Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Toward 5G densenets: architectural advances for effective machine-type communications over femtocells

Ubiquitous, reliable and low-latency machine-type communication, MTC, systems are considered to be value-adds of emerging 5G cellular networks. To meet the technical and economical requirements for exponentially growing MTC traffic, we advocate the use of small cells to handle the massive and dense MTC rollout. We introduce a novel 3GPP-compliant architecture that absorbs the MTC traffic via home evolved NodeBs, allowing us to significantly reduce congestion and overloading of radio access and core networks. A major design challenge has been to deal with the interference to human-type traffic and the large degree of freedom of the system, due to the unplanned deployments of small cells and the enormous amount of MTC devices. Simulation results in terms of MTC access delay, energy consumption, and delivery rate corroborate the superiority of the proposed working architecture.
Isolation of Candida dubliniensis in an Aboriginal Community in Ontario, Canada

ABSTRACT This study reports the first isolation of Candida dubliniensis from North American Indians. Of 39 healthy human hosts sampled, two had C. dubliniensis. Genotypic analysis identified polymorphisms in these strains and differences from two reference strains. Our results suggest that yeast populations from indigenous communities in North America may be unique.
Attachment to land: The case of the land of Israel for American and Israeli Jews and the role of contagion

This is a first study on attachment to national and sacred land and land as a protected value. A measure of attachment to the land of Israel is developed and administered to two groups, Jewish college students in Israel and the United States. Levels of land attachment are high and not significantly different in the two groups, with a great deal of variation. Land may become more important through being inhabited by a group over centuries. This is a positive contagion effect, and is opposed in some cases by negative contagion produced when the “enemies” live on the land for some period of time. We demonstrate a significant correlation of positive contagion sensitivity with attachment to the land of Israel. Unlike many other cases of the interaction of positive and negative contagion, negative contagion does not overwhelm positive contagion in the domain of land attachment. We also present evidence for linkages between political positions, religiosity, importance of Israel, Arab aversion, and vulnerability of Israel with attachment to land, but these do not fully account for the contagion effects. A number of significant differences between Israelis and Americans are described.
Global Pharmaceutical Markets and Corporate Citizenship: The Case of Novartis’ Anti-cancer Drug Glivec

This paper analyses a remarkable transformation of global capitalism in recent years: that corporations claim to be ‘good citizens’ and are driven by higher aspirations than profits alone. It focuses on the lawsuit brought by the drug company Novartis against the Indian government over the patent for the anti-cancer drug Glivec. Novartis’ attack on Indian patent law caused an international outcry. Opponents of Novartis argued that the company was trying to destroy essential provisions in the Indian law that keep drugs affordable even after the country signed up to the World Trade Organization's agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). With reference to ‘the constitutional obligation of providing good health care to its citizens’, the High Court in Chennai, India, dismissed Novartis’ challenge in August 2007. While health activists celebrated the court's decision as a victory for anti-corporate citizens, this article argues that Novartis won a more important battle elsewhere: to protect its profits in European and North American markets. The article shows how claims to ‘citizenship’ were mobilized by both anti-Novartis and pro-Novartis groups, and how Novartis’ global corporate citizenship programme succeeded even when it seemed to fail.
Evolving problem heuristics with on-line ACGP

Genetic Programming uses trees to represent chromosomes. The user defines the representation space by defining the set of functions and terminals to label the nodes in the trees. The sufficiency principle requires that the set be sufficient to label the desired solution trees, often forcing the user to enlarge the set, thus also enlarging the search space. Structure-preserving crossover, STGP, CGP, and CFG-based GP give the user the power to reduce the space by specifying rules for valid tree construction: types, syntax, and heuristics. However, in general the user may not be aware of the best representation space, including heuristics, to solve a particular problem. Recently, the ACGP methodology for extracting problem-specific heuristics, and thus for learning model of the problem domain, was introduced with preliminary off-line results. This paper overviews ACGP, pointing out its strength and limitations in the off-line mode. It then introduces a new on-line model, for learning while solving a problem, illustrated with experiments involving the multiplexer and the Santa Fe trail.
TRUCTURAL COUPLING IN WEB 2 . 0 APPLICATIONS

The evolution of the Web and its applications has undergone in the last few years a mutation towards technologies that include the social dimension as a first class entity in which the users, their interactions and the emerging social networks are the center of this evolution. The web is growing and evolving the intelligibility of its resources and data, the connectivity of its parts and its autonomy as a whole system. The social dimension of the current and future web is being at the roots of its dynamics and evolution. It is thus, fundamental to propose new underlying infrastructure to the web and applications on the web, to make more explicit this social dimension and facilitate its exploitation. The work presented is this paper contributes to this initiative by proposing a multi-agent modeling based on the system coupling to its environment through its social dimension. Applied to a collaborative tagging system, the exploitation of the social dimension of tagging allows an intelligent and better sharing of resources and enhancing social learning between users.
Effect of digital massage on intraocular pressure and ocular and optic nerve blood flow

Abstract The effect of digital massage on intraocular pressure and ocular and optic nerve blood flow was studied in anaesthetized rabbits. Digital massage was performed for 15 min, with pressure release for 15 seconds after each 15 seconds of massage. Blood flow was measured in the iris, ciliary processes, choroid, retina, and optic nerve using (85Sr)‐labelled microspheres. Blood flow was determined during massage, 2 min after, or 15 min after massage. Intraocular pressure was measured before, immediately after, and in one group, 15 min after massage. Immediately after digital massage, intraocular pressure was significantly lower, but 15 min after it was not significantly reduced. At both 2 min and 15 min after digital massage, compared to during massage, blood flow was significantly higher in all tissues studied.
Continuity of Mental Health Care Across Military Transitions

Multiple deployments, a prominent characteristic of operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn, have been linked to increased risk for various mental health conditions. It is also well known that military transitions, such as a change of duty station or discharge, are an inevitable part of military life. While military transitions can be stressful for any service member or veteran, those with mental health conditions face additional challenges. Transition stress can exacerbate a mental health condition that in turn hinders ability to manage the transition, resulting in a cycle of stress. As a result, those receiving mental health care while transitioning often experience difficulty continuing treatment post-transition. This article describes a unique and innovative transition coaching program designed to address this emerging issue.
Lack of insight and conceptions of “mental illness” in schizophrenia, assessed in the third person through case vignettes

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if persons with a diagnosis of schizophrenia lack insight into their illness because cognitive deficits prevent them from applying an internal schema of mental illness to themselves. The study examines the ability of subjects to “insightfully” classify a series of short, fictional vignettes from a third‐person perspective. Method: Investigators wrote 20 one‐ to three‐sentence stories, 11 illustrating subtypes of psychotic symptoms, 3 illustrating non‐psychotic psychiatric diagnoses, 3 indicating medical problems, and 3 no illness. The investigators read these stories to a sample of inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a random community sample control group, and asked if subjects considered the person in each story to be mentally ill. Results: Subjects and controls were able to make accurate, fine distinctions among medical illness, no illness, and psychiatric illness categories. Conclusions: Patients did not demonstrate a deficit in the cognitive processing of illness schema, yet still failed to relate their own illness schema to themselves. This would encourage further study of the relationship between insight, denial, the mental representation of the self, and the meaning of the “mental illness” label to persons with psychosis.
Tm-Doped Fiber Lasers: Fundamentals and Power Scaling

We describe fundamental measurements of the properties of thulium (Tm)-doped silica and power scaling studies of fiber lasers based on the material. Data on the high-lying Tm:silica energy levels, the first taken to our knowledge, indicate that pumping at 790 nm is unlikely to lead to fiber darkening via multiphoton excitation. Measurement of the cross-relaxation dynamics produces an estimate that, at the doping levels used, as much as 80% of the decay of the Tm level pumped is due to cross relaxation. Using a fiber having a 25-mum-diameter, 0.08 numerical aperture (NA) core, we observed fiber laser efficiencies as high as 64.5% and output powers of 300 W (around 2040 nm) for 500 W of launched pump power, with a nearly diffraction-limited beam. At these efficiencies, the cross-relaxation process was producing 1.8 laser photons per pump photon. We generated 885 W from a multimode laser using a 35-mum, 0.2-NA core fiber and set a new record for Tm-doped fiber laser continuous-wave power.
Teorías y modelos sobre el aprendizaje en entornos conectados y ubicuos. Bases para un nuevo modelo teórico a partir de una visión critica del “conectivismo”

This paper aims at setting the bases for the construction of a theoretical model of learning and of elaboration of knowledge, within connected learning environments. The starting point is a critical view of connectivism, and a premise: the study and recognition of existing theories, since their scope is still under development as regards their potentialities and affordances when applied in social, ubiquitous environments. The paper also includes reflections and a hypothesis on the causes that underlie in the origin of connectivism in its actual stage of development in the Information and Knowledge Society, in order to use the obtained conclusions as the bases of a new model, at a later phase.
How to deal with dissent among experts. Risk evaluation of EMF in a scientific dialogue

This article describes the results of a scientific discourse which aimed at exploring the reasons for differences in expert health risk assessment of radio frequency electromagnetic fields of mobile telephony. It starts with describing the structure of the discourse. Then, the reasons for the conflicting risk assessments are discussed. Differences are due to the selection and evaluation of relevant scientific studies by applying different scientific quality standards, to the methods used for generating a research synthesis and an overall risk evaluation. Consensus could be achieved regarding the selection of and the quality requirements for the scientific studies used for risk assessment as well as their significance for risk evaluation. However, dissent remained about the synthesis of scientific evidence into an overall risk evaluation and about the relevance of the precautionary principle for risk evaluation and its implications for the risk assessment framework. Based on the analysis of these problems, a transparent, consistent and rational procedure for risk assessment is suggested to facilitate a risk characterization which better meets the demands of policy making and the public for an appropriate risk evaluation.
Contact and contracting Spanish

This investigation is inspired by an interest in the contact/contracting grammars of heritage speakers of Spanish who have experienced prolonged exposure to English in the United States and, in particular, what their linguistic performance reveals of their knowledge of lexical subclasses and discursive properties associated with ordering of sentential constituents in the Spanish language. Analysis of data obtained for 24 participants on diverse measures of interpretation and production of unergative and unaccusative predicates and Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions indicate that while properties of the core syntax (e.g., properties of TP, AgrS, and AgrO) remain robust, properties of the lexico- and discursive-semantic interface may be vulnerable to attrition or respecification.
Measurements of Spoken Language Variability in a Multilingual Corpus. Predictable Aspects

The paper provides cross-linguistic measurements of everyday language use based on the C-ORAL-ROM multilingual corpus of spontaneous speech. The average and the variation coefficient of a series of standard parameters are provided, faced to the main sociological and structural contexts of spoken language use. Mid-Length of Utterances (MLU); Mid-Length of the dialogic turn (MLTw); Speed; Mid length of the tone unit (MLTone); Fragmentation. Such variation parameters show strong predictable characters at cross-linguistic level. MLU has a positive correlation with MLTw and is shows highly predictable values in informal dialogic structures. Both MLU and MLTw have an inverse correlation with Speed. MLTone and Speed are predictable according to language specific features, but while MLTone have low intra-linguistic variation, Speed record a cross-linguistic tendency to lower values in formal language uses. Fragmentation is a permanent feature of spoken language, but it varies mainly according with speakers.
Colliding human–animal trajectories (road kill!) on a Tasmanian journey

Abstract Tourists’ experiences of Tasmanian road kill illustrate the juncture at which the representatives and representations of a nation – Australian native animals – human cultural practices and technology collide on the public road. Auto-mobility is a powerful medium through which people experience nature, comfortably insulated against the environment outside, the very world their travels have taken them to explore. In this article I demonstrate the personalisation of the mobilities paradigm, noting that the tourists’ portable world intersects – and sometimes literally collides with – the local animal mobility system. The ease of a couple travelling together on a road trip includes spontaneous conversation and unguarded observations. Explicit personal dialogue about what is seen on the journey is exposed for its power to trigger subsequent academic analysis.
Musculoskeletal applications of platelet-rich plasma: fad or future?

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to detail the biology of platelet-rich plasma (PRP), critically review the existing literature, and discuss future research applications needed to adopt PRP as a mainstay treatment method for common musculoskeletal injuries. CONCLUSION Any promising minimally invasive therapy such as PRP deserves further investigation to avoid surgery. Diagnostic imaging outcome assessments, including ultrasound-guided needle precision, should be included in future investigations.
Adepth: new representation and its implications for atomic depths of macromolecules

We applied the signed distance function (SDF) for representing the depths of atoms in a macromolecule. The calculations of SDF values were performed on grid points in a rectangular box that accommodates the macromolecule. The depth for an atom inside the molecule was then obtained as a result of tri-linear interpolation of SDF values at the nearest grid points surrounding the atom. For testing the performance of present program Adepth, we have constructed an artificial molecule whose atomic depths are known as the gold standard for accuracy assessments. On average, our results showed that Adepth reached an accuracy of 1.6% at 0.5 Å of grid spacing, whereas the current reference server DEPTH reached 7.5%. The Adepth program provides both depth and height representations; it is capable of computing iso-surfaces for atomic depths and presenting graphical view of macromolecular shape at some distance away from the surface. Web interface is available at http://biodev.cea. fr/adepth.
Expression of HSF 2 decreases in mitosis to enable stress-inducible transcription and cell survival

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 206 No. 6 735–749 www.jcb. org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201402002 JCB 735 C. Aspelin and J.K. Björk contributed equally to this paper. Correspondence to Lea Sistonen: lea.sistonen@abo.fi Abbreviations used in this paper: APC/C, anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome; ChIP, chromatin immunoprecipitation; CIN, chromosomal instability; H3 S10P, phosphorylation of serine 10 on histone H3; HSE, heat shock element; HSF, heat shock factor; Hsp, heat shock protein; HSR, heat shock response; IP, immunoprecipitation; KO, knockout; MEF, mouse embryonic fibroblast; MNase, micrococcal nuclease; RNAPII, RNA polymerase II; WT, wild type. Introduction
Multimodal CT Provides Improved Performance for Lacunar Infarct Detection

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Lacunar infarcts account for approximately 25% of acute ischemic strokes. Compared with NCCT alone, the addition of CTP improves sensitivity for detection of infarcts overall. Our aim was to systematically evaluate the diagnostic benefit and interobserver reliability of an incremental CT protocol in lacunar infarction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Institutional review board approval and patient consent were obtained. One hundred sixty-three patients presenting with a lacunar syndrome ≤4.5 hours from symptom onset were enrolled. Images were reviewed incrementally by 2 blinded readers in 3 separate sessions (NCCT only, NCCT/CTA, and NCCT/CTA/CTP). Diagnostic confidence was recorded on a 6-point scale with DWI/ADC as a reference. Logistic regression analysis calculated differences between actual and observed diagnoses, adjusted for confidence. Predictive effects of observed diagnostic accuracy and confidence score were quantified with the entropy r2 value. Sensitivity, specificity, and confidence intervals were calculated accounting for multiple readers. Receiver operating characteristic analyses were compared among diagnostic strategies. Interobserver agreement was established with Cohen κ statistic. RESULTS: The final study cohort comprised 88 patients (50% male). DWI/ADC-confirmed lacunar infarction occurred in 59/88 (67%) with 36/59 (61%) demonstrating a concordant abnormal finding on CTP. Sensitivity for definite or probable presence of lacunar infarct increased significantly from 9.3% to 42.4% with incremental protocol use, though specificity was unchanged (range, 91.9%–95.3%). The observed diagnosis was significantly related to the actual diagnosis after adjusting for CTP confidence level (P = .04) and was 5.1 and 2.4 times more likely to confirm lacunar infarct than NCCT or CTA source images. CTP area under the curve (0.77) was significantly higher than that of CTA source images (0.68, P = .006) or NCCT (0.55, P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: CTP offers an improved diagnostic benefit over NCCT and CTA for the diagnosis of lacunar infarction.
A meta‐analysis of psychopathy‐, antisocial PD‐ and FFM associations

This research meta‐analytically summarizes the relationships of the Five‐Factor Model (FFM) with psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD). Effect sizes of the associations between psychopathy, APD and the FFM were compiled from 26 independent samples (N = 6913) for psychopathy and 57 independent samples (N = 16 424) for APD. The results revealed predominantly points of similarity and some differences in the FFM associations of both disorders. Symptoms of psychopathy and APD were negatively associated with Conscientiousness and Agreeableness facets and positively with scores on Angry–Hostility (N2), Impulsiveness (N5), Excitement Seeking (E5) and negatively with Warmth (E1). Only psychopathy had a small negative association with Anxiety (N1) and was characterized by stronger negative associations with Agreeableness and Straightforwardness (A2), Compliance (A4) and Modesty (A5) compared to APD. The moderator analyses showed that sample type, use of the NEO‐PI‐R and APD instrument moderated the APD FFM associations, while psychopathy instrument and age group were moderators in the psychopathy MA. Implications of this research for the assessment of APD and psychopathy relying on dimensional models of personality pathology are discussed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Ontology Engineering for the Semantic Annotation of Medical Data

Although a wide range of medical ontologies has already been deployed in the last decade, most of them follow design principles different to those required by semantic Web applications and consequently can not be directly integrated and reused. We describe a method to construct a semantic Web-based medical ontology, which is used for the semantic annotation of medical reports, and evaluate the engineering process against a reuse-oriented approach
Religious Orders Study: Overview and Change in Cognitive and Motor Speed

The Religious Orders Study is a longitudinal, clinical-pathologic study of aging and Alzheimer’s disease in older Catholic nuns, priests, and brothers. In the first section of the paper, we describe the overall design and methods of the Religious Orders Study and summarize published findings. In the second section, we present new longitudinal analyses of change in summary measures of motor, perceptual, and verbal speed in 800 Religious Orders Study participants examined annually for a mean of approximately 5 years. In each domain, speed declined about 2% per year. There were wide individual differences, however, and rates of slowing in each domain were only moderately intercorrelated and were predicted by different factors. The results suggest age-related slowing is more person-specific and domain-specific than previously supposed.
Revisiting the Conceptualization, Measurement, and Generation of Interest

This article provides an overview of recent interest research, focusing on the conceptualization, measurement, and generation of interest. It includes work that reflects differing theoretical backgrounds, research traditions, domains, and participants. Research on interest needs to be theoretically grounded if it is to be generally applicable and inform practice. Investigators must consider their own research questions, including learners’ age and characteristics of the learning context, in relation to the range of conceptualizations in the field. Whereas researchers’ questions should drive research on interest, their conceptualization of interest should inform their choice of measures. In addition, research addressing the ways in which interest might be generated and/or supported to develop should be aligned with both the conceptualization and measurement(s) of interest.