Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis of VBF protocol in Underwater Sensor Network for Static and Moving Nodes

Underwater acoustic sensor network is used to monitor the ocean areas with the help of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, wireless data access points like tools. A number of problems like environmental changes, predicting disaster informations, exploration of mines can be addressed by applying this process in the sea. In this paper, we apply the routing protocol Vector Based Forwarding in two different architecture like static nodes and moving nodes in an underwater architecture. The comparison between the architecture is based on the simulation results, from the comparison the Energy Efficiency, Throughput, PDR are analyzed. Seeing the various graph results, we can conclude that the VBF protocol is significantly beneficial for the underwater architecture with moving nodes than static nodes.
Empirically Based School Interventions Targeted at Academic and Mental Health Functioning

This review examines empirically based studies of school-based mental health interventions. The review identified 64 out of more than 2,000 articles published between 1990 and 2006 that met methodologically rigorous criteria for inclusion. Of these 64 articles,only 24 examined both mental health and educational outcomes.The majority of school-based mental health intervention studies failed to include even rudimentary measures of school-related outcomes. Analysis of the 24 studies yielded several key findings:The types of mental health outcomes most frequently assessed included self-, peer-, teacher-, or parent-reported measures of social competence, aggression, or problem behaviors. Academic scores and school attendance were the types of educational outcomes most frequently assessed.The majority of interventions focused on elementary students, had a preventive focus, and targeted prosocial, aggressive, and antisocial behaviors. Only 15 of the 24 studies demonstrated a positive impact on both educational and mental health outcomes, 11 of which included intensive interventions targeting both parents and teachers. The studies that had an impact only on mental health outcomes tended to be less intensive with more limited family involvement.This review discusses the implications of these findings for school-based mental health services and identifies directions for future research.
Gold Nanoparticles for Diagnostics: Advances towards Points of Care

The remarkable physicochemical properties of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have prompted developments in the exploration of biomolecular interactions with AuNP-containing systems, in particular for biomedical applications in diagnostics. These systems show great promise in improving sensitivity, ease of operation and portability. Despite this endeavor, most platforms have yet to reach maturity and make their way into clinics or points of care (POC). Here, we present an overview of emerging and available molecular diagnostics using AuNPs for biomedical sensing that are currently being translated to the clinical setting.
Dynamics of ionization wave splitting and merging of atmospheric-pressure plasmas in branched dielectric tubes and channels

Atmospheric-pressure fast ionization waves (FIWs) generated by nanosecond, high voltage pulses are able to propagate long distances through small diameter dielectric tubes or channels, and so deliver UV fluxes, electric fields, charged and excited species to remote locations. In this paper, the dynamics of FIW splitting and merging in a branched dielectric channel are numerically investigated using a two-dimensional plasma hydrodynamics model with radiation transport, and the results are compared with experiments. The channel consists of a straight inlet section branching 90° into a circular loop which terminates to form a second straight outlet section aligned with the inlet section. The plasma is sustained in neon gas with a trace amount of xenon at atmospheric pressure. The FIW generated at the inlet approaches the first branch point with speeds of ≈108 cm s−1, and produces a streamer at the inlet–loop junction. The induced streamer then splits into two FIW fronts, each propagating in opposite directions through half of the loop channel. The FIWs slow as they traverse the circular sections due to a shorting of the electric field by the other FIW. Approaching the loop–outlet junction, the two FIW fronts nearly come to a halt, induce another streamer which goes through further splitting and finally develops into a new FIW front. The new FIW increases in speed and plasma density propagating in the straight outlet channel. The electrical structure of the FIWs and the induced streamers during the splitting and merging processes are discussed with an emphasis on their mutual influence and their interaction with the channel wall. The FIW propagation pattern is in good agreement with experimental observations. Based on numerical and experimental investigations, a model for the splitting and merging FIWs in the branched loop channel is proposed.
Internal and external motivation in phonetic change: dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift.

This article is a contribution to the debate about the primacy of internal versus external factors in language change (Farrar and Jones 2002; Thomason and Kaufman 1988). Taking Labov's Principles of Vowel Shifting (Labov 1994) as representing internal factors, we examine a vowel shift in Ashford, south‐east of London. F1 and F2 measurements of the short vowels suggest a classic chain shift, largely following Labov's Principles II and III (though Labov's assumption that London short front vowels are rising is shown to be wrong). However, corresponding data from Reading, west of London, evidence no signs of a chain shift. The two datasets show identical targets for the changes in each town. Thus, there has been convergence between the two short vowel systems – from different starting points. We argue that a dialect contact model is more explanatory than internal factors in this case of regional dialect levelling in the south‐east of England.
The replication functions of polyomavirus large tumor antigen are regulated by phosphorylation

Polyomavirus (Py) large T antigen (T Ag) contains two clusters of phosphorylation sites within the amino-terminal half of the protein. To characterize possible regulatory effects of phosphorylation on viral DNA replication, Py T Ag was treated with calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase (CIAP). Incubation of the protein with a range of phosphatase concentrations caused progressive loss of phosphate without affecting its stability. Treatment with smaller quantities of CIAP stimulated the ability of the viral protein to mediate replication of constructs containing the viral replication origin, while higher concentrations of CIAP caused a marked diminution of this replication function. Several biochemical activities of Py T Ag were examined after CIAP treatment. Py T Ag DNA unwinding and nonspecific DNA binding were only slightly affected by dephosphorylation. However, as determined by DNase I footprinting experiments, treatment with smaller amounts of CIAP stimulated specific binding to the Py replication origin by Py T Ag, while treatment with larger amounts of CIAP caused marked inhibition of origin-specific binding by the viral protein. Phosphotryptic maps of Py T Ag before or after treatment with CIAP revealed changes in individual phosphopeptides that were uniquely associated with either the stimulation or the inhibition of replication. Our data therefore suggest that Py T Ag is regulated by both repressing and activating phosphates.
Application of liver three-dimensional printing in hepatectomy for complex massive hepatocarcinoma with rare variations of portal vein: preliminary experience.

BACKGROUND To discuss the role of Liver 3D printing in the treatment of complex massive hepatocarcinoma with rare variations of portal vein. METHODS Data of enhanced computed tomography (CT) were imported into the medical image three-dimensional visualization system (MI-3DVS) to create Standard Template Library (STL) files, which were read by 3D printer to construct life-size 3D physical liver model. The preoperative surgical planning was performed on the 3D model according to individualized segmentation, volume calculation, and virtual operation. RESULTS The 3D printing liver model was consistent with the model in MI-3DVS. The segment 4 portal vein (S4PV) was absent and variant S4PV originated from right anterior portal vein (RAPV). The preoperative surgical planning was designed according to the relationship between tumor and portal vein variation. Theoretically, the residual liver volume was 40.76%, if the right hemihepatctomy was carried out after the trunk of right portal vein (RPV) ligated. However, the actual residual volume was only 21.37% due to the variant S4PV originates from RAPV, thus, right trisegmentectomy would have to be performed. Interestingly, after optimization, the residual liver volume increased to 57.25% as narrow-margin right hemihepatectomy with the variant S4PV reserved were performed. The final resection was determined to be narrow-margin right hemihepatectomy. The actual surgical procedure was consistent with the preoperative surgical planning. CONCLUSION Liver 3D printing may be a safe and effective technique to improve the success rate of surgery and reduce the operation risk for patients with complex massive hepatocarcinoma with variations of portal vein.
An Interdisciplinary Ethics Module for MSW and Nursing Students

The teaching of ethics in social work can be incorporated in the curriculum in multiple ways. This article outlines an interdisciplinary module with nursing and social work students at a small United States Midwestern university as a means of developing awareness of multiple perspectives surrounding ethical dilemmas in healthcare. Background information related to teaching interdisciplinary ethics and use of case studies is presented. Discussion of the interdisciplinary ethics exercise includes a summary of observations relative to the exercise and challenges in its implementation are outlined.
Evaluation method for node importance in complex networks based on eccentricity of node

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is still an open issue. Although various centrality measures have been proposed to address this problem, such as degree, betweenness, and closeness centrality, but most of the current evaluations for node importance in complex networks can not reflect objectively the reality of some real world status. This article based on the Graph Theory, we proposed a new evaluation for finding center and median of graph using the eccentricity of node. In our method, we not only consider the existence of mutual dependence among nodes, but also propose a new algorithm to calculate the eccentricity of node. To evaluate the performance of our method, we used our method to analyze the Advanced Research Project Agency(ARPA) network, which are made to evaluate the feasibility and validity of our method. Next, in order to further verify the accuracy of our method, we simulate cascading failures by continuously removing some important nodes to analyze the network invulnerability.
What is the container/contained when there are ghosts in the nursery?: Joining Bion and Fraiberg in dyadic interventions with mother and infant.

"Ghosts in the nursery. " "Visitors from the unremembered past. " Fraiberg, Adelson, and Shapiro's (1975) words convey the relational "intruders" that they perceived while working with mothers and infants. A mother's unresolved past is a driving force within the treatment of mother-infant dyads. Working with these families, the therapist strives to process and metabolize the distress of the dyad while enabling the mother to contain the infant more fully. This article proposes that Fraiberg et al.'s metaphor may be newly elaborated utilizing Bion's (1962) original theoretical conceptualization of the "container and contained. " He posited that an infant projects distressing affective states upon the mother, who contains the experience, transforms the feelings, and then enables the infant to reintroject a more tolerable experience. This lays the foundation for the relational experience of being known by another and facilitates the infant's development of self-knowledge and emotional regulation. We utilize Fraiberg et al.'s original case material to identify ways in which ghosts in the nursery disrupt the processes of the container and contained. Bion's ideas may help enrich our understanding of how the therapeutic relationship enables cycles of containment, transitioning the material "ghosts" from being contained by the infant to being contained by the therapist, and to ultimately being transformed so that the mother can reattribute them to the past.
Enzymatic modulation of cell volume in C6 glioma cells

We monitored the volume of C6 glioma cells in suspension using a Coulter Counter and exposed the cells to micromolar or nanomolar levels of collagenase or clostripain. In 13 experiments, type IV collagenase (310 units ml−1; ∼3 μM L−1) decreased the volume by 8–12%, 8 min after addition. In 13 of 21 experiments, the volume decrease was followed by a volume regulatory increase (VRI) back to control levels in the continued presence of collagenase. The shrinkage evoked by type IV collagenase was eliminated by heat‐inactivation of the enzyme preparation. A highly purified collagenase (type VII) at the same concentration evoked a relatively minor decrease in volume. A well‐known contaminating protease present in type IV collagenase, clostripain, which specifically cleaves arginyl peptide bonds, evoked a 7 ± 2% shrinkage (100 nM L−1, 7 experiments). Clostripain did not evoke a volume regulatory increase. The initial velocity of shrinkage evoked by clostripain (0.0012 pL min−1, 0.0034 pL min−1, 0.0132 pL min−1; 1 pL = 10−12 liters) scaled with its concentration (1 nM L−1, 10 nM L−1, 100 nM L−1). The effect of clostripain was inhibited by heat‐inactivation of the enzyme. Leupeptin, an inhibitor of clostripain, prevented the decrease in volume evoked by clostripain. The activity of stretch‐activated ion channels was unaffected by type IV collagenase. Barium, cesium, amiloride, DIDS, or bumetanide failed to block the shrinkage evoked by type IV collagenase.
Human papillomavirus seropositivity and risks of head and neck cancer

We examined antibody response to VLP HPV‐16, HPV‐16 E6 and E7 antibodies as potential seromarkers of HPV‐related head and neck cancer (HNC). The study included 204 HNC cases and 326 controls evaluated for HPV presence in sera using ELISAs for anti‐HPV VLP antibodies and HPV‐16 E6 and/or E7 antibodies, and in tumor tissue using PCR and DNA sequencing. Anti‐HPV‐16 VLP was detected in 33.8% of cases and 22.4% of controls, anti‐E6 in 20.6% of cases and 0.9% of controls and anti‐E7 in 18.6% of cases and 0.6% of controls. HPV‐16 DNA was detected in 26.1% of tumors. The adjusted risk of HNC was elevated among those seropositive for HPV‐16 VLP (odds ratio (OR) = 1.7, 1.1–2.5), E6 (OR = 32.8, 9.7–110.8) or E7 (OR = 37.5, 8.7–161.2). Compared to HPV DNA‐negative/seronegative cases, tumor HPV‐16 cases had increased risk of detection with anti‐VLP antibodies (OR = 6.8, 3.1–14.9). The odds were more pronounced among cases seropositive for E6 (OR = 69.0, 19.3–247) or E7 (OR = 50.1, 14.7–171). Antibodies against E6 or E7 were associated with risk of cancer in the oral cavity (OR = 5.1, 1.2–22.4) and oropharynx (OR = 72.8, 16.0–330), and with disease characteristics: stage, grade and nodal status. Anti‐E6 and/or E7 antibodies were found in 74% of tumor HPV‐16 positive cases but in only 5% of tumor HPV‐negative cases (K =0.7, 0.6–0.8) suggesting good correlation between the serologic marker and HPV tumor status. Antibodies to HPV‐16 E6 and/or E7 represent a more specific biomarker than anti‐HPV‐16 VLP of an HPV‐related HNC. Because of the survival advantage of HPV‐related HNC, HPV‐16 E6/E7 detection may be useful in therapy targeted for HPV‐related tumors. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Tux2: Distributed Graph Computation for Machine Learning

TUX2 is a new distributed graph engine that bridges graph computation and distributed machine learning. TUX2 inherits the benefits of an elegant graph computation model, efficient graph layout, and balanced parallelism to scale to billion-edge graphs; we extend and optimize it for distributed machine learning to support heterogeneity, a Stale Synchronous Parallel model, and a new MEGA (Mini-batch, Exchange, GlobalSync, and Apply) model. We have developed a set of representative distributed machine learning algorithms in TUX2, covering both supervised and unsupervised learning. Compared to implementations on distributedmachine learning platforms, writing these algorithms in TUX2 takes only about 25% of the code: Our graph computation model hides the detailed management of data layout, partitioning, and parallelism from developers. Our extensive evaluation of TUX2, using large data sets with up to 64 billion edges, shows that TUX2 outperforms state-of-the-art distributed graph engines PowerGraph and PowerLyra by an order of magnitude, while beating two state-of-the-art distributed machine learning systems by at least 48%.
Family matters: A cross-national examination of family bonding and victimization

Family bonding is a mainstay in theories of crime and delinquency. Recently, it has also been extended to explain exposure to victimization in the US and abroad. Although research reveals that there are differences between countries in their views about the importance of family, scholarship has not yet considered how and why the protective features of family bonding might vary across the country context according to how the family is valued. This study, using data from the second International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD-2), reveals that both individual levels of family bonding and macro levels of the perceived importance of the family are negatively related to victimization. Analyses suggest that exposure to victimization and the effects of family bonding vary across contexts where the effect of family bonding on victimization is stronger in countries that view the family as more important. We conclude that these results contribute insight into the operationalization of victimization theories across the country context and that policies at the country level may prove useful in reducing victimization risk.
Matrix Selection in High Payload Embedding

This paper proposes a matrix selection method for high payload matrix embedding. Two conditions are presented for generating m*(m+1) matrices, which can be used to embed a secret message with m bits into (m+1) cover bits and, at most, ë(m+1)/2û cover bits are flipped. Since a large number of matrices can be generated, and the choice of matrix can be used as an embedding key, the scheme provides a high degree of security to prevent attackers from breaking the secret information even if they know the mechanism of the embedding scheme.
Runtime Monitoring of Metric First-order Temporal Properties

We introduce a novel approach to the runtime monitoring of complex system proper- ties. In particular, we present an online algorithm for a safety fragment of metric first-order temporal logic that is considerably more expressive than the logics supported by prior monitoring methods. Our approach, based on automatic structures, allows the unrestricted use of negation, universal and existential quantification over infinite domains, and the arbitrary nesting of both past and bounded future operators. Moreover, we show how to optimize our approach for the common case where structures consist of only finite relations, over possibly infinite domains. Under an additional restric- tion, we prove that the space consumed by our monitor is polynomially bounded by the cardinality of the data appearing in the processed prefix of the temporal structure being monitored.
BeppoSAX study of the broad-band properties of luminous globular cluster X{ray sources

We have performed a detailed study of the broadband spectra of the luminous (>10 36 erg s 1 ) globular cluster X{ray sources using BeppoSAX. With the exception of X 2127+119, located in NGC 7078, all the other spectra are well represented by a two component model consisting of a disk-blackbody and Comptonized emission. The measured low-energy absorptions are in good agreement with those predicted from optical measurements of the host globular clusters. This implies that there is little intrinsic X{ray absorption within the binaries themselves, and that the above spectral model provides a good representation of the low-energy continua. The sources can be divided into two groups. In the rst group, composed of 3 ultra-compact (orbital period <1 hr) sources, the disk-blackbody temperatures and inner-radii appear physically realistic and the Comptonization seed photons temperatures and radii of the emission areas are consistent with the disk temperatures and inner radii. For all the other sources, the disk-blackbody parameters appear not to be physically realistic and the Comptonization parameters are unrelated to those of the disk-blackbody emission. If this is a spectral signature of ultra-compact binaries, this implies that no other ultra-compact binaries are present among those studied here. It is unclear why this dierence between the two types of binaries should exist. One possibility may be related to the mass ratio, which is similar in the ultracompact systems and binaries containing black holes. In the latter systems the soft components are also well-t with disk-blackbody models, which appear to have physically realistic parameters.
Modeling Employee Social Responsibility as an Antecedent to Competitiveness Outcomes

The study explained a model of employee social responsibility (ESR) as an antecedent to corporate competitiveness. It hypothesizes that ESR has significant effect on employee competitiveness (EC). Questionnaires were administered to a sample of 700 employees selected from a population of 5,595 from 20 classified hotels in the coastal region of Kenya using proportionate and systematic random sampling methods. Structural equation model was used for model specification and hypotheses testing. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed on six and four constructs representing ESR and EC, respectively. Overall, a negative effect of ESR on EC was found with un-standardized β estimates = −. 516; SE = . 071, p = . 000. Accordingly, increase in employee corporate social responsibility (CSR) is associated with decline in EC. This was potentially paradoxical because employees demonstrated job and organization commitment and retention intention despite poor ESR practices.
Interrogation and False Confessions among Adolescents: Differences between Bullies and Victims

The principal aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between false confessions during custodial interrogation and group bullying using the “quadrant” classification: pure bullies, pure victims, bully-victims (i.e., those who are both bullies and victims of bullying), and those not involved in bullying. It was hypothesized that bully-victims would be most likely to have a history of giving false confessions when interrogated by police and pure bullies the least likely, with pure victims falling in between the two other groups. There were two separate samples, 7,149 Icelandic and 24,627 European pupils in the last two years of their compulsory education (mean age 15.5 years). The participants completed a questionnaire in class, which included questions about interrogations, false confessions, and bullying. Over 95% of the participants answered the questions about bullying. The results showed that bully-victims were most likely to be interrogated by police and to give false confessions when interrogated. Pure bullies had a very low false confession rate, which was almost identical to those who were not involved in bullying. The findings suggest that bully-victims, followed by pure victims, are psychologically the weakest during interrogation and pure bullies the strongest.