Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predicting Attrition and Engagement in the Treatment of Young Offenders

Premature treatment termination in offender treatment is linked to negative consequences for clients, practitioners, and the criminal justice system. Therefore, identifying predictors of treatment attrition is a crucial issue in offender rehabilitation. Most studies on this topic focus on adult offenders; less is known about adolescent offenders. In our study, therapy attrition and engagement were predicted via logistic and linear regression to examine the link between pretreatment variables, engagement, and treatment failure in 161 young offenders treated in a social-therapeutic unit in Germany. Engagement could be predicted by motivation, disruptive childhood behavior, low aggressiveness, and higher age. In turn, low motivation, substance abuse, and young age predicted attrition, but their impact diminished when engagement was added to the model with only substance abuse remaining significant. The effect of substance abuse on attrition disappeared, when the offender’s initial motivation was high. Implications for assessment and treatment planning are discussed.
Identification of Alternatively-Activated Pathways between Primary Breast Cancer and Liver Metastatic Cancer Using Microarray Data

Alternatively-activated pathways have been observed in biological experiments in cancer studies, but the concept had not been fully explored in computational cancer system biology. Therefore, an alternatively-activated pathway identification method was proposed and applied to primary breast cancer and breast cancer liver metastasis research using microarray data. Interestingly, the results show that cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction and calcium signaling were significantly enriched under both conditions. TGF beta signaling was found to be the hub in network topology analysis. In total, three types of alternatively-activated pathways were recognized. In the cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction pathway, four active alteration patterns in gene pairs were noticed. Thirteen cytokine-cytokine receptor pairs with inverse activity changes of both genes were verified by the literature. The second type was that some sub-pathways were active under only one condition. For the third type, nodes were significantly active in both conditions, but with different active genes. In the calcium signaling and TGF beta signaling pathways, node E2F5 and E2F4 were significantly active in primary breast cancer and metastasis, respectively. Overall, our study demonstrated the first time using microarray data to identify alternatively-activated pathways in breast cancer liver metastasis. The results showed that the proposed method was valid and effective, which could be helpful for future research for understanding the mechanism of breast cancer metastasis.
Diversity of Ocular Dominance Patterns in Visual Cortex Originates from Variations in Local Cortical Retinotopy

The primary visual cortex contains a detailed map of retinal stimulus position (retinotopic map) and eye input (ocular dominance map) that results from the precise arrangement of thalamic afferents during cortical development. For reasons that remain unclear, the patterns of ocular dominance are very diverse across species and can take the shape of highly organized stripes, convoluted beads, or no pattern at all. Here, we use a new image-processing algorithm to measure ocular dominance patterns more accurately than in the past. We use these measurements to demonstrate that ocular dominance maps follow a common organizing principle that makes the cortical axis with the slowest retinotopic gradient orthogonal to the ocular dominance stripes. We demonstrate this relation in multiple regions of the primary visual cortex from individual animals, and different species. Moreover, consistent with the increase in the retinotopic gradient with visual eccentricity, we demonstrate a strong correlation between eccentricity and ocular dominance stripe width. We also show that an eye/polarity grid emerges within the visual cortical map when the representation of light and dark stimuli segregates along an axis orthogonal to the ocular dominance stripes, as recently demonstrated in cats. Based on these results, we propose a developmental model of visual cortical topography that sorts thalamic afferents by eye input and stimulus polarity, and then maximizes the binocular retinotopic match needed for depth perception and the light-dark retinotopic mismatch needed to process stimulus orientation. In this model, the different ocular dominance patterns simply emerge from differences in local retinotopic cortical topography. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Thalamocortical afferents segregate in primary visual cortex by eye input and light-dark polarity. This afferent segregation forms cortical patterns that vary greatly across species for reasons that remain unknown. Here we show that the formation of ocular dominance patterns follows a common organizing principle across species that aligns the cortical axis of ocular dominance segregation with the axis of slowest retinotopic gradient. Based on our results, we propose a model of visual cortical topography that sorts thalamic afferents by eye input and stimulus polarity along orthogonal axes with the slowest and fastest retinotopic gradients, respectively. This organization maximizes the binocular retinotopic match needed for depth perception and the light-dark retinotopic mismatch needed to process stimulus orientation in carnivores and primates.
CRC806-KB: A Semantic MediaWiki Based Collaborative Knowledge Base for an Interdisciplinary Research Project

In the frame of an interdisciplinary research project that is concerned with data from heterogeneous domains, such as archaeology, cultural sciences, and the geosciences, a web-based Knowledge Base system was developed to facilitate and improve research collaboration between the project participants. The presented system is based on a Wiki that was enhanced with a semantic extension, which enables to store and query structured data within the Wiki. Using an additional open source tool for Schema–Driven Development of the data model, and the structure of the Knowledge Base, improved the collaborative data model development process, as well as semi-automation of data imports and updates. The paper presents the system architecture, as well as some example applications of a collaborative Wiki based Knowledge Base infrastructure.
Adherence to a Mediterranean diet by vegetarians and vegans as compared to omnivores

Abstract To assess adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MedD) by vegetarians and vegans compared to omnivores, we recruited an internet-based convenience sample of 565, 151 and 514 Israeli (>20 years) vegans, vegetarians and omnivores. Studies assessing vegetarians’ and vegans’ adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MedD) are scarce. We recruited an internet-based convenience sample of 565, 151 and 514 Israeli vegans, vegetarians and omnivores, mostly female with a normal weight. We assessed their MedD scores (MedDS) and their food groups’ consumption by two food frequency questionnaires: (1) Trichopoulou’s MedDS (range 0–9); (2) Literature-based MedDS (LBMedDS) (range 0–18). We found that vegans tend to consume significantly more legumes, nuts, fruits and vegetables than omnivores. The multivariable-adjusted odds for high MedDS (a score ≥4) (compared to omnivores) assessed by Trichopoulou’s score were: 32.35-fold higher in vegans (95% CI, 21.43–48.84) and 3.13-fold higher in vegetarians (95% CI, 2.06–4.76). Using the LBMedDS, vegans had 2.30-fold higher odds for high MedD adherence (a score ≥12) and vegetarians 1.66-fold higher odds compared to omnivores. In conclusion, we found a higher MedD adherence among vegans and vegetarians compared to omnivores.
Enhancements of Positioning for IoT Devices

The aim of this thesis work is to find novel method(s), which enhance the performance of the existing Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) positioning technique for Internet of Thing (IoT) devices introduced in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard release 14. In this thesis work, NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) positioning is considered as the baseline. The scope includes the investigation on positioning reference signal (PRS), including modifying/replacing the current sequence generation by mathematical derivations, and modifying PRS configuration (e.g. increasing the density, new time/frequency resource grid). Moreover, different correlator designs at the receiver side (either operating in time or frequency domain) have been analyzed in terms of performance and complexity. In addition, we also investigate the impact of PRS transmission extension either in time domain by sending multiple subframes or in frequency domain by utilizing more spectrum resources (using more Physical Resource Blocks(PRBs)). Our results show that the current NB-IoT PRS resource mapping is already well designed. The newly suggested sequences and resource time/frequency grids influence the correlation properties which in turn affect the positioning accuracies. Increasing the number of resources for PRS transmission in time/frequency results in positioning accuracy improvements. Different sequences for PRS can lead to performance improvements with the cost of implementation complexity, and design flexibility. In addition, optimizing the original gold sequence shows a consistent good performance gain. (Less)
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND POLICY AND BRAIN WASTE

The U.S. H-1B visa for highly-skilled immigrant labor and the accompanying H-4 visa for their dependents leads to structural constraints that exclude dependents from the labor force. Identifying H-1B recipients from the U.S. Census and American Community Surveys, we find that—despite the labor force exclusion—the vast majority of married H-1B recipients is accompanied by their spouses. This is particularly the case for male H-1B recipients, making wives rather than husbands carry most of the burden. Using a matched sample of married immigrants with work authorization, we estimate counterfactual labor force participation probabilities and wages for the sample of dependent H-4 spouses. We find that the policy-imposed labor force exclusion of H-4 spouses leads to substantial losses of spouses’ earnings and annual aggregate productivity loss of over US$2.1 billion.
This is a repository copy of Direct linearizing transform for three-dimensional discrete integrable systems : the lattice AKP , BKP and CKP equations

A unified framework is presented for the solution structure of 3D discrete integrable systems, including the lattice AKP, BKP and CKP equations. This is done through the so-called direct linearising transform which establishes a general class of integral transforms between solutions. As a particular application, novel soliton-type solutions for the lattice CKP equation are obtained.
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Investigations Focused on Food Allergens

In this article, we survey recent literature related to the development of impedimetric sensors and methods for allergen proteins in food. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is an electrochemical method that allows label-free monitoring of analyte-ligand interactions and was largely used for characterising various steps in the development of (bio)sensors. Both faradaic impedance spectroscopy – using a redox probe added to the analytical system to be investigated – and non-faradaic impedance spectroscopy were used for the detection of food allergens. Several approaches leading to high sensitivity and application to the analysis of real samples are particularly emphasized. The challenges in using EIS for the determination of allergens are discussed.
SRTTU Ferrite M aterial Characterization Using S-Parameters Data

ARTICLE HISTORY: Received 08 May 2017 Accepted 23 June 2017 Since many applications rely on the knowledge of the electromagnetic material properties of ferrites, such as ferrite phase shifters, this paper presents an algorithm for characterizing ferrite materials in a single frequency using a rectangular waveguide system. In this method, the extraction of ferrite parameters is implemented through minimizing the difference between the measured data and the results from modal analysis of the system. The main advantage of this method compared to the other ones is that the proposed method only needs the amplitude of the reflection and transmission coefficients to estimate the parameters of ferrite materials. This makes the implementation easy and eliminates the problems associated with phase calibrations and measurements. This validation is achieved by simulation and experimental tests. The proposed algorithm is validated by characterizing YIG and SL-470 ferrites.
GENERATION AND APPLICATION OF COPOLYMER BASED POLYACRYLAMIDE MICROBEADS ( CBPmB ) USING MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM

We report that the generation of Copolymer Based Polyacrylamide Microbeads (CBPmB) could be covalently cross-linked with acrydite modified oligomer by placing on droplet based microfluidic platform. Acrydite oligomers are exposed on the surface of microbeads, they are used to amplification of single strand DNA (ssDNA) used aptamer-sensor and aptafilter, diagnostic tools, formatting some modified oligomer and DNA SELEX.
Liquidity Creation Without Banks Simas Kučinskas

I revisit the Diamond-Dybvig model of liquidity insurance in the presence of hidden trades. The key result is that in this environment deposit-taking banks are not necessary for the efficient provision of liquidity. Mutual funds are constrained efficient when supplemented with the same government liquidity regulation that is required to make a banking system constrained efficient. However, whereas banks are potentially subject to costly panics, mutual funds are not run-prone and hence superior from a welfare perspective if runs happen with a non-zero probability.
Two-stage Pandora ’ s Box for Product Ranking

In online platforms, consumers face an abundance of options that are displayed in the form of a position ranking. Only products placed in the first few positions are readily accessible to the consumer, and she needs to exert effort to access more options. We study how platforms with different business models should rank products to maximize their profit. We provide empirical evidence from a large online platform that products placed in higher positions have a favorable chance of being selected regardless of their utility. Further, the externality that high-positioned products impose on low-positioned ones substantially increases with their utility. Motivated by our empirical evidence, and building upon the seminal work of Weitzman (1979) (also known as the Pandora’s box), we develop a two-stage sequential search model; in the first stage, the consumer learns the intrinsic utility of products, already known to the platform, and forms a consideration set. While in the second stage, she inspects the products in her consideration set to learn the additional idiosyncratic utility she derives from a product. We develop optimal or FPTAS ranking algorithms under two diametric business models: one only concerned with maximizing consumer welfare a suitable objective for platforms seeking consumer’s long-term engagement and one concerned with maximizing short-term revenue. Further, somewhat surprisingly, we show that ranking products in a decreasing order of their intrinsic utilities does not necessarily maximize consumer welfare. Such ranking may shorten the consumer’s consideration set, due to the externality effect, leading to insufficient exploration.
Indoor Location Architecture to Achieve a Frictionless User Experience

Indoor location of people is a wide studied topic as it is a powerful tool that can be used to many tasks like helping to navigate better inside a large space like an airport, understanding better the trajectories of people on a certain place, or tailoring marketing strategies depending on the current location of an individual. Currently, indoor location using Bluetooth low energy is very used because of the low power consume and the low prices of the beacons. But an issue of usability is still present and is that every space need a new app, and that discourage the users to use the system. This paper describes the work in progress of a distributed indoor location system using BLE that migrates the processing and calibration requirements from the smartphone to external hardware and the cloud so there is only one free application that can handle all the location based services of every place. We first present the architecture of the system and then show the implementation of 5 BLE nodes with Ultra Wide Band technology that allows a more accurate location and is used as a reference for the calibration of the Bluetooth system.
Based on Tactile Interfaces Applications for Nursing Home Residents and Nurse Team Support Extension to Ambient-Assisted Living Semiotic Command Interfaces

This article shows what usage can be made of touch screens to monitor elderly activities and health parameters. The system is based upon a classical 10-inch tablet on which a portal allows to access several activities for communications, cerebral activities through games, electronic mailbox, and multimedia applications. Statistical results can be used by the medical team to follow the mental and medical state of the resident, and to adapt the daily activities. The graphic interface and the game types are derived using a semiotic approach taking into account the biography of the person through the memory of gesture. Keywords-Touch screen interface; semiotic approach; cerebral training; health statistics; nurse team support
Contradictions of an International Anti-Poverty Agenda

The theme of this article is that research into poverty has to be multi-disciplinary and, perhaps more controversially, that the dominant discipline should be political science. At present, to the extent that poverty research is multi-disciplinary the dominant discipline is economics. We are looking at a situation in which a small (but technically sophisticated) economics tail is trying to wag a very large political dog. We need to arrive at a position from which we understand much better how the politics of national anti-poverty strategies works, so that the economists of poverty can play the role that Keynes once envisioned for them, similar to that of humble but competent dentists.
Summarizing Health Review using Latent Semantic Analysis

The amount of reviews is written by health consumer for health service supplier is growing every day. Text summarization reduces info as a shot to alter users to seek out and perceive relevant services of a health service supplier additional quickly and effortlessly. During this paper, we tend to propose a health review-summarization system based on features. The health-rating information relies on sentiment-classification results of the reviews. The feature-based health summarizations are generated from the reviews of health provider. We tend to propose a completely unique approach supported latent semantic analysis (LSA) to spot health options. What is more, we've got reduced the dimensions of outline supported the health options obtained from LSA. We have considered bottom-up approach for reviews collection and this approach provides a better reliability among health consumers. We think about each sentiment-classification accuracy and system latent period to style the system. The summarization of health reviews can be applied to the reviews of different service providers. Recent years have witnessed a significant growth to analyse the reviews and techniques have been developed to judge numerous summarization techniques in various domain. The goal of this paper is to provide short summaries of health reviews authored by health customers for varied health service suppliers.
ATP-Binding Cassette Properties of Recombination Mediator Protein RecF

1.1 Recombinational repair Homologous recombination (HR) is essential for genetic diversity and genome stability. The conserved RecA-like recombinases promote pairing and consequent exchange of fragments between two homologous DNA molecules during conjugation in bacteria and meiotic recombination in eukaryotes. HR is a main DNA repair pathway particularly important in case of large-scale DNA damages, including chromosome or double-stranded (ds) DNA breaks (DSBs) and long single-stranded (ss) DNA gaps (SSGs) (Cox, 1991; Kowalczykowski et al., 1994). The broken chain is paired with the intact DNA, which serves as a template for the synthesis of the damaged DNA. The same recombinases are also involved in the repair and origin-independent restart of stalled DNA replication, a frequently occurring event in every cell (Cox et al., 2000; Kowalczykowski, 2000; Kuzminov, 2001). HR is initiated by the cooperative binding of RecA recombinase to ssDNA hundreds or thousands nucleotides long forming nucleoprotein filament, a so called presynaptic complex often designated as RecA*. The presynaptic complex can bind homologous dsDNA and exchange a DNA strands. RecA* has multiple activities beyond the strand invasion and exchange (Figure 1). Those include triggering DNA damage SOS response through stimulation of LexA autocleavage (Rehrauer et al., 1996) and activation of UmuD subunit of the error-prone DNA polymerase PolV important for translesion synthesis to bypass small-scale DNA errors (Jiang et al., 2009; Rajagopalan et al., 1992). RecA* was also suggested to stabilize and maintain stalled replication fork during DNA repair (Courcelle et al., 1997). Consequently, RecA binding to DNA is regulated at multiple levels (Cox, 2007).
Downregulation of microRNA ‐ 199 a ‐ 5 p protects cardiomyocytes in cyanotic congenital heart disease by attenuating endoplasmic reticulum stress

Chronic hypoxia is a key pathological change in patients with cyanotic congenital heart defect (CCHD). It has been demonstrated that enhanced myocardial unfolded protein response (UPR) increases the capacity to buffer endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and to avoid subsequent apoptosis caused by the hypoxia that underlies CCHD. The present study was performed to determine the regulatory role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in this cytoprotective UPR process. The results revealed that miR-199a-5p was markedly downregulated in the cardiac tissue of patients with CCHD and in human myocardial cells cultured in hypoxic conditions. The two major UPR modulators, 78 kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP78) and activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6), were potential target genes of miR-199a-5p in CCHD myocardial specimens. In addition, the miR-199a-5p mimic and inhibitor were evidently able to change GRP78 and ATF6 gene expression and ER stress-associated apoptosis in hypoxia-treated cardiomyocytes. The interaction between miR-199a-5p and the ATF6 and GRP78 3'-UTR binding sites in myocardial cells was also confirmed by luciferase assay. Thus, it is concluded that myocardial downregulation of miR-199a-5p favors the UPR against hypoxia-induced ER stress in CCHD, which contributes to myocardial protection.