Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Stand-Still Self-Identification of Flux Characteristics for Synchronous Reluctance Machines Using Novel Saturation Approximating Function and Multiple Linear Regression

Motor characterization has a fundamental role in dynamics, torque accuracy, and efficiency of vector controlled Synchronous Reluctance Machine (SynRM) drives. Control performances and robustness in the whole speed/torque range, including the flux-weakening region, and in sensorless operation strongly rely on the knowledge of machine flux versus current characteristics. A convenient flux saturation approximating function is proposed in this paper, together with an efficient parameters self-identification procedure. The adopted strategy is very simple and can be performed at stand-still by injecting a proper voltage stimulus (current control is not involved), and does not require any additional hardware (motor can be either connected or disconnected from mechanical load). Nevertheless, an excellent fitting for the flux curves on both axes is obtained, using reasonable memory and computational resources. These features make the technique very suitable to motor self-identification in industrial drives. Experimental results based on a commercial drive and two SynRMs are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposal. Extensions of the method to the evaluation of the whole flux map (including cross-saturation effects) or to interior permanent-magnet machines is also investigated and verified.
Testing Higher-Order Network Structures in an Online Experiment

Currently, the de facto representational choice for networks is graphs which capture pairwise relationships between entities. This dyadic approach fails to adequate capture the array of group relationships that are more than the sum of their parts and prevalent in real-world situations. For example, collaborative teams, wireless broadcast, and political coalitions all contain unique group dynamics that need to be captured. In this paper, we use simplicial complexes to model these supra-dyadic relationships in networks. We argue that a number of problems within social and communications networks such as network-wide broadcast and collaborative teams can be elegantly captured using simplicial complexes in a way that is not possible with graphs. In this study, we operationalize several types of simplicial complexes in an online-based experiment using the Wildcat Wells paradigm. We then run subjects in these experiments to investigate measures of team strength and hub behavior using simplicial complex models.
The effects of aripiprazole on the subscales of the Kellner Symptom Questionnaire in treatment resistant depression

We have recently examined the efficacy of low-dose aripiprazole augmentation for major depressive disorder (MDD), with modest nonsignificant benefit found. In a secondary investigation, we examined whether aripiprazole resulted in improvement in four subscales (depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, and hostility) of the Kellner Symptom Questionnaire (KSQ). We reanalyzed data from the main outcome study on 221 MDD patients with inadequate response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors. Patients were randomized, using the sequential parallel comparison design, into two 30-day phases, as follows: drug/drug (aripiprazole 2 mg/day in phase 1, aripiprazole 5 mg/day in phase 2), placebo/drug (placebo in phase 1, aripiprazole 2 mg/day in phase 2), or placebo/placebo (placebo in both phases). We examined changes in the KSQ score from baseline to endpoint on the basis of the subscaled Well-being and Reversal Distressed Anxiety Subscales. The score for the KSQ depression subscale improved from baseline to the end of follow-up, with a significant advantage for aripiprazole over placebo (P=0.0327). Although improvement was also observed in the anxiety and hostility scales, neither attained a significant advantage over placebo; no significant change was observed for the somatization subscale. Aripiprazole augmentation resulted in a significant improvement compared with placebo augmentation only in the depression subscale of the KSQ; however, the low dose may not have been enough to have an impact on the anxiety and hostility scales. The good tolerability of the low dose may have resulted in the absence of worsening of somatic symptoms. Prospective studies are needed to better characterize the impact of low doses of aripiprazole augmentation on different manifestations of MDD.
An evaluation of contemporary hidden Markov model genefinders with a predicted exon taxonomy

We present an independent evaluation of six recent hidden Markov model (HMM) genefinders. Each was tested on the new dataset (FSH298), the results of which showed no dramatic improvement over the genefinders tested five years ago. In addition, we introduce a comprehensive taxonomy of predicted exons and classify each resulting exon accordingly. These results are useful in measuring (with finer granularity) the effects of changes in a genefinder. We present an analysis of these results and identify four patterns of inaccuracy common in all HMM-based results.
Fusing Multilabel Deep Networks for Facial Action Unit Detection

The automatic detection of the activation of facial muscles, i.e. the detection of the so called facial Action Units (AUs), has received significant attention due to the application of facial expression analysis/recognition in areas such as affect recognition or behavior analysis. However, the recognition of subtle expressions is a challenging task that requires a multimodal approach where several sources of information are used. In this paper, we follow such an approach and propose a novel Deep Learning architecture that fuses information from several specialized Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) each of which models a different aspect of the problem in question. At the core of our approach is a novel dynamic adaptation of the Deep Network cost function so as to deal with the data imbalances that are inherent in multilabel classification problems - this allows crossdatabase training.We show the benefits of the proposed training approach and how different architectures are more suitable for particular AUs. Extensive experimental results show that our multi-modal approach outperform the state of the art by a considerable margin.
Laboratory assessment of vitamin B12 status

The detection and correction of vitamin B12 (B12) deficiency prevents megaloblastic anaemia and potentially irreversible neuropathy and neuropsychiatric changes. B12 status is commonly estimated using the abundance of the vitamin in serum, with ∼148 pmol/L (200 ng/L) typically set as the threshold for diagnosing deficiency. Serum B12 assays measure the sum of haptocorrin-bound and transcobalamin-bound (known as holotranscobalamin) B12. It is only holotranscobalamin that is taken up by cells to meet metabolic demand. Although receiver operator characteristic curves show holotranscobalamin measurement to be a moderately more reliable marker of B12 status than serum B12, both assays have an indeterminate range. Biochemical evidence of metabolic abnormalities consistent with B12 insufficiency is frequently detected despite an apparently sufficient abundance of the vitamin. Laboratory B12 status markers that reflect cellular utilisation rather than abundance are available. Two forms of B12 act as coenzymes for two different reactions. Methionine synthase requires methylcobalamin for the remethylation of methionine from homocysteine. A homocysteine concentration >20 µmol/L may suggest B12 deficiency in folate-replete patients. In the second B12-dependent reaction, methylmalonyl-CoA mutase uses adenosylcobalamin to convert methylmalonyl-CoA to succinyl-CoA. In B12 deficiency excess methylmalonyl-CoA is hydrolysed to methylmalonic acid. A serum concentration >280 nmol/L may suggest suboptimal status in young patients with normal renal function. No single laboratory marker is suitable for the assessment of B12 status in all patients. Sequential assay selection algorithms or the combination of multiple markers into a single diagnostic indicator are both approaches that can be used to mitigate inherent limitations of each marker when used independently.
Delineating Groups for Cultural Comparisons in a Multicultural Setting: Not All Westerners Should Be Put into the Same Melting Pot

When conducting cross-cultural studies, researchers often rely on generalised categorisations (e.g., East–West), frequently assuming homogeneity within each of the cultural groups being compared. We argue that such broad categorisations may be misleading and that careful demarcation of cultural groups that takes into consideration their specific sociohistorical realities is necessary to produce knowledge that is both meaningful and realistic. We illustrate this contention by examining preferred mate attributes among four different cultural groups in Canada. In line with predictions, we found that Italians, who are ordinarily considered Western European, demonstrated preferences for status and traditional characteristics in a mate that differed from those preferred by the rest of the Western Europeans (not including Italians). Instead, Italians were similar to the more “Eastern” South Asians and Chinese in their preferences for status traits and to South Asians in their preferences for traditional traits. Importantly, the pattern of cultural differences changed when Italians were included in the Western European category. Lastly, we showed that the influence of culture on preferences for traditional and status traits was differentially transmitted through family connectedness and identification with mainstream Canadian culture. Implications for cross-cultural research are discussed.
Desensitization of the rat aortic strip to vasopressin by infusions of noradrenaline [proceedings].

Eden & Nasmyth (1974) showed that when noradrenaline (400ngkg-1min-') was perfused for 30 min through an organ bath containing a rat aortic strip bathed in Krebs solution, it desensitized the tissue to noradrenaline. In order to determine whether or not the desensitization was specific for noradrenaline, the experiment was repeated using vasopressin as the agonist. Responses of the rat aortic strip to vasopressin (1.5-2.5 mU ml-') were established before and after perfusing the organ bath with noradrenaline (400 ng kg-' min-') for 30 min, the rate of infusion being based upon the weight of the animal from which the aorta had been removed. In four experiments the responses to vasopressin were reduced by 65-80% with a mean of 74%. To determine if the /i-adrenoceptors were involved in the phenomenon, the experiment was repeated with propranolol (3.3 giM) in the Krebs solution bathing the tissue. It was without effect on the responses to vasopressin and it did not prevent the desensitization produced by the infusion of noradrenaline. When phentolamine (5-7 gg kg-' min-') was infused together with the noradrenaline, the response to the latter was blocked. Thirty minutes after stopping the infusion of both drugs, but continuing to perfuse Krebs solution through the organ bath at the rate of 10 ml min-', the responses to noradrenaline were fully restored and those to vasopressin were unaffected. Thus blockade of the a-adrenoceptors prevented the desensitization. It was established that clonidine, which stimulates presynaptic a-adrenoceptors preferentially (Starke, Montel, Gayk & Merker, 1974), was 100 times less effective than noradrenaline on post-synaptic aadrenoceptors in this tissue. Phenylephrine, which stimulates post-synaptic a-adrenoceptors preferentially (Starke, Endo & Taube, 1975) was equipotent with noradrenaline on these receptors. When infusions of clonidine varying from 450 ng to 2.5 g.g kg-' min-' were employed the responses to vasopressin in 5 experiments were reduced by 43-77% with a mean of 56%. Infusions of phenylephrine (52 gg kg-' min-') reduced the responses to vasopressin by 24-40% with a mean of 32% in 4 experiments.
Steinberg representation of GSp(4): Bessel models and integral representation of L-functions

We obtain explicit formulas for the test vector in the Bessel model, and derive the criteria for existence and uniqueness of Bessel models for the unramified quadratic twists of the Steinberg representation π of GSp 4 (F), where F is a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic zero. We also give precise criteria for the Iwahori spherical vector in π to be a test vector. We apply the formulas for the test vector to obtain an integral representation of the local L-function of π, twisted by any irreducible admissible representation of GL 2 (F). Using results of Furusawa and of Pitale and Schmidt, we derive from this an integral representation for the global L-function of the irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of GSp 4 (A) obtained from a Siegel cuspidal Hecke newform, with respect to a Borel congruence subgroup of square-free level, twisted by any irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of GL 2 (A). A special-value result for this L-function, in the spirit of Deligne's conjecture, is obtained.
Dynamic Concerted Activities among Retinal Ganglion Cells

Concerted firing is one of the important ways for neurons to encode sensory stimuli. In the present study, we investigated dynamic concerted activities among retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in response to natural movie and pseudo-random checkerboard flicking stimuli. The results showed that concerted activity patterns among RGCs changed dynamically during both stimuli, which were represented by the number of synchronously activated neurons and synchronous groups formed among the activated neurons. During natural movie stimulation, concerted activities were varying with time. On the contrary, the number of synchronized neurons and synchronous groups during pseudo-random checkerboard stimulation had a decreasing tendency.
Reversible watermarking technique using small-world cellular neural network

Recently, the authors have proposed small-world cellular neural network (SWCNN), which is constructed by introducing some random couplings between cells of the original Chua-Yang CNN and we have reported some basic results using the concept of SWCNN. In this paper, we propose an image watermarking technique that the connection topology of SWCNN plays the role of "key" and investigate its features.
The Relationship of Counselor Education Program Applicants’ Cognitive Complexity to Other Admission Criteria

Counselor cognitive complexity is a counselor’s ability to recognize and organize multiple characteristics that might affect client needs. I examined whether various admissions criteria–Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical Writing scores; previous coursework grade point averages; and faculty co-leaders’ admissions group interview ratings–for 182 applicants to a southwestern U.S. CACREP-accredited master’s counseling program predicted cognitive complexity scores on a modified Counselor Cognitions Questionnaire (CCQ). Participants were predominantly ages 20 to 30 years (91.8%), female (91.8%), and White (81.3%). Multiple regression analyses showed statistical significance with small effect sizes: the admissions criteria together significantly predicted cognitive complexity differentiation (p = .033), accounting for 6.6% of variance, and cognitive complexity integration (p = .003), accounting for 9.8% of variance. The small effect sizes and low variance percentages support the idea that cognitive complexity measured by the modified CCQ is a substantially different phenomenon from commonly-assessed academic aptitude and personality characteristics. If future researchers confirm these findings with additional samples, subsequent researchers could determine whether one or both domains of cognitive complexity, either alone or in combination with one or more of the commonly used admissions criteria, could help counselor educators better predict which applicants will be successful in master’s programs and the counseling field.
Differential effects of hypothyroidism on the cartilage and the osteogenic process in the mandibular condyle: recovery by growth hormone and thyroxine.

Hypothyroidism was induced in young female Sprague-Dawley rats by the addition of methimazole (50 mg/kg BW.day) to drinking water for a period of 7 weeks (7-14 weeks of age). Replacement therapies of 0.7 U/kg BW human GH (hGH), 15 micrograms/kg BW L-T4 (T4), and a combination of hGH and T4 at the same doses were introduced during the last 2 weeks of the experiment. The responses of the cartilage and subchondral spongiosa of mandibular condyles were assessed by morphological and morphometric parameters. In addition, immunohistochemical localization of the GH receptor and insulin-like growth factor-I was determined by the streptavidin-biotin-peroxidase technique. In the hypothyroid rats, the trabecular bone volume of the subchondral spongiosa increased by 49%, indicating osteopetrosis. Along the ossification front, bone trabeculae occupied 18% and vascular elements 82% in mandibular condyles of control rats, whereas in hypothyroid rats, the percentage occupied by bone trabeculae increased to 89%. The cellularity of the cartilage in hypothyroid condyles was markedly reduced and was fully restored by T4, but not by GH replacement. Immunohistochemistry revealed the presence of GH receptors throughout the condyle regardless of the thyroid state of the animal. On the other hand, insulin-like growth factor-I immunohistochemical localization revealed the peptide to be present at all maturational stages of the cells in condyles from control and T4-treated rats, but to be lacking in young chondrocytes of hypothyroid and hGH-treated rats. This result demonstrates that the hypothyroid cartilage is compromised in its response to hGH.
The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities

TWENTY YEARS AGO THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST Antonio Gramsci was rarely discussed outside his native land; now he has become an intellectual cause celebre and in some quarters a cult hero. Scholars continue to pore over his political journalism and his prison notebooks, reassembling the fragments in hopes of theoretical illumination. Articles and monographs continue to multiply. One historian on the Right has conjured up the vision of interdisciplinary programs in Gramsci studies, replete with unreadable journals and reverent textual exegesis. Already, on some European campuses, one poster of the Sardinian hunchback will fetch a whole wall full of Trotskies.1 Part of this furor involves the effort of young intellectuals on the Left to locate a moral inspiration. Gramsci's resistance to Mussolini, his stress on the role of individual action and thought in history, his desire that workers create their own cultural institutions through devices like factory councils-all this makes him an appealing figure. For many he also seems to explain why workers under advanced capitalism have not behaved the way Marx said they would and to offer a more successful revolutionary strategy. Yet his work has analytical uses as well, and those are my concern in this essay. I do not mean to turn Gramsci into "the Marxist you can take home to mother. "2 One cannot ignore his revolutionary vision. But one does not have to embrace it uncritically to recognize that Gramsci's social thought contains some remarkably suggestive insights into the question of dominance and subordination in modern capitalist societies. There are intellectual as well as moral and political reasons for the rediscovery of Gramsci.
Media-independent pre-authentication supporting secure interdomain handover optimization

Handovers may cause delays and packet losses that affect real-time communication performance. Mobility protocols at several layers are designed to support handover, but they need to be optimized to ensure high-quality application performance. Existing optimization techniques are not sufficient to take care of interdomain and intertechnology handovers involving different access technologies, such as Wi-Fi, GSM, CDMA, and WiMAX. We categorize several types of handover, describe handover delay components, and propose a handover optimization framework called media independent pre-authentication that can provide optimizations for interdomain and intertechnology handover in a manner that is transparent to mobility management protocols. In addition, we also present experimental results demonstrating that this framework can achieve a significant reduction in handover delays for both network-layer and application-layer mobility management protocols.
THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL APPROVAL NEEDS ON THE PRESENTATION OF CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS

The present study investigated how experimentally manipulating Ss' needs for social approval (NAP) affected their presentation of causal attributions. NAP was manipulated in one of two dimensions, the intellectual dimension (intellectual condition) and the social dimension (social condition). Manipulation was accomplished by having a confederate (confederate A) berate the Ss after they had performed a mathematical task. A separate condition with no such manipulation was called the low condition. Forty-two female university students were divided into 3 groups and each group was assigned to one of these 3 conditions. Outcome (failure) was manipulated by false feedback from the experimenter after the Ss performed their tasks. In the intellectual condition and social condition, after receiving false feedback from the experimenter, the Ss were negatively evaluated by a confederate (confederate A) on the intellectual or social dimension, respectively. After filling out an attribution scale, the Ss showed their attributions to another confederate (confederate B) who evaluated the Ss. For the low condition after receiving false feedback, the Ss anonymously filled out the attribution scale. The main results were as follows. 1. Ability-attribution scores were higher in the social condition than in the intellectual condition. 2. In the social condition abilityattribution scores were higher and luck-attribution scores were lower than in the low condition.
Learning Visualization Strategies: A qualitative investigation

The following study investigates the range of strategies individuals develop to infer and interpret cross-sections of three-dimensional objects. We focus on the identification of mental representations and problem-solving processes made by 11 individuals with the goal of building training applications that integrate the strategies developed by the participants in our study. Our results suggest that although spatial transformation and perspective-taking techniques are useful for visualizing cross-section problems, these visual processes are augmented by analytical thinking. Further, our study shows that participants employ general analytic strategies for extended periods which evolve through practice into a set of progressively more expert strategies. Theoretical implications are discussed and five main findings are recommended for integration into the design of education software that facilitates visual learning and comprehension.
Psychological Teaching-Learning Contracts: Academic Integrity and Moral Psychology

The psychological teaching–learning contract model of academic integrity, presented herein, features a social contract-based mechanism for moral judgment that is hypothesized to underlie the “belief–behavior incongruity,” that is, the noted frequency with which students who believe cheating is immoral still cheat. High school students (N = 493) from 11 international schools in 9 countries participated in the study. Results suggest that students often regard the cheating they do within a given context to be justifiable, that is, not immoral, implying that such behavior is not incongruous with their moral beliefs.