Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
UniFlexView: A unified framework for consistent construction of BPMN and BPEL process views

Process view technologies allow organizations to create different granularity levels of abstraction of their business processes, therefore enabling a more effective business process management, analysis, interoperation, and privacy controls. Existing research proposed view construction and abstraction techniques for block‐based (ie, BPEL) and graph‐based (ie, BPMN) process models. However, the existing techniques treat each type of the two types of models separately. Especially, this brings in challenges for achieving a consistent process view for a BPEL model that derives from a BPMN model. In this paper, we propose a unified framework, namely UniFlexView, for supporting automatic and consistent process view construction. With our framework, process modelers can use our proposed View Definition Language to specify their view construction requirements disregarding the types of process models. Our UniFlexView's system prototype has been developed as a proof of concept and demonstration of the usability and feasibility of our framework.
Supporting sexual and gender minority health: Research priorities from mental health professionals

Abstract Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people experience significant disparities in mental health and substances use disorders. This study reached out to mental health professionals (MHPs) who treat SGM people to determine mental health priorities for research that would better inform their clinical practice. MHPs were surveyed and asked to rate items based on a likert-type scale. Open-ended questions were also queried and analyzed qualitatively. Five items had the highest mean scores: “stressors related to SGM status,” “lifestyle factors that support emotional resilience and wellbeing,” “depression,” “intimate relationships,” and “suicide. ” Intersecting identities and sexual relationships emerged as qualitative themes.
Finnish Occupational Health Nurses' View of Work-Related Stress

Occupational stress at work has been increasingly recognized as a major risk factor for chronic disease and poor quality of work life among employees. The purpose of this study was to examine how occupational health nurses in Finland manage work-related stress. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used with a sample of 354 Finnish occupational nurses who responded to the survey. No specific standardized tools to assess or handle work-related stress in occupational health services or their client companies were identified. Open-ended interviews together with burnout questionnaires were the most frequently used methods to assess the stress of employees. Interventions were directed at individual employees. A need for standardized stress assessment instruments and stress management by work organizations was found. Methods to cope with work-related stress should be developed by the occupational health team and companies' health resources departments to ensure the adoption of common protocols.
Electrical Load Forecasting Based on LSTM Neural Networks

— The accurate prediction of electrical load is vital to the safety of power grid and the efficiency of energy. The development history of electrical load forecasting is introduced briefly in this paper. Then the relationship between electricity, environment and economy is also analyzed. Ljubljana’s load data and environmental meteorological data of the previous time are applied to train LSTM networks to make prediction of the electrical load. The experimental results show that, in the case of abundant data with good quality, the LSTM network model can make quite acceptable short-term predictions of the power load based on previous energy consumption and environmental weather data
Active citizenship from the perspective of pre-service social studies teachers

In this research, it was aimed to determine the perceptions of social studies teacher candidates for "active citizenship" which is defined as the effective participation of the individuals in political and social life in democratic societies. In this descriptive study, descriptive survey model was used as a research model because social studies teacher candidates' perceptions of active citizenship were determined. The study group was determined according to the maximum diversity sample from the purpose sampling methods. In this direction, the study group consists of 40 students from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students of social studies teacher department. The research data were collected during the academic year of 2017-2018 with the standardized open-ended interview form developed by the researchers. The data were analyzed with content analysis and descriptive analysis. According to the results of the research, the participants were most interested in the concept of effective citizenship at all grade levels, in the categories of citizens with rights and responsibilities, and citizens who could react to the developments in the world and in their own country, at least the citizen who gave importance to scientific development, producing and developing the society in this respect and are aware of their values. Participants should have the most responsibility for the active citizen, at least respecting the differences, adopting solidarity, democratic attitude, philanthropy, scientificness, sensitivity to natural environment and love of nature, history consciousness, self-confidence, independence, peace, equality, self-esteem, sensitivity self-control values. With regard to the skills that an active citizen should possess, they should have the most social participation and observation skills.
Visual Map-Based Localization for Intelligent Vehicles From Multi-View Site Matching

Accurate localization is a crucial step for intelligent vehicles (IVs). And vision-based localization methods are promising due to its good accuracy and low cost. However, vision-based methods are usually not robust enough due to the errors of matching similar road scenarios. In this paper, we proposed a visual map-based localization method, called multi-view site matching (MVSM). We proposed using two camera views (i.e., downward-view and front-view) to construct visual map. The visual map consists of a serial of nodes. Each node encodes the features of the road, the 2D structure, and the poses of the vehicle. Based on the constructed visual map, we proposed a multi-scale method for accurate vehicle localization. In coarse localization, we adopt a topological model to obtain a set of candidate nodes from visual map. Furthermore, holistic features from front view are matched within the candidates such that the best matched node is determined for image-level localization. In metric localization, the best matched is first verified with the local features from downward view. And the vehicle pose is finally computed by utilizing the 2D structure from the verified nodes in the map. In the experiment, the proposed MVSM method has been tested with actual field data covering different pavement types in different seasons. The proposed MVSM method can achieve less than 0.20m mean localization errors. Compared to existing vision-based methods, the proposed method utilizes two views to enhance image-level localization and 2D pavement structure to improve metric localization so as to greatly improve the overall localization performance.
Are Sex and Pornography Addiction Valid Disorders? Adding a Leisure Science Perspective to the Sexological Critique

Abstract Over the last 30 years, there has been a growing trend among both professionals and nonprofessionals in applying an addiction framework to understand frequent sexual behavior and pornography viewing. However, sexual scientists have identified serious methodological problems in applying an addiction model to such behavior and have noted that this movement appears to be largely morally, ideologically, and politically motivated. The scientific establishment of a valid mental health condition requires a thorough process of attempting (and subsequently failing) to disprove a condition, rather than primarily focusing on generating support for it. While there remains fierce professional contention surrounding how to interpret frequent sexual behavior and pornography viewing, perhaps surprisingly, the possibility that sexual behavior and pornography viewing may function as leisure has received little scholarly consideration to date. This article summarizes the current scientific critique of sex and pornography addiction before critically applying a leisure perspective to the issue.
Statistical Performance Analysis and Robust Design of Paper Microfluidic Membraneless Fuel Cell With Pencil Graphite Electrodes

Paper-based membraneless microfluidic fuel cell (PMMFC) has emerged as an alternative to conventional fuel cells. Extraction of optimum energy yield from these PMMFCs requires selection and study of various design and operating parameters. In this context, this paper presents reliability analysis and robust design of PMMFC composed of air-breathing graphite electrodes using multiple concentrations of formic acid and sulfuric acid as fuel and electrolyte, respectively. Combinations of four different grades of pencils are employed to prepare the electrodes using various pencil strokes. PMMFC is analyzed for two different orientations—horizontal and vertical, and the maximum power outputs were recorded. In order to analyze the combined effects of different factors governing the performance of PMMFC, a statistical approach of full factorial design is utilized to perform analysis of mean (ANOM), analysis of variance (ANOVA), signal to noise ratio (SNR), and desirability study. The response equations in terms of coded values of the factors are also derived. Rigorous desirability study, with the optimized parameters, concludes that the best desirability values for the horizontal and vertical arrangements of PMMFC are 0.8842 and 0.92768, respectively. Overall, this study helps to develop reliable, robust, and efficient PMMFC for many realistic applications.
The Relationship Between Environment Characteristics and Old Citizen’s Physical Activates in Residential Area, Harbin, China

Walking is one of the main travel mode for old citizen (over 60 years old) in their daily life, so understanding how the environment characteristics of residential area could effect the old citizen’s physical activities could help the designer to work better on old citizen friendly urban plan. This study attempts to comprehensively and objectively research on the relationship between environment characteristics and old citizen’s physical activities in Harbin residential areas. Spatial feature and traffic management have been thought as the main determinate of walkability of urban space, however physical features and urban design details have been rarely mentioned. Old citizen’s perception has been examined in this study: 15 environment characteristics problems have been identified in the studied residential areas based on the understanding of pervious researches. Through observations and questionnaire surveys, the environment characteristics of each case study were evaluated and the physical problems were discovered. Additionally, old citizen’s perception on the identified problems and their effects on their physical activities of the studied areas were found and defined, in both high and low walkability residential area.
NFIA regulates granule recruitment and exocytosis in the adult pancreas

After food ingestion, pancreatic cells secrete zymogen and hormone-containing granules to precisely control digestion and blood glucose levels. Identifying regulators of this process is paramount to combatting multiple pancreatic diseases. Here we show that pancreatic deletion of the transcription factor nuclear factor IA (NFIA) leads to hyperglycemia, hypoinsulinemia, and hypolipidemia. Surprisingly, insulin and digestive enzymes are produced in the absence of NFIA, however, they are not secreted properly and instead accumulate inside pancreatic cells. In NFIA-deficient mice we saw a reduction of insulin granules in the ready releasable pool and the first-phase insulin response was impaired. We found that NFIA binds to and activates Rab39b, a Rab GTPase critical for exocytosis. Re-expression of Rab39b in NFIA knockout islets restored glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. In sum, the NFIA-Rab39b axis regulates pancreatic physiology through granule recruitment and docking, linking NFIA to a new process with potential effects in diabetes, pancreatitis, and lipid disorders.
Understanding Supply Chain Management from a Main Contractor's Perspective

The emergence of supply chain management (SCM) in construction was predominantly driven by major clients that began to adopt procurement arrangements such as prime contracting, partnering, and framework agreements. These were major clients that had the power leverage to mobilise construction firms for projects that spanned a considerable timeframe. Despite such early efforts towards SCM adoption, it increasingly became apparent that numerous subcontractors and suppliers were not fully integrated into these supply chain driven collaborative approaches. This has remained a key shortcoming of such collaborative efforts in the construction sector (Kumaraswamy et al. 2010). This situation has now provided main contractors with the enormous responsibility of coordinating and managing multi-layered tiers of suppliers and subcontractors for production and value addition across multiple projects. Main contractors have taken an interest in SCM as an approach for coordinating upstream linkages with demand-side organisations, in addition to the downstream tiers of supply chain firms assembled to deliver projects. However, empirical evidence of SCM initiatives and practices that have been implemented by main contractors to manage the lower tiers of the supply chain remain scarce (Pala et al. 2014, Broft et al. 2016). In this chapter, the multi-layered nature of subcontracting in construction will be discussed, together with its ramifications, before reviewing literature on SCM principles and practices that can be adopted by main contractors. A case study of SCM practices implemented by a large UK main contractor is then used to provide some empirical evidence of SCM adoption from a main contractor’s perspective. This case study focuses on the ‘dyadic’ relationship between a Tier-1 main contractor and Tier-2 subcontractors.
Joint low-rank project embedding and optimal mean principal component analysis

Principal component analysis (PCA) is the most widely used unsupervised dimensionality reduction approach. A number of variants of PCA have been proposed to improve the robustness of the algorithm. However, the existing methods either cannot select the useful features consistently or is still sensitive to outliers. In order to reveal the intrinsic manifold structure and preserve the global structure of data, it is needed to learn more efficient optimal projection matrix for sample sets with outliers. To this end, the authors propose a novel PCA, named low-rank project embedding and optimal mean principal component analysis (abbreviated as LRPE-OMPCA), which can learn the optimal mean and the optimal projection matrix and preserve the global geometric information and discriminative structure captured by the self-representation coefficient weight matrix into the low-dimensional embedding subspace. Thus, not only can the proposed method further reduce the influence of outliers but also can discard the useless features, which effectively improve the robustness of the method. An effective iterative algorithm to solve the LRPE-OMPCA is designed. Experimental results on several image databases illustrate the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Bound within Borders or Free as a Bird? Karen Life in Refugee Camps on the Thai–Burma Borderlands

ABSTRACT Some residents of Thai–Burma border refugee camps regard themselves as caged birds—as prisoners of war—with little or no freedoms. External imaginations of camp residents as bound within borders are also common. This paper provides another perspective. It argues that residents subvert camp limitations; it describes how they stretch life beyond borders. Despite their armed monitoring, camp borders are contested by outwardly connecting, using tactics of transnationalism and translocalism; in essence, cross-border mobility. Such tactics provide freedom in an otherwise incarcerated camp-life and empower people in an otherwise powerless world. They enable individual actors to change their socio-political narrative. Naturally, severely isolated and restricted camps have low morale and residents have little hope. Given the relative permanence of Thai–Burma border camps (now in their fourth decade of existence), and an annual downward trend in their international aid, I recommend policy that ensures consistently clear channels of connection to life beyond camps’ borders. This paper contributes to the borderlands debate by adding camp borders as another framework for investigation; it reflects on geopolitical contexts and shifting political landscapes impacting on cross-border mobility; and underscores the agency and self-determination of the Karen people from Burma.
Electing Successive Committees: Complexity and Algorithms

We introduce successive committees elections. The point is that our new model additionally takes into account that “committee members” shall have a short term of office possibly over a consecutive time period (e.g., to limit the influence of elitist power cartels or to keep the social costs of overloading committees as small as possible) but at the same time overly frequent elections are to be avoided (e.g., for the sake of long-term planning). Thus, given voter preferences over a set of candidates, a desired committee size, a number of committees to be elected, and an upper bound on the number of committees that each candidate can participate in, the goal is to find a “best possible” series of committees representing the electorate. We show a sharp complexity dichotomy between computing series of committees of size at most two (mostly in polynomial time) and of committees of size at least three (mostly NP-hard). Depending on the voting rule, however, even for larger committee sizes we can spot some tractable cases.
Clinical multi-parameter purification of human central memory T cells for adoptive therapy

Important determinants of persistence and functionality of adoptively transferred T cells are attributed to the original cell phenotype. Therefore, the efficacy of T cell-based therapies might improve by developing strategies to purify defined cell populations. We successfully established a GMP-conform, multi-parameter cell selection strategy allowing to purify a most promising T cell subset (central memory T cells) to highest purities.
Conservation beyond protected areas: Using vertebrate species ranges and biodiversity importance scores to inform policy for an east African country in transition

Conservation in eastern and southern Africa has historically centered on megafauna and protected areas (PAs), yet, in the face of rapid change, biodiversity outside of PAs is under threat. With policy changes underway in Kenya, we have performed an analysis that (a) quantifies how inclusive the current PA network is of the country's vertebrate diversity, and (b) identifies wildlife policy areas that need reform to achieve conservation targets. We found that species richness of mammals, birds, and amphibians is highest in areas of intermediate human pressures, whereas Kenya's current wildlife conservation policy focuses on land use (LU) types with the least human pressure. Percentage of range overlap for amphibians, mammals, and birds were all highest in rangelands followed by agricultural (cultivated) areas and then national PAs. Out of 1,535 terrestrial vertebrate species, 80 had no range overlap with national PAs. The current wildlife PA network adequately covers only 16% of amphibians, 45% of birds, and 41% of mammals. In addition, we used a biodiversity importance score which demonstrated the importance of rangelands and agricultural areas for biodiversity conservation. Finally, we observed that the distribution of current PAs, and the focus of Kenya's wildlife policy in general, is in areas of lowest human pressure, often with the highest large mammal densities. However, other biodiversity indicators ‐ such as bird and plant species richness ‐ show that areas under human‐dominated LU currently support substantial biodiversity. Overall, our analysis demonstrates that formal PAs and wildlife policy presently cover only a small fraction of national biodiversity, which resides mainly in human‐dominated landscapes that are undergoing rapid change. These findings echo global calls for a landscape‐based approach to conservation policy and practice that promotes the coexistence of people and wildlife within social‐ecological systems.
Penile fracture: Four case series report from a single institute

Introduction: Fracture of the penis is not a rare condition, as the sporadic reports of penile fracture give the impression of rare trauma. Penile fracture is rupture of one or both of the tunica albuginea, the fibrous coverings that envelop the penile corpora cavernosa, with a resultant corporal defect caused by trauma to the erect penis. In our study, we analysed different aspects of penile fractures, including different modes of occurrence and presentation. Our study also addressed the management and outcomes of penile fracture, with special reference to the preservation of sexual function. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective observational study extending from January 2015 to December 2015, All patients admitted for blunt trauma to the erect penis were included in the study. During this period, 4 cases of penile fracture were treated in our institute. Each patient underwent a thorough clinical evaluation and received proper treatment. Penile fracture was mainly diagnosed on clinical grounds, based on a proper history and clinical examination. All the patients were managed by surgical exploration. Circumcoronal incision followed by degloving was done. Evacuation of the haematoma and repair of the tunical tear with absorbable sutures was done. All patients were catheterised before exploration. Minimum follow up was for 3 months. All patients were locally examined for wound-related complication, penile deviation, fibrotic scarring, skin necrosis or other related complications. Patients' sexual function was also evaluated. Both married and unmarried patients with a partner were evaluated. Results: We treated all patients surgically. Mean age of presentation was 35.25 years. Vaginal intercourse was most common mode of injury. Patients presented in a mean time of 7 hours. Tunical defect was palpable clinically in two cases. Intra-operatively 3 patients had unilateral injury and one had bilateral injury. Right side was more commonly involved and mid-shaft was the most common site. There was one iatrogenic urethral injury. 3 patients had catheter removal after 48 hours and in one patient after 7 days. Post-operatively, one patient had mild wound infection and one had distal skin necrosis. All patients were followed at 2 weeks, one month and 3 months. At 3 months, only one patient had mild erectile dysfunction. Conclusion: Penile fracture is a urological emergency, should be managed promptly. Diagnosis is usually clinical and surgery is the treatment of choice.