Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary

Environmental Criminology, Rationality and Crime The Burglary Event The Decision Strategy The Rational and the Opportunistic Burglar Drug and Group Effects on Burglars' Decision-Making Marketing Stolen Property Terminating a Criminal Career Implications for Public Policy Reducing the Individual's Vulnerability to Burglary
The Incidence of Dwarf Novae in Large Area Transient Searches

Understanding and quantifying the contribution of known classes of transient and variable sources is an important lesson to be learned from the manifold of precursor programs of the near-future large synoptic sky survey programs such as SkyMapper, Pan-STARRS, and LSST. With this goal in mind, we undertook photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations of four recently reported unidentified transients. For two sources, WFI J132813.7-214237 and WFI J161953.3+031909, we show that unfortunate coincidences led to their previous designation as transients. While the former is now interpreted as the spatial coincidence of a solar system object with a faint background star, the latter is merely a cataclysmic variable unfortunately caught in and out of eclipse. The third candidate, ROTSE3 J160213.1-021311.7, is identified as an SU UMa type dwarf nova with quiescent brightness of R ~ 22.7 and an outburst amplitude of ~5 mag. The fourth event, SDSS-SN 15207, similarly shows evidence for a dwarf nova origin. Our main conclusion is that cataclysmic variables in their various avatars will contribute moderately to the population of transient objects.
Analysis of Hollow Fiber Temperature Sensor Filled with Graphene-Ag Composite Nanowire and Liquid

A hollow fiber temperature sensor filled with graphene-Ag composite nanowire and liquid is presented and numerically characterized. The coupling properties and sensing performances are analyzed by finite element method (FEM) using both wavelength and amplitude interrogations. Due to the asymmetrical surface plasmon resonance sensing (SPR) region, the designed sensor exhibits strong birefringence, supporting two separate resonance peaks in orthogonal polarizations. Results show that x-polarized resonance peak can provide much better signal to noise ratio (SNR), wavelength and amplitude sensitivities than y-polarized, which is more suitable for tempertature detecting. The graphene-Ag composite nanowire filled into the hollow fiber core can not only solve the oxidation problem but also avoid the metal coating. A wide temperature range from 22 ∘C to 47 ∘C with steps of 5 ∘C is calculated and the temperature sensitivities we obtained are 9.44 nm/∘C for x-polarized and 5.33 nm/∘C for y-polarized, much higher than other sensors of the same type.
Telomerase Activity and MDS/EVI Gene Fusion in Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Correlation to the Immunohistochemical Expression of Ki-67, Bcl-2 and p53 in Bone Marrow Biopsy Samples

Telomerase Activity and MDS/EVI Gene Fusion in Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Correlation to the Immunohistochemical Expression of Ki-67, Bcl-2 and p53 in Bone Marrow Biopsy Samples Background. Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) as a complex disorder comprised of 7 entities may arise as a primary disorder, or in a setting of an underlying disease, or as therapy related (secondary MDS). Some cases show MDS/EVI1 gene fusion, and some studies have pinpointed the association between the high-risk MDS and increased telomerase activity. Aim. To determine the frequency of MDS/EVI1 gene fusion in cases of primary MDS, and to evaluate the possibility for detection of increased telomerase activity in peripheral blood samples from patients with MDS. Material and methods. We isolated DNA from 35 bone marrow biopsies, and measured the blood telomerase activity (RTA) in 21 of the patients. We performed immunostainigs for Ki-67, Bcl-2 and p53 on the biopsy samples in order to test the correlations to the RTA and MDS/EVI1 presence. MDS/EVI1 fusion was detected with touch-down-direct PCR, and RTA was measured using the "TeloTAGGG-PCR-ELISA-plus kit". Results. We found MDS/EVI1 fusion in 17.39% of high-risk MDS cases (overall 11.43%). RTA was highly variable in the analyzed group, with 1,8 fold increase of the mean RTA compared to the controls. It was due to the significant RTA increase in high-risk MDS cases, compared to the low-risk cases (p<0.01). Conclusion. RTA showed correlation to the immunohistochemical expression of Ki-67, and MDS/EVI1 fusion was correlated to the Bcl-2 expression.
Commercial Applications through Community Question Answering Technology

English. In this paper, we describe our experience on using current methods developed for Community Question Answering (cQA) for a commercial application focused on an Italian help desk. Our approach is based on (i) a search engine to retrieve previously answered question candidates and (ii) kernel methods applied to advanced linguistic structures to rerank the most promising candidates. We show that methods developed for cQA work well also when applied to data generated in customer service scenarios, where the user seeks for explanation about products and a database of previously answered questions is available. The experiments with our system demonstrate its suitability for an industrial scenario. Italiano. In questo articolo, descriviamo la nostra esperienza nell’usare i metodi attualmente disponibili per il Community Question Answering (cQA) in un’applicazione commerciale riguardante il servizio clienti in lingua italiana. Il nostro approccio si basa su (i) un motore di ricerca per recuperare le domande candidate precedentemente risposte e (ii) metodi kernel applicati a strutture linguistiche avanzate per riordinare i candidati più promettenti. Mostriamo che i metodi sviluppati per il cQA funzionano bene anche quando applicati ai dati generati nell’ambito dell’assistenza clienti, dove l’utente cerca informazioni riguardo a dei prodotti e una base di dati di domande precedentemente risposte è disponibile. Gli esperimenti sul nostro sistema dimostrano l’appropriatezza del suo utilizzo in uno scenario industriale.
Determining Behavioural Syndromes in Voles - The Effects of Social Environment

Animal personality and behavioural syndromes have experienced rapid increase in interest in the last few years because of their possible role in the evolution of life histories. However, there is still a scarcity of studies concerning the mechanisms maintaining variation in behaviour as well as addressing their relationships to each other. In this paper, we tested the main assumptions of personality, focusing on the individual variability and repeatability of behaviour, and the identification of behavioural syndromes using the common vole (Microtus arvalis) as the species being studied. We also studied the effects of family group characters (group size, sex ratio and affinity to family) on the behaviour in this rodent. The animals were repeatedly tested in two behavioural experiments ‐ novel environment (NE) test and radial-arm maze (RAM) test, from which seven personality traits were extracted. The study revealed that inter-individual variance in vole behaviour was consistent and repeatable. Individual-specific responses to NE corresponded with the performance in the maze, which revealed behavioural syndromes and possible trade-offs. Anxiety was determined by the size of the family group, whereas escape-related behaviours and maze-exploring tactic were more dependent on the affinity to the family. It seems that the development of personality traits we identified here is determined by the effects and structure of the family groups. Further studies are needed to confirm whether the observed variance in vole personalities is maintained by the fitness costs and benefits of the opposite tactics (here fast-random vs. slow-systematic exploration) in more natural circumstances.
The Challenges of Pluralism: Locating Religion in a World of Diversity

The author argues that religious pluralism is the normal state of affairs. Religion itself is multi-dimensional, and the several dimensions of religious and spiritual experience can be combined in myriad ways across individual lives. Preliminary findings from new research are presented, detailing modes of spiritual discourse that include mystery, majesty, meaning, moral compassion, and social connection. These dimensions find expression across multiple social institutions. In addition, religion is multi-traditional and organized by plural producers of the goods and services and events that embody and transform religious tradition. Finally, it is argued that religious pluralism must be studied in terms of the structures of power and privilege that allow some religious ideas to be given free voice, but limit the practice of other religious rituals or the gathering of dissident religious communities. Le pluralisme religieux est dans l’ordre des choses. La religion elle-même est multidimensionnelle et ces dimensions de l’expérience religieuse et spirituelle se combinent de multiples façons dans la vie des individus. Les conclusions de nouvelles recherches seront présentées dans un premier temps, détaillant des types de discours spirituels qui comprennent le mystère, la majesté, le sens, la compassion morale et les liens sociaux. Ces dimensions s’expriment au travers de diverses institutions sociales. En outre, la religion se situe au cœur de multiples traditions et s’organise grâce à de nombreux producteurs de biens et services et d’événements qui incarnent et transforment la tradition religieuse. Enfin, il est avancé que le pluralisme religieux doit être étudié en termes de structures de pouvoir et de privilège qui permettent à certaines idées religieuses de s’exprimer librement, mais qui limitent aussi la pratique d’autres rituels religieux ou la formation de communautés religieuses dissidentes.
COTT – A Testability Framework for Object-Oriented Software Testing

Testable software has two inherent properties – observability and controllability. Observability facilitates observation of internal behavior of software to required degree of detail. Controllability allows creation of difficult-to-achieve states prior to execution of various tests. In this paper, we describe COTT, a Controllability and Observability Testing Tool, to create testable object-oriented software. COTT provides a framework that helps the user to instrument object-oriented software to build the required controllability and observability. During testing, the tool facilitates creation of difficult-to-achieve states required for testing of difficultto-test conditions and observation of internal details of execution at unit, integration and system levels. The execution observations are logged in a test log file, which are used for post analysis and to generate test coverage reports. Keywords—Controllability, Observability, Test Coverage and Testing Tool.
Multiparadigm Inquiry: Exploring Organizational Pluralism and Paradox

Organization studies is a robust field, replete with diverse, often contentious perspectives that may enrich understandings of pluralism and paradox. Yet polarization of modern paradigms and ruptures between modern and postmodern stances may inhibit researchers from tapping this potential. In response, this article delves into a provocative alternative - multiparadigm inquiry. First, we juxtapose modern, postmodern and multiparadigm approaches to contrast their underlying assumptions. We then review three multiparadigm strategies, exploring their objectives, exemplars and limitations. Our conclusion addresses how multiparadigm inquiry fosters greater reflexivity, while posing considerable challenges.
Learning in Small Cell Networks: A Social Interactive Model

In small cell networks, due to the small coverage of small cell access points (SAPs), handoffs may be executed frequently. Therefore, evaluating the utility that a user equipment (UE) can acquire from an SAP is of great significance. In this paper, different from traditional evaluation schemes, we propose a social interactive evaluation scheme. The UEs are allowed to share their local believes and fuse them in a non- Bayesian manner. One advantage of the scheme is that it allows UEs to evaluate an SAP that they do not connect to, based on which UEs can get prepared for handoff in advance. Both the theoretical analysis and simulation illustrate that UEs not connecting to an SAP is able to learn the real utility iteratively and accurately. Additionally, compared to UEs performing individual Bayesian estimation, UEs with the non-Bayesian scheme can learn the real utility faster if the signal cannot be observed in every iteration.
FUH (FernUniversit\"at in Hagen): Metonymy Recognition Using Different Kinds of Context for a Memory-Based Learner

For the metonymy resolution task at SemEval-2007, the use of a memory-based learner to train classifiers for the identification of metonymic location names is investigated. Metonymy is resolved on different levels of granularity, differentiating between literal and non-literal readings on the coarse level; literal, metonymic, and mixed readings on the medium level; and a number of classes covering regular cases of metonymy on a fine level. Different kinds of context are employed to obtain different features: 1) a sequence of n1 synset IDs representing subordination information for nouns and for verbs, 2) n2 prepositions, articles, modal, and main verbs in the same sentence, and 3) properties of n3 tokens in a context window to the left and to the right of the location name. Different classifiers were trained on the Mascara data set to determine which values for the context sizes n1, n2, and n3 yield the highest accuracy (n1 = 4, n2 = 3, and n3 = 7, determined with the leave-one-out method). Results from these classifiers served as features for a combined classifier. In the training phase, the combined classifier achieved a considerably higher precision for the Mascara data. In the SemEval submission, an accuracy of 79.8% on the coarse, 79.5% on the medium, and 78.5% on the fine level is achieved (the baseline accuracy is 79.4%).
Expression and regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor in a first trimester trophoblast cell line.

Embryo implantation and development are critically dependent upon the spatial and temporal regulation of angiogenesis and localized vascular permeability. A key mediator of these effects is the endothelial cell mitogen vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). VEGF has been shown to promote endometrial vascular permeability, fetal vasculogenesis and placental, fetal and maternal angiogenesis. However, the mechanism through which this regulation occurs in the placenta is poorly understood. This study was conducted to determine if the pro-angiogenic cytokines, TNF-alpha and TGF-beta1, affect VEGF expression in human first trimester trophoblasts. Culture of a first trimester trophoblast cell line (HTR-8/SVneo), in the presence of either TNF-alpha or TGF-beta1, resulted in the expression of significant levels of VEGF in culture. The trophoblast cell line also showed a time-dependent and a dose-dependent increase in VEGF mRNA levels when cultured in the presence of either TNF-alpha or TGF-beta1. These results suggest that both TNF-alpha and TGF-beta1 may regulate the production of VEGF in early gestational trophoblasts and may therefore serve to modulate placental vascular permeability and angiogenesis that are necessary for embryo implantation and placentation.
Population structure of Japanese spiny lobster Panulirus japonicus inferred by nucleotide sequence analysis of mitochondrial COI gene

The mitochondrial DNA sequence for the COI region was determined for 73 Panulirus japonicus individuals collected at three sample locations in Japan. Fifty-one haplotypes, including 69 polymorphic sites without insertion and deletion, were detected, of which three dominant haplotypes were shared among the three sample locations. The nucleotide and haplotype diversities at the three sample locations were in the ranges of 0.009–0.010 and 0.959–0.990, respectively. No significant population subdivision was detected among the sample locations based on the Fst value and net nucleotide substitution rate, and analysis of the molecular variance model (AMOVA). There was no characteristic geographic distribution pattern for these haplotypes. These results indicate there is no genetic differentiation between P. japonicus populations in Japan, and support the hypothesis that benthic individuals of P. japonicus are sustained from a population of a common pool of long-period phyllosoma larvae through long-distance larval transport within the Kuroshio Subgyre.
Young Latino Students' English-Reading Growth in All-English Classrooms

The research questions were: a) Is the pattern of young Latino English-language learners' reading growth (for Instructional Reading Level, Word and Sound Level features of reading, Comprehension, and Fluency) across two years the same as the pattern for monolingual native-English-speaking peers' growth; and b) If the pattern of reading growth is the same, does one group outperform the other? One-hundred-twenty participants were assessed on a variety of reading and language measures at several time points. A series of repeated measures analyses of variance and covariance was conducted in stages, first examining effects in relation to students' Instructional Reading Level growth, and then in relation to selected reading subprocess growth. Main conclusions were: 1) The Latino students' Instructional Reading Level growth was similar to their monolingual peers' growth, and 2) there were some differences between the two groups in selected reading subprocess growth patterns.
A Comparison of Marginal Likelihood Computation Methods

In a Bayesian analysis, different models can be compared on the basis of the expected or marginal likelihood they attain. Many methods have been devised to compute the marginal likelihood, but simplicity is not the strongest point of most methods. At the same time, the precision of methods is often questionable. In this paper several methods are presented in a common framework. The explanation of the differences is followed by an application, in which the precision of the methods is tested on a simple regression model where a comparison with analytical results is possible.
Effects of Self-Perceptions on Self-Learning among Teacher Education Students

This study evaluates the multivariate hypothesized model that predicts the significance of, and relationships among, various self-perception factors for being a qualified teacher and their direct and mediated effects on self-learning activities among teacher education students. A total of 248 teacher education students enrolled at an education university in Taiwan completed a study questionnaire in August and September 2014. Structural equation modeling was used to model the relationships among the following four latent variables: perceived teacher roles, self-concept, self-efficacy, and self-learning. The resulting model had an adequate fit to self-perceptions influencing self-learning activities among teacher education students. Teacher education students’ self-efficacy plays a crucial role in facilitating self-learning.
CUESTIONARIO DE PREOCUPACIONES SOBRE CIRUGÍA INFANTIL

The child surgery worries questionnaire. The need for assessing children who are going operated and the lack of assessment instruments with appropriate psychometric properties justify the development of valid and reliable tests. We carried out a pilot study on the Cuestionario de Preocupaciones sobre Cirugia Infantil (CPCI), created to assess the children's worries about surgery. The 29 items original version of the questionnaire was administered to a sample of 382 subjects, both sexes, aged from 11 to 14 years. The results showed worries about (1) hospitalization, (2) medical procedures, and (3) illness and its negative consequences. The rotated factorial pattern indicated that these three factors explained 32.945 % of the variance. The final version of the questionnaire consisted of 23 items.
Chimpanzees: Joint Visual Attention

Gaze following is a behavior that draws the human infant into perceptual contact with objects or events in the world to which others are attending One interpretation of the development of this phenomenon is that it signals the emergence of joint or shared attention, which may be critical to the development of theory of mind An alternative interpretation is that gaze following is a noncognitive mechanism that exploits social stimuli in order to orient the infant (or adult) to important events in the world We report experimental results that chimpanzees display the effect in response to both movement of the head and eyes in concert and eye movement alone Additional tests indicate that chimpanzees appear able to (a) project an imaginary line of sight through invisible space and (b) understand how that line of sight can be impeded by solid, opaque objects This capacity may have arisen because of its reproductive payoffs in the context of social competition with conspecifics, predation avoidance, or both
Muslims in Australia: The Double Edge of Terrorism

Self-improvement is often seen as the driving force behind international migration. In other cases, people are forced to depart because of social or political upheaval, oppression or national disaster. Finally, people may migrate for family reunion. Immigrants acquire new identities as they settle into the new society and learn to refer to themselves as, for example, ‘Australians’ or ‘British’. In doing so, a former national identity may become an ‘ethnic identity’. As they settle into a new country, migrants face numerous challenges as ethnic or religious minorities. In this paper, an historical perspective is given to settlement issues of various religious migrant groups in Australia, with a special focus on Muslims. The paper examines how a religious group can become the victim of resistance from the wider society when the group is perceived to be a direct or an indirect threat. It concludes that Muslim Australians have become the ‘current enemy’ because the perceived international threat of militant Islam is negatively impacting on them. This paper relies on both primary and secondary sources, including oral testimonies.
A Reconstruction Algorithm for Photoacoustic Imaging Based on the Nonuniform FFT

Fourier reconstruction algorithms significantly outperform conventional backprojection algorithms in terms of computation time. In photoacoustic imaging, these methods require interpolation in the Fourier space domain, which creates artifacts in reconstructed images. We propose a novel reconstruction algorithm that applies the one-dimensional nonuniform fast Fourier transform to photoacoustic imaging. It is shown theoretically and numerically that our algorithm avoids artifacts while preserving the computational effectiveness of Fourier reconstruction.
Tradition, Modernity, and the Development of Education in Cambodia

Le Cambodge, dans un passe recent a montre une instabilite politique et sociale extremement violente, peu propice au developpement prospere d'une politique efficace au niveau educatif. Ainsi, comme le demontre l'auteur de cet article, le developpement de l'education au Cambodge a traverse de nombreuses crises depuis l'independance en 1953. Cette presentation tente d'en expliquer les raisons dans les differents contextes sociaux et politiques de ces 30 dernieres annees.