Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Radio Sensing Information-Theoretic Criteria Based

In this paper1, we explore the Information-Theoretic Criteria, namely, Akaikes Information Criterion (AIC) and Minimum Description Length (MDL) as a tool to sense vacant sub-band over the spectrum bandwidth. The proposed technique is motivated by the fact that an idle sub-band (Normal process) presents a number of independent eigenvectors appreciably larger than for an occupied sub-band (Non-normal process). It turns out that, based on the number of the independent eigenvectors of a given covariance matrix of the observed signal, one can conclude on the nature of the sensed sub-band. Our-theoretical result as well as the empirical results are first applied on experimental measurement campaign conducted at the Eurécom PLATON Platform. We then apply our method to an IEEE 802.11b Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) signal in order to analyze the robustness of the proposed approach in presence of increased levels of noise. We argue that the proposed sub-space based techniques give interesting results in terms of sensing the white space in the spectrum.
Clinical and Laboratory Testing for Trichomonas vaginalis Infection

ABSTRACT Trichomonas vaginalis infection is highly prevalent in the United States and worldwide. Traditional clinical diagnostic methods fail to identify more than half of these infections that, if left untreated, can result in adverse pregnancy outcomes and an exacerbated risk of both acquisition and transmission of HIV. Women bear a disproportionate amount of the burden of these infections, and testing among populations at risk for this disease should be provided. Molecular technologies have expanded our capacity for laboratory-based detection of infection and can be used on samples already being collected for chlamydia/gonorrhea screening.
Social Stratification and Ethnicity in Transylvania: How Does Social Class Matter?

Focusing on the Hungarian ethnic minority in Transylvania, this article examines the effect of economic, social, and cultural capital on individuals' social position since 1989. Historically, ethnicity has played a selective role in the attainment of social position in this region. Contrary to the main research expectation, the results of structural equation modeling and cluster analysis indicate that following the systemic change the factor of ethnicity is of much less significance in Transylvanian society. Nonetheless, detailed analysis of the stratification of Hungarians from Transylvania shows that the three groups constituting the middle class, that is, intellectuals, craftsmen, and nonmanual workers, represent approximately 45-50 percent, which is below the level characteristic of developed capitalist countries, where the middle class makes up over 60 percent of the society.
Attitudes of Hong Kong Bilinguals toward English and Chinese Speakers

Bilingual Hong Kong Chinese university students were asked to evaluate the taped voices of Chinese and English speakers on 13 traits. Subjects were unaware that speakers were actually bilinguals speaking once in each language. Chinese guises of the speakers were rated more favorably on seven traits and English guises on four traits. Factor analysis of ratings revealed two major factors, one consisting of traits related to character, and the other of traits related to success. Chinese guises were favored on the former and English guises on the latter.
An improved Peltier effect‐based instrument for critical temperature threshold measurement in cold‐ and heat‐induced urticaria

Cold‐ and heat‐induced urticaria are chronic physical urticaria conditions in which wheals, angioedema or both are evoked by skin exposure to cold and heat respectively. The diagnostic work up of both conditions should include skin provocation tests and accurate determination of critical temperature thresholds (CTT) for producing symptoms in order to be able to predict the potential risk that each individual patient faces and how this may be ameliorated by therapy.
Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT): case reports from Saudi Arabia

Abstract Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on the processes shared across disorders and can be applied to a wide range of mental health problems or comorbid conditions. The transdiagnostic approach provides the potential opportunity to improve access to CBT, particularly in countries such as Saudi Arabia, where the number of well-trained therapists is limited. This study aims to examine the feasibility and potential benefit of transdiagnostic CBT for Saudi patients. Case reports describe the outcome of transdiagnostic CBT for four female patients who presented a wide range of symptoms and conditions without conducting any specific diagnostic assessments. The results support the positive effect of this treatment method on depression, anxiety symptoms, and general functioning. Patient feedback and observable improvements also supported these outcomes. However, the results are limited by the small sample size and simple study design. Transdiagnostic CBT is a feasible treatment approach for patients in Saudi Arabia. However, to confirm this preliminary finding, more studies are required.
Generalizing the Taylor Principle: Comment

Davig and Leeper (2007) have proposed a condition they call the generalized Taylor principle to rule out indeterminate equilibria in a version of the New Keynesian model, where the parameters of the policy rule follow a Markov-switching process. We show that although their condition rules out a subset of indeterminate equilibria, it does not establish uniqueness of the fundamental equilibrium. We discuss the differences between indeterminate fundamental equilibria included by Davig and Leeper's condition and fundamental equilibria that their condition misses.
Quality of deep frying oils and fats used in street-fairs in Goiânia, Brazil

Fried foods are widely consumed in Brazil and their quality depends on the oil or fat they are fried. Qualitative (physical chemistry indices) and quantitative measurements (fry-life oil or fat until disposal, oil turnover, type of oil or fat and amount and type of fried foods) and associations were performed. We applied a structured form and collected 60 mL of frying oil or fat in each of the 70 fried food stands of 15 street-fairs in Goiânia, Brazil. All samples were suitable in the quantity of free fat acids ( 10 mEq/kg) and 1/3 was unsuitable to polar compounds (<25%). The majority (62%) use temperature up to the allowed (180 oC). Approximately 250 units of products are fried in at least one day in 42% of the fried food stands. Soybean oil is used in the majority (94%) of fried food stands and the fry-life is of 6 hours (60%) or a day of work/sale. The nonconformity of the content of total polar compounds in fried foods had significant association with frying time and the conformity of acidity had significant relationship with frying time by a chi-square test. All other associations were not significant. A fry-life of oil or fat up to 6 hours can avoid the excess of polar compounds in the frying medium and protect the quality of fred foods.
Thinking About 'Sex' in Education

The aim of this paper is to reflect upon the ways in which 'sex', as an unchanging biological given, is often implicitly taken for granted in tertiary sex education. The paper details my own attempt to move beyond what I have come to experience as the predictable order of teaching students about sex and sexuality: the exploration of sexuality and gender anchored by the unquestioned assumption of biological sexual difference. I provide a practical example of introducing new material ism in science, and social science critiques of sex, into a tertiary level course. Consideration is given to the importance of fostering critical thinking in education: principally in being open-minded to evidence that challenges one's own belief system.
Cooperative Virtual Power Plant Formation Using Scoring Rules

Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are fast emerging as a suitable means of integrating small and distributed energy resources (DERs), like wind and solar, into the electricity supply network (Grid). VPPs are formed via the aggregation of a large number of such DERs, so that they exhibit the characteristics of a traditional generator in terms of predictability and robustness. In this work, we promote the formation of such "cooperative'' VPPs (CVPPs) using multi-agent technology. In particular, we design a payment mechanism that encourages DERs to join CVPPs with large overall production. Our method is based on strictly proper scoring rules and incentivises the provision of accurate predictions from the CVPPs---and in turn, the member DERs---which aids in the planning of the supply schedule at the Grid. We empirically evaluate our approach using the real-world setting of 16 commercial wind farms in the UK. We show that our mechanism incentivises real DERs to form CVPPs, and outperforms the current state of the art payment mechanism developed for this problem.
Imagining Replications : Graphical Elicitation & Discrete Visualizations Improve Reasoning About Experimental Uncertainty Leave

People often have erroneous intuitions about the results of uncertain processes, such as scientific experiments. We present a graphical elicitation technique for improving people’s statistical inferences about uncertain data. We contribute a design space survey to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of 12 discrete and continuous interfaces for graphically eliciting subjects’ predictions about probability distributions. We further conduct a controlled study in which participants use the best performing discrete and continuous elicitation interfaces to estimate the uncertainty around an observed experimental effect, then view their distribution against the true sampling distribution. We find that while using discrete probability representations is sufficient to improve inferences about future replications of a single experiment, graphically estimating the possible effects from experiment replications is a more effective way to improve one’s ability to make predictions about replications of new experiments. Our work has implications for probability elicitation and uncertainty communication. ACM Classification
Evolving TCP.: how hard can it be?

Over the last decade TCP has become the de facto "narrow waist" of the Internet -- a one-size-fits-all transport that is poorly suited to the needs of modern applications. As middleboxes have become ubiquitous, it has become nigh impossible for alternative transports to exist and so application developers have come to view opening a TCP socket as the only reliable way to connect to a server. Some recent proposals circumvent this problem by camouflaging new transports so that they appear like TCP to middleboxes. We draw the key lessons from this approach and show how this could lead to a true one-size-fits-all transport: "Polyversal TCP".
Discovering an integrated framework for practice: a qualitative investigation of theories used by social workers working as sexual abuse therapists

In this article, I explore the historical background and context to the theoretical eclecticism described by the participants interviewed for a research study. The initial aim was to test the relevance of the vicarious traumatisation (vt) or vt literature with a group of sexual abuse therapists. The participants interviewed were all working as sexual abuse therapists in group and individual practices, many of whom worked in the field before there were well articulated theories of trauma assessment and treatment in the 1970s and 1980s. With the available theory, they actively developed their own unique frameworks for practice and became pioneers in the field. The findings of this research suggest that the practitioners' reference to diverse sources of theory is both a resource and protective factor which, when synthesised, is drawn upon to support the day-to-day work of sexual abuse therapy.
Political geography: attempting to understand a changing world order

As many commentators have noted, 1989 will occupy a leading position as one of the most important years of the century. Global divisions and expectations about relations between states, established in 1945, were shaken to their foundations by events in central and eastern Europe. It is not only the impacts of the popular revolts in eastern Europe on domestic politics, on east-west relations and on the future of communist regimes that are important. The declaration of the end of the cold war has led to a crisis in conservative thought while left-wing journals are filled with post mortems for Stalinism, proposals for demilitarization of NATO and Warsaw Pact states, and profound soul searching of the Marxist research and policy agendas. (For an early example, see Miliband, 1989.) Political geography, for the past two decades a fertile ground for both conservative and Marxist ideas, can be expected to be affected by a similar questioning of established principles. Political geography, like other social sciences, cannot continue as if 1989 never happened. Clearly, research published in the past year was conducted before the
FIRE: An Information Retrieval Interface Fo rI ntelligent Environments

Searching for relevant information on the world- wide web is often a difficult and frustrating task. The infor- mation one is looking for, is hidden among thousands of docu- ments returned by a search engine. One way of making search for relevant information easier, is to create better interfaces to th es earch engines; interfaces that facilitate quick and efficient browsing through the multitude of returned documents. In this paper, we present FIRE - a multimodal interface for informa- tion retrieval deployed in the Intelligent Room at the MIT AI Lab. FIRE differs from most othe ri nterfaces forinformation retrieval in that it combines a couple of interaction modalities to improve the search process.
Perceptions of staff on embedding speech and language therapy within a youth offending team

The purpose of this research was to ascertain the views of staff and managers within a youth offending team on their experiences of working with a speech and language therapist (SLT). The model of therapy provision was similar to the whole-systems approach used in schools. The impact of the service on language outcomes is reported elsewhere (Gregory and Bryan, 2011). A questionnaire was sent to all staff asking about their experiences related to working with a speech and language therapist. Eight telephone interviews were then conducted to explore the questionnaire findings further and to gain a management perspective on speech and language therapy within a youth offending service (YOS) team. Staff were largely positive about their experience of working with a SLT. Understanding the nature of the presenting communication difficulties and having strategies to manage these were linked to improvements in wider working practices, which managers linked to culture change. The whole-systems model of service delivery appeared to have potential application to youth justice contexts. Direct access to the SLT to support communication aspects of their work was particularly important to the YOS staff. Further research is needed to examine the optimum model of speech and language therapy in youth justice settings, and the potential contribution to criminal justice outcomes such as prevention of re-offending.
Modeling and analysis of hand movement for improving motor function

Skillful motor control of human is achieved by the appropriate motor commands generating from the central nerve system. Internal model in the cerebellum may have great contribution for realizing accurate motor control. In this paper, the model for human motor control on manual tracking to moving visual target was constructed based on the experimental data of the visual tracking test for three groups ; normal healthy adults, patients with cerebellar ataxia and patients with Parkinson disease. Relationship between the model parameters and movement disorders were investigated. Furthermore, the compensation method for improving the motor function of patients were also considered. Copyright © 2002 IFAC
Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men Outside the Labour Force

The Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper, ‘Men not at Work - An Analysis of Men Outside the Workforce’ (by Ralph Lattimore), was released in January 2007. This paper analyses the characteristics of adult men outside the labour force in Australia. The paper finds that, in contrast to women, the rates at which men are disengaged from the labour force have increased fourfold over the past century, rising especially rapidly over the last 50 years. There are many drivers of this transformation of the Australian labour market. Some of it is due to - population ageing; younger men are spending longer in education; older men are enjoying a longer voluntary retirement; and men are now much more involved in domestic and childcare tasks — 30 per cent of those aged 35 to 44 years are not in the labour force for this reason. Many prime-aged males leave the labour market due to injury, ill-health, disability or premature ‘retirement’. About half the men aged 25 to 64 years who are outside the labour force receive the Disability Support Pension. Inactive men are more likely to be living alone, be poorly educated, and of indigenous or non-English speaking migrant background. A man aged 45 to 54 years living alone is about four times more likely to be outside the labour force than one who is married or who has a partner. The paper does not make any recommendations, but the research should assist policy development in areas central to getting more men into or back into the workforce. The views expressed in this paper are those of the staff involved and do not necessarily reflect those of the Productivity Commission.
Foraging behavior of interacting robots with virtual pheromone

In multi-robot system, communication is indispensable for effective cooperative working. In this system, direct communication by physical methods such as light, sound, radio wave is quite general. But in biological system, especially in the insect world, not only the physical but also the chemical communication methods can be observed. As the chemical methods have some unique properties, it is challenging to apply such a method to the cooperative multi-robot system. Unfortunately, to treat real chemical materials for the robots is not easy for now because of some technical difficulties. In this paper, we propose virtual pheromone system in which chemical signals are simulated with the graphics projected on the floor, and in which the robots decide their action depending on the color information of the graphics. We examined the performance of this system through the foraging task, which is one of the most popular tasks for multi-robot system and is generally observed in ant societies.
Transcription cofactors TRIM24, TRIM28, and TRIM33 associate to form regulatory complexes that suppress murine hepatocellular carcinoma

TRIM24 (TIF1α), TRIM28 (TIF1β), and TRIM33 (TIF1γ) are three related cofactors belonging to the tripartite motif superfamily that interact with distinct transcription factors. TRIM24 interacts with the liganded retinoic acid (RA) receptor to repress its transcriptional activity. Germ line inactivation of TRIM24 in mice deregulates RA-signaling in hepatocytes leading to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here we show that TRIM24 can be purified as at least two macromolecular complexes comprising either TRIM33 or TRIM33 and TRIM28. Somatic hepatocyte-specific inactivation of TRIM24, TRIM28, or TRIM33 all promote HCC in a cell-autonomous manner in mice. Moreover, HCC formation upon TRIM24 inactivation is strongly potentiated by further loss of TRIM33. These results demonstrate that the TIF1-related subfamily of TRIM proteins interact both physically and functionally to modulate HCC formation in mice.
Realism versus Strategic Culture: Competition and Collaboration?

This paper takes as its starting point the possibility of empirical and theoretical cross-fertilization between strategic culturalists and realists. Indeed, recent neoclassical realist writings indicate that there is currently a move away from the more abstract theorizing of Waltzian neorealism. In order to conduct detailed foreign policy analysis, these authors have included an increasing array of variables including nonmaterial factors. The paper argues that much can be gained from examination of the alternative explanations of state behavior provided by strategic culture and neoclassical realism. Yet the benefits of competitive collaboration depend upon the particular conception of strategic culture under consideration. The paper identifies four main conceptions of strategic culture and examines the type of collaboration with neoclassical realism that is possible for each one.
EVALUATION OF ACTIVE FRACTION FROM PLANT EXTRACTS OF ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS FOR ITS IN-VITRO AND IN-VIVO ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY

Objective: The present study aims to investigate the anti-viral activity of solvent extracts of the plant Alstonia scholaris. Methods: In vitro antiviral activity of water and alcohol extract was determined against Coxsackie B2, Polio virus and Herpes Simplex virus by the method of inhibition of cytopathic effect (CPE) and in vivo assays were performed in suckling mice. Antiviral activity against Hepatitis B Virus was determined by Neutralization test. Results: In-vivo assays performed in the suckling mice against Coxsackie virus B2 showed that . mice infected with virus when treated with extract up to concentration 2856µg survived longer than the pups without being treated with the extract. The anti-viral activity of the plant extract against polio virus and Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) showed considerable amount of activity against both pathogenic viruses. The result of antiviral activity against Hepatitis B virus showed that ethyl acetate fraction of methanol extract of bark with Relative Fluorescence Value (RFV) value being decreased to 1.53 from 16.64 whereas ethyl-acetate fraction of leaves caused the decrease of RFV value from 17.23 to 2.75 in 72 hours together attributing to a strong antiviral activity of Alstonia scholaris fractions. Conclusion: We are reporting the antiviral activity of various fractions of plant extract of Alstonia scholaris for the first time and result showed that almost all studies plant extract possessed potent antiviral activity against the viruses studied.
A review of tourism policy for the 2012 Olympics

This review considers the main tourism policy documents published by the UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport which are explicitly linked with the hosting of the Olympic Games in London in 2012. It reflects on the use of evidence gained from wider events hosting strategies utilized elsewhere, but notes concern about the lack of a coherent marketing theme and the potential to spread the tourism benefits beyond the main event venues. It concludes citing again the oft-noted problem about the links between tourism and wider cultural strategy development.