Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ESTIMATION OF CORRELATED RESPONSE VARIANCE WITHOUT RANDOMIZATION OF INTERVIEWER ASSIGNMENTS

In their recent report on methods of assessing survey practice Bailar and Lanphier (1978) urge that more attention be paid to the contribution of interviewers to total survey error. The current method for doing this, calculation of the portion of the total variance of each survey response attributable to interviewers, is simple in theory, but requires random assignment of interviews to interviewers. This increases the cost and complexity of fieldwork and may preclude most effective use of the interviewers' talents, thus lowering response rates. Use of a well-known statistical procedure, however, can permit calculation of interviewer variance when assignments are not random, but have known biases. While not as good as calculations based on random assignment, the results can be useful in assessing survey quality. The method is based on Kish (1962) who estimated interviewer variance using a random effects model for a one-way analysis of variance. This assumes that the interviewers used in the study are a random sample of all possible interviewers. Each interviewer is considered to be a "treatment" given to all members of the group of respondents that are part of the interviewer's workload. Since each interviewer' s workload is also assumed to be a random sample of cases, this fits the random effects model and an inference can be made about interviewer effects in general from the set of interviewers who actually worked on the survey. The total variance of each survey response Yij over the population of all potential observations is
Parity and Mortality : Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Parents

A growing literature has demonstrated that there is a relationship between parity and mortality, but the explanation for that relationship remains unclear. This study aims to pick apart physiological and social explanations for the parity-mortality relationship by examining the mortality of mothers and fathers who adopt children but who have no biological children of their own in comparison to the mortality of parents with biological children. Using Swedish register data, we study post-reproductive mortality amongst women and men from cohorts born between 1915 and 1960, over ages 45 to 97. Our results show the relative risks of mortality for adoptive parents are always lower than those of parents with biological children. Mortality amongst adoptive parents is lower for those who adopt more than one child, while for parents with biological children we observe a U-shaped relationship, where parity-two parents have the lowest mortality. Our discussion considers the relative importance of physiological and social depletion effects, and selection processes. ∗k.j.barclay@lse.ac. uk †martin.kolk@sociology.su. se 2
MOTHER’S FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY: A SOCIAL RELATIONS MODEL ANALYSIS OF MATERNAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE FAMILY SYSTEM

Knowledge about family relationships was once based primarily on reports provided by mothers. Recognition of discrepancies in the reports of different family members motivated attempts at more objective descriptions of the family system, including latent variable models that took advantage of multiple family informants to create consensus-based descriptions of the family. This study takes a new look at the maternal perspectives on the family system, treating them as important in their own right. Two hundred and eight mothers provided ratings on positivity in each of the family relationships in their two-parent two-child families. Analysis of these data using the family version of the social relations model (SRM) offered a unique window into “mother’s family psychology. ” The round-robin SRM family assessment was applied to data provided by two mothers to explore how individual perspectives on the family might inform therapist-client discussions within the context of individual therapy.
Model-based interpretation of time-ordered medical data

Time-ordered data often contain implications that physicians infer only by recognizing subtle temporal patterns. This dissertation is concerned with representing and using medical knowledge about temporal relationships so that decision-support programs can deduce abstract clinical concepts that appear as temporal patterns in time-ordered clinical observations. Computational models of time that are based on a single representational method are limited by the expressive power of the chosen method. I propose that combining multiple temporal formalisms facilitates the creation of robust temporal models. The use of multiple modeling techniques permits each method to represent those temporal relationships that are best expressed within a particular formalism. This dissertation proposes a methodology for interpreting time-ordered clinical data using a combination of numeric and symbolic techniques. The methodology proposes three transformations: (1) model-based transformation of time-ordered observations into underlying concepts, (2) interval-based transformation of dynamic model predictions into domain-specific temporal abstractions, and (3) state-based transformation of temporal abstractions into clinically meaningful discourse fragments. The temporal model used to convert observations into underlying system (patient) concepts encodes physiological process knowledge. The temporal model used to convert model-based predictions into temporal abstractions encodes domain-specific event knowledge. These two temporal models differ in the temporal structure they assume and in the temporal concepts they encode. Without multiple temporal models, this diversity of temporal knowledge could not be represented. Effective medical decision making demands that physicians recognize and exploit the complex temporal changes that permeate the medical record. In this dissertation, I examine the temporal features of time-ordered clinical data in the context of summarizing a patient's medical record. I have demonstrated the three-transformation methodology in a computer program, call TOPAZ, that summarizes the clinical course of individual patients who are receiving experimental cancer chemotherapy.
Principles of Electronic Instrumentation

A de Sa 1981 London: Edward Arnold iii + 280 pp price £9.50 Although Dr de Sa's monograph may not find a place on many undergraduate or postgraduate reading lists it contains much material with which a modern physicist might be expected to be familiar. It is very much a text aimed at showing the ways to exploit electronic methods.
DEFLECTION COMPUTATION OF PIPELINE SURFACE BASED ON 3 D POINT CLOUD

Numerous developed countries are currently facing problems resulting from the aging of decadesold infrastructures built during periods of rapid economic growth, and political strategies and maintenance schemes aimed at the reinforcement and repair of such infrastructures are garnering significant attention recently. Additionally, under prevailing severe fiscal circumstances found in many aging societies, it is not realistic to deal with every failing infrastructure facility in every part of a country. Therefore, an inexpensive systematic method for finding points of critical deterioration in order to list and prioritize maintenance efforts is needed. This paper focuses on pipelines for water supply, sewerage, and agricultural water use, many of which are buried, which makes investigating their distortion and deterioration difficult without excavation. Furthermore, since excavation processes often impose hardships on nearby residents and traffic, good reasons are needed before they can begin, which are paradoxically difficult to elucidate without firm information on actual pipeline conditions. Under such conditions, maintenance work proceeds slowly and failing buried pipes eventually rupture, which frequently inconvenience citizens and damage property. In this study, the authors propose an investigation system that utilizes an RGB-D camera, or a depth-imaging device to examine pipeline interiors. RGB-D cameras can collect not only the RGB-color imagery, but also three-dimensional (3D) depth information from pipe interiors. Taking advantage of the compact size of RGB-D cameras, our proposed concept is based on the construction of a self-propelled robot system that will scan pipeline interiors in-situ, thus providing a means of conducting fast and inexpensive investigations that do not require large-scale excavations. This paper reports the efficiency of capturing dense shape data from pipe-shaped objects using an RGB-D camera at 1.5% errors to actual dimensions.
Buyer-Seller Trust Relationships: What Makes Them Work?

The focus of this paper is on “trust” in the interpersonal relationship between buyer and seller. While much of the current literature acknowledges the importance of trust, few go beyond sometimes confusing definition that intermingles behaviors, traits and perceptions of trustworthiness. Researchers have long sought the secret to interpersonal trust in personal selling. This paper uses data from a prior study of buyer-seller communications (Carlson, 2018) to take a deeper dive into the trust construct by Mayer, Davis and Schoorman (1995). While the Mayer model is widely cited in management and organizational behavior literature for its explanatory power, it is rarely cited in personal selling literature receiving only passing mention in the most recent personal selling and trust meta-analysis (Wood, Boles, Johnston, & Bellenger, 2008). Attention is given to the antecedents of ability, integrity, benevolence and the moderating effect of a trustor’s propensity to trust. We find benevolence and propensity to trust of interest as variables contributing to the “secret sauce” in the formation of high quality trust in a buyer-seller relationship. Are there implications for sales representatives and sales managers in their approach to key accounts and strategies for maintaining long-term relationships?
Three fundamental models are exploited to address the problems of IGD theory during decisions making : 2 . 1 Description for System Modelling

The prospective trading position of an independent power production company (IPPCo) is fortified by handling its portfolio between numerous trading preferences. Owing to uncertain circumstances, the future profits of these trading preferences are estimated by applying fuzzy or probabilistic methods. Conventional schemes are usually found inappropriate in computing the uncertainty and revealing the deviation between apparent and actual market profits. Based on this deviation, a non-probabilistic Information Gap Decision (IGD) theory is applied in this paper to present the optimum scheme for IPPCo’s portfolio selection. The performance of IPPCo is modeled and critically analyzed in determining its trading scheme. Numerous decisions are validated for IPPCo through various criteria in results to plump for the best outcome. The risk averting behavior of IPPCo’s framework leads to offer robust decisions towards losses, whereas, its risk captivating behavior provides the facility to acquire windfall gain. The presented scheme is also corroborated through real time scenarios of PJM market.
A study of the use of microwave input impedance for local measurement of human body

The possibilities of electrical measurement of the human body in the direction of depth using microwaves are discussed both theoretically and experimentally. By measuring the input impedance of an open-ended coaxial probe radiating into bilayered medium, both the depth of fat layer and the electrical surface impedance of muscle layer can be estimated. From the calculated input impedance using a full-wave method the reflected component on muscle layer surface is isolated by the approximate analysis. Theoretical results indicate that the phase shift depending on frequency and the modulus of this reflected component are useful to estimate the thickness of fat layer and the electrical properties of muscle, respectively. The experimental results show a reasonable agreement with the theoretical relationship between the phase shift and the fat thickness, indicating that further improvement is needed to utilize the modulus data slightly changing with electrical properties of muscle.
ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS ATTENTION IN VIGILANCE TASKS

A crucial determinant of cognitive performance is the ability to maintain the focus of cognitive activity on a given stimulation source or task, in other words, sustained attention or vigilance. The study of vigilance in cognitive psychology took off with the landmark paper of Mackworth (1948). He studied a very concrete problem: in 1943, the Royal Air Force wanted to determine the optimal time on task for radar operators, to ensure maximal signal detection. Therefore it seemed necessary to describe and quantify a possible decline in attention over time. Besides the theoretical importance of sustained attention for understanding the underlying mechanisms of human information processing, it is also relevant for applied issues in human performance and its impairment is a common problem in clinical neuropsychology (Smith, 2003). The aim of the present study is to contribute to this understanding by investigating the involvement of endogenous and exogenous attention in the decrement of vigilance over time on task.
Unsupervised MRI Tissue Classification by Support Vector Machines

The objective of this work was to develop better visualisation tools and techniques for detection and follow up of pathologies in magnetic resonance images. Support vector machines were used, in an unsupervised manner, to segment tissues in MR images with different imaging parameters. The segmentation rested on a training set of labelled feature vectors defined using independent component analysis. Both simulated and real data was used. Support vector machines proved to be a suitable tool for classification of MR images. The classification error rates for the simulated data indicated that rather good segmentation precision was achieved.
ON LINK RELATIVE ESTIMATORS II

This paper is a cont inuat ion of a paper, Madow and Madow (1978), r e f e r r ed to as M below, which contains the background and notat ion for the following discussion. It should be noted tha t the sets of e lements s l , s~. repor t ing at t imes t, 2,. need not be indepen~len~ly se lec ted samples. For example , a sample, s, may be se lec ted and at t ime a, a=l , . ,g , s is the subset of s consisting of e l emen t s tha t repor t both at t imes a and a-1. Thus, the design is longitudinal. and
Improved ghost-correction in multi-shot EPI using PLACE and GESTE

Improved ghost-correction in multi-shot EPI using PLACE and GESTE W Scott Hoge, Huan Tan, Robert A Kraft, and Jonathan R Polimeni Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, Virginia-Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States
Splicing image tamper detection based on human face color temperature

Focusing on the face stitching tampering image,a splicing image tamper detection method based on human face color temperature was proposed.Using the technology of target detection,the method in question pinpointed the faces in the image,and then estimated the color temperature of all those faces and the reference color temperature.After calculating the discrepancy between human face color temperature and reference color temperature,the method could find out the detection target with abnormal color temperature discrepancy as the tampering target,and then could locate the precise position of the tampering target.The empirical study showed that the algorithm was effective.
Contrast Pattern Aided Regression and Classification

Taslimitehrani, Vahid. PhD Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2016. Contrast Pattern Aided Regression and Classification. Regression and classification techniques play an essential role in many data mining tasks and have broad applications. However, most of the state-of-the-art regression and classification techniques are often unable to adequately model the interactions among predictor variables in highly heterogeneous datasets. New techniques that can effectively model such complex and heterogeneous structures are needed to significantly improve prediction accuracy. In this dissertation, we propose a novel type of accurate and interpretable regression and classification models, named as Pattern Aided Regression (PXR) and Pattern Aided Classification (PXC) respectively. Both PXR and PXC rely on identifying regions in the data space where a given baseline model has large modeling errors, characterizing such regions using patterns, and learning specialized models for those regions. Each PXR/PXC model contains several pairs of contrast patterns and local models, where a local classifier is applied only to data instances matching its associated pattern. We also propose a class of classification and regression techniques called Contrast Pattern Aided Regression (CPXR) and Contrast Pattern Aided Classification (CPXC) to build accurate and interpretable PXR and PXC models. We have conducted a set of comprehensive performance studies to evaluate the performance of CPXR and CPXC. The results show that CPXR and CPXC outperform state-of-the-art regression and classification algorithms, often by significant margins. The results also show that CPXR and CPXC are especially effective for heterogeneous and high dimensional datasets. Besides being new types of modeling, PXR and PXC models can also provide insights into data heterogeneity and diverse predictor-response relationships. We have also adapted CPXC to handle classifying imbalanced datasets and introduced a new algorithm called Contrast Pattern Aided Classification for Imbalanced Datasets (CPXCim). In CPXCim, we applied a weighting method to boost minority instances as well as a new filtering method to prune patterns with imbalanced matching datasets. Finally, we applied our techniques on three real applications, two in the healthcare domain and one in the soil mechanic domain. PXR and PXC models are significantly more accurate than other
Impoverishment Theory and Morphosyntactic

Theories of morphology differ in the means by which they account for morphological neutralization.1 One means of deriving neutralization is through underspecification of affixes (or, of rules introducing affixes). This paper discusses a second means of expressing neutralization, namely Impoverishment (Bonet 1991, Noyer 1992, Halle & Marantz 1993, 1994, Harris 1994, Calabrese 1994). Whereas underspecification is a modification of the content of morphological signals such as affixes, Impoverishment is a simplification operation on information in the morphosyntactic positions corresponding to these signals. In this sense, Impoverishment shares important properties with Rules of Referral (Zwicky 1985, Stump 1993). Essentially, Rules of Referral are feature-changing readjustments, potentially interspersed with rules of exponence, whereas Impoverishments are normally assumed, following Bonet (1991), to be feature-deleting and to precede all spell-out rules. I show here that feature-deleting Impoverishments are insufficiently expressive to explain neutralizations, and I propose instead that Impoverishment may effectively have feature-changing capability, but crucially is limited to moving from more marked to less marked representations, thus differing importantly from Rules of Referral. If the present proposal is correct, the space of possible grammars available to the language learner is more restricted than on Stump’s (1993) theory, a desirable and important result. In this sense, the present paper hopes to contribute to the line of research begun by Carstairs (1983, 1987), that is, to provide a substantive theory of possible morphological syncretisms in natural language. Sections 1–5 set out the assumptions of the morphological model I will employ, introduce what I will call “the paucity of marked values problem,” and compare Impoverishment with Rules of Referral. In sections 6–8 I discuss the interactions of three neutralizations in the verbal morphology of Nimboran (Inkelas 1993). In section 9, I show that the syntagmatic use of Impoverishment obviates the need for arbitrary position classes based solely on disjunctivity of morphemes.
SCREENING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT MARINE BACTERIA FROM BALUCHISTAN COAST

A total of 100 bacteria were isolated from crustaceans (shrimp, crabs, lobster), fish and water samples 9surface and deep sea) collected from Baluchistan coast. Identification of these isolates was performed by gram reaction, colonial and cellular morphology, pigment production and biochemical characters. Different characters such as resistance to antibiotic and heavy metals, pigment production, sugar fermentation, antibacterial and solubilizing activity were studied. It was found that 29% of the isolates showed production of different colour pigments which were affected by different concentration of heavy metals, 45% of the isolates showed multiple metal and antibiotic resistance, 40% showed solubilizing activity and 15% showed production of antibacterial substance, 16% strains were found to be lactose fementer where as 57% were non lactose fermenter.
Investigation the relationship between athletes’ performances levels with the personality features and the status of lateralization

ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between athletes’ performance levels with the personality features and the status of lateralization. A total of 492 athletes participated voluntarily in the research. Hand and foot preference of the athletes was assessed by the Oldfield’s questionnaire. Also, the personality features of the individuals and the team athletes were determined by the Temperament and Character Inventory. The results showed that left-handers comprised about 13.8 percent of the athletes, while right-handers comprised about 83.5 percent of the athletes. Statistically significant differences were found in harm avoidance subscale of temperament, self-transcendence subscale of characters, harm avoidance subscale of temperament and cooperativeness subscale of character. It was also determined that the success ratio of the athletes statistically depends on the lateralization and branches of the athletes. Also, the successful male athletes had significantly lower scores for harm avoidance subscale while the female athletes had significantly higher scores for cooperativeness subscale.
Event Driven Architecture for Distributed Surveillance Research Systems Anonymous CVPR submission

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Modelling of non-equilibrium flow in the branched pipeline systems

This article presents a mathematical model and a numerical method for solving the task of water hammer in the branched pipeline system. The task is considered in the onedimensional non-stationary formulation taking into account the realities such as the change in the diameter of the pipeline and its branches. By comparison with the existing analytic solution it has been shown that the proposed method possesses good accuracy. With the help of the developed model and numerical method the task has been solved concerning the transmission of the compression waves complex in the branching pipeline system when several shut down valves operate. It should be noted that the offered model and method may be easily introduced to a number of other tasks, for example, to describe the flow of blood in the vessels.