Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Primary Physical Education

Physical Education is widespread across the world, yet despite its cultural variation it remains remarkably similar. The ability of the subject to replicate its practices makes it a potential site for exploration from a memetic perspective. The purpose of this paper is to examine documentary evidence such as research papers, policy documents and inspection reports, and offer for consideration potential memes that are at work within the memeplex of UK, primary school Physical Education. Four proposals are offered as potential memes: ‘sport as techniques’; ‘anyone can teach it’; ‘busy, happy and good’; and ‘nowhere important’. It is concluded that the current environment in primary schooling within the UK, serves to strengthen the proposed four primary Physical Education memes by reaffirming current practices. Moving beyond these memes requires significant rethinking about what constitutes primary Physical Education.
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Reconstructing snow avalanches in the Southeastern Pyrenees

A regional study of snow avalanche processes was undertaken in the SE Pyrenees. Dendrogeomorphology was used to date and reconstruct large-scale snow avalanche events that occurred in the last four decades. Dendrochronological analyses yielded the dates of nine winters when avalanches occurred in the recent past in six studied avalanche paths. Some of these avalanches were already known, but others had not been documented. In one case, the existing avalanche path map was improved with the dendrogeomorphological information of a larger past event. As a result of the dendrogeomorphological analyses, evidence for three regional-scale major avalanche years was identified in the SE Pyrenees from 1971 to 2004: 1971–1972, 1995–1996 and 2002–2003. The specific synoptic atmospheric situations and the most likely nivometeorological and snowpack conditions that released these major avalanches were determined using weather data for the seasons of major avalanche releases. In 1971–1972 the snow avalanche episode was characterized by a deep trough crossing the Pyrenees. In 1995– 1996 a variety of meteorological situations produced several episodes of major avalanches. In 2002–2003 the more significant of two episodes was attributed to a north advection pumping an arctic air mass over the Pyrenees. The 1995– 1996 avalanche season proved to be the most notable in the four past decades in the Pyrenees.
Analytical Magnetic Field Analysis and Prediction of Cogging Force and Torque of a Linear and Rotary Permanent Magnet Actuator

This paper presents a method for analytically analyzing the magnetic field and predicting the cogging force and torque of a linear and rotary permanent magnet actuator (LRPMA). The tubular mover of the LRPMA is transferred into a planar one by using a proposed magnetic field curvature factor and a relative permeance function for the stator slotting so as to simplify the magnetic field calculation. Magnetic field distributions of the LRPMA when the stator slotting is neglected are analytically analyzed using the magnetic scalar potential, and validated by 3-D finite-element method. The linear cogging force and rotary cogging torque of slotted LRPMA are subsequently predicted by the Maxwell stress tensor method and verified by the experimental results on the prototype.
Defending public interests in private lands: compliance, costs and potential environmental consequences of the Brazilian Forest Code in Mato Grosso

Land-use regulations are a critical component of forest governance and conservation strategies, but their effectiveness in shaping landholder behaviour is poorly understood. We conducted a spatial and temporal analysis of the Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) to understand the patterns of regulatory compliance over time and across changes in the policy, and the implications of these compliance patterns for the perceived costs to landholders and environmental performance of agricultural landscapes in the southern Amazon state of Mato Grosso. Landholdings tended to remain in compliance or not according to their status at the beginning of the study period. The perceived economic burden of BFC compliance on soya bean and beef producers (US$3–5.6 billion in net present value of the land) may in part explain the massive, successful campaign launched by the farm lobby to change the BFC. The ecological benefits of compliance (e.g. greater connectivity and carbon) with the BFC are diffuse and do not compete effectively with the economic benefits of non-compliance that are perceived by landholders. Volatile regulation of land-use decisions that affect billions in economic rent that could be captured is an inadequate forest governance instrument; effectiveness of such regulations may increase when implemented in tandem with positive incentives for forest conservation.
Different organization of the tRNA-gene-associated repetitive element, DRE, in NC4-derived strains and in other wild-type Dictyostelium discoideum strains.

The retrotransposon DRE (Dictyostelium repetitive element) was discovered in the course of an extensive study concerning the genomic organization of tRNA genes in the NC4-derived strains AX2 and AX3 of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. As a striking feature, DRE was found exclusively in a constant orientation and at a constant distance upstream from different tRNA genes. About 150-200 DRE with intact 5'-terminal-repeat structures are present in NC4-derived strains. These strains were termed high-copy DRE strains (HCD strains) as opposed to low-copy DRE strains (LCD strains) such as the wild-type D. discoideum isolates DD61, WS380B, OHIO and V12. LCD strains contain only 3-15 DRE with intact 5'-terminal-repeat-structures. However, in addition to these few intact elements, many 5'-truncated DRE elements are present in LCD strains. In HCD strains, most DRE show typical structural characteristics of retrotransposons containing terminal repeats at both ends, which seems to be one prerequisite for active transposition. In LCD strains, however, most DRE elements are 5'-truncated, which is a common feature of eukaryotic LINE elements. Despite their truncated 5'-ends, DRE in LCD strains retain unique integration specificities, i.e. they are always found position-specifically and orientation-specifically integrated in front of tRNA genes, flanked by a 12-16-bp target-site duplication.
Broadcast Protocol Guaranteeing Causal Delivery Order Consistency Condition for Social Networks

The social networks are based on sensor networks by mobile phones where social applications, such as real-time collaborative video watching applications, work out well, sensing their events collaboratively and socially. Recently, these networks use a contentbased distributed P/S (publish/subscribe) infrastructure that acts as a scalable group communication backbone. P/S based gossip protocols is elastically to scale in and out and provides suitable consistency guarantees for data safety and high availability but, does not deal with end-to-end message delay and message order-based consistency, which are addressed in real-time collaborative applications. Especially in broadcasting in real-time collaboration applications, it is possible for the messages to take different time and arrive at end users in different order. So, these applications should be based on P/S infrastructure including dealing with message timeliness and message ordering consistencies. Gossip communication is becoming one of the promising solutions for addressing P/S scalability problems in providing information propagation functionality by exploiting a mixture of diverse consistency options. In this paper, we present deadline-constraints causal order protocol respecting Δ(lifetime) based on P/S architecture for broadcasting in real-time collaborative applications in social networks to guarantee causally ordered messages delivery from brokers to subscribers. In the proposed protocol, every broker manages a 2dimensional vector, representing its knowledge of the last message sent by each broker at time t. But, every broker disseminates a broadcast message only with one scalar variable, the time-stamped information that represents the maximum gossip round and is the deadline (lifetime) of the immediate message of it, to subscribers because all messages disseminated by brokers have the same lifetime as the maximum number of gossip rounds. Therefore, the proposed protocol implemented for P/S based on gossip protocols results in very low communication overhead from brokers to subscribers in the context of broadcast respecting Δ.
Masculinity strategies of young queer men as queer capital

This article explores how 11 gay and bisexual young men in Iceland, whom we interviewed, have adopted different strategies to deal with the reality of Icelandic masculinity manifestations in the early 2010s. Bourdieuean views of explaining their ideas as social strategies were utilized to interpret how they had adopted behaviors, looks, and ideas in tact with, or contrary to, the hegemonic, heteromasculine views of how men are supposed to act, look, and think in contemporary Icelandic society. In Bourdieu's view, social strategies can create cultural or social capital. In this case, we discuss how the behaviors, looks, and ideas of these young men seem to constitute a certain type of such capital, that is, queer capital, which helped them to utilize being gay or bisexual to gain social status within the otherwise heterosexually hegemonic field of masculinity.
Extracting Features for Cardiovascular Disease Classification Based on Ballistocardiography

Cardiovascular disease affects the health of people seriously in the world, especially in the elderly. This paper proposes an effective approach of detecting and analyzing the health status of the elderly. In this work, we continuously acquire Ballisto cardiography (BCG) signal with the micro-movement sensitive mattress (MSM) during non-intrusive sleep in home environment. In the paper, we propose a new method to extract heartbeat intervals (RR) based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD), and extract the signal features by calculating the parameters of heart rate variability (HRV) from time domain analysis, frequency domain analysis and nonlinear analysis. A Naïve Bayesian Classification method is applied to classify the normal persons, hypertension patients and coronary heart disease (CHD) patients by using the obtained features. The proposed method is evaluated by using the BCG datasets from eighteen subjects, including eight females and ten males (age 40-72). The results are satisfactory and can provide a classification precision of 92.3%.
Cutoff Values of Surrogate Measures of Insulin Resistance for Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Non-diabetic Adults

We investigated the cutoff values of surrogate of insulin resistance for diagnosing metabolic syndrome in Korean adults. The data from 976 non-diabetic individuals (484 men and 492 women) aged 30-79 yr were analyzed. We determined the odds ratios for the prevalence of metabolic syndrome according to the quartiles of fasting insulin, homeostasis model for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), and quantitative insulin sensitivity check index (QUICKI) as independent variables, while adjusting for age, sex, and body mass index. The cutoff values of fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and QUICKI were estimated by the areas under the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves. The cutoff points for defining insulin resistance are a fasting insulin level of 12.94 µU/mL, HOMA-IR=3.04 as the 75th percentile value, and QUICKI=0.32 as the 25th percentile value. Compared with the lowest quartile, the adjusted odds ratios for the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the highest quartiles of fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and QUICKI were 1.95 (1.26-3.01), 2.27 (1.45-3.56), and 2.27 (1.45-3.56), respectively. The respective cutoff values for fasting serum insulin, HOMA-IR, and QUICKI by ROC analysis were 10.57 µU/mL (sensitivity 58.5%, specificity 66.8%), 2.34 (sensitivity 62.8%, specificity 65.7%), and 0.33 (sensitivity 61.2%, specificity 66.8%). Fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and QUICKI can be used as surrogate measures of insulin resistance in Korean non-diabetic adults.
Social Preferences and Supply Chain Performance: An Experimental Study

Supply chain contracting literature has traditionally focused on aligning incentives for economically rational players. Recent work has hypothesized that social preferences, as distinct from economic incentives, may influence behavior in supply chain transactions. Social preferences refer to intrinsic concerns for the other party's welfare, reciprocating a history of a positive relationship, and intrinsic desires for a higher relative payoff compared with the other party's when status is salient. This article provides experimental evidence that social preferences systematically affect economic decision making in supply chain transactions. Specifically, supply chain parties deviate from the predictions provided by self-interested profit-maximization models, such that relationship preference promotes cooperation, individual performance, and high system efficiency, sustainable over time; whereas status preference induces tough actions and reduces both system efficiency and individual performance.
Dynamic Chromatin Boundaries Delineate a Latency Control Region of Epstein-Barr Virus

ABSTRACT The oncogenic potential of latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can be regulated by epigenetic factors controlling LMP1 and EBNA2 gene transcription. The EBV latency control region (LCR) constitutes ∼12 kb of viral sequence spanning the divergent promoters of LMP1 and EBNA2 and encompasses the EBV latent replication origin OriP and RNA polymerase III-transcribed EBV-encoded RNA genes. We have used the chromatin immunoprecipitation assay to examine the chromatin architecture of the LCR in different types of EBV latency programs. We have found that histone H3 K4 methylation (H3mK4) was enriched throughout a large domain that extended from internal repeat 1 (IR1) to the terminal repeat in type III latency where EBNA2 and LMP1 genes are expressed. In type I latency where EBNA2 and LMP1 genes are transcriptionally silent, the H3mK4 domain contracts and does not enter the EBNA2 or LMP1 promoters. In contrast, histone H3 K9 methylation (H3mK9), associated with silent heterochromatin, was enriched in the EBNA2 and LMP1 upstream control regions in type I but not type III cells. MTA [5′-deoxy-5′(methylthio)adenosine], a pharmacological inhibitor of protein methylation, globally reduced histone H3mK4 and inhibited EBNA2 transcription in type III cells. 5′-Azacytidine, an inhibitor of DNA methylation that derepresses EBNA2 transcription in type I latency, caused H3mK4 expansion and a corresponding loss of H3mK9 at IR1. The chromatin boundary protein and transcription repressor CCCTC-binding factor was enriched at the EBNA2 transcription control region in type I but not type III cells. We also present evidence that OriP binding factors EBNA1 and ORC2 can interact with sequences outside of OriP including a region within IR1 that may influence EBNA2 transcription status. These results indicate that types I and III latency programs have distinct histone methylation patterns in the LCR and suggest that chromatin architecture coordinates gene expression of LMP1 and EBNA2.
A discussion of magnetic separation techniques for concentrating ilmenite and chromite ores

Figure 1 depicts the basic magnetic separation technologies now available in the marketplace in terms of field intensities and modes of processing. LIMS and scalper magnets are not detailed in this paper. The selection of magnetic separation technology depends on many processing factors, including particle size, and the specific assemblage of minerals and grades as well as their corresponding magnetic susceptibility. Additionally, production and marketing factors must also be considered, i.e. is ilmenite production linked to rutile and zircon production, is the ilmenite saleable or is it waste, are further downstream processes necessary to bring products to a marketable quality, etc.? Prior to discussion of separator selection in specific circumstances, it is beneficial to understand the general rationale for placing different types of magnetic separators in mineral sands applications.
On The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence And Teacher Burnout Among High School Teachers

This study investigated the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and teacher burnout among Iranian high school teachers. The role of teaching experience was also taken into consideration. To this end, 125 participants were selected through convenience sampling. The participants were given a set of questionnaires including Demographics, Farsi Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey, and Farsi 41-Revised Emotional Intelligence Scale. Data were analyzed using such statistical techniques as Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, multiple regression, and MANOVA. The results of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between EI and burnout among high school teachers. The results of the multiple regressions also indicated that EI could predict a significant amount of variability in burnout components. As far as experience is concerned, there was a significant difference between moderately and highly experienced teachers in their emotional intelligence. The pedagogical implications of the study such as the preventive role of EI, further validation of this construct, and the creation of preventive strategies as regards for burnout are also discussed.
Resource Management for Parallel Processing Frameworks with Load Awareness at Worker Side

Many resource management systems and large-scale data processing frameworks use a reservation-based model for managing resources and scheduling tasks. We observe from the reported traces of Facebook and Google that this model leads to resource being wasted because the tasks do not use effectively the allocated resources. We confirm the problem with a trace of our production cluster. We propose an algorithm to estimate the resource usage at worker nodes. This estimation is used as an input for the scheduler at the resource manager. We verify the stability of the new system in a simulator and develop a prototype of this approach for YARN. Our results in the simulator show that the new model can flexibly match the actual demand of the workload to the capacity of the cluster avoiding resources over-reserved by users. Comparing the worst scenario of our management model and the best scenario of the reservation model, we obtain almost the same performance and comparable system stability. In practice, our prototype for YARN completes jobs faster from 23% to 44%.
Brain-Targeted Delivery of Trans-Activating Transcriptor-Conjugated Magnetic PLGA/Lipid Nanoparticles

Magnetic poly (D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA)/lipid nanoparticles (MPLs) were fabricated from PLGA, L-α-phosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE), 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-amino (polyethylene glycol) (DSPE-PEG-NH2), and magnetic nanoparticles (NPs), and then conjugated to trans-activating transcriptor (TAT) peptide. The TAT-MPLs were designed to target the brain by magnetic guidance and TAT conjugation. The drugs hesperidin (HES), naringin (NAR), and glutathione (GSH) were encapsulated in MPLs with drug loading capacity (>10%) and drug encapsulation efficiency (>90%). The therapeutic efficacy of the drug-loaded TAT-MPLs in bEnd.3 cells was compared with that of drug-loaded MPLs. The cells accumulated higher levels of TAT-MPLs than MPLs. In addition, the accumulation of QD-loaded fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled TAT-MPLs in bEnd.3 cells was dose and time dependent. Our results show that TAT-conjugated MPLs may function as an effective drug delivery system that crosses the blood brain barrier to the brain.
Reliability characterization of a commercial TaOx-based ReRAM

We present results of endurance and retention characterization for one of the first commercially available TaOx-based resistive memory chip in room and higher temperature environments. Data retention of the memory chip shows activation energy of 1.13eV and demonstrates an 85°C 10-year data retention even after 250,000 programming cycles. The combined program and read errors were in the range of 10-7 to 10-5 and the memory chip withstood 106 program cycles at 125°C. Overall, the reliability of this commercial resistive memory chip compares well with flash memory.
The illusionist and the folk: On the role of conscious planning in intentionality judgments

Abstract Illusionism is a prominent hypothesis about action control, according to which acts that we consider voluntary are nevertheless caused by unconscious brain events, and thus our subjective experience of consciously willing them is ultimately illusory. Illusionism can be understood as either an ontological thesis or a phenomenological claim, but both versions are vulnerable to a line of attack based on the role of long-term planning (distal intentions) in action control. According to this objection, the evidence upon which illusionism rests is confined to short-term (proximal) intentions, so it is not sufficient to justify broader conclusions on the causal inefficacy of conscious will. In this essay we reconstruct the logic of this objection against illusionism, clarify why surveying folk intuitions on conscious distal intentions is essential to the debate, and present a study in which the role of conscious planning in intentionality judgment is clearly revealed. We also present other relevant findings, such as a gender effect on intentionality attributions, a moral influence on responsibility judgments, and confirmation of mechanistic incompatibilism.
Widespread colonization of the lung by Tropheryma whipplei in HIV infection.

RATIONALE Lung infections caused by opportunistic or virulent pathogens are a principal cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV infection. It is unknown whether HIV infection leads to changes in basal lung microflora, which may contribute to chronic pulmonary complications that increasingly are being recognized in individuals infected with HIV. OBJECTIVES To determine whether the immunodeficiency associated with HIV infection resulted in alteration of the lung microbiota. METHODS We used 16S ribosomal RNA targeted pyrosequencing and shotgun metagenomic sequencing to analyze bacterial gene sequences in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and mouths of 82 HIV-positive and 77 HIV-negative subjects. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Sequences representing Tropheryma whipplei, the etiologic agent of Whipple's disease, were significantly more frequent in BAL of HIV-positive compared with HIV-negative individuals. T. whipplei dominated the community (>50% of sequence reads) in 11 HIV-positive subjects, but only 1 HIV-negative individual (13.4 versus 1.3%; P = 0.0018). In 30 HIV-positive individuals sampled longitudinally, antiretroviral therapy resulted in a significantly reduced relative abundance of T. whipplei in the lung. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing was performed on eight BAL samples dominated by T. whipplei 16S ribosomal RNA. Whole genome assembly of pooled reads showed that uncultured lung-derived T. whipplei had similar gene content to two isolates obtained from subjects with Whipple's disease. CONCLUSIONS Asymptomatic subjects with HIV infection have unexpected colonization of the lung by T. whipplei, which is reduced by effective antiretroviral therapy and merits further study for a potential pathogenic role in chronic pulmonary complications of HIV infection.