Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attractiveness and the memorability of faces : Only a matter of distinctiveness?

This study investigated the independent and combined effects of attractiveness and distinctiveness on face recognition. In a preliminary study, subjects rated the distinctiveness of 90 standardized facial photographs. These ratings and previously obtained ratings of attractiveness were used to select 12 target faces for a standard face recognition task. The results confirmed that more distinctive faces are remembered better. Attractiveness was a poor predictor of recognition, however, especially when variation in distinctiveness was controlled. These results indicate that a new perspective on the role of attractiveness in face recognition is needed, and they also support arguments that facial distinctiveness is a fundamental variable in recognition performance.
Long-distance migrants and family support: a Dutch case study

The paper discusses what kind of mutual support and care-giving occurs between Dutch migrants residing in Australia and their parents ‘back home’ in the Netherlands. Specific case study examples are used to document the effect of long-distance, as well as situationally determined factors related to joint family history and past experience on migrants’ ability to participate in their family support networks.
The influence of friends and relatives in travel decision-making.

The objective of this exploratory study was to determine the extent to which friends and/or relatives influence the travel decision-making process beyond the role of information provider. The sample for this study was non-locals visiting three historic sites in Pennsylvania. Seventy-five percent of the groups sampled were visiting friends and/or relatives in the region. Respondents were requested to indicate (based on an allocation of 100%) who within the group had made various trip-related decisions. Friends and/or relatives were found to play a dominant role or were the sole decision maker between 29% and 39% of all decisions, respectively. The results indicated that friends and/or relatives shape behavior in a more direct fashion than previously documented.
Three-year follow-up of trabeculectomies performed with different concentrations of mitomycin-C.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Mitomycin-C is effective for improving success rates of trabeculectomies. The authors sought to determine longterm success rates and complications by studying two widely used concentrations. PATIENTS AND METHODS Trabeculectomies were performed with mitomycin-C (MMC) in concentrations of 0.5 mg/ml (group 1) and 0.2 mg/ml (group 2) in a prospective, nonrandomized fashion. Patients were observed for at least 3 years, and all follow-up data were analyzed in addition to the preoperative and postoperative conditions and complications. RESULTS A total of 51 and 40 eyes (groups 1 and 2, respectively) were observed for 3 years. The majority of the eyes had repeat trabeculectomy. Complete surgical success was reached in 76% and 63%, respectively. The mean intraocular pressure (IOP) in the two groups decreased significantly, and the decrease was larger in the MMC 0.5 mg/ml group (P < .015). The mean visual acuity did decrease in the two groups, but this was not significant. Complications included short-term and long-term hypotony, conjunctival dehiscence, choroidal detachments, and endophthalmitis. Trabeculectomies failed both within the first 3 months (n = 4; 4%) and later (n = 11; 12%). CONCLUSION Three-year results of trabeculectomies performed with MMC are promising. A dose-response effect of the concentration of MMC and IOP levels is present, suggesting that the higher concentration leads to lower IOP values. Despite the antimetabolic effect of MMC, trabeculectomies fail in both the short-term and the long-term.
e-based inter-enterprise supply chain Kanban for demand and order fulfilment management

The philosophy of Kanban is that parts and materials should be supplied at the very moment they are needed in the factory manufacturing process. e-based inter-enterprise supply chain Kanban are investigated on the distribution center of a global supply chain network, with information technology based pull systems being examined from the distributors back to the suppliers. Using the qualitative case study method, the study is data from a Japan based electronics manufacturing company, regional headquarter and its distributors. The research methodology comprised of establishing the value stream mapping (VSM) supply chain network for a company and tracing this from customer order back to the manufacturing order. The research findings demonstrate the novel utility of using information technology to perform the Kanban function through the demand and order fulfilment process, from distributor back to company global headquarter. This can be achieved through the use of the Internet as the distributor and global headquarter portal for contact.
Parental Agreement-Disagreement on Child Rearing Orientations and Gender-Related Personality Correlates in Children.

BLOCK, JEANNE H. ; BLOCK, JACK; and MomISON, ANDREA. Parental Agreement-Disagreement on Child-rearing Orientations and Gender-related Personality Correlates in Children. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1981, 52, 965-974. An objective index of degree of parental agreement was generated by comparing the independent responses of 83 parental dyads to a set of Q-sort items reflecting child-rearing values and orientations. This index was found to significantly predict subsequent continuation or termination of the marriage and to relate to independently described characteristics of the family home environment. Further, the index of parental agreement was significantly related to the quality of psychological functioning in boys and in girls over a 4-year age range, from age 3 to age 7. Reliable differences were found in the patterning among relationships for boys and girls wherein parental agreement was more implicative for the psychological functioning of boys than for girls and was related positively to the development of ego control in boys but was related negatively to the development of ego control in the sample of girls.
Interns' compliance with accreditation council for graduate medical education work-hour limits.

CONTEXT Sleep deprivation is associated with increased risk of serious medical errors and motor vehicle crashes among interns. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) introduced duty-hour standards in 2003 to reduce work hours. OBJECTIVE To estimate compliance with the ACGME duty-hour standards among interns. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS National prospective cohort study with monthly Web-based survey assessment of intern work and sleep hours using a validated instrument, conducted preimplementation (July 2002 through May 2003) and postimplementation (July 2003 through May 2004) of ACGME standards. Participants were 4015 of the approximately 37 253 interns in US residency programs in all specialties during this time; they completed 29 477 reports of their work and sleep hours. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Overall and monthly rates of compliance with the ACGME standards. RESULTS Postimplementation, 1068 (83.6%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 81.4%-85.5%) of 1278 of interns reported work hours in violation of the standards during 1 or more months. Working shifts greater than 30 consecutive hours was reported by 67.4% (95% CI, 64.8%-70.0%). Averaged over 4 weeks, 43.0% (95% CI, 40.3%-45.7%) reported working more than 80 hours weekly, and 43.7% (95% CI, 41.0%-46.5%) reported not having 1 day in 7 off work duties. Violations were reported during 3765 (44.0%; 95% CI, 43.0%-45.1%) of the 8553 intern-months assessed postimplementation (including vacation and ambulatory rotations), and during 2660 (61.5%; 95% CI, 60.0%-62.9%) of 4327 intern-months during which interns worked exclusively in inpatient settings. Postimplementation, 29.0% (95% CI, 28.7%-29.7%) of reported work weeks were more than 80 hours per week, 12.1% (95% CI, 11.8%-12.6%) were 90 or more hours per week, and 3.9% (95% CI, 3.7%-4.2%) were 100 or more hours per week. Comparing preimplementation to postimplementation responses, reported mean work duration decreased 5.8% from 70.7 (95% CI, 70.5-70.9) hours to 66.6 (95% CI, 66.3-66.9) hours per week (P<.001), and reported mean sleep duration increased 6.1% (22 minutes) from 5.91 (95% CI, 5.88-5.94) hours to 6.27 (95% CI, 6.23-6.31) hours per night (P<.001). However, reported mean sleep during extended shifts decreased 4.5%, from 2.69 (95% CI, 2.66-2.73) hours to 2.57 (95% CI, 2.52-2.62) hours (P<.001). CONCLUSION In the first year following implementation of the ACGME duty-hour standards, interns commonly reported noncompliance with these requirements.
A Mentoring Model for Management in Sport and Physical Education

Several authors (Dreher & Ash, 1990; Fagenson, 1989, 1992; Hunt & Michael, 1983; Kram, 1985; Newby & Heide, 1992; Scandura, 1992) have emphasized the importance of mentoring in facilitating onc's progress through a career in management. This paper presents a mentoring model that combines the various factors impinging on mentoring and the associated outcomes in a compre hensive framework. In the model, a set of antecedent mentor and protege characteristics, including demogaphics and traits. lead to certain mentoring functions, which subsequently result in specified outcomes. The stages of a mentoring relationship—initiation, cultivation, and redefinition—are explained. Mentoring functions. relate both lo career mobility and personal achievement and growth. Mentoring benefits al1 parties—protege, mentor, and organization. The model also includes intervening variables that modify the relationships among antecedents. mentoring stages and functions, and outcome variable. The paper outlines implications of and .
Socialization and the Role of Power Assertion

Very little research has had as long-lasting and significant an impact on the field of developmental psychology as Diana Baumrind’s work on parenting styles. Indeed the number of citations of that work [Baumrind, 1967, 1971, 1991] stretches into the 1,000s. The distinction between authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive parenting, which was such an important breakthrough in thinking 40 or more years ago, continues to be accepted as a meaningful way of conceptualizing different ways of parenting and the different outcomes associated with them. Common to these styles is the notion of control (or, in the case of permissive parenting, lack of control). And it is to control that Baumrind [this issue] has addressed an essay that forms a starting point for the present commentary. Control is central to an understanding of socialization processes. It can have both positive and negative meanings, however, and this duality has made it a particularly confusing concept. Indeed, Maccoby [2007] wrote, ‘The question underlying much modern parenting research, then, is not whether parents should exercise authority and children should comply, but rather how parental control can best be exercised so as to support children’s growing competence and self-management. Thus it is increasingly understood that strong parent agency and strong child agency are not incompatible. Both can be maintained within a system of mutually understood realms of legitimate authority, though this understanding must be progressively renegotiated as children grow older. The agency of both parties can be encompassed within the bidirectional perspective that is now so widely accepted’ (pp. 36–37).
Student Ratings of Instruction in Distance Learning and On-Campus Classes

Abstract Student ratings in 2 special education courses offered on campus and off campus using different means of instruction, including electronic media, were compared. Ratings also were compared when distance classes were taught at local and remote facilities. End-of-course student evaluations were examined using a counterbalanced design. A comparison of outcome measures revealed no difference in the overall course means. Outcome measures for on-campus students versus off-campus students for the 2 courses were examined, but no differences were found in the overall ratings. Course, instructor, teaching, and communication ratings were similar across settings and courses. Implications for future research in evaluating instruction at a distance are suggested.
Under Consideration for Publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Iterative Learning of Answer Set Programs from Context Dependent Examples

In recent years, several frameworks and systems have been proposed that extend Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to the Answer Set Programming (ASP) paradigm. In ILP, examples must all be explained by a hypothesis together with a given background knowledge. In existing systems, the background knowledge is the same for all examples; however, examples may be context-dependent. This means that some examples should be explained in the context of some information, whereas others should be explained in different contexts. In this paper, we capture this notion and present a context-dependent extension of the Learning from Ordered Answer Sets framework. In this extension, contexts can be used to further structure the background knowledge. We then propose a new iterative algorithm, ILASP2i, which exploits this feature to scale up the existing ILASP2 system to learning tasks with large numbers of examples. We demonstrate the gain in scalability by applying both algorithms to various learning tasks. Our results show that, compared to ILASP2, the newly proposed ILASP2i system can be two orders of magnitude faster and use two orders of magnitude less memory, whilst preserving the same average accuracy. This paper is under consideration for acceptance in TPLP.
Utility of CA 15-3 as Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker in Breast Cancer

CA 15-3 which detects soluble forms of MUC-1 protein is the most widely used serum marker in patients with breast cancer. Its main use is for monitoring therapy in patients with metastatic disease. For monitoring therapy, CA 15-3 should be used in conjunction with diagnostic imaging, clinical history and physical examination. CA 15-3 is particularly valuable for treatment monitoring in patients that have disease that cannot be evaluated using existing radiological procedures. Sera of 91 women, normal control, benign breast lesion and malignant breast lesion in pre, postoperative and follow up period were assayed for CA 15-3 by ELISA. In the malignant group (n=76), 43 cases had shown elevated value of CA 15-3 suggesting the sensitivity of this marker about 56% and the specificity of the marker about 100%. Elevated preoperative serum levels of CA 15-3 were significantly correlated with the presence of metastatic disease. In metastatic group the elevated value was seen in 100% of cases but in non-metastatic group it was variable. Elevated concentrations of CA 15-3 over the cut off may be a useful diagnostic and reliable indicator for the prognosis and also was useful in monitoring the therapy.
The patellofemoral joint: from dysplasia to dislocation

Patellofemoral dysplasia is a major predisposing factor for instability of the patellofemoral joint. However, there is no consensus as to whether patellofemoral dysplasia is genetic in origin, caused by imbalanced forces producing maltracking and remodelling of the trochlea during infancy and growth, or due to other unknown and unexplored factors. The biomechanical effects of patellofemoral dysplasia on patellar stability and on surgical procedures have not been fully investigated. Also, different anatomical and demographic risk factors have been suggested, in an attempt to identify the recurrent dislocators. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation of all the radiographic, MRI and CT parameters can help the clinician to assess patients with primary and recurrent patellar dislocation and guide management. Patellofemoral dysplasia still represents an extremely challenging condition to manage. Its controversial aetiology and its complex biomechanical behaviour continue to pose more questions than answers to the research community, which reflects the lack of universally accepted guidelines for the correct treatment. However, due to the complexity of this condition, an extremely personalised approach should be reserved for each patient, in considering and addressing the anatomical abnormalities responsible for the symptoms. Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2017;2. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.2. 160081. Originally published online at www.efortopenreviews. org
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: Attention to touch modulates activity in both primary and secondary somatosensory areas

We used fMRI to establish whether attention to touch enhances somatosensory cortical activity. Subjects received somatosensory and visual stimulation and were instructed to attend selectively to one modality during alternating stimulus detection periods interspersed with rest periods during which no stimulus was delivered. The maximum signal change for each task versus rest was measured in anatomically de®ned regions of interest for each subject. Attended touch produced greater signal change than unattended touch in primary (S1) and secondary (S2) somatosensory cortex. In contrast to the conclusions of some previous studies, we found that the enhancement of activation with attention was at least as great in S1 as in S2. The attentional effect was unilateral in S1 and bilateral in S2 and the somatosensory insula. NeuroReport 11:1237±1241 & 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Who's underworked and who's overworked now? An update on radiologist shortage and surplus.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to present an updated report on the radiologist surplus and shortage situation using a recently developed improved measure-namely, the extent to which radiologists desire less or more work if their income were to change by the same percentage as their workload. MATERIALS AND METHODS Non-individually identifiable data from the American College of Radiology's (ACR's) 2007 Survey of Diagnostic Radiologists were used. Responses were weighted to be representative of all posttraining professionally active radiologists in the United States. Information is presented for all radiologists and according to such factors as type and size of practice, radiologist subspecialty, and geographic region. Multivariable regression analysis was used to identify the probable causal links between desired workload change and characteristics of radiologists and the practices where they work. Comparisons were made with ACR's similar 2003 Survey of Radiologists. RESULTS The net average workload change sought in 2007 was an approximately 3% increase. In 2003, radiologists on average did not desire a statistically significant change in workload. Regression analysis for 2007 showed a pattern of relative shortages and surpluses that was generally, but not entirely, different from that found in 2003. CONCLUSION The overall balance between the demand and the supply of radiologists shifted toward a surplus between 2003 and 2007. According to our measure, we judge there was a close balance in 2003, but a 3% surplus in 2007. The employment market seems generally, but not universally, to self-correct relative shortages and surpluses in individual geographic areas and subspecialties within a few years.
Survey on Complex Event Processing and Predictive Analytics

Observing failures and other – desired or undesired – behavior patterns in large scale software systems of specific domains (telecommunication systems, information systems, online web applications, etc.) is difficult. Very often, it is only possible by examining the runtime behavior of these systems through operational logs or traces. However, these systems can generate data in order of gigabytes every day, which makes a challenge to process in the course of predicting upcoming critical problems or identifying relevant behavior patterns. We can say that there is a gap between the amount of information we have and the amount of information we need to make a decision. Low level data has to be processed, correlated and synthesized in order to create high level, decision helping data. The actual value of this high level data lays in its availability at the time of decision making (e.g., do we face a virus attack? ). In other words high level data has to be available real-time or near real-time. The research area of event processing deals with processing such data that are viewed as events and with making alerts to the administrators (users) of the systems about relevant behavior patterns based on the rules that are determined in advance. The rules or patterns describe the typical circumstances of the events which have been experienced by the administrators. Normally, these experts improve their observation capabilities over time as they experience more and more critical events and the circumstances preceding them. However, there is a way to aid this manual process by applying the results from a related (and from many aspects, overlapping) research area, predictive analytics, and thus improving the effectiveness of event processing. Predictive analytics deals with the prediction of future events based on previously observed historical data by applying sophisticated methods like machine learning, the historical data is often collected and transformed by using techniques similar to the ones of event processing, e.g., filtering, correlating the data, and so on. In this paper, we are going to examine both research areas and offer a survey on terminology, research achievements, existing solutions, and open issues. We discuss the applicability of the research areas to the telecommunication domain. We primarily base our survey on articles published in international conferences and journals, but we consider other sources of information as well, like technical reports, tools or web-logs.
Building a Hybrid Warehouse

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) has become an important data repository in the enterprise as the center for all business analytics, from SQL queries and machine learning to reporting. At the same time, enterprise data warehouses (EDWs) continue to support critical business analytics. This has created the need for a new generation of a special federation between Hadoop-like big data platforms and EDWs, which we call the hybrid warehouse. There are many applications that require correlating data stored in HDFS with EDW data, such as the analysis that associates click logs stored in HDFS with the sales data stored in the database. All existing solutions reach out to HDFS and read the data into the EDW to perform the joins, assuming that the Hadoop side does not have efficient SQL support. In this article, we show that it is actually better to do most data processing on the HDFS side, provided that we can leverage a sophisticated execution engine for joins on the Hadoop side. We identify the best hybrid warehouse architecture by studying various algorithms to join database and HDFS tables. We utilize Bloom filters to minimize the data movement and exploit the massive parallelism in both systems to the fullest extent possible. We describe a new zigzag join algorithm and show that it is a robust join algorithm for hybrid warehouses that performs well in almost all cases. We further develop a sophisticated cost model for the various join algorithms and show that it can facilitate query optimization in the hybrid warehouse to correctly choose the right algorithm under different predicate and join selectivities.