Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
How Observer Characteristics Affect How They Infer Personality Impressions of Faces

Many previous studies on facial impression inference have focused on the physical features of the face. However, few have considered the effect of the observer on impression inference. Further, many studies have treated observers’ characteristics with regards to facial impression inference as errors or individual differences and thus largely excluded it from the explanatory variables. The present study, on the other hand, focused on the observers’ characteristics and examined whether the observers’ personality traits and observational behaviors influence the impression inferences of the faces. Experiment 1 examined the relationship between observer characteristics (observational behaviors and personality traits) and facial impression inferences. We found that the observers' personality traits strongly influence observational behaviors, but neither of those influences the impression inferences. Using hierarchical Bayesian models, we found a large proportion of faces’ random effect, confirming many previous studies that facial features indeed affect how the faces are seen. The results of Experiment 1 indicate there might have been an interactive effect of observational behaviors and faces’ physical features on impression inferences. To control the potential interactions, we instructed participants to look at particular areas of faces during impression inference tasks in Experiment 2. Although participants generally looked at the areas instructed to look at, we still found a robust relationship between participants' personality traits and observational behaviors. The results show that participants inferred different impressions, even for the same faces, when they were instructed to look at different areas of faces. We also found significant relationships between participants’ personality traits and impression inference ratings, suggesting people with different personality traits would have different impressions for the very same faces.
Austrian teachers’ understanding and teaching of historical culture: challenges for the implementation of curriculum reforms in Austria

In Austria, there have been repeated reforms of history curricula in recent years. In particular, these reforms have had the goal of implementing competence orientation. However, numerous research studies have shown that history teachers find it difficult to implement the new standards and that they only partially incorporate the central theoretical principles of the curricula into their teaching practice. In addition, the new specifications have not been fully incorporated into textbooks. This article focuses specifically on the inclusion of historical representations in the classroom, and on the opinions of history teachers in relation to this. Since Austrian curricula are committed to a critical approach towards historical culture, in addition to a source-based approach, the inclusion of historical representations is necessary in order to meet state requirements. However, based on 85 qualitative interviews with Austrian history teachers, it is evident that these teachers are only partially familiar with the theories of history didactics. Many history teachers are not informed about the technical terms used in the curricula, and when manifestations of historical culture are considered in history lessons, they are rarely critically examined.
Geochemistry of hydrothermally altered rocks from the Asarel porphyry copper deposit, Central Srednogorie

The distribution of major and trace elements in hydrothermal alteration zones (propylitic, argillic, sericitic and advanced argillic) from the Asarel porphyry copper deposit is studied. Strontium was found to demonstrate the most characteristic behaviour among all studied elements – it is depleted from propylitic, argillic and sericitic rocks and concentrates in advanced argillic rocks where it is included in alunite and APS minerals. Manganese, Co, Ni, Zn, Cs, Y, MREE and HREE are strongly mobile and are depleted with increasing of alteration degree, while Rb concentrates in sericitic rocks. Titanium, Zr, V, Ta, Nb, Th, U and LREE have inert behaviour during alteration. Alunite, APS minerals and rutile are the minerals that control the geochemistry of trace elements in the zones of advanced argillic alteration.
Simple Design and Build Automatic Transfer Switch Generator Set On Airport Power Station With Failurea Indicator Protection

Electricity needs at airports are in dire need of backup and additional supplies apart from the main PLN source, such as generator sets. It is necessary to design a simple Automatic Transfer Switch that is connected to the main source operating failure indicator to a backup energy source. Research developed in order to provide benefits to airport operational management companies so that they are safe against energy needs in the event of an energy disturbance. Panel ATS is an abbreviation of the word Automatic Transfer switch, this tool serves to move the connection between one voltage source and another electrical voltage source automatically. The research was conducted by making ATS design. To ensure the design is appropriate and functioning properly, the panel tool is tested to function properly and can operate as desired. In carrying out the test, there are 3 ways, namely manual system testing on generator sets, manual system testing on modules and automatic systems. measurement data is carried out at the time of testing automatically as well as seeing the function of each component running well. The results of the design that have been made can be used as a backup energy source if the main energy source is disturbed or trouble shooting or in an emergency, even if the energy source can function when the airport is operating and does not interfere with airport operations. manual testing and automatic interchange switch can switch power sources to load with an average time of 4.09 seconds.
An Efficient Block Address Transformation Scheme in Block Layer for Flash-Based SSDs

Flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) are widely adopted in both industry and the academia since SSDs offer higher performance, lower latency, and lower power consumption compared with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). Unfortunately, the performance of SSDs can be affected by I/O access patterns. For example, random I/O operation degrades the SSD performance compared with sequential I/O operation since the random I/O operation reduces the spatial locality and increases garbage collection (GC) overhead. To handle this issue, in this article, we propose an efficient block address transformation scheme in the block layer to improve both performance and portability. To do this, we first transform random access patterns to sequential access patterns by sequentializing the block addresses in the block layer. Second, we devise a mapping table for managing transformed block addresses. Third, we support correct read operations and transaction processing for updating the mapping table to avoid sacrificing the consistency. Finally, we provide a cleaning scheme to reclaim invalid data generated by the transformed sequential access. This scheme increases spatial locality, reduces GC overhead, and operates well on any file systems or devices. Experimental results show the proposed scheme improves performance by up to 2x, 1.86x, 2.15x, and 42.8% compared with existing scheme in the case of diverse file systems such as EXT4, XFS, BTRFS, and F2FS, respectively.
On the flexibility of the cellular amination network in E coli

Ammonium (NH4+) is essential to generate the nitrogenous building blocks of life. It gets assimilated via the canonical biosynthetic routes to glutamate and is further distributed throughout metabolism via a network of transaminases. To study the flexibility of this network, we constructed an Escherichia coli glutamate auxotrophic strain. This strain allowed us to systematically study which amino acids serve as amine source and found that several amino acids complement the auxotrophy, either by producing glutamate via transamination reactions or by their conversion to glutamate. In this network, we identified aspartate transaminase AspC as a major connector between many amino acids and glutamate. Additionally, we extended the transaminase network by the amino acids β-alanine, alanine, glycine and serine as new amine sources and identified D-amino acid dehydrogenase (DadA) as an intracellular amino acid sink removing substrates from transaminase reactions. Finally, ammonium assimilation routes producing aspartate or leucine were introduced. Our study reveals the high flexibility of the cellular amination network, both in terms of transaminase promiscuity and adaptability to new connections and ammonium entry points.
A Load Model Applicable to Low Voltage Transient Stability Analysis

In order to overcome the shortage of load models used in transient stability analysis which cannot describe the load shedding characteristics under low voltage,some improvements on load models are proposed after studying the field measurement data and load characteristics under low voltage. New parameters are used in this new load model,including critical voltage delay time and attenuation coefficient. Both of these parameters can properly describe the load shedding characteristics in negative exponent form under low voltage conditions. In this way,the steady load differences caused by low voltage disturbances can be clearly explained while keeping the load dynamic behavior successively. The improved load model not only has better properties in describing the load dynamic characteristics during the transient stability analysis but also enhances the reliability of the simulation. The field measurement data illustrate its efficiency.
Temporal Point Cloud Completion With Pose Disturbance

Point clouds collected by real-world sensors are always unaligned and sparse, which makes it hard to reconstruct the complete shape of object from a single frame of data. In this work, we manage to provide complete point clouds from sparse input with pose disturbance by limited translation and rotation. We also use temporal information to enhance the completion model, refining the output with a sequence of inputs. With the help of gated recovery units(GRU) and attention mechanisms as temporal units, we propose a point cloud completion framework that accepts a sequence of unaligned and sparse inputs, and outputs consistent and aligned point clouds. Our network performs in an online manner and presents a refined point cloud for each frame, which enables it to be integrated into any SLAM or reconstruction pipeline. As far as we know, our framework is the first to utilize temporal information and ensure temporal consistency with limited transformation. Through experiments in ShapeNet and KITTI, we prove that our framework is effective in both synthetic and real-world datasets.
Barriers to Condom Use Among Heterosexuals in Africa; the Niger Delta Case Study

Introduction The search for an effective response and solution to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) scourge continues to be of critical importance since the discovery of the first case in the United States in 1981. To date, in the absence of a known cure or vaccine, preventive and promotional measures remain a strategic measure to combating the menace. Objectives To identity barriers to condom use amongst heterosexuals in Africa, using the Niger Delta as a case study. Methodology This qualitative study was carried out using an online social media interactive medium. Ten experienced medical doctors from the Niger Delta subregion, recruited through a convenient snowballing technique, participated in the focus group discussion. Results Twelve elements were identified as barriers to condom use. They include poverty (worsened by environmental oil pollution), low and uneven distribution of knowledge and awareness, negative perception of condoms, impaired motivation, partner-related factors, lack of availability or access to a condom, religious factors, young age at first sexual debut affecting cognition to negotiate condom use, alcohol and substance use, intimate partner violence arising from gender inequality, cultural beliefs, social stigma, and accidental casual sex. Conclusion The findings of this study demonstrated the salient need for implementing a tailored health intervention program alongside the provision of public health measures. Awareness alone is not enough unless it translates into a behavioral change and control.
Antibiotics in the Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study to Understand Users’ Perspectives of Antibiotic Seeking and Consumption Behaviors in Bangladesh

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have led to increased “inappropriate” or “unjustified” seeking and consumption of antibiotics by individuals in the community. However, little reference has been made to antibiotic seeking and using behaviors from the perspectives of users in Bangladesh during this health crisis. Purpose This study seeks to document how antibiotic medicines are sought and used during a complex health crisis, and, within different contexts, what are the nuanced reasons why patients may utilize these medicines sub-optimally. Methods We used an exploratory, qualitative design. Forty semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with people diagnosed with COVID-19 (n=20), who had symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 (n=20), and who had received care at home in two cities between May and June 2021 in Bangladesh. In this study, an inductive thematic analysis was performed. Results The analysis highlighted the interlinked relationships of antibiotic seeking and consumption behaviors with the diversity of information disseminated during a health crisis. Antibiotic-seeking behaviors are related to previous experience of use, perceived severity of illness, perceived vulnerability, risk of infection, management of an “unknown” illness and anxiety, distrust of expert advice, and intrinsic agency on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Suboptimal adherence, such as modifying treatment regimes and using medication prescribed for others, were found to be part of care strategies used when proven therapeutics were unavailable to treat COVID-19. Early cessation of therapy was found to be a rational practice to avoid side effects and unknown risks. Conclusion Based on the results, we highly recommend the take up of a pandemic specific antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) program in the community. To deliver better outcomes of AMS, incorporating users’ perspectives could be a critical strategy. Therefore, a co-produced AMS intervention that is appropriate for a specific cultural context is an essential requirement to reduce the overuse of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Dickeya solani, Pectobacterium atrosepticum and Pseudomonas asplenii: causal agents of bacterial soft rot in cyclamen plants (Cyclamen persicum Mill.) in Colombia

Abstract Cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum Mill.) is an ornamental plant affected by various phytosanitary issues including bacterial soft rots, which cause crop losses of 20% worldwide. In Colombia, however, the symptoms of bacterial soft rots are not well described and the causal agents are unknown. This study aimed to characterize the bacterial soft rot disease according to its symptoms, and identify its causal agents at the species level. For this purpose, we visited nurseries in the municipality of San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia, and selected diseased plants to describe symptoms, and to isolate and characterize pathogens using morphological, biochemical, and molecular methods. Soft rotting activity in potato tubers and pathogenicity in cyclamen plants also was evaluated. Six symptoms were found to be associated with the disease, namely: wilt, soft corm, bacterial exudates on corms, root rot, soft rot and necrotic soft rot on petioles and peduncles. Of 47 isolates, seven were pathogenic: one from the soft corms; two from petioles with soft rot; two from petioles with necrotic soft rot; and two from root rot. A multiple correspondence analysis clustered isolates in the genera Pseudomonas, Dickeya and Pectobacterium based on the morphological, biochemical, and pathogenic characteristics. A multi-locus analysis (MLSA) based on sequencing of the 16S rDNA region and housekeeping genes (gapA, icdA, mdh, pgi, rpoB and rpoD) confirmed the bacterial species Pseudomonas asplenii, Dickeya solani and Pectobacterium atrosepticum as the causal agents of cyclamen bacterial soft rot in Colombia.
THYME: Toolkit for Hybrid Modeling of Electric Power Systems

THYME is an object oriented library for building models of wide area control and communications in electric power systems. This software is designed as a module to be used with existing open source simulators for discrete event systems in general and communication systems in particular. THYME consists of a typical model for simulating electro-mechanical transients (e.g., as are used in dynamic stability studies), data handling objects to work with CDF and PTI formatted power flow data, and sample models of discrete sensors and controllers.
Novel Possible Protein Targets in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Pilot Study Experiment

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is among the world's leading causes of blindness. In its neovascular form (nAMD), around 25% of patients present further anatomical and visual deterioration due to persistence of neovascular activity, despite gold-standard treatment protocols using intravitreal anti-VEGF medications. Thus, to comprehend, the molecular pathways that drive choroidal neoangiogenesis, associated with the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), are important steps to elucidate the mechanistic events underneath the disease development. This is a pilot study, a prospective, translational experiment, in a real-life context aiming to evaluate the protein profiles of the aqueous humor of 15 patients divided into three groups: group 1, composed of patients with nAMD, who demonstrated a good response to anti-VEGF intravitreal injections during follow-up (good responsive); group 2, composed of patients with anti-VEGF-resistant nAMD, who demonstrated choroidal neovascularization activity during follow-up (poor/non-responsive); and group 3, composed of control patients without systemic diseases or signs of retinopathy. For proteomic characterization of the groups, mass spectrometry (label-free LC-MS/MS) was used. A total of 2,336 proteins were identified, of which 185 were distinctly regulated and allowed the differentiation of the clinical conditions analyzed. Among those, 39 proteins, including some novel ones, were analyzed as potential disease effectors through their pathophysiological implications in lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, complement system, inflammatory pathways, and angiogenesis. So, this study suggests the participation of other promising biomarkers in neovascular AMD, in addition to the known VEGF.
Study on Effect Mechanism of Flow Characteristics Deviation on Low Frequency Oscillations

AbstractThis paper focus on low frequency oscillations induced by the flow characteristics deviation of steam turbine. The causes and features of flow characteristics deviation are analyzed and described first. The coupling model between thermodynamic system and power system was established for timedomain simulation analysis, in an attempt to find out the effect mechanism of flow characteristics deviation on low frequency oscillations. The effect of flow characteristics derivation on the responses characteristics of turbo-generator is analyzed through simulation. Results indicate that the flow characteristics deviation is apt to cause low frequency oscillations. Both the amplitude and the speed of oscillations are related to the extent of flow characteristics deviation.
C3.4 - Application of Pulsed Digital Oscillators to the in Situ Testing of MEMS Vacuum Packaging

The purpose of this work is to show that Pulsed Digital Oscillators can be used to monitor the working pressure of MEMS with vacuum packaging. The oscillation frequency can be directly recovered from the bitstream at the output of the oscillator. Experiments are shown on which a MEMS cantilever is subjected to different pressure conditions, and these changes are tracked directly from the bitstream.
Molecular Survey and Spatial Distribution of Rickettsia spp. in Ticks Infesting Free-Ranging Wild Animals in Pakistan (2017–2021)

Rickettsia spp. associated with ticks infesting wild animals have been mostly neglected in several countries, including Pakistan. To address this knowledge gap, ticks were collected during 2017 to 2021 from wild animals including cats (Felis chaus), Indian hedgehogs (Paraechinus micropus), and wild boars (Sus scrofa). The collected ticks were morpho-molecularly identified and screened for the detection of Rickettsia spp. Morphologically identified ticks were categorized into four species of the genus Rhipicephalus: Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides, Rh. turanicus, Rh. sanguineus sensu lato (s.l), and Rh. microplus. Among 53 wild animals examined, 31 were infested by 531 ticks, an overall prevalence of 58.4%. Adult female ticks were predominant (242 out of 513 ticks collected, corresponding to 46%) in comparison with males (172, 32%), nymphs (80, 15%) and larvae (37, 7%). The most prevalent tick species was Rh. turanicus (266, 50%), followed by Rh. microplus (123, 23%), Rh. sanguineus (106, 20%), and Rh. haemaphysaloides (36, 7%). Among the screened wild animals, wild boars were the most highly infested, with 268 ticks being collected from these animals (50.4%), followed by cats (145, 27.3%) and hedgehogs (118, 22.3%). Tick species Rh. haemaphysaloides, Rh. turanicus, and Rh. sanguineus were found on wild boars, Rh. haemaphysaloides, and Rh. microplus on cats, and Rh. turanicus on hedgehogs. In a phylogenetic analysis, mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase 1 (cox1) sequences obtained from a subsample (120) of the collected ticks clustered with sequences from Bangladesh, China, India, Iran, Myanmar, and Pakistan, while 16S ribosomal DNA (16S rDNA) sequences clustered with sequences reported from Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Romania, Serbia, and Taiwan. Among Rickettsia infected ticks (10/120, 8.3%), Rh. turanicus (7/10, 70%), and Rh. haemaphysaloides (3/10, 30%) were found infesting wild boars in the districts Mardan and Charsadda. The obtained rickettsial gltA gene sequences showed 99% and ompA gene sequences showed 100% identity with Rickettsia massiliae, and the phylogenetic tree shows ompA clustered with the same species reported from France, Greece, Spain, and USA. This study emphasizes the need for effective surveillance and control programs in the region to prevent health risks due to tick-borne pathogens, and that healthy infested wild animals may play a role in the spread of these parasites.
Small-molecule fluorescence-based probes for aging diagnosis

Aging is a time-dependent decline in physiological function that affects most organisms and is the major risk factor for many non-communicable diseases. The early diagnosis of aging is critical for the treatment of aging and aging-related diseases. In recent years, extensive efforts have attempted to accurately diagnose aging. To date, multiple types of fluorescent probes for various age-related biomarkers have been developed, with the aims of achieving rapid, precise diagnosis of the aging process and evaluating the efficacy of anti-aging drugs. This review summarizes recent research progress in small-molecule fluorescence-based probes for aging diagnosis, and further discusses the challenges and opportunities in this field.