Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Triangle-generation in topological D-brane categories

Tachyon condensation in topological Landau-Ginzburg models can generally be studied using methods of commutative algebra and properties of triangulated categories. The efficiency of this approach is demonstrated by explicitly proving that every D-brane system in all minimal models of type ADE can be generated from only one or two fundamental branes.
‘Supporters, not consumers.’ Grassroots supporters’ culture and sports entertainment in the US

Abstract Based on ethnographic research with supporters’ groups in the US, this article explores how Ultra and other global models of fandom are being appropriated by soccer fans in the US and Canada. I argue that these fans enact more than stylistic expressions of fandom but instead contest the boundaries of locally accepted models fandom. Most notably, organized soccer supporters in the US reject the notion of being simply consumers of sports entertainment and see themselves instead as stakeholders in the teams they follow and as de facto constituents that the clubs need to be accountable to. At the same time, the global and local organizational structures and histories of professional soccer confront these fans with specific restrictions in how they are able to articulate their interest as fans.
Management and Outcome of Spontaneous Cerebellar Hemorrhage

Objective Spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage (SCH) is less common than supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage. This study investigated the treatment of SCH and the relation between its clinical and radiological manifestation and outcome. Materials and Methods We presented a SCH management protocol in our institute and analyzed the clinical and radiological findings in 41 SCH patients. The outcomes of each method (surgery and conservative treatment) were compared among patients with initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 9-13 and hematoma volume greater than 10 mL. Results Two (4.9%), 16 (39%), and 23 (56.1%) patients had an initial GCS score of 3-8, with 3-8, 9-13, and 14-15, respectively. Initial GCS score showed significant correlation with Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) score (p = 0.005). The mean largest hematoma diameter was 3.2 ± 1.5 cm, and the mean volume was 11.0 ± 11.5 mL. Both of them showed significant inverse correlation with GOS score (p < 0.001). Among patients with an initial GCS score of 9-13 and hematoma volumes greater than 10 mL, 3 (50%) had good outcome and 3 (50%) had poor outcome in the surgical, and all of those in the conservative treatment group had poor outcomes. The outcome distribution differed significantly in the surgical and conservative groups (p = 0.030). Conclusion Initial GCS score and largest hematoma diameter and volume on brain computed tomography are important determinants of outcome in SCH patients. The surgery group showed better outcome than the conservative treatment group among those with an intermediate neurological status and large hematomas.
Exploring Similarity Characteristics, Identification, and Parasocial Interactions in Choice of Celebrities

Parasocial interactions (PSIs), or perceived intimate relationships with favorite performers, were compared with celebrity identification, which is when spectators want to model or emulate a celebrity. College students (N = 188) completed an online questionnaire where they identified their favorite celebrity, answered demographic questions, and completed measures on celebrity PSIs and celebrity identification. As predicted, participants reported greater PSI than identification with their favorite celebrities, and participant gender and age were significantly related to celebrity gender and age. However, choice of celebrity was not based on race of celebrity and participant. Also, having lower PSI scores, greater celebrity identification, and being female significantly predicted choosing a female celebrity. But, having lower PSI scores, greater celebrity identification, and being older significantly predicted choosing an older celebrity. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed.
Interactive presentation: Impact of description language, abstraction layer, and value representation on simulation performance

In recent years other verification features than simulation performance such as robustness and debugging gained increasing impact on simulation language and tool selection. However, fastest model execution speed is still priority number one for many design and verification engineers. This can be seen in the continuously growing interest in virtual prototypes and transaction level modeling (TLM). As part of the ongoing re-work modeling language strategies and the world wide introduction of TLM, a detailed analysis of the impact of description languages, abstraction layers and data types on simulation performance is of high importance. For the presented analysis, we considered five designs that have been modeled in VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog, and SystemC, using different value representations and coding styles, covering the abstraction levels from functional to behavioral to RTL. This paper presents our evaluation environment and several interesting findings of our analysis. The most important results are as follows: We found that HDL tool/language/abstraction selection of RTL models impacts on the execution speed with a factor of 4.4. We found that Verilog is on average 2x faster than VHDL for RTL models. We found that SystemC results in 10x slower RTL models than HDLs and surprisingly results in 2.6x slower TLM1 PV models than System Verilog. And we found finally that on average over all analyzed aspects SystemVerilog models are executed fastest.
An overview of Rorschach psychometrics for forensic practice.

This chapter addresses current evidence concerning the Rorschach Inkblot Test relevant to forensic practice. We present a selective overview of research findings and some new data to help explicate the scientific and empirical foundations of the test. The focus is primarily on psychometric issues of reliabi Iity, val idity, normative reference values, and util ity. Even when limiting ourselves to these topics, we are selective because it is not possible to address them comprehensively within a single chapter. We focus on topics of most interest in the forensic arena and that have attracted the most research and controversy lately. I There is no attempt to select research that supports or does not support the test, but rather a bias for selecting recent versus older and well-known and established evidence. This review emphasizes Rorschach variables from the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003), but non-CS variables are included where relevant. In response to pressing concerns of most forensic psychologists when using the Rorschach, we address the recent criticisms of the Rorschach by synthesizing research findings. In doing so, we identify legitimate and spurious criticisms and describe and illuminate related limitations of the Rorschach. This entails our using the existing research literature and theory about the Rorschach to recommend certain alterations to interpretive practices and to identify important research needs.
Epidemic spreading with long-range infections and incubation times

The non-equilibrium phase transition in models for epidemic spreading with long-range infections in combination with incubation times is investigated by field-theoretical and numerical methods. In this class of models the infection is assumed to spread isotropically over long distances r whose probability distribution decays algebraically as P(r)∼r−d−σ, where d is the spatial dimension. Moreover, a freshly infected individual can infect other individuals only after a certain incubation time, modelled here as a waiting time Δt, which is distributed probabilistically as P(Δt)∼(Δt)−1−κ. Tuning the balance between spreading and spontaneous recovery one observes a continuous phase transition from a fluctuating active phase into an absorbing phase, where the infection becomes extinct. Depending on the parameters σ and κ this transition between spreading and extinction is characterized by continuously varying critical exponents, extending from a mean field regime to a phase described by the universality class of directed percolation. Specifying the phase diagram in terms of σ and κ we compute the critical exponents in the vicinity of the upper critical dimension dc = σ(3−κ−1) by a field-theoretic renormalization group calculation and verify the results in one spatial dimension by extensive numerical simulations.
Creating communities of practice: scoping purposeful design

Purpose – This paper seeks to scope the nature and form of practices, understandings and institutional arrangements thatmight contributetothe successful ‘‘design’’ andcontinuity of Communities of Practice (CoP) in a state government department in Australia. The study aims to provide research evidence to support the design and establishment of a CoP based on systems thinking within this department. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 13 semi-structured interviews were undertaken involving 14 informants. The interviewer also attended one CoP meeting. An emergent approach to research design was adopted with data analysis guided by previous studies on CoPs. Findings – The research revealed the existence of six CoPs that were purposefully created internally by the department. Six ‘‘design’’ and practice considerations were suggested for practitioners aiming to create and sustain successful CoPs. Research limitations/implications – Interview material was the only source of primary data and it was gathered from one organisation only – a state government department in Australia. Findings indicate that the role of the CoP coordinator is still not fully understood. Practical implications – The results from this study can be used in re-designing a systems thinking CoP to support systems thinking within the department. The study also revealed that purposefully designing CoPs is possible and useful for practitioners aiming to collaborate and share expertise across disciplinary and divisional boundaries. Originality/value – This study provides some guidance for the purposeful design of CoPs, which has been under-examined in the literature.
Violence Risk Assessment: A Brief Review, Current Issues, and Future Directions

A little over 11 years ago, I was invited to look forward and anticipate what areas in violence risk assessment would see more study (Mills, 2005). The areas identified at that time related to (a) increased clarity on the similarities and differences between structured professional judgment and actuarial approaches to risk assessment and the associated implications, (b) advancing our understanding of risk communication and risk management, (c) including dynamic change in actuarial risk assessment, and (d) the need to recalibrate frequently used risk appraisal instruments. This brief look back at my looking forward includes what we have learned from meta-analytic studies and that a review of the progress in the 4 areas identified above lead directly or indirectly to the need for a much greater understanding in the area of criminal justice risk communication. In matters of risk communication, we need to be clear in what we say and we need to understand how it will be perceived and employed by those who hear that message. Il y a un peu plus de 11 ans, j’ai été invité à examiner et à anticiper les domaines d’évaluations de risque de violence qui seraient les plus étudiés (Mills, 2005). Les domaines identifiés à ce moment comprenaient (a) une clarté accrue des similarités et des différences entre le discernement structuré et les approches actuarielles en matière d’évaluation des risques et les implications connexes, (b) l’avancement de notre compréhension de la communication des risques et de la gestion des risques, (c) un changement dynamique de l’évaluation des risques de type actuariel et (d) le besoin de recalibrer les instruments d’évaluation des risques fréquemment utilisés. Ce bref retour en arrière sur mes prédictions nous montre ce que les études méta-analytiques nous ont appris et que les progrès réalisés dans les quatre domaines identifiés ci-dessus entraînent directement ou indirectement la nécessité d’une compréhension plus approfondie du domaine de la communication des risques en matière de justice pénale. En matière de communication des risques, nous devons être clair dans ce que nous disons et devons comprendre comment cela sera perçu et employé par ceux qui reçoivent le message en question.
Adult attachment and attentional inhibition of interpersonal stimuli

In two studies, we used a negative affective priming task with pictures of angry (Study 1), sad (Study 2), and happy faces (Studies 1 and 2) to measure attentional inhibition of emotional stimuli as a function of attachment style. Results showed that attachment avoidance was associated with a stronger inhibition of both angry and sad faces. This indicates that the regulatory strategies of avoidant individuals involve inhibition of different types of negative, but not positive, stimuli. Attachment anxiety, on the other hand, showed no association with inhibitory responding to negative stimuli, although we did find indications of impaired inhibitory processing of happy faces in Study 1. The results are discussed in relation to current evidence on avoidant affect-regulation strategies.
Real Regulatory Capital Management and Dividend Payout: Evidence from Available-for-Sale Securities / Gestion du capital réglementaire et politique de dividende: Le cas des valeurs mobilières disponibles à la vente

The 2007–2009 financial crisis has re-ignited a long-running debate about the relative merits of historical cost accounting (HCA) or fair value accounting as foundations for prudential oversight, including the calculation of regulatory capital. Available-for-sale securities provide a good setting to further explore this issue. Using a sample of 5,333 firm-year observations representing 721 unique U.S. banks and bank holding companies between 1998 and 2013, we present evidence that regulatory capital based on HCA induces banks to engage in gains trading activities to improve their capital position and pay dividends. We also document that banks experiencing a decrease in regulatory capital and banks with a higher percentage of institutional investors are more prone to engage in gains trading to pay dividends. Finally, our findings reveal that to counterbalance the increased risk, banks change their lending behavior and decrease the riskiness of their trading portfolios. Overall, our results reveal the potential side effects linked to the use of HCA as a foundation to compute regulatory capital and suggest that HCA is not a panacea. La crise financiere de 2007-2009 a relance le debat quant aux avantages et inconvenients compares de la comptabilite au cout historique (ou amorti) et de la comptabilite a la juste valeur a des fins de reglementation, notamment en ce qui a trait au calcul du capital. Compte tenu de leur comptabilite particuliere, les valeurs mobilieres disponibles a la vente offrent un contexte interessant pour l’etude de cette question. A partir des donnees financieres d’un echantillon de 721 banques americaines au cours de la periode 1998-2013, nous constatons que le calcul du capital reglementaire base sur le cout historique amene les banques a effectuer des operations de cessions de titres disponibles a la vente en vue de realiser des gains constates aux resultats, ce qui leur permet d’ameliorer leur ratio de capital reglementaire et d’augmenter leurs dividendes. Nous constatons egalement que les banques souffrant de pressions a la baisse quant a leur ratio de capitalisation et ayant une plus grande proportion d’investisseurs institutionnels dans leur actionnariat ont une plus grande propension a effectuer de telles operations. Par contre, nous constatons egalement qu’afin de contrer l’accroissement du risque financier qui en resulte, les banques modifient leur strategie de pret et reduisent le niveau de risque de leur portefeuille de negociation. Dans l’ensemble, nos resultats tendent a montrer les effets secondaires decoulant de l’utilisation du cout historique en tant que fondement du calcul du capital reglementaire.
Implementing the PGI Accelerator model

The PGI Accelerator model is a high-level programming model for accelerators, such as GPUs, similar in design and scope to the widely-used OpenMP directives. This paper presents some details of the design of the compiler that implements the model, focusing on the Planner, the element that maps the program parallelism onto the hardware parallelism.
Design Information Sharing Across Multiple Knowledge Systems in a FLOSS Community

paper explores support for design information sharing between the distinct knowledge systems and skill sets of interactive system designers and developers. The paper focuses on the challenges of sharing information among groups of designers, developers, and users with multiple knowledge systems in the context of free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Bringing design to FLOSS communities introduces new knowledge into a solitary community of practice, and discussion ensues about how exploiting the 'symmetry of ignorance' can enhance information sharing through design in CodePlex, an open source project hosting community website. Finally, design mockups illustrate how CodePlex serves as a boundary object supporting design information sharing across distinct knowledge systems.
Where do the children play?: An investigation of the intersection of nature, early childhood education and play

ABSTRACT What is the role of early education and care in advocating and providing for nature play in an era when children’s exposure to nature play and risk is threatened? This review deconstructs the word ‘nature,’ as well as discusses nature’s role in centuries of theorists and early childhood care pioneers. The article concludes with some hopeful current directions in early childhood education, advocating for the role of teachers and institutions as powerful activists in providing intentionally risky affordances for nature play in early childhood settings.
Diffuse Alveolar Damage of the Lungs in Forensic Autopsies: Assessment of Histopathological Stages and Causes of Death

Introduction. Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) is a morphological prototype of acute interstitial pneumonia. Hospital autopsies or open-lung biopsies are used to monitor common alveolar damage and hyaline membrane (HM) development histopathologically. The aim of this study was to detect histopathological profiles and frequency of DAD and HM in adult forensic autopsies. Materials and Methods. In total, 6813 reports with histopathological samples in 12,504 cases on which an autopsy was performed between 2006 and 2008 were investigated. Sixty-six individuals >18 years of age who were diagnosed with DAD were included. Hematoxylin- and eosin-stained lung preparations were reexamined in line with the 2002 American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society idiopathic interstitial pneumonia consensus criteria. Results. Histopathological examination revealed that 50 cases (75.7%) were in the exudative phase and 16 (24.2%) were in the proliferative phase. Only the rate of alveolar exudate/oedema in exudative phase cases (P = 0.003); those of alveolar histiocytic desquamation (P = 0.037), alveolar fibrosis (P = 0.017), chronic inflammation (P = 0.02), and alveolar fibrin (P = 0.001) in proliferative cases were significantly higher. The presence of alveolar fibrin was the only independent variable in favour of proliferative cases (P = 0.016). Conclusion. The detection of all DAD morphological criteria with the same intensity is not always possible in each case. Forensic autopsies may provide a favourable means for expanding our knowledge about acute lung damage, DAD, and interstitial lung disease.
Effect of vitamin D supplementation on health status in non-vitamin D deficient people with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Objective Increased levels of depressive symptoms, fatigue or pain (all dimensions of reduced health-related quality of life (HRQOL)) are common in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Earlier studies have reported associations between low vitamin D status and fatigue and depressive symptoms. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of vitamin D supplementation on dimensions of HRQOL in people with type 2 DM. Design Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Methods The effect of monthly cholecalciferol 50,000 IU vs placebo on HRQOL was assessed in 275 adults with type 2 DM derived from general practices. HRQOL at baseline and after six months using the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) was collected. Linear regression analyses were used to compare the change in HRQOL over time between the vitamin D and placebo group. Results 187/275 (68%) completed baseline and follow-up SF-36 and were included in the analysis. Median serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D almost doubled in the intervention group compared to that in the placebo group (58.5–106.0 nmol/L vs 60.0–61.5 nmol/L, respectively). A small significant difference (adjusted B: −8.90; 95% CI: −17.16 to −0.65) between both groups was seen concerning the SF-36 domain role limitations due to physical problems in disadvantage of the vitamin D group. Conclusions Six months of vitamin D supplementation did not improve HRQOL in non-vitamin D-deficient people with type 2 DM managed on oral antidiabetic therapy.
Chronic Protein Restriction in Mice Impacts Placental Function and Maternal Body Weight before Fetal Growth

Mechanisms of resource allocation are essential for maternal and fetal survival, particularly when the availability of nutrients is limited. We investigated the responses of feto-placental development to maternal chronic protein malnutrition to test the hypothesis that maternal low protein diet produces differential growth restriction of placental and fetal tissues, and adaptive changes in the placenta that may mitigate impacts on fetal growth. C57BL/6J female mice were fed either a low-protein diet (6% protein) or control isocaloric diet (20% protein). On embryonic days E10.5, 17.5 and 18.5 tissue samples were prepared for morphometric, histological and quantitative RT-PCR analyses, which included markers of trophoblast cell subtypes. Potential endocrine adaptations were assessed by the expression of Prolactin-related hormone genes. In the low protein group, placenta weight was significantly lower at E10.5, followed by reduction of maternal weight at E17.5, while the fetuses became significantly lighter no earlier than at E18.5. Fetal head at E18.5 in the low protein group, though smaller than controls, was larger than expected for body size. The relative size and shape of the cranial vault and the flexion of the cranial base was affected by E17.5 and more severely by E18.5. The junctional zone, a placenta layer rich in endocrine and energy storing glycogen cells, was smaller in low protein placentas as well as the expression of Pcdh12, a marker of glycogen trophoblast cells. Placental hormone gene Prl3a1 was altered in response to low protein diet: expression was elevated at E17.5 when fetuses were still growing normally, but dropped sharply by E18.5 in parallel with the slowing of fetal growth. This model suggests that nutrients are preferentially allocated to sustain fetal and brain growth and suggests the placenta as a nutrient sensor in early gestation with a role in mitigating impacts of poor maternal nutrition on fetal growth.