Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trend Analysis of Human Resources Development Representing the Base for Researchers in Selected Economies

This paper discusses the issue of precondition for the number of researchers as an important input factor for research and development (hereinafter ‘R&D’). R&D is one of the main sources for new knowledge creation through human capital. It can be seen as one of the most important sources of competitiveness. There was an analysis carried out on higher education graduates, who can be considered a base of a group of researchers, and the number of inhabitants. A method such as regression analysis for empirical data variables dependence was used. An assessment of quantitative indicators related to the number of inhabitants and the number of higher education graduates was performed by regression analysis. An analysis on higher education graduates and the number of inhabitants was conducted with the same method. These variables were examined for the European Union, the USA and the Czech Republic in the first decade of the 21st century. Based on the analysis values of all variables, a comparison of the countries was carried out.
The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History

Terry Lectures. A religious philosopher's exploration of the nature and history of the word argues that the word is initially and always sound, that it cannot be reduced to any other category, and that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence. His analysis of the development of verbal expression, from oral sources through the transfer to the visual world and to contemporary means of electronic communication, shows that the predicament of the human word is the predicament of man himself.
Macrophages are comprised of resident brain microglia not infiltrating peripheral monocytes acutely after neonatal stroke

Macrophages can be both beneficial and detrimental after CNS injury. We previously showed rapid accumulation of macrophages in injured immature brain acutely after ischemia‐reperfusion. To determine whether these macrophages are microglia or invading monocytes, we subjected post‐natal day 7 (P7) rats to transient 3 h middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion and used flow cytometry at 24 and 48 h post‐reperfusion to distinguish invading monocytes (CD45high/CD11b+) from microglia (CD45low/medium/CD11b+). Inflammatory cytokines and chemokines were determined in plasma, injured and contralateral tissue 1–24 h post‐reperfusion using ELISA‐based cytokine multiplex assays. At 24 h, the number of CD45+/CD11b+ cells increased 3‐fold in injured compared to uninjured brain tissue and CD45 expression shifted from low to medium with less than 10% of the population expressing CD45high. MCA occlusion induced rapid and transient asynchronous increases in the pro‐inflammatory cytokine IL‐β and chemokines cytokine‐induced neutrophil chemoattractant protein 1 (CINC‐1) and monocyte‐chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP‐1), first in systemic circulation and then in injured brain. Double immunofluorescence with cell‐type specific markers showed that multiple cell types in the injured brain produce MCP‐1. Our findings show that despite profound increases in MCP‐1 in injured regions, monocyte infiltration is low and the majority of macrophages in acutely injured regions are microglia.
A Novel ICT Approach to the Assessment of Mobility in Diverse Health Care Environments

ICT and medical experts have to work together in order to meet the challenges imposed by the demographic change. The Ambient Timed Up & Go (aTUG) approach, whose development and evaluation is presented and discussed in this paper, is an example for such cooperation which aims at making existing medical processes more effective and at enabling seamless provision of care between professional and domestic environments. aTUG is an approach and apparatus that provides technical support for execution of geriatric mobility assessment tests in professional and domestic environments and that yields the advantages of being more objective and more detailed while saving time. Additionally, aTUG enables physicians to include assessment data from domestic environments into their decisions, especially to enable more early prevention and sustainable rehabilitation. However, the explanatory power of assessment results from domestic environments is still unclear and their integration into medical decisions is discussed within this paper.
Four Decades of Creative Vision: Insights from an Evaluation of the Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI).

E. Paul Torrance, a pioneer in creative education, and his associates founded the Future Problem Solving Program (now FPSPI, or Future Problem Solving Program International) in the mid-1970s as a competitive, interscholastic program and as a curriculum project integrating creative problem-solving and future studies. Since its founding, the program has emerged to be international in scope, and has expanded to incorporate multiple components to engage students’ creative strengths and talents in varied ways. This report presents highlights of an international evaluation of the program, the results of which support and sustain Torrance's creative vision for education.
CMPK: A High Accuracy Microblog User Classification Method for Professional Analysis

Analyzing and mining the massive data recorded in microblog in order to discover the characteristics and rules of individual behaviors, group behaviors and interactive behaviors is now the research hotspot of massive data mining and behavioral analysis area. However, the influence of social attributes, such as user's occupation, to his behavior and social relations is always neglected in the existing researches. Concerning this issue, the paper proposed a high accuracy microblog user classification method for professional analysis - CMPK (Classification Method based on Professional lexicon and K-nearest neighbor algorithm), this method uses vector space model combined with the professional lexicon and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm) classification algorithm to analyze the industry that the microblog user belongs to based on all kinds of information he put on the network. The experiment proved that the accuracy rate of CMPK is nearly 90% which is high precision.
Loop Parallelism: A New Skeleton Perspective on Data Parallel Patterns

Traditionally, skeleton based parallel programming frameworks support data parallelism by providing the programmer with a comprehensive set of data parallel skeletons, based on different variants of map and reduce patterns. On the other side, more conventional parallel programming frameworks provide application programmers with the possibility to introduce parallelism in the execution of loops with a relatively small programming effort. In this work, we discuss a "ParallelFor" skeleton provided within the FastFlow framework and aimed at filling the usability and expressivity gap between the classical data parallel skeleton approach and the loop parallelisation facilities offered by frameworks such as OpenMP and Intel TBB. By exploiting the low run-time overhead of the FastFlow parallel skeletons and the new facilities offered by the C++11 standard, our ParallelFor skeleton succeeds to obtain comparable or better performance than both OpenMP and TBB on the Intel Phi many-core and Intel Nehalem multi-core for a set of benchmarks considered, yet requiring a comparable programming effort.
Integration of a semantic and affective model for realistic generation of emotional states in virtual characters

In this paper we proposed a computational model that automatically integrates a knowledge base with an affective model. The knowledge base presented as a semantic model, is used for an accurate definition of the emotional interaction of a virtual character and their environment. The affective model generates emotional states from the emotional output of the knowledge base. Visualization of emotional states is done through facial expressions automatically created using the MPEG-4 standard. In order to test the model, we designed a story that provides the events, preferences, goals, and agent's interaction, used as input for the model. As a result the emotional states obtained as output were totally coherent with the input of the model. Then, the facial expressions representing these states were evaluated by a group of persons from different academic backgrounds, proving that emotional states can be recognized in the face of the virtual character.
Assessing Social Behaviors in the Visually Handicapped: The Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY)

The present investigation was divided into three studies aimed at establishing the reliability and validity of the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY) with a visually handicapped population. Age, sex, and related variables also were evaluated. In Study 1, 75 severely visually impaired persons (ages 9-22) who were receiving services for the visually handicapped were evaluated. A number of adaptations to the scale (providing the in formation in large print and on audio cassettes) were made to insure that self-report as well as teacher-report data could be obtained. Internal reliability were all . 78 or above on either the teacher- or self-report versions. Study 2 used the same population but aimed at evaluating the differences on various demographic variables of this visually handicapped sample. Age differences were not apparent but six differences and groupings by placement classroom showed significant differences. Visual acuity did not markedly effect differences in social behavior b.
Converging evidence for the interaction of semantic and sublexical phonological information in accessing lexical representations for spoken output

Abstract Detailed studies of naming, reading, and comprehension by three braindamaged patients are reported. The three subjects had different patterns of performance across lexical tasks, which are best explicated by proposing, for each case, separate loci of damage to one or more components of the lexical system. Nevertheless, all three patients showed better oral reading than would be expected on the basis of either their demonstrated abilities in lexical-semantic processing or their demonstrated abilities in sublexical orthography-to-phonology conversion. The disproportionately intact oral reading in each of these subjects can be explained either by proposing a nonsemantic “direct route” of reading and/or by proposing that at least partial semantic information interacts with at least partial sublexical phonological information to access lexico-phonological representations for output in the task of oral reading. Evidence favouring the latter hypothesis was provided by studies of the subjects' performanc.
An unexpected controversy in Middle-earth: audience encounters with the ‘dark side’ of transnational film production

This paper addresses local and global audience understandings of a sequence of events that exposed the play of politics and power underpinning the transnational production of a globalised entertainment product – Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy (2012–14). More often obscured by processes of commodity sign production, circulation, and desire, the clash and confluence of global and national ambitions became subject to often heated public discussion and debate during the New Zealand Hobbit labour dispute and in its aftermath. In this paper, we draw on findings from a large-scale online Q methodology survey of pre-viewers for the first Hobbit film to document how differently located audiences made sense of these complex events, their local ramifications, and potentially global implications. We argue that the interests of global capital were able to prevail materially and discursively through the construction and naturalisation of a concordance of interests between Warner Bros. and the neo-liberal New Zealand government. Furthermore, while geographical, political and professional proximity to the context of production provided some respondents with access to alternative discursive understandings, competing forces of fetishistic desire and obfuscation undercut the willingness of most others to seriously contemplate any criticism of the social and material conditions of The Hobbit’s production, lest it ‘spoil’ a longed for consumption and cultural experience.
Efficient information leakage neutralization on a relay-assisted multi-carrier interference channel

In heterogeneous dense networks where spectrum is shared, users privacy remains one of the major challenges. When the receivers are not only interested in their own signals but also in eavesdropping other users' signals, the cross talk becomes information leakage.We propose a novel and efficient secrecy rate enhancing relay strategy EFFIN for information leakage neutralization. The relay matrix is chosen such that the effective leakage channel (spectral and spatial) is zero. Thus, it ensures secrecy regardless of receive processing employed at eavesdroppers and does not rely on wiretaps codes to ensure secrecy, unlike other physical layer security techniques such as artificial noise. EFFIN achieves a higher sum secrecy rate over several state-of-the-art baseline methods.
Analysis of rice granules using image processing and neural network

In food handling industry, grading of granular food materials is necessary because samples of material are subjected to adulteration. In the past, food products in the form of particles or granules were passed through sieves or other mechanical means for grading purposes. In this paper, analysis is performed on basmati rice granules; to evaluate the performance using image processing and Neural Network is implemented based on the features extracted from rice granules for classification grades of granules. Digital imaging is recognized as an efficient technique, to extract the features from rice granules in a non-contact manner. Images are acquired for rice using camera. Conversion to gray scale, Median smoothing, Adaptive thresholding, Canny edge detection, Sobel edge Detection, morphological operations, extraction of quantitative information are the checks that are performed on the acquired image using image processing technique through Open source Computer Vision (Open CV) which is a library of functions that aids image processing in real time. The morphological features acquired from the image are given to Neural Network. This work has been done to identify the relevant quality category for a given rice sample based on its parameters. The performance of image processing reduced the time of operation and improved the crop recognition greatly. Grading results obtained from Neural Network system shows greater accuracy when compared with the outputs from human experts.
Increased calcium-independent lipoprotein phospholipase A2 but not protein S100 in patients with schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper was to investigate serum concentrations of calcium-independent lipoprotein phospholipase A2 (PLA2) and protein S100 in schizophrenia patients in comparison to healthy controls and correlate them with the clinical severity, duration, and number of schizophrenia relapses. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This study included 65 schizophrenia patients and 70 controls. Schizophrenia was diagnosed according to DSM-IV-TR criteria. Clinical severity was determined by PANSS. PLA2 and protein S100 concentration were assessed by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). RESULTS PLA2 concentrations were higher in patients with schizophrenia, whereas protein S100 concentrations were not. Higher concentrations of PLA2 were positively correlated with the duration of illness and number of episodes, as determined by multivariate analysis. CONCLUSION PLA2 might be considered a possible biochemical trait marker for schizophrenia. Further research with larger and more homogeneous clinical samples is required.
Automated management of inter-organisational applications

Inter-organisational applications require improved support from middleware services. This paper analyses the management requirements of multidomain applications, covering both technological domains and organisations (administrative business domains). The analysis leads to a suggested middleware solution for these needs, presenting a group of cooperative, pervasive management services that use a common, abstract management language suitable for expressing a platform-independent model of cooperation between sovereign components and contracts about selected technologies. The approach is compatible with OMG MDA (Model Driven Architecture) work.
Presenting evacuation instructions on mobile devices by means of location-aware 3D virtual environments

Natural and man-made disasters present the need to efficiently and effectively evacuate the people occupying the affected buildings. Providing appropriate evacuation instructions to the occupants of the building is a crucial aspect for the success of the evacuation. This paper presents an approach for giving evacuation instructions on mobile devices based on interactive location-aware 3D models of the building. User's position into the building is determined by using active short-range RFID technology. A preliminary user evaluation of the system has been carried out in the building of our Department.
A Requirement for FGF Signalling in the Formation of Primitive Streak-Like Intermediates from Primitive Ectoderm in Culture

Background Embryonic stem (ES) cells hold considerable promise as a source of cells with therapeutic potential, including cells that can be used for drug screening and in cell replacement therapies. Differentiation of ES cells into the somatic lineages is a regulated process; before the promise of these cells can be realised robust and rational methods for directing differentiation into normal, functional and safe cells need to be developed. Previous in vivo studies have implicated fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signalling in lineage specification from pluripotent cells. Although FGF signalling has been suggested as essential for specification of mesoderm and endoderm in vivo and in culture, the exact role of this pathway remains unclear. Methodology/Principal Findings Using a culture model based on early primitive ectoderm-like (EPL) cells we have investigated the role of FGF signalling in the specification of mesoderm. We were unable to demonstrate any mesoderm inductive capability associated with FGF1, 4 or 8 signalling, even when the factors were present at high concentrations, nor any enhancement in mesoderm formation induced by exogenous BMP4. Furthermore, there was no evidence of alteration of mesoderm sub-type formed with addition of FGF1, 4 or 8. Inhibition of endogenous FGF signalling, however, prevented mesoderm and favoured neural differentiation, suggesting FGF signalling was required but not sufficient for the differentiation of primitive ectoderm into primitive streak-like intermediates. The maintenance of ES cell/early epiblast pluripotent marker expression was also observed in cultures when FGF signalling was inhibited. Conclusions/Significance FGF signalling has been shown to be required for the differentiation of primitive ectoderm to neurectoderm. This, coupled with our observations, suggest FGF signalling is required for differentiation of the primitive ectoderm into the germ lineages at gastrulation.
Thermal Stability and Dopant Segregation for Schottky Diodes With Ultrathin Epitaxial $\hbox{NiSi}_{2 - y}$

The Schottky barrier height (SBH) of an ultrathin epitaxial NiSi2-y film grown on Si(100) is modified significantly by means of dopant segregation (DS). The DS process begins with the NiSi2-y formation and is followed by dopant implantation and drive-in annealing. The rapid lattice restoration and superior morphological stability upon heat treatment up to 800°C allow the epitaxial NiSi2-y film to take full advantage of the DS process. For drive-in annealing below 750°C , the effective SBH is altered to ~ 0.9-1 eV for both electrons and holes by B-DS and As-DS, respectively, without deteriorating the integrity of the NiSi2-y film.
Six-Month Follow-Up Changes for TANF-Eligible Clients Involved in Kentucky's Targeted Assessment Program

ABSTRACT Welfare reform has been successful in helping clients achieve self-sufficiency. However, some individuals experience problems associated with basic needs, physical health, mental health, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence (IPV) that can impede transitioning from welfare to work and/or interfere with parental responsibilities. The Targeted Assessment Program (TAP) was created more than a decade ago to identify and address these problems and help clients move off the welfare rolls in Kentucky. Self-reported interview data were used to examine changes and effect sizes between baseline assessment and 6-month follow-up from a sample (n = 322) of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families-eligible clients participating in Kentucky's TAP. Using McNemar's test for correlated proportions, paired-sample t-tests, and measures of effect size, significant changes with varied effect sizes were found for selected basic needs, as well as physical health, mental health, substance use, and IPV barriers. Findings suggest that social service practitioners could incorporate strengths-based case management and motivational interviewing into their practice. Further research is suggested utilizing longitudinal and controlled studies on evidence-based practice that address pretreatment and assessment strategies involving case management and motivational interviewing.
Unified first law of black hole dynamics and relativistic thermodynamics

A unified first law of black-hole dynamics and relativistic thermodynamics is derived in spherically symmetric general relativity. This equation expresses the gradient of the active gravitational energy E according to the Einstein equation, divided into energy-supply and work terms. Projecting the equation along the flow of thermodynamic matter and along the trapping horizon of a black hole yield, respectively, first laws of relativistic thermodynamics and black-hole dynamics. In the black-hole case, this first law has the same form as the first law of black-hole statics, with static perturbations replaced by the derivative along the horizon. In particular, there is the expected term involving the area and surface gravity, where the dynamic surface gravity is defined by substituting the Kodama vector and trapping horizon for the Killing vector and Killing horizon in the standard definition of static surface gravity. The remaining work term is consistent with, for instance, electromagnetic work in special relativity. The dynamic surface gravity vanishes for degenerate trapping horizons and satisfies certain inequalities involving the area and energy which have the same form as for stationary black holes. Turning to the thermodynamic case, the quasi-local first law has the same form, apart from a relativistic factor, as the classical first law of thermodynamics, involving heat supply and hydrodynamic work, but with E replacing the internal energy. Expanding E in the Newtonian limit shows that it incorporates the Newtonian mass, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy and thermal energy (internal energy with fixed zero). There is also a weak type of unified zeroth law: a Gibbs-like definition of thermal equilibrium requires constancy of an effective temperature, generalizing the Tolman condition and the particular case of Hawking radiation, while gravithermal equilibrium further requires constancy of surface gravity. Finally, it is suggested that the energy operator of spherically symmetric quantum gravity is determined by the Kodama vector, which encodes a dynamic time related to E.