Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cross-Layer Design to Merge Structured P2P Networks over MANET

Peer-to-peer (P2P) network is an alternative of client/server system for sharing resources, e.g. files. P2P network is a robust, distributed and fault tolerant architecture. There are basic two types of P2P networks, structured P2P network and unstructured P2P network. Each of them has its own applications and advantages. Due recent advances in wireless and mobile technology, the P2P network can be deployed over mobile ad hoc network (MANET). We consider the scenarios of P2P network over MANET where all nodes are not the members of P2P network. Due to limited radio range and the mobility of nodes in MANET, there can occur network partition and merging of networks in the physical network. This can also lead to P2P network partition and merging at overlay layer. When two physical networks merge by coming into communication range of each other then their P2P networks would not be connected at overlay layer. Because P2P network operates at application layer as an overlay network. That is their P2P networks are connected in physical network but these P2P networks are disconnected at overlay layer. To detect this situation and merge these P2P networks at overlay layer, we extend the ODACP, an address auto-configuration protocol. Then we propose an approach to efficiently merge P2P networks such that routing traffic is minimized. Considering limited radio range and mobility of nodes, the simulation results shows that CAN over MANET performs better as compared to Chord over MANET in term of routing traffic and false-negative ratio.
NTUH-II robot arm with dynamic torque gain adjustment method for frozen shoulder rehabilitation

Frozen shoulder is a functional disorder related to shoulder muscles. Among many treatment strategies, rehabilitation exercise is one of the most common and viable therapy. In this research, a new 8 degrees of freedom (DOFs) rehabilitation robot arm named NTUH-II has been developed. The robot arm is able to provide most of upper limb rehabilitation motions in passive, active, and assistive modes. From the nature of muscle stretching, the exponential torque-angle relationship curve can be found, and thus it is possible to model and evaluate the condition of the patient's motion quality. The use of two parameters, stiffness and control authority, is proposed in this work. Based on these two parameters, an adjustment method of dynamic torque gain is developed and implemented on NTUH-II. Various experiments have been conducted, and appealing performance has been observed, which validates the method proposed in this paper.
High quality isosurface generation from volumetric data and its application to visualization of medical CT data

We propose a method for generating an isosurface from volumetric data sampled with a face-centered cubic lattice. The display quality of the isosurface obtained by our method is greatly enhanced because it generates many good aspect ratio triangle patches. We applied the method to visualization of a colonic wall from medical data. We experimentally compared the resulting surface of our method with those of existing methods, showing the effectiveness of our method.
Managing to manage? Stories from the call centre floor

Call centres are centralised operations where trained agents communicate with customers via phone and using purpose built information and communication technologies. The normative model of call centre organisation is that tasks are tightly prescribed, routinised, scripted and monitored. What are the implications for managers and management? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on middle management in call centres: how they work, how they talk about their work and what alternatives they see. It describes an emerging understanding of a manager who is as constrained as a worker under this mass customised bureaucracy. Lack of strategic support and development, a powerfully normative focus on micromanagement and deeply embedded goal conflicts combine to undermine these managers’ scope to truly manage. Like the agents they supervise, call centre managers are engaged in a coping project. In this context, they perform their identity with ambivalence: sometimes role embracing, sometimes resisting.
Cost-based modeling for fraud and intrusion detection: results from the JAM project

We describe the results achieved using the JAM distributed data mining system for the real world problem of fraud detection in financial information systems. For this domain we provide clear evidence that state-of-the-art commercial fraud detection systems can be substantially improved in stopping losses due to fraud by combining multiple models of fraudulent transaction shared among banks. We demonstrate that the traditional statistical metrics used to train and evaluate the performance of learning systems (ie. statistical accuracy or ROC analysis) are misleading and perhaps inappropriate for this application. Cost-based metrics are more relevant in certain domains, and defining such metrics poses significant and interesting research questions both in evaluating systems and alternative models, and in formalizing the problems to which one may wish to apply data mining technologies. This paper also demonstrates how the techniques developed for fraud detection can be generalized and applied to the important area of intrusion detection in networked information systems. We report the outcome of recent evaluations of our system applied to tcpdump network intrusion data specifically with respect to statistical accuracy. This work involved building additional components of JAM that we have come to call, MADAM ID (Mining Audit Data for Automated Models for Intrusion Detection). However, taking the next step to define cost-based models for intrusion detection poses interesting new research questions. We describe our initial ideas about how to evaluate intrusion detection systems using cost models learned during our work on fraud detection.
Super-resolution of medical volumes based on Principal Component Regression

In medical imaging, the data resolution is usually insufficient for accurate diagnosis in clinical medicine. Especially in most case, the resolution in the slice direction (Z direction) is much lower than that of the in-plane resolution (XY direction). Therefore it is difficult to construct isotropic voxels, which is very important in 3-D visualization systems, such as surgical system. In this paper, we propose a method for improving resolution in the slice direction for medical volume images based on Principal Component Regression (PCR), which can be considered as one of the learning based super-resolution techniques. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method by comparison with the conventional interpolation methods.
Informal and formal approaches to communicative language teaching

The main purpose of this article is to give some clarity to the use of the term ‘communicative’ in describing approaches to foreign or second language teaching. It is suggested that a distinction be drawn between 'informal’ communicative approaches which promote second language ‘acquisition‘, and ‘formal’ communicative approaches which promote ‘learning‘. This distinction between ‘acquisition’ and ‘learning‘, which is taken from the work of Stephen Krashen, is carefully explained and the conditions for achieving both in the classroom considered. In addition it is suggested that there is a need actively to teach pupils how to make use of conscious ‘learnt’ knowledge in order to 'monitor’ their performance in a second language appropriately.
MTE-NN at SemEval-2016 Task 3: Can Machine Translation Evaluation Help Community Question Answering?

We present a system for answer ranking (SemEval-2016 Task 3, subtask A) that is a direct adaptation of a pairwise neural network model for machine translation evaluation (MTE). In particular, the network incorporates MTE features, as well as rich syntactic and semantic embeddings, and it efﬁciently models complex non-linear interactions be-tween them. With the addition of lightweight task-speciﬁc features, we obtained very encouraging experimental results, with sizeable contributions from both the MTE features and from the pairwise network architecture. We also achieved good results on subtask C.
Rethinking the Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks

Blacks offer positive responses to a wide range of survey questions gauging attitudes toward schooling, yet perform less well in school than do whites. The credibility of blacks' attitudes is a central issue among competing explanations for this paradox. In this article, the authors assess questions about the validity of blacks' pro-school attitudes with the National Education Longitudinal Study. Two findings prompted the authors to rethink the paradox. First, a key reason for doubting blacks' pro-school attitudes—that they fail to predict achievement—does not generalize to the national data. Second, rather than challenge the credibility of blacks' pro-school attitudes, the results reveal minimal differences in attitude-achievement associations between blacks and other minority groups. These patterns have implications for thinking about whether blacks resist schooling.
Constructing learning spaces? Videoconferencing at local learning centres in Sweden

This article explores videoconferencing in the context of local learning centres in Sweden. The practice is described as a ‘learning space’ in which adult learners construct socio-spatial relations. The study goes beyond a sociological apprehension of actors and opposes the idea of the material as neutral, passive and conformed by practice. On the contrary, the classroom layouts and the technical artefacts have a profound impact on interaction, communication and learning. The results of the study concern how human actors have to take on different strategies to escape the influence of material actors. It will be argued that the learning space of videoconferencing is a network of interrelations in which control is handed over from humans to material actors. In terms of learning, we may have to rethink the roles of environments and technical artifacts and reconsider such predetermined and static roles of material objects.
Atomoxetine: a new pharmacotherapeutic approach in the management of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Atomoxetine is a novel, non-stimulant, highly selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor that has been studied for use in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Data from clinical trials show it to be well tolerated and effective in the treatment of ADHD in children, adolescents, and adults. Improvements were seen not only in core symptoms of ADHD, but also in broader social and family functioning and self esteem. Once-daily dosing of atomoxetine has been shown to be effective in providing continuous symptom relief. Atomoxetine does not appear to have abuse potential and is associated with a benign side effect profile. The development of atomoxetine thus represents an important advance in the pharmacological management of ADHD.
Mouse Snail Is a Target Gene for HIF

The transcriptional inhibitor Snail is a critical regulator for epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT). Although low oxygen induces Snail transcription, thereby stimulating EMT, a direct role of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) in this process remains to be demonstrated. Here we show that hypoxia induces the expression of Snail via HIF. In silico analysis identified a potential hypoxia-response element (HRE) close to the minimal promoter of the human and mouse genome of the snail gene. Gel shift assays demonstrated that a specific hypoxia-inducible complex is formed with the putative HRE and that the complex contains HIF proteins. ChIP assays confirmed the interaction of HIF proteins with the putative HRE in vivo. Reporter gene analyses showed that the putative HRE responds to hypoxia in its natural position as well as in front of a heterologous promoter and that the HRE is directly activated by HIF-1α or HIF-2α. HIF knockdown with siRNA at 2% oxygen and overexpression of an oxygen-insensitive HIF (HIF-ΔODD) mutant at 21% oxygen showed that HIF regulates Snail activation and subsequent cell migration. Our findings identify snail as a HIF target gene and provide novel insights into the regulation of snail and hypoxia-induced EMT. Mol Cancer Res; 9(2); 234–45. ©2011 AACR.
Symbols as cultural expressions of technology diffusion

Purpose – In the literature, technology has been shown to perform two major roles, one functionalist and the second symbolic. The purpose of this paper is to explore how cultural expressions in the form of symbols impact on technology diffusion.Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained primarily through qualitative research (semi‐structured interviews, document analysis and field notes/observation). Data analysis and coding was conducted using template analysis (Atlas.ti). Findings – The findings of the research suggest that an understanding of the symbolic role of technology in the form of “space”, physical structures, communication facilitators and a status symbol may enhance the success of its adoption among indigenous agribusinesses.Research limitations/implications – The study is limited by its focus on a select set of symbolic dimensions of culture. Emphasising a limited set of cultural dimensions assumes that other imperatives may not have a high impact on technology diffusion.Originality/val.
A Psychosocial Model of Understanding the Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Dementia

Based on the findings of the study `Tell me the truth': A subjective understanding of diagnosis disclosure (Pratt & Wilkinson, 2001), this article proposes a psychosocial model for understanding the experience of people with dementia. The model operates on two main aspects, the combined desire and/or ability to know the diagnosis, and the social context that surrounds an individual. The model proposes that these two aspects are inexorably linked and are represented as two axes. There are four `quadrants' represented in the model: detachment, distress, maximizing coping, and decline and denial. The model proposes that individual experience can be located in any of these `quadrants' as a function of the combined effect of social context, alongside individual response. The model proposes that social context can contribute to the experience of `distress' or the ability of individuals to access `maximizing coping strategies'. In terms of diagnosis disclosure the model advocates that when an individual shows an `ability and desire' to know their diagnosis, withholding the diagnosis may directly contribute to feelings of distress. This situation would be one example of the potential impact of the social context on individual experience. The implication for practice, and research, is that social context needs to be assessed and explored as part of individual assessment to find ways to minimize distress and maximize positive coping responses.
The blood flow, vascular resistance, and oxygen consumption of the brain in essential hypertension.

N2, 21% 02. Mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) was obtained by means of a damped mercury manometer attached to a needle in the femoral artery. Cerebral metabolic rate in terms of cerebral oxygen consumption (CMRo,), and cerebrovascular resistance (CVR) were calculated as previously described (7). Blood gas analyses were made with the Van Slyke-Neill manometric apparatus (9). Poten-tiometric measurement of blood pH was made anaerobi-cally at 370 C. by means of a glass electrode. Values for blood carbon dioxide tension were calculated by means of the nomograms presented by Peters and Van Slyke (9).
Chemotherapy and Its Effect on Liver Hypertrophy: Implications for Portal Vein Embolization and Resection

Liver resection remains the gold standard treatment for colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). The improvement of the efficacy of chemotherapy has resulted in an increase of CRLM candidates for curative resection, including a significant proposition of patients initially deemed unresectable. The safety of liver resection has increased by taking advantage of regenerative capacities of the liver with preoperative portal vein embolization (PVE) and two-stage strategies. However, chemotherapy regimens including new drugs such as oxaliplatin and irinotecan may induce pathologic changes of the nontumorous liver parenchyma that could increase the risk of liver resection, and the impact of chemotherapy on the nontumorous liver parenchyma may limit tolerance of these resections. Preoperative portal obstruction, including PVE, which aimed to hypertrophy the future remnant liver, can be adversely affected by this chemotherapy. The aim of this article is to describe the impact of chemotherapy on nontumorous liver parenchyma and to evaluate the impact of chemotherapy on the regenerative capacities of the liver, especially after PVE.
CRISPRcompar: a website to compare clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) elements are a particular family of tandem repeats present in prokaryotic genomes, in almost all archaea and in about half of bacteria, and which participate in a mechanism of acquired resistance against phages. They consist in a succession of direct repeats (DR) of 24–47 bp separated by similar sized unique sequences (spacers). In the large majority of cases, the direct repeats are highly conserved, while the number and nature of the spacers are often quite diverse, even among strains of a same species. Furthermore, the acquisition of new units (DR + spacer) was shown to happen almost exclusively on one side of the locus. Therefore, the CRISPR presents an interesting genetic marker for comparative and evolutionary analysis of closely related bacterial strains. CRISPRcompar is a web service created to assist biologists in the CRISPR typing process. Two tools facilitates the in silico investigation: CRISPRcomparison and CRISPRtionary. This website is freely accessible at http://crispr.u-psud.fr/CRISPRcompar/.
Action coordination in groups and individuals: learning anticipatory control.

When individuals act alone, they can internally coordinate the actions at hand. Such coordination is not feasible when individuals act together in a group. The present research examines to what extent groups encounter specific challenges when acting jointly and whether these challenges impede extending planning into the future. Individuals and groups carried out a tracking task that required learning a new anticipatory control strategy. The results show that groups face additional demands that are harder to overcome when planning needs to be extended into the future. Information about others' actions is a necessary condition for groups to effectively learn to extend their plans. Possible mechanisms for exerting and learning anticipatory control are discussed.
Improving Recall in a Person With Dementia

Because it is often perceived that individuals with dementia cannot relearn information that has been forgotten, few nonpharmacological memory-enhancing interventions have been developed for this population. The current study involved the investigation of a novel memory-enhancement procedure called memory priming (MP) with a 95-year-old individual with dementia. MP is based on the assumption that an individual’s ability to learn is enhanced when learning trials are preceded by an activity that is enjoyable and can be done successfully. MP required the individual to engage in a 5-min preferred conversation followed by the presentation of target questions every 2 min. A memory-enhancement procedure known as spaced retrieval was then used to maintain the information learned through MP. Results provide initial evidence for the utility of MP followed by spaced retrieval for enhancing the recall and retention of meaningful information. MP may provide a simple means for helping individuals with dementia relearn forgotten information.
Issue-Based Strategies in Election Campaigns: The Case of Health Care in the 2000 Canadian Federal Election

This article contributes to the emerging literature on election campaign strategies by studying the strategy adopted by the Liberal government in the 2000 Canadian federal election. Two questions are addressed: Why did the Liberal government choose in that election to focus its campaign on health care in spite of its poor record with regard to this issue? And, even more surprisingly, how did the Liberals manage to win this election and get a parliamentary majority using such a seemingly counterintuitive strategy? This case study suggests that an incumbent with a bad record on an important issue not only can redirect voters' attention toward other topics but can also define the debate about that issue in a more advantageous way. These ideas are tested with qualitative and quantitative data from the 2000 Canadian election. Content analysis of party campaign material and media coverage demonstrates how the incumbent Liberals successfully framed the debate about the health care issue so as to undermine the credibility of the official opposition. Statistical analyses of individual vote choice show that the Liberal campaign strategy had a significant impact on the election outcome.
Observational consequences of a landscape

In this paper we consider the implications of the ``landscape paradigm [1], [2] for the large scale properties of the universe. The most direct implication of a rich landscape is that our local universe was born in a tunnelling event from a neighboring vacuum. This would imply that we live in an open FRW universe with negative spatial curvature. We argue that the ``overshoot problem, which in other settings would make it difficult to achieve slow roll inflation, actually favors such a cosmology. We consider anthropic bounds on the value of the curvature and on the parameters of inflation. When supplemented by statistical arguments these bounds suggest that the number of inflationary efolds is not very much larger than the observed lower bound. Although not statistically favored, the likelihood that the number of efolds is close to the bound set by observations is not negligible. The possible signatures of such a low number of efolds are briefly described.
A qualitative investigation of mock-jurors' theories of emotion and reason

Mock-juries' deliberations of murder/manslaughter verdicts were videotaped and analysed. It was found that jurors' deliberations incorporated their theories of emotion and of the relationship between emotion and reason. Although there was agreement among jurors that emotions can overwhelm persons' rational faculties, there was disagreement between jurors voting for murder and for manslaughter as to the relationship of emotion and reason. Jurors voting for murder suggested emotion and reason are interdependent and that persons can simultaneously act from emotion as well as reason, whereas jurors voting for manslaughter suggested the two are independent and that they cannot operate simultaneously. The import of jurors' folk concepts of emotion and reason to the legal system, as well as to our understanding of emotions themselves, is discussed.