Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NutriSonic web expert system for meal management and nutrition counseling with nutrient time-series analysis, e-food exchange and easy data transition

This study was conducted to develop the NutriSonic Web Expert System for Meal Management and Nutrition Counseling with Analysis of User's Nutritive Changes of selected days and food exchange information with easy data transition. This program manipulates a food, menu and meal and search database that has been developed. Also, the system provides a function to check the user's nutritive change of selected days. Users can select a recommended general and therapeutic menu using this system. NutriSonic can analyze nutrients and e-food exchange ("e" means the food exchange data base calculated by a computer program) in menus and meals. The expert can insert and store a meal database and generate the synthetic information of age, sex and therapeutic purpose of disease. With investigation and analysis of the user's needs, the meal planning program on the internet has been continuously developed. Users are able to follow up their nutritive changes with nutrient information and ratio of 3 major energy nutrients. Also, users can download another data format like Excel files (.xls) for analysis and verify their nutrient time-series analysis. The results of analysis are presented quickly and accurately. Therefore it can be used by not only usual people, but also by dietitians and nutritionists who take charge of making a menu and experts in the field of food and nutrition. It is expected that the NutriSonic Web Expert System can be useful for nutrition education, nutrition counseling and expert meal management.
Psychometric Properties of the Boredom Proneness Scale

A factor analysis of the data from 154 subjects answering Farmer and Sundberg's (1986) boredom proneness scale allowed estimates of reliability and construct validity and the identification of two independent factors, apathy and inattention. Correlations of these factors and the total test scores were made with measures of extraversion and depression and the scores on a simple repetitive task. The results suggest that boredom is associated with extroversion and depression, and that this association is based on shared characteristics within the inattention factor and lack of interest in the environment.
Resilience in language learners and the relationship to storytelling

Abstract International students, who study a foreign language abroad, experience more adversities than their domestic peers. The social challenges they face include problems with immigration status, isolation, difficulty speaking a new language, and learning unfamiliar customs. There is limited research focused on the coping strategies of these individuals. A growing body of research suggests storytelling may provide an important role in promoting resilience, defined as an individual’s ability to bounce back or recover from stress. The study investigated possible relationships between experiencing storytelling as a child and adult resilience. The sample consisted of 21 international college students studying Chinese or English. Students were examined with a survey, a narrative interview, and the brief resilience scale. Data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative results produced significant correlations between resilience scores and the survey scores for adults who reported using storytelling in their own teaching of a second language to peers and children. Qualitative results identified five protective factors for resilience: (1) social competence, (2) problem-solving skills, (3) autonomy, (4) sense of purpose, and (5) use of storytelling. Implications of the findings for research and intervention are discussed.
AutoClass@IJM: a powerful tool for Bayesian classification of heterogeneous data in biology

Recently, several theoretical and applied studies have shown that unsupervised Bayesian classification systems are of particular relevance for biological studies. However, these systems have not yet fully reached the biological community mainly because there are few freely available dedicated computer programs, and Bayesian clustering algorithms are known to be time consuming, which limits their usefulness when using personal computers. To overcome these limitations, we developed AutoClass@IJM, a computational resource with a web interface to AutoClass, a powerful unsupervised Bayesian classification system developed by the Ames Research Center at N.A. S.A. AutoClass has many powerful features with broad applications in biological sciences: (i) it determines the number of classes automatically, (ii) it allows the user to mix discrete and real valued data, (iii) it handles missing values. End users upload their data sets through our web interface; computations are then queued in our cluster server. When the clustering is completed, an URL to the results is sent back to the user by e-mail. AutoClass@IJM is freely available at: http://ytat2.ijm. univ-paris-diderot.fr/AutoclassAtIJM.html.
Employee adjustment to an organizational merger: stress, coping and intergroup differences

The present study was designed to test the utility of a stress-coping model of employee adjustment to organizational change. The model was based on the view that an understanding of the determinants of employee adjustment to this type of work stress lies in gaining knowledge about the event characteristics, how the event is appraised, the coping strategies used in response to the change and the extent of the employee's coping resources (neuroticism and social support). Data were collected from 662 fleet staff (mainly pilots) employed in a newly merged airline company. Structural equation analyses provided support for the role of each of the components of the proposed model of employee adjustment - as expected, there was some evidence that both situational appraisals and coping responses mediated the effects of the event characteristics and coping resources on adjustment. Adopting an intergroup perspective, the research was also designed to compare the situational appraisals, coping responses and adjustment of the employees of the two premerger companies (a domestic and an international airline). In accord with predictions derived from social identity theory, the employees of the premerger domestic company had the most positive reactions to the merger, presumably because the merger offered them the opportunity to improve their social identity.
Chinese Word Segmentation in ICT-NLP

Chinese word segmentation is always much accounted of in ICT-NLP. In this bakeoff, two different systems in ICT-NLP participated. The one is SYSTEM_#1 evaluated in three tracks -- PK-close, MSR-close and MSR-open, and SYSTEM_#2 PK-open. Through this bakeoff , the development of Chinese segmentation is learned and the problems are found in our systems.
Political choices: the role of political skill in occupational choice

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate how political skill relates to career decisions and occupational fit.Design/methodology/approach – The study utilizes undergraduate business majors to determine how their level of political skill influences their choice of career/major in a Holland‐type framework. Hypotheses are tested using logistic regression.Findings – The paper finds that there is general support for the proposition that political skill influences the pursuit of social and enterprising majors/careers.Research limitations/implications – While choice of major is a strong indicator of occupational choice, it is not a direct measure of individual careers. However, the results provide insight regarding how organizational politics relates to individual careers and suggests the need for further study.Practical implications – The paper provides a valuable additional factor for assessing career fit.Originality/value – This paper is the first to critically examine organizational politics w.
Supporting Component-Based Reuse in CARE

The increased reliance on software in critical applications suggests a greater need for formal methods to be used in the development of such software. A number of formal languages and toolsets exist for developing formally specified and verified software; however experience tells us that the development of formally verified software, even with the current tool support, is an expensive process.By adopting a component-based development methodology, whereby software is developed from reusable components, significant savings can be made. In particular the amount of proof --- arguably the most expensive and difficult part of formal development --- can be greatly reduced by proving the correctness of reusable components once, off-line, prior to their use.Tools are required which support the user in adapting and retrieving components from libraries of formally specified components. This paper describes extensions to the CARE toolset that support adaptation and retrieval of reusable components.
Researching pupils, schools and oneself. Teachers as integrators of theory and practice in initial teacher education

Researching can be viewed as a way of analysing issues of schooling by linking theoretical knowledge with perceptions of educational reality already during teacher education. Not only does practicing teaching provide a context for analysing instruction, learning, school culture, diversity, or any other issue related to schooling, also researching these issues provides future teachers opportunity to view schooling as complex and problematic. This case study surveyed and interviewed a group of recently graduated teachers who had worked as teachers during their education. The interest was on their experiences of M.A. thesis research as well as the integration of theory and practice during the education. The respondents had experienced researching as useful as well as meaningful, although they also had development ideas concerning it.
Characteristics of prospective memory deficits in HIV-seropositive substance-dependent individuals: Preliminary observations

The construct of “prospective memory” (PM) refers to a type of episodic memory for a future intention or “remembering what one must do. ” This function has been proposed as a candidate mechanism underlying behaviors of critical importance in HIV disease, including adherence with medication regimens and continued engagement in risk behavior. We administered tasks of time-based and event-based prospective memory and control tasks of retrospective and working memory to 31 HIV-seropositive and 35 HIV-seronegative substance-dependent individuals (SDIs). We found that compared with HIV− controls HIV+ participants showed deficits in time-based but not event-based PM. Retrospective, but not working, memory performance correlated significantly with time-based PM performance. In addition, performance on the time-based PM task was a significant predictor of scores on a self-report measure of risky sexual and injection practices. These preliminary data provide new and unique findings regarding the components of executive function mediated by prefrontal cortical systems that are impaired among HIV+ SDIs and their relevance to “real-world” behaviors.
Where the action is

Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "embodied interaction" -- an approach to interacting with software systems that emphasizes skilled, engaged practice rather than disembodied rationality -- reflects the phenomenological approaches of Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other twentieth-century philosophers. The phenomenological tradition emphasizes the primacy of natural practice over abstract cognition in everyday activity. Dourish shows how this perspective can shed light on the foundational underpinnings of current research on embodied interaction. He looks in particular at how tangible and social approaches to interaction are related, how they can be used to analyze and understand embodied interaction, and how they could affect the design of future interactive systems.
Parameterized unit tests

Parameterized unit tests extend the current industry practice of using closed unit tests defined as parameterless methods. Parameterized unit tests separate two concerns: 1) They specify the external behavior of the involved methods for all test arguments. 2) Test cases can be re-obtained as traditional closed unit tests by instantiating the parameterized unit tests. Symbolic execution and constraint solving can be used to automatically choose a minimal set of inputs that exercise a parameterized unit test with respect to possible code paths of the implementation. In addition, parameterized unit tests can be used as symbolic summaries which allows symbolic execution to scale for arbitrary abstraction levels. We have developed a prototype tool which computes test cases from parameterized unit tests. We report on its first use testing parts of the . NET base class library.
Musical Abilities and Sex Differences in the Analysis of Aural-Musical Capacities

and environment in the development of musicality is difficult to obtain. Evidence from experimental studies requires cautious evaluation because one cannot entirely ignore the partisan spirit in which many investigations have been conducted. In a short article such as this, it is impracticable to do more than refer the reader to standard texts such as Kwalwasser,, Farnsworth, or Lundin, for summaries and discussion of early research findings.1 The extreme llereditarian standpoint is presented in Shuter's detailed account of research, The Psychology of Musical Ability.2 Earlier, in her doctoral dissertation, Shuter reported the findings of an investigation into hereditary and environmental factors in musical ability.3 An unsatisfactory aspect of this study was the investigator's inability to draw any conclusions from her own experimental results with respect to the influence of environmental factors. She stated that tllis was due to the small size of her samples. In her l)ooks Shuter interprets research data to support the view that musical aptitude is largely innate because it tends to run in families and to appear early in one's life.4
Fundamental principles in periodontal plastic surgery and mucosal augmentation--a narrative review.

AIM To provide a narrative review of the current literature elaborating on fundamental principles of periodontal plastic surgical procedures. METHODS Based on a presumptive outline of the narrative review, MESH terms have been used to search the relevant literature electronically in the PubMed and Cochrane Collaboration databases. If possible, systematic reviews were included. The review is divided into three phases associated with periodontal plastic surgery: a) pre-operative phase, b) surgical procedures and c) post-surgical care. The surgical procedures were discussed in the light of a) flap design and preparation, b) flap mobilization and c) flap adaptation and stabilization. RESULTS Pre-operative paradigms include the optimal plaque control and smoking counselling. Fundamental principles in surgical procedures address basic knowledge in anatomy and vascularity, leading to novel appropriate flap designs with papilla preservation. Flap mobilization based on releasing incisions can be performed up to 5 mm. Flap adaptation and stabilization depend on appropriate wound bed characteristics, undisturbed blood clot formation, revascularization and wound stability through adequate suturing. CONCLUSION Delicate tissue handling and tension free wound closure represent prerequisites for optimal healing outcomes.
Site-directed mutations at D1-His198 and D2-His197 of photosystem II in Synechocystis PCC 6803: sites of primary charge separation and cation and triplet stabilization.

Site-directed mutations were introduced to replace D1-His198 and D2-His197 of the D1 and D2 polypeptides, respectively, of the photosystem II (PSII) reaction center of Synechocystis PCC 6803. These residues coordinate chlorophylls P(A) and P(B) which are homologous to the special pair Bchlorophylls of the bacterial reaction centers that are coordinated respectively by histidines L-173 and M-200 (202). P(A) and P(B) together serve as the primary electron donor, P, in purple bacterial reaction centers. In PS II, the site-directed mutations at D1 His198 affect the P(+)--P-absorbance difference spectrum. The bleaching maximum in the Soret region (in WT at 433 nm) is blue-shifted by as much as 3 nm. In the D1 His198Gln mutant, a similar displacement to the blue is observed for the bleaching maximum in the Q(y) region (672.5 nm in WT at 80 K), whereas features attributed to a band shift centered at 681 nm are not altered. In the Y(Z*)--Y(Z)-difference spectrum, the band shift of a reaction center chlorophyll centered in WT at 433--434 nm is shifted by 2--3 nm to the blue in the D1-His198Gln mutant. The D1-His198Gln mutation has little effect on the optical difference spectrum, (3)P--(1)P, of the reaction center triplet formed by P(+)Pheo(-) charge recombination (bleaching at 681--684 nm), measured at 5--80 K, but becomes visible as a pronounced shoulder at 669 nm at temperatures > or =150 K. Measurements of the kinetics of oxidized donor--Q(A)(-) charge recombination and of the reduction of P(+) by redox active tyrosine, Y(Z), indicate that the reduction potential of the redox couple P(+)/P can be appreciably modulated both positively and negatively by ligand replacement at D1-198 but somewhat less so at D2-197. On the basis of these observations and others in the literature, we propose that the monomeric accessory chlorophyll, B(A), is a long-wavelength trap located at 684 nm at 5 K. B(A)* initiates primary charge separation at low temperature, a function that is increasingly shared with P(A)* in an activated process as the temperature rises. Charge separation from B(A)* would be potentially very fast and form P(A)(+)B(A)(-) and/or B(A)(+)Pheo(-) as observed in bacterial reaction centers upon direct excitation of B(A) (van Brederode, M. E., et al. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. 96, 2054--2059). The cation, generated upon primary charge separation in PSII, is stabilized at all temperatures primarily on P(A), the absorbance spectrum of which is displaced to the blue by the mutations. In WT, the cation is proposed to be shared to a minor extent (approximately 20%) with P(B), the contribution of which can be modulated up or down by mutation. The band shift at 681 nm, observed in the P(+)-P difference spectrum, is attributed to an electrochromic effect of P(A)(+) on neighboring B(A). Because of its low-energy singlet and therefore triplet state, the reaction center triplet state is stabilized on B(A) at < or =80 K but can be shared with P(A) at >80 K in a thermally activated process.
A Multimodal Model of Child Language Acquisition at the One-Word Stage

We present a multimodal neural network model of child language acquisition at the one-word stage that is inspired by current views on brain processing which suggest that information in the brain is ultimately stored in a common amodal set of conceptual representations. Our model takes into account a child's perceived communicative intention and simulates both ostensive and non-ostensive utterances using the same unsupervised network. This is contrary to some models of child language acquisition, and in line with current psycholinguistic views on child language processing at the one-word stage. When trained on natural child language data, our model learns to categorise the speech utterances and to generalise to new utterances. In addition, our model exhibits a U-shaped learning trajectory as well as a vocabulary spurt, in agreement with observations made in studies of child language acquisition at the one-word stage.
Improving communication security of open source UAVs: Encrypting radio control link

Safety and reliability (also referred to as airworthiness) are well-known factors of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations, and significant effort has been put into maintaining and improving them for everyday UAV users. Cyber-security, on the other hand, gained attention only recently. Currently, a malicious user can relatively easily disturb operation or even seize control of the most popular open-source UAVs, as a result of their poor communications security (COMSEC). Even though solutions to improve UAV's COMSEC are known, they have not been fully implemented in a user-friendly way. The contribution of the paper is an implementation of an encrypted Radio Control (RC) link that can be used with a number of popular RC transmitters. We use Galois Embedded Crypto library, an ArduinoLibs Crypto library together with openLRSng open- source radio project. We provide some lessons learned during development, implementation, and testing so users wishing to use their own encrypted link can leverage our work.
Queries by visual content using fuzzy similarity measures on regional descriptions

This paper introduces a new CBIR system based on segmented images and fuzzy similarity measures. It gives the possibility to the user to specify a set of regions, and to retrieve images containing these regions in an approximate spatial configuration. It also supports competitive queries, and allows the expert-user to manipulate the parameters of the functions involved. In this manuscript we focus in the architectural aspects of the system.
Two Novel Transcriptional Regulators Are Essential for Infection-related Morphogenesis and Pathogenicity of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

The cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase A signaling pathway plays a major role in regulating plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Here, we report the identification of two novel genes, MoSOM1 and MoCDTF1, which were discovered in an insertional mutagenesis screen for non-pathogenic mutants of M. oryzae. MoSOM1 or MoCDTF1 are both necessary for development of spores and appressoria by M. oryzae and play roles in cell wall differentiation, regulating melanin pigmentation and cell surface hydrophobicity during spore formation. MoSom1 strongly interacts with MoStu1 (Mstu1), an APSES transcription factor protein, and with MoCdtf1, while also interacting more weakly with the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A (CpkA) in yeast two hybrid assays. Furthermore, the expression levels of MoSOM1 and MoCDTF1 were significantly reduced in both Δmac1 and ΔcpkA mutants, consistent with regulation by the cAMP/PKA signaling pathway. MoSom1-GFP and MoCdtf1-GFP fusion proteins localized to the nucleus of fungal cells. Site-directed mutagenesis confirmed that nuclear localization signal sequences in MoSom1 and MoCdtf1 are essential for their sub-cellular localization and biological functions. Transcriptional profiling revealed major changes in gene expression associated with loss of MoSOM1 during infection-related development. We conclude that MoSom1 and MoCdtf1 functions downstream of the cAMP/PKA signaling pathway and are novel transcriptional regulators associated with cellular differentiation during plant infection by the rice blast fungus.