Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ripples in the Reflecting Pool: Narcissistic Subtypes and Reactions to Past Relationship Events

The present study examined whether normal (i.e., adaptive) or pathological (i.e., maladaptive) aspects of narcissism were associated with more negative perceptions of a current romantic relationship following the written recollection of a negative relationship event. We predicted that individuals with high scores on the maladaptive facet of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (i.e., exploitation/entitlement) and those with high scores on the Pathological Narcissism Inventory would enact self-protective strategies following the recollection of a negative relationship event resulting in decreased satisfaction, commitment, and investment in the relationship, as well as increased interest in alternative relationship partners. Participants (N = 152) completed measures of narcissism before writing about a negative or positive relationship event. Participants then completed measures pertaining to their current romantic relationship (i.e., satisfaction, commitment, investment, quality of alternatives). Results offered partial support for our hypotheses such that individuals with high levels of NPI exploitation/entitlement reported greater interest in alternative relationship partners after recalling a negative relationship event. Narcissism has received a considerable amount of attention from both clinical and social- personality psychology but attempts to integrate these bodies of research have had only limited success due to differences concerning the definition and measurement of narcissism (Miller & Campbell, 2008; Pincus & Lukowitsky, 2010). Clinical psychologists tend to view narcissism in a way that is largely consistent with the clinical manifestation of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) which is associated with maladaptive features such as emotional instability and negative emotionality (e.g., arrogant or haughty behaviors, feelings of entitlement, lack of empathy, willingness to exploit others; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In contrast, social-personality psychologists tend to focus on more adaptive aspects of narcissism that tend to be more connected to emotional resilience and extraversion than what is studied by clinical psychologists (Miller & Campbell, 2008). Thus, clinical psychologists often attend to the pathological (i.e., maladaptive) aspects of narcissism, whereas social-personality
Role of Platelets in Diabetic Microangiopathy— An Additional Factor

A study of platelet aggregation in 324 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients and 24 patients with microvascular complications of DM (retinopathy) is reported. Platelet aggregation tests showed that DM patients can be divided into two groups: "normal" and "prone. " The mean reading and standard deviation (SD) of the normal group was found to be 22.6% (SD 6.99%). The mean reading and standard deviation of the prone group was found to be 60.5% (SD 12.7%) re spectively. All patients with microangiopathy had a significant increase, all of them being in the prone range, with a mean of 69.5% (SD 7.2%). Platelet hyper function appears to be a high-risk factor for the development of diabetic mi croangiopathies. A hypothesis postulating platelet hyperfunction as an additional factor along with altered glycoprotein metabolism and explaining the chain of events in the genesis of diabetic microangiopathies is presented.
VCODE: a retargetable, extensible, very fast dynamic code generation system

Dynamic code generation is the creation of executable code at runtime. Such "on-the-fly" code generation is a powerful technique, enabling applications to use runtime information to improve performance by up to an order of magnitude [4, 8,20, 22, 23]. Unfortunately, previous general-purpose dynamic code generation systems have been either inefficient or non-portable. We present VCODE, a retargetable, extensible, very fast dynamic code generation system. An important feature of VCODE is that it generates machine code "in-place" without the use of intermediate data structures. Eliminating the need to construct and consume an intermediate representation at runtime makes VCODE both efficient and extensible. VCODE dynamically generates code at an approximate cost of six to ten instructions per generated instruction, making it over an order of magnitude faster than the most efficient general-purpose code generation system in the literature [10]. Dynamic code generation is relatively well known within the compiler community. However, due in large part to the lack of a publicly available dynamic code generation system, it has remained a curiosity rather than a widely used technique. A practical contribution of this work is the free, unrestricted distribution of the VCODE system, which currently runs on the MIPS, SPARC, and Alpha architectures.
Spotting Audio-Visual Inconsistencies (SAVI) in Manipulated Video

This paper is part of a larger effort to detect manipulations of video by searching for and combining the evidence of multiple types of inconsistencies between the audio and visual channels. Here, we focus on inconsistencies between the type of scenes detected in the audio and visual modalities (e.g., audio indoor, small room versus visual outdoor, urban), and inconsistencies in speaker identity tracking over a video given audio speaker features and visual face features (e.g., a voice change, but no talking face change). The scene inconsistency task was complicated by mismatches in the categories used in current visual scene and audio scene collections. To deal with this, we employed a novel semantic mapping method. The speaker identity inconsistency process was challenged by the complexity of comparing face tracks and audio speech clusters, requiring a novel method of fusing these two sources. Our progress on both tasks was demonstrated on two collections of tampered videos.
Organizational Transformation with Scrum: How a Venture Capital Group Gets Twice as Much Done with Half the Work

OpenView Venture Partners is a venture capital fund that uses Scrum as best practice in software development and for project management in all other parts of the organization. OpenView is the first high-performance non-software Scrums that has documented twice as much value produced in fewer working hours. The model at OpenView provides a working manual on how to do Scrum outside of software development. Their aggressive removal of impediments (take no prisoners! ) distinguishes them from Scrum implementations that are captive of their institutionalized waste. The founder of OpenView saw that maximum productivity in Scrum occurs at a sustainable pace with less hours of work per week than without Scrum. He set the goal of reducing hours of work while doubling production and the Scrum teams exceeded his expectations. Focus on removal of impediments led to reorganization of the teams several times a year and showed how to capitalize on Scrum as a powerful organizational transformation tool.
The fréchet distance revisited and extended

Given two simplicial complexes in Rd and start and end vertices in each complex, we show how to compute curves (in each complex) between these vertices, such that the weak Fréchet distance between these curves is minimized. As a polygonal curve is a complex, this generalizes the regular notion of weak Fréchet distance between curves. We also generalize the algorithm to handle an input of k simplicial complexes. Using this new algorithm, we can solve a slew of new problems, from computing a mean curve for a given collection of curves to various motion planning problems. Additionally, we show that for the mean curve problem, when the k input curves are c-packed, one can (1+ϵ-approximate the mean curve in near-linear time, for fixed k and ϵ. Additionally, we present an algorithm for computing the strong Fréchet distance between two curves, which is simpler than previous algorithms and avoids using parametric search.
Influence of the Orinoco River on hydrogen peroxide distribution and production in the eastern Caribbean

Two cruises were used to investigate the effect of the Orinoco River on the photochemistry of the eastern Caribbean in 1988. Hydrogen peroxide distribution was used as an indicator of the extent of modification and persistence of photochemical activity, with comparisons being made between high (fall) and low (spring) river input. During the spring cruise, H2O2 profiles were typical of oligotrophic waters, with accumulation rates and steady state concentrations similar to those reported for open ocean. Results from the fall cruise were characterized by increased surface concentrations, sharper gradients, and shallower penetration of the photochemically generated H2O2. The impact of the river water can be traced in the eastern Caribbean by increased dissolved organic matter fluorescence, lower salinity, and faster hydrogen peroxide accumulation rates in surface samples (up to 20 times greater for some stations). It is apparent that peroxide distribution throughout the eastern Caribbean was significantly affected by the Orinoco river input during the fall.
The lived experience of well-being in retirement: A phenomenological study

This phenomenological study aimed to identify and describe the general meaning structure of the experience of well-being after retirement. We interviewed nine retirees about their lived experiences with well-being and analysed the data with Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological method. The general meaning structure described well-being in retirement as a phenomenon that interweaves four constituents: (1) an awareness of and gratitude for a healthy and functioning body, (2) a new experience of time presenting possibilities for action, (3) a heightened sense of agency, and (4) being-in-place in relationships. We discuss these findings in relation to relevant literature of successful aging, the perception of time, eudaimonic and hedonic well-being and generativity. Our findings contribute to the field by comprehensibly describing the phenomenon of well-being as it is experienced by retirees, which we conclude to be a valuable contribution for initiatives promoting well-being in retirement.
Values of endoscopic ultrasonography for diagnosis and treatment of duodenal protruding lesions

ObjectiveThe diagnoses of patients with duodenal protruding lesions are difficult when using conventional examinations such as computed tomography (CT) and conventional endoscope etc. Thus, we investigated the clinical value of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) with miniature ultrasonic probes on the diagnosis and treatment of duodenal protruding lesions.MethodsPatients with duodenal protruding lesions who were indicated for EUS were examined by EUS with 12∼15 MHz miniature ultrasonic probes and double-cavity electronic endoscope. According to diagnosis of EUS, those patients were indicated for biopsy and treatment received biopsy, endoscopic resection or surgical excision. The postoperative histological results were compared with the preoperative diagnosis of EUS. Those patients without endoscopic resection or surgical excision were periodically followed up with EUS.ResultsA total of 169 patients with duodenal protruding lesions were examined by EUS, of which 40 were diagnosed with cysts, 36 with inflammatory protruding or polyp, 25 with Brunner’s gland adenoma, 19 with ectopic pancreas, 17 with gastrointestinal stromal tumor, 12 with extrinsic compression, 12 with minor papilla, 6 with lipoma, 1 with adenocarcinoma and 1 with lymphoma. After EUS examinations, 75 patients received biopsy, endoscopic resection or surgical excision respectively. The postoperative histological results of 70 patients were completely consistent with the preoperative diagnosis of EUS, with 93.33% diagnostic accuracy. The results of follow-up with EUS indicated that duodenal cyst, Brunner’s gland adenoma, ectopic pancreas, gastrointestinal stromal tumor and lipoma remained unchanged within 1∼3 years. No related complications occurred among all patients that received EUS examinations.ConclusionEUS is an effective and reliable diagnostic method for duodenal protruding lesions.
SPH simulations of tidally unstable accretion discs in cataclysmic variables

We numerically study the precessing disk model for superhump in the SU~UMa subclass of cataclysmic variables, using a two dimensional SPH code specifically designed for thin disk problems. Two disk simulations for a binary with mass ratio $q=\frac{3}{17}$ (similar to OY~Car) are performed, in order to investigate the Lubow (1991 a,b) tidal resonance instability mechanism. In the first calculation, a disk evolves under steady mass transfer from $L_1$. In the second simulation, mass is added in Keplerian orbit to the inner disk. The two disks follow similar evolutionary paths. However the $L_1$ stream-disk interaction is found to slow the disk's radial expansion and to circularise gas orbits. The initial eccentricity growth in our simulations is exponential at a rate slightly less than predicted by Lubow (1991a). We do not observe a clearing of material from the resonance region via the disk's tidal response to the $m=2$ component of the binary potential as was described in Lubow (1992). Instead the $m=2$ response weakens as the disk eccentricty increases. Both disks reach an eccentric equilibrium state, in which they undergo prograde precession. The rate of viscous energy dissipation in the disks has a periodic excess with a period matching the disk's rotation. The source is identified as a large region in the outer disk, and the mechanism by which it is produced is identified. The time taken for the periodic excess to develop is consistent with the first appearance of superhumps in a superoutburst.
Reliability Centered Maintenance for Capacitor Voltage Transformers

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) allows power companies to improve service quality and prevent equipment functional failure. This paper presents an RCM model for capacitor voltage transformers, which has been developed based on experience of maintenance crews of an important Brazilian power transmission company. Statistical assessment of failures in that company has been performed, in order to take into consideration a great number of failure possibilities. Some of these statistical data are presented along with relevant concepts and the major components of the developed RCM models
Pulse Pressure Amplification, Arterial Stiffness, and Peripheral Wave Reflection Determine Pulsatile Flow Waveform of the Femoral Artery

Aortic stiffness, peripheral wave reflection, and aorta-to-peripheral pulse pressure amplification all predict cardiovascular risk. However, the pathophysiological mechanism behind it is unknown. Tonometric pressure waveforms were recorded on the radial, carotid, and femoral arteries in 138 hypertensive patients (age: 56±13 years) to estimate aorta-to-peripheral amplifications, aortic augmentation index, and aortic (carotid-femoral) pulse wave velocity. The femoral Doppler velocity waveform was recorded to calculate the reverse/forward flow index and diastolic/systolic forward flow ratio. The aorta-to-femoral and aorta-to-radial amplifications correlated inversely with the aortic augmentation index and pulse wave velocity. The femoral flow waveform was triphasic, composed of systolic forward, subsequent reverse, and diastolic forward phases in 129 patients, whereas it was biphasic and lacked a diastolic forward flow in 9 patients. Both the femoral reverse index (30±10%) and diastolic forward ratio (12±4%) correlated positively with the aorta-to-femoral amplification and inversely with the aortic augmentation index and pulse wave velocity; these correlations were independent of age, sex, diastolic pressure, and femoral artery diameter. Patients with biphasic (versus triphasic) flow were older, shorter, included more diabetics, had smaller femoral diameters, and showed greater aortic pulse wave velocity even when adjusted for all of these covariates. In conclusion, because of the inverse (peripheral-to-aortic) pressure gradient, pulse pressure amplification normally produces a substantial reversal of the femoral flow, the degree of which is determined by the aortic distensibility and peripheral wave reflection. Arteriosclerosis (increased stiffness, increased augmentation, and reduced amplification) decreases both the reverse and diastolic forward flows, potentially causing circulatory disturbance of truncal organs and lower extremities.
Investigation of State Storage Facilities in Pampa Grande, Peru

AbstractThe Royal Ontario Museum’s investigations at Pampa Grande, a Moche V site (ca. 600–700 A.C.) in the Lambayeque Valley on the North Coast of Peru, sought to clarify Moche social, political, and economic organization in an effort to understand the context within which urbanism developed in this area. The investigation of storage facilities was a part of this effort and results of the author's work on storehouses at Pampa Grande are presented here. Problems of identification of storage structures, contents, and differentiation of storage function are discussed. The significance of such storage in Moche V is addressed and a model of late Moche state organization is presented.
Effect of Least Square Channel Estimation Errors on Achievable Rate in MIMO Fading Channels

The achievable rate of a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) fading channel is derived in the form of generalized mutual information (GMI) when least square (LS) channel estimation is employed to gain channel state information at receivers. The derived average GMI of a channel with LS channel estimation is compared with the known average GMI (equivalently, the lower bound on the ergodic capacity) of a channel with linear minimum mean square error channel estimation. An effective approximation method is also proposed to ease the numerical calculation of the average GMI of a MIMO channel with LS channel estimation.
Matching syntactic-semantic graphs for semantic relation assignment

We present a graph-matching algorithm for semantic relation assignment. The algorithm is part of an interactive text analysis system. The system automatically extracts pairs of syntactic units from a text and assigns a semantic relation to each pair. This is an incremental learning algorithm, in which previously processed pairs and user feedback guide the process. After each assignment, the system adds to its database a syntactic-semantic graph centered on the main element of each pair of units. A graph consists of the main unit and all syntactic units with which it is syntactically connected. An edge contains information both about syntax and about semantic relations for use in further processing. Syntactic-semantic graph matching is used to produce a list of candidate assignments for 63.75% of the pairs analysed, and in 57% of situations the correct relations is one of the system's suggestions; in 19.6% of situations it suggests only the correct relation.
Phosphorylation of Akt and ERK1/2 Is Required for VEGF-A/VEGFR2-Induced Proliferation and Migration of Lymphatic Endothelium

There is growing evidence that vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A), a ligand of the receptor tyrosine kinases VEGFR1 and VEGFR2, promotes lymphangiogenesis. However, the underlying mechanisms by which VEGF-A induces the growth of lymphatic vessels remain poorly defined. Here we report that VEGFR2, not VEGFR1, is the primary receptor regulating VEGF-A-induced lymphangiogenesis. We show that specific inhibition of VEGF-A/VEGFR2 signaling with the fully human monoclonal antibody r84 significantly inhibits lymphangiogenesis in MDA-MB-231 tumors. In vitro experiments with primary human dermal lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) demonstrate that blocking VEGF-A activation of VEGFR2, not VEGFR1, significantly inhibits VEGF-A-induced proliferation and migration of LECs. We show that VEGF-A stimulation of LECs leads to the phosphorylation of VEGFR2 (Tyr 951, 1054, 1059, 1175, and 1214) which subsequently triggers PKC dependent phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and PI3-K dependent phosphorylation of Akt. Additionally, we demonstrate that inhibitors that suppress the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and Akt significantly block VEGF-A- induced proliferation and migration of LECs. Together, these results shed light on the mechanisms regulating VEGF-A-induced proliferation and migration of LECs, reveal that VEGFR2 is the primary signaling VEGF-A receptor on lymphatic endothelium, and suggest that therapeutic agents targeting the VEGF-A/VEGFR2 axis could be useful in blocking the pathological formation of lymphatic vessels.
Travels in North America, with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia

face level of the sea, in no one instance emerge above it. To escape this lat ter most improbable admission, which implies the existence of submarine chains of mountains of almost the same height extending over areas of many thousand square miles, there is but one alternative, namely, the prolonged subsidence of the foundations on which the atolls were primarily based, together with the upward growth of the reef-constructing corals. On this view every difficulty vanishes ; fringing reefs are thus converted in barrier reefs, and barrier reefs, when encircling islands, are thus converted into atolls the instant the last pinnacle of land sinks beneath the surface of the ocean. " Finally, when the two great types of s t r u c t u r e t h e barrier reefs and atolls on the one hand, and fringing-reefs on tile o t h e r a r e lald down in colours on the map, a magr, ificent and harmonious picture of the movements which the crust of the earth has within a late period undergone, is presented to us. We there see vast areas rising, with volcanic matter every now and then bursting forth through the vents or fissures with which they are traversed. We see other wide spaces slowly sinking without any volcanic outbursts, and we may feel sure that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried, over the broad face of the ocean, every one of those mom~tains above which atolls Pow stand, like monuments, marking the place o f their former existence. Reflecting how powerful all agent with respect to denudation, and consequently to the nature and thickness of the deposits in accumulation, the sea must ever be when acting for prolonged periods on the land during either its slow emergence or subsidence: reflecting also on the final effects of these movements in the interchange of land and ocean-water on the climate of the earth, and on the distribution of organic beings, I may be permit ted to hope, that the conclusions derived from the st.udy of coral formations, originally attempted merely to explain their peculiar forms, may be thought worthy of the attention of geologists. " Pages 146-1't8. D. T. A.
Improving Text Classification by a Sense Spectrum Approach to Term Expansion

Experimenting with different mathematical objects for text representation is an important step of building text classification models. In order to be efficient, such objects of a formal model, like vectors, have to reasonably reproduce language-related phenomena such as word meaning inherent in index terms. We introduce an algorithm for sense-based semantic ordering of index terms which approximates Cruse's description of a sense spectrum. Following semantic ordering, text classification by support vector machines can benefit from semantic smoothing kernels that regard semantic relations among index terms while computing document similarity. Adding expansion terms to the vector representation can also improve effectiveness. This paper proposes a new kernel which discounts less important expansion terms based on lexical relatedness.