Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Taking the Watchdog Off Its Leash: Personal Prejudices and Situational Motivations Jointly Predict Derogation of a Stigmatized Source

Lower- and higher-prejudiced individuals may strategically derogate negatively stereotyped individuals. Regardless of degree of prejudice, participants with a directional goal to discredit a threatening message and its source were more likely to do so when the source belonged to a negatively stereotyped group. They also were less persuaded by that stigmatized source. When this directional goal was negated by making the message nonthreatening, lower-prejudiced individuals evaluated the stigmatized and nonstigmatized sources, and their messages, similarly and were equally persuaded by both sources. When an accuracy goal was simultaneously introduced, lower-prejudice participants again rated the stigmatized and nonstigmatized sources comparably yet continued to derogate the stigmatized speaker's message and were less persuaded by him. Removing the directional goal or adding the accuracy goal did not affect higher-prejudiced participants' evaluations. The importance of examining situational goals and individual differences when studying biased responding is discussed.
E-PACT: ESPERTO PARAPHRASE ALIGNED CORPUS OF EN-EP/BP TRANSLATIONS

This paper presents e-PACT, a corpus of paraphrase aligned European and Brazilian Portuguese sentences sampled from the translations of two literary English books by David Lodge available in the COMPARA bilingual corpora. We used a subcorpus of the e-PACT sentence-aligned corpus as a baseline to annotate paraphrastic units that correspond to semantically equivalent multiwords, phrases, and expressions between the two variants of Portuguese. The annotation task was performed through the use of an alignment tool called CLUE-Aligner and by following a set of guidelines, the CLUE4Paraphrasing Alignment Guidelines. The resulting corpus annotated with pairs of paraphrastic units constitutes the Gold CLUE4Paraphrasing. All the resources, the e-PACT corpus, the Gold CLUE4Paraphrasing subcorpus, the CLUE4Paraphrasing Alignment Guidelines, and the CLUEAligner tool were developed in the scope of the eSPERTo project. 1 0 . 1 7 7 7 1 /P U C R io . T ra d R ev . 3 0 5 9 1
A numerical algorithm for solving displacement kinematics of parallel manipulators

This paper presents a numerical algorithm to solve the inverse and forward displacement problems with preferred and practical configurations. The proposed algorithm is adaptable for different accuracies and is defined by the geometrical characteristics of the manipulator. To verify the capabilities of the algorithm, it is used to solve the inverse and forward displacement problems for the 3-P_RS and then for the 3-R_RRR manipulators. Inverse and forward displacement solutions for the 3-P_RS are compared to closed-form and Bezout's elimination method respectively.
Multi-Channel Lexicon Integrated CNN-BiLSTM Models for Sentiment Analysis

We improved sentiment classifier for predicting document-level sentiments from Twitter by using multi-channel lexicon embedidngs. The core of the architecture is based on CNN-BiLSTM that can capture high level features and long term dependency in documents. We also applied multi-channel method on lexicon to improve lexicon features. The macro-averaged F1 score of our model outperformed other classifiers in this paper by 1-4%. Our model achieved F1 score of 64% in SemEval Task 4 (2013-2016) datasets when multi-channel lexicon embedding was applied with 100 dimensions of word embedding
A comparison of insulated DC-DC converters for HVDC off-shore wind farms

To produce cleaner electrical energy, a lot of European countries have decided to develop off shore wind farms. To connect these wind farms to the grid, an HVDC link seems to be the best solution when the distance is important. Actually, the wind turbines generate a low frequency AC voltage and they are connected to the HVDC line with LCCs or VSCs. The solution proposed in this paper consists in taking out the intermediate medium voltage AC stage of the wind farm. For the power transmission, the medium voltage DC is directly stepped-up by insulated DC-DC converters operating at a medium frequency (10 kHz) in order to reduce the size of the passive components (mainly the transformer). Considering the characteristics of 10 kV SiC devices, this paper proposes a comparison of three topologies suitable for this application. The study takes into consideration the sizing of the passive components (transformers, capacitors.), the transformer losses, the semiconductor losses and the global efficiency.
Key Golgi Factors for Structural and Functional Maturation of Bunyamwera Virus

ABSTRACT Several complex enveloped viruses assemble in the membranes of the secretory pathway, such as the Golgi apparatus. Among them, bunyaviruses form immature viral particles that change their structure in a trans-Golgi-dependent manner. To identify key Golgi factors for viral structural maturation, we have purified and characterized the three viral forms assembled in infected cells, two intracellular intermediates and the extracellular mature virion. The first viral form is a pleomorphic structure with fully endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase H (Endo-H)-sensitive, nonsialylated glycoproteins. The second viral intermediate is a structure with hexagonal and pentagonal contours and partially Endo-H-resistant glycoproteins. Sialic acid is incorporated into the small glycoprotein of this second viral form. Growing the virus in glycosylation-deficient cells confirmed that acquisition of Endo-H resistance but not sialylation is critical for the trans-Golgi-dependent structural maturation and release of mature viruses. Conformational changes in viral glycoproteins triggered by changes in sugar composition would then induce the assembly of a compact viral particle of angular contours. These structures would be competent for the second maturation step, taking place during exit from cells, that originates fully infectious virions.
Total syntheses of durgamone, nakorone, and abudinol B via biomimetic oxa- and carbacyclizations.

The first biomimetic total syntheses of ent-nakorone, ent-durgamone, and ent-abudinol B were accomplished by combining features of tandem polyepoxide cyclization with biomimetic polyene cyclization. The present biomimetic synthesis route offers efficient access to these marine natural products. In addition, the synthesis of the tetrasubstituted alkene of ent-abudinol B demonstrates the application of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of two different polycyclic ketones via the corresponding vinyl triflates, followed by partial hydrogenation of the resulting conjugated diene.
Antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects of mixed micellar lipid formulation of phyllanthin and piperine in carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury in rodents.

Phyllanthin, a sparingly water-soluble hepatoprotective lignin obtained from Phyllanthus amarus Schum. et Thonn. (Euphorbiaceae) possesses low bioavailability. Phyllanthin along with piperine (a nutraceutical bioenhancer) was formulated as a mixed micellar lipid formulation (MMLF) in the present study and investigated to resolve the low bioavailability and enhance hepatoprotective effects on oral administration. Hepatoprotective, antioxidant and bioavailability studies of MMLF, a complex phosphatidylcholine formulation of phyllanthin (CP-PC), phyllanthin + piperine (CP-P-PC) and its corresponding non-formulated phyllanthin have been carried out. Phyllanthin (30 mg kg(-1) p.o. ), CP-PC (30 mg kg(-1) p.o. ), CP-P-PC (30 mg kg(-1) p.o. ) and the reference drug silymarin (100 mg kg(-1), p.o. ) were administered daily to rats for 10 days, followed by liver damage by administering a 1 : 1 (v/v) mixture of CCl4 and olive oil (1 ml kg(-1), i.p.) for 7 days from day 4 to day 10. The degree of protection was evaluated by determining the level of marker enzymes (SGOT and SGPT), bilirubin (TB) and total proteins (TP). Further, the effects of MMLF on lipid peroxidation (LPO), glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and glutathione reductase (GR) were estimated in liver homogenates to evaluate the antioxidant activity. Finally the concentration of phyllanthin was evaluated in plasma. EC50 values for the in vitro antioxidant assay with DPPH were found to be 19.99, 15.94 and 13.5 for phyllanthin, CP-PC and CP-P-PC, respectively. CP-P-PC (30 mg kg(-1) p.o. ) showed significant (p < 0.05) hepatoprotective effect by reducing the levels of serum marker enzymes (SGOT, SGPT, and TB), whereas, elevated the levels of depleted total protein (TP), lipid peroxidation and antioxidant marker enzyme activities such as, GSH, SOD, CAT, GPX, and GR. The complex MMLF normalized adverse conditions of rat livers more efficiently than the non-formulated phyllanthin. The present findings indicate that the MMLF is helpful in solving the problem of low bioavailability of phyllanthin.
Biochemistry of Parkinson's disease 28 years later: A critical review

These observations suggest that parkinsonian patients (defined by severe degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system) can be divided into three groups: (a) The first are the “dopamine-dependent” syndromes. Patients in this category have essentially only dopaminergic lesions. Their disease begins at an early age, and they respond well to levodopa. In spite of the progression of the disease, their parkinsonian scores with levodopa treatment remain minimal or, at least constant, throughout the course of the disease. (b) In the second group, which represents the majority of cases, degeneration of the nigrostriatal system is accompanied by loss of nondopaminergic neurons. The associated lesions do not prevent levodopa from acting, so that the motor score initially improved by levodopa treatment continues to be so after several years. These are the classic cases in which what looks like a decrease in response to levodopa treatment is, in fact, the emergence of new symptoms that are more or less resistant to treatment: axial motor symptoms such as dysarthria, postural disability and gait disorders, and progressive intellectual decline. The patients are “levodopa-responsive,” but only for the symptoms resulting from dopaminergic lesions. (c) In certain parkinsonian syndromes such as progressive supranuclear palsy, in which lesions affect not only the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system but also nondopaminergic efferents from the basal ganglia (caudate nucleus, putamen, pallidum, thalamus). In these cases, levodopa may well be effective at the dopaminergic synapses, but the therapeutic consequences are blocked because neurotransmission is disrupted again further downstream. The severity of the treated score due to nondopa-minergic lesions increases, while the response of dopamine-dependent symptoms decreases with time. The clinical picture is a form of parkinsonism that is largely or completely drug resistant.
Research on the extraction of competency elements based upon the BEI & AHP method

This paper concerns about the key sector in process of modeling competency —extracting competency specially. Draw support from the operational BEI method by Professor McClelland and AHP method with the combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis by the TL Professor Sati's. So that managers understand the concept of competency deeply, improve this competency-based method, and enhance the effectiveness and flexibility of human resource management activities
ZAP‐70 expression is associated with increased risk of autoimmune cytopenias in CLL patients

Autoimmune cytopenias (AIC) are frequent in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients, but risk factors and prognostic relevance of these events are controversial. Data about the influence on AIC of biological prognostic markers, as ZAP‐70, are scanty. We retrospectively evaluated AIC in 290 CLL patients tested for ZAP‐70 expression by immunohistochemistry on bone marrow biopsy at presentation. They were 185 men, median age 63 years, 77.9% Binet stage A, 17.6% B and 4.5% C. AIC occurred in 46 patients (16%): 31 autoimmune hemolytic anemias, 10 autoimmune thrombocytopenias, four Evans syndromes, and one pure red cell aplasia. Of the 46 cases of AIC, 37 (80%) occurred in ZAP‐70 positive patients and nine (20%) in ZAP‐70 negatives. ZAP‐70 expression [Hazard Ratio (HR) = 7.42; 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.49–22.05] and age >65 years (HR = 5.41; 95% CI: 1.67–17.49) resulted independent risk factors for AIC. Among the 136 patients evaluated both for ZAP‐70 expression and IGHV status, the occurrence of AIC was higher in ZAP‐70 positive/IGHV unmutated cases (35%) than in patients ZAP‐70 negative/IGHV mutated (6%) or discordant for the two parameters (4%; P < 0.0001). In ZAP‐70 positive patients, occurrence of AIC negatively influenced survival (HR = 1.75; 95% CI: 1.06–2.86). The high risk of developing AIC in ZAP‐70 positive CLL, particularly when IGHV unmutated, should be considered in the clinical management. Am. J. Hematol. 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Enzymatic Amplification of DNA by PCR: Standard Procedures and Optimization

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used to enzymatically amplify small quantities of specific DNA sequences. The reaction must optimized to specifically amplify the sequences and primers of interest; this includes titration of magnesium chloride and selection of enhancing agents, if appropriate, to minimize nonspecific primer target interactions and maximize the specificity, sensitivity, and yield.
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Tools Developed in a Clinical Environment

ABSTRACT. Brain computer interfaces are devices that collect signals from a subject's cortical surface and interpret these signals to control a computer. Recently much development has been done on these devices with the help of epilepsy patients and the clinical staff who treat these patients. The types of data collected from epilepsy patients, particularly the invasive data give a unique opportunity to researchers in this area. The clinical staff has a unique opportunity to use the treatment of one patient population to help another.
Dissipative soliton resonance in an all-normal-dispersion graphene oxide mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

We observed dissipative soliton resonance in graphene oxide mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser, which delivered square-shaped nanosecond pulses of 0.52ns~60.8ns and single pulse energy of 137.1nJ at 1064.9nm. The 3dB-bandwidth of Lorentz-shaped spectrum was 0.19nm.
Convergence analysis for dynamic synchronization of second-order multi-agent systems via reference model based algorithm

This paper revisits the synchronization problem for second-order multi-agent systems (MASs) under dynamically changing communication topology. By employing the reference model based synchronization algorithm, it is finally shown that synchronization for both the position and velocity states can be achieved if the union of the communication topologies has a directed spanning tree frequently enough. This extends the existing results obtained for second-order MASs which exploits mild communication topology condition guaranteeing the synchronization to a more general case.
Proceedings of the 2002 Usenix Annual Technical Conference Cooperative Task Management without Manual Stack Management Or, Event-driven Programming Is Not the opposite of Threaded Programming

Cooperative task management can provide program architects with ease of reasoning about concurrency issues. This property is often espoused by those who recommend " event-driven " programming over " multi-threaded " programming. Those terms conflate several issues. In this paper, we clarify the issues, and show how one can get the best of both worlds: reason more simply about concurrency in the way " event-driven " advocates recommend, while preserving the readability and maintainability of code associated with " multithreaded " programming. We identify the source of confusion about the two programming styles as a conflation of two concepts: task management and stack management. Those two concerns define a two-axis space in which " multithreaded " and " event-driven " programming are diagonally opposite ; there is a third " sweet spot " in the space that combines the advantages of both programming styles. We point out pitfalls in both alternative forms of stack management , manual and automatic, and we supply techniques that mitigate the danger in the automatic case. Finally, we exhibit adaptors that enable automatic stack management code and manual stack management code to interoperate in the same code base.
DESIGNING SMART REGULATION

One of the crucial issues of our time is how to avoid serious, and perhaps cataclysmic, damage to the natural environment. The causes of such damage are both complex and controversial, and arise from a wide variety of social and economic pressures. The results, however, are more readily apparent. The evidence that pollution, land degradation, de-forestation, ozone depletion, climate change, and the loss of biological diversity are inflicting serious and in some cases irreversible damage to the planet which sustains us, is increasingly compelling. Indeed, it is arguable that the window of opportunity for averting major ecological disaster is a rapidly shrinking one, and that, in some cases, it may already be too late to prevent ongoing environmental degradation.
Automatic acoustic analysis for biodiversity preservation: A multi-environmental approach

Biodiversity preservation is essential for environmental health, which is becoming a valuable indicator for quality of life for human being. In this sense, automatic and bioinspired intelligent system can provide powerful tools for monitoring, identification or tracking of species. Automatic acoustic analysis is a non-invasive methodology, easy to use and useful even in complex conditions and inaccessible environments. This work is focused on the development of an automatic system for analysis of environmental agents and their interaction and it is based on human hearing abilities and several Machine Learning paradigms. This preliminary system is evaluated over a multi-environmental database.
Multicentre evaluation of a new point-of-care test for the determination of NT-proBNP in whole blood

Abstract Background: The Roche CARDIAC proBNP point-of-care (POC) test is the first test intended for the quantitative determination of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in whole blood as an aid in the diagnosis of suspected congestive heart failure, in the monitoring of patients with compensated left-ventricular dysfunction and in the risk stratification of patients with acute coronary syndromes. Methods: A multicentre evaluation was carried out to assess the analytical performance of the POC NT-proBNP test at seven different sites. Results: The majority of all coefficients of variation (CVs) obtained for within-series imprecision using native blood samples was below 10% for both 52 samples measured ten times and for 674 samples measured in duplicate. Using quality control material, the majority of CV values for day-to-day imprecision were below 14% for the low control level and below 13% for the high control level. In method comparisons for four lots of the POC NT-proBNP test with the laboratory reference method (Elecsys proBNP), the slope ranged from 0.93 to 1.10 and the intercept ranged from 1.8 to 6.9. The bias found between venous and arterial blood with the POC NT-proBNP method was ≤5%. All four lots of the POC NT-proBNP test investigated showed excellent agreement, with mean differences of between −5% and +4%. No significant interference was observed with lipaemic blood (triglyceride concentrations up to 6.3mmol/L), icteric blood (bilirubin concentrations up to 582μmol/L), haemolytic blood (haemoglobin concentrations up to 62mg/L), biotin (up to 10mg/L), rheumatoid factor (up to 42IU/mL), or with 50 out of 52 standard or cardiological drugs in therapeutic concentrations. With bisoprolol and BNP, somewhat higher bias in the low NT-proBNP concentration range (<175ng/L) was found. Haematocrit values between 28% and 58% had no influence on the test result. Interference may be caused by human anti-mouse antibodies (HAMA) types 1 and 2. No significant influence on the results with POC NT-proBNP was found using volumes of 140–165μL. High NT-proBNP concentrations above the measuring range of the POC NT-proBNP test did not lead to false low results due to a potential high-dose hook effect. Conclusions: The POC NT-proBNP test showed good analytical performance and excellent agreement with the laboratory method. The POC NT-proBNP assay is therefore suitable in the POC setting. Clin Chem Lab Med 2006;44:1269–77.
Detecting Nonlinear Acoustic Properties of Snoring Sounds using Hilbert-Huang Transform

Since snoring is known to be related to sleep apnea syndrome, many medical/physiological researchers have focused on the biomechanism of snoring and the acoustic properties. Snoring sounds are the mixture of the nonlinear oscillation sounds of the oropharyngeal soft tissues and the airflow noises during inhalation. In conventional studies, however, such properties have not been paid attention to, because there were no suitable methods for the analysis of nonlinear and nonstationary time series data. In this paper, we adopt Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) to clarify the nonlinear and nonstationary properties in a nasal snoring sound. As a result, two types of frequency fluctuation are found in the Hilbert-Huang spectrum.
Security Governance in Multi-cloud Environment: A Systematic Mapping Study

Cloud computing has revolutionized delivery of IT solutions increasing economic advantages, robustness, scalability, elasticity and security. Nowadays to achieve their cloud goals, organizations are increasingly move towards enabling multi-cloud environments which promised to support very large-scale, worldwide, distributed applications using multiple and independent cloud environments. However, given their complexity and distribution, multi-cloud has to face several key challenges around security and governance such as interoperability, portability, provisioning, elasticity, high availability and security. Therefore, these challenges increase the needs of security governance in such environments. Although some researches have been realized in the multi-cloud security domain, it becomes imperative to asses the current state of research and practice of its security governance. This paper aims to categorize the existing works related to security governance in multi-cloud environments by applying a systematic mapping study methodology in order toidentify trends and future directions. Our results prove that multi-clouds security governance seems to be a promising areain multi-cloud research and evaluation.