Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
HSF4, a new member of the human heat shock factor family which lacks properties of a transcriptional activator

Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) mediate the inducible transcriptional response of genes that encode heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones. In vertebrates, three related HSF genes (HSF1 to -3) and the respective gene products (HSFs) have been characterized. We report the cloning and characterization of human HSF4 (hHSF4), a novel member of the hHSF family that shares properties with other members of the HSF family yet appears to be functionally distinct. hHSF4 lacks the carboxyl-terminal hydrophobic repeat which is shared among all vertebrate HSFs and has been suggested to be involved in the negative regulation of DNA binding activity. hHSF4 is preferentially expressed in the human heart, brain, skeletal muscle, and pancreas. Transient transfection of hHSF4 in HeLa cells, which do not express hHSF4, results in a constitutively active DNA binding trimer which, unlike other members of the HSF family, lacks the properties of a transcriptional activator. Constitutive overexpression of hHSF4 in HeLa cells results in reduced expression of the endogenous hsp70, hsp90, and hsp27 genes. hHSF4 represents a novel hHSF that exhibits tissue-specific expression and functions to repress the expression of genes encoding heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones.
The In ̄ uen ce of Focus Operators on Syn tactic Processing of Sh ort Relative Clause Sen tences

Ni, Crain, and Shankweiler (1996) present evidence to suggest that the focus operator only can guide how reduced relative clause sentences are initially parsed. In this paper, we demonstrate that this does not hold for relative clause sentences that start with a nounphrase, verb, noun-phrase construction. We repor t an eye movement study in which subjects read reduced and unreduced sentences of this type with and without the focus operator only. T here were longer ®rst-pass reading times in the critical region of reduced sentences than in the same region of unreduced sentences, regardless of the inclusion of only. F ur thermore, readers spent less time re-inspecting por tions of text after being garden pathed when reading reduced relative clause sentences that contained the focus operator than when reading reduced relative clause sentences that did not. We conclude that subjects initially syntactically misanalysed reduced relative clause sentences with and without only, and the inclusion of a focus operator facilitated recovery procedures rather than guiding initial parsing. T hese results are inconsistent with the referential theory and undermine the conclusions of N i et al. (1996).
Physical therapy with topical ketoprofen and anxiety related to temporomandibular joint pain treatment

The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of anxiety and the use of physical therapy combined with topical application of a non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drug ketoprofen gel for the treatment of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder. During an 8-month period, 32 patients were examined (mean age 38.3 years) and went to physical therapy with topically applied Fastum gel. The control group consisted of 20 students of dental medicine (mean age 23.5 years). All subjects were examined by magnetic resonance imaging. The main outcome measuring criteria were: pain intensity rated on a visual-analogue scale, maximal mouth opening capacity, and anxiety evaluated by Spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI 1 - concerning anxiety as subjective state, in a period of last week, including today, and STAI 2 - concerning anxiety as relatively stable individual characteristic). The median of active mouth opening for patients was 40.75 mm before treatment and 52.25 mm for control subjects, which was statistically significant (p<0.001). The difference in all pain evaluations on AVS scale after the treatment was shown to be statistically significant (t-test with p<0.001): pain upon mandibular movement was 1.5, 0.1 at rest and 1.7 during palpation. While there were no differences in anxiety levels of STAI 1 (p=0.0666), there was a statistically significant difference of STAI 2 (p=0.0096). Comparing asymptomatic subjects, their active mouth opening was greater than in patients before (p<0.0001) and after the treatment (p<0.0011). Physical therapy is a recommended modality for TMJ pain treatment. Nevertheless, even immediately after the treatment, the patients had a lower capacity of mouth opening compared to the asymptomatic group.
The Influence of Context on the Leadership of Cleopatra

Lindsay Harold is a junior at Christopher Newport University. She is a Biology major and a double minor in Chemistry and Leadership. Lindsay is a member of the President's Leadership Program, the Honors Program, and is Vice President of the Women's Soccer Club. She also serves her community as a volunteer at the Virginia Living Museum. After graduating from CNU, Lindsay plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Conservation Biology and Evolutionary Studies.
Structural colour and iridescence in plants: the poorly studied relations of pigment colour.

BACKGROUND Colour is a consequence of the optical properties of an object and the visual system of the animal perceiving it. Colour is produced through chemical and structural means, but structural colour has been relatively poorly studied in plants. SCOPE This Botanical Briefing describes the mechanisms by which structures can produce colour. In plants, as in animals, the most common mechanisms are multilayers and diffraction gratings. The functions of structural colour are then discussed. In animals, these colours act primarily as signals between members of the same species, although they can also play roles in camouflaging animals from their predators. In plants, multilayers are found predominantly in shade-plant leaves, suggesting a role either in photoprotection or in optimizing capture of photosynthetically active light. Diffraction gratings may be a surprisingly common feature of petals, and recent work has shown that they can be used by bees as cues to identify rewarding flowers. CONCLUSIONS Structural colour may be surprisingly frequent in the plant kingdom, playing important roles alongside pigment colour. Much remains to be discovered about its distribution, development and function.
Configurations of corruption: A cross-national qualitative comparative analysis of levels of perceived corruption

This article advances our understanding of the potential causes of national levels of corruption. It develops a new institutionalist criminological theoretical framework. It then applies fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to a sample of 77 countries. The outcome is perceived corruption. Potentially causal conditions are levels of democracy, human development, income inequality, and two value orientations: traditional/rational-secular and survival/self-expression. The analysis supports the new institutionalist expectation that the effects of each of these conditions are configurational and dependent upon the presence or absence of other conditions, including value orientations. This can help to explain why previous findings on the independent effect of democracy on corruption have been mixed. It may also help to explain why corruption is such an intractable phenomenon in many countries.
A Model-Predictive Motion Planner for the IARA autonomous car

We present the Model-Predictive Motion Planner (MPMP) of the Intelligent Autonomous Robotic Automobile (IARA). IARA is a fully autonomous car that uses a path planner to compute a path from its current position to the desired destination. Using this path, the current position, a goal in the path and a map, IARA's MPMP is able to compute smooth trajectories from its current position to the goal in less than 50 ms. MPMP computes the poses of these trajectories so that they follow the path closely and, at the same time, are at a safe distance of occasional obstacles. Our experiments have shown that MPMP is able to compute trajectories that precisely follow a path produced by a Human driver (distance of 0.15 m in average) while smoothly driving IARA at speeds of up to 32.4 km/h (9 m/s).
Design and measurement of corrugated surfaces for high isolation

Reducing mutual coupling between antennas of electrical equipment and system is one of the main topics in electronics design. In this paper, a standard U-shaped corrugated surface was designed and measured for improving the isolation between two antennas. The design is based on numerical method-finite element method (FEM). Detailed optimization on corrugated surface is presented. Both numerical and experimental results show that a cylindrical device with corrugated surface would have higher isolation by about 8dB than without it. This proposed corrugated surface can reduce the coupling between antennas by stopping the wave propagating on the metal surface, and it is easy to be fabricated, which is very suitable for various improving isolation applications.
Studying syntactic priming in corpora Implications of different levels of granularity

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Optical Spectrum and Electric Field Waveform Dependent Optically-Induced Dielectrophoretic (ODEP) Micro-Manipulation

In the last seven years, optoelectronic tweezers using optically-induced dielectrophoretic (ODEP) force have been explored experimentally with much success in manipulating micro/nano objects. However, not much has been done in terms of in-depth understanding of the ODEP-based manipulation process or optimizing the input physical parameters to maximize ODEP force. We present our work on analyzing two significant influencing factors in generating ODEP force on a-Si:H based ODEP chips: (1) the waveforms of the AC electric potential across the fluidic medium in an ODEP chip based microfluidic platform; and (2) optical spectrum of the light image projected onto the ODEP chip. Theoretical and simulation results indicate that when square waves are used as the AC electric potential instead of sine waves, ODEP force can double. Moreover, numerical results show that ODEP force increases with increasing optical frequency of the projected light on an ODEP chip following the Fermi-Dirac function, validating that the optically-induced dielectrophoresis force depends strongly on the electron-hole carrier generation phenomena in optoelectronic materials. Qualitative experimental results that validate the numerical results are also presented in this paper.
Optimize performance of Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for electric vehicles transportation system

Electric vehicle transportation system have gained increasing attention in recent years. Low weight, less volume and high efficiency are the main requirement of electric vehicles. Efficiency analysis of drive of electric vehicles is of major concern to increase its driving range per charge. This paper proposes Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (IPMSM) Drive controlled by Field Oriented Control[1] with special focus on loss minimization for electric vehicle application. MATLAB simulation results are presented which takes into account the copper losses and iron losses. The results confirm the better response and efficiency improvement of IPMSM drive to increase the driving range. This paper also proves the overall increase in efficiency of the drive system despite of decrease of the inverter efficiency due to loss minimization control of IPMSM.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE FINNISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

Luonnonfilosofian seuran tarkoituksena on herattaa ja yllapitaa luonnontieteiden ja niiden sovellusten synnyttamien filosofisten kysymysten harrastusta ja tutkimusta, toimia eri tieteenalojen edustajien yhdyssiteena naiden kysymysten valaisemisessa ja edistaa yhteistoimintaa heidan valillaan, seka edistaa luonnonfilosofisia kysymyksia koskevan tiedon ja ajattelun leviamista yleiseen tietoisuuteen.
Railway Passenger Volume Forecasting Based on Support Vector Machine and Genetic Algorithm

A new prediction approach for the railway passenger volume is put forward by means of support vector machine optimized by genetic algorithm (GA-SVM). In GA-SVM model, GA is used to determine training parameters of support vector machine. GA has strong global search capability, which can get optimal solution in short time. Railway passenger volume of China from 1985-2002 is used to illustrate the performance of the proposed GA-SVM model. The experimental results indicate that the GA-SVM method can achieve greater forecasting accuracy than artificial neural network in railway passenger volume forecasting.
Peer-to-peer bargaining in container-based datacenters

In container-based datacenters, failure-prone components are sealed in pre-packaged shipping containers, and component failures over time reduce the availability of resources. From the perspective of services, application instances can usually be migrated across the boundary of containers as virtual machines (VMs). In such an environment, it would be sometimes beneficial to migrate application instances to take better advantage of available resources. In this paper, we first point out that application placement strategies that are singularly focused on the efficiency of resource usage may not be beneficial, especially when resources are over-provisioned in container-based data centers. We believe that application instances should be placed based on the Buffet principle, using resources in an aggressive fashion. Once failures occur, application instances can be migrated across containers, by allowing containers to bargain with each other in a peer-to-peer fashion, treating application instances with different resource requirements as "commodities" in a Nash bargaining game. We show that the ratio of utilizing resources can improved by establishing such local Nash bargaining games, where two containers bargain and trade VMs with each other to increase their own utilities. With simulation, we verify the effectiveness of the proposed bargaining games.
Using Physical Activity to Tackle Depression: The Neglected Positive Psychology Intervention

The treatment of depression has primarily been tackled through pharmaceuticals and cognitive interventions designed to reduce negative emotional states. This traditional psychology approach has had some success in reducing depressive symptoms but does not offer clients any understanding of how to explicitly achieve a state of wellbeing. In contrast, positive psychology promotes interventions that teach people how to build positive emotional states, as well as decrease negative ones. In this paper, we advocate for physical activity to be included as a positive psychology intervention both to treat and prevent depression as its effectiveness has been documented. We further encourage practitioners to include physical activity in their treatment plan recommendations as it targets many aspects of mental and physical wellbeing and conclude with recommendations for practitioners and policy makers in the United Arab Emirates.
The relevance of glacier melt in the water cycle of the Alps: the example of Austria

Abstract. This paper quantifies the contribution of glacier melt to river runoff from compilation and statistical interpretation of data from available studies based on observations or glacio- hydrological modelling for the region of Austria (Austrian Salzach and Inn river basin). A logarithmic fit between the glacier melt contribution and the relative glacierized area was found not only for the long-term mean glacier contributions but also for the glacier melt contribution during the extreme hot an dry summer of 2003. Interestingly, the mean contributions of glacier melt to river runoff do not exceed 15 % for both river catchments and are uncorrelated to glacierization for glacierization values >10 %. This finding, however, has to be seen in the light of the general precipitation increase with altitude for the study region which levels out the increase of absolute melt with glacierization thus resulting in the rather constant value of glacier melt contribution. In order to qualitatively proof this finding another approach has been applied by calculating the quotient qA03 of the mean monthly August runoff in 2003 and the long-term mean August runoff for 38 gauging stations in Austria. The extreme summer 2003 was worth to be analysed as from the meteorological and glaciological point of view an extraordinary situation was observed. During June and July nearly the entire snow-cover melted and during August mainly bare ice melt of glaciers contributed to runoff. The qA03 quotients were calculated between 0.32 for a non-glacierized and 2.0 for a highly glacierized catchment. Using the results of this study the mean and maximum possible glacier melt contribution of catchments can be estimated based on the relative glacierized area. It can also be shown that the found correlation of glacierized area and glacier melt contribution is applicable for the Drau basin where yet no results of modelled glacier melt contributions are available.
Three dimensional trajectory planner for real time leader following

This paper presents an on-line three dimensional trajectory planner for an unmanned vehicle following a Leader vehicle, where the Follower remains at a specified relative position with respect to the Leader. The planner defines the trajectory for a virtual vehicle that will be used as reference for the real Follower vehicle. The virtual Follower behaves like a three dimensional trailer attached to the Leader and its reference frame is used to specify the relative position vector. At the kinematic level, the proposed planner requires only the knowledge of the Leader's linear speed, but not its angular speed, and the Follower's trajectory can be generated on-line, in the sense that no a priori knowledge of the Leader's trajectory is required. Experimental results obtained with quadrotor vehicles are presented, which demonstrate the richness of the planned trajectories.
What can NLP techniques do for eLearning

The aim of the Language Technology for eLearning project is to show is to show that current results achieved in the area of Natural Language Processing and the Semantic Web, (i.e. ontologies) can play a relevant role in improving the functionality of existing Learning Management Systems (LMS). In this paper, we discuss how current NLP techniques have been employed for the development of a keyword extractor and of a glossary candidate detector by focussing on the results obtained for Dutch. We also briefly discuss the role that ontologies play in the project i the multilingual retrieval of the learning objects.
Towards a CAPEX-free service delivery platform

The paper is aiming at analyzing the possibility for a telecommunication operator to decrease the fixed costs of service delivery, by reducing CapEx (Capital Expenditures) and transforming part of them into OpEx (Operational Expenditures). In particular, the paper analyses the advantages and the risks of moving a service platform on a cloud-based infrastructure, and investigates the impacts of adopting Open Source Software (OSS) solutions for deploying components of a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and for delivering new services. The proposed approach is exemplified by means of an experimental case study, in which an OSS orchestration engine is deployed on virtual resources dynamically allocated by a cloud infrastructure.
Cause-specific mortality by income adequacy in Canada: A 16-year follow-up study.

BACKGROUND People with lower incomes tend to have less favourable health outcomes than do people with higher incomes. Because death registrations in Canada do not contain information about the income of the deceased, vital statistics cannot be used to examine mortality by income at the individual level. However, through record linkage, information on the individual or family income of people followed for mortality can be obtained. Recently, a large, population-based sample of Canadian adults was linked to almost 16 years of mortality data. METHODS This study examines cause-specific mortality rates by income adequacy among Canadian adults. It is based on data from the 1991 to 2006 Canadian census mortality and cancer follow-up study, which followed 2.7 million people aged 25 or older at baseline, 426,979 of whom died during the 16-year period. Age-standardized mortality rates (ASMRs), rate ratios, rate differences and excess mortality were calculated by income adequacy quintile for various causes of death. RESULTS For most causes examined, ASMRs were clearly graded by income: highest among people in the in the lowest income quintile, and lowest among people in the highest income quintile. Inter-quintile rate ratios (quintile 1/quintile 5) were greater than 2.00 for HIV/AIDS, diabetes mellitus, suicide, cancer of the cervix, and causes of death closely associated with smoking and alcohol. INTERPRETATION These individually based results provide cause-specific information by income adequacy quintile that was not previously available for Canada.
Results : Conclusions : WHAT ROLE DO EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS PLAY IN THE ETIOLOGY OF BEHAVIORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA ? AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

The aim of our study was to review the literature on the relationship between executive dysfunction (EDF) and the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). We searched for papers that addressed one or both of two questions: a) is there a causal relationship between EDF and BPSD? ; b) What are the main hypotheses or theoretical models that explain this relationship? A systematic search was made identify all possibly relevant papers on the Scopus Elsevier and PubMed databases, using an algorithm with the keywords most often used to search for references on EDF and BPSD. We found 112 works in Scopus-Elsevier and 59 in PubMed; 20 were repeated, resulting in 151 distinct publications. We excluded 143 of these because they did not consider EDF as an independent variable and BPSD as a dependent variable. Five more works came out of a reverse search on the bibliography from the 8 remaining papers, resulting in 13 works for our review. Two groups were formed according to their investigative design to establish the relationship between EDF and BPSD. The studies generally found an association between EDF and BPSD, but few of them have investigated the nature of this relationship, with little clarification of the mechanism through which the former contributes to the emergence of the latter.
Scheduling Linear Algebra Operations on Multicore Processors –

State-of-the-art dense linear algebra software, such as the LAPACK and ScaLAPACK libraries, suffer performance losses on multicore processors due to their inability to fully exploit thread-level parallelism. At the same time the coarse-grain dataflow model gains popularity as a paradigm for programming multicore architectures. This work looks at implementing classic dense linear algebra workloads, Cholesky factorization, QR factorization and LU factorization, using dynamic data-driven execution. Two emerging approaches to implementing coarse-grain dataflow are examined, the model of nested parallelism, represented by the Cilk framework, and the model of parallelism expressed through an arbitrary Direct Acyclic Graph, represented by the SMP Superscalar framework. Performance and coding effort are analyzed and compared agains code manually parallelized at the thread level.