Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Principles of mixed-initiative user interfaces

Recent debate has centered on the relative promise of focusinguser-interface research on developing new metaphors and tools thatenhance users abilities to directly manipulate objects versusdirecting effort toward developing interface agents that provideautomation. In this paper, we review principles that show promisefor allowing engineers to enhance human-computer interactionthrough an elegant coupling of automated services with directmanipulation. Key ideas will be highlighted in terms of the Lookoutsystem for scheduling and meeting management.
Studies on adoption of irrigation methods by the date palm farmers in Al-Qassim area-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Al-SubAiee, F. S. , H. M. Al-GHobAri, M. b. bAiG, e. A. eiHAG and M. T. Abu-riziGA, 2013. Studies on adoption of irrigation methods by the date palm farmers in Al-Qassim area Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 19: 1337-1345 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is facing an acute scarcity of water resources. Present study was undertaken to identify the usage of different irrigation methods by date palm farmers in Al-Qassim area. Data were collected on the study sample of 429 farmers during face-to-face interviews by using a well-structured and pre-tested questionnaire. The data were subjected to statistical analysis by using percentages, means, standard deviation, and correlation. The findings of the study revealed that more than one third (38.3%) of the farmers were employing the flood irrigation tree/basin method with the highest usage mean 2.67; SD 1.28 whereas about 31.2% farmers put trickle/drip irrigation method into their practice with the second highest usage Mean 2.29; SD 1.28. Significant and positive correlations among the educational levels and the usage level of modern irrigation methods were realized. However, age and years of experience of the farmers were negatively correlated with the usage of modern irrigation methods. in addition, farm area was negatively correlated with the usage of traditional irrigation methods. In the light of the findings of the study, it seems logical to launch the extension education programs to enhance farmers’ adoption rates of modern irrigation methods. The study further suggests investigating the barriers faced by farmers in the adoption of modern irrigation methods in order to conserve limited water resources.
Revisiting distinctions between ranching and pastoralism: A matter of interspecies relations between livestock, people, and predators

North American ranching did not evolve as a solution to the ecological contradictions of pastoralism. This has been the conventional view from an institutional perspective, but from a perspective of interspecies relations, the reverse is more plausible. Rather than invest in careful husbandry, early colonists released livestock to fend for themselves and henceforth partook in the eradication of predators. This estrangement of livestock from the domestic sphere and the persecution of predators have lasted beyond the open range era and persist on private ranches. Range science tailored its prescriptions to the free-roaming livestock practices of ranching. But stocking rate guidelines are not sufficient to prevent the degradation of rangelands. Trophic cascade ecology has since demonstrated that the sound distribution of grazing activities takes place on a landscape of fear where nonlethal predation effects prevent the overutilization of key sites. In order to replicate these effects without undue losses, now that predators are protected, ranchers are compelled to reformulate their interspecies relations of estrangement and persecution. Technologies are a poor substitute for human presence, and ranchers are faced with adopting pastoralist practices of herding in order to improve rangelands and maintain surveillance to prevent predation. Thus by turning to pastoralist interspecies relations and practices, ranching might resolve its ecological contradictions.
Congenital and Postnatal CMV and EBV Acquisition in HIV-Infected Zimbabwean Infants

Background HIV-infected infants in sub-Saharan Africa have rapid disease progression. We hypothesized that co-infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) or Epstein Barr virus (EBV) increases mortality in HIV-infected infants. Methods 257 antiretroviral therapy-naïve HIV-infected Zimbabwean infants were tested for CMV and EBV at 6 weeks of age by real-time PCR; if positive, birth samples were retrieved where available to distinguish congenital and postnatal infection. The impact of co-infection on mortality through 6 months was estimated using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards methods. Results At 6 weeks, 203/257 (79%) HIV-infected infants were CMV-positive; 27 (11%) had congenital CMV, 108 (42%) postnatal CMV and 68 (26%) indeterminate timing of infection. By 6 months, 37/108 (34%) infants with postnatal CMV versus 16/54 (30%) CMV-negative infants died (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 1.1 [95%CI 0.6, 2.2]). At 6 weeks, 33/257 (13%) HIV-infected infants had EBV co-infection; 6 (2%) had congenital EBV, 18 (7%) postnatal EBV and 9 (4%) indeterminate timing of infection. By 6 months, 5/18 (28%) infants with postnatal EBV versus 72/224 (32%) EBV-negative infants died (aHR 0.8 [95%CI 0.3, 2.3]). Conclusions The vast majority of HIV-infants had acquired CMV by 6 weeks, and EBV co-infection occurred earlier than expected, with one in eight HIV-infected infants positive for EBV by 6 weeks. There was a high prevalence of congenital CMV infection and we identified 6 infants with congenital EBV infection, which has not previously been reported in Africa or in the context of HIV infection. Neither CMV nor EBV co-infection was associated with increased mortality.
Preface: Newborn Hearing Screening in the United States: Historical Perspective and Future Directions

Every year, 4000 to 8000 children are born in the United States with permanent hearing losses that pose a risk to their speech and language development.1–3 If children with milder losses and losses that affect only 1 ear are included, that number is almost doubled. Until just a decade ago, late diagnosis was the norm, with the average age at identification of congenital hearing loss reported as 2½ to 3 years or even later.1,4 A valuable window of opportunity for early intervention was being lost. Intervention in the first 6 months of life may be particularly important for speech and language development,5,6 and parents and professionals overwhelmingly prefer early diagnosis.7,8 Technologic advances in automated newborn hearing-screening technology, followed by a series of successful demonstration projects,9 resulted in the introduction of universal newborn hearing screening across the United States in the mid-to-late 1990s. More than 95% of newborns are now screened for hearing loss shortly after birth, which represents one of the most successful and rapid examples of research moving into practice in pediatric public health. Newborn hearing screening is 1 of only 7 preventive services for children recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force.10 The success of the screening program depends on far more than the initial screen. The Joint Committee on Infant Hearing has set 3 goals: screening should be completed by 1 month of age, diagnosis should be made by 3 months, and intervention and treatment should commence by 6 months.11 Although the first goal is close to being met, the other goals are not. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that up to 60% of newborns who do not pass the hearing screen do not have … Address correspondence to Shirley A. Russ, MD, MPH, Division of Academic Primary Care Pediatrics, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1165W, Los Angeles, CA 90048. E-mail: shirlyruss{at}aol.com
Ethnic diversity and social capital in upward mobility systems: Problematizing the permeability of intra-organizational career boundaries

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the complex relationship between ethnic diversity, social capital, and objective career success in upward mobility systems over time. The authors conceptualize the underlying process of why intra-organizational career boundaries are more permeable for dominant ethnics compared to minority ethnics. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conceptually explore and model this relationship by elaborating on three mechanisms of social capital return deficit proposed by Lin (2000), building the argument based on four underlying principles (stereotype fit, status construction, homophily, and reciprocity). Findings – Based on a proposed reciprocal relationship between social capital and objective career success, the authors suggest the development of an upward career spiral over time, which is continuously affected by ethnic group membership. Consequently, the authors argue that dominant ethnics do not only advance to a higher leve.
When Home is Always a Foreign Place: Diaspora, Dialogue, Translations

This paper explores some very recent research, undertaken as part of a Large Australian Research Grant project entitled: ‘Stories of Ageing: A Longitudinal Study of Women's Self-Representation'. The research involved writing and video diary workshops with older women. What I want to discuss in this paper is that part of the research which involved video diary workshops, using an interpreter, with Australian Vietnamese women aged 55–70, in Fitzroy in Melbourne. None of the researchers spoke Viatnamese and the Vietnamese women (with some exceptions) spoke little English. Part of the emphasis of this paper will be on ways of translating difference, of effecting cross-cultural dialogues without a common language. In this case, the translation was through images, in the form of videos made by the women themselves in their own environments. The videos, which gave the researchers visual access to the women's lived habitus as they themselves represented it, become a complex semiotic medium for further intercultur.
DAMPAK KEMAMPUAN VERBAL TERHADAP KUALITAS EKSPRESI TULIS

Verbal ability is the important things to support the quality of writing. The verbal competence is consisted; (a) the vocabulary competence, (b) verbal reasoning. The reasearch is aimed at finding out the quality of writing expression by considering influencing variable verbal competence. Subject of the study were pupils at fifth grade at Kodya Yogyakarta, Primary School. The result of correlation analysis and qualitative analysis indicated that there is positive and significant correlation between quality of verbal competence and the quality of writing. Keywords: Verbal ability, writing
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems a Highest Order Hypothesis Compatibility Test for Monocular Slam Regular Paper

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM) is a key problem to solve in order to build truly autonomous mobile robots. SLAM with a unique camera, or monocular SLAM, is probably one of the most complex SLAM variants, based entirely on a bearing-only sensor working over six DOF. The monocular SLAM method developed in this work is based on the Delayed Inverse-Depth (DID) Feature Initialization, with the contribution of a new data association batch validation technique, the Highest Order Hypothesis Compatibility Test, HOHCT. The Delayed Inverse-Depth technique is used to initialize new features in the system and defines a single hypothesis for the initial depth of features with the use of a stochastic technique of triangulation. The introduced HOHCT method is based on the evaluation of statistically compatible hypotheses and a search algorithm designed to exploit the strengths of the Delayed Inverse-Depth technique to achieve good performance results. This work presents the HOHCT with a detailed formulation of the monocular DID SLAM problem. The performance of the proposed HOHCT is validated with experimental results, in both indoor and outdoor environments, while its costs are compared with other popular approaches.
Antibiotic resistance in probiotic bacteria

Probiotics are live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host. The main probiotic bacteria are strains belonging to the genera Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium, although other representatives, such as Bacillus or Escherichia coli strains, have also been used. Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium are two common inhabitants of the human intestinal microbiota. Also, some species are used in food fermentation processes as starters, or as adjunct cultures in the food industry. With some exceptions, antibiotic resistance in these beneficial microbes does not constitute a safety concern in itself, when mutations or intrinsic resistance mechanisms are responsible for the resistance phenotype. In fact, some probiotic strains with intrinsic antibiotic resistance could be useful for restoring the gut microbiota after antibiotic treatment. However, specific antibiotic resistance determinants carried on mobile genetic elements, such as tetracycline resistance genes, are often detected in the typical probiotic genera, and constitute a reservoir of resistance for potential food or gut pathogens, thus representing a serious safety issue.
Warm acclimation and oxygen depletion induce species-specific responses in salmonids

ABSTRACT Anthropogenic activities are greatly altering the habitats of animals, whereby fish are already encountering several stressors simultaneously. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the capacity of fish to respond to two different environmental stressors (high temperature and overnight hypoxia) separately and together. We found that acclimation to increased temperature (from 7.7±0.02°C to 14.9±0.05°C) and overnight hypoxia (daily changes from normoxia to 63–67% oxygen saturation), simulating climate change and eutrophication, had both antagonistic and synergistic effects on the capacity of fish to tolerate these stressors. The thermal tolerance of Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and landlocked salmon (Salmo salar m. sebago) increased with warm acclimation by 1.3 and 2.2°C, respectively, but decreased when warm temperature was combined with overnight hypoxia (by 0.2 and 0.4°C, respectively). In contrast, the combination of the stressors more than doubled hypoxia tolerance in salmon and also increased hypoxia tolerance in char by 22%. Salmon had 1.2°C higher thermal tolerance than char, but char tolerated much lower oxygen levels than salmon at a given temperature. The changes in hypoxia tolerance were connected to the responses of the oxygen supply and delivery system. The relative ventricle mass was higher in cold- than in warm-acclimated salmon but the thickness of the compact layer of the ventricle increased with the combination of warm and hypoxia acclimation in both species. Char had also significantly larger hearts and thicker compact layers than salmon. The results illustrate that while fish can have protective responses when encountering a single environmental stressor, the combination of stressors can have unexpected species-specific effects that will influence their survival capacity. Summary: Overnight hypoxia combined with warm acclimation increases the hypoxia tolerance of salmonids while upper critical temperature is reduced in a species-specific manner.
The Students’ Difficulties In Speaking At The Tenth Grade Of SMA Negeri 1 Sine In 2014/2015 Academic Year

This study aims at describing the students’ difficulties in speaking English at SMA Negeri 1 Sine. Besides, the researcher also wants to know what the students’ difficulties in speaking English and what factors contribute to the difficulties in speaking English for the students. The type of the research is descriptive research. The subject of this research is the English teacher and the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 SINE. The object of this research is to describe the students’ difficulties in speaking English and to describe the factors that contribute the difficulties in speaking English by the students. The method of collecting data are observation, recording, and interview. The data are taken from the subject of the research in the form of teaching learning process, interview and recording. The research finding shows that the students difficulties in speaking English are: (a) the student’s low vocabulary mastery resulted from their limited knowledge of meaning vocabulary had led them difficulties in understanding the conversation. (b) the students had difficulties in pronouncing certain words because, English words are different between pronunciation and writing. (c) the students were still confused in arranging words. Then, there were still some mistakes in their grammar. (d) the students were often afraid of speaking English because they were worried of making mistakes. They were unconfident and nervous when the teachers were asking them. Second, factors that contribute to the difficulties in speaking English are: the quantity of the students in learning speaking English and student’s psychological factors.
Object-Oriented Semantic SLAM Based on Weighted Scoring of Pose Initialization

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vS-LAM) is essential to autonomous robot navigation and AR/VR systems. As deep learning technologies improve rapidly, researchers integrate object detection into traditional vSLAM frameworks to acquire objects from images. The object detection modules allow the SLAM system to construct object-level maps with the estimated pose, location, and scale estimation of detected objects. Since pose estimation is a non-linear process, an accurate pose initialization is crucial to improve the optimality of the estimation result, which is vital to constructing an object-level map. Although existing works have achieved remarkable progress in object pose initialization, the accuracy still needs to be improved to meet the needs of real applications. In this paper, an improved object pose initialization strategy based on weighted adaptive sampling is proposed, which is robust to noise in the extracted line features. In addition, a SLAM system that can construct an object-level map with semi-dense line features based on the proposed weighted scoring of pose initialization is presented. The qualitative and quantitative evaluation experiments on public datasets show that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art works in accuracy and robustness.
Quantization in Uplink Multi-Cell Processing with Fixed-Order Successive Interference Cancellation Scheme under Backhaul Constraint

We study the uplink Multi-Cell Processing (MCP) model where each base station (BS) is connected to a centralized processor (CP) via a noiseless backhaul link with fixed and finite capacity. User data is decoded in the CP. In this paper, a fixed-order Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) decoding scheme is adopted in the CP and the rate region is also derived. Further, we extend the MCP model with fixed-order SIC scheme to include the constraint that each user has the requirement of signal-to- interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). We analyze the option of quantized levels and give the theoretical lower bound and upper bound of the quantized levels. The analysis reveals that the quantized levels can affect whether each user uses its own maximized power to achieve the SINR requirement or not. Finally, numerical simulation shows the lower bound and the upper bound are very closed to the theoretical results.
Myocardial Salvage is Reduced in Primary PCI-Treated STEMI Patients with Microvascular Obstruction, Demonstrated by Early and Late CMR

Objectives This study evaluates the association between microvascular obstruction and myocardial salvage, determined by cardiac magnetic resonance performed both in the acute stage of myocardial infarction and after 4 months. Methods In patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention, myocardial salvage, infarct size, left ventricular volumes, and ejection fraction were assessed by early (1–4 days) and follow-up (4 months) cardiac magnetic resonance. These variables were related to the presence or absence of microvascular obstruction at early investigation. Myocardial salvage was determined by: (1) myocardium at risk and infarct size measured in the acute stage and (2) myocardium at risk, measured acutely, and infarct size measured after 4 months. Multivariate analyses were performed, adjusting for clinical confounders at baseline. Results Microvascular obstruction was present in 49 of 94 included patients, (52%). Myocardial salvage was significantly reduced in patients with microvascular obstruction, compared to those without: 23% vs. 38%, measured acutely, and 39.8% vs. 65.4%, after 4 months (p<0.001). The presence of microvascular obstruction was significantly and independently associated with large infarct size, lower left ventricular ejection fraction, and larger left ventricular end-systolic volume. Conclusion The presence of microvascular obstruction demonstrated by cardiac magnetic resonance early after infarction was associated with impaired myocardial salvage. This association was more marked when based on measurement of infarct size after 4 months compared to assessment in the acute stage.
The Role of Procedural Justice and Power Distance in the Relationship Between High Performance Work Systems and Employee Attitudes: A Multilevel Perspective

This study examines the role of procedural justice and power distance in the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWSs) and employee attitudes (affective commitment and job satisfaction). The study tests the mediating role of procedural justice on the relationships between HPWS and employee attitudes and the moderating role of power distance in this relationship. The results, based on a sample of 1,383 employees across 23 firms from three countries, indicate that HPWS is strongly related to employee attitudes. The results also indicate that procedural justice mediates the influence of HPWS on employee attitudes.
Mothers' insightfulness regarding their children's internal worlds: The capacity underlying secure child–mother relationships

This article introduces a new method to assess mothers' insightfulness regarding their children's inner world. Maternal insightfulness involves the capacity to see things from the child's point of view, and is based on insight into the child's motives, a complex view of the child, and openness to new information about the child. Insightfulness is seen as the capacity underlying positive parenting and providing the context for secure child–parent attachment. In the assessment of insightfulness mothers view video segments of their interactions with their children and are subsequently interviewed regarding their children's and their own thoughts and feelings during the segments. This article describes how the maternal interviews are coded and provides vignettes of both insightful and noninsightful mothers. Empirical findings supporting the validity of the insightfulness assessment are reviewed, and the implications for children's development are discussed. ©2002 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.