Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring the role of stimulus code–response modality compatibility on the spatial Stroop effect

This study investigated the compatibility of stimulus codes and response modalities and how it mediated the spatial Stroop effect. Stimulus code (word, arrow and moving dots), response modality (voice, keypress and mouse movement), directional information (left and right) and physical location (centre, left and right) of the stimulus were manipulated. Participants responded to the directional information of the stimulus. Spatial interference was expected when the stimulus’ directional information and physical location were incongruent. Results showed that more compatible pairings for the three response modalities were word–voice, arrow–keypress and arrow–movement. Incongruent spatial location delayed the reaction time for all response modalities with the word, speeded up the vocal and keypress responses with the moving dots, and had no effect with the arrow. Arrow was thus recommended for conveying directional information on interfaces. This study demonstrated that spatial interference was mediated by the stimulus code, response modality and their compatibility. Practitioner Summary: This study manipulated three stimulus codes and three response modalities to examine how stimulus–response compatibility mediated the spatial Stroop effect. Spatial interference appeared with the word and moving dots, but not arrow stimulus, for vocal, keypress and mouse responses. Arrow was therefore recommended to convey directional information on an interface.
On the vector Gaussian CEO problem

A lower bound on each supporting line of the rate region of the vector Gaussian CEO problem is derived. The key technical ingredient is a new extremal inequality. It is shown that the lower bound coincides with the Berger-Tung upper bound in the high-resolution regime. The application of the new bounding technique to the vector Gaussian multiterminal source coding problem is also discussed.
The System Integrity Verification for Trusted RFID Protocol

The pervasiveness of RFID technology raises some issues regarding security and privacy. Untrusted RFID system poses security threat because secret information can be revealed to any adversary platform by unverified applications or components inside the RFID system itself. The unverified applications can be compromised either by any virus or man in the middle attack. In order to strengthen the system security which includes RFID tag, reader and back-end server, integrity verification module should be implemented to create trust environment between them. The necessary back-end server and RFID reader with the embedded trusted computing technology will enable system integrity measurements and verifications. This paper reviews previous works on RFID protocols and highlights the importance of trusted computing technology towards in solving the privacy and security issues.
Self‐regulation, goal orientation, self‐efficacy, worry, and high‐stakes math achievement for mathematically gifted high school students 1 , 2

Our study used a structural equation modeling framework to investigate the effects of gender, self‐efficacy, learning goal orientation, self‐regulation, and worry on high‐stakes mathematics achievement in a sample of mathematically gifted, primarily Asian American, high school students. It is one of the few studies that investigated the joint effect of such variables in a high‐stakes environment (i.e., an Advanced Placement calculus exam). Our analyses showed that self‐efficacy is positively related to math achievement, is moderately and positively related to self‐regulation, and is highly and negatively related to worry, and that learning goal orientation (or intrinsic value) is positively related to self‐regulation and worry but is not related to self‐efficacy or high‐stakes mathematics achievement. With respect to gender, young men were less worried and had higher self‐efficacy for math than young women. Finally, self‐regulation was negatively related to worry, but surprisingly, was not related to high.
High-speed stamping equipment status monitoring system design

Introduction of a design processes and methods of high-speed stamping equipment status monitoring and controlling system in steel ball production. The using of self-developed shock force sensor to detect the steel ball size whether meet the requirements, stamping equipment running status whether is normal; the using of innovative design eddy current flaw detection sensor which is used on-line to detect defects of the steel ball materials, to effectively control the quality of the steel ball; the using of special signal processing modules and embedded computer systems to achieve real-time sensor signal acquisition and processing, to quickly and accurately determine the status of equipment operation and product quality; the using of a pneumatic schematic design of the products qualified for high-speed sorting institutions to realize the pass rate of steel ball sorting. Experiment is proved that the system can be effectively monitor the status of high-speed stamping equipment and to be achieved the separation of the steel ball which is above 98% pass rate, the control system is stable and reliable.
Strategy for the spectral filtering of myo‐inositol and other strongly coupled spins

A multiple quantum filter strategy is presented for spectrally discriminating metabolites with strongly coupled spins from those whose spins are either uncoupled or weakly coupled. The strategy also includes a means for selectively suppressing the background multiplets of metabolites that also have strongly coupled spins. As a demonstration of its efficacy at 3.0 T, the strategy is shown to enhance by a factor of ∼5 the signal‐to‐background ratio of the myo‐inositol band at 3.6 ppm relative to that in response to a PRESS sequence with the same sequence timings. This is done by eliminating the uncoupled resonance of glycine and the weakly coupled multiplets of glutamate and glutamine, and by selectively suppressing the strongly coupled taurine multiplet 3‐fold. The macromolecular background was effectively removed through its transverse decay over 105 ms. The associated cost of gaining the signal to background enhancement is a drop in signal yield by a factor of 0.75 relative to PRESS at the same timings. The myo‐inositol signal to noise ratio was nevertheless maintained by the filter at ∼12. Magn Reson Med 51:263–272, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Chemotherapy Induces Bcl-2 Cleavage in Lymphoid Leukemic Cell Lines

Bcl-2 is the major anti-apoptotic protein evaluated in studies aimed at understanding programmed cell death. Recent work suggests that the biological activity of Bcl-2 is modulated by proteolytic cleavage, with a 23 kDa cleaved Bcl-2 product having pro-apoptotic activity. In the current study we evaluated the effect of chemotherapy on Bcl-2 cleavage in B lineage leukemic cell lines. JM-1, SUP-B15 and RS4 leukemic cell lines cleaved Bcl-2 to its 23 kDa form when exposed to the chemotherapeutic agents 1- β - d -arabinofuranosyl-cytosine (Ara-C) or etoposide (VP-16). Chemotherapy induced Bcl-2 cleavage was blunted by inhibition of caspase activity. Co-culture of leukemic cells with bone marrow stromal cells during chemotherapy exposure resulted in reduced levels of 23 kDa Bcl-2 protein. These observations suggest that the bone marrow microenvironment may contribute to maintenance of residual leukemic disease during treatment by reducing generation of pro-apoptotic 23 kDa Bcl-2.
An off-line pilot evaluation of a web-based systemic cognitive-behavioral intervention for carers of people with anorexia nervosa.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a novel systemic cognitive behavior therapy-based intervention for carers of people with anorexia nervosa (AN). The intervention provides information and promotes skills development in managing the illness. Carers were also offered professional support. METHOD Twenty-seven carers were recruited. Outcomes measuring carer distress, experience of care-giving, level of expressed emotion and problem solving were measured pre- and post-intervention and at follow-up. Carers also gave feedback. RESULTS There was a significant reduction in carers' anxiety and depression, negative experiences of caregiving and expressed emotion and a significant increase in positive experiences in caregiving after the intervention. Most improvements were maintained at follow-up. The intervention was well received. DISCUSSION The results of this pilot study indicate that the intervention is acceptable to carers and may have a positive impact on carers' mental health and experience of care-giving. Further investigation of the intervention is warranted.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY IN THE PRACTICE OF OPEN PIT MINING

Mining activity monitoring, volume calculations, data for information systems of mining companies, decision making and planning, reclamation proposals are some of the most important fields, where photogrammetry can be used in open pit mining. Nowadays mostly digital methods find their utility in providing stereoscopic digitisation of a current situation of mining, precise orthophotos and digital terrain models. There are requirements for high precision especially in heights due to volume calculations and therefore high-resolution aerial images with low flight altitude are taken for the open pit mining purposes. The image scale is usually between 1:4,000 and 1:10,000. The huge amount of photos scanned with high geometric resolution and therefore gigabytes of data have to be processed fast and accurately. Fast computers and necessary photogrammetric software together with other ancillary programs (e.g. programs for digital terrain modelling (DTM), for computer aided design (CAD), and converters) are a basis of the work. However, above all this technical background the human factor is important. Well educated in photogrammetry, specialised in the field of open pit mining, experienced people with sufficient software knowledge are needed to achieve good results. Despite images with high resolution, the biggest problems are caused by the image interpretation. The terrain of open pit mines usually does not show a variety of colours or shades of grey. Therefore shadows can be advantageous but also disadvantageous. A very good 3D visual perception without systematic errors is essential in stereoscopic digitisation. The setting of the smallest height difference at break lines and slopes is important for their digitisation in order not to lose time with too detailed designs, or on the other hand, to avoid a too benevolent work without the necessary details. If a final user of the data has not any photogrammetric equipment and uses a variety of software, different result formats are required in both vector and raster data. Specific demands have to be discussed very carefully and clearly defined. The paper illustrates also typical actual problems which can be met during the workflow.
Community College Faculty Motivation for Basic Research, Teaching Research, and Professional Development

Community college faculty members often find themselves divided between what they want to do and what they can do. Knowing what motivates faculty to engage in professional development and scholarly productive activities provides critical information for administrators. The present study explored the motivational characteristics of community college faculty and the contextual factors that support or thwart their engagement and productivity. It focused on three key professional activities: (a) basic or applied research, (b) classroom action/teaching research, and (c) faculty professional development. Findings indicate that community college faculty are motivated for all three activities primarily by intrinsic and value-related factors rather than by extrinsic or contextual factors. Further, faculty members present somewhat different motivational profiles for the three work activities. Their motivations also demonstrate responsiveness to workplace characteristics as faculty perceive and interpret them. These findings provide implications to help college administrators make policy decisions to support the work of faculty and align with institutional mission and goals.
Integrated KL (K-means - Laplacian) Clustering: A New Clustering Approach by Combining Attribute Data and Pairwise Relations

Most datasets in real applications come in from multiple sources. As a result, we often have attributes information about data objects and various pairwise relations (similarity) between data objects. Traditional clustering algorithms use either data attributes only or pairwise similarity only. We propose to combine K-means clustering on data attributes and normalized cut spectral clustering on pairwise relations. We show that these two methods can be coherently integrated together to make use of different data sources to obtain good clustering results. We also show that our integrated KL (K-means Laplacian) clustering method can be naturally extended to semi-supervised clustering, data embedding and metric learning. Finally the experimental results on benchmark data sets are presented to show the effectiveness of our method.
Word-of-Mouth Marketing Using Peer Tutors

SUMMARY Increasingly college students are utilizing the Internet and free Web resources for their research. As libraries continue to change to meet this new paradigm, they often embrace business models of marketing and advertising. In order to reach Trinity University students and increase usage of electronic resources, while also advertising important new services, librarians formed a partnership with peer tutors on campus. These peer tutors are consistently some of the most conscientious and brightest students on campus, and their opinions matter more to new first-year students than those of librarians or other authority figures. The partnership resulted in increased use of resources and gave librarians a chance to create relationships with students. This article explores the benefits of word-of-mouth marketing on a small, liberal arts campus and includes literature related to other peer-teaching scenarios and marketing through word-of-mouth.
New insights into the role of Jmjd3 and Utx in axial skeletal formation in mice

Jmjd3 and Utx are demethylases specific for lysine 27 of histone H3. Previous reports indicate that Jmjd3 is essential for differentiation of various cell types, such as macrophages and epidermal cells in mice, whereas Utx is involved in cancer and developmental diseases in humans and mice, as well as Hox regulation in zebrafish and nematodes. Here, we report that Jmjd3, but not Utx, is involved in axial skeletal formation in mice. A Jmjd3 mutant embryo (Jmjd3Δ18/Δ18), but not a catalytically inactive Utx truncation mutant (Utx−/y), showed anterior homeotic transformation. Quantitative RT‐PCR and microarray analyses showed reduced Hox expression in both Jmjd3Δ18/Δ18 embryos and tailbuds, whereas levels of Hox activators, such as Wnt signaling factors and retinoic acid synthases, did not decrease, which suggests that Jmjd3 plays a regulatory role in Hox expression during axial patterning. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analyses of embryo tailbud tissue showed trimethylated lysine 27 on histone H3 to be at higher levels at the Hox loci in Jmjd3Δ18/Δ18 mutants compared with wild‐type tailbuds. In contrast, trimethylated lysine 4 on histone H3 levels were found to be equivalent in wild‐type and Jmjd3Δ18/Δ18 tailbuds. Demethylase‐inactive Jmjd3 mutant embryos showed the same phenotype as Jmjd3Δ18/Δ18 mice. These results suggest that the demethylase activity of Jmjd3, but not that of Utx, affects mouse axial patterning in concert with alterations in Hox gene expression. —Naruse, C. , Shibata, S. , Tamura, M. , Kawaguchi, T. , Abe, K. , Sugihara, K. , Kato, T. , Nishiuchi, T. , Wakana, S. , Ikawa, M. , Asano, M. New insights into the role of Jmjd3 and Utx in axial skeletal formation in mice. FASEB J. 31, 2252–2266 (2017). www.fasebj. org
Inflation, supergravity, and superstrings.

The positive potential energy required for inflation spontaneously breaks supersymmetry and in general gives any would-be inflaton an effective mass of the order of the inflationary Hubble parameter thus ruling it out as an inflaton. In this paper I give simple conditions on the superpotential that eliminate some potential sources for this mass, and derive a form for the K\"ahler potential that eliminates the rest. This reduces the problem of constructing a model of inflation in supergravity to that of constructing one in global supersymmetry with the extra conditions W=${\mathit{W}}_{\mathit{c}\mathit{p}\mathit{h}\mathit{i}}$=\ensuremath{\psi}=0 during inflation (where W is the superpotential, the inflaton \ensuremath{\in}cphi, and ${\mathit{W}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\psi}}}$\ensuremath{\ne}0). I then point out that K\"ahler potentials of the required form often occur in superstrings and that the target space duality symmetries of superstrings often contain R parities which would make W=${\mathit{W}}_{\mathit{c}\mathit{p}\mathit{h}\mathit{i}}$=0 automatic for \ensuremath{\psi}=0.
Whole-brain functional MR imaging activation from a finger-tapping task examined with independent component analysis.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Independent component analysis (ICA), unlike other methods for processing functional MR (fMR) imaging data, requires no a priori assumptions about the hemodynamic response to the task. The purpose of this study was to analyze the temporal characteristics and the spatial mapping of the independent components identified by ICA when the subject performs a finger-tapping task. METHODS Ten healthy subjects performed variations of the finger-tapping task conventionally used to map the sensorimotor cortex. The scan data were processed with ICA, and the temporal configuration of the components and their spatial localizations were studied. The locations with activation were tabulated and compared with locations known to be involved in the organization of motor functions in the brain. RESULTS Components were identified that correlated to varying degrees with the conventional boxcar reference function. One or more of these components mapped to the sensorimotor cortex, supplementary motor area (SMA), putamen, and thalamus. By means of ICA components, sensorimotor cortex, supplementary motor area, and superior cerebellar activation were identified bilaterally in 100% of the subjects; thalamus activation was contralateral to the active hand in 80%; and putamen activation was contralateral to the active hand in 60%. CONCLUSION ICA processing of multislice fMR imaging data acquired during finger tapping identifies the sensorimotor cortex, SMA, cerebellar, putamen, and thalamic activation. ICA appears to be a method that provides information on both the temporal and spatial characteristics of activation. Multiple task-related components can be identified by ICA, and specific activation maps can be derived from each separate component.
Preliminary results of Aggression Replacement Training for Norwegian youth with aggressive behaviour and with a different diagnosis

Abstract We present a short summary of the efforts to disseminate Aggression Replacement Training (ART) in Norway following an initial seminar held by Arnold Goldstein in 2000. Data from a pilot study conducted into the effectiveness of ART with children and youth with aggressive behaviour and with a different diagnosis are presented. The data indicate that ART can be an appropriate and effective intervention.
Tracking facial features in video sequences using a deformable-model-based approach

This paper addresses the issue of computer vision-based face motion capture as an alternative to physical sensor-based technologies. The proposed method combines a deformable template-based tracking of mouth and eyes in arbitrary video sequences with a single speaking person with a global 3D head pose estimation procedure yielding robust initializations. Mathematical principles underlying deformable template matching together with definition and extraction of salient image features are presented. Specifically, interpolating cubic B-splines between the MPEG-4 Face Animation Parameters (FAPs) associated with the mouth and eyes are used as template parameterization. Modeling the template a network of springs interconnecting with the mouth and eyes FAPs, the internal energy is expressed as a combination of elastic and symmetry local constraints. The external energy function, which allows to enforce interactions with image data, involves contour, texture and topography properties properly combined within robust potential functions. Template matching is achieved by applying the downhill simplex method for minimizing the global energy cost. Stability and accuracy of the results are discussed on a set of 2000 frames corresponding to 5 video sequences of speaking people.
Efficient Semantic Deduction and Approximate Matching over Compact Parse Forests

Semantic inference is often modeled as application of entailment rules, which specify generation of entailed sentences from a source sentence. Efficient generation and representation of entailed consequents is a fundamental problem common to such inference methods. We present a new data structure, termed compact forest, which allows efficient generation and representation of entailed consequents, each represented as a parse tree. Rule-based inference is complemented with a new approximate matching measure inspired by tree kernels, which is computed efficiently over compact forests. Our system also makes use of novel large-scale entailment rule bases, derived from Wikipedia as well as from information about predicates and their argument mapping, gathered from available lexicons and complemented by unsupervised learning.
The power of indirect social ties

While direct social ties have been intensely studied in the context of computer-mediated social networks, indirect ties (e.g., friends of friends) have seen little attention. Yet in real life, we often rely on friends of our friends for recommendations (of good doctors, good schools, or good babysitters), for introduction to a new job opportunity, and for many other occasional needs. In this work we attempt to 1) quantify the strength of indirect social ties, 2) validate it, and 3) empirically demonstrate its usefulness for distributed applications on two examples. We quantify social strength of indirect ties using a(ny) measure of the strength of the direct ties that connect two people and the intuition provided by the sociology literature. We validate the proposed metric experimentally by comparing correlations with other direct social tie evaluators. We show via data-driven experiments that the proposed metric for social strength can be used successfully for social applications. Specifically, we show that it alleviates known problems in friend-to-friend storage systems by addressing two previously documented shortcomings: reduced set of storage candidates and data availability correlations. We also show that it can be used for predicting the effects of a social diffusion with an accuracy of up to 93.5%.