Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Couples' Concurrent Cognitions The Influence of Relational Satisfaction on the Thoughts Couples Have as They Converse

Studies of cognition in relationships show that people's thoughts about their partners shape and reflect the quality of relationships. Some research further suggests that women's cognitions are more relationship-centered than men's. The data supporting these arguments, however, often are based on partners' retrospective reports or responses to hypothetical scenarios. This study examined partners' concurrent cognitions—the thoughts they have during the course of interaction. Data were collected using a modification of “protocol analysis. ” Partners conversed over networked computers and also voiced what they were thinking. Results indicated that those who were dissatisfied with their relationship expressed significantly more negative thoughts about their partner, fewer positive thoughts about their partner, and fewer positive thoughts about their relationship than did those who were satisfied. Dissatisfied men vocalized fewer negative thoughts about themselves than did those who were satisfied. ‘Women's thoughts were not more focused on relationship-oriented issues than were men's; men expressed more negative cognitions about relationships. The findings confirm that there are distinctions between the concurrent cognitions of satisfied and dissatisfied partners. Researchers should continue questioning the influence of gender on the ways partners evaluate their relationships.
Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited

About the Editor Preface to the Fifth Edition Part I: Classical Sociological Theory Introduction - Peter Kivisto Chapter 1: Working Longer, Living Less: Understanding Marx Through the Workplace Today - John P. Walsh and Anne Zacharias-Walsh Chapter 2: The Weberian Theory of Rationalization and the McDonaldization of Contemporary Society - George Ritzer Chapter 3: Surfing the Net for Community: A Durkheimian Analysis of Electronic Gatherings - Anne M. Hornsby Chapter 4: Alcohol-Related Windows on Simmel's Social World - William J. Staudenmeier, Jr. PART II: Contemporary Theories and Their Connections to the Classics Introduction - Peter Kivisto Chapter 5: Criminalizing Transgressing Youth: A Neofunctionalist Analysis of Institution Building - Paul Colomy and Laura Ross Greiner Chapter 6: Why Do African Americans Pay More for New Cars? A Structural Explanation - Christopher Prendergast Chapter 7: Critical Theory, Legitimation Crisis, and the Deindustrialization of Flint, Michigan - Steven P. Dandaneau Chapter 8: Race-Based Critical Theory and the "Happy Talk" of Diversity in America - Douglas Hartmann and Joyce M. Bell Chapter 9: The Socially Constructed Body: Insights From Feminist Theory - Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin Chapter 10: Organizing Door-to-Door Sales: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis - David Schweingruber and Nancy Berns Chapter 11: Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology: Personal Sales and Service in a Commodified World - Peter Kivisto and Dan Pittman Chapter 12: Contrasts of Carnival: Mardi Gras Between the Modern and the Postmodern - Kevin Fox Gotham Chapter 13: Negotiating the Social Landscape to Create Social Change - Anne F. Eisenberg Chapter 14: Globalization Theory and Religious Fundamentalism - William H. Swatos, Jr. Index
Design of the FutureGrid experiment management framework

FutureGrid provides novel computing capabilities that enable reproducible experiments while simultaneously supporting dynamic provisioning. This paper describes the FutureGrid experiment management framework to create and execute large scale scientific experiments for researchers around the globe. The experiments executed are performed by the various users of FutureGrid ranging from administrators to software developers and end users. The Experiment management framework will consist of software tools that record user and system actions to generate a reproducible set of tasks and resource configurations. Additionally, the experiment management framework can be used to share not only the experiment setup, but also performance information for the specific instantiation of the experiment. This makes it possible to compare a variety of experiment setups and analyze the impact Grid and Cloud software stacks have.
The Effects of Group Composition on Group Interactive Processes and Pupil Understanding

Previous research has demonstrated the cognitive and affective benefits to be accrued from co‐operative group work. However this body of research has largely been limited to consideration of group products rather than group processes and as such has failed to provide explanations of how, or why, improved outcomes occur. This study focused on group processes in order to throw light on the relationship between group composition, interactive processes and pupil understanding on a cooperative decision‐making task. More specifically it reports on the nature and type of talk in homogeneous, heterogeneous and mixed attaining groups, and their relationships to pupil retention and understanding.
Irritant cutaneous reactions to N‐methyl‐2‐pyrrolidone (NMP)

Several workers in small electrotechnical company in Norway experienced irritant reactions of the skin ‐after a few days of working with the solvent N‐methyl2‐pyrrolidone (NMP). Due to concern about the health risk of commonly‐used organic solvents, the company had chosen to use NMP when one of its products had to be treated with a solvent. After 2 days of work with NMP, 10 of the 12 involved workers displayed acute irritant contact dermatitis of the hands. According to published reports. NMP is not considered to be particularly irritant to the skin. The Safety Data Sheet of a Norwegian sales firm contained no information on cutaneous hazards, but the Safety Data Sheet of an American producer of NMP stated the risk of severe dermatitis upon prolonged contact. NMP seems to more irritant to the human skin than reported thus far.
Pheromone-induced morphogenesis and gradient tracking are dependent on the MAPK Fus3 binding to Gα

Unique roles are found for the MAPK Fus3 during the mating response of yeast. In particular, the interaction of Fus3 with the G-protein α-subunit is required for morphogenesis and gradient tracking and suppresses cell-to-cell variability between mating and chemotropic fates in a population of pheromone-responding cells.
A Portable & Quick Japanese Parser: QJP

QJP is a portable and quick software module for Japanese processing. QJP analyzes a Japanese sentence into segmented morphemes/words with tags and a syntactic bunsetsu kakari-uke structure based on the two strategies, a) Morphological analysis based on character-types and functional-words and b) Syntactic analysis by simple treatment of structural ambiguities and ignoring semantic information. QJP is small, fast and robust, because 1) dictionary size (less than 100KB) and required memory size (260KB) are very small, 2) analysis speed is fast (more than 100 words/sec on 80486-PC), and 3) even a 100-word long sentence containing unknown words is easily processed.Using QJP and its analysis results as a base and adding other functions for processing Japanese documents, a variety of applications can be developed on UNIX workstations or even on PCs.
Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S

The current WSDL standard operates at the syntactic level and lacks the semantic expressivity needed to represent the requirements and capabilities of Web Services. Semantics can improve software reuse and discovery, significantly facilitate composition of Web services and enable integrating legacy applications as part of business process integration. The Web Service Semantics technical note defines a mechanism to associate semantic annotations with Web services that are described using Web Service Description Language (WSDL). It is conceptually based on, but a significant refinement in details of, the original WSDL-S proposal [WSDL-S] from the LSDIS laboratory at the University of Georgia. In this proposal, we assume that formal semantic models relevant to the services already exist. In our approach, these models are maintained outside of WSDL documents and are referenced from the WSDL document via WSDL extensibility elements. The type of semantic information that would be useful in describing a Web Service encompass the concepts defined by the semantic Web community in OWL-S [OWL-S] and other efforts [METEOR-S, WSMO]. The semantic information specified in this document includes definitions of the precondition, input, output and effects of Web service operations. This approach offers multiple advantages over OWL-S. First, users can describe, in an upwardly compatible way, both the semantics and operation level details in WSDLa language that the developer community is familiar with. Secondly, by externalizing the semantic domain models, we take an agnostic approach to ontology representation languages. This allows Web service developers to annotate their Web services with their choice of ontology language (such as UML or OWL) unlike in OWL-S. This is significant because the ability to reuse existing domain models expressed in modeling languages like UML can greatly alleviate the need to separately model semantics. Finally, it is relatively easy to update the existing tooling around WSDL specification to accommodate our incremental approach. Status This is a technical note provided for discussion purposes and to elicit feedback on approaches to adding semantics to Web services descriptions. Table of
Thirty-month quasi-experimental evaluation follow-up of a national primary school HIV intervention in Kenya

School-based programmes to combat the spread of HIV have been demonstrated to be effective over the short-term (i.e. 6–24 months), but few studies have addressed the sustainability of such interventions. Primary School Action for Better Health (PSABH) is an intervention delivered in upper primary-school grades in Kenya using regular classroom subjects and co-curricular activities. This paper reports results of an evaluation to assess the sustainability of PSABH and its impacts three years after teachers were trained in its delivery. Twenty primary schools participated in a pre-post evaluation of PSABH in Kenya over three consecutive school years. Surveys were completed by teachers (n = 40), pupils (n = 3403), and Quality Assurance Officers (n = 15); focus groups were held with pupils, and in-depth interviews with teachers. Teachers continued to deliver programme components three years after they were trained. Gains demonstrated in pupil knowledge, attitudes and risk-reducing sexual behaviours after one-and-a-half years of programme implementation were replicated in the third year of the intervention with additional gains in attitudes related to condoms and girls' reported use of condoms. These results support the conclusion that PSABH and its impact on student knowledge, attitudes and behaviour is sustainable across at least three school years and three student cohorts.
In Situ Analysis of Nitrifying Biofilms as Determined by In Situ Hybridization and the Use of Microelectrodes

ABSTRACT We investigated the in situ spatial organization of ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in domestic wastewater biofilms and autotrophic nitrifying biofilms by using microsensors and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) performed with 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes. The combination of these techniques made it possible to relate in situ microbial activity directly to the occurrence of nitrifying bacterial populations. In situ hybridization revealed that bacteria belonging to the genus Nitrosomonas were the numerically dominant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in both types of biofilms. Bacteria belonging to the genus Nitrobacter were not detected; instead, Nitrospira-like bacteria were the main nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in both types of biofilms. Nitrospira-like cells formed irregularly shaped aggregates consisting of small microcolonies, which clustered around the clusters of ammonia oxidizers. Whereas most of the ammonia-oxidizing bacteria were present throughout the biofilms, the nitrite-oxidizing bacteria were restricted to the active nitrite-oxidizing zones, which were in the inner parts of the biofilms. Microelectrode measurements showed that the active ammonia-oxidizing zone was located in the outer part of a biofilm, whereas the active nitrite-oxidizing zone was located just below the ammonia-oxidizing zone and overlapped the location of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, as determined by FISH.
The MIMOME Channel

The MIMOME channel is a Gaussian wiretap channel in which the sender, receiver, and eavesdropper all have multiple antennas. We characterize the secrecy capacity as the saddle-value of a minimax problem. Among other implications, our result establishes that a Gaussian distribution maximizes the secrecy capacity characterization of Csisz{\'a}r and K{\"o}rner when applied to the MIMOME channel. We also determine a necessary and sufficient condition for the secrecy capacity to be zero. Large antenna array analysis of this condition reveals several useful insights into the conditions under which secure communication is possible.
Computational fluid dynamics models and congenital heart diseases

Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool to investigate hemodynamics of the circulatory system. With improving imaging techniques and detailed clinical investigations, it is now possible to construct patient-specific models of reconstructive surgeries for the treatment of congenital heart diseases. These models can help clinicians to better understand the hemodynamic behavior of different surgical options for a treated patient. This review outlines recent advances in mathematical modeling in congenital heart diseases, the discoveries and limitations these models present, and future directions that are on the horizon.
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Governance Issues Affecting Public Private Partnership Contracting for Information Systems Implementations: A South African Case Study

Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts have drawn considerable media interest due to a number of problems such as cost overruns, mismanagement and failure. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse media discourse relating to the failure of a PPP contract between the South African Department of Labour (DOL) and Siemens Information Services (SIS). The contract pertained to the provision and implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services for the DOL. The theoretical foundation for this research is Habermas' theory of communicative action which focuses on normative standards for communication and implications of public speech. Our research builds on a growing literature on critical discourse analysis (CDA) that systematically applies Habermas' validity claims to empirical research on public communication focused on revealing distortions concerning claims of truth, sincerity, legitimacy and comprehensibility. Our study contributes to understanding issues of public accountability of PPP contracts and extends the reach of critical research into PPP contracting for information systems (IS) services and highlights key challenges of the lack of public sector management competences in securing the public interest in PPP engagements.
An Australian Case Study: Working Students and the Decision-Making Process in Real-Life Learning

This study is seeking to gain an enhanced understanding of influences that work is having on full-time students in relation to their ability to problem solve at a higher order using abstract theory, as opposed to relying on concrete experience. The majority of Australian tertiary students works while studying full-time to supplement their finances, but is this coming at a cost to their academic achievement? The case study presented reviews the results of third-year students who completed an events management unit that included real-life learning experiences. Actual learning for the students involved planning and conducting an event.
OntoDoc: an ontology-based query system for digital libraries

The decreasing cost and the increasing availability of new technologies is enabling people to create their own digital libraries. One of the main topic in personal digital libraries is allowing people to select interesting information among all the different digital formats available today (pdf, html, tiff, etc.). Moreover the increasing availability of these on-line libraries, as well as the advent of the so called semantic Web [T. Berners-Lee, 1999], is raising the demand for convening paper documents into digital, possibly semantically annotated, documents. These motivations drove us to design a new system which could enable the user to interact and query documents independently from the digital formats in which they are represented. In order to achieve this independence from the format we consider all the digital documents contained in a digital library as images. Our system tries to automatically detect the layout of the digital documents and recognize the geometric regions of interest. All the extracted information is then encoded with respect to a reference ontology, so that the user can query his digital library by typing free text or browsing the ontology.
Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) toolkit

The Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) toolkit is an extension to the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT). It uses the detailed design produced by PDT with further annotations by domain experts to automatically generate executable code into a desired agent platform. The key feature of CAFnE is that it allows domain experts with limited programming skills to easily build and modify agent systems.
A Variational Level Set Approach to Multiphase Motion

A coupled level set method for the motion of multiple junctions (of, e.g., solid, liquid, and grain boundaries), which follows the gradient flow for an energy functional consisting of surface tension (proportional to length) and bulk energies (proportional to area), is developed. The approach combines the level set method of S. Osher and J. A. Sethian with a theoretical variational formulation of the motion by F. Reitich and H. M. Soner. The resulting method uses as many level set functions as there are regions and the energy functional is evaluated entirely in terms of level set functions. The gradient projection method leads to a coupled system of perturbed (by curvature terms) Hamilton? Jacobi equations. The coupling is enforced using a single Lagrange multiplier associated with a constraint which essentially prevents (a) regions from overlapping and (b) the development of a vacuum. The numerical implementation is relatively simple and the results agree with (and go beyond) the theory as given in 12. Other applications of this methodology, including the decomposition of a domain into subregions with minimal interface length, are discussed. Finally, some new techniques and results in level set methodology are presented.
Kids and kin: children's understanding of American kin terms

ABSTRACT This study seeks to explore the defining characteristics of first and third grade children (mean ages 7;0 and 9;1 respectively) in conceptualizing seventeen American kin terms. The data indicate that even when children were able to identify a relationship, they did not all base their identification on the same attributes. Familiarity and experience affected the identification of some terms but did not appear to influence the ability to handle relational aspects. Among Grade 1 children, girls were more proficient than boys. This difference disappeared by Grade 3 where both boys and girls were equally competent and significantly more proficient than the younger children. Finally, in both grades, nuclear family terms were more familiar than extended family terms.
Navigating the Shifting Sands of Social Work Terrain: Social Work Practice in Postmodern Conditions

Underlying the shift from modern to postmodern conditions is a shift from the apparent stability of the post-World War II economic era to an economy of instability and unpredictability (Harvey, 1989). Although the effects on society are different for modernism and postmodernism, the crisis is still one of the instability of capitalism. The results include an increase in part-time and subcontracted work combined with a quickening in the pace of life and the blurring of boundaries between reality and fiction. This leads to identity issues for individuals, families, and communities. This article argues that social workers need to have an understanding of the macro-level issues of postmodern conditions in order to be effective in direct practice.
Lost in Translations? Building Sentiment Lexicons using Context Based Machine Translation

In this paper, we propose a simple yet efective approach to au tomatically building sentiment lexicons from English sentiment lexicons using publi cly available online machine translation services. The method does not rely on any semanti c resources or bilingual dictionaries, and can be applied to many languages. We propos e to overcome the low coverage problem through putting each English sentiment wor d into diferent contexts to generate diferent phrases, which efectively prompts the m achine translation engine to return diferent translations for the same English sentimen t word. Experiment results on building a Chinese sentiment lexicon (available at https:// github.com/fannix/ChineseSentiment-Lexicon) show that the proposed approach signiic antly improves the coverage of the sentiment lexicon while achieving relatively high pr ecision.
FinaVistory: Using Narrative Visualization to explain social and Economic relationships in financial news

When reading financial news, although there are critics explaining the fluctuation of Economic indexes in articles everyday, the news often assert bias on authors' favorite opinions. On the other hand, the amount of financial news published these days is staggering with diversified opinions on the same issues. Unless with acumen for the whole environment, audience will find hard to stay objective and identify useful information from the mass media. If computer is granted ability to analyze all news and generate a narrative that addresses all concerns related to the news, all kinds of readers can obtain a more compelling story. Nowadays, Narrative Visualization is a popular technique for news media to deliver reader driven stories, and a potential field for application side. In this paper, we first identify financial news with two features: polarity associated with each news and, factors impacting the indexes or being impacted by the indexes. Then we apply these features to explain the price fluctuation and explain the Socio-economic relationships between price and different topics. Finally, two case studies are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and usefulness of FinaVistory in helping users with different purposes to understand the stories behind Europe unemployment after 2008 financial crisis and oil price in 2014.
Cultural Considerations for Residential Treatment of Children and/or Adolescents

ABSTRACT The issue of culture has been scantly addressed in the field of youth residential treatment. However, little research has explored salient aspects of youth culture in residential treatment settings. In addition to the usual definitions of culture (i.e., race, ethnicity, rural/urban, low/high income), youth often note other unique cultural variations in their existence: substances of choice and availability, language, social interactions, family interactions, preferred music, styles of interactions, and resistance strategies. Issues of “peer contagion” and counter perspectives related to the concept of Positive Peer Culture are discussed. Implications of culture in youth residential treatment are explored and recommendations for culturally grounding programs are made. The author places special emphasis on the importance of consulting with youth throughout program formation, implementation and evaluation.