Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlates of delayed physical aggression in response to provocation

La litterature sur l'agression humaine a amplement montre que ce comportement deletere peut etre perpetre sur un mode physique ou non et dans une forme directe ou indirecte. Les etudes sur l'agression directe en site naturel ont focalise sur les comportements d'attaque, sur l'agression verbale et sur l'agression envers les objets, notamment. L'agression indirecte a ete etudiee quant a elle dans des contextes varies comme la calomnie, le rejet, l'alienation affective, etc. Tandis que ces travaux montrent un lien fort entre l'agression et la provocation, il est clair qu'une partie seulement des individus repondent a la provocation par la violence. En fait, ceux faisant l'objet d'une provocation peuvent choisir de differer leur agression, de mettre en place un comportement non agressif de maniere temporaire et ne devenir agressif qu'ulterieurement. Afin d'examiner a la fois la nature de l'agression differee, son decours temporel et les traits associes, notre recherche examine les relations entre certains indices de cette agression et les traits consideres pertinents sous condition dite de reponse choisie. Dans une premiere etude, 40 hommes et 40 femmes ayant repondu aux questionnaires d'agression de Buss (Buss Agression Questionnaire, BAQ) et d'irritabilite de Caprara (Caprara Irritability Scale, CIS) etaient confrontes a une tâche de temps de reaction en situation de competition (avec un compere). Les sujets repondaient (en administrant des chocs electriques en reponse aux provocations du compere) immediatement, apres un delai, ou etaient dans l'interdiction de repondre. Le respect d'un delai etait associe aux niveaux les plus bas d'agression subsequente. Dans une seconde etude, et afin d'examiner les correlats de l'agression differee dans les conditions typiquement facilitatrice de l'agression, 136 sujets de sexe masculin furent exposes a une tâche identique apres avoir consomme (n = 63) ou non (n = 73) de l'alcool. Les resultats furent comparables a ceux de l'etude 1. Par ailleurs, relativement aux sujets qui n'avaient pas consomme d'alcool, ceux qui en avaient consomme se montraient plus rapidement et plus intensivement agressifs.
Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Lithium-ion Battery Degradation for a Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Prognostic activity deals with prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) of physical systems based on their actual health state and their usage conditions. RUL estimation gives operators a potent tool in decision making by quantifying how much time is left until functionality is lost. In addition, it can be used to improve the characterization of the material proprieties that govern damage propagation for the structure being monitored. RUL can be estimated by using three main approaches, namely model-based, data-driven and hybrid approaches. The prognostics methods used later in this paper are hybrid and data-driven approaches, which employ the Particle Filter in the first one and the autoregressive integrated moving average in the second. The performance of the suggested approaches is evaluated in a comparative study on data collected from lithium-ion battery of hybrid electric vehicle.
Ranging Behvaior and Habitat Use Patterns of Hanuman Langurs (Semnopithecus entellus)

Stony Brook University Libraries. SBU Graduate School in Anthropology. Lawrence Martin (Dean of Graduate School), Dr. Andreas Koenig – Thesis Advisor, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Carola Borries Research Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Diane Doran-Sheehy Professor, Department of Anthropology.
XPS characterisation of catalysts during production of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Characterisation of alumina supported catalysts was performed by TEM and XPS spectroscopy during formation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes from acetylene at 1000 K. TEM images showed that thick carbon fibres (outer diameter is around 20–40 nm) were generated on Fe/Al2O3 and Co/Al2O3 samples. The only sample producing carbon nanotubes with an average diameter of 8–12 nm was the bimetallic CoFe/Al2O3. XPS spectra revealed that Fe–Co alloy formed during the interaction of CoFe/Al2O3 and acetylene at 1000 K.
Toward a cultural adaptation of pharmacotherapy: Latino views of depression and antidepressant therapy

Relative to non-Latino Whites, Latinos in the United States with major depressive disorder (MDD) show low engagement in antidepressant therapy, whether engagement is defined as pharmacotherapy access, medication initiation, pill-taking, or treatment retention. One potential reason for this disparity in depression care is the low cultural congruence of pharmacotherapy for this population. To examine Latinos’ views of depression and antidepressant therapy, we conducted qualitative interviews with 30 Latino outpatients initiating antidepressants prior to their first treatment visit using the semistructured Treatment Adherence and Retention Questionnaire. These baseline interviews were randomly selected from data collected for a randomized controlled trial testing a novel intervention to enhance engagement by depressed Latino outpatients. Participant narratives were analyzed using open coding and the iterative analytical approach derived from grounded theory. Patient views about depression addressed stigmatizing views held by others in their social circle. Most participants directly refuted these views by providing alternate explanations to depression experiences. Antidepressant therapy narratives also revealed marked stigmatization, but participants tended not to refute these views. Instead, patients expressed concerns about antidepressants and showed marked ambivalence about seeking psychiatric care. Participants, however, did suggest ways in which clinicians and patients might collaborate to address their concerns about antidepressants. Some cultural views, such as concerns about addiction to or dependence on medication, may be negotiable barriers to treatment. Prescribing clinicians should address cultural views and concerns in order to improve Latino engagement in antidepressant therapy.
Human breast cancer stem cells and sex hormones-a narrative review

Objective:The aim of this narrative review was to evaluate the role of cancer stem cells (CSCs) and sex steroids in the pathophysiology of human breast cancer. Methods:A key-word search was performed using the Scopus database. Preference was given to studies using human cells and tissues. Results:Long-term estrogen-progestin hormone therapy is known to increase breast cancer risk, although the mechanisms are poorly understood. In the last few years, it has become clear that many human breast cancers contain CSCs, which may be responsible for much of the tumor's malignant behavior. Very recently, the impact of estrogen, progesterone, and progestins on breast CSCs and their progeny has been studied and clarified. Most breast CSCs are estrogen receptor negative and progesterone receptor negative, although some intermediary progenitor forms have hormone receptors, especially progesterone receptor. Most mature human breast cancer cells are estrogen receptor positive and can thus be stimulated by estrogen. Breast CSCs usually elaborate CD44+, CD24−/low and/or ALDEFLUOR+ cell markers and are lineage markers negative. One of the main roles of progesterone and progestin seems to be on certain breast cancer stem intermediate forms, inducing them to revert back to a more primitive breast CSC form. Conclusions:As the pathophysiology of human breast CSC is clarified, it is probable that this will lead to novel, effective breast cancer treatments and, perhaps, new breast cancer preventive agents. This research may also lead to safer hormone therapy regimens.
Responsibilities in Elderly Care: Mr Powell'S Narrative of Duty and Relations

In Western countries a considerable number of older people move to a residential home when their health declines. Institutionalization often results in increased dependence, inactivity and loss of identity or self-worth (dignity). This raises the moral question as to how older, institutionalized people can remain autonomous as far as continuing to live in line with their own values is concerned. Following Walker's meta-ethical framework on the assignment of responsibilities, we suggest that instead of directing all older people towards more autonomy in terms of independence, professional caregivers should listen to the life narrative of older people and attempt to find out how their personal identity, relations and values in life can be continued in the new setting. If mutual normative expectations between caregivers and older people are not carefully negotiated, it creates tension. This tension is illustrated by the narrative of Mr Powell, a retired successful public servant now living in a residential home. The narrative describes his current life, his need for help, his independent frame of mind, and his encounters with institutional and professional policies. Mr Powell sees himself as a man who has always cared for himself and others, and who still feels that he has to fulfil certain duties in life. Mr Powell's story shows that he is not always understood well by caregivers who respond from a one-sided view of autonomy as independence. This leads to misunderstanding and an underestimation of his need to be noticed and involved in the residential community.
Chaotic Order Preserving Encryption for Efficient and Secure Queries on Databases

The need for data encryption that protects sensitive data in a database has increased rapidly. However, encrypted data can no longer be efficiently queried because nearly all of the data should be decrypted. Several order-preserving encryption schemes that enable indexes to be built over encrypted data have been suggested to solve this problem. They allow any comparison operation to be directly applied to encrypted data. However, one of the main disadvantages of these schemes is that they expose sensitive data to inference attacks with order information, especially when the data are used together with unencrypted columns in the database. In this study, a new order-preserving encryption scheme that provides secure queries by hiding the order is introduced. Moreover, it provides efficient queries because any user who has the encryption key knows the order. The proposed scheme is designed to be efficient and secure in such an environment. Thus, it is possible to encrypt only sensitive data while leaving other data unencrypted. The encryption is not only robust against order exposure, but also shows high performance for any query over encrypted data. In addition, the proposed scheme provides strong updates without assumptions of the distribution of plaintext. This allows it to be integrated easily with the existing database system.
A Weighted Recursive Averaging Approach for Noise Spectrum Estimation

In the paper, we present a new noise spectrum estimation algorithm which is simple and effective for non-stationary background noise environments. The new proposed algorithm continuously updates the estimated noise by weighted noisy speech with a constant smoothing factor, the weighting factor is adjusted by an estimated signal-tonoise ratio (SNR), and the SNR is controlled by the local energy which be obtained by frequency smoothing of the noisy power spectrum in each frame. Objective experimental results and a subjective comparison show that the improved noise estimation algorithm when integrated in speech enhancement is preferred over the competitive noise estimation algorithms.
Detection of cytomegalovirus antigen and antibodies in the urine of small infants and children

The diagnostic efficacy of an enzyme immune assay to detect cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigen in the urine of infected infants and children was determined, and the effect that CMV‐specific antibodies present in the urine have on the sensitivity of the test was ascertained. The antigen was detected in 84.4% of the CMV‐culture‐positive samples, while CMV‐specific IgA was detected in 24% of CMVculture‐positive specimens. The absence of CMV‐specific IgA correlated with detection of CMV antigen in the CMV‐culture‐positive urine specimens (p < 0.05).
Robust positively invariant sets for state dependent and scaled disturbances

This paper introduces methods of deriving and computing maximal robust positively invariant sets for linear discrete time systems with additive model uncertainty. Two types of uncertainty are considered: state dependent uncertainty, which can handle multiplicative parametric model uncertainty as well as linearisation errors for nonlinear systems, and scaled sets of uncertainty. We provide a framework for analysing both types of uncertainty with illustrative examples.
Viewing One's Own Face Being Touched Modulates Tactile Perception: An fMRI Study

The perception of tactile stimuli on the face is modulated if subjects concurrently observe a face being touched; this effect, termed visual remapping of touch (VRT), is maximum for observing one's own face. In the present fMRI study, we investigated the neural basis of the VRT effect. Participants in the scanner received tactile stimuli, near the perceptual threshold, on their right, left, or both cheeks. Concurrently, they watched movies depicting their own face, another person's face, or a ball that could be touched or only approached by human fingers. Participants were requested to distinguish between unilateral and bilateral tactile stimulation. Behaviorally, perception of tactile stimuli was modulated by viewing a tactile stimulation, with a stronger effect when viewing one's own face being touched. In terms of brain activity, viewing touch was related with an enhanced activity in the ventral intraparietal area. The specific effect of viewing touch on oneself was instead related with a reduced activity in both the ventral premotor cortex and the somatosensory cortex. The present findings suggest that VRT is supported by a network of fronto-parietal areas. The ventral intraparietal area might remap visual information about touch onto tactile processing. Ventral premotor cortex might specifically modulate multisensory interaction when sensory information is related to one's own body. Then this activity might back project to the somatosensory cortices, thus affecting tactile perception.
Mitochondrial genome of Cryptocentrus yatsui (Perciformes, Gobioidei) and phylogenetic consideration within the genus Cryptocentrus

The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Cryptocentrus yatsui was first determined. The genome was 16,584 bp in length and consisted of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 2 main noncoding regions (the control region and the origin of the light strand replication), the gene composition and order of which were similar to most other vertebrates. The overall base composition values of the heavy strand are 26.0% for T, 29.9% for C, 26.4% for A, and 17.7% for G, with a slight A+T bias of 52.4%. To clarify the phylogenetic relationships of C. yatsui within the genus Cryptocentrus, 18 sequences, which were generated from COI region of six species, were used to construct the neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree. And we found that C. yatsui was rooted with the other Cryptocentrus species and has a distant relationship with others.
Dither-like data hiding in multistage vector quantization of MELP and G.729 speech coding

We present a speech data hiding technique that utilizes the characteristics of multistage vector quantization (MSVQ) and subtractive dithering to maintain high speech reconstruction quality. The last stage of MSVQ is used to store the data to be embedded. Similar to subtractive dithering, the noise-like hidden data is subtracted from the signal at the first stage of the encoder and added back at the MSVQ decoder. As a result, the degradation caused by hiding secret data is significantly reduced compared to the traditional simple substitution method.
Reactivation of an Inactive Centromere Reveals Epigenetic and Structural Components for Centromere Specification in Maize[W]

Stable maize (Zea mays) chromosomes were recovered from an unstable dicentric containing large and small versions of the B chromosome centromere. In the stable chromosome, the smaller centromere had become inactivated. This inactive centromere can be inherited from one generation to the next attached to the active version and loses all known cytological and molecular properties of active centromeres. When separated from the active centromere by intrachromosomal recombination, the inactive centromere can be reactivated. The reactivated centromere regains the molecular attributes of activity in anaphase I of meiosis. When two copies of the dicentric chromosome with one active and one inactive centromere are present, homologous chromosome pairing reduces the frequency of intrachromosomal recombination and thus decreases, but does not eliminate, the reactivation of inactive centromeres. These findings indicate an epigenetic component to centromere specification in that centromere inactivation can be directed by joining two centromeres in opposition. These findings also indicate a structural aspect to centromere specification revealed by the gain of activity at the site of the previously inactive sequences.
A novel time misalignment estimation algorithm for envelope tracking (ET) power amplifiers (PA)

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for estimating the delay (dT) between the RF input of an RF power amplifier (PA) and the modulated supply voltage that is generated by an envelope tracking (ET) power modulator, also known as a power tracker. This algorithm estimates the delay by introducing artificial delays in the acquired baseband output of the RF amplifier and searching for the delay that result in the lowest error vector magnitude (EVM). The proposed algorithm makes only a single acquisition of the RF PA output. A sufficient amount of band limited AWGN is added to the baseband at the input of the RF PA and power supply waveforms. The noise serves to decorrelate the output of the RF PA, improving delay estimation accuracy. The algorithm has the ability to estimate delays in the range of 60nsec and upwards within an error of +/-4nsecs for wideband signals like WCDMA and LTE. Test results using a vector signal generator and analyzer are presented.
Thermodynamics of unpaired terminal nucleotides on short RNA helixes correlates with stacking at helix termini in larger RNAs.

Free energies for stacking of unpaired nucleotides (dangling ends) at the termini of oligoribonucleotide Watson-Crick helixes (DeltaG(0)37,stack) depend on sequence for 3' ends but are always small for 5' ends. Here, these free energies are correlated with stacking at helix termini in a database of 34 RNA structures determined by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. Stacking involving GA pairs is considered separately. A base is categorized as stacked by its distance from (</=4.0 A), angle with (</=30 degrees), and overlap with the terminal helix base-pair. A base is unstacked if it does not satisfy one or more of these criteria. Of the 36 unpaired bases in sequences with DeltaG(0)37,stackmore favorable than -0.7 kcal/mol, 30 (83 %) are stacked on the adjacent base-pair, indicating a propensity for such sequences to stack in the 3D structure. Structures containing the strongly stacked sequence [sequence: see text] show that the amino group of C closely overlaps the carbonyl-4 of U. Thermodynamic measurement of U stacking on a 2-pyrimidinone-guanine base-pair, where the amino group of C is replaced by hydrogen, suggests that interactions with the cytosine amino group contribute approximately 0.5 kcal/mol to DeltaG(0)37,stack. For GA mismatches at helix termini, the nucleotide at the 3' helix end is always stacked, and the nucleotide at the 5' end is stacked in almost 90 % of occurrences. In available structures, non-Watson-Crick paired bases 3' to an imino-hydrogen bonded GA are also always stacked; the GA provides a large platform for favorable stacking. For the 56 sequences associated with DeltaG(0)37,stackless favorable than -0.4 kcal/mol, 19 (34 %) are stacked; these sequences have a propensity for not stacking on adjacent base-pairs. Phylogenetic conservation of weakly stacking sequences at 3' ends may be a predictor of a backbone turn.
From Data Warehouses to analytical atoms - the Internet of Things as a centrifugal force in Business Intelligence and Analytics

For decades, the Data Warehouse (DW) has survived as a central architecture component in Business Intelligence and Analytics (BIA) landscapes despite a number of alternative concepts and continuous forces towards more decentralized structures. However, distributed concepts recently seem to have grown in relevance. This paper investigates causes and consequences of an increasing decentralization in order to derive recommendations for future BIA architectures. We have conducted a literature review for identifying relevant application drivers, challenges and building blocks for BIA solutions. The results suggest that particularly Internet of Things (IoT) applications drive federated analytical “ecosystem” solutions. In two case studies from the realm of Advanced Manufacturing we deepen the respective insights. On the one hand, our results underscore the business potential of integrated BIA solutions for IoT applications. On the other hand, the applications introduce a set of particular challenges that can be mapped to DW characteristics, mainly regarding data history, integration, administration, and governance. Based on the results, we project the identified trends into the future and suggest a federated, platform-based solution with “Analytical Atoms”.
Incorporation of Exact Boundary Conditions into a Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Accurately Solving 2D Time-Dependent Maxwell Equations

A scheme that discretizes exact absorbing boundary conditions (EACs) to incorporate them into a time-domain discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (TD-DG-FEM) is described. The proposed TD-DG-FEM with EACs is used for accurately characterizing transient electromagnetic wave interactions on two-dimensional waveguides. Numerical results demonstrate the proposed method's superiority over the TD-DG-FEM that employs approximate boundary conditions and perfectly matched layers. Additionally, it is shown that the proposed method can produce the solution with ten-eleven digit accuracy when high-order spatial basis functions are used to discretize the Maxwell equations as well as the EACs.
Analysis and Design of Magnetic Pole Shape in Linear Permanent-Magnet Machine

In this paper, in order to achieve the sinusoidal back electromotive force (EMF) waveform in a permanent-magnet machine, which is closely related to its magnet shape, we have used magnet arc shaping technique. An analytical analysis based on Maxwell equations is proposed for calculating magnetic field and thrust/torque. Then the accuracy of the presented method in modeling of machine is verified by the finite-element method. Finally, a magnet shape design is carried out based on the analytical method to produce sine air-gap magnetic field. The results show an enhancement in optimized motor performance.