Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Allergy to iguana.

BACKGROUND Furry animals produce allergens that can cause allergic rhinitis and asthma. In contrast, scaly animals, such as lizards, are assumed not to be allergenic. OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate a 32-year-old man who complained of allergic rhinitis and asthma symptoms that occurred exclusively in his own home. He had dogs and cats at home but denied any increase in symptoms specifically associated with these pets. Skin prick testing initially performed to 42 common aeroallergens, including cat, dog, and house dust mite, elicited negative results. He later reported that the symptoms were worse on exposure to his pet iguanas. METHODS Skin prick tests were subsequently performed to an extract made from scales from his pet iguana. Extracts were also prepared from several zoo reptiles. Immunoassays for IgE antibody, as well as IgE immunoblots, were performed by using these extracts and the patient's serum. RESULTS The skin prick test result with the pet iguana scale extract was positive. The patient's serum contained IgE antibody to his own pet iguana and to a zoo iguana. CONCLUSION Our patient's history, skin test results, and in vitro studies clearly demonstrate that he is allergic to iguana. Physicians should be aware that such allergy to scaly pets may occur and should not restrict history taking to questions about furry pets.
Research on Automatic Extraction of Web Metadata

Traditional web retrieval system is based on whole-length search of keyword, which would bring large results, but users can’t find the answer that they need quickly. This paper presents a model of information retrieval based on media data, to improve the web information retrieval efficiency and precision in specific fields. The result shows that the method based on metadata is effective for the task of web text information retrieval.
Constraint-Based Refactoring

Constraint-based refactoring generalizes constraint-based type refactoring as introduced by Tip et al. [61] by extending the coverage of change from types to names, locations, accessibilities, and other properties of program elements. Starting with a generic specification of refactoring tools, we systematically develop constraint-based refactoring as a generic solution to a certain class of refactoring problems and provide a condition under which constraint-based refactoring tools are proven correct for any given target language. Although compliance with this correctness condition is hard to prove for target languages whose semantics is not formally defined, we show how the condition gives rise to automated testing procedures. We present a novel algorithm based on constraint-logic programming for the generation of constraints from a program to be refactored, and demonstrate its time and space requirements by using it in the application of refactorings to open source programs. Summarizing earlier work, we show how the principles underlying constraint-based refactoring tools extend to ad hoc refactoring, cross-language refactoring, and model/code co-refactoring.
Cultural identity as a production in process: Dialectics in Hongkongers’ account

The type of identity most salient in intercultural communication is probably cultural identity, also a major issue in intercultural communication studies. This study adopts a dialectical perspective and approaches cultural identity as a dynamic production in and through intercultural contact and interaction. Semi-structured interviews of educated young Hongkongers turned out accounts of cultural identity along with their language use in day-to-day activities. These provided indirect access to some lived experience of people in a culturally special society. The study identifies dialectics evident in the production of cultural identity and uncovers ways people deal with dialectic tension in the process.
J an 2 00 7 Critical speeding-up in a local dynamics for the random-cluster model

We study the dynamic critical behavior of the local bond-update (Sweeny) dynamics for the Fortuin–Kasteleyn random-cluster model in dimensions d = 2, 3, by Monte Carlo simulation. We show that, for a suitable range of q values, the global observable S2 exhibits “critical speeding-up”: it decorrelates well on time scales much less than one sweep, so that the integrated autocorrelation time tends to zero as the critical point is approached. We also show that the dynamic critical exponent zexp is very close (possibly equal) to the rigorous lower bound α/ν, and quite possibly smaller than the corresponding exponent for the Chayes–Machta–Swendsen–Wang cluster dynamics.
PHYSIO-BIOCHEMICAL ALTERATIONS IN TRYPANOSOMA INFECTED DOG

Trypanosomosis is a disease caused by a flagellate protozoan known as Trypanosoma evansi, transmitted by hematophagous insects. It parasites showed a large diversity of mammalian hosts. Dogs may show clinical changes such as weight loss, progressive weakness, anorexia, anemia, intermittent fever, conjunctivitis, swelling of limbs and increased of superficial lymph nodes. Treatment of trypanosomosis relies on the use of diminazene aceturate which is effective for the treatment of disease in infected animals. However, a single dose of drug are not effective for horses, mules and dogs, since drug neither cross the blood-brain barrier or has insufficient doses to control the T. evansi infection. Therefore, the present study aimed to report the curative efficacy of a new therapeutic protocol, based on diminazene aceturate, for dogs infected with T evansi. In the present study, Trypanosoma infection is reported in a male Labrador dog of three years age at TVCC, Goregaon, Mumbai. Clinical signs and symptoms of infection are recorded. Confirmation of case was done by microscopic examination of Trypanosoma organism in thick blood smear and serum biochemistry. Furthermore, their effect on certain hematological parameters was studied and concluded that there was decrease of hemoglobin (Hb) concentration and packed cell volume (PCV) and Total protein while erythrocytes sedimentation rate (ESR), SGOT and SGPT levels were increased in the infected dog.
std1, a Gene Involved in Glucose Transport in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

ABSTRACT A wild-type strain, Sp972 h−, ofSchizosaccharomyces pombe was mutagenized with ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS), and 2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG)-resistant mutants were isolated. Out of 300 independent 2-DOG-resistant mutants, 2 failed to grow on glucose and fructose (mutants 3/8 and 3/23); however, their hexokinase activity was normal. They have been characterized as defective in their sugar transport properties, and the mutations have been designated as std1-8 andstd1-23 (sugar transport defective). The mutations are allelic and segregate as part of a single gene when the mutants carrying them are crossed to a wild-type strain. We confirmed the transport deficiency of these mutants by [14C]glucose uptake. They also fail to grow on other monosaccharides, such as fructose, mannose, and xylulose, as well as disaccharides, such as sucrose and maltose, unlike the wild-type strain. Lack of growth of the glucose transport-deficient mutants on maltose revealed the extracellular breakdown of maltose in S. pombe, unlike inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Both of the mutants are unable to grow on low concentrations of glucose (10 to 20 mM), while one of them, 3/23, grows on high concentrations (50 to 100 mM) as if altered in its affinity for glucose. This mutant (3/23) shows a lag period of 12 to 18 h when grown on high concentrations of glucose. The lag disappears when the culture is transferred from the log phase of its growth on high concentrations. These mutants complement phenotypically similar sugar transport mutants (YGS4 and YGS5) reported earlier by Milbradt and Hoefer (Microbiology 140:2617–2623, 1994), and the clone complementing YGS4 and YGS5 was identified as the only glucose transporter in fission yeast having 12 transmembrane domains. These mutants also demonstrate two other defects: lack of induction and repression of shunt pathway enzymes and defective mating.
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction

The paper introduces the current debate in the human sciences between the opposing conceptual positions of 'modernism' and 'postmodernism' and discusses its implications for organizational analysis. The debate focusses on the nature of 'discourse' (information, knowledge, communication) and its role in social systems. The discourse of modernism rests on transcendent yet anthropocentric criteria such as 'progress' and 'reason' which are varyingly exemplified in the work of Bell, Luhmann and Habermas. In contrast, postmodern discourse (represented here mainly by the work of Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari) analyzes social life in terms of paradox and indeterminacy, thus rejecting the human agent as the centre of rational control and understanding. The paper then considers two contrasting views of the organizing process which follow from these opposing approaches to discourse. In the modernist model, organization is viewed as a social tool and an extension of human rationality. In the postmodern view, organization is less the expression of planned thought and calculative action and a more defensive reaction to forces intrinsic to the social body which constantly threaten the stability of organized life. The implications of the latter view for orthodox organizational analysis are discussed in some detail.
SPIRITUALITY IN ISLAMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MOTIVATIONAND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS IN KELANTAN

Spirituality is a vital aspect in the context of Islamic entrepreneurship. In fact, the Malay entrepreneur’s achievement that associated with their attitude as one of the influential factors in many extents, is derived from internal religious values as a final solution. However, there is little studies that scrutinizing this issue extensively in the context of the entrepreneurs success. Therefore, this research will explore spiritual aspects by identifying the related characteristics and the significance from motivational view and achievements that would lead to the success in entrepreneurship. Through an in-depth interview and thematic analysis, it can be said that the characteristics and spiritual practice do influence the motivation of entrepreneurs to build confidence and perseverance. Holding tight to the moral principles and assisting to more efficient managerial aspects and the undertakings will lead to the success in the business endeavour.
Visual Attention to Repeated Print Advertising: A Test of Scanpath Theory

The authors examine consumers’ visual attention during repeated exposures to print advertisements using eye-tracking methodology. The authors propose a statistical model comprising submodels for two key measures of visual attention to elements of the advertisement: attention duration and inter- and intraelement saccades. These measures are vital to understanding attention wear-out and the impact of repetition on advertising effectiveness but have not been considered in previous research. The results of two studies show that (1) attention duration decreases significantly across advertising repetitions and (2) attentional scanpaths, as measured through saccades, remain constant across advertising repetitions and across experimentally induced and naturally occurring conditions. Scanpaths obey a stationary, reversible, first-order Markov process. The authors offer implications for attention theory and advertising processing.
Personalized Mobile Searching Approach Based on Combining Content-Based Filtering and Collaborative Filtering

Resources in cloud computing platforms such as Amazon, Google AppEngine, and Microsoft Azure are a natural fit to remedy the lack of local resources in mobile devices, which creates a new space of mobile search to improve the availability of cloud resources. In essence, mobile search is a context-aware and personalized activity since mobile devices' inherent movability allows people to retrieve information anytime and anywhere. However, current mobile search products are always far from personalized and are accuracy centered on the convergence of mobile platforms. In this paper, a hybrid filtering mechanism is proposed to eliminate irrelevant or less relevant results for personalized mobile search, which combines content-based filtering and collaborative filtering. The former filters the results according to the mobile user's feature model generated from the user's query history, and the latter filters the results using the user's social network, which is constructed from the user's communication history. Experiments show that the filtering mechanism can significantly improve the user's personalized and precise searching experience on mobile phones.
Hard Work for Love

While family migration has often been categorized as “unwanted” or “suffered” immigration in the immigration literature and by policy makers, a closer examination of entry and integration rules for family migrations in Norway suggests that this is only partly true. While the admission of family members is rooted in human rights norms and, in particular, the right to protection of family life, the actual practices of family-based admissions cannot be understood without an analysis of the selectivity of family migration policies according to economic criteria, which reveals that some family migrants are in fact more wanted than others, and that the income requirement allows Norwegian policy makers to select and reject family migrants.
Survey on nonobstructive and continuous user authentication on mobile devices

The use of mobile devices in our day to day life has increased drastically in the last ten years. Much of it can be contributed to the breakthrough in the field of communication. Since they contain most of our personal information, the constant worry of security and privacy has increased. In order to tackle this problem, non-obstructive and continuous user authentication has been proposed. This paper deals with the methods that have been proposed till now and the challenges that are yet to be overcome in this field.
La notion de compétence : un modèle pour décrire, évaluer et développer les compétences

La notion competence est tres polysemique. La psychologie dispose, pourtant, de nombreux de concepts et cadre theoriques pertinents pour rendre compte des processus par lesquels elle s’exprime, au-dela, par exemple, de la classique trilogie des savoirs, savoir-faire et savoir-etre ou d’une bien mysterieuse combinaison de ressources. L’un des objectifs de la presente contribution consiste a tenter de degager l’essentiel de ces apports et d’en proposer une synthese sous la forme d’un modele de la competence (maddec). Deux recherches empiriques sont evoquees pour en illustrer une utilisation descriptive ou evaluative. Pour terminer, nous cherchons a preciser comment, dans cette logique, peuvent etre modelisees les activites de tutelle, deployees dans de nombreuses situations de formation ou de travail pour etayer le developpement de competences academiques ou professionnelles (madic).
Temporal Program Verification and Synthesis as Horn Constraints Solving

Program verification aims at ensuring a program satisfies a given desirable property. Temporal logics form an important class of specification languages. Advances in dealing with existential temporal properties of programs are not on par with that of universal properties. We propose a Horn constraints based method that can not only formalize declaratively but also solve efficiently various problems in formal methods that involve existential (and universal) temporal properties. We apply our method to verify branching-time temporal properties and compute winning strategies in graph games over infinite-state programs.
On‐the‐fly generation and rendering of infinite cities on the GPU

In this paper, we present a new approach for shape‐grammar‐based generation and rendering of huge cities in real‐time on the graphics processing unit (GPU). Traditional approaches rely on evaluating a shape grammar and storing the geometry produced as a preprocessing step. During rendering, the pregenerated data is then streamed to the GPU. By interweaving generation and rendering, we overcome the problems and limitations of streaming pregenerated data. Using our methods of visibility pruning and adaptive level of detail, we are able to dynamically generate only the geometry needed to render the current view in real‐time directly on the GPU. We also present a robust and efficient way to dynamically update a scene's derivation tree and geometry, enabling us to exploit frame‐to‐frame coherence. Our combined generation and rendering is significantly faster than all previous work. For detailed scenes, we are capable of generating geometry more rapidly than even just copying pregenerated data from main memory, enabling us to render cities with thousands of buildings at up to 100 frames per second, even with the camera moving at supersonic speed.
The religiosity of children of immigrants and natives in England, Germany, and the Netherlands: The role of parents and peers in class

This article examines the role of parents and peers for the religiosity of ethnic minority and majority adolescents, about which little is known in the literature. We analyze data from the nationally representative and cross-nationally comparative survey 'Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Four European Countries' CILS4EU (2010-2011) with information from >13,000 adolescents in England, Germany, and the Netherlands. Results from this school-based survey show that ethnic minority adolescents, and in particular those with Muslim parents, are more religious than native-majority adolescents. Transmission of more private aspects of religiosity (i.e. 'the subjective importance people attach to religion') is more successful among ethnic minority families compared with native-majority families. No minority-majority differences are found in the intergenerational transmission of more public dimensions of religiosity (i.e. frequency of 'religious attendance' and 'prayer'). Furthermore, we find that beyond the influence of parents, the religiosity of adolescents is positively associated with the average religiosity of their peers in class. In line with the argument that peer influence is stronger between members of the same, rather than different, ethnic groups, we also observe that the strength of the relation between average religiosity in class and individual religiosity increases with the share of co-ethnic peers in class.
Alkaline DNase activity in cells infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of herpes simplex virus type 2

BHK cells infected with the temperature-sensitive mutant ts13 of herpes simplex virus type 2 at a nonpermissive temperature lack the alkaline nuclease activity, which is induced by the mutant at a permissive temperature and by wild-type virus at either temperature. For ts13, enzyme activity could be induced by a temperature shift to permissive conditions, but not in the presence of cycloheximide. After a shift from permissive to nonpermissive conditions in the presence of cycloheximide, the activity was stable in wild-type, but not in mutant-infected, cells. After extensive purification, the wild-type nuclease was fourfold more heat stable in the presence of substrate than was the mutant enzyme. Mixtures of both purified enzymes showed the predicted intermediate stabilities. The results strongly suggest that the enzyme is virus coded and that the mutant possesses a lesion in the structural gene of the enzyme.
Quantitative Parameters for the Assessment of Renal Scintigraphic Images

Renal scintigraphy is a well-established functional technique for the visual evaluation of the renal cortical mass. It allows the visualization of the radiopharmaceutical tracer distribution, the size, shape, symmetry, and position of the kidneys. However, the (visual) analysis of these images tend to be subjective, causing significant variability in the interpretation of findings. This paper proposes objective measures that reflect common findings observed in those images, and potentially can minimize the inter-observer variability. We also propose a segmentation method specific for renal scintigraphic images. Our preliminary experiments indicate that our proposed features agree in at least 90% of the cases with the specialists visual evaluation.
Science Textbooks' Use of Graphical Representation: A Descriptive Analysis of Four Sixth Grade Science Texts

Middle school teachers tend to rely heavily on texts that have become increasing more visual. There is little information available about the graphical demands of general middle grades' science texts. The purpose of this study was to quantify the type and quality of the graphical representations and how they interacted with the textual material in middle school science texts. Four State of Texas–approved sixth-grade science texts were examined using a researcher-developed instrument, Graphical Analysis Protocol (GAP). Results produced reasons for concern (least analytic forms of graphics dominated, one third of all graphics were decorative in nature, most graphics were static in nature, and approximately one third were not connected to the text spatially or semantically) and reasons for optimism (approximately one third of the time more analytic forms of graphics were used, two thirds served a specific cognitive function, and over half of the graphics were connected to the text and indexically referenced). Further research is warranted on a larger sample of texts from different states, publishers, grade levels, and subjects. It is also important to establish a connection to increased student learning and/or teacher preference due to higher incidences of any of the variables or principles that make up the GAP instrument.
Ergenlerde Bilişsel Esneklik ile Akademik, Sosyal ve Duygusal Yetkinlik İnançları Arasındaki İlişki

The aim of this study is to examine the relation between cognitive flexibility and the academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy beliefs of adolescents. For this purpose, data was collected from 270 high school student adolescents (163 female, 107 male, Xage=16.00, ss=1.11). The cognitive flexibility scale and the adolescent self-efficacy expectation scale were used. According to the first finding obtained, while the cognitive flexibility, academic self-efficacy, and social self-efficacy beliefs did not differentiate according to sex, the emotional self-efficacy scores differentiated in favour of males. Second, significant relations in positive terms were obtained between cognitive flexibility and academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy beliefs. Lastly, emotional and social self-efficacy beliefs were found to predict cognitive flexibility scores in a significant way.
An Investigation of Reinforcements, Time Use, and Student Attentiveness in Piano Lessons

This investigation was a survey of natural rates and ratios of reinforcements, time use, student attentiveness, and interruptions of student performance in 96 private piano lessons. Forty-eight teachers and two students per teacher voluntarily participated with student age ranging from preschool to older adult. Intervallic observation procedures were used with an observation form adapted for this investigation; pilot-testing of the form resulted in interobserver reliability of . 85. Results indicated that student age was a significant factor in observed differences among twelve selected variables. Elementary students (preschool through grade 6) received highest rates and ratios of approvals, secondary students (grades 7 through 12) spent more lesson time in student performance, and adults (high school graduates to adults of retirement age) were most on-task during lessons. All students were on-task for at least 85% of the lesson time. The survey found that lesson time was largely divided between student performance and teacher instruction.