Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Structure of Voice Efficacy and its Role in the Formation Mechanism of Employee Voice Behavior

As one representative kind of extra-role and challenging-promotive discretionary behavior, employees’ voice behaviors are valuable for employees themselves and the organization as a whole, especially in the complex economic society in the modern times. Nowadays, there are multitudes of scholars who had paid more attention to this important organizational phenomenon, and explored the formation mechanisms under this behavior preliminarily, in varieties of perspectives. Although these findings were inspiring, the cognitive decision-making processes underlying the behavioral engagement had remained relatively unexplored. Since Chiaburu et al.(2008) had first mentioned about this topic, and assumed an initial framework explaining discretionary behaviors including voice in particular using cognitive processes model, there were few scholars met this. This study attempted to fill this gap. On the foundations of the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986) and Conservation of Resources Theory(Hobfoll, 2002), after inducing and clarifying the definition of voice efficacy, this study explored the role that voice efficacy played in the cognitive mechanism of voice behavior. The research was consisted of two sub-studies which sampled from private-firm employees and joint-venture employees in Yangtze Delta area of China. Study 1, according to the advice of Kish-gephart et al.(2009), 26 random samples of employees were interviewed to collect critical incidents of voice efficacy, and 14 items were collected. Then a questionnaire was made up of based on this 14 items. After the data survey, 3 items were deleted by item analysis procedure. Then, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with 188 samples, the results showed that voice efficacy was one-dimension construct containing 7 optimal items. The results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with the other 188 samples further supported this construct. Study 2 probed the effects of voice efficacy in the formaiton mechanism of employee voice behavior. Based on 401 employee-supervisor matched samples, the results indicated that, general self-efficacy was positively related to voice behavior. In addition, voice efficacy mediated the positive relationship between general self-efficacy and voice behavior. Besides, the study also found that, under the condition of high job availability employee will conduct more voice behaviors. But job availability negatively moderated the positive relationship between voice efficacy and voice behavior. This outcome corroborated what conservation of Resources Theory purported, namely, resources are particularly salient in the context of loss (Hobfoll, 2002). The results of study 2 also supported the construct validity of what study 1 found, namely, voice efficacy. The implications, limitaions and future orientations of the study were discussed as well.
Phonological awareness and word reading in a transparent orthography: preliminary findings on Indonesian

This paper reports the initial findings from a longitudinal study on the phonological awareness skills and word reading abilities of 73 Indonesian children from Grade 1. Children were tested on syllable detection, syllable deletion, onset detection, rhyme detection, phoneme deletion, letter identification, word reading and non-word reading. Results are discussed in relation to the characteristics of the spoken language and its orthography.
Automated Pattern-Based Testing of Mobile Applications

This paper presents an approach for testing mobile applications using reverse engineering and behavioural patterns. The goal of this research work is to ease the testing of mobile applications by automatically identifying and testing behaviour that is common in this type of applications, i.e., behaviour patterns. The approach includes a tool to automatically explore an Android application. This tool also identifies patterns in the behaviour of the application and apply tests previously associated with those patterns. The final results of this research work will be a catalogue of behavioural patterns and the tool which will output a report on the matched patterns and another one on the testing of those patterns.
Mobile Phone Text Messages to Support Treatment Adherence in Adults With High Blood Pressure (SMS-Text Adherence Support [StAR]): A Single-Blind, Randomized Trial

Background— We assessed the effect of automated treatment adherence support delivered via mobile phone short message system (SMS) text messages on blood pressure. Methods and Results— In this pragmatic, single-blind, 3-arm, randomized trial (SMS-Text Adherence Support [StAR]) undertaken in South Africa, patients treated for high blood pressure were randomly allocated in a 1:1:1 ratio to information only, interactive SMS text messaging, or usual care. The primary outcome was change in systolic blood pressure at 12 months from baseline measured with a validated oscillometric device. All trial staff were masked to treatment allocation. Analyses were intention to treat. Between June 26, 2012, and November 23, 2012, 1372 participants were randomized to receive information-only SMS text messages (n=457), interactive SMS text messages (n=458), or usual care (n=457). Primary outcome data were available for 1256 participants (92%). At 12 months, the mean adjusted change in systolic blood pressure compared with usual care was −2.2 mm Hg (95% confidence interval, −4.4 to −0.04) with information-only SMS and −1.6 mm Hg (95% confidence interval, −3.7 to 0.6) with interactive SMS. Odds ratios for the proportion of participants with a blood pressure <140/90 mm Hg were 1.42 (95% confidence interval, 1.03–1.95) for information-only messaging and 1.41 (95% confidence interval, 1.02–1.95) for interactive messaging compared with usual care. Conclusions— In this randomized trial of an automated adherence support program delivered by SMS text message in a general outpatient population of adults with high blood pressure, we found a small reduction in systolic blood pressure control compared with usual care at 12 months. There was no evidence that an interactive intervention increased this effect. Clinical Trial Registration— URL: http://www.clinicaltrials. gov. Unique identifier: NCT02019823. South African National Clinical Trials Register, number SANCTR DOH-27-1212-386; Pan Africa Trial Register, number PACTR201411000724141.
Colocalization of microtubule-associated protein 1A and microtubule- associated protein 2 on neuronal microtubules in situ revealed with double-label immunoelectron microscopy

Microtubule-associated protein 1A (MAP1A) and microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) were shown to be colocalized on the same microtubules (MTs) within neuronal cytoskeletons by double-label immunoelectron microscopy. To investigate the electron microscopic disposition of MAP1A and MAP2 and their relationship to MTs in vivo, and to determine whether there are different subsets of MTs which specifically bind either MAP1 or MAP2, we employed a double-label immunogold procedure on rat cerebella using mouse monoclonal antibody against rat brain MAP1A and affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal antibody against rat brain MAP2. MAP1A and MAP2 were identified with secondary antibodies coupled to 10- and 5-nm gold particles, respectively. In Purkinje cell dendrites, both 10- and 5-nm gold particles were observed to be studded on the fuzzy structures attached to the same MTs. Many such structures connected MTs to each other. There was no particular MT which bound either MAP1A or MAP2 alone. Furthermore, there seemed to be no specific regions on MTs where either MAP1A or MAP2 was specifically attached. Hence, we conclude that MAP1A and MAP2 are colocalized on MTs in dendrites and assume that MAP1A and MAP2 have some interrelationship in vivo and that their interactions are responsible for forming the network of cross-bridges between MTs and MTs in neuronal cytoskeletons.
PASSIVATION OF FORCE REFLECTING BILATERAL TELEOPERATORS WITH TIME VARYING DELAY

This paper addresses the problem of time-varying communication delay in force reflecting bilateral teleoperation. The problem is motivated by the increasing use of the Internet as a communication medium where the time delay varies depending on factors such as congestion, bandwidth, or distance. The well-known scattering formalism introduced in (Anderson and Spong, 1989) preserves passivity of the communication channel for constant transmission delay. We demonstrate how passivity is lost in the case of time-varying transmission delay and show that a suitable time varying gain inserted in the transmission path can recover passivity provided a bound on the rate of change of the delay is known. Preservation of passivity by itself does not guarantee good transient performance and so we also investigate the use of saturation control to improve the tracking. Simulation results are presented showing the performance of the resulting control architecture.
Acupoint Stimulation in Treating Psychological Disorders: Evidence of Efficacy

Energy psychology is a clinical and self-help modality that combines verbal and physical procedures for effecting therapeutic change. While utilizing established clinical methods such as exposure and cognitive restructuring, the approach also incorporates concepts and techniques from non-Western healing systems. Its most frequently utilized protocols combine the stimulation of acupuncture points (by tapping on, holding, or massaging them) with the mental activation of a targeted psychological issue. Energy psychology has been controversial, in part due to its reliance on explanatory mechanisms that are outside of conventional clinical frameworks and in part because of claims by its early proponents—without adequate research support—of extraordinary speed and power in attaining positive clinical outcomes. This paper revisits some of the field's early claims, as well as current practices, and assesses them in the context of existing evidence. A literature search identified 51 peer-reviewed papers that report or investigate clinical outcomes following the tapping of acupuncture points to address psychological issues. The 18 randomized controlled trials in this sample were critically evaluated for design quality, leading to the conclusion that they consistently demonstrated strong effect sizes and other positive statistical results that far exceed chance after relatively few treatment sessions. Criteria for evidence-based treatments proposed by Division 12 of the American Psychological Association were also applied and found to be met for a number of anxiety-based conditions, including PTSD. Neurological mechanisms that may be involved in these surprisingly strong findings are also considered.
Heparan sulphate proteoglycans in glia and in the normal and injured CNS: expression of sulphotransferases and changes in sulphation

Heparan sulphate proteoglycans (HSPGs) have multiple functions relevant to the control of the CNS injury response, particularly in modulating the effects of growth factors and localizing molecules that affect axon growth. We examined the pattern of expression and glycanation of HSPGs in the normal and damaged CNS, and in astrocytes and oligodendrocyte precursors because of their participation in the injury reaction. The composition of HS glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains was analysed by biochemical analysis and by the binding of antibodies that recognize sulphated epitopes. We also measured levels of HS sulphotransferases and syndecans. Compared with oligodendrocytes, oligodendrocyte precursors have more 2‐O‐sulphation in their HS GAG. This is accompanied by higher expression of the enzyme responsible for 2‐O‐sulphation, HS 2‐O‐sulphotransferase (HS2ST) and a fall in syndecan‐1. Astrocytes treated with tumour growth factor (TGF)α or TGFβ to mimic the injury response showed upregulation of syndecan‐1 and HS2ST correlating with an increase in 2‐O‐sulphate residues in their HS GAGs. This also correlated with increased staining with AO4B08 anti‐GAG antibody that recognizes high sulphation, and reduced staining with RB4EA12 recognizing low sulphation. After injury to the adult rat brain there was an overall increase in the quantity of HSPG around the injury site, mRNA for HS2ST was increased, and the changes in staining with sulphation‐specific antibodies were consistent with an increase in 2‐O‐sulphated HS. Syndecan‐1 was upregulated in astrocytes. The major injury‐related change, seen in injured brain and cultured glia, was an increase in 2‐O‐sulphated HS and increased syndecan‐1, suggesting novel approaches to modulating scar formation.
A Study on the Design of the Monitoring Architecture for Embedded Kernels based on LTT

Embedded systems are used in many fields such as home appliances, terminals, controls, communications, etc. So, to manage, control, and test these embedded systems, monitoring programs have been developed variously. In this paper, to overcome the characteristic faults of embedded systems which have resource restrictions, we implemented a development environment based on NFS and designed a monitoring tool that can evaluate and analyze kernel performance in embedded equipment by using LTT(Linux Trace Toolkit). Also, we designed a method to show monitoring data collected by using a monitoring tool, called MONETA 2.0, through the web-page.
Membrane and actin reorganization in electropulse-induced cell fusion

Summary When cells of Dictyostelium discoideum are exposed to electric pulses they are induced to fuse, yielding motile polykaryotic cells. By combining electron microscopy and direct recording of fluorescent cells, we have studied the emergence of fusion pores in the membranes and the localization of actin to the cell cortex. In response to electric pulsing, the plasma membranes of two contiguous cells are turned into tangles of highly bent and interdigitated membranes. Live-imaging of cells double-labeled for membranes and filamentous actin revealed that actin is induced to polymerize in the fusion zone to temporarily bridge the gaps in the vesiculating membrane. The diffusion of green fluorescent protein (GFP) from one fusion partner to the other was scored using spinning disc confocal microscopy. Fusion pores that allowed intercellular exchange of GFP were formed after a delay, which lasted up to 24 seconds after exposure of the cells to the electric field. These data indicate that the membranes persist in a fusogenic state before pores of about 3 nm diameter are formed.
Attentional Plan Execution for Human-Robot Cooperation

In human-robot interactive scenarios communication and collaboration during task execution are crucial issues. Since the human behavior is unpredictable and ambiguous, an interactive robotic system is to continuously interpret intentions and goals adapting its executive and communicative processes according to the users behaviors. In this work, we propose an integrated system that exploits attentional mechanisms to flexibly adapt planning and executive processes to the multimodal human-robot interaction.
On the probabilities of local behaviors in abelian field extensions

Abstract For a number field K and a finite abelian group G, we determine the probabilities of various local completions of a random G-extension of K when extensions are ordered by conductor. In particular, for a fixed prime ℘ of K, we determine the probability that ℘ splits into r primes in a random G-extension of K that is unramified at ℘. We find that these probabilities are nicely behaved and mostly independent. This is in analogy to Chebotarev’s density theorem, which gives the probability that in a fixed extension a random prime of K splits into r primes in the extension. We also give the asymptotics for the number of G-extensions with bounded conductor. In fact, we give a class of extension invariants, including conductor, for which we obtain the same counting and probabilistic results. In contrast, we prove that neither the analogy with the Chebotarev probabilities nor the independence of probabilities holds when extensions are ordered by discriminant.
Building an Indonesian WordNet

A WordNet is a useful lexical resource where specific senses of words are clustered together into synonym sets, and semantic relationships between these sets are specified. This paper describes an ongoing project to create an Indonesian WordNet using the expand model approach, i.e. by mapping existing WordNet entries to Indonesian word sense definitions. We discuss some issues encountered during the development of a web-based application that facilitates this mapping. Some initial results of an experiment to measure the inter-annotator reliability are presented, along with a brief discussion on the constructed Indonesian WordNet.
Triangular mesh construction based on point cloud matrix and edge feature extraction

This paper builds a 3D laser scanner by a one-dimensional pitching rotation pan-tilt and a 2D laser range finder to get the 3D laser point cloud data from the motion environment. Depends on this data, a triangular mesh construction algorithm based on the point cloud matrix is proposed to construct the triangular mesh of the motion environment. Then a triangular plane normal vector clustering algorithm is used to extract the edge feature from the triangular mesh and the mean square deviation is employed as further process to make the edge feature more accurately. The experiment results show that the triangular mesh of motion environment can be constructed effectively and edge feature can be exacted accurately by the algorithms applied above. It lays the foundation of mobile robot autonomous movement in unknown complex environments.
The recurrent ultra-luminous X-ray transient NGC 253 ULX1

We present the results of ROSAT and XMM-Newton observations of the recurrent ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 253 ULX1. This transient is one of the few ULXs that was detected during several outbursts. The luminosity reached 1.4$\,{\times}\,10^{39}$ \hbox{erg s$^{-1}$ and $0.5\,{\times}\,10^{39}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the detections by ROSAT and XMM-Newton, respectively, indicating a black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) with a mass of the compact object of $>$11 M$_{\odot}$. In the ROSAT detection NGC 253 ULX1 showed significant variability, whereas the luminosity was constant in the detection from XMM-Newton. The XMM-Newton EPIC spectra are well-fit by a bremsstrahlung model (kT$=2.24\,$keV, $N_H=1.74\times10^{20} \mbox{cm}^{-2}$), which can be used to describe a comptonized plasma. No counterpart was detected in the optical I, R, B, NUV and FUV bands to limits of 22.9, 24.2, 24.3, 22 and 23 mag, respectively, pointing at a XRB with a low mass companion.
FNLVQ design and implementation in FPGA to estimate Trichloroethylene in white mouse liver images

Embedded systems are more popular these days, including in biomedical field. There have been so many devices developed in this field, yet there are also so many open problems that waiting to be solved. One of the open problems is determining Trichloroethylene degree in human heart using Fuzzy-Neuro Learning Vector Quantization. These technique then implemented in Spartan®-3AN board, which is has lower capability compare to computer. In this paper, we show our approach in implementing FNLVQ in Spartan®-3AN board. Our testing shows that the FNLVQ accuracy is only degrade by 2 point.
Sub-Saharan Africa

This chapter maps out the tonal, accentual, and intonational properties of sub-Saharan African languages, focusing particularly on Niger-Congo. It distinguishes tone systems by the number of contrastive tone heights and contours and their tonal distributions, as well as grammatical functions of tone. It considers positional prominence effects potentially analysed as word accent and concludes with discussion of both intonational pitch and length marking syntactic domains and clause types.
Propositional satisfiability in declarative programming

Answer-set programming (ASP) paradigm is a way of using logic to solve search problems. Given a search problem, to solve it one designs a theory in the logic so that models of this theory represent problem solutions. To compute a solution to a problem one needs to compute a model of the corresponding theory. Several answer-set programming formalisms have been developed on the basis of logic programming with the semantics of stable models. In this paper we show that also the logic of predicate calculus gives rise to effective implementations of the ASP paradigm, similar in spirit to logic programming with stable model semantics and with a similar scope of applicability. Specifically, we propose two logics based on predicate calculus as formalisms for encoding search problems. We show that the expressive power of these logics is given by the class NP-search. We demonstrate how to use them in programming and develop computational tools for model finding. In the case of one of the logics our techniques reduce the problem to that of propositional satisfiability and allow one to use off-the-shelf satisfiability solvers. The language of the other logic has more complex syntax and provides explicit means to model some high-level constraints. For theories in this logic, we designed our own solver that takes advantage of the expanded syntax. We present experimental results demonstrating computational effectiveness of the overall approach.
The Structure and Measurement of Parent-Adolescent Trust of Middle School Students

Middle school students and their parents were interviewed,and three open questionnaires were designed to gather the characteristics of parent-adolescent trust,and then were subjected to content analysis to identify major forms and items of parent-adolescent trust questionnaire(PATQ) in China.184 middle school students and 169 parents were included in the first measurement,while 495 middle school students,336 fathers and 358 mothers were included in the second measurement.Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that adolescents' trust comprised three dimensions: Honesty and Promise-keeping,Dependability,and Sharing Confidences;Fathers' trust comprised four dimensions: Honest and Obeying Rules,Independence,Self-restraint and Respecting Privacy;Besides the four dimensions of fathers' trust,mothers' trust consisted of Suspicion in addition.Confirmatory Factor Analysis confirmed PATQ's factorial validity.Internal consistency analyses and correlation analyses showed that PATQ had suitable reliability and high validity.
Statistical service assurances for traffic scheduling algorithms

Network services for the most demanding advanced networked applications which require absolute, per-flow service assurances can be deterministic or statistical. By exploiting the statistical properties of traffic, statistical assurances can extract more capacity from a network than deterministic assurances. We consider statistical service assurances for traffic scheduling algorithms. We present functions, so-called effective envelopes, which are, with high certainty, upper bounds of multiplexed traffic. Effective envelopes can be used to obtain bounds on the amount of traffic on a link that can be provisioned with statistical service assurances. We show that our bounds can be applied to a variety of traffic scheduling algorithms. In fact, one can reuse existing admission control functions for scheduling algorithms with deterministic assurances. We present numerical examples which compare the number of flows with statistical assurances that can be admitted with our effective envelope approach to those achieved with existing methods.