Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Running down the clock: The role of expectation in our understanding of time and motion

Time is often talked about in terms of motion. People talk about themselves ‘moving’ through time, or about time ‘moving’ relative to them. Previous research has shown that attending to actual motion can influence judgements about time. Further, fictive motion language – figurative attributions of motion to static objects in space – has been shown to have much the same effect, suggesting that thought about space influences thought about time. However, evidence to date on fictive motion comes from experiments that included some degree of actual motion, such as drawing. In a series of four experiments, we tease apart the influence of actual motion and fictive motion language on people's understanding of time. The results suggest that the similar ways in which people talk about motion through space and motion through time play an important part in their common underlying conceptualisation. This has important implications for our understanding of what comprises literal and metaphorical uses of language, and for the relationship between language, language use, and thought.
The development of sensory, motor and cognitive capacities in early infancy : from perception to cognition

Part I: The Visual System in Early Development. J. Atkinson, The "Where and What" or "Who and How" of Visual Development. R.O. Gilmore, M.H. Johnson, Learning What is Where: Oculomotor Contributions to the Development of Spatial Cognition. C. von Hofsten, K. Rosander, The Establishment of Gaze Control in Early Infancy. Part II: Face Perception: Psychological and Neurological Models. I.W. R. Bushnell, The Origins of Face Perception. F. Simion, E. Valenza, C. Umilta, Mechanisms Underlying Face Preference at Birth. S. de Schonen, J. Mancini, F. Leigeois, About Functional Cortical Specialization: The Development of Face Recognition. A. Slater, S.P. Johnson, Visual, Sensory and Perceptual Abilities of the Newborn: Beyond the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion. Part III: Perception, Action and Communication. O. Maratos, Neonatal Early and Later Imitation: Same Order Phenomena? J. Bertoncini, Initial Capacities for Speech Processing: Infants' Attention to Prosodic Cues to Segmentation. G. Butterworth, What is Special About Pointing in Babies? B. Hopkins, L. Ronnquist, Human Handedness: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives. Part IV: Perception and Cognition. G. Bremner, From Perception to Action: The Early Development of Knowledge. H. Bloch, Sensory-Motor Coordinations: Their Relation to Cognition. L.B. Cohen, An Information-Processing Approach to Infant Perception and Cognition. M.H. Bornstein, Stability in Mental Development from Early Life: Methods,
Old Democrats in New Clothing?

There has been little scholarly attention paid to the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) despite the fact that it represents an influential faction within the Democratic Party. As a result, questions remain about the institutional character of the DLC, particularly with respect to its ideological structure and coherence. This represents a missed opportunity to examine the formation, operation and success (or failure) of ideological factions. The present article begins to address this oversight by examining the ideology of members of the House New Democrat Coalition. After a brief conceptual and historical description of the DLC, I offer an explanation of the Third Way, the DLC's guiding philosophy. Having established a set of expectations about DLC members, I then examine the ideological make-up of New Democrats in the 106th House of Representatives. Using ADA, National Journal and DW-NOMINATE scores, I attempt to determine whether New Democrats are ideologically distinct from their more traditional (i.e. liberal) colleagues. The results indicate that they are, though the differences may be confined to economic issues. And while ideological moderation helps explain membership in the House New Democrat Coalition, electoral vulnerability also plays a role.
Ethylene Biosynthesis and Signaling Networks Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.001768.

Despite its simple two-carbon structure, the olefin ethylene is a potent modulator of plant growth and development ([Ecker, 1995][1]). The plant hormone ethylene is involved in many aspects of the plant life cycle, including seed germination, root hair development, root nodulation, flower senescence
To Minimize the Cost of Packets Drop in the Network by Average Performance

There has been substantial interest from researchers in the development and contribution of modules in NS2. One of the challenges in NS2 modeling is to seamlessly integrate real world traffic data into the NS2 network model. Ethernet is the fastest wired network protocol, with connection speeds of 10 megabits per second (Mbps) to 100 Mbps or higher. Wired networks can also be used as part of other wired and wireless networks. Normally the traffic in NS2 is generated from the traffic agents such as TCP and UDP agents whose parameters are based on certain statistical distribution. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how traffic agents in NS2 simulator are used to generate different types of traffic based on real traffic network. We also simulate the design of 5 node wired network scenario, its packet drop rate analysis through TCP protocol using NS2 as a simulator. Analyzed the performance of 5 node network when the packet is drop down by graphical method also called as Xgraph when rate parameter is in mb and also analyzed the performance of same network by changing the value of rate parameter at same time so no packets would drop down at same time and also analyzed the performance by Xgraph method.In this work, a modified sniffer program was used to capture real traffic data from a production network and output to a traffic text file. This traffic test file is then used by the NS2 traffic agents in the simulated network model representing the real production network. To validate that the simulation works accurately, the output trace file of NS2 after simulation is compared with the traffic generated at the destinations of the production network.
Condiciones De La Gestión Del Conocimiento Que Favorecen El Aprendizaje Organizacional: Un Estudio Comparativo (Conditions of Knowledge Management Promoting Organizational Learning: A Comparative Study)

The purpose of this study is to identify the support conditions of knowledge management favorable for organizational learning, and in this way, how it affects the management results. Moreover, it proposes a general model for analysis contrasted by a comparative analysis exploratory in a sample of 1,251 companies with more than 100 workers from 33 countries. The method for data examination is done by two ways factorial analysis, exploratory and confirmatory; to identify knowledge management conditions favorable for organizational learning. After that, a conglomerate analysis had been done focalized to contrast the connection with the management results aforementioned. The conglomerate analysis let know assessments of respondents by countries, with the purpose of identify the homogeneity inside groups and the greatest difference between groups. Finally, the results obtained verified the hypothesis deduced from the literature review and the model for analysis proposed.
Modelling of wall shear-stress fluctuations for Large-Eddy Simulation

A new wall-model that is able to predict the fluctuating wall shear-stress from a large-scale velocity input is investigated. The model is based on the spectral structure of the turbulent boundary layer and the interaction between large-scale events in the logarithmic layer and small scale events near the wall. The model is implemented in large-eddy simulations to assess its efficacy compared to a ‘standard’ wall model. Results show that the new wall-model has a small effect on mean quantities— the skin-friction coefficient and mean velocity profile—in the outer-regions of the boundary layer, and is able to resolve more of the wall shear-stress variance than the standard wall-model.
The Symplectic Group and Classical Mechanics

Abstract: The symplectic group is the underlying symmetry group for Hamiltonian dynamics. Yet relatively little is commonly known about its properties including its Lie structure and representations. This paper describes and summarizes some of these properties; and, as a first application of symplectic group theory, provides a symplectic classification of all firs–‐order differential equations in an even number of variables.
Complexity Analysis of Second-Order Line-Search Algorithms for Smooth Nonconvex Optimization

There has been much recent interest in finding unconstrained local minima of smooth functions, due in part of the prevalence of such problems in machine learning and robust statistics. A particular focus is algorithms with good complexity guarantees. Second-order Newton-type methods that make use of regularization and trust regions have been analyzed from such a perspective. More recent proposals, based chiefly on first-order methodology, have also been shown to enjoy optimal iteration complexity rates, while providing additional guarantees on computational cost. In this paper, we present an algorithm with favorable complexity properties that differs in two significant ways from other recently proposed methods. First, it is based on line searches only: Each step involves computation of a search direction, followed by a backtracking line search along that direction. Second, its analysis is rather straightforward, relying for the most part on the standard technique for demonstrating sufficient decrease in the objective from backtracking. In the latter part of the paper, we consider inexact computation of the search directions, using iterative methods in linear algebra: the conjugate gradient and Lanczos methods. We derive modified convergence and complexity results for these more practical methods.
Visualization of Pareto-Sets in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization

In this paper, a method for the visualization of the population of an evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithm is presented. The main characteristic of this approach is the preservation of Pareto-dominance relations among the individuals as good as possible. It will be shown that in general, a Pareto- dominance preserving mapping from higher- to lower- dimensional spaces does not exist. Thus, the demand is to find a mapping with as few wrongly indicated dominance relations as possible, which gives one more objective in addition to other mapping objectives like preserving nearest neighbor relations. Therefore, such a mapping poses a multi-objective optimization problem by itself, which is also handled by an EMO algorithm (NSGA-II in this case). The resulting mappings are shown for the run of a NSGA-II version on the 15 objective DTLZ2 problem as an example. From such plots, some insights into evolutionary dynamics can be obtained.
On sensor pose parameterization for inertial aided visual SLAM

When appropriate infrastructure is not available, localization of pedestrians becomes a difficult task. This is especially the case in urban or indoor scenarios, where satellite navigation is hindered due to occlusions or multipath effects. A promising alternative is to combine a small, low-cost IMU with a camera in order to exploit the complementary error characteristics of these devices by simultaneously estimating the positions of observed landmarks and the trajectory of the sensor system with a stochastic filter. In this work, a standard approach to parameterize the error in position and attitude estimates that is commonly used in GNSS-INS integration is compared to alternative parameterizations that are based on the twist representation of rigid body motions, which has gained increasing popularity in the literature. For this purpose, the error-state transition and measurement equations are formulated for the twist representation as well as for the standard approach. Finally, the different approaches are compared on a simulated and a real indoor dataset by applying an extended Kalman filter (EKF).
Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability

1. Historical overview 2. The continuous equations 3. Discretization of the equations 4. Introduction to the parameterizations of subgrid-scale physical processes 5. Data assimilation 6. Atmospheric predictability and ensemble forecasting References Appendix A. The early history of numerical weather prediction Appendix B. List of acronyms Appendix C. Coding and checking the linear tangent and adjoint models Appendix D. Post processing of numerical model output to obtain station weather forecasts.
Role of p97 AAA-ATPase in the Retrotranslocation of the Cholera Toxin A1 Chain, a Non-ubiquitinated Substrate*

The enzymatic A1 chain of cholera toxin retrotranslocates across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane into the cytosol, where it induces toxicity. Almost all other retrotranslocation substrates are modified by the attachment of polyubiquitin chains and moved into the cytosol by the ubiquitin-interacting p97 ATPase complex. The cholera toxin A1 chain, however, can induce toxicity in the absence of ubiquitination, and the motive force that drives retrotranslocation is not known. Here, we use adenovirus expressing dominant-negative mutants of p97 to test whether p97 is required for toxin action. We find that cholera toxin still functions with only a small decrease in potency in cells that cannot retrotranslocate other substrates at all. These results suggest that p97 does not provide the primary driving force for extracting the A1 chain from the endoplasmic reticulum, a finding that is consistent with a requirement for polyubiquitination in p97 function.
Teachers' careers: accident or design?

Abstract Careers in teaching may take many forms. Early work suggested many teachers seek horizontal opportunities rather than seeking promotion. This article reports the findings of a study of 192 teachers' past decision-making and their future career intentions. The teachers involved were from primary and secondary schools and had 5, 10 and 15 years of teaching experience. The data are used to construct a typology of career strategies which has implications for the range and type of professional development opportunities which might be made available to teachers. The findings show that the majority of teachers chose career paths which took them increasingly out of the classroom, and that many of those who stayed in the classroom did not do so by choice.
A Catenary Model to Study Transport and Conjugation of Baicalein, a Bioactive Flavonoid, in the Caco-2 Cell Monolayer: Demonstration of Substrate Inhibition

The transport and metabolism of baicalein (Ba) was studied in vitro and in Caco-2 cells. Protein binding of Ba with Caco-2 lysate showed that Ba was bound to two classes of sites: a higher affinity, lower capacity site (KA1 = 27.6 ± 4.7 μM–1, n1 = 10.6 ± 0.6 nmol/mg) and lower affinity, higher capacity site (KA2 = 0.015 ± 0.0013 μM–1, n2 = 413 ± 21 nmol/mg). Incubation studies of Ba with Caco-2 lysate showed substrate inhibition of both glucuronidation and sulfation, with Km values of 0.14 ± 0.034 and 0.015 ± 0.0053 μM, and KI values of 6.75 ± 1.70 and 0.37 ± 0.16 μM, respectively. In the Caco-2 monolayer, Ba (8–47 μM) displayed good apparent permeabilities (Papp) across the membrane; Papp was found to be increased with elevated loading concentration in both the absorptive and secretory directions. However, the efflux ratio was less than unity, negating the involvement of apical efflux transporters. The concentration ratios of Ba sulfate (BS) and glucuronide (BG) decreased with increased loading Ba concentration, suggesting that BS and BG are apically excreted via transporters, likely breast cancer resistance protein and multidrug resistance-associated protein 2, respectively. Data fit to the catenary model, composed of basolateral, cellular, and apical compartments, showed a low cellular unbound fraction (0.0019 ± 0.00018), a high passive diffusion clearance (0.012 ± 0.00029 ml/min/mg), and substrate inhibition, with sulfation being more readily saturated and inhibited than glucuronidation, as evidenced by smaller Km value (0.35 ± 0.078 versus 1.95 ± 0.57 μM) and KI value (0.58 ± 0.20 versus 7.90 ± 1.10 μM); these patterns paralleled those observed in the lysate incubation studies. The results showed that the catenary model aptly predicts substrate inhibition kinetics and offers significant and mechanistic insight into the transport and atypical metabolism of drugs in the Caco-2 monolayer.
Key IT Management Issues in Canadian Hospitals: A Delphi Study

Information technologies have become essential components in health care organizations given their potential for enabling better quality of care, improving productivity and efficiency, and supporting new approaches for patient management. Subsequently, IT executives are facing a dynamic and demanding environment that present new issues, challenges, and opportunities. This study aims at gaining a better understanding of the key IT management issues facing IT executives over the next three years. We address this question by conducting a Delphi survey among 30 CIOs / IT directors in Canadian hospitals. Three simultaneous surveys were conducted in different settings: rural / small, community, and academic hospitals. The results demonstrate considerable similarities in the issues identified by the three panels. The most critical issues included managing demands and expectations for IT services, having sufficient funds, recognizing IT as a key stakeholder in major decisions, implementing EHR, and aligning strategy across hospitals, heath networks and the province. We conclude by discussing implications of our preliminary findings for both research and practice.
Biogenesis of phagolysosomes proceeds through a sequential series of interactions with the endocytic apparatus

We have examined the modifications occurring during the transformation of phagosomes into phagolysosomes in J-774 macrophages. The use of low density latex beads as markers of phagosomes (latex bead compartments, LBC) allowed the isolation of these organelles by flotation on a simple sucrose gradient. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, immunocytochemistry, and biochemical assays have been used to characterize the composition of LBC at different time points after their formation, as well as their interactions with the organelles of the endocytic pathway. Our results show that LBC acquire and lose various markers during their transformation into phagolysosomes. Among these are members of the rab family of small GTPases as well as proteins of the lamp family. The transfer of the LBC of lamp 2, a membrane protein associated with late endocytic structures, was shown to be microtubule dependent. Video-microscopy showed that newly formed phagosomes were involved in rapid multiple contacts with late components of the endocytic pathway. Collectively, these observations suggest that phagolysosome formation is a highly dynamic process that involves the gradual and regulated acquisition of markers from endocytic organelles.
MODEL PEMBELAJARAN DISKUSI KELOMPOK BERNOMOR (DKB) DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN

Abstrak Banyak hasil penelitian yang menunjukkan rendahnya minat dan kemampuan membaca pada kalangan peserta didik. Hal tersebut menimbulkan kekhawatiran bagi berbagai pihak, khususnya para pendidik. Memperhatikan kondisi yang mengkhawatirkan tersebut, penelitian yang dilakukan ini diharapkan menjadi salah satu alternatif untuk mengatasinya. Upaya yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini adalah menguji coba model pembelajaran Diskusi Kelompok Bernomor (DKB) dalam pembelajaran membaca artikel. Model pembelajaran ini merupakan salah satu jenis model pembelajaran kooperatif yang dikembangkan pertama kali oleh Spencer Kagan (1994), yaitu Numbered Head Together (NHT). Ruang lingkup masalah yang dikaji dalam penelitian ini meliputi dua hal, yaitu kemampuan membaca dan model pembelajaran. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan membaca dan keefektifan model pembelajaran DKB dalam membaca pemahaman artikel. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode eksperimen murni. Teknik pengumpulan data yang dilakukan adalah teknik tes, observasi, angket, dan wawancara. Sumber datanya adalah mahasiswa Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Daerah FPBS UPI. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa model pembelajaran DKB mampu meningkatkan kemampuan hasil belajar. Dengan demikian model pembelajaran DKB dapat dijadikan salah satu alternatif model pembelajaran membaca pemahaman di samping model-model pembelajaran membaca lainnya yang telah ada. Kata-kata kunci : membaca pemahaman, diskusi kelompok bernomor Abstract There are many research results that show the low interest and ability to read among learners. This raises concerns for various stakeholders, especially teachers. Based on the alarming conditions, this study is expected to be one alternative to overcome the problems. The effort made in this study was to test the Numbered Discussion Group (NDG) learning model in teaching to read articles. This learning model is one type of cooperative learning models that was first developed by Spencer Kagan (1994), known as Numbered Head Together (NHT) The scope of the problem investigated in this study consists of two things, namely reading ability and learning models. The purpose of this study is to describe students' reading ability and NDG learning model effectiveness in reading to comprehend articles. Data collection techniques used were technical tests, observations, questionnaires, and interviews. Data was taken from students of the Department of Education Regional Languages of FPBS at UPI. The results of this study show that the NDG learning model was able to improve learning outcomesTherefore, the NDG learning model can be used as an alternative of learning model for reading comprehension in addition to other learning models. Keywords : reading comprehension, numbered discussion group
The Incremental Validity of MMPI-2 Supplementary Scales

Several hundred special or supplementary scales were created for the original Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). At the time of the release of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) in 1989, 15 supplementary scales were included in, or developed for, this revised test. The degree to which the MMPI-2 supplementary scales provide either new information or data that are redundant with that already provided by the MMPI-2 basic scales has not been investigated in prior research. The current study examines the incremental validity of the MMPI-2 supplementary scales in a sample of 597 adult psychiatric inpatients using criterion measures composed of other self-report instruments and clinicians' ratings of psychopathology. MMPI-2 basic and supplementary scale data were entered in a series of hierarchical regression analyses to statistically evaluate the degree to which the supplementary scales provided incremental contributions in the prediction of variance on outcome measures. These results were compared with levels of prediction achieved by forced entry of all 13 of the basic scales and with incremental variance produced by the assignment of random 7-score values to the supplementary scales. Major findings indicate that the inclusion of supplementary scale data only marginally increased the proportion of variance accounted for in external criterion variables.