Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock‐witness interviews

Purpose: Forensic interviewers often face witnesses who are unwilling to cooperate with the investigation. In this experimental study, we examined the extent to which cooperativeness instructions affect information disclosure in a witness investigative interview. Methods: One hundred and thirty-six participants watched a recorded mock-crime and were interviewed twice as mock-witnesses. They were randomly assigned to one of four conditions instructing different levels of cooperativeness: Control (no instructions), Cooperation, No Cooperation, and No Cooperation plus Cooperation. The cooperativeness instructions aimed to influence how participants’ perceived the costs and benefits of cooperation. We predicted that Cooperation and No Cooperation instructions would increase and decrease information disclosure and accuracy, respectively. Results: We found decreased information disclosure and, to a lesser extent, accuracy in the No Cooperation and No Cooperation plus Cooperation conditions. In a second interview, the shift of instructions from No Cooperation to Cooperation led to a limited increase of information disclosure at no cost of accuracy. Cooperativeness instructions partially influenced the communication strategies participants used to disclose or withhold information. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate the detrimental effects of uncooperativeness on information disclosure and, to a lesser extent, the accuracy of witness statements. We discuss the implications of a lack of witness cooperation and the importance of gaining witness cooperation to facilitate information disclosure in investigative interviews.
Pomalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone (POM + LoDEX) versus high-dose dexamethasone (HiDEX) in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM): MM-003 analysis of patients (pts) with moderate renal impairment (RI).

8527 Background: Pts who have exhausted lenalidomide (LEN) and bortezomib (BORT) treatment (Tx) have a poor prognosis. A significant proportion of pts have RI with increasing incidence during disease course. POM + LoDEX has demonstrated efficacy in pts with prior LEN and BORT, including those with RI. MM-003 is an open-label, multicenter, phase 3 trial comparing POM + LoDEX vs HiDEX in RRMM pts who failed LEN and BORT and progressed on their last Tx. Methods: Pts must have failed LEN and BORT after ≥ 2 consecutive cycles of each (alone or in combination) and must have been refractory to last prior Tx (progressive disease [PD] during Tx or within 60 days). Pts with creatinine clearance (CrCl) 75 y) qw; or DEX 40 mg (20 mg for pts aged > 75 y) D1–4, 9–12, and 17–20 (28-D cycles). Tx continued until PD or unacceptable adverse event (AE). The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endp.
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND GRAZING ON GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION OF FLOATING MACROCYSTIS SPP. (PHAEOPHYCEAE) ALONG A LATITUDINAL GRADIENT

Macroalgal rafts frequently occur floating in coastal waters of temperate regions of the world’s oceans. These rafts are considered important dispersal vehicles for associated organisms with direct development. However, environmental factors may limit the floating potential of kelp and thereby the dispersal of associated organisms. To examine the effect of water temperature and grazing on growth, reproductive output, and survival of floating Macrocystis spp. , experiments were conducted in outdoor tanks during austral summer 2006 ⁄ 2007 at three sites along the Chilean Pacific coast (20 S, 30 S, 40 S). At each site, Macrocystis spp. was maintained individually at three different water temperatures (ambient, ambient ) 4 C, ambient + 4 C) and in the presence or absence of the amphipod grazer Peramphithoe femorata for 14 d. High water temperatures (>20 C) provoked rapid degradation of Macrocystis spp. rafts. At moderate temperatures (15 C–20 C), algal survival depended on the presence of associated grazers. In the absence of grazers, algal rafts gained in biomass while grazing caused considerable losses of algal biomass. Algal survival was the highest under cooler conditions (<15 C), where raft degradation was slow and grazer-induced biomass losses were compensated by continuing algal growth. Our results indicate that floating kelp rafts can survive for long time periods at the sea surface, but survival depends on the interaction between temperature and grazing. We suggest that these processes limiting the survival of kelp rafts in warmer temperatures may act as a dispersal barrier for kelp and its associated passengers.
Statistical Korovkin-Type Theory For Matirx-Valued Functions Of Two Variables∗

In this work, we investigate an approximation problem for matrix valued positive linear operators of two variables. Also using the A-statistical convergence which is stronger than Pringsheim convergence of double sequences, we prove a Korovkin-type approximation theorem for matrix valued positive linear operators of two variables. We also compute the rates of A-statistical convergence of this operators.
The assessment of alcohol use disorders among homeless men in residential treatment

Homelessness continues as a grim reality that has devastating effects upon individuals and families from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Alcohol abuse is one of the most common problems reported by homeless individuals in the U.S. Additionally, research has consistently demonstrated a significant relationship between homelessness and mental disorders such as depression. Given the rates of alcohol abuse among homeless persons, it is important that clinicians providing mental health services to the homeless have reliable, valid methods for assessing substance abuse. The main focus of this archival study was to examine the usefulness of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) among treatment seeking homeless men residing in a faith-based, homeless shelter in Los Angeles. This study also sought to determine the relationship between the AUDIT and the Beck Depression Inventory, Second Edition (BDI-II), a widely used measure of depressive symptoms. The present sample included 86 adult males with a mean age of 43 years. The sample was ethnically diverse, tended to be single, and most participants had at least a high school education. All of the participants were enrolled in a yearlong residential substance abuse recovery program. They all had voluntarily sought individual psychological services from a university-affiliated mental health clinic located within the same shelter that provided the recovery program. In addition to the AUDIT and BDIII, instruments included the Drug Abuse Screening Test-20 (DAST-20) and an intake application form used at the clinic. The sample obtained a mean AUDIT score of 14.73; internal consistency reliability was . 93. The BDI-II and DAST-20 had mean scores of 21.94 and 10.07, respectively. There were no statistically significant differences across ethnic groups in mean AUDIT, BDI-II, or DAST-20 scores. As predicted, significant positive associations were found between the AUDIT and the intake form-based measures of substance abuse problems. There was also a ASSESSMENT OF ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS AMONG HOMELESS MEN xviii significant positive relationship found between the AUDIT and the BDI-II. Other findings, clinical implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are also explored. The results strongly supported the reliability and validity of the AUDIT as a measure of problematic alcohol use among treatment-seeking homeless men. ASSESSMENT OF ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS AMONG HOMELESS MEN 1 Chapter I: Problem Statement and Literature Review
Macrostructural organization of adults’ oral narrative texts

This study investigates macrostructure in elicited narratives of 69 monolingual German-, Russian- and Swedish-speaking adults. Using the LITMUS-MAIN (Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives), and its Baby Goats and Baby Birds stories, story structure and story complexity, concerning episodic organization, were examined across the 3 languages. As theoretical underpinnings, a multidimensional model of macrostructure was used. This model includes analyses of story structure (SS), in which a narrative merits a maximum score of 17, based on the occurrence of five types of macrostructural components (Internal states as initiating event and as reaction, Goal, Attempt and Outcome), and of story complexity (SC), which measures combinations of Goals, Attempts and Outcomes within one episode. The highest attainable complexity is the GAO-sequence, when a Goal, Attempt and Outcome are produced within the same episode. The results for SS were similar for German, Russian and Swedish, where adults included 11-12 components per story. A more detailed analysis of the individual components revealed striking similarities across the 3 languages, both for frequently used and seldom occurring components. SC did not differ significantly across languages nor across stories, whilst for SS, a slight difference between the two stories was found. We interpret this finding as story complexity (a qualitative measure of macrostructure) being of a more universal nature. Furthermore, our results indicate that caution is warranted when conclusions about children’s narrative skills are to be drawn on the basis of the MAIN Baby Goats and Baby Birds stories.
Introduction to action research.

Children’s nurses are highly skilled in spotting opportunities for improving the care of children and their families. We may ask ourselves questions such as: ‘Surely patients could avoid having to wait in a busy corridor for tests? ’, or ‘Is there a better way of getting these parents ready to go home? ’ and ‘Is there a better IV connector for that circuit other than this one? ’ But often the thought stops there, probably because we feel too busy or ill-equipped to move on to the stage of questioning practice. Perhaps we don’t feel confident enough to risk rocking the status quo.
ST. AUGUSTINEGRASS RESPONSE TO NITROGEN SOURCES UNDER CONTRASTING APPLICATION RATES AND FREQUENCY

In Florida, urban fertilizer regulations limit per-application nitrogen (N) rates to 49 kg N ha" in efforts to reduce NO3-N ground water contamination. County and city municipalities have imposed further restrictions that prohibit N fertilization during the 4-mo rainy season in Florida, which may nullify the benefits of using slow-release N sources (SRNS) for turfgrass management. A field study compared turfgrass response of polymer-coated urea (PCU), controlled-release liquid (CRL), and Milorganite® biosolid (BS) products applied at 49, 98, and 147 kg N ha" on 60, 120, and 180 d intervals, respectively. Treatments were compared by evaluating visual turfgrass quality and clipping yields; while N release was assessed using urea as a baseline applied every 60 d at 49 kg N ha". Turfgrass quality and yield were significantly affected by SRNS, rate, and application frequency. Nitrogen release from SRNS at current regulated N rates was insufficient to provide quality and yields comparable to urea. The most uniform SRNS response was obtained from PCU at 98 kg N ha". At higher rates residual N release was insufficient to maintain good turf quality throughout the desired 180-d window, although all SRNS applied at 147 kg N ha" were capable of producing acceptable turf quality during restricted periods with careful application timing. The wide diversity of agronomic responses within N class between management factors exemplifies the importance of conducting further SRNS evaluations on St. Augustinegrass [Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze] where environmental implications are assessed before committing to regulatory rate and source limitations. Abbreviations: BS, activated sewage sludge bio-solid; CRL, controlled release liquid; FLREC, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center; K, potassium; N, nitrogen; P, phosphorus; PCU, polymer coated urea; SRNS, Slow-release nitrogen sources; UF, ureaformaldehyde; UPCU, urea and polymer coated urea combinations.
A COMPARISON OF THE PIN AND APIN MODELS USING NYSE DATA

This master thesis reviews the probability of informed trading (PIN) model proposed by Easley et al. (2002) and its recent extension, the adjusted PIN (APIN) model proposed by Duarte and Young (2009). The models are then applied to high frequency data from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Our empirical results indicate that the APIN model with symmetric orderow shock provides a better t than the PIN model. The less exible PIN model appears to overestimate the asymmetric information.
ICASE Report No . 90-83 ICASE RESOLUTION OF THE 1 D REGULARIZED BURGERS EQUATION USING A SPATIAL WAVELET

The Burgers equation with a small viscosity term, initial and periodic boundary conditions is resolved numerically using a spatial approximation constructed from an orthonormal basis of wavelets. The algorithm is directly derived from the notions of multiresolution analysis and tree algorithms. Before the numerical algorithm is described these notions are first recalled. The method uses extensively the localization properties of the wavelets in the physical and Fourier spaces. Moreover, we take advantage of the fact that the involved linear operators have constant coefficients. Finally, the algorithm can be considered as a time marching version of the tree algorithm. The most important point is that an adaptative version of the algorithm exists: it allows one to reduce in a significant way the number of degrees of freedom required for a good computation of the solution. Numerical results and description of the different elements of the algorithm are provided in combination with different mathematical comments on the method and some comparison with more classical numerical algorithms. XResearch was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NASA Contract No. NAS1-18605 while the author was in residence at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23665 and also by AFOSR Grant No. 90-0093.
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS USE AND THE NUMBER OF REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS IN TOURISM

Nowadays, social media provides customers and businesses of modern times new ways of communication and interaction on both B2C and B2B markets. Companies in tourism have recognized the limitless opportunities for creating long-term relationships with their customers. Therefore, a large number of companies have involved the social media into their marketing strategies. In order to improve the engagement with the fans at the most influential social media - Facebook, some companies use Facebook application. Those software solutions help companies organize the contests and simultaneously collect the users' data. With the long-term tracking of users' online behaviour and the interpretation of the gathered data, the companies can boost brand awareness and improve sales
Theory for Nanoparticle Sintering under Electrical Boundary Conditions

A statistical model for sintering of solution-processed electrically conducting nanoparticle structures is developed. The model considers thermal expansion of the particles under Joule heating as the driving force of the process. The theory is used to explain the fast resistance transition observed for the recently-reported rapid electrical sintering process. A comparison with experimental results shows good agreement for the kinetics of the process. A heat-equation solution is also derived for a generic geometry of a printed conductor. This provides a basis for further refinements of the model to take other driving mechanisms, such as diffusion and inter-particle forces, into account. The results of this paper help in developing quantitative understanding of the physical processes that are relevant in nanoparticle sintering.
Assessment of Nutritional Status of Children in Birnin Kebbi Orphanage Home, Kebbi State, Nigeria

Nutritional assessment is the process used to evaluate nutritional status, identify disorders of nutrition, and determine which individuals need nutrition instruction and or nutrition support. The current study was conducted in Birnin Kebbi Orphanage Home to assess dietary pattern and nutritional status of the children. A questionnaire was used to collect data on socio -economic status, hygiene practices; 3-day and 24-hour foods re-call. Body parts were measured and examined for signs of malnutrition. Blood samples were collected to evaluate some biochemical and haematological parameters. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics and Student’s t-test using SPSS version 20 and ENA SMART software. The prevalence of stunting, wasting, and underweight was 60%, 25%, 37.5% respectively. A few of the children (7.5%) had a MUAC less than 11.5cm while 7.5% had between 11.512.5cm (Acute malnutrition). Physical signs of protein energy malnutrition were observed in 60% of the children, while conjunctiva pallor was noticed in 30% and angular stomatitis in 2.5% of the children. Biochemical analysis revealed that 58.82% have low serum total protein, while 52.9% have low serum albumin and 29.41% were anaemic. All the children have low levels of total cholesterol, while (52.94%) have low levels of HDL and 17.64% have low levels of triglyceride. Dietary pattern reveals that starchy cereals account for a greatest percentage of the foods consumed by the children. The current study has established sub optimal nutritional status among the children in the orphanage, which may be attributed to poor infant and young child feeding practices.
Delay-Aware Microservice Coordination in Mobile Edge Computing: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

As an emerging service architecture, microservice enables decomposition of a monolithic web service into a set of independent lightweight services which can be executed independently. With mobile edge computing, microservices can be further deployed in edge clouds dynamically, launched quickly, and migrated across edge clouds easily, providing better services for users in proximity. However, the user mobility can result in frequent switch of nearby edge clouds, which increases the service delay when users move away from their serving edge clouds. To address this issue, this article investigates microservice coordination among edge clouds to enable seamless and real-time responses to service requests from mobile users. The objective of this work is to devise the optimal microservice coordination scheme which can reduce the overall service delay with low costs. To this end, we first propose a dynamic programming-based offline microservice coordination algorithm, that can achieve the globally optimal performance. However, the offline algorithm heavily relies on the availability of the prior information such as computation request arrivals, time-varying channel conditions and edge cloud's computation capabilities required, which is hard to be obtained. Therefore, we reformulate the microservice coordination problem using Markov decision process framework and then propose a reinforcement learning-based online microservice coordination algorithm to learn the optimal strategy. Theoretical analysis proves that the offline algorithm can find the optimal solution while the online algorithm can achieve near-optimal performance. Furthermore, based on two real-world datasets, i.e., the Telecom's base station dataset and Taxi Track dataset from Shanghai, experiments are conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed online algorithm outperforms existing algorithms in terms of service delay and migration costs, and the achieved performance is close to the optimal performance obtained by the offline algorithm.
The relationship between mindfulness and ambiguity tolerance

While ambiguity may be a universal experience, it fluctuates depending on the circumstances. As there is no single definition of ambiguity, its manifestations range from role uncertainty to chaos to simple process issues. Because it is impractical and undesirable to completely eliminate ambiguity, an increased ability to tolerate ambiguity plays an important role in allowing individuals to cope with ambiguity in productive ways. Among the previously studied coping mechanism is mindfulness. The purpose of this study is to examine whether there is a relationship between individuals who self-report high levels of mindfulness and an increased ability to tolerate with ambiguity. A convenience sample of eight employees were interviewed and took a measure on mindfulness and ambiguity tolerance. Key findings were that there is a probable relationship between a higher level of mindfulness and an increased ability to tolerate ambiguity, which is consistent with other research findings.
Investigation of Structural, Morphological and Optical Properties of Mn and Fe Co-Doped ZnO Thin Films Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Process

Mn & Fe doped ZnO thin films were prepared by lowcost spray pyrolysis method and the influence of co-dopants on the structural, morphological and optical properties has been studied. The X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that Mn & Fe codoping has a significant effect on crystalline quality, grain size, strain in thin films. SEM and XRD study showed that 3% Mn & Fe co-doped has the best crystalline quality. Also, the XRD study showed that deposited thin film has a polycrystalline wurtzite structure with a minor amount of impurity. The effect of the impurity phase on morphological and optical properties has also been studied. Other optical parameters like absorption coefficient, transmittance, absorbance, and optical bandgap have also been determined. Obtained photoluminescence results showed that higher percent doping increases defects. Obtained results indicate that the thin films of Mn & Fe doped ZnO are a potential candidate for use in optical limiters and optical
Designing Privacy and Security Protection in RFID-enabled Supply Chain

RFID is an automatic identification system that uses radio frequency technology in product tags. The technology brings out the greater enhancement to synchronize the logistics flow and information flow. Unfortunately, it also introduces the great concerns on the privacy and security protection, not only on the individual use but also on the supply chain collaboration. This study proposes an on demand access control to protect the information flow in an RFID-enabled supply chain. The design considers the role in a supply chain as well as the media of carrying the information. A case study on garment industry will be provided for validation.
Effect of TiO2 on the Liquid Zone and Apparent Viscosity of SiO2- CaO-8wt%MgO-14wt%Al2O3 System

The effect of TiO2 on the liquids zone and apparent viscosity of SiO2-CaO-8wt%MgO-14wt%Al2O3 system were studied in the present work. At fixed CaO/SiO2 between 0.5 and 1.3, higher TiO2 content decrease the slag viscosity indicating that TiO2 additions up to 50 wt. % behaved as a viscosity-decrease agent by loosening the silicate network structure. The free running temperature increase at TiO2 content from 10 wt. % to 30 wt. %. At fixed TiO2 content of 20, 30 and 40 wt. %, increasing the CaO/SiO2 resulted in lower viscosity due to the depolymerization of the structure. Four different viscosity models were discussed and two of them were employed to predict the viscosity and found that the Urbain’s Model agrees well with experimental data at high viscosity (4–12 dPa·s) and the KCC’s Model agrees well with experimental data at a lower viscosity (0–4 dPa·s).