Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Secular bar-mode evolution and gravitational waves from neutron stars

The secular instability and nonlinear evolution of the m=2 f-mode (bar-mode) driven by gravitational radiation reaction in a rapidly rotating, newly formed neutron star are discussed. There are two types of rotating bars which generate quite different gravitational waveforms: those with large internal rotation relative to the bar figure (Dedekind-like bars) have GW frequency sweeping downward, and those with small internal rotation (Jacobi-like) have GW frequency sweeping upward. Various sources of viscosity is hot nuclear matter are examined, and the possible effect of star-disk coupling on the bar-mode instability is also discussed.
General bounds on statistical query learning and PAC learning with noise via hypothesis boosting

We derive general bounds on the complexity of learning in the statistical query model and in the PAC model with classification noise. We do so by considering the problem of boosting the accuracy of weak learning algorithms which fall within the statistical query model. This new model was introduced by M. Kearns (1993) to provide a general framework for efficient PAC learning in the presence of classification noise. <<ETX>>
Linear Time Samplers for Supervised Topic Models using Compositional Proposals

Topic models are effective probabilistic tools for processing large collections of unstructured data. With the exponential growth of modern industrial data, and consequentially also with our ambition to explore much bigger models, there is a real pressing need to significantly scale up topic modeling algorithms, which has been taken up in lots of previous works, culminating in the recent fast Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms in [10, 23] for the unsupervised latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) formulations. In this work we extend the recent sampling advances for unsupervised LDA models to supervised tasks. We focus on the Gibbs MedLDA model [27] that is able to simultaneously discover latent structures and make accurate predictions. By combining a set of sampling techniques we are able to reduce the O(K3 + DK2 + DNK complexity in [27] to O(DK + DN) when there are K topics and D documents with average length N. To our best knowledge, this is the first linear time sampling algorithm for supervised topic models. Our algorithm requires minimal modifications to incorporate most loss functions in a variety of supervised tasks, and we observe in our experiments an order of magnitude speedup over the current state-of-the-art implementation, while achieving similar prediction performances. The open-source C++ implementation of the proposed algorithm is available at https://github.com/xunzheng/light_medlda.
Universality and Distinctiveness in Dimensions of Japanese Person Perception

Dimensions of Japanese person perception were assessed using Norman's (1963) method and stimulus materials. These dimensions were then compared statistically with results from similar studies involving subjects from the United States and from the Philippines. Students from Japan and the United States grouped the same behaviors into the five factors of extroversion, good-naturedness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and culture. For all three subject populations, the same behavior descriptions were grouped together to form the high variance dimensions of extroversion, good-naturedness, and conscientiousness. The factors of emotional stability and culture, however, appear to be construed in culturally specific ways. Differences in the relative strength of the first three factors across the three cultures were discussed with the prominence of the extroversion factor in Japan being related to the importance of relative status in Japanese society.
Theory and Method in a Study of Argentine Fertility

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An open label study of the effects of rituximab in neuromyelitis optica

Eight patients with worsening neuromyelitis optica were treated with rituximab to achieve B cell depletion. Treatment was well tolerated. Six of eight patients were relapse free and median attack rate declined from 2.6 attacks/patient/year to 0 attacks/patient/year (p = 0.0078). Seven of eight patients experienced substantial recovery of neurologic function over 1 year of average follow-up. The pretreatment median Expanded Disability Status Scale score was 7.5, and at follow-up examination was 5.5 (p = 0.013).
Understanding the Pathogenesis of Angelman Syndrome through Animal Models

Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe mental retardation, lack of speech, ataxia, susceptibility to seizures, and unique behavioral features such as easily provoked smiling and laughter and autistic features. The disease is primarily caused by deletion or loss-of-function mutations of the maternally inherited UBE3A gene located within chromosome 15q11-q13. The UBE3A gene encodes a 100 kDa protein that functions as ubiquitin ligase and transcriptional coactivator. Emerging evidence now indicates that UBE3A plays a very important role in synaptic function and in regulation of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. A number of animal models for AS have been generated to understand the disease pathogenesis. The most widely used model is the UBE3A-maternal-deficient mouse that recapitulates most of the essential features of AS including cognitive and motor abnormalities. This paper mainly discusses various animal models of AS and how these models provide fundamental insight into understanding the disease biology for potential therapeutic intervention.
Heuristic Method for Discriminative Structure Learning of Markov Logic Networks

In this paper, we present a heuristic-based algorithm to learn discriminative MLN structures automatically, directly from a training dataset. The algorithm heuristically transforms the relational dataset into boolean tables from which it builds candidate clauses for learning the final MLN. Comparisons to the state-of-the-art structure learning algorithms for MLNs in the three real-world domains show that the proposed algorithm outperforms them in terms of the conditional log likelihood (CLL), and the area under the precision-recall curve (AUC).
An Overview of Event Extraction from Twitter

As an emerging research area, event extraction from Twitter has attracted much attention since 2010. This paper attempts to provide a critical survey of the technical achievements in this area. It covers different aspects of the research, including the definition of the problem, existing approaches, and evaluation issues. Finally, in retrospect of what has been achieved so far, the survey also discusses the future challenges and research issues need to be addressed.
Uneven Paths: Latin American Women Facing Italian Family Reunification Policies

The paper provides a qualitative exploration of the impact of family migration policies on Latin American migrants in Italy. As the data collected reveals, the right to family life is differently accessed and regulated along lines of nationality/ethnicity, gender and class, reflected in more or less rigidly constrained formal and informal reunification pathways, which differently affect gender, intergenerational and care relationships in the family. While Italy, compared to other European countries, still regulates the matter in a relatively generous way, the increasing restrictions, matched with widespread informality in labour and housing markets, make access to this fundamental human right highly uneven and stratified.
Mayo's older americans normative studies: WMS-R norms for ages 56 to 94

Abstract Data obtained in Mayo's Older Americans Normative Studies (MOANS) provide age-specific norms for the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) on a sample of 441 cognitively normal persons age 56 to 94. Memory Indices derived from these norms are termed “MAYO Verbal Memory (MVeMI), MAYO Visual Memory (MViMI), MAYO General Memory (MGMI), MAYO Attention/Concentration (MACI), MAYO Delayed Recall (MDRI) and MAYO Percent Retention (MPRI) Indices” to differentiate them from traditional WMS-R Memory Indices. MVeMI, MViMI, MGMI and MACI values are, by design, estimates of WMS-R Indices. Test administration and index computation differences employed in these projects prohibit extension of the WMS-R Delayed Memory Index to older ages. However, two new indices (MDRI and MPRI) are presented to serve similar purposes. Tables needed to convert WMS-R subtests raw scores to age-corrected scaled scores and to determine the summary MAYO Indices are presented for ages 56 through 94. A different methodology was used to .
DE MACROCARPAEAE GRISEBACH (EX GENTIANACEIS) SPECIEBUS NOVIS VII: FOUR NEW SPECIES AND TWO NATURAL HYBRIDS

ABSTRACT Four new species, Macrocarpaea dies-viridis (Ecuador), M. luctans (Ecuador, Peru), M. lucubrans (Panama), and M. opulenta (Ecuador), and two natural hybrids, M. ×acuminata (Costa Rica) and M. ×mattii (Ecuador), are described. Macrocarpaea × acuminata Weaver (pro sp.) is recognized as a natural hybrid between M. subcaudata and M. valerii, rather than as a distinct species, and M. × mattii is described here as a natural hybrid between M. noctiluca and M. subsessilis. The average number of seeds per capsule of M. dies-viridis is reported. With 10,400–11,000 seeds per capsule, the is first report in the genus.
Extended triple intrathecal therapy in children with T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a report from the Israeli National ALL‐Studies

Owing to the increased central nervous system (CNS) relapse risk in T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), it is unclear whether preventive cranial radiation (pCRT) can be safely omitted. In this study, pCRT was replaced by extended triple intrathecal therapy (TIT) in prednisone good early responders – medium‐risk (MR) group, accounting for 76% of T‐ALL patients. From 1989 to 2003, 143 T‐ALL patients aged 1–18 years were enrolled in the Israel National Studies (INS) 89 (n = 84) and INS 98 (n = 59) trials, based on ALL‐Berlin–Frankfurt–Munster (BFM) 86/90 and ALL‐BFM 95 protocols, respectively. Five‐year event‐free survival (EFS) of the MR group in the INS 89 (n = 60) was 70 ± 5·9% and the INS 98 (n = 43), 83·7 ± 5·6% (P = 0·12); the cumulative incidence (CI) of any CNS relapse was 5·0 ± 2·8% and 2·3 ± 2·3% (P = 0·50), respectively. There was no difference in outcome between MR patients with a white blood cell count (WBC) ≥100 × 109/l treated with extended TIT (n = 17) or pCRT (n = 10). For all T‐ALL patients, 5‐year EFS was 61·9 ± 5·3% in INS 89 and 72·9 ± 5·8% in INS 98, (P = 0·21); the CI of any CNS relapse was 7·1 ± 2·8% and 1·7 ± 1·7% (P = 0·142), respectively. Outcome of T‐ALL MR patients given extended TIT in the context of BFM‐based protocols with long‐term follow‐up appeared to be comparable to studies in which a larger proportion of patients was irradiated, and was associated with low risk of CNS relapse, regardless of the WBC.
Evaluation of SAT like Proof Techniques for Formal Verification of Word Level Circuits

Word level information on the Register Transfer Level (RTL) offers information for efficient guidance of the proof process in formal verification. Therefore several proof techniques with integrated word level support from other research fields can be applied for formal verification of circuit designs as well. The focus of this work is to evaluate the proof techniques Boolean Satisfiability (SAT), SAT Modulo Theories (SMT), SWORD and Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) in the context of formal hardware verification. An estimation of the effort to encode standard circuit elements is given and the advantages and disadvantages of the different encodings is studied. In our experiments we consider equivalence checking problems for circuit designs given on bit and word level.
PTT Variability for Discrimination of Sleep Apnea Related Decreases in the Amplitude Fluctuations of PPG Signal in Children

In this paper, an analysis of pulse transit time variability (PTTV) during decreases in the amplitude fluctuations of pulse photoplethysmography signal (PPG) (DAP) events for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) screening is presented. The temporal evolution of time-frequency PTTV parameters during DAP was analyzed. The results show an increase in the sympathetic activity index low-frequency component (LF) during DAP for PTTV (85%) significantly higher than for heart rate variability (HRV) (33%), (¿ < 10<sup>-13</sup>). However, decreases in parasympathetic activity produce lower decrements in high-frequency component (HF) indexes for PTTV (18%) than for HRV (22%). Thus, PTTV reflects sympathetic changes more clearly than HRV. A clinical study was carried out. DAP events were classified as apneic or nonapneic using a linear discriminant analysis from the PTTV indexes. The ratio of DAP events per hour <i>r</i> <sub>DAP</sub>, the ratio after filtering based on HRV indexes <i>r</i> <sup>HRV</sup> <sub>DAP</sub>, or on PTTV indexes <i>r</i> <sup>PTTV</sup> <sub>DAP</sub>, were computed. The results show an accuracy of 75% for <i>r</i> <sup>PTTV</sup> <sub>DAP</sub> (14% increase with respect to <i>r</i> <sub>DAP</sub> and 5% increase with respect to <i>r</i> <sup>HRV</sup> <sub>DAP</sub>), a sensitivity of 81.8%, and a specificity of 73.9% when classifying 1-h polysomnographic excerpts as OSAS or normal. These results suggest that the combination of DAP and PTTV could be better alternative for sleep apnea screening using PPG with the added benefit of its low cost and simplicity.
Unwanted effects in aiming actions

s in conference procedings Binsch, O. , Oudejans, R.R. D. , Bakker, F.C. , & Savelsberg, G.J.P. (2006). Unwanted effects in aiming tasks are mediated by changes in gaze behavior. Proceedings of the 9 European Workshop of Ecological Psychology. Groningen, The Netherlands. Binsch, O. , Oudejans, R.R. D. , Bakker, F.C. , & Savelsberg, G.J.P. (2007). Ironic effects in penalty shooting: It’s priming, or not? Proceedings of the European Workshop on Movement Sciences. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Binsch, O. , Oudejans, R.R. D. , Bakker, F.C. , & Savelsberg, G.J.P. (2007). Unwanted effects in aiming actions: The relation between gaze behavior and performance in a golf putting task. Proceedings of the 12 European Congress of Sport Psychology. Halkidiki, Greece. Binsch, O. , Oudejans, R.R. D. , Bakker, F.C. , & Savelsberg, G.J.P. (2008). Ironic effects in penalty shooting: Avoid the to-be-avoided! Proceedings of the 2 Day of Perception of the Netherlands Institute of Applied Sciences (TNO). Soesterberg, The Netherlands. Binsch, O. , Oudejans, R.R. D. , Bakker, F.C. , & Savelsberg, G.J.P. (2008). Ironic effects in penalty shooting: Avoid the to-be-avoided! Proceedings of the 2 Workshop of the Netherlands Society of Sport Psychology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Binsch, O. , Oudejans, R.R. D. , Bakker, F.C. , & Savelsberg, G.J.P. (2008). Ironic effects in penalty shooting: Avoid the to-be-avoided! Proceedings of the 10 European Workshop of Ecological Psychology. Mardeira, Portugal. Binsch, O. , Oudejans, R.R. D. , & Bakker, F.C. (2009). Anxiety and Ironic Effects in Aiming at a Far Target. Proceedings of the 12 World Congress of Sport Psychology. Marrakech,
Teaching and learning in multicultural contexts: a comparative analysis of language teaching and learning in a Norwegian and Dutch primary school classroom

In this paper, multicultural primary school classes in Norway and the Netherlands are compared in terms of language teaching and learning. Drawing on observations, interviews, and school and policy documents, four dimensions of comparison are discussed. First, we deal with the different ways in which separate language classes for language minority pupils were organized in the two cases. Secondly, the different ways of teaching and the underlying views on learning language are characterized. Thirdly, we analyse how these ways of teaching affect on language minority pupils. Fourthly, we address the question as to how these approaches relate to the educational policies, traditions and discourses of the respective countries.
Validation of the Body in Psychotherapy

Psychotherapists can improve verbal psychotherapy by adding a bodily perspective. Different approaches can be situated on a continuum from verbal to nonverbal, and body-oriented interventions can be directed to different aspects of the body. The body as sensed from inside is one source of information. This is different from working with the body as perceived from outside and paying attention to nonverbal communication. In the next stage, major methods are working with the body in action and in movement and other nonverbal expressions. At the end of the continuum, attention goes to touching the body. Different ways of validating the body in psychotherapy are illustrated with clinical vignettes. Effects of body-oriented interventions on the client’s process are greater awareness, engagement in the present, deepening of experience, opening the body memory, cathartic release, resolving blocks, and exploring new possibilities.
Integrated Longitudinal and Lateral Control for Kuafu-II Autonomous Vehicle

Over the past decades, there has been significant research effort dedicated to the development of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. The driving control system, which is responsible for trajectory tracking and driving safety, is one of the most important technologies for autonomous vehicles. This paper describes the design of driving control system, including both longitudinal and lateral controllers, for the Kuafu-II autonomous vehicle. Compared with most of the previous researches that inevitably require a large amount of parameters, the presented control system design in this paper integrates several typical and efficient controllers to significantly reduce the system sensitivity to these parameters, and it is able to achieve the system robustness under diversified circumstances. The effectiveness of the presented control system design has been extensively evaluated under simulation and on road tests.
An Unusual Transmembrane Helix in the Endoplasmic Reticulum Ubiquitin Ligase Doa10 Modulates Degradation of Its Cognate E2 Enzyme*

In the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), nascent membrane and secreted proteins that are misfolded are retrotranslocated into the cytosol and degraded by the proteasome. For most ER-associated degradation (ERAD) substrates, ubiquitylation is essential for both their retrotranslocation and degradation. Yeast Doa10 is a polytopic membrane ubiquitin ligase (E3) that along with its cognate ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (E2s), Ubc7 and the C-terminally membrane-anchored Ubc6, makes a major contribution to ER-associated degradation. Ubc6 is also a substrate of Doa10. One highly conserved Doa10 element, the uncharacterized ∼130-residue TEB4-Doa10 domain, includes three transmembrane helices (TMs). We find that the first of these, TM5, includes an absolutely conserved ΦPΦXXG motif that is required for Doa10 function, as well as highly conserved negatively charged glutamate and aspartate residues. The conservative exchange of the TM5 glutamate to aspartate (doa10-E633D) results in complete stabilization of Ubc6 but has little if any effect on other substrates. Unexpectedly, mutating the glutamate to glutamine (doa10-E633Q) specifically accelerates Ubc6 degradation by ∼5-fold. Other substrates are weakly stabilized in doa10-E633Q cells, consistent with reduced Ubc6 levels. Notably, catalytically inactive ubc6-C87A is degraded in doa10-E633Q but not wild-type cells, but an active version of Ubc6 is required in trans. Fusion of the Ubc6 TM to a soluble protein yields a protein that is degraded in a doa10-E633Q-dependent manner, whereas fusion of the C-terminal TM from an unrelated protein does not. These results suggest that the TEB4-Doa10 domain regulates Doa10 association with the Ubc6 membrane anchor, thereby controlling the degradation rate of the E2.
Distance Metric Learning Through Convex Optimization 2 . Distance Metric Learning

We present a survey of recent work on the problem of learning a distance metric in the framework of semidefinite programming (SDP). Along with a brief theoretical background on convex optimization and distance metrics, we present various methods developed in this context under different approaches and provide theoretical analysis for a subset of them. A gradient ascent projection algorithm (Xing, 2002) and an approximate Frank-Wolfe method (Ying, 2012) are implemented and tested on several standard classification tasks from machine learning. We provide a comparison of the results obtained by our implementations, along with the corresponding results for some state-of-the-art algorithms.
Work in Progress: Navigating Document Networks

While much research effort has been expended on innovative user interfaces for information retrieval (IR), deployed IR user interfaces have adopted few innovations. Rather than design another novel user interface tool that users never adopt, we decided that our first step would be to better understand the nature of an adopted tool. In that vein, we are in the process of studying the potential and the actual performance of find-similar, which is a widely adopted tool that allows a user to request documents similar to a given document. Find-similar is a compelling IR interface tool for the very reason that users appear to have adopted it and that it has the potential to provide to users the power long known to be available via relevance feedback. Our hope is that by better understanding find-similar, we’ll be able to take that understanding and apply it to other user interface tools that will both be powerful and be adopted by users.
Maternal Age and Screening for Gestational Diabetes: A Population-Based Study

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has recommended screening for gestational diabetes, using a 50-g, 1-hour glucose challenge (threshold for further testing 140 mg/dL or higher), for all pregnant women aged 30 or older and for younger women with risk factors. In order to assess these recommendations, we collected demographic and historic data on 6214 pregnant women representing a population of universally screened individuals. Of 125 cases of gestational diabetes diagnosed (ACOG criteria), 70 patients (56%) were under the age of 30. In addition, 44% of gestational diabetics had no risk factors. The cost per case diagnosed would be $190 with the ACOG recommendations, $192 if the age for routine screening were lowered to 25 years or more, and $222 if universal screening were practiced. Using the ACOG recommendations, 35% of gestational diabetes would go undiagnosed, with little cost savings. (Obstet Gynecol 73:557, 1989)
First attention then intention

Attention is a critical construct for anyone involved in marketing. However, research on attention is currently lacking in the marketing discipline. This is perhaps due to inherent difficulties in measuring attention. The current paper accentuates the importance of better understanding attention, and suggests studying attention as a two-component construct consisting of equally important bottom-up and top-down processes. While research on top-down attention has recently been undertaken by Pieters and Wedel (2004; 2007), the current paper introduces the field of computational neuroscience and its research on visual attention as a useful framework for studying bottom-up attention.