Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Arguing with Preferences in EcoBioCap

In this paper we present the EcoBioCap project and the modelling needs of this project in terms of argumentation based preference aggregation. The aim of the paper is to well describe the problem encountered in this context and to propose a preference logic in line with the expressivity needed by the application. We then show how to embed this logic within the ASPIC+ system. Finally, we show how argument by expert opinion could be integrated within our framework where preference aggregation needs to take into consideration the different expertise of the project stakeholders.
Efficient computation of the permanent of a sparse matrix

Computation of the permanent of a general matrix is a hard problem. However, for a sparse matrix its permanent can be obtained. In this note an efficient method is described for computing the permanent of (0,l)-matrix. The method is based on the numerical structure of a matrix defined in Cushkov [4]. We outline a method with reduced computation efforts and show that, by application on five examples, the method significantly increases the computation speed.
Gender Differences in Reporting of Battering Incidences.

This article examines the difference between male and female reports of violence and threats of violence directed by the man towards the woman. All men in the study were clients in a large batterers' treatment program in the Midwest. Both men and their female partners completed a modified version of the Conflict Tactics Scale at intake and 1 year later at follow-up. In many categories, significantly more women were found at intake to report higher frequencies of threats and violence than their male partners. At follow-up and after extensive intervention these differences were not found in the more severe categories of violence. Differences remained, however, in the less concrete realm of threats of violence and in less severe forms of violence such as pushing and shoving.
A Semisupervised Support Vector Machines Algorithm for BCI Systems

As an emerging technology, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) bring us new communication interfaces which translate brain activities into control signals for devices like computers, robots, and so forth. In this study, we propose a semisupervised support vector machine (SVM) algorithm for brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, aiming at reducing the time-consuming training process. In this algorithm, we apply a semisupervised SVM for translating the features extracted from the electrical recordings of brain into control signals. This SVM classifier is built from a small labeled data set and a large unlabeled data set. Meanwhile, to reduce the time for training semisupervised SVM, we propose a batch-mode incremental learning method, which can also be easily applied to the online BCI systems. Additionally, it is suggested in many studies that common spatial pattern (CSP) is very effective in discriminating two different brain states. However, CSP needs a sufficient labeled data set. In order to overcome the drawback of CSP, we suggest a two-stage feature extraction method for the semisupervised learning algorithm. We apply our algorithm to two BCI experimental data sets. The offline data analysis results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm.
The Power of eLearning: The Essential Guide for Teaching in the

cial Libraries cover a wide array of specialized services offered to a variety of populations. For example, a special library and a public library system in upstate New York partnered together to address the information needs of local farmers. In Colorado, two academic librarians created a hip, online information literacy=research tutorial geared towards both collegeand workforce-bound high school students. College faculty members who teach in unique programs or work closely with special populations may be spurred by this book to look into the services their own campus libraries can offer to them and their students. Non-librarians, however, should note that Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries is a highly specialized resource that may be too narrowly focused to be useful across a broad range of disciplines. For instance, one article in the volume tackles the issue of recruitment of future librarians through the development of Fellows programs. That would be useful information for college and=or career advisors to know, but it would be irrelevant to most faculty members. Similarly, another chapter (‘‘Faculty Outreach: A WinWin Proposition’’) provides readers with insight into the inner workings of one library’s outreach efforts to all faculty (new, temporary, adjunct, and otherwise); however, that content is aimed at other librarians, not teaching faculty. Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries is a worthy addition to an academic or special library collection if the library does not already subscribe to the research journal, The Reference Librarian. (As noted, the monograph was published as a special volume of the journal.) Searches in the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) and Library Literature databases yield little in relevant sources beyond a few ERIC documents and individual journal articles that can be compared to this one discrete volume edited by Paul and Sigrid Kelsey. This book, therefore, proves to be an excellent resource for librarians to turn to find out what their peers are doing to promote programming, information literacy, and the profession in general across a broad spectrum of libraries around the United States.
Lysophosphatidic Acid Stimulates Neurotransmitter-Like Conductance Changes that Precede GABA and l-Glutamate in Early, Presumptive Cortical Neuroblasts

During neurogenesis in the embryonic cerebral cortex, the classical neurotransmitters GABA and l-glutamate stimulate ionic conductance changes in ventricular zone (VZ) neuroblasts. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a bioactive phospholipid producing myriad effects on cells including alterations in membrane conductances (for review, see Moolenaar et al., 1995). Developmental expression patterns of its first cloned receptor gene,lpA1/vzg-1 (Hecht et al., 1996; Fukushima et al., 1998) in the VZ suggested that functional LPA receptors were synthesized at these early times, and thus, LPA could be an earlier stimulus to VZ cells than the neurotransmitters GABA and l-glutamate. To address this possibility, primary cultures of electrically coupled, presumptive cortical neuroblast clusters were identified by age, morphology, electrophysiological profile, BrdU incorporation, and nestin immunostaining. Single cells from cortical neuroblast cell lines were also examined. Whole-cell variation of the patch-clamp technique was used to record from nestin-immunoreactive cells after stimulation by local administration of ligands. After initial plating at embryonic day 11 (E11), cells responded only to LPA but not to GABA or l-glutamate. Continued growth in culture for up to 12 hr produced more LPA-responsive cells, but also a growing population of GABA- orl-glutamate-responsive cells. Cultures from E12 embryos showed LPA as well as GABA and l-glutamate responses, with LPA-responsive cells still representing a majority. Overall, >50% of cells responded to LPA with depolarization mediated by either chloride or nonselective cation conductances. These data implicate LPA as the earliest reported extracellular stimulus of ionic conductance changes for cortical neuroblasts and provide evidence for LPA as a novel, physiological component in CNS development.
Identification of a Novel, Putative Rho-specific GDP/GTP Exchange Factor and a RhoA-binding Protein: Control of Neuronal Morphology

The small GTP-binding protein Rho has been implicated in the control of neuronal morphology. In N1E-115 neuronal cells, the Rho-inactivating C3 toxin stimulates neurite outgrowth and prevents actomyosin-based neurite retraction and cell rounding induced by lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), sphingosine-1-phosphate, or thrombin acting on their cognate G protein–coupled receptors. We have identified a novel putative GDP/GTP exchange factor, RhoGEF (190 kD), that interacts with both wild-type and activated RhoA, but not with Rac or Cdc42. RhoGEF, like activated RhoA, mimics receptor stimulation in inducing cell rounding and in preventing neurite outgrowth. Furthermore, we have identified a 116-kD protein, p116Rip, that interacts with both the GDP- and GTP-bound forms of RhoA in N1E-115 cells. Overexpression of p116Rip stimulates cell flattening and neurite outgrowth in a similar way to dominant-negative RhoA and C3 toxin. Cells overexpressing p116Rip fail to change their shape in response to LPA, as is observed after Rho inactivation. Our results indicate that (a) RhoGEF may link G protein–coupled receptors to RhoA activation and ensuing neurite retraction and cell rounding; and (b) p116Rip inhibits RhoA-stimulated contractility and promotes neurite outgrowth.
Heat capacity and magnetic phase diagram of the low-dimensional antiferromagnet Y2BaCuO5

A study by specific heat of a polycrystalline sample of the low-dimensional magnetic system Y2BaCuO5 is presented. Magnetic fields up to 14 T are applied and permit us to extract the (T,H) phase diagram. Below T, the Néel temperature, associated with a three-dimensional antiferromagnetic long-range ordering, is constant and equals TN = 15.6 K. Above H*, TN increases linearly with H and a field-induced increase of the entropy at TN is related to the presence of an isosbestic point at K, where all the specific-heat curves cross. A comparison is made between Y2BaCuO5 and the quasi-two-dimensional magnetic systems BaNi2V2O8, Sr2CuO2Cl2 and Pr2CuO4, for which very similar phase diagrams have been reported. An effective field-induced magnetic anisotropy is proposed to explain these phase diagrams.
Explicitness for Requests Is a Politer Strategy than Implicitness in Korean

This paper argues that 'impositives' and explicit request forms including imperatives, interrogatives and suggestions which contain the core request or the head act are considered politer than hints, in particular, in close relationship or when the size of the request act is not big. The use of imperatives with request markers jam and juda is considered polite because jam and juda are polite markers as well. Thus, Korean speakers employ direct directives more freely than English speakers. In English, to decrease imposition on hearer negative politeness strategies such as hedging, indirectness, giving option, and hints should be employed. 'Off-record' strategy, e.g., hints, is claimed as the politest strategy, but the long inferential path created by indirectness can be a cognitive burden. Hints can also be exploited for deniability or risk avoidance (Weizman 1993). Blum-Kulka (1987) assumes that the interactional balance achieved between the need for pragmatic clarity and the need to avoid coerciveness is important and thus clarity can be an essential part of politeness. This paper shows that the use of direct and explicit request forms is necessary for successful communications and can be politer than implicit ones in Korean.
A Frequency Tunable 360° Analog CMOS Phase Shifter With an Adjustable Amplitude

This brief presents a new vector sum phase shifter topology utilizing a current mode <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${R}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${C}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> poly phase filter along with several current steering variable gain amplifiers. The phase shifter performs all the tasks of vector generation, gain control, and vector summation in a single block (phase shifter core) to save power and area. The phase shifter core provides 360° of continuous phase tuning with an adjustable amplitude while consuming only 0.063 mm<sup>2</sup> of on-chip area. The phase shifter can generate a signal with a tunable phase and magnitude in a phased array, thereby providing a better control over the beamwidth and sidelobe levels. The circuit is frequency reconfigurable, and its center frequency can be tuned within 26–28 GHz with an instantaneous bandwidth of 3 GHz. The phase shifter, fabricated in 130-nm CMOS technology, occupies an area of 0.284 mm<sup>2</sup> (excluding the pads) and consumes 27 mW of power. The phase shifter’s RMS phase and gain errors for 64 measured phase states are less than 2.6° and 0.31 dB, respectively, within the 3-dB bandwidth. The measured IP1dB and IIP3 are larger than −9.8 and 0 dBm, respectively. This phase shifter is a good candidate for automotive radar as well as 5G applications.
10 DAYS OF DARKNESS DOES NOT RESTORE VISUAL OR NEURAL PLASTICITY IN ADULT CATS

ii DEDICATION PAGE I dedicate this thesis to my brother, Josh Holman, whose unwaivering ability to exceed the expectations of every neurosurgeon and neurologist assigned to his case has inspired my study of neuroscience and has continued to provide a constant and marvelous reminder that perceptual limitations do not have to be absolute.
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Effect of Ad Repetition and Ad Size: Experiments with Americans, Germans, and Singaporeans

SUMMARY This study examines the effect of ad repetition and size, using a 3 (cultures: American, German, and Singaporean) × 2 (ad sizes: small, large) × 3 (ad repetition levels: low, moderate, high) between-subjects factorial design with 180 German, 180 American, and 180 Singaporean adults. The results show cultural differences in consumers' responses. For Americans, for the large ad, the higher is the repetition, the less favorable are attitudes toward the ad and the brand and purchase intention. For the small ad, moderate repetition results in less favorable attitudes toward the ad and the brand and purchase intention than does low repetition. The German results show that for the large ad, moderate repetition results in more favorable attitudes toward the ad and the brand and purchase intention than does low repetition. High repetition induces less favorable attitudes toward the ad and the brand but not purchase intention. For the small ad, low and moderate repetition are equally effective on all respon.
The Relationship between Personality and Sportspersonship Orientations

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship and interaction between personality traits and sportspersonship orientations according to gender differences. 510 (235 female, 275 male) professional athletes from various team sports voluntarily participated in this study. The revised version of Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire and Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientations Scale were used to collect data. The results of this study revealed that female athletes obtained higher scores when compared to males in extraversion-concern and respect for social conventions, respect for rules and officials and commitment towards sport participation subscales. In conclusion, the results of this study indicated that there was a significant relationship between personality subscales and sportspersonship orientation. In addition, personality subscales significantly effected sportspersonship orientations according to gender.
NEGOTIATING EVERYDAY VIA THE ACT OF READING RESISTANCE POETRY: A STUDY BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF READERSHIP OF POETRY BY AGHA SHAHID ALI ON KASHMIR

Kashmir conflict dates back to the time of Indo-Pak Independence in 1947, but it was the uprising of 1989 when people of Kashmir themselves became active participants in resistance movement against the state rule. Due to twin effect of military and militancy, the lives of people revolved around loss, fear, and insecurity that made up their everyday and in turn, the modes of resistance by people acquired different forms ranging from street protests to stone pelting to online blogging. This paper seeks to locate how the act of 'reading poetry' based on Kashmir conflict by Agha Shahid Ali acts as a means of incorporating resistance in the everyday of people when overt resistance is unsafe and subject to surveillance by the authorities. The paper addresses the theme of ‘everyday’ in two ways, firstly, in terms of violence and insecurity that makes up the ‘everyday’ of people in Kashmir and secondly, how they negotiate ‘everyday’ via the act of reading resistance poetry.
Statistical Selection of CNN-based Audiovisual Features for Instantaneous Estimation of Human Emotional States

Automatic prediction of continuous-level emotional state requires selection of suitable affective features to develop a regression system based on supervised machine learning. This paper investigates the performance of features statistically learned using convolutional neural networks for instantaneously predicting the continuous dimensions of emotional states. Features with minimum redundancy and maximum relevancy are chosen by using the mutual information-based selection process. The performance of frame-by-frame prediction of emotional state using the moderate length features as proposed in this paper is evaluated on spontaneous and naturalistic human-human conversation of RECOLA database. Experimental results show that the proposed model can be used for instantaneous prediction of emotional state with an accuracy higher than traditional audio or video features that are used for affective computation.
Acceptable ungrammaticality in sentence matching

This article presents a new set of experiments using the sentence-matching paradigm (Forster, 1979; Freedman and Forster, 1985; see also Bley-Vroman and Masterson, 1989), investigating native speakers' and second language (L2) learners' knowledge of constraints on clitic placement in French. Our purpose is three-fold: • to shed more light on the contrasts between native speakers and L2 learners observed in previous experiments, especially Duffield and White (1999), and Duffield et al . (2002); • to address some of the specific criticisms of the sentence-matching paradigm levelled by Gass (2001); and • to provide a firm empirical basis for follow-up experiments with L2 learners. The results reported here provide some confirmation of the validity of Duffield et al.'s earlier work, and help to adjudicate among competing interpretations of the previous effects.
Eotaxin modulates myelopoiesis and mast cell development from embryonic hematopoietic progenitors.

Eotaxin is a potent chemoattractant for eosinophils during inflammation and allergic reactions in the adult, but its role in the embryonic development of the hematopoietic system has not been examined. We report here that eotaxin and its receptor, CCR-3, are expressed by embryonic tissues responsible for blood development, such as fetal liver (FL), yolk sac (YS), and peripheral blood. We found that eotaxin acts synergistically with stem cell factor to accelerate the differentiation of embryonic mast cell progenitors, and this response can be suppressed by pertussis toxin, an inhibitor of chemokine-induced signaling through Gialpha protein and chemotaxis. Eotaxin promotes the differentiation of fetal mast cell progenitors into differentiated mast cells as defined by the expression of mast cell specific proteases. Furthermore, in combination with stem cell factor (SCF), it promotes the growth of Mac-1(+) myeloid cells from embryonic progenitors. These studies suggest that eotaxin may be involved in the growth of granulocytic progenitors and the differentiation and/or function of mast cells during embryogenesis and/or pathological conditions that induce high levels of eotaxin, such as allergic responses.
Youth suicide risk and preventive interventions: a review of the past 10 years.

OBJECTIVE To review critically the past 10 years of research on youth suicide. METHOD Research literature on youth suicide was reviewed following a systematic search of PsycINFO and Medline. The search for school-based suicide prevention programs was expanded using two education databases: ERIC and Education Full Text. Finally, manual reviews of articles' reference lists identified additional studies. The review focuses on epidemiology, risk factors, prevention strategies, and treatment protocols. RESULTS There has been a dramatic decrease in the youth suicide rate during the past decade. Although a number of factors have been posited for the decline, one of the more plausible ones appears to be the increase in antidepressants being prescribed for adolescents during this period. Youth psychiatric disorder, a family history of suicide and psychopathology, stressful life events, and access to firearms are key risk factors for youth suicide. Exciting new findings have emerged on the biology of suicide in adults, but, while encouraging, these are yet to be replicated in youths. Promising prevention strategies, including school-based skills training for students, screening for at-risk youths, education of primary care physicians, media education, and lethal-means restriction, need continuing evaluation studies. Dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and treatment with antidepressants have been identified as promising treatments but have not yet been tested in a randomized clinical trial of youth suicide. CONCLUSIONS While tremendous strides have been made in our understanding of who is at risk for suicide, it is incumbent upon future research efforts to focus on the development and evaluation of empirically based suicide prevention and treatment protocols.
Thai Sentence Paraphrasing from the Lexical Resource

Paraphrase generation in any language has gained much attention and importance in the study of Natural Language Processing. Therefore, the focus of this paper is on Thai language paraphrase generation for the sentence level. Six sentence paraphrasing techniques for Thai are proposed and illustratively explained. In addition, the Thai–sentence Paraphrase Generation (TPG) system is designed using a lexical resource based system subsequently entitled the Thai Lexical Conceptual Structure with Thai Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TLCS–TLTAG) Resource.
Relationship between Motor Skill Competence and Physical Activity in Girls

This study examined the relationship between motor skill competence, and physical activity in 8– 9 years-old girls (N=352). Locomotor and object control skill competence was assessed, using the Test of Gross Motor Development-2, and the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children was used to assess physical activity. Regression analysis revealed that locomotor proficiency accounted for 20% (P = 0.001) of variance associated with self-reported moderate to vigorous physical activity. The findings warrant future investigations that examine interventions that focus on locomotor skills to promote physical activity in girls.
Portable neurological disease assessment using temporal analysis of speech

This paper discusses and evaluates the extraction and analysis of temporal acoustic features from speech using mobile devices to detect patterns which could be indicative of neurodegenarative diseases. Timing information in speech can play a critical role in future portable applications that help detect the presence of speech disorders, which are often indicators of a more serious underlying neurological condition. Speech data collected from a series of mobile administered speech tests at 47 high schools and colleges in the the Mid-western United States are analyzed for the specific case of mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI). In this paper, we focus on both the system and test design used to collect and extract temporal metrics from the speech data, as well as the statistical analysis of this data to find patterns that are indicative of a concussion. Preliminary results suggest a correlation between certain temporal features and the likelihood of a concussion.