Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction

A revision of the #1 text in the Human Computer Interaction field, Interaction Design, the third edition is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human-computer interaction, information design, web design and ubiquitous computing.The authorsare acknowledged leaders and educators in their field, with a strong global reputation. They bring depth of scope to the subject in this new edition, encompassing the latest technologies and devices including social networking, Web 2.0 and mobile devices. The third edition also adds, develops and updates cases, examples and questions to bring the book in line with the latest in Human Computer Interaction.Interaction Design offers a cross-disciplinary, practical and process-oriented approach to Human Computer Interaction, showing not just what principles ought to apply to Interaction Design, but crucially how they can be applied. The book focuses on how to design interactive products that enhance and extend the way people communicate, interact and work. Motivating examples are included to illustrate both technical, but also social and ethical issues, making the book approachable and adaptable for both Computer Science and non-Computer Science users. Interviews with key HCI luminaries are included and provide an insight into current and future trends.The book has an accompanying website www.id-book.com which has been updated to include resources to match the new edition.
Securities class action litigation , defendant stock price revaluation , and industry spillover effects

We analyze the stock price reaction to U.S. securities class action lawsuits for sued firms and their closest industry rivals surrounding the three most important dates during the litigation process: the revelation day of potential misconduct, the lawsuit filing day, and the day of the conclusion of the lawsuit, either through court dismissal of the class action or through a settlements. We are thereby the first to capture the shareholder wealth effects of all major events such a litigation process contains. The sample includes 1,004 observations for sued firms and 4,920 rival observations of concluded class action lawsuits between 1996 and 2014. The results show that the shareholders of both, defendant firms and their rivals, anticipate lawsuit events and that the stock price reaction is almost consistently negative. The magnitude of the shareholder wealth effects decrease for events that are located later in the litigation process, suggesting that new information is efficiently priced at the early stages of the process, with later events resolving residual uncertainty. Simultaneously this indicates that prior studies focusing only on the lawsuit filing event severely underestimated the economic impact of such litigation. In addition, we estimate the litigation risk and the probability of a settlement through logistic regression models and analyze their influence on the stock price around the filing and the settlement of class action lawsuits. The results suggest that investors are able to anticipate the incidence and the outcome of a lawsuit to a certain extent. The incentives for shareholders and their attorneys to sue as well as the historic share performance of a firm play an important role in explaining the observed return patterns.
‘ Micropolitics ’ and Communication : An exploratory study on student representatives ’ communication repertoires in university governance

The goal of this study is to gain an understanding of the communication repertoire which student representatives in university governance use to negotiate and represent student interests and to gain a first understanding of obstacles influencing communication behaviour. Moreover, it seeks to situate student representatives’ communication practices in the micropolitical context of universities. Students are the largest stakeholder group at universities and representative roles for students are formally embedded in universities’ institutional structures. The conceptual framework in this research project defines universities as micropolitical systems with students being citizens of these political entities who possess specific rights and duties relating to this status. For this study, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with interviewees who had been formally elected to student offices at four universities in Germany and the United Kingdom. The overall finding of the study is that students are a rather vulnerable status group at university with only limited political leverage and that they counter this disadvantage by making conscious use of a diverse repertoire of strategic communication practices and communication channels. Furthermore, the study found that student representatives are usually underrepresented in votes or occupy offices of mainly advisory nature. Thus, formal administrative processes at universities usually do not allow them to directly influence decision-making. As a consequence, student representatives mainly rely on informal negotiation processes and on activist logics to influence decision-making in terms of student interest and student welfare. The most important communication channels are face-to-face communication (preferably used for negotiation) and new media such as e-mail and social networking sites (mainly used for wide distribution of information). Obstacles influencing the effectiveness of students’ communication repertoires are the obligation of confidentiality, negative attitudes towards student representatives held by other stakeholders at university and gender discrimination as well as the risk of backlashes and personal attacks from different stakeholders. MSc Dissertation of Nora Kroeger
An extension of the CAMAC standard for increased data transfer rates

This report describes a proposed extension to the CAMAC data acquisition standard (FASTCAMAC), which substantially increases the data transfer rate of CAMAC systems while retaining compatibility with standard CAMAC. There have been previous proposals to increase the CAMAC transfer rate, but these have usually been proprietary or not compatible with standard CAMAC. None has achieved widespread acceptance by CAMAC users.
Resolvin E 1 , an endogenous lipid mediator derived from eicosapentaenoic acid , prevents dextran sulfate sodium induced colitis

Background—Resolvin E1 (RvE1), an endogenous lipid mediator derived from eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), has been identified in local inflammation during the healing stage. RvE1 reduces inflammation in several types of animal models including peritonitis and retinopathy, and blocks human neutrophil transendothelial cell migration. The RvE1 receptor ChemR23 is expressed on myeloid cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells. The aim of this study was to determine whether RvE1 regulates colonic inflammation when the innate immune response of macrophages plays a key role in the pathogenesis and tissue damage. Methods/Results—RvE1 receptor, ChemR23, was expressed in mouse peritoneal macrophages as defined by flow cytometry. Peritoneal macrophages were pretreated with RvE1, followed by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation whereupon of the transcriptional levels of proinflammatory cytokines were analyzed. RvE1 treatment led to the inhibition of proinflammatory cytokines including TNF-α and IL-12p40. In HEK293 cells, pretreatment with RvE1 inhibited TNF-αinduced nuclear translocation of NF-κB in a ChemR23 dependent manner. These results suggested that RvE1 could regulate pro-inflammatory responses of macrophages expressing ChemR23. *Corresponding author, Masaru Yoshida: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, 7-5-1, Chuo-ku, Kusunoki-cho, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0017, Tel; +81-78-382-6305, Fax; +81-78-382-6309, myoshida@med.kobe-u.ac. jp. NIH Public Access
Do Auditors Incorporate the Impact of Book-Tax Accruals in their Audit Fees? Evidence from Korea

This study investigates the effect of book-tax accruals, which affect both taxable income and reported earnings, on audit fees. Firms adjust the level of their book-tax accruals with high conformity to tax law and book-only accruals with low conformity for their tax and reporting strategy, and such adjustment decreases the informativeness of earnings. Based on that logic, we conjecture that auditors spend more time and increase their audit fees for auditing book-tax accruals with low earnings quality, considered as audit risks. The empirical analysis results show that there is a positive relation between the level of book-tax accruals and audit fees, indicating auditors incorporate the impact of book-tax accruals in audit fee decisions.
R SD : Rate-based Sync Deferment for Personal Cloud Storage Services

Cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, to cite a few, are becoming an increasingly “vital” tool in our everyday life. Unluckily, these services can incur large network overhead in different usage scenarios. To reduce it, these systems utilize several techniques like source-based deduplication, chunking, delta compression, etc. One of these techniques is sync deferment, which relies on the packing of updates to intentionally defer the synchronization process for some time, and increase the volume of useful data per overhead byte. The scientific literature has shown this technique to be very helpful, though there are still some limitations on current solutions. To resolve them, we present here a new adaptive sync deferment method, that is comparable to the current state of the art in terms of network overhead, but is also able to minimize the file synchronization time up to12X.
A Turbulent Wall-Pressure Fluctuation Model for Fluid-Structure Interaction

Most fluid flows of practical applications are turbulent. In flows involving interactions with flexible structures, such as an aircraft skin, the knowledge of turbulent wall-pressure fluctuations is critical. Both measurements and direct numerical simulations of the wall-pressure fluctuations are difficult and costly. Therefore, the use of semi-empirical turbulent wall-pressure fluctuation models is wide spread. One of the most widely used models is that due to Corcos (1963). The biggest advantages of this model are; simplicity and ease of use. However, the model has several weaknesses as well and therefore many models have been proposed to address them. In this paper, we briefly review existing models and then propose a model that remedies their weaknesses. The proposed model keeps the simplicity of the Corcos model and it is given in both spacefrequency and wavenumber-frequency spaces. The new model accurately captures the convective peak and shows better agreement with experimental data at lower wavenumbers.
Improved Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm Applied on the Static Model of the Induction Motor Parameter Identification

According to the induction motor operating characteristics, application of improved artificial fish swarm algorithm based on the simplex method to solve the equivalent circuit model parameters identification problem. Gives a detailed calculation steps and the curve of function expressions. Finally, the identification results and identification using genetic algorithm result is compared to prove that the accuracy of the identification results of the improved artificial fish swarm algorithm having higher precision.
Storage and Cooling Effects on Levels of Protein Carbohydrates, Fats, Minerals and Microbes in Guinea Fowl (Numida meleagris) Meat Sold in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria

The effect of storage and cooling time (0, 1, 3, 7 and 28 days) on the nutritional quality of guinea fowl ( Numida meleagris ) was assessed in terms of crude protein, moisture, ash, fat, carbohydrate, minerals (calcium, zinc, iron and potassium) and microbial content. Crude protein was determined using Kjedahl method, moisture, ash and fat content were determined using AOAC methods, carbohydrate was estimated by difference and the minerals using AAS methods (for Calcium, Zinc and Iron) and AES (for Potassium). The result of crude protein, moisture and fat content were observed to decrease as storage time increases. Moisture content ranged from 67.70 to 66.50%, ash content from 0.98 to 1.01%, fat content from 2.31 to 2.19%, crude protein content from 20.20 to 19.13% and carbohydrate content from 8.79 to 11.17%. The ash content fluctuates between the same ranges while the carbohydrate content increases with increased in storage time. The minerals content decreases with increase in storage time and the microbial analysis shows freezing inhibited the growth of bacteria which is the main cause of meat spoilage. The study showed that the meat samples could be kept in a frozen state without spoiling but the nutritional content where altered as storage time increased.
Towards a Cognitive TCP / IP Network Architecture

Typical characteristics of cognitive networks are the ability to monitor the environment they are deployed in, to take reasoned actions based on current conditions towards an end-to-end objective, and to learn from past experience. Such enhanced networks will likely be characterized by a nonnegligible complexity, which can be tolerated if accompanied by relevant benefits, such as performance increase or mitigation of management burden.
TITLE: Exercise rehabilitation for patients with critical limb ischemia peripheral arterial disease after revascularization: a single center pilot randomized controlled trial assessing quality of life and functional capacity after a 12-week rehabilitation program compared with best medical therapy

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) refers to narrowing and occlusion of arteries supplying oxygenated blood to non-coronary and non-intracranial circulatory systems. This term is typically used to describe disease in the legs though it also affects upper extremities, renal and mesenteric vessels (Hiatt et al., 2008). Atherosclerosis is a key cause of PAD and is the main focus of this particular study. Other more rare conditions that can lead to PAD include anatomical/congenital variation, fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), vasculitides, trauma and localized radiation (Gerhard-Herman et al., 2017; Hirsch et al., 2006).
Norms, Logics and Information Systems: New Studies on Deontic Logic and Computer Science

From the Publisher: This book presents research in an interdisciplinary field, resulting from the vigorous and fruitful cross-pollination between traditional deontic logic and computer science. AI researchers have used deontic logic as one of the tools in modelling legal reasoning. Computer scientists have discovered that computer systems (including their interaction with other computer systems and with human agents) can often be productively modelled as norm-governed. So, for example, deontic logic has been applied by computer scientists for specifying bureaucratic systems, access and security policies, and soft design or integrity constraints, and for modelling fault tolerance. In turn, computer scientists and AI researchers have also discovered (and made it clear to the rest of us) that various formal tools (e.g. nonmonotonic, temporal and dynamic logics) developed in computer science and artificial intelligence have interesting applications to traditional issues in deontic logic. This volume presents some of the best recent work done in this area, with the selection at once reflecting the general interdisciplinary (and international) character that this area of research has taken on, as well as reflecting the more specific recent inter-disciplinary developments between traditional deontic logic and computer science.
Inlammatory Cytokines and Repair Factors in the Intercostal Muscles of Patients With Severe COPD

Objective: there is disagreement regarding the local action of cytokines in the respiratory muscles of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). the objective of this study was to analyze the relationships between cytokine expression and genetic activation of the mechanisms of muscle repair. Patients and Methods: twenty-ive patients with severe COPD and in stable condition were enrolled in the study. We performed a biopsy of the external intercostal muscle of the patients and analyzed the specimen for signs of muscle lesion (morphometry), iniltration of inlammatory cells (immunohistochemistry), and expression of selected genes (real-time polymerase chain reaction technique) corresponding to the cytokines (tumor necrosis factor α [tNF-α] and its type 1 and 2 receptors [tNFR1 and tNFR2], and interleukin [IL] 1β, IL-6, and IL-10), a pan-leukocyte marker (CD18), and key molecules in the repairmyogenesis pathways (Pax7, M-cadherin, and MyoD). Results: Expression of tNFR2 is directly related to inspiratory muscle function (represented by maximum sustainable inspiratory pressure; r=0.496; P<.05), whereas expression of CD18 is inversely related (r=0.462; P<.05). Moreover, expression of the 2 tNF-α receptors was directly related to that of the key molecules of the repair pathways analyzed (tNFR1 to Pax7 [r=0.650; P<.001] and M-cadherin [r=0.678; P<.001]; tNFR2 to Pax7 [r=0.395; P<.05], M-cadherin [r=0.409; P<.05], and MyoD [r=0.418; P<.05]). Conclusions: Expression of tNF-α receptors bears a close relationship both to activation of the myogenesis programs and to inspiratory muscle function. this reinforces our hypothesis that some local cytokines take part in the repair of respiratory muscles in patients with COPD. © 2008 SEPAR. Published by Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved. Citocinas inflamatorias y factores de reparación en los músculos intercostales de pacientes con EPOC grave R E S u M E N Introducción: Las acciones locales de las citocinas en los músculos de los pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) se hallan sometidas a debate. El objetivo del presente estudio ha sido analizar las relaciones entre su expresión y la activación genética de programas de reparación muscular. Pacientes y métodos: Se incluyó en el estudio a 25 pacientes con EPOC grave en situación estable. Se les realizó una biopsia del músculo intercostal externo, donde se evaluaron los signos de lesión muscular (morfometría), la iniltración de células inlamatorias (inmunohistoquímica) y la expresión de genes seleccionados (técnica de reacción en cadena de la polimerasa en tiempo real) correspondientes a las propias citocinas –factor de necrosis tumoral alfa (tNF-α) y sus receptores 1 y 2 (tNFR1 y tNFR2), e interleucinas1β, 6 y 10–, un marcador panleucocitario (CD18) y moléculas clave en las vías de reparación-miogénesis (Pax7, M-Caderina y Mio-D). 280 C. Casadevall et al / Arch Bronconeumol. 2009;45(6):279-285
A Functional Variant in MTRR Intron-1 Significantly Increases the Risk of Congenital Heart Disease in Han Chinese Population

Background —Homocysteine is known to be an independent risk factor for congenital heart disease (CHD). Methionine synthase reductase ( MTRR ) is essential for the adequate remethylation of homocysteine, which is the dominant pathway for homocysteine removal during early embryonic development. Methods and Results —Herein, we report that the c.56+781 A>C (rs326119) variant of intron-1 of MTRR significantly increases the CHD risk in the Han Chinese population. In three independent case-control studies involving a total of 2,340 CHD patients and 2,270 healthy control participants from different geographic areas, we observed that patients carrying the heterozygous AC and homozygous CC genotype had a 1.40-fold (OR=1.40, P =2.32×10-7) and 1.84-fold (OR=1.84, P =2.3×10-11) increased risk, respectively, of developing CHD than those carrying the wild-type AA genotype. Both in vivo quantitative real-time PCR analysis of MTRR mRNA in cardiac tissue samples from CHD patients and in vitro luciferase assays in transfected cells demonstrated that the c.56+781 C allele profoundly decreased MTRR transcription. Further analysis demonstrated that the c.56+781 C allele manifested reduced CEBPα binding affinity. In addition, healthy individuals with the homozygous CC genotype had significantly elevated levels of plasma homocysteine compared to the wild-type AA carriers. Conclusions —We have demonstrated that the MTRR c.56+781 A>C variant is an important genetic marker for increased CHD risk because this variant results in functionally reduced MTRR expression at the transcriptional level. Our results accentuate the significance of functional SNPs in non-coding regions of the homocysteine/folate metabolism pathway core genes for their potential contributions to the etiology of CHD.
Inflation Dynamics and New Keynesian Phillips Curve : A Reassessment for Pakistan

This study tests empirical consistency of the NKPC for its standard and hybrid versions over the period 1972 to 2012. Empirical findings of the standard NKPC show that both expected inflation and output gap play important role in explaining inflation behavior in Pakistan. As the standard NKPC does not generate inflation persistence, so, we tested the hybrid version of NKPC. The estimates of the hybrid NKPC reveal that although both the lagged period inflation and expected future inflation are statistically significant but the coefficient of lagged inflation is quantitatively larger than that of the expected inflation which means that the price setting behavior is dominantly backward looking in Pakistan. Furthermore, the output gap is found to be significantly and positively affecting inflation in the country. The findings of this study suggest that the NKPC can be used as a benchmark model for understanding the inflation behaviour in Pakistan.
Non-Gaussian and non-homogeneous Poisson models of snapping shrimp noise

The problem of sonar detection and underwater communication in the presence of impulsive snapping shrimp noise is considered. Non-Gaussian amplitude and nonhomogeneous Poisson temporal statistical models of shrimp noise are investigated from the perspective of a single hydrophone immersed in shallow waters. New statistical models of the noise are devised and used to both challenge the superiority of existing models, and to provide alternative insights into the underlying physical processes. A heuristic amplitude statistical model of snapping shrimp noise is derived from first principles and compared with the Symmetric-α-stable model. The models are shown to have similar variability through the body of the amplitude probability density functions of real shrimp noise, however the new model is shown to have a superior fit to the extreme tails. Narrow-band detection using locally optimum detectors derived from these models show that the Symmetric-α-stable detector retains it’s superiority, despite providing a poorer overall fit to the amplitude probability density functions. The results also confirm the superiority of the Symmetric-α-stable detector for detection of narrowband signals in shrimp noise from Australian waters. The temporal nature of snapping from a field of shrimp is investigated by considering the snapping as a point process in time. Point process analysis techniques are drawn from the fields of optics, neuro-physics, molecular biology, finance and computer science, and applied to the problem of snapping shrimp noise. It is concluded that the snapping is not consistent with a homogeneous Poisson process and that correlations