Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Deep learning and embodiment

Embodiment has become mainstream cognitive science, and has brought several important theoretical and empirical advances. Some embodied cognitive scientists have argued that cognition based on action and bodily states is incommensurate with the standard representationalist and computational approach. Often the case of visual perception is used as the best example for this thesis. In the recent years, the family of algorithms collected under the name “deep learning” has revolutionized artificial intelligence, enabling machines to reach human–like performances in many complex cognitive tasks, especially in vision. Such results are achieved by learning on collections of static images, therefore neglecting actions, dependency on time, and any form of interaction with the environment. Deep learning models were developed with engineering goals in mind, and advancing cognitive science is not in the agenda of this research community. Still, the achievements of deep learning in the case of vision seem to challenge widespread assumptions about visual perception in embodied and enactive cognition.
Supporting the Competency Needs of Occupational Therapists in School-Based Practice Through Development of a Web-Based Resource

This article examines the competency needs of occupational therapists in school-based practice. Current methods and barriers to acquire and maintain professional competence are explored. A Web-based resource was developed and is presented as one means of supporting the competency needs of occupational therapists in school-based practice. Results of a pilot study assessing the usefulness and usability of www.publicschoolot. com are reported and support the use of this Web-based format as a method for acquiring knowledge and maintaining competency in areas relevant and unique to school-based practice.
A critical assessment of Richard Whittington’s ‘Four Generic Approaches’ on strategy

Strategy, long discussed over many centuries, from the ancient Greek to Sun-Tsu, over Machiavelli and von Clausewitz, there is still no clear universal understanding of what strategy is. This paper will critically assess Richard Whittington’s ‘Four Generic Approaches’ on Strategy. Guideline shall be Whittington’s contention that his Systemic Approach may be the most persuasive. In the belief that there is no general, omniscient body of knowledge on strategy each of Whittington’s approaches will be looked at. Recognising that certain ‘strategy schools’ suit different situations and environments better than others it however appears that the Systemic Approach on strategy is indeed the most persuasive. In today’s world of global business finding the ‘school’ that best suits an organisation’s goals earns the greatest reward for all. ‘Playing by the local rules, meeting cultural and societal needs while still maintaining sufficient profit is, after the crisis, truer than ever.
Del polymorphisms in the UCP 2 gene and diabetic kidney disease : case-control study and meta-analysis

Endocrine Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Postgraduation Program in Medical Sciences: Endocrinology, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Departament of Nutrition, Food Science and Physiology, Universidad de Navarra, Espanha. Nephrology Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Synopses over Streaming Data at Apache Flink

A growing number of applications demand algorithms and data structures that enable the efficient processing of data sets with gigabytes to terabytes to petabytes. Massive amounts of information that are generated continuously from numerous types of sources are called Big Data. Big Data is data that contains greater variety arriving in increasing volumes and with ever-higher velocity. Nowadays, many applications receive data in a streaming fashion way that must be processed on the fly as it arrives. Thus, the use of data structures called Synopses, is essential for managing such massive data, as handling large data sets is not often efficient to work fully on them. Synopses summarize the data set and provide approximate responses to queries. One of the main families of synopses are sketches. A sketch of a large amount of data is a small data structure that is able to calculate or approximate certain characteristics of the original data. In this diploma thesis we focus on various streaming algorithms of sketches such as Bloom Filter, Count-Min, Flajolet-Martin and AMS sketches. We propose a parallel implementation of query registration of the above sketches to be updated as more data arrives, insert dynamically new instances of these sketches in real-time execution and compute several functions. These functions may estimate the cardinality of the elements, the amount of distinct elements, or inform about the existence of an element in a stream. In order to develop that, we used the Apache Flink framework. Flink is a distributed streaming engine with high-throughput, low-latency and fault-tolerant computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. First of all, we expound the theoretical background of the implemented algorithms and the distributed framework. Then, we explicate the implementation of the code as we use a Kafka connector, the transformations of Datastream API and finally the Queryable State feature of Flink. Through that method, users query the most up-to-date values of the sketches while other platforms can use this information as source. Συνόψεις σε ροές δεδομένων στο Apache Flink
Parameter Uncertainty Analysis in the Task of Internal Dose Reconstruction based on 241 Am Organ Activity Measurements

INTRODUCTION Retrospective individual dose assessment of workers chronically exposed to plutonium is an important task in investigation of possible health effects from internal plutonium depositions. In most cases inhalation is the primary mode of the plutonium exposures, though an additional route of plutonium intake through wounds (pinpricks) also occurs in some cases. Estimating of systemic and total body deposition of plutonium from urinalysis is usually used to carry out the task of individual dose assessment. But this technique used alone gives no information about the routes of intake and solubility of aerosol particles, which could result in wrong lung dose calculations. Direct in vivo measurements of Am content in lungs, skeleton and liver by whole-body counting technique allow one to improve the estimation of the organ deposition of plutonium and the estimation of the individual lung doses. This method is based on the fact that plutonium of reactor origin is accompanied by Am that is grown in from decay of the Pu. Taking into account such parameters as Pu / Pu ratio, the activity ratio of Pu to the sum of alpha emitting plutonium isotopes, effective aging time of mixed fission products and actinides, particle size distribution of plutonium aerosols (AMAD) and temporal characteristics of the intake within the period of employment one can estimate the intake of Pu (and Pu) and the resulting equivalent doses to the lungs. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the reliability of the model’s prediction and retrospective dose calculations by the parameter uncertainty analysis.
Molecular characterization of neuropathogenic Equine Herpesvirus 1 Brazilian isolates

Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) infections cause significant economic losses for horse breeders worldwide due to abortion in pregnant mares, perinatal foal mortality, respiratory illness and neurological diseases in all breeds of horses. Over the past decade, while the prevalence of EHV-1-induced abortions apparently decreased, reports of EHV-1-induced neurological diseases (equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy) have been increasing, particularly in Europe and in the United States of America (Pronost et al., 2010). There are several commercially available vaccines that are employed for controlling the respiratory disease and abortion caused by EHV1. However, these vaccines are not reliably protective against EHV-1-induced neurological disease (Goodman et al., 2012). 
Semi-Recumbent Vibration Exercise in Older Adults: A Pilot Study of Methodology, Feasibility, and Safety

Objectives: Older adults with impaired physical function are at risk for further functional decline in part due to limited ability to engage in regular exercise. Effective approaches to exercise in this vulnerable population are needed to improve functional capacity and optimize independence. Methods: Thirty-two residential care apartment complex (RCAC) residents, age ≥70, with low short physical performance battery (SPPB) scores were recruited and randomly assigned to a crossover-design study exploring feasibility and safety of semi-recumbent vibration exercise in older adults living in one RCAC. The primary outcomes were retention and adherence rates and adverse events. Results: The retention rate was 78%. Adherence rate was 79.7% and 78.6% during the vibration and control training sessions, respectively. Thirty-eight adverse events (AEs) occurred. Mild muscle soreness and knee pain were the only AEs related to vibration exercise. No serious adverse events (SAEs) were study-related. Participants were able to increase training intensity and load and rated the training enjoyable. Conclusion: Semi-recumbent vibration exercise was feasible, well tolerated, and safe in RCAC residents with reduced physical function. Future studies need to examine the effect of this type of exercise on physical function, mobility, falls, and quality of life.
Cryo–electron microscopy structure and analysis of the P-Rex1–Gβγ signaling scaffold

The cryo-EM structure of P-Rex1 bound to Gβγ reveals the configuration of an important membrane-associated signaling scaffold. PIP3-dependent Rac exchanger 1 (P-Rex1) is activated downstream of G protein–coupled receptors to promote neutrophil migration and metastasis. The structure of more than half of the enzyme and its regulatory G protein binding site are unknown. Our 3.2 Å cryo-EM structure of the P-Rex1–Gβγ complex reveals that the carboxyl-terminal half of P-Rex1 adopts a complex fold most similar to those of Legionella phosphoinositide phosphatases. Although catalytically inert, the domain coalesces with a DEP domain and two PDZ domains to form an extensive docking site for Gβγ. Hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry suggests that Gβγ binding induces allosteric changes in P-Rex1, but functional assays indicate that membrane localization is also required for full activation. Thus, a multidomain assembly is key to the regulation of P-Rex1 by Gβγ and the formation of a membrane-localized scaffold optimized for recruitment of other signaling proteins such as PKA and PTEN.
Low-Abundance Dietzia Inhabiting a Water-Flooding Oil Reservoir and the Application Potential for Oil Recovery

With the development of molecular ecology, increasing low-abundance microbial populations were detected in oil reservoirs. However, our knowledge about the oil recovery potential of these populations is lacking. In this study, the oil recovery potential of low-abundance Dietzia that accounts for less than 0.5% in microbial communities of a water-flooding oil reservoir was investigated. On the one hand, Dietzia sp. strain ZQ-4 was isolated from the water-flooding reservoir, and the oil recovery potential was evaluated from the perspective of metabolisms and oil-displacing test. On the other hand, the strain has alkane hydroxylase genes alkB and P450 CYP153 and can degrade hydrocarbons and produce surfactants. The core-flooding test indicated that displacing fluid with 2% ZQ-4 fermentation broth increased 18.82% oil displacement efficiency, and in situ fermentation of ZQ-4 increased 1.97% oil displacement efficiency. Furthermore, the responses of Dietzia in the reservoir accompanied by the nutrient stimulation process was investigated and showed that Dietzia in some oil production wells significantly increased in the initial phase of nutrient injection and sharply decreased along with the continuous nutrient injection. Overall, this study indicates that Dietzia sp. strain has application potential for enhancing oil recovery through an ex situ way, yet the ability of oil recovery in situ based on nutrient injection is limited.
Common architecture of Tc toxins from human and insect pathogenic bacteria

The pore formation and translocation machinery of Tc toxins is conserved; in contrast, the outer shell is structurally variable. Tc toxins use a syringe-like mechanism to penetrate the membrane and translocate toxic enzymes into the host cytosol. They are composed of three components: TcA, TcB, and TcC. Low-resolution structures of TcAs from different bacteria suggest a considerable difference in their architecture and possibly in their mechanism of action. Here, we present high-resolution structures of five TcAs from insect and human pathogens, which show a similar overall composition and domain organization. Essential structural features, including a trefoil protein knot, are present in all TcAs, suggesting a common mechanism of action. All TcAs form functional pores and can be combined with TcB-TcC subunits from other species to form active chimeric holotoxins. We identified a conserved ionic pair that stabilizes the shell, likely operating as a strong latch that only springs open after destabilization of other regions. Our results provide new insights into the architecture and mechanism of the Tc toxin family.
Description of Onthophagus humboldti and Uroxys bonplandi, two new scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Costa Rica, with notes on tropical mountain brachyptery and endemicity

Abstract Two new endemic species of scarab beetles are described from Costa Rica, Onthophagus humboldtisp. nov. and Uroxys bonplandisp. nov.Onthophagus humboldtisp. nov. is also the tenth brachypterous Onthophagus species to be described worldwide, representing also a case of extreme brachyptery in Onthophagini. Illustrations for both new species, as well as marking differences with closely related species are included. Maps showing the distribution of the new species, as well as the distribution of brachypterous and endemic scarab-beetle species for Costa Rica are presented and discussed. The Cordillera de Talamanca represents an area where Scarabaeinae (four genera) show very high known levels of brachypterism in Mesoamerica. A reconstruction of the montane environment in the Cordillera de Talamanca during the Last Glacial Maximum (~24 ka) is analyzed, in order to try to understand a possible historical biogeography model that might promote high levels of brachypterism in scarab-beetles. The present study supports previous proposals that brachyptery is correlated with stable environments associated with deeply incised valleys. Tropical mountain ranges are also identified as having more endemics than lowland rain forests, contradicting accepted wisdom. Lastly, a mitochondrial DNA analysis supports the existence of the Onthophagus dicranius and the O. clypeatus species-groups as two well-defined and closely related branches.
A Probabilistic Computing Approach of Attack Graph-Based Nodes in Large-Scale Network

To protect critical resources in networked environments, it is important to quantify the likelihood of potential multistep attacks in attack graphs. Aimed at the problems that probabilistic incorrect computing caused by shared dependencies in nodes, a methodology for security risk analysis that is based on the model of attack graphs and the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) was presented, and the problem of probabilistic incorrect computing was solved successfully by proposing the probabilistic computing approach of accurate calculation and approximate calculation , While ensuring the accuracy of the probability of attack graph-based nodes, quickly Calculated the probability of each node, which can be adapted to a large-scale network. Reasonableness and effectiveness of proposed method was verified in the simulation. Compared with the related research, our approach can be adapted to a more complex attack graph, and had good scalability.
COMPARISON BETWEEN INVERTED AND SIGNATURE FILES BASED ON ARABIC DOCUMENTS

The purpose of this research is to give an idea about inverted files and signature files based on Arabic documents collection, and to give the comparison points between the two techniques and the performance of the two techniques on each of the comparison points. The most common measures of system performance used to compare the information retrieval mechanisms are time, space, and recall/precision evaluation measurements. The shorter the response time is, the smaller the space used, the better system is considered to be [1], so our comparisons point will include space overhead, search time, and average recall/precision . In this research, two indices will be built, inverted-file and signature-file. However, to measure the performance of each one, a retrieval system must be built to compare the results of using these indices. A collection of 242 Arabic Abstracts from the proceeding of the Saudi Arabian National Computer Conferences have been used in the two systems, and a collection of 60 Arabic queries have been run on the two systems. The index terms used in the two systems are the roots of the original documents words after removing the stop words. An Arabic root system has been used to do that. During the building of the two indices, time and space will be computed. The time measure represents the time needed to retrieve a document relevant to a specified query. On the other hand, space represents the capacity of memory needed to create the two indices. After running the system, recall/precision will be calculated to compare the retrieval efficiency of using the two indices mechanisms. However, comparing two retrieval systems needs to compute the average recall/precision, which shows the efficiency of retrieval over a pre-defined query collection. The results have proved that inverted file is better than signature file in terms of search time and retrieval efficiency which means better average recall-precision. On the other hand signature file has less space overhead. INTRODUCTION Information Retrieval (IR) refers to the processing of user requests, commonly referred to as queries, to obtain relevant information from collection of documents [6]. Due to historical reasons, documents in a collection are frequently represented through a set of indexing terms or keywords, these keywords could be extracted directly from the text of the document or might be specified by human specialist. To increase the search speed among
Rate-Constrained Noise Reduction in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

Wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) can be used for centralized multi-microphone noise reduction, where the processing is done in a fusion center (FC). To perform the noise reduction, the data needs to be transmitted to the FC. Considering the limited battery life of the devices in a WASN, the total data rate at which the FC can communicate with the different network devices should be constrained. In this article, we propose a rate-constrained multi-microphone noise reduction algorithm, which jointly finds the best rate allocation and estimation weights for the microphones across all frequencies. The optimal linear estimators are found to be the quantized Wiener filters, and the rates are the solutions to a filter-dependent reverse water-filling problem. The performance of the proposed framework is evaluated using simulations in terms of mean square error and predicted speech intelligibility. The results show that the proposed method is very close in performance to that of the existing optimal method based on discrete optimization. However, the proposed approach can do this at a much lower complexity, while the existing optimal reference method needs a non-tractable exhaustive search to find the best rate allocation across microphones.
Depression Screening, Assessment, and Treatment for Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: A Review for Psychologists

Depression prevalence is between 15% and 20% in coronary heart disease patients, such as those with angina, or after a myocardial infarction or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The presence of depression places a coronary heart disease patient at twofold higher risk for further major cardiac events and death, as well as poor quality of life and early exit from the labour force. As a consequence, several learned societies, including the National Heart Foundation of Australia, have published guidelines that recommend questionnaire screening to improve identification and management strategies for depression in coronary heart disease patients. Psychologists in hospitals, community settings, and private practice can have a key role in the realisation of the National Heart Foundation of Australia's aims. We review the recent guidelines and outline implications for psychologists to identify and manage depression in coronary heart disease patients. The evidence reviewed suggests that cognitive‐behavioural therapy and problem‐solving therapy are frontline non‐pharmacological interventions for depression in CHD patients.
A SHORT HISTORY REGARDING THE TAXONOMY AND SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES OF PLATYGASTROIDEA (HYMENOPTERA)

This paper presents an overview of the most important and best-known works that were the subject of taxonomy or systematics Platygastroidea superfamily. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first part of the research surprised the early period can be placed throughout the XIXth century between Latreille and Dalla Torre. Before this period, references about platygastrids and scelionids were made by Linnaeus and Schrank, they are the ones who described the first platygastrid and scelionid respectively. In this the first period work entomologists as: Haliday, Westwood, Walker, Forster, Ashmead, Thomson, Howard, etc., the result of their work being the description of 699 scelionids species which are found quoted in Dalla Torre's catalogue. The second part of the paper is devoted to early 20th century. This vibrant work is marked by the work of two great entomologists: Kieffer and Dodd. In this period one publish the first and only global monograph of platygastrids and scelionids until now. In this monograph are twice the number of species than in Dalla Torre's catalogue which shows the magnitude of the systematic research of those moments. The third part of the paper refers to the late 20th and early 21st century. This period, which continues today, is the period of modern systematics and taxonomy research about platygastrids and scelionids. During this period these two families become a distinct Superfamily which differs by Proctotrupoidea Superfamily. A great contribution in taxonomic and systematic Platygastroidea Superfamily brought Masner and Kozlov, the presentation of their work occupying the largest space of this 3rd party.
To be Fair: a Case for Cognitively-Inspired Models of Meaning

In the last years, the cost of Natural Language Processing algorithms has become more and more evident. That cost has many facets, including training times, storage, replicability, interpretability, equality of access to experimental paradigms, and even environmental impact. In this paper, we review the requirements of a ‘good’ model and argue that a move is needed towards lightweight and interpretable implementations, which promote scientific fairness, paradigmatic diversity, and ultimately foster applications available to all, regardless of financial prosperity. We propose that the community still has much to learn from cognitively-inspired algorithms, which often show extreme efficiency and can ‘run’ on very simple organisms. As a case study, we investigate the fruit fly’s olfactory system as a distributional semantics model. We show that, even in its rawest form, it provides many of the features that we might require from an ideal model of meaning acquisition. 1