Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Vibrotactile Funneling Illusion and Localization Performance on the Head

The vibrotactile funneling illusion is the sensation of a single (non-existing) stimulus somewhere in-between the actual stimulus locations. Its occurrence depends upon body location, distance between the actuators, signal synchronization, and intensity. Related work has shown that the funneling illusion may occur on the forehead. We were able to reproduce these findings and explored five further regions to get a more complete picture of the occurrence of the funneling illusion on the head. The results of our study (24 participants) show that the actuator distance, for which the funneling illusion occurs, strongly depends upon the head region. Moreover, we evaluated the centralizing bias (smaller perceived than actual actuator distances) for different head regions, which also showed widely varying characteristics. We computed a detailed heat map of vibrotactile localization accuracies on the head. The results inform the design of future tactile head-mounted displays that aim to support the funneling illusion.
On moss family Lembophyllaceae in the Russian Far East

An integrateive approach to the revision of the Lembophyllaceae in the Russian Far East, includinig molecular phylogenetic and morphological studies, revealed five species, three of Dolichomitriopsis, including one new species, Dolichomitriopsis cherdantseviae, and one species of Dolichomitra, one new genus Dolichomitriadelphus for the taxon commonly known as Isothecium hakkodense. The species known as Isothecium subdiversiforme is still not found in Russia, so it was analyzed based on Japanese material and also determined to be unrelated to any other species of Lembophyllaceae, thus it is segregated in a genus of its own, Isotheciastrum. The combined analysis of European, Asian and American species shows that the genus Isothecium has mostly Amphiatlantic distribution and combines species of I. alopecuroides affinity. The group of Isothecium myosuroides and related species form a clade sister to Asian Dolichomitra, Dolichomitriopsis, Isotheciastrum, and American Bryolawtonia and Tripterocladium. This fact suggests a resurrection of the genus Pseudisothecium Grout for I. myosuroides, I. stoloniferum, I. interludens, I. prolixum, I. montanum, I. holtii, I. cardotii, and I. cristatum. All species of the family from the Russian Far East are illustrated and the variation of their morphology is discussed.
From Static Description of States to Dynamic Processes: Complex Processes Modeled as a Combination of Simpler Mechanisms

Modern software engineering, especially for business applications, is process oriented. A focus on process in ontology is therefore warranted. The speci cation of basic processes with algebraic speci cations in the ADT style are straight forward but the approach fails practically for realistically complex processes. The novel approach shown here is the assumption that complex processes are the result of combination of basic processes; the static combintaiotn of states in an ontology translates then directly to the combination of the mechanism which apply changes to the state. Two combination methods are identi ed: products of states which lead to process descriptions as sum of processes, and indexed set of states, which lead to process descriptions as products of index and processes. The method is shown here with an example of a multi-step process to prepare and get a passport from an state o ce. The ontology of the process can be extended in a principled way to include the information necessary for the automatic derivation of an optimal plan, as shown in the last part of the paper.
Information Technology Improvement in US Commercial Bank Lending: Implications for the Declining of Small Businesses Lending

Banks’ lending to small businesses is decreasing. To combat this trend with policies, we need to know the reason behind it. I evaluate how a cost-reducing improvement in the technology of assessing hard information contributes to the declining of small business lending with a quantitative, dynamic model. The model infers that banks’ costs of assessing borrowers’ hard information decrease by 51% and consequently small business lending falls by 22%. This technology improvement not only discourages banks to build relationships and lend to small businesses but also increases the exit rates of smaller banks that have larger shares of small business loans. The model predicts that the first effect contributes to 51% of the decrease in small business lending and that we should subsidize small business lending rather than small banks to encourage lending to small borrowers.
Institutional quality and financial development in West Africa Economic and Monetary Union

Having become aware of the financial status of underdeveloped countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and the potential role of institutional factors in the effectiveness of financial development policies, this study proposes an analysis of the impact of institutional quality on the success of their financial development policy. The results of the study show that institutions have a decisive impact on the finance effect on economic growth and development. The study explains that since independence (1960) to the present, various financial development policies have not paid off. The author, therefore, assigns a cause for these, institutional deficiencies, and inconsistencies in the choice of economical and financial policies and shortcomings in the quality of governance. This study emphasizes the role of institutions and a favorable legal and institutional environment for the formation of a foundation for healthy financial development.
Prime Factorization Using Quantum Annealing and Algebraic Geometry

We investigate prime factorization from two perspectives: quantum annealing and computational algebraic geometry, specifically Gröbner bases. We present a novel autonomous algorithm which combines the two approaches and leads to the factorization of all bi-primes up to just over 200 000, the largest number factored to date using a quantum processor. We also explain how Gröbner bases can be used to reduce the degree of Hamiltonians.
Skills Accumulation with Malleable Ability: Evidence from a Growth Mindset Intervention

Existing research shows that students endowed with “growth mindset”; a belief that one’s intelligence and cognitive abilities are malleable so can be increased through effort, rather than fixed traits; are more likely to be academically successful. Interventions attempting to inculcate beliefs, particularly in groups with low academic performance, have therefore been posited as a way to improve, or close ethnic or social gaps in, students’ performance. However, the mechanisms through which the claimed benefits are found are poorly understood. In this paper we evaluate the effects of a randomized light touch intervention given to first year university students in the UK on a validated growth mindset scale, their subjective beliefs about the production function for educational performance, and various measures of study habits measured two months later, compared with baseline pre-treatment measures and a control intervention. We document a positive treatment effect on student grades, and show this to be consistent with students acting on a change in their subjective production technology to make an hour of study effort more efficient through increasing the proportion spent in active learning methods, and spacing out study of the same material. JEL classifications: C91; D84; D91; I21; I23
ASSESSMENT OF TRANSITION MODELS FOR AERODYNAMIC APPLICATIONS

This paper presents comparisons of different boundary layer laminar-turbulent transition onset and transition length models implemented on a boundary layer code. The test cases are ¤at plate with zero pressure gradient and favorable and adverse pressure gradient cases and a test case for the boundary layer over a elliptic cylinder. Different turbulent levels are considered. The onset models are simple empirical correlation models and the transition length models are based on the intermittency factor. The results show that the transition length is reasonably captured by the models, but the onset models should be used with care and the resulting onset location considered as trends rather than precise results.
Climate Risk Perceptions and Demand for Flood Insurance

Using detailed micro-level data, we show that individuals' beliefs about climate change influence their choice and level of flood insurance coverage. Our empirical strategy exploits the heterogeneous impact of widening partisan polarization on climate change beliefs after the 2016 general election. We find that, in areas where flood insurance is not mandatory, a one-standard-deviation drop in the fraction of adults who believe global warming is happening leads to a 26% drop in the demand for flood insurance. In areas where flood insurance is mandatory, a similar drop in beliefs is associated with a lower propensity to carry voluntary content coverage and a higher likelihood of choosing the maximum deductible amount. As a secondary test, we exploit the flood insurance premium increases due to the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. We show that homeowners who do not believe global warming is happening were more likely to terminate mandatory flood insurance coverage by prepaying mortgages.
VideoMR: A Map and Reduce Framework for Real-time Video Processing

This paper presents VideoMR: a novel map and reduce framework for real-time video processing on graphic processing units (GPUs). Using the advantages of implicit parallelism and bounded memory allocation, our approach enables developers to focus on implementing video operations without taking care of GPU memory handling or the details of code parallelization. Therefore, a new concept for map and reduce is introduced, redefining both operations to fit to the specific requirements of video processing. A prototypic implementation using OpenGL facilitates various operating platforms, including mobile development, and will be widely interoperable with other state-of-the-art video processing frameworks.
Bearing defect classification based on individual trained wavelet kernel local fisher discriminant analysis with particle swarm optimization

 Abstract — In order to enhance the performance of bearing defect classification, feature extraction and dimensionality reduction have become important. In order to extract the effective features, wavelet kernel local fisher discriminant analysis (WKLFDA) is first proposed; herein, a new wavelet kernel function is proposed to construct the kernel function of LFDA. In order to automatically select the parameters of WKLFDA, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is employed, yielding a new PSO-WKLFDA. When compared to the other state-of-the-art methods, the proposed PSO-WKLFDA yields better performance. However, the use of a single global transformation of PSO-WKLFDA for the multiclass task does not provide excellent classification accuracy due to the fact that the projected data still significantly overlap with each other in the projected subspace. In order to enhance the performance of bearing defect classification, a novel method is then proposed by transforming the multiclass task into all possible binary classification tasks using a one-against-one (OAO) strategy. Then, individual PSO-WKLFDA (I-PSO-WKLFDA) is used for extracting effective features of each binary class. The extracted effective features of each binary class are inputted to a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Finally, a decision fusion mechanism is employed to merge the classification results from each SVM classifier in order to identify the bearing condition. Simulation results using synthetic data and experimental results using different bearing fault types show that the proposed method is well suited and effective for bearing defect classification.
The predictive role of forgiveness and the level of repetitive thinking on mental health and marital adjustment in married individuals

How to cite this article: Goztepe Gumus I, Tutarel Kislak S. The predictive role of forgiveness and the level of repetitive thinking on mental health and marital adjustment in married individuals. Dusunen Adam The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences 2019;32:236-245. The predictive role of forgiveness and the level of repetitive thinking on mental health and marital adjustment in married individuals
Using Statistical Translation Models for Textual CBR

Textual CBR has developed as an important area of case-based reasoning as cases for many applications can only be made available in textual format. One of the challenges for reasoning with textual cases is the efficient exploitation of solution descriptions. Due to the lack of structuring of solutions expressed in natural language, it often reveals difficult to identify relevant cases and to conduct solution adaptation. In this paper, we examine how techniques from the field of statistical machine translation could contribute to some of these problems.
A COMPACT AND FULLY-INTEGRATED SU-8 MICRO DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL

This paper presents an all-polymer micro direct methanol fuel cell (microDMFC) fabricated with SU-8 photoresist. The present development exploits the capability of SU-8 components to bond to each other by hotpressing and obtain a compact device. The device is formed by a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) sandwiched between two current collectors. The MEA consists of a porous SU-8 membrane filled with a proton exchange polymer and covered by a thin layer of carbon-based electrodes. The current collectors consist of two metalized SU-8 plates provided with a grid of through-holes that allow delivering the reactants to the MEA by diffusion. Fuel cell characterization was performed by measuring the polarization curves under different methanol concentrations and temperatures. The results obtained validate this novel approach to an all-polymer micro fuel cell.
Lobaplatin or Cisplatin Plus Etoposide for Treating Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

Objective: To observe the short-term therapeutic effect, adverse reactions and hospitalization conditions of lobaplatin plus etoposide (EL) and cisplatin plus etoposide (EP) for advanced small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Methods: A total of 46 patients with advanced SCLC were randomized into EL (23 patients) and EP (23 patients) groups. The two groups were treated for two cycles of 21 days. Short-term therapeutic effects, adverse reactions and hospitalization conditions were evaluated for the two groups after two cycles. Results: The EL and EP groups did not differ substantial in objective response rate, hospital stay, or rate of leukocyte and platelet decrease. In the two groups, NSE (neuron-specific enolization enzyme) was reduced significantly after chemotherapy, but CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) and CYFRA21 (cytokeratin 19 fragment) were not different between the two groups. In the EL group, the incidence of gastrointestinal reaction was reduced significantly and hospitalization cost was significantly increased. Conclusion: EL and EP for the same period of SCLC is safe and effective chemotherapy regimens, EL group medical expenses increased significantly, but the digestive tract reaction decreased significantly.
Child Mental Health: The role of different Attributional Styles

Background: High prevalence of mental health issues in the twenty-first century accounts for a lion share in the worldwide burden of disease. There is an alarming decrease in the onset of half of the mental health problems. Hence, it is necessary to explore the current situation and figure out the causes and preventive measures as well as the appropriate mental health enhancement measures. Individual characteristics, such as thinking patterns and perception, have an impact on the mental health. Attributional style is one source of ‘cognitive vulnerability’ which influences mental health disorders. Therefore, the present study examines whether there are any variations in the mental health of children with different attributional styles. Methods: The current research adopted a cross-sectional research design and selected 150 school going students [74 males and 76 females] between 10-13 years of age as participants. The Child Attributional Style Questionnaire [CASQ], Satisfaction with Life Scale-Children [SWLS-C], Brief Resilience Scale, and Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale [RCADS] are used to gather information. Results: The results indicated that children with a pessimistic attributional style experienced more depression and generalized anxiety than children with other two attributional styles. In terms of gender differences in mental health, female students with pessimistic attributional style significantly differed from their counterparts on depression [χ2 [2] = 10.131, p = 0.006] and separation anxiety [χ2 [2] = 6.456, p = 0.040]. Conclusion: Attributional style seems to have a significant role in depression and anxiety in female children. Although male children did not show any statistically significant results, they were more likely to be pessimistic in terms of their attributional style, which makes them vulnerable to mental health issues.
Beyond shells: first detailed morphological description of the mangrove-associated gastropod Haminoea cf. fusca (A. Adams, 1850) (Cephalaspidea, Haminoeidae), with a COI phylogenetic analysis

ABSTRACT The diversity of Haminoea Turton & Kingston, 1830 snails is poorly understood in the Indo-West Pacific. These gastropods occur in shallow subtidal and intertidal areas usually associated with algae, seagrass, or coral reefs, and one species, often identified as Haminoea fusca (A. Adams, 1850) is regarded to be restricted to mangrove habitats. In this paper we provide the first detailed description of this species by means of anatomical dissections, scanning electron microscopy, and DNA barcodes. A Bayesian COI gene tree including specimens from Pakistan and the Philippines together with other Indo-Pacific and Atlantic lineages was inferred and the possible existence of more than one species under the name H. fusca is highlighted and discussed. In Pakistan Haminoea cf. fusca was found to inhabit tidal estuarine mud-flats with oyster reefs.
The importance of the family for psychological symptomatology in a non-clinical population: expressed emotion and perceived maternal control

How to cite this article: Cap D, Dag I. The importance of the family for psychological symptomatology in a non-clinical population: expressed emotion and perceived maternal control. Dusunen Adam The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences 2019;32:246-258. The importance of the family for psychological symptomatology in a non-clinical population: expressed emotion and perceived maternal control
The relationship between voluntary disclosure of corporate governance practices by the Hong Kong small-cap listed firms, firm value, and dividend payout

This study investigates the relationship between voluntary corporate governance disclosure and firm valuation for small-cap firms in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a common law legal regime but is characterized by concentrated director or family ownership. Corporate governance disclosure for each firm is measured by a single score (CGscore) using a checklist based on the Appendix 23 of the Listing Rules of the Hong Kong Exchange, a regulation that became effective as of January 1, 2005. The analysis is based on the constituent stocks of the Hang Seng Hong Kong (HK) SmallCap Index over the period 2003 to 2005. Following La Porta et al. (2000a) and Mitton (2004), this study tests the outcome agency model of dividends. The reported results show that corporate governance disclosure is positively associated with firm valuation. Furthermore, firms with high level of corporate governance disclosure but low directors’ ownership show the highest market valuation; whereas firms with low corporate governance disclosure and limited directors’ ownership appear to have the lowest market valuation. The results further suggest that investors in Hong Kong tend to put a higher valuation on firms perceived as being more transparent in corporate governance. The results support the outcome agency model of dividend which suggests outside investors would demand higher dividends as an additional minority protection mechanism for firms that may have either agency problems or entrenchment problems. It implies that, when outsiders are legally powerless to remove entrenched managers, they would still seek ways to enhance their protection from the potential expropriation by the predominant shareholders.
Assessment of awareness and knowledge of nutrition parameters among health professionals caring for Spinal Cord Injury in tertiary care hospitals – an Indian study

Introduction: Malnutrition has been reported to be amongst the leading causes of increased morbidity in patients with Spinal Cord Injury. Objective: A multi center survey was done with the objectives of finding awareness of nutrition parameters, related care plans and to test knowledge of nutrition among doctors/nurses working in tertiary care hospitals. Design: A 16 item questionnaire was prepared and sent to health professionals in the department of Orthopedics, PMR, Neurosurgery and Anesthesia over a period of two months. Each question had randomly arranged five responses of which one was the correct option. Completely filled questionnaires were included in the analysis. Results and Conclusion: This study demonstrated that awareness of need for nutrition screening is poor with a majority of participants failing to acknowledge existence of such parameters. It also highlighted other lacunas in knowledge pertaining to calorie content of intravenous fluids, indicators of malnutrition and choice of nutritional support in malnourished patients. Surprisingly, more than half of the participants reported a high perceived cut-off point for malnourishment implying that a large proportion of such patients go undetected and unmanaged, thus highlighting the need for further awareness in implementation of nutrition therapy.
DEVELOPMENT OF A RADIANT POROUS BURNER WITH A COMBINED THERMAL AND FLUIDYNAMIC MECHANISM OF FLAME STABILIZATION

Here we present a development of a radiating porous burner capable of operating at surface temperatures ranging from 500oC to 1300oC with high radiation efficiency. Burners with a large ratio between surface area and thickness are not easily stabilized resulting in a usually short operational range. The combination of thermal and fluidynamic stabilization mechanisms proved to be a simple and efficient way of increasing the operation range and led to a new and innovative design of porous radiating burners. Burners with different layers of silicon carbide (SiC) and zircon oxide (ZrO2) ceramic foams operating with premixed methane and air were built and tested. The fuel equivalence ratio ranged from 0.35 to 0.65 resulting in total power between 60 kW/m and 880 kW/m. For the SiC burners, the radiation efficiency varied between 20% and 35% and the surface temperatures between 450oC and 900oC. For the ZrO2 burners, the radiation efficiency varied between 25% and 50% and the surface temperatures between 790oC and 1170oC. The results are summarized in a general regime diagram. The diagram provides information on flame stability, surface temperature and radiation efficiency and is presented as a tool for the design of applications. This development attends the demand of several industrial sectors for radiating burners of easy control and with ample range of operation.