Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Voting and social inclusion in Sweden 1

Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and provincial voting privileges to noncitizen residents arguing that it would increase political influence, interest and selfesteem among foreign citizens. More recently, electoral participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being substantially lower than for native-born citizens and questions have arisen regarding the degree to which this may be symptomatic of a larger integration issue. The aim of this paper is to explore the determinants of voting within the context of social inclusion by comparing immigrants, their descendants and native citizens in Sweden while controlling for a range of socio-economic, demographic characteristics, contextual factors and a set of “hard” and “soft” social inclusion related variables. We use the Swedish 2006 electoral survey matched to registry data from Statistics Sweden to assess the correlates of voting by Swedish-born and immigrant residents. Using instrumental variable regressions to control the impact of citizenship acquisition, we find that immigrants are less likely to vote than native-born Sweden. Similar to other research, we find that age, education and income are important determinants of voting. However, we also find that acquisition of citizenship makes a real difference to the probability of voting. Immigrants who naturalise are in general far more likely to vote than those who do not.
Forty Years of Assessing Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in Infants: What Have We Learned?

It has been known for over four decades that prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) can adversely affect neurodevelopment and behavior (NDB). Yet, early detection of altered NDB due to PAE continues to present a major clinical challenge. Identification of altered NDB in the first two years of life, before higher order cognitive processes develop, invites early interventions for affected children to improve long-term outcomes. Studies published in English from January of 1980 to July of 2018 were identified in PubMed/Medline. The review focused on prospective birth cohort studies which used standardized NDB assessments in children up to 2 years of age, wherein PAE was the main exposure and NDB was the main outcome. NDB was categorized into the domains of neurocognitive, adaptive, and self-regulation based on the 2016 Updated Clinical Guidelines for diagnosing FASD. An initial search resulted in 1,867 articles for which we reviewed abstracts; 114 were selected for full-text review and 3 additional abstracts were identified through review of references in eligible publications. Thirty-one publications met criteria and were included; of these, 24 reported neurocognitive outcomes, 24 reported adaptive behavior outcomes, and 12 reported outcomes in the domain of self-regulation. Although self-regulation was assessed in the fewest number of studies, 8/12 (75%) reported PAE-associated deficits. In contrast, results were mixed for the other two domains: 13/24 (54%) of the selected studies that included neurocognitive outcomes showed poorer performance following PAE, and 8/24 (33%) studies that assessed adaptive functioning found significant differences between PAE and comparison infants. There is considerable evidence to support the value of early-life assessments of infant NDB when PAE is known or suspected. More studies focusing on infant self-regulation, in particular, are needed to determine the utility of early evaluation of this critical developmental domain in infants with PAE. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Self-efficacy defined

Affective Processes: Processes regulating emotional states and elicitation of emotional reactions. Cognitive Processes: Thinking processes involved in the acquisition, organization and use of information. Motivation: Activation to action. Level of motivation is reflected in choice of courses of action, and in the intensity and persistence of effort. Perceived Self-Efficacy: People's beliefs about their capabilities to produce effects. Self-Regulation: Exercise of influence over one's own motivation, thought processes, emotional states and patterns of behavior.
Indigenous Languages as Tools for Effective Communication of Science and Technology for Food Production in Nigeria

It is possible to assert that one of the reasons behind Nigeria’s inability to break even in agricultural production is the sociolinguistic complexity of the nation. But then, some advanced nations that equally have many languages are faring better in food production. In Nigeria, taboos and wrong beliefs by farmers towards agriculture as obtained in the past are still extant. Majority of farmers find it difficult to adopt modern agro-based technologies except the few who are into large-scale farming. Based on this background, the study holds that the indigenous languages which ought to have been fully harnessed as models for effective transmission of improved agro-technologies to alter the obsolete methods and promote virile agricultural enterprise have been treated with a wave of hand. This paper therefore provides rationale and framework for latent use of our indigenous languages for integrating relevant innovations in science and technology into agriculture for sustainable development.
Trilobite and xiphosuran affinities for putative aglaspidid arthropods Caryon and Drabovaspis, Upper Ordovician, Czech Republic

The problematic arthropods Zonozoe draboviensis, Caryon bohemicum and Triopus draboviensis were originally described by Barrande (1872). Chlupac (1963, 1965) revised Barrande’s material, and based a new genus and species, Drabovaspis complexa, on a single specimen formerly in Zonozoe. He regarded all these taxa as ‘merostomes of the Order Aglaspidida. , which is the oldest order of limulid arthropods of the Subclass Xiphosura. ’ (Chlupac 1965, p. 7) based on an overall resemblance. Much debate revolves around the diagnostic features and exact affinities of the Aglaspidida. Almost all arthropods that have been allied to this Order share a similar morphology, including a semicircular and convex cephalon devoid of facial sutures and a faint glabellar region. Most have a pair of anterior oval eyes, although blind forms are recorded (Fortey & Rushton 2003). Most of these taxa have not been the subject of further study except for occasional comparison with morphologically similar arthropods (e.g. Bergstrom 1968; Fortey & Rushton 2003; Van Roy 2006a; Rak et al. 2009).
Démonette, a French derivational morpho-semantic network

Démonette is a derivational morphological network created from information provided by two existing lexical resources, DériF and Morphonette. It features a formal architecture in which words are associated with semantic types and where morphological relations, labelled with concrete and abstract bi-oriented definitions, connect derived words with their base and indirectly related words with each other.
Connectivity Theory at Work: The Referrals between Science and Mathematics in a Science Unit

Researches carried out all around the world showed that students learn more effectively if they are able to make connections between subjects. This case reports based on an investigation of how mathematics concepts were connected to science concepts by a science teacher in an elementary science classroom, and on the science teacherâs views about connectivity. The progress of the instruction of a unit on the structure and properties of matter was observed in a class of forty eight students in a public school in Ankara. The science teacher was interviewed and her views were compared to her practice. The researchers undertook eight hours of observation, and data was collected through field notes and video-recordings. The findings showed that the teacher made connections between the topic and the mathematical components, such as the symbolic representations, arithmetic, counting, equations, the least common multiplier, and the distributive property of multiplication over addition. Although she thought that physics is more available for more connection when it compared to mathematics, we observed that many connections are possible in other areas of science as well.
Radar Observations of Asteroid 2063 Bacchus

Abstract We report Doppler-only (cw) and delay-Doppler radar observations of Bacchus obtained at Goldstone at a transmitter frequency of 8510 MHz (3.5 cm) on 1996 March 22, 24, and 29. Weighted, optimally filtered sums of cw and delay-Doppler echoes achieve signal-to-noise ratios of ∼80 and ∼25, respectively, and cover about 180° of rotation phase (period=14.90 h; Pravec et al. 1998). Our cw observations place up to four 2-Hz-resolution cells on Bacchus at echo powers greater than two standard deviations of the noise. Delay-Doppler observations typically place about ten 0.5-μs (75-m)×1-Hz cells on Bacchus above the same threshold. A weighted sum of all cw spectra gives an OC radar cross section of 0.12 +0.06 −0.02 km 2 and a circular polarization ratio of 0.21±0.01. The dispersion of the echoes in time delay indicates a lower bound on Bacchus' maximum pole-on breadth of 0.6 km that is consistent with the echo bandwidth (6±2 Hz) and rotation period. Echo spectra on March 22 and delay-Doppler images on all three days show a central deficit of echo power that provides strong evidence for a bifurcation in the shape. Inversion of delay-Doppler images, cw spectra, and optical lightcurves obtained at Ondrejov Observatory yields single-lobe and two-lobe models that define lower and upper bounds on the degree of bifurcation. Both shape models have a prominent central concavity, modestly asymmetric shapes, and similar physical dimensions, spin vectors, and radar and optical geometric albedos. We adopt the more conservative single-lobe shape model as our working model and explore its implications. It has a radar-derived sidereal rotation period P sid =15.0±0.2 h and a north pole within a few tens of degrees of ecliptic longitude λ=24° and ecliptic latitude β=−26°; retrograde rotation is likely. It has dimensions of 1.11×0.53×0.50 km, an effective diameter (the diameter of a sphere with the same volume as the model) D eff =0.63 +0.13 −0.06 km, and radar and optical geometric albedos σ=0.33 +0.25 −0.11 and p v =0.56 +0.12 −0.18 , respectively, that are larger than most estimated for other asteroids. Bacchus' low circular polarization ratio and high radar albedo are consistent with nearly regolith-free ordinary chondrite and basaltic achondrite compositions, but its high optical geometric albedo seems inconsistent with an ordinary chondrite composition and may favor a V-class composition. Bacchus has less structural complexity at centimeter-to-decimeter spatial scales and its near-surface is more dense (either more metal, lower porosity, or both) than the average radar-detected near-Earth asteroid.
Harmless? A hierarchical analysis of poppers use correlates among young gay and bisexual men.

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Poppers (alkyl nitrites) are recreational substances commonly used during sexual activity. The current legal status of poppers is complex and wide-ranging bans are increasingly under discussion. Research has identified disproportionate levels of poppers use in sexual minority men. While research on poppers use among sexual minority men exists, little is known about poppers use patterns and correlations with psychosocial and other factors among gay and bisexual young men. DESIGN AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 836 Australian gay and bisexual young men aged 18 to 35 years. Descriptive statistics and hierarchical segmentation analyses were conducted to identify poppers use patterns, and correlates of recent poppers use (past 3 months) with personal characteristics, use of other substances, as well as mental and psychosocial health including minority stress, LGBT-community connectedness and participation. RESULTS High levels of lifetime (38%, n = 315) and recent (24%, n = 204) poppers use were reported. However, few participants reported dependency symptoms, risky consumption or problems arising from using poppers. The final model included three variables (visiting sex-on-premises venues, licensed LGBT venues, and using other substances) and predicted 85% (n = 174) of recent poppers use. No correlations with other concepts or characteristics could be identified. CONCLUSION This analysis further supports the hypothesis that poppers may be substances with a comparably low-risk profile. A regulation of poppers with a harm reduction approach may present a valuable public health intervention.
A Phase I, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Study of CC-11050 in People Living With HIV With Suppressed Plasma Viremia on Antiretroviral Therapy (APHRODITE).

Objective Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors (PDE4i) are novel anti-inflammatory medications that have been approved for rheumatologic diseases and have been tested as host-directed therapy in tuberculosis. We examined the safety of CC-11050, a potent PDE4i in people living with HIV (PLWH) with suppressed HIV plasma viremia. We hypothesized that CC-11050 could be used to modulate HIV-related inflammation. Method Thirty PLWH on antiretroviral therapy (ART) ≥ 1 year with suppressed HIV viremia were enrolled and randomized 2:1 to 12 weeks of CC-11050 200mg twice daily or placebo with follow-up at weeks 2, 4, 8, 12, and 16. Primary endpoint was safety. Secondary endpoints were the effect of CC-11050 on cytokines, monocyte, and T-cell activation and potential pharmacokinetic interaction between CC-11050 and Efavirenz (EFV). Results At baseline, median age was 49.5 years and CD4 count 459 cells/µL. Most frequent adverse events (grade 1 and 2 only) in CC-11050 group were headache, diarrhea, nausea, cough, nasal congestion, and restlessness. Over a 12-week period, the CC-11050 group had lower level of IL-8, adjusted for baseline level, group, and week (0.72-fold, P = .02), lower percentage of NK cells (0.87-fold, P = .02) and higher IL-6 level (1.48-fold, P = .03) compared to placebo (0.87-fold, P = .02). CC-11050 and EFV co-administration did not reveal any pharmacokinetic interaction. Conclusions CC-11050 was well tolerated in PLWH, without affecting CD4 counts or plasma viremia, and led to a decrease in NK cells and plasma IL-8 level after 12-weeks of administration. Further study will be needed to elucidate the efficacy of CC-11050 as potential anti-inflammatory adjuvant strategy in HIV.
Comparison of Terrestrial DTV Systems: ISDB-TB and ATSC 3.0

This review discusses the ISDB-TB and ATSC 3.0 systems, comparing the differences between the Input Formatting, passing by video compression, data multiplexing and encapsulation, the Channel coding, Interleavers, Constellation Mappers, Multiplexing methods, Framing, Waveform generation and synchronism. Finally, a performance comparison, using similar parameters, between bitrate and required Carrier-to-Noise ratio is presented.
The Impact of Online Resilience Training for Sales Managers on Wellbeing and Work Performance

In a randomised controlled trial, the internet-based ResilienceOnline (ROL) program was evaluated among lubricant sales managers at BP Australia. This program is designed to enhance resilience by teaching seven skills to help improve ability to cope with challenges and setbacks and maximise potential achievements. Sales managers were allocated to complete the ROL program (n = 26) or to be in a waitlist-control condition (n = 27) and were compared on pre- and post-intervention measures of happiness, quality of life, depression, anxiety, stress and work performance. Sales managers found the resilience training very enjoyable and believed it would improve their work performance and life skills. However, a high proportion of sales managers did not complete the ROL program and it was not found to significantly reduce distress or improve quality of life or work performance.
Phylogenetic Transfer of Knowledge for Biological Networks

Advances in biotechnology have enabled researchers to study molecular bi- ology from the point of view of systems, from focused efforts at functional annotation to the study of pathways, regulatory networks, protein-protein interaction networks, etc. However, direct observation of these systems has proved difficult, time-consuming, and often unreliable. Thus computational methods have been developed to infer such sys- tems from high-throughput data, such as sequences, gene expression levels, ChIP-Seq signals, etc. For the most part, such methods have not yet proved accurate and reli- able enough to be used in automated analysis pipelines. Most methods used to infer biological networks rely on data for a single organism; a few attempt to leverage ex- isting knowledge about some related organisms. Today, however, we have data about a large variety of organisms as well as good consensus about the evolutionary relation- ships among these organisms, so that the latter can be used to integrate the former in a well founded manner, thereby gaining significant power in the analysis. We have coined the term phylogenetic transfer of knowledge (PTK) for this approach to inference and analysis. A PTK analysis considers a family of organisms with known evolutionary re- lationships and "transfers" biological knowledge among the organisms in accordance with these relationships. The output of a PTK analysis thus includes both predicted (or refined) target data for the extant organisms and inferred details about their evolution- ary history. While a few ad hoc inference methods used a PTK approach almost a dozen years ago, we first provided a global perspective on such methods just 6 years ago. The last few years have seen a significant increase in research in this area, as well as new ap- plications. The time is thus right for a review of recent work that falls under this heading, a characterization of the solutions proposed, and a description of remaining challenges.
From algebraic cobordism to motivic cohomology

Let S be an essentially smooth scheme over a eld of characteristic exponent c. We prove that there is a canonical equivalence of motivic spectra over S MGL=(a1;a2;::: )(1=c)' HZ(1=c); where HZ is the motivic cohomology spectrum, MGL is the algebraic cobordism spectrum, and the elements an are generators of the Lazard ring. We discuss several applications including the computation of the slices of Z(1=c)-local Landweber exact motivic spectra and the convergence of the associated slice spectral sequences.
Factors of Attraction and Relationship Satisfaction: The Love-is-Blind Bias and Perceived Risk of Infidelity

Attraction and relationship satisfaction have been topics of increased investigation over the past several decades (Yela & Sangrador, 2001; Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Hall & Taylor, 1976). The love-is-blind bias hypothesizes that individuals within fulfilling relationships exhibit the phenomenon of rating their partner’s attractiveness higher than self-ratings of their own attractiveness, a product of positive partner illusions (Swami & Furnham, 2008; Gagné, & Lydon, 2004). Using the Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) and novel measures for attraction and perceived infidelity, this study applied the love-is-blind hypothesis against relationship satisfaction and perceived risk of infidelity. The creation of two new subscales for measuring the love-is-blind bias, self-perceived love-is-blind bias (SPB) and externally-perceived love-is-blind bias (EPB) were instrumental in computations. Significant positive interactions between both scales of the love-is-blind bias and both attraction, and relationship satisfaction were found. Perceived risk of infidelity was negatively related to all positive scales. The findings suggest a system of interactions among the love-is-blind bias, perceived risk of infidelity, relationship satisfaction, and overall partner attraction. Preliminary analysis suggests perceived past infidelity may also predict lessened relationship satisfaction in current relationships.
The Place of the Soft Budget Constraint Syndrome in Economic Theory

The concept of the budget constraint, previously applied mainly to household decisions, was extended to enterprises and other organizations initially by Kornai for socialist economies. The more general phenomenon usually includes rent seeking, although not all rent-seeking behavior is associated with a soft budget constraint (SBC). Rather, SBC analysis is a theory of exit, or more precisely, of the demise of organizations. Moreover, the syndrome cannot be treated as a special case of the theory of regulation because not all price regulation softens the budget constraint. The SBC can emerge in nonregulated spheres, especially when financial interactions take place in vertical relationships between superiors and subordinates rather than in horizontal market conditions.
THE RELEVANT TEMPORAL MARKET DEFINITION IN ANTITRUST ANALYSIS

The purpose of the paper is to compare various theoretical approaches to the relevant temporal market definition, collecting the arguments for their implementation under the different kinds of antitrust cases. It is vital for the markets with peak demand (transport, electricity, markets of intergenerational products) or discreet supply (agriculture). Methodology. The survey is based on the theoretical and graphical modelling of product space perception by consumers. It investigates changes of the latter under different marketing strategies of a seller. Statistical methods are used to analyse trends of demand and prices for iPhones' changes, as well as dynamics of electricity consumption. Results. The paper reveals two facing approaches to the definition of relevant temporal market: 1) the discrete one that provides a short-run analysis of products' substitutability and combines only those time periods that are characterized by a stable balance of demand and supply, as well as stable market equilibrium; 2) the coherent one that provides a long-run analysis of cyclical variation of the market. This cycling is based on the awareness of consumers and producers of intertemporal substitutability of products. The authors use the model of intertemporal competition to explain principles of these approaches and apply it to the iPhone market analysis. They conclude that the coherent approach must be applied to the temporal market definition for the products with elastic demand. Inelastic demand brings the necessity to apply the discrete approach to the temporal market definition. These conclusions cannot be applied to regulated markets. The system of government regulation is the main determinant of the temporal boundaries of such markets. Practical implications. The results of this research can be used by competition agencies in antitrust cases to define the relevant temporal market, where the violations of antitrust legislation can occur. The correct definition of the market is the first step of structural analysis under antitrust cases that determinates the correctness of its next steps and finally - accurate labelling of an antitrust violation. Value/originality. The paper grounds capability of both (discrete and coherent) approaches to the relevant temporal market definition, determines the factors that define what the approach must be chosen, as well as the exceptions from the rule.