Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gaussian Kernel Width Generator for Support Vector Clustering

parameter values must typically be examined. However, no algorithm has been proposed to specify the parameter values. This paper presents a secant-like numerical algorithm that generates an increasing sequence of SVC kernel width values. An estimate of sequence length depends on spatial characteristics of the data but not the number of data points or the data’s dimensionality. The algorithm relies on a function that relates the kernel width value to the radius of the minimal sphere enclosing the images of data points in a high-dimensional feature space. Experimental results with 2D and higher-dimensional datasets suggest that the algorithm yields useful data clusterings.
Finite Volume Model to Study Calcium Diffusion in Neuron Involving JRYR, JSERCA and JLEAK

Calcium dynamics is the highly responsible for intracellular electrical (action potential) and chemical (neurotransmitter) signaling in neuron cell. The Mathematical modeling of calcium dynamics in neurons lead to the reaction diffusion equation which involves the parameters like diffusion coefficient, free calcium, bound calcium, buffers and bound buffer. Here the parameters like receptors, serca and leak are also incorporated in the model. Appropriate boundary conditions have been framed based on biophysical conditions of the problem. The finite volume method has been employed to obtain the solution. The computer program has been developed using MATLAB 7.11 for the entire problem to compute Ca2+ profiles and study the relationships among various parameters.
DEVELOPMENT OF IMMUNOMAGNETIC CAPTURE ( IMC ) BASED TECHNIQUES FOR THE DETECTION OF SALMONELLA ON POULTRY CARCASSES

Current detection methods require at least one 24-48 hour enrichment step for the detection of Salmonella. This poses a problem because product often needs to be shipped before microbial contamination levels can be adequately ascertained. Therefore, the need for more rapid methods of Salmonella detection becomes apparent. The purpose of this thesis was to determine if an immunologically-based method, Immunomagnetic Capture(IMC) -ELISA and molecular-based detection methods, PCR and Taqman PCR employing IMC without enrichment, could detect at least 10 cfu/ml of S. Typhimurium in broiler carcass rinse fluid (CRF) samples. IMC-ELISA, IMC-PCR, and IMC-Taqman PCR were initially tested using 0 to 10 cfu/ml of pure culture S. Typhimurium. Each detection method was tested using artificially contaminated CRF samples. Finally, standardized IMC-ELISA, IMC-PCR, and IMC-Taqman PCR methods were tested using commercial CRF samples. Salmonella concentrations were verified using a traditional plate method. IMC-ELISA produced consistent results when detecting at least 10 to 10 cfu/mL of pure culture S. Typhimurium. IMC-ELISA was not able to produce repeatable results when testing artificially contaminated CRF samples. S. Typhimurium was not detected in commercial CRF samples which by virtue of direct plating on XLT-4 were found to contain essentially no Salmonella (<1 cfu/ml). IMC-PCR was able to consistently detect 10 cfu/ml, whereas IMC-Taqman PCR was able to detect 10 cfu/ml of pure culture S. Typhimurium. IMC-PCR, required four hours to
Neck proprioception, strength, flexibility, and posture in pilots with and without neck pain history.

INTRODUCTION Neck pain (NP) is common among military helicopter pilots. Older age and more flight-hours have been associated with pilots with a history of NP. However, modifiable neuromuscular and musculoskeletal characteristics such as neck proprioception, strength, flexibility, and posture have rarely been investigated in military helicopter pilots with a history of NP. The purpose of the study was to compare demographics, flight characteristics, physical fitness information, neck proprioception, strength, flexibility, and posture between helicopter pilots with and without a history of NP. METHODS A total of 27 Army helicopter pilots with NP in the past 12 mo (pain group) were matched based on age with pilots without a history of NP (nonpain group). All pilots had flown at least 100 h in the past 12 mo and were cleared for flight and physical training. All pilots completed a battery of laboratory testing: neck proprioception, neck and scapular muscular strength, neck active range-of-motion (ROM), forward head and shoulder posture, and pectoralis minor length. Paired t-tests or Wilcoxon tests were used to compare differences between groups. RESULTS The pain group had significantly less cervical extension (63.7 +/- 8.5 degrees) and rotation ROM (R rotation: 67.7 +/- 8.8 degrees; L rotation: 67.4 +/- 9.0 degrees) when compared to the nonpain group (extension: 68.3 +/- 7.4 degrees; R rotation: 73.4 +/- 7.4 degrees; L rotation: 72.9 +/- 6.8 degrees). No significant differences were found for other variables. CONCLUSION The results demonstrate less neck active ROM in pilots with a history of NP. Operating a helicopter with limited neck ROM or NP may negatively impact flight safety and force readiness. Continued research is warranted.
Lessons in University Continuing Education: A 25-Year Perspective

Abstract This article examines the enrollment patterns of a continuing education institution over 25 years of its history. The institution is an auxiliary unit of a major state university system with the mission of providing postgraduate professional training to nonmatriculated students. Our study illustrates that both the quantity and the quality of academic offerings impact enrollment patterns in a continuing education unit such as the one considered here. Using historical data, we validate this correlation in three disciplines in which courses are offered. In addition to studying the factors influencing enrollments, we reviewed the institution's recent financial performance. For the period of transitioning from financial distress to stability, we document major leadership decisions and offer lessons of best practices to schools in similar situations. This study suggests several management principles that have been shown to be effective in turning around an organization and offers a deeper understanding of how academic affairs decisions influence the performance of a continuing education institution.
Author-conference topic-connection model for academic network search

This paper proposes a novel topic model, Author-Conference Topic-Connection (ACTC) Model for academic network search. The ACTC Model extends the author-conference-topic (ACT) model by adding subject of the conference and the latent mapping information between subjects and topics. It simultaneously models topical aspects of papers, authors and conferences with two latent topic layers: a subject layer corresponding to conference topic, and a topic layer corresponding to the word topic. Each author would be associated with a multinomial distribution over subjects of conference (eg., KM, DB, IR for CIKM 2012), the conference(CIKM 2012), and the topics are respectively generated from a sampled subject. Then the words are generated from the sampled topics. We conduct experiments on a data set with 8,523 authors, 22,487 papers and 1,243 conferences from the well-known Arnetminer website, and train the model with different number of subjects and topics. For a qualitative evaluation, we compare ACTC with three others models LDA, Author-Topic (AT) and ACT in academic search services. Experiments show that ACTC can effectively capture the semantic connection between different types of information in academic network and perform well in expert searching and conference searching.
Modeling Wikipedia Articles to Enhance Encyclopedic Search

Reflecting the rapid growth of science, technology, and culture, it has become common practice to consult tools on the World Wide Web for various terms. Existing search engines provide an enormous volume of information, but retrieved information is not organized. Hand-compiled encyclopedias provide organized information, but the quantity of information is limited. To integrate the advantages of both tools, we have been proposing methods for encyclopedic search targeting information on the Web and patent information. In this paper, we propose a method to categorize multiple expository texts for a single term based on viewpoints. Because viewpoints required for explanation are different depending on the type of a term, such as animals and diseases, it is difficult to manually produce a large scale system. We use Wikipedia to extract a prototype of a viewpoint structure for each term type. We also use articles in Wikipedia for a machine learning method, which categorizes a given text into an appropriate viewpoint. We evaluate the effectiveness of our method experimentally.
Finite source Markovian inventory system with bonus service for certain customers

We consider a perishable inventory system with bonus service for certain customers, wherein the demand of a customer is satisfied only after performing some service on the item which is assumed to be of random duration. The maximum inventory level is S. The ordering policy is (0,S) policy and the lead time is zero. The life time of each items is assumed to be exponential.The customers arrive according a quasi-random distribution. Arriving customers form a single waiting line based on the order of their arrivals. The first R 1 customers who arrive after the system becomes empty must wait for service to begin. We have assumed that these R customers received an additional service, called bonus service, in addition to the essential service rendered to all customers. The service times are exponentially distributed. The joint probability distribution of the number of customers in the waiting hall and the inventory level is obtained for the steady state case. Some important system performance measures and the long-run total expected cost rate are derived in the steady state. MSC: 90B05 60J27
Intergenerational transfer of a sports-related lifestyle within the family

The intergenerational transfer of a sports-related lifestyle within the family is a potential way to explain the social differences in sports participation that are displayed by young people. In this article, the importance of a sports-related lifestyle within the family, as well as parents’ educational background and sports participation in childhood, in the sports participation of adolescents and young adults is examined from the perspective of socialisation theory. Structural equation modelling was used to demonstrate that all of the examined predictors have significant positive effects on the current sports participation of individuals between the ages of 15 and 30 years (N = 4028; M = 21.48; SD = 4.64). The most pronounced effect on sports participation was observed for a sports-related lifestyle in the family.
The relationship between emotion perception and theory of mind in children with Autism

The relationship between deficits in emotion perception and theory of mind was examined in children with autism. Subjects in the autistic group (n = 9) were individually matched to non-autistic control subjects on the basis of chronological age and nonverbal mental age (n = 9) or verbal mental age (n = 9). All subjects were between the ages of 5 and 10. The test battery included both the emotion task and the age-control task of the Facial Discrimination Task Matching (FDTM), as well a s four standard first-order theory of mind tasks (the Sally-Ann task, the M & M task, the Picture-Sequencing task, and the Mental-Physical Distinction task). The results indicated that compared to both groups of control subjects, the autistic subjects did not demonstrate a specific impairment in emotion perception, but rather demonstrated more global deficits across the FDT-M. Performance on the emotion task of the FDT-M was related to verbal ability, especially for autistic subjects. In addition, no differences were found between the autistic and control groups in their ability to attribute false beliefs to others. Overall performance on the four theory of mind tasks (the Theory of Mind Composite) was also related to verbal ability. Finally, there was no apparent relationship between performance on the FDT-M emotion task and performance on the theory of mind tasks for any of the groups. A subsequent second se t of analyses was run, including all of the subjects who had been tested a s part of the study. Two groups of subjects participated in these analyses, an autistic group (n = 21 ) and a control group of non-autistic ii individuals (n = 36). The results again Indicated that, compared to controls, the autistic subjects did not demonstrate a specific impairment in emotion perception, but rather demonstrated more global deficits across the FDT-M. Performance on the FDT-M emotion task was related to age, nonverbal ability, verbal ability, and autism rating score, although none of these variables uniquely contributed to the emotion task score. The autistic subjects performed significantly worse than controls on only one of the false-belief tasks, the Sally-Ann task. Performance on the theory of mind tasks was related to m easures of nonverbal and verbal ability, as well a s autism rating score, although only thie PPVT standard score uniquely contributed to the Theory of Mind Composite score. A significant relationship was found between performance on the FDT-M emotion task and performance on the theory of mind tasks when the two groups were combined; however, the relationship between the FDT-M age-control task score and the Theory of Mind Composite was also found to be significant. The findings suggest that impairments in emotion perception or theory of mind are not specific to autism, and are not likely to be the primary, underlying deficits in autism. Moreover, little support was provided for a unique relationship between emotion perception and theory of mind in autism. Several suggestions for future research are provided.
Enhancing Care and Advocacy for Sexual Assault Survivors on Canadian Campuses.

Abstract Recent media coverage of the rape chant at Saint Mary’s University, the misogynist Facebook posts at Dalhousie’s dental school, and the suspension of the University of Ottawa’s hockey team have brought the topic of campus sexual assault under intense public scrutiny and the media accounts point to a widespread systemic rape culture on Canadian campuses. The objective of this paper is to examine the existing structure of campus sexual assault services at Canadian universities and colleges in order to highlight best practices and barriers to their success. The study’s data collection entailed an environmental scan of existing programs and campus-community collaborations across Canada, and a half-day symposium in which stakeholders reviewed the scan’s results and developed recommendations. The study’s findings indicate that most campus sexual assault and women’s centres rely on volunteers and collaboration with off-campus organizations in order to maintain a breadth of services for sexual assault survivors. Funding challenges were found to impose significant limitations to the functionality of the centres. The paper closes with recommendations for improvements, including public education programming and dedicated services provided by professionals with specialized training and experience. Resume La recente couverture mediatique provoquee par un chant d’initiation encourageant le viol a l’Universite Saint Mary, des messages misogynes affiches sur la page Facebook de l’ecole de dentisterie de l’Universite Dalhousie a Halifax et la suspension de l’equipe de hockey de l’Universite d’Ottawa a mis sur la sellette les agressions sexuelles sur les campus. Toutes ces situations ont fait l’objet d’un examen attentif du public et confirment une culture du viol sur les campus canadiens. L’objectif de la presente etude est d’examiner la structure existante des services d’intervention en matiere d’agression sexuelle sur les campus des universites et des colleges du Canada pour mettre en evidence les meilleures pratiques et les obstacles a leur reussite. Les donnees de l’etude comportent une analyse environnementale des programmes existants et de la collaboration entre campus et collectivites partout au Canada, ainsi qu’un symposium d’une demi-journee lors duquel des intervenants ont examine les resultats de l’analyse environnementale, puis soumis leurs recommandations. Les resultats de l’etude indiquent que la plupart des centres pour femmes et des organismes de defense contre les agressions sexuelles comptent sur des benevoles et une collaboration avec des organismes hors campus pour maintenir l’etendue des services offerts aux victimes d’agression sexuelle. Par ailleurs, des difficultes financieres ont impose des limites importantes a la fonctionnalite des centres. L’etude conclut en recommandant d’apporter des ameliorations, dont la mise en œuvre de programmes d’education du public et l’offre de services fournis par des professionnels experimentes detenant une formation specialisee.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using a Flexible Reamer System

Anatomic reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has been shown to improve stability of the knee, particularly rotational stability, potentially leading to superior clinical outcomes and a shorter return to sport. Nonanatomic ACL reconstruction has been linked to graft failure and abnormal cartilage loading thought to contribute to progression of degenerative joint disease. Use of the far anteromedial portal (FAMP) to uncouple the tibial and femoral tunnels has led to improved reproduction of the femoral footprint and facilitates drilling of the femoral tunnel in an anatomic position. The use of the FAMP and straight reamer systems introduces its own set of potential complications, including short femoral tunnels and peroneal nerve injury. These potential complications have been addressed by drilling the femoral tunnel in a hyperflexed position, which can lead to difficulty with positioning the operative extremity, visualization, and identification of anatomic landmarks. The purpose of this case report was to review the advantages and technical aspects of using a flexible reamer system and the FAMP to achieve an anatomic ACL reconstruction while avoiding potential complications and pitfalls. Flexible reamer systems allow an additional way of uncoupling the tibial and femoral tunnels to clearly visualize and establish an anatomic starting point within the femoral footprint of the native ACL while avoiding the complications associated with knee hyperflexion and straight reamers with the far anteromedial portal. In the authors’ experience, an anatomic reconstruction of the ACL can be achieved safely using flexible reamers while avoiding some of the difficulties seen with straight reamers used in conjunction with an uncoupled, far anteromedial approach.
The Windy General Routing Polyhedron: A Global View of Many Known Arc Routing Polyhedra

The windy postman problem consists of finding a minimum cost traversal of all of the edges of an undirected graph with two costs associated with each edge, representing the costs of traversing it in each direction. In this paper we deal with the windy general routing problem (WGRP), in which only a subset of edges must be traversed and a subset of vertices must be visited. This is also an ${\it NP}$-hard problem that generalizes many important arc routing problems (ARPs) and has some interesting real-life applications. Here we study the description of the WGRP polyhedron, for which some general properties and some large families of facet-inducing inequalities are presented. Moreover, since the WGRP contains many well-known routing problems as special cases, this paper also provides a global view of their associated polyhedra. Finally, for the first time, some polyhedral results for several ARPs defined on mixed graphs formulated by using two variables per edge are presented.
Validation of protein and potassium intakes assessed from 24 h recalls against levels estimated from 24 h urine samples in children and adolescents of Turkish descent living in Germany: results from the EVET! Study

Abstract Objective Nutrition-related health problems such as obesity are frequent among children and adolescents of Turkish descent living in Germany, yet data on their dietary habits are scarce. One reason might be the lack of validated assessment tools for this target group. We therefore aimed to validate protein and K intakes from one 24 h recall against levels estimated from one 24 h urine sample in children and adolescents of Turkish descent living in Germany. Design Cross-sectional analyses comprised estimation of mean differences, Pearson correlation coefficients, cross-classifications and Bland–Altman plots to assess the agreement between the nutritional intake estimated from a single 24 h recall and a single 24 h urine sample collected on the previous day. Setting Dortmund, Germany. Subjects Data from forty-three study participants (aged 5–18 years; 26 % overweight) with a traditional Turkish background were included. Results The 24 h recall significantly overestimated mean protein and K intake by 10·7 g/d (95 % CI of mean difference: 0·6, 20·7 g/d) and 344 mg/d (95 % CI 8, 680 mg/d), respectively. Correlations between intake estimates were r = 0·25 (P = 0·1) and 0·31 (P = 0·05). Both methods classified 70 % and 69 % of the participants into the same/adjacent quartile of protein and K intake and misclassified 7 % and 7 %, respectively, into the opposite quartile. Bland–Altman plots indicated a wide scattering of differences in both protein and K intake. Conclusions Among children and adolescents of traditional Turkish descent living in Germany, one 24 h recall may only be valid for categorizing subjects into high, medium or low consumers.
Evaluating Gender-specificity of Sexual Arousal with Thermography in Women and Men

Men’s genital responses tend to be gender-specific, such that they show significantly greater arousal to their preferred gender compared to their nonpreferred gender, whereas the genital responses of androphilic women (i.e., sexually attracted to men) tend to be similar to stimuli depicting women or men (gender-nonspecific). Gender-specificity of arousal has been previously studied using short stimuli (approximately 90-second videos or audio-narratives) with genital responses assessed using vaginal photoplethysmography (VPP) in women and penile plethysmography (PPG) in men. One limitation to using these measures of genital response is that they use different scales (mV change in VPP and mm change in PPG), making it difficult to draw direct gender comparisons. In the current thesis, I examined gender-specificity of sexual arousal in women and men by measuring genital responses using thermography, which assesses similar physiological processes (i.e., temperature change associated with genital vasocongestion) in women and men. Specifically, I evaluated whether the gender-specificity of men’s and women’s genital temperature was similar to that observed for genital responses concurrently assessed using VPP (women) or PPG (men). I presented gynephilic men (i.e., sexually attracted to women; n = 27) and androphilic women (n = 28) with 10-minute audiovisual stimuli depicting men masturbating, women masturbating, and a nonsexual nature film. Participants reported feelings of sexual arousal before, during, and after each film, and genital responses were concurrently assessed using thermography and VPP or PPG. For all dependent variables, men exhibited gender-specific sexual arousal and women exhibited gender-nonspecific sexual arousal. These findings demonstrate that the gender difference in gender-specificity of sexual arousal persists beyond early sexual responding, including longer stimuli and relatively slow changes in genital temperature. Limitations and implications are discussed.