Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Running head: COGNITIVE CONTROL AND SOCIALLY DESIRABLE BEHAVIOR Cognitive Control and Socially Desirable Behavior: The Role of Interpersonal Impact Marko Pitesa Grenoble Ecole de Management Stefan Thau INSEAD

Individuals’ willingness to act in socially desirable ways, such as sharing resources with others and abiding by norms of ethical conduct, is a necessary condition of social life. The current research reconciles two seemingly contradicting sets of findings on the role of cognitive control in socially desirable behaviors. One set of findings suggests that people are tempted by self-serving impulses and have to rely on cognitive control overriding such impulses to act in socially desirable ways. Another set of findings suggests people are guided by other-regarding impulses and cognitive control is not necessary to motivate socially desirable behaviors. We provide a theoretical and empirical integration of these findings by identifying a key situational variable—the salience of interpersonal impact—that determines whether the dominant impulse is to behave in a self-serving or a socially desirable manner. We suggest that the dominant impulse is to behave in a socially desirable manner when the interpersonal impact of an action is salient, and that the dominant impulse is to behave in a self-serving manner when the interpersonal impact of an action is not salient. Consistent with this prediction, Studies 1–3 found that impairing participants’ cognitive control led to less socially desirable behavior when interpersonal impact was not salient, but more socially desirable behavior when interpersonal impact was salient. Study 4 extended these findings by demonstrating that behaving in a socially desirable manner causes cognitive control impairment when interpersonal impact is not salient. But, when interpersonal impact is salient, behaving in a self-serving manner impairs cognitive control. We discuss the implications of our findings for understanding and managing socially desirable behaviors.
Electric load forecasting using wavelet transform and extreme learning machine

This paper proposes a novel method for load forecast, which integrates wavelet transform and extreme learning machine. In order to capture more internal features, wavelet transform is used to decompose the load series into a set of sub- components, which are more predictable. Then all the components are separately processed by extreme learning machine. Numerical testing shows that the proposed method is able to improve the forecast performance with much less computational cost compared with other benchmarking methods.
‘Hope I never stop’: older men and their two-wheeled love affairs

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to explore the meanings and experiences of road cycling to older men, specifically in the context of ageing. Using interpretive phenomenology, we explored the lived experiences of 12 men, aged 52–82 years. The generally middle class, predominantly white men lived in Ontario, Canada. Four interrelated themes – enjoying the bike, the ride, and the self; experiencing camaraderie; being fit and feeling well; and embracing ageing – described the essences of road cycling to these men. We encountered men who were at one with their bikes and discovered cycling to be a multi-layered phenomenon – a physical activity with few limitations to participation and a conduit to exercise and well-being. As does cycling, ageing begins in the physical; cycling offered these men a way to resist and reconceptualize society’s tragedy decline discourse of ageing. This study illuminates the lives and experiences of a group of older men, from their perspective. We extend the leisure literature by exploring how some older men resist society’s tragedy decline discourse of ageing through road cycling and reconstruct notions of what ageing can mean.
Identification and Biochemical Characterization of Protein Phosphatase 5 from the Cantharidin-Producing Blister Beetle, Epicauta chinensis

Protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) is a unique member of serine/threonine phosphatases which has been recognized in regulation of diverse cellular processes. A cDNA fragment encoding PP5 (EcPP5) was cloned and characterized from the cantharidin-producing blister beetle, E. chinensis. EcPP5 contains an open reading frame of 1500 bp that encodes a protein of 56.89 kDa. The deduced amino acid sequence shares 88% and 68% identities to the PP5 of Tribolium castaneum and humans, respectively. Analysis of the primary sequence shows that EcPP5 has three TPR (tetratricopeptide repeat) motifs at its N-terminal region and contains a highly conserved C-terminal catalytic domain. RT-PCR reveals that EcPP5 is expressed in all developmental stages and in different tissues. The recombinant EcPP5 (rEcPP5) was produced in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. The purified protein exhibited phosphatase activity towards pNPP (p-nitrophenyl phosphate) and phosphopeptides, and its activity can be enhanced by arachidonic acid. In vitro inhibition study revealed that protein phosphatase inhibitors, okadaic acid, cantharidin, norcantharidin and endothall, inhibited its activity. Further, protein phosphatase activity of total soluble protein extract from E. chinensis adults could be impeded by these inhibitors suggesting there might be some mechanism to protect this beetle from being damaged by its self-produced cantharidin.
Adding Morpho-semantic Relations to the Romanian Wordnet

Keeping pace with other wordnets development, we present the challenges raised by the Romanian derivational system and our methodology for identifying derived words and their stems in the Romanian Wordnet. To attain this aim we rely only on the list of literals in the wordnet and on a list of Romanian affixes; the automatically obtained pairs require automatic and manual validation, based on a few heuristics. The correct members of the pairs are linked together and the relation is associated a semantic label whenever necessary. This label is proved to have cross-language validity. The work reported here contributes to the increase of the number of relations both between literals and between synsets, especially the cross-part-of-speech links. Words belonging to the same lexical family are identified easily. The benefits of thus improving a language resource such as wordnet become self-evident. The paper also contains an overview of the current status of the Romanian wordnet and an envisaged plan for continuing the research.
Approximate Answers for XML Queries with Range Predicates

In this paper, we tackle the difficult problem of summarizing the path/branching structure and numerical value content of an XML database. We introduce a novel, powerful XML-summarization model, termed VTreeSketches, that enables accurate approximate answers for the class of twig queries with numerical-range predicates. In a nutshell, a VTreeSketch synopsis represents an effective clustering of XML elements based on both their structural and value-based characteristics. By leveraging techniques for summarizing XML-document structure as well as numerical data distributions, our VTreeSketch model provides the first known framework for approximate query answering that handles path/branching structure and predicates on numerical element values. We detail the VTreeSketch model and its design rationale, and develop a systematic framework for the construction of effective VTreeSketch summaries within a specified storage budget. Experimental results on synthetic and real-life data verify the effectiveness of our VTreeSketch synopses, clearly demonstrating their ability to accurately summarize XML databases with numerical value content. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first work to address the problem of approximate query answering for XML data sets with numerical values.
Gauduchon-Tod structures, Sim holonomy and De Sitter supergravity

Solutions of five-dimensional De Sitter supergravity admitting Killing spinors are considered, using spinorial geometry techniques. It is shown that the ``null'' solutions are defined in terms of a one parameter family of 3-dimensional constrained Einstein-Weyl spaces called Gauduchon-Tod structures. They admit a geodesic, expansion-free, twist-free and shear-free null vector field and therefore are a particular type of Kundt geometry. When the Gauduchon-Tod structure reduces to the 3-sphere, the null vector becomes recurrent, and therefore the holonomy is contained in Sim(3), the maximal proper subgroup of the Lorentz group SO(4,1). For these geometries, all scalar invariants built from the curvature are constant. Explicit examples are discussed.
Comparative evaluation of three computerized algorithms for prediction of antiretroviral susceptibility from HIV type 1 genotype.

OBJECTIVES To compare three methods for using HIV-1 genotype to predict antiretroviral drug susceptibility. METHODS We applied three genotypic interpretation algorithms to 478 reverse transcriptase (RT) and 410 protease sequences for which phenotypic data were available. Sequences were obtained from clinical practice and from published sequences in the Stanford HIV-1 RT and Protease Sequence Database. The genotypic interpretation algorithms included: Stanford HIVdb program (HIVdb), the Visible Genetics/Bayer Diagnostics Guidelines 6.0 (VGI) and a genotypic interpretation program (AntiRetroScan, ARS) developed at the University of Siena, Italy. Genotypic interpretations were normalized to a three-level output: susceptible, intermediate and resistant. Discordances were defined as differences between genotype and phenotype for the same virus isolate. Discordances for which an isolate was considered susceptible by one test but resistant by another test were considered major discordances. RESULTS The frequency of major discordances between genotype and phenotype was 10.6, 13.7 and 15.7% for ARS, VGI and HIVdb, respectively (P < 0.0001 for ARS versus HIVdb and for ARS versus VGI; P = 0.002 for VGI versus HIVdb). The correlation between genotype and phenotype was highest for non-nucleoside RT inhibitors and lowest for nucleoside RT inhibitors. Half of the major discordances involved stavudine, didanosine and zalcitabine. The concordance among the three genotypic algorithms was high, with weighted Kappa values ranging between 0.76 and 0.84 for the pairwise comparisons between each of the algorithms. CONCLUSIONS Genotype interpretation algorithms correctly predict phenotype in 85-90% of cases, but the rate of concordance is not uniformly distributed among different drugs. These data provide insight into the potential additional benefit derived from phenotyping.
The role of social interactions in learning to cope with cancer : an existential sociological study of an online support group forum

Page CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 4 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 14 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 37 CHAPTER 4: THE REALISATION STAGE 47 CHAPTER 5: THE INFLUENCE STAGE 61 CHAPTER 6: THE INTERNALISATION AND EXTERNALISATION 101 STAGES CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION 134
Psychometric properties of the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly in Chinese patients with COPD

Background For patients with COPD, physical activity (PA) is recommended as the core component of pulmonary rehabilitation, but there is lack of a validated questionnaire for assessing the PA effectively. Aim To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE-C) in patients with COPD. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted with 167 outpatients aged 60 years or older with COPD. Test−retest reliability and internal consistency were calculated by intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Cronbach’s coefficient α, respectively. Validity was evaluated by correlation with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short (IPAQ-S), data of pedometer, Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease 6-Item Scale (SES6), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), grip strength, and disease characteristics. Results The PASE-C had an excellent seven-day test−retest reliability (ICC=0.98) and an acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach’s α=0.71). The content validity was supported by an item-content validity index, a scale-content validity index/universal agreement, and a scale-content validity index/average value of 0.70–1, 0.70, and 0.93, respectively. Concurrent validity was tested by correlation with IPAQ-S (r=0.651). Criterion validity was confirmed by correlation with the walking steps (r=0.611) and energy expenditure (r=0.493). For construct validity, PASE-C had correlations with SES6 (r=0.396), HADS for depression (r=−0.234), seven subscales of SF-36 (r=0.182–0.525), grip strength (r=0.341), and disease characteristics including the duration of COPD (r=−0.215), modified British Medical Research Council scale (r=−0.354), forced expiratory volume in one second as percentage of predicted (r=0.307), and Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease grade (r=−0.264), with a good construct validity (all P<0.05). Conclusion The PASE-C has acceptable reliability and validity for patients aged 60 years or older with COPD, and it can be used as a valid tool to measure the PA of patients with COPD in the People’s Republic of China.
Job Duration and the Cleansing and Sullying Effects of Recessions ∗

Models of on-the-job search imply that recessions both cleanse and sully the labor market by hastening the termination of low quality matches and stifling the formation of better matches. This paper evaluates these predictions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) under the hypothesis that match duration reflects quality. The results provide no systematic evidence of the cleansing effect, but do support the sullying effect. This suggests that match quality is procyclical. As predicted by theory, this procyclicality is driven by the decline in quality of matches found through job-to-job transitions during recessions.
Stage optimization in regulated step-up for low voltage electromagnetic energy harvesters

This paper presents a performance enhancement feature for a novel power management circuit to generate 1.8 V from the low DC voltage rectified at the output of the vibration-based electromagnetic (EM) energy harvesters. The proposed 180 nm circuit utilizes a low voltage charge pump based boost converter with variable output-stages, and an autonomous regulator circuit with negative feedback topology. 2 and 3 stage charge pump options in the variable stage configuration has been validated to extend the supported input voltage range at the same load, or alternatively maintain higher efficiency operation at a higher load range. The simulation results showed that under no-load condition the output voltage reached to 1.8 V for input voltage of 0.65 V and 0.48 V with 2 and 3 stage outputs, respectively. The power conversion efficiency of the power management circuit can be kept stable around 55% by switching from 2 to 3 stages after 3.5 μA.
MODIS TIME SERIES REMOTE SENSING FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELLING

This paper reports on the processing of time series of MODIS satellite data in a Geographical Information System (GIS). The data preparations for the GIS usage are described with focus on the reprojection from MODIS/SIN to national coordinate systems and the application of the MODIS quality maps. We explain subsequent ltering of Land Surface Temperature maps with an outlier detector to eliminate originally undetected cloud pixels. Further analysis of time series is briey discussed as well as related landscape epidemiological applications in the eld of tick-bourne diseases.
Named Entity Recognition System for Urdu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a task which helps in finding out Persons name, Location names, Brand names, Abbreviations, Date, Time etc and classifies the m into predefined different categories. NER plays a major role in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) fields like Information Extraction, Machine Translations and Question Answering. This paper describes the problems of NER in the context of Urdu Language and provides relevant solutions. The system is developed to tag thirteen different Named Entities (NE), twelve NE proposed by IJCNLP-08 and Izaafats. We have used the Rule Based approach and developed the various rules to extract the Named Entities in the given Urdu text.
Detection of an Ultra Low Velocity Zone beneath Central Mexico with PcP Waveform Modeling

PcP phases from a Guatemalan earthquake recorded at Nevada stations of the International seismic network (IM) display evidence of anomalous seismic structure at the core-mantle boundary (CMB); in particular, preand post-cursor phases to PcP and ScP. The data is examined for evidence of an ultra-low velocity zone (ULVZ) by identifying and modeling precursors to PcP. Precursory arrivals to PcP may be generated by the interaction of PcP with a thin layer above the core-mantle boundary (CMB). One-dimensional modeling demonstrates that standard earth models of the core-mantle boundary, which lack ULVZ structure, cannot produce the observed PcP data. An ULVZ model with thickness of 7.5 km, velocity reductions of 10% and 20% for P velocity and S velocity, respectively, and 20% density increase provides the best fit to the observed PcP waveforms. Combining these results with other nearby studies of the CMB region indicate that ultra-low velocity zones are an intermittent and short wavelength feature of the CMB.
C-3 epimers can account for a significant proportion of total circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D in infants, complicating accurate measurement and interpretation of vitamin D status.

CONTEXT We have recently introduced liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) for 25-hydroxyvitamin D(2) (25OHD(2)) and 25OHD(3) testing. During subsequent clinical use, we identified significantly elevated results in some infants. We hypothesized this might represent assay interference caused by C-3 epimers of 25OHD(2) or 25OHD(3). OBJECTIVE Our aims were to 1) determine the prevalence of C-3 epimers of 25OHD(2) or 25OHD(3) in human serum, and 2) identify the patient populations that might be affected. STUDY DESIGN We modified our LC-MS/MS method to allow detection of C-3 epimers. We retested specimens from four patient groups with the new method and an extracted RIA: 1) children less than 1 yr old, 2) children 1-18 yr old, 3) adults aged 20-87 yr with liver disease, and 4) adults aged 19-91 yr without liver disease. RESULTS In 172 children from group 1 with detectable 25OHD(2) or 25OHD(3), we identified C-3 epimers in 39 (22.7%). The epimers contributed 8.7-61.1% of the total 25-OHD. There was an inverse relationship between patient age and epimer percentage (r = 0.48; P < 0.002). The RIA gave accurate 25-OHD results that correlated with the modified LC-MS/MS method. No C-3 epimers were detected in any of the other groups. CONCLUSIONS Significant concentrations of C-3 epimers of 25OHD(2) or 25OHD(3) are commonly found in infants. This can lead to overestimation of 25-OHD levels. Measurements in children less than 1 yr should therefore be performed with an assay that allows accurate detection of 25-OHD in the presence of its C-3 epimers.
Geodetic and Seismic Constraints on some Seismogenic Zone Processes in Costa Rica

New seismic and geodetic data from Costa Rica provide insight into seismogenic zone processes in Central America, where the Cocos and Caribbean plates converge. Seismic data are from combined land and ocean bottom deployments in the Nicoya peninsula in northern Costa Rica and near the Osa peninsula in southern Costa Rica. In Nicoya, inversion of GPS data suggests two locked patches centered at 14 ± 2 and 39 ± 6 km depth. Interplate microseismicity is concentrated in the more freely slipping intermediate zone, suggesting that small interseismic earthquakes may not accurately outline the updip limit of the seismogenic zone, the rupture zone for future large earthquakes, at least over the short (∼1 year) observation period. We also estimate northwest motion of a coastal “sliver block” at 8 ± 3 mm/yr, probably related to oblique convergence. In the Osa region to the south, convergence is orthogonal to the trench. Cocos-Caribbean relative motion is partitioned here, with ∼8 cm/yr on the Cocos-Panama block boundary (including a component of permanent shortening across the Fila Costena fold and thrust belt) and ∼1 cm/yr on the Panama block–Caribbean boundary. The GPS data suggest that the Cocos plate–Panama block boundary is completely locked from ∼10–50 km depth. This large locked zone, as well as associated forearc and back-arc deformation, may be related to subduction of the shallow Cocos Ridge and/or younger lithosphere compared to Nicoya, with consequent higher coupling and compressive stress in the direction of plate convergence.
An entropy based theory of the grain boundary character distribution

Cellular networks are ubiquitous in nature. They exhibit behavior on many different length and time scales and are generally metastable. Most technologically useful materials are polycrystalline microstructures composed of a myriad of small monocrystalline grains separated by grain boundaries. The energetics and connectivity of the grain boundary network plays a crucial role in determining the properties of a material across a wide range of scales. A central problem in materials science is to develop technologies capable of producing an arrangement of grains—a texture—appropriate for a desired set of material properties. Here we discuss the role of energy in texture development, measured by a character distribution. We derive an entropy based theory based on mass transport and a Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein metric to suggest that, to first approximation, this distribution behaves like the solution to a Fokker-Planck Equation.
How Algorithms Interact: Goffman's ‘Interaction Order’ in Automated Trading

In a talk in 2013, Karin Knorr Cetina referred to ‘the interaction order of algorithms’, a phrase that implicitly invokes Erving Goffman's ‘interaction order’. This paper explores the application of the latter notion to the interaction of automated-trading algorithms, viewing algorithms as material entities (programs running on physical machines) and conceiving of the interaction order of algorithms as the ensemble of their effects on each other. The paper identifies the main way in which trading algorithms interact (via electronic ‘order books’, which algorithms both ‘observe’ and populate) and focuses on two particularly Goffmanesque aspects of algorithmic interaction: queuing and ‘spoofing’, or deliberate deception. Following Goffman's injunction not to ignore the influence on interaction of matters external to it, the paper examines some prominent such matters. Empirically, the paper draws on documentary analysis and 338 interviews conducted by the author with high-frequency traders and others involved in automated trading.