Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The psychology of reading

Part I: Association Lecture. McClelland, The Case for Interactionism in Language Processing. Part II: Early Visual Processing and Reading: Attention, Marking and Priming. Duncan, Attention and Reading: Wholes and Parts in Shape Recognition: A Tutorial Review. Pashler, Badgio, Attentional Issues in the Identification of Alphanumeric Characters. Mozer, Early Parallel Processing in Reading: A Connectionist Approach. Humphreys, Evett, Quinlan, Besner, Orthographic Priming: Qualitative Differences Between Priming from Identified and Unidentified Primes. Forster, Form-Priming with Masked Primes: The Best Match Hypothesis. Kirsner, Dunn, Standen, Record-Based Word Recognition. Part III, Word Recognition. Henderson, Word Recognition: A Tutorial Review. Besner, McCann, Word Frequency and Pattern Distortion in Visual Word Identification and Production: An Examination of Four Classes of Models. Paap, McDonald, Schvaneveldt, Noel, Frequency and Pronounceability in Visually-Presented Naming and Lexical-Decision Tasks. Seidenberg, Sublexical Structures in Visual Word Recognition: Access Units or Orthographic Redundancy? Taft, Morphographic Processing: The Boss Re-emerges. Treiman, Chafetz, Are There Onset- and Rime-like Units in Printed Words? Monsell, Non-visual Orthographic Processing and The Orthographic Input Lexicon. Part IV: Eye Movements and Reading. Rayner, Pollatsek, Eye Movements in Reading: A Tutorial Review. O'Regan, Levy-Schoen, Eye Movement Strategy and Tactics in Word Recognition and Reading. McConkie, Zola, Visual Attention During Eye Fixations While Reading. Inhoff, Parafoveal Word Perception During Eye Fixations in Reading: Effects of Visual Salience and Word Structure. Part V: Phonological Processing and Reading. Patterson, Coltheart, Phonological Processes in Reading: A Tutorial Review. Kay, Bishop, Anatomical Differences between Nose, Palm and Foot, or, The Body in Question: Further Dissection of the Processes of Sub-Lexical Spelling-Sound Translation. Brown, Besner, The Assembly of Phonology in Oral Reading: A New Model. Daneman, Tardif, Working Memory and Reading Skill Re-examined. Baddeley, Vallar, Wilson, Sentence Comprehension and Phonological Memory: Some Neuropsychological Evidence. Waters, Caplan, Hildebrandt, Working Memory and Written Sentence Comprehension. Part VI: Sentence Processing and Text Integration. Frazier, Sentence Processing: A Tutorial Review. Holmes, Syntactic Parsing: In Search of the Garden Path. Mitchell, Lexical Guidance in Human Parsing: Locus and Processing Characteristics. Flores d'Arcais, Syntactic Processing During Reading for Comprehension. Clifton, Ferreira, Discourse Structure and Anaphora: Some Experimental Results. Black, Coltheart, Byng, Forms of Coding in
A Novel Saliency-Based Graph Learning Framework with Application to CBIR

Localized content-based image retrieval (LCBIR) has emerged as a hot topic more recently because in the scenario of CBIR, the user is interested in a portion of the image and the rest of the image is irrelevant. In this paper, we propose a novel region-level relevance feedback method to solve the LCBIR problem. Firstly, the visual attention model is employed to measure the regional saliency of each image in the feedback image set provided by the user. Secondly, the regions in the image set are constructed to form an affinity matrix and a novel propagation energy function is defined which takes both low-level visual features and regional significance into consideration. After the iteration, regions in the positive images with high confident scores are selected as the candidate query set to conduct the next-round retrieval task until the retrieval results are satisfactory. Experimental results conducted on the SIVAL dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
De l'estimation locale par imagerie q-ball à la tractographie des croisements de fibres

Fibre crossing is an important problem for most existing diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based tractography algorithms. To overcome limitations of DTI, high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARD1) techniques such as q-ball imaging (QBI) have been introduced. The purpose of this article is to first give an extensive state of the art review of the existing local HARDI reconstruction techniques as well as the existing HARDI-based tractography algorithms. Then, we describe our analytical QBI solution to reconstruct the diffusion orientation distribution function (ODF) of water molecules and we propose a spherical deconvolution method to transform the diffusion ODF into a sharper fibre ODF. Finally, we propose a new deterministic and a new probabilistic algorithm based on this fibre ODF. We show that the diffusion ODF and fibre ODF can recover fibre crossing in simulated data, in a biological phantom and in real datasets. The fibre ODF improves angular resolution of QBI by more than 15° and greatly improves tractography results in regions of complex fibre crossing, fanning and branching.
Growth factor delivery-based tissue engineering: general approaches and a review of recent developments

The identification and production of recombinant morphogens and growth factors that play key roles in tissue regeneration have generated much enthusiasm and numerous clinical trials, but the results of many of these trials have been largely disappointing. Interestingly, the trials that have shown benefit all contain a common denominator, the presence of a material carrier, suggesting strongly that spatio-temporal control over the location and bioactivity of factors after introduction into the body is crucial to achieve tangible therapeutic effect. Sophisticated materials systems that regulate the biological presentation of growth factors represent an attractive new generation of therapeutic agents for the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. This review provides an overview of growth factor delivery in tissue engineering. Certain fundamental issues and design strategies relevant to the material carriers that are being actively pursued to address specific technical objectives are discussed. Recent progress highlights the importance of materials science and engineering in growth factor delivery approaches to regenerative medicine.
Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services

With the growing number of Web services, importance of composing existing Web Services into more complex services in order to achieve new and more useful solutions is increasing. However, in order to automatically compose new services, existing services need to be encoded in a machine understandable form. The semantics of a service can be described by annotating it with respect to service ontologies. The goals of automatic composition include reducing the complexity of creating composite services as well as choosing an optimal composition among possible options. This paper describes the Interface-Matching Automatic Composition technique that aims for generation of complex Web Services automatically by capturing user’s expected outcomes when a set of inputs are provided; the result is a sequence of services whose combined execution achieves the user goals.
Assessing the Post-Editing Effort for Automatic and Semi-Automatic Translations of DVD Subtitles

With the increasing demand for fast and accurate audiovisual translation, subtitlers are starting to consider the use of translation technologies to support their work. An important issue that arises from the use of such technologies is measuring how much effort needs to be put in by the subtitler in post-editing (semi-)automatic translations. In this paper we present an objective way of measuring post-editing effort in terms of time. In experiments with English-Portuguese subtitles, we measure the post-editing effort of texts translated using machine translation and translation memory systems. We also contrast this effort against that of translating the texts without any tools. Results show that post-editing is on average 40% faster than translating subtitles from scratch. With our best system, more than 69% of the translations require little or no post
Principles of Self-Organization: Learning as Participation in Autocatakinetic Systems

Modem science has been built on a Cartesian or Newtonian (mechanical) world view giving rise to an artifactual view of mind and suggesting that particles (learners) are continuously working to destroy order (are recalcitrant), which can only be maintained by an external artificer (the teacher). At the core of the Cartesian worldview is the absolute separation of mind and matter. Beginning with the separation of mind and body, Cartesianism is grounded in a set of dualisms that separate individual from environment and leads to the belief that knowledge refers to a self-sufficient immaterial substance that can be understood independently from the individual, environment, and context in which it is situated. In contrast, we make the argument for an alternative set of assumptions predicated on a relational ontology and grounded in recent developments in the understanding of self-organizing systems. In our view, knowing, meaning, and cognition are actualized through the dynamic between learner (self) and enviro.
Forest Canopy Height Extraction in Rugged Areas With ICESat/GLAS Data

Geoscience Laser Altimeter System data have been widely used in forest canopy height extraction. It is still challenging over rugged areas. In this paper, we propose a forest canopy height extraction method consisting of the Savitzky-Golay filter and fitting, Sigbeg determination based on the fitting results, and slope correction for rugged areas, particularly for slopes ranging from 5 ° to 15 °. The method was applied to both the Xinlin Forest, China, and Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. The performance of this method was validated by field measurement and Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor data. The goodness of fit (R2) reached 0.73 and 0.78, respectively, and root-mean-squared errors (RMSEs) were 2.27 and 3.75 m over the two areas, respectively.
DETERMINING THE DISTANCE OF Cyg X-3 WITH ITS X-RAY DUST SCATTERING HALO

Using a cross-correlation method, we study the X-ray halo of Cyg X-3. Two components of dust distributions are needed to explain the time lags derived by the cross-correlation method. Assuming the distance as 1.7 kpc for Cyg OB2 association (a richest OB association in the local Galaxy) and another uniform dust distribution, we get a distance of 7.2+0.3−0.5 kpc (68% confidence level) for Cyg X-3. When using the distance estimation of Cygnus OB2 as 1.38 or 1.82 kpc, the inferred distance for Cyg X-3 is 3.4+0.2−0.2 or 9.3+0.6−0.4 kpc, respectively. The distance estimation uncertainty of Cyg X-3 is mainly related to the distance of the Cyg OB2, which may be improved in the future with high-precision astrometric measurements. The advantage of this method is that the result depends weakly on the photon energy, dust grain radius, scattering cross-section, and so on.
IASL RITE System at NTCIR-9

We developed a knowledge-based textual inference recognition system for both BC and MC subtasks at NTCIR-9 RITE. Five different modules, which use named entities, subject-modifier word pairs, negative expressions, exclusive tokens and sentence length respectively, were implemented to determine the entailment relation of each sentence pair. Three decision making approaches were applied to integrate all the results from the recognition modules into one entailment result. The evaluation result showed that our system achieved 0.661 and 0.501 for traditional Chinese BC and MC subtasks respectively. For the simplified Chinese, the accuracy reached 0.715 and 0.565 for BC and MC respectively.
Herpes Simplex Virus 1 ICP22 Regulates the Accumulation of a Shorter mRNA and of a Truncated US3 Protein Kinase That Exhibits Altered Functions

ABSTRACT The US3 open reading frame of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) was reported to encode two mRNAs each directing the synthesis of the same protein. We report that the US3 gene encodes two proteins. The predominant US3 protein is made in wild-type HSV-1-infected cells. The truncated mRNA and a truncated protein designated US3.5 and initiating from methionine 77 were preeminent in cells infected with a mutant lacking the gene encoding ICP22. Both the wild-type and truncated proteins also accumulated in cells transduced with a baculovirus carrying the entire US3 open reading frame. The US3.5 protein accumulating in cells infected with the mutant lacking the gene encoding ICP22 mediated the phosphorylation of histone deacetylase 1, a function of US3 protein, but failed to block apoptosis of the infected cells. The US3.5 and US3 proteins differ with respect to the range of functions they exhibit.
Path probing relay routing for achieving high end-to-end performance

We present an overlay network routing scheme, called path probing relay routing (PPRR), which is capable of promptly switching to alternative paths when the direct paths provided by the underlying IP networks suffer from serious performance degradation or outage. PPRR uses a randomized search algorithm to discover available alternative paths and employs an end-to-end, on-demand probing technique to determine their quality. To assess the effectiveness of PPRR, we conduct performance simulations using four sets of real-world traces, collected by various research groups at different times and places. Our simulation results show that the performance of PPRR is comparable to that of a typical link state relay routing algorithm. Compared with the latter, PPRR has lower probing overhead in the sense that the overhead remains constant as network size grows. In particular, PPRR avoids the need to flood the overlay network with link state updates.
(Re)construyendo la identidad musical española: el jazz y el discurso cultural del franquismo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial

La victoria del general Franco en la Guerra Civil, en abril de 1939, proporciono a su regimen la legitimidad para emprender la reconstruccion identitaria de Espana bajo los preceptos de la tradicion, el nacionalismo y el catolicismo. La musica ocupo un destacado lugar en la articulacion de esa imagen, como parte integrante de la cultura y la raza espanolas y como medio de informacion y persuasion. Este articulo analiza el papel del jazz como referente simbolico y como practica musical en la propaganda de la dictadura franquista hasta 1945, en relacion con las condiciones ideologicas y materiales de Espana y los avatares de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Palabras Clave: Espana, franquismo, Segunda Guerra Mundial, propaganda, Estados Unidos, musica, jazz ___________________________ Abstract: General Franco’s victory in the Civil War, in April 1939, provided to his regime the legitimacy to tackle the reconstruction of the Spanish identity under the rules of tradition, nationalism and Catholicism. Music occupied a prominent place in the articulation of this image, as an integral part of the Spanish culture and race and as a means of information and persuasion. This article examines the role of jazz as symbolic reference and musical practice in the propaganda of the Francoist dictatorship until 1945, in relation to the ideological and material conditions of Spain and the changes of the Second World War. Keywords: Spain, Francoism, Second World War, propaganda, United States, music, jazz
New Passive Filter Design Method for Overvoltage Suppression and Bearing Currents Mitigation in a Long Cable Based PWM Inverter-Fed Motor Drive System

High-frequency pulse width modulation (PWM) in inverter-fed induction motor drive systems is widely used in industrial applications because of their flexible speed control and energy savings. However, high dv /dt PWM pulses induce overvoltage spikes on the motor via long cable. Such phenomenon would cause serious deterioration of the motor and cable. A passive overvoltage suppression technique of low-loss “RL-plus-C” filter was proposed recently. It has not only some merits of simple structure, low cost, and good robustness, but also a significant merit of low power dissipation. In order to further mitigate the bearing currents, this paper proposes two new power filters and their design method. The theoretical analysis and the design method are introduced in detail. Experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical analysis.
Two Paths to Competency Validation: A Pilot for Use of Exemplars and Simulation for Validating Nurses’ Responses to Patients with Opiate-Induced Respiratory Depression

To determine nurses’ ability to intervene appropriately in cases of opiate-induced respiratory depression, educators piloted two competency validation options. Nurses could choose to write an exemplar or perform in a simulation. A comparison of how nurses prepared for the methods and how educators validated their competency is described. Although unofficial staff and leadership responses to the competency methods were positive, further exploration is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies in improving nurses’ care practices and patient outcomes.
A residential intervention for mothers of terror victims

Abstract This article examines a programme developed in Israel for mothers bereaved as a result of terrorist attacks. The women are offered a two-day, residential retreat with a varied programme of healing interventions. The approach is holistic in design, integrating a number of therapeutic approaches in a group environment, based on Lazarus's multi-modal approach to brief psychotherapy. The authors show how their programme puts into practice theoretical principles about the integrative treatment of traumatic loss.
Stamen-derived bioactive gibberellin is essential for male flower development of Cucurbita maxima L.

Gibberellin (GA) signalling during pumpkin male flower development is highly regulated, including biosynthetic, perception, and transduction pathways. GA 20-oxidases, 3-oxidases, and 2-oxidases catalyse the final part of GA synthesis. Additionally, 7-oxidase initiates this part of the pathway in some cucurbits including Cucurbita maxima L. (pumpkin). Expression patterns for these GA-oxidase-encoding genes were examined by competitive reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and endogenous GA levels were determined during pumpkin male flower development. In young flowers, GA20ox3 transcript levels are high in stamens, followed by high levels of the GA precursor GA9. Later, just before flower opening, transcript levels for GA3ox3 and GA3ox4 increase in the hypanthium and stamens, respectively. In the stamen, following GA3ox4 expression, bioactive GA4 levels rise dramatically. Accordingly, catabolic GA2ox2 and GA2ox3 transcript levels are low in developing flowers, and increase in mature flowers. Putative GA receptor GID1b and DELLA repressor GAIPb transcript levels do not change in developing flowers, but increase sharply in mature flowers. Emasculation arrests floral development completely and leads to abscission of premature flowers. Application of GA4 (but not of its precursors GA12-aldehyde or GA9) restores normal growth of emasculated flowers. These results indicate that de novo GA4 synthesis in the stamen is under control of GA20ox3 and GA3ox4 genes just before the rapid flower growth phase. Stamen-derived bioactive GA is essential and sufficient for male flower development, including the petal and the pedicel growth.
Fisher discriminant analysis with kernels

A non-linear classification technique based on Fisher's discriminant is proposed. The main ingredient is the kernel trick which allows the efficient computation of Fisher discriminant in feature space. The linear classification in feature space corresponds to a (powerful) non-linear decision function in input space. Large scale simulations demonstrate the competitiveness of our approach.
Aggressiveness of intensive care use among patients with lung cancer in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare registry.

BACKGROUND Approximately 65% of elderly patients with lung cancer who are admitted to the ICU will die within 6 months. Efforts to improve end-of-life care for this population must first understand the patient factors that underlie admission to the ICU. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study examining all fee-for-service inpatient claims in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare registry for elderly patients (aged > 65 years) who had received a diagnosis of lung cancer between 1992 and 2005 and who were hospitalized for reasons other than resection of their lung cancer. We calculated yearly rates of ICU admission per 1,000 hospitalizations via room and board codes or International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification and diagnosis-related group codes for mechanical ventilation, stratified the rates by receipt of mechanical ventilation and ICU type (medical/surgical/cardiac vs intermediate), and compared these rates over time. RESULTS A total of 175,756 patients with lung cancer in SEER were hospitalized for a reason other than surgical resection of their tumor during the study period, 49,373 (28%) of whom had at least one ICU stay. The rate of ICU admissions per 1,000 hospitalizations increased over the study period from 140.7 in 1992 to 201.7 in 2005 (P < .001). The majority of the increase in ICU admissions (per 1,000 hospitalizations) between 1992 and 2005 occurred among patients who were not mechanically ventilated (118.2 to 173.3, P < .001) and among those who were in intermediate ICUs (20.0 to 61.9, P < .001), but increased only moderately in medical/surgical/cardiac units (120.7 to 139.9, P < .001). CONCLUSIONS ICU admission for patients with lung cancer increased over time, mostly among patients without mechanical ventilation who were largely cared for in intermediate ICUs.
Seven systems engineering myths and the corresponding realities

This paper states that systems engi- neering is a discipline characterized by debates based on subjective opinions, with participants talking past each other, a lack of listening and a number of myths. The opinions expressed in this paper are based on some of the findings from research into the nature of systems engineering that began in 1994. The paper discusses seven myths of systems engineering and shows the nature of the myth and the reality, and explains how and why each myth arose.
NK Cell Autoreactivity and Autoimmune Diseases

Increasing evidences have pointed out the relevance of natural killer (NK) cells in organ-specific and systemic autoimmune diseases. NK cells bear a plethora of activating and inhibiting receptors that can play a role in regulating reactivity with autologous cells. The activating receptors recognize natural ligands up-regulated on virus-infected or stressed or neoplastic cells. Of note, several autoimmune diseases are thought to be linked to viral infections as one of the first event in inducing autoimmunity. Also, it is conceivable that autoimmunity can be triggered when a dysregulation of innate immunity occurs, activating T and B lymphocytes to react with self-components. This would imply that NK cells can play a regulatory role during adaptive immunity; indeed, innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), comprising the classical CD56+ NK cells, have a role in maintaining or alternating tissue homeostasis secreting protective and/or pro-inflammatory cytokines. In addition, NK cells display activating receptors involved in natural cytotoxicity and the activating isoforms of receptors for HLA class I that can interact with healthy host cells and induce damage without any evidence of viral infection or neoplastic-induced alteration. In this context, the interrelationship among ILC, extracellular-matrix components, and mesenchymal stromal cells can be considered a key point for the control of homeostasis. Herein, we summarize evidences for a role of NK cells in autoimmune diseases and will give a point of view of the interplay between NK cells and self-cells in triggering autoimmunity.