Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rumination in Borderline Personality Disorder: An examination of interpersonal contexts in experimental and daily life settings

This study examined whether Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) features predict increased rumination in response to interpersonal contexts, leading to increased negative affect (NA) outcomes across self-report, experimental, and daily life settings. As BPD is characterized by sustained NA, emotion dysregulation, and pervasive difficulties in interpersonal relationships, interpersonal contexts may present a specific liability for individuals with BPD to ruminate, and subsequently, experience enduring NA. Undergraduate participants (N=119) completed measures of BPD features, dispositional rumination, emotion dysregulation, and both 1) a laboratory protocol that measured spontaneous rumination and affective reactivity to non-interpersonal (sad film clip) and interpersonal (Cyberball) stimuli and 2) a 7-day Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) that measured hourly peak NA, deployment of rumination at time of peak NA, interpersonal context at peak NA, and immediate NA relative to the EMA prompt. Multiple mediation models and general linear models were fit to examine study hypotheses. Results suggest differences in the relationships at trait level compared to state and momentary levels, wherein BPD predicts trait rumination and emotion dysregulation only. However, findings support that interpersonal contexts produce increased rumination that, in turn, may sustain negative affective states. Results suggest the need to include interpersonal considerations as a context for understanding ruminative cycles and affective outcomes.
Early results for Chinese named entity recognition using conditional random fields model, HMM and maximum entropy

Entity recognition (NER) is an important step for many natural language applications, such as information extraction, text summarization, and question answering. Chinese NER has some special characteristics that make this task difficult. In this paper, we present some NER experiments on the corpora used for Chinese 863 NER task in 2004 based on three models: maximum entropy, hidden Markov model (HMM) and the more recent conditional random fields (CRFs). The results show that CRFs model outperforms the other two models in the sense of best results and average performance, and model scalability among data sizes. In our experiments, CRFs model approach can achieve an overall Fl measure around 84.39/80.68 in simple/traditional Chinese NER respectively, with a gain of 2.01/10.50 over the best system in 863 competitions.
Drug Induced Interstitial Lung Disease

With an increasing number of therapeutic drugs, the list of drugs that is responsible for severe pulmonary disease also grows. Many drugs have been associated with pulmonary complications of various types, including interstitial inflammation and fibrosis, bronchospasm, pulmonary edema, and pleural effusions. Drug-induced interstitial lung disease (DILD) can be caused by chemotherapeutic agents, antibiotics, antiarrhythmic drugs, and immunosuppressive agents. There are no distinct physiologic, radiographic or pathologic patterns of DILD, and the diagnosis is usually made when a patient with interstitial lung disease (ILD) is exposed to a medication known to result in lung disease. Other causes of ILD must be excluded. Treatment is avoidance of further exposure and systemic corticosteroids in patients with progressive or disabling disease.
Validation of a food-frequency questionnaire for use in pregnancy

Abstract Objectives As a part of an ongoing project to develop a nutritional screening tool, we evaluated the performance of a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in terms of validity in a Sheffield Caucasian pregnant population using two different statistical approaches – the correlation coefficient and the limits of agreement (LOA). The FFQ was designed specifically for pregnant women and previously used in a large-scale study. Design A validation study. Setting A community-based field study of a general population of pregnant women booked for their first antenatal appointment at the Jessop Wing, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK. Subjects One hundred and twenty-three women of different socio-economic status, aged between 17 and 43 years, provided complete dietary data. Results The validity of the FFQ was tested against a series of two 24-hour recalls. As expected, the intakes of all examined nutrients, except for iodine, carotene, vitamin E, biotin, vitamin C and alcohol, were higher when determined by the FFQ than when determined by 24-hour recall. Pearson's correlation coefficient between the two methods ranged from 0.19 (added sugar, zinc) to 0.47 (Englyst fibre). The LOA were broader for some of the nutrients, e.g. protein, Southgate fibre and alcohol, and an increasing lack of agreement between the two methods was identified with higher dietary intakes. Conclusions The FFQ gave useful estimates of the nutrient intakes of Caucasian pregnant women and appears to be a valid tool for categorising pregnant women according to dietary intake. The FFQ performed well for most nutrients and had acceptable agreement with the 24-hour recall.
Attentional allocation of ASD individuals : Searching for a Face-inthe-Crowd

A study is reported which tests the proposition that faces capture the attention of those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) less than a typical population. A visual search task based on the Face-in-the-Crowd paradigm was used to examine the attentional allocation of ASD adults for faces. Participants were required to search for discrepant target images from within 9-image arrays. Both participants with ASD and control participants demonstrated speeded identification of faces compared to non-face objects. This indicates that when attention is under conscious control both ASD and TD comparison adults show an attentional bias for faces, which contrasts with previous research which found an absence of an attentional bias for faces in ASD. Theoretical implications of this differentiation are discussed.
Delegation versus concatenation or cloning is inheritance too

In this paper a simple prototype-based model of object-oriented programming is introduced. Unlike previous prototype-based systems, which use delegation to achieve incremental modification of objects, the suggested model is based on concatenation: linear composition of object interfaces. The model eliminates the notions of delegation and parent slots from prototype-based programming, and shows that the essence of object-oriented programming can be captured using only a small number of user-level language constructs.
Higher Physical Activity Is Associated With Lower Aortic Stiffness but Not With Central Blood Pressure: The ADDITION-Pro Study

AbstractPhysical activity is associated with reduced cardiovascular disease risk. However, improvements in conventional risk factors due to physical activity do not explain its full benefit. Therefore, we examined associations of objectively measured physical activity energy expenditure and intensity with central hemodynamics to provide new insight into the link between physical activity and cardiovascular disease.We analyzed data from 1816 Danes (median age: 66 years) without cardiovascular disease. Physical activity was estimated using combined accelerometry and heart rate monitoring. Aortic stiffness was assessed by applanation tonometry, as aortic pulse wave velocity, and central blood pressure was estimated from radial waveforms. Associations between physical activity energy expenditure and central hemodynamics were examined by linear regression. Furthermore, the consequence of substituting 1 hour sedentary behavior with 1 hour light or moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on central hemodynamics was examined.Median physical activity energy expenditure was 28.0 kJ/kg/d (IQR: 19.8; 38.7). A 10 kJ/kg/d higher energy expenditure was associated with 0.75% lower aortic pulse wave velocity (CI: −1.47; −0.03). Associations with central systolic blood pressure and central pulse pressure were not statistically significant. We observed no difference in central hemodynamics when substituting 1 hour sedentary behavior with 1 hour light or moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.In this relatively inactive population, higher physical activity energy expenditure was associated with lower aortic stiffness, while there was no statistically significant association between substitution of activity intensity and central hemodynamics. This suggests that lower aortic stiffness is one of a number of health benefits attributed to higher habitual physical activity.
Using ill-conditioned theory for physical-layer security in time-variant channels

The unstable characteristic of iII-conditioned system is used to guarantee wireless security in this paper. The use of ill-conditioned theory to protect wireless transmissions is proposed as a way to secure wireless networks at physical layer. Firstly, the problem of randomized transmission is converted to that of solving ill-conditioned equation to guarantee wireless transmissions with inherent low-probability-of interception (LPI). Secondly, a conditional ill-conditioned optimization function is constructed. The function of legitimate node is stable because of its matched channel. But the function of eavesdropper is randomized because that she has not the legitimate conditions, which relate to the wireless medium contains domain-specific information. In this context, we propose a security scheme for wireless security in time-variant channels. In this scheme, the variable part of channels is converted to additional conditions, which can be solved by optimizing parameters. In contrast to conventional physical-layer security techniques, the scheme exploits the redundancy of ill-conditioned problem's solutions instead of array redundancy for deliberate signal randomization, which effectively randomizes the eavesdropper's received signals but not the authorized receiver's signals. Extensive simulations and analysis results show that our proposed scheme is useful for securing wireless transmissions.
Transcriptional Regulation of Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Biosynthesis of chlorophyll (Chl) involves many enzymatic reactions that share several first steps for biosynthesis of other tetrapyrroles such as heme, siroheme, and phycobilins. Chl allows photosynthetic organisms to capture light energy for photosynthesis but with simultaneous threat of photooxidative damage to cells. To prevent photodamage by Chl and its highly photoreactive intermediates, photosynthetic organisms have developed multiple levels of regulatory mechanisms to coordinate tetrapyrrole biosynthesis (TPB) with the formation of photosynthetic and photoprotective systems and to fine-tune the metabolic flow with the varying needs of Chl and other tetrapyrroles under various developmental and environmental conditions. Among a wide range of regulatory mechanisms of TPB, this review summarizes transcriptional regulation of TPB genes during plant development, with focusing on several transcription factors characterized in Arabidopsis thaliana. Key TPB genes are tightly coexpressed with other photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes and are induced by light, oscillate in a diurnal and circadian manner, are coordinated with developmental and nutritional status, and are strongly downregulated in response to arrested chloroplast biogenesis. LONG HYPOCOTYL 5 and PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTORs, which are positive and negative transcription factors with a wide range of light signaling, respectively, target many TPB genes for light and circadian regulation. GOLDEN2-LIKE transcription factors directly regulate key TPB genes to fine-tune the formation of the photosynthetic apparatus with chloroplast functionality. Some transcription factors such as FAR-RED ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL3, REVEILLE1, and scarecrow-like transcription factors may directly regulate some specific TPB genes, whereas other factors such as GATA transcription factors are likely to regulate TPB genes in an indirect manner. Comprehensive transcriptional analyses of TPB genes and detailed characterization of key transcriptional regulators help us obtain a whole picture of transcriptional control of TPB in response to environmental and endogenous cues.
Alarmin augments the antitumor immunity of lentiviral vaccine in ectopic, orthotopic and autochthonous hepatocellular carcinoma mice

It is a daunting therapeutic challenge to completely eradicate hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from patients. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) -based vaccines appear promising, however the efficacy needs to be improved. Methods: Here, we explore if fusing high-mobility group nucleosome binding protein 1 (HMGN1), a potent immunoadjuvant, to AFP (lenti-HA) can augment the antitumor immunity of AFP-expressing lentiviral vector (lenti-AFP), a vehicle extensively employed for genetic immunization with high transduction efficacy and good safety profiles. The antitumor immunity of Lenti-HA was systemically assessed in ectopic, orthotopic and autochthonous HCC models. Results: Lenti-HA elicited strong anti-HCC effects in mice and amplified the antitumor immunity of lenti-AFP by reducing effective dose 6-fold. Importantly, lenti-HA induced a robust antitumor immune response with prolonged survival rate and improved the immune and tumor microenvironment in mice with carcinogen-induced autochthonous HCC. Lenti-HA localized primarily to lymphoid organs with no preference for specific immune cell types. Activated dendritic cells (DCs), particularly CD103+CD11b- DCs, were also actively recruited to lymph nodes in lenti-HA-treated HCC mice. Moreover, lenti-HA-transduced human DCs elicited stronger immune response than lenti-AFP against HCC cells in vitro. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates that HMGN1 augments the antitumor immunity of AFP-expressing lentiviral vaccines in HCC mice and human cells in vitro and thus provides a new therapeutic strategy for HCC.
Design and Simulation of GaN Superjunction Transistors With 2-DEG Channels and Fin Channels

High-performance 2-D-electron-gas (2-DEG) channel and submicron fin-shaped channel have recently been demonstrated in vertical GaN power transistors. This indicates that, unlike Si and SiC, the inversion-type metal–oxide–semiconductor channel is no longer the “default option” for future GaN superjunction transistors. This paper demonstrates the design and simulation of GaN superjunction transistors with 2-DEG and fin channels, i.e., a superjunction current-aperture vertical electron transistor (SJ-CAVET) and a superjunction fin field-effect-transistor (SJ-FinFET). A breakdown voltage over 2.2 kV and a specific on-resistance (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$R_{\mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle ON},\mathrm {sp}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.35~\text {m}\Omega \cdot \text {cm}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> were demonstrated in the simulated GaN SJ-CAVETs and SJ-FinFETs with 10-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-thick superjunction region. Mixed-mode simulations were used to evaluate their performance in 1.7 kV, 50-A power switching applications. Their <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$R_{\mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle ON},\mathrm {sp}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and die size are at least 30-to-50-fold smaller than that of today’s best 1.7-kV power transistors. Thanks to the smaller die size, the junction capacitances and switching charges are significantly smaller, allowing for a megahertz practical switching frequency which is at least tenfold higher than today’s 1.7-kV power transistors. The simulations of higher voltage GaN SJ-CAVETs and SJ-FinFETs up to 10 kV reveal consistent advantages over commercial transistors. These results show the great potentials of GaN SJ-CAVETs and SJ-FinFETs for future medium-voltage high-frequency power applications.
IP Fast Rerouting for Multi-Link Failures

IP fast reroute methods are used to recover packets in the data plane upon link failures. Previous work provided methods that guarantee failure recovery from at most two-link failures. We develop an IP fast reroute method that employs rooted arc-disjoint spanning trees to guarantee recovery from up to (k-1) link failures in a k-edge-connected network. As arc-disjoint spanning trees may be constructed in sub-quadratic time in the size of the network, our approach offers excellent scalability. Through experimental results, we show that employing arc-disjoint spanning trees to recover from multiple failures reduces path stretch in comparison with previously known techniques.
Shrinking the Sentiment Analysis for Signed Network Construction

To construct a signed network for online social networks would be very useful for Ad Serving, friend recommendation, and Web spammer detection. In the construction of the signed network for certain online social networks (e.g. microblog), sentiment analysis plays a critical role, and the construction of a signed networks turns out to be a big challenge with the rapid growth of the online social networks's content. Considering a non-trivial quantity of links could be predicted according to other links, we investigate the probability to reduce workload of the sentiment analysis for online social networks' content by sign prediction. Based on the analysis of the redundancy and balance degree of Slashdot, Wikipedia, and Epinions datasets, we propose an algorithm to shrink the sentiment analysis for signed network construction. Our evaluation shows that the shrinking algorithm manage to reduce the workload of sentiment analysis (from 21.6% to 48.7% for different datasets) with sacrifices of prediction accuracy from 6-17%.
Capturability-based analysis and control of legged locomotion, Part 1: Theory and application to three simple gait models

This two-part paper discusses the analysis and control of legged locomotion in terms of N-step capturability: the ability of a legged system to come to a stop without falling by taking N or fewer steps. We consider this ability to be crucial to legged locomotion and a useful, yet not overly restrictive criterion for stability. In this part (Part 1), we introduce a theoretical framework for assessing N-step capturability. This framework is used to analyze three simple models of legged locomotion. All three models are based on the 3D Linear Inverted Pendulum Model. The first model relies solely on a point foot step location to maintain balance, the second model adds a finite-sized foot, and the third model enables the use of centroidal angular momentum by adding a reaction mass. We analyze how these mechanisms influence N-step capturability, for any N > 0. Part 2 will show that these results can be used to control a humanoid robot.
CAPITAL INTELECTUAL DE UNIVERSIDADES FEDERAIS BRASILEIRAS: Influências isomórficas nas áreas de Administração e Planejamento.

O tema pesquisado objetiva verificar a influência do isomorfismo institucional no Capital Intelectual nas áreas de Administração e Planejamento de IES públicas federais brasileiras. Utilizou-se da base teórica conceitual de Bontis (1998; 1999) e Dias (2015) para o Capital Intelectual (CI) e seus componentes Humano, Estrutural e Relacional; e de DiMaggio e Powell (1983) para o isomorfismo institucional em suas origens coercitiva, mimética e normativa. Caracterizou-se como descritiva, realizada por survey, abordagem quantitativa e análise de dados por Modelagem de Equações Estruturais, técnica PLS. O universo pesquisado foram 63 IES, amostra probabilística e por adesão. Questionários foram direcionados aos gestores máximos das unidades, e obteve-se participação de 44 universidades. Os resultados confirmam achados anteriores, reforçando existência de relação com efeito positivo e significativo entre os componentes do Capital Intelectual. Quanto aos efeitos do isomorfismo no CI, os resultados mostraram que isomorfismo coercitivo influencia o Capital Relacional, e o normativo influencia o Capital Humano, ambos positivamente e significantes. Concluiu-se que, com a compreensão da relação entre os componentes do CI e dos efeitos do isomorfismo sobre este, é possível engendrar esforços para o gerir o Capital Intelectual e utilizar-se das influências do ambiente para a melhoria do desempenho das universidades.
Fusing technologies for a continuous positioning solution developed on a smartphone

Smartphones are attractive platforms for researchers to collect data coming from several sensors which could prove useful for the pedestrian localization systems due to their small size, low cost, and the fact that they are already carried routinely by most people. Up to date, there is no technology robust enough which works anywhere, continuously and which was accessible to the people in general. In this paper we present an application call WAY, Where Are You, developed on a mobile operating platform which brings to the palm of the people hands a solution to determine their position and direction of walking in a continuous and transparent way wherever they will be, inside buildings, outside or in transit between them. The application smartly fuses complementary technologies such as Global Positioning Satellite Systems, WiFi, Quick Response and Near Field Communication tags, and barometer to provide an accurate estimation of the user position.
TOWARD INTELLIGENT CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING VEHICLE TO VEHICLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

Grasping the current road condition on the route and the intention of the drivers of neighboring vehicles will be useful for safe, ecological and comfortable drive. Vehicle to vehicle network and visual communication using a vehicle-mounted camera are valuable techniques for this purpose. In this paper we present our two target systems using these techniques, Live Picture Car Navigation system and Navigation with Smart Blinkers, then discuss the technical issues for realizing these systems.
The Relationship of Physical Activity and Fitness between Ages

The aim of this study is to investigate the nature and magnitude of the relationship between self-reported physical activity and fitness and the extent to which the association varies with religion. A total of 112 subjects focused on the student population of Birmingham University undergone fitness testing by bicycle ergometer, body composition and self-reported health questionnaire. The research was conducted in cross-sectional design. Age (3%), vigorous exercise (15%), and % body fat (42%) predicted VO2max corrected for weight. When the sample was split into young and old participants, time spent in vigorous exercise and a measure of body composition predicted aerobic fitness in both cohorts, accounting for 50% of the variation in VO2max in the younger cohort but only 37% in the older cohort. With VO2max uncorrected for body weight, the strongest predictor was estimated total energy expenditure in physical activity, accounting for 38% of the variance in both cases. The VO2max declined with age by 0.31 ml·kg-1·min-1 per year. Percentage body fat and BMI increased with age, by 0.48% per year and 0.16 kg·m-2 per year, respectively. Moderate exercise increased with age as vigorous exercise decreased, yielding no net change in the total time spent exercising. Again, for weight corrected VO2max it was vigorous exercise and % body fat that predicted. This study is important in helping individuals create a new lifestyle of health as well as a guide to all of the importance of physical activity that is able to prolong the life of the individual.