Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Detecting and classifying movement-related cortical potentials associated with hand movements in healthy subjects and stroke patients from single-electrode, single-trial EEG

Objective. To detect movement intention from executed and imaginary palmar grasps in healthy subjects and attempted executions in stroke patients using one EEG channel. Moreover, movement force and speed were also decoded. Approach. Fifteen healthy subjects performed motor execution and imagination of four types of palmar grasps. In addition, five stroke patients attempted to perform the same movements. The movements were detected from the continuous EEG using a single electrode/channel overlying the cortical representation of the hand. Four features were extracted from the EEG signal and classified with a support vector machine (SVM) to decode the level of force and speed associated with the movement. The system performance was evaluated based on both detection and classification. Main results. ∼75% of all movements (executed, imaginary and attempted) were detected 100 ms before the onset of the movement. ∼60% of the movements were correctly classified according to the intended level of force and speed. When detection and classification were combined, ∼45% of the movements were correctly detected and classified in both the healthy and stroke subjects, although the performance was slightly better in healthy subjects. Significance. The results indicate that it is possible to use a single EEG channel for detecting movement intentions that may be combined with assistive technologies. The simple setup may lead to a smoother transition from laboratory tests to the clinic.
Evaluation of a Technology for Teaching Complex Social Skills to Young Adults with Visual and Cognitive Impairments

Two multiple baseline designs were used to evaluate a two-stage model for training four young adults with visual and cognitive impairments to shop for groceries. General case methods of choosing training exemplars and canvassing the skill performance of individuals without disabilities were the bases of a task-analytical flow chart of the behavioral skills involved in grocery shopping. The four young adults improved both the number of skills steps completed and the number of correct items purchased and maintained their skills at the 3-, 9-, and 12-week follow-ups.
Effects of repeated exposure to low-nutrition food commercials upon young children's eating behaviors

i i LIST OF TABLES vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi i CHAPTER I . INTRODUCTION 1 The Typical American Diet and Concomitant Health Hazards 2 Patterns of Television Watching in the United States 7 Television Advert ising and Social Learning Theory 8 Attentional Processes 8 Retentional Processes 9 Motor Reproduction Processes 9 Motivat ional Processes 9 Research on the Effects of Television Commercials on Chi ldren's Eating Behavior. 13 Repeti t ion in Advert ising 16 Learning Research 17 Satiat ion or Wearout 20 Complex Interact ion 23 Research on Repeti t ion with Children 28 Dependent Measure 31 Summary and Conclusions 32 Purpose of the Study 35
Conventional Nuclear Theory of Low-energy Nuclear Reactions in Metals: Alternative Approach to Clean Fusion Energy Generation

Low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) in metals are described using conventional nuclear theory based on the optical theorem formulation. It can be applied to both deuteron and proton induced LENRs. Cryogenic ignition of deuteron fusion in metal particles is proposed as an alternative approach to clean fusion energy generation. © 2014 ISCMNS. All rights reserved. ISSN 2227-3123
Predicting neuronal responses during natural vision

A model that fully describes the response properties of visual neurons must be able to predict their activity during natural vision. While many models have been proposed for the visual system, few have ever been tested against this criterion. To address this issue, we have developed a general framework for fitting and validating nonlinear models of visual neurons using natural visual stimuli. Our approach derives from linear spatiotemporal receptive field (STRF) analysis, which has frequently been used to study the visual system. However, prior to the linear filtering stage typical of STRFs, a linearizing transformation is applied to the stimulus to account for nonlinear response properties. We used this approach to compare two models for neurons in primary visual cortex: a nonlinear Fourier power model, which accounts for spatial phase invariant tuning, and a traditional linear model. We characterized prediction accuracy in terms of the total explainable variance, given intrinsic experimental noise. On average, Fourier power STRFs predicted 40% of explainable variance while linear STRFs were able to predict only 21% of explainable variance. The performance of the Fourier power model provides a benchmark for evaluating more sophisticated models in the future.
Fluoroscopy-guided Neurolytic Splanchnic Nerve Block for Intractable Pain from Upper Abdominal Malignancies in Patients with Distorted Celiac Axis Anatomy: An Effective Alternative to Celiac Plexus Neurolysis - A Retrospective Study

Introduction: The pain from upper gastrointestinal malignancy leads to considerable morbidity. The celiac plexus and splanchnic nerve neurolysis are good therapeutic options. Although splanchnic nerve neurolysis less frequently performed, but it has an edge over celiac plexus as it can be performed in patients with altered celiac plexus anatomy by enlarged lymph nodes. Methods: The fluoroscopy-guided splanchnic nerve neurolysis was done in about 21 patients with intractable upper abdominal pain with pain intensity of ≥7 in numerical rating scale (NRS) from upper gastrointestinal cancers with distorted celiac plexus anatomy from enlarged celiac lymph nodes as seen by computed tomography scan after positive diagnostic splanchnic nerve neurolysis. The demographic features, pain intensity, daily opioid dose, functional status and quality of life was measured at baseline and 1 week, 1 and 3 months after the procedure. Results: There was a significant improvement in pain intensity, opioid requirement, functional status, and physical components quality of life after the neurolysis (P < 0.05) and this improvement had continued till 3 months. There were also more than 50% reduction in pain intensity and significant decrease in opioid requirement in all the patients after neurolysis. Conclusion: The fluoroscopy-guided splanchnic nerve neurolysis results significant pain relief, decrease in opioid intake, improvement in functional status, and quality of life for up to 3 months in upper abdominal pain from gastrointestinal cancers in patients with distorted celiac lymph node anatomy not amenable to celiac plexus neurolysis.
Constitutional Revolutions: Pragmatism and the Role of Judicial Review in American Constitutionalism

In Constitutional Revolutions Robert Justin Lipkin radically rethinks modern constitutional jurisprudence, challenging the traditional view of constitutional change as solely an extension or transformation of prior law. He instead argues for the idea of “constitutional revolutions”—landmark decisions that are revolutionary because they are not generated from legal precedent and because they occur when the Constitution fails to provide effective procedures for accommodating a needed change. According to Lipkin, U.S. constitutional law is driven by these revolutionary judgments that translate political and cultural attitudes into formal judicial decisions. Drawing on ethical theory, philosophy of science, and constitutional theory, Lipkin provides a progressive, postmodern, and pragmatic theory of constitutional law that justifies the critical role played by the judiciary in American democracy. Judicial review, he claims, operates as a mechanism to allow “second thought,” or principled reflection, on the values of the wider culture. Without this revolutionary function, American democracy would be left without an effective institutional means to formulate the community’s considered judgments about good government and individual rights. Although judicial review is not the only forum for protecting this dimension of constitutional democracy, Lipkin maintains that we would be wise not to abandon judicial review unless a viable alternative emerges. Judges, lawyers, law professors, and constitutional scholars will find this book a valuable resource.
The Relationship between Open Innovation and Strategy: Data-Driven Analysis of the Mobile Value Services Industry

As academic and practitioner studies on the subject amassed in the last decade 2003 - 2013, Open Innovation (OI) has gained growing importance in the broad field of Management and Information Systems. However, existing literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of the relationship existing between OI and a firm's Strategy. Employing a data-driven research approach, based on forty-five qualitative interviews on firms operating in the Mobile Value Services Industry involved in OI undertakings, this study originally highlights six cross-themes the OI-Strategy relationship revolves around: 1) OI and Competitive Advantage, 2) OI and Strategic Positioning, 3) OI and Business Models, 4) OI in Networks, 5) OI and Co-opetition. ; 6) OI and Resilient Business Advantages. For each theme, insights are provided concerning: sub themes, findings, criticalities, and areas of development. This reorganization of the real-world OI initiatives constitutes a comprehensive research agenda or roadmap, with value for both academics and practitioners.
Enhancing Graduate Attributes Utilising Social Media

The objective of this research was to ascertain the usefulness of utilising social media to enhance graduate attributes. This study was conducted during one semester and concentrated on one aspect of graduate attributes which were interview skills. Two videos were scripted, shot and edited that focused on interviews from the perspective of both the interviewer and the interviewee. These videos were incorporated into workshops with first year and second year level 8 undergraduate students. Pre-video questionnaires were filled out and post video questionnaires were then filled out. The videos successfully provoked an awareness of the requirements in both situations and were well received. It is recommended that further research be carried out on developing materials and resources that focus on enhancing graduate attributes. These resources could be integrated into a dedicated module and embedded within programmes.
A New Testing Strategy to Identify Rare Variants with Either Risk or Protective Effect on Disease

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies set the stage for the large-scale medical sequencing efforts to be performed in the near future, with the goal of assessing the importance of rare variants in complex diseases. The discovery of new disease susceptibility genes requires powerful statistical methods for rare variant analysis. The low frequency and the expected large number of such variants pose great difficulties for the analysis of these data. We propose here a robust and powerful testing strategy to study the role rare variants may play in affecting susceptibility to complex traits. The strategy is based on assessing whether rare variants in a genetic region collectively occur at significantly higher frequencies in cases compared with controls (or vice versa). A main feature of the proposed methodology is that, although it is an overall test assessing a possibly large number of rare variants simultaneously, the disease variants can be both protective and risk variants, with moderate decreases in statistical power when both types of variants are present. Using simulations, we show that this approach can be powerful under complex and general disease models, as well as in larger genetic regions where the proportion of disease susceptibility variants may be small. Comparisons with previously published tests on simulated data show that the proposed approach can have better power than the existing methods. An application to a recently published study on Type-1 Diabetes finds rare variants in gene IFIH1 to be protective against Type-1 Diabetes.
Descriptive Experience Sampling , the Explicitation Interview , and Pristine Experience : In Response to Froese

I take the opportunity that Froese, Gould, and Seth (this issue) provide to clarify further (see the special issue of this journal, 2011 Volume 18 number 1) some aspects of Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES; Hurlburt, 1993, in press; Hurlburt & Akhter, 2006; Hurlburt & Heavey, 2006) by distinguishing DES from the Explicitation Interview (EI) method (e.g. Vermersch 2009; Petitmengin 2006; Petitmengin & Bitbol 2009); and to comment on Froese and colleagues’ suggestion of the Double Blind Interview (DBI) as a way of evaluating DES, EI, and other methods. Pristine Inner Experience Here is a DES description. I choose this example because it is typical and at hand—I simply selected one from my most recent DES expositional interview 1 .
Actuarial Description of Abnormal Personality: An Atlas for Use with the MMPI

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Pengaruh perceived usefulness dan perceived ease of use dalam penggunaan sistem informasi keuangan daerah

ABSTRAK Tujuan yang hendak dicapai dalam penelitian adalah untuk menguji secara empiris konstruksi perceived usefulness dan perceived easy of use terhadap sikap dan minat serta penggunaan aktual sistem informasi keuangan daerah dalam kondisi mandatory using. Subjek penelitian ini adalah pengelola keuangan dan akuntansi pada satuan kerja perangkat daerah di Pemerintah Kota Surakarta. Pengolahan dan analisis data dilakukan dengan teknik multivariate Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Jumlah seluruh kuesioner yang disebarkan sebanyak 170 buah, yang menjawab lengkap dan memenuhi syarat untuk dianalisis lebih lanjut adalah 86 buah. Berdasarkan uji validitas, reliabilitas dan normalitas atas data yang diperoleh, menunjukan bahwa data valid, reliabel dan memenuhi aspek normalitas. Hasil pengujian hipotesis menunjukan bahwa (1) perceived ease of use berpengaruh signifikan terhadap perceived usefulness; (2) perceived usefulness berpengaruh signifikan terhadap attitude toward using; (3) perceived usefulness tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap behavioral intention to use; (4) perceived ease of use berpengaruh signifikan terhadap attitude toward using; (5) attitude toward using berpengaruh signifikan terhadap behavioral intention to use; (6) mandatory using tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap attitude toward using; (7) behavioral intention to use berpengaruh signifikan terhadap actual usage. ABSTRACT The aim of the research is to test empirically the construction of the influence of the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use by the financial manager and accountancy in the work unit of Surakarta local government towards the use of the regional finance management information system in the condition environment that was obliged (mandatory using). The processing and the analysis of the data is carried out technically multivariate Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The number of the questionnaire that was send 170 and that answered completely so to be analyzed further is 86. Based on the validity, reliability and normality test show that the data is valid, reliable and filled the aspect normality. The results of the hypothesis testing show that (1) perceived ease of use have a significant effect on perceived usefulness; (2) perceived usefulness have a significant effect on attitude toward using; (3) perceived usefulness have not a significant effect on behavioral intention to use; (4) perceived ease of use have a significant effect on attitude toward using; (5) attitude toward using have a significant effect on behavioral intention to use; (6) Mandatory using have not a significant effect on attitude toward using; and (7) behavioral intention to use have a significant effect on actual usage.
Gender differences on the risk evaluation of acute coronary syndromes: the CARDIO2000 study.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is more common in men than women. Gender differences in CHD risk may be explained by a different impact that coronary risk factors may have for men and women, in the development of CHD. Thus, the authors aimed to analyze the extent to which cardiovascular risk factors can explain the gender difference in CHD risk, at population level. During 2000-2001, 848 hospitalized patients with a first event of acute coronary syndrome and 1078 controls, paired by gender, age, and region with no evidence of overt CHD, were randomly selected from all Greek regions. Data revealed that women experiencing their first acute coronary syndrome were significantly older than men (65.3+/-8 vs. 59.7+/-10 years old; p<0.01), and that acute coronary syndrome occurred more frequently in men than women (frequency ratio 4:1, men:women). When adjusting for age, multivariate analysis revealed that both family history of premature CHD and hypercholesterolemia were associated with higher coronary risk in men than women (odds ratio [OR]=5.11 vs. 3.14; p<0.05 for family history and OR=3.77 vs. 2.19; p<0.05 for hypercholesterolemia). The presence of hypertension however, had a significantly greater effect in women than men (OR=4.86 vs. 1.66; p<0.01). Also, higher education level and the adoption of a Mediterranean diet had a more protective effect in women than men (OR=0.53 vs. 0.87; p<0.001; and OR=0.80 vs. 0.96; p<0.05, respectively). There was also evidence of a greater association between depression and higher coronary risk in women than men (OR=1.93 vs. 1.58; p<0.07). The impact of other factors (i.e., smoking, diabetes, body mass index, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and financial status), on the coronary risk difference between genders was similar for men and women. In conclusion, our findings suggest that the contribution of certain coronary risk factors to the risk for CHD is different for men and women.
"Dialogical Self Theory. Positioning and Counter-Positioning in a Globalizing Society", Hubert Hermans, Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka, Cambridge 2010 : [recenzja] / Pekka Kuusela.

Introduction 1. The impact of globalization and localization on self and identity 2. Self and identity in historical perspective: traditional, modern, post-modern, and dialogical models 3. Positioning theory and dialogue 4. Positioning and dialogue in life-long development 5. A dialogical view of emotions 6. Practical implications for organizations, motivation, and conflict-resolution.
D-branes as tachyon lumps in string field theory

It has been conjectured that the tachyonic lump solution of the open bosonic string field theory describing a D-brane represents a D-brane of one lower dimension. We place the lump on a circle of finite radius and develop a variant of the level expansion scheme that allows systematic account of all higher derivative terms in the string field theory action, and gives a calculational scheme that can be carried to arbitrary accuracy. Using this approach we obtain lump masses that agree with expected D-brane masses to an accuracy of about 1%. We find convincing evidence that in string field theory the lump representing a D-brane is an extended object with a definite profile. A gaussian fit to the lump gives a 6-sigma size of 9.3√α'. The level truncation scheme developed here naturally gives rise to an infrared and ultraviolet cut-off, and may be useful in the study of quantum string field theory.
Exchange Rates in Search of Fundamentals: The Case of the Euro–Dollar Rate

The decline of the euro against the dollar during 1999-2000 was mostly unrelated to observable news about the underlying fundamentals. This corroborates a general finding from the empirical literature testing the traditional exchange rate models, i.e. that exchange rate movements are disconnected from the underlying fundamentals. We formulate an hypothesis allowing us to understand this phenomenon. The core of this hypothesis is that movements in the exchange rates ‘anchor’ agents’ beliefs and lead them to search for fundamentals that will justify these beliefs. We also analyse the implications of this view for the transmission of monetary shocks.
'I COULDN'T DO BOTH AT THE SAME TIME': SAME SEX ATTRACTED YOUTH AND THE NEGOTIATION OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE

The Christian Church 1 has remained relatively stalwart in its opposition to homosexuality despite other mainstream institutions such as the legal system and psychiatry recanting earlier homophobic and heterosexist positions. This rejection of homosexuality has a particularly negative impact on the lives of young same sex attracted young people during the period of ‘coming out’. This paper is based on a sub-sample of 119 young people who wrote about Christianity in their lives in the second national study of the sexual and mental health of same sex attracted youth. We use Foucault’s ‘technologies of exclusion’ and ‘dividing practices’ to explore how young people worked with homophobic and exclusionary religious discourse. Most eventually left the church, finding it almost impossible to incorporate their sexuality and their Christianity into one positive identity. The findings are discussed in light of young people’s mental health and ways forward.
SARSA: a web tool for structural alignment of RNA using a structural alphabet

SARSA is a web tool that can be used to align two or more RNA tertiary structures. The basic idea behind SARSA is that we use the vector quantization approach to derive a structural alphabet (SA) of 23 nucleotide conformations, via which we transform RNA 3D structures into 1D sequences of SA letters and then utilize classical sequence alignment methods to compare these 1D SA-encoded sequences and determine their structural similarities. In SARSA, we provide two RNA structural alignment tools, PARTS for pairwise alignment of RNA tertiary structures and MARTS for multiple alignment of RNA tertiary structures. Particularly in PARTS, we have implemented four kinds of pairwise alignments for a variety of practical applications: (i) global alignment for comparing whole structural similarity, (ii) semiglobal alignment for detecting structural motifs, (iii) local alignment for finding locally similar substructures and (iv) normalized local alignment for eliminating the mosaic effect of local alignment. Both tools in SARSA take as input RNA 3D structures in the PDB format and in their outputs provide graphical display that allows the user to visually view, rotate and enlarge the superposition of aligned RNA molecules. SARSA is available online at http://bioalgorithm.life. nctu.edu. tw/SARSA/.