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Examining Equity Sensitivity: An Investigation Using the Big Five and HEXACO Models of Personality

The construct of equity sensitivity describes an individual's preference about his/her desired input to outcome ratio. Individuals high on equity sensitivity tend to be more input oriented, and are often called “Benevolents. ” Individuals low on equity sensitivity are more outcome oriented, and are described as “Entitleds. ” Given that equity sensitivity has often been described as a trait, the purpose of the present study was to examine major personality correlates of equity sensitivity, so as to inform both the nature of equity sensitivity, and the potential processes through which certain broad personality traits may relate to outcomes. We examined the personality correlates of equity sensitivity across three studies (total N = 1170), two personality models (i.e., the Big Five and HEXACO), the two most common measures of equity sensitivity (i.e., the Equity Preference Questionnaire and Equity Sensitivity Inventory), and using both self and peer reports of personality (in Study 3). Although results varied somewhat across samples, the personality variables of Conscientiousness and Honesty-Humility, followed by Agreeableness, were the most robust predictors of equity sensitivity. Individuals higher on these traits were more likely to be Benevolents, whereas those lower on these traits were more likely to be Entitleds. Although some associations between Extraversion, Openness, and Neuroticism and equity sensitivity were observed, these were generally not robust. Overall, it appears that there are several prominent personality variables underlying equity sensitivity, and that the addition of the HEXACO model's dimension of Honesty-Humility substantially contributes to our understanding of equity sensitivity.
iFUSE: integrated fusion gene explorer

UNLABELLED We present iFUSE (integrated fusion gene explorer), an online visualization tool that provides a fast and informative view of structural variation data and prioritizes those breaks likely representing fusion genes. This application uses calculated break points to determine fusion genes based on the latest annotation for genomic sequence information, and where relevant the structural variation (SV) events are annotated with predicted RNA and protein sequences. iFUSE takes as input a Complete Genomics (CG) junction file, a FusionMap fusion detection report file or a file already analysed and annotated by the iFUSE application on a previous occasion. RESULTS We demonstrate the use of iFUSE with case studies from tumour-normal SV detection derived from Complete Genomics whole-genome sequencing results. AVAILABILITY iFUSE is available as a web service at http://ifuse.erasmusmc. nl.
Surveying Societies Mired in Conflict: Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Palestine

Survey research is a form of social interaction with its own set of guiding principles. As in all social interactions, there are implicit cultural and political values and beliefs that can influence the way respondents choose to answer survey questions. Previous research within the United States has found that the presence of an interviewer can influence the validity of survey responses (e.g., Tourangeau, Rips, & Rasinki, 2000). Similar findings have been found cross-culturally (e.g., Kim & Kim, 2016). While there has been an abundant amount of research on interviewer effects in and outside the United States, little research has examined social desirability bias (SDB) in the context of an ethnonational conflict, and specifically among populations struggling for self-determination. In this research note, we examine the effect of SDB by showing the specific ways survey mode (interviewer-administered vs. self-administered) affects responses among Palestinians immersed in a prolonged conflict and a struggle for political independence.
Reach Adaptation and Final Position Control Amid Environmental Uncertainty Following Stroke

An operator interface device is connected to the central control unit of a remotely-monitored security system, which also includes one or more local control units located at monitored sites. A local control unit may initiate a telephone call to the central control unit to alert the operator of an event such as an intrusion at the site. The interface device has a keypad on which the operator can enter commands that are transmitted to the local control unit. A processor in the interface device uses a look-up table, state machine or other predetermined relationship to translate the command entered by the operator into the native or local command recognized by the local control unit.
Decision tree State tying using cluster validity criteria

Decision tree state tying aims to perform divisive clustering, which can combine the phonetics and acoustics of speech signal for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. A tree is built by successively splitting the observation frames of a phonetic unit according to the best phonetic questions. To prevent building over-large tree models, the stopping criterion is required to suppress tree growing. Accordingly, it is crucial to exploit the goodness-of-split criteria to choose the best questions for node splitting and test whether the splitting should be terminated or not. In this paper, we apply the Hubert's /spl Gamma/ statistic as the node splitting criterion and the T/sup 2/-statistic as the stopping criterion. The Hubert's /spl Gamma/ statistic sufficiently characterizes the clustering structure in the given data. This cluster validity criterion is adopted to select the best questions to unravel tree nodes. Further, we examine the population closeness of two split nodes with a significance level. The T/sup 2/-statistic expressed by an F distribution is determined to verify whether the mean vectors of two nodes are close together. The splitting is stopped when verified. In the experiments of Mandarin speech recognition, the proposed methods achieve better syllable recognition rates with smaller tree models compared to the conventional maximum likelihood and minimum description length criteria.
Internet Engineering Task Force (ietf) Problems with Session Traversal Utilities for Nat (stun) Long-term Authentication for Traversal Using Relays around Nat (turn)

This document discusses some of the security problems and practical problems with the current Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) authentication for Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) messages. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License.
Memories of the dictatorship in Spain. An analysis of the narratives from three generations / Memorias de la dictadura en España. Un análisis de las narrativas de tres generaciones

Abstract This study will investigate the narratives related by the members of three different generations within two different families on their memories of the Franco dictatorship. The first generation lived through Francoism, the second the democratic transition, and the third were born in a democratic country. Based on a social and discursive conception of memory and identity, this study is carried out using semi-structured interviews as a data collection tool, which we then thematically analyse, together with aspects of the participants’ positions and voices. The interviews are connected according to the factors of generation and family, and we analyse the similarities and differences. This is how the influence of both is seen in each individual’s memories and identities, in addition to how their political ideology is configured.
Human Anti-V3 HIV-1 Monoclonal Antibodies Encoded by the VH5-51/VL Lambda Genes Define a Conserved Antigenic Structure

Preferential usage of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes that encode antibodies (Abs) against various pathogens is rarely observed and the nature of their dominance is unclear in the context of stochastic recombination of Ig genes. The hypothesis that restricted usage of Ig genes predetermines the antibody specificity was tested in this study of 18 human anti-V3 monoclonal Abs (mAbs) generated from unrelated individuals infected with various subtypes of HIV-1, all of which preferentially used pairing of the VH5-51 and VL lambda genes. Crystallographic analysis of five VH5-51/VL lambda-encoded Fabs complexed with various V3 peptides revealed a common three dimensional (3D) shape of the antigen-binding sites primarily determined by the four complementarity determining regions (CDR) for the heavy (H) and light (L) chains: specifically, the H1, H2, L1 and L2 domains. The CDR H3 domain did not contribute to the shape of the binding pocket, as it had different lengths, sequences and conformations for each mAb. The same shape of the binding site was further confirmed by the identical backbone conformation exhibited by V3 peptides in complex with Fabs which fully adapted to the binding pocket and the same key contact residues, mainly germline-encoded in the heavy and light chains of five Fabs. Finally, the VH5-51 anti-V3 mAbs recognized an epitope with an identical 3D structure which is mimicked by a single mimotope recognized by the majority of VH5-51-derived mAbs but not by other V3 mAbs. These data suggest that the identification of preferentially used Ig genes by neutralizing mAbs may define conserved epitopes in the diverse virus envelopes. This will be useful information for designing vaccine immunogen inducing cross-neutralizing Abs.
Design of a Wireless Sensor Network Based Monitoring System for Home Automation

This paper presents the design and implementation of a wireless monitoring system for building smart room architectures in home environments. The proposed system consists of wireless sensor nodes and actuator nodes which are organized into a monitoring network by ZigBee protocols. A base station and some general wireless nodes have been developed to form a prototype system. Various sensor and actuator modules have also been implemented to enable some typical indoor monitoring applications such as resident tracking, energy-efficient home appliance control and home security. The proposed system provides a flexible solution for us to make our living spaces more intelligent.
Evaluation of ethanol gas sensing properties of ZnO nanopowder doped with Cu and Fe

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is one of the most important metal oxides having various applications in gas sensors. In the present work, ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized via sol-gel method. The nanopowder was then hydraulic-pressed and pre-sintered at 400°C to be molded into tablets with radius of 13 mm and thickness of 1.4 mm. Then, the sensor characteristics of ZnO nanopowder tablets were evaluated with respect to the ethanol. Finally, the tablets were doped with iron (Fe) and copper (Cu), and the effect of doping on sensing properties was studied. Key words: Zinc oxide, sensitivity, ethanol, sol-gel, dopants.
ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN MAHASISWA DALAM MENYIMAK INFORMASI PADA TES SIMULASI IELTS (INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING SYSTEM)

Memiliki kemampuan bahasa Inggris yang baik dan dibuktikan dengan kepemilikan sertifikat IELTS menjadi suatu kebutuhan saat ini, terutama bagi para mahasiswa yang ingin melanjutkan studi ataupun mengembangkan karir mereka pada level internasional. Dalam hal ini, para mahasiswa perlu untuk meningkatkan kemampuan bahasa Inggris dan mengenal IELTS, serta memiliki pengalaman dalam menyelesaikan tes IELTS ataupun tes simulasi IELTS. Terkait dengan adanya beberapa keterampilan yang diuji pada IELTS, penelitian ini berfokus pada tes keterampilan menyimak (listening) dengan tujuan untuk menganalisis tingkat kemampuan mahasiswa dalam menyimak karena menyimak merupakan langkah pertama pada kegiatan komunikasi. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk menemukan faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi keberhasilan dan kesulitan pada tes yang diberikan. Penelitian ini dirancang menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif dan kualitatif melalui teknik sampel purposif yang melibatkan 35 orang mahasiswa untuk melakukan tes simulasi IELTS (menyimak). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peserta tes telah mampu memahami informasi yang mereka dengar selama tes dilaksanakan, tetapi masih berada pada konteks komunikasi sederhana yang telah diketahui dengan baik oleh peserta tes. Hal ini ditunjukkan dengan perolehan rentang nilai 4—6 oleh sebahagian besar peserta tes, sehingga tingkat keterampilan mahasiswa dalam melakukan tes perlu ditingkatkan. Faktor yang memengaruhi keberhasilan siswa dalam melakukan tes adalah faktor persiapan dan latihan, tetapi sebahagian besar mahasiswa tidak melakukan persipan khusus ketika akan melakukan tes simulasi yang diberikan, sehingga hasil yang diperoleh perlu ditingkatkan. Having good English skill which is proven by the ownership of IELTS certificate becomes a need nowadays, particularly for students who want to pursue their study in higher level or step out in international level career. In this case, the students need to keep improving their English, study about IELTS, have experience in completing IELTS test. Since there are some skills assessed in IELTS, this article focused on discussing the students’ performances in Listening IELTS test with two objectives; to analyse the students’ performances in IELTS listening tests, and to find out some factors infleuneced the students’ success and difficulty in comepeleting the test. Hence, this research is descriptive research by working on quantitative and qualitative data and involving 35 students to join the tests. The findings of the research reveal that most of the students had already showed their good perofmances in compeleting the listening tests since they could reach 4-6 range of scores. However, the students need to keep improving their performances in the future listening test. Furthermore, having preparation before conducting EILTS test become one of the most essential components to be success in the test, but most of the students did not seriously prepare themselves when taking the test.
Annual Report to the NSF : Integrating and Navigating Eprint Archives through

NSF funded the Cornell Digital Library Research Group (part of the Computer Science Department at Cornell) to work with researchers at Southampton University to investigate the linking of electronic archives through Citation Linking (known more widely in the United States as Reference Linking). A good example of an electronic archive is the E-Print archive at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a third partner in this project. The overall project has been named Open Citations, or OpCit for short [1, 7]. While researchers at Southampton undertook the linking of the LANL archives using tools they developed for the Open Journal[6] project, we at Cornell took a more general view of the reference linking problem as it applied to online scholarly material, in order to determine a good framework for linking the online literature and to come up with tools that would encourage the linking of electronic publications. It should be noted that a large group of journal publishers have their own project underway, called CrossRef[10]; this is a very worthwhile project, and when successful will be of great assistance to scientists and other technical workers. However, it relies on Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), which might not be available to all online publications. At Cornell we are focusing on more informal materials, including borndigital materials such as D-Lib, grey literature such as articles published online by individuals, and repositories of technical reports, such as NCSTRL.
Bound states in the AdS/CFT correspondence

We consider a massive scalar field theory in anti\char21{}de Sitter space, in both minimally and non-minimally coupled cases. We introduce a relevant double-trace perturbation at the boundary, by carefully identifying the correct source and generating functional for the corresponding conformal operator. We show that such a relevant double-trace perturbation introduces changes in the coefficients in the boundary terms of the action, which in turn govern the existence of a bound state in the bulk. For instance, we show that the usual action, containing no additional boundary terms, gives rise to a bound state, which can be avoided only through the addition of a proper boundary term. Another notorious example is that of a conformally coupled scalar field, supplemented by a Gibbons-Hawking term, for which there is no associated bound state. In general, in both minimally and non-minimally coupled cases, we explicitly compute which boundary terms give rise to a bound state, and which ones do not. In the non-minimally coupled case, and when the action is supplemented by a Gibbons-Hawking term, this also fixes the allowed values of the coupling coefficient to the metric. We interpret our results to indicate that the requirement to satisfy the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound does not suffice to prevent tachyonic behavior from existing in the bulk, as it must be supplemented by additional conditions on the coefficients in the boundary terms of the action.
Genes of the GadX-GadW Regulon in Escherichia coli

ABSTRACT Acid in the stomach is thought to be a barrier to bacterial colonization of the intestine. Escherichia coli, however, has three systems for acid resistance, which overcome this barrier. The most effective of these systems is dependent on transport and decarboxylation of glutamate. GadX regulates two genes that encode isoforms of glutamate decarboxylase critical to this system, but additional genes associated with the glutamate-dependent acid resistance system remained to be identified. The gadX gene and a second downstream araC-like transcription factor gene, gadW, were mutated separately and in combination, and the gene expression profiles of the mutants were compared to those of the wild-type strain grown in neutral and acidified media under conditions favoring induction of glutamate-dependent acid resistance. Cluster and principal-component analyses identified 15 GadX-regulated, acid-inducible genes. Reverse transcriptase mapping demonstrated that these genes are organized in 10 operons. Analysis of the strain lacking GadX but possessing GadW confirmed that GadX is a transcriptional activator under acidic growth conditions. Analysis of the strain lacking GadW but possessing GadX indicated that GadW exerts negative control over three GadX target genes. The strain lacking both GadX and GadW was defective in acid induction of most but not all GadX target genes, consistent with the roles of GadW as an inhibitor of GadX-dependent activation of some genes and an activator of other genes. Resistance to acid was decreased under certain conditions in a gadX mutant and even more so by combined mutation of gadX and gadW. However, there was no defect in colonization of the streptomycin-treated mouse model by the gadX mutant in competition with the wild type, and the gadX gadW mutant was a better colonizer than the wild type. Thus, E. coli colonization of the mouse does not appear to require glutamate-dependent acid resistance.
Comparison and Analysis of Content Based Image Retrieval Systems Based On Relevance Feedback

Content-based image retrieval has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. In this paper various methodologies used in the research area of Content Based Image Retrieval techniques using Relevance Feedback are discussed. The comparison and analysis of these methods is done. Relevance feedback techniques were incorporated into Content-based image retrieval for obtaining more precise results. This is an open research area for the researchers in the field of Content-based image retrieval. The paper covers various relevance feedback techniques for Content Based Image Retrieval systems, the parameters used for experimental evaluation of the systems and the analysis of these techniques on the basis of their results.
Populating Virtual Access Points for Localization in Sparse Wireless Networks

Even though many GPS-free localization algorithms have been proposed to provide reliable positions with high levels of accuracy, most of them, such as centroid, fingerprint, or their variant versions, should require three or more Access Points (APs) to provide sufficient signals for the device. Thus when enough number of APs do not exist in the proximity of the device, the level of position accuracy is deteriorated. In this paper, we present a localization framework of populating virtual access points for localization in sparse wireless networks that can estimate the device position in the environment where the device cannot obtain GPS signal nor sufficient number of AP beacon frames. The proposed framework first gathers beacon frames of adjacent APs periodically and stores the frame information into a device database, then it chooses an adequate number of adjacent APs from the database, and finally it performs a localization algorithm with the chosen APs. To verify the accuracy and robustness of the proposed system, we conducted an experiment in an indoor environment where the deficient number of APs provide their own information, and compared the proposed framework with the original localization algorithm. The results indicate that the proposed framework can pinpoint the current location with acceptable errors in wireless networks with sparse coverage.
Using simulations to evaluate Mantel‐based methods for assessing landscape resistance to gene flow

Abstract Mantel‐based tests have been the primary analytical methods for understanding how landscape features influence observed spatial genetic structure. Simulation studies examining Mantel‐based approaches have highlighted major challenges associated with the use of such tests and fueled debate on when the Mantel test is appropriate for landscape genetics studies. We aim to provide some clarity in this debate using spatially explicit, individual‐based, genetic simulations to examine the effects of the following on the performance of Mantel‐based methods: (1) landscape configuration, (2) spatial genetic nonequilibrium, (3) nonlinear relationships between genetic and cost distances, and (4) correlation among cost distances derived from competing resistance models. Under most conditions, Mantel‐based methods performed poorly. Causal modeling identified the true model only 22% of the time. Using relative support and simple Mantel r values boosted performance to approximately 50%. Across all methods, performance increased when landscapes were more fragmented, spatial genetic equilibrium was reached, and the relationship between cost distance and genetic distance was linearized. Performance depended on cost distance correlations among resistance models rather than cell‐wise resistance correlations. Given these results, we suggest that the use of Mantel tests with linearized relationships is appropriate for discriminating among resistance models that have cost distance correlations <0.85 with each other for causal modeling, or <0.95 for relative support or simple Mantel r. Because most alternative parameterizations of resistance for the same landscape variable will result in highly correlated cost distances, the use of Mantel test‐based methods to fine‐tune resistance values will often not be effective.