Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Perceived deception: Evaluating source credibility and self-efficacy

ABSTRACT Detecting scareware messages that seek to deceive users with fear-inducing words and images is critical to protect users from sharing their identity information, money, and/or time with bad actors. Through a scenario-based experiment, the present study evaluated factors that aid users in perceiving deceptive communications. An online experiment was administered yielding 213 usable responses. The data from the study indicate high levels of deception detection self-efficacy and source trustworthiness increase the likelihood an individual will perceive a scareware message as deceptive. Additionally, technology awareness enhances self-efficacy to detect deception and reduces individual perceptions of source trustworthiness. Finally, the data significantly illustrate behavioral intention to use scareware is lower when the message is perceived as deceptive.
Methanolic Extract of Morinda citrifolia L. (Noni) Unripe Fruit Attenuates Ethanol-Induced Conditioned Place Preferences in Mice

Phytotherapy is an emerging field successfully utilized to treat various chronic diseases including alcohol dependence. In the present study, we examined the effect of the standardized methanolic extract of Morinda citrifolia Linn. unripe fruit (MMC), on compulsive ethanol-seeking behavior using the mouse conditioned place preference (CPP) test. CPP was established by injections of ethanol (2 g/kg, i.p.) in a 12-day conditioning schedule in mice. The effect of MMC and the reference drug, acamprosate (ACAM), on the reinforcing properties of ethanol in mice was studied by the oral administration of MMC (1, 3, and 5 g/kg) and ACAM (300 mg/kg) 60 min prior to the final CPP test postconditioning. Furthermore, CPPs weakened with repeated testing in the absence of ethanol over the next 12 days (extinction), during which the treatment groups received MMC (1, 3, and 5 g/kg, p.o.) or ACAM (300 mg/kg, p.o.). Finally, a priming injection of a low dose of ethanol (0.4 g/kg, i.p.) in the home cage (Reinstatement) was sufficient to reinstate CPPs, an effect that was challenged by the administration of MMC or ACAM. MMC (3 and 5 g/kg, p.o.) and ACAM (300 mg/kg, p.o.) significantly reversed the establishment of ethanol-induced CPPs and effectively facilitated the extinction of ethanol CPP. In light of these findings, it has been suggested that M. citrifolia unripe fruit could be utilized for novel drug development to combat alcohol dependence.
Radio Pulsars in the Magellanic Clouds

We report the results of a survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) for radio pulsars conducted with the 20 cm multibeam receiver of the Parkes 64 m telescope. This survey targeted a more complete region of the SMC than a previous pulsar search and had an improvement in sensitivity by a factor of about 2 for most pulsar periods. This survey is much more sensitive to fast young pulsars (with P ≲ 100 ms) and is the first survey of the SMC with any sensitivity to millisecond pulsars. Two new pulsars were discovered in the survey, one of which is located within the SMC. The number of pulsars found in the survey is consistent with the expected number derived using several methods. We also report the serendipitous discovery of a new pulsar in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). These discoveries bring the total number of rotation-powered pulsars currently known in the Magellanic Clouds to eight. We have also made refined timing measurements for the new discoveries as well as for three previously known LMC pulsars. The age distribution of luminous Magellanic Cloud pulsars supports the conjecture that pulsars younger than about 5 Myr are more luminous on average than older pulsars.
SVM Approach to GeneRIF Annotation

In the biological domain, to extract the newly discovered functional features from massive literature is a major challenging issue. To automatically annotate GeneRIF in a new literature is the main goal in this paper. We try to find function words and introducers in the training corpus, and then apply such informative words to annotate the GeneRIF. The experiments showed that 48.15%, 49.78%, 32.31%, and 35.63% for the measure of Classic Dice, Modified unigram Dice, Modified bigram Dice, and Modified bigram Dice phrases. After applying SVM learning mechanism combing new weighting scheme and position information, we get much better performance.
Rb2Na (NO3) 3: A Congruently Melting UV-NLO Crystal with a Very Strong Second-Harmonic Generation Response

Crystals of congruently melting noncentrosymmetric (NCS) mixed alkali metal nitrate, Rb2Na(NO3)3, have been grown through solid state reactions. The material possesses layers with NaO8 hexagonal bipyramids and NO3 triangular units. Rb+ cations are residing in the interlayer space. Each NaO8 hexagonal bipyramid shares its corners and edges with two and three NO3 units, respectively, in order to fulfill a highly dense stacking in the unit cell. The NaO8 groups share their six oxygen atoms in equatorial positions with three different NO3 groups to generate a NaO6-NO3 layer with a parallel alignment. The optimized arrangement of the NO3 groups and their high density in the structure together produce a strong second-harmonic generation (SHG) response. Powder SHG measurements indicate that Rb2Na(NO3)3 has a strong SHG efficiency of five times that of KH2PO4 (KDP) and is type I phase-matchable. The calculated average nonlinear optical (NLO) susceptibility of Rb2Na(NO3)3 turns out to be the largest value among the NLO materials composed of only [NO3]− anion. In addition, Rb2Na(NO3)3 exhibits a wide transparency region ranging from UV to near IR, which suggests that the compound is a promising NLO material.
A novel LOFDM signal and its optimization over doubly-dispersion channels

As for the ISI/ICI resistances over the mobile wireless channels, the lattice-based OFDM approach (LOFDM) outperforms the traditional OFDM distinctly. However, due to its complicated signal description, few theoretic analyzes on its performances are available yet. In this paper, a novel lattice description is presented, which lays a more general framework than the previous matrix-based description but with less complexity. Then for the band-limited applications, the optimal LOFDM structure is, first to our knowledge, to be deduced. Our theoretic analysis is confirmed by numerical results.
Changes in Body Composition, During the Season, in Highly Trained Soccer Players

Body composition (BC) and other functional parameters are the main predictors of fitness state in both trained and non-trained subjects. The selected parameters of the BC (% of body fat (%BF), fat free mass (FFM), body cell mass (BCM), extracellular mass (ECM), and ECM/BCM relationship; all these parameters were determined by the whole body multi-frequency bioimpedance method) were determined four times per year in 45 top soccer players (January, March, July and December) (mean age = 21.9±3.1 years, height = 179.5±4.0 cm, mass = 75.3±6.0 kg, %BF = 10.4±1.7 %, FFM = 67.6±4.1 kg, ECM/BCM = 0.67±0.03, VO 2peak .kg -1 = 62.7±3.8 ml.kg -1 .min -1 , v peak = 17.7±0.6 km.h -1 - 1 st evaluation). The %BF was altered during the training year by 9.9±1.8%, FFM by 3.9±1.8%, BCM by 8.0±1.4% and ECM/BCM by 13.8±2.1%. The increase in body mass during a season is caused by increase in FFM and BCM and reflects qualitative al- terations in training; mainly increase of training based on speed and strength. We may conclude that the parameters that characterize the BC may better reflect the changes in the quality and quantity of the imposed training load and/or training state than the maximal functional variables in highly trained soccer players and thus may be used like a supplementary cri- terion of imposed training effectivity.
Bacteriophage Ecology in a Commercial Cucumber Fermentation

ABSTRACT To reduce high-salt waste from cucumber fermentations, low-salt fermentations are under development. These fermentations may require the use of starter cultures to ensure normal fermentations. Because potential phage infection can cause starter culture failure, it is important to understand phage ecology in the fermentations. This study investigated the phage ecology in a commercial cucumber fermentation. Brine samples taken from a fermentation tank over a 90-day period were plated onto deMan-Rogosa-Sharpe agar plates. A total of 576 lactic acid bacterial isolates were randomly selected to serve as potential hosts for phage isolation. Filtered brine served as a phage source. Fifty-seven independent phage isolates were obtained, indicating that 10% of the bacterial isolates were sensitive to phage attack. Phage hosts include Lactobacillus brevis (67% of all hosts), Lactobacillus plantarum (21%), Weissella paramesenteroides, Weissella cibaria, and Pediococcus ethanolidurans. Nearly 50% of phages were isolated on day 14, and the majority of them attacked L. brevis. Some phages had a broad host range and were capable of infecting multiple hosts in two genera. Other phages were species specific or strain specific. About 30% of phage isolates produced turbid pinpoint plaques or only caused reduced cell growth on the bacterial lawns. Six phages with distinct host ranges were characterized. The data from this study showed that abundant and diverse phages were present in the commercial cucumber fermentation, which could cause significant mortality to the lactic acid bacteria population. Therefore, a phage control strategy may be needed in low-salt cucumber fermentations.
Stay Tuned: Portrayals of Fatherhood to Come

This study focused on the father–child interactions of TV fathers in popular situation comedies of the 2000s. The purpose of this study was also to understand how portrayals of situation comedy fathers and their interactions with their children vary by race, class, marital status, and TV channel. Four hypotheses were tested using data collected from 699 father–child interactions across 10 current situation comedies. Results suggest that father–child interactions do not differ based on race or ethnicity, but they do depend on fathers’ class, marital status, and the channel that airs the TV show. Interpretations of findings and suggestions for future research are provided.
Generating New Features Using Genetic Programming to Detect Link Spam

Link spam techniques can enable some pages to achieve higher-than-deserved rankings in the results of a search engine. They negatively affect the quality of search results. Classification methods can detect link spam. For classification problem, features play an important role. This paper proposes to derive new features using genetic programming from existing link-based features and use the new features as the inputs to SVM and GP classifiers for the identification of link spam. Experiments on WEBSPAM-UK2006 show that the classification results of the classifiers that use 10 newly generated features are much better than those of the classifiers that use original 41 link-based features and equivalent to those of the classifiers that use 138 transformed link-based features. The newly generated features can improve the link spam classification performance.
Impacts of Different Tree Species of Different Sizes on Spatial Distribution of Herbaceous Plants in the Nigerian Guinea Savannah Ecological Zone

This study was aimed at finding the impacts of different tree species and individual trees of different sizes on species richness, diversity, and composition of the herbaceous layer. All the three tree species have greatly increased species richness and diversity both within and outside their crown zones compared with the open grassland. Both species richness and diversity were found to be higher under all the three tree species than outside their crowns, which was in turn higher than the open field. Daniella oliveri has the highest species richness and diversity both within and outside its crown zone followed by Vitellaria paradoxa and then Parkia biglobosa. The result also revealed that the same tree species with different sizes leads to different herbaceous species richness, diversity, and composition under and around the trees' crowns. P. biglobosa and V. paradoxa trees with smaller sizes showed higher species richness and diversity under their crowns than the bigger ones. The dissimilarity of species composition differs between the inside and outside crown zones of the individuals of the same tree species and among the different trees species and the open field.
Neural Entrainment to Polyrhythms: A Comparison of Musicians and Non-musicians

Music can be thought of as a dynamic path over time. In most cases, the rhythmic structure of this path, such as specific sequences of strong and weak beats or recurring patterns, allows us to predict what and particularly when sounds are going to happen. Without this ability we would not be able to entrain body movements to music, like we do when we dance. By combining EEG and behavioral measures, the current study provides evidence illustrating the importance of ongoing neural oscillations at beat-related frequencies—i.e., neural entrainment—for tracking and predicting musical rhythms. Participants (13 musicians and 13 non-musicians) listened to drum rhythms that switched from a quadruple rhythm to a 3-over-4 polyrhythm. After a silent period of ~2–3 s, participants had to decide whether a target stimulus was presented on time with the triple beat of the polyrhythm, too early, or too late. Results showed that neural oscillations reflected the rhythmic structure of both the simple quadruple rhythm and the more complex polyrhythm with no differences between musicians and non-musicians. During silent periods, the observation of time-frequency plots and more commonly used frequency spectra analyses suggest that beat-related neural oscillations were more pronounced in musicians compared to non-musicians. Neural oscillations during silent periods are not driven by an external input and therefore are thought to reflect top-down controlled endogenous neural entrainment. The functional relevance of endogenous neural entrainment was demonstrated by a positive correlation between the amplitude of task-relevant neural oscillations during silent periods and the number of correctly identified target stimuli. In sum, our findings add to the evidence supporting the neural resonance theory of pulse and meter. Furthermore, they indicate that beat-related top-down controlled neural oscillations can exist without external stimulation and suggest that those endogenous oscillations are strengthened by musical expertise. Finally, this study shows that the analysis of neural oscillations can be a useful tool to assess how we perceive and process complex auditory stimuli such as polyrhythms.
The Nature of Nearby Counterparts to Intermediate-Redshift Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies. II. CO Observations

We present the results of a single-dish beam-matched survey of the three lowest rotational transitions of CO in a sample of 20 local (D ≲ 70 Mpc) luminous compact blue galaxies (LCBGs). These ~L*, blue, high surface brightness, starbursting galaxies were selected on the same criteria used to define LCBGs at higher redshifts. Our detection rate was 70%, with those galaxies having L B < 7 × 109 L ☉ not detected. We find that the H2 masses of local LCBGs range from 6.6 × 106 to 2.7 × 109 M ☉, assuming a Galactic CO-to-H2 conversion factor. Combining these results with our earlier H I survey of the same sample, we find that the ratio of molecular to atomic gas mass is low, typically 5%-10%. Using a large velocity gradient model, we find that the average gas conditions of the entire interstellar medium in local LCBGs are similar to those found in the centers of star-forming regions in our Galaxy and in the nuclear regions of other galaxies. Star formation rates, determined from IRAS fluxes, are a few M ☉ yr-1, much higher per unit dynamical mass than normal spiral galaxies. If this rate remains constant, the molecular hydrogen depletion timescales are short, ~10-200 Myr.
Photopolarimetric activity and circumstellar environment of the young binary system DF Tau

We present the results of multi-year photometric and polarimetric observations of the young binary system DF Tau in the UBVRI bands, as well as bispectrum speckle interferometric observations in the H and K bands obtained between 2001 and 2003. The photometric and polarimetric observations suggest that the linear polarization of DF Tau does not depend on its brightness, and the polarization variation has a stochastic character. This result confirms earlier suggestions about the dominant role of hot accretion spots in the photometric activity of this star. We argue that the hot spots are at high latitudes and/or the star rotation axis is inclined to the line-of-sight. The influence of circumstellar (CS) dust on the variability is probably small since the inclination of the primary's CS disk to the line-of-sight is large. Using the total mass of the binary system DF Tau from Hartigan & Kenyon (2003, ApJ, 583, 334), we calculated new orbital parameters of the system. The new value of the orbital period (P = 74.1 yr) disagrees with the photometric cycle of about 40 yr revealed by Lamzin et al. (2001b, A&A, 372, 922) from analysis of the historical light curve of this star. This suggests that this cycle is not caused by the orbital motions of the binary components, but probably reflects the cyclical variability of the global magnetic field on the main component.
Scholarly Teaching through Action Research: A Narrative of One Professor's Process.

This article shares a first-hand account of an action research project conducted in a college-level early adolescent development course to better understand written and verbal reflection as learning tools, improve the author’s teaching effectiveness, and foster reflective habits in pre-service teachers. The article includes a brief overview of related literature and a description of several reflective activities and assignments used in the course before presenting and discussing the project’s results based on Ferrance’s (2000) 6-step action research process.
Style-Based Motion Editing

Both motion capture and motion editing are important human motion controlling methods: the former obtains the data captured from the real and natural human joints, and the latter provides the method to edit data. This paper combines the two methods using IK algorithm, and proposes a style-based motion editing approach. During the preprocessing phase, in order to take advantage of the motion capture data, the method performs a PCA on style motion to extract its style, and calculates the key frames of the base motion; then, during the on-line motion editing phase, the method transfers the style extracted from style motion to certain key frames of base motion using IK algorithm, afterwards, interpolates the edited key frames to generate a new motion with the styles of the two motions. The experiment results demonstrate that the style-based motion editing approach has the advantage of better synthesizing performance.
The Relationship Between Collective Efficacy and Coaching Behaviors in Professional Volleyball League of Iran Clubs

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between collective efficacy and coaching behaviors in professional volleyball league of Iran clubs (2008). Athletes (N=153) from 13 volleyball teams completed demographic questionnaire, collective efficacy questionnaire (CEQ) and the perceived version of the leadership scale for sport (LSS). The questionnaires were administered in the second half-season. Results showed coaches' behaviors of training and instruction and social support positively correlated with the collective efficacy. The comparison of coaching behaviors demonstrated that coaches exhibited higher training and instruction and lower democratic behavior. Also, coaches of successful teams exhibited higher training and instruction and social support behaviors than less successful and unsuccessful teams. Results supported the relationship between collective efficacy and team performance and revealed that high efficacy teams performed significantly better than teams with low levels of collective efficacy. Overall, our findings support the important role of coaching behaviors and collective efficacy in successful team performance. In addition, results highlighted the effect of coaching behaviors in collective or team efficacy.
Investment in Relationship-Specific Assets: Does Finance Matter?

Banks (but not stock markets) promote economic growth by facilitating relationship-specific investment between buyers and suppliers of intermediate goods. Combined insights from literature on signaling role of banks and on relationship-specific investment motivate this economic channel: A supplier is reluctant to undertake relationship-specific investment as she cannot observe financial stability and planning horizon of buyer. Banks can mitigate this information asymmetry. Empirical results from twenty-eight industries in ninety countries confirm that industries dependent on relationship-specific investment from their suppliers grow disproportionately faster in countries with a well-developed banking sector. The channel works via increased entry of new firms and higher capital accumulation.
Development and Validation of a Personal Information Security Assistant Architecture

This thesis presents and validates the first iteration of the design process of a Personal Information Security Assistant (PISA). The PISA aims to protect the information and devices of an end-user, offering advice and education in order to improve the security and awareness of its users. The PISA is a security solution that takes a user-centric approach, aiming to educate as well as protect, to motivate as well as secure. This thesis first presents the method and its application by which stakeholders are elicited and classified. Requirements are then elicited using these stakeholders. 4 architectural alternatives for PISA are then proposed. Finally, these alternatives are validated by a traceability analysis, a prototype implementation of a specific alternative and feedback by a focus group of experts. In summary, this thesis presents stakeholders, goals, requirements and proposed architectures for the PISA and contains a validation of the latter.