Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multi-attribute Auctions for Electronic Procurement

Auctions are a fundamental mechanism to automate negotiations in electronic commerce. We consider a class of multi-lateral negotiation situations, which requires negotiation on multiple attributes of a deal. These situations are typical for corporate procurement. Current auction implementations do not support these negotiations adequately. In the paper we propose multi-attribute auctions, an economic mechanism, which supports negotiation on multiple attributes of a deal. In this approach we combine decision analysis techniques and single-sided auction mechanisms to allocate tasks. We outline the theoretical questions associated with multiattribute auctions and describe an implementation of the proposed mechanism. In this context, we tackle several important issues concerning the design of electronic market places.
Music, personhood, and eudaimonia: Implications for educative and ethical music education

This paper proposes that educative and ethical music making and teaching, which is based on a praxial philosophy of music education (Elliott and Silverman, 2014), can be carried out in a variety of ways that create places and spaces, in schools and community settings, for a variety of human values or “goods” that include, but go beyond, making and listening to classical instrumental music, or any other kind of music, for “the music itself. ” One premise of this philosophical discussion is that music does not have one value; music has numerous values, depending on the ways in which it is conceived, used, and taught by people who engage in specific musical styles. For example, when music education is ethically guided—when we teach people not only in and about music, but also through music—we achieve what Aristotle and many other philosophers consider the highest human value—eudaimonia—which is a multidimensional term we explain the body of this paper. Following an examination of three community music settings that exemplify educative and ethical musical interactions, the paper provides a brief explanation of the nature of personhood that draws from embodied, enactive, empathetic, and ecological concepts put forth by several contemporary cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind nature. This sections leads to an examination to main constituents of eudaimonia: happiness and well- being as conceived by various scholars during the last 2500 years. The discussion ends by integrated the above themes with a discussion of a praxial philosophy of music education and its implications for school and community music education.
Problematika ICT ve vzdělávání v českých pedagogických časopisech (1990–2012)

Cilem studie je zmapovat problematiku ICT ve vzdělavani na strankach vybraných ceských odborných casopisů. Studie je založena na analýze medialnich sděleni, svým zaměřenim i metodologii navazuje na předchozi analýzy provedene jak v Ceske republice, tak v zahranici. Studie postihuje obdobi 1990–2012, ve kterem bylo nalezeno celkem 60 přispěvků k problematice ICT. Mezi klicova z jistěni patři poměrně nizký výskyt empirických studii a relativně nizký pocet zahranicnich referenci. V zavěru studie se autoři zamýsleji nad výsledky a davaji je do souvislosti s nalezy obdobných setřeni v zahranici.
Pilonidal Disease Mimicking Fistula-in-Ano in a 15-Year-Old Female

Pilonidal disease typically presents with an abscess or intermittent pain and drainage in the sacrococcygeal region during the pubertal years. Further examination typically reveals pits in the midline of the sacrococcyx area due to entrapment of hair with recurrent entrapment, infection, and drainage. The following paper describes an unusual presentation of a pilonidal cyst with fissure and perianal drainage.
A Decade of Sexism in Readers.

"1VTY FRIEND Ernest would be * "* my copilot. Linda could be the stewardess. " "In the house there was a shop where the little old man made shoes. The little old woman helped him. " 'Ted likes to hike. Jill sits with Nan. Bill rides a bike. What can Ben hit? "1 In these excerpts from ele mentary readers, the female is portrayed as being in a typical oc cupation, subordinate to a male, and in a relatively passive state. That these quotations are all from the newest editions of school read ers is indicative of the conclusion of this study: school readers have not kept pace with a changing so ciety. The role of woman, as drawn in elementary readers, has changed very little over the past decade. To examine the question of whether school readers reflect a changing female role, 554 stories in elementary reading books were studied. The series used were Scott, Foresman and Co., 1962-63 and 1971 editions, and Ginn and Co., 1961 and 1969 editions. (In future references, the 1961-63 readers are referred to as "old" editions; the 1969 and 1971 ones as "new" editions. Scott, Foresman is abbreviated as SF.) The study shows that boys dominate the story texts and pictures in the new editions as well as the old (see Figures 1 and 2). The boys out number the girls as major charac ters in stories (old 71.1 percent; new 75 percent) and in illustra
Asymptotically dense nonbinary codes correcting a constant number of localized errors [Manuskript]

The binary case was studied in [1], but the method used there doesn’t give the tight answer for nonbinary cases and we presented in [2] another method for the corresponding result. Here we formulate the main theorem and prove the auxiliary statements used in [2]. During the transmission of q–ary words of length n over the channel at most t errors occur, and the encoder knows the set E of t positions, where these errors are possible. The decoder doesn’t know anything about these positions. Let Et = { E | E ⊆ {1, 2, . , n}, |E| = t } be the set of all subsets from {1, 2, . , n} of size t and let M be a set of messages (|M| = M) . A code word x(m,E) depends not only on the message m ∈ M but also on the configuration of possible errors E . So there exists the natural correspondence between the message m ∈ M and the list of code words ⋃ E∈Et { x(m,E) } , which we use for the transmission of this message. Thus the code X for the set of messages M represents a collection of M lists { ⋃ E∈Et {x(m,E)},m ∈ M } . Sinde we can use the same word for different configurations, the size of a list can be essentially smaller than the size of the set Et ( |Et| = ( n t )) . Let us define the cylinder C(a,A) with the base a = (a, . . . , an) and the support A ( A ⊆ {1, 2, . . . , n} ) as the set of words (y1, . . . , yn) with yi = ai , if i / ∈ A . It is clear that the size of the cylinder C(a,A) is equal to q and the number of different cylinders with the same support A is equal to q . As a result of the transmission of the codeword x(m,E) every word of C ( x(m,E), E ) can appear as output of the channel. The code X corrects t localized errors, if the decoder can correctly recover every message m ∈ M . The following condition is necessary and sufficient for it: C ( x(m,E), E ) ∩ C ( x(m, E), E ) = ∅ for all E,E ∈ Et,m,m ′ ∈ M,m 6= m. (1) Typeset by AMS-TEX 1 The maximal number of messages, which we can transmit by a code correcting t localized errors, is denoted by Lq(n, t) . Proposition 1: Lq(n, t) ≤ q St where St = ∑t i=0(q − 1) C n is the size of a sphere of radius t in the Hamming n–space. A proof of this bound in the q–ary case can be given as for the binary case in [3] or [4]. The key inequality there has the following generalization. Lemma 1. Let C(ai, Ai), . , C(aT , AT ) be cylinders with pairwise different supports Ai 6= Aj , i 6= j . Then for the size of the union of the cylinders
A unified Verilog-A compact model for lateral Si nanowire (NW) FET incorporating parasitics for circuit simulation

This paper presents a unified Verilog-A compact model for lateral silicon nanowire field effect transistor (SiNW FET). The model incorporates all nanoscale effects including short channel effects, velocity saturation, mobility degradation, and quantization. Importantly, the model includes geometry dependent, TCAD calibrated, scalable parasitic capacitances and parasitic resistance models, which are dominant at highly scaled dimension. The model is well calibrated to generate the TCAD I-V and C-V characteristics for single and multiwire long, short channel devices. In addition, the model also reproduces I-V characteristics of the reported fabricated devices by different groups to a good accuracy, which underscores the accuracy of the model. Further using the compact model, the static and dynamic analysis of CMOS inverter with 15nm gate length is presented, which match well with TCAD simulations. Using this model the impact of device parasitic on circuit performance is studied by varying device extension length. The model is able to well predict the parasitic components for circuit performance, and is an important tool for design of NW based analog and digital circuits such as differential amplifier, current mirror, cell library and SRAM. The developed model is highly time efficient than TCAD simulator for NW based circuit simulations.
Multicenter analysis of CIREN occupant lumbar bone mineral density and correlation with age and fracture incidence

ABSTRACT Objective: This study aimed to quantify lumbar volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) for 873 seriously injured Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) motor vehicle crash occupants (372 male, 501 female) from 8 centers using phantomless computed tomography scans and to associate vBMD with age, fracture incidence, and osteopenia/osteoporosis diagnoses. The novelty of this work is that it associates vBMD with region of injury by applying an established method for vBMD measurement using phantomless computed tomography (CT). Methods: A validated phantomless CT calibration method that uses patient-specific fat and muscle measurements to calibrate vBMD measured from the L1–L5 trabeculae was applied on 873 occupants from various CIREN centers. CT-measured lumbar vBMD < 145 mg/cc is indicative of osteopenia using a published threshold. CIREN occupant lumbar vBMD in milligrams per cubic centimeter was regressed against age, osteopenia/osteoporosis comorbidities, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and the incidence of fracture in vertebral (cervical, thoracic, lumbar) and rib/sternum regions. Results: Among the 873 occupants analyzed, 11% (92 occupants) were diagnosed as osteopenic in CIREN. Of these 92 occupants, 42% (39 occupants) had normal vBMD measures (≥145 mg/cc), suggesting possible misclassification in CIREN. Of the 134 occupants classified as osteopenic in vBMD analysis, 60% were not classified as osteopenic in CIREN, suggesting undiagnosed osteopenia, and 40% were correctly classified in CIREN. Age was negatively correlated with vBMD (P <.0001) and occupants with <145 mg/cc vBMD sustained a median number of 2 rib/sternum fractures compared to a median value of 0 rib/sternum fractures for the ≥145 mg/cc vBMD group (P <.0001). Vertebral fracture analysis revealed that the thoracolumbar region was the most common region of injury in the spine. Though the incidence of fracture was not significantly different in the thoracic (10% versus 6%, P =.122) and lumbar (16% versus 13%, P =.227) regions between the 2 bone quality groups, the proportion of thoracolumbar fractures was significantly higher in occupants with <145 mg/cc vBMD versus occupants with ≥145 mg/cc vBMD (24% versus 17%, P =.043). Conclusions: Low lumbar vertebral bone quality is associated with an increased number of rib/sternum fractures and a greater incidence of thoracolumbar vertebral body fractures within the CIREN population analyzed.
Creative expression, creative education : creativity as a primary rationale for education

Forgoing the popular maxim, I begin this review approaching Creative Expression, Creative Education by way of its cover. Juxtaposed against a background of diagrammatic doodles, improvised musical compositions, and impromptu screenplay edits, birds plot variegated lines of flight. Over the course of Creative Expression, Creative Education’s 22 essays, the imagistic concept of the cover insists: this collection captures creativity in the act of composing itself. In other words, this collection is not simply about creativity as a thing one can know, master, and put to use. Rather, the multiplicity of artists’ narratives comprising this collection creates ways of thinking about the character of creativity as it emerges in the middle of things. As birds take flight across the cover’s unfolding compositions, a second key concept of this collection is brought into play: creativity is not a noun, but rather a verb. Creativity is not a passive object to manage, but an active potential that takes flight, productively escaping the mechanisms of habit in the composition new social, political, and identitarian forms. It is in this vein that Creative Expression, Creative Education successfully avoids a post-Renaissance fetishization of creativity by situating it within the practical problems faced by its contributing poets, playwrights, artists, authors, composers, and performers. As the contributors to this book elucidate through specific examples, vignettes, and works-in-progress, creativity does not emerge ex nihilo. Rather, the creative act requires concepts, ideas, and images—albeit unfettered from their orthodox constraints. The project of Creative Expression, Creative Education extends from this task of concept creation, the intent of which aims at snatching the notion of creativity back from obscurity while accentuating its critical importance for education today. An emphasis on the creation of new concepts for thinking is palpable throughout the book. Organized into three sections, the myriad authors and artists of this collection investigate and experiment with the notion of creativity immanent to artistic practice. Robert Kelly opens the first section by providing a brief topography of psychological and qualitative research on creative thought and production. In this opening gambit, Kelly aims to demystify the familiar rhetoric of creativity by reorienting the reader to the social, historical,
Primary Breast Lymphoma

Primary breast lymphoma (PBL) is a rare form of localized extranodal lymphoma. Few reports are available in the literature concerning its treatment and outcome. Of the 34 cases of PBL seen at our institution over a 25-year period, 20 consecutive cases were treated with CHOP or CHOP-like chemotherapy regimen and had adequate biopsy specimens for histological review. All these 20 PBL were of B-cell origin including one case of Burkitt lymphoma, and 2 cases of low-grade histologic type. Sixteen of the 20 patients achieved a complete remission (CR) and 2 achieved a partial remission (PR) (>75% tumor regression). Two patients had progressive disease while on therapy. With a median follow-up period of 80 months, 6 patients relapsed. Median time to relapse from diagnosis was 23 months (range, 3–41 months). Two of the relapses involved the central nervous system (CNS): isolated CNS relapse in one case and associated with other relapse sites in 1 case. The two patients who achieved a PR after chemotherapy also had disease progression to the CNS, 4 and 8 months after the end of CHOP chemotherapy. All 4 patients died of their disease 3, 6, 10 and 13 months after CNS involvement. Of the 16 centroblastic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLCL), 3 had CNS disease at relapse. Three (15%) of our study patients developed a controlateral breast relapse. Twelve of the initial 20 patients were alive, including 11 with a persistent CR, 6 patients died of their lymphoma and 2 of unrelated diseases. In conclusion, we observed a high incidence of CNS relapse in this group of localized extranodal lymphoma, strongly suggesting that CNS prophylaxis should be associated with systemic chemotherapy in localized PLB.
Reading, Writing, and Understanding.

Many secondary content-area teachers are reluctant to integrate reading and writing in their instruction because they feel that reading and writing skills are add-ons to their central job of teaching content knowledge. The author discusses secondary reading-tolearn and writing-to-learn as processes that support an instructional goal common to all content areas: understanding. Staff development for content-area literacy, she writes, should make teachers aware of the ways various reading and writing strategies can support this central instructional goal.
Expression of TNF‐receptor associated factor 2 correlates with poor progression‐free survival time in ABC‐like primary nodal diffuse large B‐cell lymphomas

Aims: Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)‐receptor associated factor 2 (TRAF2) is an adaptor molecule involved in nuclear factor (NF)‐κB activation, which is characteristic of in vitro activated B‐cell (ABC)‐like diffuse large B‐cell lymphomas (DLBCL) and may result in expression of anti‐apoptotic genes and poor response to chemotherapy. TRAF2 also has direct anti‐apoptotic properties via interference with the apoptosis signalling cascade. The aim was to determine whether TRAF2 is preferentially expressed in ABC‐like DLBCL, and whether expression correlates with clinical outcome.
ON THE ACTION SPECTRA OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND SPECTRAL DEPENDENCE OF THE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY

Summary. Analysis of the results obtained during the investigation of the photosynthetic oxygen evolution upon irradiation with short saturating flashes and of the widely accepted Kok’s model for the reactions leading to the oxygen production showed that the photosynthetic irradiance should be non-linear (quadratic or higher degree of dependence) under low irradiance. This non-linearity of the irradiance curves leads to several consequences on the action spectra of photosynthesis and particularly on the decrease of the quantum efficiency in the spectrum regions where pigment absorption is lower, as we demonstrated in our earlier investigations (Zeinalov, 1982; Maslenkova et al., 1994). An attempt for estimating the action spectra and spectral dependence of the quantum efficiency of photosynthesis in Scenedesmus acutus is presented using a polarographic oxygen rate electrode and irradiation with two light beams, one of them being continuous and the other one modulated. The obtained results show that after compensation of the initial non-linear part of the irradiance curves in the estimating of the action spectra and quantum efficiency of photosynthesis the values for the investigated parameters in the spectral regions with low absorbances increase significantly.
Enhancing mental health staff confidence and skills in response to aggression and violence: a longitudinal study of aggression minimisation training

Rationale: Aggression minimisation training is essential for mental health staff. No studies to date have investigated the impact of knowledge, prior learning and staff occupations on confidence. Additionally, no studies have followed-up trained staff following actual aggressive and violent incidents to investigate skills used, perceived confidence, fear and satisfaction with the management of incidents. Aim: This research examines: i) the effectiveness of training in aggression minimisation on mental health staff confidence (Study 1) and; ii) the use of learnt skills on staff perceived confidence and fear during actual aggression and violence on inpatient mental health units (Study 2). Method: 103 mental health staff were trained over two days in aggression minimisation. A knowledge evaluation, appraisal of skills questionnaire and the ‘Confidence in Coping With Patient Aggression Instrument’ were administered pre and post training to measure changes in knowledge, skills and confidence. Participants were subsequently followed up over 18 months. Forty-five trained staff were involved in 95 consecutive incidents of patient initiated aggression and violence. Following actual aggressive and violent incidents participants were interviewed on skills used from training and made ratings of their perceived fear, satisfaction in managing incidents, and completed the ‘Confidence in Coping With Patient Aggression Instrument’ in relation to the incident.
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

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Considerations of the physiological variables that determine the blood carboxyhemoglobin concentration in man.

were analyzed for CO concentrations with an infrared CO meter. This instrument has an error (SD) of 4-0.00004% CO and requires a 200-ml sample. These samples were col- lected during the summer of 1964. Smoking is prohibited in the areas where these samples were collected. We also measured the CO concentrations in air samples taken from smoke-filled conference rooms, a small nonventilated room that we purposely filled with smoke by burning cigarettes, and a rural area well away from automobile combustion. Diurnal changes in blood (COHb) were measured in one subject and compared with the changes in percentage of CO in his environment. Blood (COHb) was determined by a method in which gas extracted from a 2-ml blood sample is measured in the infrared CO meter. This method has an error (SD) of 40.03% (COHb)( 10).