Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Website classification on information and entertainment profiles

The present study classified 43 websites on information and entertainment profiles. The website profile comprised informativeness, organisation of information elements, entertainment properties and organisation of entertainment elements. The results revealed that out of 43 websites, 8 were high on both information and entertainment profiles, 15 were high on information and low on entertainment profiles, 6 were low on information and high on entertainment profiles and 14 were low on both information and entertainment profiles.
Ways of ICT Usage among Mildly Intellectually Disabled Adolescents: Potential Risks and Advantages

The chapter explores patterns of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) usage (particularly: cell phones and the Internet) among mildly intellectually disabled adolescents aged 13-17. Importance of leisure activity in life and rehabiliation of the disabled as well as a risk of digital exclusion are also underlined. The strong emphasis is put on an issue of victimization and perpetration of electronic aggression. Data were obtained from the unstructured interviews (qualitative approach). The research revealed several issues related to patterns of ICT usage. The data are presented as following categories: importance and declared range of ICT usage, ICT and its usage for communication purposes, awareness of the risks related to ICT usage, ICT usage and electronic aggression (divided in two categories: being a victim and/or being a perpetrator, ICT usage and issues related to family functioning). Such problem areas are not well recognized in either Polish or foreign literature. INTRODUCTION: THE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AS USERS OF ICT Undoubtedly, we are all living in the Digital Age (Information Age or Computer Age). It is the effect of the considerable role of the New Media (Internet, cell phones) in education, work and leisure activities. The amount of time spend while using those media is still increasing. Therefore, new challenges for the education in terms of teaching and socialization appear. One of the most important tasks is to provide young people with support when concerning safe and responsible ICT usage. The cyberspace provides opportunities for acquiring positive experiences and contributes to personal development. On the other hand, it poses some Piotr Plichta The Pedagogy Academy in Lodz, Poland DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4422-9.ch026
Coercion, competence, and consent in offenders with personality disorder

ABSTRACT Competence to consent to treatment has not previously been examined in a personality disorder cohort without comorbid mental disorder. We examined competence and coercion in 174 individuals diagnosed with severe personality disorder using two validated tools (the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment and the MacArthur Coercion Assessment Scale – Short Form). Competence was not categorically impaired, but there were variations within the sample on dimensional competence measures. Further, there were significant negative correlations between experienced coercion and competence. Higher coercion scores were associated with two components of competence: lower understanding and reasoning. Patients who consented to treatment had higher scores on competence measures and experienced less coercion. These findings suggest that therapeutic approaches that decrease experienced coercion and increase competence may increase the engagement of individuals diagnosed with severe personality disorders in treatment.
Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

Coexistent impairments in executive functions and language comprehension in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been repeatedly observed. In this study, the aim was to provide insights into the interaction between linguistic representation and processing and executive functioning. Therefore, sentence comprehension and executive functions were assessed in 28 Dutch-speaking PD patients and 28 healthy control subjects. Three aspects of the sentence materials were varied: (1) phrase structure complexity, (2) sentence length, and (3) picture congruence. PD patients with mild-to-moderate disease severity showed decreased sentence comprehension compared to healthy control subjects. The difficulties encountered by PD patients were not limited to one aspect of the sentence materials. The same pattern of results was present in healthy control subjects. Deficits in set-switching were specifically associated with the comprehension of passive sentences. Generally, our study confirms that there does not appear to be a language faculty encapsulated from the influence of executive functions.
A novel automated image analysis method for accurate adipocyte quantification

Increased adipocyte size and number are associated with many of the adverse effects observed in metabolic disease states. While methods to quantify such changes in the adipocyte are of scientific and clinical interest, manual methods to determine adipocyte size are both laborious and intractable to large scale investigations. Moreover, existing computational methods are not fully automated. We, therefore, developed a novel automatic method to provide accurate measurements of the cross-sectional area of adipocytes in histological sections, allowing rapid high-throughput quantification of fat cell size and number. Photomicrographs of H&E-stained paraffin sections of murine gonadal adipose were transformed using standard image processing/analysis algorithms to reduce background and enhance edge-detection. This allowed the isolation of individual adipocytes from which their area could be calculated. Performance was compared with manual measurements made from the same images, in which adipocyte area was calculated from estimates of the major and minor axes of individual adipocytes. Both methods identified an increase in mean adipocyte size in a murine model of obesity, with good concordance, although the calculation used to identify cell area from manual measurements was found to consistently over-estimate cell size. Here we report an accurate method to determine adipocyte area in histological sections that provides a considerable time saving over manual methods.
Achieving the Holevo bound via sequential measurements

We present a new decoding procedure to transmit classical information in a quantum channel which, saturating asymptotically the Holevo bound, achieves the optimal rate of the communication line. Differently from previous proposals, it is based on performing a sequence of (projective) YES/NO measurements which in N steps determines which codeword was sent by the sender (N being the number of the codewords). Our analysis shows that as long as N is below the limit imposed by the Holevo bound the error probability can be sent to zero asymptotically in the length of the codewords.
Atmospheric OH reactivities in the Pearl River Delta – China in summer 2006: measurement and model results

Abstract. Total atmospheric OH reactivities (kOH) have been measured as reciprocal OH lifetimes by a newly developed instrument at a rural site in the densely populated Pearl River Delta (PRD) in Southern China in summer 2006. The deployed technique, LP-LIF, uses laser flash photolysis (LP) for artificial OH generation and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) to measure the time-dependent OH decay in samples of ambient air. The reactivities observed at PRD covered a range from 10 s−1 to 120 s−1, indicating a large load of chemical reactants. On average, kOH exhibited a pronounced diurnal profile with a mean maximum value of 50 s−1 at daybreak and a mean minimum value of 20 s−1 at noon. The comparison of reactivities calculated from measured trace gases with measured kOH reveals a missing reactivity of about a factor of 2 at day and night. The reactivity explained by measured trace gases was dominated by anthropogenic pollutants (e.g., CO, NOx, light alkenes and aromatic hydrocarbons) at night, while it was strongly influenced by local, biogenic emissions of isoprene during the day. Box model calculations initialized by measured parameters reproduce the observed OH reactivity well and suggest that the missing reactivity is contributed by unmeasured, secondary chemistry products (mainly aldehydes and ketones) that were photochemically formed by hydrocarbon oxidation. Overall, kOH was dominated by organic compounds, which had a maximum contribution of 85% in the afternoon. The paper demonstrates the usefulness of direct reactivity measurements, emphasizes the need for direct measurements of oxygenated organic compounds in atmospheric chemistry studies, and discusses uncertainties of the modelling of OVOC reactivities.
Cache-Energy and Throughput Models : A Design Exploration for Overhead Analysis

Embedded processors, particularly for low power applications, can benefit from optimization. The memory system is a fundamental candidate for optimization and has been investigated for some time. Cache memories are one of the most complex memory structures which require particular mathematical models for analysis in order to have efficient optimization. This paper proposes energy and throughput models for a data cache, which could be used for overhead analysis for various cache types with relatively small amount of inputs. These models analyze the overheads on an application basis, thus providing the hardware and software designer with the feedback vital to tune the cache or application for a given energy budget. The models are suitable for use at design time in the cache optimization process for embedded processors considering time and energy overhead.
MAP Visibility Estimation for Large-Scale Dynamic 3D Reconstruction

Many traditional challenges in reconstructing 3D motion, such as matching across wide baselines and handling occlusion, reduce in significance as the number of unique viewpoints increases. However, to obtain this benefit, a new challenge arises: estimating precisely which cameras observe which points at each instant in time. We present a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of the time-varying visibility of the target points to reconstruct the 3D motion of an event from a large number of cameras. Our algorithm takes, as input, camera poses and image sequences, and outputs the time-varying set of the cameras in which a target patch is visible and its reconstructed trajectory. We model visibility estimation as a MAP estimate by incorporating various cues including photometric consistency, motion consistency, and geometric consistency, in conjunction with a prior that rewards consistent visibilities in proximal cameras. An optimal estimate of visibility is obtained by finding the minimum cut of a capacitated graph over cameras. We demonstrate that our method estimates visibility with greater accuracy, and increases tracking performance producing longer trajectories, at more locations, and at higher accuracies than methods that ignore visibility or use photometric consistency alone.
Research on building chinese micro-blog semantic lexicon

Micro-blog is one of the most popular network platform for expressing opinions and suggestions by users. Therefore, micro-blog sentimental orientation is particularly important for information retrieval, information security and automatic abstracting. In this paper, we introduce method for building micro-blog semantic lexicon. Massive data of micro-blog have been downloaded and words were extracted by frequency of use, then the improved words, sentimental algorithm has been used to calculate semantic value, in addition, emoticons and network new words are essential for semantic lexicon, we selected these element and classified into positive and negative manually. Finally, we use this lexicon to classify micro-blog, and the experimental results show that we can achieve a high improvement by this semantic lexicon.
The neural bases of key competencies of emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to a set of competencies that are essential features of human social life. Although the neural substrates of EI are virtually unknown, it is well established that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a crucial role in human social-emotional behavior. We studied a unique sample of combat veterans from the Vietnam Head Injury Study, which is a prospective, long-term follow-up study of veterans with focal penetrating head injuries. We administered the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test as a valid standardized psychometric measure of EI behavior to examine two key competencies of EI: (i) Strategic EI as the competency to understand emotional information and to apply it for the management of the self and of others and (ii) Experiential EI as the competency to perceive emotional information and to apply it for the integration into thinking. The results revealed that key competencies underlying EI depend on distinct neural PFC substrates. First, ventromedial PFC damage diminishes Strategic EI, and therefore, hinders the understanding and managing of emotional information. Second, dorsolateral PFC damage diminishes Experiential EI, and therefore, hinders the perception and integration of emotional information. In conclusion, EI should be viewed as complementary to cognitive intelligence and, when considered together, provide a more complete understanding of human intelligence.
Uniform Stability Estimates for Constant-Coefficient Symmetric Hyperbolic Boundary Value Problems

Answering a question left open in Métivier and Zumbrun (2005), we show for general symmetric hyperbolic boundary problems with constant coefficients, including in particular systems with characteristics of variable multiplicity, that the uniform Lopatinski condition implies strong L 2 well-posedness, with no further structural assumptions. The result applies, more generally, to any system that is strongly L 2 well-posed for at least one boundary condition. The proof is completely elementary, avoiding reference to Kreiss symmetrizers or other specific techniques. On the other hand, it is specific to the constant-coefficient case; at least, it does not translate in an obvious way to the variable-coefficient case. The result in the hyperbolic case is derived from a more general principle that can be applied, for example, to parabolic or partially parabolic problems like the Navier–Stokes or viscous MHD equations linearized about a constant state or even a viscous shock.
Controlling Non-Touch Screens as Touch Screens Using Airpen, a Writing Tool with In-Air Gesturing Mode

Keyboard, mouse as fundamental input devices of computer systems, have changed traditional input behavior of human beings & writing experiences. However, handwriting, painting are still indispensable communication styles. In recent years, touch screen has become a prevailing human computer interface on many kinds of digital devices, which makes it possible for people using a pen to take notes as writing on paper. Moreover, for maintaining primitive input habits, body language is also needed to be translated by machines. With the development of embedded sensors of smart devices and artificial intelligence technologies, many new approaches have been used to recognize human actions. In this paper, we propose a system called Airpen system, which bridges two input modes: writing and in-air gesturing controlling of human body language through a pen-shape controller. Airpen system projects touch screen writing trajectories to a projection screen and uses in-air gestures to make control operations of non-touch screens. In this paper, we firstly design an input mode switching metrics using acceleration status, then implement in-air gesturing recognition using support vector machine(SVM) with accelerometer data. Finally, we validate that our input mode switching metrics can hardly be perceived by users and in-air gesture recognition can achieve high accuracy.
Factors Associated with the Decline of Kidney Function Differ among eGFR Strata in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Introduction. There is no report about risk factors for renal deterioration according to the clinical stage, divided by the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in type 2 diabetes. Materials and Methods. We evaluated the factors correlated with the annual eGFR decline in 1303 subjects with type 2 diabetes whose eGFR was ≥30 mL/min/1.73 m2. eGFR strata were defined by baseline eGFR value as follows: stratum 1: ≥90, stratum 2: ≥60, <90, and stratum 3: ≥30, <60. Results. The annual eGFR decline was 2.3 ± 5.4 mL/min/1.73 m2 in overall subjects. Multiple linear regression analysis demonstrated that age, male sex, systolic blood pressure, logarithmically transformed albumin excretion rate (AER), eGFR strata, and hemoglobin concentration were significantly correlated with the annual eGFR decline. When stratified by eGFR, the factors that showed a significant correlation were different among eGFR strata. AER was significantly correlated with annual eGFR decline in all eGFR strata. Hemoglobin concentration showed a significant correlation only in the advanced eGFR stratum. Conclusion. The factors correlated with the annual eGFR decline were different among eGFR strata in type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hemoglobin concentration and AER were important factors for renal deterioration, especially in the advanced eGFR stratum.
Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Survival in the Context of Human Papillomavirus: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Background: Head and neck (H&N) squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a significant contributor to worldwide mortality and morbidity. Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been linked with H&N cancer and HPV-positive H&N SCC have been shown to have better survival outcomes. Objective: To evaluate the effect of human papillomavirus (HPV) on laryngeal carcinoma (LSCC) survival outcomes and prognosis. Method: A systematic review and meta-analysis were performed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. LSCC was confirmed based on histopathology, and HPV status was confirmed by either polymerase chain reaction, immunohistochemistry, and/or in-situ hybridization. Results: There were 1214 studies which were identified, of which 14 studies were eligible for our review. A total of 2,578 cases of LSCC were included in analysis with 413 (16.0%) HPV-positive. Overall survival (OS) was not significant for HPV-positive LSCC in first five years (year one: OR 1.44 p=0.13; year two: OR 1.24 p=0.30; year three: OR 1.01 p=0.97; year four: OR 1.13 p=0.63; year five: OR 1.01 p=0.98). Disease-free survival (DFS) was similarly not significant for HPV-positive LSCC (year one: OR 1.08 p=0.68; year two: OR 1.22, p=0.31; year three: OR 1.13, p=0.69; year four: OR 0.93, p=0.80 and year five: OR 1.42, p=0.30). When studies are sub-divided into global regions, Chinese studies had better HPV-positive survival compared to North American studies in year five (OR 1.84 vs OR 0.46, p=0.04). Conclusion: This is the first study of its kind to evaluate the survival impact of HPV-positive LSCC patients. Unlike oropharyngeal cancer, HPV status does not make a difference to OS or DFS in LSCC. This supports data that HPV is not a prognostic factor in squamous carcinoma of the larynx.
Real‐time RF pulse adjustment for B0 drift correction

Although the magnetic field of an MR scanner is very stable under little or no load, it can become less stable under heavy‐duty cycle conditions, such as in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Uncorrected, such field drifts lead to an apparent image shift along the phase‐encoding direction and decreasing effectiveness of fat saturation pulses. A method is presented to adjust the center frequency of all RF pulses and the receiver in real time during the acquisition. No data postprocessing or changes to the sequence timing are necessary. In vivo acquisitions were performed to assess the prolonged effectiveness of fat saturation. Field drifts of approximately 2.5 Hz/min were measured and corrected during DTI acquisitions at b‐values of up to 3000 s/mm2. The effectiveness of fat saturation diminished over the duration of an 18‐min acquisition when the drift was left uncorrected. The proposed method corrects for apparent image shift and ensures continuously effective fat saturation over the duration of an acquisition. Magn Reson Med, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The integration among disambiguation lexical resources for more effective phrase-level contextual polarity recognition

Phrase-level polarity disambiguation recently became attractive. Nowadays, most corners of the sentiment analysis research have been investigated while the core and hard parts are not yet intensively explored, among which polarity disambiguation is one. In this research, we propose the integration between two SentiWordNet-based resources on phrase-level polarity disambiguation: (1) its score for the best word sense identified by a word sense disambiguation algorithm and (2) its examples having the non-zero scores of the prior polarities for the related subjectivity lexicon words. The integration of subjectivity lexicon word prior polarities together with Senti-WordNet scores and examples of word contexts were presented as classifier features to reduce the classification disambiguation. Our empirical evaluation is twofold. First, an experimental analysis was intrinsically conducted using various lexical resource settings coupled with feature selection algorithms to improve the classifier contextual subjective and sentiment polarity recognition. Second, the integration was extrinsically applied to improve the opinion question answering ranking task. These evaluations prove the superiority of the proposed integration in comparison with the state-of-the-art seminal work and baselines.
A New 3D Geometric Approach to Focus and Context Lens Effect Simulation

We present a novel methodology based on geometric approach to simulate magnification lens effects. Our aim is to promote new applications of powerful geometric modeling techniques in visual computing. Conventional image processing/visualization methods are computed in two dimensional space (2D). We examine this conventional 2D manipulation from a completely innovative perspective of 3D geometric processing. Compared with conventional optical lens design, 3D geometric method are much more capable of preserving shape features and minimizing distortion. We magnify an area of interest to better visualize the interior details, while keeping the rest of area without perceivable distortion. We flatten the mesh back into 2D space for viewing, and further applications in the screen space. In both steps, we devise an iterative deformation scheme to minimize distortion around both focus and context region, while avoiding the noncontinuous transition region between the focus and context areas. Particularly, our method allows the user to flexibly modify the ROI shapes to accommodate complex feature. The user can also easily specify a spectrum of metrics for different visual effects. Various experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness, robustness, and efficiency of our framework.