Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Truth-Telling in a Sender-Receiver Game: Social Value Orientation and Incentives

Previous research has discussed the effects of monetary incentives and prosociality on deceptive behavior. However, research has not comprehensively investigated the relationship between these two factors. In the current research, we introduce a repeated two-player sender–receiver binary choice task, where players in the role of senders or receivers receive asymmetric information regarding payoffs, offering the opportunity to explore the effects of economic incentives to lie according to the players’ prosociality. In Experiment 1, players are paired to play the game as a sender or receiver online. We find that economic incentives determine the likelihood of deception from senders and the likelihood that receivers will deviate from the received suggestions. Moreover, prosociality is related to players’ behavior: Prosocial senders send less deceptive messages and prosocial receivers choose options that benefit senders more. Furthermore, senders display consistent behavior when interacting with receivers, and they do not change their deceptive behavior even if detected by receivers. Experiment 2 further investigates how the players’ behavior corresponds to their understanding and interpretation of the other players’ actions, by pairing players with computer algorithms that display consistent probabilistic behaviors. We observe that senders deceive receiver algorithms by sending truthful messages when they expect the message not to be followed, and receivers follow the received messages by choosing the option that benefits “honest” sender algorithms. While we find a consistent result that prosocial senders send fewer deceptive messages than they should when telling the truth is costly, prosocial receivers are less considerate of sender payoffs in algorithms’ interaction.
Extreme points of the unit ball of the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra

Let G be a locally compact group. Among other things, we proved in this paper that for an IN-group G, the extreme points of the unit ball of the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra B(G) are not in the Fourier algebra A(G) if and only if G is non-compact, or equivalently, there is no irreducible representation of G which is quasi-equivalent to a subrepresentation of the left regular representation of G if and only if G is non-compact. This result is a non-commutative version of the following well known result: For any locally compact group G, the extreme points of the unit ball of the measure algebra M(G) are not in the group algebra L1 (G) if and only if G is non-discrete. On the other hand, we also showed that if B(G) has the RNP, then there are extreme points of the unit ball of B(G) that are in A(G). Since it is well known there are noncompact locally compact group G for which B(G) has the RNP, there exist non-compact locally compact groups G where extreme points of the unit ball of B(G) can be in A(G). This shows that the condition G be an IN-group cannot be entirely removed.
World health organization-package of essential noncommunicable disease intervention in iran's health system based on 5As healthy lifestyle counseling model: A randomized-controlled trial protocol

BACKGROUND: The Iran Package for Essential Noncommunicable Disease (Ira-PEN) program has been established since 2018 with the aim of controlling and caring of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) as well as their underlying causes in Iran. In this study protocol, a healthy lifestyle module will be used for the first time in Iran, which was recommended in 2018 by the World Health Organization to train health workers. This module relies on the 5As model, a training intervention design, then, implement, evaluate, and present the results to the managers and decision makers of the Ira-PEN program. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study will be performed in 2 stages, including 2 steps per stage. The first stage involves designing the 2 steps and validation of the healthy lifestyle counseling skills tool. The tool will encompass a health counseling evaluation checklist and a counseling assessment questionnaire according to the counseling recipients. The second stage also entails 2 steps; designing a training program for health workers in the field of healthy lifestyle counseling based on the Oles-Cement model followed by implementation and evaluation. CONCLUSIONS: The training program and the results obtained in this study will be presented to the managers and decision makers of both the Ira-PEN program and NCDs control in Iran, and it is suggested to enhance the training program, network, and educational curriculum of health workers in providing healthy lifestyle counseling to play a more effective role in changing the public behavior toward a healthy lifestyle and preventing the risk factors of NCDs.
A Novel Perspective on Ischemic Stroke: A Review of Exosome and Noncoding RNA Studies

Ischemic stroke is a life-threatening condition that also frequently results in long-term disability. Currently, intravenous thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator and mechanical thrombectomy is the most popular treatment. However, the narrow time window and related complications limit the treatment benefits. Exosomes have recently emerged as ideal therapeutic candidates for ischemic stroke with the ability to pass through the blood_brain barrier and mediate intercellular communication, in addition, exosomes and their contents can be bioengineered to implement targeted delivery. In the last two decades, exosomes and exosomal noncoding RNAs have been found to be involved in the pathophysiological progression of ischemic stroke, including atherosclerosis, apoptosis, inflammation, oxidative stress, and neurovascular remodeling. In this review, we describe the latest progress regarding the role of exosomal long noncoding RNAs and circular RNAs in the occurrence, progression, and recovery of ischemic stroke. Exploration of exosomal noncoding RNAs and their correlated effects in ischemic stroke may facilitate accurate diagnosis, and they may serve as new therapeutic targets for the disease.
Public Acceptability of Environmentally Linked Congestion and Parking Charging Policies in Greek Urban Centers

Nowadays, urban centers face the challenge to upgrade life quality by reducing traffic congestion, air pollution emissions and road casualties. Transport charging policies applied in cities at a quick pace are a key tool for sustainable mobility. However, public acceptability is an important precondition to be adopted for such policies. In this context, the scope of this paper is the investigation of the public acceptability of environmentally linked urban charging policies in Greek urban centers. Specifically, the paper’s objective is the investigation of Greek drivers’ acceptability of the implementation of a congestion charging policy and a parking charging policy with the charging being adjusted according to the Euro class and technology of the vehicle in favor of less polluting cars. A structural equation model (SEM) was developed using data from a questionnaire survey which provided a sample encompassing 733 respondent drivers from three main urban centers of Greece: Athens, Thessaloniki and Volos. Several statistical relationships were detected and quantified correlating the two examined urban environmental charging policies with five latent unobserved variables. Based on the results, public acceptability of environmental congestion charging policies and the public acceptability of environmental parking charging policies were found to be positively correlated with each other, meaning that a driver who supports one environmentally linked transport charging policy is more likely to support the other one as well. The environmental sensitivity and high commuting profiles of drivers are influential factors that positively affect the acceptability of the two examined transport charging policies’ implementation in Greek urban centers. Analysis has also shown that younger, higher-educated respondents and females are more likely to accept the environmental charging policies under consideration.
Talking Through the Silence: How do Clinical Psychologists who Have Experienced Suicide Bereavement ‘Make Sense’ of Suicide?

There is a lack of research concerning therapists’ emotional responses to the suicide of clients and/or friends and family and yet, professionally, therapists commonly manage suicide risk of their clients and need to abide by relevant policies. Using a purposive sampling technique, twelve female clinical psychologists working in the UK were recruited via social media platforms. A qualitative method was adopted to offer an in-depth understanding into the lived experiences of losing a loved one and/or client to suicide. The semi-structured interviews took place via video-call or via telephone for up to one hour. Three themes were identified as follows: how talk is experienced as a way of making sense of suicide the messiness of being human,and an experience that helps psychologists face suicide. This study brings to light the dilemmas experienced by clinical psychologists who are both clinicians and survivors of suicide. The findings highlight the lack of conversation relating to bereavement by suicide within mental health services. This study offers insight into how clinical psychologists experience suicide bereavement, and discusses the clinical and UK policy implications.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Müllerian Outflow Tract Obstruction Associated with Cloacal Malformation and Cloacal Exstrophy

People with cloacal malformation and 46,XX cloacal exstrophy are at risk of developing Müllerian outflow tract obstruction (OTO). Management of OTO requires expertise of many medical and surgical specialties. The primary presenting symptom associated with OTO is cyclical and later continuous pain and can be initially quelled with hormonal suppression as a temporizing measure to allow for patient maturation. The decision for timing and method of definitive treatment to establish a patent outflow tract that can also be used for penetrative sexual activity and potential fertility is a complicated one and incredibly variable based on patient age alone. To understand the management approach to OTO, we put forth five phases with associated recommendations: (1) caregiver and patient education and evaluation before obstruction; (2) presentation, diagnosis, and symptom temporization; (3) readiness assessment; (4) peri-procedural management; (5) long-term surveillance. This review will emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary team management of the complex shared medical, surgical, and psychological decision making required to successfully guide developing patients with outflow obstruction secondary to cloacal malformations and cloacal exstrophy through adolescence.
Leaf Pathology Detection in Potato and Pepper Bell Plant using Convolutional Neural Networks

Agriculture is the backbone of world’s economy. This sector faces predominant issues in recognizing crop infection, disease prediction, pest control, weed detection and yield prediction leading to the shortfall in both quality and production of food. To ensure food safety, high resilience and increased crop yields, the precise diagnosis and recognition of underlying plant disease along with classification of crops from weeds is vital. The recent advancements in automatic feature extraction and classification techniques using Artificial Intelligence have gained attraction in the field of agriculture and crop protection. This paper proposes a Novel Convolutional Neural Network model for crop disease classification. The model is trained and tested in publicly available Plant Village Dataset with 38 categories and 15 classes. For the experimental analysis, the model is trained with 5 classes which includes potato and pepper bell categories. Further, the performance of the proposed model is analyzed with machine leaning models such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighborhood (K-NN), Random Forest, Decision Tree and have attained the highest accuracy of 91.28%. In the testing phase, it is observed that this model is superior in terms of accuracy, specificity, precision, recall and F1-Score.
Marked Point Processes on the Real Line: The Dynamical Approach

This book gives a self-contained introduction to the dynamic martingale approach to marked point processes (MPP). Based on the notion of a compensator, this approach gives a versatile tool for analyzing and describing the stochastic properties of an MPP. In particular, the authors discuss the relationship of an MPP to its compensator and particular classes of MPP are studied in great detail. The theory is applied to study properties of dependent marking and thinning, to prove results on absolute continuity of point process distributions, to establish sufficient conditions for stochastic ordering between point and jump processes, and to solve the filtering problem for certain classes of MPPs.
A catalogue of phonological opacity in Japanese : Version 1.2

Phonological opacity involves a generalization that cannot be stated solely by reference to surface structures. The classic, non-derivational version of Optimality Theory hence does not predict the presence of phonological opacity, as it is surface-oriented. As one possible response to this problem, a thesis has been advanced to the effect that opacity may not exist as a productive synchronic process. Regardless of whether this strong statement is true of human languages or not, it seems clear that the empirical status of phonological opacity needs to reexamined. In this theoretical context, this paper is intended to (i) offer a catalogue of cases of phonological opacity found in Japanese and (ii) provide information about how likely each case is to be treated as a productive pattern in the synchronic phonology of Japanese. This catalogue generally does not attempt to argue for a definitive answer for each case, but instead provides information that can be used to argue for or against its productivity, so that each researcher can evaluate the likelihood of the synchronic reality of each opaque pattern. ∗As readers will see, this paper is partly about reexamination of the empirical foundation of what I worked on in my BA thesis submitted to International Christian University in 2002 (Kawahara, 2002). After more than 10 years, I am pleased to see that my BA thesis was something that was worth looking back at. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jaye Padgett and Jen Smith once again. They guided me through the writing process back in 2001 when I was a visiting undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am also grateful to John McCarthy, who has influenced my thinking about phonology throughout my graduate career at UMass—it was fortunate that my career coincided with the time when John was entertaining many ideas about opacity (in particular, Sympathy, Comparative Markedness, Harmonic Serialism, and OT-CC). This paper is a result of the confluence of these seeds, which were planted inside of me during my career as a student, and of my recent interests in reexaming the quality of the phonological data—the second factor has been much inspired and influenced by discussions with Paul de Lacy, Bruce Hayes, John Kingston, Jaye Padgett and Joe Pater. This is a catalogue, and I expect that I will keep updating it. When you cite this paper, please make clear the version number. The phonemic transcriptions in this paper follow a widely adopted analysis, except where phonetic details are crucial. This paper is supported by JSPS Kakenhi grants #26770147 and #26284059.
Stripline Multilayer Devices Based on Complementary Split Ring Resonators

A new analytic design for multilayer stripline devices in planar circuit technology is presented. The Complementary Split Ring Resonator (CSRR) is used as a sub-wavelength resonant particle, which provides high-Q resonances in a compact size. The electromagnetic field distribution achieved along the stripline enables enhanced excitation of the resonators. An optimal solution for multilayer power dividers is presented, in a configuration in which each output is obtained in different layers and also in a different layer than the input line. The solution is expanded to design different devices, such as diplexers, resonators, and multi-frequency resonators, leading to vertical filters. As the resonances are achieved by stacking resonators, the effective circuit footprint is very compact. The proposed devices can be implemented in a volumetric chip fashion, allowing integration with planar transmission line circuits and flexible output connection placement. A complete analysis of the different devices is proposed, extracting and verifying their equivalent circuit models.
The Role of Temperament in Mediating the Association between Adolescence Dating Violence and Early Traumatic Experiences

Violence in adolescent intimate relationships poses a real threat to adolescent well-being and is a risk factor for recurrent violent patterns in adult marital relationships. The present study aimed to understand the relationship between different dimensions of childhood trauma and dating violence perpetration and the mediating role of temperament. The sample was composed of 3497 adolescents (n = 1549 boys, n = 1948 girls; M = 1.56, SD = 0.497) aged between 10 and 22 years (M = 15.15, SD = 1.83). Instruments used in this study included the Social Desirability Scale, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire (EATQ). The results show that temperament plays a mediating role in the relationship between dating violence perpetration and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Furthermore, the results suggest that adolescents who have been abused in childhood tend to demonstrate more temperamental problems and a greater susceptibility to the perpetration of teen dating violence, but only in the more severe dimensions of childhood trauma.
A STUDY ON THE USE OF EDTECH TOOLS TO ENHANCE GRADE 8 STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE

Nghiên cứu này được thực hiện tại trường Trung học cơ sở Tân Thịnh, thành phố Thái Nguyên, nơi hầu hết học sinh có các thiết bị học tập là các công cụ công nghệ cao như điện thoại thông minh, máy tính, máy tính bảng và máy tính xách tay. Năm học 2021-2022 là năm thứ ba thầy và trò Nhà trường phải đối mặt với đại dịch Covid-19 nên đã có rất nhiều tiết học trực tuyến. Nghiên cứu tập trung vào việc sử dụng các công cụ EdTech để tăng động lực học tiếng Anh của học sinh lớp 8 tại trường Trung học cơ sở Tân Thịnh. Bằng cách sử dụng bốn công cụ EdTech khác nhau, nhà nghiên cứu đặt ra mục tiêu điều tra xem các công cụ EdTech này có thực sự làm tăng động lực học tập của học sinh không và nếu có tăng thì tăng ở mức độ nào. Nghiên cứu mô tả một chu kỳ nghiên cứu hành động được thực hiện trên 84 học sinh lớp 8. Dữ liệu sẽ được thu thập thông qua bảng câu hỏi, phỏng vấn và nhật ký của học sinh. Kết quả của nghiên cứu cho thấy việc sử dụng các công cụ EdTech đã làm tăng động lực học tiếng Anh của học sinh trong các tiết học trực tiếp ở trường cũng như trong các bài học trực tuyến một cách đáng kể. Một số gợi ý cũng được đề xuất với hy vọng hỗ trợ giáo viên Việt Nam trong việc giảng dạy và tăng hứng thú học tiếng Anh của người học.
Adaptive Event-Triggered Control for Nonlinear Systems With Asymmetric State Constraints: A Prescribed-Time Approach

Finite/fixed-time control yields a promising tool to optimize a system's settling time, but lacks the ability to separately define the settling time and the convergence domain (known as practically prescribed-time stability, PPTS). We provide a sufficient condition for PPTS based on a new piecewise exponential function, which decouples the settling time and convergence domain into separately user-defined parameters. We propose an adaptive event-triggered prescribed-time control scheme for nonlinear systems with asymmetric output constraints, using an exponential-type barrier Lyapunov function. We show that this PPTS control scheme can guarantee tracking error convergence performance, while restricting the output state according to the prescribed asymmetric constraints. Compared with traditional finite/fixed-time control, the proposed methodology yields separately user-defined settling time and convergence domain without the prior information on disturbance. Moreover, asymmetric state constraints can be handled in the control structure through bias state transformation, which offers an intuitive analysis technique for general constraint issues. Simulation and experiment results on a heterogeneous teleoperation system demonstrate the merits of the proposed control scheme.
Analysis of a nano-pulsed DBD Plasma jet for endoscopy and impact of excitation parameters

Cold atmospheric plasma induces various dose-dependent effects on living cells, from proliferation to necrosis. These effects are of interest in the field of therapeutic flexible endoscopy, although implementing an effective plasma delivery system represents a technical challenge. This work studies the impact of critical parameters on plume intensity, delivered reactive species (RS), and current administered to the target for the use of plasma in endoscopy. A 2 m long dielectric barrier discharge plasma jet was studied upon nano-pulsed high voltage excitation to increase plasma reactivity. The peak voltage, gas gap, pulse repetition frequency, and pulse width were varied while the power dissipated by the system and the optical emissions (with imaging and spectrometry) were measured. Two configurations were compared: the first one with the plume exiting freely in air, and the second one with the plume impinging an electrical equivalent of the human body. Finally, the current flowing through the capillary was measured at regular intervals along the tube with a Rogowski coil. Results show that (a) a conductive target increases the ratio of RS produced over the dissipated power, (b) increasing the pulse repetition frequency does not improve the RS production per pulse (e.g. through a synergetic, memory effect), (c) increasing the pulse width does not influence RS production but increases the dissipated power, and (d) current linearly leaks through the tube walls, and leaks are lower with nano-pulsed compared to sinusoidal excitation. Reactance and capacitance values of the system are analyzed based on the electrical equivalent circuit approach. Finally, displacement and discharge currents are discussed to bring power dissipation mechanisms to light and compare them between configurations. The conclusions drawn are important for the future design of safe and effective endoscopic plasma devices.
Advanced Mathematical Methods For Scientists And Engineers

This book gives a self-contained presentation of the methods of asymptotics and perturbation theory, methods useful for obtaining approximate analytical solutions to differential and difference equations. Parts and chapter titles are as follows: fundamentals - ordinary differential equations, difference equations; local analysis - approximate solution of linear differential equations, approximate solution of nonlinear differential equations, approximate solution of difference equations, asymptotic expansion of integrals; perturbation methods - perturbation series, summation series; and global analysis - boundary layer theory, WKB theory, multiple-scale analysis. An appendix of useful formulas is included. 147 figures, 43 tables. (RWR)