Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Valence and the development of immediate and long-term false memory illusions

Across five experiments we examined the role of valence in children's and adults’ true and false memories. Using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm and either neutral or negative-emotional lists, both adults’ (Experiment 1) and children's (Experiment 2) true recall and recognition was better for neutral than negative items, and although false recall was also higher for neutral items, false recognition was higher for negative items. The last three experiments examined adults’ (Experiment 3) and children's (Experiments 4 and 5) 1-week long-term recognition of neutral and negative-emotional information. The results replicated the immediate recall and recognition findings from the first two experiments. More important, these experiments showed that although true recognition decreased over the 1-week interval, false recognition of neutral items remained unchanged whereas false recognition of negative-emotional items increased. These findings are discussed in terms of theories of emotion and memory as well as their forensic implications.
0.6 Tb/s-km multimode fibre feasibility - Experimant using 40 channel DWDM over Quadrature-Subcarrier channels

Abstract: We describe the complete implementation of a 204Gb/s throughput quadrature-subcarrier system for standard within-building 50μm multimode fibre applications. The simultaneous transmission of 40 DWDM channels, utilizing in-phase and quadrature 2.55Gb/s subcarrier signals, is shown to be feasible. Complete data and carrier synchronization was provided by a zero-latency, pilot-tone based, phase-lockedloop scheme operating at 5.1GHz.
Attitude toward Poverty among Academicians, Social Care Institution Workers and General Population in Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia

The aim of the present study is to investigate the differences in attitude among three groups of people as academicians, social institution workers and general population that explain about poverty. A total of 105 respondents were recruited in Kuala-Lumpur. Attitude toward Poverty Short Form Scale was used to determine the attitude toward poverty. There are 3 constructs in this scale as personal deficiency, stigma and structural perspectives. The participants were requested to complete the Attitude toward Poverty Short Form Scale. Statistical result of One-way ANOVA test revealed that academicians and general population ascribed personal deficiency more than stigma and structural perspectives to explain poverty. Social care institution workers perceived personal deficiency as least important determinant to poverty. Demographic profiles such as gender, higher education status and high income individuals emphasized more on individualistic perspective too. The results provide evidence that poverty is ascribed to individual insufficient effort. This indicates that appropriate approach can be implemented to modify behavior of these individuals
A Probabilistic Model for Topic and Role Discovery in Social Networks and Message Text

Previous work in social network analysis (SNA) has modeled the existence of links from one entity to another, but not the language content or topics on those links. In this paper, we present the Author Recipient Topic (ART) model for social network analysis, which learns topic distributions and role-similarity based on the messages sent between entities. Given large quantities of message data, the model provides salient keyword summaries of the underlying topics or activities being discussed, as well as associations of people to those topics. We show results on both the En-ron email corpus and a researcher's email archive, providing evidence not only that clearly relevant topics are discovered, but that the ART model better predicts people's roles.
Detection of a Bocavirus Circular Genome in Fecal Specimens from Children with Acute Diarrhea in Beijing, China

To determine if human bocavirus 2 (HBoV2) has a circular genome similar to the head-to-tail sequence of HBoV1 and the episomal form of HBoV3, 15 HBoV2 positive samples identified from 553 stool specimens from children with acute diarrhea were tested for a head-to-tail sequence using TaqMan-based real-time PCR. A circular genome with a head-to-tail sequence was identified in one (BJQ435) out of 15 samples tested by nested PCR. The complete circular genome of HBoV2-C1 (BJQ435) was 5307 nt in length and was flanked with a 520 nt-long terminal non-coding region (NCR). The secondary structure of HBoV2 -C1 had some differences compared to HBoV3-E1 (JN086998). Our study indicates that the HBoV genome exists in the form of a head-to-tail monomer and provides more information for understanding the HBoV replication mechanism.
The Forensic Curator: Digital Forensics as a Solution to Addressing the Curatorial Challenges Posed by Personal Digital Archives

The growth of computing technology during the previous three decades has resulted in a large amount of content being created in digital form. As their creators retire or pass away, an increasing number of personal data collections, in the form of digital media and complete computer systems, are being offered to the academic institutional archive. For the digital curator or archivist, the handling and processing of such digital material represents a considerable challenge, requiring development of new processes and procedures. This paper outlines how digital forensic methods, developed by the law enforcement and legal community, may be applied by academic digital archives. It goes on to describe the strategic and practical decisions that should be made to introduce forensic methods within an existing curatorial infrastructure and how different techniques, such as forensic hashing, timeline analysis and data carving, may be used to collect information of a greater breadth and scope than may be gathered through manual activities.
Heading change detection for indoor navigation with a Smartphone camera

A comfortable and useful pedestrian navigation system is accurate, reasonably priced, easy to use, and light to carry. Smartphones are attractive platforms for the navigation systems due to their small size, low cost, and the fact that they are already carried routinely by many pedestrians. Pedestrian navigation is mostly needed in GNSS degraded and denied areas such as indoors and in urban canyons. Positioning in these environments is still a challenging task. Aiding from other location sensors is typically needed. Obtaining a reliable heading e.g. from a digital compass is one of the most challenging tasks indoors because of the environmental disturbances to the sensor measurements. Visual-aiding has been considered for solving this problem for the last few years. Most algorithms are however often too massive for a Smartphone with limited computing power and storage space. This paper presents a lightweight algorithm for solving the problem. It is based on vanishing points calculated from lines in consecutive images. Results from a field test with a Nokia Smartphone have demonstrated that the performance of the algorithm in calculating the heading change is much better than that of the built-in digital compass. The heading change can be detected with the proposed algorithm at about 1 Hz frequency under the PC environment. It has potential to be adopted for a Smartphone platform
Which Indicators of Absorptive Capacity Enhance Import-Induced South-North Convergence in Labor Intensities?

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral panel data for 39 countries and 35 sectors for 1995-2009. We examine growth in relative South-North labor intensities (South-North convergence) for 31 industrialized source and eight emerging recipient countries. We find robust evidence that the following measures of absorptive capacity (ordered by magnitude of the estimated coefficients) interact with imports so that relative labor intensity is reduced: economic freedom and political and civil rights, services, skills, scientific publications and patents as well as telephone and internet access. GMM and GLS estimations corroborate the results. Policies that support various of the identified determinants of absorptive capacity are more promising than policies that select only one. Elevating the absorptive capacity of emerging economies to the maximum level in the world would halve the South-North gap in labor intensities within a couple of decades if it were solely achieved through the trade channel.
An Improved Adaboost Algorithm Based on Uncertain Functions

Boosting is one of the algorithms which can boost the accuracy of weak classifiers, and Adaboost has been widely and successfully applied to classification, detection and data mining problems. In this paper, a new method of calculating parameters, Adaboost-AC, which uses the accelerated good fitness function to acquire the weights of the weak classifiers is presented. The new algorithm is compared with the tradition Adaboost based on the UCI database and its promising performance is shown by the experimental results.
Sequence‐structure homology recognition by iterative alignment refinement and comparative modeling

Our approach to fold recognition for the fourth critical assessment of techniques for protein structure prediction (CASP4) experiment involved the use of the FUGUE sequence‐structure homology recognition program (http://www‐cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/fugue), followed by model building. We treat models as hypotheses and examine these to determine whether they explain the available data. Our method depends heavily on environment‐specific substitution tables derived from our database of structural alignments of homologous proteins (HOMSTRAD, http://www‐cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/homstrad/). FUGUE uses these tables to incorporate structural information into profiles created from HOMSTRAD alignments that are matched against a profile created for the target from multiple sequence alignment. In addition, environment‐specific substitution tables are used throughout the modeling procedure and as part of the model evaluation. Annotation of sequence alignments with JOY, to reflect local structural features, proved valuable, both for modifying hypotheses, and for rejecting predictions when the expected pattern of conservation is not observed. Our stringency in rejecting incorrect predictions led us to submit a relatively small number of models, including only a low number of false positives, resulting in a high average score. Proteins 2001;Suppl 5:92–97. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Real-Time FPGA Implementation of Linear Blending Vision Reconstruction Algorithm Using a Spherical Light Field Camera

A custom spherical light-field camera used as a polydioptricsystem where imagers are distributed over a spherical geometry, each having its own vision of the surrounding and distinct focal plane. The spherical light-field camera is also an omnidirectional camera which records light information fro many direction around its center. A novel linear blending technique is presented for vision reconstruction of a virtual observer located inside the spherical geometry of this camera. This blending technique improves the output quality of the reconstructed vision with respect to the ordinary stitching technique. A novel pixel gridding scheme is presented for rectangular displaying of the reconstructed vision induced from the spherical light field camera. This gridding technique preserve the correct size of objects when mapped on the spherical geometry of the Panoptic system. A hardware architecture based on FPGAs with the real-time implementation of the linear blending algorithm and the new pixel gridding scheme of the spherical light-field camera are presented along with imaging results.
IGF-I Exerts an Anti-inflammatory Effect on Skeletal Muscle Cells through Down-regulation of TLR4 Signaling

Although exercise-induced growth factors such as Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) are known to affect various aspects of physiology in skeletal muscle cells, the molecular mechanism by which IGF-I modulates anti-inflammatory effects in these cells is presently unknown. Here, we showed that IGF-I stimulation suppresses the expression of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), a key innate immune receptor. A pharmacological inhibitor study further showed that PI3K/Akt signaling pathway is required for IGF-I-mediated negative regulation of TLR4 expression. Furthermore, IGF-I treatment reduced the expression of various NF-κB-target genes such as TNF-α and IL-6. Taken together, these findings indicate that the anti-inflammatory effect of exercise may be due, at least in part, to IGF-I-induced suppression of TLR4 and subsequent downregulation of the TLR4-dependent inflammatory signaling pathway.
The Dynamic Function Coupling Metric and Its Use in Software Evolution

Many of the existing techniques for impact set computation in change propagation and regression testing are approximate for the sake of efficiency. A way to improve precision is to apply dynamic analyses instead of static ones. The state-of-the-art dynamic impact analysis method is simple and efficient, but overly conservative and hence imprecise. In this paper we introduce the measure of dynamic function coupling (DFC) between two functions or methods, which we use to define a more precise way of computing impact sets on function level with a scalable rate of recall. The intuition behind our approach is that the 'closer' the execution of a function is to the execution of another function in some of the runs of the program, the more likely they are really dependent on each other. So, impact sets may be computed based on this kind of coupling. We provide experimental data to support the validity of the concept, which essentially show that the impact set of a function consisting of only strongly DFC-coupled functions has twice the precision compared to the conservative method
Towards impactful routing research: running your own (Emulated) as on the (Real) internet

Interdomain routing has long been primed for an overhaul. Designed for a previous era and since dragged into today's networks through complex configurations, little progress has been made on aligning interdomain routing capabilities with network operator needs. Yet substantial growth has occurred in tangential areas such as datacenter networking. We believe that the barriers to performing interdomain routing research must be lowered to enable researchers and operators to better understand existing problems and evaluate potential improvements. To this end, we propose a testbed that enables the emulation of autonomous systems and their internal routing domains. The testbed allows these emulated networks to advertise routes and exchange traffic with the real Internet, exposing them to the internet's complex policies and inconsistencies. Our testbed enables experiments to have complete control over the network topology and glue-logic between routing domains, including choice of IGP protocol, routing engine, and route redistribution. In addition, experiments can exchange routes and traffic with ISPs in multiple peering locations across the Internet, enabling experiments which emulate complex, geographically distributed networks.
Managing the Ties Between Central R&D and Business Units

OVERVIEW: The specific ways in which companies organize the relationship between central R&D and the business units vary considerably, this study shows. In the External Partnership Model, the CRD group performs minimal in-house research. The primary CRD role is to identify many different, external technologies and coordinate the introduction of those technologies to the business units. In the Relationship Manager Model, each CRD–BU interface is managed by one person who coordinates the specific BU and the various CRD functions that might interact with it. In the Individual Initiative Model, firms promote individual networking to build interactions between CRD and the business units. Several variations on these models are also evident. In addition to organizational structure, firms also implement processes to supplement and enhance communication and coordination between CRD and BUs. These mechanisms include funding, project screening, technology platforms, social facilitation, and documentation.
Charge transport through single molecules, quantum dots and quantum wires

We review recent progress in the theoretical description of correlation and quantum fluctuation phenomena in charge transport through single molecules, quantum dots and quantum wires. Various physical phenomena are addressed, relating to cotunneling, pair-tunneling, adiabatic quantum pumping, charge and spin fluctuations, and inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids. We review theoretical many-body methods to treat correlation effects, quantum fluctuations, non-equilibrium physics, and the time evolution into the stationary state of complex nanoelectronic systems.
Verifying Keys through Publicity and Communities of Trust: Quantifying Off-Axis Corroboration

The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) arguably make DNS the first core Internet system to be protected using public key cryptography. The success of DNSSEC not only protects the DNS, but has generated interest in using this secured global database for new services such as those proposed by the IETF DANE working group. However, continued success is only possible if several important operational issues can be addressed. For example, . gov and . arpa have already suffered misconfigurations where DNS continued to function properly, but DNSSEC failed (thus, orphaning their entire subtrees in DNSSEC). Internet-scale verification systems must tolerate this type of chaos, but what kind of verification can one derive for systems with dynamism like this? In this paper, we propose to achieve robust verification with a new theoretical model, called Public Data, which treats operational deployments as Communities of Trust (CoTs) and makes them the verification substrate. Using a realization of the above idea, called Vantages, we quantitatively show that using a reasonable DNSSEC deployment model and a typical choice of a CoT, an adversary would need to be able to have visibility into and perform on-path Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks on arbitrary traffic into and out of up to 90 percent of the all of the Autonomous Systems (ASes) in the Internet before having even a 10 percent chance of spoofing a DNSKEY. Further, our limited deployment of Vantages has outperformed the verifiability of DNSSEC and has properly validated its data up to 99.5 percent of the time.
Where Are the High-Velocity Clouds in Local Group Analogs?

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are clouds of H I seen around the Milky Way with velocities inconsistent with Galactic rotation; they have unknown distances and masses and controversial origins. One possibility is that HVCs are associated with the small dark matter halos seen in models of galaxy formation and distributed at distances of 150 kpc to 1 Mpc. We report on our attempts to detect the analogs to such putative extragalactic clouds in three groups of galaxies similar to our own Local Group using the Australia Telescope National Facility Parkes Telescope and Compact Array. Eleven dwarf galaxies were found, but no H I clouds lacking stars were detected. Using the population of compact HVCs around the Milky Way as a template, we find that our nondetection of analogs implies that they must be clustered within 160 kpc of the Milky Way (and other galaxies) with an average H I mass ≲4 × 105 M☉ at the 95% confidence level. This is in accordance with recent limits derived by other authors. If our groups are true analogs to the Local Group, then this makes the original Blitz et al. and Braun & Burton picture of HVCs residing out to 1 Mpc from the Milky Way extremely unlikely. The total H I mass in HVCs, ≲108 M☉, implies that there is not a large reservoir of neutral hydrogen waiting to be accreted onto the Milky Way. Any substantial reservoir of baryonic matter must be mostly ionized or condensed enough as to be undetectable.
Trends in textile markets and their implications for textile products and processes

Abstract: This chapter describes the transition of the textile industry from a regime of extensive accumulation (1989–2008) to a regime of intensive accumulation (2009–2029). The former involves growth by increased use of natural and human resources. The latter growth model is based on a more efficient use of resources. The chapter gives a context for research and innovation in view of the current economic crisis and the need to review business development and technological change. Managing the fibre gap and increasing productivity to face an upcoming skills shortage is addressed, as are new approaches to fashion and the supply chain, especially the dichotomy between luxury and high-end markets and the basic needs of many with lowest incomes. Finally, the chapter looks at how to understand and respond to change, addressing questions of integration, networking and the role of the company.
Building a Multiple-Criteria Negotiation Support System

Electronic negotiation systems have been devised to create an electronic marketplace for bargaining, auctions, reverse auctions, and exchanges between multiple buyers and sellers. Most studies of negotiation systems concentrate on negotiation process modeling and data modeling¿rather than on strategies and efficiency¿for a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem in which many criteria are taken into account as attributes for decision making. This study proposes an active collaboration and negotiation framework (ACNF), which is a negotiation support system that uses active documents with embedded business logics or business rules that can adapt to different collaborative strategies in a business-to-business (B2B) environment. The risk preferences of negotiators are modeled and measured by utility functions that provide mathematical tools to compute the relative value of different courses of action. The system is demonstrated, and three experiments are conducted to validate its performance. The experiments show that the negotiation process is very efficient, and the results are both close to the efficient point¿or the Pareto frontier¿and are fair to both negotiating parties. The framework can be used to efficiently and effectively achieve a settlement in various multiple-criteria bargaining schemes in the electronic marketplace.
Phatpackets for Data Transport within an HPC Network

Phatpackets is a term used to describe an open source initiative to reliably move large amounts of data more efficiently across the Internet. The Phatpackets protocol attempts to combine the best aspects of a variety of transport and control methods with the objective of developing a near optimal and robust protocol under a wide range of conditions and parameters. Here we discuss experimental results obtained moving large datasets between HPC nodes over the CAnet3 backbone. The HPC nodes are located at a number of Canadian Universities with a variety of access bandwidths.
Associates with the Retinoblastoma Gene Product Bdp , a New Member of a Family of DNA-binding Proteins , Updated

We have cloned a gene, BDP, encoding a protein with homology to the retinoblastoma-binding proteins Rbp1 and Rbp2. It also has homology to DNA-binding proteins such as Bright, a B-cell-specifictrans-activator, and the Drosophila melanogasterdead ringer gene product. Like MyoD, Bdp binds to the COOH-terminal region of pRb through its conserved region and to hypophosphorylated pRb. It also binds to the MAR of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus. Thus Bdp may contribute to the transcriptional regulation of genes involved in differentiation and tissue-specific expression.