Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Synchronized behavior for sharing physical world information

This paper proposes a new communication model based on synchronized behaviors. If people talk about real world information, they use non-verbal expressions to draw otherpsilas attention to the target. To achieve the reference to the information, we focus on behaviors which occur simultaneously. The simultaneous behaviors are the evidence that both humans share the same context in interaction. We employ this communication evidence for the communication robot. By generating simultaneous gestures, the robot make a human feel that the robot share the same context with him/her.
Heat Shock Proteins and Physiological Stress in Fish

SYNOPSIS. This paper reviews the generalized stress response in fish at the cellular and neuroendocrine levels. The focus of this review is to examine the possible relationships between the stress responses at these two levels in fish. It focuses primarily on the heat shock protein 70 (hsp70). Thus, the descriptions of the endocrine and the cellular stress responses are followed by a discussion of how hsps may be related to the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol. Preliminary evidence shows that adrenaline causes an increase in hsp70 in primary cultures of rainbow trout hepatocytes. Cortisol does not directly affect hsp70 levels in fish tissues; however, in primary cultures of trout hepatocytes, cortisol decreased the stressor-induced increase in hsp 70. A wide range of abiotic and biological stressors have been shown to induce hsp induction in many types of fish cells, including cell lines, primary cell cultures, and in tissues from whole animals. Heat shock proteins has been implicated in the protection of sulphate transport in the renal epithelium of the flounder against the damaging effects of heat stress. Heat shock proteins likely confer thermotolerance in fish, as well as tolerance to cytotoxic effects of environmental contaminants and other non-thermal stressors.
The CloudSat radar‐lidar geometrical profile product (RL‐GeoProf): Updates, improvements, and selected results

Derived by combining data from the CloudSat radar and the CALIPSO lidar, the so‐called radar‐lidar geometrical profile product (RL‐GeoProf) allows for characterization of the vertical and spatial structure of hydrometeor layers. RL‐GeoProf is one of the standard data products of the CloudSat Project. In this paper we describe updates to the RL‐GeoProf algorithm. These improvements include a significant fix to the CALIPSO Vertical Feature Mask (VFM) that more accurately renders the occurrence frequencies of low‐level clouds over the global oceans. Additionally, we now account for the navigational challenges associated with coordinated measurements of the two instruments by providing additional diagnostic information in the data files. We also document how the along‐track averaging of the VFM influences the accuracy of RL‐GeoProf. We find that the 5 km averaged VFM when merged with data from the CloudSat radar provides a global description of cloud occurrence that best matches an independently derived cloud mask from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MYD35) over daytime global oceans. Expanding on the comparison with MYD35, we demonstrate that RL‐GeoProf and MYD35 closely track the monthly averaged cloud occurrence fraction during a 4 year span of measurements. A more detailed examination reveals latitudinal dependency in the comparison. Specifically, MYD35 tends to be significantly low biased relative to RL‐GeoProf over the Polar Regions when cloud layers present low visible and thermal contrast with underlying surfaces. Additional analyses examine the geometrically defined hydrometeor layer occurrence climatologies over select regions of the Earth and the seasonal variations of low‐based and low‐topped cloud cover.
Stages in an online review genre

Abstract Genre, from the systemic functional linguistics point of view, refers to the organization of any speech activity in stages, determined by the overall purpose of the genre and by social conventions. In this paper, the SFL approach to genre and register is applied to the genre of online movie reviews. A corpus analysis shows specific stages in the genre: Descriptive stages (in turn, Subject Matter, Plot, Characters, and Background) and an obligatory Evaluation stage. Each stage is described in detail, in particular its characteristics and placement in the texts. We then turn to lexicogrammatical characteristics of the two main stages, showing that Description and Evaluation can be distinguished from each other using two features: evaluative words and connectives. Evaluation stages contain significantly more evaluative words. In terms of connectives, Description was shown to contain more temporal markers than Evaluation, whereas Evaluation contains more causal markers, indicating a basic distinction between narration (which tends to necessitate more temporal relations) and comment (which makes more use of cause, result, concession, condition, and contrast relations).
Phenology, Life Tables, and Reproductive Biology of Tetraleurodes perseae (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on California Avocados

Abstract Tetraleurodes perseae Nakahara (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is an exotic whitefly in California that is a minor pest of avocados, Persea americana Miller (Lauraceae). Field monitoring over a 4.5-yr period (1997–2002) in a commercial avocado orchard in southern California indicated that T. perseae is probably univoltine, and adult densities show single distinct peaks each year around August. The only hymenopteran parasitoid found attacking T. perseae in California was an aphelinid, Cales noacki Howard, and parasitism over February–April each year ranged from 30 to 100%. Partial life tables constructed from cohorts of T. perseae in the field indicated that survivorship from settled first and second instars to emerged adult whiteflies ranged from 34 to 37%. There were no significant differences in marginal mortality rates by life stage for whitefly cohorts enclosed in sealed mesh bags, open mesh bags, or on unenclosed avocado leaves. Survivorship curves constructed from field phenology data indicated that average egg-to-adult survivorship was around 3.5%, which is substantially lower than that suggested from the life table analyses. Laboratory studies conducted at 25°C on excised avocado leaves indicated that ≈43–46 d is needed by T. perseae to complete development from egg to adult. Demographic analyses of laboratory data indicate that T. perseae has a high reproductive potential with net reproductive rate and intrinsic rate of increase estimates being 21.15 ± 1.39 and 0.07 ± 0.001, respectively.
Dust Growth Instabilities in Silane-based Plasmas

In this paper we report on two instabilities observed in dusty plasmas, at different stages of dust particle formation. Experiments are performed in a low-pressure Ar/SiH4 radiofrequency plasma. The first instability, occuring at the transition between nanocrystal accumulation and coalescence phases, is very sensitive to operating conditions. It is shown to be a good indicator of the end of nanocrystal accumulation phase in the plasma. This "coalescence instability" seems to be an attachment induced-ionization instability as observed in electronegative gases. The second instability starts during the second dust generation formation. It exhibits a complex scheme closely linked to dust successive generations. This instability is suspected to be a void instability. Indeed, the occurence of this "successive generation instability", combined with laser light scattering and Ar*(750.38 nm) line spectroscopic measurements indicate a possible void region in the dust cloud, as observed in PKE experiments.
Separation Anxiety and its Relation to Parental Attachment Styles among Children

The present study aimed at identifying the relationship between parental attachment styles and separation anxiety in the light of the gender of children. Therefore, the scales of separation anxiety and parental attachment were prepared and applied to a sample of 300 students from the upper grades in the primary stage in Jeddah. Results showed statistically significant correlation coefficients between parental attachment styles (anaclitic attachment, anxious attachment, and preoccupied attachment) and separation anxiety (depressive symptoms associated with parental separation anxiety, social concerns, fear of child-mother separation, general anxiety, and total degree of parental separation anxiety). There were no statistically significant differences in anxious attachment and depressive symptoms associated with parental separation anxiety and fear of parent's departure from the house.
Effective field theory for the Bose-Hubbard model

We study quantum and thermal properties of the Bose-Hubbard model which describes a lattice gas of interacting bosons. By using the formalism of functional integration at one loop (Gaussian level), we determine the equation of state and elementary excitations. In particular, we investigate the Mott-superfluid quantum phase transition showing that the grand canonical potential crucially depends on system parameters.
Grieving in the 21st Century: Social Media's Role in Facilitating Supportive Exchanges Following Community-Level Traumatic Events

In the aftermath of a traumatic mass casualty event, a community's resources are strained, while its needs for tangible, emotional, and informational support are elevated. Social media may serve to bridge the distance between the locally affected community and those outside who are willing to offer support. This exploratory study uses Twitter as a lens for examining gratitude for support in the aftermath of disaster. We examine how social media may provide new opportunities for support to be exchanged and networks to be formed in the aftermath of a traumatic event. By analyzing tweets originating from Newtown, Connecticut after the school shooting, we identify and describe six categories of support exchanged through Twitter, including two categories (symbolic and role-based) that have not been extensively discussed in the social support literature -- but are valued by the community. Each type of support network shows distinct structural characteristics and temporal variance.
Variability-aware request replication for latency curtailment

Processing time variability is commonplace in distributed systems, where resources display disparate performance due to, e.g., different workload levels, background processes, and contention in virtualized environments. However, it is paramount for service providers to keep variability in response time under control in order to offer responsive services. We investigate how request replication can be used to exploit processing time variability to reduce response times, considering not only mean values but also the tail of the response time distribution. We focus on the distributed setup, where replication is achieved by running copies of requests on multiple servers that otherwise evolve independently, and waiting for the first replica to complete service. We construct models that capture the evolution of a system with replicated requests using approximate methods and observe that highly variable service times offer the best opportunities for replication - reducing the response time tail in particular. Further, the effect of replication is non-uniform over the response time distribution: gains in one metric, e.g., the mean, can be at the cost of another, e.g., the tail percentiles. This is demonstrated in wide range of numerical virtual experiments. It can be seen that capturing service time variability is key to the evaluation of latency tolerance strategies and in their design.
IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT AND FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING ACTIVITY OF ALTERNANTHERA SESSILIS

The present study was aimed to evaluate the antioxidant activity of A.sessilis plant extracts in different solvents. The antioxidant activity was studied by phosphomolybdate method and DPPH method. In phosphomolybdate method the highest activity was shown by methanolic extract (12.044 mM of ascorbic acid eqvt/gm of sample). The highest radical scavenging activity by DPPH method was found in methanol extracts (IC 50 587.093μg/ml). Ferrous chelating activity, superoxide radical scavenging activity, nitric oxide radical scavenging activity was found high in acetone, acetone and methanol extracts respectively. Total Flavonoids and crude phenolics were found to be 0.370 mg/gm dry wt. and 1.529 mg/gm dry wt. respectively. The antioxidant activity increases with increase in the concentration. This study indicates that A.sessilis is a potential source of natural antioxidant. INTRODUCTION: Production of free radicals in the biological system results the imbalance in the level of pro-oxidant and antioxidant known as oxidative stress. These ROS are able to oxidize cellular bio-molecules like nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates 1, 2, 3, . Fruits and vegetables are rich source of phytochemicals especially polyphenols 5, . It is evident from the study that there is an inverse relationship between the dietary intake of antioxidant rich foods and the incidence of a number of human diseases . Leafty vegetables apart from being a good source of minerals also contain antioxidant vitamins and pigments. They are also known for their therapeutic value . Alternanthera sessilis is a prostrate or perennial herb. The branches are raised from the root and are up to 50 cm long. This plant is found in damp places, wet headlands, roadsides and sometimes as weed of plantations. In South East Asia this plant is taken as vegetables. In India it is used for tvreatment of gastrointestinal problems. In the present study an attempt has been made to evaluate the antioxidant and radical scavenging activity of A.sessilis by different in vitro models. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Plant material: Fresh mature leaves and stem of Alternanthera sessilis were collected during the month of March and April from Dibrugarh, Assam, India. Preparation of plant extract: The leaves and stem of Alternanthera sessilis was dried at room temperature, powdered and used for extraction. 1 gm of powder extracted with 10 ml of 90% methanol, 70% acetone and 80% ethanol for 12 hours with occasional shaking. The supernatant was collected and concentrated under reduced pressure in a rotary evaporator. All extracts were kept in a refrigerator until use.
Effect of alteplase on the CT hyperdense artery sign and outcome after ischemic stroke

Objective: To investigate whether the location and extent of the CT hyperdense artery sign (HAS) at presentation affects response to IV alteplase in the randomized controlled Third International Stroke Trial (IST-3). Methods: All prerandomization and follow-up (24–48 hours) CT brain scans in IST-3 were assessed for HAS presence, location, and extent by masked raters. We assessed whether HAS grew, persisted, shrank, or disappeared at follow-up, the association with 6-month functional outcome, and effect of alteplase. IST-3 is registered (ISRCTN25765518). Results: HAS presence (vs absence) independently predicted poor 6-month outcome (increased Oxford Handicap Scale [OHS]) on adjusted ordinal regression analysis (odds ratio [OR] 0.66, p < 0.001). Outcome was worse in patients with more (vs less) extensive HAS (OR 0.61, p = 0.027) but not in proximal (vs distal) HAS (p = 0.420). Increasing age was associated with more HAS growth at follow-up (OR 1.01, p = 0.013). Treatment with alteplase increased HAS shrinkage/disappearance at follow-up (OR 0.77, p = 0.006). There was no significant difference in HAS shrinkage with alteplase in proximal (vs distal) or more (vs less) extensive HAS (p = 0.516 and p = 0.580, respectively). There was no interaction between presence vs absence of HAS and benefit of alteplase on 6-month OHS (p = 0.167). Conclusions: IV alteplase promotes measurable reduction in HAS regardless of HAS location or extent. Alteplase increased independence at 6 months in patients with and without HAS. Classification of evidence: This study provides Class I evidence that for patients within 6 hours of ischemic stroke with a CT hyperdense artery sign, IV alteplase reduced intra-arterial hyperdense thrombus.
Context modeling based on context quantization with application in wavelet image coding

Context modeling is widely used in image coding to improve the compression performance. However, with no special treatment, the expected compression gain will be cancelled by the model cost introduced by high order context models. Context quantization is an efficient method to deal with this problem. In this paper, we analyze the general context quantization problem in detail and show that context quantization is similar to a common vector quantization problem. If a suitable distortion measure is defined, the optimal context quantizer can be designed by a Lloyd style iterative algorithm. This context quantization strategy is applied to an embedded wavelet coding scheme in which the significance map symbols and sign symbols are directly coded by arithmetic coding with context models designed by the proposed quantization algorithm. Good coding performance is achieved.
Knowledge Externalities, Agglomeration Economies, and Employment Growth in Dutch Cities

This paper extends the work of Glaeser et al.(1992) by looking at effects of agglomeration economies on employment growth in Dutch city-industries and in very small (postal) zip code-industries in the Dutch province of South-Holland. At both levels of geographic detail, findings are broadly consistent with results from the earlier study in that employment growth is enhanced by industrial diversity and local competition, but retarded by industrial specialization.Also, a novel feature of the analysis presented here is that we examine the extent to which agglomeration economies in one location affect employment growth in other locations.
Effects of Lacunar Infarctions on Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Cerebral Autosomal-Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy

Background and Purpose Cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an inherited microangiopathy caused by mutations in the Notch3 gene. Although previous studies have shown an association between lacunar infarction and cognitive impairment, the relationship between MRI parameters and cognition remains unclear. In this study we investigated the influence of MRI parameters on cognitive impairment in CADASIL. Methods We applied a prospective protocol to 40 patients. MRI analysis included the normalized volume of white-matter hyperintensities (nWMHs), number of lacunes, and number of cerebral microbleeds. Cognition was assessed with the aid of psychometric tests [Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-cognition (ADAS-cog), Trail-Making Test, and Stroop interference (Stroop IF)]. Results A multivariate regression analysis revealed that the total number of lacunes influenced the performance in the MMSE, ADAS-cog, and Stroop IF, while nWMHs had a strong univariate association with ADAS-cog and Stroop IF scores. However, this association disappeared in the multivariate analysis. Conclusions These findings demonstrate that the number of lacunes is the main predictive factor of cognitive impairment in CADASIL.
Menstrual effluent induces epithelial-mesenchymal transitions in mesothelial cells.

BACKGROUND Menstrual effluent affects mesothelial cell (MC) morphology. We evaluated whether these changes were consistent with epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMT). METHODS Monolayer cultures of MC were incubated overnight in conditioned media, prepared from cells isolated form menstrual effluent, with or without kinase and ATP inhibitors. Changes in cell morphology were monitored using time-lapse video microscopy and immunohistochemistry. Effects on the expression of EMT-associated molecules were evaluated using real-time RT-PCR and/or Western blot analysis. RESULTS Incubation in conditioned media disrupted cell-cell contacts, and increased MC motility. The changes were reversible. During the changes the distribution of cytokeratins, fibrillar actin and alpha-tubulin changed. Sodium azide, an inhibitor of ATP production, and Genistein, a general tyrosine kinase inhibitor, antagonized these effects. Wortmannin, a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor, and SU6656, an Src tyrosine kinase inhibitor, only partially antagonized the effect. The expression of Snail and vimentin was markedly up-regulated, whereas the expression of E-cadherin was decreased and cytokeratins were altered. CONCLUSIONS In MC, menstrual effluent initiates a reversible, energy-dependent transition process from an epithelial to a mesenchymal phenotype. Involvement of the (Src) tyrosine kinase signalling pathway and the changes in the expression of cytokeratins, Snail, vimentin and E-cadherin demonstrate that the morphological changes are EMT.
Bitcoin Live : Scalable

Digital currencies and transactions are becoming more prevailing these days. Systems like Bitcoin digital currency[1], run on purely digital monetary transactions which are technically verified for correctness and validity, but unregulated or unchecked for fraudulence. In massive networks like the Bitcoin transaction graph, thousands of network updates or transactions occur per minute, and it becomes critical to be able to analyze a high volume of transactions in a way that makes it feasible to detect frauds and other behaviors. Given that bitcoin transactions are anonymous, fraud detection algorithms require to do network analysis, and current systems either work on batches, offline information, or graphs smaller in size than the bitcoin network, all of which present limitations when trying to do analysis of each transaction before being confirmed. This paper describes the implementation of a scalable graph analysis system, which performs bitcoin long chain transaction behavior analysis in real time. We approach real time analytics with the use of a modified PageRank[11] algorithm as a data sampling rate function, which ranks incoming transactions for deeper graph analysis processing. With the insight gained from this project: we 1) Identify long chain bitcoin transactions live, 2) apply a modified PageRank as a first step filter to select processing, 3) show the feasibility of performing real time multi layer analysis that scales horizontally 1 ­ Introduction In Bitcoin, money is represented as a graph (blockchain). Money resides in a node of the graph (wallet) and it can be transferred to other wallets. Each of this transfers, or transactions, is modeled as a directed edge. This graph contains information of every single transaction: from the origin of the network with the first bitcoin ever created, to creation of new bitcoin, and how money has shifted owner over time. fig 0 ­ plot of a day of bitcoin transactions as a graph. Long chain transactions (bitcoins passing in the same amount through different owners in a chain) are highlighted by color
MOTIVASI KONSUMEN DAN SIKAP KONSUMEN TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN DI WILD

Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kuantitatif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh motivasi dan sikap konsumen terhadap keputusan pembelian Wild. Populasi yang ditetapkan oleh penelitian ini adalah konsumen yang telah melakukan pembelian lebih dari 1 kali di Wild. Teknik yang digunakan yaitu purposive sampling, yaitu penentuan sampel dengan pertimbangan tertentu. Variabel penelitian yang digunakan oleh peneliti adalah motivasi konsumen dan sikap konsumen sebagai variabel independen, sedangkan keputusan pembelian sebagai variabel dependen. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini dilakukan dengan membagikan kuisioner yang menggunakan skala likert. Berdasarkan hasil analisis data, dapat dismpulkan bahwa variabel motivasi konsumen dan sikap konsumen berpengaruh positif terhadap keputusan pembelian Wild. Kata Kunci: Motivasi Konsumen, Sikap Konsumen, dan Keputusan Pembelian