Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
IDENTIFYING DRIVERS OF LIKING FOR COMMERCIAL SPREADABLE CHEESES WITH DIFFERENT FAT CONTENT

The aim of this work was to obtain information about how perceptible differences among commercial spreadable cheeses with different fat content affect consumer liking/disliking. Sensory profiles of six commercial samples, three with regular fat content and three with low-fat content were determined using a trained panel (n = 10), and hedonic responses were obtained from a group of consumers (n = 106). Sensory variability among samples was mainly due to texture and flavor attributes. Three subgroups of consumers with different preference criteria were identified using cluster analyses: a small group of consumers (11%) for whom the variability in sensory attribute intensity among samples did not affect sample acceptability and two subgroups of consumers (39% and 50%) for whom certain sensory attribute intensity influenced hedonic scores. Partial least squares regression was used to determine the sensory factors driving liking/disliking for the latter two consumer subgroups. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS Low-fat variants of spreadable cheeses are now on the market with different sensory properties and different success. The elimination or reduction of fat modifies the composition and structure of cheeses and alters the original balance among fat, protein, carbohydrates and moisture, often giving rise to perceptible changes in color, flavor and texture. Although, fat reduction may provide consumers with added-value products, the different sensory characteristics of low-fat cheese, compared to its full-fat counterpart, may influence the consumer's response. Identifying the sensory attributes that drive liking/disliking of low-fat cream cheeses, is a key issue guiding new-product development, product improvement and optimization.
Evaluation of a Combined Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Interpersonal Process Group in the Psychotherapy Training of Clinical Psychologists

It is now widely acknowledged that both content and process elements of psychotherapy play a part in client treatment outcomes. Despite this, there are pressures on Australian clinical psychology training programs to teach evidence‐based approaches in a relatively short time frame. Producing clinical psychology graduates who have an adequate level of competence in evidence‐based practice and meeting the demands of professional accreditation requirements can mean that less time is available to teach the process elements of psychotherapy. The aim of this study was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of a clinical psychology psychotherapy training program that combines an interpersonal process group with a cognitive behavioural therapy training model that incorporates self‐reflection and self‐practice. Eleven participants who participated in the training in 2008 completed the Counseling Self‐Estimate Inventory at pre‐ and post‐training. Significant improvements on the majority of the subscales of this inventory were found. A separate sample of nine trainees and clinical psychology registrars who also previously completed the program attended individual interviews in 2010 aimed at gaining their perspective regarding various aspects of the program. Self‐practice of cognitive behavioural therapy techniques was found to be important in the identification and management of trainees’ own core beliefs, and to their appreciation of how challenging this process may be for clients. The interpersonal process group was described by participants as enhancing their competency as psychotherapists. Common themes included the experience of anxiety and a high level of emotion, and understanding how this experience might be similar for clients; increased self‐awareness; and increased competence in process issues. Many participants believed the process and content components of training were equally important to their development as psychotherapists.
Leren voor transfer : een empirisch onderzoek naar de concept- en contextbenadering in het economieonderwijs

In this study we investigated the effects of two treatments supplementing students’ (16 to 18 years of age and in pre–university education) regular course in economics. One treatment, labelled concept treatment, aimed at the solidification of the students’ knowledge about economic concepts and their interrelations. The other treatment, labeled context treatment, aimed at the solidification of the connections between economic concepts and practical contexts. The aim of the study was to find out which treatment was most effective in meeting two demands that have been made by educators and advisory boards. The first demand is that students should gain competence in analysing practical problems from an economic perspective. The second demand is that students should be prepared for transfer of what they learned in the lessons to problems that are new to them. We expected that near transfer is reached more readily than semi–far transfer. This was the case for the solidification of connections between concepts and contexts. The context condition performed better. It was not the case for the solidification of the concepts which was the aim for the concept treatment. There was no difference in the results on the concept test between the two conditions. As to the assumption that a solid conceptual network is a prerequisite for far transfer, the findings are inconclusive.
The Impact of Solid State Fault Current Limiter on Power Network With Wind-Turbine Power Generation

In this paper, it is aimed to investigate the impact of the various solid-state fault current limiters (SSFCLs) on several electric power networks with the wind-turbine power generation (WTPG). Distributed generations (DGs) are predicted to perform an increasing role in the future electrical power system. Expose of the DG, can change the fault current during a grid disturbance and disturb the existing distribution system protection. Fault current limiters (FCLs) can be sorted into L-types (inductive) and R-types (resistive) by the fault current limiting impedance. In this paper, a new SSFCL has been proposed. SSFCLs can provide the fast system protection during a rigorous fault. The act of dynamic damping enhancement via the SSFCL is appraised in the presence of the wind-turbine power generation. Hence, its efficiency as a protective device for the wind-turbine system is confirmed via some case studies by time-domain simulation based on the PSCAD/EMTDC.
A Visual Influence in the Discrimination of Auditory Location

The compellingness of the interaction between vision and auditory localization (the ventriloquist effect) was investigated using a discrimination task. A tone sequence was presented either from the same location or from two locations that alternated along the horizontal plane. In synchrony with the tones, lights were presented either at the same or at alternating locations. Subjects had to decide whether the tones alternated or not, thereby ignoring the lights. The main result was that presenting non-alternating tones together with alternating lights increased the number of ‘alternating’-judgements, even though subjects were told to ignore the lights, and even though they received corrective feed-back after each trial.
Interference-driven resource management for GPU-based heterogeneous clusters

GPU-based clusters are increasingly being deployed in HPC environments to accelerate a variety of scientific applications. Despite their growing popularity, the GPU devices themselves are under-utilized even for many computationally-intensive jobs. This stems from the fact that the typical GPU usage model is one in which a host processor periodically offloads computationally intensive portions of an application to the coprocessor. Since some portions of code cannot be offloaded to the GPU (for example, code performing network communication in MPI applications), this usage model results in periods of time when the GPU is idle. GPUs could be time-shared across jobs to "fill" these idle periods, but unlike CPU resources such as the cache, the effects of sharing the GPU are not well understood. Specifically, two jobs that time-share a single GPU will experience resource contention and interfere with each other. The resulting slow-down could lead to missed job deadlines. Current cluster managers do not support GPU-sharing, but instead dedicate GPUs to a job for the job's lifetime. In this paper, we present a framework to predict and handle interference when two or more jobs time-share GPUs in HPC clusters. Our framework consists of an analysis model, and a dynamic interference detection and response mechanism to detect excessive interference and restart the interfering jobs on different nodes. We implement our framework in Torque, an open-source cluster manager, and using real workloads on an HPC cluster, show that interference-aware two-job colocation (although our method is applicable to colocating more than two jobs) improves GPU utilization by 25%, reduces a job's waiting time in the queue by 39% and improves job latencies by around 20%.
Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

The evolutionary diversification of spiders is attributed to spectacular innovations in silk. Spiders are unique in synthesizing many different kinds of silk, and using silk for a variety of ecological functions throughout their lives, particularly to make prey-catching webs. Here, we construct a broad higher-level phylogeny of spiders combining molecular data with traditional morphological and behavioral characters. We use this phylogeny to test the hypothesis that the spider orb web evolved only once. We then examine spider diversification in relation to different web architectures and silk use. We find strong support for a single origin of orb webs, implying a major shift in the spinning of capture silk and repeated loss or transformation of orb webs. We show that abandonment of costly cribellate capture silk correlates with the 2 major diversification events in spiders (1). Replacement of cribellate silk by aqueous silk glue may explain the greater diversity of modern orb-weaving spiders (Araneoidea) compared with cribellate orb-weaving spiders (Deinopoidea) (2). Within the “RTA clade,” which is the sister group to orb-weaving spiders and contains half of all spider diversity, >90% of species richness is associated with repeated loss of cribellate silk and abandonment of prey capture webs. Accompanying cribellum loss in both groups is a release from substrate-constrained webs, whether by aerially suspended webs, or by abandoning webs altogether. These behavioral shifts in silk and web production by spiders thus likely played a key role in the dramatic evolutionary success and ecological dominance of spiders as predators of insects.
Support Vector Machines to Define and Detect Agitation Transition

The need to automate the detection of agitation and the detection of agitation transition for dementia patients is a significant facilitator for caregivers. This research aims at detecting the transitional phase toward agitation, as well as agitation detection of subjects, using soft computing techniques that do not require supervision beyond the training phase. Three vital signs are monitored: Heart Rate (HR), Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), and Skin Temperature (ST). These measures are fed into two proposed SVM architectures which are based on the definition of a new confidence measure: "Confidence-Based SVM” and "Confidence-Based Multilevel SVM. ” Results show very high detection accuracy of agitation and agitation transition, a quick adaptation to the subject, and a strong correlation between the physiological signals monitored and the emotional states of the subjects. Another challenge that is successfully addressed in this paper is the ability to train the classifier on a limited group of subjects, and then test it on subjects not belonging to the training group. The result is a learning algorithm that is "Subject-Independent. ”
Nebivolol versus Carvedilol or Metoprolol in Patients Presenting with Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Left Ventricular Dysfunction

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of nebivolol, carvedilol or metoprolol succinate on the outcome of patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated by left ventricular dysfunction. Subjects and Methods: Patients (n = 172, aged 28-87 years) with AMI and left ventricular ejection fraction ≤0.45 were randomized to the nebivolol (n = 55), carvedilol (n = 60) and metoprolol succinate (n = 57) groups. Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics and composite event rates of nonfatal MI, cardiovascular mortality, hospitalization due to unstable angina pectoris or heart failure, stroke or revascularization during the 12-month follow-up were compared among the groups using the χ2 test, t test or log-rank test as appropriate. Results: Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics were similar in the three groups. The composite end point during follow-up was lower in the patients treated with nebivolol than those treated with metoprolol (14.5 vs. 31.5%; p = 0.03). However, event rates were similar between the patients treated with carvedilol and those treated with the metoprolol (20.3 vs. 31.5%, p > 0.05) and between the patients treated with nebivolol and carvedilol (14.5 vs. 20.3%, p > 0.05). Conclusion: The patients treated with nebivolol experienced 12-month cardiovascular events at a lower rate than those treated with metoprolol succinate. However, event rates were similar between the carvedilol and the metoprolol succinate groups and between the nebivolol and the carvedilol groups.
Bacterial and Archaeal α-Amylases: Diversity and Amelioration of the Desirable Characteristics for Industrial Applications

Industrial enzyme market has been projected to reach US$ 6.2 billion by 2020. Major reasons for continuous rise in the global sales of microbial enzymes are because of increase in the demand for consumer goods and biofuels. Among major industrial enzymes that find applications in baking, alcohol, detergent, and textile industries are α-amylases. These are produced by a variety of microbes, which randomly cleave α-1,4-glycosidic linkages in starch leading to the formation of limit dextrins. α-Amylases from different microbial sources vary in their properties, thus, suit specific applications. This review focuses on the native and recombinant α-amylases from bacteria and archaea, their production and the advancements in the molecular biology, protein engineering and structural studies, which aid in ameliorating their properties to suit the targeted industrial applications.
Area-based, loop-free internet routing

The diffusing update algorithms (DUAL) constitute a family of distributed routing algorithms that has been shown to be loop-free at every instant, to converge after an arbitrary sequence of link-cost or topological changes, and to outperform all other loop-free routing algorithms previously proposed from the standpoint of the combined temporal, message, and storage complexities. Two hierarchical routing schemes based on DUAL are presented to make it more applicable to very large internets. A scheme based on McQuillan's (1974, 1980) hierarchical routing scheme and a backbone-oriented scheme, similar to the one used in OSPF, are introduced to reduce the amount of routing information maintained at each router. The performance of these schemes is compared by simulation to the performance of the basic DUAL, an ideal routing algorithm based on topology broadcast, and OSPF. The simulation results suggest that DUAL with areas outperforms OSPF, and provide additional insight on the performance of OSPF, EIGRP, and area-based routing algorithms in general. <<ETX>>
MKBA van handelsbeleid: een illustratie aan de hand van het Programma Starters op buitenlandse markten

In dit artikel wordt aan de hand van het Programma Starters op Buitenlandse Markten (PSB) geillustreerd hoe het handelsbeleid van de Nederlandse overheid met behulp van een maatschappelijke kosten-batenanalyse (MKBA) kan worden geevalueerd. Handelsbeleid is voor een kleine, open economie als de Nederlandse een belangrijk beleidsterrein. De uitgevoerde MKBA draagt bij aan een beter begrip van de werking van het beleidsinstrumentarium en de mate waarin de afzonderlijke instrumenten bijdragen aan de welvaart en is op die manier bedoeld om de discussie omtrent de effectiviteit en efficientie van het Nederlands handelsbeleid te faciliteren. Uit de MKBA van het PSB blijkt dat dit instrument een positieve bijdrage levert aan de Nederlandse welvaart, maar dat er mogelijkheden zijn tot optimalisatie door het instrument anders in te richten.
Detection of Coronary Restenosis by Serial Doppler Echocardiographic Assessment of Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve after Percutaneous Intervention

Background:A measurement of the coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) with transthoracic Doppler echocardiography (TDE) is a good noninvasive method for detecting a coronary stenosis. However, microcirculatory impairment is a major limitation in assessing the coronary stenosis by CFVR. The effect of microcirculatory impairment on the CFVR can be minimized, and the diagnostic accuracy for detecting a coronary restenosis can be improved using serial evaluations of the CFVR. Methods:This study prospectively measured the CFVR in 36 consecutive patients (age; 57±11 years, 23 men), in whom a successful PCI of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) was performed. The coronary flow velocity in the distal LAD was measured by TDE, and the CFVR was calculated. The initial CFVR measurement (CFVR0) was performed the next day after the PCI, and a follow-up CFVR measurement (CFVR1) was obtained on the day before the 6-month follow-up CAG. A significant decrease in the CFVR1 was defined as (CFVR0-CFVR1)/CFVR0 >0.1, and a restenosis was defined as >50% of the stenosis diameter on a quantitative CAG. Results:Adequate TDE studies for the CFVR were performed in all patients, and the follow-up CAG showed a restenosis in 9 (25%) patients. The sensitivity and specificity of the CFVR1 <2.0 was 5/9 (56%), 27/27 (100%), and those of the CFVR1 <2.5 were 8/9 (89%), 22/27 (81%) for predicting a LAD restenosis, respectively. The significant decrease in the CFVR had a sensitivity of 9/9 (100%) and a specificity of 25/27 (93%). In addition, in the 15 patients with either diabetes or LVH, the significant decrease in the CFVR was more accurate (15/15, 100%) than the CFVR1 <2.5 (11/15, 73%). Conclusions:Regardless of the associated microvascular impairment, a serial noninvasive assessment of the CFVR by TDE can improve the diagnostic accuracy of CFVR for detecting a LAD restenosis. (Korean Circulation J 2004;34 (7):660-669)
Agentes transformadores de la cooperación para el desarrollo: poderes emergentes y cooperación sur-sur

El articulo analiza en terminos conceptuales y operativos las potencialidades y limites de la Cooperacion Sur - Sur (CSS) y las perspectivas de alguna forma de gobernanza, mas democratica e inclusiva, del "sistema" de cooperacion para el desarrollo, sobre el cual se reflexiona en clave critica. This paper provides a conceptual and operational analysis of the possibiliTIes and the limits of south-south Cooperation (SSC) and of the prospecrs of a more demacratic and inclussive form of governance of the "system" of development cooperation, on which a criticol reflection is offered.
Cross-sectional comparison of insulation degradation mechanisms and lifetime evaluation of power transmission equipment

As the deregulation of the electric power industry moves forward, there is an increasing need for cost cutting and it is becoming exceedingly important to keep track of the residual life and identify the timing of replacement for power transmission equipment that has aged for several tens of years in the field. This paper, taking up the theme of "insulation degradation phenomena and lifetime evaluation for power transmission equipment", conducted cross-sectional comparison of different types of equipment although this kind of evaluation was made independently for these equipment types so far. This paper covered six types of equipment: gas insulated switchgear (GIS), gas insulated transformers, oil filled (OF) transformers, OF cables, crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) cables, and power capacitors. As a result of examining the characteristics such as electric, thermal, mechanical, and hygroscopic degradations, each of these equipment types was found to have distinctive Voltage-time (V-t) and Voltage-number (V-N) characteristics, which sometimes greatly varied from those of others. Since thermal degradation is dominant for gas insulated transformers and oil filled transformers, their lifetimes depend on the reduction of mechanical strengths of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) or insulating paper. Therefore, it is effective to diagnose decomposition products such as CO, CO2 and furfural generated in the thermal degradation mechanism. On the other hand, the influence of electric degradation has more significant impact on the other equipment types except OF cables. Such GIS components as epoxy spacers, XLPE cables, and power capacitors for which long-term ac voltages are dominant, are commonly characterized by the long-term V-t characteristics with a large gradient (small n-value). In terms of insulation structures, there is a possibility of reducing the degree of degradation by improving solids or the interface between solids and electrodes.
Osteofitosis vertebral en poblaciones prehispánicas de San Pedro de Atacama, norte de Chile

Vertebral osteophytosis was studied as a marker for physical stress in prehistoric populations of San Pedro de Atacama from the Middle (400 – 1.000 A.D.) and Late Intermediate (1.000 – 1.450 A.D.) periods. The mean degree of osteophytosis was recorded in each vertebral segment of 154 individuals from four sites: Solcor 3, Coyo 3, Quitor 6 and Toconao Oriente. Osteophytosis prevalence was more severe in older individuals, corroborating its degenerative nature. However, after correction for age impact in osteophytosis prevalence, significant differences were observed between sites. Differences in osteophytosis prevalence between sexes were not significant. The results show that during the Late Intermediate period populations of both sexes suffered less vertebral stress than during the Middle period, particularly during the its end. Changes in activity patterns (amount of energy invested, intensity or type of activities undertaken) could account for the differences found.
Platform Specific Extensions in the SOA-Pro Profile for the Description of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Services

Developments in service-oriented computing have led to the emergence of heterogeneous service technologies moving well beyond Web services, such as Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid services. Although all these technologies instantiate the de-facto service-oriented model, they introduce a number of technology-specific characteristics which hinder their integration and interoperability. A first step in overcoming this obstacle is to address the aforementioned heterogeneity at the design level. In this paper, we present our work towards enriching the upcoming SOA-Pro profile, which supports the design of service-oriented systems in a platform-agnostic manner, with the concepts necessary to model P2P and Grid services. We propose a set of extensions, which capture the specific features of P2P and Grid services, as they are seen in two prominent representative platforms, namely the JXTA technology for P2P services, and the WSRF framework for Grid services. The applicability and merits of our contribution are demonstrated through a case study based on the Purchase Order example.