Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A ROLE FOR THE CONTAGION OF EMOTION? A COMMENT ON SEGRIN (2004)

Abstract The question of whether emotional contagion does or does not occur could have significant implications for the treatment and prevention of depression. Wediscuss Segrin's 2004 study—published in JSCP—on relational concordance for negative emotion and suggest ways to integrate Segrin's findings with previous literature that is supportive of the phenomenon of contagious depression. We suggest that emotional contagion may be most likely to occur (1) when one relational partner is depressed and another engages in excessive reassurance seeking, (2) when relational partners are especially close, and (3) when the object of transmission is depressive symptoms versus negative mood. We suggest that future research is needed to specify with greater precision when the emotional contagion versus assortative relating hypothesis is most likely to apply.
Beneath the veil of thought suppression: Attentional bias and depression risk

Although cognitive theory predicts that depression-prone individuals possess negative information-processing biases, the reliable detection of this type of cognitive vulnerability has proved difficult. The present study tested the idea that depression-relevant, cognitive biases are often elusive because at-risk individuals actively try to suppress depressive thinking. The study employed a novel measure of information processing that involves the identification of words imbedded in a letter grid. A cognitive load - designed to disrupt thought suppression - caused a negative attentional shift among individuals at risk for depression (because of a previous episode), leading them to identify negative words at a rate equivalent to currently dysphoric participants. The hypothesised role of mental control was further supported by the fact that the load-related, attentional shift was strongly associated with chronic thought suppression.
TSV Redundancy: Architecture and Design Issues in 3-D IC

3-D technology provides many benefits including high density, high bandwidth, low-power, and small form-factor. Through Silicon Via (TSV), which provides communication links for dies in vertical direction, is a critical design issue in 3-D integration. Just like other components, the fabrication and bonding of TSVs can fail. A failed TSV can severely increase the cost and decrease the yield as the number of dies to be stacked increases. A redundant TSV architecture with reasonable cost is proposed in this paper. Based on probabilistic models, some interesting findings are reported. First, the number of failed TSVs in a tier is usually less than 2 when the number of TSVs in a tier is less than 1000 and less than 5 when the number of TSVs in a tier is less than 10000. Assuming that there are at most 2-5 failed TSVs in a tier. With one redundant TSV allocated to one TSV block, our proposed structure leads to 90% and 95% recovery rates for TSV blocks of size 50 and 25, respectively. Finally, analysis on overall yield shows that the proposed design can successfully recover most of the failed chips and increase the yield of TSV to 99.4%.
Curricular Alignment: A Re-Examination

HERE IS A STORY that needs to be told. It is a story about children and also about curricula-curricula transforming national visions and aims into intentions that shape children's opportunities for learning through schooling. (Schmidt & McKnight, 1995, p. 346) We must "[change] the question from 'What students know and can do' to 'What students know and can do as a result of their educational experiences. "' (Burstein & Winters, 1994)
Relationship between Test Anxiety and Parenting Style.

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between test anxiety and parenting style. Method: Democratic attitude of parents, acceptance of parents by the child, parental attitude regarding academics, parental expectations and gender stereotyped perceptions of parents regarding academics were evaluated in the domain of parenting style in a convenience sample of 207 students and 200 mothers. Results: A statistically significant negative correlation was observed between test anxiety and democratic attitude of parents and acceptance of parents by the child. Conclusion: Inculcating a democratic style of parenting and greater acceptance of parents among children may prevent or ameliorate test anxiety.
Chapter VI: Physical Growth and Physiological Aspects of Development

RESEARCH workers representing practically all of the fields of the sciences appear to have been studying the problems of human physical growth and physiological development during the period covered by this volume. They have employed methods ranging from the use of radioactive isotopes to questionnaires and ranging from controlled experimentation of excellent design to anecdotal records. The common goal is greater understanding of the factors influencing growth and development with the ultimate objective of better prediction and control. This concerted and diversified attack upon the problems involved is producing a vast literature. In the field of the metabolic functions of the endocrine glands alone approximately 600 pertinent articles were published from July 1948 to June 1949 (158). Obviously a review such as this cannot do more than present a few representative developments which may be of interest to educators. The physical and psychological growth of children thru the school years was treated effectively in a representative general text prepared by Breckenridge and Vincent (20) . In this carefully integrated analysis of human development several chapters were devoted to physiological and neuropsychological functioning and the environmental impact upon the biogenetic endowment. It also included a very complete and excellent bibliography. Elsewhere splendid reviews of the literature dealing with specialized problems of growth (22, 133, 174) and physiological development (107, 142, 158, 162) have been made available, and several general theoretical considerations of some of the basic problems involved have been published (27, 45, 113,120, 163, 165, 166, 170).
Teaching Social Justice Research to Undergraduate Students in Puerto Rico: Using Personal Experiences to Inform Research

This article explores the process of teaching undergraduate students to conduct social justice research. We were interested in understanding how to develop a social justice perspective among students while training them in conventional research methods. The following questions guided our research activities. How can the principles of social justice inform undergraduate research projects? What pedagogical strategies prepare students to conduct social justice-based research? What are the challenges and opportunities in teaching social justice research? We documented the lessons and activities during the field school and collected students’ comments in journals, extensive observations, focus groups, and interviews to understand the influence of social justice on the students’ approach to research. We identify three lessons in teaching social justice. First, teaching social justice requires that students develop meaningful relationships with the community understudy. Second, gender dynamics can prohibit or promote meaningful student engagement and learning. Third, it is important to consider how to integrate, rather than “add on,” social justice activities and discussions into research lessons.
On Being Better but not Smarter than Others: The Muhammad Ali Effect

Past research suggests that people believe that they perform socially desirable behaviors more frequently and socially undesirable behaviors less frequently than others (Goethals, 1986; Messick, Bloom, Boldizar, & Samuelson, 1985). The present research examined whether this perception also characterizes people's thinking about intelligent and unintelligent behaviors. In Study 1, subjects wrote lists of behaviors that they or others did. Subjects indicated that they performed more good and intelligent behaviors and fewer bad and unintelligent behaviors than others, although the magnitude of these differences was greater for good and bad acts than for intelligent and unintelligent ones. In Study 2, a different group of subjects judged the frequency with which the behaviors generated in the first study occur. While self-ascribed good behaviors were rated as occurring more frequently than the good acts of others, self-ascribed intelligent behaviors were not judged as more frequent than the intelligent acts of.
Data accumulation and software effort prediction

BACKGROUND: In reality project managers are constrained by the incremental nature of data collection. Specifically, project observations are accumulated one project at a time. Likewise within-project data are accumulated one stage or phase at a time. However, empirical researchers have given limited attention to this perspective. PROBLEM: Consequently, our analyses may be biased. On the one hand, our predictions may be optimistic due to the availability of the entire data set, but on the other hand pessimistic due to the failure to capitalize upon the temporal nature of the data. Our goals are (i) to explore the impact of ignoring time when building cost prediction models and (ii) to show the benefits of re-estimating using completed phase data during a project. METHOD: Using a small industrial data set of sixteen software projects from a single organization we compare predictive models developed using a time-aware approach with a more traditional leave-one-out analysis. We then investigate the impact of using requirements, design and implementation phase data on estimating subsequent phase effort. RESULTS: First, we find that failure to take the temporal nature of data into account leads to unreliable estimates of their predictive efficacy. Second, for this organization, prior-phase effort data could be used to improve the management of subsequent process tasks. CONCLUSION: We should collect time-related data and use it in our analyses. Failure to do so may lead to incorrect conclusions being drawn, and may also inhibit industrial take up of our research work.
Spatio-temporal pyramid cuboid matching for action recognition using depth maps

This paper presents a novel framework, spatio-temporal pyramid cuboid matching (STPCM), which is designed to recognize human actions from sequences captured by depth cameras. A depth sequence is partitioned into sub-volumes and represented using pyramid motion history templates (PMHT), which maintain the multi-scale 3D motion and shape information along the temporal direction. In order to capture the spatial information of PMHT, each projected plane from PMHT is subdivided into pyramid spatio-temporal grids. We then propose a novel cuboid fusion scheme to combine spatial dependent grids from projected planes to construct pyramid cuboids that consider the 3D spatial locations in conjunction with temporal information. In the experiments, we evaluate the proposed framework on three public benchmark datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance.
NRC Machine Translation System for WMT 2017

We describe the machine translation systems developed at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) for the Russian-English and Chinese-English news translation tasks of the Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2017). We conducted several experiments to explore the best baseline settings for neural machine translation (NMT). In the Russian-English task, to our surprise, our best-performing system is one that rescores phrase-based statistical machine translation outputs using NMT rescoring features. On the other hand, in the Chinese-English task, which has far more parallel training data, NMT is able to outperform SMT signiﬁcantly. The NRC MT systems is the best constrained system in Russian-English (out of nine participants) and the fourth best constrained system in Chinese-English (out of twenty participants) in WMT 2017 human evaluation.
Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies: The Special Case of Women in the United States

This study assesses whether civic association activity has declined in four Western democracies: Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Influential accounts of decreasing civic engagement in the United States lead to the expectation of similar patterns in the other three nations. The authors test this hypothesis using data from time-use surveys of adult national samples for the mid-1960s to the late 1990s. One major finding is a clear decline in association activity in the United States, especially after 1975, but relative stability in the other three countries. Equally important are further results indicating that the American decline pertains only to women. Findings are sustained even after controlling for social background characteristics and four other activities (television watching, paid work, childcare, and physical activity). The analysis casts doubt on the theory that declining civic association activity in the United States reflects generational differences. Possible explanations for the reduced activity among American women, including lower levels of state support, are considered.
Proposing a Capability Perspective on Digital Business Models

Business models comprehensively describe the functioning of businesses in contemporary economic, technological, and societal environments. This paper focuses on the characteristics of digital business models from the perspective of capability research and develops a capability model for digital businesses. Following the design science research (DSR) methodology, multiple evaluation and design iterations were performed. Contributions to the design process came from IS/IT practice and the research base on business models and capabilities.
The First Oral Rotavirus Vaccine, 1998–1999: Estimates of Uptake from the National Immunization Survey

Objective. On August 31, 1998, the rhesus-human reassortant rotavirus vaccine (RRV-TV) was licensed for use in the U.S. During the next nine months, 15 cases of intussusception were reported among infants who received the vaccine. Case-control and cohort studies showed a significantly increased risk of developing intussusception within one week of receiving the vaccine; subsequent ecologic studies did not. In this study, the authors used data on RRV-TV vaccination rates from the National Immunization Survey (NIS) to estimate state and national RRV-TV uptake rates and factors associated with receiving RRV-TV. These estimates are a key component in evaluating published ecologic studies designed to investigate the relationship between receipt of the vaccine and intussusception. Methods. The authors analyzed NIS data for children ages 19 to 35 months who were eligible to receive RRV-TV between September 1998 and July 1999. The authors estimated vaccine coverage and the number of doses administered by state, NIS sampling quarter, and birth cohort, and analyzed demographic and socioeconomic variables to evaluate their relationship with receiving RRV-TV. Results. It was estimated that approximately 1 million doses of RRV-TV were administered to 504,585 (±61,854) children, 13.4% (±1.6%) of children who were eligible. The estimated number of doses administered and the vaccination coverage rate varied greatly from state to state. Children living in households with higher socioeconomic conditions were more likely to receive the vaccine. Conclusion. Ecologic studies had a limited ability to detect a significant increase in the population incidence rate of intussusception that could be attributed to RRV-TV because populations in these studies consisted primarily of children who did not receive the vaccine. The example from RRV-TV demonstrates some of the challenges of assessing the magnitude of the association between a vaccine and an uncommon or rare adverse event.
The LTTng tracer: A low impact performance and behavior monitor for GNU/Linux

Efﬁcient tracing of system-wide execution, allowing integrated analysis of both kernel space and user space, is something difﬁcult to achieve. The following article will present you a new tracer core, Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation (LTTng), that has taken over the previous version known as LTT . It has the same goals of low system disturbance and architecture independance while being fully reentrant, scalable, precise, extensible, modular and easy to use. For instance, LTTng allows tracepoints in NMI code, multiple simultaneous traces and a ﬂight recorder mode. LTTng reuses and enhances the existing LTT instrumentation and RelayFS. This paper will focus on the approaches taken by LTTng to fulﬁll these goals. It will present the modular architecture of the project. It will then explain how NMI reentrancy requires atomic operations for writing and RCU lists for tracing behavior control. It will show how these techniques are inherently scalable to multiprocessor systems. Then, time precision limitations in the kernel will be discussed, followed by an explanation of LTTng’s own monotonic timestamps motives. In addition, the template based code generator for architecture agnostic trace format will be presented. The approach taken to allow nested types, variable ﬁelds and dynamic alignment of data in the trace buffers will be revealed. It will show the mechanisms deployed to facilitate use and extension of this tool by adding custom instrumentation and analysis involving kernel, libraries and user space programs. It will also introduce LTTng’s trace analyzer and graphical viewer counterpart: Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer (LTTV). The latter implements extensible analysis of the trace information through collaborating text and graphical plugins.
BIST for network-on-chip interconnect infrastructures

In this paper, we present a novel built-in self-test methodology for testing the inter-switch links of network-on-chip (NoC) based chips. This methodology uses a high-level fault model that accounts for crosstalk effects due to inter-wire coupling. The novelty of our approach lies in the progressive reuse of the NoC infrastructure to transport test data to its own components under test in a bootstrap manner, and in extensively exploiting the inherent parallelism of the data transport mechanism to reduce the test time and implicitly the test cost
A 50-Gb/s IP router

Aggressive research on gigabit-per-second networks has led to dramatic improvements in network transmission speeds. One result of these improvements has been to put pressure on router technology to keep pace. This paper describes a router, nearly completed, which is more than fast enough to keep up with the latest transmission technologies. The router has a backplane speed of 50 Gb/s and can forward tens of millions of packets per second.
Serum calcium, magnesium and uric acid in preeclampsia and normal pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE To compare serum calcium, magnesium and uric acid in mild, severe preeclamptic women and normal pregnant women. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taksin Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHOD The data was collected from 36 normal pregnant women, 35 mild preeclamptic women and 33 severe preeclamptic women who were admitted in the Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Taksin Hospital between April 2006 and June 2007. The blood samples were collected and analyzed for calcium, magnesium and uric acid The data was analyzed using Analysis of Variances (ANOVA). RESULTS The serum calcium in severe preeclamptic women was significantly lower (8.7 +/- 0.59 mg/dl vs. 8.99 +/- 0.31 mg/dl, p = 0.045; and 9.05 +/- 0.52 mg/dl, p = 0 014) and serum uric acid was significantly higher (7.01 +/- 1.93 mg/dl vs. 5.33 +/- 1.23 mg/dl, p < 0.001 and 5.95 +/- 1.9 mg/dl, p = 0.044) than in normal pregnant women and mild preeclamptic women respectively, but there was no difference between normal and mild preeclamptic women. There was no difference in serum magnesium among normal pregnancy and both groups of preeclampsia. CONCLUSION Hypocalcemia and hyperuricemia correlated to severe preeclampsia.
Immunological parameters associated with the development of allergic rhinitis: A preliminary prospective study

Background Many subjects are sensitized to Japanese cedar pollen but do not develop allergic rhinitis (AR). The aim of this study was to examine the immunologic parameters related to the development of AR in sensitized subjects. Methods The subjects were 33 adults who were sensitized to Japanese cedar pollen, but had not developed as of 2007. Cedar pollen–specific IgE (sIgE) and total IgE (tIgE) in serum, cedar pollen antigen (Cry j 1) Cry j–specific memory Th2 cell clone size, and the Cry j–specific induced regulatory T cell (iTreg) level were examined before and after the season in 2008. Results Eight of the 33 subjects developed cedar pollinosis. The sIgE titers before the season in these eight subjects did not differ from those in the subjects who did not develop pollinosis, but the titers after the season were significantly higher in the group that developed pollinosis. The sIgE/tIgE ratio increased in almost all subjects, but the ratio was significantly higher before the season in the subjects who developed pollinosis. Cry j–specific Th2 cells were detected in all subjects, but the clone size only increased in those that developed pollinosis. The Cry j–specific iTreg population did not differ between the two groups. Conclusion A high sIgE/tIgE ratio before the season may be predictive of development of pollinosis, and an increase in the allergen-specific Th2 clone size during the pollen season could be a biomarker for pollinosis. The role of allergen-specific iTreg cells in the development of pollinosis could not be clarified in this preliminary study.
Layout Synthesis and Loop Parameter Optimization of a Low-Jitter All-Digital Pixel Clock Generator

This paper presents a dual-loop ADPLL suitable for video pixel clock generation. The dual-loop architecture where a fast subloop works as a DCO inside a main loop is chosen since it can efficiently suppress the ring oscillator phase noise. In order to satisfy a wide tuning range and fine resolution requirements in the pixel clock PLL, the TDC and DCO with two-step and bottom-up control are employed. An s-domain model is utilized to tune the loop parameters so that the dual-loop PLL has the optimum jitter performance. The measurement results match well with the proposed s-domain model and clearly show the effectiveness of the dual loop in suppressing the phase noise of the DCO. We propose a new cell-based layout technique to avoid performance degradation during automatic placement and routing, which is compatible with the conventional digital design environment. A chip that occupies 0.032 mm2 has been fabricated in the 28-nm CMOS technology. The synthesized DCO shows 1.7-LSB DNL which is close to a full-custom layout. The rms integrated jitter is only 15 ps at 250 MHz, even though PLL operates at the extremely low input frequency of 100 kHz. Power consumption is 3.1 mW at 250 MHz with a 1.0-V supply.