Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Draft – April 11 , 2019 Arrovian Aggregation of Convex Preferences

We consider social welfare functions that satisfy Arrow’s classic axioms of independence of irrelevant alternatives and Pareto optimality when the outcome space is the convex hull of some finite set of alternatives. Individual and collective preferences are assumed to be continuous and convex, which guarantees the existence of maximal elements and the consistency of choice functions that return these elements, even without insisting on transitivity. We provide characterizations of both the domains of preferences and the social welfare functions that allow for anonymous Arrovian aggregation. The domains admit arbitrary preferences over alternatives, which completely determine an agent’s preferences over all mixed outcomes. On these domains, Arrow’s impossibility turns into a complete characterization of a unique social welfare function, which can be readily applied in settings involving divisible resources such as probability, time, or money.
SUPERCONDUCTING NIOBIUM FILMS FOR RF CAVITIES

The present report is based on a paper submitted for publication elsewhere [1] and is presented here on behalf of its authors. Lack of space prevents me from giving a detailed presentation. Instead I have made a selection of the most important results without going into the details of how they were obtained. The aim of the study is a better understanding of the mechanisms of RF losses in niobium film cavities, such as the 350 MHz cavities in current use at LEP2 [2], hereafter referred to as “standard films”. The hope is to gain sufficient understanding to overcome the difficulties inherent to the film technology, and thus to take full advantage of its assets which make it a most serious competitor to the bulk technology. For reasons of convenience the study is conducted on 1.5 GHz cavities operated in their TM 010 mode. In nearly three years over a hundred different cavities have been produced and studied, including: bulk niobium (heat treated or not); films (1.5 μm thick) grown by magnetron sputtering in xenon, krypton, argon or argon-neon mixtures of various proportions; films grown on copper or on niobium substrates; films grown on pre-layers of various kinds (copper, titanium, gold, tin and aluminium); films grown on oxide free or oxidised copper; films grown under different sputtering conditions (bake-out and coating temperatures, discharge voltage, etc.); hydrogen loaded films. The measurements performed on each cavity include: the critical temperature T c ; the penetration depth λ; the surface resistance R s and its dependence on temperature T, on RF magnetic field H rf, and on the external magnetic field Hext applied in the cavity volume as it is cooled down across Tc ; the penetration field H p , measured at 1.7K from outside the cavity at the equator, and providing information on the lower critical field and on the critical current. In addition measurements performed on samples include the residual resistivity ratio RRR, the upper critical field Hc2, microscopic analyses of various resolutions, X-ray diffraction analyses, etc. The cavity performance is characterised by its surface resistance (or equivalently by the quality factor Q=295Ω/Rs ) and by the maximal RF energy which can be stored in it. In the present phase of the study we did not attempt to optimise these variables. 2. THE MAIN RESULTS
Proceedings of the 21 st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation 28 – 30 May 2018

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have represented for years the state of the art in neural machine translation. Recently, new architectures have been proposed, which can leverage parallel computation on GPUs better than classical RNNs. Faster training and inference combined with different sequence-to-sequence modeling also lead to performance improvements. While the new models completely depart from the original recurrent architecture, we decided to investigate how to make RNNs more efficient. In this work, we propose a new recurrent NMT architecture, called Simple Recurrent NMT, built on a class of fast and weakly-recurrent units that use layer normalization and multiple attentions. Our experiments on the WMT14 English-to-German and WMT16 English-Romanian benchmarks show that our model represents a valid alternative to LSTMs, as it can achieve better results at a significantly lower computational cost.
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CONTROL OF GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODES OF BUFFALO IN BALOCHISTAN

A study was conducted to assess the epidemiological and control aspects of gastrointestinal nematodes of buffalo at Quetta, Balochistan, from March 2012 to February 2013.A total of 300 faecal sample (25sample per month) were examined during the study period. Faecal analysis showed overall nematodes prevalence as 33.99%. Haemonchosis was recorded with higher prevalence. Buffalo calves˂ 1 year of age presented higher nematodes prevalence than 1-2 years and >2 years of age groups. Female buffalo were infected with nematodes higher than male animals. The nematodes were prevalent almost throughout the year, however a peak infection were recorded during late summer (August). Therapeutic studies showed higher (89-100%) reduction of EPG in buffalo calves treated with Ivermectin followed by Levamisole (88-100%) and Oxfendazole (86-100%). The present study also indicated that no anthelmintics resistance was found against gastrointestinal nematodes infection of buffalo in Quetta. However it is recommended that the proper anthelmintic dose with 5-6 months interval and rotation of anthelmintics for minimize the nematodes infection and enhance buffalo productivity.
Teachers' Perceptions of Financial Literacy and the Implications for Professional Learning.

: Consumer, economic and financial literacy education at school is central to active and informed citizenship. Over the past decade, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has led various policy initiatives and influenced curriculum and resource development in this area. However, there remains a paucity of research exploring how Australian teachers make sense of and approach their work as financial literacy educators or their professional learning needs and interests in this interdisciplinary field. This article reports research exploring practising teachers’ perceptions of the opportunities for financial literacy teaching and learning. Data were collected from 35 teachers in 16 Victorian primary schools. The findings suggest a need to educate teachers to: reflect upon the knowledge, skills and capabilities required to make informed financial decisions; identify and interpret the possibilities for financial literacy teaching and learning in the Australian Curriculum; and enact sophisticated pedagogical practice.
ROnning Head: Complexity Instrument Comparison

A study compared the newly developed Interpersonal Complexity Sort (ICS) with the wideli used measure of cognitive differentiation, the Role Category Questionnaire (RCQ). Both measures were tested for relationships between the two measures and between each measure and previous associated impression structure dependant measures. Using a trait presentation model, 94 undergraduates enrolled in three different universities were presented with target person descriptions. Then they produced sub;equent written impressions. Impression structure dependent measures were derived from the written impressions. Prior to the trait presentation task, participants were pretested for level of cognitive complexity/differentiation through the completion of both complexity instruments. Results for the direct correlational analysis showed only a weak relationship between the two complexity measures. In comparing the two methods of measuring complexity/differentiation with regards to the impression structure measures, the ICS did not compare favorably with the RCQ. Findings suggest that the sorting instrument may be an indication of hierarchic integration and the RCQ may serve as a measure of differentiation. The sorting measure may hold promise in understanding the content and hierarchical structure of perceivers' cognitive maps of others. The instrument may prove useful in the extension of the differentiation research which is now seeking to learn more about the content of the constructs. (Contains 43 references. A table of data, a list of traits for sorting task, and the overall negative and overall positive valenced impression sets are attached.) (Author/RS) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. * ***********************************************************************
A Mexican Ricardian analysis: land rental prices or net revenues?

This paper examines two specifications of the Ricardian Hedonic Model (RHM) in order to identify divergences between implicit values of land attributes. The main goal of this research is to compare these values obtained from ex-ante and ex-post indicators of land productivity. To the best of our knowledge, there is no similar work on the existing literature. Our argument is that these values differ due to the former depends upon farmers' expectations formed at the beginning of the crop year while actual prices and annual weather determine the later. We combine information on 2,524 farms in Mexico with climate normals, soil types, and a set of controls, using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools. The main findings indicate that these values globally differ. Moreover, most of the significant coefficients are individually different across both equations. According to the rental price model, the annual implicit value of an extra degree Celsius is $130 Mexican pesos (2.03% of the average rental price) and $154 (2.38%) of an additional mm. of rainfall. However, exploring the results from the net revenues specification, an extra degree C modifies the net revenue by $-518 (-8.89%) and $351 (6.03%) an additional mm. of rainfall.
Quantity and Quality of Economic Growth

Most cross-country studies of economic performance have focused on narrow economic variables. The present study emphasizes instead some quality dimensions of economic development, including health, fertility, income distribution, political institutions, crime, and religion. The data reveal a regular pattern in which economic development goes along with higher life expectancy and reduced fertility. Improvements in the standard of living are also associated with expansions of democracy, increased maintenance of the rule of law, and reductions in official corruption. Despite the presence of a Kuznets curve, little of the variations in income inequality are explained by the overall level of economic development. Crime rates, proxied by murder rates, also bear little relation with the level of development but are more closely associated with income inequality. Finally, there is some support for the secularization hypothesis, in that economic development is typically accompanied by lower levels of church attendance and religious beliefs. However, religiosity is positively related to education, holding fixed other indicators of economic development.
Association of Genomic Domains in BRCA1 and BRCA2 with Prostate Cancer Risk and Aggressiveness.

Pathogenic sequence variants (PSV) in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) are associated with increased risk and severity of prostate cancer (PCa). We evaluated whether PSVs in BRCA1/2 were associated with risk of overall PCa or high grade (Gleason 8+) PCa using an international sample of 65 BRCA1 and 171 BRCA2 male PSV carriers with PCa, and 3,388 BRCA1 and 2,880 BRCA2 male PSV carriers without PCa. PSVs in the 3' region of BRCA2 (c.7914+) were significantly associated with elevated risk of PCa compared with reference bin c.1001-c.7913 (HR=1.78, 95%CI: 1.25-2.52, p=0.001), as well as elevated risk of Gleason 8+ PCa (HR=3.11, 95%CI: 1.63-5.95, p=0.001). c.756-c.1000 was also associated with elevated PCa risk (HR=2.83, 95%CI: 1.71-4.68, p=0.00004) and elevated risk of Gleason 8+ PCa (HR=4.95, 95%CI: 2.12-11.54, p=0.0002). No genotype-phenotype associations were detected for PSVs in BRCA1. These results demonstrate that specific BRCA2 PSVs may be associated with elevated risk of developing aggressive PCa.
Chapter 1 Energy Restoration in Mobile Sensor Networks

Restoration of sensors’ energy is crucial to ensure continuous operations of a sensor network. In static sensor networks, energy restoration requires the use of special mobile entities (e.g., robots, actuators). In mobile sensor networks, the sensors themselves can solve the problem by moving to recharge facilities deployed throughout the sensing area. An efficient energy restoration strategy is one in which the losses are limited in scope and time; that is, with the minimum number of sensor losses, it allows the system to reach a state of equilibrium guaranteeing continuous operation of the network without any further sensor losses. In this Chapter we describe and examine the basic strategies for energy restoration, passive and active, and analyze their performance.
Vitamin B-12 Supplement of 500 m g / d for Eight Weeks Does Not Normalize Urinary Methylmalonic Acid or Other Biomarkers of Vitamin B-12 Status in Elderly People with Moderately Poor Vitamin B-12 Status 1 – 4

Plasma vitamin B-12 is the most commonly used biomarker of vitamin B-12 status, but the predictive value for low vitamin B-12 status is poor. The urinary methylmalonic acid (uMMA) concentration has potential as a functional biomarker of vitamin B-12 status, but the response to supplemental vitamin B-12 is uncertain. A study was conducted to investigate the responsiveness of uMMA to supplemental vitamin B-12 in comparison with other biomarkers of vitamin B-12 status [plasma vitamin B-12, serum holotranscobalamin (holoTC), plasma MMA] in elderly people with moderately poor vitamin B-12 status. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized 8-wk intervention study was carried out using vitamin B-12 supplements (500 mg/d, 100 mg/d, and 10 mg/d cyanocobalamin) in 100 elderly people with a combined plasma vitamin B-12 <250 pmol/L and uMMA ratio (mmol MMA/mmol creatinine) >1.5. All biomarkers had a dose response to supplemental vitamin B-12. Improvements in plasma vitamin B-12 and serum holoTC were achieved at cobalamin supplements of 10mg/d, but even 500mg/d for 8wk did not normalize plasma vitamin B-12 in 8%and serum holoTC in 12%of people. The response in uMMA was comparable with plasma MMA; 15–25% of people still showed evidence of metabolic deficiency after 500 mg/d cobalamin for 8 wk. There was a differential response in urinary and plasma MMA according to smoking behavior; the response was enhanced in ex-smokers compared with never-smokers. uMMA offers an alternative marker of metabolic vitamin-B12 status, obviating the need for blood sampling. J. Nutr. 143: 142–147, 2013.
DNA methyltransferase 3 B ( DNMT 3 B ) mutations in ICF syndrome lead to altered epigenetic modifications and aberrant expression of genes regulating development , neurogenesis and immune function

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UF Shands Cancer Center Program in Cancer Genetics, Epigenetics, and Tumor Virology, University of Florida, PO Box 100245, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA, Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Department of Clinical Oncology, Hong Kong Cancer Institute and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Johns Hopkins Singapore, Biopolis, Singapore, Laboratory of Functional Genomics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, Singapore 138673, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201 USA and Department of Pathology, University of Florida, PO Box 100245, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Effects of Pointing Gestures on Memory for (In)Congruent Stimuli in Children and Young Adults

We investigated whether finger pointing toward picture locations can be used as an external cognitive control tool to guide attention and compensate for the immature cognitive control functions in children compared with young adults. Item and source memory performance was compared for picture-location pairs that were either semantically congruent (e.g., a cloud presented at the upper half of the screen) or incongruent (e.g., a cloud presented at the lower part of the screen). Contrary to our expectations, pointing had an adverse effect on source memory compared to visual observation only, in both age groups. As expected, superior source memory performance was found for congruent compared to incongruent picture-locations pairs in both age groups. These findings suggest that pointing toward pictures compared to only viewing may hamper memory, and that congruent picture locations are easier to remember than incongruent ones.
HRM and innovative work behaviour: a systematic literature review

Purpose Although we know that HRM practices can have a huge impact on employees’ innovative work behaviour (IWB), we do not know exactly which practices make the difference and how they affect IWB. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to determine the best HRM practices for boosting IWB, to understand the theoretical reasons for this, and to discover mediators and moderators in the relationship between HRM practices and IWB. Design/methodology/approach Based on a systematic review of the literature, the authors carried out a content analysis on 27 peer-reviewed journal articles. Findings Working with the definitions and items provided in the articles, the authors were able to cluster HRM practices according to the ability-motivation-opportunity framework. The best HRM practices for enhancing IWB are training and development, reward, job security, autonomy, task composition, job demand, and feedback. Practical implications The results of this study provide practical information for HRM professionals aiming to develop an HRM system that generates innovative employee behaviours that might help build an innovative climate. Originality/value A framework is presented that aggregates the findings and clarifies which HRM practices influence IWB and how these relationships can be explained.
Five Steps for the Maintenance and Interception of Complications in Zygomatic Implants

Zygomatic implants are used for the rehabilitation of the upper jaw of patients with severe and moderate bone atrophy. Possible post-surgical complications include soft tissue dehiscence, sinusitis, and prosthodontic fractures, and maintaining an accurate control is crucial. Additionally, zygomatic implants have a unique peri-implant anatomy, making traditional periodontal parameters unsuitable. The present paper aims to provide guidelines for the maintenance and interception of complications in patients rehabilitated with these kinds of implants. The proposed protocol includes: 1. intra/extraoral and temporo-mandibular joint examination; 2. soft tissue and transmucosal path observation with magnifiers; 3. peri-implant health indices and digital stimulation of tissues; 4. examination of prosthodontic devices; and 5. photographic recording. These steps facilitate the comprehensive evaluation and monitoring of clinical conditions of zygomatic-supported rehabilitations, including dehiscence and occlusal wear during follow-up appointments.
The Influence Factors of User Adoption Intention to University Mobile Library in China: An Empirical Study Based on the TAM and ISSM

Mobile library as a new type of information service mode has developed rapidly in China. However, specifically, its penetration to users is quite low. Based on technology acceptance model (TAM) and combined with the information system success model (ISSM), this project analyzes the influence factors of user adoption intention to university mobile library in China. TAM and ISSM are integrated together by the two variables of 'perceived usefulness' (PU) and 'perceived ease of use' (PE), which creates a new model in order to study the influence factors of user adoption intention in university mobile library of China. By taking the method of structural equation model, this paper discusses empirically how the six factors impact service attitude and behavioral intention through investigating the attitude preference of using mobile application technology, in which the six factors include science interest (SI), perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PE), information quality (IQ), system quality (SQ) and user satisfaction (US). Last but not least, it gives suggestions and the further research directions at the end of paper.
Clinical characteristics of pediatric pertussis cases, Quebec 2015–2017

Background The introduction of the acellular pertussis vaccine may have changed the epidemiological and clinical features of pertussis in Canadian children. Objective To describe the demographics, clinical presentation and outcomes of children and adolescents with pertussis presenting to a tertiary care hospital. Methods Retrospective cohort of consecutive patients evaluated at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHUSJ) and tested with a bacterial multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Bordetella pertussis or B. parapertussis between June 2015 and March 2017. Demographics, clinical presentations and outcomes were described for positive test results. The Modified Preziosi Scale was used to assess disease severity; severe disease was defined as a score ≥7. Results The age distribution of the 144 positive patients with a clinical encounter at CHUSJ was as follows: less than three months (n=25/144, 17.4%), four months to nine years (n=63/144, 43.8%) and 10 to 18 years (n=56/144, 38.9%). The most common symptoms at presentation were paroxysmal cough (70.1%), post-tussive emesis (47.2%) and coryza (33.3%). Over 84.0% of cases in infants less than three months of age had severe pertussis (92.0% required hospitalization and 28.0% intensive care admission). In children four months to nine years of age, 22.2% had severe pertussis and 11.1% required hospitalization. Only two (3.6%) children greater than 10 years had severe disease. Conclusion Pertussis still affects children of all ages in Quebec. In older children, it tends to be a milder disease. When it affects infants, who do not yet have full protection from pertussis vaccination, it often causes severe disease, especially in those less than three months of age. This evidence further supports the implementation of a pertussis vaccination program in pregnant women.