Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hypnosis as self-deception; meditation as self-insight

Although meditation and hypnosis appear to be similar, both in skills demanded (e.g. imaginative involvement) and in their use as therapies, this chapter argues that the two are essentially different. Whereas mindfulness meditation aims to develop accurate meta-awareness, the hypnotic experience results from a lack of awareness of intentions; hypnosis is effectively a form of self-deception. The claim is supported by reviewing evidence that a) meditators are not very hypnotizable; b) highly hypnotizable people become aware of their intentions especially late while meditators have awareness especially early; and c) meditators show particularly strong intentional binding but highly hypnotizable people do not. We suggest that one path to high hypnotizability is hypofrontality.
Beacon Alarming: Informed decision-making supporter and privacy risk analyser in Smartphone applications

We are currently confronting with a large number of Smartphone applications, which are developed for different purposes that on the one hand, may benefit users by easing many of their daily tasks, while on the other hand, may threaten their privacy. An important issue regarding this situation is that, smartphone users are often unaware of the privacy risks or even of the data collected by applications running on their devices. For this reason, it is an essential need to make the users aware of the potential misuses as well as the associated privacy risk consequences. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach called Beacon Alarming. Beacon alarming is introduced as a monitoring and permission manager framework to enhance the users awareness of data gathered by their installed applications. We further expand the functionality of our proposed beacon alarming system by employing fuzzy logic in order to assess the privacy risk score of each of the installed applications taking into consideration the information obtained from beacon alarming module. Accordingly, this innovative method enables users to make more logical and informed decisions.
Drug Prevention by Increasing Self-Esteem: Influence of Teaching Approaches and Gender on Different Consumption Groups

Our study focused on an educational intervention designed to increase the self-esteem of low-achieving eighthgraders. The intervention was a substance-specific life skills program built upon teacher-centered versusstudent-centered teaching methods. A cluster analysis identified four consumption groups prior to the intervention: Apotentially curious cluster (PC), a currently curious cluster (CC), an experimenter cluster (EP) and a consumercluster (CO). Self-esteem was measured three times in a pre-, post- and retention test design. The in terms ofpercentage biggest PC cluster only responded positively. A consistent increase was detected among both differentteaching methods and both genders. Thus, self-esteem as an important psychological construct of physical well-beingcould be influenced positively by many students in the context of a substance-specific life skills program.Educational consequences to increase the efficiency of scholastic measures are discussed.
Quantile Regression and the Gender Wage Gap: Is there a Glass Ceiling in the Turkish Labor Market?

The aim of this paper is to examine the existence of a significant glass ceiling effect in the Turkish labor market. By glass ceiling we mean the existence of a gender wage gap significantly more pronounced at the upper tail of the wage distribution than at the middle or lower tail. In the first step of the analysis, quantile regressions are estimated using data from the Structure of Earnings Survey 2006 conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute. Several alternative model specifications are explored. In the second step, counterfactual wage distributions are generated, to quantify the role of worker attributes versus returns to these attributes shaping the gender wage gap. The quantile regression estimates and the decomposition analyses consistently show that the gender wage gap is more pronounced at the upper tail of the wage distribution, implying the existence of a glass ceiling effect for women in the Turkish labor market.
Standardization in cyber-physical systems: The ARUM case

Cyber-physical systems concept supports the realization of the Industrie 4.0 vision towards the computerization of traditional industries, aiming to achieve intelligent and reconfigurable factories. Standardization assumes a critical role in the industrial adoption of cyber-physical systems, namely in the integration of legacy systems as well as the smooth migration from existing running systems to the new ones. This paper analyses some existing standards in related fields and presents identified limitations and efforts for a wider acceptance of such systems by industry. Special attention is devoted to the efforts to develop a standard-compliant service-oriented multi-agent system solution within the ARUM project.
MicroRNA-9 promotes tumor metastasis via repressing E-cadherin in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in development and progression of cancers. Deregulation of MicroRNA-9 (miR-9) has been documented in many types of cancers but their role in the development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has not been studied. This study aimed to investigate the effect of miR-9 in esophageal cancer metastasis. The up-regulation of miR-9 was frequently detected in primary ESCC tumor tissue, which was significantly associated with clinical progression (P = 0.022), lymph node metastasis (P = 0.007) and poor overall survival (P < 0.001). Functional study demonstrated that miR-9 promoted cell migration and tumor metastasis, which were effectively inhibited when expression of miR-9 was silenced. Moreover, we demonstrated that miR-9 interacted with the 3′-untranslated region of E-cadherin and down-regulated its expression, which induced β-catenin nuclear translocation and subsequently up-regulated c-myc and CD44 expression. In addition, miR-9 induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in ESCC, a key event in tumor metastasis. Taken together, our study demonstrates that miR-9 plays an important role in ESCC metastasis by activating β-catenin pathway and inducing EMT via targeting E-cadherin. Our study also suggests miR-9 can be served as a new independent prognostic marker and/or as a novel potential therapeutic target for ESCC.
Safe Java Native Interface

Type safety is a promising approach to enhancing software security. Programs written in type-safe programming languages such as Java are type-safe by construction. However, in practice, many complex applications are heterogeneous, i.e., they contain components written in different languages. The Java Native Interface (JNI) allows type-safe Java code to interact with unsafe C code. When a type-safe language interacts with an unsafe language in the same address space, in general, the overall application becomes unsafe. In this work, we propose a framework called Safe Java Native Interface (SafeJNI) that ensures type safety of heterogeneous programs that contain Java and C components. We identify the loopholes of using JNI that would permit C code to bypass the type safety of Java. The proposed SafeJNI system fixes these loopholes and guarantees type safety when native C methods are called. The overall approach consists of (i) retro-fitting the native C methods to make them safe, and (ii) developing an enhanced system that captures additional invariants that must be satisfied to guarantee safe interoperation. The SafeJNI framework is implemented through a combination of static and dynamic checks on the C code. We have measured our system’s effectiveness and performance on a set of benchmarks. During our experiments on the Zlib open source compression library, our system identified one vulnerability in the glue code between Zlib and Java. This vulnerability could be exploited to crash a large number of commercially deployed Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). The performance impact of SafeJNI on Zlib, while considerable, is less than reimplementing the C code ∗To appear in IEEE International Symposium on Secure Software Engineering, March 2006. This research was supported in part by ARDA award NBCHC030106. This information does not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the federal government and no official endorsement should be inferred. ‡ Daniel Wang is currently at Microsoft Corporation. in Java.
CFUI: Collaborative Filtering with Unlabeled Items

As opposed to Web search, social tagging can be considered an alternative technique tapping into the wisdom of the crowd for organizing and discovering information on the Web. Effective tag-based recommendation of information items is critical to the success of this social information discovery mechanism. Over the past few years, there have been a growing number of studies aiming at improving the item recommendation quality of collaborative filtering (CF) methods by leveraging tagging information. However, a critical problem that often severely undermines the performance of tag-based CF methods, i.e., sparsity of user-item and user-tag interactions, is still yet to be adequately addressed. In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework, which deals with this data sparsity problem by making effective use of unlabeled items and propagating users’ preference information between the item space and the tag space. Empirical evaluation using real-world tagging data demonstrates the utility of the proposed framework.
Indigenous Sistergirls’ Experiences of Family and Community

ABSTRACT While increasing attention has been paid to the experiences of Indigenous sistergirls over the past decade there still remains a dearth of empirical research on the experiences of this diverse population of Indigenous people. This paper seeks to add to the small body of existing literature by reporting on a thematic analysis of existing media in which 18 sistergirls shared their experiences of family and community. The thematic analysis identified two themes within each of these topics. Specifically, when talking about family, both familial acceptance and rejection were salient themes. When talking about community, both the traditional role of sistergirls in their communities and negative responses from communities were salient themes. The paper concludes by suggesting that increased knowledge about the lives of sistergirls may assist social workers in supporting sistergirls both in their own outreach endeavours, and in providing more culturally competent services.
Molecular Characterization of BRCA1 as Candidate Gene Marker for Subclinical Mastitis in Dairy Water Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis)

1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines Manila, Ermita, Manila 2 Biosafety and Environment Section, Philippine Carabao Center, National Headquarters and Gene Pool, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija 3Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Central Luzon State University, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija 4Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Central Luzon State University, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija §both authors contributed equally to the work
Investigating Characteristics of the Nonrecidivating Psychopathic Offender

Psychopathic offenders are at higher risk to violently reoffend than nonpsychopathic offenders; however, about one in four psychopathic offenders are not reconvicted for a violent offense even over extended follow-ups. The characteristics of nonrecidivating psychopathic offenders (NRPs) remain underexamined. In a sample of 123 offenders with a minimum Hare Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) score of 25, community follow-up of 5 years, and 4 months in a violence reduction program, 65 men receiving a violent conviction within 5 years (recidivating psychopathic offenders [RPs]) were compared with 58 who had not (NRPs). Comparatively, NRPs were older at release, had better community support, and were rated lower violence risk. NRPs also had significantly lower PCL-R Factor 2 scores, but higher Factor 1 scores. Post hoc analyses revealed prominent NRP characteristics included exploitative personality traits and a predilection for instrumentally violent crimes. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for the risk assessment and treatment of psychopathic offenders.
MultiP-SChlo: Multi-label protein subchloroplast localization prediction

Chloroplasts are organelles in most green plant and some algal cells. Identifying protein subchloroplast localization in chloroplast organelle is very helpful for understanding the function of chloroplast proteins. There have existed a few computational prediction methods for protein subchloroplast localization. However, these existing works have ignored proteins with multiple subchloroplast locations when constructing prediction models, so that they can only predict one of all subchloroplast locations of this kind of multilabel proteins. To address this problem, through utilizing label-specific features and label correlations simultaneously, a novel multi-label classifier was developed for predicting protein subchloroplast location(s) with both single and multiple location sites. As an initial study, the overall accuracy of our proposed algorithm reach 55.52%, which is quite high to be able to become a promising tool for further studies.
Cultural Influence on Conspicuous Consumption and Pro-Social Behavior in Response to Social Exclusion and the Role of Communication Norms

Responses to exclusion differ as a function of culture because of cultural differences in communication norms. Specifically, the normcongruent communication of exclusion threatens relational needs, resulting in prosocial behavior, whereas the norm-incongruent communication of exclusion threatens efficacy needs, resulting in conspicuous consumption. Communication norms mediate the moderating effect of culture.
Simulation in education for health care professionals

Simulation-based train- ing has had positive impacts on safety and efficiency in a number of industries, including aviation, and is now being applied to education for health care professionals. Simula- tion can involve a person, a device, or set of conditions, and permits re- petitive practice of skills to a pre- scribed level of proficiency in a risk- free environment. The debriefing step at the conclusion of any simula- tion activity allows trainees to clarify and consolidate the insights and les- sons learned from the experience. As well as task training, skills train- ing, and procedure training, simula- tion can be used to provide error- response and group training for the high-reliability teams working in the operating room, emergency room, and intensive care unit. Globally,
1 RELATIVE IMPORTANCE , SPECIFICITY OF INVESTMENTS AND OWNERSHIP IN INTERORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS

INTRODUCTION Worldwide B2B e-commerce revenues are expected to reach $2.7 trillion by the end of 2004. At the center of this dramatic growth are interorganizational information systems (IOS), which are information systems (IS) that facilitate the exchange of products, services and information between firms. Examples of IOS include EDI systems in a supply chain, B2B electronic marketplaces, and systems for information sharing in financial services. According to the theory of incomplete contracts (Grossman and Hart, 1986; Hart and Moore, 1990), IOS ownership is important because it determines the value created from the IOS by affecting the participants’ investments. In this study, we define an IOS as a set of IT assets that support business relationships. IOS Ownership structure means which participant owns the IOS assets. We investigate how IOS participants should decide on the ownership structure of their IOS to maximize the value they can capture from the IOS in various situations. We have argued that relative importance of participants’ investments, defined as the relative magnitude of the contribution of participants’ incremental investments to the IOS relationship, is an increasingly significant determinant of optimal (i.e., value-maximizing) IOS ownership structures (Han, Kauffman, and Nault, 2004). In this study, using specific functional forms and comparative statics, we examine the mechanism by which relative importance of participants’ investments determines which IOS ownership structure is optimal for the IOS relationship. We also investigate the role of specificity of IOS investments, a loss in the value of the IOS investments outside the current relationship, in determining optimal ownership structures. We show that specificity of IOS investments mediate the relationship between relative importance of investment and optimal ownership structures. We also show that ownership may have a negative impact on the owner’s investment incentives when IOS investments reduce the value that the participants can receive outside the current relationship. Further, we analyze a case where positive externalities (i.e., complementarities) exist between participants’ investments.
Ionization structure in accretion shocks with a composite cooling function

ABSTRA C T We have investigated the ionization structure of the post-shock regions of magnetic cataclysmic variables, using an analytic density and temperature structure model in which effects caused by bremsstrahlung and cyclotron cooling are considered. We find that in the majority of the shock-heated region where H- and He-like lines of the heavy elements are emitted, the collisional-ionization and corona-condition approximations are justified. We have calculated the line emissivity and ionization profiles for iron as a function of height within the post-shock flow. For low-mass white dwarfs, line emission takes place near the shock. For high-mass white dwarfs, most of the line emission takes place in regions well below the shock and hence it is less sensitive to the shock temperature. Thus, the line ratios are useful to determine the white dwarf masses for the low-mass white dwarfs, but the method is less reliable when the white dwarfs are massive. Line spectra can, however, be used to map the hydrodynamic structure of the post-shock accretion flow.
Glycemic Control and Heart Failure Among Adult Patients With Diabetes

Background—Glycemic control is associated with microvascular events, but its effect on the risk of heart failure is not well understood. We examined the association between hemoglobin (Hb) AIc and the risk of heart failure hospitalization and/or death in a population-based sample of adult patients with diabetes and assessed whether this association differed by patient sex, heart failure pathogenesis, and hypertension status. Methods and Results—A cohort design was used with baseline between January 1, 1995, and June 30, 1996, and follow-up through December 31, 1997 (median 2.2 years). Participants were 25 958 men and 22 900 women with (predominantly type 2) diabetes, ≥19 years old, with no known history of heart failure. There were a total of 935 events (516 among men; 419 among women). After adjustment for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education level, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, hypertension, obesity, use of &bgr;-blockers and ACE inhibitors, type and duration of diabetes, and incidence of interim myocardial infarction, each 1% increase in Hb AIc was associated with an 8% increased risk of heart failure (95% CI 5% to 12%). An Hb AIc ≥10, relative to Hb AIc <7, was associated with 1.56-fold (95% CI 1.26 to 1.93) greater risk of heart failure. Although the association was stronger in men than in women, no differences existed by heart failure pathogenesis or hypertension status. Conclusions—These results confirm previous evidence that poor glycemic control may be associated with an increased risk of heart failure among adult patients with diabetes.
You’re OK, I’m OK

The author looks through Albert Bandura’s self-efficacy lens onto the effects it likely has on school principals’ effectiveness. Self-efficacy should be viewed as a principal’s belief in his or her capabilities to structure a particular course of action in order to produce desired outcomes. Principal self-efficacy has been linked with effective leadership, effective schools, the school restructuring process, and the quality of teaching and learning. Principals’ thoughts and actions influence the school culture, and research indicates that a principal can have a negative effect during a period of change. For these reasons, it is important for principals to have a strong sense of self-efficacy.
Interactions among variants in TXA2R, P2Y12 and GPIIIa are associated with carotid plaque vulnerability in Chinese population

Purpose The associations between variants in platelet activation-relevant genes and carotid plaque vulnerability are not fully understood. The aim of the present study was to investigate the associations of the variants in platelet activation-relevant genes and interactions among these variants with carotid plaque vulnerability. Results There were no significant differences in the frequencies of genotypes of the 11 variants between patients and controls. Among 396 patients, 102 patients had not carotid plaque, 106 had VP, and 188 had SP. The 11 variants were not independently associated with risk of carotid plaque vulnerability after adjusting for potential confounding variables. However, the GMDR analysis showed that there were synergistic effects of gene-gene interactions among TXA2Rr s1131882, GPIIIa rs2317676 and P2Y12 rs16863323 on carotid plaque vulnerability. The high-risk interactions among the three variants were associated with high platelet activation, and independently associated with the risk of carotid plaque vulnerability. Methods Eleven variants in platelet activation-relevant genes were examined using mass spectrometry methods in 396 ischemic stroke patients and 291controls. Platelet-leukocyte aggregates and platelet aggregation were also measured. Carotid plaques were assessed by B-mode ultrasound. According to the results of ultrasound, the patients were stratified into three groups: non-plaque group, vulnerable plaque (VP) group and stable plaque (SP) group. Furthermore, gene-gene interactions were analyzed using generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction (GMDR) methods. Conclusions The rs1131882, rs2317676, and rs16863323 three-loci interactions may confer a higher risk of carotid plaque vulnerability, and might be potential markers for plaque instability.
Seagrass rhizosphere microenvironment alters plant‐associated microbial community composition

The seagrass rhizosphere harbors dynamic microenvironments, where plant-driven gradients of O2 and dissolved organic carbon form microhabitats that select for distinct microbial communities. To examine how seagrass-mediated alterations of rhizosphere geochemistry affect microbial communities at the microscale level, we applied 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of artificial sediments surrounding the meristematic tissues of the seagrass Zostera muelleri together with microsensor measurements of the chemical conditions at the basal leaf meristem (BLM). Radial O2 loss (ROL) from the BLM led to ∼ 300 µm thick oxic microzones, wherein pronounced decreases in H2 S and pH occurred. Significantly higher relative abundances of sulphate-reducing bacteria were observed around the meristematic tissues compared to the bulk sediment, especially around the root apical meristems (RAM; ∼ 57% of sequences). Within oxic microniches, elevated abundances of sulphide-oxidizing bacteria were observed compared to the bulk sediment and around the RAM. However, sulphide oxidisers within the oxic microzone did not enhance sediment detoxification, as rates of H2 S re-oxidation here were similar to those observed in a pre-sterilized root/rhizome environment. Our results provide novel insights into how chemical and microbiological processes in the seagrass rhizosphere modulate plant-microbe interactions potentially affecting seagrass health.