Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Logsonomy - social information retrieval with logdata

Social bookmarking systems constitute an established part of the Web 2.0. In such systems users describe bookmarks by keywords called tags. The structure behind these social systems, called folksonomies, can be viewed as a tripartite hypergraph of user, tag and resource nodes. This underlying network shows specific structural properties that explain its growth and the possibility of serendipitous exploration. Today's search engines represent the gateway to retrieve information from the World Wide Web. Short queries typically consisting of two to three words describe a user's information need. In response to the displayed results of the search engine, users click on the links of the result page as they expect the answer to be of relevance. This clickdata can be represented as a folksonomy in which queries are descriptions of clicked URLs. The resulting network structure, which we will term logsonomy is very similar to the one of folksonomies. In order to find out about its properties, we analyze the topological characteristics of the tripartite hypergraph of queries, users and bookmarks on a large snapshot of del.icio. us and on query logs of two large search engines. All of the three datasets show small world properties. The tagging behavior of users, which is explained by preferential attachment of the tags in social bookmark systems, is reflected in the distribution of single query words in search engines. We can conclude that the clicking behaviour of search engine users based on the displayed search results and the tagging behaviour of social bookmarking users is driven by similar dynamics.
Individual and contextual influences on managerial competency needs

This study analyzes the influence of individual (age, education level, and job tenure) and contextual factors (type of establishment and number of subordinates) on managerial competency needs. The sample is composed of 80 Spanish managers from tourist organisations. Results show that managers from restaurants perceive more competency needs in tourist organisation management and communication skills than managers from hotels. Also education level is negatively related to competency needs in customers and employees management and efficiency at work. On the contrary, job tenure is positively linked to needs in customers and employees management and facilities and infrastructure management. Age and number of subordinates do not show any significant relation to competency needs. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed, and future research directions are presented.
The Effect of Lamotrigine and Levetiracetam on TMS-Evoked EEG Responses Depends on Stimulation Intensity

The combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG) has uncovered underlying mechanisms of two anti-epileptic medications: levetiracetam and lamotrigine. Despite their different mechanism of action, both drugs modulated TMS-evoked EEG potentials (TEPs) in a similar way. Since both medications increase resting motor threshold (RMT), the current aim was to examine the similarities and differences in post-drug TEPs, depending on whether stimulation intensity was adjusted to take account of post-drug RMT increase. The experiment followed a placebo controlled, double blind, crossover design, involving a single dose of either lamotrigine or levetiracetam. When a drug-induced increase of RMT occurred, post-drug measurements involved two blocks of stimulations, using unadjusted and adjusted stimulation intensity. A cluster based permutation analysis of differences in TEP amplitude between adjusted and unadjusted stimulation intensity showed that lamotrigine induced a stronger modulation of the N45 TEP component compared to levetiracetam. Results highlight the impact of adjusting stimulation intensity.
A New Look at the Corporate Social–Financial Performance Relationship

The authors develop the argument that the establishment of good stakeholder relations is influenced not only by a firm’s having a high level of corporate social performance but also by its ability to deliver consistent social performance. Therefore, both level and consistency in corporate social performance should have significant financial implications. More specifically, the authors suggest that level and two types of consistency in corporate social performance—temporal consistency and interdomain consistency—interact positively to influence a firm’s financial performance. Using a sample of 622 firms and 2,365 firm-year observations based on the Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini, & Co. data, the authors found empirical results supporting this argument. In addition, they found that maintaining consistently good social performance is more important for firms with high levels of knowledge intensity.
Effects of Prior Knowledge and Experience and Phase of the Choice Process on Consumer Decision Processes: A Protocol Analysis

Effects of prior knowledge and experience and phase of the choice on decision processes were investigated using a protocol coding scheme. Consumers with moderate knowledge and experience did more processing of available information than did the high or low groups. More knowledgeable consumers tended to process by brand. Consumers tended to use attribute-based evaluations in early and brand-based evaluations in later phases of choice.
Wideband MIMO Channel Modeling and Its Simulation

This thesis faces the problem of radio channel modeling when multiple antenna arrays both at the Transmitter (Tx) and the Receiver (Rx) are used (Multiple Input – Multiple Output, MIMO). The complexity of the modeling comes from the fact that between each transmitter– receiver antenna pairs it is established a wideband channel which is correlated to each other. The proposed solution comes from the orthogonalization principle applied to the time delay and spatial domains, simplifying the problem and allowing an error predefinition of the channel simulation realization.
Examining the Use of Direct Behavior Rating on Formative Assessment of Class-Wide Engagement

High-quality formative assessment data are critical to the successful application of any problem-solving model (e.g., response to intervention). Formative data available for a wide variety of outcomes (academic, behavior) and targets (individual, class, school) facilitate effective decisions about needed intervention supports and responsiveness to those supports. The purpose of the current case study is to provide preliminary examination of direct behavior rating methods in class-wide assessment of engagement. A class-wide intervention is applied in a single-case design (B-A-B-A), and both systematic direct observation and direct behavior rating are used to evaluate effects. Results indicate that class-wide direct behavior rating data are consistent with systematic direct observation across phases, suggesting that in this case study, direct behavior rating data are sensitive to classroom-level intervention effects. Implications for future research are discussed.
Amplifying the Pacific Climate System Response to a Small 11-Year Solar Cycle Forcing

More Than the Sum of the Parts The radiative output of the Sun varies distinctly with the 11-year cycle of sunspots, although the change in energy output is small—less than a tenth of a percent in magnitude. Nevertheless, that small variation produces changes in sea surface temperatures two or three times as large as it should, and the mechanism by which this occurs has remained unclear. Meehl et al. (p. 1114; see the news story by Kerr) employ three global, coupled climate models to simulate this phenomenon. Two mechanisms appear to act in conjunction to cause this ocean response: a change in the abundance of stratospheric ozone owing to fluctuations of shortwave solar forcing; and a coupled surface ocean-atmosphere response. This combination of effects enhances precipitation maxima, reduces low-latitude cloud cover, and lowers the temperature of surface waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean, resulting in the larger warm-to-cold variation. A combination of mechanisms explains the large response of sea surface temperatures caused by the 11-year solar cycle. One of the mysteries regarding Earth’s climate system response to variations in solar output is how the relatively small fluctuations of the 11-year solar cycle can produce the magnitude of the observed climate signals in the tropical Pacific associated with such solar variability. Two mechanisms, the top-down stratospheric response of ozone to fluctuations of shortwave solar forcing and the bottom-up coupled ocean-atmosphere surface response, are included in versions of three global climate models, with either mechanism acting alone or both acting together. We show that the two mechanisms act together to enhance the climatological off-equatorial tropical precipitation maxima in the Pacific, lower the eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures during peaks in the 11-year solar cycle, and reduce low-latitude clouds to amplify the solar forcing at the surface.
Marital Interaction: Experimental Investigations

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Motor skills of toddlers with autism spectrum disorders

With increased interest in the early diagnosis and treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), more attention has been called to the motor skills of very young children with ASD. This study describes the gross and fine motor skills of a cross-sectional group of 162 children with ASD between the ages of 12 and 36 months, as well as a subset of 58 children followed longitudinally. Gross motor and fine motor age equivalent scores were obtained for all children. A ‘motor difference’ variable was calculated for each child’s gross and fine motor skills by taking the absolute difference of the children’s age equivalent motor score and their respective chronological age. In Study 1 (the cross-sectional analysis), ANCOVA (co-varied for nonverbal problem solving) revealed significant group differences in the gross motor and fine motor age difference variables. Post-hoc analysis revealed that gross motor and fine motor differences became significantly greater with each 6-month period of chronological age. In Study 2, 58 children were measured twice, an average of 12 months apart. Results indicate that the gross motor and fine motor difference scores significantly increased between the first and second measurements. The importance of addressing motor development in early intervention treatments is discussed.
A New Bayesian Method Incorporating With Local Correlation for IBM Estimation

A lot of efforts have been made in the Ideal Binary Mask (IBM) estimation via statistical learning methods. The Bayesian method is a common one. However, one drawback is that the mask is estimated for each time-frequency (T-F) unit independently. The correlation between units has not been fully taken into account. In this paper, we attempt to consider the local correlation information from two aspects to improve the performance. On one hand, a T-F segmentation based potential function is proposed to depict the local correlation between the mask labels of adjacent units directly. It is derived from a demonstrated assumption that units which belong to one segment are mainly dominated by one source. On the other hand, a local noise level tracking stage is incorporated. The local level is obtained by averaging among several adjacent units and can be considered as an approach to true noise energy. It is used as the intermediary auxiliary variable to indicate the correlation. While some secondary factors are omitted, the high dimensional posterior distribution is simulated by a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. In iterations, the correlation is fully considered to compute the acceptance ratio. The estimate of IBM is obtained by the expectation. Our system is evaluated and compared with previous Bayesian system, and it yields substantially better performance in terms of HIT-FA rates and SNR gain.
Obesity and posterior spinal fat content: impact on complications in non-complex lumbar spine surgery

Abstract Aim: Obesity is increasing in prevalence across the world with a potentially very significant impact in spine surgery. This study aimed to characterise this in the setting of neurosurgical spine practise at a single centre in UK. Uniquely, we assess the contribution of posterior spinal fat content to intraoperative complications. Materials and methods: All cases of lumbar spine surgery in 1 year were investigated. Case note review was carried out documenting patient demographics, comorbidities, operative details, complications and length of stay. Ninety-four complete datasets were compiled from 128 cases. The posterior spinal fat content was recorded from T2-weighted MRI. Body mass index (BMI) was correlated with each measure using logistic multiple regression and contingency table analysis. Results: Mean BMI was 28.3 (SD: 5.2) comprising one underweight (BMI <18.5), 26 normal weight (BMI: 18.5–24.9), 32 overweight (BMI ≥25), 33 obese (BMI ≥30) and two morbidly obese patients (BMI ≥40). BMI (coefficient: 0.03, SE: 0.01, p = 0.005) and posterior spinal fat content (coefficient: 0.01, SE: 0.005, p = 0.042) correlated significantly with increasing length of stay. Procedure (p = 0.006) and complication rate (p = 0.010) also correlated with length of stay. Neither BMI nor posterior spinal fat content had a significant effect on the incidence of perioperative complications (p = 0.932, p = 0.742), operating time (p = 0.454, p = 0.748) or blood loss (p = 0.127, p = 0.692). There were three non-operative complications in the obese and overweight groups compared with none in the normal weight group, but this was not significant. Overall complication rate was 15%. Conclusion: Obesity and posterior spinal fat content correlate with the length of stay in simple spine surgery. There is a non-significant trend towards increased non-operative complications in overweight and obese patients, which could reach significance with larger numbers and prospective data. Excess posterior spinal fat is not associated with increased operative complications, operating time or blood loss.
Emotion regulation in leader–follower relationships

This study investigates the extent to which leaders and followers express, suppress or fake their emotions during interaction, using a sample of 135 leaders and 207 followers. The respondents completed questionnaires on emotion regulation, the relationship quality between leaders and followers (LMX), job satisfaction, and health complaints. The data indicate that negative emotions such as disappointment, uncertainty, and annoyance are typically suppressed, while positive emotions such as enthusiasm, interest, and calmness are typically expressed or faked. The reported level of emotion regulation was higher for leaders than for followers. Suppressing and faking emotions correlated negatively with the LMX and job satisfaction, and positively with health complaints among both groups. Emotion regulation is thus a prominent and complex facet of leader – follower relationships with possible negative effects for both leaders and followers.
Prevalence, risk factors and quality of life in Turkish women with urinary incontinence: a synthesis of the literature.

BACKGROUND Urinary incontinence (UI) is not a life threatening condition but it adversely affects physical and mental health, sexual function and quality of life in women. AIM To review the related literature to identify prevalence, risk factors and quality of life among only Turkish women. METHODS Computerized searches on PubMed, Turkish Medline, EBSCO Host; articles from indexed journals related to the topics in this review and published between 1996 and 30 April 2012 were evaluated. After completion of database searches, a final total of 20 studies were identified that fitted the inclusion criteria. RESULTS This review revealed that the prevalence of UI among Turkish women was reported by 16 studies ranged from 16.4% to 49.7%. The most common risk factors were age, number of births, body mass index > 25 kg/m(2), recurrent urinary infection, diabetes mellitus and vaginal delivery. The effect of UI on the quality of life was mild to moderate. CONCLUSIONS We found that the prevalence of UI of Turkish women showed a wide range. It is important for health professionals to be aware of the high prevalence of UI in women and to ask about its possible presence. Improving the quality of life in women with UI is an important issue and nurses should direct women to seek psychosocial support. The findings of this review could serve as a source of information for health systems that deal with UI, and it may help to inform health professionals and women with UI on early diagnosis, treatment and management.
A first glance at the role of length in production and perception of diphthongs before Dutch coda

Botma, Sebregts & Smakman (2008, 2010, 2012) have shown that in Dutch there is variation in the neutralization of tense and lax vowels before coda l. In this study, we will extend the scope of their investigation by examining the effect of coda l on preceding diphthongs. A pilot production experiment shows that diphthongs can be completely neutralized in this context and may become monophthongs. A perception experiment reveals that length serves as an important cue for listeners in the identification of vowels followed by dark l.
PCMSim: A Hybrid Memory System Simulator for the Cloud Storage

The memory system composed by DRAM and PCM is a main application for the phase change memory, and the asymmetric write performance and endurance of which limit its uses. To address the problems, we proposed a hybrid memory system called PCMSim mainly applied in cloud storage. It takes advantage of characteristics of two-stage-write scheme and data duplication technology. The key idea behind PCMSim system is the optimizations of automatic write back circuit for the write unit. In addition, we designed hardware and software structures to fulfill data duduplication and the service to write cache line. Based on DRAMSim2, we have implemented PCMSim simulator to evaluate its performance and the results driven by real cloud storage traces show the good performance and space saving for PCMSim, as well as about 39.12% improvement of wear-leveling at best.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Patterns Among a Sample of Homeless Post-Adolescents

ABSTRACT Data are presented on substance abuse, mental health problems, and the psychosocial well-being of 100 post-adolescents residing in a short-term shelter in south Florida. The sample was found to have high levels of social dysfunctions, e.g., low educational achievement, few job skills, poor work histories, and limited interpersonal coping networks. The Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) was employed to make DSM-III diagnoses for alcohol and drug abuse, depression, and schizophrenia for three prevalence periods: ever in lifetime, past year, and past month. Overall, the sample had much higher prevalence rates for each of these disorders than those found among comparable age groups in the general population. The past month DSM-III rates were: alcohol abuse/dependence, 27.3%; drug abuse, 27.2%; major depressive episode, 20.3%; schizophrenia, 7.1%. Co-morbidity of diagnosed disorders was pervasive. Only 31% of the sample had no DSM-III diagnosis. And, of the 69% who met the DSM-III criteria for any di.
Albumin Augmentation Improves Condition of Guinea Pig Hearts After 4 hr of Cold Ischemia

Background. Major causes of death after heart transplantation are right ventricular pump failure and, chronically, cardiac allograft vasculopathy. Traditional preservation techniques focus on immediate cardioplegia, without particularly considering vascular demands. Recently, the endothelial surface layer, composed of the endothelial glycocalyx and plasma proteins, was discovered to play a major role in vascular barrier function, edema formation, and leukocyte-to-endothelial interaction. The impact of augmenting a traditional preservation solution with plasma colloid albumin was therefore investigated. Methods. Guinea pig hearts underwent cold ischemic storage for 4 hr using Bretschneider’s solution (histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate [HTK]) without and with augmentation with 1 g% human albumin. After reperfusion, intracoronary adhesion of polymorphonuclear granulocytes, edema formation, left and right heart performance of pressure-to-volume work, and glycocalyx shedding were assessed. Results. Intracoronary retention of leukocytes was doubled in the traditional group (36.4±6.6%), whereas it remained at basal values after albumin preservation (23.5±2.4%; P<0.05). Addition of albumin to HTK significantly decreased edema formation (wet to dry weight ratio 6.9±0.1 vs. 7.2±0.2; P<0.05). Although left heart performance was comparable, right heart cardiac output was doubled in hearts having received HTK containing albumin versus HTK alone (94±14 vs. 50±11 mL/min/g; P<0.05). Glycocalyx shedding was significantly reduced when the hearts were stored under albumin protection. Conclusions. Augmenting HTK with human albumin improves endothelial integrity and heart performance after 4 hr cold ischemia, because of a marked protection of the endothelial glycocalyx. For the prevention of acute and chronic graft failure, the glycocalyx might represent a new target.
Statement Annotations for Fine-Grained Advising

AspectJ-like languages are currently ineffective at modularizing heterogeneous concerns that are tightly coupled to the source code of the base program, such as logging, invariants, error handling, and optimization. This leads to complicated and fragile pointcuts and large numbers of highly-repetitive and incomprehensible aspects. We propose statement annotations as a robust mechanism for exposing the join points needed by heterogeneous concerns and for enabling declarative fine-grained advising. We propose an extension to Java to support statement annotations and AspectJ’s pointcut language to match them. This allows us to implement heterogeneous concerns using a combination of simple and robust aspects and explicit and local annotations. We illustrate this using a logging aspect that logs messages at specific locations in the source code. Statement annotations also simplify advising specific object instances, local variables, and statements. We demonstrate this using an aspect that traces method calls made to specific object instances and calls made from specific call sites.
Dynamic poise ‐ part 1: a new style of management

Outlines an approach to management which questions conventional rationality, and suggests that dynamic capability in organizations needs to be based on new thinking drawn from science, logic and ideas drawn from cultures beyond the Anglo‐Saxon. Begins by exploring the modern paradigm on which much management theory is based. This paradigm sees the organization as a machine, and the role of the manager as controller. Traces the origins of this approach to scientific thinking which is now outdated, and proposes an alternative ‐ the wisdom paradigm. Stresses that this is not “either‐or” ‐ the wisdom paradigm does not replace the modern paradigm ‐ it expands management thinking and suggests principles more attuned to managing in uncertainty. Develops these principles in a second article.