultural historian, Catherine Hall; and real life-like scenarios based on a knowledge and understanding of the ordinary lives of students conscripted to the course that accrued in an 18-month period between 2015 and 2016. The resulting course is predicated on four principles: challenge; openness and transparency; availability; and flexibility. The first is a response to the regulatory environment’s requirement that the highly compulsory courses within its purview be meaningful from a pedagogical perspective; the other three are designed to support student-conscripts through the challenge. If neither the detail of the course nor the principles on which it is predicated convince, the three elements introduced in the first part of the paper offer a possible approach for the development of highly compulsory courses that are sensitive to, and which mitigate against conflict with, learners’ lives outside the classroom.

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Vasim Ahamad, Mohd, Misbah Urrahman Siddiqui, Maria Masroor, and Urooj Fatima. "An Improved Playfair Encryption Technique Using Fibonacci Series Generated Secret Key." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.5 (September 22, 2018): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.5.20104.

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With the technology advancements and easy availability of internet, every day millions of users share information electronically through emails, file sharing, e-commerce, etc. As, internet is highly vulnerable to various attacks, sending sensitive information over the Internet may be dangerous. One of the ways to protect the sensitive Information is using the cryptographic techniques. So, while sharing sensitive information over the Internet, it should be sent in encrypted form to prevent the access by unauthorized person. Encryption can be defined as the process of transforming information in such a manner that only authorized person can understand the shared information. In this paper, we have taken Playfair encryption algorithm for encryption and modified it by using Fibonacci series. Fibonacci series is used to generate a random key, which is used for encrypting the message in Playfair encryption algorithm. Using Fibonacci numbers and generating random keys provide significant security to shared information.

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Chacón, Antonio, Manuela Pérez-Chacón, Mercedes Borda-Mas, María Luisa Avargues-Navarro, and Ana María López-Jiménez. "Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale to the Adult Spanish Population (HSPS-S)." Psychology Research and Behavior Management Volume 14 (July 2021): 1041–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/prbm.s321277.

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McManus, Helen. "Psychotherapy and the highly sensitive person. Improving outcomes for that minority of people who are the majority of clients." Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 12, no. 2 (June 2012): 163–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2012.655955.

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Wilhelm, Peter, and Dominik Schoebi. "Assessing Mood in Daily Life." European Journal of Psychological Assessment 23, no. 4 (January 2007): 258–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759.23.4.258.

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Abstract. The repeated measurement of moods in everyday life, as is common in ambulatory monitoring, requires parsimonious scales, which may challenge the reliability of the measures. The current paper evaluates the factor structure, the reliability, and the sensitivity to change of a six-item mood scale designed for momentary assessment in daily life. We analyzed data from 187 participants who reported their current mood four times per day during seven consecutive days using a multilevel approach. The results suggest that the proposed three factors Calmness, Valence, and Energetic arousal are appropriate to assess fluctuations within persons over time. However, calmness and valence are not distinguishable at the between-person level. Furthermore, the analyses showed that two-item scales provide measures that are reliable at the different levels and highly sensitive to change.

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Costa-López, Borja, Nicolás Ruiz-Robledillo, Natalia Albaladejo-Blázquez, Monika Baryła-Matejczuk, and Rosario Ferrer-Cascales. "Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 5 (March 6, 2022): 3101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053101.

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Environmental sensitivity is the ability to perceive, register and process information about the environment, which differs among children and adolescents. The Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale has been used to assess environmental sensitivity in youngsters. The HSC scale is a short and 12-item adapted version of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) scale. The aim of this pilot study is to transculturally adapt the Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale, and to analyze its factorial structure, reliability and validity. First, a transcultural adaptation was conducted by bilingual experts. Second, once the questionnaire was translated, the psychometric properties were analyzed. The Spanish version of the HSC scale was administered to parents answering about information of 141 children between 6 and 10 years old. The Spanish version of the Emotionality, Activity and Sociability Survey (EAS) was also applied. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the three-factor structure of sensitivity in our Spanish sample. This structure included the following dimensions: (1) Ease of Excitation (EOE), (2) Low Sensory Threshold (LST), and (3) Aesthetic Sensitivity (AES). Moreover, both Cronbach’s α and McDonald’s ω values indicated that the Spanish version of the HSC scale was a reliable measure of environmental sensitivity, as a general factor of sensitivity (α = 0.84), and even in its three dimensions: EOE (α = 0.86), LST (α = 0.77) and AES (α = 0.73). Finally, the correlations for convergent validity showed positive associations, especially among the three dimensions of SPS and Emotionality (EOE r = 0.351; LST r = 0.274; AES r = 0.259), which was one of the domains of the EAS survey. The pilot study provided interesting results, which showed a reliable and valid replication of the original structure of sensitivity in the Spanish samples.

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Apollonskiy, S. M. "Features of combined effects of physical factors of wave nature on electrified railway transport on technosphere." Transportation systems and technology 3, no. 1 (March 15, 2017): 69–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/transsyst20173169-90.

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As a rule, the habitat technosphere is affected by simultaneous actions of numerous wave nature physical factors with variable frequency and amplitude. The most vulnerable elements of technosphere include the highly sensitive control systems and human population. It should be underlined that during a lifetime any person is exposed to the combined effects of environmental wave factors, both at home and at work. These effects increase significantly in industrial areas associated with large energy capacity that is time- and space-varying. The report describes wave nature physical factors impact caused by electrified railways.

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Huang, Ruihong. "Simulating individual work trips for transit-facilitated accessibility study." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 46, no. 1 (April 5, 2017): 84–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317702148.

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To measure job accessibility, person-based approaches have the advantage to capture all accessibility components: land use, transportation system, individual’s mobility and travel preference, as well as individual’s space and time constraints. This makes person-based approaches more favorable than traditional aggregated approaches in recent years. However, person-based accessibility measures require detailed individual trip data which are very difficult and expensive to acquire, especially at large scales. In addition, traveling by public transportation is a highly time sensitive activity, which can hardly be handled by traditional accessibility measures. This paper presents an agent-based model for simulating individual work trips in hoping to provide an alternative or supplementary solution to person-based accessibility study. In the model, population is simulated as three levels of agents: census tracts, households, and individual workers. And job opportunities (businesses) are simulated as employer agents. Census tract agents have the ability to generate household and worker agents based on their demographic profiles and a road network. Worker agents are the most active agents that can search jobs and find the best paths for commuting. Employer agents can estimate the number of transit-dependent employees, hire workers, and update vacancies. A case study is conducted in the Milwaukee metropolitan area in Wisconsin. Several person-based accessibility measures are computed based on simulated trips, which disclose low accessibility inner city neighborhoods well covered by a transit network.

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Haque, Md Hakimul, Md Mizanur Rahman, Md Lovelu Miah, Soshe Ahmed, Md Rabiul Islam Sazib, Rashida Khaton, Aurangazeb Kabir, and Md Nasir Uddin. "Exploring Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., and Staphylococcus spp. Isolated from Eggs in Rajshahi." European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences 3, no. 4 (July 12, 2021): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejfood.2021.3.4.328.

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Chicken eggs are a major component of people’s diets, with an average yearly consumption of approximately 103 eggs per person in Bangladesh. Eggs act as an important carrier of food-borne pathogen worldwide. The study was conducted to identify the prevalence and antibiotic resistance pattern of E. coli, Salmonella spp., and Staphylococcus spp., in eggs isolated from farms and different markets of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. A total of 60 eggs were collected randomly between April to December 2019. The isolation and identification of bacterial pathogen was done in accordance with standard procedures. The bacterial isolates were subjected to antibiotic susceptibility testing against seven commonly used antibiotics using Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. An overall prevalence of E. coli, Salmonella spp., and Staphylococcus spp. were found to be 35.0%, 28.33%, and 23.33%, respectively. E. coli were found highly resistant to penicillin (100%), tetracycline (80.95%), ampicillin (100%), and erythromycin (85.71%) and were sensitive to amoxicillin (71.42%), ciprofloxacin (85.71%), and gentamicin (95.23%). Salmonella spp. was highly resistant to penicillin (100%), erythromycin (82.35%) and tetracycline (82.35%), and was sensitive to gentamicin (94.11%), amoxicillin (76.47%) and ciprofloxacin (70.58%). Staphylococcus spp. was resistant to penicillin (100%), erythromycin (78.57%), tetracycline (85.71%), amoxicillin (100%), and ampicillin (100%) but sensitive to ciprofloxacin (85.71%), and gentamicin (92.85%). The higher prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria can easily enter the food chain, which poses a public health threat.

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Brusina, E. B., and E. A. Chezganova. "Concise Review: SARS-CoV-2 Persistence in the Environment and Its Sensitivity to Biocides." Medical University 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/medu-2020-0007.

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AbstractThe novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global health threat. This review summarizes comprehensive research findings about the SARS-CoV-2 persistence in inanimate surfaces and opportunities for applying biocides to limit spread of COVID-19. SARS-CoV2 is highly stable at 4°C but sensitive to heat and extremely stable in a wide range of pH values at room temperature. Coronaviruses also well survive in suspension. Desiccation has a more severe effect. SARS-CoV-2 can survive in the air for hours and on surfaces for days. Hospitals are significant epicenters for the human-to-human transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 for healthcare workers. The most contaminated SARS-CoV-2 zones and objects in isolation wards, in intensive care unit specialized for novel coronavirus pneumonia, are under discussion. SARS-CoV2 is sensitive to standard disinfection methods. Studies revealed that 62-71% ethanol, 0.5% hydrogen peroxide or 0.1% sodium hypochlorite inactivated SARS-CoV2 in 1 minute exposition; while 0.05-0.2% benzalkonium chloride or 0.02% chlorhexidine digluconate were less effective. Both ethanol and isopropanol were able to reduce viral titers after 30-seconds exposure. It was found for reusing personal protective equipment vaporized hydrogen peroxide treatment exhibits the best combination of rapid inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and preservation of N95 respirator integrity under the experimental conditions. Overall, SARS-CoV-2 can be highly stable in a favourable environment, but it is also susceptible to standard disinfection methods. Environmental infection control of the air and especially for surfaces is considered as a mandatory step in addition to limiting person-to-person contact.

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Bannai, Masanori. "The nature of variable sensitivity to agreement violations in L2 English." EUROSLA Yearbook 11 (August 3, 2011): 115–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.11.08ban.

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This study focuses on the nature of variable sensitivity to violations of subject-verb number agreement in L2 English by examining Japanese-speaking learners’ performance in a self-paced reading task. The results of the experiment indicated that the learners were insensitive to agreement violations deriving from omission of 3rd person singular (3sg)-s, but were highly sensitive to violations deriving from overuse of 3sg-s. Their sensitivity to this type of violation, however, turned out to be non-categorical in that it was adversely affected by an adverb intervening between the subject and the verb. These results are interpreted to indicate that intermediate learners’ implementation of subject-verb agreement is not based on Agree operations, but on the Vocabulary entry for /s/ which is sensitive to the condition of the string of co-occurring terminal nodes as proposed by Hawkins and Casillas (2008).

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Meaney, Joseph. "The Vital Importance of Conscientious Discernment." Ethics & Medics 46, no. 1 (2021): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/em20214612.

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Conscientious discernment—which involves the ability to see right and wrong clearly—is an important task that all people must undertake on a daily basis. It is difficult to properly form one’s conscience, which is not a feeling or a mere moral intuition. To the contrary, it is rooted in object truth and reason; and through conscience, a person recognizes the morality, or immorality, of an act. As a result, moral education—teaching the difference between virtue and sin—is a crucial responsibility of parents. But young people are highly sensitive to hypocrisy, so we must live as examples, resisting complacency and continuing to form our consciences throughout our lives.

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Smolewska, Kathy A., Scott B. McCabe, and Erik Z. Woody. "A psychometric evaluation of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale: The components of sensory-processing sensitivity and their relation to the BIS/BAS and “Big Five”." Personality and Individual Differences 40, no. 6 (April 2006): 1269–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.09.022.

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De Freitas, Julian, Kyle Thomas, Peter DeScioli, and Steven Pinker. "Common knowledge, coordination, and strategic mentalizing in human social life." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 28 (June 28, 2019): 13751–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905518116.

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People often coordinate for mutual gain, such as keeping to opposite sides of a stairway, dubbing an object or place with a name, or assembling en masse to protest a regime. Because successful coordination requires complementary choices, these opportunities raise the puzzle of how people attain the common knowledge that facilitates coordination, in which a person knows X, knows that the other knows X, knows that the other knows that he knows, ad infinitum. We show that people are highly sensitive to the distinction between common knowledge and mere private or shared knowledge, and that they deploy this distinction strategically in diverse social situations that have the structure of coordination games, including market cooperation, innuendo, bystander intervention, attributions of charitability, self-conscious emotions, and moral condemnation.

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Ertokus, Guzide Pekcan. "The Determination of Parkinson’s Drugs in Human Urine by Applying Chemometric Methods." International Journal of Analytical Chemistry 2019 (July 9, 2019): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7834362.

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The spectrophotometric-chemometric analysis of levodopa and carbidopa that are used for Parkinson’s disease was analyzed without any prior reservation. Parkinson’s drugs in the urine sample of a healthy person (never used drugs in his life) were analyzed at the same time spectrophotometrically. The chemometric methods used were partial least squares regression (PLS) and principal component regression (PCR). PLS and PCR were successfully applied as chemometric determination of levodopa and carbidopa in human urine samples. A concentration set including binary mixtures of levodopa and carbidopa in 15 different combinations was randomly prepared in acetate buffer (pH 3.5).). UV spectrophotometry is a relatively inexpensive, reliable, and less time-consuming method. Minitab program was used for absorbance and concentration values. The normalization values for each active substance were good (r2>0.9997). Additionally, experimental data were validated statistically. The results of the analyses of the results revealed high recoveries and low standard deviations. Hence, the results encouraged us to apply the method to drug analysis. The proposed methods are highly sensitive and precise, and therefore they were implemented for the determination of the active substances in the urine sample of a healthy person in triumph.

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Blobel, B. G. M. E. "Educational Challenge of Health Information Systems’ Interoperability." Methods of Information in Medicine 46, no. 01 (2007): 52–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1628132.

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Summary Objectives: As health care develops from an organization-centered via service-centered (disease management) towards a person-centered system (favored homecare, patient monitoring, body area networks), information systems involved have to be semantically interoperable, process-related, decision-supportive, context-sensitive, user-oriented, and trustworthy. Methods: The aforementioned paradigm shift requires highly flexible solutions based on knowledge concepts, provided by a service-oriented and model-driven approach. Results: Information systems’ design, implementation and maintenance have to be realized based on formal grammar. This is true for all considered aspects and views of the system and its components, using metalanguages and reflecting all domains touched. Conclusions: For meeting the challenge, involvement of, and close collaboration between, experts from different domains as well as knowledge and tooling regarding formal modeling and model interchange are required.

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Zimmermann, Friederike G. S., Xiaoqian Yan, and Bruno Rossion. "An objective, sensitive and ecologically valid neural measure of rapid human individual face recognition." Royal Society Open Science 6, no. 6 (June 2019): 181904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181904.

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Humans may be the only species able to rapidly and automatically recognize a familiar face identity in a crowd of unfamiliar faces, an important social skill. Here, by combining electroencephalography (EEG) and fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS), we introduce an ecologically valid, objective and sensitive neural measure of this human individual face recognition function. Natural images of various unfamiliar faces are presented at a fast rate of 6 Hz, allowing one fixation per face, with variable natural images of a highly familiar face identity, a celebrity, appearing every seven images (0.86 Hz). Following a few minutes of stimulation, a high signal-to-noise ratio neural response reflecting the generalized discrimination of the familiar face identity from unfamiliar faces is observed over the occipito-temporal cortex at 0.86 Hz and harmonics. When face images are presented upside-down, the individual familiar face recognition response is negligible, being reduced by a factor of 5 over occipito-temporal regions. Differences in the magnitude of the individual face recognition response across different familiar face identities suggest that factors such as exposure, within-person variability and distinctiveness mediate this response. Our findings of a biological marker for fast and automatic recognition of individual familiar faces with ecological stimuli open an avenue for understanding this function, its development and neural basis in neurotypical individual brains along with its pathology. This should also have implications for the use of facial recognition measures in forensic science.

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Skov Olesen, Niels. "Nutrient Removal in Small Wastewater Treatment Plants." Water Science and Technology 22, no. 3-4 (March 1, 1990): 211–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1990.0203.

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In some areas of Denmark nutrient removal is required even for very small wastewater plants, that is down to 500 pe (pe = person equivalents). The goal for the removal is 80% removal of nitrogen and 90% removal of phosphorus, or in terms of concentrations: 8 mg nitrogen/l and 1.2 mg phosphorus/l. The inlet concentrations are typically 40 mg N/l and 10 mg P/l. The paper presents the results from two such plants with a capacity of 800 pe. Phosphorus removal is made by simultaneous precipitation with ferrous sulphate. Nitrogen removal is carried out using the recirculation method. Both plants were originally rotor aerated oxidation ditches. They have been extended with a denitrification reactor and a recirculation pumping station. At present both plants have been in activity for about 3 years and with satisfactory results. Average concentrations of nitrogen (summer) and phosphorus is 7 mg/l and 0.9 mg/l respectively. Nitrogen removal seems to be a practical solution on these small plants. It is,though, sensitive to temperature and highly oxidized rain water. Phosphorus removal seems to be an easily run and relatively non-sensitive technique at least when using simultaneous precipitation.

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Tillmann, Teresa, Katharina El Matany, and Heather Duttweiler. "Measuring Environmental Sensitivity in Educational Contexts: A Validation Study With German-Speaking Students." Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology 8, no. 2 (May 30, 2018): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jedp.v8n2p17.

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Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (SPS), as part of the general theory on Environmental Sensitivity (Pluess, 2015), is a temperamental individual difference variable, referring to sensitive perception and processing of as well as reflection upon environmental stimuli. For its measurement, Aron and Aron (1997) developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSP Scale) for application with adults. However, despite some adaption into German (Konrad & Herzberg, 2017) and a first English version for children (Pluess et al., 2018), no suitable measures of SPS for children exist in German. The presented two studies aimed at developing and validating a short, 10-item German version of the scale, which can be administered efficiently in educational field studies with German-speaking secondary school students. The factorial structure, its relationship with other personality traits (i.e., the Big Five; McCrae & Costa, 1990) and exploratory analyses on relationships with additional school-related variables were revealed using data from two independent student samples (N = 301 German academic-track secondary school students and N = 460 German vocational track secondary school students). Relations to existing research, practical implications for the educational context, and limitations of the studies are discussed.

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Hao, Zhanjun, Daiyang Zhang, Xiaochao Dang, Gaoyuan Liu, and Yanhong Bai. "Wi-CAS: A Contactless Method for Continuous Indoor Human Activity Sensing Using Wi-Fi Devices." Sensors 21, no. 24 (December 16, 2021): 8404. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21248404.

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With the new coronavirus raging around the world, home isolation has become an effective way to interrupt the spread of the virus. Effective monitoring of people in home isolation has also become a pressing issue. However, the large number of isolated people and the privatized isolated spaces pose challenges for traditional sensing techniques. Ubiquitous Wi-Fi offers new ideas for sensing people indoors. Advantages such as low cost, wide deployment, and high privacy make indoor human activity sensing technology based on Wi-Fi signals increasingly used. Therefore, this paper proposes a contactless indoor person continuous activity sensing method based on Wi-Fi signal Wi-CAS. The method allows for the sensing of continuous movements of home isolated persons. Wi-CAS designs an ensemble classification method based on Hierarchical Clustering (HEC) for the classification of different actions, which effectively improves the action classification accuracy while reducing the processing time. We have conducted extensive experimental evaluations in real home environments. By recording the activities of different people throughout the day, Wi-CAS is very sensitive to unusual activities of people and also has a combined activity recognition rate of 94.3%. The experimental results show that our proposed method provides a low-cost and highly robust solution for supervising the activities of home isolates.

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Gros, Daniel F., Nicholas P. Allan, Cynthia L. Lancaster, Derek D. Szafranski, and Ron Acierno. "Predictors of Treatment Discontinuation During Prolonged Exposure for PTSD." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 46, no. 1 (July 3, 2017): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135246581700039x.

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Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly prevalent and impairing condition for which there are several evidence-based psychotherapies. However, a significant proportion of patients fail to complete a ‘sufficient dose’ of psychotherapy, potentially limiting treatment gains. Aims: The present study investigated predictors of premature treatment discontinuation during a trial of prolonged exposure (PE) therapy for PTSD. Method: Combat veterans with PTSD were recruited to participate in a randomized clinical trial of PE delivered in person or via telehealth technologies. Of the 150 initial participants, 61 participants discontinued the trial before the completion of eight sessions (of an 8‒12 session protocol). Treatment condition (telehealth or in person) and factors identified by prior research (age, combat theatre, social support, PTSD symptoms) were tested as predictors of treatment discontinuation. Results: A Cox proportional hazards model (a subtype of survival analysis) was used to evaluate predictors of treatment discontinuation. Disability status and treatment condition were identified as significant predictors of discontinuation, with a noted disability and use of telehealth demonstrating higher risk. Conclusions: The present findings highlight the influence of telehealth and disability status on treatment discontinuation, while minimizing the role of the previously identified variables from studies with less sensitive analyses.

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Pereira, H., and C. Nave. "Sexual functioning and high sensory processing sensitivity." European Psychiatry 64, S1 (April 2021): S550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1466.

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IntroductionThe concept of Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) was initially introduced by Aron in 1997 and involves complex processing of sensorial information and internal and external sensory stimuli, that is represented as an individual innate difference, as a temperamental property that concerns not only this deep sensorial processing but also to sharper general responsiveness to the environment. Its association with sexual functioning is still to be deeply determined.ObjectivesThrough this research we aim to evaluate the levels of High Sensory Processing Sensitivity (HSPS) and to what extent these are related to sexual functioning, in addition to assessing the mediating role of gender in this relationship.MethodsA total of 1,054 subjects between the ages of 18 and 80 (M age = 29.4; SD age = 11.9) participated in this study. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire, the Portuguese version of The Highly Sensitive Person Scale, and the Portuguese version of the Massachusetts General Hospital – Sexual Functioning Scale. The recruitment of the sample was internet-based.Resultsshowed that the Sensitivity Sensory Processing and Sexual Functioning variables are negatively correlated and that there are statistically significant differences in sexual functioning according to gender (t(df)=7.042; p=<.05), males scoring higher; and participants with lower levels of HSPS presented higher levels of sexual functioning (t(df)=3.599; p<.05). Finally, logistic regression showed that Gender is responsible for 6.2% of the total variance of sexual functioning.ConclusionsWhen working with highly sensitive people mental health professionals should take into account problems related to their sexual functioning in clinical practice.

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Fazzini, Federica, Liane Fendt, Sebastian Schönherr, Lukas Forer, Bernd Schöpf, Gertraud Streiter, Jamie Lee Losso, Anita Kloss-Brandstätter, Florian Kronenberg, and Hansi Weissensteiner. "Analyzing Low-Level mtDNA Heteroplasmy—Pitfalls and Challenges from Bench to Benchmarking." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 2 (January 19, 2021): 935. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22020935.

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Massive parallel sequencing technologies are promising a highly sensitive detection of low-level mutations, especially in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies. However, processes from DNA extraction and library construction to bioinformatic analysis include several varying tasks. Further, there is no validated recommendation for the comprehensive procedure. In this study, we examined potential pitfalls on the sequencing results based on two-person mtDNA mixtures. Therefore, we compared three DNA polymerases, six different variant callers in five mixtures between 50% and 0.5% variant allele frequencies generated with two different amplification protocols. In total, 48 samples were sequenced on Illumina MiSeq. Low-level variant calling at the 1% variant level and below was performed by comparing trimming and PCR duplicate removal as well as six different variant callers. The results indicate that sensitivity, specificity, and precision highly depend on the investigated polymerase but also vary based on the analysis tools. Our data highlight the advantage of prior standardization and validation of the individual laboratory setup with a DNA mixture model. Finally, we provide an artificial heteroplasmy benchmark dataset that can help improve somatic variant callers or pipelines, which may be of great interest for research related to cancer and aging.

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Efremova, A. S., Т. В. Bukharova, N. V. Petrova, N. Yu Kashirskaya, Yu L. Melyanovskaya, R. A. Zinchenko, E. I. Kondratyeva, and D. V. Goldstein. "Evaluation of CFTR Channel Functions and Responses to Modulators in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis who Have a Pathogenic F508del Variant in Their Genomes." Biotekhnologiya 36, no. 4 (2020): 69–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21519/0234-2758-2020-36-4-69-73.

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Intestinal organoids derived from rectal biopsies of cystic fibrosis patients are a highly sensitive personalized method for evaluating the functional activity of the CFTR channel and the efficacy of target drugs. We examined four patients whose genotype contains the pathogenic F508del variant (three patients and one healthy heterozygous person). It was shown that F508del/F508del genotype (two patients) could be effectively corrected by CFTR modulators (VX-770 and VX-809). The modulators had no significant effect on the restoration of the chlorine CFTR channel function in a patient with the W361X/F508del genotype. The CFTR functional activity in the heterozygous F508del carrier was as high as in the healthy control. cystic fibrosis, intestinal organoids, genetic F508del variant, genotype, forskolin-induced swelling (FIS) assay, CFTR modulators This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of a State Assignment for RCMG.

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Werner-Lin, Allison, Frances K. Barg, Katherine S. Kellom, Kallyn J. Stumm, Lisa Pilchman, Ashley N. Tomlinson, and Barbara A. Bernhardt. "Couple’s Narratives of Communion and Isolation Following Abnormal Prenatal Microarray Testing Results." Qualitative Health Research 26, no. 14 (July 9, 2016): 1975–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732315603367.

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In 2% to 3% of cases, prenatal microarray testing detects deletions and duplications in a fetus’ genome that are undetected by conventional cytogenetics. Many of these changes are associated with variable or uncertain symptomatology. Little is known about how couples experience uncertain results. This study analyzed 24 interviews with members of 12 heterosexual U.S. couples who received pathogenic or uncertain microarray prenatal testing results. Researchers used narrative analysis to examine couples’ understanding and incorporation of findings into decision making regarding pregnancy termination. Couples felt unprepared for these findings and frustrated because scant information was available to aid interpretation. Women sought information and made decisions, and men marginalized their distress to support their wives. A shift in voice from first to second person indicated attempts to normalize emotional responses by making the process “common” to all couples. Families pursuing highly sensitive prenatal testing may need expert guidance to support decision making.

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Wang, Jing, Longwei Li, Lanshuang Zhang, Panpan Zhang, and Xiong Pu. "Flexible capacitive pressure sensors with micro-patterned porous dielectric layer for wearable electronics." Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 32, no. 3 (February 4, 2022): 034003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6439/ac49a3.

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Abstract Highly sensitive soft sensors play key roles in flexible electronics, which therefore have attracted much attention in recent years. Herein, we report a flexible capacitive pressure sensor with high sensitivity by using engineered micro-patterned porous polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) dielectric layer through an environmental-friendly fabrication procedure. The porous structure is formed by evaporation of emulsified water droplets during PDMS curing process, while the micro-patterned structure is obtained via molding on sandpaper. Impressively, this structure renders the capacitive sensor with a high sensitivity up to 143.5 MPa−1 at the pressure range of 0.068 ∼ 150 kPa and excellent anti-fatigue performance over 20 000 cycles. Meanwhile, the sensor can distinguish different motions of the same person or different people doing the same action. Our work illustrates the promising application prospects of this flexible pressure sensor for the security field or human motion monitoring area.

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Nardo, D., G. Högberg, F. Flumeri, H. Jacobsson, S. A. Larsson, T. Hällström, and M. Pagani. "Self-rating scales assessing subjective well-being and distress correlate with rCBF in PTSD-sensitive regions." Psychological Medicine 41, no. 12 (June 15, 2011): 2549–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291711000912.

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BackgroundThe aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in occupational-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) subjects and to seek possible correlations between brain perfusion and self-rating scales (SRS) in order to cross-check their diagnostic value and to look for their neural correlates.MethodA total of 13 traumatized underground and long-distance train drivers developing (S) and 17 not developing (NS) PTSD who had experienced a ‘person under train’ accident or who had been assaulted at work underwent clinical assessment and 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT imaging during autobiographical trauma scripts. Statistical parametric mapping was applied to analyse rCBF changes in S as compared with NS and to search for correlations between rCBF and the administered SRS scores, modelling age, months to SPECT and the ratio ‘grey matter/intra-cranial volume’ as nuisance variables.ResultsSignificantly higher activity was observed during trauma script in left posterior and anterior insula, posterior cingulate, inferior parietal lobule, precuneus, caudate and putamen in PTSD subjects as compared with the trauma-exposed control group. Impact of Event Scale and World Health Organisation (10) Well-Being Index scores highly correlated with tracer uptake to a great extent in the same regions in which rCBF differences between S and NS were found.ConclusionsThese findings support the involvement of insular, cingulate and parietal cortices (as well as the basal ganglia) in the pathogenesis of PTSD and in the processing of related subjective well-being and distress.

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Hwang, Hyesung G., Jihyun Suh, Jared Balbona, Shreya Sodhi, and Lori Markson. "The crude ostracism detection system: Pupils react to minimal cues of exclusion." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37, no. 4 (December 11, 2019): 1225–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407519891242.

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When people are rejected by others, they typically feel an immediate sense of pain—referred to as social pain. Social pain is hypothesized to be the alarm response of a “quick and crude” ostracism detection system, a system that is highly sensitive to even minimal signs of exclusion. Physiological reactivity has been found to accompany this social pain, but it is unclear whether the physiological mechanism underlying the ostracism detection system is also “quick and crude.” To test whether physiological reactivity to exclusion is “quick and crude,” the present study investigated whether pupil dilation (an index of physiological reactivity) differs when detecting exclusion from human entities versus nonhuman entities and when experiencing versus witnessing exclusion using a Cyberball paradigm. Experiment 1 showed that pupil size decreased less when viewing players who were exclusive than those who were inclusive, regardless of whether the players were human (i.e., undergraduate students) or nonhuman (i.e., computerized) entities. The same pupil reactivity pattern was observed in Experiment 2 after participants watched interactions in which another person was included or excluded by human or nonhuman entities. In Experiment 3, participating in real-life interactions with human players did not cause pupil reactivity to be greater to human players compared to nonhuman players, but pupil size again decreased less when viewing exclusive players compared to inclusive players. Across all three experiments, pupil size decreased less when viewing players who were exclusive than inclusive regardless of the social identity of the players. These findings support the idea of a highly sensitive, “quick and crude” physiological mechanism that underlies the ostracism detection system.

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CHEN, SHAOKANG, BRIAN C. LOVELL, and TING SHAN. "ROBUST ADAPTED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR FACE RECOGNITION." International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 23, no. 03 (May 2009): 491–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218001409007284.

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Recognizing faces with uncontrolled pose, illumination, and expression is a challenging task due to the fact that features insensitive to one variation may be highly sensitive to the other variations. Existing techniques dealing with just one of these variations are very often unable to cope with the other variations. The problem is even more difficult in applications where only one gallery image per person is available. In this paper, we describe a recognition method, Adapted Principal Component Analysis (APCA), that can simultaneously deal with large variations in both illumination and facial expression using only a single gallery image per person. We have now extended this method to handle head pose variations in two steps. The first step is to apply an Active Appearance Model (AAM) to the non-frontal face image to construct a synthesized frontal face image. The second is to use APCA for classification robust to lighting and pose. The proposed technique is evaluated on three public face databases — Asian Face, Yale Face, and FERET Database — with images under different lighting conditions, facial expressions, and head poses. Experimental results show that our method performs much better than other recognition methods including PCA, FLD, PRM and LTP. More specifically, we show that by using AAM for frontal face synthesis from high pose angle faces, the recognition rate of our APCA method increases by up to a factor of 4.

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Nguyen, Xuan Thi Thanh. "Nguyen Du – a marvelous matchmaker in literature." Science and Technology Development Journal 19, no. 3 (September 30, 2016): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v19i3.484.

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Nguyen Du entered the literature world as an experienced genius. Being a highly sensitive person, living in the chaotic times and going through many vicissitudes, the poet Nguyen Du was always anxious. However, those almost constant anxieties seemed to be transformed into the power, into the sublime (with the meaning given by Sigmund Freud) which in some moments helped the poet get into the calmness overcoming his ordinary ego. It was the calmness coming from the poetical creativity. In his calmness of creativity, Nguyen Du made the marvelously cultural matches. My paper focuses on seven matches in Nguyen Du’s works as of the following: (1) Vietnam and China, (2) Buddhism and Confucianism, (3) Man and Nature, (4) Vulgarity and Holiness, (5) Poetry and Novel, (6) Romanticism and Realism, (7) Traditionality and Modernity. The contents, the manners and the characteristics of those cultural matches could light up the cultural mind, the aesthetic perception and the intertextual tendency of Nguyen Du as representative of Vietnamese literature.

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Coffeng, Luc E., Veronica Malizia, Carolin Vegvari, Piet Cools, Katherine E. Halliday, Bruno Levecke, Zeleke Mekonnen, et al. "Impact of Different Sampling Schemes for Decision Making in Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis Control Programs." Journal of Infectious Diseases 221, Supplement_5 (December 12, 2019): S531—S538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz535.

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Abstract Starting and stopping preventive chemotherapy (PC) for soil-transmitted helminthiasis is typically based on the prevalence of infection as measured by Kato-Katz (KK) fecal smears. Kato-Katz-based egg counts can vary highly over repeated stool samples and smears. Consequentially, the sensitivity of KK-based surveys depends on the number of stool samples per person and the number of smears per sample. Given finite resources, collecting multiple samples and/or smears means screening fewer individuals, thereby lowering the statistical precision of prevalence estimates. Using population-level data from various epidemiological settings, we assessed the performance of different sampling schemes executed within the confines of the same budget. We recommend the use of single-slide KK for determining prevalence of moderate-to-heavy intensity infection and policy decisions for starting and continuing PC; more sensitive sampling schemes may be required for policy decisions involving stopping PC. Our findings highlight that guidelines should include specific guidance on sampling schemes.

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