Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Group Decision Making Process for Supplier Selection with TOPSIS Method under Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers

Supplier selection is a fundamental issue of supply chain area that heavily contributes to the overall supply chain performance, and, also, it is a hard problem since supplier selection is typically a multicriteria group decision problem. In many practical situations, there usually exists incomplete and uncertain, and the decision makers cannot easily express their judgments on the candidates with exact and crisp values. Therefore, in this paper an extended technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method for group decision making with Atanassov's interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers is proposed to solve the supplier selection problem under incomplete and uncertain information environment. In other researches in this area, the weights of each decision maker and in many of them the weights of criteria are predetermined, but these weights have been calculated in this paper by using the decision matrix of each decision maker. Also, the normalized Hamming distance is proposed to calculate the distance between Atanassov's interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. Finally, a numerical example for supplier selection is given to clarify the main results developed in this paper.
Tests of a Theory of Communicative Responsibility

Two studies are presented that provide the first empirical tests of a theory of communicative responsibility. The theory posits that individuals in communicative situations make systematic judgments of the extent to which each party is responsible for contributing to the process of creating understanding in a communicative event. These judgments affect the extent to which communicators engage in implicature and inference-making during the communicative event. The first study demonstrates that judgments of communicative responsibility affect communicative performance. Respondents’ judgments of their personal communicative responsibility in a direction-giving task were positively associated with the length of their directions. The second study showed that a communicator’s failure to behave in a communicatively responsible manner was associated with negative perceptions of the communicative behavior. Communicative responsibility theory would be useful in a number of areas of communication research, including natural language processing, relational communication, misunderstandings and conversational repair, communication competence, and deception.
Unpacking the Concept of Virtuality: The Effects of Geographic Dispersion, Electronic Dependence, Dynamic Structure, and National Diversity on Team Innovation

To understand why the virtual design strategies that organizations create to foster innovation may in fact hinder it, we unpack four characteristics often associated with the term ‘virtuality’ (geographic dispersion, electronic dependence, structural dynamism, and national diversity) and argue that each hinders innovation through unique mechanisms, many of which can be overcome by creating a psychologically safe communication climate. We first tested the plausibility of our arguments using in-depth qualitative analysis of interviews with 177 members of 14 teams in a variety of industries. A second study constituted a more formal test of hypotheses using survey data collected from 266 members of 56 aerospace design teams. Results show that the four characteristics are not highly intercorrelated, that they have independent and differential effects on innovation, and that a psychologically safe communication climate helps mitigate the challenges they pose. We discuss the implications of these findings for theory and research.
Predicting Factors of Relapse among Persons with a Major Depressive Disorder

Abstract : Major depressive disorder is the diagnosis used when an individual has chronic depression that may reoccur, whereby the affected person may experience a relapse of the illness. In order to prevent relapse of a major depressive disorder, it is essential to identify predictors of a potential relapse. Thus, this case-controlled study sought to ex­amine psychosocial factors that might predict an impending relapse among persons with a major depressive disorder. Seventy-four individuals, diagnosed with a major depressive disorder, participated in the study. The data were analyzed via descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression. The results revealed stressful life events, self-efficacy for coping with depression, and expressed emotion of family members as significant predictors of an impending relapse of a major depressive disorder. Together these three independent variables explained 52% (Cog and Snell R2) or 69.3% (Nagelkerke R2) of the variance of relapse among the subjects. Although the power of each independent variable in predicting the likelihood of a relapse of the illness was not high, the results support cognitive theory that hypothesizes stressful life events increase one’s likelihood of having a depressive relapse. The findings also support those of previous studies wherein self-efficacy for coping with depression and expressed emotion of family members have been found to be factors that may influence the relapse of a major depressive disorder. บทคดยอ : โรคซมเศราเปนการวนจฉยทใชเมอบคคลมอาการซมเศราเรอรงทซงอาจเกดขนซำได โดยผทไดรบผลกระทบนอาจมประสบการณการกลบเปนซำของการเจบปวยไดบอยครงขน เพอ ปองกนการกลบเปนซำของโรคนจงมความสำคญทควรระบถงตวทำนายการกลบเปนซำทเปนไปได การศกษานเปนการศกษายอนหลงแบบทมกลมควบคมเพอตรวจสอบปจจยทางจตสงคมทนาจะใช เพอทำนายการกลบเปนซำในผทเปนโรคซมเศรา โดยมผทไดรบการวนจฉยวาเปนโรคซมเศราเขา รวมในการศกษาจำนวน 74 ราย วเคราะหขอมลโดยใชสถต เชงพรรณนาและสถตถดถอยโลจสตค ผลการศกษาพบวาเหตการณทกอใหเกดความเครยดในชวต สมรรถนะแหงตนในการจดการ กบอาการซมเศรา และการแสดงออกทางอารมณของสมาชกครอบครว เปนตวทำนายการกลบเปนซำของโรคซมเศราทสำคญ ตวแปรอสระทง 3 ตวรวมกนอธบายความผนแปร ของการกลบเปนซำในผท เปนโรคซมเศราไดรอยละ 52 (โดยวธของคอกและสเนลล )หรอรอยละ 69.3 (โดยวธของเนเกลเครก) แมวาคาอำนาจทำนายของตวแปรอสระแตละตว ในการทำนายความเปนไปไดของการกลบเปนซำของการเจบปวยไมสงมากนก แตผลการศกษานสนบสนนทฤษฎทางปญญาทมสมมตฐานวาเหตการณ ทกอใหเกดความเครยดในชวตทำใหบคคลมโอกาสกลบเปนซำของโรคซมเศราเพมขน ผลการศกษา นสนบสนนผลการศกษาทผานมาอกดวยวาสมรรถนะแหงตนในการจดการกบอาการซมเศรา และการ แสดงออกทางอารมณ ของสมาชกครอบครว เปนปจจยสำคญทนาจะมอทธพลตอการกลบเปนซำของ โรคซมเศรา
Enriched presence information on converged communication platforms

Consumers have access to an increasingly wide variety of devices and modalities to communicate with others. The concept of enriched presence information helps users to harness such complexity by showing which device and modality is currently being preferred by their contacts. Operators can offer enriched presence information by utilizing recently developed converged communication standards like Rich Communication Suite–Enhanced (RCS-E). The present article tests the usefulness of enriched presence features for two prototype applications built upon RCS standards. A quasi-experiment shows that users become more positive about the usefulness of enriched presence information after trying out the two applications. Whilst findings suggest operators should introduce services that offer enriched presence information, our troublesome and lengthy prototyping process indicates that operators will not get the services to the market in time to hold off Internet players offering similar functionality.
How do people respond to others with high commitment or autonomy in their relationships?

Two studies exposed undergraduate students to a scenario in which a hypothetical other talked about his or her current relationship which was characterized by either a high degree of commitment or a high degree of autonomy. Study 1 demonstrated that the commitment scenario was perceived as characterized by more commitment, and the autonomy scenario was characterized by more autonomy. In Study 2, a laboratory experiment, it was shown that, when they were high in the individual difference characteristic social comparison orientation: (i) men saw the autonomy scenario as more desirable and responded with less negative affect, and (ii) women saw the commitment scenario as more desirable and responded with less negative affect. Among men, the commitment scenario evoked more negative affect than the autonomy scenario, particularly when it was viewed as undesirable. All effects were upheld when controlling for attachment styles.
Meeting the Challenges of a Person-Centric Work Psychology

Over a decade ago, we undertook a program of research designed to begin developing a psychology of everyday work life—what we have come to call inner work life. In the parlance of Weiss and Rupp (2011), we have been engaged in building a ‘‘person-centric work psychology. ’’ Our endeavors reveal some of the promise and the peril of the new paradigm proposed by Weiss and Rupp. In this commentary, after describing some fruits of our research on subjective experience at work, we present three challenges of the personcentric paradigm: (1) ensuring the quality of data sources; (2) collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data; and (3) building a psychological science using individual introspection.
Treating Social Skill Deficits in Children with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis of the Research

Although social skills training or intervention for children with learning disabilities has been widely used in the past 15 years, little systematic synthesis of its effectiveness is available. The current study is a meta-analysis of 53 studies on social skills training completed during this period. The mean effect size (ES) obtained was only . 211, with very few differences among teachers, peers, or children themselves who judged effectiveness of training. This relatively modest effect is discussed in relation to other special interventions for children with school learning or behavioral disorders and possible links between learning disabilities and social skills that might account for poor treatment outcome.
Identification and Phylogenetic Characterization of Cobalamin Biosynthetic Genes of Ensifer adhaerens

Ensifer adhaerens CSBa was screened as a cobalamin producer. The draft genome sequence revealed that the strain possesses 22 cobalamin biosynthetic genes (cob genes). The cob gene arrangement on the genome of E. adhaerens CSBa was similar to that of other Ensifer species, and most similar to that of Pseudomonas denitrificans SC510. The cobN sequence phylogeny was generally congruent with that of the 16S rRNA gene, and it is suggeted that E. adhaerens CSBa might have inherited the cob genes from common ancestors of the Ensifer species. It was also suggested that the cob genes can be laterally transferred.
A Taylor series expansion approach to the functional approximation of finite queues

This paper presents a new approach to the functional approximation of the M/G/1/N built on a Taylor series approach. Specifically, we establish an approximative expression for the remainder term of the Taylor series that can be computed in an efficient manner. As we will illustrate with numerical examples, the resulting Taylor series approximation turns out to be of practical value. keywords: Series expansion approach; Taylor series; M/G/1/N queue; Performance Measures; Deviation matrix
Metacognitive activities in text-studying and problem-solving: Development of a taxonomy

This article describes the construction of a hierarchical taxonomy of metacognitive activities for the interpretation of thinking-aloud protocols of students in secondary education, who studied texts on history and physics. After testing an initial elaborate taxonomy on a restricted number of protocols by multiple raters, it appeared that the interrater correspondence was well below par. The categories in the taxonomy were too highly specified. Categories were combined and tested on new protocols in a cyclic fashion. The revised taxonomy was then used for coding 16 history protocols and 16 physics protocols. Frequencies of occurrence of metacognitive activities were obtained, as well as judgements of the quality of the metacognitive activities of the participants. There is a reasonable correlation between the frequency method and the quality method for coding thinking-aloud protocols. Also, there is a substantial covariation of the number of metacognitive activities across both tasks.
A full-system approach to analyze the impact of next-generation mobile flash storage

As mobile devices gain ever more capabilities, their software and hardware complexity increases. Full system performance generally depends on complex hardware/software interactions, making it hard to reason about the performance impact of new components. These challenges are especially prominent for the flash storage as it involves a complex hardware architecture, and an extensive software stack. Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is an emerging flash interface proposed to address the growing demands of mobile workloads. However, due to the complexity of the system it is hard to determine the contribution of the storage device on the performance perceived by the user. To study the flash storage impact on modern mobile systems, and evaluate next-generation flash devices, we introduce a detailed UFS device model in the open-source full-system simulator gem5. We show the impact of different-performing flash devices on real mobile workloads, and compare the result with existing systems. Contrary to claims made by related work, we show that web browsing performance in itself is independent of the flash performance, but that tasks heavily utilizing the flash storage are clearly seeing the benefits of UFS. Our work enables performance analysis in both the hardware and the software layers of the storage system, and thus provides a platform for further research into mobile flash storage.
Furin Is the Major Proprotein Convertase Required for KISS1-to-Kisspeptin Processing

KISS1 is a broadly functional secreted proprotein that is then processed into small peptides, termed kisspeptins (KP). Since sequence analysis showed cleavage at KR or RR dibasic sites of the nascent protein, it was hypothesized that enzyme(s) belonging to the proprotein convertase family of proteases process KISS1 to generate KP. To this end, cell lines over-expressing KISS1 were treated with the proprotein convertase inhibitors, Dec-RVKR-CMK and α1-PDX, and KISS1 processing was completely inhibited. To identify the specific enzyme(s) responsible for KISS1 processing, mRNA expression was systematically analyzed for six proprotein convertases found in secretory pathways. Consistent expression of the three proteases – furin, PCSK5 and PCSK7 – were potentially implicated in KISS1 processing. However, shRNA-mediated knockdown of furin – but not PCSK5 or PCSK7 – blocked KISS1 processing. Thus, furin appears to be the essential enzyme for the generation of kisspeptins.
Utrophin mitigates the pathophysiology of dystrophin and utrophin double-knockout mice

Call JA, Ervasti JM, Lowe DA. TatUtrophin mitigates the pathophysiology of dystrophin and utrophin double-knockout mice. J Appl Physiol 111: 200–205, 2011. First published May 12, 2011; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00248. 2011. —Previously, we demonstrated functional substitution of dystrophin by TATUtrophin (TATUtr) in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice. Herein, we addressed whether TATUtr could improve the phenotype of dystrophin and utrophin double-knockout (mdx:utr / ) mice. Specifically, we quantitatively compared survival and quality of life assessments in mdx:utr / mice receiving TATUtr protein administration against placebo-treated mdx:utr / mice (PBS). Additionally, skeletal muscles from TATUtr and PBS mice were tested in vivo and ex vivo for strength and susceptibility to eccentric contraction-induced injury. We found the TATUtr treatment extended life span 45% compared with mice administered PBS. This was attributed to significantly increased food consumption (3.1 vs. 1.8 g/24 h) due to improved ability to search for food as daily cage activities were greater in TATUtr mice (e.g., 364 vs. 201 m ambulation/24 h). The extensor digitorum longus muscles of TATUtr-treated double-knockout mice also displayed increased force-generating capacity ex vivo (8.3 vs. 6.4 N/cm) and decreased susceptibility to injury ex vivo and in vivo. These data indicate that the functional benefits of TATUtr replacement treatment extend to the mdx:utr / double-knockout mouse and support its development as a therapy to mitigate muscle weakness in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Towards recognising collaborative activities using multiple on-body sensors

This paper describes the initial stages of a new work on recognising collaborative activities involving two or more people. In the experiment described a physically demanding construction task is completed by a team of 4 volunteers. The task, to build a large video wall, requires communication, coordination, and physical collaboration between group members. Minimal outside assistance is provided to better reflect the ad-hoc and loosely structured nature of real-world construction tasks. On-body inertial measurement units (IMU) record each subject's head and arm movements; a wearable eye-tracker records gaze and ego-centric video; and audio is recorded from each person's head and dominant arm. A first look at the data reveals promising correlations between, for example, the movement patterns of two people carrying a heavy object. Also revealed are clues on how complementary information from different sensor types, such as sound and vision, might further aid collaboration recognition.
Evaluation of Rubella Immunity in a Community Prenatal Clinic

Since the introduction of the Rubella vaccine in 1969, prevalence of congenital Rubella syndrome (CRS) has greatly declined in the United States. However, reports of sporadic adult cases of the disease and frequent identification of non-Rubella immune (NRI) women in prenatal units may result in outbreak of CRS in susceptible communities. Identifying populations with high rates of NRI will assist in evidence-based public health intervention that may prevent epidemic of CRS in the United States. Method. This is a retrospective, cross-sectional study involving chart audit of Rubella screening results of 642 women who attended a high-risk prenatal care at a northwestern Iowa clinic between January 1 and December 31, 2007. Results. NRI was found in 6.9% of the study population. The highest prevalence rate of 10.2% was found among adolescents. NRI was highest among Native American women at 17.3%, compared to Whites 7.3%, African Americans 5.9%, and Hispanics 4.6%. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that Native Americans were 2.5 times more likely to be NRI compared to Whites (OR 2.7; 95% CI: 1.1, 6.6). Conclusion. This study demonstrated higher rate of non-Rubella immunity among adolescent pregnant women and supports Rubella booster immunization for all non-pregnant teenage women. The observed high rate of NRI among Native Americans may require further studies and evaluation of Rubella vaccination programs in tribal communities.
The Hemophilus influenzae Hap Autotransporter Is a Chymotrypsin Clan Serine Protease and Undergoes Autoproteolysis via an Intermolecular Mechanism*

The Hemophilus influenzae Hap adhesin is an autotransporter protein that undergoes an autoproteolytic cleavage event resulting in extracellular release of the adhesin domain (Haps) from the membrane-associated translocator domain (Hapβ). Hap autoproteolysis is mediated by Ser243 and occurs at LN1036-7 and to a lesser extent at more COOH-terminal alternate sites. In the present study, we sought to further define the mechanism of Hap autoproteolysis. Site-directed mutagenesis of residues His98 and Asp140identified a catalytic triad conserved among a subfamily of autotransporters and reminiscent of the SA (chymotrypsin) clan of serine proteases. Amino-terminal amino acid sequencing of histidine-tagged Hapβ species and site-directed mutagenesis established that autoproteolysis occurs at LT1046-7, FA1077-8, and FS1067-8, revealing a consensus target sequence for cleavage that consists of ((Q/R)(A/S)X(L/F)) at the P4 through P1 positions. Examination of a recombinant strain co-expressing a Hap derivative lacking all cleavage sites (HapΔ1036-99) and a Hap derivative lacking proteolytic activity (HapS243A) demonstrated that autoproteolysis occurs by an intermolecular mechanism. Kinetic analysis of Hap autoproteolysis in bacteria expressing Hap under control of an inducible promoter demonstrated that autoproteolysis increases as the density of Hap precursor in the outer membrane increases, confirming intermolecular cleavage and suggesting a novel mechanism for regulation of bacterial adherence and microcolony formation.
Semiconducting bilinear deep learning for incomplete image recognition

Image recognition with incomplete data is a well-known hard problem in multimedia content analysis. This paper proposes a novel deep learning technique called semiconducting bilinear deep belief networks (SBDBN) by referencing human's visual cortex and intelligent perception. Inheriting from deep models, SBDBN simulates the laminar structure of human's cerebral cortex and the neural loop in human's visual areas. To address the special difficulties of image recognition with incomplete data, we design a novel second-order deep architecture with semiconducting restricted boltzmann machines. Moreover, two peaks activation of human's perception is implemented by three learning stages of semiconducting bilinear discriminant initialization, greedy layer-wise reconstruction, and global fine-tuning. Owing to exploiting the embedding information according to the reliable features rather than any completion of missing features, the proposed SBDBN has demonstrated outstanding recognition ability on two standard datasets and one constructed dataset, comparing with both incomplete image recognition techniques and existing deep learning models.
Gains in QTL Detection Using an Ultra-High Density SNP Map Based on Population Sequencing Relative to Traditional RFLP/SSR Markers

Huge efforts have been invested in the last two decades to dissect the genetic bases of complex traits including yields of many crop plants, through quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses. However, almost all the studies were based on linkage maps constructed using low-throughput molecular markers, e.g. restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs), thus are mostly of low density and not able to provide precise and complete information about the numbers and locations of the genes or QTLs controlling the traits. In this study, we constructed an ultra-high density genetic map based on high quality single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from low-coverage sequences of a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population of rice, generated using new sequencing technology. The quality of the map was assessed by validating the positions of several cloned genes including GS3 and GW5/qSW5, two major QTLs for grain length and grain width respectively, and OsC1, a qualitative trait locus for pigmentation. In all the cases the loci could be precisely resolved to the bins where the genes are located, indicating high quality and accuracy of the map. The SNP map was used to perform QTL analysis for yield and three yield-component traits, number of tillers per plant, number of grains per panicle and grain weight, using data from field trials conducted over years, in comparison to QTL mapping based on RFLPs/SSRs. The SNP map detected more QTLs especially for grain weight, with precise map locations, demonstrating advantages in detecting power and resolution relative to the RFLP/SSR map. Thus this study provided an example for ultra-high density map construction using sequencing technology. Moreover, the results obtained are helpful for understanding the genetic bases of the yield traits and for fine mapping and cloning of QTLs.