Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Understanding in Our Bodies: Nonrepresentational Imagery and Dance

This paper discusses some of the means through which non-representational imagery in dance, and in particular in digital choreography, can be understood by audiences. I argue that, although movement that has representational content might have a meaning that can be translated into words, more nuanced interpretations of the movement are understood through an embodied understanding of their more detailed subtleties. I further argue that non-representational movement, which does not pretend to represent anything, can communicate other types of understanding as one engages in the act of viewing the movement of dancers, and more particularly. digital imagery that uses human movement as its source.
Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?

Can targeting information to network-central farmers induce more adoption of a new agricultural technology? By combining social network data and a field experiment in 200 villages in Malawi, we find that targeting central farmers is important to spur the diffusion process. We also provide evidence of one explanation for why centrality matters: a diffusion process governed by complex contagion. Our results are consistent with a model in which many farmers need to learn from multiple people before they adopt themselves. This means that without proper targeting of information, the diffusion process can stall and technology adoption remains perpetually low. (JEL O13, O18, O33, Q12, Q16)
Sibling relationships : their causes and consequences

Preface, Irving E. Sigel Sibling, Parents, and Peers: A Longitudinal Study of Social Influences in Adolescent Risk for Alcohol Use and Abuse, Rand D. Conger and Martha A. Rueter Brothers and Sisters in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence: Continuity and Change in Individual Differences, Judy Dunn Sibling Relationships in Middle and Old Age, Victor G. Cicirelli Siblings, Behavioral Genetics, and Competence, Robert Plomin, Beth Manke, and Alison Pike Adult Sibling Relationships: Racial and Ethnic Comparisons, Agnes Riedmann and Lynn White Personality and Sibling Relationships, Wyndol Furman and Richard P. Lanthier Delinquency and IQ: Using Siblings to Find Sources of Variation, David C. Rowe, Miriam R. Linver, and Joseph L. Rodgers The Family Contexts of Children's Sibling Relationships, Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter Negative Sibling Interaction Patterns as Predictors of Later Adjustment Problems in Adolescent and Young Adult Males, Lew Bank, G.R. Patterson, and J.B. Reid A Risk-Amelioration Model of Sibling Relationships: Conceptual Underpinnings and Preliminary Findings, Gene H. Brody and Zolinda Stoneman Author Index Subject Index
Researching Real-World Problems: A Guide to Methods of Inquiry

PART ONE: ORIENTATION TO RESEARCHING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS Researching Real-World Problems PART TWO: LAYING FOUNDATIONS From Real Problems to Researchable Questions Preparing to Research Real-World Problems Striving for Integrity in the Research Process The Quest for 'Respondents' Selecting Appropriate Data Collection Methods PART THREE: RESEARCHING PROBLEMS Understanding Problems The Quest for Solutions Research that Moves from Knowledge to Action Evaluating Change PART FOUR: MAKING MEANING/MAKING A DIFFERENCE Analyzing and Interpreting Data Producing Research 'Deliverables'
Toward a Framework for Classifying Disconnected Operation Techniques

Isoindolinone pigments of the formula wherein M denotes a polyvalent metal atom other than an alkaline earth, R denotes an organic radical, X denotes an O or S atom or an imino group, X1 and Y1 denote H or halogen atoms, alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylsulphonyl or alkylcarbamoyl groups containing 1-6 C atoms, or nitro, carbamoyl or aralcarbamoyl groups, or the radicals X1 and Y1 form a fused benzene ring, X2 denotes an H atom, Y denotes a halogen atom and Z denotes a nitro, a carbamoyl or phenylcarbamoyl group, an alkylcarbamoyl group having 2-6 C atoms, or a group of the formula R1Y2, wherein R1 represents an H atom, an alkyl or cycloalkyl group containing 1-6 C atoms or an aralkyl or aryl group and Y2 represents an O or S atom, m denotes 0-4, n denotes 0-4 and p denotes 0-3 and the sum of m+n+p must be 4, are useful for coloring plastics and lacquers in yellow to orange shades of excellent fastness properties.
Extended Genetic Diversity of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and Frequency of Genotypes and Subtypes in Cattle in Italy between 1995 and 2013

Genetic typing of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) has distinguished BVDV-1 and BVDV-2 species and an emerging putative third species (HoBi-like virus), recently detected in southern Italy, signaling the occurrence of natural infection in Europe. Recognizing the need to update the data on BVDV genetic variability in Italy for mounting local and European alerts, a wide collection of 5′ UTR sequences (n = 371) was selected to identify the frequency of genotypes and subtypes at the herd level. BVDV-1 had the highest frequency, followed by sporadic BVDV-2. No novel HoBi-like viruses were identified. Four distribution patterns of BVDV-1 subtypes were observed: highly prevalent subtypes with a wide temporal-spatial distribution (1b and 1e), low prevalent subtypes with a widespread geographic distribution (1a, 1d, 1g, 1h, and 1k) or a restricted geographic distribution (1f), and sporadic subtypes detected only in single herds (1c, 1j, and 1l). BVDV-1c, k, and l are reported for the first time in Italy. A unique genetic variant was detected in the majority of herds, but cocirculation of genetic variants was also observed. Northern Italy ranked first for BVDV introduction, prevalence, and dispersion. Nevertheless, the presence of sporadic variants in other restricted areas suggests the risk of different routes of BVDV introduction.
Pedestrian Detection Embedded in Level-Set-Based Moving Objects Detection and Tracking

This paper presents pedestrian detection embedded into a framework of level-set-based moving object detection and tracking. Most video surveillance systems use stationary cameras to watch scenes. On the premise that the targets are active in the scene, this paper propose to use motion cues to exclude the background positions from evaluation of histograms of oriented gradients (HOG). Discovering that it is the shape that has distinguishable characteristics to differentiate pedestrian from other categories, the boundary based tracking algorithm is adopted to detect and track moving objects. By using the level set method to implement the model, we encode the HOG descriptor only using the pixels located on a narrow band around the zero level set. Considering that an extracted contour may enclose pedestrians in a group, a method for segmenting individuals is also proposed. A set of experiments demonstrate the efficiency and performance of the proposed pedestrian detection system.
Evolutionary and functional divergence between the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator and related ATP-binding cassette transporters

The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a member of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily, an ancient family of proteins found in all phyla. In nearly all cases, ABC proteins are transporters that couple the hydrolysis of ATP to the transmembrane movement of substrate via an alternating access mechanism. In contrast, CFTR is best known for its activity as an ATP-dependent chloride channel. We asked why CFTR, which shares the domain architecture of ABC proteins that function as transporters, exhibits functional divergence. We compared CFTR protein sequences to those of other ABC transporters, which identified the ABCC4 proteins as the closest mammalian paralogs, and used statistical analysis of the CFTR-ABCC4 multiple sequence alignment to identify the specific domains and residues most likely to be involved in the evolutionary transition from transporter to channel activity. Among the residues identified as being involved in CFTR functional divergence, by virtue of being both CFTR-specific and conserved among all CFTR orthologs, was R352 in the sixth transmembrane helix (TM6). Patch-clamp experiments show that R352 interacts with D993 in TM9 to stabilize the open-channel state; D993 is absolutely conserved between CFTRs and ABCC4s. These data suggest that CFTR channel activity evolved, at least in part, by converting the conformational changes associated with binding and hydrolysis of ATP, as are found in true ABC Transporters, into an open permeation pathway by means of intraprotein interactions that stabilize the open state. This analysis sets the stage for understanding the evolutionary and functional relationships that make CFTR a unique ABC transporter protein.
Influence of a converter control malfunction on the harmonic behavior of wind turbines with permanent magnet generator

This paper is on variable-speed wind turbines with permanent magnet generator. A three-mass drive train model and two different topologies for the power-electronic converters are considered. The two different topologies considered are respectively a matrix and a multilevel converter. A control strategy, based on fractional-order controllers, is proposed for the wind turbines. Previous papers were mainly focused on the transient stability of variable-speed wind turbines at external grid faults. Instead, this paper considers the possibility of an internal abnormal operating condition, namely a converter control malfunction. The influence of the converter control malfunction on the harmonic current emissions is studied. Comprehensive results are presented, and conclusions are duly drawn.
CSDeep: A crushed stone image predictor based on deep learning and intelligently selected features

In civil construction industry, different types of crushed stone are used as aggregate materials. As the prices of crushed stone depend on their types, the automated system that can examine their type is needed to avoid human mistakes. This study aims to propose a novel method for classifying 5 different classes of crushed-stone images in the dump-body of a truck. Remarkably, 4 classes are defined according to 4 types of crushed stone and the other class is the empty dump-body of a truck. We create a crushed-stone predictor called CSDeep based on a convolution neural network (CNN) and the generic texture-features such as Gabor wavelet, Haralick and Laws. A CNN is a backpropagation neural network with an effective image processing tool, i.e., convolutions. The generic texture features are used to provide additional information that is missed by CNN. The set of 2,500 and 500 images equally sampled from each class are used as training and test data, respectively. The optimal set of generic texture features are chosen by an inheritable biobjective combinatorial genetic algorithm. The proposed CSDeep achieves 89.00% of test accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, CSDeep is the first predictor for crushed-stone images taken by a digital camera. The results show that the combination of generic texture-features and CNN is suggested to enhance the performance of a deep learning model.
The early months of stuttering: a developmental study.

Objective data on the development of stuttering during its first several months are sparse. Such a deficit is due to parents' tendency to postpone professional consultation regarding early stuttering until later in the course of the disorder and to a lack of longitudinal studies beginning close to onset. This report presents information on a rare group of 16 preschool subjects who were evaluated within several weeks after stuttering onset and followed for 6 months using multiple measures. The findings show that often early stuttering takes on a moderate-to-severe form. Substantial changes occurred, however, during the 6 months of the study, with a strong tendency for reduction in stuttering-like disfluencies, number of head/face movements, clinician severity ratings of stuttering, and parent ratings of stuttering. Several subjects, including severe cases, exhibited complete recovery. The large changes that occur during the early stage of stuttering suggest that relatively small differences in the length of post-onset interval (stuttering history) can greatly influence all research data of early childhood stuttering. The high, as well as fast, improvement rate suggests that the precise timing of early intervention should be conscientiously evaluated in carefully controlled studies.
Combining Greedy Method and Genetic Algorithm to Identify Transcription Factor Binding Sites

Identification of Transcription Factor Binding Sites (TFBS) from the upstream region of genes remains a highly important and unsolved problem particularly in higher eukaryotic genomes. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to identify transcription factor binding sites. This approach combines greedy method and genetic algorithm (CGGA) to search conserved segment in the given sequence set. A new greedy method which can efficiently search a local optimal result is proposed. In order to solve the high complexity of this algorithm, we also give an effective improvement for this method. Then, we describe how to combine genetic algorithm with this greedy method to find the more optimal results. Greedy method is combined to the fitness function of the genetic algorithm. We apply this approach on two different TFBS sets and the results show that it can find correct result both effective and efficient, and for CRP binding sites, it get a more accurate result than Gibbs Sampler, AlignACE and MDGA.
Evaluating the Feasibility of MAX: A Method Using Cards and a Board for Assessing the Post-Use UX

User Experience (UX) is an important attribute for the success and quality of a software application. UX explores how an application is used and the emotional and behavioral consequences of such use. Although several UX evaluation methods allow understanding the reasons for a poor UX, some of them are tedious or too intrusive, making the evaluation unpleasant. This paper presents the Method for the Assessment of eXperience (MAX), which through cards and a board assists software engineers in gathering UX data while motivating users to report their experience. We conducted two pilot studies to verify the feasibility of MAX, which showed that the method is useful for evaluating the UX of finished/prototyped applications from the point of view of users and software engineers.
Regulation of the Germinal Center Response by MicroRNA-155

MicroRNAs are small RNA species involved in biological control at multiple levels. Using genetic deletion and transgenic approaches, we show that the evolutionarily conserved microRNA-155 (miR-155) has an important role in the mammalian immune system, specifically in regulating T helper cell differentiation and the germinal center reaction to produce an optimal T cell–dependent antibody response. miR-155 exerts this control, at least in part, by regulating cytokine production. These results also suggest that individual microRNAs can exert critical control over mammalian differentiation processes in vivo.
Recovery of signals with time-varying spectral support based on the modulated wideband converter

In this paper, we modify the modulated wideband converter (MWC), which is a compressive sensing-based sub-Nyquist sampling system, to acquire signals with time-varying spectral support. We begin by introducing a rectangular window function into MWC. Then, we study how the window function affects MWC. Theoretical analysis shows that after incorporating window function, there is no way to directly recover the original signal. Therefore, we convert this issue into a block sparse signal recovery problem by concatenating rows of the measurement matrix. Finally, we present a special version of block matching pursuit algorithm (BMP) to solve the block sparsity recovery problem. Simulation result shows that the modified MWC can acquire signals with time-varying spectral support and the BMP is adequate for reconstructing the target signal.
The benefits of sequential bilateral cochlear implantation for hearing-impaired children

Conclusion. Sequential bilateral implantation offers listening advantages demonstrable on speech recognition in noise and for lateralization. Whilst the trend was for shorter inter-implant intervals and longer implant experience to positively impact binaural advantage, we observed no contraindications for binaural advantage. Objective. To evaluate the benefits of sequential bilateral cochlear implantation over unilateral implantation in a multicentre study evaluating speech recognition in noise and lateralization of sound. Subjects and methods. Twenty children, implanted bilaterally in sequential procedures, had the following characteristics: they were native German-speaking, were3 years or older and had a minimum of 1 year inter-implant interval and had between 2 months and 4 years 7 months binaural listening experience. Binaural advantage was assessed including speech recognition in noise using the Regensburg modification of the Oldenburger Kinder-Reimtest (OLKI) and lateralization of broadband stimuli from three speakers. Results. A significant binaural advantage of 37% was observed for speech recognition in noise. Binaural lateralization ability was statistically superior for the first and second implanted ear (p=0.009, p=0.001, respectively). Binaural experience was shown to correlate moderately with absolute binaural speech recognition scores, with binaural advantage for speech recognition and with binaural lateralization ability. The time interval between implants correlated in an inverse direction with binaural advantage for speech recognition.
Do People Make Environments or Do Environments Make People?

Abstract: This article discusses the influence of people's genetic make‐up on their mental states of happiness and depression. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, great fortune does not guarantee happiness; neither does great misfortune assure depression. Emotional states are surprisingly immune to “objective” social circumstances. A biological basis for this relative immunity is that people possess biological set points for these emotional states, rendering the effects of most life events transitory. Genotypes also have indirect effects. People react differently to psychological stressors depending on their genotypes. A susceptible person may succumb to depression, whereas a resilient person may remain unaffected. People also expose themselves to different social environments. Exposure to controllable life events is partly a result of genetic predispositions. Consilience requires that this biological individuality be considered in any understanding of human behavior, including the pursuit of happiness.
The Pseudomonas putida peptidoglycan-associated outer membrane lipoprotein is involved in maintenance of the integrity of the cell cell envelope

Pseudomonas putida 14G-3, a derivative of the natural soil inhabitant P. putida KT2440, exhibited a chromosomal insertion of a mini-Tn5/'phoA transposon that resulted in reduced ability to colonize soil. In vitro characterization of P. putida 14G-3 revealed that it exhibited an altered cell morphology and envelope, as revealed by electron microscopy. The derived strain was sensitive to sodium dodecyl sulfate, deoxycholate, and EDTA, produced clumps when it reached high cell densities in the late logarithmic growth phase, and did not grow on low-osmolarity medium. The P. putida DNA surrounding the mini-Tn5/'phoA insertion was cloned and used as a probe to rescue the wild-type gene, which was sequenced. Comparison of the deduced peptide sequence with sequences in the Swiss-Prot database allowed the knocked-out gene to be identified as that encoding the peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (Pal or OprL) of P. putida. The protein was identified in coupled transcription and translation assays in vitro.
Field Distribution of Dasineura oxycoccana (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Adults, Larvae, Pupae, and Parasitoids and Evaluation of Monitoring Trap Designs in Florida

ABSTRACT Blueberry gall midge, Dasineura oxycoccana (Johnson), is a pest of cultivated blueberries throughout the world. Larvae feed and develop in developing leaf buds, and also in flower buds of rabbiteye blueberries, which causes buds to fall off the plant. These injuries can cause up to 80% yield loss in heavy infestations. As the larvae are protected from insecticides, adults must be targeted with foliar applications. Consequently, the detection of adults through an effective monitoring program is critical to time insecticide sprays against the blueberry gall midge. Understanding the distribution of the midge and its parasitoids is also important information for developing a more effective pest management program. A comparison of three monitoring trap types demonstrated that bucket emergence traps and clear panel traps captured similar numbers of midges, although the bucket trap is more sensitive at low population levels. Using bucket emergence traps, we found that nearly 80% of the midges collected pupated within 48 cm of the blueberry bush, suggesting that a targeted soil treatment may be a viable integrated pest management tactic that could be included in a midge management program. Traps and bud samples demonstrated that adult and larval midges and parasitoids were randomly distributed throughout the field in both years, with the exception of larval aggregation in early 2012. As parasitoid distribution is parallel to host occurrence within blueberry plantings, this increases the potential for biological control activities against the blueberry gall midge in fields that do not receive broad-spectrum insecticide applications.
Atmospheric emissions of methyl isothiocyanate and chloropicrin following soil fumigation and surface containment treatment in bare-root forest nurseries

Methylisothiocyanate (MITC) and chloropicrin (CP) are alternatives to methyl bromide for soil fumigation. However, surface transport of MITC emission has been cited as the cause for seedling damage in adjacent fields at several bare-root forest-tree nurseries. Field experiments were conducted at nurseries to measure air emissions of MITC and CP after fumigation. Discusses and compares surface containment treatments that can be used by nursery managers to reduce risk of MITC emissions that could cause damage to nearby seedling crops or harm to humans.
Linguistic form and relevance

© Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber 2012. Introduction Our book Relevance (Sperber and Wilson 1986a) treats utterance interpretation as a two-phase process: a modular decoding phase is seen as providing input to a central inferential phase in which a linguistically encoded logical form is contextually enriched and used to construct a hypothesis about the speaker’s informative intention. Relevance was mainly concerned with the inferential phase of comprehension: we had to answer Fodor’s challenge that while decoding processes are quite well understood, inferential processes are not only not understood, but perhaps not even understandable (see Fodor 1983). Here we will look more closely at the decoding phase and consider what types of information may be linguistically encoded, and how the borderline between decoding and inference can be drawn. It might be that all linguistically encoded information is cut to a single pattern: all truth conditions, say, or all instructions for use. However, there is a robust intuition that two basic types of meaning can be found. This intuition surfaces in a variety of distinctions: between describing and indicating, stating and showing, saying and conventionally implicating, or between truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional, conceptual and procedural, or representational and computational meaning. In the literature, justifications for these distinctions have been developed in both strictly linguistic and more broadly cognitive terms.