Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Among Young Malaysian-Indians’ Self-Perceived Family Communication Patterns, Media Exposure On Tamil Movies And Their Attitude And Beliefs Toward Violence In Daily Life Context

This survey research aims to explore the relationships among young MalaysianIndians’ self-perceived family communication patterns, media exposure on Tamil movies, and their attitude and beliefs toward violence in daily life context. Four hundred young Malaysian-Indians living in Johor Bahru city, Malaysia were selected by using stratified sampling method to participate in the survey. The data was tabulated and analyzed by using inferential statistics including Chi-square, One-way Multivariate of Variance (MANOVA) and Multiple Regression at the significance level of . 05. The findings revealed as follows: (1) The young Malaysian-Indians’ sex and age difference was significantly correlated with their self-perceived family communication patterns, but were not significantly associated with family type, number of siblings, mother’s educational level, father’s educational level, mother’s occupation, father’s occupation and family income. (2) The young Malaysian-Indians’ age difference, family type, and father’s educational level difference were significantly associated with their self-reported frequency of media exposure on Tamil movies and frequency of portrayal of violence in Tamil movies, but were not
Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of A One-day CBT For Insomnia Workshop

Insomnia is highly prevalent and has severe negative consequences. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is an evidence-based treatment that is usually delivered individually. Given the high prevalence, accessible one-day CBT-I workshops (each for up to 30 people) were developed to be run in the community for the general public (1). These CBT-I workshops have been found to reduce levels of insomnia (2, 3) and are now run on a routine basis. As yet, little is known about the impact of factors such as comorbid depression or anxiety or receipt of previous treatment on the effectiveness of the CBT-I workshop. This study aimed to evaluate the accessibility and clinical effectiveness of a series of nine one-day CBT-I workshops (n=120) run in routine practice and to explore the impact of factors including co-morbid depression or anxiety and receipt of previous treatment, on the effectiveness of the CBT-I workshops. The CBT-I workshops were found to be effective at reducing insomnia at one-month follow-up and broadly accessible across a wide group of people in the community. In addition, significant reductions in depression and anxiety were found and the severity of depression or anxiety at baseline did not interfere with the effectiveness of the workshop. People with no previous experience of counselling or psychological therapy showed greater reduction of insomnia symptoms. It is concluded that the CBT-I workshop is an accessible and effective treatment for insomnia across a range of clinical severity and complexity. Further benefits include reductions in both depression and anxiety. DOI : 10.14302/issn.2574-4518jsdr-14-592 Corresponding author: Ann Steele, , Psychosis Research Unit, Rico House, Harrop House, Bury New Road, Prestwich, M25 3BL, United Kingdom, Email: ann.steele@gmw.nhs. uk
H/sub 2/-optimal decoupling of previewed signals in the continuous-time domain

The synthesis of a feedforward unit for H/sub 2/-optimal decoupling of previewed signals in continuous time-invariant linear systems is considered. The H/sub 2/-optimal compensator herein presented consists of a finite impulse response system working in connection with a standard finite-dimensional dynamic unit. An explicit expression of the compensator transfer function matrix is derived through a simple procedure based on invariance properties of subspaces related to the autonomous Hamiltonian system.
Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital in Upward Mobility Systems: Problematizing The Permeability of Intra-organizational Career Boundaries

Members of minority ethnic groups in contemporary society typically do not achieve equal levels of objective career success in terms of income and occupational attainment compared to similarly educated members of the dominant professionals, career patterns of cumulative disadvantage have been observed in countries such as Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands (Heath et al., 2008). Objective career success is positively influenced not only by human capital, but also by social capital (Ng & Burke, 2005). Social capital is featured in " knowing whom " (Baruch & can thus impose boundaries on careers and ultimately on objective career success for members of different social groups. Minority ethnics may be less able to translate their human capital into argues that minority ethnics in managerial positions have less access to resources through social networks, resulting in less career advancement potential than dominant ethnics. In this sense, at least one of the drivers of boundaryless careers opens up a space for career boundary creation, which Inkson et al. (2012) regard relevant for further study. One of the few studies to establish a link between minority ethnic group membership, social capital, and career outcomes over time for the general 120 population of the United States was performed by Parks-Yancy (2006). Kenny and Briner (2007) state that further research should look into " what happens to minority ethnic employees after they join organizations " , especially for minority ethnic professionals (p. 449). The process by which a relative lack of social capital results in less objective career success over time for minority ethnic managers and professionals has rarely been conceptualized or studied (see for an exception Bielby, 2012). Following up on Lin's (1999) call for future research on the career consequences of differential access to social capital for specific social groups, we explore and model the relationship between social capital and objective career success for minority ethnics compared to dominant ethnics. We first establish a reciprocal and spiraling relationship between social capital and career success over time. Next, we describe how ethnic group membership affects this relationship, on account of the three mechanisms of the return deficit of social capital as defined by Lin (2001). We distinguish four previously established principles of social interaction that underlie these mechanisms. We illustrate how these principles act as filters, affecting the permeability of intra-organizational career boundaries. Our explicit focus on ethnic group membership is not only based on observed …
Acceptable bit-rates for human face identification from CCTV imagery

The objective of this investigation is to produce recommendations for acceptable bit-rates of CCTV footage of people onboard London buses. The majority of CCTV recorders on buses use a proprietary format based on the H.264/AVC video coding standard, exploiting both spatial and temporal redundancy. Low bit-rates are favored in the CCTV industry but they compromise the image usefulness of the recorded imagery. In this context usefulness is defined by the presence of enough facial information remaining in the compressed image to allow a specialist to identify a person. The investigation includes four steps: 1) Collection of representative video footage. 2) The grouping of video scenes based on content attributes. 3) Psychophysical investigations to identify key scenes, which are most affected by compression. 4) Testing of recording systems using the key scenes and further psychophysical investigations. The results are highly dependent upon scene content. For example, very dark and very bright scenes were the most challenging to compress, requiring higher bit-rates to maintain useful information. The acceptable bit-rates are also found to be dependent upon the specific CCTV system used to compress the footage, presenting challenges in drawing conclusions about universal ‘average’ bit-rates.
PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF LEUCOVERIN ON CYPERMETHRIN- INDUCED TOXICITY IN MICE

Effects of Cypermethrin and their reversal by Leucoverin following oral administration were evaluated in mice. Mature male swiss mice were orally administered cypermethrin (15 mg/kg body wt), leucoverin (50mg/kg body wt) or both daily for 4 weeks. At the end of fourth week, hematological & serum biochemical were studied. Subchronic exposure to cypermethrin significantly reduced, when the co-contaminant leucoverin administration restored the changes in the body weight, hematological parameters, and serum biochemical indices and significantly increased the antibody titer, and cell mediated immunity. These results suggest that concurrent leucoverin treatment has a beneficial role in mitigating adverse effects of cypermethrin.
ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA IN NERVE

The resting and action potentials of the leg nerves of the spider crab are reduced by procaine, cocaine, iodoacetate, KCl, and veratrine. The first three agents depress the sensitivity of the resting potential to anoxia, while the last can be shown to augment it. Glucose sustains activity and the polarized state in the absence of oxygen, an effect blocked by iodoacetate; corresponding concentrations of lactate and pyruvate are inert under most experimental conditions. DDT and veratrine both induce repetitive activity following an impulse, but only the latter does so with a marked increase in negative after-potential. The negative after-potential induced by veratrine is decreased by KCl relatively more than the spike or the resting potential. Elevation of the calcium content of the medium increases this after-potential. Neither ion appreciably alters the time constant of repolarization. The recovery is more rapid than that obtained following prolonged activity of both veratrinized and unveratrinized nerves. Repolarization following a tetanus is accelerated by an increase in the volume of solution in contact with the fibers; associated with this is an augmentation of the positive after-potential which normally follows a bout of activity. Yohimbine induces a positive after-potential following individual spikes which is depressed by an elevation of the potassium or calcium content of the medium. These observations are discussed from the standpoint of the available evidence for the involvement of potassium at the surface of the fibers as regulated by a labile permeability and metabolism. The potassium liberated by the action potential, calculated from the polarization changes, agrees closely with an available analytical figure; less direct observations are also found to be consistent with this view.
Radio and the politics of sound in interwar France, 1921–1939

verre comme lien entre l’auteur et le lecteur. L’écrivain en devient presque historien, rappelant à sa guise des images du passé pour les faire revivre à son lecteur et créer une « esthétique de l’anxiété » (99). Le dernier chapitre est centré sur l’œuvre À Rebours (1884) de Huysmans, un des piliers du mouvement Décadent. Scott étudie les liens entre le verre et le roman de Huysmans, dans une tentative d’étude du goût bourgeois et son rapport avec la culture populaire (« mainstream society, » 107). Le Naturalisme de Huysmans est aussi au cœur de ce chapitre, notamment avec le décor et les objets dont s’entoure Des Esseintes, son personnage principal. Son décor devient une représentation de lui-même, une extension de son être. Le verre devient le symbole de cette tentative ratée du protagoniste d’être un homme indépendant, échappant aux codes de la bourgeoisie. Des Esseintes reste un bourgeois, enfermé dans sa classe sociale, dans sa cage en verre. En conclusion, Hannah Scott est parvenue à créer un ouvrage à la fois littéraire et historicoculturel, permettant de mieux appréhender le verre et sa fonction symbolique dans la France de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle.
A Reciprocal Transformation for the Constant Astigmatism Equation

We introduce a nonlocal transformation to generate exact solutions of the con- stant astigmatism equation zyy + (1=z)xx + 2 = 0. The transformation is related to the special case of the famous Backlund transformation of the sine-Gordon equation with the Backlund parameter = 1. It is also a nonlocal symmetry.
Discriminatively Trained i-vector Extractor for Speaker Verification

We propose a strategy for discriminative training of the ivector extractor in speaker recognition. The original i-vector extractor training was based on the maximum-likelihood generative modeling, where the EM algorithm was used. In our approach, the i-vector extractor parameters are numerically optimized to minimize the discriminative cross-entropy error function. Two versions of the i-vector extraction are studied—the original approach as defined for Joint Factor Analysis, and the simplified version, where orthogonalization of the i-vector extractor matrix is performed. Index Terms: speaker verification, i-vectors, PLDA, discriminative training
An Analysis of Prospective Turkish Teachers’ Metacognitive Reading Strategy Use

Abstract This study aims to determine the types and frequency of metacognitive reading strategies used by high-achieving and underachieving students. The participants of the research comprised ten students studying at the Turkish-Language Teaching (TLT) department at Istanbul University, of whom five were high achieving and five were underachieving. The paper uses the think-aloud protocol in order to achieve a descriptive result. The participants were asked first to articulate the mental processes they used as they read a narrative text. After they finished reading the text, participants were asked how they understood the text, what problems they encountered as they read the text, and how they handled these problems. The results showed that participants used monitoring and regulation strategies the most. The total frequency of metacognitive reading strategies used while reading the story was 253 in high-achieving students and 122 in underachieving.
Sequentially updated Probability Collectives

Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and continuous spaces [15]. In this paper we are going to propose a new variation of PCs, Sequentially updated Probability Collectives. Our objective is to show how standard techniques from the statistics literature, Sequential Monte Carlo methods and kernel regression, can be used as building blocks within PCs instead of the ad hoc approaches taken previously to produce samples and estimate values in continuous action spaces. We test our algorithm in three different simulation scenarios with continuous action spaces. Two classical distributed optimization functions, the three and six dimensional Hartman functions [6] and a vehicle target assignment type game [1]. The results for the Hartman functions were close to the global optimum, and the agents managed to coordinate to the optimal solution of the target assignment game.
Wave-wave interactions in stratified fluids: A comparison between different approaches

Various approaches have been developed over the last four decades to characterize the magnitude of nonlinear interaction between triads of internal waves in stratified oceanographic flows. The present manuscript compares some of these approaches and demonstrates that, in the limit of long internal waves in hydrostatic balance and in the absence of rotation, these various approaches predict different rates of energy transfer between waves. Nevertheless, and somewhat surprisingly, under assumption of resonant wave-wave interactions, these approaches give equivalent results.
Sparse estimation of spectroscopic signals

This work considers the semi-parametric estimation of sparse spectroscopic signals, aiming to form a detailed spectral representation of both the frequency content and the spectral line widths of the occurring signals. Extending on the recent FOCUSS-based SLIM algorithm, we propose an alternative prior for a Bayesian formulation of this sparse reconstruction method, exploiting a proposed suitable prior for the noise variance. Examining three common models for spectroscopic signals, the introduced technique allows for reliable estimation of the characteristics of these models. Numerical simulations illustrate the improved performance of the proposed technique.
Expression of Calcium-Binding Proteins in Layer 1 Reelin-Immunoreactive Cells during Rat and Mouse Neocortical Development

Cajal-Retzius cells in layer 1 of the developing cerebral cortex and their product of secretion, reelin, an extracellular matrix protein, play a crucial role in establishing the correct lamination pattern in this tissue. As many studies into reelin signaling routes and pathological alterations are conducted in murine models, we used double-labeling and confocal microscopy to compare the distribution of the cell-specific markers, calretinin and calbindin, in reelin-immunoreactive cells during postnatal rat and mouse neocortical development. In the rat, neither calretinin nor calbindin colocalized with reelin in Cajal-Retzius cells at P0-P2. From P5 to P14, the colocalization of reelin and calretinin was commonly found in presumptive rat subpial piriform cells. These cells progressively lacked calretinin expression and persisted into adulthood as part of the pool of layer 1 reelin-positive interneurons. Conversely, in the mouse, reelin-immunoreactive Cajal-Retzius cells colocalized with calretinin and/or calbindin. Subpial piriform cells containing reelin and calretinin were identified at P5-P7, but lacked calretinin expression at P14. In adult mice, as in the rat, reelin-immunoreactive cells did not colocalize with calcium-binding proteins. Our results reveal a complex neurochemical profile of layer 1 cells in the rat neocortex, which makes using a single calcium-binding protein as a marker of rodent reelin-immunoreactive cells difficult.
mechanisms in histamine-induced relaxation of the rat portal vein

The present study evaluated the effects of histamine 10–2 M on longitudinal preparations of rat portal vein. It was observed that histamine 10–2 M induced relaxation of rat portal vein preparations pre-contracted with phenylephrine 10–4 M. On the other hand, no pharmacological effects were observed in preparations not pre-contracted. The observed histamine-induced relaxing effect was absent in preparations pre-contracted with KCl (120 mM) or in the presence of depolarizing nutritive solution. However, the histamine-induced relaxation was still present in the endothelium-removed preparations. The histamine-induced relaxation also was not prevented by astemizole (10–6 M, 10–5 M and 10–4 M), cimetidine (10–5 M, 10–4 M and 10–3 M) or thioperamide (10–6 M, 10–5 M and 10–4 M), selective antagonists H1, H2 and H3, respectively. The presence of L-NAME 10–4 M or L-NAME 10–4 M plus indomethacin 10–5 M also did not prevent the histamineinduced relaxation observed in rat portal vein. Thus, the histamine-induced relaxation observed in rat portal vein appears to involve a non-endothelial hyperpolarizing mechanism independent of H1, H2 and H3 receptors.
Database Support for Weighted Match Joins

As relational database management systems are applied to non-traditional domains such as scientific data management, there is an increasing need to support queries with semantics that differ from those appropriate for traditional RDBMS applications. Two interesting ideas currently being explored in the DBMS community are ranking query results (e.g., top-k computations) and, more recently, "match joins. " In this paper we combine these two ideas and study weighted match joins, in which (a) like match joins, each tuple joins with at most one matching tuple, and (b) like top-k joins, the system attempts to provide a set of answer tuples that maximizes a weight function. We explore exact and approximate strategies for evaluating weighted match joins. Using a prototype implementation in PostgreSQL, we explore the performance characteristics of these strategies. Our results suggest that the DBMS optimization-based approach of providing several implementations of an operator and then choosing an appropriate one at run time can be useful in computing weighted match joins.
Understanding PhD Latinx Career Outcomes: A Case Study

This study explored the career outcomes for Latinx doctoral students and the contextual factors of their educational experience influencing these outcomes. A case-study approach is taken to examine the cases of doctoral students at the University of Michigan. These students were tracked each year, for 10 years post-graduation. Furthermore, an analysis of programmatic efforts to develop doctoral students and prepare them for the marketplace is also described as institutional structures that support career success.
Radiative Evolution of Orbits around a Kerr Black Hole

We propose a simple approach for the radiative evolution of generic orbits around a Kerr black hole. For a scalar-field, we recover the standard results for the evolution of the energy E and the azimuthal angular momentum L z. In addition, our method provides a closed expression for the evolution of the Carter constant Q. Recently, the prospects of a direct observation of gravitational radiation led to a new interest in the old-standing problem of radiation back-reaction. The most promising radiation sources for the proposed gravitational-waves detector LIGO (as well as LISA [1]) are coalescing binary systems. [2] In such a binary system, energy and angular momentum are carried away by the emitted gravitational radiation. As a consequence, the system becomes more and more bound, resulting in a steady grow in the orbital frequency and energy-loss rate. Eventually, the binaries will coalless, releasing a strong burst of gravitational radiation. [2] The prospects of observing such bursts raises the need for a theoretical prediction of the evolution of such binary systems. If one of the binary objects is a black hole, then curvature effects could be important. This motivates one to understand the radiation-reaction in curved spacetime. Consider the situation of a compact object with mass µ orbiting a super-massive Kerr black hole with mass M >> µ and angular momentum aM (we are using general-relativistic units C=G=1). This situation is particularly important for the proposed space-based gravitational-waves detector LISA, [1,3] but is also interesting in its own right. The problem of radiative evolution of orbits around a Kerr black hole was treated by several authors [4, 5], but so far with partial success only. The orbits in Kerr geometry are characterized by three constants of the motion: the energy E , the azimuthal angular momentum L z , and the Carter 1