Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An analysis of obituaries in staff magazines

ABSTRACT In the literature, extensive attention is given to the content, structure, and style of obituaries in newspapers. Analyses of the demise of colleagues in internal business communications are however nonexistent. This article discusses a bottom-up analysis of 150 obituaries published in Flemish staff magazines—obituaries that mostly focus on the deceased’s career and professional qualities. Following analysis, the data were divided in obituaries that are continuous texts and obituaries with a letter format. The differences between the two types lie at different levels: format, content, structure, and language use. Obituaries with a letter format are characterized and determined by three paradoxes: the sender–receiver paradox, life–death paradox, and happiness–sadness paradox.
[Vasoactive intestinal peptide attenuates apoptosis and iNOS protein expression induced by cerebral ischemia in the rat].

OBJECTIVE To explore the neuroprotective action of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) on ischemia and reperfusion in the rat. METHODS VIP was given via intracerebroventriclar injection after a 2 hour transient middle cerebral artery occlusion using filament model. The infarct volume was investigated with TTC stain. Apoptosis in the ischemic boundary zone were evaluated with TUNEL stain. Western blotting were used to analyze the iNOS protein expression as well. RESULTS After VIP injection, the relative infarct volume of rats was significantly reduced by approximately 28% campared to that of the control groups at 1 day (P < 0.05). The number of TUNEL positive cells was significantly decreased in the ischemic boundary zone, and then the expression of iNOS was remarkablely decreased as well (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION VIP has a neuroprotective effect on cerebral ischemia and reperfusion. The mechanism seems to involve decreasing the apoptosis and down-regulating the iNOS expression.
Eating Frequency and Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-analysis

OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of eating frequency on body weight status in children and adolescents. METHODS: In this meta-analysis, original observational studies published to October 2011 were selected through a literature search in the PubMed database. The reference list of the retrieved articles was also used to identify relevant articles; researchers were contacted when needed. Selected studies were published in English, and they reported on the effect of eating frequency on overweight/obesity in children and adolescents. Pooled effect sizes were calculated using a random effects model. RESULTS: Ten cross-sectional studies and 1 case-control study (21 substudies in total), comprising 18 849 participants (aged 2–19 years), were included in the analysis. Their combined effect revealed that the highest category of eating frequency, as compared with the lowest, was associated with a beneficial effect regarding body weight status in children and adolescents (odds ratio [OR] = 0.78, log OR = –0.24, 95% confidence interval [CI] –0.41 to –0.06). The observed beneficial effect remained significant in boys (OR = 0.76, log OR = –0.27, 95% CI –0.47 to –0.06), but not in girls (OR = 0.96, log OR = –0.04, 95% CI –0.40 to 0.32) (P for sex differences = 0.14). CONCLUSIONS: Higher eating frequency was associated with lower body weight status in children and adolescents, mainly in boys. Clinical trials are warranted to confirm this inverse association, evaluate its clinical applicability, and support a public health recommendation; more studies are also needed to further investigate any sex-related differences, and most importantly, the biological mechanisms.
Effect of pressure support ventilation during weaning on ventilation and oxygenation indices in healthy horses recovering from general anesthesia.

OBJECTIVE To determine if pressure support ventilation (PSV) weaning from general anesthesia affects ventilation or oxygenation in horses. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized clinical study. ANIMALS Twenty client-owned healthy horses aged 5 ± 2 years, weighing 456 ± 90 kg. METHODS In the control group (CG; n = 10) weaning was performed by a gradual decrease in respiratory rate (fR ) and in the PSV group (PSVG; n = 10) by a gradual decrease in fR with PSV. The effect of weaning was considered suboptimal if PaCO2 > 50 mmHg, arterial pH < 7.35 plus PaCO2 > 50 mmHg or PaO2 < 60 mmHg were observed at any time after disconnection from the ventilator until 30 minutes after the horse stood. Threshold values for each index were established and the predictive power of these values was tested. RESULTS Pressure support ventilation group (PSVG) had (mean ± SD) pH 7.36 ± 0.02 and PaCO2 41 ± 3 mmHg at weaning and the average lowest PaO2 69 ± 6 mmHg was observed 15 minutes post weaning. The CG had pH 7.32 ± 0.02 and PaCO2 57 ± 6 mmHg at weaning and the average lowest PaO2 48 ± 5 mmHg at 15 minutes post weaning. No accuracy in predicting weaning effect was observed for fR (p = 0.3474), minute volume (p = 0.1153), SaO2 (p = 0.1737) and PaO2 /PAO2 (p = 0.1529). A high accuracy in predicting an optimal effect of weaning was observed for VT > 10 L (p = 0.0001), fR /VT ratio ≤ 0.60 breaths minute(-1) L(-1) (p = 0.0001), VT /bodyweight > 18.5 mL kg(-1) (p = 0.0001) and PaO2 /FiO2 > 298 (p = 0.0002) at weaning. A high accuracy in predicting a suboptimal effect of weaning was observed for VT < 10 L (p = 0.0001), fR /VT ratio ≥ 0.60 breaths minute(-1) L(-1) (p = 0.0001) and Pe'CO2 ≥ 38 mmHg (p = 0.0001) at weaning. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Pressure support ventilation (PSV) weaning had a better respiratory outcome. A higher VT , VT /body weight, PaO2 /FiO2 ratio and a lower fR /VT ratio and Pe'CO2 were accurate in predicting the effect of weaning in healthy horses recovering from general anesthesia.
Elastic registration of gel electrophoresis images based on landmarks and intensities

A key technique for protein analysis is the geometric alignment of gel electrophoresis images. While in previous work either intensity-based or landmark-based approaches have been used for the registration of electrophoresis images, we here introduce a scheme incorporating both intensities and landmarks. With this approach point landmarks are localized using a model fitting scheme and this geometric information is combined with intensity information for elastic registration. By experiments on the basis of images of different levels of complexity we demonstrate that intensity information alone is generally not sufficient for accurate registration. However, it turns out that the incorporation of landmarks significantly improves the registration accuracy.
Markovian multiserver queues with staggered setup for data centers

Cloud computing is a new paradigm where a company makes money by selling computer resources including both software and hardware. The core part of cloud computing is data center where a huge number of servers are available. These servers consume a large amount of energy to run and to keep cool. Therefore, a reduction of a few percent of the power consumption means saving a large amount of money and the environment. In the current technology, an idle server still consumes about 60\% of its peak. Thus, the only way to save energy is to turn off servers which are not processing a job. However, when there are some waiting jobs, we have to turn on the OFF servers. A server needs some setup time to be active during which it consumes energy but cannot process a job. Therefore, there exists a trade-off between power consumption and delay performance. In \cite{Gandhi10a,Gandhi10}, the authors analyze this tradeoff using an M/M/$c$ queue with setup time for which they present a decomposition property by solving difference equations. In this paper, using an alternative simple approach, we obtain explicit expressions for partial generating functions, factorial moments and the joint stationary distribution of the number of active servers and that in the system.
The Limits to "NASCAR Nation": Sport and the "Recovery Movement" in Disjunctural Times

This article profiles the ascent of stockcar racing from parochial pastime of the late industrial American South into an internationally-distributed corporate sport conglomerate. We explicate the role NASCAR (the sport’s governing body), its spectacles, and its consumer-spectators played in reproducing the political, economic, and cultural conditions by which it was made both “local” and “global. ” It also briefly illustrates the problematic nature of recent initiatives to sell historically localized NASCAR commodities to “nontraditional” national and international markets.
Domain General Sequence Operations Contribute to Pre-SMA Involvement in Visuo-spatial Processing

This study used 3T MRI to elucidate the functional role of supplementary motor area (SMA) in relation to visuo-spatial processing. A localizer task contrasting sequential number subtraction and repetitive button pressing was used to functionally delineate non-motor sequence processing in pre-SMA, and activity in SMA-proper associated with motor sequencing. Patterns of BOLD responses in these regions were then contrasted to those from two tasks of visuo-spatial processing. In one task participants performed Mental Rotation (MR) in which recognition memory judgments were made to previously memorized 2D novel patterns across image-plane rotations. The other task involved abstract grid navigation (GN) in which observers computed a series of imagined location shifts in response to directional (arrow) cues around a mental grid. The results showed overlapping activation in pre-SMA for sequential subtraction and both visuo-spatial tasks. These results suggest that visuo-spatial processing is supported by non-motor sequence operations that involve pre-SMA. More broadly, these data further highlight the functional heterogeneity of pre-SMA, and show that its role extends to processes beyond the planning and online control of movement.
RISK TAKING IN INTRAPRENEURSHIP: TRANSLATING THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL RISK AVERSION INTO THE ORGANIZATIONAL RISK TAKING

Risk taking is important for entrepreneurship in existing organizations (intrapreneurship). This study contributes to intrapreneurship theory by explaining a paradoxical nature of translation of individual level risk aversion into organizational level risk taking behavior. A model for examination of this risk taking paradox in intrapreneurship is developed on the basis of intrapreneurship "theory," theory of planned behavior, prospect theory, agency theory and organizational culture perspective. A set of propositions is developed linking risk-related cognitions, behaviors and their antecedents. A model of risk taking in intrapreneurship is discussed here on the basis of propositions, and implications for research and practice.
Dynamic Light-Weight Groups

The virtual synchrony model for group communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. In applications that use a large number of groups, significant performance gains can be attained if these groups share the resources required to provide virtual synchrony. A service that maps user groups onto instances of a virtually synchronous implementation is called a Light-Weight Group Service. This paper discusses the Light-Weight Group protocols in dynamic environments, where mappings cannot be defined a priori and may change over time. We show that it is possible to establish mappings that promote sharing and, at the same time, minimize interference. These mappings can be established in an automated manner using heuristics applied locally at each node. Experiments using an implementation in the Horus system show that significant performance improvements can be achieved with this approach.
Development of Multi-Criteria Metrics for Evaluation of Data Mining Algorithms

The main aim of this paper is to suggest multi-criteria based metrics that can be used as comparators for an objective evaluation of data mining algorithms (DM-algorithms). Each DM-algorithm is characterized, generally, by some positive and negative properties, when it is applied to certain domains. Examples of properties are the accuracy rate, understandability, interpretability of the generated results and stability. Space and time complexity and maintenance costs can be considered as negative properties. By now there is no methodology to consider all of these properties, simultaneously, and use them for a comprehensive evaluation of DM-algorithms. Most of available studies in literature use only the accuracy rate as a unique criterion to compare the performance of DM-algorithms and ignore the other properties. Our suggested approach, however, can take into account all available positive and negative characteristics of DM-algorithms and can combine them to construct a unique evaluation metric. This new approach is based on DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). We have applied this approach to evaluate 23 DM-algorithms in 22 domains. The results are analyzed and compared with the results of alternative approaches.
Acculturation and Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Study

Studies of the relationship between acculturation and various forms of adjustment yield divergent findings. Meta-analytic techniques were used to synthesize relevant studies. Samples from the 49 reports were used in more than one class; providing 111 samples for computation. Separate meta-analyses were computed for 11 acculturation and adjustment classes: extroversion (n = 5), self-esteem (n = 6), locus of control (n = 8), career (n = 8), addiction (n = 8), affective disorders (n = 9), field independence (n = 10), family conflict (n = 12), arniety/stress (n = 14), intelligence (n = 14), and psychosociallhealth (n = 17). Because the classes were heterogeneous, clustered homogeneous subgroupings were computed. The more substantial effects were indicated for the subgroupings within intelligence (z+ = .16, p < .01, n = 10), field independence (z+ = .54, p < .01, n = 7), and anxiety/stress (z+ = -.27, p < .01, n = 5) classes. Higher socioeconomic status samples evidence the greatest increases in adjustment with acculturation. The situation specific associations defined among acculturation, sample characteristics, and indices of adjustment were interpreted by integrating coping theory, a social inequality perspective, and acculturative stress models.
Recursive Sampling for the Nystrom Method

We give the first algorithm for kernel Nystr\"om approximation that runs in *linear time in the number of training points* and is provably accurate for all kernel matrices, without dependence on regularity or incoherence conditions. The algorithm projects the kernel onto a set of $s$ landmark points sampled by their *ridge leverage scores*, requiring just $O(ns)$ kernel evaluations and $O(ns^2)$ additional runtime. While leverage score sampling has long been known to give strong theoretical guarantees for Nystr\"om approximation, by employing a fast recursive sampling scheme, our algorithm is the first to make the approach scalable. Empirically we show that it finds more accurate, lower rank kernel approximations in less time than popular techniques such as uniformly sampled Nystr\"om approximation and the random Fourier features method.
Bubbles and Self-Enforcing Debt

We characterize equilibria with endogenous debt constraints for a general equilibrium economy with limited commitment in which the only consequence of default is losing the ability to borrow in future periods. First, we show that equilibrium debt limits must satisfy a simple condition that allows agents to exactly roll over existing debt period by period. Second, we provide an equivalence result, whereby the resulting set of equilibrium allocations with self-enforcing private debt is equivalent to the allocations that are sustained with unbacked public debt or rational bubbles; for the latter, there exist well known existence and characterization results. In contrast to the classic result by Bulow and Rogoff (AER 1989), positive levels of debt are sustainable in our environment because the interest rate is sufficiently low to provide repayment incentives.
The independent domination number of maximal triangle-free graphs

A triangle-free graph is maximal if the addition of any edge produces a triangle. A set S of vertices in a graph G is called an independent dominating set if S is both an independent and a dominating set of G. The independent domination number i(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of an independent dominating set of G. In this paper, we show that i(G) ≤ δ(G) ≤ n 2 for maximal triangle-free graphs G of order n and minimum degree δ(G). We characterize the graphs attaining the latter bound. We also show that, given a positive integer k ≥ 2 and any positive integer n ≥ 5k 2 , there exists a non-bipartite maximal triangle-free graph G of order n with i(G) = k.
Molecular dissection of translation termination mechanism identifies two new critical regions in eRF1

Translation termination in eukaryotes is completed by two interacting factors eRF1 and eRF3. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, these proteins are encoded by the genes SUP45 and SUP35, respectively. The eRF1 protein interacts directly with the stop codon at the ribosomal A-site, whereas eRF3—a GTPase protein—probably acts as a proofreading factor, coupling stop codon recognition to polypeptide chain release. We performed random PCR mutagenesis of SUP45 and screened the library for mutations resulting in increased eRF1 activity. These mutations led to the identification of two new pockets in domain 1 (P1 and P2) involved in the regulation of eRF1 activity. Furthermore, we identified novel mutations located in domains 2 and 3, which confer stop codon specificity to eRF1. Our findings are consistent with the model of a closed-active conformation of eRF1 and shed light on two new functional regions of the protein.
Lying: The Impact of Decision Context

This study tests the usefulness of a person-situation interactionist framework in examining the willingness of a salesperson to lie to get an order. Using a survey of 389 salespersons, our results demonstrate that organizational relationships influence willingness to lie. Specifically, salespersons are less willing to lie to their own company than to their customer, than to a channel partner, and finally, than to a competitor firm. Furthermore, respondents from firms with a clear and positive ethical climate are less willing to lie. Finally, our study finds that interactions between personality factors, such as high Machiavellianism and high self-monitoring, and situational factors have an impact on willingness to lie. Our results suggest that firms can take steps to influence employee ethical behavior.
One psychoanalysis or many?

This paper describes the historic development of psychoanalysis, the singular product of the genius of one man, Sigmund Freud, and which he made such strenuous efforts through his lifetime to maintain as a unified enterprise, defining out dissidents (like Adler, Jung, etc.), into what has become in the almost half-century since his death a science and a discipline characterized by an increasing diversity or pluralism, of theoretical perspectives, of linguistic and thought conventions, and of distinctive regional, cultural, and language emphases. I discuss both the understanding of this theoretical diversity and what, in the face of it, holds us together as common adherents of a shared psychoanalytic science and profession. My thesis is that what unites us is our shared focus on the clinical interactions in our consulting rooms, the phenomena encompassed by the 'present unconscious' (the Sandlers) or the 'clinical theory' (George Klein). When we look beyond that to an explanatory structure within which to conceptualize the genetic-developmental process, normal and abnormal mental functioning, psychopathology and its reversal (cure) i.e. the realm of the 'past unconscious' or the 'general theory', we posit our various theoretical, linguistic or thought perspectives, i.e.--at this stage of our historical development--our metaphors or our various explanatory symbolisms. Some implications of this viewing of our various theoretical perspectives in psychoanalysis (ego psychological, object-relational, self-psychological, Kleinian, Bionian, Lacanian, etc.) as but metaphoric expressions, are reviewed.
Nontraditional Students in Management and Accounting Programs: Investigating the Relationship between Personality and Major Satisfaction in the Community College Setting

High school students and working-age adults are frequently pressured by teachers, relatives, peers, employers, and state and federal governments to attend college for such reasons as obtaining new skills, increasing salary and prestige, and seeking new career opportunities (Baxter & Kavanagh, 2012; Calmes, 2014; Holcomb, 2008; Pringle, DuBose, & Yankey, 2010). Approximately 25% of these students drop out of school within the freshman year (ACT, 2013) due, in part, to a poor personality fit with their major (Jones & Jones, 2014). Consequently, attrition has become a costly problem for university administrators and taxpayers (American Institutes for Research, 2011). Personality is a predictor of academic success (Rosander & Backstrom, 2014; Tyagi & Bansal, 2010), and attrition may be reduced via proper personality screening. Personality psychologists agree that personality can be described by five, broad traits: extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness to experience (Hunt, 2007). Personality has also been linked to major satisfaction (Logue, Lounsbury, Gupta, & Leong, 2007), which, in turn, is linked to positive retention rates (Zhai, 2012). Few studies regarding personality and its relation to major satisfaction have been carried out on business programs, specifically the management and accounting disciplines (Lounsbury, Smith, Levy, Leong, & Gibson, 2009). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate which of the Big Five traits relate to major satisfaction in the hopes of discovering a connection that will help university administrators to better improve retention rates. Furthermore, nontraditional student characteristics, such as gender, age, and work history, were examined to determine whether and to what degree each of these factors may influence trait development (Debast et al., 2014; Kovar, Ott, & NONTRADITIONAL STUDENT PERSONALITY AND MAJOR SATISFACTION 3 Fisher, 2003; Scollon & Diener, 2006). Key findings from this study are described below. Management students were more extraverted and open to experience than accounting students. Women scored higher in conscientiousness than men. Male management students scored lower in neuroticism than women. Female accounting students were more satisfied with their college major than female management students. Conscientiousness was a predictor of college major satisfaction. Finally, students who were age 30 or older, as well as students who have worked for 5 or more years, possessed higher levels of conscientiousness and lower levels of neuroticism, than younger students.
Stability of Behavioral and Emotional Problems Over 6 Years in Children Ages 4 to 5 or 6 to 7 at Time 1

This study tests the hypothesis that 6-year longitudinal stability of behavioral and emotional problems would be greater for children ages 6 to 7 than for those ages 4 to 5 at Time 1. Six-year outcome data for a nationally representative sample of 4- to 7-year-olds (N = 733) were used to examine longitudinal stability of internalizing, externalizing, social, and attention problems. Six-year correlations were high for both age groups, with only 1 of 12 comparisons showing a significant age difference. About 80% of the children maintained their status as deviant versus nondeviant from Time 1 to Time 3 for all problems assessed. The best predictors of Time 3 problem scores were Time 1 and Time 2 scores on the same scale, and age group had no significant effect on regression results. These data suggest that longitudinal stability of behavioral and emotional problems is as strong for children ages 4 to 5 as for children ages 6 to 7 at Time 1.