Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
RUNNING HEAD : View from Aging Comment : Emotion , Goals and Distance : A View from the Study of Adult Development and Aging

In this commentary, we consider how Balcetis’s proposals may interface with the study of motivation and emotion in lifespan developmental psychology, pointing to open questions regarding the distance perception of long-term chronic goals as well as age-related shifts from informational to emotional goals. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073915586228 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-119145 Accepted Version Originally published at: Isaacowitz, Derek M; Freund, Alexandra M (2016). Comment: emotion, goals, and distance: a view from the study of adult development and aging. Emotion Review, 8(2):132-133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073915586228
Improving tuberculosis diagnostics with biomarkers

License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. Permissions beyond the scope of the License are administered by Dove Medical Press Limited. Information on how to request permission may be found at: http://www.dovepress. com/permissions.php Current Biomarker Findings 2015:5 13–19 Current Biomarker Findings Dovepress
Network Approaches to Understand Individual Differences in Brain Connectivity: Opportunities for Personality Neuroscience

Abstract Over the past decade, advances in the interdisciplinary field of network science have provided a framework for understanding the intrinsic structure and function of human brain networks. A particularly fruitful area of this work has focused on patterns of functional connectivity derived from noninvasive neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. An important subset of these efforts has bridged the computational approaches of network science with the rich empirical data and biological hypotheses of neuroscience, and this research has begun to identify features of brain networks that explain individual differences in social, emotional, and cognitive functioning. The most common approach estimates connections assuming a single configuration of edges that is stable across the experimental session. In the literature, this is referred to as a static network approach, and researchers measure static brain networks while a subject is either at rest or performing a cognitively demanding task. Research on social and emotional functioning has primarily focused on linking static brain networks with individual differences, but recent advances have extended this work to examine temporal fluctuations in dynamic brain networks. Mounting evidence suggests that both the strength and flexibility of time-evolving brain networks influence individual differences in executive function, attention, working memory, and learning. In this review, we first examine the current evidence for brain networks involved in cognitive functioning. Then we review some preliminary evidence linking static network properties to individual differences in social and emotional functioning. We then discuss the applicability of emerging dynamic network methods for examining individual differences in social and emotional functioning. We close with an outline of important frontiers at the intersection between network science and neuroscience that will enhance our understanding of the neurobiological underpinnings of social behavior.
Analyzing a city's metabolism

Collection of urban metabolism (um) data is required for assessing the sustainability of cities. a um study involves quantification of the inflows, outflows, storage and production of energy and materials within an urban boundary. Such data can serve a variety of purposes, whether as input to city greenhouse gas (gHg) inventorying, for determination of urban ecological footprints, or sustainability assessment in specific areas such as water use, air pollution, waste, materials management and so on. about 20 relatively comprehensive um studies have been published in academic literature (Kennedy et al. 2011). the World bank has also conducted several studies of cities (Hoornweg et al. 2012), and many more cities are collecting data on some aspects of um as part of gHg inventorying. the objective of this chapter is to provide practical guidance for undertaking a um study. in particular this will involve description of data collection techniques and estimation methods, and potential pitfalls to avoid in determining various components of um. For example, it will describe how transportation fuel consumption can be determined from vehicle counts, sales data and/or transportation models; and how material stocks can be scaled up from studies of individual buildings/infrastructure segments. it is very much a ‘how to do it’ guide for both city managers and academics. Figure 13.1 provides a generic framework for assessing the um, broadly including inflows, outflows, internal flows, storage and production of biomass, energy, minerals and water. this is a comprehensive framework that integrates methods of water, energy and substance flow analysis with the Eurostat system of material flow analysis (Kennedy and Hoornweg 2012). the framework captures all biophysical stocks and flows within the system boundary, including natural components (e.g. solar radiation, groundwater flows), periurban activities (e.g. food production, forestry), as well as a broad range of anthropogenic stocks and flows. For any of the materials or substances shown in Figure 13.1, there is a mass balance:
Design Process of Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Device and Implementation of Bilateral Upper Limb Motor Movement

With the development of neurorehabilitation, physical rehabilitation strategies for the upper limbs have become gradually accepted by therapists and researchers. These strategies include intensive intervention, task-oriented training, and bilateral training. Most upper limb rehabilitation systems have been developed for unilateral training. This paper develops an upper limb exoskeleton rehabilitation device (ULERD) that can be used for bilateral training. The device has three active degrees of freedom (DoFs) in the elbow and wrist joints, and an additional four passive DoFs at these joints to correct any misalignment between the human and device joints. A bilateral training strategy is implemented with the developed ULERD and a haptic device according to neurorehabilitation theory. In a preliminary study, a healthy user was able to manipulate the haptic device with one hand (intact hand for hemiplegic patients) when the upper arm was fixed, and the ULERD assisted in moving the other hand (impaired upper limb for hemiplegic patients). To implement bilateral training, the kinematics of one upper limb (intact limb) and the haptic device is analyzed, respectively. The angles of the three active DoFs are determined via integration. An inertia sensor is used to evaluate the kinematics resolution. The ULERD was evaluated by experienced therapists during the design process to determine its potential for clinic application. Experimental results indicate that the kinematics resolution is effective and that this type of bilateral movement can be implemented using the ULERD and the haptic device.
MONOCOT RELATIONSHIPS : AN OVERVIEW 1

In 10 years, the monocots have gone from being one of the least studied and most phylogenetically misunderstood groups of the angiosperms to one of the best characterized. Based on analyses of seven genes representing all three genomes, the following clades have high bootstrap support: Acorales (with the single genus Acorus) is sister to the rest of the monocots, followed successively by Alismatales (including Araceae and Tofieldiaceae), Petrosaviales, Dioscoreales/Pandanales, Liliales, Asparagales, and finally a polytomy of Arecales, Commelinales/Zingiberales, Dasypogonaceae, and Poales. Many of these results also have support from at least some morphological data, but some are unique to the trees created from DNA sequence data. Monocots have been shown in molecular clock studies to be at least 140 million years old, and all major clades and most families date to well before the end of the Cretaceous. More data are required to clarify the positions of the remaining unclearly placed orders, Asparagles, Liliales, and Arecales, as well as Dasypogonaceae. More sequences from the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes are also needed to complement those from the plastid genome, which is the most sampled and thus far most pattern-rich.
Cr Secretion Induced by Bile Salts A Study of the Mechanism of Action Based on a Cultured Colonic Epithelial Cell Line

When applied to the basolateral (serosal) side of the T84 co-Ionic epithelial monolayer, taurodeoxycholate caused net Cl-secretion in a dose-dependent manner with a threshold effect observed at 0.2 mM. In contrast, when applied to the apical (luminal) surface, concentrations of taurodeoxycholate below 1 mM had little or no effect. Only when the concentration of taurodeoxycholate present on the apical side was 2 1 mM did apical addition results in an electrolyte transport effect. This apical effect on electrolyte transport was associated with an abrupt increase in the permeability of the monolayer. Cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP in the T84 monolayers were not increased by the bile salt, but in the presence of extracellular Ca2", free cytosolic Ca2" increased with a graded dose effect and time course that corresponded approximately to the changes in short circuit current (ISC). The results suggest that luminal bile salts at a relatively high concentration (2 1 mM) increase tight junction permeability. Once tight junction permeability increases, luminal bile salts could reach the basolateral membrane of the epithelial cells where they act to increase free cytosolic Ca2" from extracellular sources. The resulting increases in free cytosolic Ca2", rather than in cyclic nucleotides, appear to be involved in transcellular Cl- secretion. did not reduce the signals further. These experiments indicate that leakage of Fura-2 from a T84 monolayer, if occurring, would reduce the fluorescent intensities and could not account for the persistent increase in [Ca2+]i observed in this study with taurodeoxycholate.
Scaling and crossover functions for the conductance in the directed network model of edge states

We consider the directed network (DN) of edge states on the surface of a cylinder of length L and circumference C . B y mapping it to a ferromagnetic superspin chain, and using a scaling analysis, we show its equivalence to a one-dimensional supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model in the scaling limit, for any value of the ratio L=C, except for short systems where L is less than of order C 1=2 . For the sigma model, the universal crossover functions for the conductance and its variance have been determined previously. We also show that the DN model can be mapped directly onto the random matrix (Fokker-Planck) approach to disordered quasione-dimensional wires, which implies that the entire distribution of the conductance is the same as in the latter system, for any value of L=C in the same scaling limit. The results of Chalker and Dohmen are explained quantitatively.
Longitudinale effecten van persoonlijkheidskenmerken van ouders en kinderen op opvoedgedrag

Longitudinal effects of parental and child personality characteristics on parenting1 This study examined which parent and adolescent Big Five characteristics were related to parenting. Mothers (N= 467) and fathers (N= 428) reported on their personality using the Five Factor Personality Inventory, adolescents (N = 475) assessed their personality with the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children. Two types of parenting, overreactive discipline and warmth, were assessed two years later by parent self-reports, partner-reports and adolescent-reports, from which multi-informant factors were created. Results indicate that parental personality was more relevant for predicting overreactivity, and parent and adolescent personality were similarly relevant for predicting warmth. Associations were mostly similar for mothers and fathers of daughters and sons. Particularly parent and adolescent agreeableness, parent emotional stability, and adolescent extraversion were important predictors for both parenting behaviors. This knowledge about the individual characteristics that explain why parents parent the way they do can help the development of effective, individualized parenting interventions.
Design and Validation of a Simultaneous Multi-Threaded DLX Processor

| Modern day computer systems rely on two forms of parallelism to achieve high performance, parallelism between individual instructions of a program (ILP) and parallelism between individual threads (TLP). Superscalar processors exploit ILP by issuing several instructions per clock, and multiprocessors (MP) exploit TLP by running di erent threads in parallel on di erent processors. A fundamental limitation of these approaches to exploit parallelism is that processor resources are statically partitioned. If TLP is low, processors in a MP system will be idle, and if ILP is low, issue slots in a superscalar processor will be wasted. As a consequence, the hardware cannot adapt to changing levels of ILP and TLP and resource utilization tend to be low. Since resource utilization is low there is potential to achieve higher performance if somehow useful instructions could be found to ll up the wasted issue slots. This paper explores a method called simultaneous multithreading (SMT) that addresses the utilization problem by letting multiple threads compete for the resources of a single processor each clock cycle thus increasing the potential ILP available.
Frequency-domain Differential Detection and Equalization for 2-dimensional spread/chip-interleaved DS-CDMA

Abstract The multiple-access interference (MAI) limits the performance of the DS-CDMA uplink transmission. 2D OVSF spread/chip-interleaved DS-CDMA is an MAI-free system, and hence single-user coherent frequency-domain equalization (FDE) can be used instead of complicated multiuser detection (MUD). However, coherent FDE needs channel estimation. Pilot-assisted channel estimation is not reliable when Doppler fading is fast. In this paper, we consider frequency-domain differential detection and equalization (FDDDE) in a multiuser/multipath environment, which doesn’t require channel estimation and is robust against fast fading. The transmission performance of 2D spread/chip-interleaved DS-CDMA using FDDDE in a timeand frequency-selective fading multiuser environment is evaluated by computer simulation. Keyword Differential detection, DS-CDMA uplink transmission, chip interleaving, 2-dimensional spreading.
MARCHING FLOW

Interactive visualization of large flow data sets requires new methods that are fast, can be run in parallel, and are interactive. In this paper we propose a method based on the use of color and local pattern matching. The pattern matching is inspired by the marching cubes algorithm for scalar field visualization. For flow visualization, there are many more patterns, but at least for two-dimensional flow, the number of cases is manageable. For three-dimensional flow, using a subset of the cases can produce informative visualizations. We show results on both data from global ocean circulation models and from artificial data sets.
CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL MIGRATION

It is now recognized that angiogenesis, the induction of capillary proliferation, is important for the continued growth of solid tumors (1-3). Kessler et al. (4) reported that mast cells assemble at a tumor site before the ingrowth of new capillaries; it was proposed that mast cells may play a role in tumor angiogenesis. Mast cells are also found in increased numbers in other pathologic states associated with angiogenesis, such as psoriasis (5, 6), chronic inflammation (7, 8), and immune rejection (9, 10). However, the exact function of the mast cells in angiogenesis is not understood. Previously, Ausprunk and Folkman (11) reported that capillary endothelial cell migration was one of the major components of the growing capillary sprouts that arise in angiogenesis. After bovine capillary endothelial cells were cloned and carried in long-term culture (12) in this laboratory, Zetter (13) developed a quanti tat ive assay in vitro for measuring the migration of these cells. In this assay, bovine capillary endothelial cells were plated sparsely on glass cover slips coated with colloidal gold so that their migration generated a phagokinetic track, the area of which could be measured accurately. We now report that mast cells release a factor that stimulates migration of capillary endothelial cells. We have investigated the effect of isolated mast cell products on bovine capillary endothelial cell migration, and we demonstrate that heparin is the mast cell factor responsible for capillary endothelial cell migration in vitro.
Equity and bond flows to Asia and Latin America : the role of global and country factors

The authors investigate what has motivated the large portfolio flows to several developing countries in recent years. Using monthly data on U.S. capital flows to nine Latin American and nine Asian countries (instead of monthly reserves data), they analyze the behavior of bond and equity flows to those countries. Using panel data, they find that global factors - such as a drop in U.S. interest rates and the slowdown in U.S. industrial production - are important in explaining capital inflows. But country developments are at least as important in determining those flows, especially for Asia. They also find that equity flows are more sensitive than bond flows to global factors, but that bond flows are generally more sensitive to a country's credit rating and to the secondary market price of debt.
Are species–area relationships from entire archipelagos congruent with those of their constituent islands?

Aim To establish the extent to which archipelagos follow the same species–area relationship as their constituent islands and to explore the factors that may explain departures from the relationship. Location Thirty-eight archipelagos distributed worldwide. Methods We used ninety-seven published datasets to create island species–area relationships (ISARs) using the Arrhenius logarithmic form of the power model. Observed and predicted species richness of an archipelago and of each of its islands were used to calculate two indices that determined whether the archipelago followed the ISAR. Archipelagic residuals (ArcRes) were calculated as the residual of the prediction provided by the ISAR using the total area of the archipelago, standardized by the total richness observed in the archipelago. We also tested whether any characteristic of the archipelago (geological origin and isolation) and/or taxon accounts for whether an archipelago fits into the ISAR or not. Finally, we explored the relationship between ArcRes and two metrics of nestedness. Results The archipelago was close to the ISAR of its constituent islands in most of the cases analysed. Exceptions arose for archipelagos where (i) the slopes of the ISAR are low, (ii) observed species richness is higher than expected by the ISAR and/or (iii) distance to the mainland is small. The archipelago’s geological origin was also important; a higher percentage of oceanic archipelagos fit into their ISAR than continental ones. ArcRes indicated that the ISAR underpredicts archipelagic richness in the least isolated archipelagos. Different types of taxon showed no differences in ArcRes. Nestedness and ArcRes appear to be related, although the form of the relationship varies between metrics. Main conclusions Archipelagos, as a rule, follow the same ISAR as their constituent islands. Therefore, they can be used as distinct units themselves in largescale biogeographical and macroecological studies. Departure from the ISAR can be used as a crude indicator of richness-ordered nestedness, responsive to factors such as isolation, environmental heterogeneity, number and age of islands.
Intracellular Localization and Transcriptional Activation by Glucocorticoid Receptor-Green Fluorescent Protein ( GFP ) Fusion Proteins the Human

of acting as an intracellular signal transducer [3, 4, 13]. It has long been known that in the absence of its hormonal ligands, GR localizes in the cytoplasm forming a docking complex with heat shock proteins such as Hsp90, Hsp70, and an immunophilin [12], Upon binding to ligand, GR dissociates from the cytoplasmic docking complex and rapidly translocates into the nucleus dependent on its nuclear localization signal. The liganded nuclear GRs form homodimers capable of binding to specific target DNA sequences referred to as glucocorticoid response
Fragmentation and Heterogeneity in the Euro – Area Corporate Bond Market: Back to Normal?

We assess the degree of market fragmentation in the euro-area corporate bond market by disentangling the determinants of the risk premium paid on bonds at origination. By looking at over 2,400 bonds we are able to isolate the country-specific effects which are a suitable indicator of the market fragmentation. We find that, after peaking during the sovereign debt crisis, fragmentation shrank in 2013 and receded to pre-crisis levels only in 2014. However, the low level of estimated market fragmentation is coupled with a still high heterogeneity in actual bond yields, challenging the consistency of the new equilibrium.
Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems

Thu, 25 Dec 2014 23:53:00 GMT event based neuromorphic systems pdf Event-based neuromorphic systems are inspired by the brain's efficient data-driven communication design, which is key to its quick responses and remarkable . Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:03:00 GMT Wiley: Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems Shih-Chii Liu . Event-based neuromorphic systems are inspired by the brain's efficient data-driven communication design, . PDF Request permissions; CHAPTER
The Predictive Potential of Altered Voxel-Based Morphometry in Severely Obese Patients With Meibomian Gland Dysfunction

Objective To investigate voxel-based morphometry (VBM) by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in meibomian gland dysfunction patients with severe obesity (PATs) and to explore the application of VBM in the early diagnosis, prevention of cognitive impairment and targeted treatment of this disease. Methods Sixteen PATs and 12 healthy controls (HCs) were enrolled and underwent MRI. Whole-head images were analyzed using VBM and data were compared between groups using an independent samples t-test. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were utilized to assess the diagnostic value of this approach. Mini-mental state examination (MMSE) scores were used to assess cognitive impairment and were analyzed using an independent samples t-test. Results Compared with HCs, the VBM values in PATs were reduced in the left cerebellum and right thalamus but increased in the right brainstem, right precuneus and right paracentral lobule. The results of ROC curve analysis indicated that VBM may be useful in meibomian gland disease diagnosis. Comparison of MMSE scores between groups showed mild cognitive impairment in PATs. Conclusion PATs showed altered VBM values in some brain areas. These findings may provide information about the pathophysiology of meibomian gland dysfunction and may help to explain the underlying mechanisms of clinical manifestations in PATs, such as cognitive impairment. Abnormal VBM values in these brain areas may serve as predictive factors for development of meibomian gland disease in severely obese people and as indicators for individualized treatment.