Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Understanding the Representational Mind

A model of writing in cognitive development, Understanding the Representational Mind synthesizes the burgeoning literature on the child's theory of mind to provide an integrated account of children's understanding of representational and mental processes, which is crucial in their acquisition of our commonsense psychology. Perrier describes experimental work on children's acquisition of a theory of mind and representation, offers a theoretical account of this acquisition, and gives examples of how the increased sophistication in children's theory of mind improves their understanding of social interaction and how, in the case of autistic children, an impairment results in social ineptitude. He analyzes the concepts of representation and metarepresentation as they appear in current discussion in the philosophy of cognitive science and explains how the unfolding of mental representation enables infants to comprehend change over time, engage in pretence, and use representational systems like pictures and language. Perrier goes on to show that around age four children become able to understand the representational nature of pictures and language and to distinguish appearance from reality. Introducing basic distinctions in philosophy of mind for characterizing the mental, Perrier discusses differences in how commonsense and cognitive psychology view the mind. Tracing the onset of a commonsense psychology in the social and emotional awareness of early infancy, he reveals how the child begins to take a cognitive, representational view of the mind with repercussions for children's episodic memory, self control, and their ability to engage in deception. Perrier concludes by describing the observed developmental changes as a case of theory change And contrasts his thesis with competing proposals.
Einstellungen gegenüber Selbstverbesserungstechnologien

Immer häufiger werden interaktive Produkte genutzt, um den Wunsch nach Selbstverbesserung und der damit einhergehenden Steigerung des Wohlbefindens zu unterstützen. Ein wichtiger Faktor für die Akzeptanz von Selbstverbesserungstechnologien scheint die Kommunikation zwischen Mensch und Produkt zu sein. Um diesen Dialog bewusst zu gestalten, muss in einem ersten Schritt jedoch noch mehr Wissen zu dieser Produktkategorie generiert werden. Anhand einer empirischen Nutzerbefragung (N=154) diskutiert der vorliegende Beitrag Einstellungen gegenüber Selbstverbesserungstools in Verbindung mit relevanten (psychologischen) Aspekten (z.B. Persönlichkeitskongruenz zwischen Tool und Nutzer). Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine moderat positive Einstellung gegenüber Selbstverbesserungstechnologien, sowie eine hohe Nutzungsbereitschaft. Personen scheinen eine positivere Einstellung gegenüber Selbstverbesserungsprodukten zu haben, wenn die Produktpersönlichkeit als kongruent zur eigenen Persönlichkeit wahrgenommen wird.
Analisis Kemampuan Dasar Keterampilan Proses Siswa Kelas XI IPA Melalui Metode Eksperimen pada Pokok Bahasan Elastisitas Madrasah Aliyah Negeri se-Kabupaten Kebumen Tahun Pelajaran 2014/2015

Telah dilakukan penelitian guna mengetahui besarnya kemampuan dasar keterampilan pr o ses siswa, aspek yang paling tinggi dan rendah, serta hubungan antara aspek investigasi, o bservasi, klasifikasi, prediksi, interpretasi, dan k o munikasi dengan met o de eksperimen. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif guna memper o leh data mengenai perkembangan kemampuan dasar keterampilan pr o ses siswa ke l as XI IPA me l a l ui met o de eksperimen. Sampel penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas XI IPA Madrasah A liyah Negeri dengan jum l ah 1 00 siswa. Data dikumpu lkan menggunakan lembar o bservasi, angket, dan d o kumentasi. Hasil penelitian statistik deskriptif menunjukkan besarnya kemampuan dasar keterampilan pr o ses siswa dalam investigasi 86,58% berkateg o ri sangat baik, o bservasi 84,37% berkateg o ri sangat baik, klasifikasi 83,25% berkateg o ri sangat baik, prediksi 75,75% berkateg o ri baik, interpretasi 79,75% berkateg o ri baik, dan k o munikasi 78,58% berkateg o ri baik. Aspek yang paling tinggi investigasi sedangkan aspek yang paling rendah prediksi. Hasil analisis data menggunakan k o relasi Rank Spearman menunjukkan bahwa: hubungan investigasi dengan metode eksperimen tidak signifikan dengan =0,851, observasi dengan metode eksperimen tidak signifikan dengan =0,876 , klasifikasi dengan metode eksperimen tidak signifikan dengan =0,051 , prediksi dengan metode eksperimen tidak signifikan dengan =0,833 , interpretasi dengan metode eksperimen tidak signifikan dengan =0,516, dan komunikasi dengan metode eksperimen tidak signifikan dengan =0,767. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa kemampuan dasar keterampilan pr o ses siswa kelas XI IPA melalui met o de eksperimen pada p o k o k bahasan elastisitas Madrasah Aliyah Negeri se-Kabupaten Kebumen tahun pelajaran 2 0 14/2 0 15 sudah berkembang dengan sangat baik.
Combining Coarse-Grained Protein Models with Replica-Exchange All-Atom Molecular Dynamics

We describe a combination of all-atom simulations with CABS, a well-established coarse-grained protein modeling tool, into a single multiscale protocol. The simulation method has been tested on the C-terminal beta hairpin of protein G, a model system of protein folding. After reconstructing atomistic details, conformations derived from the CABS simulation were subjected to replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations with OPLS-AA and AMBER99sb force fields in explicit solvent. Such a combination accelerates system convergence several times in comparison with all-atom simulations starting from the extended chain conformation, demonstrated by the analysis of melting curves, the number of native-like conformations as a function of time and secondary structure propagation. The results strongly suggest that the proposed multiscale method could be an efficient and accurate tool for high-resolution studies of protein folding dynamics in larger systems.
Gleiche Chancen dank einer abgeschlossenen Ausbildung? Zum Signalwert von Ausbildungsabschlüssen bei ausländischen und deutschen jungen Erwachsenen

Der deutsche Ausbildungsabschluss gilt als Garant fur den Zugang zu Beschaftigung und insbesondere zu qualifizierten beruflichen Tatigkeiten. Gilt dies auch fur junge Auslander, die in Deutschland eine Ausbildung abgeschlossen haben? Haben sie durch einen Ausbildungsabschluss die gleichen Beschaftigungschancen wie deutsche Ausbildungsabsolventen? Diese Fragen werden in dem Beitrag mit Hilfe von Mikrozensusdaten empirisch untersucht. Wir vergleichen die Arbeitsmarktchancen von Ausgebildeten und Ausbildungslosen verschiedener ethnischer Gruppen und prufen, inwieweit ethnische Benachteiligungen durch Ausbildungsabschlusse an Bedeutung verlieren. Im Sinne des 'Integrationsauftrags' des deutschen Ausbildungssystems sollte der Ausbildungsabschluss fur Auslander zu den gleichen Arbeitsmarktchancen fuhren wie fur Deutsche. Wie unsere Analysen allerdings zeigen, haben insbesondere turkische Ausbildungsabsolventen dennoch schlechtere Arbeitsmarktchancen. Dies spricht fur einen 'ethnisierten' Signalwert eines Ausbildungsabschlusses.
Comparing human and machine recognition performance on a VCV corpus

Listeners outperform ASR systems in every speech recognition task. However, what is not clear is where this human advantage originates. This paper investigates the role of acoustic feature representations. We test four (MFCCs, PLPs, Mel Filterbanks, Rate Maps) acoustic representations, with and without ‘pitch’ information, using the same backend. The results are compared with listener results at the level of articulatory feature classification. While no acoustic feature representation reached the levels of human performance, both MFCCs and Rate maps achieved good scores, with Rate maps nearing human performance on the classification of voicing. Comparing the results on the most difficult articulatory features to classify showed similarities between the humans and the SVMs: e.g., ‘dental’ was by far the least well identified by both groups. Overall, adding pitch information seemed to hamper classification performance.
Noncommutativity in space–time extended by Liouville field

The world-sheet quantum conformal invariance can be realized in the presence of the conformal factor $F$, by inclusion of Liouville term. In the background with linear dilaton field, $\Phi(x)=\Phi_0+a_\mu x^\mu$, the field $F$ becomes a new noncommutative variable. Therefore, it is natural to extend space-time with a new coordinate, $F$, in order to unify expressions for noncommutativity parameter $\Theta^{ij}$ of the space-time coordinates $x^i$, with the part $\Theta^i$ connecting noncommutativity between coordinates $x^i$ and $F$. In this way we solve the problems of Dp-brane noncommutativity in a more elegant way. The technical advantage uses the fact that in the extended space-time the action with dilaton field can be rewritten in dilaton free form. We use canonical method and extend its application to the derivation of boundary conditions. From requirement that Hamiltonian, as the time translation generator, has well defined derivatives in the coordinates and momenta, we obtain boundary conditions directly in the canonical form.
27.7 A 0.05mm2 1V capacitance-to-digital converter based on period modulation

This paper presents a digitally assisted period modulation (PM)-based capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) that is >9× smaller than prior CDCs with >10b resolution [1-4], and improves the energy efficiency by >10× compared to previous PM-based CDCs [1]. This is achieved with the help of a piece-wise charge transfer technique that eliminates the need for a large on-chip integration capacitor, a dual-integration-capacitor scheme that reduces the front-end noise contribution, a sampled-biasing technique that reduces the noise of the integration current, and a current-efficient inverter-based design.
Molecular Outflows in the Young Open Cluster IC 348

We present a wide-field survey of the young open cluster IC 348 for molecular H2 outflows. Outflow activity is only found at its southwestern limit, where a new subcluster of embedded sources is in an early phase of its formation. If the IC 348 cluster had been built up by such subclusters forming at different times, this could explain the large age-spread that Herbig (1998) found for the IC 348 member stars. In addition to several compact groups of H2 knots, our survey reveals a large north-south oriented outflow, and we identify the newly discovered far-infrared and millimeter object IC 348 MMS as its source. New deep images in the 1-0 S(1) line of molecular hydrogen trace the HH 211 jet and counterjet as highly collimated chains of knots, resembling the interferometric CO and SiO jets. This jet system appears rotated counterclockwise by about 3° with respect to the prominent H2 bow shocks. Furthermore, we resolve HH 211-mm as a double pointlike source in the millimeter continuum.
Transseptal catheterization without needle puncture.

OBJECTIVE The aim was to see if probing the fossa ovalis for transseptal puncture during balloon mitral valvuloplasty will reduce time consumed for the procedure. DESIGN Twenty-five patients had probing of fossa ovalis for left atrial entry (group I). In 30 patients (group II), standard needle puncture was done for left atrial entry. Puncture time and fluoroscopy time were noted and oxymetry was done. Later, a further 60 patients underwent probing of fossa ovalis for validation of the technique. RESULTS Puncture times in groups I and II were 84.7 +/- 27.5 and 116.1 +/- 37.9 s, respectively (p < 0.02). Fluoroscopy time was 51.2 +/- 19.6 and 73.6 +/- 22.3 s in groups I and II, respectively (p < 0.03). During validation of the technique, 54 of 60 patients (90%) had successful left atrial entry through probing. Atrial level shunt was not seen. CONCLUSION Probing the fossa achieves left atrial entry in 90% of patients. It avoids needle puncture and reduces puncture time as well as fluoroscopy time. It is a safe technique.
The Analysis of Sialylation, N-Glycan Branching, and Expression of O-Glycans in Seminal Plasma of Infertile Men

Carbohydrates are known to mediate some events involved in successful fertilization. Although some studies on the glycosylation of seminal plasma proteins are available, the total glycan profile was rarely analyzed as a feature influencing fertilization potential. In this work we aimed to compare some glycosylation traits in seminal plasma glycoproteins of fertile and infertile men. The following findings emerge from our studies: (1) in human seminal plasma the presence and alterations of O-linked glycans were observed; (2) the expression of SNA-reactive sialic acid significantly differs between asthenozoospermia and both normozoospermic (fertile and infertile) groups; (3) the expression of PHA-L-reactive highly branched N-glycans was significantly lower in oligozoospermic patients than in both normozoospermic groups. Indication of the appropriate lectins that would enable the possibly precise determination of the glycan profile seems to be a good supplement to mass spectrum analysis. Extension of the lectin panel is useful for the further research.
Do Programming Languages Influence the Impact of Software Changes

history. Mozilla is an internet suit that comprises a browser (Firefox), an email client (thunderbird) and other tools regarding editing and authoring of web pages. We obtain the required data from the Mozilla project repository. We study the impact of changes in different language programs based on the number of files affected, number of revisions affected, number of developers required to implement a change and the number of changes implemented in one unit time. We have established the following four hypotheses to fulfill our research objectives: Research Hypotheses: H01: Average number of files affected by a single change is similar in different languages. H02: Average number of revisions affected by a single change is similar in different languages. H03: Average number of developers to implement a single change is similar in different languages. H04: Average number of changes implemented in one hour is similar in different languages
Control of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a University Hospital: One Decade Later

Abstract Objective: To investigate the cause of increasing rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection at a university hospital. Design: Review of data collected by prospective hospitalwide surveillance regarding rates of nosocomial MRSA colonization and infection. Setting: A 700-bed university hospital providing primary and tertiary care. Patients: Patients admitted to the hospital between 1986 and 1993 who were found to be infected or colonized with MRSA. Main Outcome Measurement: Rates of MRSA infection and colonization. Results: MRSA infection or colonization was identified in 399 patients (0.18%) admitted during the 8-year study. There was no correlation between the annual rates of MRSA and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infections (P=.66). The frequency of both nosocomial and non-nosocomial cases increased significantly over the last 4 years of the study (P<.001 for trend). The ratio of patients who had acquired MRSA nosocomially to those admitted who already were infected or colonized decreased significantly during the study period (P=.002 for trend). There was a significant increase in the frequency of patients with MRSA being transferred from nursing homes and other chronic care facilities (P=.011). A cost-benefit analysis suggested that surveillance cultures of patients transferred from other healthcare facilities would save between $20,062 and $462,067 and prevent from 8 to 41 nosocomial infections. Conclusions: An increase in the incidence of nosocomial MRSA infection was associated with an increased frequency of transfer of colonized patients from nursing homes and other hospitals. The lack of correlation between rates of MRSA and MSSA infections suggested that MRSA infections significantly increased the overall rate of staphylococcal infection. Screening cultures of transfer patients from facilities with a high prevalence of MRSA may offer significant benefit by preventing nosocomial infections and reducing patient days spent in isolation.
Autonomous driving through Curb detection and tracking

This paper presents a strategy to detect and track the curb which means a stone separates road and non-road using a LRF (Laser Range Finder) with particle filter. Our approach to find the position of curb involves two stages. In first stage, Curb detection through curb geometric shape recognize and detect the position of the curbs in laser scanner data. A second stage processes is the curb estimation and tracking using particle filter with laser scanner. Experiments are carried out at the autonomous vehicle in real structured road, and results show the promising performance of the presented method.
Applicant Desirability Influences Reactions to Discovered Résumé Embellishments

This study investigates responses to a discovered resume embellishment as a function of initial impressions of the applicant. In Study 1, managers and recruiters rated the extent to which a discrepancy uncovered by a background check would lower their opinion of an applicant, using a between‐subjects design crossing the applicant's apparent desirability and type of embellishment. In Study 2, business students completed a simulated hiring task in which they first evaluated applicants based on their resumes, then read background reports, and subsequently made a final evaluation. Results indicate interactive effects of an applicant's apparent desirability, type of deception revealed, and response dimension. The discovery of a minor embellishment has little effect on evaluations of favored applicants, but negatively impacts less desirable applicants.
Drug-induced liver injury caused by iodine-131

Iodine-131 is a radioisotope that is routinely used for the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer after total or near-total thyroidectomy. However, there is some evidence that iodine-131 can induce liver injury . Here we report a rare case of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) caused by iodine-131 in a patient with regional lymph node metastasis after total thyroidectomy. A 47-year-old woman was admitted with elevated liver enzymes and symptoms of general weakness and nausea. Ten weeks earlier she had undergone a total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma and had subsequently been prescribed levothyroxine to reduce the level of thyroid-stimulating hormone. Eight weeks after surgery she underwent iodine-131 ablative therapy at a dose of 100 millicuries, and subsequently presented with acute hepatitis after 10 days. To rule out all possible causative factors, abdominal ultrasonography, endoscopic ultrasonography (on the biliary tree and gall bladder), and a liver biopsy were performed. DILI caused by iodine-131 was suspected. Oral prednisolone was started at 30 mg/day, to which the patient responded well.
Plant-produced idiotype vaccines for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: Safety and immunogenicity in a phase I clinical study

Plant-made vaccines have been the subject of intense interest because they can be produced economically in large scale without the use of animal-derived components. Plant-made therapeutic vaccines against challenging chronic diseases, such as cancer, have received little research attention, and no previous human clinical trials have been conducted in this vaccine category. We document the feasibility of using a plant viral expression system to produce personalized (patient-specific) recombinant idiotype vaccines against follicular B cell lymphoma and the results of administering these vaccines to lymphoma patients in a phase I safety and immunogenicity clinical trial. The system allowed rapid production and recovery of idiotypic single-chain antibodies (scFv) derived from each patient's tumor and immunization of patients with their own individual therapeutic antigen. Both low and high doses of vaccines, administered alone or co-administered with the adjuvant GM-CSF, were well tolerated with no serious adverse events. A majority (>70%) of the patients developed cellular or humoral immune responses, and 47% of the patients developed antigen-specific responses. Because 15 of 16 vaccines were glycosylated in plants, this study also shows that variation in patterns of antigen glycosylation do not impair the immunogenicity or affect the safety of the vaccines. Collectively, these findings support the conclusion that plant-produced idiotype vaccines are feasible to produce, safe to administer, and a viable option for idiotype-specific immune therapy in follicular lymphoma patients.
Resolution conversion integrated with quantization in coded domain for DV to MPEG-4 transcoder

We propose a new algorithm for the fast conversion of MPEG-4 from DV. DV, which is a video compression coding format, is adopted by commercial and non-commercial digital video cameras and achieves high video quality using a fixed high bitrate of 25 Mbps. However, compared with MPEG-4, which is used extensively in IP or mobile phone applications, DV has a higher storage and transmission cost. This is due to the extremely low coding efficiency of DV required to maintain high quality for frame-accurate editing. In this paper, we analyze the difference between DV and MPEG-4, and propose a new algorithm for the fast conversion of MPEG-4 from DV. Our algorithm accelerates the conversion process in the coded domain using the property of conversion matrices, where resolution conversion, quantization, and inverse quantization are integrated. The experimental results indicate that, while the integration and approximation of a conversion matrix do not affect the video quality, this could greatly reduce the number of operands.
Survey of Constraint-based Program Analysis

When writing a program, the programmers may wish to verify certain properties of this program. For example, will my variable X always be an integer? To answer these questions we use program analysis. Constraint-based program analysis is a form of static program analysis. This means that all of these questions about the program’s run-time behavior are answered at compile time. This paper seeks to provide a survey of constraint-based program analysis including: a description of the approach, research done on the topic, applications of the topic, and future directions. 1. Introduction The idea for constraint-based program analysis was first introduce by John C. Reynolds in 1969 in his paper Automatic Computation of Data Set Definitions [12]. At the time, systems which provide fast and flexible data representations require the programmer to give the range of variables, parameters, and functions by detailed data structure definitions. Reynolds’s insight was that this information is redundant, as much of it can be inferred. His paper discusses a method for giving data set description of the output and input of a function given the program of the function, this was done specifically in the LISP programming language. This idea has been expanded into the modern program analysis approach of constraint-based program analysis. The rest of the paper will primarily focus on the most common form, set constraint-based program analysis, but others will be mentioned.