Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Affective Lexicon Creation for the Greek Language

Starting from the English affective lexicon ANEW (Bradley and Lang, 1999a) we have created the first Greek affective lexicon. It contains human ratings for the three continuous affective dimensions of valence, arousal and dominance for 1034 words. The Greek affective lexicon is compared with affective lexica in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The lexicon is automatically expanded by selecting a small number of manually annotated words to bootstrap the process of estimating affective ratings of unknown words. We experimented with the parameters of the semantic-affective model in order to investigate their impact to its performance, which reaches 85% binary classification accuracy (positive vs. negative ratings). We share the Greek affective lexicon that consists of 1034 words and the automatically expanded Greek affective lexicon that contains 407K words.
Design of information security risk management using ISO/IEC 27005 and NIST SP 800-30 revision 1: A case study at communication data applications of XYZ institute

Information security is a priority for the organization. Information can be carried as critical assets, because it's advocated a national security. Communication data applications in the XYZ Institute advocated national security. However, it has amounted vulnerabilities and threats at their information systems and networks. With vulnerabilities and threat which give impact, appears an information security risk for their organization. This causes the organization needs information security risk management process for communication data applications in XYZ Institute. To Implement design of information security risk management for communication data applications in XYZ Institute, we used ISO 27005 framework and NIST SP 800-30 revision 1 as a guideline to risk assessment, and ISO 27002 as reference to development risk treatment plan. The result of this research is how to implementation a design of information security risk management at communication data applications in XYZ Institute.
Parameters of induction machines with a common external massive rotor

The calculation of parameters of electromechanical converter of a multimodule structure with a common hollow massive rotor was submitted. The structure of high-performance electromechanical converter was shown, which includes not only the elements that perform the basic functions of energy conversion of one type into another and provide biomass being processed by fractional, formative and humidity parameters, but also implements a number of related physical and chemical effects to give new properties of biomass and increase the commercial value of the product. Since the material being processed is simultaneously a load-cooling material, the heat transfer and mechanical loading of the brake and motor module are interrelated. Results of industrial tests of the converter are presented. Comparison of experimental and calculated parameters and characteristics as a whole show good convergence of the results.
Improvement of Repeated-Sprint Ability and Horizontal-Jumping Performance in Elite Young Basketball Players With Low-Volume Repeated-Maximal-Power Training.

PURPOSE To examine the effects of a low-volume repeated-power-ability (RPA) training program on repeated-sprint and change-of- direction (COD) ability and functional jumping performance. METHODS Twenty-two male elite young basketball players (age 16.2 ± 1.2 y, height 190.0 ± 10.0 cm, body mass 82.9 ± 10.1 kg) were randomly assigned either to an RPA-training group (n = 11) or a control group (n = 11). RPA training consisted of leg-press exercise, twice a week for 6 wk, of 1 or 2 blocks of 5 sets × 5 repetitions with 20 s of passive recovery between sets and 3 min between blocks with the load that maximized power output. Before and after training, performance was assessed by a repeated-sprint-ability (RSA) test, a repeated-COD-ability test, a hop for distance, and a drop jump followed by tests of a double unilateral hop with the right and left legs. RESULTS Within-group and between-groups differences showed substantial improvements in slowest (RSAs) and mean time (RSAm) on RSA; best, slowest and mean time on repeated-COD ability; and unilateral right and left hop in the RPA group in comparison with control. While best time on RSA showed no improvement in any group, there was a large relationship (r = .68, 90% CI .43;.84) between the relative decrement in RSAm and RSAs, suggesting better sprint maintenance with RPA training. The relative improvements in best and mean repeated-COD ability were very largely correlated (r = .89, 90% CI .77;.94). CONCLUSIONS Six weeks of lowvolume (4-14 min/wk) RPA training improved several physical-fitness tests in basketball players.
What leads to differences in success antecedents? analyzing the effects of offering nature, variety, and service mode

Service industries have been booming and their specialness is widely discussed. There are suggestions that the developing antecedents would differ between service firms and product firms. However, there are also other means for business categorization, and the antecedents have rarely been studies globally. In this study, framework for future research is proposed based on literature review. The antecedents are grouped as “BASICs”: backdrop, atmosphere, supporting system, internal enablers, and customer-related factors. They are suggested to be affected by offering nature, offering variety, and service mode. We also suggested the methods for data collection and analysis. Expectations on the results are also stated.
Visual tracking based on adaptive background modeling and improved particle filter

In this paper, a visual tracking algorithm based on adaptive background modeling and improved particle filter was proposed, which can be effectively used to track the players in sports video. Adaptive background modeling was used to extract motion information in the dynamic scene, and obtained precise motion region through a designed target selection filter, then, do the tracking algorithm under particle filter framework. The proposed algorithm solved the problem which needs to manually initialize the target position when tracking algorithm is applied to the engineering project. Besides, traditional resampling algorithm has degeneracy problem which could influence tracking effect when particle set is large, the paper also improved the resampling algorithm with a classified resample method. In the end, experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm has advantages in precision and robustness compared with the traditional particle filter.
Breast cancer screening and migrants: exploring targeted messages for Moroccan migrant women in Brussels

ABSTRACT Objectives: This study explored views of Moroccan migrant women on barriers and facilitators to the organized breast cancer screening program in Brussels (Belgium), and the potential of targeted printed invitations to increase this population’s attendance to the program. Methods: We conducted one expert interview with the breast cancer screening program coordinator on current practices and challenges with regards to inviting Moroccan migrant women in Brussels for screening. Secondly, we held focus groups with Moroccan women aged 26–66. Sessions focused on perspectives on breast cancer screening and the existing generic program invitations. Directed content analysis of transcripts was based on the Health Belief Model. Alternative communication packages were developed based on barriers and suggestions from the focus groups. A second round of focus groups looked at the alternative communication packages and their potential to encourage Moroccan migrant women in Brussels to participate in the organized breast cancer screening program. Results: Alternative packages were appreciated by some, but a number of adjustments did not catch participants’ attention. Printed communication delivered by post does not appear to be the preferred means of communication to encourage breast cancer screening for Moroccan migrant women in Brussels, nor does it seem appropriate to address the barriers to screening found in this study. Conclusions: The benefit of targeted postal invitation packages for Moroccan migrant women in Brussels seems limited for a variety of reasons. For future research, a large-scale study analyzing the topic in a cross-cultural perspective is warranted.
Anxiety symptoms and quality of life in middle-aged and older outpatients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether anxiety symptoms make an independent contribution to poorer quality of life among middle-aged and older outpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. METHOD We evaluated data from an ongoing study of 163 older patients with DSM-III-R or DSM-IV schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were enrolled in research at the University of California, San Diego, Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research from October 1992 to April 1998. Measures used were the anxiety, somatization, obsessive-compulsive, and phobic anxiety subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory. We performed hierarchical multiple regressions with forced entry of variables to determine whether anxiety symptoms significantly predicted poorer health-related quality of life (measured by 2 scales) after controlling for demographic variables, akathisia, cognitive impairment, depressive symptoms, and overall psychopathology. RESULTS Anxiety symptoms were associated with poorer outcomes on overall quality of well-being and subscales representing vitality, social functioning, and role functioning limitations due to physical problems. In most cases, the proportion of variance in quality of life accounted for by anxiety symptoms was greater than that accounted for by depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Results suggest that anxiety symptoms have a significant negative impact on the quality of life of middle-aged and older patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
Design and Evaluation of a Haptic Computer-Assistant for Telemanipulation Tasks

This paper introduces a computer-assisted teleoperation system, where the control over the teleoperator is shared between a human operator and computer assistance in order to improve the overall task performance. Two units, an action recognition and an assistance unit are introduced to provide context-specific assistance. The action recognition unit can evaluate haptic data, handle high sampling rates, and deal with human behavior changes caused by the actived haptic assistance. Repairing of a broken hard drive is selected as scenario and three different task-specific assistance functions are designed. The overall computer-assisted teleoperation system is evaluated in two steps: first, the performance of the action recognition unit is evaluated and then, the performance of the integrated computer-assisted teleoperation system is compared with an unassisted system by means of a user study with 15 participants. Overall action recognition rates of about 65% are achieved. Multivariate paired comparisons show that the computer-assisted teleoperation system significantly reduces the human effort and damage possibility compared with a teleoperation system without assistance.
Starvation-Related Alterations in Free Radical Tissue Defense Mechanisms in Rats

Alterations in endogenous free radical-scavenging defense mechanisms of rat tissues after body weight loss (induced by starvation for 72 h) associated with hypoinsulinemia were investigated. The activities of catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX), and glutathione (GSSG) reductase as well as levels of reduced glutathione (GSH) were examined in several tissues and in erythrocytes. A complex pattern of changes was observed. CAT activities were increased in the heart and pancreas and decreased in the liver. SOD levels were decreased in the heart and increased in the kidney and pancreas. GSH-PX activities were increased only in the kidney, and levels of GSH were decreased only in the liver of starved animals. Erythrocytes from starved animals showed no alterations in the levels of major free radical-scavenging enzymes. However, GSSG reductase levels were lower in erythrocytes from starved animals, and this was associated with an increased susceptibility to H2O2-induced GSH depletion. Paradoxically, H2O2-induced malondialdehyde (MDA) production in erythrocytes from starved animals was lower than that in control erythrocytes. Our results suggest that, in studies of experimental diabetes, attention must be given to the influence of body weight loss per se on the biochemical alterations associated with this disease.
Indices of Cognitive Dysfunction in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: Intra-individual Variability, Processing Speed, and Attention Network Efficiency

Abstract Impairments in attention and information processing speed are common in multiple sclerosis (MS) and may contribute to impairments of other cognitive abilities. This study examined attentional efficiency, information processing speed and intra-individual variability in response speed using the Attention Network Test-Interactions (ANT-I) in mildy-affected patients with MS. Thirty-one patients with relapsing-remitting MS and 30 age, sex, and education-matched controls completed the ANT-I, as well as the Paced Auditory Serial Attention Test (PASAT), as a standard clinical measure of information processing efficiency. As expected, patients with MS were slower in reaction time performance on the ANT-I and had poorer performance on the PASAT compared to controls. Patients with MS also demonstrated poorer efficiency in their executive control of attention on the ANT-I, suggesting difficulties with top-down allocation of attention. In addition, the MS group demonstrated greater intra-individual variability in the responses to the ANT-I even when their slower overall response time and other factors such as practice were accounted for. Intra-individual variability was found to best predict group membership compared to PASAT scores and other ANT-I scores. These results suggest that intra-individual variability may provide sensitive, unique and important information regarding cognitive functioning in early MS. (JINS, 2013, 19, 1–8)
Regulation and function of Dbx genes in the zebrafish spinal cord

Dbx homeodomain proteins are important for spinal cord dorsal/ventral patterning and the production of multiple spinal cord cell types. We have examined the regulation and function of Dbx genes in the zebrafish. We report that Hedgehog signaling is not required for the induction or maintenance of these genes; in the absence of Hedgehog signaling, dbx1a/1b/2 are expanded ventrally with concomitant increases in postmitotic neurons that differentiate from this domain. Also, we find that retinoic acid signaling is not required for the induction of Dbx expression. Furthermore, we are the first to report that knockdown of Dbx1 function causes a dorsal expansion of nkx6.2, which is thought to be the cross‐repressive partner of Dbx1 in mouse. Our data confirm that the dbx1a/1b/2 domain in zebrafish spinal cord development behaves similarly to amniotes, while extending knowledge of Dbx1 function in spinal cord patterning. Developmental Dynamics 236:3472–3483, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
POS-tagging of Historical Dutch

We present a study of the adequacy of current methods that are used for POS-tagging historical Dutch texts, as well as an exploration of the influence of employing different techniques to improve upon the current practice. The main focus of this paper is on (unsupervised) methods that are easily adaptable for different domains without requiring extensive manual input. It was found that modernising the spelling of corpora prior to tagging them with a tagger trained on contemporary Dutch results in a large increase in accuracy, but that spelling normalisation alone is not sufficient to obtain state-of-the-art results. The best results were achieved by training a POS-tagger on a corpus automatically annotated by projecting (automatically assigned) POS-tags via word alignments from a contemporary corpus. This result is promising, as it was reached without including any domain knowledge or context dependencies. We argue that the insights of this study combined with semi-supervised learning techniques for domain adaptation can be used to develop a general-purpose diachronic tagger for Dutch.
Induction of striatal pre‐ and postsynaptic damage by methamphetamine requires the dopamine receptors

Methamphetamine (METH) is a psychostimulant that induces excessive release of dopamine (DA) in the striatum. In this study we have assessed the role of DA D1 and D2 receptors (D1R and D2R) on striatal METH‐induced apoptosis and depletion of DA‐terminal markers. Male mice were given one i.p. injection of METH (30 mg/kg). Apoptosis was assessed at 24 h, and DA‐terminal marker depletion 3 days, after METH. A single toxic dose of METH induced apoptosis in approximately 10–13% of striatal neurons. This was completely prevented by pretreatment (30 min before METH) with either the D1R antagonist SCH‐23390 (0.1 mg/kg) or the D2R antagonist raclopride (1 mg/kg). The same dose of METH induced depletion of DA transporter sites up to 61, 56, 71, and 69% in dorsal‐medial, ventral‐medial, dorsal‐lateral, and ventral‐lateral striatum, respectively, relative to vehicle‐injected controls. Similarly, METH induced depletion of TH protein levels up to 80, 72, 87, and 90% in those respective quadrants. METH induced the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein throughout the striatum. All these neurochemical changes were significantly attenuated by pretreatment with SCH‐23390 (0.1 mg/kg) or raclopride (1 mg/kg). However, pretreatment with either raclopride or SCH‐23390 did not prevent METH‐induced hyperthermia in mice. These data demonstrate that the induction by METH of both striatal apoptosis and DA‐terminal damage requires the activity of the postsynaptic DA receptors in the mouse brain. Moreover, since blockade of either receptor subtype protected from METH, the activity of both DA receptor subtypes is required for the induction of toxicity by METH in the striatum. Synapse 58:110–121, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Visual Indication of Interactive 3D Elements in 3D Virtual Environments

In this paper we present the user evaluation results on the indication of interactive three dimensional elements in a virtual environment. The evaluation was conducted with a functional prototype and additional high quality images that were printed on paper sheets. The evaluation indicated that without any visual indication provided in the prototype, participants were not sure which items in the office scene are interactable when they enter to the scene. Also the indication while a user is interacting with the prototype, needs to be distinctive enough. For the visual indication of interactable elements in the virtual environment, participants preferred a glow effect in both circumstances; 1st while they enter to the virtual environment and 2nd while they are interacting with the elements. This information is useful to HCI researchers, 3D UI designers and developers to improve user experiences with virtual environments.
Automatic Classification of Non-Functional Requirements from Augmented App User Reviews

Context: The leading App distribution platforms, Apple App Store, Google Play, and Windows Phone Store, have over 4 million Apps. Research shows that user reviews contain abundant useful information which may help developers to improve their Apps. Extracting and considering Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), which describe a set of quality attributes wanted for an App and are hidden in user reviews, can help developers to deliver a product which meets users' expectations. Objective: Developers need to be aware of the NFRs from massive user reviews during software maintenance and evolution. Automatic user reviews classification based on an NFR standard provides a feasible way to achieve this goal. Method: In this paper, user reviews were automatically classified into four types of NFRs (reliability, usability, portability, and performance), Functional Requirements (FRs), and Others. We combined four classification techniques BoW, TF-IDF, CHI2, and AUR-BoW (proposed in this work) with three machine learning algorithms Naive Bayes, J48, and Bagging to classify user reviews. We conducted experiments to compare the F-measures of the classification results through all the combinations of the techniques and algorithms. Results: We found that the combination of AUR-BoW with Bagging achieves the best result (a precision of 71.4%, a recall of 72.3%, and an F-measure of 71.8%) among all the combinations. Conclusion: Our finding shows that augmented user reviews can lead to better classification results, and the machine learning algorithm Bagging is more suitable for NFRs classification from user reviews than Naïve Bayes and J48.
Pilot trial of a disclosure intervention for HIV+ mothers: the TRACK program.

OBJECTIVE The Teaching, Raising, And Communicating with Kids (TRACK) program was a longitudinal pilot-trial intervention designed to assist mothers living with HIV (MLHs) to disclose their serostatus to their young children (age 6-12 years). METHOD MLH and child dyads (N = 80 dyads) were recruited and randomized to intervention or control; the intervention group had 3 individual sessions and 1 follow-up phone call. The sessions focused on preparing MLHs for disclosure through behavioral exercises using Derlega's model (V. J. Derlega, B. A. Winstead, K. Greene, J. Serovich, & W. N. Elwood, 2004) of HIV disclosure. Both MLHs and their child were assessed across multiple time points (baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months) regarding disclosure of HIV status, and specific outcome variables (i.e., relationship context, mother's health, child's mental health, and family outcomes). RESULTS MLHs in the intervention group were 6 times more likely to disclose their HIV status than those in the control group (OR = 6.33, 95% CI [1.64, 24.45]), with 33% disclosing in the intervention group compared with 7.3% in the control group. MLHs in the intervention group showed increases in disclosure self-efficacy across time, increased communication with their child, and improvement in emotional functioning. Children of MLHs in the intervention group exhibited reductions in depression and anxiety, and increases in happiness. CONCLUSIONS TRACK was found to be successful in helping MLHs disclose their HIV status to their children, with positive outcomes noted for both MLHs and their children.
Short Article: Newly Learned Spoken Words Show Long-Term Lexical Competition Effects

Newly learned spoken words (e.g., “cathedruke”) become fully engaged in the mental lexicon, as measured via lexical competition with their pre-existing phonological neighbours (e.g., “cathedral”), over the course of several hours or days, and this lexical restructuring is associated with sleep (Dumay & Gaskell, 2007). Here, we investigated the longer-term effects of word learning for three sets of novel words learned at different times using phoneme monitoring and repetition tasks. The effects of these exposure sessions on lexical memory were assessed in a battery of tests. Lexical decision latencies to pre-existing neighbouring words showed that lexical competition effects for the novel words remained observable 8 months after initial exposure. Furthermore, the order-of-acquisition of the novel words affected their production speed (but not recognition speed), with an advantage for earlier acquired words. The results suggest that the consolidation of novel words results in a long-term and stable change in the lexical competition process.