Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tenure and Merit Pay as Rewards for Research, Teaching, and Service at a Research University.

This study grew out of a specific question about whether teaching and service affect tenure and merit pay decisions at a research university and from a more general concern with rewards and sanctions in educational institutions. In a perfectly rational system, it might be supposed, an organization such as a university would provide incentives and rewards for behavior that it seeks to encourage and sanctions for what it seeks to discourage [10, pp. 53-54]. To do otherwise would appear dysfunctional. However, Weick [26, 27] has examined the functionality of ambiguous and seemingly disorderly relationships and has suggested that subgroups or components of an organization can be loosely or tightly coupled depending on the degree to which a change in one variable results in changes in other variables in the system. Tight coupling, Weick suggested, is not the only functional way in which variables may be related. Previous research on faculty rewards in colleges and universities has established relatively tight coupling between faculty work in research and institutionally dispensed rewards such as salary and promotion. Fulton and Trow [6], Katz [II], Rossman [19], Siegfried and White [21], and Tuckman and others [22, 23, 24, 25] found statistically significant relationships between publications and salary. In other studies, researchers found that publications were related to salary increments [9], supplemental income [16], assignment to higher-level classes [8], and promotability [20].
Mobility-Aware Load Balancing Scheme in Hybrid VLC-LTE Networks

Visible light communication (VLC) can offload the increasingly heavy traffic in LTE network, improving the spectral and energy efficiency without introducing additional interference. However, developing a scalable load balancing scheme with less handover overheads becomes an issue. In this letter, leveraging the location-sensitive feature of VLC channel, we propose a mobility-aware load balancing scheme to maximize the system utility. The load balance problem is solved by introducing college admission model in a matching theory. The preferences are the measures of system throughput, users' trajectories, and the proposed load fairness index. A system-level simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the considered benchmarks in terms of throughput, handover overheads, and network fairness significantly.
New Methods for Studying Event Occurrence

Early intervention researchers often want to know whether and when critical events occur. Questions about event occurrence can be difficult to answer because of censoring; not everyone in the sample experiences the target event during the period of data collection. Yet for findings to be unbiased and representative, statistical analyses must include both censored and uncensored cases. In this paper, we show how methods of survival analysis are ideally suited for studying event occurrence. Using data describing entry into preschool among children with special needs, we introduce the fundamental statistical quantities—the hazard and survivor function—-and we show how to construct formal statistical models of event occurrence over time. We then identify the different types of predictors that can be included in hazard models and comment on the importance of these models for early intervention research. Finally, we describe how researchers who fail to adopt a survival analysis perspective can be led astray, producing erroneous conclusions about the predictors of event occurrence.
AUDIO BEAT TRACKING EVALUATION : FK 1

In this paper, we present a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based beat tracking system that simultaneously extracts downbeats, beat times, tempo, meter and rhythmic patterns. Our model builds upon the basic structure proposed by Whiteley et. al [7], which we further modified by introducing a new observation model: rhythmic patterns are learned directly from data, which makes the model adaptable to the rhythmical structure of any kind of music. The MIREX beat tracking evaluation 30 results using ten measures and three datasets placed our algorithm among the top ten performing algorithms 18 times. 1. MODEL DESCRIPTION The model structure is identical to the one published in [6]. 2. PARAMETERS For this submission we use the following parameters: • M = 1920 • N = 35 • R = 2 • pn = 0.02 • pr = pt = 0 • r ∈ {3/4, 4/4} • framelength = 20 ms • nmin = {10, 8} • nmax = {30, 35} 3. DATASETS 3.1 Training data Our training set consists of 1016 audio excerpts: 25 training and bonus files from the MIREX 2006 beat tracking contest, 6 musical pieces from [1], 66 pieces from [2], 697 from the ballroom dataset [6], and 222 from the hainsworth dataset [4]. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. c © 2013 International Society for Music Information Retrieval. 3.2 Test data Currently, three evaluation datasets are used in the yearly Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) for audio beat tracking. They are briefly described in this section:
A discourse analysis of student perceptions of their communication competence

Discourse regarding student perceptions of their communication competence was collected from students in geographically diverse university systems in the U.S. These student discourses were analyzed for patterns that revealed shared topics, ideas, and values regarding communication competence in a variety of situations. Three characteristics of student understanding of communication competence emerged from the discourse analysis: (1) a conception of communication competence as quality of performance, (2) conceptions of communication competence that vary from the purely physical to the purely intellectual, and (3) a conception of communication competence as a form of sociality. Discourse analysis, an interpretative methodology in the tradition of constructivism and ethnography, is a demonstrably useful approach to the study of communication competence.
Eel ventricular natriuretic peptide: isolation of a low molecular size form and characterization of plasma form by homologous radioimmunoassay.

Ventricular natriuretic peptide (VNP) with 25 amino acid residues was isolated from the low molecular weight fraction of acid extracts of eel cardiac ventricles. No other short forms of VNP were recovered from the fraction. This peptide was named eel VNP(1-25) because it was a C-terminally truncated form of the previously isolated eel VNP(1-36). As observed before with eel VNP(1-36), eel VNP(1-25) had a much higher (146-fold) vasodepressor activity than human atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in eels, but was a third to a half as active in rats with respect to vasodepressor and natriuretic activities. Eel VNP(1-25) was generally less potent than eel VNP(1-36) for vasodepressor and natriuretic effects. A specific radioimmunoassay (RIA) has been developed for the measurement of eel VNP. The antiserum, raised against eel VNP(1-36), was highly specific and did not exhibit significant cross-reactivity with eel ANP and C-type natriuretic peptide, even though their amino acid sequences have more than 60% homology with that of eel VNP. The sensitivity of assay was 0.5 fmol/tube for eel VNP(1-36) with more than 99% confidence. Such high sensitivity permitted direct assaying of VNP with only a few microliters of plasma. In fresh water eels, the concentration of VNP in the cardiac ventricle was higher than those in the atrium or brain and that of ANP in the ventricle. Thus, VNP seems to be a ventricular hormone. Although ANP is a major circulating hormone in mammals, the plasma concentration of VNP was threefold higher than that of ANP. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Parents' attitudes towards inclusion of students with autism in Jordan

This study investigated the attitudes of parents in Jordan towards the inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in public schools and what the parents believed to be the most important prerequisite of child-based skills for successful inclusion. A total of 148 parents were selected to complete the survey. The researchers explored whether variable demographic characteristics such as age, student's gender, parent's gender, education levels, monthly income, and high- or low-function ASD correlated with the attitudes of parents towards inclusion of students with ASD in public schools. The analyses revealed that the variables that correlated with parents' attitudes towards inclusion were education levels and high- or low-function ASD. The themes behind the parents' attitude for inclusion are discussed. With regard to the prerequisite skills for successful inclusion, the results indicated that parents recommended independent skills, playing skills, behavioural skills, imitation skills, routine skills, social skills, paying attention skills, language skills, and pre-academic and academic skills in that order.
Gene Silencing of Human Neuronal Cells for Drug Addiction Therapy using Anisotropic Nanocrystals

Theranostic platform integrating diagnostic imaging and therapeutic function into a single system has become a new direction of nanoparticle research. In the process of treatment, therapeutic efficacy is monitored. The use of theranostic nanoparticle can add an additional "layer" to keep track on the therapeutic agent such as the pharmacokinetics and biodistribution. In this report, we have developed quantum rod (QR) based formulations for the delivery of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to human neuronal cells. PEGlyated QRs with different surface functional groups (amine and maleimide) were designed for selectively down-regulating the dopaminergic signaling pathway which is associated with the drug abuse behavior. We have demonstrated that the DARPP-32 siRNAs were successfully delivered to dopaminergic neuronal (DAN) cells which led to drastic knockdown of specific gene expression by both the electrostatic and covalent bond conjugation regimes. The PEGlyated surface offered high biocompatibilities and negligible cytotoxicities to the QR formulations that may facilitate the in vivo applications of these nanoparticles.
Call by Meaning

Software development involves stitching existing components together. These data/service components are usually not well understood, as they are made by others and often obtained from somewhere on the Internet. This makes software development a daunting challenge, requiring programmers to manually discover the resources they need, understand their capabilities, adapt these resources to their needs, and update the system as external components change. Software researchers have long realized the problem why automation seems impossible: the lack of semantic "understanding" on the part of the machine about those components. A multitude of solutions have been proposed under the umbrella term Semantic Web (SW), in which semantic markup of the components with concepts from semantic ontologies and the ability to invoke queries over those concepts enables a form of automated discovery and mediation among software services. On another front, programming languages rarely provide mechanisms for anchoring objects/data to real-world concepts. Inspired by the aspirations of SW, in this paper we reformulate its visions from the perspective of a programming model, i.e., that components themselves should be able to interact using semantic ontologies, rather than having a separate markup language and composition platform. In the vision, a rich specification language and common sense knowledge base over real-world concepts serves as a lingua franca to describe software components. Components can query the system to automatically (1) discover other components that provide needed functionality/data (2) discover the appropriate API within that component in order to obtain what is intended, and even (3) implicitly interpret the provided data in the desired form independent of the form originally presented by the provider component. By demonstrating a successful case of realization of this vision on a microexample, we hope to show how a programming languages (PL) approach to SW can be superior to existing engineered solutions, since the generality and expressiveness in the language can be harnessed, and encourage PL researchers to jump on the SW bandwagon.
Mininet Performance Fidelity Benchmarks

This initial Mininet technical report evaluates the performance fidelity of the Mininet/Mininet-HiFi system by examining results from two classes of experiments: link tests (section 2) and microbenchmarks (section 3.) This is a work in progress which will be updated as we develop more tests as well as a deeper understanding of the performance and timing characteristics of Mininet/Mininet-HiFi and Container-Based Emulation techniques.
Blast-Parallel: The parallelizing implementation of sequence alignment algorithms based on Hadoop platform

The sequence alignment is a basic method for processing the information in Bioinformatics, it has a great significance for finding the function and the structure of nucleic acids and protein sequences and the information of evolution. This paper briefly describes the relevant issues of sequence alignment and the most common local sequence alignment algorithms, Blast algorithm. At present, the Blast algorithm which provided by NCBI or stand-alone can not meet the actual demand for the flood of biological data, this paper achieves the Blast-Parallel algorithm by further improvement based on the Hadoop-Blast algorithm. Through serial experiments of the stand-alone Blast algorithm and parallelizing experiments of the Hadoop-Blast algorithm and the Blast-Parallel algorithm based on Hadoop platform, results show that the Blast algorithm has significantly higher execution efficiency after the parallelization, and the matching speed of the Blast-Parallel algorithm which has been improved can achieve 1~1.5 times of the Hadoop-Blast algorithm.
Propofol Attenuates Small Intestinal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury through Inhibiting NADPH Oxidase Mediated Mast Cell Activation

Both oxidative stress and mast cell (MC) degranulation participate in the process of small intestinal ischemia reperfusion (IIR) injury, and oxidative stress induces MC degranulation. Propofol, an anesthetic with antioxidant property, can attenuate IIR injury. We postulated that propofol can protect against IIR injury by inhibiting oxidative stress subsequent from NADPH oxidase mediated MC activation. Cultured RBL-2H3 cells were pretreated with antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC) or propofol and subjected to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) stimulation without or with MC degranulator compound 48/80 (CP). H2O2 significantly increased cells degranulation, which was abolished by NAC or propofol. MC degranulation by CP further aggravated H2O2 induced cell degranulation of small intestinal epithelial cell, IEC-6 cells, stimulated by tryptase. Rats subjected to IIR showed significant increases in cellular injury and elevations of NADPH oxidase subunits p47phox and gp91phox protein expression, increases of the specific lipid peroxidation product 15-F2t-Isoprostane and interleukin-6, and reductions in superoxide dismutase activity with concomitant enhancements in tryptase and β-hexosaminidase. MC degranulation by CP further aggravated IIR injury. And all these changes were attenuated by NAC or propofol pretreatment, which also abrogated CP-mediated exacerbation of IIR injury. It is concluded that pretreatment of propofol confers protection against IIR injury by suppressing NADPH oxidase mediated MC activation.
Hodgkin disease (1973–2002): long-term survival and cure fractions

Abstract The Nottinghamshire Lymphoma Registry contains the details of all patients diagnosed with lymphoma (since 1 January 1973) within a defined geographical area with a stable population of 1.1 million. The aim of this study was to investigate the relative survival and estimate the cure fraction for patients with Hodgkin disease (HD) using various cure fraction models. Five- and 10-year survival was estimated in comparison to the general population of the same age, gender and year of diagnosis. Relative survival probabilities at 10 years were 52.3% for the 1973–1982 cohort, 67.8% (1983–1992) and 75.7% (1993–2002). The estimated cured fraction (π) was 45%, 65% and 75%, respectively, for the same cohorts. There was very little excess mortality after 4 years from treatment. The prognosis of patients with HD has improved progressively within a defined unselected population over this 30-year period. In the 1993–2002 cohort the prognosis after 4 years of treatment is almost the same as for a normal population.
Seeing the messiness of academic practice: exploring the work of academics through narrative

This paper illustrates the use of narrative as a means of examining the complex array of factors that shape academic practice. Through focusing on the personal, using the narrative voice of the participants, a series of situated perspectives on the journey towards academic life, and more specifically teaching, is presented. The paper argues that teaching is a highly complex enterprise that is shaped by a multitude of factors and so should be examined in a range of ways in order to uncover the richness of practice. The study is based on a set of qualitative interviews from which a small sample of narratives has been extracted. These narratives illustrate the multiple and often ambiguous nature of academic practice and of teaching in particular, and hence can inform the work of academic developers by providing a rich and more personal understanding.
Reproducible operating margins on a 72 800-device digital superconducting chip

We report the design and test of reciprocal quantum logic shift-register yield vehicles consisting of up to 72 800 Josephson junction devices per die, the largest digital superconducting circuits ever reported. Multiple physical layout styles were matched to the MIT Lincoln Laboratory foundry, which supports processes with both four and eight metal layers and minimum feature size of 0.5 μm. The largest individual circuits with 40 400 junctions indicate large operating margins of ±20% on ac clock amplitude. In one case the data were reproducible to the accuracy of the measurement, ±1% across five thermal cycles using only the rudimentary precautions of passive mu-metal magnetic shielding and a controlled cool-down rate of 3 mK s−1 in the test fixture. We conclude that with proper mitigation techniques, flux-trapping is no longer a limiting consideration for very-large-scale-integration of superconductor digital logic.
Differential cross sections and recoil polarizations for the reaction γp→K+Σ0

High-statistics measurements of differential cross sections and recoil polarizations for the reaction. gamma p -> K(+)Sigma(0) have been obtained using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. We cover center-of-mass energies (root s) from 1.69 to 2.84 GeV, with an extensive coverage in the K+ production angle. Independent measurements were made using the K(+) p pi(-)(gamma) and K(+) p(pi(-),gamma) final-state topologies, and were found to exhibit good agreement. Our differential cross sections show good agreement with earlier CLAS, SAPHIR, and LEPS results, while offering better statistical precision and a 300-MeV increase in root s coverage. Above root s approximate to 2.5 GeV, t- and u-channel Regge scaling behavior can be seen at forward and backward angles, respectively. Our recoil polarization (P(Sigma)) measurements represent a substantial increase in kinematic coverage and enhanced precision over previous world data. At forward angles, we find that P(Sigma) is of the same order of magnitude but opposite sign as P(A,) in agreement with the static SU(6) quark model prediction of P(Sigma) approximate to P(A). This expectation is violated in some mid-and backward-angle kinematic regimes, where P(Sigma) and P(Sigma) are of similar magnitudes but also have the same signs. In conjunction with several other meson photoproduction results recently published by CLAS, the present data will help constrain the partial-wave analyses being performed to search for missing baryon resonances.
3B-1 Flaw Detection in Layered Media Based on Parametric Modeling of Overlapping Ultrasonic Echoes

In materials consisting of several thin layers, multiple reflections within the structure give rise to received ultrasonic signals composed of overlapping echoes. In this paper we present a parametric model that can be used to decompose such signals into the individual reflections. We derive a maximum likelihood estimator for the the model parameters, which are then used in a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) to detect flaws in multi-layered structures. We show with simulations how the presence of a thin bonding layer in a three-layer structure can be detected. The probability of detection is shown to be ap96%, for a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 15 dB and a probability of false alarm of 5 %
FedDW global schema architect: UML-based design tool for the integration of data mart schemas

Extending analytical decision making beyond the boundaries of a single organization is a key challenge of modern Business Intelligence systems. Federated Data Warehouses (FDWs) are an important cornerstone to this end, offering new opportunities for business collaboration and similar scenarios. The FedDW approach provides such a federated architecture with a mediated multidimensional schema over autonomous data marts---with advantages for both, OLAP users and data warehouse administrators. Users comfortably access the global mediated schema with traditional OLAP applications while administrators retain full schema and data management autonomy. Although the underlying concepts are mature, comprehensive design tools for FDWs remain an open issue. To tackle the challenge, this paper presents FedDW Global Schema Architect (GSA), a visual design tool for federations of autonomous ROLAP data marts. FedDW integrates data marts at the schema level which avoids the laborious and error-prone physical DW integration. GSA manages all metadata--the global mediated schema, the import schemas, and the semantic mappings repairing multidimensional heterogeneity among the data marts--within one and the same tool. Its implementation employs the extension mechanisms of Eclipse and is based on the UML and CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel) standards. Thus, the tool is extensible, intuitive for its users, and supports DW platforms of multiple vendors.
Rationality and Revolution

Part 1 Political entrepreneurs and peasant movements in vietnam, Samuel L. Popkin: rationaly and revolutionary collective action, Michael Taylor rational outlaws - rebels and bandits in the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, James Tong the radicalism of tradition and the question of class struggle, Craig Jackson Calhoun. Part 2 workers' welfare and the socialization of capital, Michael Wallerstein and Adam Przeworski Marx, revolution and rational choice, Jon elster rationalizing revolutionary ideology, John E. Roemer the logic of relative frustation.