Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-Like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books

Books are a rich source of both fine-grained information, how a character, an object or a scene looks like, as well as high-level semantics, what someone is thinking, feeling and how these states evolve through a story. This paper aims to align books to their movie releases in order to provide rich descriptive explanations for visual content that go semantically far beyond the captions available in the current datasets. To align movies and books we propose a neural sentence embedding that is trained in an unsupervised way from a large corpus of books, as well as a video-text neural embedding for computing similarities between movie clips and sentences in the book. We propose a context-aware CNN to combine information from multiple sources. We demonstrate good quantitative performance for movie/book alignment and show several qualitative examples that showcase the diversity of tasks our model can be used for.
Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004

There was a time before the first Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS80) in 1980 when what we knew of industrial relations was based primarily upon small scale surveys and case studies. WIRS80 marked a radical departure in the study of industrial relations for two reasons. First, following in the footsteps of a small number of survey forerunners, it sought to ‘map’ industrial relations in Britain with nationally-representative large-scale surveys of workplace managers, thus permitting investigation of the incidence of practices and changes over time. Second, it focused on industrial relations institutions and outcomes, linking them to the processes of industrial relations that had been the chief focus of studies up until that point. This paper reflects on some of what we have learned in the five surveys over the quarter century since 1980, focusing selectively on the demise of collective IR, pay determination, union wage effects, variable pay, the climate of employment relations and union effects on employment growth.
A quantitative analysis of medical publications from Arab countries.

OBJECTIVE To perform geographical analysis of the number of biomedical publications produced in 20 Arab countries over a 15-year period from 1987 to 2001 and to compare publication rates normalized by country population, school enrollment, adult illiteracy, and gross domestic product (GDP). METHODS This study was carried out at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. A search of the Medline database for publications in which the first author of original articles is affiliated with an institution located in the Arab World was performed. Data collection, extraction, and validation was performed. RESULTS The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt had the highest number of publications together accounting for 58.4% of the Arab World's publications. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had the highest number when normalizing by population with 6.57/100,000 for Kuwait and 2.62/100,000 for UAE. Normalizing by the GDP indicator, Jordan had the highest number of publications with 11.2 per one billion average yearly GDP followed by Lebanon with 10.3 per one billion average yearly GDP. CONCLUSION Normalizing publications by different indicators is important as results may vary when using different normalizing indicators or no normalization at all.
Syzygies of abelian varieties

Let A be an ample line bundle on an abelian variety X (over an algebraically closed field). A theorem of Koizumi ([Ko], [S]), developing Mumford's ideas and results ([M]), states that if m > 3 the line bundle L = AO' embeds X in projective space as a projectively normal variety. Moreover, a celebrated theorem of Mumford ([M2]), slightly refined by Kempf ([K4]), asserts that the homogeneous ideal of X is generated by quadrics as soon as m > 4. Such results turn out to be particular cases of a statement, conjectured by Rob Lazarsfeld, concerning the minimal resolution of the graded algebra RL = 0% Ho(X, L? h) over the polynomial ring SL DO SymhHO (X, L). The purpose of this paper is to prove Lazarsfeld's conjecture. To put such matters into perspective, it is useful to review the case of projective curves. A classical theorem of Castelnuovo states that a curve X, embedded in projective space by a complete linear system ILI, is projectively normal as soon as deg L > 2g(X) + 1, and a theorem of Mattuck, Fujita and Saint-Donat states that if deg L > 2g(X) + 2, then the homogeneous ideal of X is generated by quadrics. Green ([G1]) unified, re-interpreted and generalized these results to a statement about syzygies. Specifically, given a (smooth) projective variety X and a very ample line bundle L on X, a minimal resolution of RL as a graded SL-module (notation as above) looks like
ras gene Amplification and malignant transformation

Morphologic transformation of NIH 3T3 mouse cells occurs upon transfection of these cells with large amounts (greater than or equal to 10 micrograms) of recombinant DNA molecules carrying the normal human H-ras-1 proto-oncogene. We provide experimental evidence indicating that transformation of these NIH 3T3 cells results from the combined effect of multiple copies of the H-ras-1 proto-oncogene rather than from spontaneous mutation of one of the transfected H-ras-1 clones (E. Santos, E.P. Reddy, S. Pulciani, R.J. Feldman, and M. Barbacid, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80:4679-4683, 1983). Levels of H-ras-1 RNA and p21 expression are highly elevated in the NIH 3T3 transformants, and in those cases examined, these levels correlate with the malignant properties of these cells. We have also investigated the presence of amplified ras genes in a variety of human carcinomas. In 75 tumor biopsies, we found amplification of the human K-ras-2 locus in one carcinoma of the lung. These results indicate that ras gene amplification is an alternative pathway by which ras genes may participate in the development of human neoplasia.
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) 9 July 2011 IT Governance Practices For Improving Strategic And Operational Business-IT Alignment

The literature suggests that business-IT alignment is an important antecedent of IS success, business process performance, and competitive advantage. Additionally, IT governance practices are highlighted as being instrumental to fostering business-IT alignment. In this paper, we derive various IT governance practices (in terms of structures, processes, relational mechanisms, and enterprise architecture characteristics) from literature and expert interviews. While prior investigations only considered the effect of such practices on strategic business-IT alignment, we also incorporate alignment at operational level. Using results from a case study in the IT services division of a large multi-national, multi-divisional company acting in diverse industries we highlight the effect of various IT governance practices and offer new insights by showing which mechanisms are effective in facilitating strategic or operational business-IT alignment. Our results indicate the most important practices for both strategic and operational alignment.
A Survey of Treatment Modalities for Convergence Insufficiency

Background. Convergence insufficiency (CI) is a common and distinct binocular vision disorder. However, there is a lack of consensus regarding the treatment most appropriate for CI. Possible treatment modalities include base-in prism, pencil pushup therapy (PPT), reading glasses, home-based vision therapy/orthoptics (HBVT), and office-based vision therapy/orthoptics (OBVT). The purpose of this study was to investigate the care process for CI by surveying eyecare professionals regarding the most common treatment modalities used by both optometrists and ophthalmologists across the United States. Methods. Surveys requesting doctors to indicate which treatment(s) they prescribed and believed to be most effective for symptomatic CI patients were mailed to 863 optometrists and 863 ophthalmologists in the United States. Results. Fifty-eight percent of the optometrists responded to the survey; the most common treatment prescribed was PPT (36%) followed by HBVT (22%) and OBVT (16%). For the ophthalmologists (who had a 23% response rate), the most common treatment prescribed was PPT (50%) followed by HBVT (21%) and base-in prism (10%). Conclusions. This survey suggests that most eyecare practitioners prescribe PPT as the initial treatment for CI.
False memory and obsessive–compulsive symptoms

Background: The memory deficit hypothesis has been used to explain the maintenance of repetitive behavior in individuals with obsessive–compulsive disorder, yet the majority of studies focusing on verbal memory show mixed results. These studies primarily evaluated memory accuracy via the inclusion or omission of previously encountered material, as opposed to false recognition (i.e., the inclusion of erroneous material). We evaluated false memories and memory processes in individuals with obsessive–compulsive washing symptoms (OC), individuals matched on depression and anxiety without OC symptoms (D/A), and in nonanxious individuals (NAC). Methods: Twenty‐eight OC, 28 D/A, and 29 NAC individuals read OC‐threat relevant, positive, and neutral scenarios and then performed a recognition test. Erroneous recognition of words associated to encoded, but not previously viewed, scenarios were classified as false memories. To evaluate processes underlying memory, participants completed a modified remember/know task to examine whether the OC individuals differed from the other individuals in recollective clarity for false memories of OC‐relevant (e.g., germs), positive (e.g., lottery), and neutral (e.g., bread) material. Results: The OC individuals used “know” more than the D/A and NAC individuals for false memories of threat. For veridical memories, the OC individuals used “know” more than the NAC, but not, D/A individuals. Conclusions: The greater reliance on “know” (i.e., feelings of familiarity) in general and false threat memories in particular in individuals with OC symptoms may add to feelings of uncertainty for threat‐relevant material, which may contribute to compulsive behavior. Depression and Anxiety, 2009. ©2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Management of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Management of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

268 February 2014 P RACTICE guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints, and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, practice guidelines developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) are not intended as standards or absolute requirements, and their use cannot guarantee any specific outcome. Practice guidelines are subject to revision as warranted by the evolution of medical knowledge, technology, and practice. They provide basic recommendations that are supported by a synthesis and analysis of the current literature, expert and practitioner opinion, open-forum commentary, and clinical feasibility data. This document updates the “Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: a Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea,” adopted by the ASA in 2005 and published in 2006. *
A Study of Relationship between Satisfaction with Compensation and Work Motivation

The current study while applying the theoretical framework based on expectancy theory examined the relationship between satisfaction with compensation and work motivation. The dimensions i.e. fixed pay, flexible pay, and benefits were examined with regard to satisfaction with compensation. The work motivation on the other hand was studied using the effort and performance dimensions. Literature research as well as practical survey consisting of self-administered questionnaire was used to study the population in question, which were managerial cadre employees of the sales departments of the cellular service providers in Lahore. The relationships between satisfaction with compensation and work motivation were analyzed by using Chi Square and correlations. The main findings of the study were: 1) satisfaction with compensation can be factor of work motivation. 2) flexible pay is not a motivating factor in the jobs which the employees were holding. 3) benefits do not have a significant impact on work motivation.
Recognition of emotions induced by music videos using DT-CWPT

Viewers are attracted and attached to multimedia content due to their emotional experience associated with it. In this paper, we present an emotion recognition method of EEG signals elicited while watching music videos. The emotional features are extracted from EEG signals using dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform (DT-CWPT). The most discriminating emotional features are selected by Singular value decomposition (SVD), QR factorization with column pivoting (QRcp) and F-ratio based method. The selected features are used to train support vector machine (SVM) to classify emotion for each video using leave-one-out cross-validation strategy.
Best Practices in Linking Assessment to Intervention

Students who possess and demonstrate the academic and interpersonal skills to meet the task demands of the school setting are successful. Those who lack those skills (or do not demonstrate the skills that they have) are at risk to develop a behavioral trajectory that leads to adaptational failure. The purpose of the problemsolving model is to identify the competencies that students need to meet curricular and behavioral expectations successfully. The primary outcome of problem solving should be the development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions that significantly improve the adaptational success of students to the process of schooling (Batsche, Kavale, & Kovaleski, 2006). High quality services often are not provided efficiently. Problem solving delivered in a three-tiered delivery system, however, is an example of both effectiveness and efficiency. The three-tiered system emphasizes delivery within general education first, where large numbers of students receive the benefit of the interventions. The model provides an increase in the intensity of both problem solving and intervention delivery only when such intensity is necessary. Linking assessment to intervention through the process of hypothesis development and confirmation contributes to the efficiency of the process by ensuring the interventions developed are linked to improving the competencies of students. The failure to link assessment data to intervention development accurately results in two major problems. First, the intervention is less likely to work, requiring additional problem solving, and time is wasted. Second, and perhaps more important, when interventions do not work the perception that the problem is severe is enhanced. When problems are viewed as severe, students are more likely to be referred for entitlement programs (e.g., special education). In a response-to-intervention (RTI) model, accurate interpretation of a student response to intervention is predicated on the fact that the intervention is both appropriate and implemented with integrity. If the intervention is not appropriate because the link between assessment and intervention is weak, then time is wasted in solving problems. In the average school system, there are 330 minutes in the instructional day, 1,650 minutes in the instructional week, and 56,700 minutes in the instructional year. Except in unusual circumstances, these are the only minutes we have to provide effective services for students. The number of years we have to apply these minutes is fixed. Therefore, each minute counts, and schools cannot afford to support inefficient models of service delivery. The focus of the problem-solving model is assessment. Data collected during the assessment process serve three functions. First, data must assess accurately the behaviors identified as critical to successful adaptation to the task demands of the classroom or school environment. Second, the data must inform the development of interventions. Finally, the data must be sensitive enough to evaluate the effectiveness of those interventions.
How Can Hydrophobic Association Be Enthalpy Driven?

Hydrophobic association is often recognized as being driven by favorable entropic contributions. Here, using explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations we investigate binding in a model hydrophobic receptor−ligand system which appears, instead, to be driven by enthalpy and opposed by entropy. We use the temperature dependence of the potential of mean force to analyze the thermodynamic contributions along the association coordinate. Relating such contributions to the ongoing changes in system hydration allows us to demonstrate that the overall binding thermodynamics is determined by the expulsion of disorganized water from the receptor cavity. Our model study sheds light on the solvent-induced driving forces for receptor−ligand association of general, transferable relevance for biological systems with poorly hydrated binding sites.
Induction of chondrogenesis in limb mesenchymal cultures by disruption of the actin cytoskeleton

Cell shape is known to influence the chondrogenic differentiation of cultured limb bud mesenchyme cells (Solursh, M., T. F. Linsenmayer, and K. L. Jensen, 1982, Dev. Biol., 94: 259-264). To test whether specific cytoskeletal components mediate this influence of cell shape, we examined different cytoskeleton disrupting agents for their ability to affect chondrogenesis. Limb bud cells cultured at subconfluent densities on plastic substrata normally become flattened, contain numerous cytoplasmic microtubules and actin bundles, and do not undergo spontaneous chondrogenesis. If such cultures are treated with 2 micrograms/ml cytochalasin D during the initial 3-24 h in culture, the cells round up, lose their actin cables, and undergo chondrogenesis, as indicated by the production of immunologically detectable type II collagen and a pericellular Alcian blue staining matrix. Cytochalasin D also induces cartilage formation by high-density cultures of proximal limb bud cells, which normally become blocked in a protodifferentiated state. In addition, cytochalasin D was found to reverse the normal inhibition by fibronectin of chondrogenesis by proximal limb bud cells cultured in hydrated collagen gels. Agents that disrupt microtubules have no apparent effect on the shape or chondrogenic differentiation of limb bud mesenchymal cells. These results suggest an involvement of the actin cytoskeleton in controlling cell shape and chondrogenic differentiation of limb bud mesenchyme. Interactions of the actin cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix components may provide a regulatory mechanism for mesenchyme cell differentiation into cartilage or fibrous connective tissue in the developing limb.
Supervisory control of partially observed discrete event systems with arbitrary control patterns

In this paper, we study supervisory control of partially observed discrete event systems with arbitrary control patterns. First, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a supervisor for a given non-empty and closed language K. Next, we consider the case where the language K does not satisfy the condition. We prove that there always exists its infimal superlanguage for which there exists a supervisor when the set Gamma of control patterns is closed under intersection. This infimal superlanguage is the optimal solution larger than K. On the other hand, when Gamma is closed under union, there does not necessarily exist its supremal sublanguage for which there exists a supervisor. In other words, the optimal solution smaller than K does not exist in general. So, in this case, we present a suboptimal solution smaller than K.
Factors Which Predict Hostility toward Women: Implications for Counseling.

MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. ',Aggression; Antisocial Behavior; Battered Women; Behavior Disorders; College Students; Conceptual Tempo; *Females; Higher Education; *Hostility; *Males; *Psychopathology; Sex Differences; Sexual Abuse; Victims of Crime; Violence The relationship between hostility toward women and the character traits of impulsivity, anger and psychw)athology were examined. The intent was to examine males' perception of the world (personality) and their construction of reality to provide some insight into what contributes to hostility and violence against women. Four-hundred eighty college males were adminitered a questionnaire that consisted of several instruments measuring the mentioned character traits (The Hostility Toward Women Questionnaire, Barratt Impulsivity Scale, The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, and MMPI-2: Psychopathic Deviancy Scale (Scale 4) and Schizophrenia Scale (Scale 8)). The results indicate that males who have high hostility toward women are also angry and have some psychopathic traits. Therefore, men who are most likely to be hostile toward women are also more deviant and antisocial, aggressive, and freqiently experience and express anger. Impulsivity was not predictive of hostility toward women. The findings are supportive of previous research linking hostility to anger and deviancy. Thus. interventions which focus on anger management and attitude change toward women may be particularly effective in minimizing the occurrence of violence against women. Contains 55 references. (Author/JBJ) * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Factors Which Predict Hostility Toward Women: Implicationsfor Counseling Leslie L. Crossman Texas A&M University 77843-4425 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April, 1995, San Francisco. BEST COPY AVAILABLE PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAI HAS BEEN GRANTED BY c-RossmAN ----10 THE EDUCATIONAI 1)1 SOUR(.E5 t" Nt OHMAT ION GENIE H IL MCI LIS DFPcI1TMENT OF E DUCAT ION E DUCAT ION Al RESOURCES INFORE,A1 1(11'4 GE NLER EHIC) Tho. do Uwe,. I ri.0(1,,, i. '1 11,1in 11,0 poi.on 1,1 i Ii' . ot1,1,1,1! olo rj k1. ----(411,,,i,. 1,11. ii (II Ill a p Hostility Toward Women