Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Where To Go From Here? Thoughts on Future Directions for Research on Individual-Level Technology Adoption with a Focus on Decision Making

This article recognizes the maturity of individual-level technology-adoption research and suggests three broad future research directions. They are: (i) business process change and process standards, (ii) supply-chain technologies, and (iii) services. Each of these areas is identified based on the topics likely of interest to the readers of the Decision Sciences by closely examining Decision Sciences' editorial mission and the recent research published in it. Within each of these three different broad topic areas, a few different specific directions are identified. The directions outlined here are not meant to be exhaustive but rather potential directions that can result in a theoretical contribution to individual-level technology-adoption research and the specific topic area.
Listening in Language Learning

1. Listening in verbal communication: comprehension or interpretation 2. Auditory perception and linguistic processing 3. Listener inference 4. Listening in collaborative discourse: displays of understanding listening in collaborative discourse 5. Listening in transactional discourse: listener understanding in transactional discourse 6. Development of listening ability 7. Assessing listening ability: assessment and sampling 8. Listening in the language curriculum: approaches to curriculum design
Clinical and immunogenetic correlates of abacavir hypersensitivity

A patch test (PT) may be useful in defining true abacavir hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS). Seven previously PT-positive patients remote from the original AHS were shown to have robust 24 h responses, supporting PT durability. HLA-B*5701 was present in all seven PT-positive versus one of 11 controls tolerating abacavir (P < 0.001). Five of seven PT (71%) versus one of 11 controls (9%) (P = 0.005) showed significant abacavir-specific CD8 proliferation, suggesting a direct role for HLA-B*5701-restricted CD8 cells in the pathophysiology of AHS.
Temporal-based multilevel correlating inclusive cache replacement

Inclusive caches have been widely used in Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) to simplify cache coherence. However, they have poor performance compared with noninclusive caches not only because of the limited capacity of the entire cache hierarchy but also due to ignorance of temporal locality of the Last-Level Cache (LLC). Blocks that are highly referenced (referred to as hot blocks) are always hit in higher-level caches (e.g., L1 cache) and are rarely referenced in the LLC. Therefore, they become replacement victims in the LLC. Due to the inclusion property, blocks evicted from the LLC have to also be invalidated from higher-level caches. Invalidation of hot blocks from the entire cache hierarchy introduces costly off-chip misses that makes the inclusive cache perform poorly. Neither blocks that are highly referenced in the LLC nor blocks that are highly referenced in higher-level caches should be the LLC replacement victims. We propose temporal-based multilevel correlating cache replacement for inclusive caches to evict blocks in the LLC that are also not hot in higher-level caches using correlated temporal information acquired from all levels of a cache hierarchy with minimal overhead. Invalidation of these blocks does not hurt the performance. By contrast, replacing them as early as possible with useful blocks helps improve cache performance. Based on our experiments, in a dual-core CMP, an inclusive cache with temporal-based multilevel correlating cache replacement significantly outperforms an inclusive cache with traditional LRU replacement by yielding an average speedup of 12.7%, which is comparable to an enhanced noninclusive cache, while requiring less than 1% of storage overhead.
Towards a conceptual understanding of entrepreneurial learning

This paper summarises the conclusions from research which explores how people learn entrepreneurial behaviour. Although learning can be said to have a critical role in entrepreneurial achievement, the relationship is not well understood and, given the growing public policy emphasis which aims to stimulate entrepreneurship through formal education, there is a need for a greater understanding of how entrepreneurial capabilities are developed through life and work. The primary research method is through life story interviews with people who have demonstrated entrepreneurial attainment in running business ventures. In‐depth interviews explored their stories of the learning they experienced during their careers and business ventures. From the interpretation and analysis of these narratives, a number of significant themes emerge which suggest how the respondents made sense of their experiences and developed their entrepreneurial capabilities. From these themes, a conceptual model which relates the development of entrepreneurial learning to entrepreneurial achievement is proposed.
Phonologic errors in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia

Background: One of the distinguishing characteristics of logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA) is phonologic errors, but few data exist that document the frequency of such errors across a variety of language tasks. Aims: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of phonologic errors across a variety of spoken language tasks in participants with LPA. Methods & Procedures: Detailed descriptive analysis was based on data obtained from video recordings of 22 participants with LPA. Nine tasks were analysed for phonologic errors. Outcomes & Results: All participants made some phonologic errors, with presence/absence of such errors varying across tasks. Tasks that were most likely to elicit phonologic errors were reading nonwords, repetition of multisyllabic words, reading irregular words, and the 15-item Boston Naming Test. Factors such as task nature or complexity, severity of aphasia, and, possibly, education influenced the frequency of phonologic errors. Conclusions: Our findings support the current consensus criteria that indicate that phonologic errors are a frequent but not a required characteristic for a diagnosis of LPA.
Communication difficulties experienced by deaf male patients during their in‐hospital stay: findings from a qualitative descriptive study

Studies available have described several specific issues affecting healthcare accessibility by deaf people, but to date, no research has reported the experience of deaf patients with in-hospital communication. The aim of the study was to explore the communication experience of deaf patients with regard to their in-hospital stay. A purposeful sample of participants was selected. The data collection process was based on a focus group. The focus groups were conducted in Italian sign language and videorecorded; subsequently, the entire conversation was faithfully transcribed. A qualitative content analysis of the transcription was performed and the findings are reported using the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research approach. Four themes have emerged: (a) experiencing a common vulnerability: the need for reciprocal understanding and sensitivity, (b) being outside the comfort zone: feeling discriminated against once again, (c) perceiving a lack of consonance between care and needs and (d) developing a sense of progressively disempowerment. The experience of deaf individuals during their in-hospital stay may be critical: they are exposed to protracted communication and interaction with healthcare providers and an environment that is not prepared and designed for these vulnerable patients. Two levels of strategies should be identified, implemented and developed to increase the quality of communication with deaf people during hospitalisation, both at the hospital/health system level and at the healthcare professional/clinical level.
A new approach for disruption management in airline operations control

As a sequel of a recent Ph.D. thesis at the University of Porto and LIACC research lab, a new book appeared at Springer, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 562, 2014, XII, 242 p., entitled A New Approach for Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control by Antonio J. M. Castro, Ana Paula Rocha, and Eugénio Oliveira.
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Action Recognition Using Depth Map Sequences

Recently, deep learning approach has achieved promising results in various fields of computer vision. In this paper, a new framework called Hierarchical Depth Motion Maps (HDMM) + 3 Channel Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (3ConvNets) is proposed for human action recognition using depth map sequences. Firstly, we rotate the original depth data in 3D pointclouds to mimic the rotation of cameras, so that our algorithms can handle view variant cases. Secondly, in order to effectively extract the body shape and motion information, we generate weighted depth motion maps (DMM) at several temporal scales, referred to as Hierarchical Depth Motion Maps (HDMM). Then, three channels of ConvNets are trained on the HDMMs from three projected orthogonal planes separately. The proposed algorithms are evaluated on MSRAction3D, MSRAction3DExt, UTKinect-Action and MSRDailyActivity3D datasets respectively. We also combine the last three datasets into a larger one (called Combined Dataset) and test the proposed method on it. The results show that our approach can achieve state-of-the-art results on the individual datasets and without dramatical performance degradation on the Combined Dataset.
Health care issues facing adolescents with congenital heart disease.

The number of children with congenital heart disease surviving beyond adolescence is rapidly increasing. Consequently, pediatric health providers not only have to address medical issues associated with the cardiac condition but must begin to develop programs that assist adolescents and their families in dealing with special health care needs for the young patient to successfully move into the adult world. Transitional health-related issues facing the adolescent with congenital heart disease including medical follow-up, insurability, employability, sexuality, and reproduction are described. Discussion about advising and counseling both patient and parents is included.
Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical

An interpretation of the concept of the practical for the field for curriculum must pay critical attention to the philosophies of knowledge in which the interpretation is grounded. The main traditions of social science (broadly conceived as the empirical-analytic, the hermeneuticphenomenological, and the critical-dialectical) each have associated with them quite distinct ways of knowing and distinct modes of being practical. This paper seeks to demonstrate that it is only through such critical reflection that the questions of greatest significance to the field can be adequately addressed.
Adolescents’ emotional competence is associated with parents’ neural sensitivity to emotions

An essential component of youths’ successful development is learning to appropriately respond to emotions, including the ability to recognize, identify, and describe one’s feelings. Such emotional competence is thought to arise through the parent–child relationship. Yet, the mechanisms by which parents transmit emotional competence to their children are difficult to measure because they are often implicit, idiosyncratic, and not easily articulated by parents or children. In the current study, we used a multifaceted approach that went beyond self-report measures and examined whether parental neural sensitivity to emotions predicted their child’s emotional competence. Twenty-two adolescent–parent dyads completed an fMRI scan during which they labeled the emotional expressions of negatively valenced faces. Results indicate that parents who recruited the amygdala, VLPFC, and brain regions involved in mentalizing (i.e., inferring others’ emotional states) had adolescent children with greater emotional competence. These results held after controlling for parents’ self-reports of emotional expressivity and adolescents’ self-reports of the warmth and support of their parent relationships. In addition, adolescents recruited neural regions involved in mentalizing during affect labeling, which significantly mediated the associated between parental neural sensitivity and adolescents’ emotional competence, suggesting that youth are modeling or referencing their parents’ emotional profiles, thereby contributing to better emotional competence.
HDAC4, a Human Histone Deacetylase Related to Yeast HDA1, Is a Transcriptional Corepressor

ABSTRACT Histone acetylation plays an important role in regulating chromatin structure and thus gene expression. Here we describe the functional characterization of HDAC4, a human histone deacetylase whose C-terminal part displays significant sequence similarity to the deacetylase domain of yeast HDA1. HDAC4 is expressed in various adult human tissues, and its gene is located at chromosome band 2q37. HDAC4 possesses histone deacetylase activity intrinsic to its C-terminal domain. When tethered to a promoter, HDAC4 represses transcription through two independent repression domains, with repression domain 1 consisting of the N-terminal 208 residues and repression domain 2 containing the deacetylase domain. Through a small region located at its N-terminal domain, HDAC4 interacts with the MADS-box transcription factor MEF2C. Furthermore, HDAC4 and MEF2C individually upregulate but together downmodulate c-jun promoter activity. These results suggest that HDAC4 interacts with transcription factors such as MEF2C to negatively regulate gene expression.
'Cancer Coping Online': A pilot trial of a self-guided CBT internet intervention for cancer-related distress

While internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (iCBT) programs for mental health conditions has a demonstrated evidence base, the application of iCBT to those experiencing cancer-related distress has not been reported. This study therefore developed and pilot tested a self-guided iCBT program for patients with early stage cancer. Cancer Coping Online is a 6-week intervention which provides information, worksheets, and activities to address commonly experienced physical, emotional, social and communication difficulties. Participants were 12 patients (11 female) recruited over a 3-month period from one public hospital. The primary outcome measures were negative affect and posttraumatic stress. The secondary outcome measures were coping styles (helplessness/hopelessness, anxious preoccupation, cognitive avoidance, fatalism and fighting spirit). Changes over time were measured using within group effect sizes (Cohen’s d), with reliable change indices (RCIs) used to assess the clinical significance of changes over time. The intervention lead to reductions in negative affect (d=0.53), helplessness/hopelessness (d=0.64), anxious preoccupation (d=0.43), and fatalism (d=0.42). These reductions were clinically significant for 33% of the sample for negative affect, and for 25% of the sample for helplessness/hopelessness and anxious preoccupation. These results indicate that an iCBT program for cancer patients can reduce distress, and warrant further investigation through a randomised controlled trial.
Inability of desferrioxamine to limit tissue injury in the ischaemic and reperfused rabbit heart.

The role of iron-catalysed hydroxyl radical production in development of myocardial injury was examined in an in vivo rabbit heart with regional ischaemia (45 min) and reperfusion (3 h). Open-chest anaesthetised rabbits were assigned to control (saline) or desferrioxamine-treated [30 mg/kg subcutaneously (s.c.) plus 1, 10, 20, or 100 mg/kg/h intravenously (i.v.) starting 15 min before ischaemia] groups. Haemodynamics and ECG were monitored throughout. Following reperfusion, hearts were excised and perfused in vitro with buffer. The artery was religated, and fluorescent particles were injected to delineate the ischaemic zone. Tetrazolium staining was used to define necrosis. Planimetry was performed on photographed heart slices for calculation of the size of the hearts and of the ischaemic and infarcted zones. Infarct size (as a percentage of ischaemic zone size) in control hearts was 51.2 +/- 5.8% (n = 10) and in the groups treated with desferrioxamine 1, 10, 20, and 100 mg/kg/h it was 53.1 +/- 11.7% (n = 8), 45.3 +/- 6.3% (n = 9), 65.1 +/- 10.1% (n = 6), and 52.5 +/- 9.4% (n = 7), respectively (p = NS vs. control in each instance). In addition, no antiarrhythmic effects were observed at any dose. Thus, iron-catalysed hydroxyl radical damage may not play a role in the pathogenesis of tissue injury under these conditions.
Impaired Recognition of Communicative Interactions from Biological Motion in Schizophrenia

Background Patients with schizophrenia are deficient in multiple aspects of social cognition, including biological motion perception. In the present study we investigated the ability to read social information from point-light stimuli in schizophrenia. Methodology/Principal Findings Participants with paranoid schizophrenia and healthy controls were presented with a biological motion task depicting point-light actions of two agents either engaged in a communicative interaction, or acting independently of each other. For each stimulus, participants were asked to decide whether the two agents were communicating vs. acting independently of each other (task A), and to select the correct action description among five response alternatives (task B). Participants were also presented with a mental rotation task to assess their visuospatial abilities, and with a facial emotion recognition task tapping social cognition. Results revealed that participants with schizophrenia performed overall worse than controls both in discriminating communicative from non-communicative actions (task A) and in selecting which of the 5 response alternatives best described the observed actions (task B). Interestingly, the impaired performance of schizophrenic participants was mainly due to misclassification of non-communicative stimuli as communicative actions. Correlation analysis revealed that visuospatial abilities predicted performance in task A but not in task B, while facial emotion recognition abilities was correlated with performance in both task A and task B. Conclusions/Significance These findings are consistent with theories of “overmentalizing” (excessive attribution of intentionality) in schizophrenia, and suggest that processing social information from biological motion does rely on social cognition abilities.
A personal handwritten Chinese character recognition algorithm based on the generalized Hough transform

The generalized Hough transform is a useful method for detecting arbitrary 2-dimensional shapes. Based on the consideration that handwritten Chinese characters are complex 2-dimensional shapes, we make an attempt to recognize them by using the generalized Hough transform. Features extracted from the parameter space are used to calculate the similarity measure between two character images. The algorithm is implemented in a look-up-table scheme which can be extended to other applications of pattern recognition. Experimental results on personal (writer-dependent) handwritten Chinese character recognition show that this algorithm is suitable for the pre-classification of personal handwritten Chinese character recognition.
COLAP: A predictive framework for service function chain placement in a multi-cloud environment

Network function virtualization (NFV) over multi-cloud promises network service providers amazing flexibility in service deployment and optimizing cost. Telecommunications applications are, however, sensitive to performance indicators, especially latency, which tend to get degraded by both the virtualization and the multiple cloud requirement for widely distributed coverage. In this work we propose an efficient framework that uses the novel concept of random cloud selection combined with a support vector regression based predictive model for cost optimized latency aware placement (COLAP) of service function chains. Extensive empirical analysis has been carried out with training datasets generated using a queuing-theoretic model. The results show good generalization performance of the predictive algorithm. The proposed framework can place thousands of virtual network functions in less than a minute and has high acceptance ratio.
Whittle Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Nonstationary Time Series

Abstract Whittle pseudo-maximum likelihood estimates of parameters for stationary time series have been found to be consistent and asymptotically normal in the presence of long-range dependence. Generalizing the definition of the memory parameter d we extend these results to include possibly nonstationary (.5 ≤ d < 1) or antipersistent (-.5 < d < 0) observations. Using adequate data tapers, we can apply this estimation technique to any degree of nonstationarity d ≥ . 5 without a priori knowledge of the memory of the series. We analyze the performance of the estimates on simulated and real data.
Long-Term Prognosis After Myocardial Infarction in Men with Diabetes

Men (1306) who survived a first myocardial infarction (Ml) were studied. The mean follow-up time was 6.5 yr, and at the end of the follow-up period survival status was known for all patients. By the time of the Ml the prevalence of diabetes was 5.6%. Patients with and without diabetes were compared. There were no differences in the estimated primary or secondary risk. The cumulative survival rate 1, 2, and 5 yr after the Ml was 82, 78, and 58% among the diabetic subjects compared with 94, 92, and 82% among the nondiabetic subjects (P < 0.001). The difference remained even after allowance for age and estimated secondary risk in a multivariate regression analysis. There were no differences in mortality rates among patients with type I diabetes compared with type II diabetes, nor among patients treated with diet alone, sulfonylurea, or insulin, but the numbers were small. The cumulative rate of reinfarctions after 1, 2, and 5 yr was 18, 28, and 46% in diabetic subjects and 12,17, and 27% in nondiabetic subjects (P = 0.004). A history of diabetes was an independent secondary risk factor among male survivors of a first Ml with respect to deaths and reinfarctions.
ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL Un enfoque holístico e integrado de la implantación de los servicios farmacéutico cognitivos A holistic and integrated approach to implementing cognitive pharmaceutical services

1 University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy and Visiting Professor, University of Granada, Grupo de Investigación en Atención Farmacéutica 2 University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy and Visiting Research Associate, University of Granada, Grupo de Investigación en Atención Farmacéutica 3 University of Granada, Faculty of Pharmacy, Grupo de Investigación en Atención Farmacéutica charlie.benrimoj@sydney.edu. au
Assessment of Visual Field Impairment by Objective Technique

An objective psychophysical technique for investigating visual fields by averaged scalp potentials evoked by pattern gratings of alternating contrast and by sinusoidally modulated flickering light is applied to a child with a right homonomous hemianopsia. This technique illustrates a value in obtaining clinical data on visual fields in situations where subjective perimetry is difficult to administer or where conservative diagnostic methods do not yield evidence of pathology.