Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ways of Forgetting: Israel and the Obliterated Memory of the Palestinian Nakba

This study analyses national ways of forgetting. Following the eminent British Anthropologists Mary Douglas, I relate here to “forgetting” as “selective remembering, misremembering and disremembering” (Douglas 2007: 13). The case study offered here is that of the Israeli-Jewish forgetting of the uprooting of the Palestinians in the war of 1948. This paper discusses three facets of the collective forgetting: In the first subchapter I analyze the foundations of the Israeli regime of forgetting and discern three mechanisms of removing from memory of selected events: narrative forgetting: the formation and dissemination of an historical narrative; physical forgetting: the destruction of physical remains; and symbolic forgetting: the creation of a new symbolic geography of new places and street names. In the second subchapter, I look at the tenacious ambiguity that lies in the regime of forgetting, as it does not completely erase all the traces of the past. And finally, in the third subchapter, I discuss the growth of subversive memory and counter-memory that at least indicates the option of a future revision of the Israeli regime of forgetting.
Percepción de la Relación Parental entre Adolescentes Mayores y Menores de 15 Años

The Perception of Parental Relationship: A Comparison of Adolescents Older and Younger Than 15 Years of Age This study evaluates the difference in risk behavior and depressive symptomalogy in adolescents, as parenting styles change through developmental stages. A group of students older and younger than 15 years old, in Santiago's Metropolitan Region were screened for these behaviors and symptoms, focusing upon the relationship with parents. Barber's Cross National Adolescent Program test, adapted and validated in Chile, was given to a 1 447 students, randomly selected in 14 Middle Schools. Barber's model was used to compare upbringing styles. Results show that parental support correlates with children's social initiative, psychological control shows positive correlation with depressive symptomatology, and behavioral control shows a negative correlation with antisocial behavior. The only variable showing age bracket variability is antisocial adolescent behavior, when external and internal aggressive behavior are compared. The results suggest that Barber's model can be applied among Chilean adolescents 10 to 19 years of age. The implications of these findings, and possible preventive actions are presented.
Wildlife Feeding in Parks: Methods for Monitoring the Effectiveness of Educational Interventions and Wildlife Food Attraction Behaviors

Opportunities to view and interact with wildlife are often an important part of high quality recreational experiences. Such interactions frequently include wildlife feeding, resulting in food-conditioned behaviors that may cause harm to both wildlife and visitors. This study developed and applied efficient protocols for simultaneously evaluating wildlife feeding–related behaviors of visitors and related foraging behaviors of chipmunks along a trail in Zion National Park. Unobtrusive observation protocols permitted an evaluation of educational messages delivered, and documentation of wildlife success in obtaining human food and the strength of their food attraction behavior. Significant improvements were documented for some targeted visitor behaviors and human food available to chipmunks, with minor differences between treatments. Replication of these protocols as part of a long-term monitoring program can help protected area managers evaluate and improve the efficacy of their interventions and monitor the strength of food attraction behavior in wildlife.
Spontaneous and Diet‐Induced Coronary Atherosclerosis in Normal Swine and Swine with von Wiiiebrand Disease

We have observed that pigs with Impaired platelet function in the form of severe von Wlllebrand's disease (vWd) are resistant to spontaneous and to diet-Induced aortic atherosclerosis. However, it has been reported that vWd pigs are susceptible to coronary atherosclerosis produced by balloon-Induced injury of coronary arteries combined with an atherogenlc diet. We have evaluated the development of coronary atherosclerosis in normal control (NC) and homozygous vWd pigs In two prospective studies: 1) as a spontaneous process In five NC and vWd pigs receiving a regular diet from the age of 3 months to 4 years; and 2) in nine NC and five vWd receiving a high-fat and high-cholesterol (2%) diet from the age of 3 to 9 months. All of the coronary arteries were analyzed postmortem In 5-mm sections. None of the NC nor the vWd pigs in the spontaneous study showed coronary atherosclerosis or myocardial lesions. In the study of diet-induced atherosclerosis, only one NC and one vWd pig had discrete stenoses; the stenoses affected the three coronary arteries and were significant (50% to 80%) In the NC and mild (>25%) In the vWd pigs; no pigs showed myocardial lesions. Pigs with vWd are resistant to atherosclerosis of the aorta. To assess the resistance or susceptibility to coronary disease In these pigs, a longer follow-up study would be necessary.
Using Classroom Data to Teach Students about Data Cleaning and Testing Assumptions

This paper discusses the influence that decisions about data cleaning and violations of statistical assumptions can have on drawing valid conclusions to research studies. The datasets provided in this paper were collected as part of a National Science Foundation grant to design online games and associated labs for use in undergraduate and graduate statistics courses that can effectively illustrate issues not always addressed in traditional instruction. Students play the role of a researcher by selecting from a wide variety of independent variables to explain why some students complete games faster than others. Typical project data sets are “messy,” with many outliers (usually from some students taking much longer than others) and distributions that do not appear normal. Classroom testing of the games over several semesters has produced evidence of their efficacy in statistics education. The projects tend to be engaging for students and they make the impact of data cleaning and violations of model assumptions more relevant. We discuss the use of one of the games and associated guided lab in introducing students to issues prevalent in real data and the challenges involved in data cleaning and dangers when model assumptions are violated.
Appreciating Gratitude: Is Gratitude an Amplifier of Well-Being?

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between gratitude and certain components of well-being which are conducive to affirming life. Additionally, we also compared how experiencing joy impacts those components of well-being. A randomly chosen 1/3 of the participants was asked to recall an event from their past when they felt grateful. Another 1/3 was asked to recall an event from their past when they felt joy. The final 1/3 of the participants was the control group. Next, all participants filled in the Satisfaction With Life Scale. Then (taking turns) they completed the Social Ties Scale and the Social Trust Scale. Finally, all participants estimated the amount of beneficiary experiences and gratitude they had received in life. The results of the study indicate that both gratitude and joy enhance happiness, and that gratitude and joy play an important, although different in some respects, role as contributing factors to happiness. The results indicate a positive relationship between the balance in gratitude experiences and the examined aspects of well-being.
MOVEMENT IN DECLINE? OSCILLATORY MOVEMENT DISPLACEMENT THRESHOLDS INCREASE WITH AGEING *

Abstract— Displacement thresholds for continuous oscillatory movement were determined for ten subjects in each of three age groups—20–23, 40–55 and 60–80 years. Oscillation frequencies of 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and 20 Hz were used, all subjects having a corrected visual acuity of 6/5. A randomized block factorial design of analysis of variance revealed significant effects of both temporal frequency of oscillation (F6,189= 4.10, p < 0.001)and age (F2,189= 46.98, p≪ 0.001). The deterioration in movement sensitivity occurs equally at both high and low temporal frequencies—no significant interaction effects being revealed (F12,189= 0.45, p= not significant). The frequency effects are ascribed to underlying mechanisms mediating movement perception. Reasons for decreased movement sensitivity with increasing age are discussed.
Controlling Communication in Distributed Planning Using Irrelevance Reasoning

Efficient and effective distributed planning requires careful control over how much information the planning agents broadcast to one another. Sending too little information could result in incorrect plans, while sending too much information could overtax the distributed planning system's resources (bandwidth and computational power). Ideally, distributed planning systems would have an efficient technique for filtering a large amount of irrelevant information from the message stream while retaining all the relevant messages. This paper describes an approach to controlling information distribution among planning agents using irrelevance reasoning (Levy & Sagiv 1993). In this approach, each planning agent maintains a data structure encoding the planning effects that could potentially be relevant to each of the other agents, and uses this structure to decide which of the planning effects that it generates will be sent to other agents. We describe an implementation of this approach within a distributed version of the SIPE-2 planner. Our experiments with this implementation show two important benefits of the approach: first, a noticeable speedup of the distributed planners; second--and, we argue, more importantly--a substantial reduction in message traffic.
One-to-One Embedding between Honeycomb Mesh and Petersen-Torus Networks

As wireless mobile telecommunication bases organize their structure using a honeycomb-mesh algorithm, there are many studies about parallel processing algorithms like the honeycomb mesh in Wireless Sensor Networks. This paper aims to study the Peterson-Torus graph algorithm in regard to the continuity with honeycomb-mesh algorithm in order to apply the algorithm to sensor networks. Once a new interconnection network is designed, parallel algorithms are developed with huge research costs to use such networks. If the old network is embedded in a newly designed network, a developed algorithm in the old network is reusable in a newly designed network. Petersen-Torus has been designed recently, and the honeycomb mesh has already been designed as a well-known interconnection network. In this paper, we propose a one-to-one embedding algorithm for the honeycomb mesh (HMn) in the Petersen-Torus PT(n,n), and prove that dilation of the algorithm is 5, congestion is 2, and expansion is 5/3. The proposed one-to-one embedding is applied so that processor throughput can be minimized when the honeycomb mesh algorithm runs in the Petersen-Torus.
Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Fibrillation in Rabbit Ventricles Treated With &bgr;-Blockers

Background—A therapeutic implication of the focal-source hypothesis of ventricular fibrillation (VF) is that VF can be terminated by focal ablation. We hypothesize that &bgr;-adrenergic receptor blockade converts multiple-wavelet VF to focal-source VF and that this focal source is located near the papillary muscle (PM). Methods and Results—We used optical mapping techniques to study the effects of propranolol (0.3 mg/L) on VF dynamics in Langendorff-perfused rabbit hearts. The left ventricular (LV) anterior wall was mapped and optical action potential duration restitution (APDR) was determined at 25 epicardial sites. We performed ablation during VF of the left anterior PM in hearts with (N=6) or without (N=6) cytochalasin infusion, the LV lateral epicardium (Epi group, N=3), and the LV endocardium (Endo group, N=3). The PM was also ablated in 3 hearts without propranolol (control group). Propranolol converted multiple-wavelet VF to slow VF with reentry localized to the PM. Propranolol decreased the maximal slope of the APDR curve (P <0.001) as well as its spatial heterogeneity (P <0.01) and conduction velocity (P =0.01) while increasing the VF cycle length (P <0.001). PM ablation terminated VF during propropranolol infusion with (6 of 6, 100%) or without (4 of 6, 67%) cytochalasin D and significantly reduced inducibility. VF did not terminate in the Epi, Endo, and control groups (P <0.001). Conclusions—Propranolol flattens the APDR curve and reduces conduction velocity, converting multiple-wavelet VF into VF with a focal source anchored to the PM. Ablation of this focal source may terminate VF.
Government Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) and privacy in Ontario

Over the past ten years, web enabled technology has been the catalyst to enhanced Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) delivery. ESD has conveniently reduced the cost to governments and at the same time benefited Ontarians by providing convenient access to services. There remains a concern that the use of web technology increases one's risk to breach of privacy. A privacy breach, where information may be improperly released, can be catastrophic to an individual's identify and to the government's image of trust. The purpose of this report is to review critical web based defences designed by the government to fend off web attacks that may threaten the privacy of Ontarians while accessing government services through a web environment. This is followed by a discussion on strategies users can deploy in order to ensure they protect their own privacy.
Web 2.0: hype or happiness?

Web 2.0 has initiated a new age of Web interaction. Countless everyday activities such as seeking information, shopping, filling in forms and making appointments can be done effectively and often more cheaply on the Web. However many of the new community sites, and other Web 2.0 sites, do not promote accessibility in terms of inclusivity. They are built for, and are of most benefit to, young socially integrated people who own their own laptop and live in a world of readily available radio LAN and fast access broadband. However many older or disabled people are living on low budgets and do not have access to such things. Those for whom the Web is inaccessible for whatever reason will become increasingly excluded from mainstream life if it is not made accessible to them. This paper argues for a holistic approach to accessibly which addresses all aspects of the user's life. It tracks the impact of the advent of Web 2.0 on Web accessibility in its widest sense. It starts with a definition of accessibility, which in this context means apart from physical access, inclusion and acceptability. Through the use of case studies it examines worrying trends brought about by Web 2.0, and positive signs of improvement in accessibility, due to Web 2.0.
Perbedaan Perilaku Berisiko Menyalahgunakan Napza Ditinjau Dari Keterlibatan Mengisi Waktu Luang Pada Remaja

Perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA pada umumnya terjadi pada remaja yang masih aktif di SMP, SMA maupun perguruan tinggi. Penggunaan waktu luang dengan kegiatan negatif merupakan salah satu faktor risiko munculnya perilaku penyalahgunaan NAPZA pada remaja. Tujuan dalam penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui perbedaan perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA pada remaja yang mengisi waktu luang positif dan remaja yang mengisi waktu luang negatif. Hipotesis dalam penelitian ini adalah ada perbedaan perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA ditinjau dari keterlibatan dalam mengisi waktu luang pada remaja. Subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa-siswi kelas XI di 2 SMK yang terletak diwilayah kota Sragen, dengan jumlah 209 responden. Subjek dalam penelitian ini ditentukan dengan subjek kriteria inklusif, dengan ketentuan yaitu: (1) remaja yang berusia 15-18 tahun, (2) remaja yang memiliki perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA, (3) remaja yang terlibat dalam kegiatan mengisi waktu luang, baik kegiatan positif maupun kegiatan negatif. Alat ukur yang digunakan adalah skala perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA dan skala keterlibatan mengisi waktu luang. Metode analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah dengan software SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solution) 19 for Windows Program, melalui teknik komparasi parametrik Independent Samples T-Test. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan nilai t= 4,236 dan sig=0,000 (p < 0,01). Artinya ada perbedaan yang sangat signifikan pada perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA ditinjau dari keterlibatan mengisi waktu luang pada remaja. Rerata perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA pada remaja dalam mengisi waktu luang negatif sebesar 17,82. Rerata perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA pada remaja dalam mengisi waktu luang positif sebesar 13,43. Artinya remaja mengisi waktu luang dengan kegiatan negatif, memiliki tingkat perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA lebih tinggi dari pada remaja mengisi waktu luang positif. Variabel perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA memiliki rerata empirik (RE) sebesar 14,75 dan rerata hipotetik (RH) sebesar 31,5 yang berarti perilaku berisiko menyalahgunakan NAPZA tergolong rendah. Variabel keterlibtan mengisi waktu luang memiliki rerata empirik (RE) sebesar 11,12 dan rerata hipotetik (RH) sebesar 13,5 yang berarti keterlibatan mengisi waktu luang tergolomg sedang.
Scanning calorimetry and Fourier-transform infrared studies into the thermal stability of cleaved bacteriorhodopsin systems.

Differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy have been used to characterize the thermal stability of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) cleaved within different loops connecting the helical rods. The results are compared to those of the native protein. We show that the denaturation temperature and enthalpy of BR cleaved at peptide bond 71-72 or 155-156 are lower than those of the intact protein, and that these values become even lower for the BR cleaved at both peptide bonds. The effect of cleavage on the denaturation temperature and enthalpy values seems to be additive as has been previously suggested [Khan, T. W. , Sturtevant, J. M. , & Engelman, D. M. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 8829]. The thermal denaturation of all the samples was irreversible and scan-rate dependent. When cleaved at the 71-72 bond BR follows quantitatively the predictions of the two-state kinetic model at pH 9.5, with an activation energy of 374 kJ/mol, similar to that of native BR. Calorimetry experiments with different populations of intact and cleaved BR provide direct evidence for some intermolecular cooperativity upon denaturation. The denatured samples maintain a large proportion of alpha helices and beta structure, a fact which seems to be related to their low denaturation enthalpy as compared to that of water-soluble, globular proteins.
Adaptive Collaboration Systems: Self-Sustaining Systems for Optimal Performance

Adaptability is a common and typical property for natural systems in the real world. It is also an important and desirable property for computer supported artificial systems. An adaptive collaboration system (ACS) can be viewed as a set of interacting intelligent agents, real or abstract, forming an integrated system that can respond to internal and environmental changes. Feedback is a key feature of such systems because it enables appropriate responses to change. Artificial systems can be made adaptive by using feedback to sense new conditions in the environment and then adjusting accordingly. ACSs can find applications in almost all industrial sectors, particularly in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, and management. Adaptive collaboration (AC) can be realized through the promising architecture and process of role-based collaboration (RBC) [21]. RBC is a computational methodology that uses roles [21] as primary underlying mechanisms to facilitate collaboration. RBC has been developed into a methodology of discovery in the research of collaboration systems, because it takes advantage of formalizations and abstractions of system components through mathematical expressions. Problem instances of such abstractions are easily found in real-world scenarios.
Development of a Smart Air Quality Monitoring System and its Operation

Indoor air quality control becomes a critical role in protecting human life due to a significant increase in indoor living time with industrial development. However, air purifier and ventilation systems are installed in many indoor places, and qualities of air are not guaranteed without effective monitoring systems. In this study, we developed a smart indoor air quality monitoring device, measuring components of PM10, PM2.5, PM1, CO, CO2, VOCs, temperature and humidity. The smart air quality monitoring system is commutated with a developed smartphone application using short and long distance communication modules. The smart application basically provides air quality information (daily, monthly, yearly), air management methods, and emerging environmental issues. For the system verification, we tested the developed air quality monitoring system with other reliable measuring devices. As results, the gaps between our developed system and other reliable measuring devices are PM10 (±4%), PM2.5 (±4%), CO (±1%), CO2 (±1%), VOCs (±2%), temperature (±1%) and humidity (±2%). We found that the developed smart air quality monitoring system is sufficiently reliable comparing to other measuring devices. Therefore, the smart air quality monitoring system would help improve indoor air quality in real time and can be used for future air quality prediction.
Multi-Layer Soft Frequency Reuse Scheme for 5G Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

Heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a promising cell deployment technique where low power access points are deployed overlaid on a macrocell system. It attains high throughput by intelligently reusing spectrum, and brings a trade-off between energy- and spectral-efficiency. An efficient resource allocation strategy is required to significantly improve its throughput in a bid to meet the fifth-generation (5G) high data rate requirements. In this correspondence, a new resource allocation scheme for HetNet, called multi-level soft frequency reuse for HetNet (ML-SFR HetNet), is proposed which increases the throughput several fold. In ML-SFR HetNet, mutually exclusive spectrum is allocated for macro and small cell users and well as for cell edge users among the various cells in the reuse system. We derived spectrum and power allocation expression for a generalized HetNet scenario. In addition, analytical expressions for the throughput and area spectral efficiency (ASE) are also developed. The simulations results demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed scheme which improves the throughput by around 3.5 times and outage probability reduces nearly 5 times compared to traditional SFR system.
Late Bleeding after Total Thyroidectomy: Report of Two Cases occurring 13 Days after Operation

Postoperative hematoma is a rare but potentially life-threatening and unpredictable complication of thyroid surgery. We report two cases of very late postoperative bleeding occurring on the 13th postoperative day in patients treated with low-molecularweight heparin and acenocoumarol. Patient 1 was readmitted with complaints of progressive anterior neck swelling and bleeding from the cervical wound without respiratory distress. The patient had restarted therapy with Acenocoumarol associated with Nadroparin one day before. Under general anesthesia, cervical exploration allowed detection of a superficial hematoma. Patient 2 returned to our institution with subhyoid ecchymosis and moderate blood loss from the left drainage wound. The patient underwent drainage and was treated conservatively. Although most bleeding occurs within 24 hours, caution should be taken in patients on oral anticoagulants and low-molecular weight heparin and close monitoring should also be advised at home after discharge, particularly if anticoagulant therapy has restarted.