Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
New effective interaction for pf-shell nuclei and its implications for the stability of the N = Z = 28 closed core

The effective interaction GXPF1 for shell-model calculations in the full $pf$ shell is tested in detail from various viewpoints such as binding energies, electromagnetic moments and transitions, and excitation spectra. The semimagic structure is successfully described for $N$ or $Z=28$ nuclei, $^{53}\mathrm{Mn}$, $^{54}\mathrm{Fe}$, $^{55}\mathrm{Co}$, and $^{56,57,58,59}\mathrm{Ni}$, suggesting the existence of significant core excitations in low-lying nonyrast states as well as in high spin yrast states. The results of $N=Z$ odd-odd nuclei, $^{54}\mathrm{Co}$ and $^{58}\mathrm{Cu}$, also confirm the reliability of GXPF1 interaction in the isospin dependent properties. Studies of shape coexistence suggest an advantage of Monte Carlo shell model over conventional calculations in cases where full-space calculations still remain too large to be practical.
The importance of low serum levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) as a cardiovascular risk factor

In order to discuss and establish a joint position on the treatment of low serum levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), a group of experts involved in the care of people with dyslipidaemia and at risk of cardiovascular disease met in Miami, Florida, US, on 5th and 6th March 2005. The experts came from the Latin American countries Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela and had at least five years of experience in the care of patients with dyslipidaemia and low HDL-C. The main objective of the meeting was to discuss and propose a treatment for low serum HDL-C levels as a cardiovascular risk factor in patients and to create a group of useful recommendations in this regard, applicable to the daily clinical practice of physicians dealing with patients with dyslipidaemia and cardiovascular disease. This document describes the methodology developed to obtain these recommendations and presents the results of this academic meeting.
SAR ATR by a combination of convolutional neural network and support vector machines

A combination of a convolutional neural network, which belongs to the deep learning research field, and support vector machines is presented as an efficient automatic target recognition system. Additional training methods that incorporate prior knowledge to the classifier and further improve its robustness against imaging errors and target variations are also presented. These methods generate artificial training data by elastic distortion and affine transformations that represent typical examples of image errors, like a changing range scale dependent on the depression angle or an incorrectly estimated aspect angle. With these examples presented to the classifier during the training, the system should become invariant against these variations and thus more robust. For the classification, the spotlight synthetic aperture radar images of the moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition database are used. Results are shown for the ten class database with a forced decision classification as well as with rejection class.
Teaching as a Moral Activity: listening to teachers in Russia and the United States

Abstract In 1992, I conducted a study in two schools, the Scarsdale High Alternative School (SAS) in New York, a Kohlbergian Just Community Program for 16 years, headed by Tony Arenella; and Public School No. 825, a kindergarten to senior high school on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, an experimental school in Developmental Education following the ideas of Lev Vygotsky, headed by Vladimir Karakovsky. This article presents a narrative comparison of the philosophies and practices of the secondary teachers in each school. The teachers’ philosophies seemed to be like Janus, facing in two directions‐‐outward toward the school culture, reflecting each school's shared norms and values, and inward, expressing each person's own values and ways of thinking. It was the influence of each school's culture that created the most striking philosophical differences. Teachers from Russia and the US held only one value in common: community. Other particular norms and values differed almost completely and seem to reflect th.
Civilization and civilized in post-9/11 US presidential speeches

The aim of this article is to show, by means of an analysis of the occurrences of civilization and civilized in a corpus of US presidential speeches that spans three years (2001—4), that despite claims to the contrary, the New World Order discourse contains a `clash of civilizations' frame, at least since the terrorist attacks of 2001. We have analysed the occurrences of civilization and civilized using a three-fold approach: (a) a Narrative Conceptualization Analysis of civilization; (b) a Membership Categorization Analysis of the collocation civilized world; and, to a lesser extent, (c) an analysis of the rhetorical strategies in which civilization and civilized participate.
Expression of the Cell Adhesion Molecule CD146/MCAM in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Expression of MCAM is observed in a variety of human malignancies. We aimed to determine the rate of MCAM expression in our non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) collection and to clarify its correlation with clinicopathological parameters and patient survival. 85 NSCLC were analysed immunohistochemically using a monoclonal MCAM antibody (clone N1238) on an NSCLC tissue micro array. The staining was semiquantitatively scored. We found MCAM expression in 51% of NSCLC, preferentially squamous cell carcinomas (p=0.004). No other correlations to tumour size, grade, or stage were found. Univariate survival analysis showed no significant differences of MCAM positive and negative tumours. In adenocarcinomas however, MCAM positivity was significantly associated with shorter patient survival (p=0.016). We conclude, that MCAM is expressed in a high proportion of NSCLC and might be predictive of shortened patient survival in adenocarcinomas of the lung. Colour figure can be viewed on http://www.esacp. org/acp/2003/25-2/kristiansen.htm.
Meningitis, cranial neuritis, and radiculoneuritis associated with Borrelia burgdorferi infection in a horse.

CASE DESCRIPTION A 12-year-old Thoroughbred was examined because of signs of depression, neck stiffness, and poor performance. CLINICAL FINDINGS Physical examination revealed that the horse was dull, appeared depressed, was reluctant to raise its neck and head above a horizontal plane, and had a temperature of 38.5°C (101.3°F). No radiographic or scintigraphic abnormalities of the neck were found; however, high plasma fibrinogen concentration and relative lymphopenia were identified and the horse was seropositive for antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi. Analysis of CSF revealed neutrophilic inflammation, and results of a PCR assay of CSF for B burgdorferi DNA were positive. Immunologic testing revealed severe B-cell lymphopenia and a low serum IgM concentration consistent with common variable immunodeficiency. TREATMENT AND OUTCOME The horse responded well to do×ycycline treatment (10 mg/kg [4.5 mg/lb], PO, q 12 h for 60 days) and returned to normal exercise. However, 60 days after treatment was discontinued, the horse again developed a stiff neck and rapidly progressive neurologic deficits, including severe ataxia and vestibular deficits. The horse's condition deteriorated rapidly despite IV oxytetracycline treatment, and the horse was euthanatized. Postmortem examination revealed leptomeningitis, lymphohistiocytic leptomeningeal vasculitis, cranial neuritis, and peripheral radiculoneuritis with Wallerian degeneration; findings were consistent with a diagnosis of neuroborreliosis. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Nervous system infection with B burgdorferi should be considered in horses with evidence of meningitis and high or equivocal serum anti-B burgdorferi antibody titers. Evaluation of immune function is recommended in adult horses evaluated because of primary bacterial meningitis.
Clustering of 316 European Regions on Measures of Values

The use of nations as units of analysis in cross-cultural studies is a controversial approach as nations may not be culturally homogeneous. However, a recent study by Minkov and Hofstede found that African, Asian, Latin American, and Anglo in-country regions tended to form homogeneous and distinct national clusters on World Values Survey (WVS) items. We extend this research to European regions, as well as randomly formed nationally homogeneous groups of European respondents, using value measures from the 2010 European Social Survey (ESS). We find that the regions of most European countries, as well as the randomly formed groups, tend to group into national clusters. We also find that large samples of randomly chosen individuals from diverse nations cannot be sorted into nations. Our findings have theoretical implications for the conceptualization of culture as something shared at the group level rather than the individual.
Reliability Assessment of Observation Data: A Possible Methodological Problem.

REID, JOHN B. Reliability Assessment of Observation Data: A Possible Methodological Problem. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1970, 41, 1143-1150. An experiment was conducted to determine the accuracy of observers under 2 conditions: overt reliability assessment, during which O0 knew her accuracy was being checked; and covert reliability assessment, during which she thought that her accuracy could not be checked. A marked drop in accuracy was observed for all Os from overt to covert assessment conditions. Questions were raised concerning the veridicality of observation data which are not continuously monitored.
Ingroup Versus Outgroup Comparisons and Self-Esteem: The Role of Group Status and Ingroup Identification

Prior research suggests that people can protect their self-esteem by construing upward comparisons with outgroup members as non-self-relevant. In the present experiments, the authors hypothesized that only dominant group members use such a self-protection strategy. This hypothesis was confirmed in three experiments (N = 293) comparing dominant and subordinate-status groups exposed to upward versus downward social comparisons with ingroup or outgroup members. The results also showed that dominant group members suffered from upward comparisons with ingroup members, whereas subordinate group members did not. For the latter, ingroup identification appeared to be a self-protection strategy. Group status may be a potential moderator of the tendency to adopt particular self-protection strategies against upward comparisons.
Short-Term Quetiapine Treatment Alters the Use of Reinforcement Signals during Risky Decision-Making and Promotes the Choice of Negative Expected Values in Healthy Adult Males

Effective decision-making can involve using environmental signals about the possible good and bad outcomes, and their probabilities, to select optimal actions. Problematic decision-making in psychiatric disorders, and particularly bipolar illness, may result from disrupted use of these reinforcement cues, leading to actions that reflect or precipitate pathological changes in mood. Previous experiments indicate that the processing of reinforcement cues while selecting between risky actions can be influenced by dopamine and serotonin activity. Quetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic agent with a complex pharmacology, including antagonist actions at 5-HT2A and, to a lesser extent, D2 receptors. Here, we investigated the effects of (short-term) treatment with quetiapine on the risky decision-making of healthy human adults. Twenty participants received 150 mg of quetiapine XL for 7 d, whereas 20 age- and IQ-matched participants received a placebo. On the eighth day, all participants completed a risky decision-making task that involved making a series of choices between two simultaneously presented gambles that differed in the magnitudes of their possible gains and losses, and the probabilities with which these outcomes were delivered. Quetiapine treatment was associated with a marked tendency to choose options with negative expected values compared with placebo treatment in male but not female participants. Our results demonstrate that antagonism of serotonin and dopamine receptor activity can alter the way individuals use information about gains and losses when selecting between risky actions, possibly reflecting gender-specific differences in risk attitudes. These effects may be beneficial by correcting decision-making biases that feature in mood disorders.
Rb/E2F Regulates Expression of Neogenin during Neuronal Migration

ABSTRACT The Rb/E2F pathway has long been appreciated for its role in regulating cell cycle progression. Emerging evidence indicates that it also influences physiological events beyond regulation of the cell cycle. We have previously described a requirement for Rb/E2F mediating neuronal migration; however, the molecular mechanisms remain unknown, making this an ideal system to identify Rb/E2F-mediated atypical gene regulation in vivo. Here, we report that Rb regulates the expression of neogenin, a gene encoding a receptor involved in cell migration and axon guidance. Rb is capable of repressing E2F-mediated neogenin expression while E2F3 occupies a region containing E2F consensus sites on the neogenin promoter in native chromatin. Absence of Rb results in aberrant neuronal migration and adhesion in response to netrin-1, a known ligand for neogenin. Increased expression of neogenin through ex vivo electroporation results in impaired neuronal migration similar to that detected in forebrain-specific Rb deficiency. These findings show direct regulation of neogenin by the Rb/E2F pathway and demonstrate that regulation of neogenin expression is required for neural precursor migration. These studies identify a novel mechanism through which Rb regulates transcription of a gene beyond the classical E2F targets to regulate events distinct from cell cycle progression.
An a-L-arabinofuranosidase / bD-xylosidase from immature seeds of radish ( Raphanus sativus L . )

The carbohydrate moieties of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) are essential for their physiological functions and undergo rapid turnover in vivo. Degradation of the carbohydrate moieties of AGPs seems to occur by concerted action of several glycosidases, among them a-L-arabinofuranosidase, b-Dgalactosidase, and b-D-glucuronidase. Here, a bifunctional a-L-arabinofuranosidase/b-D-xylosidase from immature seeds of radish (Raphanus sativus L.), which hydrolyses a-L-arabinofuranosyl residues of the carbohydrate moieties of AGPs, has been cloned by reverse transcriptase-PCR. The gene, designated RsAraf1, contained an open reading frame of 2343 bp (780 amino acids), including a putative signal sequence (33 amino acids) at the N-terminus. RsAraf1 is highly similar to barley a-L-arabinofuranosidase/b-D-xylosidases and belongs to family 3 of the glycosyl hydrolases based on sequence homology. Southern blot analysis revealed that several related genes exist in the radish genome. RsAraf1 is expressed throughout seed development and weakly expressed in young seedlings. It was found that a-L-arabinofuranosidase activity in a cell-wall protein fraction prepared from transgenic Arabidopsis plants with enhanced expression of RsAraf1 was significantly higher than that in a wild-type protein fraction; the crude enzyme preparation released L-arabinose from radish AGPs as well as a-(1! 5)-arabinan and arabinoxylan. Accordingly, the amount of L-arabinosyl residues in the cell walls of transgenic plants was significantly decreased. These results indicate that RsAraf1 encodes a bifunctional a-L-arabinofuranosidase/b-D-xylosidase and suggest that RsAraf1 is involved in the hydrolysis of the carbohydrate moieties of AGPs in immature radish seeds.
Changes in the segregation of whites from blacks during the 1980s: small steps toward a more integrated society.

This paper represents the first analysis of black-white residential segregation for 1980-1990. It evaluates patterns for all metropolitan areas with substantial black populations. The results show a continued reduction in residential segregation across metropolitan areas suggesting that the forces aimed at lowering institutionalized segregation have had some effect. The next section recounts the primary influences on black-white segregation historically through the mid-1960s. The subsequent section points up forces which evoked since the 1960s that have acted to reduce segregation. These introductory sections will be followed by an evaluation of 1980-1990 segregation patterns. An appendix presents 1980 and 1990 segregation scores for all metropolitan areas. (excerpt)
Studies on the generation and expression of H‐2‐controlled T helper function in chimeric mice: Evidence for two levels of H‐2 restriction

F1 → parental, semisyngeneic/semiallogeneic and fully allogeneic bone marrow radiation chimeras were used as a source of helper T cells in the in vitro anamnestic response to dinitrophenylated keyhole limpet hemocyanin. In F1 → parental and in semisyngeneic/semiallogeneic chimeras, a small population of helper T cells restricted to the H‐2 haplotype present in the donor only was shown to co‐exist with T cells restricted to the shared haplotype. Only the population restricted to the donor H‐2 could be demonstrated in allochimeras, presumably due to a lack of antigen‐presenting cells of host origin during priming.
An investigation of the accuracy of momentary time sampling procedures with time series data

Momentary time sampling is a procedure in which one records whether or not responding is occurring at the end of an interval. As a sampling procedure, it presents both the advantage of ease and the disadvantage of imperfectly representing data collected through continuous recording. The present study was conducted to determine the interval sizes at which momentary time sampling accurately represents continuous recording. Observations using an event-recorder produced permanent records of five behaviours which were sampled five times, each time at intervals of 10, 20, 30, 60, 120 and 240 s, for each day's data with starting delays of 0, 12, 24, 36 and 48 s. These procedures allowed comparison of the results of this study with previous studies which had grouped their results across sessions, and provided repeated samples of each behaviour which allowed examination of the accuracy of momentary time sampling on a session-by-session basis. When the data were grouped as in previous studies, results indicated that (a) the 10, 20, 30, and 60 s intervals accurately estimated the average duration of behaviours, (b) the 120 s interval was accurate when the behaviour occurred more than 10 per cent of the time, and (c) the 240 s interval was accurate when the behaviour occurred more than 20 per cent of the time. When the data were not averaged, however, the results indicated that the 60, 120, and 240 s intervals were inaccurate.
Analysis of coupling between cavity-backed slot antennas: FDTD, FEM and measurements

Cavity-backed slot antennas have been widely used in different types of applications within the microwave band, including radar, satellite communications, mobile telephony, broadcast TV, and aircraft/spacecraft communications. They are relatively easy to manufacture, light-weight and often small in size. Their low profile is an important characteristic, especially for aircraft, missile and spacecraft, applications, because they can be flush-mounted on the surface of airborne vehicles without affecting the vehicle's aerodynamic profile. In this paper, the coupling of cavity-backed slot antennas is analyzed by using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and the finite element method (FEM). Also, parametric studies are performed to examine the dependence of the coupling on the frequency of operation and the separation between the apertures. The numerical results are validated by comparison with measurements.
Comparative transcriptome analysis provides insights into molecular mechanisms for parthenocarpic fruit development in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)

Genetic control of parthenocarpy, a desirable trait in edible fruit with hard seeds, has been extensively studied. However, the molecular mechanism of parthenocarpic fruit development in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is still unclear. To provide insights into eggplant parthenocarpy, the transcriptomic profiles of a natural parthenocarpic (PP05) and two non-parthenocarpic (PnP05 and GnP05) eggplant lines were analyzed using RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) technology. These sequences were assembled into 38925 unigenes, of which 22683 had an annotated function and 3419 were predicted as novel genes or from alternative splicing. 4864 and 1592 unigenes that were identified as DEGs between comparison groups PP05 vs PnP05 and PP05 vs GnP05, respectively. 506 common DEGs were found contained in both comparison groups, including 258 up-regulated and 248 down-regulated genes. Functional enrichment analyses identified many common or specific biological processes and gene set potentially associated with plant development. The most pronounced findings are that differentially regulated genes potentially-related with auxin signaling between parthenocarpic and non-parthenocarpic eggplants, e.g. calcium-binding protein PBP1 and transcription factor E2FB, which mediate the auxin distribution and auxin-dependent cell division, respectively, are up-regulated in the PP05; whereas homologs of GH3.1 and AUX/IAA, which are involved in inactivation of IAA and interference of auxin signaling, respectively, are down-regulated in PP05. Furthermore, gibberellin and cytokinin signaling genes and genes related to flower development were found differentially regulated between these eggplant lines. The present study provides comprehensive transcriptomic profiles of eggplants with or without parthenocarpic capacity. The information will deepen our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of eggplant parthenocarpy. The DEGs, especially these filtered from PP05 vs PnP05 + GnP05, will be valuable for further investigation of key genes involved in the parthenocarpic fruit development and genomics-assisted breeding.
Active Exploration of Surfaces for Legged Locomotion of Robots

This paper presents some results of an ongoing research project in the GRASP Lab in the area of active exploration and perception for the legged locomotion of robots. We propose an active perceptual scheme that is based on the ability of the robot to extract material properties from a surface during locomotion. This ability is provided to the robotic system through a compliant sensing device which is used to monitor the response of the surface when exploratory procedures are executed during the stepping and walking motions of the leg. Such a system will actively perceive changes in the surfaces properties and prevent the robot from slipping, falling, or sinking during locomotion. The paper describes the proposed perceptual scheme, the system set-up, and the implementation of the exploratory procedures. Comments University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MSCIS-90-93. This technical report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn. edu/cis_reports/355 Active Exploration Of Surfaces For Legged Locomotion Of Robots MS-CIS-90-93 GRASP LAB 245 Pramath R. Sinha Ruzena Bajcsy Department of Computer and Information Science School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389