Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Desire/disgust: mapping the moral contours of heterosexuality

Recent studies of sexuality and space have done much to demonstrate that ‘everyday’ space is experienced as aggressively heterosexual by lesbians and gay males. In this review essay, I aim to extend this analysis by examining the (limited) body of work which has explored how heterosexuality has served to create (and justify) other forms of oppression and confinement in western cities. Specifically, this essay examines how heterosexuality has been theorized within and beyond geography, exploring the contention that the ‘performance’ of particular oedipal identities is central to the normalization of heterosexuality. This idea is scrutinized through an overview of the geographies of ‘moral’ and ‘immoral’ heterosexual identities which serves to demonstrate how heterosexuality is territorialized in the city, albeit in an often complex and contradictory manner. Invoking geographic theories of morality, identity and difference, the article concludes that a fuller and more nuanced understanding of heterosexuality needs to be developed in order to understand the role of space in shaping social relations of all kinds.
Aggregating Qualitative Findings: An Approach to Theory Development

The authors suggest that findings of independent, similar research articles may be aggregated into a cohesive study. Such a procedure greatly enhances the generalizability of the original studies and produces a relatively solid mid-range theory. In this article, the criteria for selecting studies, possible problems inherent in the aggregation approach, and potential areas for application are discussed.
Single auditory units in the superior olivary complex

Response properties to sounds were examined in single auditory units in the superior olivary complex and the ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus. Units were divided into ten ‘classes’; four classes were defined by single properties (spike waveshape or the timing of responses to sound bursts) and the remaining six classes were defined by which ear excited or inhibited the units. Units were also divided according to the types of poststimulus-time histograms they produced in response to sound bursts, and they were separately divided according to the shape of their inter-spike interval histograms. These latter two groupings were highly correlated with each other and with unit class, and were combined into a single classification scheme called ‘firing-pattern type’. Units were divided into six groups based on the shapes of their tuning curves; data on the bandwidths of tuning curves are also presented. Data are presented on spontaneous firing rate, thresholds to best-frequency tones, and latency of respons.
Research on financial warning for Chinese listed companies by using panel data model

This paper studies how to establish models for predicting financial distress in China's listed companies. We firstly select 26 companies with financial distress and 54 matching companies' panel data as samples, then use panel data model to conduct an empirical study. The research indicates that: (1) The predictability precision is 91.25%, 92.5%, 91.25% and 87.5% for T-1, T-2, T-3 and T-4, respectively, superior to the previous research. (2) The panel data model warning analysis is of stable predictability, which is suitable in constructing midterm and long-term prediction models.
Thin II1 factors with no Cartan subalgebras

It is a wide open problem to give an intrinsic criterion for a II_1 factor $M$ to admit a Cartan subalgebra $A$. When $A \subset M$ is a Cartan subalgebra, the $A$-bimodule $L^2(M)$ is "simple" in the sense that the left and right action of $A$ generate a maximal abelian subalgebra of $B(L^2(M))$. A II_1 factor $M$ that admits such a subalgebra $A$ is said to be s-thin. Very recently, Popa discovered an intrinsic local criterion for a II_1 factor $M$ to be s-thin and left open the question whether all s-thin II_1 factors admit a Cartan subalgebra. We answer this question negatively by constructing s-thin II_1 factors without Cartan subalgebras.
Genetic and physicochemical characterization of the recombinant DNA-derived 47-kilodalton surface immunogen of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum

Previous work has established the importance of the 47-kilodalton (kDa) surface immunogen of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (T. pallidum) in the immunopathogenesis of syphilis; the 47-kDa immunogen gene was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli (M. V. Norgard, N. R. Chamberlain, M. A. Swancutt, and M. S. Goldberg, Infect. Immun. 54:500-506, 1986). To facilitate additional structural-functional analysis of this protein for immunopathogenesis studies, the recombinant DNA-derived molecule was examined with respect to its genetic expression and physicochemical properties. Subcloning of partial PstI digests of the original 47-kDa antigen-encoding DNA segment localized the 47-kDa antigen gene to a 1.3-kilobase (kb) T. pallidum DNA fragment. A 20- to 100-fold enhanced expression of the 47-kDa antigen was obtained when a 2.85-kb DNA insert containing the entire 1.3-kb structural gene was subcloned into a T7 RNA polymerase-dependent expression vector system. Under these conditions, several derivatives of the recombinant 47-kDa protein possessing different molecular masses were observed that were identical to those previously detected on Western blots of native T. pallidum antigens with monoclonal antibodies. Sarkosyl extraction of E. coli recombinant cell envelopes localized the 47-kDa protein to both the inner and outer membranes of E. coli. The absolute requirement of detergents (N-lauroylsarcosine, 3-[(3-chloramidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propane sulfonate, N-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, or Nonidet P-40) for solubilization of the antigen from E. coli cell envelopes and the observation that the recombinant protein partitioned into the detergent phase on Triton X-114 solubilization were consistent with the fact that it is a hydrophobic, integral membrane protein. Western blots of the 47-kDa antigen purified by immunoaffinity chromatography supported results of previous reports that the 47-kDa protein is specific to pathogenic treponemes.
Balance control of a piped robot combining off-line pattern with real-time modification

Since a biped robot tends to tip over easily, stable and reliable biped walking is a very important achievement. In this paper, we propose a balance control method based on an off-line planned walking pattern with real-time modification. First, a method of generating a highly stable, smooth walking pattern is presented. Then, a method of real-time modification consisting of body posture control, actual zero moment point control and landing time control based sensor information is proposed. By combining the proposed off-line walking pattern with real-time modification, the biped robot can walk smoothly and adapt to unknown environments. The effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed by dynamic simulator such as walking on unexpected irregular rough terrain, soft ground and in environments in the presence of disturbances.
Psychosocial correlates of depressive symptoms among 12-14-year-old Norwegian adolescents.

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to examine the relationships between various psychosocial factors and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. METHODS A representative sample of 2,465 12-14-year-old adolescents comprising 50.8% girls and 49.2% boys, with a mean age of 13.7 years, was recruited in two counties in Norway. The participation rate was 88.3%. Depressive symptoms were measured by the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ). RESULTS Correlations between the total sum of stressful events/daily hassles and the total sum of MFQ were moderately high, rs = . 49 and rs = . 53, respectively. Depressive symptoms were more strongly correlated with school-related stress among boys than girls, whereas the correlation between daily hassles and depressive symptoms was higher for girls than boys. The results of univariate analyses showed significantly higher mean total MFQ scores among adolescents not living with both natural parents, those who had moved more than twice and those with more than 3 siblings orhaving fewer than 2 close friends. Further, adolescents from Third World societies and adopted adolescents, those from lower SES groups, having unemployed parents or living in coastal areas had higher mean depressive symptom scores. The results of multiple regression analyses yielded the following six significant predictors of total MFQ scores in order of importance: Sum of daily hassles and sum of stressful life events, gender, number of friends, ethnicity and mother's employment status. Altogether, these variables accounted for 43% of the total variance in MFQ scores. CONCLUSIONS It is concluded that these psychosocial predictors should be addressed when assessing depressive symptoms in early adolescence. The findings of the study are discussed in view of previous research in the field and their clinical significance.
The Influence of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Profiles on Team Development Processes

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most common personality assessments and a frequently used instrument for team development. However, in relation to team development processes, there is little research and literature on the role of personality in general and the usefulness of MBTI in particular. This article starts with a review of the MBTI and explores the relationship between MBTI profiles and team processes using a sample of 1,630 people working in 156 teams in a Swedish industrial organization. The results show that only a small number of MBTI personality profiles have a significant relationship with team processes. Overall, the composition of teams in terms of MBTI profiles does not seem to predict team development very well. Findings suggest that the MBTI may be used as an instrument for personal development and as a vehicle for group members to gain a better understanding of each other.
DOCK2 and DOCK5 Act Additively in Neutrophils To Regulate Chemotaxis, Superoxide Production, and Extracellular Trap Formation

Neutrophils are highly motile leukocytes that play important roles in the innate immune response to invading pathogens. Neutrophils rapidly migrate to the site of infections and kill pathogens by producing reactive oxygen species (ROS). Neutrophil chemotaxis and ROS production require activation of Rac small GTPase. DOCK2, an atypical guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF), is one of the major regulators of Rac in neutrophils. However, because DOCK2 deficiency does not completely abolish fMLF-induced Rac activation, other Rac GEFs may also participate in this process. In this study, we show that DOCK5 acts with DOCK2 in neutrophils to regulate multiple cellular functions. We found that fMLF- and PMA-induced Rac activation were almost completely lost in mouse neutrophils lacking both DOCK2 and DOCK5. Although β2 integrin–mediated adhesion occurred normally even in the absence of DOCK2 and DOCK5, mouse neutrophils lacking DOCK2 and DOCK5 exhibited a severe defect in chemotaxis and ROS production. Similar results were obtained when human neutrophils were treated with CPYPP, a small-molecule inhibitor of these DOCK GEFs. Additionally, we found that DOCK2 and DOCK5 regulate formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). Because NETs are involved in vascular inflammation and autoimmune responses, DOCK2 and DOCK5 would be a therapeutic target for controlling NET-mediated inflammatory disorders.
Statistical analysis of intramembranous particles using freeze fracture specimens

We studied the point processes of intramembranous particles of mitochondrial membranes from HeLa cells using the freeze fracture technique. Three groups – under normal conditions, after exposition with rotenone, and after exposition with sodium acid – were compared. First, we used several summary statistics in order to study the two‐dimensional point patterns of intramembranous particles within each group. Then, we compared the patterns in different groups by bootstrap tests using the K‐function and the nearest neighbour distance function G(r). Estimation of the G‐function provided significant results but no significant differences between groups were found using the classical K‐function; estimation of G(r) should therefore not be omitted when studying observed planar point patterns.
Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

Significance Twitter and other social media platforms are believed to have altered the course of numerous historical events, from the Arab Spring to the US presidential election. Online social networks have become a ubiquitous medium for discussing moral and political ideas. Nevertheless, the field of moral psychology has yet to investigate why some moral and political ideas spread more widely than others. Using a large sample of social media communications concerning polarizing issues in public policy debates (gun control, same-sex marriage, climate change), we found that the presence of moral-emotional language in political messages substantially increases their diffusion within (and less so between) ideological group boundaries. These findings offer insights into how moral ideas spread within networks during real political discussion. Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to investigate processes by which some moral ideas spread more rapidly or broadly than others. Here, we show that the expression of moral emotion is key for the spread of moral and political ideas in online social networks, a process we call “moral contagion. ” Using a large sample of social media communications about three polarizing moral/political issues (n = 563,312), we observed that the presence of moral-emotional words in messages increased their diffusion by a factor of 20% for each additional word. Furthermore, we found that moral contagion was bounded by group membership; moral-emotional language increased diffusion more strongly within liberal and conservative networks, and less between them. Our results highlight the importance of emotion in the social transmission of moral ideas and also demonstrate the utility of social network methods for studying morality. These findings offer insights into how people are exposed to moral and political ideas through social networks, thus expanding models of social influence and group polarization as people become increasingly immersed in social media networks.
Second Generation AMIRA Tools for Arabic Processing : Fast and Robust Tokenization , POS tagging , and Base Phrase Chunking

In this paper, we address the problem of processing Modern St andard Arabic. We present the second generation of tools tha t process Arabic (AMIRA). AMIRA is a successor suite to the ASV MTools. The AMIRA toolkit includes a clitic tokenizer (TOK), part of speech tagger (POS) and base phrase chunker (B PC) shallow syntactic parser. The technology of AMIRA is based on supervised learning with no explicit dependence o xplicit modeling or knowledge of deep morphology. AMIRA is based on using a unified framework casting each of the component problems as a classification task. The underlying technology employs Support Vector Machines in a sequence modeling framework using the YAMCHA toolkit. The system is very fast and robust and allows for a number of va riable user settings depending on the disambiguation granularity. The AMIRA toolkit has been widely used for diff erent NLP (MT, IE, IR, NER, etc.) applications due to its speed and high performance.
Explaining the sex difference in coronary heart disease mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Most studies suggest that diabetes is a stronger coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factor for women than men, but few have adjusted their results for classic CHD risk factors: age, hypertension, total cholesterol level, and smoking. OBJECTIVE To establish an accurate estimate of the odds ratio for fatal and nonfatal CHD due to diabetes in both men and women. METHODS We compared the summary odds ratio for CHD mortality and the absolute rates of CHD mortality in men and women with diabetes. We searched the MEDLINE and Cochrane Collaboration databases and bibliographies of relevant articles and consulted experts. Studies that included a nondiabetic control group and provided sex-specific adjusted results for CHD mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular or all-cause mortality were included. Of 4578 articles identified, 232 contained primary data, and 182 were excluded. Two reviewers recorded data on study characteristics, quality, and outcomes from 50 studies. RESULTS Sixteen studies met all inclusion criteria. In unadjusted and age-adjusted analyses, odds of CHD death were higher in women than men with diabetes. From 8 prospective studies, the multivariate-adjusted summary odds ratio for CHD mortality due to diabetes was 2.3 (95% confidence interval, 1.9-2.8) for men and 2.9 (95% confidence interval, 2.2-3.8) for women. There were no significant sex differences in the adjusted risk associated with diabetes for CHD mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular or all-cause mortality. Absolute CHD death rates were higher for diabetic men than women in every age strata except the very oldest. CONCLUSIONS The excess relative risk of CHD mortality in women vs men with diabetes was absent after adjusting for classic CHD risk factors, but men had more CHD deaths attributable to diabetes than women.
Exploring the complexities of describing foundation phase teachers' professional knowledge base

The purpose of this paper is to engage with the complexities of describing teachers’ professional knowledge and eventually also their learning through written tests. The bigger research aim is to describe what knowledge foundation phase teachers acquired during their two years of study towards the Advanced Certificate of Teaching (ACT). We designed a written test to investigate the professional knowledge that teachers bring with them when they enrol for the ACT, with the aim of comparing their responses to the same test two years later, when they had completed the programme. The questionnaire included questions on teachers’ content knowledge; their pedagogical content knowledge (in particular, teachers’ knowledge about learner misconceptions, stages of learning, and ways of engaging these in making teaching decisions); and their personal knowledge (such as their beliefs about how children learn and barriers to learning). It spanned the fields of literacy in English and isiZulu, numeracy, and general pedagogy. Eighty-six foundation phase teachers enrolled for the ACT at the University of KwaZulu-Natal completed the questionnaire, and their responses pointed us to further methodological issues. We discuss the assumptions behind the design of the test/questionnaire, the difficulties in formulating relevant questions, and the problems of ‘accessing’ specific elements of teacher knowledge through this type of instrument. Our process shows the difficulties both in constructing questions and in coding the responses, in particular concerning the pedagogical content knowledge component for teachers from Grade R to Grade 3.
BYOD - The Next Big Thing in Recruiting? Examining the Determinants of BYOD Service Adoption Behavior from the Perspective of Future Employees

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) enables employees to use their privately-owned devices for business purposes. There is an ongoing debate on the costs, benefits and potential threats of this concept amongst practitioners. Surprisingly, employees and their expectations and attitudes towards BYOD are rarely part of these discussions. Contributing to this research area, this study answers questions on the determinants of BYOD adoption and acceptance behavior. For that purpose, the UTAUT model was adapted and extended. Quantitative data was collected from students of business and engineering majors in Germany. Performance expectancy was found to be the strongest determinant of behavioral intention to use BYOD services. However, 'perceived threats' –a newly introduced construct– also showed to have a significant explanatory value. Additionally, the significant impact of behavioral intention to use a BYOD service on employer attractiveness indicates that the offering of BYOD can indeed be a powerful measure to recruit future employees.
Multiscale Dimensionality Reduction Based on Diffusion Wavelets

Many machine learning data sets are embedded in high-dimensional spaces, and require some type of dimensionality reduction to visualize or analyze the data. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for multiscale dimensionality reduction based on diffusion wavelets. Our approach is completely data driven, computationally efficient, and able to directly process non-symmetric neighborhood relationships without ad-hoc symmetrization. The superior performance of our approach is illustrated using several synthetic and real-world data sets.
Decomposition-based Motion Planning: Towards Real-time Planning forRobots with Many Degrees of Freedom

Research in motion planning has been striving to develop faster and faster planning algorithms in order to be able to address a wider range of applications. In this paper a novel real-time motion planning framework, called decomposition-based motion planning, is proposed. It is particularly well suited for planning problems that arise in service and field robotics. It decomposes the original planning problem into simpler subproblems, whose successive solution results in a large reduction of the overall complexity. A particular implementation of decomposition-based planning is proposed. It is based on an adaptive wavefront expansion algorithm and reactive motion execution. Using this implementation of decomposition-based planning, real-time motion planning performance for an eleven degree-of-freedom mobile manipulator can be achieved. Some fundamental and preliminary analysis of the decomposition-based motion planning approach is provided.
Investigation on Self-Heating Effect in Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

Electrothermal modeling of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) field-effect transistor (FET) is performed in this paper, with special attention focused on its self-heating effect. The method of finite difference is implemented for solving a 1-D heat conduction equation in the semiconducting channel self-consistently, and its nonuniform temperature distribution is evaluated for 20-, 32-, and 45-nm technology nodes, respectively. The numerical results are presented to show the self-heating effect on the I -V characteristics, signal delay, and cutoff frequency of the carbon nanotube FET (CNTFET). It is further demonstrated that the maximum temperature rise, as well as the performance degradation of the CNTFET, is quite lower than that of the silicon-based FET counterpart. All these advantages are contributed by the excellent electrothermal properties of the SWCNTs, and they have great potential for the development of active devices with low power dissipation and good reliability at high-operating temperature.