Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Optically Faint Counterparts to the Infrared Space Observatory FIRBACK 170 Micron Population: Discovery of Cold, Luminous Galaxies at High Redshift

We present Keck spectroscopy and UKIRT near-IR imaging observations of two 170 μm-selected sources from the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) FIRBACK survey that have faint counterparts in the optical and r-K ~ 5. Both sources were expected to lie at z > 1, based on their far-infrared, submillimeter, and radio fluxes, assuming a spectral energy distribution similar to that of the local ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Arp 220. However, our spectroscopy indicates that the redshifts of these galaxies are less than 1: z = 0.91 for FIRBACK FN1-64, and z = 0.45 for FIRBACK FN1-40. While the bolometric luminosities of both galaxies are similar to that of Arp 220, it appears that the dust emission in these systems has a characteristic temperature of ~30 K, much cooler than the ~50 K seen in Arp 220. Neither optical spectrum shows evidence of active galactic nucleus activity. If these galaxies are characteristic of the optically faint FIRBACK population, then evolutionary models of the far-infrared background must include a substantial population of cold, luminous galaxies. These galaxies provide an important intermediate comparison between the local luminous IR galaxies and the high-redshift, submillimeter-selected galaxies, for which there is very little information available.
Semantic Wrappers Using Web Agents to Extract Knowledge from the Web

The Web is presented as the biggest existing information repository. The extraction of information from that enormous repository has attracted the interest of many researches, who have made algorithms (wrappers) able to extract structured syntactic information in an automatic way. The results that we present in this paper are novel because we extend the present possibilities of wrappers so that they can extract knowledge from the Web. This task is carried out by means of semantic translators; which use induction in order to automatically adding meaning to the information extracted by the wrapper. Using our proposal, that we have named semantic wrappers, helps getting semantic interoperability between agents and let us define new mechanisms based on semantics checking to verify the validity of the extracted information.
Nucleoprotein Nanostructures Combined with Adjuvants Adapted to the Neonatal Immune Context: A Candidate Mucosal RSV Vaccine

Background The human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) is the leading cause of severe bronchiolitis in infants worldwide. The most severe RSV diseases occur between 2 and 6 months-of-age, so pediatric vaccination will have to be started within the first weeks after birth, when the immune system is prone to Th2 responses that may turn deleterious upon exposure to the virus. So far, the high risk to prime for immunopathological responses in infants has hampered the development of vaccine. In the present study we investigated the safety and efficacy of ring-nanostructures formed by the recombinant nucleoprotein N of hRSV (NSRS) as a mucosal vaccine candidate against RSV in BALB/c neonates, which are highly sensitive to immunopathological Th2 imprinting. Methodology and Principal Findings A single intranasal administration of NSRS with detoxified E.coli enterotoxin LT(R192G) to 5–7 day old neonates provided a significant reduction of the viral load after an RSV challenge at five weeks of age. However, neonatal vaccination also generated an enhanced lung infiltration by neutrophils and eosinophils following the RSV challenge. Analysis of antibody subclasses and cytokines produced after an RSV challenge or a boost administration of the vaccine suggested that neonatal vaccination induced a Th2 biased local immune memory. This Th2 bias and the eosinophilic reaction could be prevented by adding CpG to the vaccine formulation, which, however did not prevent pulmonary inflammation and neutrophil infiltration upon viral challenge. Conclusions/Significance In conclusion, protective vaccination against RSV can be achieved in neonates but requires an appropriate combination of adjuvants to prevent harmful Th2 imprinting.
Adolescence, sexuality and sexual education

Adolescence is the evolutionary process of human development which commences biologically with changes at the physiology of the pubis and completes psychologically with the ultimate organization of sexuality. The increase of sexual urge in combination with the unfamiliar and mysterious emotions and thoughts may possibly be characterized as the most intense occurrence during the adolescents’ development. All adolescents want to know more about issues such as copulation, onanism, conception, pregnancy, birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. Also, they wish to know how to place sex within their own frame of values so that they can be able to establish satisfactory and constructive relationships. Most young people however, have very little information and help on these issues. Proper information on issues related to sexual behavior could and should be carried out by health professionals. The health professionals can take responsibility in the issues of sexual education of the adolescents in order to discourage problems such as undesired pregnancies, sexual diseases and sexual abuse. The same time, the promotion of adolescent’ sexual health may also be achieved with better personnel training, better information and better organization of the health education services.
Driving a Semiautonomous Mobile Robotic Car Controlled by an SSVEP-Based BCI

Brain-computer interfaces represent a range of acknowledged technologies that translate brain activity into computer commands. The aim of our research is to develop and evaluate a BCI control application for certain assistive technologies that can be used for remote telepresence or remote driving. The communication channel to the target device is based on the steady-state visual evoked potentials. In order to test the control application, a mobile robotic car (MRC) was introduced and a four-class BCI graphical user interface (with live video feedback and stimulation boxes on the same screen) for piloting the MRC was designed. For the purpose of evaluating a potential real-life scenario for such assistive technology, we present a study where 61 subjects steered the MRC through a predetermined route. All 61 subjects were able to control the MRC and finish the experiment (mean time 207.08 s, SD 50.25) with a mean (SD) accuracy and ITR of 93.03% (5.73) and 14.07 bits/min (4.44), respectively. The results show that our proposed SSVEP-based BCI control application is suitable for mobile robots with a shared-control approach. We also did not observe any negative influence of the simultaneous live video feedback and SSVEP stimulation on the performance of the BCI system.
Modelling binary stars: age, helium abundance and convection parameters

Stellar evolutionary models simulate binary stars well, when the individual stellar mass and the system metallicity are known. Our main goal in this paper is to determine a set of stellar parameters (mass, age, helium abundance and convection parameters) for binary systems formed by FGK main-sequence stars of Population I. For a selected group of seven binaries, where luminosity, effective temperature, gravity and metallicity are experimentally observed, we estimate the above-mentioned set of stellar parameters (and provide estimation errors) by fitting simulated quantities to those observed. For each system, we estimate all such parameters and their respective estimation errors, including individual masses (despite the fact that these are known for these stars with an accuracy of 3 per cent). The observational mass is recovered by the models with an absolute error of 0.02 M⊙ (on average). Half of the stars considered have a mixing-length parameter not compatible to the solar value, possibly because of the mild observed rotation of these stars. However, the error bars show that all these systems can be modelled using a solar helium-to-metal chemical enrichment parameter. Except for NGC 188 KR V12, our results fit into what has been obtained or predicted in previous works. Finally, we find a tendency for a decrease of the mixing-length parameter and an increase of the overshooting with an increase of the mass. The analysis of these seven binaries and the corresponding 14 stars shows that stellar solar models are not able to reproduce the observations in most of the cases, mainly because of the subsolar mixing-length parameter. We suspect that the non-solar values obtained might be a result of the absence of rotation in the models.
What Type Relationship Do We Have with Our Brands? Is The Name of This Relationship Brand Romance?

Consumers’ loyalty to a brand depends on their establishing an emotional relationship with it. This relationship may be called as brand romance. Many factors influence the emergence of brand romance (ROM), including brand novelty (BN), brand satisfaction (BS), and subjective brand knowledge (SBK). The present study evaluates brand romance dimensions such as pleasure, arousal and dominance in terms of these antecedents and outcomes as attitudinal and behavioral brand loyalty. The study was carried out with 295 consumers in Istanbul/Turkey via face-to-face questionnaires. In this study, BS, SBK, and BN have a positive influence on arousal and pleasure dimensions of brand romance whereas the effect of SBK is not statistically significant on dominance dimension of brand romance. Also arousal and dominance dimensions of brand romance are positively effective on behavioral and attitudinal loyalty whereas pleasure dimension is not statistically significant on behavioral loyalty
Evaluation of a Haptic Mixed Reality System for Interactions with a Virtual Control Panel

We present a haptic feedback technique that combines feedback from a portable force-feedback glove with feedback from direct contact with rigid passive objects. This approach is a haptic analogue of visual mixed reality, since it can be used to haptically combine real and virtual elements in a single display. We discuss device limitations that motivated this combined approach and summarize technological challenges encountered. We present three experiments to evaluate the approach for interactions with buttons and sliders on a virtual control panel. In our first experiment, this approach resulted in better task performance and better subjective ratings than the use of only a force-feedback glove. In our second experiment, visual feedback was degraded and the combined approach resulted in better performance than the glove-only approach and in better ratings of slider interactions than both glove-only and passive-only approaches. A third experiment allowed subjective comparison of approaches and provided additional evidence that the combined approach provides the best experience.
The Benefit of Additional Opinions

In daily decision making, people often solicit one another's opinions in the hope of improving their own judgment. According to both theory and empirical results, integrating even a few opinions is beneficial, with the accuracy gains diminishing as the bias of the judges or the correlation between their opinions increases. Decision makers using intuitive policies for integrating others' opinions rely on a variety of accuracy cues in weighting the opinions they receive. They tend to discount dissenters and to give greater weight to their own opinion than to other people's opinions.
Food Insecurity and Body Mass Index: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study, Chelsea, Massachusetts, 2009–2013

Introduction Cross-sectional studies show an association between food insecurity and higher body mass index (BMI), but this finding has not been evaluated longitudinally. Patient perspectives on food choice in resource-constrained environments are not well understood. The objective of this study was to evaluate the longitudinal association between food insecurity and BMI. Methods This mixed methods study used both a retrospective matched cohort and focus groups. For the quantitative analysis, all patients in a community health center who reported food insecurity from October 2009 through March 2010 (n = 457) were followed through August 2013 and compared with controls matched by age, sex, and race/ethnicity (n = 1,974). We evaluated the association between food insecurity and change in BMI by using linear, mixed effects longitudinal models. The qualitative analysis included patients with food insecurity, stratified by BMI. Qualitative data were analyzed by using open coding and grounded theory. Results The mean age of participants was 51 years; 61% were women, and 73% were Hispanic. Baseline BMI was similar in food insecure participants and matched controls. After adjustment in longitudinal analyses, food insecurity was associated with greater increase in BMI (0.15 kg/m2 per year more than controls, P < .001). Themes identified in 4 focus groups included attitudes and knowledge about food, food access, and food practices. Participants with BMI of 30 kg/m2 or less highlighted skills such as budgeting and portion control. Conclusion Food insecurity is associated with increase in BMI. The skills of food insecure participants who were not obese, such as portion control and budgeting, may be useful in weight management interventions for vulnerable patients.
Exploiting emoticons in sentiment analysis

As people increasingly use emoticons in text in order to express, stress, or disambiguate their sentiment, it is crucial for automated sentiment analysis tools to correctly account for such graphical cues for sentiment. We analyze how emoticons typically convey sentiment and demonstrate how we can exploit this by using a novel, manually created emoticon sentiment lexicon in order to improve a state-of-the-art lexicon-based sentiment classification method. We evaluate our approach on 2,080 Dutch tweets and forum messages, which all contain emoticons and have been manually annotated for sentiment. On this corpus, paragraph-level accounting for sentiment implied by emoticons significantly improves sentiment classification accuracy. This indicates that whenever emoticons are used, their associated sentiment dominates the sentiment conveyed by textual cues and forms a good proxy for intended sentiment.
Randomized Trial of Intensive Early Intervention for Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorder

Abstract Young children with pervasive developmental disorder were randomly assigned to intensive treatment or parent training. The intensive treatment group (7 with autism, 8 with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified—NOS) averaged 24.52 hours per week of individual treatment for one year, gradually reducing hours over the next 1 to 2 years. The parent training group (7 with autism, 6 with pervasive developmental disorder NOS) received 3 to 9 months of parent training. The groups appeared similar at intake on all measures; however, at follow-up the intensive treatment group outperformed the parent training group on measures of intelligence, visual-spatial skills, language, and academics, though not adaptive functioning or behavior problems. Children with pervasive developmental disorder NOS may have gained more than those with autism.
Tie strength, green expertise, and interpersonal influences on the purchase of organic food in an emerging market

Purpose Set in an emerging economy context, the purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of green consumers’ purchase behavior on organic food by analyzing the impact of word-of-mouth (WOM) effects (i.e. tie strength, sender’s green expertise, receiver’s green expertise), conformity behaviors (i.e. normative interpersonal influence and informational interpersonal influence) on green purchase intention, and the relationship between green purchase intention and green purchase behavior. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected by self-administered questionnaire completed by respondents who had purchase experience of organic food in the last six months. The specific context of this study is green consumption for organic food in Taiwan. Data collection was implemented in a convenience sampling method. Among the 578 consumers who had filled the questionnaire, 147 did not have any purchase history of organic food, resulting in a final usable sample of 431 (response rate 74.57 percent) in Taiwan. The data were collected during a five-week period in late 2015. Findings Through structural equation modeling analysis, data were analyzed and the empirical results indicate that tie strength, sender’s green expertise, and receiver’s green expertise have a positive influence on green consumer’s susceptibility to informational interpersonal influences and normative interpersonal influences, separately. In addition, informational interpersonal influences and normative interpersonal influences both have a positive relationship on green purchase intention, which will further positively influence the green purchase behavior. Originality/value This study reminds marketers of the impact of WOM effects as well as interpersonal influences on consumers. It examines the impact of tie strength, senders’ green expertise, and receivers’ green expertise on green purchase intention and green purchase behavior. This study also explores the mediation effects of green consumers’ susceptibility to interpersonal influences. Consumers’ susceptibility to interpersonal influence is discussed in the marketing literature. However, few prior studies have explored its effect in the green setting. Last, few attempts have discussed the relationship between green purchase intention and green purchase behavior. This study contributes to the literature by examine the relationship between green purchase intentions and green purchase behavior.
At the crossroads of education and developmental neuroscience: Perspectives on executive function

state levels have undertaken major initiatives based on new findings in the field of “brain science and early learning,” with the promise that advances in cognitive neuroscience have the potential to improve children’s chances of academic success. What, exactly, are these new advances, and how do they relate to children’s acquisition of key academic skills such as reading and math? In the following article, we briefly outline an important area of developmental scientific inquiry focusing on children’s higher-order cognitive skills, called “executive function” or EF, for short. We highlight the ways that these cognitive skills play a key role in young children’s day-to-day experiences in classroom contexts, facilitating both their social and academic opportunities. We then briefly provide a thumbnail sketch of EF across developmental epochs, illustrating the role of EF as children transition from early childhood through elementary to middle school contexts. Finally, we briefly discuss ways that EF can be supported through homeand classroom-based interventions and programs, with significant implications for children’s opportunities for learning across multiple educational settings. In so doing, we aim to provide educators, health-care providers, and parents with a simplified roadmap of this new area of scientific inquiry, alerting readers to new opportunities afforded by innovative programs and policies supporting children’s development of EF.
Submillimetre observations of the Hubble Deep Field and Flanking Fields

We present an extended analysis of the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) observations of the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), expanding the areal coverage of the Hughes et al. study by a factor of ~1.8 and containing at least three further sources in addition to the five in that study. We also announce the public release of the reduced data products. The map is the deepest ever made in the submillimetre (submm), obtained in excellent conditions (median 850-mum optical depth of 0.16). Two independent reductions were made, one with SURF and the other with a wholly algorithmic IDL analysis which we present in detail here. Of the three new sources, all appear to be at z>~ 0.9 and one is provisionally associated with an extremely red object (I-K > 5). There appears to be no significant cross-correlation signal between the 850-mum fluctuations and sources detected by ISOCAM, the Very Large Array (VLA) or Chandra, nor with very red objects (I-K > 4), nor quasars and quasar candidates in the HDF (notwithstanding a small number of individual weak candidate detections). This is consistent with interpretations where the 850-mum selected galaxies are at higher redshifts than those currently probed by ISOCAM/VLA, and predominantly not Compton-thin active galactic nuclei (AGN). There are only one or two compelling cases for the radio source being the submm source. Nevertheless, most SCUBA-HDF point sources have a nearby radio source apparently well-separated from the submm centroid.
Words in the mirror

This paper proposes a theoretical, methodological and descriptive framework for combining a gestural-mimetic theory of the sign with the principle of arbitrariness. First, it draws attention to the history of the question, discusses its theoretical core and presents a method to analyse the relationship between the differential system of phono-articulatory signifiers and the differential system of logical-semantic signifieds. In section 2, this method is tested on the Italian grammatical monosyllables, focusing on a complete description of the words formed from one phoneme (‘monophonemes’), of the words distinguishing grammatical persons and of the adverbial pairs. The main result is that phono-articulatory oppositions (such as [open : closed] and [front : back]) can be systematically described as images of logical-semantic oppositions (such as {complex : simple} and {positive : negative}, respectively). In section 3, a number of conclusions are drawn, particularly about the difference between linguistic ‘values’ and psychological ‘concepts’.
Metaplasticity of the late‐phase of long‐term potentiation: a critical role for protein kinase A in synaptic tagging

The late‐phase of long‐term potentiation (L‐LTP) in hippocampal area CA1 requires gene expression and de novo protein synthesis but it is expressed in an input‐specific manner. The ‘synaptic tag’ theory proposes that gene products can only be captured and utilized at synapses that have been ‘tagged’ by previous activity. The mechanisms underlying synaptic tagging, and its activity dependence, are largely undefined. Previously, we reported that low‐frequency stimulation (LFS) decreases the stability of L‐LTP in a cell‐wide manner by impairing synaptic tagging. We show here that a phosphatase inhibitor, okadaic acid, blocked homosynaptic and heterosynaptic inhibition of L‐LTP by prior LFS. In addition, prior LFS homosynaptically and heterosynaptically impaired chemically induced synaptic facilitation elicited by forskolin/3‐isobutyl‐1‐methylxanthine, suggesting that there is a cell‐wide dampening of cAMP/protein kinase A (PKA) signaling concurrent with phosphatase activation. We propose that prior LFS impairs expression of L‐LTP by inhibiting synaptic tagging through its actions on the cAMP/PKA pathway. In support of this notion, we show that hippocampal slices from transgenic mice that have genetically reduced hippocampal PKA activity display impaired synaptic capture of L‐LTP. An inhibitor of PKA, KT‐5720, also blocked synaptic capture of L‐LTP. Moreover, pharmacological activation of the cAMP/PKA pathway can produce a synaptic tag to capture L‐LTP expression, resulting in persistent synaptic facilitation. Collectively, our results show that PKA is critical for synaptic tagging and for input‐specific L‐LTP. PKA‐mediated signaling can be constrained by prior episodes of synaptic activity to regulate subsequent L‐LTP expression and perhaps control the integration of multiple synaptic events over time.