Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Segmentation: Modeling the Structure and Content of Customers' Thoughts

This paper proposes a cognitive segmentation technique that models both customers’ cognitive content and structure. Cognitive segmentation provides a quantitative operationalization of idiographic cognitions that can be compared and integrated across customers to move beyond the in-depth understanding and wide generalizing trade-off. In addition, cognitive segmentation utilizes participants’ own semantics for eliciting and aggregating cognitions. This method allows researchers to understand content in light of structure, as participants’ elicited cognitive contents are further interpreted as a function of the complexity of their cognitive structures. The conceptual
Interaction between Elongation Factors 1β and 1γ from Bombyx mori Silk Gland

Elongation factor 1 (EF-1) from the silk gland of Bombyx mori consists of four subunits: α (51 kDa), β (26 kDa), γ (49 kDa), and δ (33 kDa). The EF-1α subunit catalyzes the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome concomitant with the hydrolysis of GTP. The EF-1α-bound GDP is then exchanged for GTP by the EF-1βγδ complex. To facilitate analysis of the roles of the individual EF-1β, γ, and δ subunits in GDP/GTP exchange on EF-1α, we cloned the cDNAs for these subunits and expressed them in Escherichia coli. EF-1β, EF-1γ, and the carboxyl-terminal half of EF-1δ were expressed, purified, and examined for protein:protein interactions by gel filtration chromatography and by a quartz-crystal microbalance method. An 80-kDa species containing EF-1β and γ subunits in a 1:1 molar ratio was detected by gel filtration. A higher molecular weight species containing an excess of EF-1γ relative to EF-1β was also detected. The amino-terminal region of EF-1β (amino acid residues 1-129) was sufficient for binding to EF-1γ. The carboxyl-terminal half of EF-1δ did not appear to form a complex with EF-1γ.
Regional Urban Area Extraction Using MODIS data and DMSP / OLS data

Regional urban extraction is an essential process in analyzing urban agglomeration based on GIS and RS.Urban agglomeration will become the main form of urbanization of China in the future . In this paper, we present results from efforts to map urban agglomeration built-up land at 500 m spatial resolution using MODIS and DMSP/OLS data. This research builds a new building index (NBI) to map regional urban based on MODIS and DMSP/OLS data. Then we verify the validity of the new building index using stratified random accuracy assessment method compares with NDBI and IBI.The result shows that new building index has an overall accuracy of 87.25% (k=0.6537),87.50 %( k=0.6713) and 90.50 %( k=0.8022) at the pixel level and a high level of agreement at the city scale (R>0.9) in Beijing-tianjin-hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration. Keywords—urban extraction,NBI,MODIS,DMSP
Localization in Low Power Wide Area Networks Using Wi-Fi Fingerprints

Supply chain management requires regular updates of the location of assets, which can be enabled by low power wide area networks, such as Sigfox. While it is useful to localize a device simply by its communication signals, this is very difficult to do with Sigfox because of wide area and ultra narrowband nature. On the other hand, installing a satellite localization element on the device greatly increases its power consumption. We investigated using information about nearby Wi-Fi access points as a way to localize the asset over the Sigfox network, so without connecting to those Wi-Fi networks. This paper reports the location error that can be achieved by this type of outdoor localization. By using a combination of two databases, we could localize the device on all 36 test locations with a median location error of 39 m . This shows that the localization accuracy of this method is promising enough to warrant further study, most specifically the minimal power consumption.
Separated covariance filtering

A separated covariance filter (SCF) for estimating position and velocity given noisy measurements is discussed. The SCF calculates the state errors due to measurement errors and those due to target acceleration separately. The SCF overcomes two difficulties with the standard Kalman filter technique: (1) selection of the process noise covariance; and (2) interpreting the Kalman state covariance. The SCF is adaptable to a stream of unsequenced measurements. <<ETX>>
Degeneration of paramedian nuclei in the thalamus induces Holmes tremor in a case of artery of Percheron infarction

Abstract Rationale: Holmes’ tremor is an uncommon neurologic disorder following brain insults, and its pathogenesis is undefined. The interruption of the dento-rubro-thalamic tract and secondary deterioration of the nigrostriatal pathway are both required to initiate Holmes’ tremor. We used nuclear medicine imaging tools to analyze a patient with concurrent infarction in different zones of each side of the thalamus. Finding whether the paramedian nuclear groups of the thalamus were injured was a decisive element for developing Holmes’ tremor. Patient concerns: A 36-year-old woman was admitted to our department due to a bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction. Seven months after the stroke, a unilaterally involuntary trembling with irregularly wavering motions occurring in both her left hand and forearm. Diagnosis: Based on the distinct features of the unilateral coarse tremor and the locations of the lesions on the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the patient was diagnosed with bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction complicated with a unilateral Holmes’ tremor. Interventions: The patient refused our recommendation of pharmacological treatment with levodopa and other dopamine agonists based on personal reasons and was only willing to accept physical and occupational training programs at our outpatient clinic. Outcomes: We utilized serial anatomic and functional neuroimaging of the brain to survey the neurologic deficit. A brain magnetic resonance imaging showed unequal recovery on each side of the thalamus. The residual lesion appeared larger in the right-side thalamus and had gathered in the paramedian area. A brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) revealed that the post-stroke hypometabolic changes were not only in the right-side thalamus but also in the right basal ganglion, which was anatomically intact. Furthermore, the brain Technetium-99m-labeled tropanes as a dopamine transporter imaging agents scan (99m Tc-TRODAT-1) displayed a secondary reduction of dopamine transporters in the right nigrostriatal pathway which had resulted from the damage on the paramedian nuclear groups of the right-side thalamus. Lessons: Based on the functional images, we illustrated that a retrograde degeneration originating from the thalamic paramedian nuclear groups, and extending forward along the direct innervating fibers of the mesothalamic pathway, played an essential role towards initiating Holmes’ tremor.
Life Events and the Gap between Intention to Move and Actual Mobility

Life events are frequently mentioned as a reason why people do not behave according to their mobility intentions. However, there is little empirical evidence concerning the role of life events in the discrepancy between stated mobility intentions and actual mobility behaviour. The authors clarify the role of life events in this discrepancy using a longitudinal dataset from the Netherlands, in which the Housing Demand Survey 2002 is enriched with register data from the Social Statistical Database. Union dissolution, union formation, and childbirth trigger moves among people who had initial intended to stay in the current home. These events also act as an extra stimulus to move for those who already intended to move for reasons other than household or job change. In contrast, the event of losing a job prevents people from realising their intention to move. The results also suggest that the majority of the moves after union dissolution are made by people who did not have an initial intention to move.
Lhx2 Is Required for Patterning and Expansion of a Distinct Progenitor Cell Population Committed to Eye Development

Progenitor cells committed to eye development become specified in the prospective forebrain and develop subsequently into the optic vesicle and the optic cup. The optic vesicle induces formation of the lens placode in surface ectoderm from which the lens develops. Numerous transcription factors are involved in this process, including the eye-field transcription factors. However, many of these transcription factors also regulate the patterning of the anterior neural plate and their specific role in eye development is difficult to discern since eye-committed progenitor cells are poorly defined. By using a specific part of the Lhx2 promoter to regulate Cre recombinase expression in transgenic mice we have been able to define a distinct progenitor cell population in the forebrain solely committed to eye development. Conditional inactivation of Lhx2 in these progenitor cells causes an arrest in eye development at the stage when the optic vesicle induces lens placode formation in the surface ectoderm. The eye-committed progenitor cell population is present in the Lhx2−/− embryonic forebrain suggesting that commitment to eye development is Lhx2-independent. However, re-expression of Lhx2 in Lhx2−/− progenitor cells only promotes development of retinal pigment epithelium cells, indicating that Lhx2 promotes the acquisition of the oligopotent fate of these progenitor cells. This approach also allowed us to identify genes that distinguish Lhx2 function in eye development from that in the forebrain. Thus, we have defined a distinct progenitor cell population in the forebrain committed to eye development and identified genes linked to Lhx2's function in the expansion and patterning of these progenitor cells.
Comparison of elastic matching algorithms for online Tamil handwritten character recognition

We present a comparison of elastic matching schemes for writer dependent on-line handwriting recognition of isolated Tamil characters. Three different features are considered namely, preprocessed x-y coordinates, quantized slope values, and dominant point coordinates. Seven schemes based on these three features and dynamic time warping distance measure are compared with respect to recognition accuracy, recognition speed, and number of training templates. Along with these results, possible grouping strategies and error analysis is also presented in brief.
Educational psychology in Ireland and its Psychological Society of Ireland division – a history

This article considers the context in which the Division of Educational Psychology (DEP) of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and the profession of educational psychologist emerged in Ireland. Education itself provided the stimulus and locus for many important events in the history of psychology as a science and profession, and each discipline owes much to the other. Educational issues concerned PSI from the very beginning, and a committee or special interest group emerged in the 1970s. The article outlines three discourses that led to the growth of special needs education in Ireland in the latter half of the twentieth century, and these, influenced strongly by developments in other countries and by litigation against the state, led to radical change in government policy-making here. Ground-breaking legislation embodying a changed notion of what school education is, and marking a new relationship between the school and the individual pupil followed. Educational psychologists would be central to t.
Second Primary Cancer in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Does Radioiodine Play a Role?

BACKGROUND Well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) is the most common endocrine neoplasia, and its incidence is rising. Studies have reported an increased risk of second primary cancer (SPC) in WDTC survivors, but its relationship with radioiodine treatment (RAIT) and other risk factors remains controversial. This study evaluated whether RAIT is an independent risk factor for SPC in WDTC patients. METHODS This was a retrospective single-center study. A total of 2031 patients with WDTC diagnosed between 1998 and 2009, treated and followed at the authors' tertiary cancer center, were included. RESULTS The median age of patients was 48 years (range 5-90 years); 83% were women and 77% underwent RAIT. The median follow-up was 8.8 years (range 5.0-17.0 years). A total of 130 SPC were diagnosed: 108/1570 (6.9%) received RAIT (RAIT+) and 22/461 (4.8%) did not (RAIT-). The most common SPC was breast cancer (31%), followed by genitourinary and gastrointestinal cancer (18% each). The 10-year cumulative incidence of SPC was 8.2% in RAIT+ and 4.5% in RAIT-. The absolute risk increase in the RAIT+ group versus the RAIT- group at 10 years of follow-up was 0.039 [confidence interval (CI) 0.011-0.067] per patient-year. The number needed to harm (NNH) was 25.6 [CI 15.0-87.2], indicating that on average during a 10-year follow-up period, there is one additional case of SPC for every 26 patients receiving RAIT. When controlling for age, sex, and familial and personal histories of cancer, there was an 84% increase in the risk of SPC in the RAIT+ group compared to the RAIT- group (p = 0.026; relative risk = 1.84 [CI 1.02-3.31]). There was an association between SPC incidence and total cumulative activity administered, which was statistically significant >200 mCi. The incidence of SPC was higher in both the WDCT and the RAIT+ cohorts compared to the general population (standardized incidence ratios = 1.32 and 1.40, respectively). CONCLUSION These results indicate that in spite of the low incidence of SPC in WDTC patients, the risk is increased after RAIT, particularly for activities >200 mCi. Thus, considering the excellent survival of patients with WDTC, clinicians need to weigh the risks and benefits of RAIT, especially in patients with low-risk thyroid cancer.
Leveraging Core Specialization via OS Scheduling to Improve Performance on Asymmetric Multicore Systems

Asymmetric multicore processors (AMPs) consist of cores with the same ISA (instruction-set architecture), but different microarchitectural features, speed, and power consumption. Because cores with more complex features and higher speed typically use more area and consume more energy relative to simpler and slower cores, we must use these cores for running applications that experience significant performance improvements from using those features. Having cores of different types in a single system allows optimizing the performance/energy trade-off. To deliver this potential to unmodified applications, the OS scheduler must map threads to cores in consideration of the properties of both. Our work describes a Comprehensive scheduler for Asymmetric Multicore Processors (CAMP) that addresses shortcomings of previous asymmetry-aware schedulers. First, previous schedulers catered to only one kind of workload properties that are crucial for scheduling on AMPs; either efficiency or thread-level parallelism (TLP), but not both. CAMP overcomes this limitation showing how using both efficiency and TLP in synergy in a single scheduling algorithm can improve performance. Second, most existing schedulers relying on models for estimating how much faster a thread executes on a “fast” vs. “slow” core (i.e., the speedup factor) were specifically designed for AMP systems where cores differ only in clock frequency. However, more realistic AMP systems include cores that differ more significantly in their features. To demonstrate the effectiveness of CAMP on more realistic scenarios, we augmented the CAMP scheduler with a model that predicts the speedup factor on a real AMP prototype that closely matches future asymmetric systems.
Continuity Equation in Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics and the Galilei Relativity Principle

Classes of the nonlinear Schrodinger-type equations compatible with the Galilei rel- ativity principle are described. Solutions of these equations satisfy the continuity equation. The continuity equation is one of the most fundamental equations of quantum mechanics @ @t + ~ r · ~ j = 0. (1) Depending on definition of (density) and ~j = (j 1 ,.,j n ) (current), we can construct essentially dierent quantum mechanics with dierent equations of motion, which are distinct from classical linear Schrodinger, Klein-Gordon-Fock, and Dirac equations. In this paper we describe wide classes of the nonlinear Schrodinger-type equations compatible with the Galilei relativity principle and their solutions satisfy the continuity equation. 1. At the beginning we study a symmetry of the continuity equation considering (, ~ j) as
Insulitis-Caused Redistribution of Heat-Shock Protein HSP60 Inside β-cells Correlates With Induction of HSP60 Autoantibodies

We recently reported that sera of NOD mice contain autoantibodies to the endogenous HSP60. Under physiological conditions, the HSP60 antigen was located to secretory granules and mitochondria of β-cells, but in islets affected by insulitis, the antigen accumulated rapidly in cytoplasm and on β-cell surface membranes. The relationship was examined between insulitis-dependent redistribution of the HSP60 inside β-cells and induction of the HSP60 autoantibodies. By use of quantitative immunoelectron microscopy and monoclonal antibodies to human HSP60, changes were monitored in levels of the cytoplasmic HSP60 with progression of insulitis. Development of insulitis was accompanied by reduction of the HSP60 levels in secretory granules and increased levels in the cytoplasm. Mean concentration of cytoplasmic HSP60 in 4-, 7-, and 13-wk-old NOD mice representing 0, 85, and 100% incidence of insulitis, gradually increased from 4.6 to 11.2 to 35.9 immunogold grains/μm2, respectively, and this increase was statistically significant (P < 0.001). Simultaneously, the time course of an appearance of HSP60 antibodies was established by testing sera of > 4- to 25-wk-old NOD mice, for their cross-reactivity to human recombinant HSP60 on Western blots. HSP60 antibodies developed in both sexes between 7 and 13 wk of age but were found with the highest frequency in sera of 10- to 15-wk-old mice. Antibodies declined rapidly with the onset of diabetes. HSP60 antibodies were not observed in sera of 4-wk-old NOD mice devoid of insulitis or in 7-wk-old males with delayed onset of insulitis. The cytoplasmic HSP60 levels in these cases were the same as in control mice. These data suggest that insulitis is a causative factor in the HSP60 redistribution, and that this HSP60 redistribution inside the β-cells is temporarily associated with the induction of the humoral autoimmune response to the HSP60.
An investigation of time distribution of pre-service teachers while interning

Student teaching is the culminating experience of most teacher preparation programs. Student teaching gives the prospective teacher the opportunity to join the worlds of theory and practice and to develop individual teaching talents. Long hours are regularly spent in several areas. This study sought to investigate how student teachers distribute their time in selected areas (observation, planning, teaching, teaching-related activities, and administrative-related activities). The sample consisted of student teachers who participated in an internship experience in agricultural education during the spring semester for the years 1999 through 2003. Document analyses were used to obtain information guided by the research objectives. The study found that student teachers spent the majority of their time observing, planning, and teaching. Slight differences in how time was distributed over the internship experience were found between males and females, where females spent more time on planning and on teachingrelated activities. Student teacher learning styles also exposed differences in how time was distributed over the internship experience. Field-dependent learners spent more time on planning, whereas field-independent learners spent more time on teaching-related activities. Other differences in distribution of time were found by final performance grade for the student teaching internship. While slight differences existed in all the selected areas, the largest differences occurred in administrative-related activities where students who received an A grade spent more time than did the A- and below group.
Global human resource management influences on local sport organisations

Societal consciousness has shifted from national to international and global spheres, and the world is increasingly perceived as one place. Many sport organisations now find that they are under increasing pressure to engage in globally benchmarked sustainable management systems and processes, across all functional areas from finance to HRM. Some sport organisations have used aspects of the globalisation process to create new opportunities for expansion and growth, while others have been reluctant or resistant to externally instigated change. We assessed the adoption of 'best practice' HRM practices in a range of amateur and professional sport organisations to see how they were reacting to these convergence pressures. This issue fits in the wider convergence-divergence debate that has been the concern of many cross-cultural researchers. Our empirical results indicate that while government policy has urged movement to a universally derived system of HRM processes, few sport organisations have adopted a formal HRM strategy and HR practices are widely variable across organisations.
A Drosophila Model of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2

Dominant mutations in the Ret receptor tyrosine kinase lead to the familial cancer syndrome multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2). Mammalian tissue culture studies suggest that RetMEN2 mutations significantly alter Ret-signaling properties, but the precise mechanisms by which RetMEN2 promotes tumorigenesis remain poorly understood. To determine the signal transduction pathways required for RetMEN2 activity, we analyzed analogous mutations in the Drosophila Ret ortholog dRet. Overexpressed dRetMEN2 isoforms targeted to the developing retina led to aberrant cell proliferation, inappropriate cell fate specification, and excessive Ras pathway activation. Genetic analysis indicated that dRetMEN2 acts through the Ras-ERK, Src, and Jun kinase pathways. A genetic screen for mutations that dominantly suppress or enhance dRetMEN2 phenotypes identified new genes that are required for the phenotypic outcomes of dRetMEN2 activity. Finally, we identified human orthologs for many of these genes and examined their status in human tumors. Two of these loci showed loss of heterozygosity (LOH) within both sporadic and MEN2-associated pheochromocytomas, suggesting that they may contribute to Ret-dependent oncogenesis.