Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Emotional Mechanisms Linking Incivility at Work to Aggression and Withdrawal at Home: An Experience-Sampling Study

We report an experience-sampling study examining the spillover of workplace incivility on employees’ home lives. Specifically, we test a moderated mediation model whereby discrete emotions transmit the effects of workplace incivility to specific family behaviors at home. Fifty full-time employees from southeast Asia provided 363 observations over a 10-day period on workplace incivility and various emotional states. Daily reports of employees’ marital behaviors were provided by the spouses each evening. Results showed that state hostility mediated the link from workplace incivility to increased angry and withdrawn marital behaviors at home. Also, trait hostility served as a moderator such that the relationship between workplace incivility and hostile emotions was stronger for employees with high trait hostility.
Analysis of Magnetically Coupled All-Pass Network for Phase-Shifter Design

An all-pass network with magnetic coupling between its two inductors is analyzed in the context of phase-shifter design. Using even-odd mode analysis, the scattering parameters of the magnetically coupled all-pass network (MCAPN) are derived. Criteria for the network to provide an all-pass frequency response are obtained. Two switched-network phase-shifter topologies based on the MCAPNs are investigated. The results show that positive magnetic coupling between the inductors within the network boosts the amount of phase shift, whereas negative magnetic coupling broadens the bandwidth over which the phase shift remains constant. By using the MCAPNs for phase-shifter design, the tradeoff between the amount of phase shift and the bandwidth can be exploited, which not only adds to the design freedom, but suggests potential performance enhancement. For experimental verification, a 1-bit 22.5° phase shifter and a 4-bit 360° phase shifter are designed based on the analyzed MCAPNs with negative coupling factor. The measured phase error of the 1-bit phase shifter is less than 5% of the target phase shift from 2.38 to 4.80 GHz, corresponding to a bandwidth of 67%. The measured root mean square phase error of the 4-bit phase shifter is less than 3° from 1.62 to 3.89 GHz, which translates into a bandwidth of 82%.
An Improved PSO Clustering Algorithm with Entropy-based Fuzzy Clustering

Particle swarm optimization is a based-population heuristic global optimization technology and is referred to as a swarm-intelligence technique. In general, each particle is initialized randomly which increases the iteration time and makes the result unstable. In this paper an improved clustering algorithm combined with entropy-based fuzzy clustering (EFC) is presented. Firstly EFC algorithm gets an initial cluster center. Then the cluster center is regarded as inputs of one of all particles instead of being initialized randomly. Finally we cluster with the improved clustering algorithm which guarantees unique clustering. The experimental results show that the improved clustering algorithm has not only high accuracy but also certain stability. Key-Words: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO); Entropy-based Fuzzy Clustering; Cluster Center Initialization
Methyl jasmonate is transported to distal leaves via vascular process metabolizing itself into JA-Ile and triggering VOCs emission as defensive metabolites

Plants have developed multifaceted defensive systems against adverse environmental factors. One such recognized system is the production of metabolites in plants. Jasmonic acid (JA) and its metabolite methyl jasmonate (MeJA) are known to play key roles in metabolites production. The role of MeJA as a mobile signal has been established in Arabidopsis and Solanaceae plants. However, it remains largely unclear how MeJA-based signaling is organized via its elicited metabolites. Here, we investigated the signaling ability of MeJA by means of vascular transport using Achyranthes bidentata as an experimental plant. Results showed that MeJA was transported and essentially metabolized into its active form JA-Ile in the distal undamaged leaves accompanied by emission of volatile organic compounds. Results presented and discussed therein provide convincing evidence that MeJA acts as a transportable inter-cellular mobile compound in plants self-defense scheme.
Section 7: Bioinformatics: Computational Approaches to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data

Summary Objectives To review the current state of the art in computational methods for the analysis of DNA microarray data. Methods The review considers methods of microarray data collection, transformation and representation, comparisons and predictions of gene expression from the data, their mechanistic analysis, related systems biology, and the application of clustering techniques. Results Functional genomics approaches have greatly increased the rate at which data on biological systems is generated, leading to corresponding challenges in analyzing the data through advanced computational techniques . The paper compares and contrasts the application of computational clustering for discovery, comparison, and prediction of gene expression classes, together with their evaluation and relation to mechanistic analyses of biological systems. Conclusion Methods for assaying gene expression levels by DNA microarray experiments produce considerably more data than other techniques, and require a wide variety of computational techniques for identifying patterns of expression that may be biologically significant. These will have to be verified and validated by comparison to results from other methods, integrated with other systems data, and provide the feedback for further experimentation for testing mechanistic or other biological hypotheses.
Gravitational-radiation damping of compact binary systems to second post-Newtonian order.

The rate of gravitational-wave energy loss from inspiralling binary systems of compact objects of arbitrary mass is derived through second post-Newtonian (2PN) order O[(Gm/rc 2 ) 2 ] beyond the quadrupole approximation. The result has been derived by two independent calculations of the (source) multipole moments. The 2PN terms, and in particular the finite mass contribution therein (which cannot be obtained in perturbation calculations of black hole spacetimes), are shown to make a significant contribution to the accumulated phase of theoretical templates to be used in matched filtering of the data from future gravitational-wave detectors.
Management and horse-level risk factors for recurrent colic in the UK general equine practice population.

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY Recurrent colic occurs frequently in the general horse population but little evidence exists about what factors place horses at greater risk of recurrent colic. OBJECTIVES To quantify time-varying and non time-varying risk factors for recurrent colic among horses attended by first-opinion veterinary surgeons in northwest England. STUDY DESIGN Nested case-control study. METHODS A nested case-control study was conducted on data from a prospective longitudinal cohort study of 127 horses recruited subsequent to an episode of medical colic. Data were collected on management and recurrent colic episodes at 4-monthly intervals by telephone questionnaires. All recurrent colic episodes were selected as cases; controls were unmatched and randomly selected from all horse-time at risk. Data relating to the 30 days prior to the date of colic or control selection were used to determine exposure status. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to determine risk factors for recurrent colic. RESULTS In total, 59 cases and 177 controls were included. The final model showed that horses that displayed crib-biting/windsucking (odds ratio [OR] 10.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.5-41.0) or weaving behaviour (OR 3.9, 95% CI 1.5-10.1) had an increased risk of recurrence of colic. Increasing time at pasture reduced the risk of recurrence (OR 0.99, 95% CI 0.99-1.0). A significant interaction was found suggesting that the risk associated with crib-biting/windsucking may be modified by feeding fruit/vegetables; however, further research is required before recommendations for feeding practices can be made. CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that sufficient access to pasture may be an important means of reducing recurrent colic risk. The behavioural risk factors highlight individuals who may be at increased risk of recurrent colic and whose colic prevention strategies should be carefully managed.
Performance comparison of IPv4 and IPv6 on various windows operating systems

Internet is a ubiquitous part of businesses and individuals worldwide. With its popularity on an incline, operating system vendors are developing end-systems that support the new version of Internet Protocol (IPv6) that eventually will replace IPv4. The new version resolves issues that IPv4 has and takes the Internet into the 21st century. Performance of the IP stack and how it associates with operating systems is critical to the efficiency of all network related activities on any computing infrastructure. Hence it is essential to evaluate performance of IP stack with different operating systems. In this paper, two Microsoft operating systems namely, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are configured with the two versions of IP and empirically evaluated for performance difference. The experimental results demonstrate that theoretical and practical performance values are different. It also shows that network performance depends not only on IP version and traffic type, but also on the choice of the operating system.
Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus

The surprisal of a word on a probabilistic grammar constitutes a promising complexity metric for human sentence comprehension difficulty. Using two different grammar types, surprisal is shown to have an effect on fixation durations and regression probabilities in a sample of German readers’ eye movements, the Potsdam Sentence Corpus. A linear mixed-effects model was used to quantify the effect of surprisal while taking into account unigram frequency and bigram frequency (transitional probability), word length, and empirically-derived word predictability; the socalled “early” and “late” measures of processing difficulty both showed an effect of surprisal. Surprisal is also shown to have a small but statistically non-significant effect on empirically-derived predictability itself. This work thus demonstrates the importance of including parsing costs as a predictor of comprehension difficulty in models of reading, and suggests that a simple identification of syntactic parsing costs with early measures and late measures with durations of post-syntactic events may be difficult to uphold.
NFκB activation is associated with its O-GlcNAcylation state under hyperglycemic conditions

The transcription factor NFκB is activated by phosphorylation and acetylation and plays important roles in inflammatory and immune responses in the cell. Additionally, posttranslational modification of the NFκB p65 subunit by O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) has been reported, but the modification site of O-GlcNAc on NFκB p65 and its exact function have not been elucidated. In this work, we show that O-GlcNAcylation of NFκB p65 decreases binding to IκBα and increases transcriptional activity under hyperglycemic conditions. Also, we demonstrate that both Thr-322 and Thr-352 of NFκB p65 can be modified with O-GlcNAc, but modification on Thr-352, not Thr-322, is important for transcriptional activation. Our findings suggest that site-specific O-GlcNAcylation may be a reason why NFκB activity increases continuously under hyperglycemic conditions.
Generalized Pólya Urn for Time-Varying Pitman-Yor Processes

This article introduces a class of first-order stationary time-varying Pitman-Yor processes. Subsuming our construction of time-varying Dirichlet processes presented in (Caron et al., 2007), these models can be used for time-dynamic density estimation and clustering. Our intuitive and simple construction relies on a generalized Polya urn scheme. Significantly, this construction yields marginal distributions at each time point that can be explicitly characterized and easily controlled. Inference is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo and sequential Monte Carlo methods. We demonstrate our models and algorithms on epidemiological and video tracking data.
How the evolution of emerging collaborations relates to code changes: an empirical study

Developers contributing to open source projects spontaneously group into "emerging'' teams, reflected by messages exchanged over mailing lists, issue trackers and other communication means. Previous studies suggested that such teams somewhat mirror the software modularity. This paper empirically investigates how, when a project evolves, emerging teams re-organize themselves-e.g., by splitting or merging. We relate the evolution of teams to the files they change, to investigate whether teams split to work on cohesive groups of files. Results of this study-conducted on the evolution history of four open source projects, namely Apache httpd, Eclipse JDT, Netbeans, and Samba-provide indications of what happens in the project when teams reorganize. Specifically, we found that emerging team splits imply working on more cohesive groups of files and emerging team merges imply working on groups of files that are cohesive from structural perspective. Such indications serve to better understand the evolution of software projects. More important, the observation of how emerging teams change can serve to suggest software remodularization actions.
What is the right model for wireless channel interference?

In wireless communications, the desired wireless signal is typically decoded by treating the sum of all the other ongoing signal transmissions as noise. In the networking literature, this phenomenon is typically abstracted using a wireless channel interference model. The level of detail in the interference model, evidently determines the accuracy of the results based upon the model. Several works in the networking literature have made use of simplistic interference models, e.g., fixed ranges for communication and interference, the capture threshold model (used in the ns2 network simulator), the protocol model, and so on. At the same time, fairly complex interference models such as those based on the SINR (signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio) have also been proposed and used. We investigate the impact of the choice of the interference model, on the conclusions that can be drawn regarding the performance of wireless networks, by comparing different wireless interference models. We find that both in the case of random access networks, as well as in the case of scheduled networks (where node transmissions are scheduled to be completely conflict-free), different interference models can produce significantly different results. Therefore, a lot of caution should be exercised before accepting or interpreting results based on simplified interference models. Further, we feel that an SINR-based model is the minimum level of detail that should be employed to model wireless channel interference in a networking context.
Ethical consideration of incidental findings on adult brain MRI in research

Objective: To characterize the frequency and severity of incidental findings in brain MRIs of young and older adult research volunteers, and to provide an evaluation of the ethical challenges posed by the detection of such findings. Methods: The authors reviewed 151 research MRI scans obtained retrospectively from subjects recruited to studies as healthy volunteers. Incidental findings were classified into four categories: no referral, routine, urgent, or immediate referral. p Values for significance were computed from χ2 tests of contingency. Results: Of 151 studies, the authors found an overall occurrence of incidental findings having required referral of 6.6%. By age, there were more findings in the older cohort (aged >60 years) than in the younger cohort (p < 0.05) and in more men than women in the older cohort (p < 0.001). Three of four (75%) findings in the younger cohort were classified in the urgent referral category; 100% of the findings in the older cohort were classified as routine (p < 0.05). Conclusion: The significant presence but different characteristics of incidental findings in young and older subjects presumed to be neurologically healthy suggest that standards of practice are needed to guide investigators in managing and communicating their discovery.
Suppressive Effect of Zinc on the Formation of Colonic Preneoplastic Lesions in the Mouse Fed High Levels of Dietary Iron

We investigated the effect of zinc on the formation of colonic aberrant crypt foci induced by azoxymethane (AOM) followed by dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) in mice with high iron diet (HFe; 450 ppm iron). Sixweek old ICR mice were fed on high iron diets with combination of three different levels of zinc in diets, low-zinc (LZn; 0.01 ppm), medium-zinc (MZn; 0.1 ppm), and high-zinc (HZn; 1 ppm) for 12 weeks. Animals were received weekly intraperitoneal injections of AOM (10 mg/kg B.W. in saline) for 3 weeks followed by 2% DSS (molecular weight 36,000~50,000) in the drinking water for a week. To confirm the iron storage in the body, the hepatic iron concentration has been determine chemically and compared with histological assessment visualized by Prussian blue reaction. Aberrant crypt (AC) and aberrant crypt foci (ACF) were analyzed in the colonic mucosa of mouse fed high dietary iron. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) level were also investigated. Apoptosis in the preneoplastic lesion was determined by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nickend labeling (TUNEL). In addition, immunohistochemistry of β-catenin was also performed on the mucous membrane of colon. The number of large ACF (≥4 AC/ACF), which possess greater tumorigenic potential, was significantly lower in MZn and HZn groups compared with LZn group. Cytosolic SOD activity in the liver was significantly higher in HZn group compared with LZn group. Hepatic MDA level was decreased significantly in HZn group compared with MZn and LZn groups. Apoptotic index was significantly higher in HZn group. Taken together, these findings indicate that dietary zinc might exert a protective effect against colonic preneoplastic lesion induced by AOM/DSS in ICR mice with high iron status, and suggest that dietary supplement of zinc might play a role in suppressing colon carcinogenesis in mice.
Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services in Treeline Whitebark Pine Communities: Potential Impacts from a Non-Native Pathogen

Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) has the largest and most northerly distribution of any white pine (Subgenus Strobus) in North America, encompassing 18° latitude and 21° longitude in western mountains. Within this broad range, however, whitebark pine occurs within a narrow elevational zone, including upper subalpine and treeline forests, and functions generally as an important keystone and foundation species. In the Rocky Mountains, whitebark pine facilitates the development of krummholz conifer communities in the alpine-treeline ecotone (ATE), and thus potentially provides capacity for critical ecosystem services such as snow retention and soil stabilization. The invasive, exotic pathogen Cronartium ribicola, which causes white pine blister rust, now occurs nearly rangewide in whitebark pine communities, to their northern limits. Here, we synthesize data from 10 studies to document geographic variation in structure, conifer species, and understory plants in whitebark pine treeline communities, and examine the potential role of these communities in snow retention and regulating downstream flows. Whitebark pine mortality is predicted to alter treeline community composition, structure, and function. Whitebark pine losses in the ATE may also alter response to climate warming. Efforts to restore whitebark pine have thus far been limited to subalpine communities, particularly through planting seedlings with potential blister rust resistance. We discuss whether restoration strategies might be appropriate for treeline communities.
Research into the Relationship between College Students' Future Time Insight and Academic Delay of Gratification

By applying the future time insight questionnaire and the revised college students' academic delay of gratification questionnaire,we made a perspective survey of 691 college students' level in the future time insight and the academic delay of gratification.The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between college students' future time insight and their academic delay of gratification.And the four factors(behavior promise,future efficacy,purpose awareness,future image) in the future time insight have a stronger predicative force for college students' academic delay of gratification.
Interpersonal Relationship Needs of Virtual Behavior: From Virtual Communities to Virtual Worlds

This paper aimed at exploring motivations for participation in virtual community and virtual world. An interpersonal relationship perspective was introduced as a framework to explore this participation behavior using an interpersonal relationship model—the Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation (FIRO) model (Will C. Schutz, 1958; William Carl Schutz, 1966). Specifically, the paper attempted to demonstrate that members’ virtual behavior was a response of them to fulfill their interpersonal relationship needs. Two types of their virtual involvement behavior -- Behavior to Obtain Information (BOI) and Behavior to Give Information (BGI) – were investigated in our research. Data used in our analysis was collected from a virtual community—Microsoft Chinese Community and a virtual world—Cyworld. Our ANOVA results suggested that interpersonal relationship model was an applicable construct to explain virtual behavior.
People, they are a changin’

People’s attitudes, social circumstances, and personalities can change over time. What might anticipating change in oneself and in one’s partner mean for romantic relationships? Two studies showed that expecting congruency in change for the self and the partner was linked to better relationship quality. While anticipating change in either partner by itself was associated with perceiving personal growth, individual-level change was only positively linked to relationship appraisals if both partners were expected to change in similar ways. Expecting a future in which both partners change—or both partners stay the same—facilitated higher current (Studies 1 and 2) and future (Study 2) relationship quality and stability compared to expecting a future in which only one of the partners changes.