Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Language‐association cortex asymmetry in autism and specific language impairment

Language deficits are among the core impairments of autism. We previously reported asymmetry reversal of frontal language cortex in boys with autism. Specific language impairment (SLI) and autism share similar language deficits and may share genetic links. This study evaluated asymmetry of frontal language cortex in a new, independent sample of right‐handed boys, including a new sample of boys with autism and a group of boys with SLI. The boys with autism were divided into those with language impairment (ALI) and those with normal language ability (ALN). Subjects (right‐handed, aged 6.2–13.4 years) included 22 boys with autism (16 ALI and 6 ALN), 9 boys with a history of or present SLI, and 11 normal controls. MRI brain scans were segmented into grey and white matter; then the cerebral cortex was parcellated into 48 gyral‐based divisions per hemisphere. Group differences in volumetric asymmetry were predicted a priori in language‐related regions in inferior lateral frontal (Broca's area) and posterior superior temporal cortex. Language impaired boys with autism and SLI both had significant reversal of asymmetry in frontal language‐related cortex; larger on the right side in both groups of language impaired boys and larger on the left in both unimpaired language groups, strengthening a phenotypic link between ALI and SLI. Thus, we replicated the observation of reversed asymmetry in frontal language cortex reported previously in an independent autism sample, and observed similar reversal in boys with SLI, further strengthening a phenotypic link between SLI and a subgroup of autism. Linguistically unimpaired boys with autism had similar asymmetry compared with the control group, suggesting that Broca's area asymmetry reversal is related more to language impairment than specifically to autism diagnosis. Ann Neurol 2004
Effects of L1 definitions and cognate status of test items on the Vocabulary Size Test

This study examines the development and evaluation of a bilingual Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation, 2006). A bilingual (English–Russian) test was developed and administered to 121 intermediate proficiency EFL learners (native speakers of Russian), alongside the original monolingual (English-only) version of the test. A comparison of the bilingual and monolingual test scores showed that participants achieved significantly higher scores on the bilingual version of the test. Accuracy of responses to individual test items was reliably higher when the meanings of test items were presented in the L1 (Russian) and when these items were cognates. The findings also revealed that the bilingual version is likely to be a more sensitive measure of written receptive vocabulary knowledge. Finally, analyses showed that the effect of using L1 for multiple-choice options is likely to be larger for low-proficiency learners and that the difference in response accuracy to cognates and non-cognates decreases as item frequency increases. The paper concludes with recommendations on developing and using bilingual vocabulary size tests.
PRIVATIZATION OF VIETNAMESE FIRMS AND ITS EFFECTS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE

The paper analyzes the effects of privatization on the performance of firms switching their ownership from state-owned to private-owned ownership. By using difference-in-difference with control variables and propensity score matching techniques, this study overcomes some shortcomings in previous studies on the effect of privatization on performance in transition economies such as no control of selection bias and the inadequateness to single out the privatization effect from the concurrent effects of other economic factors. We find that a shift from state or collective ownership to private ownership can consistently enhance the performance of switchers in terms of profitability. This suggests that privatization is an efficient way to improve the financial performance of Vietnamese state-owned enterprises.
Behavioral diversity, choices and noise in the iterated prisoner's dilemma

Real-world dilemmas rarely involve just two choices and perfect interactions without mistakes. In the iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) game, intermediate choices or mistakes (noise) have been introduced to extend its realism. This paper studies the IPD game with both noise and multiple levels of cooperation (intermediate choices) in a coevolutionary environment, where players can learn and adapt their strategies through an evolutionary algorithm. The impact of noise on the evolution of cooperation is first examined. It is shown that the coevolutionary models presented in this paper are robust against low noise (when mistakes occur with low probability). That is, low levels of noise have little impact on the evolution of cooperation. On the other hand, high noise (when mistakes occur with high probability) creates misunderstandings and discourages cooperation. However, the evolution of cooperation in the IPD with more choices in a coevolutionary learning setting also depends on behavioral diversity. This paper further investigates the issue of behavioral diversity in the coevolution of strategies for the IPD with more choices and noise. The evolution of cooperation is more difficult to achieve if a coevolutionary model with low behavioral diversity is used for IPD games with higher levels of noise. The coevolutionary model with high behavioral diversity in the population is more resistant to noise. It is shown that strategy representations can have a significant impact on the evolutionary outcomes because of different behavioral diversities that they generate. The results further show the importance of behavioral diversity in coevolutionary learning.
Violent Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Intimate Partner Violence in Adults

Information about the relationship of experiencing abuse or witnessing domestic violence in childhood to the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood is scant. The relationship of childhood physical or sexual abuse or growing up with a battered mother to the risk of being a victim of IPV for women or a perpetrator for men was studied among 8,629 participants in the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study conducted in a large HMO. Each of the three violent childhood experiences increased the risk of victimization or perpetration of IPV approximately two-fold. A statistically significant graded relationship was found between the number of violent experiences and the risk of IPV. Among persons who had all three forms of violent childhood experiences, the risk of victimization and perpetration was increased 3.5-fold for women and 3.8-fold for men. These data suggest that as part of risk assessment for IPV in adults, screening for a history of childhood abuse or exposure to domestic violence is needed.
A methodology in selecting enterprise architecture framework for corporate information factory

For growing and mature organization, information system (IS) implementation turns out to be critical in organization's sustainability. IS and information availability become the backbone of operational and management in organization. It is also often used as a foundation for decision making in any level in the organization. Corporate Information Factory (CIF) is one of data communication tools that empower IS with logical structure in information management. CIF provides a flow in transforming data from operational systems into useful information for decision making. The complexity of CIF implementation is relative to the scale of business being empowered. CIF implementation should align with organizational objectives and consider the nature of the business process. Thus, CIF implementation can adopt Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach in order to get systematic and comprehensive view regarding the needs of organization. Unfortunately, existing EA framework and methodology usually is not specifically assigned for CIF development. The problem is that common EA framework and methodology only guide general step for creating EA, which often not suitable for every organization with different IT vision. Thus, one needs to evaluate the EA best practice and selecting a relevant one. This study explores methodology in evaluating EA framework and methodology for developing CIF in organization by defining domain and factor that is specifically needed for CIF development. Existing EAF are evaluated based on those domain and factor. The objectives of this study are two-fold: analyzing critical aspect in selecting EA development; and exploring existing EA framework and methodology based on the critical aspect. Our analysis mentioned that every framework and methodology has its strength and weakness. Thus, organization can combine some framework or methodology to build a systematic and comprehensive EA in CIF development.
Time-space correlation for real-time, accurate, and energy-aware data reporting in wireless sensor networks

One of the main applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is the accurate monitoring of extensive areas. However, due to the high density of nodes, redundant and correlated data are usually sensed by nearby nodes over time. Since saving energy is a key aspect of these networks, it is important to take advantage of these correlations to decrease communication and data exchange. However, current proposals usually results in high delays and outdated data arriving at the sink node. In this work, we go further and fully exploit both spatial and temporal correlations to perform near real-time data collection in WSNs. Also, in our proposal, called Efficient Data Collection Aware of Space-Time Correlation (EAST), obtained results clearly indicate that an event can be sensed with a high accuracy of more than 99.7% while still saving the residual energy of the nodes in more than 14 times when compared to the accurate data collection strategy.
Escape Mechanism: Women, Caretaking, and Compulsive Machine Gambling

In this working paper I explore the links between caretaking responsibilities, video poker machines, and female compulsive gambling. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews with women video poker addicts in Las Vegas, I suggest that they have discovered a highly addictive mechanism of escape from what they experience as an excess of relational demands at home and at work. The aims of this paper are twofold: (1) I argue that the desire for such an escape is symptomatic of unresolved anxieties and tensions surrounding the place of care in our discursively individualist society, and, (2) I argue that the gaming industry, by engineering consumer technologies that capitalize on this desire, is implicated in the phenomenon of machine addiction among women. These arguments offer alternatives to a neoliberal understanding of excessive gambling as poor exercise of “free choice” and a related biomedical understanding of excessive gambling as a genetically based “pathology. ”
Facelift for an Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Patient: A Case Report.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a group of inherited connective tissue disorders caused by genetic mutations that result in faulty production of collagen.1,2 Multiple body systems can be affected, though the type of EDS depends on which collagen sub-type is involved. There are ten subtypes of EDS. Types 1 and 2 are the classical types and cause hypermobility with moderate skin involvement. These types are caused by autosomal dominant type V collagen defects.2 Patients with EDS have fragile skin and tissues that tear easily during operative procedures, which can complicate undermining and suturing strategies. Vessel wall fragility and problems with platelet aggregation can cause excessive bruising and higher risk of hematoma formation in the immediate postoperative period. There can also be increased problems with wound healing, stretched scars, and recurrence of redundant skin folds due to poor collagen synthesis during the proliferative phase after injury.1 Facelift and necklift procedures have previously been deemed to have inappropriately high risks of complications in EDS. We present an interesting case to highlight these principles in a patient whose quality of life was severely affected by her preoperative physiognomy. A 55-year-old woman with EDS (type 2, classical) presented in April 2013 with severe skin laxity of her face and neck, requesting rejuvenation surgery to address her premature facial and cervical ageing in order to restore her self-esteem. She had experienced extensive postoperative bleeding and bruising previously from surgical procedures undertaken on her wrist and knee joints, and had profound awareness of her condition at her initial consultation with the senior author. At subsequent assessments, spanning over four months, it was mutually agreed that standard face and neck rejuvenation procedures were high risk …
Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives: performing the habitus

This paper reopens debates of geographic theorizations and conceptualizations of social capital. I argue that human geographers have tended to underplay the analytic value of social capital, by equating the concept with dominant policy interpretations. It is contended that geographers could more explicitly contribute to pervasive critical social science accounts. With this in mind, an embodied perspective of social capital is constructed. This synthesizes Bourdieu's capitals and performative theorizations of identity, to progress the concept of social capital in four key ways. First, this theorization more fully reconnects embodied differences to broader socio-economic processes. Second, an exploration of how embodied social differences can emerge directly from the political-economy and/or via broader operations of power is facilitated. Third, a path is charted through the endurance of embodied inequalities and the potential for social transformation. Finally, embodied social capital can advance social science conceptualizations of the spatiality of social capital, by illuminating the importance of broader sociospatial contexts and relations to the embodiment of social capital within individuals.
Presenting a monument in restoration: the Saint Laurentius church in Ename and its role in the Francia Media heritage initiative

Virtual Reality and multimedia technologies are central components of the heritage presentation programme at Ename, Belgium. These techniques are designed to help the visitor understand and experience the past as it has been revealed through archaeological and historical research. This paper briefly traces the development of multimedia and Virtual Reality technologies in presenting the archaeological site of the early medieval fortress and St. Salvator Abbey at Ename and in the archaeological exhibits in the Ename Provincial Museum. It then highlights the approach used in Ename to present the 10th-century Saint-Laurentius Church and its restoration to the public, describing the methodology of creating scientifically verifiable Virtual Reality reconstructions. In conclusion it will place this project in the context of an international heritage initiative, the Francia Media Project, in which new interpretive technologies will be developed by members of a scientific consortium to offer new media of public heritage presentation in a European context.
Multilingual Visual Sentiment Concept Matching

The impact of culture in visual emotion perception has recently captured the attention of multimedia research. In this study, we provide powerful computational linguistics tools to explore, retrieve and browse a dataset of 16K multilingual affective visual concepts and 7.3M Flickr images. First, we design an effective crowdsourcing experiment to collect human judgements of sentiment connected to the visual concepts. We then use word embeddings to represent these concepts in a low dimensional vector space, allowing us to expand the meaning around concepts, and thus enabling insight about commonalities and differences among different languages. We compare a variety of concept representations through a novel evaluation task based on the notion of visual semantic relatedness. Based on these representations, we design clustering schemes to group multilingual visual concepts, and evaluate them with novel metrics based on the crowdsourced sentiment annotations as well as visual semantic relatedness. The proposed clustering framework enables us to analyze the full multilingual dataset in-depth and also show an application on a facial data subset, exploring cultural insights of portrait-related affective visual concepts.
Smart Spaces with Real-Time Physiological Measurement and Mitigation of Stress

We propose the use of context-aware smart space technology that is able to monitor physiological signs of a user in real-time. The smart space informs the user when they are stressed and automatically initiate an appropriate stress-relieving response via a selection of scenarios. Using the Nexus-10 we measured on single male subject physiological responses by comparison with baseline music, video, coffee, photo and game participation. Music and a (coffee) break are more beneficial in reducing BP, than watching a comical video. Taking a break also reduces the breaths/min. EMG responses were reduced during music suggestive of adoption of a listening posture, and the low EEG, suggests important aspects of appealing music therapy during relaxation. We recommend a combination of music and regular (coffee) breaks in a stressful situation. We configure a smart space to automatically initiate music and coffee breaks when the stress levels of the user reach a specific threshold.
Privacy-preserving multi-keyword fuzzy search over encrypted data in the cloud

Enabling keyword search directly over encrypted data is a desirable technique for effective utilization of encrypted data outsourced to the cloud. Existing solutions provide multi-keyword exact search that does not tolerate keyword spelling error, or single keyword fuzzy search that tolerates typos to certain extent. The current fuzzy search schemes rely on building an expanded index that covers possible keyword misspelling, which lead to significantly larger index file size and higher search complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-keyword fuzzy search scheme by exploiting the locality-sensitive hashing technique. Our proposed scheme achieves fuzzy matching through algorithmic design rather than expanding the index file. It also eliminates the need of a predefined dictionary and effectively supports multiple keyword fuzzy search without increasing the index or search complexity. Extensive analysis and experiments on real-world data show that our proposed scheme is secure, efficient and accurate. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that achieves multi-keyword fuzzy search over encrypted cloud data.
Microsatellite markers for powdery mildew resistance in pea (Pisum sativum L.).

Powdery mildew is a common disease of field pea, Pisum sativum L. , and is caused by the ascomycete fungus Erysiphe pisi. It can cause severe damage in areas where pea is cultivated. Today breeders want to develop new pea lines that are resistant to the disease. To make the breeding process more efficient, it is desirable to find genetic markers for use in a marker-assisted selection (MAS) strategy. In this study, microsatellites (SSR) were used to find markers linked to powdery mildew resistance. The resistant pea cultivar '955180' and the susceptible pea cultivar 'Majoret' were crossed and F2 plants were screened with SSR markers, using bulked segregant analysis. A total of 315 SSR markers were screened out of which five showed linkage to the powdery mildew resistance gene. No single marker was considered optimal for inclusion in a MAS program. Instead, two of the markers can be used in combination, which would result in only 1.6% incorrectly identified plants. Thus SSR markers can be successfully used in marker-assisted selection for powdery mildew resistance breeding in pea.
The Academic Progression Paradox: Socioeconomic Determinants of the Mismatch between Boys and the Girl-Child Education in Rural Ghana

This study investigated the cause of the mismatch in academic progression between boys and girls in rural Ghana as they climb the academic ladder from Junior High School to Senior High School. At primary level, there is gender parity but it begins to dwindle in the case of girls as they go higher. The findings suggest that the principal cause is socio-economic. The more the external locus of control in terms of resources, the likelihood it is for children to leave school to work to contribute to family resources or in the case of girls to resort to premarital sex and unplanned pregnancies precipitating early school exit. In situations, however, where the locus of control of resources is internal, parents are more likely to take care of their children, avoiding the likelihood of risky behaviours. The findings further suggest a synergy between three inter-related factors: a) lower socio-economic status is predictive of dropping out of high school especially in the case of the girl; b) socio-economic constraints increase the probability of learning difficulties and c) the interaction between the lower socio-economic status and learning difficulty tends to exacerbate the probability of dropping out of school in a cultural mindset more favourable to the education of the boy than the girl.
Cosmopolitanism, Consumer Ethnocentrism, and Materialism: An Eight-Country Study of Antecedents and Outcomes

Although there is a consensus that industries are globalizing, the notion that consumer attitudes and behaviors worldwide are likewise homogenizing remains disputed. Despite widespread discourse on this topic, there is a dearth of empirical investigations. This international research examines similarities and differences with respect to the nature of three consumer attitudinal dispositions: cosmopolitanism, consumer ethnocentrism, and materialism. The authors cross-culturally compare demographic antecedents with these dispositions, as well as behavioral outcomes. They test the validation of the construct measures and associated hypotheses using survey data drawn from consumers in eight countries and structural equation modeling techniques, including multigroup analysis. Empirical findings broadly support the cross-cultural applicability of the constructs, though the links to the various demographic antecedents vary considerably from sample to sample. The role of each construct on behavior also varies substantially across the range of product categories considered and across and between national groups.