Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Self-disclosures, Impression Formation, and Biases in Web 2.0

The first decade of the 21 century has witnessed the rise of Web 2.0 technologies that allow users to create and share content online with friends – and strangers alike. These technologies have generated an ‘enthusiasm for sharing’ as well as privacy concerns that researchers, organizations and policy makers often measure and debate. After introducing the trade-offs of information sharing (Chapter 1), I investigate one of the antecedents of willingness to share personal information – namely, perceived control – as a possible explanation for the success of online social media, notwithstanding people’s diffuse concern for privacy protection. The results challenge the consensus view of control as a sufficient means of privacy protection, since increased perceived control may lead to higher self-disclosure, even in situations of higher objective risks (Chapter 2). I then examine some of the consequences that public disclosures entail in terms of impression formation and reputation building for the person who discloses information. It could be argued that online disclosures, even if embarrassing or incriminating, will soon stop representing diagnostic information about people – either because we will forget about them as time passes (Chapter 3), or because, as social norms about disclosure change, the majority of people will soon be tainted by embarrassing online records, which may contribute to render them more lenient towards others’ disclosures (Chapter 4). The results of studies in Chapters 3 and 4 challenge this view, and suggest that online disclosures may have a long lasting effect on impression formation.
Universe and Matter conjectured as a 3-dimensional Lattice with Topological Singularities

One fundamental problem of modern physics is the search for a theory of everything able to explain the nature of space-time, what matter is and how matter interacts. There are various propositions, as Grand Unified Theory, Quantum Gravity, Supersymmetry, String and Superstring Theories, and M-Theory. However, none of them is able to consistently explain at the present and same time electromagnetism, relativity, gravitation, quantum physics and observed elementary particles. In this paper, one summarizes the content of a new book, published in English [2] and in French [3], in which it is suggested that Universe could be a massive elastic 3D-lattice, and that fundamental building blocks of Ordinary Matter could consist of topological singularities of this lattice, namely diverse dislocation loops and disclination loops. For an isotropic elastic lattice obeying Newton’s law, with specific assumptions on its elastic properties, one obtains the result that the behaviours of this lattice and of its topological defects display “all” known physics, unifying electromagnetism, relativity, gravitation and quantum physics, and resolving some longstanding questions of modern cosmology. Moreover, studying lattices with axial symmetries, represented by “colored” cubic 3D-lattices, one has identified a lattice structure whose topological defect loops coincide with the complex zoology of elementary particles, which could open a very promising field of research. Here, only main steps and principal results of the new theory are presented and discussed, without showing the mathematical concepts and developments contained in the book.
Using MP3 Players in Surveys The Impact of a Low-Tech Self-Administration Mode on Reporting of Sensitive Attitudes

This article introduces an inexpensive, low-tech audio-Selfadministered Questionnaire that uses a basic mp3 player (mp3/aSaQ) and compares its performance in collecting data about sensitive attitudes with a number of alternatives, including a face-to-face survey. The paper compares five administration procedures in an experiment conducted in a survey on sensitive caste-related attitudes in rural India. respondents in the mp3/aSaQ group listened to a prerecorded instrument that presented them with a number of first-person statements made by “respondents like [them],” entered their responses on an answer sheet using simple shapes and logos, and finally placed their form in a bolted ballot box. Like previous studies evaluating self-administration techniques, our study indicates that the mp3/aSaQ significantly increased socially undesirable answers, as compared with an equivalent face-to-face interview. comparisons with additional administration procedures suggest that when self-administration is combined with the use of earphones the threat of bystander disapproval (as opposed to interviewer disapproval) is reduced by effectively isolating respondents from their social environment.
Gaming Technology in Cultural Heritage Systems

This paper describes the design and implementation of an interactive walk-through of a reconstructed German stronghold, the Dillenburg. The application is currently in use at the local museum. Applying technologies and algorithms primarily used for the development of realistic 3D computer games, we present a system that can be categorized as a Serious Gaming environment, a term that has recently come into existence. More specifically, it can be called a Cultural Heritage Game. With this paper we want to give a programmer’s view on the topic of interactive cultural heritage systems.
Policies Based Intrusion Response System for DBMS

Relational databases are built on Relational Model proposed by Dr. E. F. Codd. The relational model has become a consistent and widely used DBMS in the world. The databases in this model are efficient in storing and retrieval of data besides providing authentication through credentials. However, there might be many other attacks apart from stealing credentials and intruding database. Adversaries may always try to intrude into the relational database for monetary or other gains [1]. The relational databases are subjected to malicious attacks as they hold the valuable business data which is sensitive in nature. Monitoring such database continuously is a task which is inevitable keeping the importance of database in mind. This is a strategy that is in top five database strategies as identified by Gartner research which are meant for getting rid of data leaks in organizations [2]. There are regulations from governments like US with respect to managing data securely. The data management like HIAPP, GLBA, and PCI etc. is mentioned in the regulations as examples.
Cardiovascular diseases in patients 65 years and younger with non-cardiogenic stroke

Introduction Approximately 10–15% of patients with stroke are under 65 years of age. The aim of the study was to determine types of stroke In people below 65. We analysed the incidence and types of associated cardiovascular diseases in patients with non-cardiogenic stroke. Material and methods In this prospective study patients (aged ≤ 65) with stroke underwent physical examination, computed tomography of the head, blood tests, electrocardiogram, echocardiography, and transcranial and carotid artery ultrasound. Classification of stroke was performed according to the ASCOD scale. Analysis considered the incidence of heart diseases in patients with non-cardiogenic stroke and the incidence of heart diseases recognised as a cause of cerebral embolism in patients with cardiogenic stroke. Results The study included 611 patients with stroke at the age of 27–65 (mean: 57.2 ±6.7; M/F 380/231). Stroke of heterogeneous aetiology was observed in 321 patients, cardiogenic stroke in 78, and stroke caused by small vessel and carotid artery disease in 73 and 72 patients, respectively. The most common heart diseases in non-cardiogenic stroke patients included persistent foramen ovale, coronary heart disease and past myocardial infarction. The most common causes of cardiogenic embolism were cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation and interatrial septal defect. Conclusions Aetiologically heterogeneous stroke and cardiogenic stroke are the most commonly observed among young stroke patients. Cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation are the most common sources of cerebral embolism in young patients with cardiogenic stroke. Nearly 1/5 of patients with a non-cardiogenic stroke have congenital or acquired structural changes in the heart.
Increased levels of serum MAP-2 at 6-months correlate with improved outcome in survivors of severe traumatic brain injury

Objective: To evaluate microtubule-associated proteins (MAP-2), a dendritic marker of both acute damage and chronic neuronal regeneration after injury, in serum of survivors after severe TBI and examine the association with long-term outcome. Methods: Serum concentrations of MAP-2 were evaluated in 16 patients with severe TBI (Glasgow Coma Scale score [GCS] ≤ 8) 6 months post-injury and in 16 controls. Physical and cognitive outcomes were assessed, using the Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE) and Levels of Cognitive Functioning Scale (LCFS), respectively. Results: Severe TBI patients had significantly higher serum MAP-2 concentrations than normal controls with no history of TBI (p = 0.008) at 6 months post-injury. MAP-2 levels correlated with the GOSE (r = 0.58, p = 0.02) and LCFS (r = 0.65, p = 0.007) at month 6. Significantly lower serum levels of MAP-2 were observed in patients in a vegetative state (VS) compared to non-VS patients (p < 0.05). A trend tracking the level of consciousness was observed. Conclusions: Severe TBI results in a chronic release of MAP-2 into the peripheral circulation in patients with higher levels of consciousness, suggesting that remodelling of synaptic junctions and neuroplasticity processes occur several months after injury. The data indicate MAP-2 as a potential marker for emergence to higher levels of cognitive function.
Towards a culturally-appropriate model of collecting demographic data from ethnic minority communities: A case study of the Burundian community census in Queensland

Black African refugee communities are a relatively recent addition to Australia’s multicultural landscape. This immigrant group has been described as one of the most disadvantaged in Australia, requiring high levels of settlement support. Until recently, however, very little was known about the settlement geography of African refugee communities when compared to that of other ethnic minority communities in Australia. The lack of reliable data on population size, spatial distribution and secondary migration has serious implications for policymakers and service providers, who require contemporary, reliable and accurate data to budget, plan and deliver specialised settlement support to these communities. A study of the settlement geography of the eight largest African refugee communities in Southeast Queensland addressed this knowledge gap in that particular geographic location. This article reports on a community-based census, undertaken by Queensland’s Burundian community. The results of the community census are compared with data from two of the secondary data sources most commonly used by decision-makers and support services for planning purposes: the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) Settlement Database. The results suggest an under-enumeration of the Burundian community in both secondary data sources, as well as differences in patterns of spatial distribution. This article proposes a community 1 Acknowledgements: My sincere thanks go to the leaders and members of the African communities who participated in this research, in particular to the Burundian community and the Burundian community leader for their valuable time, effort and contribution. Thank you to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship for compiling the 2007 and 2012 Settlement Database datasets used in this article. My heartfelt thanks to Dr Iraphne Childs and Dr Peter Hastings for their contributions to the larger research project, and for the feedback on the initial draft of this paper from Dr Childs. Thank you also to the two reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions of ways to improve this paper.
Current Evidence of Best Practice in Whole-School Bullying Intervention and Its Potential to Inform Cyberbullying Interventions

Abstract In 2004, a set of validated guidelines for school bullying prevention and management was released by the Child Health Promotion Research Centre in Australia to guide schools' action to prevent and manage bullying behaviours. At this time little was known about cyber and other forms of covert bullying behaviours. These guidelines were updated in 2010 to include current research that provides a greater understanding of all forms of bullying behaviour. This article describes a summary of the current empirical evidence used to update these guidelines particularly related to relatively new and emergent forms of bullying, such as cyberbullying. Meta-analyses and reviews that assessed the effectiveness of school-based bullying interventions were examined to inform the relevance of the previously validated guidelines and to identify potential intervention strategies to reduce cyberbullying. This review confirmed the importance of a systematic whole-school approach to effectively prevent and manage all forms of bullying behaviours in schools (including cyberbullying) and the need to strengthen capacity supports to enable schools to put evidence into informed practice.
SceneNN: A Scene Meshes Dataset with aNNotations

Several RGB-D datasets have been publicized over the past few years for facilitating research in computer vision and robotics. However, the lack of comprehensive and fine-grained annotation in these RGB-D datasets has posed challenges to their widespread usage. In this paper, we introduce SceneNN, an RGB-D scene dataset consisting of 100 scenes. All scenes are reconstructed into triangle meshes and have per-vertex and per-pixel annotation. We further enriched the dataset with fine-grained information such as axis-aligned bounding boxes, oriented bounding boxes, and object poses. We used the dataset as a benchmark to evaluate the state-of-the-art methods on relevant research problems such as intrinsic decomposition and shape completion. Our dataset and annotation tools are available at http://www.scenenn. net.
Expanding Policy-Based Conceptualizations of ‘Successful Integration’: Negotiating Integration through Occupation following International Migration

The immigration of French-speakers to Canada and their successful integration into Francophone minority communities has become a priority for the country's federal government. A critical ethnography served to challenge assumptions regarding successful integration embedded within government documents and to raise awareness of the challenges faced by French-speaking immigrants from visible minority groups residing within London, Ontario, Canada. A theoretical framework applying Goffman's concept of performance and Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, and capital guided the study. Eight migrants participated in up to five sessions including narrative and in-depth interviews, Occupational Mapping, and participation in occupations. Findings highlight that integration involves a process of ‘starting over,’ which entails becoming aware of differences in fields and habitus within and between home and host societies, learning ‘how things work’ in the host community, and negotiating performances in social interactions. This negotiation, enacted primarily through occupation, is influenced by differential access to forms of capital. It is further related to ways immigrants' intersecting identity markers are constructed within particular places and embedded in broader social systems and structures. These findings challenge the linear and individualized process of integration identified within government documents, and the narrow focus on economic productivity as the occupation-based marker of integration.
Communication with communities: a South African experience

ABSTRACT In spite of the conventional wisdom stated by various authors that ‘we are living in the information age’ – a communication era characterised by a global expansion in the reach of mass media and electronic information ‘superhighways’ that span the globe – it is clear that there is growing realisation that it is still difficult to reach and communicate with rural communities in South Africa. The main aim of this article is therefore to examine the application of development communication theories in practice when communicating with communities in the Third World. In this article I argue that the viability of and prospects for effective communication with communities depend on three interrelated aspects. Firstly, the viability and prospects depend on current theoretical trends or approaches in development communication, because at the root of development communication – regardless of how this concept is defined – lies the issues of a structured and theoretical approach to community communication which are determined by current trends. Secondly, and crucial to the viability and prospects of community communication, is the question of which development communication methods or media to apply at the various stages of communication to reach the different target audiences. Thirdly, the viability and prospects for successful community communication will be influenced by an integrated approach to the application of development communication methods and media in development communication programmes or strategies.
Real-Time Recognition of Percussive Sounds by a Model-Based Method

Interactive musical systems require real-time, low-latency, accurate, and reliable event detection and classification algorithms. In this paper, we introduce a model-based algorithm for detection of percussive events and test the algorithm on the detection and classification of different percussive sounds. We focus on tuning the algorithm for a good compromise between temporal precision, classification accuracy and low latency. The model is trained offline on different percussive sounds using the expectation maximization approach for learning spectral templates for each sound and is able to run online to detect and classify sounds from audio stream input by a Hidden Markov Model. Our results indicate that the approach is promising and applicable in design and development of interactive musical systems.
Links between attachment orientations and dispositional and diary–based measures of disclosure in dating couples: A study of actor and partner effects

Issues concerning the influence of attachment characteristics on own and partner's disclosure were addressed using a sample of 113 couples in medium-term dating relationships. Individual differences in attachment were assessed in terms of relationship anxiety and avoidance. Disposition to disclose was assessed using questionnaire measures of self-disclosure, relationship-focused disclosure, and the ability to elicit disclosure from the partner; in addition, structured diaries were used to assess aspects of disclosure (amount, intimacy, emotional tone, and satisfaction) in the context of couples' everyday interactions. Couple-level analyses showed that avoidance strongly predicted dispositional measures of disclosure, whereas anxiety (particularly partner's anxiety) was related to negative evaluations of everyday interactions. Interactive effects of attachment dimensions and gender were also obtained, highlighting the complexity of communication behavior. The results are discussed in terms of the goals and strategies associated with working models of attachment.
An easy-to-implement dual codebook for multiuser MIMO systems

The complex multiplication between data streams and codebook when precoding at the transmitter always needs a lot of computing units in hardware implementation. In this paper, we first propose a binary-based codebook, in which all elements in the precoding matrix are expressed in power of 2. The proposed method can reduce practical engineering implementation complexity significantly, since the multiplication between the data symbol and the element of the codebook matrix can be regarded as a simple binary shift of the transmission data. This approach can be applied in various existing codebook design methods and we also consider on the multi-user case. But the operation is bound to bring in some accuracy loss because we hardly obtain the optimal codebook right with expression of power of 2. Then we propose a novel dual-codebook scheme which is easy to implement and can make up the performance penalty. The simulation results reveal that the proposed scheme outperforms 3GPP R10 LTE-A DFT (discrete Fourier transform) codebook and ease the burden of implementation cost.
Cultural comparison of symptoms in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

Although symptoms are common and frequently severe in patients on maintenance hemodialysis, little is known about the relationship between cultural background and symptom burden. The aim of this study was to explore differences in the prevalence and severity of symptoms between American and Italian hemodialysis patients. We administered the 30‐item Dialysis Symptom Index to American and Italian patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis during routine dialysis sessions. The prevalence and severity of individual symptoms were compared between patient populations, adjusting for multiple comparisons. Multivariable logistic regression and ordinal logistic regression were used to assess the independent associations of cultural background with the prevalence and severity of symptoms, respectively. We enrolled 75 American and 61 Italian patients. American patients were more likely to be black (36% vs. 0%, P<0.001) and diabetic (53% vs. 13%, P<0.001). Italian patients were more likely to report decreased interest in sex, decreased sexual arousal, feeling nervous, feeling irritable, and worrying (P<0.001, respectively). Adjustment for demographic and clinical variables had no impact on these cultural differences in symptom prevalence. The median severity of 11 symptoms including muscle soreness, muscle cramps, and itching was greater among Americans (P<0.001, respectively), although nearly all of these differences were rendered nonstatistically significant with adjustment for race, diabetes, and/or Kt/V. Italian patients receiving chronic hemodialysis report a greater burden of symptoms than American patients, particularly those related to sexual dysfunction and psychosocial distress. These findings suggest that cultural background may affect adaptation to chronic hemodialysis therapy.