Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EXPRESSIVE SUPRESSION AND ACTING 1 RUNNING HEAD: EXPRESSIVE SUPPRESSION AND ACTING To be published in: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts Expressive Suppression and Acting Classes

Frequent use of expressive suppression to regulate one’s emotions can impair long-term health and well-being for both children and adults. Therefore, there are important pragmatic benefits to identifying contexts in which individuals learn to avoid expressive suppression. We hypothesized that individuals involved in acting classes -a context in which expression of emotion is highly valued -may use expressive suppression as an emotion regulation technique less than do other individuals. Study 1 showed that adolescents majoring in acting at a high school for the arts used suppression less than did adolescents majoring in other kinds of art classes (visual arts, music). Study 2 showed that after ten months of acting (but not visual arts) classes, expressive suppression decreased in elementary school aged children. These findings suggest that experience in acting may be associated with a decrease in the use of expressive suppression, a relatively maladaptive emotion regulation strategy.
Environmental Toxicants Induced Male Reproductive Disorders: Identification and Mechanism of Action

“Several observations on poor trends in Male Reproductive Health have been reported during the last Decades. These difficult trends include the increasing prevalence of Testicular Cancer, Low and possibly declining Semen Quality, high and possibly rising frequencies of Cryptorchidism (Undescended Testis) and malformation of the Penis (Hypospadias) as well as a increasing demand for Assisted Reproduction”.
SIPHER: Scalable Implementation of Primitives for Homomorphic Encryption

Abstract : The goal of SIPHER was to improve the efficiency and scalability of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Significant improvements were made to optimize FHE processing, improve primitives (FHE basic algorithms) and produce a Field - Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware as a FHE accelerator. Through the program FHE implementation speed was increased up by several orders of magnitude.
Blockchain-Based Settlement for Asset Trading

Can securities be settled on a blockchain, and, if so, what are the gains relative to existing settlement systems? The main benefit of a blockchain is faster and more flexible settlement, whereas settlement fails need to be ruled out where participants fork the chain to cancel trading losses. With a proof-of-work protocol, the blockchain needs to restrict settlement speed through block size and time in order to generate transaction fees, which finance costly mining. Despite mining being a deadweight cost, our estimates for the U.S. corporate debt market yield net gains from a blockchain in the range of 1–4 bps.Received May 31, 2017; editorial decision May 29, 2018 by Editor Itay Goldstein. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.
Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Aggregation Operators Based on the Hamacher t-norm and t-conorm

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic (HFL) term set, as a very flexible tool to represent the judgments of decision makers, has attracted the attention of many researchers. In recent years, some HFL aggregation operators have been developed to aggregate the HFL information. However, most of these operators are proposed based on the Algebraic product and Algebraic sum. In this paper, we presented some HFL aggregation operators to handle HFL information based on Hamacher triangle norms. We first define new operational laws on the HFL element according to Hamacher triangle norms. Then we present a family of HFL Hamacher aggregation operators, including the HFL Hamacher weighted averaging, HFL Hamacher weighted geometric, HFL Hamacher power weighted averaging and HFL Hamacher power weighted geometric operators and their generalized forms. We also investigate some special cases and properties of these operators in detail. Furthermore, we develop two approaches based on the proposed operators to deal with the multi-criteria decision-making problem with HFL information. Finally, a numerical example with regard to choosing a suitable city to release sharing car is provided to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed method, and the advantages of the proposed methods are shown by conducting a sensitivity and comparative analysis.
Full-Reference Image Quality Metrics: Classification and Evaluation

The wide variety of distortions that images are subject to during acquisition, processing, storage, and reproduction can degrade their perceived quality. Since subjective evaluation is time-consuming, expensive, and resource-intensive, objective methods of evaluation have been proposed. One type of these methods, image quality (IQ) metrics, have become very popular and new metrics are proposed continuously. This paper aims to give a survey of one class of metrics, full-reference IQ metrics. First, these IQ metrics were classified into different groups. Second, further IQ metrics from each group were selected and evaluated against six state-of-the-art IQ databases.
IGF-I EXPRESSION IN SKELETAL MUSCLE

Skeletal muscle-derived insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) expression plays a significant role in mediating muscle hypertrophy induced by mechanical loading (4, 5). The present study investigated the role of transcription in the regulation of IGF-I expression in skeletal muscle. RT-PCR was used to determine endogenous expression of IGF-I pre-mRNA and mRNA in control (Con) and functionally overloaded (FO) rat plantaris (P). The transcriptional activities of five different length IGF-I promoter fragments controlling transcription of a firefly luciferase (FLuc) reporter gene were tested in vitro by transfection of either C 2 12 and L6E9 myoblasts or in vivo during FO using direct gene transfer into the P. Increased endogenous IGF-I gene transcription during 7 d of P FO was evidenced by an ~140-160% increase (P<0.0001) in IGF-I pre-mRNA (a transcriptional marker). IGF-I mRNA expression also increased by ~90% (P<0.0001), and it was correlated (R=0.93; P<0.0001) with the pre-mRNA increases. The three longest IGF-I exon 1 promoters induced reporter gene expression in proliferating C 2C12 and L6E9 myoblasts. In differentiated L6E9 myotubes, promoter activity increased ~2-3 fold over myoblasts. Over-expression of calcinuerin and myoD increased the activity of the –852/+192 promoter in C2C12 myotubes by ~5and ~18-fold, respectively. However, FO did not induce these exogenous promoter fragments, and only the two longest promoter constructs exhibited a low level of activity in Con muscle. Nevertheless, the present findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the IGF-I gene is transcriptionally regulated during muscle hypertrophy in vivo as evidenced by the induction of the endogenous IGF-I pre-mRNA during P FO. The exon 1 promoter region of the IGF-I gene is sufficient to direct inducible expression in vitro, however, an in vivo response to FO requires elements outside the –852/+346 region of the exon 1 IGF-I promoter. Alternatively, there may be additional features inherent to the endogenous IGF-I gene, McCall et al. Muscle IGF-I transcription C-00047-2003.R13 but absent from these promoter-reporter plasmid constructs, that are required to induce transcription in vivo.
M-Learning Curriculum Design for Secondary School: A Needs Analysis

The learning society has currently transformed from ‘wired society’ to become ‘mobile society’ which is facilitated by wireless network. To suit to this new paradigm, mlearning was given birth and rapidly building its prospect to be included in the future curriculum. Research and studies on mlearning spruced up in numerous aspects but there is still scarcity in studies on curriculum design of m-learning. This study is a part of an ongoing bigger study probing into the m-learning curriculum for secondary schools. The paper reports on the first phase of the study which aims to probe into the needs of curriculum design for m-learning at the secondary school level and the researchers adopted the needs analysis method. Data accrued from responses on survey questionnaires based on Lickert-point scale were analyzed statistically. The findings from this preliminary study serve as a basis for m-learning curriculum development for secondary schools
Citizens' Acceptance of E-Government Services

The rate of computer and internet usage has been increasing rapidly around the world. In parallel with the technologic developments in computer science, transformation from traditional services to online services has gained speed. The aim of this study is to predict the factors that affect e-government service usage. A research model is developed to achieve this aim. The proposed model bases on Technology Acceptance Model and Theory of Planned Behaviour. A questionnaire is developed to evaluate the model. This questionnaire composes of two parts: demographics part and item part. In the items part, 32 items comprising the factors of the proposed model are asked to participants. 100 participants fill the questionnaire. Reliability analysis of the questionnaire is evaluated with internal consistency reliability method. Results show that all items satisfies the reliability conditions. The reliability of whole questionnaire Cronbach Alpha is 0.885. The Cronbach’s alpha for the overall scale of each of the factors ranges from 0.878 to 0.890. Regression analysis results showed that all hypotheses are supported. This study provides some valuable references to understand citizens’ acceptance level of e-government services.
Dynamical scaling analysis of plant callus growth

We present experimental results for the dynamical scaling properties of the development of plant calli. We have assayed two different species of plant calli, Brassica oleracea and Brassica rapa, under different growth conditions, and show that their dynamical scalings share a universality class. From a theoretical point of view, we introduce a scaling hypothesis for systems whose size evolves in time. We expect our work to be relevant for the understanding and characterization of other systems that undergo growth due to cell division and differentiation, such as, for example, tumor development.
dc dynamic and static pull-in predictions and analysis for electrostatically actuated clamped circular micro-plates based on a continuous model

This study develops a continuous model to analyze the ‘pull-in’ effect in the circular micro-plates used in capacitive-type micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensors, actuators and microphones. In developing the model, the governing equation of motion of the deformed plate is established in the form of a partial different equation (PDE) which is then decomposed using the Galerkin method to create a coupled set of modal ordinary differential equations. By considering the first-order deflection mode only and using a fifth-order Taylor series expansion of the electrostatic force, closed-form solutions are obtained for both the position and the voltage of the static pull-in event. Applying an energy balance method and a finite-order approximation method, the solutions are then obtained for the position and voltage of the dynamic pull-in event. The theoretical results obtained for the pull-in phenomena are verified based on the comparison to available experimental data, and also numerically using a finite element analysis (FEA) approach. In general, the results indicate that the ratio of the dynamic to static pull-in voltages is approximately 92%. However, when the squeezed-film effect induced by the air gap between the two plates is taken into account, the value of this ratio increases slightly as a result of considering a higher dynamic pull-in voltage.
Liquidity and Growth: the Role of Government Debt

This paper provides evidence that government debt has a large causal eect on long-run growth by enhancing the supply of liquidity. I build an endogenous growth model where the liquidity provision of government debt is more growth-enhancing in sectors hit by large liquidity shocks. The presence of credit market imperfections amplies this growth eect. Using a cross-industry cross-country approach, I test the model’s predictions based on a sample of manufacturing industries across 39 developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2000. Domestic government debt is used as a proxy for government-supplied liquidity within a country, while external government debt fulls
Hydraulic’s model based on HEC-GeoRAS; HEC-HMS and ARC-MAP computer programs to assess Sediments stored on HE sink

Structures capacity like sinks, dykes and drainage networks deserve special attention in order to provide security to people who live around them. For instance, the brother’s Escobar sink (HE) which is located in a large urbanized area are facing flooding risk as well sink reduction capacity. The problem of this reservoir is that during the summer seasons, high intensity and periodically storms provide high volume of water and sediment which are transported and stored at the Sink. Briefly, the aims of this research concerned to the relation between rainfall intensity and sediments rate derived from runoff events so three main stages were covered. The first stage is to evaluate sediment production which in turn depends on rainfall intensity and duration then characterization was performed in order to assess the quantity of sediments as a function of precipitation events. In addition, the influence on the sink capacity regarded to fine sediments like silt and clay. Finally, In order to assess this first stage two important programs were used. On the one hand, the ArcMap 10.2 version program to assess hydrological and morphometric parameters of the basin. These hydrology components are included in the geoprocessing tools which are part of the spatial analysis tools of ARC-MAP program. The complementary programs that were used as: HEC RAS 5.013 HEC-GeoRAS13; and HEC-HMS 4.012 that allow to assess rainfall-runoff simulation models as well sediments for extreme climate areas like that of the study area. These programs are able to import shape (shp) files derived from Arc-Map 10.2.
QUERY CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM

The ongoing struggle of information retrieval systems is to present users with information that most relevant user needs. So, IR researchers have begun to expand their efforts to understand the nature of the information need that users express in their queries. If system is able to understand the intension behind user’s needs and contents, it will retrieve more accurate results. This system presents algorithm and techniques for increasing a search service's understanding of user search queries. Web query classification is to classify a web search query into a set of user intended categories. Previous query classification techniques performed classification process on query logs and neighbouring queries in search session time. We propose Query Classification Algorithm (QCA) for automatic topical classification of web queries based on domain specific ontology. Ontology is a specialization of concepts in domain and relationships that holds between those concepts. Using ontology as a controlled vocabulary in the process of classification, performance accuracy is improved in the classification process. Evaluation of classification accuracy and retrieving performance are explored. The system measures the performance accuracy of retrieving documents by using the number of documents relevant with the user intended category by the total number of retrieved documents. Classification accuracy is measured with recall, precision and fmeasure.
Cognitive Variability in High-Functioning Individuals & its Implications for the Practice of Clinical Neuropsychology

Knowledge of the literature pertaining to patterns of performance in normal individuals is essential if we are to understand intraindividual variability in neurocognitive test performance in neuropsychiatric disorders. Twenty-five healthy individuals with a high-level of education were evaluated on a short neuropsychological battery which spanned several cognitive domains. --Results indicated that cognitive abilities are not equally distributed within a sample of healthy, high-level functioning individuals. This may be of interest to neuropsychologists who might base clinical inference about the presence of cerebral dysfunction, at least in part, on marked variation in a patient’s level of cognitive test performance. The practice of deductive reasoning in clinical neuropsychology may be prone to false-positive conclusions about cognitive functioning in neuropsychiatric disorders where base-rates of cognitive impairments are low and pre-existing educational achievements are high.
STRUCTURE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP AND BIOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF SOME NOVEL TRIAZOLOQUINAZOLINE AND TRIAZINOQUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVES CONTAINING SULFACETAMIDE MOIETY

This study was carried out to evaluate the structure activity relationship and biochemical effects of some novel of anti-inflammatory triazoloquinazolines and triazinoquinazolines containing sulfacetamide moiety. Some of the newly synthesized compounds 4-17 showed good anti-inflammatory activities. Also, the median lethal doses (LD 50s ) of compounds 8, 10 and 17 in mice were 370, 338 and 295 mg/100g b.w. , respectively. Oral administration of compounds 8, 10 and 17 to the rats at dose of 300 mg/kg.b.w. for 10 days showed non-significant changes in liver enzymes SGOT, SGPT, ALP, LDH, γ -GT, SOD and GPx and blood GSH and serum TBARs as compared with the control group. But, administration of indomethacin orally to the rats at a concentration of 600 mg/kg b.w daily for 10 days to rats showed significant increase in serum SGOT, SGPT, ALP, LDH, γ -GT and TBARs and significant decrease in blood GSH, SOD and GPx. These findings suggest that compounds 8, 10 and 17 exhibited good anti-inflammatory activity and more safe on rat liver enzymes.
Rotation Optimization on the Unit Quaternion Manifold and its Application for Robotic Grasping

In this paper we consider black-box optimization of objects’ grasp density functions relative to a gripper’s orientation. For this, we introduce Monte-Carlo Tree Search on the unit quaternion manifold. Our experimental evaluation shows that our method is feasible and allows finding grasps of arbitrary quality with regard to a fixed budget of objective function evaluations.
Electron-hole recombination in disordered organic semiconductors : validity of the Langevin formula

Accurate modeling of electron-hole recombination in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is essential for developing a complete description of their functioning. Traditionally, the recombination rate is described by the Langevin formula, with a proportionality factor equal to the sum of the electron and hole mobilities. In the disordered organic semiconductors used in OLEDs these mobilities have been shown to depend strongly on the carrier densities and on the electric field. Moreover, the energetic disorder leads to percolating pathways for the electron and hole currents, which may or may not be correlated. To answer the question whether the Langevin formula is still valid under such circumstances we perform Monte Carlo simulations of the recombination rate for Gaussian energetic disorder. We vary the disorder energy, the temperature, the densities, and mobility ratio of electrons and holes, the electric field, and the type of correlation between the electron and hole energies. We find that at zero electric field the Langevin formula is surprisingly well obeyed, provided that a change in the charge-carrier mobilities due to the presence of charge carriers of the opposite type is taken into account. Deviations from the Langevin formula at finite electric field are small at the field scale relevant for OLED modeling.
Algebraic topological methods for the synthesis of switching systems. I

i. The problem of synthesis of switching systems is one of ever increasing importance to modern technology; it arises in the design of digital computers, telephone switching systems and control mechanisms of all sorts. Behind, in fact, every pushbutton lies a switching circuit. In spite of its considerable importance there is as yet no well developed theory for the rational design of such systems. Professor H. H. Aiken [A] states that a "lack of adequate mathematical methods for the investigation of the functional behavior of electronic control circuits represented the largest single obstacle to the rapid development of the subject. " Even efforts to understand the human neural system have encountered this problem (cf. the provocative work of McCulloch and Pitts [M-P]). Previous attempts toward building a theory have considered the problem from the point of view of symbolic logic; this paper considers the problem as being inherently of a combinatorial topological character. This point of view yields a mechanization and visualization of the problen not evident from the logical approach. ii. The synthesis problem may be loosely described as follows. Let A he a binary variable, assuming values 0 and 1. A switch with variable A is a device having two states "closed" if A = 1 and "open" if A =0 (see illustration). _/_
A cancellation-free antipode formula (for uniform matroids) for the restriction-contraction matroid Hopf algebra

In this paper, we give a cancellation-free antipode formula (for uniform matroids) for the restriction-contraction matroid Hopf algebra, using the technique of splitting and merging via a sign-reversing involution. The cancellation-free formula expresses the antipode of uniform matroids as a sum over certain ordered set partitions.
A distributed planning concept for Space Station payload operations

The complex and diverse nature of the payload operations to be performed on the Space Station requires a robust and flexible planning approach. The planning approach for Space Station payload operations must support the phased development of the Space Station, as well as the geographically distributed users of the Space Station. To date, the planning approach for manned operations in space has been one of centralized planning to the n-th degree of detail. This approach, while valid for short duration flights, incurs high operations costs and is not conducive to long duration Space Station operations. The Space Station payload operations planning concept must reduce operations costs, accommodate phased station development, support distributed users, and provide flexibility. One way to meet these objectives is to distribute the planning functions across a hierarchy of payload planning organizations based on their particular needs and expertise. This paper presents a planning concept which satisfies all phases of the development of the Space Station (manned Shuttle flights, unmanned Station operations, and permanent manned operations), and the migration from centralized to distributed planning functions. Identified in this paper are the payload planning functions which can be distributed and the process by which these functions are performed.