Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A crowd of one : the future of individual identity

This fresh and provocative perspective on how technology influences business and society presents a vision for a new scientific understanding of human nature and identity. John Clippinger - a leading authority on technology's impact on society - takes us through the historical origins of identity and the way it is influencing - and being influenced by - today's world. He examines the religious underpinnings of many people's identities, and explores the competing theories of human nature developed by philosophers across the ages. Applying principles from evolutionary biology he shows why and how we evolved some of our most unique capacities: trust, empathy, retribution, honour, virtue, leadership, reciprocity and collaboration. Drawing on modern scientific studies, he debunks some of our strongest-held beliefs about individualism, rationality, self-interest and moral absolutism. He challenges thinkers on the Left and Right and proposes a new theory of leadership, social virtue and cooperation derived from evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Understanding what science tells us about who we are can help us better navigate a world that is continuously transforming itself in unprecedented ways. Clippinger explains how new conceptions of identity and human nature can help us to understand the cultures from which terrorism is likely to spring and prevent it. He looks at how fears over big-brother surveillance in our digital world are justified, and offers an alternative that is more secure, with ways to express, manage and protect one's digital identities. He walks us through the "big bang" in next-generation online commerce, and explains how it may usher in a new era of capitalism that harnesses the powers of the "invisible hand" to direct resources in an economically efficient and ecologically responsible way. His conclusions will have profound implications for everything from social-networking sites like MySpace and virtual worlds like Second Life to the Open Source movement to the military operations going on in the Middle East and Africa.
Resect and discard strategy in clinical practice: a prospective cohort study

Background and study aims: Narrow-band imaging (NBI) has shown promising results in discriminating adenomatous from non-adenomatous colonic polyps. In patients with small polyps (< 10 mm), the application of NBI within a “resect and discard” strategy, might allow post-polypectomy surveillance intervals to be determined independently from histopathology. The aim of the present study was to assess the feasibility and safety of this approach in routine clinical practice. Patients and methods: Consecutive colonoscopy outpatients with one or more polyps smaller than 10 mm were prospectively included. Each polyp was categorized by the endoscopist as adenoma or non-adenoma according to simplified NBI criteria, and future post-polypectomy surveillance interval was assigned accordingly. Following histopathology, post-polypectomy surveillance interval was subsequently re-assigned, and the accordance between endoscopy- and histology-directed surveillance strategies was calculated. Results: Among 942 colonoscopy patients, 286 (30.4 %) with only small polyps were included. In total, 511 small polyps were evaluated; 350 (68.5 %) were adenomas and 18 of these (5.1 %) had histologic features of advanced neoplasia. For the in vivo diagnosis of adenoma, NBI sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and positive and negative likelihood ratios were 94.9 %, 65.8 %, 85.7 %, 2.80, and 0.08, respectively. The endoscopy-directed surveillance strategy was in accordance with the histology-directed strategy in 237 of 286 patients (82.9 %). In 9.8 % and 7.3 % patients, the endoscopy-directed approach would have resulted in early and delayed surveillance, respectively. Conclusions: The resect and discard strategy seems to be a viable, safe, and cost-effective approach for the management of patients with small polyps. However, caution in the application of the strategy should be advocated for patients with polyps 6 – 9 mm in size and those with right-sided lesions, due to their malignant potential. The study was registered on Clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01462123).
A kind of calligraphy robot

Robot used for calligraphy is a new area of research and application. It is also a challenge for servo system application and control strategy research. In this paper, a calligraphy robot is presented and the interpolation algorithm and coordinate transformation are used in the control system operation. The high-precision and intelligent control are implemented in the calligraphy robot to solve the key problems of the small radius rotation and the tracing control of calligraphy brush. The experiment results proved the accuracy and stability of the system and nice-looking writing.
GÜREŞ HAKEMLERİNİN TEMEL PSİKOLOJİK İHTİYAÇLARININ İNCELENMESİ

Bu calismanin amaci gures hakemlerinin psikolojik ihtiyac duzeylerinin incelenmesidir. Bu arastirmaya Turkiye gures federasyonuna bagli 39 Uluslar arasi, 32 Milli gures hakemi katilmistir. Anketler 2006-2007 sezonunda farkli musabakalarda gorev yapan hakemlere uygulanmistir. Veri toplamak amaciyla Deci ve Ryan (2000) tarafindan gelistirilen, Kesici, Ure ve ark. ( 2002) tarafindan Turkce’ye uyarlamasi yapilan Temel Psikolojik Ihtiyaclar Olcegi kullanilmistir. Elde edilen bulgular SPSS 10,0 paket programi kullanilarak degerlendirilmistir. Bu calismanin sonucuna gore milli hakemlerin Uluslar arasi hakemlere gore ozerklik, yeterlik ve iliski ihtiyac duzeylerinin yuksek oldugu, hakemlik yili degiskenine gore 4-13 yil arasinda olan hakemlerin 24-32 yil arasinda olan hakemlere gore ozerklik, yeterlik ve iliski ihtiyacinin yuksek oldugu, yas degiskenine gore 37-49 yas arasinda olan hakemlerin 50-61 yas arasinda olan hakemlere gore yeterlik ihtiyacinin yuksek oldugu sonucu ortaya cikmistir. Anahtar Kelimeler : Psikolojik ihtiyac, hakem, gures, ANALYSIS OF FUNDAMENTAL PSYCGOLOGICAL NECESSITY LEVEL OF WRESTLING REFEREES ABSTRACT In this study, it is aimed to analyze psycgological necessity level of wrestling referees. 39 international and 32 national wrestling referees who work for Turkey Wrestling Federation have participated in this survey. Surveys have been applied on referees taking part in different competetitions between 2006-2007. Fundemental psycgological necessity scale, which was developed by Deci and Ryan (2000) and adapted into Turkish by Kesici, Ure et al. (2002), has been used in order to get data. This data has been evaluated by using SPSS 10,0 programme. As a result, necessity level of autonomy, qualification and relation of national referees is higher than international ones, in respect to the experience of refereeing, necessity level of autonomy, qualification and relation of referees who have experience between 4-13 years is higher than those have experience between 24-32 years, in respect to the age, necessity level of qualification of referees between 37-49 years old is higher than those between 50-61 years old. Key Words : psycgological necessity, referee, wrestling.
UltraHaptics: multi-point mid-air haptic feedback for touch surfaces

We introduce UltraHaptics, a system designed to provide multi-point haptic feedback above an interactive surface. UltraHaptics employs focused ultrasound to project discrete points of haptic feedback through the display and directly on to users' unadorned hands. We investigate the desirable properties of an acoustically transparent display and demonstrate that the system is capable of creating multiple localised points of feedback in mid-air. Through psychophysical experiments we show that feedback points with different tactile properties can be identified at smaller separations. We also show that users are able to distinguish between different vibration frequencies of non-contact points with training. Finally, we explore a number of exciting new interaction possibilities that UltraHaptics provides.
B7-H3 Participates in the Development of Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis by Augmentation of the Inflammatory Response via a TLR2-Dependent Mechanism

In addition to a well-documented role in regulating T cell-mediated immune responses, B7-H3, a newly discovered member of the B7 superfamily, has been recently identified as a costimulator in the innate immunity-mediated inflammatory response. In this study, we further report that B7-H3 participates in the development of pneumococcal meningitis in a murine model. Exogenous administration of B7-H3 strongly amplified the inflammatory response, exacerbated blood–brain barrier disruption, and aggravated the clinical disease status in Streptococcus pneumoniae-infected C3H/HeN wild-type mice. Consistent with the in vivo findings, B7-H3 substantially augmented proinflammatory cytokine and chemokine production, upregulated NF-κB p65 and MAPK p38 phosphorylation, and enhanced the nuclear transactivation of NF-κB p65 at both TNF-α and IL-6 promoters in S. pneumoniae-stimulated primary murine microglia cells. These B7-H3–associated in vitro and in vivo effects appeared to be dependent on TLR2 signaling, as B7-H3 almost completely lost its amplifying actions in both TLR2-deficient microglial cells and TLR2-deficient mice. Furthermore, administration of the anti–B7-H3 mAb (MIH35) attenuated the inflammatory response and ameliorated blood–brain barrier disruption in S. pneumoniae-infected wild-type mice. Collectively, our results indicate that B7-H3 plays a contributory role in the development of S. pneumoniae infection-induced bacterial meningitis.
Variability of Metabolite Levels Is Linked to Differential Metabolic Pathways in Arabidopsis's Responses to Abiotic Stresses

Constraint-based approaches have been used for integrating data in large-scale metabolic networks to obtain insights into metabolism of various organisms. Due to the underlying steady-state assumption, these approaches are usually not suited for making predictions about metabolite levels. Here, we ask whether we can make inferences about the variability of metabolite levels from a constraint-based analysis based on the integration of transcriptomics data. To this end, we analyze time-resolved transcriptomics and metabolomics data from Arabidopsis thaliana under a set of eight different light and temperature conditions. In a previous study, the gene expression data have already been integrated in a genome-scale metabolic network to predict pathways, termed modulators and sustainers, which are differentially regulated with respect to a biochemically meaningful data-driven null model. Here, we present a follow-up analysis which bridges the gap between flux- and metabolite-centric methods. One of our main findings demonstrates that under certain environmental conditions, the levels of metabolites acting as substrates in modulators or sustainers show significantly lower temporal variations with respect to the remaining measured metabolites. This observation is discussed within the context of a systems-view of plasticity and robustness of metabolite contents and pathway fluxes. Our study paves the way for investigating the existence of similar principles in other species for which both genome-scale networks and high-throughput metabolomics data of high quality are becoming increasingly available.
Shared understandings of dementia? An application of the Common Sense Self Regulation Model to a case study

This in-depth case study explored whether one health care triad (a person with a diagnosis of dementia (PWD), their caregiver and primary care doctor) spoke about diagnosis in terms of the Common Sense-Self Regulation Model (CS-SRM) (H. Leventhal, et al., 1984) Illness Representations (IRs: identity, cause, timeline, consequences and the ability to cure or control the condition), and consider whether PWD IRs are understood by their caregiver and doctor. Each participant was asked a series of open questions, followed by questions prompting for each IR. The caregiver and doctor were interviewed about how PWD thought. All talked about IRs without prompting, with the exception of cause. Prompting for IRs elicited additional data. There were areas where participants shared IRs, but also areas of discrepancy which could have implications for health outcomes. IRs can provide a theoretical framework to elicit how people think about dementia, which could improve shared understandings in clinical practice.
Primary vaginismus: A psychometric study of both partners

Abstract This study sought to explore the personality profiles of a cohort of vaginismic women and their partners who entered a sex-therapy programme with a problem of primary vaginismus. The psychometric instruments used were the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), Cattett's 16PF (16PF), the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index (CCEI) and the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI). Of the 18 couples who entered the programme, 14 also completed the post-therapy assessment protocol. Results challenge assumptions that vaginismus is symptomatic of disproportionate levels of psychological distress. The females were found to have lower levels of self-esteem than their partners. A reduction was found in the total psychoneurotic score of both females and males in the post-therapy situation, as measured by the CCEI, although not at a statistically significant level for the females and significant only at p = 0.20 for the males. Treatment consisted of individual psychotherapy of both partners combined with in vivo.
Energy balance and cold adaptation in the octopus

A complete energy balance equation is calculated for the Antarctic octopus Pareledone charcoti at 08C. Energy used in respiration, growth, and excretion of nitrogenous and faecal waste, was recorded along with the total consumption of energy through food, for three specimens of P. charcoti (live weights: 73, 51 and 29 g). Growth rates were very slow for cephalopods, with a mean daily increase in body weight of only 0.11%. Assimilation efficiencies were high, between 95.4 and 97.0%, which is consistent with previous work on octopods. The respiration rate in P. 21 charcoti was low, with a mean of 2.45 mg O h for a standard animal of 150 g wet mass at 08C. 2 21 In the North Sea octopus Eledone cirrhosa, respiration rates of 9.79 mg O h at 11.58C and 4.47 2 21 mg O h at 4.58C for a standard animal of 150 g wet mass were recorded. Respiration rates 2 between P. charcoti and E. cirrhosa were compared using a combined Q value between P. 10 charcoti at 08C and E. cirrhosa at 4.58C. This suggests that P. charcoti are respiring at a level predicted by E. cirrhosa rates at 4.5 and 11.58C extrapolated to 08C along the curve Q 5 3, with 10 no evidence of metabolic compensation for low temperature.  2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Don't break a leg: running birds from quail to ostrich prioritise leg safety and economy on uneven terrain

Cursorial ground birds are paragons of bipedal running that span a 500-fold mass range from quail to ostrich. Here we investigate the task-level control priorities of cursorial birds by analysing how they negotiate single-step obstacles that create a conflict between body stability (attenuating deviations in body motion) and consistent leg force–length dynamics (for economy and leg safety). We also test the hypothesis that control priorities shift between body stability and leg safety with increasing body size, reflecting use of active control to overcome size-related challenges. Weight-support demands lead to a shift towards straighter legs and stiffer steady gait with increasing body size, but it remains unknown whether non-steady locomotor priorities diverge with size. We found that all measured species used a consistent obstacle negotiation strategy, involving unsteady body dynamics to minimise fluctuations in leg posture and loading across multiple steps, not directly prioritising body stability. Peak leg forces remained remarkably consistent across obstacle terrain, within 0.35 body weights of level running for obstacle heights from 0.1 to 0.5 times leg length. All species used similar stance leg actuation patterns, involving asymmetric force–length trajectories and posture-dependent actuation to add or remove energy depending on landing conditions. We present a simple stance leg model that explains key features of avian bipedal locomotion, and suggests economy as a key priority on both level and uneven terrain. We suggest that running ground birds target the closely coupled priorities of economy and leg safety as the direct imperatives of control, with adequate stability achieved through appropriately tuned intrinsic dynamics.
B-Cell Gene Therapy for Tolerance Induction: Host but Not Donor B-Cell Derived IL-10 is Necessary for Tolerance

Genetically modified B cells are excellent tolerogenic antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in multiple models of autoimmunity. However, the mechanisms of action are still not completely understood. In our models, we generate antigen-specific tolerogenic B cells by transducing naïve or primed B cells with an antigen–immunoglobulin G (peptide–IgG) construct. In order to be transduced, B cells require activation with mitogens such as LPS. We and others have found that LPS stimulation of B cells upregulates the production of IL-10, a key cytokine for maintaining immune tolerance. In the current study, we defined the role of B-cell produced IL-10 in tolerance induction by using IL-10 deficient B cells as donor APCs. We found that peptide–IgG transduced IL-10 KO B cells have the same effects as wt B cells in tolerance induction in an experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model. Moreover, we demonstrated that the tolerogenic effect of peptide–IgG B cells was completely abrogated in anti-IL-10 receptor antibody treated recipients. Taken together, our results suggest that tolerance induced by peptide–IgG B-cell gene therapy requires IL-10 from the host but not donor B cells. These data shed important insights into the mechanisms of tolerance induction mediated by B-cell gene therapy.
A new approach to evaluate GP schema in context

Evaluating GP schema in context is considered to be a complex, and, at times impossible, task. The tightly linked nodes of a GP tree is the main reason behind its complexity.This paper presents a new approach to evaluate GP schema in context. It is simple in its implementation with a potential to address well-known GP problems, such as identification of significant schema, dead code (introns) and module acquisition to name a few.It is based on the principle that the contribution of a schema can be evaluated by neutralizing the effect of the schema in the tree containing it (container-tree) and then checking its effect on the container-tree's fitness. Its usefulness is empirically demonstrated along with its limitation.
A dynamically reconfigurable logic engine with a multi-context/multi-mode unified-cell architecture

Reconfigurable logic LSIs, such as FPGAs, have been perceived as devices for prototyping and emulation. As the size and speed of FPGAs rapidly increase, however, they have begun to be used in /spl mu/P-based systems as reconfigurable accelerators. The idea is to achieve both hardware efficiency and software programmability by dynamically reconfiguring FPGAs. This idea, reconfigurable computing, provides an attractive solution especially for media/network-centric applications. Various types of reconfiguration scenarios in such applications, however, require logic LSIs to significantly enhance reconfigurability in three respects: (1) agility-reconfiguration may need to take place in very short intervals, say within a hundred /spl mu/P instructions; (2) controllability-reconfiguration may be controlled from an external /spl mu/P or by itself; (3) flexibility-reconfiguration target may be arbitrarily positioned and irregularly shaped. The dynamically reconfigurable logic engine (DRLE) prototype described meets this challenge.
A Small Electromagnetic Bandgap Structure

We present a small electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) cell which is easy to fabricate on standard PCB material and can be used where space is a premium. The EBG structure is an extension of the classical uni-planar structure where the inductance due to the thin transmission line sections is increased by meandering in these microstrip lines within the EBG cell itself. We demonstrate the concept with an EBG surface that was designed and developed at 300 MHz on standard FR4. The size of a 3 times 3 structure is only 7.53 cm times 7.53 cm and provides 10 dB attenuation across the surface
Transducers Cascades for an Automatic Recognition of Arabic Named Entities in Order to Establish Links to Free Resources

Arabic named entities (ANE) are often sources of information. That is why they are used by several applications of natural language processing (NLP) mainly in information retrieval. In order to improve the relevance of the information obtained, links to free resources can be established. Indeed, the recognition of these entities requires the use of adequate formalisms. In this paper, we propose an approach based on transducer cascades which allows the recognition of ANE more precisely the dates. This categorycan be an integral part in the events and the names of places. The implementation of the developed transducers cascades elaborated by using the CasSys tool is available under the Unitex platform. The results are motivating.
Tracking Moving Objects Improves Recognition

We describe a new family of algorithms that analyze time-varying scenes, recognizing and tracking learned objects over time. The new methods are intended to address key questions of moving images, including unpredictable moment-to-moment changes in location, size, orientation, lighting, and occlusion. We introduce a novel task in which objects revolve and rotate while suspended from a mobile’s arms; the recognition & tracking algorithm incorporates characteristics of a number of prior published methods, combining them in a novel fashion to enable this newly introduced task. Other methods have found that improving recognition will improve tracking; we show that improved tracking improves object
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND DETERMINISM: SUSTAINING THE CONVERSATION*

This article suggests that strategy research should concern itself with continuing the conversation of the field rather than insisting upon a place for universal methodological criteria within that conversation. It attempts to sustain the dialogue begun by Bourgeois, Bowman, Jemison, Huff, and others, who recommend the pragmatic approach of methodological and theoretical pluralism as the best way forward in increasing empirical content. the article draws heavily on the philosophical writings of Dewey, Kaplan, and Rorty and the methodological essays of economists such as Boland, Caldwell, and McCloskey in an effort to persuade others in the strategy field that ‘good science is good conversation’. … once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversation in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation? ’ Lewis Carroll (1865, p. 5)
Adaptive H∞ consensus control of multi-agent systems with time delays

Design methods of adaptive H∞ consensus control of multi-agent systems composed of the first-order and the second-order regression models with unknown time delays are presented in this paper. The proposed control schemes are derived as solutions of certain H∞ control problems, where estimation errors of tuning parameters and imperfect knowledge of the leader are regarded as external disturbances to the process. It is shown that the resulting control systems are robust to uncertain system parameters and unknown time delays, and that the desirable consensus tracking is achieved approximately via adaptation schemes and L2-gain design parameters.