Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Unifying Configuration Management with Merge Conflict Detection and Awareness Systems

As software development becomes an increasingly collaborative effort, traditional development tools have to be extended to support seamless collaboration while minimizing the chances of conflicts. This paper describes Cloud Studio, a collaboration framework that integrates a fine-grained software configuration management model and a real-time awareness system. Cloud Studio's configuration management operates transparently by automatically sharing the changes of developers working on the same project, the real-time awareness system allows for dynamic views on the project selectively including or excluding other developers' changes. With this tight integration, conflicts are prevented in many cases, while leaving individual developers free to experiment without blocking others. The paper also describes a freely available prototype web-based implementation of Cloud Studio and a case study that demonstrates the usability of the approach for collaborative software development.
Development and validation of the Self-Identity Inventory (SII): a multicultural identity development instrument.

The Self-Identity Inventory (SII) was developed using the Optimal Theory Applied to Identity Development (OTAID) model. A sample of 325 culturally diverse respondents completed the SII, the Tolerance Scale from the California Psychological Inventory, the Belief Systems Analysis Scale, and the Social Desirability and Infrequency Scales. Through confirmatory factor analysis, goodness-of-fit, and social desirability/item infrequency measures, SII items were analyzed, resulting in a 6-scale, 71-item inventory. Internal consistency for the scales ranged from . 72 to . 90. Test-retest reliability ranged from . 72 to . 92. Correlations with external construct validity measures supported predictions. Interscale correlations and other statistical tests primarily supported the OTAID model. Implications for therapy and future research are suggested.
The Role of the Facilitator in Computer-Supported Meetings

The ability tofacilitate diverse human and technological interactions will be one of the most essential skillsfor leading and contributing to all levels of the organization in thefuture. Yet none of the research to date has definedfacilitation or the role of the facilitator in depth or has provided empirically grounded guidelines for effectively performing this role. The introduction of Group Support Systems (GSSs)-computer technology to support group work-into organizations has created yet another newfacilitation role-the GSSfacilitatoi: This article presents the results ofa rigorous assessment, using the critical incidents research methodology, of the role of the facilitator in computer-supported environments. The overall purpose of the study was to empirically develop the critical dimensions of the facilitator's role.
Accuracy improvement by residue and amplitude based local co-registration method for ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 DInSAR

In the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry, we generally expect that there is only unique dominant scatterer in one pixel. To make a SAR interferogram, we have to observe a place twice. The dominant scatterer in every pixel must be identical in those observations. However, in an actual situation, there are multiple scatterers in one pixel physically, and the dominant one may be changed in the two observations. Slight difference of incident angle may cause the change of the dominant scatterer and the propagation path. The change can generate singular points (SPs) in the inter-ferogram which prevent us from accurate phase unwrapping. Here, we present experimental results in an anechoic chamber which show the mechanism of the singular point generation.
Engaging students emotionally: the role of emotional intelligence in predicting cognitive and affective engagement in higher education

ABSTRACT Student engagement is a key predictor of academic performance, persistence and retention in higher education. While many studies have identified how aspects of the college environment influence engagement, fewer have specifically focused on emotional intelligence (EI). In this study, we sought to explore whether EI could predict cognitive and/or affective engagement in a sample of undergraduate psychology students in Ireland. Ninety-one students completed two forms of the student engagement instrument, rating current engagement and retrospective secondary school engagement, along with the trait EI (TEI) questionnaire. After controlling for academic ability, gender and school engagement, multiple regression analyses found TEI to be a positive predictor of both cognitive and affective engagement. Previous academic performance acted as an additional predictor of cognitive engagement, while retrospective affective school engagement predicted current affective engagement. These results suggest that interventions aimed at increasing EI may have positive implications for many aspects of student engagement, and hence performance at third level.
Non-Projectivity in the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank

In this paper, we provide a quantitative analysis of non-projective constructions attested in the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (AGDT). We consider the different types of formal constraints and metrics that have become standardized in the literature on non-projectivity (planarity, wellnestedness, gap-degree, edge-degree). We also discuss some of the linguistic factors that cause non-projective edges in Ancient Greek. Our results confirm the remarkable extension of non-projectivity in the AGDT, both in terms of quantitative incidence of non-projective nodes and for their complexity, which is not paralleled by the corpora of modern languages considered in the literature. At the same time, the usefulness of other constraint (especially well-nestedness) is confirmed by our researches.
Aristotelian action research: its value for studying character education in schools

Abstract This article explores what it means for teachers to engage in and evaluate students’ character education, by examining the connections between action research and Aristotelian virtue ethics. These connections are explored in two ways. Firstly, the article examines what perspective action research has on how moral education, understood in an Aristotelian way, can be implemented and evaluated. While character education may be hot in educational theory, academic advances have not always reached teachers, heads of school, policy-makers and politicians. Secondly, a specifically Aristotelian approach to action research is explored that may help teachers to understand how action research about character education in schools can best be conducted. After a comparison of the three major action research paradigms, ‘Aristotelian action research’ is described as a kind of dialogical enquiry that contributes to the growth of teachers’ practical wisdom, which, in turn, has an effect on children’s character development. The article ends with suggestions as to how research about character education could be improved if we shift our attention from making character programmes more ‘effective’ to extending and refining teachers’ own practical wisdom and virtue.
Iterated local search for distributed multiple assembly no-wait flowshop scheduling

Driven by the pressing needs in coordinating and synchronizing multi-plant facilities for efficient production and manufacturing, distributed assembly permutation flowshop scheduling problem (DAPFSP) has been becoming the focus of concern of evolutionary computing and operations research, which is a typical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper, we propose a novel generalized version of DAPFSP, where multiple assembly factories exist rather than only one assembly factory in the conventional DAPFSP, meanwhile no-wait constraint exists in the processing stage. We name this new model as the distributed multiple assembly permutation flowshop scheduling problem with no-wait, abbreviated as DMAPFSP-NW. We propose hybrid iterated local search with simulated annealing (ILS-SA) for the proposed scheduling model. Simulation results based on 27 large-scale benchmark problems show that our proposed ILS-SA can effectively solve the DMAPFSP-NW.
Déterminants de la décision de consolider les filiales de financement: le cas de la France

Ces dernieres annees, le probleme du financement hors bilan a ete une preoccupation constante pour les organismes de normalisation de la comptabilite. L'objet de cette recherche est de comprendre les motivations des dirigeants d'entreprises par rapport a un certain type de financement hors bilan que constitue l'exclusion des filiales de financement du perimetre de consolidation. Nous etudions un echantillon de societes francaises cotees en Bourse pour lequel 39% des entreprises n'ont pas consolide leurs filiales de financement. Cette pratique comptable est toujours permise dans plusieurs pays europeens. Nos resultats montrent que le niveau d'endettement de l'entreprise, de meme que sa taille et la structure de l'actionnariat sont determinants dans la decision d'exclure les filiales de financement du perimetre de consolidation.
Tivantinib (ARQ197) Displays Cytotoxic Activity That Is Independent of Its Ability to Bind MET

Purpose: MET, the high-affinity receptor for hepatocyte growth factor, is frequently deregulated in human cancer. Tivantinib (ARQ197; Arqule), a staurosporine derivative that binds to the dephosphorylated MET kinase in vitro, is being tested clinically as a highly selective MET inhibitor. However, the mechanism of action of tivantinib is still unclear. Experimental Design: The activity of tivantinib was analyzed in multiple cellular models, including: cells displaying c-MET gene amplification, strictly ‘addicted’ to MET signaling; cells with normal c-MET gene copy number, not dependent on MET for growth; cells not expressing MET; somatic knockout cells in which the ATP-binding cleft of MET, where tivantinib binds, was deleted by homologous recombination; and a cell system ‘poisoned’ by MET kinase hyperactivation, where cells die unless cultured in the presence of a specific MET inhibitor. Results: Tivantinib displayed cytotoxic activity independently of c-MET gene copy number and regardless of the presence or absence of MET. In both wild-type and isogenic knockout cells, tivantinib perturbed microtubule dynamics, induced G2/M arrest, and promoted apoptosis. Tivantinib did not rescue survival of cells ‘poisoned’ by MET kinase hyperactivation, but further incremented cell death. In all cell models analyzed, tivantinib did not inhibit HGF-dependent or -independent MET tyrosine autophosphorylation. Conclusions: We conclude that tivantinib displays cytotoxic activity via molecular mechanisms that are independent from its ability to bind MET. This notion has a relevant impact on the interpretation of clinical results, on the design of future clinical trials, and on the selection of patients receiving tivantinib treatment. Clin Cancer Res; 19(9); 2381–92. ©2013 AACR.
ANALISIS KINERJA ANOMALY-BASED INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM (IDS) DALAM MENDETEKSI SERANGAN DOS (DENIAL OF SERVICES) PADA JARINGAN KOMPUTER

Sistem Deteksi Intrusi berdasarkan anomali adalah sistem keamanan jaringan yang berfungsiuntuk mendeteksi adanya gangguan-gangguan pada jaringan komputer dengan cara mendeteksigangguan-gangguan tersebut berdasarkan pola-pola anomali yang ditimbulkan. Serangan Denialof Services (DoS) adalah salah satu contoh jenis serangan yang dapat mengganggu infrastrukturdari jaringan komputer, serangan jenis ini memiliki suatu pola khas, dimana dalam setiapserangannya akan mengirimkan sejumlah paket data secara terus-menerus kepada targetserangannya. Dengan menggunakan metode deteksi anomali, serangan DoS dapat dideteksidengan mengidentifikasi pola-pola anomali yang ditimbulkan. Metode deteksi berdasarkananomali memiliki tingkat kesalahan deteksi yang cukup besar, namun memiliki keunggulanuntuk mendeteksi jenis-jenis pola serangan baru.Sistem Deteksi Intrusi mempunyai kemampuan untuk menganalisa trafik jaringan danmengenali adanya intrusi yang datang atau yang sedang terjadi dengan membangun baselinesebagai dasar untuk membedakan trafik normal dan abnormal. Baseline yang tepat sangatmenentukan terhadap terdeteksinya suatu serangan, maka dari itu dalam penelitian ini fokusuntuk meneliti Sistem Deteksi Intrusi berdasarkan anomali dinama informasi dari baselinedibangun berdasarkan karakteristik jaringan yang sebenarnya untuk dapat menentukan nilaibaseline yang terbaik. Kinerja dari sistem telah diuji melalui simulasi serangan, dimana SistemDeteksi Intrusi berdasarkan anomali memiliki tingkat akurasi sebesar 87,5 % untuk seranganDoS UDP Flood.
Dynamic Corporate Capital Stocks: Cross-sectional and Inter-temporal Stock Return Patterns

We investigate a general multiple security equilibrium model in which firms adjust their capital stock in response to economic shocks. Asset values are determined by competitive risk-averse investors. When corporate capital increases in value, firms react by creating more of it. This leads to additional risk that must be borne by investors. Overall, the model generates a VAR(1) structure for the state variables determining the cross-section of expected returns, and is broadly consistent with stylized facts (e.g., the value premium, size premium, earnings momentum, and investment premium). In addition, the paper tests a new prediction of the model and finds support for it in the data.
SOMET: Shared Ontology Matching Environment

In this paper we present a tool, SOMET, for collaborative developing, matching and merging ontologies. The tool's design is based on a Wiki model, allowing for multiple authors to contribute to an ontology. It also provides a number of meta-ontology features, including the ability to compare, match and merge. The tool makes use of one algorithmic approach to element-level mapping, demonstrating the use of both automated and manual matching.
Analyzing the effectiveness of the Korean National anti-bullying program – WEE project

Bullying is a growing public health concern for South Korean adolescents. This study examines the effectiveness of a Korean national counseling service program (i.e., WEE project) on reducing student bullying behavior by employing a quasi-experimental design with before-and-after measures of peer victimization and perpetration. Using a representative longitudinal sample of 2972 students from 63 middle schools in Seoul, multivariate regression, fixed-effect regression, and propensity score matching techniques were employed to examine the change in student bullying behavior following random assignment into intervention versus control group schools. Results indicate, however, that the WEE project was not associated with any change in students’ likelihood of peer victimization and perpetration in terms of verbal, physical, and relational bullying. Possible reasons for the null findings as well as policy implications are further discussed.
Metaphorical conceptualization of some notions in depressive disorders: Is PLEASURE an insipid milky jelly?

Metaphorical conceptualization of some notions in depressive disorders: Is PLEASURE an insipid milky jelly? The study concerned the process of metaphor creation in a group of depressive and of non-depressive people. It was assumed that due to some deficits in working memory and inhibition processes, depressive people would have difficulties with metaphorical processing and would produce fewer metaphors than do healthy individuals. It was also presumed that subjects with depression as compared to non-depressive individuals would produce more metaphors for negative notions, and generally would create more negative metaphors, independently of the semantics and valence of a notion. The results obtained in this study aren't univocal. However, it seems that there exists a tendency to produce a smaller number of metaphors in depressive people (especially concerning the notion of FUTURE), which could indicate the existence of some difficulties in metaphorical processing connected with depression. Furthermore, depressive subjects produced more negative metaphors for some notions but not for all of them. This points to the need of attention to semantics in studies on the mechanisms of metaphorical processing in a group of depressive people.
Structural Analysis of Phage-Borne stx Genes and Their Flanking Sequences in Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli and Shigella dysenteriae Type 1 Strains

ABSTRACT The stx-flanking regions of 49 Shiga toxin-producingEscherichia coli strains and nine Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 strains containing either stx,stx1, stx2, orstx2 variant genes, were examined. We analyzed these regions by PCR using a set of primers with one primer specific for the respective stx gene and a second primer complementary to sequences of Stx phages H-19B and 933W. We further characterized the amplification products by restriction endonuclease digestion and nucleotide sequencing. PCR products ofstx1-containing E. coli strains of serogroups O157, O26, and 0103 showed the same lengths and similar restriction patterns. However, we failed to amplify the 3′stx-flanking region instx1-harboring E. coliO111:H− strains. Stx2-producing E. colistrains revealed amplification products of different lengths and restriction patterns, suggesting greater heterogeneity than instx1-positive strains. We also obtained specific PCR products for two Stx2c-producing and seven Stx2f-producingE. coli strains when they were subjected to PCR analysis. In nine S. dysenteriae type 1 strains, H-19B- and 933W-specific primers amplified only the 3′ stx-flanking region. The results of our study demonstrate that the stxgenes of all strains investigated are continuous with phage sequences. Whereas almost all strains except E. coliO111:H− strains were associated with a S-like gene, association with Q could not be demonstrated in nine S. dysenteriae type 1 strains and three E. coli strains. Furthermore, we showed that the organization of thestx-flanking regions is similar in all strains investigated, whereas fine-structure analysis showed subtle differences among the sequences examined. Our results support the hypothesis thatstx genes in E. coli and S. dysenteriae are generally phage-borne.
Gambling and the family: From the stress‐coping‐support Perspective

Abstract Aims: To apply the stress‐coping‐support perspective to the study of the effects of problem gambling in the family. Specifically, to examine the ways in which family members cope and the nature and sources of support they receive. To compare coping strategies of family members of gamblers with those of individuals living with other addictive behaviour in the family. Design: Cross‐sectional interview and questionnaire study of close relatives of problem gamblers. Participants: Sixteen close family members of gamblers from separate families, mainly parents and partners. Data: Semi‐structured interview; adapted version of the Coping Questionnaire (CQ). Findings: Data from the CQ and qualitative analysis of interview data suggested considerable use of ‘engaged’ (specifically controlling) ways of attempting to cope with such problems, comparable to the use of such strategies by relatives of people with alcohol or drug problems, but little use of ‘tolerant‐accepting’ and ‘withdrawal’ ways. Interview data on the support received (or not) by family members confirmed previous research showing that relatives of people with addiction problems often feel unsupported, but particularly appreciate positive emotional and practical support for themselves and their problem gambling relatives. Conclusions: The stress‐coping‐support perspective, previously applied to families with alcohol and drug problems, also offers an appropriate framework for understanding problem gambling and the family.
Distribution of Hydrophobic Residues Is Crucial for the Fusogenic Properties of the Ebola Virus GP2 Fusion Peptide

ABSTRACT The lipid-destabilizing properties of the N-terminal domain of the GP2 of Ebola virus were investigated. Our results suggest that the domain of Ebola virus needed for fusion is shorter than that previously reported. The fusogenic properties of this domain are related to its oblique orientation at the lipid/water interface owing to an asymmetric distribution of the hydrophobic residues when helical.
COLLECTIVE GUILT FOR HARMING FUTURE INGROUP MEMBERS: THE CASE OF AMERICAN IDENTITY AND GLOBAL WARMING

Three studies address whether people can experience collective guilt for present-day behavior that harms ingroup members in the future. In a correlational study, collective guilt mediated the relationship between perceived harm to future ingroup members on willingness to engage in behaviors that mitigate global warming. An experimental study extended these results by showing similar effects for actual behavior and pro-environmental attitudes. A final experiment extended the other studies by showing similar effects on political conservativism, particularly when global warming was seen as having only a minor impact. These studies suggest that shifting the emphasis from collective for past harm to collective guilt for future harm has important implications for research on collective emotions and pro-environmental behavior.
Adaptive body weight support controls human activity during robot-aided gait training

Current clinical practice of robot-aided gait training is not as effective as expected. Cooperative control strategies aim at improving the effectiveness of robot-aided training by empowering patients to participate more actively. Our group has recently proposed the concept of bio-cooperative control, which explicitely considers the role of the human in the loop, as an extension of these strategies. A supervising controller adapts the cooperative control loops in a way that guarantees appropriate stimuli and prevents undue stress or harm for the patients. In this paper, we implement this concept with an adaptive body weight support algorithm. The algorithm was evaluated with the Lokomat gait rehabilitation robot and the Lokolift body weight support system. Experiments showed that human activity was successfully controlled during Lokomat walking. The desired level of activity was effectively limited when subjects simulated weakness in load bearing. The proposed algorithm may help to train patients with neurological gait impairments in a more engaging and, thus, hopefully more effective way.
Photo2clipart

We present a method to create vector cliparts from photographs. Our approach aims at reproducing two key properties of cliparts: they should be easily editable, and they should represent image content in a clean, simplified way. We observe that vector artists satisfy both of these properties by modeling cliparts with linear color gradients, which have a small number of parameters and approximate well smooth color variations. In addition, skilled artists produce intricate yet editable artworks by stacking multiple gradients using opaque and semi-transparent layers. Motivated by these observations, our goal is to decompose a bitmap photograph into a stack of layers, each layer containing a vector path filled with a linear color gradient. We cast this problem as an optimization that jointly assigns each pixel to one or more layer and finds the gradient parameters of each layer that best reproduce the input. Since a trivial solution would consist in assigning each pixel to a different, opaque layer, we complement our objective with a simplicity term that favors decompositions made of few, semi-transparent layers. However, this formulation results in a complex combinatorial problem combining discrete unknowns (the pixel assignments) and continuous unknowns (the layer parameters). We propose a Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm that efficiently explores this solution space by leveraging layering cues at image junctions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by reverse-engineering existing cliparts and by creating original cliparts from studio photographs.