Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
‘Knowing what it means to be Irish’: experience as practice in the advertising industry

This article derives from sociological research examining practitioners in the Irish advertising industry. Drawing from interviews with workers in this field, I examine how Irish advertising practitioners have co-opted the ‘idiom of identity’, enabling them to speak with greater confidence and in more emotionally compelling ways about advertising audiences, to humanize business strategy and to operationalize personal biographical experience in production. This article focuses on the ways Irish advertising practitioners describe their work and their understandings of Irishness in the context of a globalized Ireland and draws attention to what I describe as a ‘discursive affinity’ between cultural identity and professional acumen in the accounts of these workers. In concentrating on their valorizing of innate ‘knowing’, and drawing especially on the work of Foucault, this article attempts to explain why Irish advertising practitioners regard their own life experience as practice.
The 5‐HT4 receptor levels in hippocampus correlates inversely with memory test performance in humans

The cerebral serotonin (5‐HT) system is involved in cognitive functions such as memory and learning and animal studies have repeatedly shown that stimulation of the 5‐HT type 4 receptor (5‐HT4R) facilitates memory and learning and further that the 5‐HT4R modulates cellular memory processes in hippocampus. However, any associations between memory functions and the expression of the 5‐HT4R in the human hippocampus have not been investigated. Using positron emission tomography with the tracer [11C]SB207145 and Reys Auditory Verbal Learning Test we aimed to examine the individual variation of the 5‐HT4R binding in hippocampus in relation to memory acquisition and consolidation in healthy young volunteers. We found significant, negative associations between the immediate recall scores and left and right hippocampal BPND, (p = 0.009 and p = 0.010 respectively) and between the right hippocampal BPND and delayed recall (p = 0.014). These findings provide evidence that the 5‐HT4R is associated with memory functions in the human hippocampus and potentially pharmacological stimulation of the receptor may improve episodic memory. Hum Brain Mapp 34:3066–3074, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Negotiating the Polycentric City-region: Developmental State Politics of New Town Development in the Seoul Capital Region

This study seeks to distinguish patterns and processes of contemporary urbanisation in the east Asian context by investigating contemporary developments at the edge of the Seoul capital city over the past two decades. Through the analytical angle of local politics, the aim is to examine the nature, driving forces and outcomes of these new town developments in the context of South Korean urbanisation through the case of the Pangyo new town development. It is argued that a new form of governance with regard to city-region formation is gradually emerging, while the state still holds significant institutional power and policy tools in the context of new town development. This study utilises triangulation techniques that employ multiple methods of observations, such as interviewing (informal, formal and semi-formal), listening, document analysis and site visits.
Wireless multimedia sensor and actuator system: A necessary public security and safety testbed for an urban emergency preparedness class of applications

This talk will consist in an overview about the majore search projects related to wireless multimedia, context aware computing and wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, distributed and collaborative virtual environment, which we are currently investigating at PARADISE Research Laboratory, uOttawa. Next, we shall focus upon the design of large-scale distributed and mobile system for critical conditions monitoring class of applications using both location/context aware computing and wireless multimedia sensor and actor technologies. Then, we shall focus upon the security and localization problems in mobile and wireless multimedia sensor networks. Finally, if time permits, we will talk about LIVE testbed, a convergence of Wireless sensors, wireless multimedia and virtual environment technologies we are developing at PARADISE Research Laboratory for an emergency preparedness and response class of applications as well as SWiMNet, a high performance testbed we have developed which allows very detailed and realistic model specifications. It will facilitate and enable us to evaluate and design new protocols and applications for future generations of wireless sensor and vehicular network technologies.
RNA Sequence Reveals Mouse Retinal Transcriptome Changes Early after Axonal Injury

Glaucoma is an ocular disease characterized by progressive retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death caused by axonal injury. However, the underlying mechanisms involved in RGC death remain unclear. In this study, we investigated changes in the transcriptome profile following axonal injury in mice (C57BL/6) with RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology. The experiment group underwent an optic nerve crush (ONC) procedure to induce axonal injury in the right eye, and the control group underwent a sham procedure. Two days later, we extracted the retinas and performed RNA-seq and a pathway analysis. We identified 177 differentially expressed genes with RNA-seq, notably the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-related genes Atf3, Atf4, Atf5, Chac1, Chop, Egr1 and Trb3, which were significantly upregulated. The pathway analysis revealed that ATF4 was the most significant upstream regulator. The antioxidative response-related genes Hmox1 and Srxn1, as well as the immune response-related genes C1qa, C1qb and C1qc, were also significantly upregulated. To our knowledge, this is the first reported RNA-seq investigation of the retinal transcriptome and molecular pathways in the early stages after axonal injury. Our results indicated that ER stress plays a key role under these conditions. Furthermore, the antioxidative defense and immune responses occurred concurrently in the early stages after axonal injury. We believe that our study will lead to a better understanding of and insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying RGC death after axonal injury.
Using Temporal Information in Collaborative Filtering: An Empirical Study

Collaborative filtering is a widely used and proven method of building recommender systems that provide personalized recommendations on products or services based on explicit ratings from users. Recommendation accuracy becomes an important factor in some e-commerce environments (such as a mobile environment as a result of limited connection time and device size). As user preferences change over time, temporal information can improve recommendation accuracy. In this paper, we present a variety of temporal information and investigate how such temporal information affects the accuracy of collaborative filtering-based recommender systems. The temporal information includes item launch time, user buying time, the time difference between the two, as well as several combinations of these three types of temporal information. We conducted several experiments on a collaborative filtering system for recommending character images (wallpapers) in a mobile e-commerce environment. Empirical results show that the effectiveness of temporal information depends on the type of items and the user group of a given e-commerce environment. Our findings give insights on how to incorporate temporal information to maximize the efficiency of collaborative filtering in various e-commerce environments.
Multi Sensor Fusion in Robot Assembly Using Particle Filters

In this paper, we present a new method for sensor fusion in robot assembly. In our approach, model information can be derived automatically from CAD-data. We introduce force torque maps, which are either computed automatically exploiting modern graphical processors or are measured by scanning forces and torques during contact motions. Subsequently, force torque maps are applied as model information during execution of real assembly tasks. Also, computer vision is included by comparing relative poses of features in virtual images with their real relative poses given from measured images. For fusion of these two (or more) different sensors we suggest to use particle filters. Experiments with variations of peg in hole tasks in a real work cell demonstrate our new approach to be very useful for the whole process chain from planning to execution.
The Effects of an Animal-Assisted Intervention on Salivary Alpha-Amylase, Salivary Immunoglobulin A, and Heart Rate during Forensic Interviews in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

ABSTRACT Animal-assisted invention (AAI) in gaining attention as a therapeutic modality; however, the effect of it has not been well studied in the child welfare system. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of AAI on stress indicators (as measured by salivary alpha-amylase (sAA), immunoglobulin A (IgA), and heart rate) in children undergoing forensic interviews for alleged sexual abuse. A repeated measures design was used in this study. Upon receiving signed, informed consents and assents, children were enrolled in the study. Children (n = 42), whose ages ranged from 5 to 14 years (M = 8.91, SD = 2.33), were assigned to either the intervention condition (n = 19; AAI during forensic interview) or the control condition (n = 23; standard practice forensic interview). Each child's parent/guardian completed a demographic form, and saliva samples and heart rate measures were obtained from each child before and after the forensic interview. Mixed linear models were tested, with the level of significance set at p ≤ 0.05. There was an interactive effect regarding the duration of the interview and the presence of the dog on sAA after the forensic interview (p = 0.047). There also was a significant interaction between age and length of interview (p = 0.01). Salivary immunoglobulin A tended to be lower (p = 0.055) when the therapy dog was present during the forensic interview. Results further indicated that the drop in heart rate was greater in longer interviews and with older children (p = 0.02) when the dog was present. Individuals working in child welfare systems can use the results of this study to advocate for the use of therapy dogs as a therapeutic intervention. More research is needed to further examine the relationships among AAI, salivary biomarkers, and stress responses in children to improve child welfare.
Leveraging diversity in evolutionary algorithms using a population injection method

In this paper, we present a new, computationally inexpensive method for preventing premature convergence in multimodal evolutionary algorithms by population injection. Our method avoids the premature convergence of the population around one or multiple local optima by maintaining an adequate amount of genetic diversity. The technique does not require any setup or maintenance effort during runtime as is the case for other proposed techniques addressing the same issue (e.g., island, cellular, or diffusion model EAs as population models or specific operators for increasing genetic diversity in mutation and recombination). We present experimental results comparing a (μ, λ) EA using our method, which has been named population injection evolutionary algorithm (PI-EA), against cellular EA and classical (μ,λ) EA for some standard benchmark functions. In the results it can be observed that applying population injection improves the results produced by (μ, λ) EAs for all benchmarks under consideration, in one case even up to 59%.
Women's Emotions Towards The Mobile Phone

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether women's emotions associate differently with the mobile phone depending on the type of family in which they live. James A. Russell's circumplex model of affect which explores four main emotional dimensions, excitement, distress, depression and contentment, was applied. The article is based on the female sub-sample (N = 3,704) of nationally representative survey data collected from Italy, France, the UK, Germany and Spain (N = 7,255) in 2009. The results show that it is women living in blended families who seem to associate more distress and less feelings of contentment with the mobile phone than women living in other types of family.
Zero phase sequence voltage injection for the alternate arm converter

The Alternate Arm Converter (AAC) is a voltage source converter being developed as an alternative to the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) for HVDC power transmission and reactive power compensation. Each Arm of the converter contains high voltage series IGBT Director Switches and full-bridge cells, which enables the VSC to ride through AC and DC network faults. This paper describes how the AAC can be optimised by modulating the converter terminal voltages with zero-phase sequence triplen harmonic components. The optimisation reduces the ratio of the number of the full-bridge cells compared to the simpler Director Switches which offers a valuable improvement in footprint and efficiency.
Continuous and Prolonged Intravenous β-Lactam Dosing: Implications for the Clinical Laboratory

SUMMARY Beta-lactam antibiotics serve as a cornerstone in the management of bacterial infections because of their wide spectrum of activity and low toxicity. Since resistance rates among bacteria are continuously on the rise and the pipeline for new antibiotics does not meet this trend, an optimization of current beta-lactam treatment is needed. This review provides an overview of optimization through use of prolonged- and continuous-infusion dosing strategies compared with more traditional intermittent infusions. Included is an overview of the scientific basis for using these nontraditional prolonged- and continuous-infusion-based regimens, with a focus on major areas in which the clinical laboratory can support the clinical use of these regimens.
C‐peptide enhances insulin‐mediated cell growth and protection against high glucose–induced apoptosis in SH‐SY5Y cells

We have previously reported that C‐peptide exerts preventive and therapeutic effects on diabetic neuropathy in type 1 diabetic BB/Wor‐rats and that it prevents duration‐dependent hippocampal apoptosis in the same animal model. In the present study, we examined human neuroblastoma SH‐SY5Y cells to examine whether C‐peptide stimulates cell proliferation/neurite outgrowth and whether it has antiapoptotic effects.
Distances between couples and the man's and woman's parents

Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, we investigate the influence of characteristics of the male and female partner in couples and their parents on the distance between the residential location of the couple and of both partners' parents. We find that couples live closer to the man's parents than to the woman's parents. We conclude that the socio-economic position of the man is more dominant in the location choice of couples than that of the woman, but that when the couple has young children, the family ties of the woman seem to gain importance.
The influence of induced positive affect and design experience on aesthetic responses to new product designs

This experiment found that positive affect, induced by a gift of a small bag of candy (not consumed), enhanced ratings of the visual appeal of a set of six digital cameras by male participants untrained and trained in principles of design theory, as compared to control groups who did not receive candy (N=10 per group). The number of participants' reactions to the cameras' features, the affective quality of their reactions (positive, negative, or neutral), and the time taken to evaluate each camera were obtained from participants' "think aloud" procedure verbalizations recorded as they examined each camera. Analyses of these cognitive process measures revealed that, consistent with the Affect Infusion Model proposed by Forgas (1995), training in design differentially influenced the cognitive processing styles responsible for positive affect's influence on the judgments; design students engaged in substantive processing whereas untrained students employed heuristic processing to arrive at their ratings. Results demonstrate that induced positive affect can influence aesthetic evaluative judgments, a heretofore neglected aspect of cognition in the literature describing the effects of induced mood on behavior.
High Performance Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigger Word Information

We describe and experimentally evaluate an efficient method for automatically determining small clause boundaries in spontaneous speech. Our method applies an artificial neural network to information about part of speech and trigger words.We find that with a limited amount of data (less than 2500 words for the training set), a small sliding context window (+/-3 tokens) and only two hidden units, the neural net performs extremely well on this task: less than 5% error rate and F-score (combined precision and recall) of over . 85 on unseen data.These results prove to be better than those reported earlier using different approaches.
Who will Help in Situations of Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring Personal Attitudes and Bystander Behaviours

Intimate partner violence (IPV) continues to be a problem within society, with many studies focusing on general attitudes toward violence against women as a gauge of positive societal change in this area. To investigate whether individual personal attitudes toward violence against women were predictive of prosocial bystander behaviours in situations of IPV, 157 Australian community members completed an online survey. This survey investigated the factors of bystander intention, bystander self-efficacy, general and privacy attitudes toward violence against women, fear of intervening and the effects/impact of psychological abuse as predictors of willingness to intervene in IPV situations. Bystander intention, self-efficacy and gender were significantly associated with willingness to intervene, whilst respondent's attitudes toward violence against women was not. The implications of these findings for promoting social control and bystander intervention in situations of IPV are discussed.
The Dual Regimes of Digital Innovation Management

The pervasive integration of digital technology in traditionally physical products such as cars, heat pumps, and washing machines calls for revisiting the received innovation literature. To this end, this paper presents a competing logic framework for understanding digital technology in product innovation management. In doing this, we derive two idealized innovation regimes by distinguishing and assessing two broad streams of innovation research across the dimensions of organizing logic, market dynamics, and architectural design. Recognizing and elaborating inherent tensions between product innovation and IT innovation, the framework identifies a range of new challenges with implications for digital innovation management research and practice.
To what extent the network affects DFSs ?

I. INTRODUCTION Providing an infinite capacity of computing power to efficiently process a huge amount of data is an old objective of Computer Science. The prevalent solution consists in using a large computing facility where a Distributed File System (DFS) enables users to share files throughout the nodes composing the infrastructure. Although several contributions have been done since the first proposals [1], the design of DFSs has not really evolved and modern solutions such as Lustre [2], GoogleFS [3] and HDFS [4] have all been built on the metadata and I/O servers (or datanodes) model. In such systems, files are divided into chunks spread across distinct I/O servers and a metadata server is used to maintain the locality of each chunk. Unfortunately, with the increasing amount of data that modern applications manipulate as well as the way of accessing them, the single metadata model is no more satisfying [5]. Following former proposals such as Ceph [6], a promising model consists in balancing the management of both data and metadata across several nodes lever-aging pre-defined distribution strategies. Although these systems push forward the limits in terms of scalability and performance, they are still not considering the network traffic inherent to their internal structure as a fundamental concern. From our point of view, the design of DFSs should take into account the infrastructure's physical topology in order to limit expensive network communications as much as possible. To have more reference data and better understanding of the impact of the network traffic, we conducted several experiments upon the Grid'5000 testbed 1 and discussed the results. The questions we put forward are: • Why " local scope " applications should suffer the penalty of external server communications in charge of managing either data or metadata? • Why data should be pushed over the network if it will be used by local nodes or simply deprecated by the end of the applications execution? • Why data has to be pushed from one location to another instead of using a on-demand pulling model? • Should all data have the same level of reliability and how ensure availability minimizing network traffic? Our ultimate objective is to propose a new model of DFS that intrinsically reduce the exchanges related to the DFS to the minimal needs of each application.
Knowledge and its Integrity Within a Knowledge Economy: Ethics and Wise Social Research

Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the roles of ethics and wisdom in knowledge economies and specifically the place of ethics and wisdom in social research in knowledge economies. Approach – It does this through examining traditional theories of ethics, their application in the context of research ethics, and the origins of the current institutional ethics approval regimes. The limitations of consequentialist and deontological approaches to ethics in social research are articulated, as is the rise of neo Aristotelian virtue ethics – to which wisdom is integral. Questions are posed about several high-profile cases of past social research, and the extent to which these might be considered both unethical and unwise. Attention is then given to the place of wisdom in the practice of social research. Aristotle presents practical wisdom as an executive virtue that coherently integrates intellectual and ethical virtues to create deliberative excellence. Findings – Practical wisdom is thus seen as a way of performing as an educated, skilled, and ethical social actor with carefully constructed predispositions which automatically seek excellence and well-being. Furthermore, a wise social researcher considers the needs of others carefully to try to find the right thing to do, but in understanding others emotionally, intellectually, or otherwise, is not manipulative. The conclusion poses the question as to how practical wisdom might be developed applied to the practices of contemporary social research.