Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Examining Cultural Intelligence and Cross-Cultural Negotiation Effectiveness

International negotiation failures are often linked to deficiencies in negotiator cross-cultural capabilities, including limited understanding of the cultures engaged in the transaction, an inability to communicate with persons from different cultural backgrounds, and limited behavioral flexibility to adapt to culturally unfamiliar contexts. Although management educators are concerned about developing students’ cross-cultural capabilities, there exists very little empirical research demonstrating the impact of such abilities on negotiation performance. To address this limitation while advancing research on the development of cross-cultural capabilities, we examined the impact of cultural intelligence (CQ) on cross-cultural negotiation performance. Using assessment center and consensus rating methodologies, 113 fully employed MBA students participated in a negotiation exercise designed to underscore key cultural differences with respect to both negotiation style and substantive issues. Controlling for prior negotiation and international experiences, personality (openness to change and extraversion), and emotional intelligence, our results demonstrated that CQ predicted negotiation performance while interest-based negotiation behaviors partially mediated the CQ–negotiation performance relationship. CQ capabilities facilitated negotiators’ ability to demonstrate cooperative, interest-based negotiation behaviors in a negotiation context that demanded behavioral adaptation. We conclude by discussing a series of practical implications for management educators and suggestions for future CQ research.
Genome-Wide Survey and Expression Analysis of the Plant-Specific NAC Transcription Factor Family in Soybean During Development and Dehydration Stress

Plant-specific NAC transcription factors (TFs) play important roles in regulating diverse biological processes, including development, senescence, growth, cell division and responses to environmental stress stimuli. Within the soybean genome, we identified 152 full-length GmNAC TFs, including 11 membrane-bound members. In silico analysis of the GmNACs, together with their Arabidopsis and rice counterparts, revealed similar NAC architecture. Next, we explored the soybean Affymetrix array and Illumina transcriptome sequence data to analyse tissue-specific expression profiles of GmNAC genes. Phylogenetic analysis using stress-related NAC TFs from Arabidopsis and rice as seeding sequences identified 58 of the 152 GmNACs as putative stress-responsive genes, including eight previously reported dehydration-responsive GmNACs. We could design gene-specific primers for quantitative real-time PCR verification of 38 out of 50 newly predicted stress-related genes. Twenty-five and six GmNACs were found to be induced and repressed 2-fold or more, respectively, in soybean roots and/or shoots in response to dehydration. GmNAC085, whose amino acid sequence was 39%; identical to that of well-known SNAC1/ONAC2, was the most induced gene upon dehydration, showing 390-fold and 20-fold induction in shoots and roots, respectively. Our systematic analysis has identified excellent tissue-specific and/or dehydration-responsive candidate GmNAC genes for in-depth characterization and future development of improved drought-tolerant transgenic soybeans.
Comprehensive multiprocessor cache miss rate generation using multivariate models

This article presents a technique for taking a sparse set of cache simulation data and fitting a multivariate model to fill in the missing points over a broad region of cache configurations. We extend previous work by its applicability to multiple miss rate components and its ability to model a wide range of cache parameters, including size, associativity and sharing. Miss rate models are useful for broad design exploration in which many cache configurations cannot be simulated directly due to limitations of trace collection setups or available resources. We show the effectiveness of the technique by applying it to two commercial workloads and presenting miss rate data for a broad design space with cache size, associativity, sharing and number of processors as variables. The fitted data match the simulation data very well. The various curves show how a miss rate model is useful for not only estimating the performance of specific configurations, but also for providing insight into miss rate trends. Furthermore, this modeling methodology is robust in the presence of corrupted simulation data and variations in simulation data from multiple sources.
The Role of Xhosa in a South African Prison: 'The Situation is Leading You'

This article reports on a study which investigated the role and status of Xhosa in a prison located in Grahamstown, a large town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Xhosa, an indigenous African language, and the most widely spoken language in the region, is one of several used for communicative purposes in the prison. The development and promotion of African languages and the promotion of multilingualism in South Africa are two of the main aims stated in the language-related clauses in the country's constitution and also in numerous language-policy documents. The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which members of the prison were aware of these policies, especially with regard to the role and status of Xhosa. It provides a description of the language use patterns which have been implemented in the form of an ad hoc policy by those in the prison in order to solve communication problems. The findings indicate that Xhosa is widely spoken in the prison, by both staff and prisoners, but that its use is limited to informal, non-work-related contexts. English, on the other hand, is used as a lingua franca in the prison in most 'official' situations and during interactions which involve interlocutors who speak different languages. It appears, therefore, that English functions as the 'thread' language in the prison, while Xhosa remains the informal, context-bound choice.
Designing A Novel Selective, Fast and Efficient Encryption Scheme For HEVC Video Sequences

Emerging High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is expected to be widely adopted in network applications for high definition devices and mobile terminals. Thus, construction of HEVC's encryption schemes that maintain format compliance and bit rate of encrypted bit stream becomes an active security's researches area. This paper presents a novel selective encryption technique for HEVC videos, based on enciphering the bins of selected Golomb-Rice code's suffixes with the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in a CBC operating mode. The scheme preserves format compliance and size of the encrypted HEVC bit stream, and provides high visual degradation with optimized encryption space defined by selected Golomb-Rice suffixes. Experimental results show reliability and robustness of the proposed technique.
All Stars Plus: A Competence and Motivation Enhancement Approach to Prevention.

All Stars Core is a school‐based drug abuse prevention program for 11 to 14 year olds from the United States. It focuses on five qualities that protect children from drug use: viewing drug use as uncommon and unacceptable to the peer group (norms); viewing drug use as interfering with future goals; commitment to avoid drug use; positive attention from parents; and feeling accepted at school. All Star Plus was recently developed with the goal of expanding the Core program to include the development of three competencies: goal setting, decision making, and skills to resist peer pressure resistance. Students either received All Stars Core, All Stars Plus, or were assigned to the non‐treated control group. Both programs outperformed the control group; however, All Stars Plus was more effective in preventing drug use than All Stars Core. All Stars Plus was found to reduce alcohol use, drunkenness, cigarette smoking, marijuana use, and inhalant use. The Plus program appeared to have achieved these outcomes by improving norms, increasing persistence in pursuing goals, and by increasing attention from parents.
Middle Voice in Otomi1

In this article, I claim that Otomi has a nasal morpheme that serves as an exponent of middle voice. My data come from the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec, but a similar phenomenon can be observed in other dialects, so that the claims made here could be extended to Otomi as a diasystem. The study is based on a sample of 72 verbs that display the middle morpheme, a sample intended as a quantitative reference for the qualitative patterns found in the language. About two‐thirds of the verbs in this sample still show traces of lexical derivation. However, the derivative process has become unproductive and most middle verbs in Otomi function as independent units in the lexicon, showing just a morphological connection to their source verbs. My sample also contains cases where the source of the derivation was difficult, if not impossible, to reconstruct.
Hierarchical Sensor Network Routing : A Survey

Wireless sensor network are becomes more popular now in these days due to their adaptability in indoor as well as outdoor communication systems. In this presented paper provides the detailed description about the WSN network and their relative application, in addition of that this paper provide the previously made efforts on routing in WSN networks. Routing is working as backbone for any communication network thus data in a network travels on the basis of routing guidelines, this paper provide the information of routing techniques that are supportable with WSN network and also we provide the future proposed work under optimization of routing path discovery. Keywords—Routing, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Route Optimization, Route discovery, Cluster Heads.
Parallel implementation of prime-factor discrete cosine transform on the orthogonal multiprocessor

The authors propose parallel implementation of prime-factor discrete cosine transform (DCT) on the orthogonal-multiprocessor (OMP) architecture when the transform size N can be decomposed into two mutually prime members N=N/sub 1/N/sub 2/. The implementation shows that the existing prime-factor DCT algorithm can be mapped easily on the OMP architecture without modification. The proposed algorithms include input index mapping, summation, scaling, adjust rotation, and output index mapping. The time complexity of the algorithm is O(N/sub 1/+N/sub 2/) on a J processor OMP, where J is the maximum dimension of Winograd-Hartley scaling matrices. >
Towards a model-driven approach for promoting cloud PaaS portability

Cloud computing has the potential to revolutionize the way systems are developed and marketed. The cloud has become an important research subject in software engineering nowadays. Among the many research gaps related to this new computing model is the lack of portability between cloud platforms, which generates the Data Lock-In. The Data Lock-In is the difficulty in migrating data and applications from a cloud platform to another. This work presents a model-driven approach for promoting cloud portability, in the context of PaaS (Platform as a Service). The initial results indicate that the use of MDE in cloud computing can facilitate cloud adoption, as well as the migration between the different platforms offered in the market.
Improved Crosstalk Reduction on Multiview 3D Display by Using BILS Algorithm

In multiview three-dimensional (3D) displays, crosstalk is one of the most annoying artefacts degrading the quality of the 3D image. In this paper, we present a system-introduced crosstalk measurement method and derive an improved crosstalk reduction method. The proposed measurement method is applied to measure the exact crosstalk among subpixels corresponding to different view images and the obtained results are very effective for crosstalk reduction method. Furthermore, an improved crosstalk reduction method is proposed to alleviate crosstalk by searching for the optimal integral intensity values of subpixels on the synthetic image. The derived algorithm based on modified Schnorr-Euchner strategy is implemented to seek the optimal solution to this box-constrained integer least squares (BILS) problem, such that the Euclidean distance between solution and its target decreases substantially. The method we develop is applicable to both multiview 3D parallax barrier displays and multiview 3D lenticular displays. Both simulation and experimental results indicate that the derived method is capable of improving 3D image quality more effectively than the existing method on multiview 3D displays.
Factor VIII activation by factor VIIa analog (V158D/E296V/M298Q) in tissue factor-independent mechanisms

Summary Factor (F)VIIa with tissue factor (TF) is a primary trigger of blood coagulation. The recombinant (r)FVIIa analog, NN1731 (V158D/E296V/ M298Q) containing a thrombin/FIXa-mimicking catalytic domain, is ~30-fold more effective on activated platelets without TF, but ~1.2-fold with TF, than rFVIIa for FX activation. We have recently demonstrated the FVIIa/TF-dependent FVIII activation in the early coagulation phase. We assessed the action of NN1731 on FVIII activation. NN1731/TF increased FVIII activity ~2.9-fold within 30 seconds, followed by rapid inactivation, and was slightly more active than rFVIIa/TF. NN1731-catalysed activation, however, was enhanced ~6-fold at 5 minutes (min), and its peak level persisted for ~30 min. NN1731/TF proteolysed FVIII at Arg740, Arg372, and Arg336, similar to rFVIIa/TF, but cleavage by NN1731 alone was much slower at Arg336 than at Arg740 and Arg372. The Km and Vmax for NN1731/TF-catalysed activation were ~1.8-fold lower and ~2.3-fold greater than rFVIIa/TF. The Km for NN1731 alone was ~1.3-fold lower than rFVIIa, whilst the Vmax was ~7.9-fold greater, indicating that the efficiency of FVIII activation by NN1731 and NN1731/TF was ~11- and ~4-fold greater, respectively, than equivalent reactions with rFVIIa. In SPR-based assays, NN1731 bound to FVIII and the heavy chain (Kd; 0.62 and 1.9 nM) with ~1.4- and ~3.1-fold higher affinity than rFVIIa, and the A2 domain contributed to this increase. Von Willebrand factor moderated NN1731-catalysed activation more significantly than NN1731/TF. In conclusion, NN1731 was a greater potential than rFVIIa in up-regulating FVIII activity, and the TF-independent FVIII activation might represent a potential extra mode of its enhanced haemostatic effect.
Optical flow estimation with adaptive convolution kernel prior on discrete framework

We present a new energy model for optical flow estimation on discrete MRF framework. The proposed model yields discrete analog to the prevailing model with diffusion tensor-based regularizer, which has been optimized by variational approach. Inspired from the fact that the regularization process works as a convolution kernel filtering, we formulate the difference between original flow and filtered flow as a smoothness prior. Then the discrete framework enables us to employ a robust penalizer less concerning convexity and differentiability of the energy function. In addition, we provide a new kernel design based on the bilateral filter, adaptively controlling intensity variance according to the local statistics. The proposed kernel simultaneously addresses over-segmentation and over-smoothing problems, which is hard to achieve by tuning parameters. Involving a complex graph structure with large label sets, this work also presents a strategy to efficiently reduce memory requirement and computational time to a tolerable state. Experimental result shows the proposed method yields plausible results on the various data sets including large displacement and textured region.
T cells translate individual, quantal activation into collective, analog cytokine responses via time-integrated feedbacks

Variability within isogenic T cell populations yields heterogeneous ‘local’ signaling responses to shared antigenic stimuli, but responding clones may communicate ‘global’ antigen load through paracrine messengers, such as cytokines. Such coordination of individual cell responses within multicellular populations is critical for accurate collective reactions to shared environmental cues. However, cytokine production may saturate as a function of antigen input, or be dominated by the precursor frequency of antigen-specific T cells. Surprisingly, we found that T cells scale their collective output of IL-2 to total antigen input over a large dynamic range, independently of population size. Through experimental quantitation and computational modeling, we demonstrate that this scaling is enforced by an inhibitory cross-talk between antigen and IL-2 signaling, and a nonlinear acceleration of IL-2 secretion per cell. Our study reveals how time-integration of these regulatory loops within individual cell signaling generates scaled collective responses and can be leveraged for immune monitoring. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.7554/eLife.01944. 001
Dynamically maintaining configurations in the plane (Detailed Abstract)

For a number of common configurations of points (lines) in the plane, we develop datastructures in which insertions and deletions of points (or lines, respectively) can be processed rapidly without sacrificing much of the efficiency of query answering of known static structures for these configurations. As a main result we establish a fully dynamic maintenance algorithm for convex hulls that can process insertions and deletions of single points in only O(log3n) steps or less per transaction, where n is the number of points currently in the set. The algorithm has several intriguing applications, including that one can “peel” a set of n points in only O(log3n) steps and that one can maintain two sets at a costs of only O(log3n) or less per insertion and deletion such that it never takes more than O(log2n) steps to determine whether the two sets are separable by a straight line. Also efficient algorithms are obtained for dynamically maintaining the common intersection of a set of half-spaces and for dynamically maintaining the maximal elements of a set of plane points. The results are all derived by means of one master technique, which is applied repeatedly and which seems to capture an appropriate notion of “decomposability” for configurations.
Assessment of malnutrition in adult acute leukemia cases.

INTRODUCTION This study examined malnutrition in acute leukemia cases, and its association to the treatment. METHODS 54 cases, consisting of 40 patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) and 14 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were included to the study, where further 34 healthy subjects were also recruited. Body mass index (BMI), triceps skin-fold thickness (TST), mid-arm circumference (MAC) and biochemistry tests were used for the assessment tools of malnutrition. RESULTS When classified according to BMI, prevalence of malnutrition was 18.5% in all cases, 18% in newly-diagnosed cases, 20% in patients with remission and 16% without remission, and 5.8% in control group. No statistically significant difference was found between groups (p=0.47). Prevalence of malnutrition according to TST and MAC was not different in patient and control group (p=0.048), (p=0.37). Patients with malnutrition according to BMI had also significant malnutrition according to TST and MAC measurements (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS Prevalence of malnutrition was seen at higher percentage in adult acute leukemia cases, which was increased during the course of treatment, and TST measurement was better in establishing malnutrition.
Host–microbe cross talk in cancer therapy

Purpose of reviewMicrobiota secrete a multitude of factors that either confer virulence or promote colonization because they are continuously challenged by host immune responses. The dynamic interplay between the host's immune response and microbiota eventually determines the outcome for the host: health or disease. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a key role in this interplay as they can recognize both microbial and host-derived ligands on the basis of the context in which recognition occurs. Recent findingsEvidence is accumulating that conventional cancer therapies alter interactions and cross talks between the host and microbiota. This has been shown for intestinal mucositis, a common side-effect of various cancer therapies. Advances have been made in the development of new and less toxic cancer strategies. One promising field is immunotherapy on the basis of TLR activation through recognition of microbial-associated molecular patterns. SummaryEvidence is emerging, indicating that existing cancer therapies have implications on the composition and functionality of the host–microbiota environment. This may favor the colonization of pathogens and build up the overall toxicity of the drug. Exploitation of the host–microbiota cross talks mediated by TLRs is an emerging and promising field in the search for new, less toxic anticancer strategies.
Social and Identity Development in an After-School Program

The negotiation of complex social settings and the creation of an integrated identity are major tasks of adolescence. Institutions such as after-school programs can influence social-emotional development through organizational and interpersonal practices, and prosocial growth can be encouraged through the alignment of supportive structures with developmental needs. This qualitative study explores the developmental and environmental fit of an urban after-school program for its participants. Using participant-observation and interviews, we explore how youths’ experiences in this setting are congruent with the developmental needs of pre-, early, and midadolescence. We find that program activities and relationships shift as youth mature to provide levels of support congruent with youths’ changing social-emotional and self-representation needs. These shifts provide contexts aligned with contemporary theories of adolescent development.
The pedagogical use of internships in criminal justice programs: A nationwide study

Internships have been viewed as an important component of many disciplines, including criminal justice. Most studies on the use of internships in criminal justice, however, have been program-specific discussions and have not focused on how they are used in general. This study uses a nationwide survey of 99 programs to ascertain the organization, application, implementation, and evaluation of internships in criminal justice. The data reveal that although there are some differences in how programs use these internships, there are also a number of similarities. Implications for changes based on these results are addressed.