Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Regional creative industries policy-making under New Labour

This article analyses creative industries policy in the English regions under New Labour (1997–2010). It examines the ideas behind regional creative industries policies (RCIPs) and their implementation. Focusing on the activities of the English regional development agencies, the primary bodies responsible for the implementation of creative industries policy in the British regions, the article places regional cultural policy during the New Labour period within its broader political, social and economic contexts. It explains and evaluates New Labour's RCIPs, arguing that creative industries policy at the regional level changed over the course of New Labour's three terms of office, becoming increasingly economistic at the expense of a more social democratic vision of regional equality and democracy. We identify three issues that were problematic for New Labour's RCIP: a reliance on the idea of “clusters”, commercialisation and shifting regional governance.
A comparison analysis of swarm intelligence algorithms for robot swarm learning

In the robot swarm, each robot can freely form swarm with others to share information. Although particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been demonstrated to outperform Q-learning and evolutionary algorithms, less study is conducted to characterize various swarm intelligence (SI) algorithms and evaluate their performances for robot swarm learning. In this research, we select three representative SI algorithms include bat algorithm (BA), PSO, grey wolf optimizer (GWO) according to their learning strategies. These three algorithms are implemented in a distributed manner and compared under various number of robots (NR) and communication ranges (CR). The simulation results demonstrate that: 1) PSO outperforms BA and BA outperforms GWO in general, 2) GWO performs better than PSO and BA under large NR and long CR, 3) increasing NR and CR can significantly improve the performance of GWO. These results can shed lights on selection of optimal SI algorithms for robot swarm under various scenarios.
Virtual-address caches.2. Multiprocessor issues

In this two-part survey, we discussed the problems and possible solutions caused by virtual address caches in single-processor systems. In this paper, we continue to explore these topics in the context of multiprocessor systems. Processors may access their cache directly using virtual addresses. We discuss the inherent problems and possible solutions in this approach for multiprocessor systems.
Reconstruction of articulated objects from point correspondences in a single uncalibrated image

This paper investigates the problem of recovering information about the configuration of an articulated object, such as a human figure, from point correspondences in a single-image. Unlike previous approaches, the proposed reconstruction method does not assume that the imagery was acquired with a calibrated camera. An analysis is presented which demonstrates that there are a family of solutions to this reconstruction problem parameterized by a single variable. A simple and effective algorithm is proposed for recovering the entire set of solutions by considering the foreshortening of the segments of the model in the image. Results obtained by applying this algorithm to real images are presented.
Causal Effects of Parental Leave on Adolescents’ Household Work

We exploit two Norwegian parental leave reforms to investigate their effects on adolescents’ household work. The main reform increased the parental leave time by 7 weeks, 4 of which were reserved for the father, while the second reform raised only the general parental leave time by 3 weeks. We find a robust and substantial effect of the main reform implying that adolescent girls born immediately after the reform are less likely to do household work. By analyzing the two parental leave reforms together, we show that the father quota drives the results.
FORGING ETHICAL ADULT-YOUTH RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN EMANCIPATORY ACTIVISM

The authors engage in a duoethnographic dialogue about their past work as activists in a high school setting, where Rachel was a high school student and Darren a teacher-advisor. Their discussion focuses on their recollections of the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) within a conservative community setting, the first of its kind in the Province of Alberta. Reflecting critically on their own roles, they explore the dimensions of effective adult-youth collaborations, including notions of power and privilege, and the role of adults in protecting students from hostile community backlash. Using specific illustrations, the authors outline some of the optimal qualities of adult-youth projects in a way that can enable and empower young people, while avoiding unduly burdening them with the responsibility to solve all social inequity.
Getting Out or Staying Put: An African American Women’s Network in Evacuation from Katrina

This article examines the emergency evacuation from New Orleans in a network of low-income African Americans in the day before Hurricane Katrina. I argue that the quick action of key women mobilized the successful evacuation of 25 individuals who could not otherwise have left the city. The network was successful during evacuation for three reasons. First, government warnings did not appear to carry the same authority as the passing of informal knowledge through these trusted women-centered networks. Second, women were able to pull together network members and resources already embedded in their daily lives. Third, network members recognized pre-existing personal ties and expanded network membership when necessary. I conclude that any formal disaster planning should take into consideration, in a practical way, not only the existence but the usefulness of women’s networking skills for the survival of vulnerable individuals in harm’s way.
Laryngoplasty with ventriculectomy or ventriculocordectomy in 104 draft horses (1992-2000).

OBJECTIVE To evaluate efficacy and safety of laryngoplasty with vetriculectomy (VE) or ventriculocordectomy (VCE) for treatment of laryngeal hemiplegia (LH) in draft horses. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. SAMPLE POPULATION One hundred four draft horses used for competitive hitch competitions. METHODS Medical records and postoperative endoscopy for competitive hitch draft horses diagnosed with left LH and treated with laryngoplasty and VE or VCE between January 1992 and December 2000 were reviewed. Follow-up information was obtained from telephone interviews with owners and trainers, and performance scores of 1 to 3 were assigned in which 1 was defined as a horse that was unable to perform (abnormal respiratory noise with or without exercise intolerance), 2 was able to perform but not for its intended use (exercise tolerant but abnormal respiratory noise), and 3 was performing as expected for its intended use (exercise tolerant, no abnormal respiratory noise). RESULTS One hundred four horses that had 111 laryngoplasty procedures were included. All horses had preoperative performance scores of 1. Follow-up information was available for 79 horses. Improvement in postoperative performance (exercise tolerant, with or without abnormal respiratory noise) was reported in 92% of horses. Respiratory noise was eliminated in 72% (57 horses) of horses. Postoperative performance scores were the following: 3 in 57 (72%) horses, 2 in 16 (20%) horses, and 1 in 6 (8%) horses. There was no significant difference in postoperative performance based on preoperative grade of LH. There was a trend for horses with >/=70% of possible maximal abduction postoperatively to have a performance score of 3. Postanesthetic complications included prolonged recovery (4 horses, 4%) and myopathy or neuropathy (7 horses, 7%). One of these horses was killed because it did stand; triceps myopathy and encephalopathy were confirmed on necropsy. CONCLUSIONS Laryngoplasty with VE or VCE is an effective and safe procedure for the treatment of LH in the draft horse. Repeat laryngoplasty can be performed successfully, with good performance outcome after laryngoplasty failure. Complications associated with general anesthesia and laryngoplasty in draft horses are higher than reported for light breed horses under similar conditions. CLINICAL RELEVANCE For LH, laryngoplasty with VCE or VE under general anesthesia is recommended to eliminate abnormal respiratory noise and improve performance in most competitive hitch draft horses.
Family Decision Making and Academic Performance in a Diverse High School Population

This article reports the relation betweenfamily decision-making behaviors and academic performance as measured by student effort and grades among a sample of youths from diverse family structures and socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Youths and a subset of their parents reported on how families made decisions on adolescent issues. Granting adolescents too-early autonomy in decision making was associated with lower levels of effort and lower grades, while joint decision making was associated with more effort and higher grades for youth of both sexes, regardless of ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Parents and youths had quite different perceptions of their roles in family decision making; greater disagreement was associated with lower school grades. The occasional departures from the general findings are explained in terms of the cognitive interpretations that shape youths'perceptions.
Point Mutations Associated with Organophosphate and Carbamate Resistance in Chinese Strains of Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Acetylcholinesterase resistance has been well documented in many insects, including several mosquito species. We tested the resistance of five wild, Chinese strains of the mosquito Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus to two kinds of pesticides, dichlorvos and propoxur. An acetylcholinesterase gene (ace1) was cloned and sequenced from a pooled sample of mosquitoes from these five strains and the amino acids of five positions were found to vary (V185M, G247S, A328S, A391T, and T682A). Analysis of the correlation between mutation frequencies and resistance levels (LC50) suggests that two point mutations, G247S (r2 = 0.732, P = 0.065) and A328S (r2 = 0.891, P = 0.016), are associated with resistance to propoxur but not to dichlorvos. Although the V185M mutation was not associated with either dichlorvos or propoxur resistance, its RS genotype frequency was correlated with propoxur resistance (r2 = 0.815, P = 0.036). And the HWE test showed the A328S mutation is linked with V185M, also with G247S mutation. This suggested that these three mutations may contribute synergistically to propoxur resistance. The T682A mutation was negatively correlated with propoxur (r2 = 0.788, P = 0.045) resistance. Knowledge of these mutations may help design strategies for managing pesticide resistance in wild mosquito populations.
A Parallel Implementation of Iterative-Deepening-A*

This paper presents a parallel version of the Iterative-Deepening-A* (IDA*) algorithm. Iterative-Deepening-A* is an important admissible algorithm for state-space search which has been shown to be optimal both in time and space for a wide variety of state-space search problems. Our parallel version retatins all the nice properties of the sequential IDA* and yet does not appear to be limited in the amount of parallelism. To test its effectiveness, we have implemented this algorithm on Sequent Balance 21000 parallel processor to solve the 15-puzzle problem, and have been able to obtain almost linear speedups on the 30 processors that are available on the machine. On machines where larger number of processors are available, we expect that the speedup will still grow linearly. The parallel version seems suitable even for loosely coupled architectures such as the Hypercube.
Pathways Through Crime: The Development of Crime and Desistance in the Accounts of Men and Women Offenders

Findings are presented of a qualitative exploration of offenders' accounts of themselves, their lives and their offending behaviour. Participants were nine male and nine female offenders, aged 19 to 50 years. A model of crime as described by these individuals was developed. Gendered meanings were explored in both men's and women's accounts. Pathways into crime described by the participants were shaped by a range of personal and social background influences and by processes related to negative social relations, positive evaluations of crime, and crime orientation. Changes in the same influences and processes, with a greater emphasis on the personal level, were apparent in participants' descriptions of their pathways out of crime.
Questions of Method: Fundamental Problems Reading Dialectical Methodologies

Marx admittedly could have been more helpful in making clear and precise his methodological foundations. Leaving key issues scattered over his works has forced a slow reconstruction of Marxist epistemology by subsequent students. Grasping both the philosophy of internal relations and methods of abstraction allows analysis to interpret Marx's work in four broad, separate but interrelated moments: the dialectical method, historical materialism, political-economics, and the communist political project. Failing to grasp these relations in conjunction with failing to take seriously Marx's commitment to identifiable and accepted scientific methods has resulted in both over-precision and under-precision in reconstruction of his methodology. Subsequent schools of thought have generally made similar errors that can be identified, as can progress over time in the clarification of theoretical and epistemological questions.
A comparison study of two advance organizers for introducing beginning foreign language students to video

This research compared student retention of information in foreign language videos in two advance organizer conditions. The subjects were 39 English-speaking college students enrolled in two sections of an introductory French course. In the Description Only advance organizer condition, the teacher read aloud six sentences that summarized major scenes in the upcoming video. In the Description + Pictures advance organizer condition, the teacher presented the identical six sentence description of major scenes in the video. The difference between conditions was that in the Description + Pictures condition, when the teacher read one of the six sentences aloud, she also showed a picture related in context to the sentence but not a pictorial translation of it. Student performance with 12 videos introduced in each of these two ways was tested. Results indicated that the visual support in the Description + Pictures condition significantly improved comprehension of the videos. The investigators interpreted these results as indicating that extensive listening is facilitated by the richness of context that visual organizers provide.
Red companions to a z=2.15 radio-loud quasar

We have conducted observations of the environment around the z=2.15 radio loud quasar 1550-269 in search of distant galaxies associated either with it or the z=2.09 CIV absorber along its line of sight. Such objects will be distinguished by their red colours, R-K>4.5. We find five such objects in a 1.5 arcmin^2 field around the quasar, with typical K magnitudes of ~20.4 and no detected R band emission. We also find a sixth object with K=19.6+/-0.3, and undetected at R, just two arcseconds from the quasar. The nature of all these objects is currently unclear, and will remain so until we have determined their redshifts. We suggest that it is likely that they are associated with either the quasar or the CIV absorber, in which case their properties might be similar to those of the z=2.38 red Ly-alpha emitting galaxies discovered by Francis et al. (1997). The small separation between the quasar and the brightest of our objects suggests that it may be the galaxy responsible for the CIV metal line absorption system. The closeness to the quasar and the red colour might have precluded similar objects from being uncovered in previous searches for emission from CIV and eg. damped absorbers.
Eecient Precomputation of Quality-of-service Routes

Quality-of-service (QoS) routing satis es application performance requirements and improves network resource usage by selecting paths based on connection tra c parameters and available link capacity. However, QoS-routing protocols can introduce signi cant network overhead for computing routes and distributing information about link load. Route precomputation is an e ective way to amortize the cost of the pathselection algorithm over multiple connection requests. This paper introduces e cient mechanisms for precomputing one or more routes to each destination, and ondemand checking of the suitability of the routes at connection arrival, based on the most recent link-state information. Simulation experiments show that the route precomputation and route extraction techniques are effective at lowering the computational overheads for QoS routing, while achieving performance similar to the more expensive on-demand path-selection schemes.
Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (‘Use These Words to Write a Sentence Based on this Picture’)

We describe a system for automatically scoring a vocabulary item type that asks test-takers to use two specific words in writing a sentence based on a picture. The system consists of a rule-based component and a machine learned statistical model which uses a variety of construct-relevant features. Specifically, in constructing the statistical model, we investigate if grammar, usage, and mechanics features developed for scoring essays can be applied to short answers, as in our task. We also explore new features reflecting the quality of the collocations in the response, as well as features measuring the consistency of the response to the picture. System accuracy in scoring is 15 percentage points greater than the majority class baseline and 10 percentage points less than human performance.
The Impacts of Postdoctoral Training on Scientists' Academic Employment

This article examines the dynamics of postdoctoral training affecting scientists' academic employment, focusing on timing and prestige dimensions. Postdoc training proves beneficial to academic employment—more so in less prestigious departments than in top ones. Postdoc duration is subject to diminishing returns. The benefits of training vary across scientists with different demographic characteristics.
Stationary objects in multiple object tracking

This paper presents an approach to detect stationary foreground objects in naturally busy surveillance video scenes with several moving objects. Our approach is inspired by human's visual cognition processes and builds upon a multi-tier video tracking paradigm with main layers being the spatially based "peripheral tracking" loosely corresponding to the peripheral vision and the object based "vision tunnels " for focused attention and analysis of tracked objects. Humans allocate their attention to different aspects of objects and scenes based on a defined task. In our model, a specific processing layer corresponding to allocation of attention is used for detection of objects that become stationary. The static object layer, a natural extension of this framework, detects and maintains the stationary foreground objects by using the moving object and scene information from Peripheral Tracker and the Scene Description layers. Simple event detection modules then use the enduring stationary objects to determine events such as Parked Vehicles or Abandoned Bags.
Stimulation of subthalamic fibre tracts reduces dyskinesias in STN‐DBS

Rarely, the postoperative management of patients with subthalamic deep brain stimulation (STN‐DBS) is complicated by pharmacologically intractable dyskinesias. Here we report that in three of these patients additional stimulation of a proximal contact located within the subthalamic white matter may lead to a significant reduction of dyskinesias associated with STN‐DBS. We propose that pallidofugal fiber tracts play a major role in the etiopathology of dyskinesias and their blockade through DBS may explain our observations. © 2007 Movement Disorder Society
Association of Human Leukocyte Antigens Class I and II with Graves' Disease in Iranian Population.

BACKGROUND Graves' disease (GD), a highly rampant autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland, is responsible for 60-80% of the clinical cases of hyperthyroidism. Over the past decades, genetic association studies have identified several GD susceptibility loci in CTLA-4, TSHR and major histocompatibility complex regions. The information on the association between the human leukocyte antigens (HLA) and GD among Iranians is scarce. OBJECTIVE To identify HLA polymorphisms that might confer susceptibility or protect against GD. METHODS Eighty unrelated patients with a confirmed diagnosis of GD were included in the case group. The control group consisted of 180 unrelated healthy individuals with normal thyroid function tests. The polymerase chain reaction with sequence specific primers (PCR-SSP) method was used for HLA typing. RESULTS Frequencies of HLA-A*68 (15.6% vs. 4.2%, p=0.004) and B*08 (8.8% vs. 2.5, p=0.030) were significantly higher in patients with GD compared with healthy controls. No patients with GD had HLA-A*33, whereas it was found in 7.0% of the controls (p=0.011). HLA-DQB1*0201 was significantly less frequent among patients with GD (15.6% vs. 26.8%, p=0.040). Additionally, patients with GD were significantly less bound to have HLA-DQA1*0201 (6.2% vs. 15.1%, p=0.045). Concerning allelic distributions, no noticeable difference was found between GD patients with and without Graves' ophthalmopathy (p>0.05 in all cases). CONCLUSION In the Iranian population, HLA-A*68 and -B*08 confer susceptibility to GD, whereas HLA-A*33, -DQB1*0201, and -DQA1*0201 appear to have protective roles.
Community-Based Collaborative Team Ethnography: A Community-University-Agency Partnership

This paper describes an approach for building relationships and achieving effective community-university-agency collaboration that was developed to provide information about the issues faced by individuals and families involved in the exploration and production of oil and gas on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Two university-affiliated ethnographers and a group of local schoolteachers followed the activities of selected workers and their families, tracked local social and economic trends, and identified and talked with workers and families with many different characteristics (e.g., job, age, stage in the family cycle, ethnicity). They were assisted by additional university researchers who spent from two to four weeks at a time in the study communities talking with civic leaders and business and industry representatives, helping to identify and talk with workers and families, conducting focus groups, and facilitating study group meetings for team members. The paper describes the evolutio.