Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Visuomotor Organization in the Child: A Neuropsychological Approach

The ability of children to copy a complex figure was investigated by means of the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure and the corresponding methodology. The sample consisted of 420 children (boys and girls) aged 5½ to 12½ years. Responses indicate that the visuomotor ability involved in copying a complex figure increases with increasing age and that girls show significantly better performance than boys during the ages 8½ to 12½ years. The differences in performance can be attributed to differential neuropsychological strategies or functional differences that require further investigation.
The real stabilizability radius of the multi-link inverted pendulum

A multi-link inverted pendulum with an arbitrary number of v links and controlled by a single torque input is considered in this paper. It is well known that as the number of pendulum links increases, an experimental pendulum system becomes more difficult to stabilize, and this is demonstrated in this paper for a nonlinear model of a multi-link inverted pendulum system. It is conjectured that the primary reason for such an increase of difficulty is due to the poor stabilizability robustness properties of the pendulum's linearized model as additional links are added. Using the real stability and stabilizability radius, this conjecture is confirmed
Designing Awe in Virtual Reality: An Experimental Study

Awe is a little-studied emotion with a great transformative potential. Therefore, the interest toward the study of awe’s underlying mechanisms has been increased. Specifically, researchers have been interested in how to reproduce intense feelings of awe within laboratory conditions. It has been proposed that the use of virtual reality (VR) could be an effective way to induce awe in controlled experimental settings, thanks to its ability of providing participants with a sense of “presence,” that is, the subjective feeling of being displaced in another physical or imaginary place. However, the potential of VR as awe-inducing medium has not been fully tested yet. In the present study, we provided an evidence-based design and a validation of four immersive virtual environments (VEs) involving 36 participants in a within-subject design. Of these, three VEs were designed to induce awe, whereas the fourth VE was targeted as an emotionally neutral stimulus. Participants self-reported the extent to which they felt awe, general affect and sense of presence related to each environment. As expected, results showed that awe-VEs could induce significantly higher levels of awe and presence as compared to the neutral VE. Furthermore, these VEs induced significantly more positive than negative affect. These findings supported the potential of immersive VR for inducing awe and provide useful indications for the design of awe-inspiring virtual environments.
Antitumour and antiangiogenic activities of [Pt(O,O′‐acac)(γ‐acac)(DMS)] in a xenograft model of human renal cell carcinoma

It is thought that the mechanism of action of anticancer chemotherapeutic agents is mainly due to a direct inhibition of tumour cell proliferation. In tumour specimens, the endothelial cell proliferation rate increases, suggesting that the therapeutic effects of anticancer agents could also be attributed to inhibition of tumour angiogenesis. Hence, we investigated the potential effects of [Pt(O,O′‐acac)(γ‐acac)(DMS)] ([Pt(DMS)]), a new platinum drug for non‐genomic targets, on human renal carcinoma and compared them with those of the well‐established anticancer drug, cisplatin.
The impact of the Chinese renminbi on the exports of Korea and Japan to the U

This paper examines the impacts of the real exchange rates of the Chinese renminbi against the US dollar on the Japanese and the Korean exports to the US. Empirical test results, which have analyzed the quarterly data covering 1986Q1 to 2005Q2, show different long-run impacts of the renminbi in the export functions of the two countries. In particular, according to the estimation of cointegrating vectors, depreciation of the renminbi has a positive impact on the Japanese exports but a negative impact on the Korean exports. However, some stability tests indicate a structural break in the export functions. Different from the case of the estimation for the whole sample period, in empirical tests with recent sub-period data, depreciation of the Chinese renminbi turns out to have positive impact both on the Japanese exports and the Korean exports. In addition, the real GDP of the US turns out to have positive impacts on the exports of the two countries. The exchange rate volatility of the Korean won has negative impact on the Korean exports but a positive impact on the Japanese exports. The short-run dynamics examined by error correction models show similar impacts of the explanatory variables.
Note on a problem in probit analysis.

The statistical treatment of dosage-mortality data when the number of survivors is counted but not the total number of organisms in each sample, the latter being estimated from an untreated sample, has been discussed by Wadley (1949), on the assumption of Poisson variation in the number of organisms per sample. The procedure to be followed when a wider hypothesis is made that the number of organisms has a negative binomial distribution is described here; both the arithmetical analysis of the results and the optimum arrangement of the samples are considered.
Predictors of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Women With Breast Cancer Before, During, and After Adjuvant Therapy

The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine potential predictors of cancer-related fatigue (CRF) before, during, and after adjuvant therapy in women with breast cancer. A convenience sample of 44 women postsurgery (M = 18) aged 38 to 77 years (M = 52) were recruited from a Southern breast clinic. Based on Piper's Integrated Fatigue Model, the women (1) completed questionnaires assessing innate host factors (age, income, and education level), disease and treatment patterns (disease stage, surgery type, and adjuvant therapy), psychological patterns (perceived stress, mood disturbance, and optimism), social patterns (type and satisfaction with social support) and (2) provided a blood sample to examine regulation patterns (morning cortisol levels, interleukin-1&bgr;, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and natural killer cell activity) before adjuvant therapy. The Piper Fatigue Scale-Revised was completed at all 3 time points. Mood disturbance was the most significant predictor of CRF at all time points. Interleukin-1&bgr; predicted CRF levels before adjuvant therapy and morning cortisol before adjuvant therapy predicted CRF during and after adjuvant therapy. These findings suggest that interventions to reduce mood disturbances might be effective in decreasing CRF. Further research regarding the physiological mechanisms underlying the relationships between CRF, mood disturbance, interleukin-1&bgr;, and cortisol is needed.
Furrow flexure and ancient heat flux on Ganymede

Stereo‐derived topographic profiles across furrows in the ancient (∼4 Gyr) dark terrain of Galileo Regio, Ganymede, suggest flexural uplift. Modeling of the rift‐flank profiles implies an effective elastic thickness of ≈0.5 km, heat fluxes in the range 60–80 mW m−2 at the time of deformation, and a brittle‐ductile transition depth of 2–3 km. The elastic thicknesses are comparable to estimates for grooved terrain on Ganymede, and chaos regions on Europa, and may be characteristic of the point during cooling at which the available stresses can no longer cause significant ice shell deformation. The furrowed dark terrain heat fluxes exceed likely chondritic values, and are plausibly a result of early cooling of Ganymede following accretion. Non‐synchronous rotation may have contributed to the 2–3 MPa stresses required to cause the observed deformation.
The eggshell approach for the computation of electromagnetic forces in 2D and 3D

The expressions of the material derivative of differential forms in the language of vector analysis are introduced. These formulae allow us to describe naturally the electromechanical coupling, and the coupling term appears to be a volume integral. A general approach to compute forces is then proposed, which takes that fact into consideration. The method is applicable in 2D and 3D with dual formulations. Numerical evidences of its efficiency are given.
NIPAD: a non-invasive power-based anomaly detection scheme for programmable logic controllers

Industrial control systems (ICSs) are widely used in critical infrastructures, making them popular targets for attacks to cause catastrophic physical damage. As one of the most critical components in ICSs, the programmable logic controller (PLC) controls the actuators directly. A PLC executing a malicious program can cause significant property loss or even casualties. The number of attacks targeted at PLCs has increased noticeably over the last few years, exposing the vulnerability of the PLC and the importance of PLC protection. Unfortunately, PLCs cannot be protected by traditional intrusion detection systems or antivirus software. Thus, an effective method for PLC protection is yet to be designed. Motivated by these concerns, we propose a non-invasive powerbased anomaly detection scheme for PLCs. The basic idea is to detect malicious software execution in a PLC through analyzing its power consumption, which is measured by inserting a shunt resistor in series with the CPU in a PLC while it is executing instructions. To analyze the power measurements, we extract a discriminative feature set from the power trace, and then train a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network with the features of normal samples to predict the next time step of a normal sample. Finally, an abnormal sample is identified through comparing the predicted sample and the actual sample. The advantages of our method are that it requires no software modification on the original system and is able to detect unknown attacks effectively. The method is evaluated on a lab testbed, and for a trojan attack whose difference from the normal program is around 0.63%, the detection accuracy reaches 99.83%.
Impact of New Antifungal Breakpoints on Antifungal Resistance in Candida Species

ABSTRACT We reviewed our antifungal susceptibility data for micafungin, anidulafungin, fluconazole, and voriconazole against Candida species and compared resistance rates determined by the previous and recently revised CLSI antifungal breakpoints. With the new breakpoints, resistance was significantly increased for micafungin (from 0.8% to 7.6%), anidulafungin (from 0.9% to 7.3%), and voriconazole (from 6.1% to 18.4%) against Candida glabrata. Resistance was also increased for fluconazole against Candida albicans (from 2.1% to 5.7%).
The third personal pronoun anaphora resolution in the paroxysmal text of the Chinese web

At present, there are a great lot of paroxysmal text in the network, so personal pronoun anaphora resolution will help achieve web page information processing. According to the feature of Chinese personal pronoun in the paroxysmal text of the Chinese web, we present an approach of anaphora resolution, which is based on corpus adopting the maximum entropy. This approach may effectively balance all features and achieves an F-measure score of 74.2 % on the anaphora resolution task corpus.
Mechanical transmission and torsional vibration effects on induction machine stator current and torque in railway traction systems

In this paper, the mechanical transmission and torsional vibration effect on electrical machine torque and stator current in railway traction systems is investigated. Initially, a reduced scale (1/1275) experimental set-up of the traction part is developed and instrumented based on the extrapolation of real scale parameters. Previous studies on an elementary gearbox-based electromechanical system have shown how the transmission error, the different eccentricities of the pinion and the wheel, and the teeth contact stiffness variation, influence the electrical machine torque and stator current. In this way, it will be demonstrated that the electrical machine can be considered as a sensor by itself through the electromagnetic torque estimation for torsional vibration monitoring without any extra mechanical sensor. The results of the electromagnetic torque estimation are compared with the measured mechanical torque in steady-state condition to validate the proposed technique.
Building a social network of research institutes from information available on the web

Majority of research institutes present results of their activity or leave information about their collaboration on the web. This fact can be used to derive useful information of their past, present and future activity. Hence, social network of research institutes can be of important value for scientific community. This information for building social network of institutes can be retrieved from multiple sources from the web. In this paper we give a reliable theoretical method which can be used to build a social network of research institutes on information extracted on the web. Initially, we shall introduce definition of social networks and then shall give a brief history of social network analysis. Afterwards, we shall present a state of the art of social network analysis on the web. Finally, we shall give a detailed explanation of the method.
DNA Modification under Mild Conditions by Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling for the Generation of Functional Probes

Quick and clean: A method for Pd-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling to iododeoxyuridine (IdU) in DNA is described. Key to the reactivity is the choice of the ligand and the buffer. A covalent [Pd]-DNA intermediate was isolated and characterized. Photocrosslinking probes were generated to trap proteins that bind to epigenetic DNA modifications.
Discovering market basket patterns using hierarchical association rules

Association rules are a data mining method for discovering patterns of frequent item sets, such as products in a store that are frequently purchased at the same time by a customer (market basket analysis). A number of interestingness measures for association rules have been developed to date, but research has shown that there a dominant measure does not exist. Authors have mostly used objective measures, whereas subjective measures have rarely been investigated. This paper aims to combine objective measures such as support, confidence and lift with a subjective approach based on human expert selection in order to extract interesting rules from a real dataset collected from a large Croatian retail chain. Hierarchical association rules were used to enhance the efficiency of the extraction rule. The results show that rules that are more interesting were extracted using the hierarchical method, and that a hybrid approach of combining objective and subjective measures succeeds in extracting certain unexpected and actionable rules. The research can be useful for retail and marketing managers in planning marketing strategies, as well as for researchers investigating this field.
Maintenance energy requirements and the effect of diet on performance of racing Greyhounds.

OBJECTIVES To determine maintenance energy requirements and effect of diet on performance of racing Greyhounds. ANIMALS 7 adult racing Greyhounds. PROCEDURE Dogs were fed a higher fat and protein (HFP) or a lower fat and protein (LFP) diet for 8 weeks in a crossover design. Dogs were exercised for 15 minutes twice daily in a paddock and raced 500 m twice weekly. Blood gas, hematologic, and serum biochemical analyses were performed before and after racing, and race times were compared at the end of each diet period. RESULTS Mean race time was significantly shorter (32.81+/-0.65 seconds vs. 33.05+/-0.71 seconds), and mean racing speed over 500 m was significantly faster (15.25+/-0.30 vs. 15.13+/-0.30 m x s(-1)) when dogs were fed the HFP diet than when they were fed the LFP diet. Diet had little or no effect on results of blood gas, hematologic, and serum biochemical analyses, except that Hct was 4% greater before and after racing when the HFP diet was fed than when the LFP diet was fed. Mean SD metabolizable energy intake from weeks 1 through 16 was 155+/-9 kcal x kg(-0.75) x d(-1). CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Racing Greyhounds ran faster when fed a diet containing higher fat and protein and lower carbohydrate contents. Their maintenance metabolizable energy requirement was slightly higher than that of moderately active dogs.
Analysis of DNA Content and BrdU Incorporation

During the past two decades, the techniques of analysis of cell cycle kinetics based upon the flow cytometric detection of BrdU incorporation have replaced the cumbersome autoradiographic methodology utilizing tritiated thymidine. This unit distills the knowledge gained over this time into concise and easy to follow protocols for DNA content analysis following thermal denaturation or acid denaturation, as well as a modified method that combines thermal denaturation with washless immunocytochemical detection of BrdU.
Error/Secure/Propagating Concept and its Application to the Design of Strongly Fault-Secure Processors

A concept of the error-secure and the error-propagating interfaces of the subsystems in a digital system is introduced, and shown to be useful for practical design and verification for a strongly fault-secure system which is known to achieve the totally self-checking (TSC) goal. A sufficient condition is shown for subsystem interfaces to meet for it to be possible to construct a strongly fault-secure system with no checkers used to monitor the embedded interfaces. On the basis of the error-secure/propagating concept, a design is presented for a strongly fault-secure microprocessor which implements the instruction set of Intel's i8080 8-b microprocessor. In the design, a complete set of building blocks is defined and all the partial interfaces are verified for the error secure/propagating property. Only four checkers are used at the embedded interfaces in the resulting strongly fault-secure processor. >
Sourcing knowledge for innovation: knowledge reuse and creation in project teams

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate motivations of team members to source knowledge and how the sourced knowledge increases their reuse and creation outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – A model based on knowledge sourcing perspective is proposed and tested to link knowledge sourcing methods in teams to their performance outcomes. The hypotheses are tested on data collected from a survey of 341 project teams. Findings – The findings show the critical role of team members’ learning orientation in increasing knowledge sourcing, reuse and creation; group knowledge sourcing and repositories are more appropriate to increase knowledge reuse; the Internet is more effective to increase knowledge creation; and knowledge reuse increases knowledge creation among team members with a strong learning orientation. Research limitations/implications – Further studies can replicate the model presented in this paper and introduce group characteristics to improve its explanatory power. Also, use of self-r.
Fangchinoline inhibits migration and causes apoptosis of human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells

In order to improve outcomes after breast cancer treatment, it is essential to understand the mechanisms of action of potential therapeutic agents. The effect of fangchinoline (FAN) on migration and apoptosis of human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells and its underlying mechanisms were investigated. MDA-MB-231 cells were treated with different concentrations of FAN, growth inhibition rates were measured by MTT assay and morphological changes of apoptotic cells were observed by Hoechst staining. The wound-healing assay was used to determine of the effect of FAN on the migration of MDA-MB-231 cells. ELISA was used to detect the expression of MMP-2 and −9 in MDA-MB-231 cells treated with different concentrations of FAN and western blot analysis was used to quantify expression of NF-κβ and Iκβ proteins in the same cells. Our results showed that FAN significantly inhibited the growth of MDA-MB-231 cells in concentration-dependent manner and it induced MDA-MB-231 cell apoptosis. With the high FAN concentrations and long exposure times, the levels of MMP-2 and −9 decreased and the expression of NF-κβ decreased, while the expression of Iκβ protein increased. Based on these results, the antitumor effects of FAN on breast cancer cells can be explained at least partially by inducing apoptosis and inhibiting the migration of MDA-MB-231 cells.
Sentiment Classification Based on Mixed Cloud Vector Model Clustering and Kernel Fisher Discriminant

In today’s world, the web has dramatically changed the way that people express their opinions. People use the internet to express their opinion, attitude, feeling and emotion about films, goods, news etc. It is challenging to automatically classify mass subjectivity comments into different sentiment orientation categories (e.g. positive/negative). Furthermore, the ambiguity and randomness, which are existed in natural language, lead to lower classification accuracy in text sentiment classification. In this paper, we propose a novel chinese text sentiment classification algorithm based on mixed cloud vector model clustering and kernel fisher discriminant. In this algorithm, we firstly analysis the role of cloud model theory in conversion between qualitative concept and quantitative values, and explore a mixed feature cloud model (MFCM) based on cloud model to represent a single document. In MFCM, both effect of different part-ofspeech features and ambiguity of sentiment tendency are considered. And then, documents are clustered according to their similarity between MFCM. Finally, kernel fisher discriminant (KFD) is adopted as the classifier to judge views. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms traditional approaches. Keyword: Text sentiment classification; cloud model; kernel fisher discriminant; support vector machine