Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interaural Place-Mismatch Estimation With Two-Formant Vowels in Unilateral Cochlear- Implant Users

Implant Users DTU Orbit (16/05/2019) Interaural Place-Mismatch Estimation With Two-Formant Vowels in Unilateral CochlearImplant Users Background: For patients with one cochlear implant (CI) and residual hearing in the opposite ear, a default frequency-toelectrode map is typically used despite large individual differences in electrode-array insertion depth. This nonindividualized fitting rationale might partly explain the variability in long-term speech-reception benefit among CI users. Knowledge about the electrode-array location is thus crucial for adequate fitting. Although electrode location can theoretically be determined from CT scans, these are often unavailable in audiological practice. Moreover, existing behavioral procedures such as interaural pitch-matching are rather tedious and time-consuming. Here, an alternative method using two-formant vowels was developed and tested. Methods Eight normal-hearing (NH) listeners were presented synthesized two-formant vowels embedded between consonants /t/ and /k/, with first-formant frequencies (F1) at 250 and 400 Hz and second-formant frequencies (F2) between 600 and 2200 Hz. F1 was presented unaltered to the left ear, while F2 was presented to the right ear via a vocoder system simulating 3 different CI insertion depths. In each condition, the listeners indicated in a forced-choice task which of 6 vowels they perceived for different [F1, F2] combinations. Ten CI users (5 bimodal and 5 single-sided deaf) performed the same task for F1 presented acoustically to the non-CI ear and F2 presented either acoustically to the same ear or electrically to the CI ear. Results After some training, all NH listeners were able to fuse the unaltered F1 and vocoded F2 into a single vowel percept, and vowel distributions could be reliably derived in 7 listeners. Vocoder simulations of reduced CI insertion depth led to clear voweldistribution shifts in these listeners. However, these shifts were overall smaller than their theoretical value, with high across-subject variability. Vowel distributions could be derived for all CI users in the monaural acoustic condition, indicating an ability to perform the task reliably. Despite this, large individual differences were observed for dichotic bimodal stimulation, with listeners showing either basal or apical shifts, or generally-poor vowel discrimination. Conclusion The two-formant-vowel method is a fast and clinic-friendly candidate to derive interaural place mismatches from a simple vowel-recognition task. However, it remains unclear whether the measured “vowel spaces” in CI users are directly related to insertion depth, and whether they are influenced by the ability to fuse acoustic and electric stimuli or habituation to the CI. The comparison of the present results to CT-scan and speech-intelligibility data in the same listeners will shed light on the validity of the proposed method.
Conducting Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses for Competency in Malaysia Logistics Companies

The principal aim of this is to validate a model for Malaysian logistician competency. A survey of 223 logistics practitioners from Malaysia logistics companies participated in the study. The study consists of an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to identify the salient success measures, followed by a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The final model has 5 items representing competency. The results in this study showed that with the aid of a modification indices, the model fits the data with the value of χ 2 /df = 1.069; GFI = 0.993; and RMSEA = 0.018. The findings are considered to have made a significant contributing to the literature, by using the Malaysian logisticians which enhances our understanding on the need to understand logistician competency for logistics educational needs.
EMPIRICAL PARADIGM FOR TECHNOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT OF POTATO GROWING TRIBAL FARM WOMEN IN RURAL MEGHALAYA

The present study was carried out in East and West Khasi Hills district where the area and production of potato was the highest in Meghalaya. A total of 200 farm women were randomly sampled from 14 selected villages of the above two districts. In order to see the diffusion effect, if any, due to the training programme, half of the sample i.e. 100 women potato growers were further treated as experimental group and the other half was kept as control. Training need, knowledge level, symbolic adoption and attitude are the research variables in this study which were measured pre- and post-training. Findings revealed that there was considerable change/gain in the behavioural dimensions of tribal women farmers with training. These changes ranged from 13% in case of attitude to 41, 43 and 55% in the symbolic adoption level, retention of knowledge and the knowledge level, respectively. Findings further disclosed that 39% of the untrained women farmers reported gain in knowledge, 35% reported change in symbolic adoption and 15% change in attitude as a result of influence of trained farm women or in other words the diffusion effect of the training programme. Based on the findings technological empowerment of tribal women farmers has been enhanced.
Vol . 8-3939 Human-Robot Control Strategies for the NASNDARPA Robonautl

The Robotic Systems Technology Branch at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) is currently developing robot systems to reduce the Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) and planetary exploration burden on astronauts. One such system. Robonaut. is capable of interfacing with external Space Station systems that currently have only human interfaces. Robonaut is human scale, anthropomorphic, and designed to approach the dexterity of a space-suited astronaut. Robonaut can perform numerous human rated tasks, including actuating tether hooks, manipulating flexible materials, soldering wires. grasping handrails to move along space station mockups, and mating connectors. Recent developments in autonomous control and perception for Robonaut have enabled dexterous, real-time manmachine interaction. Specifically. a versatile, vision-based algorithm for matching range silhouettes monitors human activity and estimates tool pose. Robonaut is now capable of acting as a practical autonomous assistant to the human, providing and accepting tools by reacting to body language.
From anticolonialism to postcolonialism: The emergence of Chinese indigenous psychology in Taiwan

This article gives a brief history of the emergence of Chinese indigenous psychology from the background of Westernized social psychology in Taiwan, and reviews the various debates that have surrounded the first decade of its progress from the perspectives of ontology, epistemology, and methodology. Careful analysis of these debates indicates that their themes are similar to dilemmas encountered by indigenous psychologists in other regions of the world. It is argued that breakthroughs need to be made on three levels for the development of indigenous psychology, namely, philosophical reflection, theoretical construction, and empirical research. There are three philosophical assumptions in cross‐cultural psychology—absolutism, universalism, and relativism—which correspond to three research orientations—imposed etic, derived etic, and emic. In order to achieve the goal of establishing a global psychology, then indigenous psychologists in non‐Western societies must change their thinking from anticolonialism t.
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D B ] 8 O ct 2 01 5 On Summarizing Graph Streams

Graph streams, which refer to the graph with edges being updated sequentially in a form of a stream, have wide applications such as cyber security, social networks and transportation networks. This paper studies the problem of summarizing graph streams. Specifically, given a graph stream G, directed or undirected, the objective is to summarize G as SG with much smaller (sublinear) space, linear construction time and constant maintenance cost for each edge update, such that SG allows many queries over G to be approximately conducted efficiently. Due to the sheer volume and highly dynamic nature of graph streams, summarizing them remains a notoriously hard, if not impossible, problem. The widely used practice of summarizing data streams is to treat each element independently by e.g., hashor sampling-based method, without keeping track of the connections between elements in a data stream, which gives these summaries limited power in supporting complicated queries over graph streams. This paper discusses a fundamentally different philosophy for summarizing graph streams. We present gLava, a probabilistic graph model that, instead of treating an edge (a stream element) as the operating unit, uses the finer grained node in an element. This will naturally form a new graph sketch where edges capture the connections inside elements, and nodes maintain relationships across elements. We discuss a wide range of supported graph queries and establish theoretical error bounds for basic queries.
Online Disinformation and the Psychological Bases of Prejudice and Political Conservatism

It is widely believed that the impact of fake news, internet rumors, hoaxes, deceptive memes etc. are spilling into the physical world from the virtual world. In fact, social media has had a significant role in the origination and spread of such deceptive communication, as social media users often lack awareness of the intentional manipulation of online content and are easily tricked into believing unverifiable content. In an increasingly polarized world where social media and the internet have pushed people to live inside “echo chambers” and “filter bubbles,” people consciously and unconsciously are exposed only to content that reinforce their confirmation bias. In such a scenario, people only agree with content that aligns with their preexisting beliefs and disagree with or label as “fake” content that is opposed to their worldview. This paper proposes to study the psychological differences that cause people to either agree or disagree with such prejudiced and ideologically oriented online disinformation.
Organizational Orientations, Industrial Category, and Responsible Innovation

This paper explores the foundations of firms’ involvement in responsible innovation. A number of hypotheses appearing in the literature, regarding the direct effect of strategic orientations and the moderating effect of industrial category on responsible innovation engagement, were tested by using text analytics and statistical methods. The data comprise 475 documents of firms’ annual reports with a total word count of 192,179,794 and a mean of 404,589, supplemented with corresponding financial data, yielding 372 firm-year observations. The results show that long-term orientation and organizational virtue orientation are positively associated with responsible innovation, while profitability orientation is negatively correlated. The results also show that industrial category moderates the relationship between strategic orientations and responsible innovation engagement, such that the positive relationship between both long-term and organizational virtue orientation and responsible innovation is weaker in the industrial products category than in the consumer products category. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Empirical paths to the spread of information in location-based social networks

Spreading phenomena in complex networks have attracted much attention in recent years. However, most of the previous works only concern the critical thresholds and final states of the spread. In this paper, we investigate the empirical spreading paths in real location-based networks and find an abnormal phenomenon that the transferring probability of an epidemic between users varies with time, which violates the classical spreading models with a constant transferring probability. Besides, we observe an interesting delay gap between the maximal spreading velocity and the maximal transferring probability, where the spreading velocity refers to the fraction of newly infected nodes, and transferring probability represents the probability that a susceptible individual gets infected by one of its infected neighbors. Then we propose an advanced SI (susceptible-infected) model to analyze the problem, which could analytically explain the delay gap between the spreading velocity and the transferring probability. Experiments in BA and ER model networks demonstrate the effectiveness of our model. Thus, our work provides a deep understanding of the dynamics of the spreading problems.
The Linkage of the Large-Scale Circulation Pattern to a Long-Lived Heatwave over Mideastern China in 2018

In this study, the large-scale circulation patterns (a blocking high, wave trains and the western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH)) associated with a wide ranging and highly intense long-lived heatwave in China during the summer of 2018 are examined using both observational data and reanalysis data. Four hot periods are extracted from the heatwave and these are related to anticyclones (hereafter referred to as heatwave anticyclone) over the hot region. Further analysis shows a relationship between the heatwave anticyclone and a synthesis of low, mid- and high latitude circulation systems. In the mid-high latitudes, a midlatitude wave train and a high latitude wave train are associated with a relay process which maintains the heatwave anticyclone. The midlatitude wave train acts during 16–21 July, whereas the high latitude wave train takes affect during 22–28 July. The transition between the two wave trains leads to the northward movement of the hot region. With the help of a wave flux analysis, it was found that both wave trains originate from the positive North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO+) which acts as an Atlantic wave source. Serving as a circulation background, the blocking situated over the Scandinavia-Ural sector is maintained for 18 days from 14 to 15 August, which is accompanied by the persistent wave trains and the heatwave anticyclone. Additionally, the abnormal northward movement of the WPSH and its combination with the high latitude wave train lead to the occurrence of extreme hot weather in north-eastern China occurring during the summer of 2018.
Paper Title: Comparison of Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence in Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar I Disorder

Research has shown that the metabolic syndrome is more prevalent among patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder. Given the scarcity of research on the disorders, this paper aims to compare the prevalence of the syndrome among the two groups of patients. Methods: A total of 120 individuals participated in this cross sectional study: 60 patients with schizophrenia (26 males and 34 females) and 60 patients with bipolar I disorder (32 males and 28 females). The psychological disorders were diagnosed by some experienced psychiatrists according to the DSM-V. Furthermore, metabolic syndrome was diagnosed according to ATP III guidelines. Results: Metabolic syndrome prevalence among schizophrenic and bipolar I patients was 28 and 36 percent, respectively; the disparity in prevalence is not significant. According to the results, compared to their male counterparts, females were more prone significant to metabolic syndrome. Moreover, diastolic blood pressure was significantly higher among bipolar I patients. On the other hand, schizophrenic males were observed to have higher fasting blood sugar levels in comparison to bipolar I males patients. Age, consumption of second generation antipsychotics or antidepressants, and the duration of the disorder were found to be related to metabolic syndrome. Conclusion: This study showed that metabolic syndrome is not more prevalent among bipolar I patients, compared to those with schizophrenia. Also, women are more likely to be affected by the syndrome. A number of factors such as age, consumption of medication, and duration of the disorder are associated with the likelihood of the syndrome. Keyword: Metabolic Syndrome, Schizophrenia Disorder, Bipolar I Disorder
UPSCALING OF WELL LOG DATA FOR A TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIC EFFECTIVE MEDIUM

We develop two methods to determine; (1) net to gross and hydrocarbon saturation in a mixture of sand and shale. (2) effective properties versus tilt in sand. Backus (1962) and Schoenberg and Muir (1989) averaging are used for the horizontally layered transversely isotropic medium with vertical symmetry axis (VTI), horizontal symmetry axis (HTI) and tilted symmetry axis (TTI) test respectively. A mixture of two points representing sand and shale are picked from Intrabasalt 2 formation (North Sea data) and the effective properties and anisotropic parameters (epsilon, delta and gamma) are computed using matlab algorithm. The modeling results for the VTI, HTI and TTI show that P- wave velocity (Vp ) increases with increasing net to gross and S- wave velocity (Vs ) decreases with increasing net to gross. The anisotropic parameters decrease with increasing net to gross. In the second part, the whole Intrabasalt 2 formation is considered as sand in a tilt form. The modeling results show that P- wave velocity and S- wave velocity increase with increasing tilt angle in sand and the anisotropic parameters of the tilt sand decrease with increasing tilt angle with the exception of anisotropic parameter delta which increases with tilt angle up to 30 degrees and then decreases with increasing tilt angle up to 90 degrees.
Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna Arrays Fed by Substrate Integrated Waveguide Right-Angled Power Dividers

This paper describes a novel feed system for compact antipodal Vivaldi antenna arrays on a single layer of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) by using SIW H-plane right-angled power dividers. The proposed antenna systems are composed of a Vivaldi array and an H-plane right-angled corner power divider which includes an over-moded waveguide section. Based on the number of antennas in the Vivaldi array, mode converter sections at K-band and Ka-band frequencies are designed, fabricated, and measured when feeding Vivaldi antenna arrays with two, three, and four antennas. Right-angled SIW power dividers are employed to obtain controllable phase distribution over the output ports which consequently controls the beam shapes of the systems. The phase relationships in the output ports are varied to obtain different pattern directions for different applications. The two-way divider system with 180-degree phase difference and three-way divider system are fabricated and measured; simulation results are presented for other designs. The measured results are in good agreement with simulations which confirms the design approach. All systems achieve good performance and meet all design goals including a return loss better than 10 dB in the operating bandwidth, gain higher than 8 dB for all systems, and radiation and polarization efficiencies higher than 80% and 98%, respectively.
Assessment Capability Forest Regeneration in Different Geographical Aspects Approach Landscape Ecology

In order to determine the relationship between physiographical factors and regeneration changes in forests, and to improve and model natural regeneration status, Gorazbon district in Kheyrod Forest was selected for the study. All available regeneration patches in the area were selected. To achieve spatial structure and quantify metrics related to regeneration patches, the analysis of landscape metrics was used. The results show that 692 regeneration patches were identified at the level of different directions. LAND Metric show the most regeneration percent is related to the western (9%), southern (8.66%), flat areas (8.33%), northern (5.68%) and eastern (4.73%), respectively. In total, the patch coverage level percentage was calculated in the landscape (8.31%). The results related to patch shape metric show that most shapes of patches follow polygon structures and do not have fixed shapes. Results related to the average area of the patch metric show that the average level of patches is between 4 and 5 R. The maximum and minimum distance between patches was observed in the survey between 39 and 520 m respectively. According to the results of the distance average between patch metric, the distribution of patches is random in the southern and western directions, flat areas and pile, but it is uniform in northern directions. It should be noted that the distribution and structure of patches in the northern directions has a better distribution and homogeneity than the other directions. Its canals are used as a natural regeneration model to follow the natural phenomena in forest sustainable management.
Performance measurement of cross-culture supply chain partnership: a case study in the Chinese automotive industry

This study explores a performance measurement system for a dynamic supply chain partnership in a cross-cultural context. An initial framework is constructed by reviewing the existing literature, followed by an in-depth case study in the Chinese automotive industry, where the framework is refined to address the multi-cultural setting. A performance measurement, system which includes the relationship strategy and operational measurement criteria for a supply chain partnership, has been developed. The relationship strategy contains elements of strategy orientation, management style, interdependence, mutual organisational characteristics and common goals. The operational measurement criteria consist of commitment, trust, communication behaviour, information sharing, participation decision, quality, production performance, delivery, cost, supplier strength, attitude, compromise and loyalty. The last three operational measurement criteria are found to be particularly relevant to the cross-cultural feature. While existing studies tend to focus on either specific measures or individual organisations, this paper for the first time proposes a comprehensive framework to measure the performance of supply chain partnerships. The cross-cultural perspective provides a further unique view on how a performance measurement system can be responsive to the dynamics in practice.