Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
“There was a priest, a rabbi and an imam …”: an analysis of urban space and religious practice in london's east end, 1685–2010

ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between patterns of immigrant settlement and religious practice in the East End of London over the past 350 years. It questions what needs religious attendance satisfied for the incomer and additionally examines the role played by the religious organization; variously as center for charitable support, locus of social organization in an “alien” culture, bridge between cultures, and source of economic opportunity. Using the combination of historical investigation and spatial analysis—applying space syntax methods of mapping networks of movement and patterns of settlement—the article sheds light on the interconnections between the various roles of the chapel, small synagogue, and mosque in this area of first settlement. The article ends with a discussion regarding the way in which configuration of public space transforms the individual migrant identity. The article concludes that places of worship satisfy a variety of needs in the life of the migrant and that over time religious need and external practice change—some becoming more, and some becoming less in tune with those of the host society.
Taxation students’ perceptions of open-book assessment: a follow-up interactive qualitative analysis

Students’ perceptions of a particular assessment type seems to influence their attitude to preparing for and taking the assessment. The literature suggests that open-book assessment allows a better understanding of the content of a subject area, thus better preparing students for real-life situations. Hence, this study sought an in-depth understanding of taxation students’ perceptions of open-book assessment in the process of qualifying as chartered accountants. Using already published findings on a focus group of taxation students’ perceptions prior to exposure to open-book assessment, an interactive qualitative analysis (IQA) method was again adopted to analyse interviews with taxation students on their perceptions of open-book assessment after exposure to such assessment. The new findings were compared to those for the focus group. The affinities that emerged from the focus group study elicited various comments from the interviewees. One difference between the two groups was that the focus group saw th.
Significant and meaningful effects in sports biomechanics research

Errors in statistical analysis of multiple dependent variables and in documenting the size of effects are common in the scientific and biomechanical literature. In this paper, I review these errors and several solutions that can improve the validity of sports biomechanics research reports. Studies examining multiple dependent variables should either control for the inflation of Type I errors (e.g. Holm's procedure) during multiple comparisons or use multivariate analysis of variance to focus on the structure and interaction of the dependent variables. When statistically significant differences are observed, research reports should provide confidence limits or effect sizes to document the size of the effects. Authors of sports biomechanics research reports are encouraged to analyse and present their data accounting for the experiment-wise Type I error rate, as well as reporting data documenting the size or practical significance of effects reaching their standard of statistical significance.
Parallel Gaussian elimination for Gröbner bases computations in finite fields

Polynomial system solving is one of the important area of Computer Algebra with many applications in Robotics, Cryptology, Computational Geometry, etc. To this end computing a Gröbner basis is often a crucial step. The most efficient algorithms [6, 7] for computing Gröbner bases [2] rely heavily on linear algebra techniques. In this paper, we present a new linear algebra package for computing Gaussian elimination of Gröbner bases matrices. The library is written in C and contains specific algorithms [11] to compute Gaussian elimination as well as specific internal representation of matrices (sparse triangular blocks, sparse rectangular blocks and hybrid rectangular blocks). The efficiency of the new software is demonstrated by showing computational results fr well known benchmarks as well as some crypto-challenges. For instance, for a medium size problem such as Katsura 15, it takes 849.7 sec on a PC with 8 cores to compute a DRL Gröbner basis modulo p < 216; this is 88 faster than Magma (V2-16-1).
ΔF = 2 observables and fine-tuning in a warped extra dimension with custodial protection

We present a complete study of ΔS = 2 and ΔB = 2 processes in a warped extra dimensional model with a custodial protection of ZbLL, including eK, ΔMK, ΔMs, ΔMd, ASLq, ΔΓq, ACP(Bd→ψKS) and ACP(Bs→ψ). These processes are affected by tree level contributions from Kaluza-Klein gluons, the heavy KK photon, new heavy electroweak gauge bosons ZH and Z', and in principle by tree level Z contributions. We confirm recent findings that the fully anarchic approach where all the hierarchies in quark masses and weak mixing angles are geometrically explained seems implausible and we confirm that the KK mass scale MKK generically has to be at least ~ 20 TeV to satisfy the eK constraint. We point out, however, that there exist regions in parameter space with only modest fine-tuning in the 5D Yukawa couplings which satisfy all existing ΔF = 2 and electroweak precision constraints for scales MKK 3 TeV in reach of the LHC. Simultaneously we find that ACP(Bs → ψ) and AsSL can be much larger than in the SM as indicated by recent results from CDF and DO data. We point out that for Bd,s physics ΔF = 2 observables the complex (ZH,Z') can compete with KK gluons, while the tree level Z and KK photon contributions are very small. In particular we point out that the ZdiLjL couplings are protected by the custodial symmetry. As a by-product we show the relation of the RS flavour model to the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism and we provide analytic formulae for the effective flavour mixing matrices in terms of the fundamental 5D parameters.
Requirements in Web applications development

The knowledge of the “state of practice” enables to improve knowledge transfer processes to industry, to know the processes and development techniques in use and to identify areas of interest in the industry that can be addressed by the academy. In order to know the status of the use of Requirements Engineering was developed an experimental investigation. The aim of the research was to identify Requirements Engineering practices used in organizations that develop Web applications and investigate the use of such practices in such applications. The information from the interviews was captured by a Web-based questionnaire answered. The sample was constructed by the snowball method. 47 valid responses from as many companies in the local market were obtained. The scope of information obtained includes the processes of elicitation, specification and validation as well as aspects of requirements management. The results show the predominance of traditional elicitation techniques over the most recent and most promising penetration validation techniques. Negotiation techniques and prioritization of requirements have higher penetration in smaller companies. Meanwhile processes change control requirements have greater penetration in larger companies.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for fragile Xa syndrome: difficult but not impossible.

BACKGROUND In this paper, we review our clinical preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) programme for fragile Xa syndrome, analysing if PGD for these couples is still a valuable option, as it is particularly difficult for two reasons. First, the couples have to be informative (the number of triplet repeats on the healthy FMR-1 allele of the mother has to be different from the number of repeats on the healthy FMR-1 allele of the father) and second, women with a premutation are at increased risk of premature ovarian failure. METHODS A total of 34 couples attended our genetics department between December 1998 and July 2001, requesting information about PGD for fragile Xa syndrome. RESULTS Eight couples decided not to go further with the procedure and of the 26 remaining couples, 16 were informative (61.5%). Four couples have so far not started ovarian stimulation, one patient was totally refractive to stimulation and 11 couples have had a total of 19 oocyte retrievals. From these, there have been 13 embryo transfers with a clinical pregnancy rate per embryo transfer of 23%; the implantation rate was 13.6% and the live birth rate per couple was 27.3%. CONCLUSIONS PGD for fragile Xa is feasible for a number of couples. A pre-PGD work-up should include a determination of the premutation or mutation carrier status, the maternal or paternal origin of the premutation and an estimation of the ovarian reserve of the patient. Fragile Xa premutation carriers should be advised not to postpone reproduction for too long.
Design Concepts for Flexible Hardware-accelerated Direct Volume Rendering Frameworks

Modern consumer graphics hardware develops at a rapid pace. At present time, graphics cards allow the visualisation of complex scenes and very large three-dimensional volumetric data sets at interactive frame rates. The video game industry certainly is the major driver of these developments, but research areas like medicine, science or engineering also play an important role, as data sets have to be explored interactively. However, designing flexible and interactive rendering applications that can easily be extended and customised is still a challenge, because of both the highly specialised graphics processing pipeline and the need of maximal performance. In this paper, we present solutions for the design of rendering frameworks for visualising volumetric data sets that overcome many of the restrictions and offer flexibility for developers and users while maintaining interactive rendering performance.
ON LEADERSHIP : A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN CROATIA AND SWEDEN

In a time of economic crisis, leadership effectiveness should be the goal of every leader. In this article, the authors explore differences between Croatian and Swedish managers, considering leadership styles, perceptions of the qualities and skills of good leaders and the use of the English language at work. There are significant differences between the mean scores used in this study to indicate attitudes toward individual leadership styles in the two countries. Furthermore, the results indicate that there are differences between the Croatian and Swedish managers’ concept of the most important traits and skills of managers. The largest difference concerns the use of the English language at work. The results confirm that Croatian managers, as a part of South – Eastern Europe, perceive current cultural practices in their environment differently than their western counterparts. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Bobanovic M, Bobanovic M,. 2013. Rersearch on Leadership: A Comparative study in Croatia and Sweden, Ekonomska istraživanja – Economic Research Special Issue 2013 ARTICLE INFO JEL classification: 121
[The clinical research of the MGMT expression levels in glioma pations].

OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between the expression of tumor O (6)-methylquanine DNA methyl-tranferase(MGMT) and pathological grade,and the influence of racial factors on tumor MGMT expression levels for glioma patients. METHODS Compare and analysis the correlation between the pathological grade and MGMT levels and the racial factors on MGMT expression levels by the immunohistochemical staining on the tumor specimens of 33 Uygur and 61 Han. RESULTS The positive rate of 61 Han gliomas pations with MGMT is 45.90% and 33 cases of the Uygur is 30.30% , there's no clear correlation between the racial factors and the tumor MGMT levels. (P >0.05). Comparative the 94 patients with pathological level and tumor MGMT level, there is no clear correlation between pathologic level and MGMT pression in tumor tissues (P >0.05). CONCLUSION There's no clear correlation of tumor MGMT expression and pathological levels; and there's no significant effect between racial factors and expression of glioma MGMT.
The Impact of Mental Illness on Families

Mental illness has far-reaching effects on other family members, as individuals and as members of a social system. While the study of the family impact of mental illness has been reported in the specialized mental health literature, it has not received much attention from sociologists. This article applies an illness behavior perspective to the study of family burden, reviews knowledge, and invites research by defining a number of issues, substantive and methodological, that need to be addressed. These include the definition and measurement of burden, diagnosis and course of illness, residence and kinship, social class, context, and coping, and the evaluation of social interventions designed to reduce burden and strengthen family supports. The article concludes with a discussion of family burden in terms of normative forces operating at the macro level.
System level power-performance trade-offs in embedded systems using voltage and frequency scaling of off-chip buses and memory

In embedded systems, off-chip buses and memory (i.e., L2 memory as opposed to the L1 memory which is usually on-chip cache) consume significant power often more than the processor itself. In this paper for the case of an embedded system with one processor chip and one memory chip, we propose frequency and voltage scaling of the off-chip buses and the memory chip and use a known micro-architectural enhancement called a store buffer to reduce the resulting impact on execution time. Our benchmarks show a system (processor + off-chip bus + off-chip memory) power savings of 28% to 36%, an energy savings of 13% to 35%, all while increasing the execution time in the range of 1% to 29%. Previous work in power-aware computing has focused on frequency and voltage scaling of the processors or selective power-down of sub-sets of off-chip memory chips. This paper quantitatively explores voltage/frequency scaling of off-chip buses and memory as a means of trading off performance for power/energy at the system level in embedded systems.
Mild and Unilateral Hearing Loss: Implications for Early Intervention

Newborn hearing screening has become a standard practice in most birthing hospitals in the United States. Historically, the primary target for the identification of hearing loss has been infants with permanent bilateral loss of moderate degree or greater (ie, >40 dB). However, research indicates that without early identification and intervention, children with mild bilateral hearing loss or unilateral hearing loss can have significant communication, academic, and behavioral difficulties (F. H. Bess, J. Dodd-Murphy, & R. A. Parker, 1998; R. Bovo et al., 1988). Communication between families and professionals is essential to develop intervention strategies that will optimize the outcome of such children. This article presents a brief review of the research and discusses issues related to mild bilateral hearing loss and unilateral hearing loss. Implications for early intervention services, including the importance of collaboration among professionals, are outlined. Suggestions for intervention activities are taken from professionals attending the 2005 National Workshop on Mild and Unilateral Hearing Loss, the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) 2007 position statement, and various early intervention Web sites.
Facial expression and modes of action readiness

Many questions one could ask about facial expressions seem to be fixed by the use of the very word expression. Facial expression , first, refers to facial behavior that suggests emotional meaning to an outside observer. Second, the term carries the implication that that facial behavior has the function or purpose of conveying such meaning. Third, it suggests that there exists something (say, an inner feeling) independently of that behavior to which the behavior called expression is added as an extra. These aspects are not necessarily all true of the same behaviors. Facial behaviors may suggest emotional meanings to observers, but that may not be their function or purpose. Receiving the epithet “expressive” in fact says nothing about the nature of the behavior concerned. “Hasty” or “greedy” behaviors, for instance, are made to arrive as fast as one can at the object of desire, and not to inform others about one's state of mind. Also, nonbehavior may on occasion be highly expressive, such as underacting in the theater and Jesus's remaining silent under accusation. And there are phenomena that are expressive by suggesting emotional meanings in which no inner feelings of whatever produced the phenomena are involved, such as joyful bird songs, angry bursts of wind, sad music, nervous lines, and solemn penguins. Most past and current theorizing on facial expression starts from the assumption that it expresses emotional feelings and exists for the sake of doing so. The study of expression pretty much originated in the philosophical problem of the knowledge of other minds.
Phonatory control in adults with cerebral palsy and severe dysarthria

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users with severe dysarthria may benefit greatly from using residual vocalizations to enhance communication efficiency and naturalness. Many individuals use their residual vocal control to gain attention, express emotions, and convey intentions to familiar care givers. This research was designed to test the hypothesis that speakers signal such information through the control of phonatory features such as pitch and duration, despite severe degradation of segmental speech sounds. The study examined whether eight speakers with severe dysarthria caused by cerebral palsy could control the pitch and duration of sustained vowel productions at three distinct levels. The results indicated that all speakers were able to consistently control sustained production of the vowel /a/ at three durations (short, medium, and long). Speakers were more variable, however, in their ability to control pitches (low, medium, and high). Seven of the eight speakers were able to produce at least two distinct pitches. The potential impact of harnessing residual phonatory control as an additional channel of input for AAC users with severe speech and motor impairment is discussed.
UICO: an ontology-based user interaction context model for automatic task detection on the computer desktop

'Understanding context is vital' [1] and 'context is key' [2] signal the key interest in the context detection field. One important challenge in this area is automatically detecting the user's task because once it is known it is possible to support her better. In this paper we propose an ontology-based user interaction context model (UICO) that enhances the performance of task detection on the user's computer desktop. Starting from low-level contextual attention meta-data captured from the user's desktop, we utilize rule-based, information extraction and machine learning approaches to automatically populate this user interaction context model. Furthermore we automatically derive relations between the model's entities and automatically detect the user's task. We present evaluation results of a large-scale user study we carried out in a knowledge-intensive business environment, which support our approach.
Sense of coherence as a moderator of the effects of stressful life events on health

Study objective: To test the hypothesis that Antonovsky’s concept of sense of coherence (SOC) moderates (that is, buffers) the health impacts of stressful life events in a population based sample. Design: Multiple linear and Poisson regression analyses of longitudinal data from a national survey of population health were used to examine the relations among SOC, the experience of recent stressful life events (for example, family breakdown, financial crisis, physical abuse), and two outcomes, self reported health status (SRH) and self reported number of physician visits during the previous year. Setting: General population of Canada. Participants: Nationally representative sample of household residents aged 30 years of age or greater surveyed in 1998 and 2000 (n = 6505). Main results: After controlling for age, sex, and previous health status, a significant moderating effect (t = 2.24, p = 0.025) in the expected direction was found on respondents’ SRH. The mean difference in SRH between those who did and did not experience a recent stressful life event was 0.24 (95% CI: 0.16, 0.32) in people with a below average SOC and 0.04 (95% CI: −0.04, 0.11) in people with a higher than average SOC score. The postulated moderating effect of SOC was not significant (t = 1.1, p>0.05) in predicting the number of visits to a physician. Conclusions: SOC seems to buffer the impact of recent stressful life events on SRH.
Men in the Middle: A Reformulation of the Thesis

I t could be said that the crucial impaa of the sodal sciences on the world at large is one of demystification. Many common-sense theses have crumbled on scrutiny. Yet some myths have been advanced by the sodal sdences themselves. One such myth is the 'man in the middle' thesis for industrial supervisors. It is one of sodology's most dramatic tales. Industrial supervisors, classically foremen, are men in the middle. ' Wedged between workers and management they represent both to each other and neither to themselves. Supervisors are constantly torn by competing demands and loyalties. They have come up from the ranks but are not part of management. Nevertheless they are the voice of the front oflSce that is heard on the shop floor. These strains are exacerbated by the continuous whittling away of their power and status by management and machine. The supervisor is robbed of the capadty to withstand the strain of his position. The middle is simply no-man's-land and supervisors sustain the scars of industrial conflict. Such a thesis is monolithic. It argues that all men in all supervisory positions in all firms experience the same kind and same degree of chronic stress. The evidence to date, of course, fails to support the thesis. This evidence, however, has primarily been concerned with predicating the stress of the position upon conflias of its role, the prime example being supervisor-worker conflia. Goldthorpe^ examined the history of coal-getting and found that the three main methods varied in their emphasis on the supervisor being in a 'service' or 'boss' relationship with his workers: the greater the emphasis on the supervisor as 'boss', the greater the conflia. This makes the work technology" an intervening faaor in supervisor stress. Woodward^ considered variations in technology at an inter-firm level and thought
Cell Surfaces in Plant-Microorganism Interactions : III. In Vivo Effect of Ethylene on Hydroxyproline-Rich Glycoprotein Accumulation in the Cell Wall of Diseased Plants.

Ethylene production and cell wall hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein (HRGP) biosynthesis are greatly enhanced in melon (Cucumin melo cv. Cantaloup charentais) seedlings infected with Colletotrichum lagenarium. Short-term experiments performed in the presence of specific inhibitors of the ethylene pathway from methionine, namely l-canaline and amino-ethoxyvinylglycine, indicate that under non-toxic conditions, both ethylene and [(14)C]hydroxyproline deposition in the cell wall of infected tissues are significantly lowered. On the contrary, treatment of healthy tissues with 1-aminocyclopropane 1-carboxylic acid, a natural precursor of ethylene, stimulates both the production of the hormone and the incorporation of [(14)C]hydroxyproline into cell wall proteins.The data provide the first evidence of the in vivo effect of ethylene on the cell wall hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein biosynthesis in plants.