Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NTCIR-6 CLIR-J-J Experiments at Yahoo! Japan

This paper describes NTCIR-6 experiments of the CLIR- J-J task, i.e. Japanese monolingual retrieval subtask, at the Yahoo group, focusing on the parameter optimization in information retrieval (IR). Unlike regression approaches, we optimized parameters completely independent from retrieval models so that the optimized parameter set can illustrate the characteristics of the target test collections. We adopted the genetic algorithm as optimization tools and cross-validated with 4 test collections, namely NTCIR- 3,4,5, and 6 CLIR-J-J.
New insights into the calibration of ToF-sensors

Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors have become an alternative to conventional distance sensing techniques like laser scanners or image based stereo. ToF sensors provide full range distance information at high frame-rates and thus have a significant impact onto current research in areas like online object recognition, collision prevention or scene reconstruction. However, ToF cameras like the photonic mixer device (PMD) still exhibit a number of challenges regarding static and dynamic effects, e.g. systematic distance errors and motion artefacts, respectively. Sensor calibration techniques reducing static system errors have been proposed and show promising results. However, current calibration techniques in general need a large set of reference data in order to determine the corresponding parameters for the calibration model. This paper introduces a new calibration approach which combines different demodulation techniques for the ToF- camera 's reference signal. Examples show, that the resulting combined demodulation technique yields improved distance values based on only two required reference data sets.
Processor-efficient FFT Implementation Scheme for Active Noise Control Applications

Most of the frequency-domain (FD)-based active noise control (ANC) applications involve the computation of several discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs). Conventionally, an N-point DFT of a sequentially arriving data is computed only after the arrival of the N th sample. For applications involving ANC, such an approach will overload the processor. In this paper, an alternative method to compute the DFT is proposed, which distributes the computations over a span of several sampling instants. As an example to prove the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, it is applied to the reduced delay-less frequency-domain block filtered-x least-mean-square (RD-FBFXLMS) algorithm, wherein about 24% (for a block length of 1024 samples) of the multiplications and about 29% of additions (which were supposed to have been done at the last sampling instant of each block) are shifted to earlier sampling instants during which the processor is idle. The percentage of computational redistribution will be higher for multi channel non-linear systems.
Steady-state MRI: methods for neuroimaging

MRI pulse sequences that use regularly spaced trains of rapidly applied excitation pulses (every few milliseconds) are known as ‘steady-state’ sequences. Under these conditions, the magnetization evolves into a steady state that depends on tissue parameters such as T1, T2 and diffusion, as well as sequence parameters such as repetition time and flip angle. These sequences have attractive properties including high efficiency (in terms of signal-to-noise ratio) and flexible image contrast; they also create unique challenges due to the need to maintain the magnetization in the steady state and their complicated signal dependence. This article describes the primary types of steady-state sequences and their application to brain imaging.
A Language Independent Approach for Name Categorization and Discrimination

The run-flat tire has a tread for contacting a ground surface and a belt package with belt plies interior to the tread for support of the tread. A plurality of radially reinforced carcass layers are positioned interior to the belt plies and include at least one carcass layer that extends between spaced apart annular beads. The tire has a pair of sidewalls each extending radially inward from shoulders at lateral edges of the belt package to the annular beads. The sidewalls have a plurality of sidewall stiffening members to support the tire during a loss of inflation pressure. The carcass layers are disposed with the sidewall stiffening members to help support the run-flat tire with a loss of inflation pressure. The spaced apart beads have a unique design including bead cores placed at a predetermined diameter with respect to a rim diameter, dual bead fillers above the bead cores, a heel corner spaced at a radial gap distance from a rim flange and rim interface components having a seat interface distance below the bead core for mounting the run-flat tire on a conventional rim and for sustaining the run-flat tire on the conventional rim with a loss of inflation pressure within the run-flat tire.
Novel approach to AM-FM decomposition with applications to speech and music analysis

We present a new zero-crossing based algorithm for decomposing a bandpass signal into the amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) components. In this sequential algorithm, the FM component is first estimated using zero-crossing instant information in a k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) framework. The AM component is estimated by coherent demodulation using a time-varying lowpass filter that uses the estimated instantaneous frequency. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm gives more accurate envelope and frequency estimates compared to the discrete-energy separation algorithm (DESA) which uses the Teager energy operator. Using the proposed approach on bandpass filtered speech and music, we can extract the fine-structured modulations that occur on a micro-time scale, within an analysis frame.
Synergistic Interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in an In Vitro Wound Model

ABSTRACT In individuals with polymicrobial infections, microbes often display synergistic interactions that can enhance their colonization, virulence, or persistence. One of the most prevalent types of polymicrobial infection occurs in chronic wounds, where Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are the two most common causes. Although they are the most commonly associated microbial species in wound infections, very little is known about their interspecies relationship. Evidence suggests that P. aeruginosa–S. aureus coinfections are more virulent than monoculture infection with either species; however, difficulties in growing these two pathogens together in vitro have hampered attempts to uncover the mechanisms involved. Here we describe a simple and clinically relevant in vitro wound model that supported concomitant growth of P. aeruginosa and S. aureus. We observed that the ability of P. aeruginosa and S. aureus to survive antibiotic treatment increased when they were grown together in planktonic cocultures and that antibiotic tolerance was further enhanced when they were grown together in the wound model. We attributed this enhanced tolerance to both the “host-derived” and “bacterium-derived” matrix components. Taken together, our data indicate that P. aeruginosa and S. aureus may benefit each other by coinfecting wounds and that the host-derived matrix may serve as important a role as the bacterium-derived matrix in protecting bacteria from some antibiotics.
Perceived justice in service recovery and switching intention: Evidence from Malaysian mobile telecommunication industry

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational justices on switching intentions.Design/methodology/approach – Data were gathered on distributive, procedural, interpersonal, informational justices and switching intentions by means of a survey from prepaid mobile subscribers in Malaysia.Findings – The results show that the effects of procedural justices on switching intentions were stronger than distributive and informational justices. However, the results did not indicate a significant relationship between interpersonal justice and switching intentions.Research limitations/implications – The paper examines only one service context; consequently, the results cannot be generalized for other services in the industry.Practical implications – The results of this study are useful for Malaysian marketing practitioners in the overly saturated and highly competitive mobile telecommunication industry.Originality/value – Unlike prev.
Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web

Industry and academia are both focusing their attention on information retrieval over semantic metadata extracted from the Web, and it is increasingly possible to analyze such metadata to discover interesting relationships. However, just as document ranking is a critical component in today's search engines, the ranking of complex relationships would be an important component in tomorrow's semantic Web engines. This article presents a flexible ranking approach to identify interesting and relevant relationships in the semantic Web. The authors demonstrate the scheme's effectiveness through an empirical evaluation over a real-world data set.
Cytomegalovirus in Solid Organ Transplantation

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a ubiquitousherpes virus that infects the majority of humans (1). The seroprevalence rates of CMV ranges from 30–97% (2,3). Primary infection manifests as an asymptomatic or self-limited febrile illness in immunocompetent individuals, after which CMV establishes life-long latency in various cells (2,3), which serve as reservoirs for reactivation and as carriers of infection to susceptible individuals (4,5).
DAEBAK!: Peripheral Diversity for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation

We introduce Peripheral Diversity (PD) as a knowledge-based approach to achieve multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). PD exploits the frequency and diverse use of word senses in semantic subgraphs derived from larger sense inventories such as BabelNet, Wikipedia, and WordNet in order to achieve WSD. PD’s f -measure scores for SemEval 2013 Task 12 outperform the Most Frequent Sense (MFS) baseline for two of the five languages: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Despite PD remaining under-developed and under-explored, it demonstrates that it is robust, competitive, and encourages development.
Men versus women on sexual brain function: Prominent differences during tactile genital stimulation, but not during orgasm

Biological differences in male and female sexuality are obvious in the behavioral domain, but the central mechanisms that might explain these behavioral gender differences remain unclear. In this study, we merged two earlier positron emission tomography data sets to enable systematic comparison of the brain responses in heterosexual men and women during sexual tactile genital (penile and clitoral) stimulation and during orgasm. Gender commonalities were most evident during orgasm, a phase which demonstrated activations in the anterior lobe of the cerebellar vermis and deep cerebellar nuclei, and deactivations in the left ventromedial and orbitofrontal cortex in both men and women. During tactile genital stimulation, deactivations in the right amygdala and left fusiform gyrus were found for both genders. Marked gender differences were seen during this phase: left fronto‐parietal areas (motor cortices, somatosensory area 2 and posterior parietal cortex) were activated more in women, whereas in men, the right claustrum and ventral occipitotemporal cortex showed larger activation. The only prominent gender difference during orgasm was male‐biased activation of the periaqueductal gray matter. From these results, we conclude that during the sexual act, differential brain responses across genders are principally related to the stimulatory (plateau) phase and not to the orgasmic phase itself. These results add to a better understanding of the neural underpinnings of human sexuality, which might benefit treatment of psychosexual disorders. Hum Brain Mapp 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Preparation, Structural Determination, and Characterization of Electronic Properties of Bis-Silylated and Bis-Germylated Lu3 N@Ih -C80.

Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) have been attracting much attention because of their fascinating structures, characteristics, and potentials for use in many applications. In a previous study, the addition of silylenes to Lu3N@Ih-C80 produced mono-silylated adducts, which showed remarkable redox properties as potential organic photovoltaic acceptor materials. This result prompted us to examine the effects of bis-silylation and bis-germylation on the properties of Lu3N@Ih-C80.
Abstraction relations between internal and behavioural agent models for collective decision making

For agent-based modelling of collective phenomena individual agent behaviours can be modelled either from an agent-internal perspective, in the form of relations involving internal states of the agent, or from an agent-external, behavioural perspective, in the form of input-output relations for the agent, abstracting from internal states. Illustrated by a case study on collective decision making, this paper addresses how the two types of agent models can be related to each other. First an internal agent model for collective decision making is presented, based on neurological principles. It is shown how by an automated systematic transformation a behavioural model can be obtained, abstracting from the internal states. In addition, an existing behavioural agent model for collective decision making incorporating principles on social diffusion is described. It is shown under which conditions and how by an interpretation mapping the obtained abstracted behavioural agent model can be related to this existing behavioural agent model for collective decision making.
A Neural Model of Perceptual-Motor Alignment

Sensorimotor systems face complex and frequent discrepancies among spatial modalities, for example, growth, optical distortion, and telemanipulation. Adaptive mechanisms must act continuously to restore perceptual-motor alignments necessary for perception of a coherent world. Experimental manipulations that exposed participants to localized discrepancies showed that adaptation is revealed by the acquisition of a constrained relation between entire modalities rather than associations between individual exemplars within these modalities. The computational problem faced by the human nervous system can thus be conceived as having to induce constrained relations between continuous stimulus and response dimensions from ambiguous or incomplete training sets, that is, performing interpolation and extrapolation. How biological neuronal networks solve this problem is unknown. Here we show that neural processing based on linear collective computation and least-square (LS) error learning in populations of frequency-coded neurons (i.e., whose discharge varies in a monotonic fashion with a parameter) has built-in interpolation and extrapolation capacities. This model can account for the properties of perceptual-motor adaptations in sensorimotor systems.
Whey protein hydrolysate augments tendon and muscle hypertrophy independent of resistance exercise contraction mode

In a comparative study, we investigated the effects of maximal eccentric or concentric resistance training combined with whey protein or placebo on muscle and tendon hypertrophy. 22 subjects were allocated into either a high‐leucine whey protein hydrolysate + carbohydrate group (WHD) or a carbohydrate group (PLA). Subjects completed 12 weeks maximal knee extensor training with one leg using eccentric contractions and the other using concentric contractions. Before and after training cross‐sectional area (CSA) of m. quadriceps and patellar tendon CSA was quantified with magnetic resonance imaging and a isometric strength test was used to assess maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) and rate of force development (RFD). Quadriceps CSA increased by 7.3 ± 1.0% (P < 0.001) in WHD and 3.4 ± 0.8% (P < 0.01) in PLA, with a greater increase in WHD compared to PLA (P < 0.01). Proximal patellar tendon CSA increased by 14.9 ± 3.1% (P < 0.001) and 8.1 ± 3.2% (P = 0.054) for WHD and PLA, respectively, with a greater increase in WHD compared to PLA (P < 0.05), with no effect of contraction mode. MVC and RFD increased by 15.6 ± 3.5% (P < 0.001) and 12–63% (P < 0.05), respectively, with no group or contraction mode effects. In conclusion, high‐leucine whey protein hydrolysate augments muscle and tendon hypertrophy following 12 weeks of resistance training – irrespective of contraction mode.
To think or not to think?: A new perspective on optimal consumer decision making

OF DISSERTATION TO THINK OR NOT TO THINK? : A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON OPTIMAL CONSUMER DECISION MAKING This research introduces a new theoretical perspective (termed the Adaptive Processing Perspective) that reexamines how consumers should think before making decisions and the optimal outcomes that result. New insights into conscious (“careful deliberation”), unconscious (“sleeping on it”), and intuitive (“going with your gut”) thought processes are provided. Across four studies, empirical evidence demonstrates that consumers can make significantly better decisions by thinking more about routine choices, using their intuition for occasional purchase decisions, and distracting themselves before making major purchase decisions. Specifically, in study 1, increased conscious thought optimized routine decision making due to increases in openness to information. In study 2, consumers using intuition optimized an occasional purchase decision by focusing attention on relevant information. Study 3 demonstrated unconscious thought to be optimal for consumers when making a major purchase decision via their engagement in associative processing. Lastly, study 4 provided further support for the Adaptive Processing Perspective by manipulating the decision setting (i.e., routine, limited, extensive) across a common product and replicating the earlier study results. Several theoretical and practical advances to the domains of information processing and consumer decision making are offered and discussed.
Adult psychopathology and diagnosis

Part I Overview Chapter 1 Mental Disorders as Discrete Clinical Conditions: Dimensional Versus Categorical Classification (Thomas A. Widiger and Whitney L. Gore) Chapter 2 The Problem of Dual Diagnosis (Melanie E. Bennett, Jason Peer, and Selvija Gjonbalaj-Marovic) Chapter 3 Structured and Semistructured Interviews for Differential Diagnosis: Fundamentals, Applications, and Essential Features (Daniel L. Segal, Anne E. Mueller, & Frederick L. Coolidge) Chapter 4 Impact of Race and Ethnicity on the Expression, Assessment, and Diagnosis of Psychopathology (Susan Tinsley Li, Sandra Jenkins, and Sophia Grewal) Part II Specific Disorders Chapter 5 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders ("Neurocognitive Disorders") (Gerald Goldstein) Chapter 6 Substance-Related Disorders: Alcohol (Eric F. Wagner, Michelle M. Hospital, Mark B. Sobell, and Linda C. Sobell) Chapter 7 Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders: Drugs (Stacey B. Daughters, Jordana L. Hemberg, & Jessica M. Richards) Chapter 8 Schizophrenia (Dennis R. Combs, Kim T. Mueser, and Marisela M. Gutierrez) Chapter 9 Mood Disorders: Depressive Disorders (Leilani Feliciano and Patricia A. Arean) Chapter 10 Bipolar Disorder (David J. Miklowitz and Sheri L. Johnson) Chapter 11 Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Specific Phobias (David P. Valentiner and Thomas A. Fergus) Chapter 12 Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Daniel Conybeare and Evelyn Behar) Chapter 13 Somatoform Disorders (Gordon J. G. Asmundson, Michel A. Thibodeau, and Daniel L. Peluso) Chapter 14 Dissociative Disorders (Steven Jay Lynn, Joanna Berg, Scott Lilienfeld, Harald Merckelbach, Timo Giesbrecht, Michelle Accardi, and Colleen Cleere) Chapter 15 Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias (Lori A. Brotto and Carolin Klein) Chapter 16 Gender Identity Disorders (Anne A. Lawrence and Kenneth J. Zucker) Chapter 17 Eating Disorders (Cynthia M. Bulik, Sara E. Trace, and Suzanne E. Mazzeo) Chapter 18 Personality Disorders (Christopher J. Hopwood and Katherine M. Thomas) Chapter 19 Sleep Disorders (Thomas W. Uhde, Bernadette Cortese, and Andrei Vedeniapin)
Consistent query answers in inconsistent databases

In this paper we consider the problem of the logical characterization of the notion of consistent answer in a relational database that may violate given integrity constraints. This notion is captured in terms of the possible repaired versions of the database. A method for computing consistent answers is given and its soundness and completeness (for some classes of constraints and queries) proved. The method is based on an iterative procedure whose termination for several classes of constraints is proved as well.
Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Practice: Changes in Family Treatment Court Norms Over Time

Family treatment court (FTC) is an example of an increasing number of problem‐centered courts currently operating in the United States. Problem‐centered courts such as FTC encompass the ideas of therapeutic jurisprudence but operate within the broader court system. Presented are the results of an FTC case study that seeks to understand the evolution of courtroom norms and practice over time. Observations of courtroom interactions and interviews with courtroom personnel show that initial observations are consistent with the ideals of therapeutic jurisprudence. However, over time, daily demands and pressures on the courtroom undermine the therapeutic approach.
Interspecies considerations in the evaluation of human food safety for veterinary drugs

Residues are composed of the parent drug and metabolites, and therefore interspecies comparisons must involve a consideration of comparative xenobiotic metabolism. The focus of this article will be the residue studies that are required to establish human food safety, and the interspecies pharmacokinetic differences and similarities that impact drug residues in animal- derived foods. To illustrate the factors that can complicate and assist these comparisons, 2 drugs will be examined in detail: ivermectin and fenbendazole. In addition, the activities of 2 US programs, the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) and the NRSP-7 (National Research Support Project Number 7) Minor Use Animal Drug Program will be presented, along with strategies that may be employed in the study of species differences.