Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Challenge of Establishing a Recognized Interdisciplinary Journal: A Citation Analysis of the International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research

This paper examines the impact of interdisciplinary IT standardization research by analyzing the International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research JITSR. Three issues will be addressed: 1 What is the scientific impact of IT standardization research published in JITSR? 2 Are JITSR publications on IT standardization interdisciplinary, and if so, to what extent do they cite publications in other disciplines? 3 Is IT standardization research recognized as an interdisciplinary discipline, and if so, to what extent do papers in other disciplines cite JITSR publications? The authors find that although the scientific impact of JITSR is comparatively low, it is recognized in different disciplines. The findings also show that research published in JITSR is, to some extent, interdisciplinary; papers published in JITSR refer to a number of different disciplines.
Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application

Chapter 1 - Introduction Michael Inzlicht and Toni Schmader Chapter 2 - The Role of Situational Cues in Signaling and Maintaining Stereotype Threat Mary C. Murphy and Valerie Jones Taylor Chapter 3 - An Integration of Processes that Underlie Stereotype Threat Toni Schmader and Sian Beilock Chapter 4 - Embodied Stereotype Threat: Exploring brain and body mechanisms underlying performance impairments Wendy Berry Mendes and Jeremy Jamieson Chapter 5 - Types of threats: From stereotype threat to stereotype threats Jenessa R. Shapiro Chapter 6 - Do I Belong? How Negative Intellectual Stereotypes Undermine People's Sense of Social Belonging in School and How to Fix It Gregory M. Walton and Priyanka B. Carr Chapter 7 - Stereotype Threat Spillover: The short-term and long-term effects of coping with threats to social identity Michael Inzlicht, Alexa M. Tullett, and Jennifer N. Gutsell Chapter 8 - Differentiating Theories: A comparison of stereotype threat and stereotype priming effects David M. Marx and Diederik A. Stapel Chapter 9 - Stereotype Boost: Positive Outcomes from the Activation of Positive Stereotypes Margaret J. Shih, Todd L. Pittinsky, and Geoffrey C. Ho Chapter 10 - Threatening Gender and Race: Different manifestations of stereotype threat Christine Logel, Jennifer Peach, and Steven J. Spencer Chapter 11 - Stereotype Threat in Organizations: An examination of its scope, triggers, and possible interventions Laura J. Kray and Aiwa Shirako Chapter 12 - Social Class and Test Performance: From stereotype threat to symbolic violence Jean-Claude Croizet and Mathias Millet Chapter 13 - Aging and Stereotype Threat: Development, process, and interventions Alison L. Chasteen, Sonia K. Kang, and Jessica D. Remedios Chapter 14 - The Impact of Stereotype Threat on Performance in Sports Jeff Stone, Aina Chalabaev, and C. Keith Harrison Chapter 15 - Stereotype Threat in Interracial Interactions Jennifer A. Richeson and J. Nicole Shelton Chapter 16 - Concerns About Generalizing Stereotype Threat Research Findings to Operational High Stakes Testing Paul R. Sackett and Ann Marie Ryan Chapter 17 - Stereotype Threat in the Real World Joshua Aronson and Thomas Dee Chapter 18 - An Identity Threat Perspective on Intervention Geoffrey L. Cohen, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, and Julio Garcia Chapter 19 - Extending and Applying Stereotype Threat Research: A brief essay Claude M. Steele
The essays : or, counsels, civil and moral.

'their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life; and in consequence you find what you seldom find in other books. ' Samuel Johnson Celebrated today as a writer and scientist, Francis Bacon was for the most part of his life occupied with the law and public affairs at a high level. Although personally devastating, his fall from public office in 1621 nonetheless served to liberate him for his own work and the last five years of his life saw an enormous output in the most varied fields. It is to this period that we owe the last and most popular work published in his lifetime, the Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) Focusing on the ethical, political and historical constraints and influences on human behaviour and following principles laid down by rhetorical theory, Bacon sought to systematize his observations on such diverse topics as beauty, deformity, fortune, adversity, ambition, friendship, truth, marriage, atheism and superstition. Persuasive and diagnostic, his Essays are valued for many reasons, not least their combination of a dispassionate observation of human life with powerfully expressed moral judgements. This edition is based on the Oxford Authors series complete with notes on Bacon's rich vocabulary and substantial annotation.
A Fair Randomized Contention Resolution Protocol for Wireless Nodes without Collision Detection Capabilities

Contention-based protocols are commonly used for providing channel access to the nodes wishing to communicate. The Binary Exponential Back off (BEB) is a well-known contention protocol implemented by the IEEE 802.11 standard. Despite its widespread use, Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols employing BEB struggle to concede channel access when the number of contending nodes increases. The main contribution of this work is to propose a randomized contention protocol to the case where the contending stations have no-collision detection (NCD) capabilities. The proposed protocol, termed RNCD, explores the use of tone signaling to provide fair selection of a transmitter. We show that the task of selecting a single transmitter, among n ≥ 2 NCD-stations, can be accomplished in 48n time slots with probability of at least 1 - 2-1.5n. Furthermore, RNCD works without previous knowledge on the number of contending nodes. For comparison purpose, RNCD and BEB were implemented in OMNeT++ Simulator. For n = 256, the simulation results show that RNCD can deliver twice as much transmissions per second while channel access resolution takes less than 1% of the time needed by the BEB protocol. Different from the exponential growth tendency observed in the channel access time of the BEB implementation, the RNCD has a logarithmic tendency allowing it to better comply with QoS demands of real-time applications.
Characterization of subtype A HIV-1 from Africa by full genome sequencing.

OBJECTIVE To improve our understanding of the genetic complexity of HIV-1 subtype A by increasing the number of subtype A isolates that have been sequenced in their entirety. METHODS Nine HIV-1-seropositive patients from Africa living in Sweden contributed peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) for this study. Sequencing of the C2-V3 region of env had shown them to be subtype A. DNA from virus cultures was used for the amplification of virtually full-length proviral sequences, and the resulting fragment was sequenced. RESULTS Six of the nine viral isolates were subtype A throughout the genome, or non-recombinant, and all of these were from east Africa. One virus from the Ivory Coast had the AG(IbNG) genetic form, a recombinant form common in west Africa. Two of the isolates were novel recombinants: one was an A/C recombinant and the other was A/D. Analysis of gag reveals three subclusters within the A subtype: one containing the AG(IbNG) subtype viruses, one containing the AE(CM240) viruses and one containing the non-recombinant A viruses. These genetic clusters have different geographical distributions in Africa. CONCLUSION The prevailing view of HIV-1 subtype A forming a uniform band across the center of sub-Saharan Africa needs revision. In all probability, the most common subtype in west Africa and west central Africa is the AG recombinant, AG(IbNG), whereas in east central Africa it is the non-recombinant subtype A.
[Exercising sexual and reproductive rights: a qualitative study of heterosexual people with HIV in Mexico].

OBJECTIVE To analyze experiences of heterosexual Mexican people living with HIV (PLWHA) related to the exercise of their sexual and reproductive rights. MATERIAL AND METHODS Qualitative study based on 40 in-depth interviews with PLWHA in four Mexican States. RESULTS Lack of support and counseling limits the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights by PLWHA, especially women. Principal limitations include feelings of frustration and confusion, fear of re-infection, scanty information, lack of power to negotiate condom use, social stigma and discrimination, and limited access to services and adequate technologies. CONCLUSION To increase awareness and exercise of rights by PLWHA it is necessary to: improve sexual education; promote processes of cultural change to combat gender inequality and stigma and discrimination; and provide timely and scientific information about HIV prevention.
Quality indicators in rheumatoid arthritis care: using measurement to promote quality improvement

Quality of care improvement has become a priority for decision-makers. Important variations in the quality and cost of care are being documented often without evidence of improved outcomes. Therapeutic advances are not consistently applied to practice despite efforts from professional organisations to create guidelines. The quality movement emerged following increasing evidence that the creation and measurement of quality indicators can improve quality of care and health outcomes. Quality indicators can measure healthcare system performance across providers, system levels and regions. In rheumatology, early efforts to develop quality measures have focused on examining all aspects of care while more recent efforts have focused on disease course monitoring. The American College Rheumatology has recently endorsed seven quality indicators for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that are evidence based and measurable for use in routine rheumatology practices. This review provides an overview on quality indicators in rheumatology with a focus on RA, and discusses the application of quality measures into routine rheumatology practices to improve quality of care for RA.
Insights on leadership: Service, stewardship, spirit, and servant-leadership

Partial table of contents: SERVICE. Servant-Leadership (R. Greenleaf). Servant-Leadership Revisited (K. Blanchard). On the Path to Servant-Leadership (L. Lad & D. Luechauer). Trust: The Invaluable Asset (J. Lowe). STEWARDSHIP. From Leadership to Citizenship (P. Block). Followership in a Leadership World (R. Kelley). Healing Leadership (J. Sturnick). SPIRIT. Leading from Within (P. Palmer). Seeking the Soul of Business (C. Wicker). Destiny and the Leader (J. Jaworski). SERVANT-LEADERSHIP. Servants, Egos, and Shoeshines: A World of Sacramental Possibility (J. Schuster). Finding Your Voice (J. Kouzes). What is Our Work? (M. Wheatley). Afterword: Understanding Robert K. Greenleaf and Servant-Leadership (D. Frick). Acknowledgments. About the Editor and The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership. Notes. Permissions and Copyrights. Recommended Reading. Index.
Learning a novel grapheme: effects of positional and phonemic context on children's spelling.

Two experiments explored how children who encounter a new spelling for a phoneme generalize it to novel items. Children ages 5 1/2 to 9 (N = 123) were taught a CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) nonword containing a new vowel spelling in the middle position (e.g., /gaik/ is spelled as giik). They were then asked to spell other nonwords containing the vowel or to judge spellings that had supposedly been produced by younger children. Children were sensitive to position in the spelling production task, being more likely to use the novel grapheme when the vowel appeared in the middle of a CVC target than when it appeared in word-initial or word-final position. Children were not significantly more likely to use the novel grapheme when the target shared the vowel and final consonant (rime) of the training stimulus than when it shared the initial consonant and vowel. Implications for views of spelling development are discussed.
Novel Pharmacological Probes Reveal ABHD5 as a Locus of Lipolysis Control in White and Brown Adipocytes

Current knowledge regarding acute regulation of adipocyte lipolysis is largely based on receptor-mediated activation or inhibition of pathways that influence intracellular levels of cAMP, thereby affecting protein kinase A (PKA) activity. We recently identified synthetic ligands of α-β-hydrolase domain containing 5 (ABHD5) that directly activate adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) by dissociating ABHD5 from its inhibitory regulator, perilipin-1 (PLIN1). In the current study, we used these novel ligands to determine the direct contribution of ABHD5 to various aspects of lipolysis control in white (3T3-L1) and brown adipocytes. ABHD5 ligands stimulated adipocyte lipolysis without affecting PKA-dependent phosphorylation on consensus sites of PLIN1 or hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL). Cotreatment of adipocytes with synthetic ABHD5 ligands did not alter the potency or maximal lipolysis efficacy of the β-adrenergic receptor (ADRB) agonist isoproterenol (ISO), indicating that both target a common pool of ABHD5. Reducing ADRB/PKA signaling with insulin or desensitizing ADRB suppressed lipolysis responses to a subsequent challenge with ISO, but not to ABHD5 ligands. Lastly, despite strong treatment differences in PKA-dependent phosphorylation of HSL, we found that ligand-mediated activation of ABHD5 led to complete triglyceride hydrolysis, which predominantly involved ATGL, but also HSL. These results indicate that the overall pattern of lipolysis controlled by ABHD5 ligands is similar to that of isoproterenol, and that ABHD5 plays a central role in the regulation of adipocyte lipolysis. As lipolysis is critical for adaptive thermogenesis and in catabolic tissue remodeling, ABHD5 ligands may provide a means of activating these processes under conditions where receptor signaling is compromised.
An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Multilevel Association Rule Based on Pincer Search

Discovering frequent itemset is a key difficulty in significant data mining applications, such as the discovery of association rules, strong rules, episodes, and minimal keys. The problem of developing models and algorithms for multilevel association mining poses for new challenges for mathematics and computer science. In this paper, we present a model of mining multilevel association rules which satisfies the different minimum support at each level, we have employed princer search concepts, multilevel taxonomy and different minimum supports to find multilevel association rules in a given transaction data set. This search is used only for maintaining and updating a new data structure. It is used to prune early candidates that would normally encounter in the top-down search. A main characteristic of the algorithms is that it does not require explicit examination of every frequent itemsets, an example is also given to demonstrate and support that the proposed mining algorithm can derive the multiple-level association rules under different supports in a simple and effective manner
MaxReach: Reducing network incompleteness through node probes

Real-world network datasets are often incomplete. Subsequently, any analysis on such networks is likely to produce skewed results. We examine the following problem: given an incomplete network, which b nodes should be probed to bring as many new nodes as possible into the observed network? For instance, consider someone who has observed a portion (say 1%) of the Twitter network. How should she use a limited budget to reduce the incompleteness of the network? In this work, we propose a novel algorithm, called MAXREACH, which uses a budget b to increase the number of nodes in the observed network. Our experiments, across a range of datasets and conditions, demonstrate the efficacy of MAXREACH.
A nonmainstream approach against cancer

Abstract The discovery of antibiotics as specific and effective drugs against infectious agents has generated the belief that the famous Paul Erlich theory on magic bullet should be applied to cancer as well. However, after around 60 years of failures in finding a magic bullet against cancer, a question appears mandatory: does the magic bullet against cancer really exist? In trying to understand more on the issue, we propose three discoveries are coming from a nonmainstream approach against cancer. Tumor is acidic, and tumor acidity impairs drugs entering within tumor cells and isolates tumors from the rest of the body. Proton pumps are key in allowing tumor cells to live in the acidic microenvironment. A class of antiacidic drugs, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), were shown to have a potent anti-tumor effect, through inhibition of proton pumps in tumor cells. PPIs are indeed prodrugs needing acidity to be activated into the active molecule. So they use protonation by H+ as an activating mechanism, while the vast majority of drugs are totally neutralized by protonation. An anti-tumor therapy based on PPI showed to be effective both in vitro and in vivo. Differently from normal cells, cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation, and it appears conceivable that hypoxia and low nutrient transform tumor cells into fermenting anaerobes. This suggests that cancer cells are more similar to unicellular organisms, aimed at surviving in a continuous fighting, rather than cooperating, with other cells, as it occurs in the normal homeostasis of our body. We have shown that cancer cells take their fuel by “cannibalizing” other cells, either dead or alive, especially when starved and in acidic condition. This finding led to the discovery of a new oncogene TM9SF4 that human malignant cell shares with amoebas. The evidence is accumulating that almost all the cells release extracellular vehicles (EVs), from micro- to nanosize, which shuttle a variety of molecules. Tumor cells, particularly when stressed in their hostile microenvironment, release high levels of EVs, able to interact with target cells in various ways, within an organ or at a distance. They may represent both valuable tumor biomarker and shuttles for drugs with anti-tumor properties. This article wants to burst a real change in future anti-cancer strategies, based on the idea that tumors are much more common features than specific molecular targets.
Computational Validation of the Motor Contribution to Speech Perception

Action perception and recognition are core abilities fundamental for human social interaction. A parieto-frontal network (the mirror neuron system) matches visually presented biological motion information onto observers' motor representations. This process of matching the actions of others onto our own sensorimotor repertoire is thought to be important for action recognition, providing a non-mediated "motor perception" based on a bidirectional flow of information along the mirror parieto-frontal circuits. State-of-the-art machine learning strategies for hand action identification have shown better performances when sensorimotor data, as opposed to visual information only, are available during learning. As speech is a particular type of action (with acoustic targets), it is expected to activate a mirror neuron mechanism. Indeed, in speech perception, motor centers have been shown to be causally involved in the discrimination of speech sounds. In this paper, we review recent neurophysiological and machine learning-based studies showing (a) the specific contribution of the motor system to speech perception and (b) that automatic phone recognition is significantly improved when motor data are used during training of classifiers (as opposed to learning from purely auditory data).
Detecting And Monitoring Wormhole In IoT enabled WSNs Using EyeSim

— The advancement in networking has led to IOT i.e. Internet Of Things. IOT has enabled the communications between the machines i.e. to transfer the data over network without any human intervention. A Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) which comprises of various node and actuators are integrated with IOT so as to collaborate dynamically with the internet. This paper focuses on the WSNs which are IP enabled and also reviews the tool which is capable of not only detecting but also monitoring the malicious nodes that leads to wormhole attack on the mobile phones.
Face recognition using curvature Gabor features

This paper introduces a homogeneous Gabor feature based face recognition approach under uncontrolled conditions such as unexpected illumination changes, pose changes, blurring and facial expression changes. The system uses curvature Gabor features instead of conventional Gabor features, and the classifiers are obtained by applying PCLDA to the selected features. By combining some of the obtained classifiers using different fusion methods, good verification accuracies are achieved with low computational complexity. The system is tested on FRGC version 2.0 database, and it achieves 93.11% verification rate.
MobiTrade: trading content in disruption tolerant networks

In this paper, we present MobiTrade, a utility driven trading system for efficient content dissemination on top of a disruption tolerant network. While simple tit-for-tat (TFT) mechanisms can force nodes to "give one to get one", dealing with the inherent tendency of peers to take much but give back little, they can quickly lead to deadlocks when some (or most) of interesting content must be somehow fetched across the network. To resolve this, MobiTrade proposes a trading mechanism that allows a node ("merchant") to buy, store, and carry content for other nodes (its "clients") so that it can later trade it for content it is personally interested in. To exploit this extra degree of freedom, MobiTrade nodes continuously profile the type of content requested and the collaboration level of encountered devices. An appropriate utility function is then used to collect an optimal inventory that maximizes the expected value of stored content for future encounters, matched to the observed mobility patterns, interest patterns, and collaboration levels of encountered nodes. Using NS3 simulations based on synthetic and real mobility traces, we show that MobiTrade achieves up to 2× higher query success rates compared to other content dissemination schemes. Furthermore, we show that MobiTrade successfully isolates selfish devices.