Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Do we react in the same manner?: comparing GSR patterns across scenarios

Is the physiological response from participants different between a lab experiment and a field study? In this paper, we exhaustively compare the GSR (galvanic skin response) patterns between two different scenarios. The first one was conducted in a theatre during a performance, while the second one in a laboratory during a video watching session. Questionnaires, interviews, and video recordings helped us to interpret sensor patterns, and to map them to user engagement. When comparing the GSR responses, we found a strong positive correlation between all engaged users of the two scenarios. Interestingly, such correlation was not present between the responses of non-engaged users. These results show the homogeneity of positive responses across scenarios, when compared to the variability of negative ones. The results corroborate as well that sensor data results obtained in lab studies cannot be easily generalized to real-world situations.
Critical studies in accounting research, rationality and Habermas : a methodological reflection

Abstract This paper explores the methodological approaches to accounting research and practice and what has been termed the ‘‘critical accounting movement’’. The paper commences with a survey of the literature and then looks at the debates over the concept ofrationalityin critical accounting research. In particular, attention is drawn to an account of socio-theoretical rationality which investigates the impact of accounting theory on economic and social life: an apprehension of this socio-theoretical rationality is enhanced through adopting the critical thoughts of Jurgen Habermas. On the one hand, this paper can be seen as acritiqueof the extant works carried out by accounting researchers. On the other, it revisits the Habermasian framework to enhance further understanding of its methodological positions. Unlike previous accounting researchers, it is argued that the consideration of the notion of Habermasianemancipatory interest(only) can be considered a potential advancement in making sense of researching accounting as an interested social and institutional practice.
Revisiting Content-Based Publish/Subscribe

Publish-subscribe is a powerful paradigm for distributed communication based on decoupled producers and consumers of information. Its event-driven nature makes it very appealing for large-scale data dissemination infrastructures. Various architectures were proposed in recent years that provide very diverse features. However, there are few well-defined metrics in the publish-subscribe area that would allow their evaluation and comparison. In this paper, we provide a broad overview of relevant quality-of-service metrics and describe their specific meaning in the context of distributed and decentralized publish-subscribe systems. Our goal is to provide a common base for future evaluations of emerging systems and for the design of qualityof- service aware publish-subscribe infrastructures.
A Novel MC-DTC Method For Induction Motor Based on Fuzzy-neural network Space Vector Modulation

To improve the low speed performance of the direct torque control(DTC) system. The advantages of DTC method are combined with the advantages of the matrix converter based on space vector modulation technique. The design process of the neural network controller which generating the flux reference voltage vector and fuzzy controller which applying the torque reference voltage vector were represented. This proposed novel method provides a precious input power factor control capability beside the high control performances. Furthermore, Conventional principles of DTC and space vector modulation(SVM) of matrix converter(MC) were described. The combination of the two was given in detail. Finally, the simulation and experiment research were carried out to identify the new method effectiveness. The results of induction motor control at both steady state and transient state are shown to improve the low-speed performance and strong adaptabiIity of novel control strategy
Alternative hypotheses linking the immune system and mate choice for good genes

Why do males often have extravagant morphological and behavioural traits, and why do females prefer to mate with such males? The answers have been the focus of considerable debate since Darwin's The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex appeared in 1871. Recently the broadening of investigation to include fields outside evolutionary biology has shed new light on mate choice and sexual selection. Here, we focus on a specific set of hypotheses relating the biology of resisting disease–causing organisms with the production of condition–dependent sexual signals (advertisements). We present a framework that distinguishes three different hypotheses about trade–offs within the immune system that affect general condition. Hamilton and Zuk's original hypothesis suggests that hosts fight off disease through resistance to particular pathogens, which consequently lowers resistance to other pathogens. Changes in pathogens over evolutionary time in turn favours changes in which genes confer the best resistance. Alternatively, the immunocompetence hypotheses suggests that the energetic costs of mounting a response to any pathogen compete for resources with other things, such as producing or maintaining advertisements. Finally, improving resistance to pathogens could increase the negative impacts of the immune system on the host, via immunopathologies such as allergies or autoimmune diseases. If both disease and immunopathology affect condition, then sexual advertisements could signal a balance between the two. Studies of hypothesized links between genes, condition, the immune system and advertisements likely will require careful consideration of which hypothesis is being considered, and may necessitate different measures of immune system responses and different experimental protocols.
A Dynamic Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Kahn Process Networks in a Cluster Environment

In this paper, a novel dynamic task scheduling algorithm is proposed for parallel applications modeled in Kahn process networks (KPN) running in a distributed multi-processor cluster. Static job scheduling algorithms do not work for the purpose for that the complexity of a KPN model remains unpredictable at compile time. Dynamic load balancing strategies ignore the explicit data dependences among tasks and may lead to inappropriate process migrations. The algorithm presented in this paper is based on the sequence of dynamic recorded events of each task at runtime. It then predicts the execution efficiency of a KPN model in various scheduling (task-processor assignments) through the estimation of average resource utilization rate. Simulations have shown satisfying results.
Multi-scale fuzzy modeling of nonlinear dynamical systems

Multi-scale fuzzy modeling of multivariable discrete-time nonlinear dynamical systems is approached analytically in this paper. The underlying idea of this approach is to introduce the idea of multi-scale fuzzy quantization. More globally supported membership functions are used at coarser scales to capture global characteristics of the unknown system, whereas more locally supported membership functions are used at finer scales to fill in the local features. Starting from the coarsest scale down to finer ones, a projection method is used to extract a partial fuzzy-model (in terms of fuzzy membership functions and fuzzy rules) from the residual of the system at each scale until the residual drops below a prescribed modeling error bound. The multi-scale fuzzy model is then obtained by assembling the partial fuzzy models together. To reach a near optimal fuzzy model, a rule reduction technique has also been developed to delete some fuzzy rules. An illustrative example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the scheme.
Challenging the status quo : What motivates proactive behaviour?

To replicate and extend previous research regarding antecedents of proactive behaviour at work, we examined four forms of work motivation (job self-efficacy, role breadth self-efficacy, intrinsic work motivation and role orientation) in a sample of 98 employees in software development using co-worker rated proactive behaviour as an outcome. Correlations indicate that whereas intrinsic motivation and job self-efficacy were not related to co-worker rated proactive behaviour, role orientation and role breadth self-efficacy showed significant relationships. This study stresses the importance of role breadth self-efficacy in enhancing proactive behaviour at work.
Effects of Dextroamphetamine on Cognitive Performance and Cortical Activation

Monoaminergic neurotransmitters are known to have modulatory effects on cognition and on neurophysiological function in the cortex. The current study was performed with BOLD fMRI to examine physiological correlates of the effects of dextroamphetamine on working-memory performance in healthy controls. In a group analysis dextroamphetamine increased BOLD signal in the right prefrontal cortex during a task with increasing working-memory load that approached working-memory capacity. However, the effect of dextroamphetamine on performance and on signal change varied across individuals. Dextroamphetamine improved performance only in those subjects who had relatively low working-memory capacity at baseline, whereas in the subjects who had high working-memory capacity at baseline, it worsened performance. In subjects whose performance deteriorated, signal change was greater than that in subjects who had an improvement in performance, and these variations were correlated (Spearman rho = 0.89, P<0.02). These data shed light on the manner in which monoaminergic tone, working memory, and prefrontal function interact and, moreover, demonstrate that even in normal subjects the behavioral and neurophysiologic effects of dextroamphetamine are not homogeneous. These heterogeneic effects of dextroamphetamine may be explained by genetic variations that interact with the effects of dextroamphetamine.
A whole correlation structure of asymptotically self-similar traffic in communication networks

Recent experimental research has revealed that the nature of WWW traffic is self-similarity (M.E. Crovella and A. Bestavros, 1997). That is, the behavior of WWW traffic is well modeled by second-order self-similar processes with long-range dependence. A closed form of autocorrelation functions about asymptotically self-similar processes is presented. The verification shows that this form is best for real traffic data on an Ethernet.
Summary and Conclusion

5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION Worldwide, cancer is a leading cause of death, and 5.3 million men and 4.7 million women have been diagnosed with a malignant tumor in 2000. The numbers were increased to 7.4 million cases in men and around 6.7 million cancers in women in 2012 worldwide. Every year, more than 11 million people are diagnosed with cancer and cause 7 million deaths every year. If recent trends are seen globally in the future, this number is expected to increase 50% by the year 2020, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Pathak and Kathiyar, 2007). Chemotherapy is the standard treatment approach in the clinical management of both localized and metastasized cancers. However, the molecular complexity, dose limiting adverse effects and development of resistance associated with the use of conventional anticancer drugs impede the clinical use and have resulted in the development of alternative therapeutic approach such as targeted drug delivery and synergistic combination of anticancer drugs. Innovative drug delivery system have shown a better approach to guide drugs more precisely to tumor cells and resulted the lowering of drug concentration, reduction in toxicity and in turn improving the drug efficacy.
Spatio-Temporal Modelling of a Cox Point Process Sampled by a Curve, Filtering and Inference

The paper deals with Cox point processes in time and space with Levy based driving intensity. Using the generating functional, formulas for theoretical characteristics are available. Because of potential applications in biology a Cox process sampled by a curve is discussed in detail. The filtering of the driving intensity based on observed point process events is developed in space and time for a parametric model with a background driving compound Poisson field delimited by special test sets. A hierarchical Bayesian model with point process densities yields the posterior. Markov chain Monte Carlo "Metropolis within Gibbs" algorithm enables simultaneous filtering and parameter estimation. Posterior predictive distributions are used for model selection and a numerical example is presented. The new approach to filtering is related to the residual analysis of spatio-temporal point processes.
Multitemporal observations of sugarcane by TerraSAR-X sensor

The potential of TerraSAR-X (X-band) in monitoring sugarcane growth was investigated on Reunion Island. Multi-temporal TerraSAR data acquired at various incidence angles (17°, 31°, 37°, 47°, 58°) and polarizations (HH, HV, VV) were analyzed in order to study the behaviour of SAR (synthetic aperture radar) signal as a function of sugarcane height. The potential of TerraSAR for mapping the sugarcane harvest was also studied. Radar signal increased quickly with crop height until a threshold height, which depended on polarization and incidence angle. Beyond this threshold, the signal increased only slightly, remained constant, or even decreased. TerraSAR data showed that after strong rains the soil contribution for the backscattering of sugarcane fields can be consequent for canes with heights of terminal visible dewlap (htvd) less than 50cm (total cane heights around 155cm). Finally, TerraSAR data at high spatial resolution were shown to be useful for monitoring sugarcane harvest when the fields are of small size or when the cut is spread out in time. The radar incidence of 37° is more suitable to monitor the sugarcane harvest.
Brain "ouabain," ANG II, and sympathoexcitation by chronic central sodium loading in rats.

Both brain ouabain-like activity ("ouabain") and brain angiotensin II (ANG II) contribute to the sympathoexcitatory and pressor responses to high sodium intake in spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and Dahl salt-sensitive (Dahl S) rats. To assess whether increases in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sodium can mimic this pattern of changes, Wistar rats were chronically infused with artificial CSF (aCSF) or sodium-rich aCSF (0.8 or 1.2 M sodium) intracerebroventricularly through osmotic minipumps for 14 days. Sodium-rich aCSF (0.8 M) was also infused intracerebroventricularly for 2 wk concomitantly with either antibody Fab fragments that bind ouabain and related steroids with high affinity, gamma-globulins as control (200 micrograms/day for both), or the AT1 blocker losartan (1 mg.kg-1.day-1). Sodium-rich aCSF increased CSF sodium from 146 +/- 2 to 152 +/- 2 (0.8 M) and 160 +/- 3 (1.2 M) mmol/l, and increased brain "ouabain" in the hypothalamus, pituitary, and pons. In conscious rats, sodium-rich aCSF increased baseline mean arterial pressure (MAP), enhanced MAP, heart rate (HR), and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) responses to intracerebroventricular alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist guanabenz and air stress, and desensitized arterial and cardiopulmonary baroreflex control of HR and RSNA. These effects were largely prevented by intracerebroventricular Fab fragments or losartan. Thus, in Wistar rats, both brain "ouabain" and the brain renin-angiotensin system contribute to sympathoexcitation, impairment of baroreflexes, and hypertension caused by chronically increased CSF sodium. The similar patterns of changes caused by CSF sodium in Wistar rats and by high sodium intake in SHR and Dahl S rats indicate that if high sodium intake increases central sodium, such changes may contribute to sympathoexcitation and hypertension.
Antiviral action of the tumor suppressor ARF Marı́a

Marı́a A Garcı́a, Manuel Collado, César Muñoz-Fontela, Ander Matheu, Laura Marcos-Villar, Javier Arroyo, Mariano Esteban, Manuel Serrano* and Carmen Rivas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologı́a (CNB), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO), 3 Melchor Fernández Almagro, Madrid, Spain and Departamento de Microbiologı́a II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Plaza Ramón y Cajal s/n, Madrid, Spain
IPSep-CoLa: An Incremental Procedure for Separation Constraint Layout of Graphs

We extend the popular force-directed approach to network (or graph) layout to allow separation constraints, which enforce a minimum horizontal or vertical separation between selected pairs of nodes. This simple class of linear constraints is expressive enough to satisfy a wide variety of application-specific layout requirements, including: layout of directed graphs to better show flow; layout with non-overlapping node labels; and layout of graphs with grouped nodes (called clusters). In the stress majorization force-directed layout process, separation constraints can be treated as a quadratic programming problem. We give an incremental algorithm based on gradient projection for efficiently solving this problem. The algorithm is considerably faster than using generic constraint optimization techniques and is comparable in speed to unconstrained stress majorization. We demonstrate the utility of our technique with sample data from a number of practical applications including gene-activation networks, terrorist networks and visualization of high-dimensional data.
“Right Back to Square One Again”: The Experience of Friendship Among Assisted Living Residents

Social integration of older adults residing in assisted living facilities (ALF) is not well understood. The purpose of this study is to describe the experience of friendship among ALF residents. Four focus groups with 13 participants were held. The analysis was completed through directed content analysis. The facilitator themes identified are having early connections, positive attitudes, and shared experiences. The barrier themes identified the transitional nature of the environment and policies regarding the protection of privacy (HIPAA). Creating meaningful activity programs and determining how to disseminate health information within federal guidelines are needed to facilitate more meaningful interactions among residents.
Complete intersection for equivariant models

Phylogenetic varieties related to equivariant substitution models have been studied largely in the last years. One of the main objectives has been finding a set of generators of the ideal of these varieties, but this has not yet been achieved in some cases (for example, for the general Markov model this involves the open "salmon conjecture") and it is not clear how to use all generators in practice. Motivated by applications in biology, we tackle the problem from another point of view. The elements of the ideal that could be useful for applications in phylogenetics only need to describe the variety around certain "points of no evolution". We produce a collection of explicit equations that describe the variety on a Zariski open neighborhood of these points. Namely, for any tree on any number of leaves (and any degrees at the interior nodes) and for any equivariant model on any set of states, we compute the codimension of the corresponding phylogenetic variety. We prove that this variety is smooth at general points of no evolution, and provide an algorithm to produce a complete intersection that describes the variety around these points.
Differentiation of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 in clinical samples by a real‐time taqman PCR assay

While the clinical manifestations of HSV‐1 and ‐2 overlap, the site of CNS infection, complications, response to antivirals, frequency of antiviral resistance, and reactivation rate on mucosal surfaces varies between HSV‐1 and ‐2. Detection of HSV DNA by PCR has been shown to be the most sensitive method for detecting HSV in clinical samples. As such, we developed a PCR‐based assay to accurately distinguish HSV‐1 from HSV‐2. Our initial studies indicated the assay using type specific primers was slightly less efficient for detecting HSV‐1 and ‐2 DNA than the high throughput quantitative PCR assay we utilize that employs type common primers to gB. We subsequently evaluated the type specific assay on 3,131 specimens that had HSV DNA detected in the type common PCR assay. The typing results of these specimens were compared with the monoclonal antibody staining results of culture isolates collected from the same patients at the same time, and the HSV serologic status of the patient. The typing assay accurately identified both HSV‐1 and ‐2 with a specificity of >99.5% and was significantly more sensitive than typing by culture and subsequent monoclonal antibody assays. Complete concordance was seen between the typing assay and HSV serologic status of the patient. Dual (HSV‐1 and ‐2) infection in clinical samples was recognized in 2.6% of clinical samples using the new typing assay. This assay, when used in combination with the type common assay, can now accurately type almost all mucosal and visceral HSV isolates by molecular techniques. J. Med. Virol. 76:350–355, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Influence of cornual insemination on conception in dairy cattle.

The objective of this study was to compare conception to artificial insemination (AI) services in dairy cattle when semen was deposited into the uterine body or into both uterine horns (cornual insemination). Nine herdsman inseminators (HI) in four commercial dairy herds in Washington constituted the experimental units. Herds ranged in size from 393 cows to 964 cows. The duration of the experiment was 12 mo in three herds and 18 mo in the fourth herd. At the beginning of the experiment all inseminators were trained to deposit semen in the body of the uterus. Inseminators were instructed to use this method for 6 mo. Following employment of body deposition, the same inseminators were retrained to deposit one-half of the semen into the right uterine horn and one-half into the left uterine horn. Cornual inseminations were performed for 6 mo. A total of 4,178 services constituted the data set. Milk samples were collected from cows on the day of insemination and later were assayed for progesterone (P4). There was variation (P less than .01) in conception associated with month of insemination and insemination method (P less than .001). The monthly variation was not associated with season of the year. Least squares means for conception when semen was deposited in the uterine body was 44.7%, compared with 64.6% when cornual insemination was employed. The insemination treatment X inseminator interaction was not significant. Results suggest that cornual insemination provides an alternative to deposition of semen in the uterine body.