Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller Design for Buck DC-DC Converters

Type-1 fuzzy logic controllers (TIFLCs) have been successfully developed and used in various applications. The experience and knowledge of human experts are needed to decide both the membership functions and the fuzzy rules. However, in the real-time applications, uncertainty associated with the available information always happens. This paper proposes a type-2 fuzzy logic control (T2FLC), which involves the fuzzifier, rule base, fuzzy inference engine, and output processor with type reduction and defuzzifier. Because the antecedent and/or consequent membership functions of the T2FLC are type-2 fuzzy sets, the T2FLC can handle rule uncertainties when the operation is extremely uncertain and/or the engineers cannot exactly determine the membership grades. Furthermore, the proposed T2FLC is applied to a buck DC-DC converter control. Experimental results show that the proposed T2FLC is robust against input voltage and load resistance variations for the converter control
Look Like Me: Matching Robot Personality via Gaze to Increase Motivation

Socially assistive robots are envisioned to provide social and cognitive assistance where they will seek to motivate and engage people in therapeutic activities. Due to their physicality, robots serve as a powerful technology for motivating people. Prior work has shown that effective motivation requires adaption to user needs and characteristics, but how robots might successfully achieve such adaptation is still unknown. In this paper, we present work on matching a robot's personality-expressed via its gaze behavior-to that of its users. We confirmed in an online study with 22 participants that the robot's gaze behavior can successfully express either an extroverted or introverted personality. In a laboratory study with 40 participants, we demonstrate the positive effect of personality matching on a user's motivation to engage in a repetitive task. These results have important implications for the design of adaptive robot behaviors in assistive human-robot interaction.
Influence of diabetes on the maintenance of sinus rhythm after a successful direct current cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation.

AIM To determine independent risk factors for recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) after a successful direct current (DC) cardioversion in patients with and without diabetes. DESIGN We retrospectively analysed the outcome in patients recently diagnosed with persistent AF. METHODS Of 364 patients included, 289 had a successful direct current (DC) cardioversion. We compared 42 (14.5%) patients known to have diabetes to 247 (85.5%) without. Patients were reviewed in outpatient clinic with assessment of heart rhythm clinically and by electrocardiogram. Median follow-up after DC cardioversion was 74 days [interquartile range (IQR) 69-78 days]. RESULTS When reviewed in outpatient clinic, only 63.7% (185 of 289) were still in sinus rhythm (SR). Of the group without diabetes, 66.8% (165 of 247) remained in SR vs. 45.2% (19 of 42) of the group with diabetes (P = 0.005). Binary logistic regression analysis showed duration of AF (P < 0.0001) and the presence of diabetes (P = 0.019) have been independent risk factors for recurrence of AF. DISCUSSION Presence of diabetes and the longer duration of AF were independent risk factors for the recurrence of AF after a successful DC cardioversion.
In Search of an Elegant Solution: Reanalysis of Plucker, Callahan, and Tomchin, With Respects to Pyryt and Plucker

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the use of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to explicate constructs underlying performance assessment tasks based on Garder's (1983) theory of multiple intelligences. Data from Plucker, Callahan, and Tomchin (1996) were reanalyzed using CFA. I analyzed several models based on the theoretical conceptualization of the authors, their exploratory factor analysis, and the Subsequent reanalysis of the data by Pyryt (2000). Models that allowed for intercorrelations among factors fit better than those without such correlations. Although the performance tasks appeared to measure their constructs as predicted, a model with three factors that combined Linguistic and Iiterpersonal Intelligence, rather than the four original factors, was supported. Higher order models indicated the presence of a general factor underlying the multiple inelteligences. Although not conforming exactly to the original theory, it appears that this set of performance tasks is a step in the right direction in terns of measuring multiple intelligences. Pyryt's concern for the influence g was confirmed to some extent, but it appears that both factors and individual tasks retain sufficient varianice to allow for the interpretation that they measure separate abilities.
Long-Time Persistence of Superantigen-Producing Staphylococcus aureus Strains in the Intestinal Microflora of Healthy Infants

Staphylococcus aureus has been isolated at an increasing rate from infants' stools during the last decades, but it is not known whether this species can colonize and persist in the intestinal microflora. To investigate this, 49 Swedish infants were followed prospectively from birth until 12 months of age. S. aureus was identified in a rectal swab obtained 3 d after delivery and in quantitative cultures of fecal samples collected at 1, 2, 4, and 8 weeks and at 6 and 12 months of age. A random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method was developed to distinguish individual S. aureus strains from one another and the strains were tested for production of enterotoxins A-D and TSST-1. By 3 days of age, 16% of infants had S. aureus in their intestines, which increased to 73% by 2-6 months, whereafter it decreased slightly to 53%. At the same time S. aureus population counts in colonized infants declined from an average 106.8 CFU/g feces during the first months of life to 104.0 CFU/g feces by 12 months. Colonized infants usually harbored one or two S. aureus strains in their microflora for long periods of time. Few strains were transient passengers and the median time of persistence of S. aureus strains in the microflora was several months. Of the 75 S. aureus strains identified, 43% produced one or more toxins: 13% SEA, 7% SEB, 23% SEC, 4% SED, and 11% TSST-1. Altogether, 47% of the investigated infants were colonized by a toxin-producing S. aureus during their first year of life. Despite this they were apparently healthy and did not have more gastrointestinal problems than noncolonized infants. This report is the first to show that S. aureus may be a resident member of the normal intestinal microflora in infancy.
School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling

School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women--black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern--recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled in adult education programs, they seek more than a diploma: respect, recognition, and a public identity. Drawing upon the life stories of these women, Wendy Luttrell sensitively describes and analyzes the politics and psychodynamics that shape working-class life, schooling, and identity. She examines the paradox of women's education, particularly the relationship between schooling and mothering, and offers practical suggestions for school reform.
Schizophrenia: Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment

* Preface * Acknowledgments * A Statement of the Problem * PART I: A DISSOCIATIVE SUBTYPE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA * Chapter 1. Assumptions and Logic Underlying the Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia * A Model of Gene-Environment Interaction * Implications of Monozygotic Twin Data * The Triangle of Recovery * Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia * The Spectrum from Nondissociative Subtypes of Schizophrenia to Dissociative Identity Disorder * PART II: PSYCHOSIS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA * Chapter 3. Definitions of Psychosis and Schizophrenia * DSM-IV-TR Definitions of Psychosis * DSM-IV-TR Text and Criteria for Schizophrenia * Chapter 4. The Genetic Model of Schizophrenia * The Genome As a Minor Contributor to the Causes of Schizophrenia * Evidence for the Toxic and Protective Effects of the Psychosocial Environment * Chapter 5. The Efficacy of Antipsychotic Medication * Chapter 6. Psychosis and Trauma (John Reed and Colin A. Ross) * Childhood Trauma and General Psychopathology * The Base Rate of Child Abuse Among Psychiatric Inpatients * Childhood Trauma and Psychosis * Failure of Most Research on Schizophrenia to Consider Psychological Trauma * PART III: DISSOCIATION AND DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER * Chapter 7. Definition and Scientific Status of Dissociation * Errors of Logic and Scholarship Concerning Dissociation * Diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder * General Errors of Logic and Scholarship * Chapter 8. Dissociation and Trauma * A Continuum of Dissociation Versus Discrete Pathological States * The Trauma-Dissociation Model * Chapter 9. Dissociative Identity Disorder * Reliability and Validity * Etiology * Epidemiology * Phenomenology * PART IV: DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA * Chapter 10. Bleuler's Description of Schizophrenia * Analysis of Bleuler's 1991 Text on Schizophrenia * The Fundamental Role of Dissociation in Schizophrenia * Chapter 11. Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder * Distinction Between Schizophrenia and DID in the Schizophrenia Literature * Data on the Overlap Between Schizophrenia and DID * A Prospective Study of the Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia * Chapter 12. Case Examples of Dissociative Schizophrenia * From August Hoch, MD * From Sheila Cantor, MD * From Patricia J. Ruocchio * From Barbara A. Turner * From Janice C. Jordan * From Leslie Greenblat * Chapter 13. Hysterical and Reactive Psychoses * Chapter 14. Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Dissociative Schizophrenia * 295.40 Dissociative Type * Diagnostic Criteria for 295.40 Dissociative Type * PART V: TREATMENT * Chapter 15. Treatment Outcome Data * Subjects and Treatment Provided * Methodological Limitations of the Study * Limitations of the Literature * Treatment Outcomes * Chapter 16. Principles of Psychotherapy for Dissociative Schizophrenia * Principles of Trauma Therapy * Chapter 17. Talking to the Voices * Bibliography * Index * Reference Notes Included
Identifying scale and person response validity of a new assessment of driving ability

The purpose of this study was to evaluate evidence on the validity of a newly developed assessment tool, P-Drive (Performance Analysis of Driving Ability) intended to measure driving ability in a simulator. P-Drive was made available to a sample of 31 brain-damaged participants. P-Drive consists of 21 items relating to observable driving actions, each of which is scored on a 4-point criterion-referenced rating scale. A Rasch measurement model was used to evaluate whether P-Drive was a valid tool. The results indicated that P-Drive represented one single construct. All the items showed acceptable goodness-of-fit, indicating overall internal scale validity. The hierarchical order of the items in P-Drive was in agreement with the theories concerning driving ability after acquired brain injury, providing further evidence of validity. The participants also demonstrated acceptable levels of goodness-of-fit, indicating person response validity. The study indicates that the results for different aspects of the validity of P-Drive are promising, but that it needs to be reassessed for a larger and more heterogeneous group of participants. The results show that P-Drive has potential as a means of making valid evaluations of driving ability in a simulator.
A 2-Gb/s CMOS Integrating Two-Tap DFE Receiver for Four-Drop Single-Ended Signaling

A 2-Gb/s integrating decision-feedback equalization (DFE) receiver was implemented for a four-drop single-ended DRAM interface channel by using a 0.25- mum CMOS process. The receiver combines both DFE and integration operations in a single receiver circuit so that the DFE operation reduces the intersymbol interference and the integration operation reduces the high-frequency noise. The DFE operation was implemented by switching the capacitance values of the two output nodes of a differential integrator, depending on the previous decision data. A look-ahead scheme was used to reduce the DFE loop delay. A MUX-embedded D flip-flop was used in the look-ahead circuit to further reduce the DFE loop delay and latency. The DFE operation enhanced the voltage margins by 110% and 90% at the 2-Gb/s stubless channel and the 1.2-Gb/s stub series terminated logic channel, respectively. The chip area and the power dissipation of the proposed receiver chip were 220 times 120 mum2 and 10 mW, respectively, at the data rate of 2 Gb/s.
Grounded Models of Semantic Representation

A popular tradition of studying semantic representation has been driven by the assumption that word meaning can be learned from the linguistic environment, despite ample evidence suggesting that language is grounded in perception and action. In this paper we present a comparative study of models that represent word meaning based on linguistic and perceptual data. Linguistic information is approximated by naturally occurring corpora and sensorimotor experience by feature norms (i.e., attributes native speakers consider important in describing the meaning of a word). The models differ in terms of the mechanisms by which they integrate the two modalities. Experimental results show that a closer correspondence to human data can be obtained by uncovering latent information shared among the textual and perceptual modalities rather than arriving at semantic knowledge by concatenating the two.
Combined modality treatment improves tumor control and overall survival in patients with early stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma: a systematic review

Combined modality treatment (CMT) of chemotherapy followed by localized radiotherapy is standard treatment for patients with early stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma. However, the role of radiotherapy has been questioned recently and some clinical study groups advocate chemotherapy only for this indication. We thus performed a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing chemotherapy alone with CMT in patients with early stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma with respect to response rate, tumor control and overall survival (OS). We searched Medline, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library as well as conference proceedings from January 1980 to February 2009 for randomized controlled trials comparing chemotherapy alone versus the same chemotherapy regimen plus radiotherapy. Progression free survival and similar outcomes were analyzed together as tumor control. Effect measures used were hazard ratios for OS and tumor control as well as relative risks for complete response (CR). Meta-analyses were performed using RevMan5. Five randomized controlled trials involving 1,245 patients were included. The hazard ratio (HR) was 0.41 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.25 to 0.66) for tumor control and 0.40 (95% CI 0.27 to 0.59) for OS for patients receiving CMT compared to chemotherapy alone. CR rates were similar between treatment groups. In sensitivity analyses another 6 trials were included that did not fulfill the inclusion criteria of our protocol but were considered relevant to the topic. These trials underlined the results of the main analysis. In conclusion, adding radiotherapy to chemotherapy improves tumor control and OS in patients with early stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Claiming a Space for International Social Work: Voices From the Field

Despite the rise in interest in international social work, surprisingly little empirical evidence exists outlining the knowledge, values, and skills required of social workers to succeed in the global arena. This qualitative study conducted from the spring through winter months of 2013 involved 10 semi-structured interviews with experienced international social workers triangulated with a content analysis of 52 international job postings. Findings suggest that social work professional perspectives including eco-systemic thinking, social justice principles, strength-based analyses, and foundational skills, such as developing empowering person-centered relationships, exhibiting cultural humility, implementing participatory approaches to research and practice, and demonstrating reflexivity, are not always valued by international colleagues nor sought in job advertisements. Furthermore, upon graduation, MSW social workers may lack key areas of expertise expected of international workers such as program monitoring and evaluation, grant writing, policy development, and communicating with media and high-level officials. Ultimately, the invisibility of foundational social work skills and lack of other technical expertise may not only challenge social workers' competitiveness on the global market but also threaten their maintenance of a professional social work identity over time. The authors provide guidance for schools of social work and accrediting bodies to improve social workers' readiness for international work and strengthen their presence in the international arena.
Pediatric Telephone Call Centers: How Do They Affect Health Care Use and Costs?

OBJECTIVES. After-hours call centers have been shown to provide appropriate triage with high levels of parental and provider satisfaction. However, few data are available on the costs and outcomes of call centers from the perspective of the health care system. With this study we sought to determine these outcomes. METHODS. Parents who called the Pediatric After-hours Call Center at the Children's Hospital of Denver from March 19, 2004, to April 19, 2004, were asked an open-ended question before triage: “We would like to know, what you would have done if you could not have called our call center this evening/today? ” RESULTS. The response rate for the survey was 77.8% (N = 8980). Parents reported that they would have (1) gone to an emergency department or urgent care facility (46%), (2) treated the child at home (21%), (3) called a physician's office the next day (12%), (4) asked another person for advice (13%), (5) consulted a written source (2%), or (6) other (7%). Of the 46% of callers who would have sought emergent care, only 13.5% subsequently were given an urgent disposition by the call center. Fifteen percent of cases in which the parents would have stayed at home were given an urgent disposition by nurses. Assuming that all callers followed the advice provided, the estimated savings per call, based on local costs, was $42.61 per call. Savings based on Medical Expenditure Panel Survey national payment data were $56.26 per call. CONCLUSIONS. Two thirds of the cases in which parents reported initial intent to go to an emergency department or urgent care facility were not deemed urgent by the call center, whereas 15% of calls from parents who intended to stay home were deemed urgent. If call-center triage recommendations were followed in even half of all cases, then these results would translate into substantial cost savings for the health care system.
Detection, analysis and matching of hair

We develop computational models for measuring hair appearance for comparing different people. The models and methods developed have applications to person recognition and face image indexing. An automatic hair detection algorithm is described and results reported. A multidimensional representation of hair appearance is presented and computational algorithms are described. Results on a dataset of 524 subjects are reported. Identification of people using hair attributes is compared to eigenface-based recognition along with a joint, eigenface-hair based identification.
Characterization of a Suppressive Cis-acting Element in the Epstein–Barr Virus LMP1 Promoter

Latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) is a major oncogene encoded by Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) and is essential for immortalization of B cells by the virus. Previous studies suggested that several transcription factors, such as PU.1, RBP-Jκ, NFκB, EBF1, AP-2 and STAT, are involved in LMP1 induction; however, the means by which the oncogene is negatively regulated remains unclear. Here, we introduced short mutations into the proximal LMP1 promoter that includes recognition sites for the E-box and Ikaros transcription factors in the context of EBV-bacterial artificial chromosome. Upon infection, the mutant exhibited increased LMP1 expression and EBV-mediated immortalization of B cells. However, single mutations of either the E-box or Ikaros sites had limited effects on LMP1 expression and transformation. Our results suggest that this region contains a suppressive cis-regulatory element, but other transcriptional repressors (apart from the E-box and Ikaros transcription factors) may remain to be discovered.
Spectral active clustering via purification of the K-Nearest neighbor graph

Spectral clustering is widely used in data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition. There have been some recent developments in adding pairwise constraints as side information to enforce top-down structure into the clustering results. However, most of these algorithms are “passive” in the sense that the side information is provided beforehand. In this paper, we present a spectral active clustering method that actively select pairwise constraints based on a novel notion of node uncertainty rather than pair uncertainty. In our approach, the constraints are used to drive a puriﬁcation process on the k -nearest neighbor graph—edges are removed from the graph based on the constraints—that ultimately leads to an improved, constraint-satisﬁed clustering. We have evaluated our framework on three datasets (UCI, gene and image sets) in the context of baseline and state of the art methods and ﬁnd the proposed algorithm to be superiorly effective.
Perceived Job Discrimination: Toward a Model of Applicant Propensity to Case Initiation in Selection

This paper develops and proposes the novel concept of perceived job discrimination (PJD) and a conceptual model of applicant propensity to case initiation (APCI) in employee selection. Distinguishing PJD from actual job discrimination (AJD) as traditionally viewed in selection, this paper puts forward a definition of PJD that emphasizes perceived unfair treatment and violations of the (pre-)employment psychological contract. Differences between AJD and PJD are highlighted and a number of crucial situational features and measurement imperatives noted for PJD to be deemed to have occurred. Extending this construct, a detailed model of APCI is proposed specifying the key inputs, processes, and outcomes of applicant complaint and case initiation for unfair discrimination. Both concepts are argued to be relevant regardless of country-specific legal requirements governing AJD. Future directions for research and selection practices in both PJD and APCI are noted throughout the paper.
Sensorless Control of Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor in Low-Speed Region Using Novel Adaptive Filter

This paper presents a novel position and speed estimation method for low-speed sensorless control of interior permanent-magnet synchronous machines (IPMSMs). The parameter design of the position and speed estimator is based on the sampled current rather than the motor electrical parameters. The proposed method not only simplifies the parameter design, it enables the estimator to work normally even in the condition that the electrical parameters are uncertain or varied. The adaptive filters are adopted to extract the desired high frequency current. The structure and corresponding transfer function are analyzed. To address the shortage of insufficient stop-band attenuation, the structure of the adaptive filter is modified to provide suitable bandwidth and stop-band attenuation simultaneously. The effectiveness of the proposed sensorless control strategy has been verified by simulations and experiments.