Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Observers' decision moment in deception detection experiments: Its impact on judgment, accuracy, and confidence

Research into the nonverbal detection of deception has typically been conducted by asking observers to judge whether a number of videotaped statements are truthful or deceptive. In most cases, the behavioural segments used in this research have been very short. A typical result is that observers tend to judge the statements as truthful (truth bias). In the present experiment, observers watched a series of video clips showing senders answering three questions about an event that they had witnessed. Observers had to indicate whether each sender's statement was truthful or deceptive, their judgmental confidence, and when they had made their decision about the sender's credibility: during his or her first, second, or third answer. Competing predictions were made about the influence of the decision moment on the observers' judgments and accuracy. The results replicated most research findings reported in the US and North‐European literature, including the truth bias phenomenon. However, the proportion of judgme.
Association of CHRDL1 Mutations and Variants with X-linked Megalocornea, Neuhäuser Syndrome and Central Corneal Thickness

We describe novel CHRDL1 mutations in ten families with X-linked megalocornea (MGC1). Our mutation-positive cohort enabled us to establish ultrasonography as a reliable clinical diagnostic tool to distinguish between MGC1 and primary congenital glaucoma (PCG). Megalocornea is also a feature of Neuhäuser or megalocornea-mental retardation (MMR) syndrome, a rare condition of unknown etiology. In a male patient diagnosed with MMR, we performed targeted and whole exome sequencing (WES) and identified a novel missense mutation in CHRDL1 that accounts for his MGC1 phenotype but not his non-ocular features. This finding suggests that MMR syndrome, in some cases, may be di- or multigenic. MGC1 patients have reduced central corneal thickness (CCT); however no X-linked loci have been associated with CCT, possibly because the majority of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) overlook the X-chromosome. We therefore explored whether variants on the X-chromosome are associated with CCT. We found rs149956316, in intron 6 of CHRDL1, to be the most significantly associated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (p = 6.81×10−6) on the X-chromosome. However, this association was not replicated in a smaller subset of whole genome sequenced samples. This study highlights the importance of including X-chromosome SNP data in GWAS to identify potential loci associated with quantitative traits or disease risk.
Survivability of Network Information System: An Overview

Society has become so dependent on information systems that provide the information underpinnings for critical infrastructure applications. With the development of network technology, these systems continue to emerge and grow, and have become unbounded networked systems that are highly distributed. But traditional security technology is not sufficient to deal with the protection and survivability of highly distributed information systems operating in unbounded networks ¿Survivability research is the key to resolve the problem. This paper organizes and summarizes the current literatures and presents an overview of survivability research by discussing the definition, the various techniques and the estimate models of survivability, and finally, presents a conclusion and future work.
A Closed-Form Solution to Asymmetric Motion Profile Allowing Acceleration Manipulation

In this paper, we propose a new complete closed-form formula for asymmetric motion profiles of long, medium, and short distances, which enables easy manipulation of jerks in arrival time for effectively reducing the acceleration and thus the overshoot. The design parameter named jerk ratio is newly introduced to scale down the jerks during the deceleration period so that the velocity profile is in an asymmetric S-curve. Owing to the jerk ratio, the motion formulas are remarkably simplified in analytic forms for short, medium, and long distances. The effectiveness of the proposed approach will be illustrated with the sledge movement control in an optical data storage system by experiments.
Social Relations and Innovation in the Medical Profession: The Epidemiology of a New Drug

A study of drug adoptions by physicians allowed the introduction of sociometric techniques into a field survey of decision-making. Pharmacists' files made available a precise record of the decisions made. This pilot study confirms the role played by face-to-face contacts in mediating influences from the outside world in a case of decision-making among professional experts. Several amendments to the hypothesis of the two-step flow of communications became necessary. Herbert Menzel is a research associate at the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University. Elihu Katz, formerly of the Bureau, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
The ‘governance debate’ and the study of sport policy

The ‘governance debate’ is one of the most influential intellectual conceptualisations of recent changes in British politics and policy in the fields of public administration and political science. This paper has two purposes: first, it introduces sport policy scholars and students to the contours of the ‘governance debate’ and how it has developed through the first-wave ‘governance narrative’ to the interpretivist-inspired ‘decentred approach’ which has taken the disciplines of political science and public administration in new, innovative directions. The second purpose of the paper is to critically assess the ‘decentred approach’ and offer a modified version that can be applied to the study of sport policy. The final section introduces part of an empirical study on County Sport Partnerships undertaken using a modified version of the ‘decentred approach’ to governance.
Gene cloning of an efficiency oleate hydratase from Stenotrophomonas nitritireducens for polyunsaturated fatty acids and its application in the conversion of plant oils to 10‐hydroxy fatty acids

Hydroxy fatty acids are used as precursors of lactones and dicarboxylic acids, as starting materials of polymers, and as additives in coatings and paintings. Stenotrophomonas nitritireducens efficiently converts cis‐9 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) to 10‐hydroxy fatty acids. However, gene encoding enzyme involved in this conversion has not been identified to date. We purified a putative fatty acid double‐bond hydratase from S. nitritireducens by ultrafiltration and HiPrep DEAE FF and Resource Q ion exchange chromatographies. Peptide sequences of the purified enzyme were obtained by liquid chromatography‐mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC‐MS/MS) analysis. Sequence of the partial gene encoding this putative fatty acid double‐bond hydratase was determined by degenerate polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based on the peptide sequences. The remaining gene sequence was identified by rapid amplification of cDNA ends using cDNA of S. nitritireducens as a template, and the full‐length gene was cloned subsequently. The expressed enzyme was identified as an oleate hydratase by determining its kinetic parameters toward unsaturated fatty acids. S. nitritireducens oleate hydratase showed higher activity toward PUFAs compared with other available oleate hydratases. This suggested that the enzyme could be used effectively to convert plant oils to 10‐hydroxy fatty acids because these oils contained unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid (OA) and linoleic acid (LA) and PUFAs such as α‐linolenic acid and/or γ‐linolenic acid. The enzyme converted soybean oil and perilla seed oil hydrolyzates containing 10 mM total unsaturated fatty acids, including OA, LA, and ALA, to 8.87 and 8.70 mM total 10‐hydroxy fatty acids, respectively, in 240 min. To our knowledge, this is the first study on the biotechnological conversion of PUFA‐containing oils to hydroxy fatty acids. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2017;114: 74–82. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
The instructable Agent Lokutor

In this paper we describe Lokutor, a virtual human. Lokutor is a partially autonomous agent, inhabiting a 3D virtual environment. The agent can be controlled via natural language directives of the user and by direct manipulation using a graphical user interface. Its control system consists of a behavior-based reactive layer, a deliberative control layer and a motivational subsystem. Lokutor’s domain knowledge, its behavior modules and its communicative behavior is encoded in an integrated multimodal format, which has been implemented using XML. Currently Lokutor is used to present information about a car.
Catecholamines Are Required for the Acquisition of Secretory Responsiveness by Sweat Glands

The sympathetic innervation of sweat glands undergoes a developmental change in transmitter phenotype from catecholaminergic to cholinergic. Acetylcholine elicits sweating and is necessary for development and maintenance of secretory responsiveness, the ability of glands to produce sweat after nerve stimulation or agonist administration. To determine whether catecholamines play a role in the development or function of this system, we examined the onset of secretory responsiveness in two transgenic mouse lines, one albino and the other pigmented, that lack tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the rate-limiting enzyme in catecholamine synthesis. Although both lines lack TH, their catecholamine levels differ because tyrosinase in pigmented mice serves as an alternative source for catecholamine synthesis (Rios et al., 1999). At postnatal day 21 (P21), 28 glands on average are active in interdigital hind footpads of albino TH wild-type mice. In contrast, fewer than one gland is active in albino TH null mice, which lack catecholamines in gland innervation. Treatment of albino TH null mice with DOPA, a catecholamine precursor, from P11 to P21 increases the number of active glands to 14. Pigmented TH null mice, which have faint catecholamine fluorescence in the developing gland innervation, possess 12 active glands at P21, indicating that catecholamines made via tyrosinase, albeit reduced from wild-type levels, support development of responsiveness. Gland formation and the appearance of cholinergic markers occur normally in albino TH null mice, suggesting that catecholamines act directly on gland cells to trigger their final differentiation and to induce responsiveness. Thus, catecholamines, like acetylcholine, are essential for the development of secretory responsiveness.
combAlign: A protein sequence comparison algorithm considering recombinations

The basic linear treatment of sequence comparisons limits the ability of contemporary sequence alignment algorithms to detect non-order-conserving recombinations. Here, we introduce the algorithm combAlign which addresses the assessment of pairwise sequence similarity on non-order-conserving recombinations on a large scale. Emphasizing a two-level approach, combAlign first detects locally well conserved subsequences in a target and a source sequence. Subsequently, the relative placement of alignments is mapped to a graph. Concatenating local alignments to reassemble the target sequence to the fullest extent, the maximum scoring path through the graph denotes the best attainable combAlignment. Parameters influencing this process can be set to meet the user's specific demands. combAlign is applied to examples demonstrating the possibility to reflect evolutionary kinship of proteins even if their domains and motifs are strongly rearranged.
Reliability-based updating strategies of cyber infrastructures

Cyber security is one critical issue for Internet protocol (IP)-based cyber-physical systems. To protect physical systems from possible malicious intrusions, cyber infrastructures, e.g., firewalls, are installed in systems. However, with more intelligent cyberattacks, existing firewalls may not be advanced enough to protect these intelligent cyberattacks, which increase the probability of outages and reduce system reliability levels. In this case, cyber infrastructures should be updated to deal with more intelligent cyberattacks. This paper proposes a probabilistic method for making decisions about updating strategies of cyber infrastructures. Considering stochastic characteristics of cyberattacks, a reliability-based cost-effective updating model for cyber infrastructures is formulated. The optimal updating strategy balances the system reliability and the cost caused by updating cyber infrastructures. The proposed method is illustrated on the IEEE 30-bus system, and the results show the feasibility for informing updating cyber infrastructures.
The Central Gas Systems of Early-Type Galaxies Traced by Dust Features, Based on the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 Archival Images

We investigated the central gas systems of E/S0 galaxies by making use of the WFPC2 images in the Hubble Space Telescope archive. We searched for gas systems that were traced by the dust with a new method of making color excess images in F555W-F814W (V-I). Of 25 sample galaxies, we detected gas systems in 14 galaxies. The dust was newly detected in two galaxies that were thought to contain no dust based on single-band, prerefurbishment data. The full extents of the gas systems are 0.1–3.5 kpc, and the masses of the gas, log Mgas [M⊙], are 4.2–7.2. The active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity is well correlated with the existence of the gas systems. None of galaxies without the gas systems show AGN activity. On the other hand, some galaxies with gas systems show AGN activity; optical AGN activities are shown in five of 11 galaxies in which AGNs are optically studied, and radio activities are shown in six of 14 galaxies. This shows that the AGN activity is driven with the gas system.
Mining multi-cross-level fuzzy weighted association rules

This paper proposes a novel approach for mining fuzzy weighted multi-cross-level association rules by simply integrating the advantages of several concepts, including fuzziness, cross-level mining, weighted mining and linguistic terms for minimum support, minimum confidence and item importance. Experimental results conducted on a synthetic database demonstrate the importance, effectiveness and applicability of the proposed approach.
Culture's Impact on the Importance of Fairness in Interorganizational Relationships

Research on interorganizational relationships is predicated on the idea that fairness is always important. The authors question this assumption because most fairness research has been conducted in Western countries, and mixed empirical support draws into question how important fairness actually is. Drawing on Hofstede's cultural dimensions framework, the authors examine culture as an antecedent to the importance of outcome fairness (OF) and procedural fairness (PF) in retailers’ assessments of their relationships with suppliers. The authors also propose that cultural exposure moderates the impact of culture on fairness importance. Using responses from retailers in ten countries analyzed with hierarchical linear modeling, the authors find that uncertainty avoidance enhances the importance of OF and PF, power distance marginally decreases the importance of PF, and long-term orientation increases the importance of both OF and PF. Cultural exposure also positively moderates the impact of uncertainty avoidance and masculinity on both fairness types. The pattern of effects is robust when compared with two alternative models. This study offers a first step in understanding culture's impact on when fairness is more or less important.
Tetrakis(μ-2-phenylquinoline-4-carboxylato-κ2 O:O′)bis[(methanol-κO)copper(II)]

The title complex, [Cu2(C16H10NO2)4(CH3OH)2], consists of centrosymmetric wheel-shaped dinuclear neutral molecules in which each CuII atom is coordinated in a slightly distorted square-pyramidal geometry by four O atoms of carboxylate groups from different ligands at the basal plane and an O atom of a methanol molecule at the axial position. In the crystal, the dinuclear complex molecules are linked into one-dimensional supramolecular columns parallel to the b axis by O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds and π–π stacking interactions [centroid–centroid distance = 3.7259 (11) Å].
Teaching Bayes to Graduate Students in Political Science, Sociology, Public Health, Education, Economics, …

I was trying to draw Bert and Ernie the other day, and it was really difficult. I had pictures of them right next to me, but my drawings were just incredibly crude, more "linguistic" than "vi sual" in the sense that I was portraying key aspects of Bert and Ernie but in pictures that didn't look anything like them. I know that drawing is difficult? every once in awhile, I sit for an hour to draw a scene, and it's always a lot of work to get it to look anything like what I'm seeing? but I didn't realize it would be so hard to draw cartoon characters] This got me to thinking about the students in my statistics classes. When I ask them to sketch a scatterplot of data, or to plot some function, they can never draw a realistic-looking pic ture. Their density functions don't go to zero in the tails, the scatter in their scatterplots does not match their standard devia tions, E(y\x) does not equal their regression line, and so forth. For example, when asked to draw a potential scatterplot of earn ings versus height, they have difficulty with the x-axis (most people are between 60 and 75 inches in height) and having the data consistent with the regression line, while having all earn ings be nonnegative. (Yes, it's better to model on the log scale or whatever, but that's not the point of this exercise.) Anyway, the students just can't make these graphs look right, which has always frustrated me. But my Bert and Ernie expe rience suggests that I'm thinking of it the wrong way. Maybe they need lots and lots of practice before they can draw realistic functions and scatterplots. They'll certainly need lots of practice to learn Bayesian methods.
Decreased Expression of Alpha-L-Fucosidase Gene FUCA1 in Human Colorectal Tumors

In previous studies we described a decreased alpha-l-fucosidase activity in colorectal tumors, appearing as a prognostic factor of tumoral recurrence. The aim of this work was to extend the knowledge about tissue alpha-l-fucosidase in colorectal cancer by quantifying the expression of its encoding gene FUCA1 in tumors and healthy mucosa. FUCA1 mRNA levels were measured by RT-qPCR in paired tumor and normal mucosa tissues from 31 patients. For the accuracy of the RT-qPCR results, five candidate reference genes were validated in those samples. In addition, activity and expression of alpha-l-fucosidase in selected matched tumor and healthy mucosa samples were analyzed. According to geNorm and NormFinder algorithms, RPLP0 and HPRT1 were the best reference genes in colorectal tissues. These genes were used for normalization of FUCA1 expression levels. A significant decrease of more than 60% in normalized FUCA1 expression was detected in tumors compared to normal mucosa (p = 0.002). Moreover, a gradual decrease in FUCA1 expression was observed with progression of disease from earlier to advanced stages. These findings were confirmed by Western blot analysis of alpha-l-fucosidase expression. Our results demonstrated diminished FUCA1 mRNA levels in tumors, suggesting that expression of tissue alpha-l-fucosidase could be regulated at transcriptional level in colorectal cancer.
Individual strategy preferences and decisional fit

The present research introduces the concept of decisional fit. A decision maker experiences decisional fit when the individually preferred decision strategy fits the actually applied strategy. In accordance to other fit-concepts in psychology (e.g., person-environment fit), we expected positive effects of decisional fit. Five studies examine the effects of a fit between the individual preference for intuition and deliberation (PID) and the actually used decision strategy (intuition or deliberation). A comparison of extreme types (according to participants' values on the PID scale) revealed that decisional fit enhances the perceived value of the chosen or evaluated object (Studies 1-3). In Studies 4 and 5, participants experienced less regret after decisional fit. The findings highlight the importance of considering individual differences when comparing intuitive and deliberate decision making, because strategy preferences interact with applied strategies.
Alcohol consumption and risk of lymphoid and myeloid neoplasms: Results of the Netherlands cohort study

Results from epidemiological studies suggest that alcohol drinkers have a decreased risk of lymphoid neoplasms, whereas results for myeloid neoplasms are inconsistent. However, most of these studies have used retrospective data. We examined prospectively whether alcohol consumption decreases the risk of both lymphoid and myeloid neoplasms, including most common subtypes. Moreover, we investigated whether this decreased risk is due to ethanol or other contents of specific alcoholic beverages (i.e., beer, wine and liquor). The Netherlands cohort study consisted of 120,852 individuals who completed a baseline questionnaire in 1986. After 17.3 years of follow‐up, 1,375 cases of lymphoid and 245 cases of myeloid neoplasms with complete exposure information were available for analysis. Compared with abstinence, we observed for plasma cell neoplasms hazard rate ratios (HR) of 1.66 (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.21–2.29), 1.63 (95% CI, 1.17–2.27), 1.11 (95% CI, 0.75–1.64) and 0.85 (95% CI, 0.51–1.42) with daily ethanol consumption of 0.1–<5, 5–<15, 15–<30 and ≥30 g, respectively. A similar pattern was observed for chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma. No associations were observed for other subtypes and for myeloid neoplasms. When results were analyzed by beverage type, no clear associations were observed. In conclusion, our study did not show an inverse association between alcohol consumption and lymphoid neoplasms. Also, no inverse association was observed with myeloid neoplasms. If any association between alcohol consumption and lymphoid neoplasms exists, our study suggests an increased risk rather than a decreased risk.
Coupling Implicit and Explicit Knowledge for Customer Volume Prediction

Customer volume prediction, which predicts the volume from a customer source to a service place, is a very important technique for location selection, market investigation, and other related applications. Most of traditional methods only make use of partial information for either supervised or unsupervised modeling, which cannot well integrate overall available knowledge. In this paper, we propose a method titled GR-NMF for jointly modeling both implicit correlations hidden inside customer volumes and explicit geographical knowledge via an integrated probabilistic framework. The effectiveness of GR-NMF in coupling all-round knowledge is verified over a real-life outpatient dataset under different scenarios. GR-NMF shows particularly evident advantages to all baselines in location selection with the cold-start challenge.
The Post-School Outcomes Transition Survey

This study investigated the validity of the Post-School Outcomes Transition Survey (PSOTS). The PSOTS was designed to ascertain whether individuals who received special education services in secondary school have obtained postschool employment or have enrolled in postsecondary education or training within 1 to 2 years of exiting high school. The PSOTS also attempts to obtain continuous scores for transition program services provided to students while they were enrolled in secondary school. Two representative data sets of PSOTS respondents (Year 2004, n = 539, and Year 2005, n = 415) were employed to validate the PSOTS via exploratory factor analysis. A total of 16 salient factors were supported, 8 of which were regarded as postschool outcome dimensions with 8 construed as in-school program dimensions. Because the factors represent robust, continuous measures of transition constructs, they can be used to link transition practices to postschool outcomes through experimental research as suggested by Test, Fowler, et al.