Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Edinburgh Research Explorer Recalling Visual Serial Order for Verbal Sequencesrecalling Visual Serial Order for Verbal Sequences' Recalling Visual Serial Order for Verbal Sequences

General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact openaccess@ed.ac. uk providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Abstract We report three experiments in which participants performed written serial recall of visually presented verbal sequences with items varying in visual similarity. In Experiments 1 and 2 native speakers of Japanese recalled visually presented Japanese Kanji characters. In Experiment 3, native speakers of English recalled visually presented words. In all experiments, items varied in visual similarity and were controlled for phonological similarity. For Kanji and for English, performance on lists comprising visually similar items was overall poorer than for lists of visually distinct items across all serial positions. For mixed lists in which visually similar and visually distinct items alternated through the list, a clear Bzig-zag^ pattern appeared with better recall of the visually distinct items than for visually similar items. This is the first time that this zigzag pattern has been shown for manipulations of visual similarity in serial-ordered recall. These data provide new evidence that retaining a sequence of visual codes relies on similar principles to those that govern the retention of a sequence of phonological codes. We further illustrate this by demonstrating that the data patterns can be readily simulated by at least one computational model of serial-ordered recall, the Primacy model (Page and Norris, Psychological Review, 105(4), 761–81, 1998). Together with previous evidence from neuropsychological studies and experimental studies with healthy adults, these results are interpreted as consistent with two domain-specific, limited-capacity, temporary memory systems for phonological material and for visual material, respectively, each of which uses similar processes that have evolved to be optimal for retention of serial order.
A Graph-based Recommendation across Heterogeneous Domains

Given the users from a social network site, who have been tagged with a set of terms, how can we recommend the movies tagged with a completely different set of terms hosted by another website? Given the users from a website dedicated to Type I and Type II diabetes, how can we recommend the discussion threads from another website dedicated to gestational diabetes, where the keywords used in the two websites might be quite diverse? In other words, how can we recommend across heterogeneous domains characterized by barely overlapping feature sets? Despite the vast amount of existing work devoted to recommendation within homogeneous domains (e.g., with the same set of features), or collaborative filtering, emerging applications call for new techniques to address the problem of recommendation across heterogeneous domains, such as recommending movies hosted by one website to users from another website with barely overlapping tags. To this end, in this paper, we propose a graph-based approach for recommendation across heterogeneous domains. Specifically, for each domain, we use a bipartite graph to represent the relationships between its entities and features. Furthermore, to bridge the gap among multiple heterogeneous domains with barely overlapping sets of features, we propose to infer their semantic relatedness through concept-based interpretation distilled from online encyclopedias, e.g., Wikipedia and Baike. Finally, we propose an efficient propagation algorithm to obtain the similarity between entities from heterogeneous domains. Experimental results on both Weibo-Douban data set and Diabetes data set demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our algorithm.
The evolution of a pre-heated intergalactic medium

We analyse the evolution of the intergalactic medium by means of an extended set of large box size hydrodynamical simulations which include pre-heating. We focus on the properties of the z∼ 2 Lyman α forest and the population of clusters and groups of galaxies at z= 0. We investigate the distribution of voids in the Lyman α flux and the entropy–temperature relation of galaxy groups, comparing the simulation results to recent data from high-resolution quasar spectra and X-ray observations. Pre-heating is included through a simple phenomenological prescription, in which at z= 4 the entropy of all gas particles, whose overdensity exceeds a threshold value δh, is increased to a minimum value Kfl. While the entropy level observed in the central regions of galaxy groups requires a fairly strong pre-heating, with Kfl > 100 keV cm2, the void statistics of the Lyman α forest impose that this pre-heating should take place only in relatively high-density regions, δh≳ 30, in order not to destroy the cold filaments that give rise to the forest. We conclude that any injection of non-gravitational energy in the diffuse baryons should avoid low-density regions at high redshift and/or take place at relatively low redshift z≲ 1.
Recent Advances on Multi-Parameter Flow Cytometry to Characterize Antimicrobial Treatments

The investigation on antimicrobial mechanisms is a challenging and crucial issue in the fields of food or clinical microbiology, as it constitutes a prerequisite to the development of new antimicrobial processes or compounds, as well as to anticipate phenomenon of microbial resistance. Nowadays it is accepted that a cells population exposed to a stress can cause the appearance of different cell populations and in particular sub-lethally compromised cells which could be defined as viable but non-culturable (VBNC). Recent advances on flow cytometry (FCM) and especially on multi-parameter flow cytometry (MP-FCM) provide the opportunity to obtain high-speed information at real time on damage at single-cell level. This review gathers MP-FCM methodologies based on individual and simultaneous staining of microbial cells employed to investigate their physiological state following different physical and chemical antimicrobial treatments. Special attention will be paid to recent studies exploiting the possibility to corroborate MP-FCM results with additional techniques (plate counting, microscopy, spectroscopy, molecular biology techniques, membrane modeling) in order to elucidate the antimicrobial mechanism of action of a given antimicrobial treatment or compound. The combination of MP-FCM methodologies with these additional methods is namely a promising and increasingly used approach to give further insight in differences in microbial sub-population evolutions in response to antimicrobial treatments.
Alogliptin: a new addition to the class of DPP-4 inhibitors

Background Alogliptin is an oral antihyperglycemic agent that is a selective inhibitor of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4). Inhibition of DPP-4 elevates levels of the incretin hormones glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) by preventing their degradation. Objective To review the evolution of alogliptin and its pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical efficacy and adverse effects. In addition, we compared alogliptin to other DPP-4 inhibitors. Methods A comprehensive literature search was performed using the term ‘alogliptin’. Original research articles and review articles as well as scientific abstracts were included. Results Alogliptin raises postprandial levels of GLP-1. It has excellent bioavailability exhibiting a median Tmax ranging from 1 to 2 hours and a mean half-life of 12.4 to 21.4 hours across all doses. When given as monotherapy, mean hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) reductions achieved were 0.5% to 0.6%. Combination therapy yielded similar reductions (−0.5% with metformin, −0.6% with glyburide, −0.8% with pioglitazone and −0.6% with insulin). Administration of alogliptin does not promote weight loss but has not resulted in weight gain. The agent is relatively well tolerated with few adverse effects, the major finding being a marginally higher rate of skin events, primarily pruritus. Conclusions Alogliptin causes significant reductions in HbA1c when used alone or in combination with other oral agents in patients with type 2 diabetes similar to other DPP-4 inhibitors in current clinical use. The side effect profile also does not differ from that of other DPP-4 inhibitors. However, long-term studies are necessary before the place of alogliptin in the management of type 2 diabetes can be established.
An X- and Ku-Band 8-Element Phased-Array Receiver in 0.18-$\mu{\hbox{m}}$  SiGe BiCMOS Technology

This paper demonstrates an 8-element phased array receiver in a standard 0.18-mum SiGe BiCMOS (1P6M, SiGe HBT ft ap 150 GHz) technology for X- and Ku-band applications. The array receiver adopts the All-RF architecture, where the phase shifting and power combining are done at the RF level. With the integrations of all the digital control circuitry and ESD protection for all I/O pads, the receiver consumes a current of 100 ~ 200 m A from a 3.3 V supply voltage. The receiver shows 1.5 ~ 24.5 dB of power gain per channel from a 50 Omega load at 12 GHz with bias current control, and an associated NF of 4.2 dB (@ max. gain) to 13.2 dB (@ min. gain). The RMS gain error is < 0.9 dB and the RMS phase error is < 6deg at 6-18 GHz for all 4-bit phase states. The measured group delay is 162.5 plusmn 12.5 ps for all phase states at 6-18 GHz. The RMS phase mismatch and RMS gain mismatch among the eight channels are < 2.7deg and 0.4 dB, respectively, for all 16 phase states, over 6-18 GHz. The 8-element array can operate instantaneously at any center frequency and with a wide bandwidth (3 to 6 GHz, depending on the center frequency) given primarily by the 3 dB gain variation in the 6-18 GHz range. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of an All-RF phased array on a silicon chip with very low RMS phase and gain errors at 6-18 GHz. The chip size is 2.2 times 2.45 mm2 including all pads.
Potential Vorticity in a Moist Atmosphere

The potential vorticity principle for a nonhydrostatic, moist, precipitating atmosphere is derived. An appropriate generalization of the well-known (dry) Ertel potential vorticity is found to be P 5 r21(2 V1 = 3 u )· =ur, where r is the total density, consisting of the sum of the densities of dry air, airborne moisture (vapor and cloud condensate), and precipitation; u is the velocity of the dry air and airborne moisture; and ur 5 Tr is the virtual potential R /c aP a (p /p) 0 temperature, with Tr 5 p/(rRa) the virtual temperature, p the total pressure (the sum of the partial pressures of dry air and water vapor), p0 the constant reference pressure, Ra the gas constant for dry air, and cPa the specific heat at constant pressure for dry air. Since ur is a function of total density and total pressure only, its use as the thermodynamic variable in P leads to the annihilation of the solenoidal term, that is, =ur ·( =r 3 =p) 5 0. In the special case of an absolutely dry atmosphere, P reduces to the usual (dry) Ertel potential vorticity. For balanced flows, there exists an invertibility principle that determines the balanced mass and wind fields from the spatial distribution of P. It is the existence of this invertibility principle that makes P such a fundamentally important dynamical variable. In other words, P (in conjunction with the boundary conditions associated with the invertibility principle) carries all the essential dynamical information about the slowly evolving balanced part of the flow.
Voice and Emotion Processing in the Human Neonatal Brain

Although the voice-sensitive neural system emerges very early in development, it has yet to be demonstrated whether the neonatal brain is sensitive to voice perception. We measured the EEG mismatch response (MMR) elicited by emotionally spoken syllables “dada” along with correspondingly synthesized nonvocal sounds, whose fundamental frequency contours were matched, in 98 full-term newborns aged 1–5 days. In Experiment 1, happy syllables relative to nonvocal sounds elicited an MMR lateralized to the right hemisphere. In Experiment 2, fearful syllables elicited stronger amplitudes than happy or neutral syllables, and this response had no sex differences. In Experiment 3, angry versus happy syllables elicited an MMR, although their corresponding nonvocal sounds did not. Here, we show that affective discrimination is selectively driven by voice processing per se rather than low-level acoustical features and that the cerebral specialization for human voice and emotion processing emerges over the right hemisphere during the first days of life.
Ordinary Political Conversation in Seemingly Nonpolitical Leisure: All Talk and No Action?

Abstract This article focuses on the potential of leisure to encourage political cross-talk among everyday citizens, exposing its discussants to different political perspectives. Though our literature has long championed leisure for its public sphere effects, little research has examined its actual impact. To generate interest in this line of inquiry, I discuss the value of everyday cross-talk for democratic citizenship and consider the role leisure possibly plays in its advancement. Evidence is reported from the few studies outside of our field that focus on casual political talk in seemingly nonpolitical environments and activities. Finally, potential reactions to political talk in leisure contexts and the outcome(s) of such talk are explored. The article ends with questions posed to offer guidance for future research.
Pharmaceutical suspension containing both immediate/sustained-release amoxicillin-loaded gelatin nanoparticles: preparation and in vitro characterization

Pharmaceutical suspension containing oral dosage forms delivering both immediate-release and sustained-release amoxicillin was developed as a new dosage form to eradicate Helicobacter pylori. Amoxicillin-loaded gelatin nanoparticles are able to bind with the mucosal membrane after delivery to the stomach and could escalate the effectiveness of a drug, providing dual release. The objective of this study was to develop amoxicillin nanoparticles using innovative new technology – the Büchi Nano Spray Dryer B-90 – and investigate such features as drug content, particle morphology, yield, in vitro release, flow properties, and stability. The nanoparticles had an average particle size of 571 nm. The drug content and percentage yield was 89.2% ± 0.5% and 93.3% ± 0.6%, respectively. Angle of repose of nanoparticle suspension was 26.3° and bulk density was 0.59 g/cm3. In vitro drug release of formulations was best fitted by first-order and Peppas models with R2 of 0.9841 and 0.9837 respectively; release profile was 15.9%, while; for the original drug, amoxicillin, under the same conditions, 90% was released in the first 30 minutes. The nanoparticles used in this study enabled sustained release of amoxicillin over an extended period of time, up to 12 hours, and were stable for 12 months under accelerated storage conditions of 25°C ± 2°C and 60% ± 5% relative humidity.
A new membrane filtration medium for simultaneous detection and enumeration of Escherichia coli and total coliforms

Recovery of total coliforms and Escherichia coli on a new membrane filtration (MF) medium was evaluated with 25 water samples from seven states. Testing of the new medium, m-ColiBlue24 broth, was conducted according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency protocol. For comparison, this same protocol was used to measure recovery of total coliforms and E. coli with two standard MF media, m-Endo broth and mTEC broth. E. coli recovery on the new medium was also compared to recovery on nutrient agar supplemented with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-glucuronide. Comparison of specificity, sensitivity, false positive error, undetected target error, and overall agreement indicated E. coli recovery on m-ColiBlue24 was superior to recovery on mTEC for all five parameters. Recovery of total coliforms on the new medium was comparable to recovery on m-Endo.
Roughening and pinning of interface cracks in shear delamination of thin films

We investigate the roughening of shear cracks running along the interface between a thin film and a rigid substrate. We demonstrate that short-range correlated fluctuations of the interface strength lead to self-affine roughening of the crack front as the driving force (the applied shear stress/stress intensity factor) increases towards a critical value. We investigate the disorder-induced perturbations of the crack displacement field and crack energy, and use the results to determine the crack pinning force and to assess the shape of the critical crack. The analytical arguments are validated by comparison with simulations of interface cracking.
The effects of optimism, pessimism, social support, and mood on the lagged relationship between daily stress and symptoms.

We investigated the relationship between the daily stress of minor events and subsequent symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). Optimism, pessimism, and social support were considered as possible moderators, and anxious and composed mood as potential mediators, of the stress-URTI relationship. Participants were 125 undergraduate students who completed measures of optimism, pessimism, social support, and negative affectivity and a daily diary of interpersonal hassles and uplifts, URTI symptoms, and anxious and composed mood over a fixed seven-day period. Interpersonal hassles related to later symptoms among people with a small network, but not among those with a large network. Mood did not mediate the relationship between interpersonal hassles and URTI symptoms, although interpersonal hassles and uplifts related to same-day mood. Interpersonal hassles seem to be particularly important for current mood and later somatic outcomes, whilst support network may act as a buffer in this context. [60] --------------[61]
Adaptive TDTL using frequency and phase processing techniques

An adaptive initialization process for the first-order time delay digital tanlock loop (TDTL) is proposed. The process results in improving the system performance by widening its lock range and by having zero steady-state phase error. The proposed adaptive TDTL with zero phase error (ATDTL-ZPE) uses a feedforward initialization technique which results in freeing the loop from the frequency locking process. The loop phase detector is used only for phase locking purposes and hence result in zero steady-state phase error with a considerable improvement in the system locking range.
Energy-Efficient Relay Selection and Power Allocation for Two-Way Relay Channel with Analog Network Coding

In this letter, we consider a two-way relay channel (TWRC) with two end nodes and k relay nodes, where end nodes have the full channel-state information (CSI) and relay nodes only have the channel-amplitude information (CAI). With the objective of minimizing transmit power consumption at required end-to-end rates, energy-efficient relay selection (RS) and power allocation (PA) scheme is studied for TWRC based on analog network coding (ANC). Firstly, we propose an energy-efficient single RS and PA (E-SRS-PA) scheme, where the best relay node is selected to minimize total transmit power. Then, we prove that E-SRS-PA scheme is the optimal energy-efficient RS and PA (OE-RS-PA) scheme in ANC-based TWRC, and thus the optimal number of relay nodes to be selected in energy efficiency sense is equal to one. In addition, the closed-form expressions of optimal power allocation of E-SRS-PA scheme are derived. Numerical simulations confirm the optimality of proposed E-SRS-PA and demonstrate the energy efficiency of ANC-based TWRC compared with the other relaying schemes.
Stimulation of in vitro development of Cattleya granulosa by sucrose.

Summary. Cattleya granulosa, a native orchid of Northeastern Brazil is under great risk of genetic erosion due to its location in areas threatened by massive urbanization as well as collection of plants in their natural habitat for commercialization. Because many papers report contrasting responses depending on sucrose concentration used, in this work we evaluated the effect of sucrose on in vitro development of C. granulosa with the objective to contribute to the development of an efficient seedling production method, thus discouraging the collection of plants and facilitating future reforestation programs. Four sucrose concentrations were tested (0, 15, 30 and 45 g L -1 ) on seedlings obtained from seeds germinated in vitro. Sucrose enhanced strongly plant development, increasing significantly the height of seedlings and the production of new shoots, leaves and roots. In general, the higher the sucrose concentration was, the better the plant development was. Plant development was not limited by sucrose or other nutrients in the culture medium until 180 days of in vitro culture. Our results are important for reduction of cost of production of seedlings of this species.
Intravitreal injection of corticosteroid attenuates leukostasis and vascular leakage in experimental diabetic retina.

PURPOSE Recently, intravitreal injection of corticosteroids has been in wide use as a treatment for diabetic macular edema, and the outcomes have been favorable. However, the exact mechanism remains unclear. The hypothesis for the current study was that intravitreal corticosteroids may improve diabetic retinal edema by amelioration of blood-retinal barrier (BRB) breakdown, by inhibiting leukocyte stasis (leukostasis). METHODS Diabetes was induced in 6-week-old male Long-Evans rats by intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (75 mg/kg). Three weeks after induction of diabetes, intravitreal injection of dexamethasone (40 microg/10 microL) was performed. At 2 days after intravitreal injection, accumulated leukocytes were counted in vivo by acridine orange leukocyte fluorography, and BRB breakdown was evaluated by measurement of retinal vascular permeability. The mRNA expression and protein levels of intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 in the retina were also studied. RESULTS The number of leukocytes accumulated in the retina, once increased in the diabetic group, was decreased by 31.6% (P = 0.0001) after dexamethasone injection. The level of BRB breakdown, also elevated in the diabetic group, was suppressed by 61.1% (P = 0.0046) after dexamethasone injection. The level of ICAM-1 mRNA expression and its protein, upregulated in the diabetic group, were downregulated by dexamethasone treatment by 70.0% (P < 0.0001) and 56.4% (P = 0.0003). CONCLUSIONS Intravitreal injection of corticosteroids improves diabetic retinal edema through inhibiting leukocyte recruitment in the diabetic retina.