Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FLUENCY AND THE DETECTION OF MISLEADING QUESTIONS : LOW PROCESSING FLUENCY ATTENUATES THE MOSES ILLUSION

When asked, “How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark? ” most people respond “Two” despite knowing that Noah rather than Moses was the biblical actor. Two experiments tested the role of processing fluency in the detection of such semantic distortions by presenting questions in an easy or difficult to read print font. As predicted, low processing fluency facilitated detection of the misleading nature of the question and reduced the proportion of erroneous answers. However, low processing fluency also reduced the proportion of correct answers in response to an undistorted question. In both cases, participants were less likely to rely on their spontaneous association when the font was difficult to read, resulting in improved performance on distorted and impaired performance on undistorted questions. We propose that fluency experiences influence processing style.
Rockin' out of the Box:Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock

"Schippers' account of the rock music subculture in Chicago between 1992 and 1995 is an ethnographic study based on casual interactions with a core group of rock fans, interviews with rock musicians, and field trips into bars and clubs of the Wicker Park area. The result provides fascinating, informative anecdotal information. Drawing from theorists Anthony Giddens, Candace West, Don Zimmerman, Judith Butler, and others, Schippers interprets performances, gestures, and language as well as values-both implied and explicitly stated-as maneuvers employed by members of that subculture to undermine expressions of (and attitudes reflecting) sexism and bigotry. "-Choice "An astute analysis of rock music's gender politics that manages to be both perceptive and fun to read-a rare feat. "- Arlene Stein, author of Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation Given the long history of feminism and its contested place in popular culture, important, practical questions arise: What effect, if any, have feminist ideas and practices had on the lives of young men and women who grew up with them? How do these individuals negotiate the realities of gender in their daily lives? Employing the crucial feminist insight that gender is a constantly shifting performance and not an essential quality related to sex, Mimi Schippers explores the gender roles, assumptions, and transgressions of the men and women involved in the alternative hard rock scene. She uses the innovative term gender maneuvering to explain how gender and sexuality are negotiated and always changing features of social relations. This process operates as a cultural practice and as an individual strategy of resistance to socially prescribed gender roles. Schippers conducted extensive interviews with fans as well as musicians, including Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7, Kat Bjelland and Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland, Rose Marshack of Poster Children, Louise Post and Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt, and Liz Davis and Valerie Agnew of 7 Year Bitch. As it documents the development of a rock music genre that has so far received little academic attention, Rockin' out of the Box also demonstrates how this musical culture contributes to our understanding of the daily practices of gender relations among young people. Mimi Schippers is an assistant professor of sociology and women's studies at Tulane University.
Multi-Antenna Techniques in Fixed Wireless Links

We present a summary of results based on several years of measurements for urban fixed wireless (FW) channels. Our results are aimed at providing reference data for practical applications in FW services. We discuss temporal stability and fade dynamics of outdoor-outdoor single-input single-output (SISO) channels with and without spatial diversity, a relevant aspect when considering the types of modulations that such a channel can support. Our main findings are that nearby vehicular traffic is the main source of temporal variations, but that in most practical situations temporal fades are very shallow. Spatial fades are quite significant and are stable over time. Diversity has the twofold effect of mitigating these fades and increasing temporal stability. We also present practical results on outdoorindoor multiple-Input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. Based on empirical data we contrast spectral efficiencies for diverse types of systems, ranging from those that only use multiple antennas for beamforming to those that take full advantage of channel state information. We find that for low signal to noise ratio (SNR), beamforming achieves in practice spectral efficiencies comparable to that of MIMO and that it retains a significant proportion of such spectral efficiency at higher SNR, with the benefit of considerably lower complexity.
Hearing aid system with 3D sound localization

Many people nowadays suffer from various degrees of hearing impairment. Having an appropriate hearing aid system is a good solution to resolve their hearing problem. In this application, various noises interfere with the hearing aid system to result in degrading sound quality. In order to improve sound quality, the schemes to suppress and remove noises are investigated. Additionally, the sound localization that can enhance the perceptual sensation is implemented. In this work, the microphone array and adaptive beam-forming techniques are explored to suppress noises and improve sound quality. Particularly, the time delay of arrival technique for the recorded sound in five microphones is adopted to effectively determine the location of sound. Since the proposed microphone array is worn on the patient chest, the derived sound location need be transferred to the relationship between ears and sound position, in which the head-related transfer function is employed to yield 3D sound. The simulation results show that noises can be suppressed by around 5dB and the sound location can be determined under a 15-degree deviation. Therefore, the proposed hearing aid system can enable persons who have difficulty in hearing to perceive good sound quality and localization.
Optimisation du processus de conception : proposition d'un modèle de sélection des méthodes pour l'aide à la décision

L'une des problematiques du genie industriel, soulignee dans de nombreuses references, precise l'importance des methodes de conception dans une perspective de formalisation des processus de developpement de produits nouveaux. Cette structuration est devenue au fil des annees un imperatif de survie pour les organisations industrielles. Prolongeant les conclusions de ces travaux, notre demarche s'inscrit dans une approche qui prend comme point de depart la diversite des methodologies de conception existantes et la difficulte inherente a leur selection. Partant du constat qu'aucune methode de conception ne peut etre utilisee systematiquement sur tous les projets, notre problematique de recherche peut se synthetiser de la maniere suivante : Comment aider les concepteurs a selectionner des methodes de conception adaptees a un projet donne ? Cette question revient a construire, en preambule de chaque developpement de produit, un processus de conception ad hoc associe a des methodes et des outils et permettant de converger vers un objectif predefini. Notre approche en terme de modelisation vise a mettre en lumiere les dependances existantes entre le contexte projet et les methodes utilisees. Dans cette perspective, trois champs d'investigation qui constituent autant de fondement pour notre modele, sont etudies : la caracterisation du contexte projet d'une part, la description des methodes de conception d'autre part, et les interconnexions existantes entre ces deux domaines. La partie experimentale de notre travail de recherche nous a conduit a developper un systeme d'aide a la selection des methodes. Cet outil d'aide a la decision a destination des concepteurs et chefs de projet permet, a partir d'une description du contexte renseignee par l'utilisateur, d'emettre des preconisations en matiere de selection de methodes et d'outils de conception. L'evaluation de ce systeme a permis de valider le modele propose et de tracer de nouvelles pistes de recherche pour l'avenir.
An adaptive sampling procedure for speech perception experiments

Synthetic speech perception experiments may make use of several acoustic dimensions in order to adequately model listeners' perception; however, the number of stimuli increases exponentially as dimensions are added. A relatively large number of identification responses per stimulus are needed in the vicinity of category boundaries in order to model the boundaries with reasonable accuracy. Fewer responses per stimulus are needed to model portions of the stimulus space where a single response category predominates. Rather than collecting the same number of responses for each stimulus, an experiment can therefore be shortened via adaptive sampling. An adaptive sampling procedure is described. After an initial pass through the stimuli, the procedure uses a logistic regression model to select stimuli to resample in subsequent rounds. Results of simulations indicated that the number of trials in the experiment could be reduced by a third without substantially affecting the results.
Functional Expression of Rat Nav1.6 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in HEK293 Cells: Modulation by the Auxiliary β1 Subunit

The Nav1.6 voltage-gated sodium channel α subunit isoform is abundantly expressed in the adult rat brain. To assess the functional modulation of Nav1.6 channels by the auxiliary β1 subunit we expressed the rat Nav1.6 sodium channel α subunit by stable transformation in HEK293 cells either alone or in combination with the rat β1 subunit and assessed the properties of the reconstituted channels by recording sodium currents using the whole-cell patch clamp technique. Coexpression with the β1 subunit accelerated the inactivation of sodium currents and shifted the voltage dependence of channel activation and steady-state fast inactivation by approximately 5–7 mV in the direction of depolarization. By contrast the β1 subunit had no effect on the stability of sodium currents following repeated depolarizations at high frequencies. Our results define modulatory effects of the β1 subunit on the properties of rat Nav1.6-mediated sodium currents reconstituted in HEK293 cells that differ from effects measured previously in the Xenopus oocyte expression system. We also identify differences in the kinetic and gating properties of the rat Nav1.6 channel expressed in the absence of the β1 subunit compared to the properties of the orthologous mouse and human channels expressed in this system.
Global futures : shaping globalization

Shaping globalization, Jan Nederveen Pietersen. Part 1 Global reform: humane governance for the world - reviving the quest, Richard Falk globalization - a developmental approach, Jan Pronk world economic challenges at the threshold of the 21st century, Louis Emmerij life beyond global economic warfare, Hazel Henderson the mosaic of global taxes, Howard M. Wachtel an alternative to global marketization, Yoshikazu Sakamoto. Part 2 Collective action and development: local dimensions of global reform - reconciling idealism with local realities, Fantu Cheru poverty and politics of alternatives at the end of the Millennium, Michael Watts environmental justice as a force for sustainability, Joan Martinez-Alier feminist futures, Azza M. Karam. Part 3 Culture - economics, technology and cities: culture and economic growth - the state and globalization, Keith Griffin technologies of post-human development and the potential for global citizenship, Mike Featherstone cities - contradictory utopias, Anthony D. King.
Can One Achieve Multiuser Diversity in Uplink Multi-Cell Networks?

We introduce a distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) strategy, based on two pre-determined thresholds, for uplink K-cell networks with time-invariant channel coefficients. Each base station (BS) opportunistically selects a mobile station (MS) who has a large signal strength of the desired channel link among a set of MSs generating a sufficiently small interference to other BSs. Then, performance on the achievable throughput scaling law is analyzed. As our main result, it is shown that the achievable sum-rate scales as K log(SNR log N) in a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, if the total number of users in a cell, N, scales faster than SNRK-1/1-ε for a constant ε∈(0,1). This result indicates that the proposed scheme achieves the multiuser diversity gain as well as the degrees-of-freedom gain even under multi-cell environments. Simulation results show that the DOS provides a better sum-rate throughput over conventional schemes.
Maximally robust controllers for multivariable systems

The set of all optimal controllers which maximize a robust stability radius for unstructured additive perturbations may be obtained using Hankel-norm approximation methods. These controllers guarantee robust stability for all perturbations which lie inside an open ball in the uncertainty space (say of radius r/sub 1/). Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for a perturbation lying on the boundary of this ball to be destabilizing for all maximally robust controllers. It is thus shown that a "worst-case direction" exists along which all boundary perturbations are destabilizing. By imposing a parametric constraint such that the permissible perturbations cannot have a "projection" of magnitude larger than (1-/spl delta/)r/sub 1/, 0</spl delta//spl les/1, in the most critical direction, the uncertainty region guaranteed to be stabilized by a subset of all maximally robust controllers can be extended beyond the ball of radius r/sub 1/. The choice of the "best" maximally robust controller-in the sense that the uncertainty region guaranteed to be stabilized becomes as large as possible-is associated with the solution of a superoptimal approximation problem. Expressions for the improved stability radius are obtained and some links with /spl mu/-analysis are pursued.
Income and Outcomes: A Structural Model of Intrahousehold Allocation

There is evidence from several sources that one cannot treat many-person households as a single decision maker. If this is the case, then factors such as the relative incomes of the household members may affect the final allocation decisions made by the household. We develop a method of identifying how "incomes affect outcomes" given conventional family expenditure data. The basic assumption we make is that household decision processes lead to efficient outcomes. We apply our method to a sample of Canadian couples with no children. We find that the final allocations of expenditures on each partner depend significantly on their relative incomes and ages and on the level of lifetime wealth.
Application of the half decimal place rule to increase the peptide identification rate.

RATIONALE Many MS2 spectra in bottom-up proteomics experiments remain unassigned. To improve proteome coverage, we applied the half decimal place rule (HDPR) to remove non-peptidic molecules. The HDPR considers the ratio of the digits after the decimal point to the full molecular mass and results in a relatively small permitted mass window for most peptides. METHODS First, the HDPR mass filter was calculated for the human and other proteomes. Subsequently, the HDPR was applied to three technical replicates of an in-solution tryptic digest of HeLa cells which were analysed by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) using a quadrupole-orbitrap mass spectrometer (Q Exactive). In addition, the same sample was analysed three times with a fixed exclusion list. The exclusion list was based on only choosing doubly charged ions for fragmentation. RESULTS The peptide spectrum match (PSM) rate increased by 2-4% applying HDPR filters from 0.1-0.25 Da and 75-150 ppm, respectively. Excluding all MS2 events by applying an HDPR filter of doubly charged ions, we were able to improve PSMs by 0.9% and the PSM rate by 2.5%. CONCLUSIONS An algorithm to filter precursors based on the HDPR was established to improve the targeting of the acquisition of MS2 spectra in data-dependent acquisition (DDA) experiments. According to our data, a total gain of PSMs of 1-5% might be achievable if the HPDR filter would already be applied during MS data acquisition. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Class Structure and Ideology: an Empirical Analysis of Neo-Marxist Class Theory and Political Attitudes and Beliefs.

This study examines the relationship between the infrastructure and the superstructure in the monopoly stage of capitalism. With the rise of monopoly capital a major issue of contention has been the devel­ opment of a new class structure, the debate has centered around the nature and existence of the "middle class(es)". The three major issues are: a split in the working class due to the rise of an 'affluent worker' a separation of mental and manual labor; and the development of a man­ agerial class. The result has four Marxist alternative explanations of the middle classes: contradictory locations, simple polarization, new petty bourgeoisie, and the new class. The present study sought to examine the class structure from a structural position. Structural differences of work between the classes were explored, giving special attention to the managerial class and the position of women and Blacks in it. This model reflected the major dim­ ensions of the class divisions in the four Marxist alternatives. The data in this study were from a larger survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center on a national sample in 19B0. The study was an attempt to refine the measure of class. In pa.ticular the focus was on the relationship of the objective conditions of class with class positions. However, it was posited that class was not the only objective condition which affects ideology and thus other factors were examined. The findings regarding the structural differences of work in the classes were: a concentration of managerial positions in the monopoly sector; separation of head and hand as suggested by Braverman; and a concentration of women and Blacks in the working class and competitive sector. Findings in the second part were as follows: support for the idea of a middle class; the working class and owning class were in the polar positions of the issues; there is a weak class effect on political atti­ tudes and beliefs; the results did not support the four Marxist theories of the middle class; and the evidence supports the notion of a "contra­ dictory Professional Managerial class. " The study concludes with a discussion of the theoretical implications and the limitations associated with the analysis.
Questioning the Key Techniques Underlying the Iterative and Incremental Approach to Information Systems Development

The iterative and incremental development IID approach is widely adopted in information systems development ISD projects. While the IID approach has played an important role the management of many ISD projects, some of the key techniques have not received critical appraisal from the academic community. This paper aims to fill the gap and examines three such techniques through a case study. First of all, the gap between the theory of user participation and the reality of user's lack of real influence on design and development is explored. The author proposes the concept of "participatory capture" to explain the side effect of user participation. Secondly, the assumption that evolutionary prototyping converges to a successful design is questioned. Thirdly, the side effect of the timeboxing technique is considered. The paper suggests that the IID approach represents the learning approach as categorized in Pich et al. 2002 and it might be ineffective in dealing with the significant uncertainties in ISD projects.
On the Fine-grained Complexity of One-Dimensional Dynamic Programming

In this paper, we investigate the complexity of one-dimensional dynamic programming, or more specifically, of the Least-Weight Subsequence (LWS) problem: Given a sequence of n data items together with weights for every pair of the items, the task is to determine a subsequence S minimizing the total weight of the pairs adjacent in S. A large number of natural problems can be formulated as LWS problems, yielding obvious O(n^2)-time solutions. In many interesting instances, the O(n^2)-many weights can be succinctly represented. Yet except for near-linear time algorithms for some specific special cases, little is known about when an LWS instantiation admits a subquadratic-time algorithm and when it does not. In particular, no lower bounds for LWS instantiations have been known before. In an attempt to remedy this situation, we provide a general approach to study the fine-grained complexity of succinct instantiations of the LWS problem: Given an LWS instantiation we identify a highly parallel core problem that is subquadratically equivalent. This provides either an explanation for the apparent hardness of the problem or an avenue to find improved algorithms as the case may be. More specifically, we prove subquadratic equivalences between the following pairs (an LWS instantiation and the corresponding core problem) of problems: a low-rank version of LWS and minimum inner product, finding the longest chain of nested boxes and vector domination, and a coin change problem which is closely related to the knapsack problem and (min,+)-convolution. Using these equivalences and known SETH-hardness results for some of the core problems, we deduce tight conditional lower bounds for the corresponding LWS instantiations. We also establish the (min,+)-convolution-hardness of the knapsack problem. Furthermore, we revisit some of the LWS instantiations which are known to be solvable in near-linear time and explain their easiness in terms of the easiness of the corresponding core problems.
Hybrid: A Large-scale In-memory Image Analytics Engine.

Analytical image/video processing tasks such as scene/face/activity recognition are historically performed externally of most relational database management systems. Relational engines are optimized for relational data and therefore, have weaker support for non-relational data such as images or video. We have been working on Hybrid , a high-velocity in-memory analytics engine, which supports the advanced access capabilities for both image/video contents and structured data via SQL or JSON. This allows the user to query both relational (rows and columns of a table) and video/image contents (objects, activities, scene attributes) in a single SQL or hybrid SQL/JSON statement [Gubanov and Pyayt, 2013, Gubanov and Shapiro, 2012]. Analytical tasks may then be performed on both types of data, without the expensive ETL (extract-transform-load) process. An example of the Hybrid query to a relational and image data source (queried in JSON) is illustrated below. The user manually speciﬁes an SQL: preﬁx in the query portion which accesses the relational data and JSON: preﬁx in the part querying image data. A query then fuses information from images (cast to JSON) and Web tables (relational) [Gubanov et al., 2009, Gubanov et al., 2014], before outputting the best deal for a popular Broadway show [Gubanov and Stonebraker, 2014, Abedjan et al., 2014].
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TCP/IP protocols were designed at 1970s-1980s and during that time computers were single-homed. Nowadays there is more and more need for mobility, therefore the new protocols are needed to support mobility and multihoming. In the work I have investigated how mobility and multihoming can be implemented in transport layer and shown main advantages of that. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), TCP Multi-Home Options (TCP-MH) and Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) protocols were introduced and compared with emphasis on mobility and multihoming features. As protocols are new, some further investigations and development are needed.