Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
P300-based applications for interacting with smart mobile devices

Smart mobile devices are widely used nowadays in daily life activities. Interacting with these devices, however, requires users to use their hands to touch the screen of the device which deprives users with hand disabilities from using them. In this paper, we introduce a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system that allows users to interact with smart mobile devices using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Two applications are introduced for Android-based devices: RunApp and ImgView. RunApp enables users to select and run any installed application on the device while ImgView allows viewing and manipulating images. Both applications rely on the P300 signal paradigm. We utilize a computationally-efficient Principal Component Analysis (PCA) ensemble classifier to identify P300 signals. Results demonstrate the efficacy of the introduced applications using limited training data and limited number of trials with an average online accuracy of 79.17±13.69% for RunApp and 87.5±8.74% for ImgView for 6 different subjects. In addition, we demonstrate the cross-subject generalization capability of the algorithm where we got average online accuracy of 54.17±20.2. 4% for RunApp and 55.56±11.38% for ImgView. These results demonstrate the feasibility of running BCI applications on smart mobile devices.
CHRONIC GRANULOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA IN ACCELERATED STAGE TREATED WITH LOW DOSE CYTOSINE ARABINOSIDE

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Role and regulation of pig CD59 and membrane cofactor protein/CD46 expressed on pig aortic endothelial cells.

BACKGROUND Hyperacute rejection in xenotransplantation is caused by activation of complement (C) on endothelium. We have previously shown that purified C-regulators of the pig (CD59 and membrane cofactor protein [MCP]) are efficient regulators of human C (HuC). The aim of this study was to clarify the role of endogenously expressed C-regulatory molecules on pig endothelium in the protection against hyperacute rejection. METHODS Porcine aortic endothelial cells (PAEC) were harvested and cultured for various passages. PAEC were examined for the expression of endogenous pig CD59 and MCP by flow cytometry. PAEC were assessed for their susceptibility to lysis by HuC. The effect of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and various cytokines on the expression of MCP and CD59 and C-susceptibility was assessed. RESULTS Primary PAEC showed an initial high level of expression of pig CD59, however, upon culturing, CD59 levels decreased dramatically to about 20% after five passages. In contrast, levels of MCP doubled upon culturing of PAEC to confluency and remained stable during at least five passages. Primary cells and cells in the early passages were more resistant to HuC than cells that were cultured for longer. Blocking the function of CD59 but not of MCP using monoclonal antibody increased the susceptibility to HuC. Purified human CD59 incorporated to a level of expression similar to that of pig CD59 reversed the increased C-susceptibility, suggesting that pig and human CD59 are similarly protective against HuC. Increase of C-resistance and of expression of pig MCP, but not of CD59, was achieved upon incubation with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-1beta, interleukin-4, or interferon-gamma had no effect on C-regulator expression or C-susceptibility. CONCLUSIONS These data demonstrate the importance of using primary PAEC or cells in the first passages of culturing in in vitro models of xenotransplantation and show that pig MCP and, in particular, pig CD59 play an important role in protection of PAEC from HuC.
Making the Transition to Re-Employment: Social Networks and Their Impact on Social Assistance Recipients

This study focused on the role of social networks in the transition from social assistance to employment. The study consisted of a field experiment that was built into the training program that agencies normally deliver to persons on social assistance as part of the Ontario Works ‘work-for-welfare’ program. Participants were randomly assigned to a control or experimental group and the sample consisted of 92 in the control group and 40 in the experimental group. For the experimental group, a supplementary treatment, a ‘job search management system’ was added to the program that social assistance recipients normally receive. A Social Network Job Search Scale (SNJSS) was created and served as the dependent variable in a pre-test/post-test design. A positive correlation between strength of an individual’s network and re-employment was found. Understanding the value of social networks is important not only for reentering the labour market but also for obtaining employment that is above the minimum wage. A social assistance recipient’s
Frontal face detection with evolutionary template matching

In this paper, we propose an effective method for frontal face detection. The proposed method uses a template matching with the genetic algorithm (GA). This method uses a template which shows a distribution of average intensities on a human face. The template and some candidate areas which are searched by GA are compared, and theirs similarities are calculated. The proposed method is robust to geometric transformation of the face. This method can sense the face, such as a location, and an angle of rotation of the face. In some experiments, the proposed method can detect and sense the frontal human face.
s.RABILA2: An optimal VLSI routing algorithm with buffer insertion using iterative RLC model

Buffer insertion and wire sizing have been proven effective in solving the timing optimization problem in VLSI interconnect design. In this paper, we describe a graph-based maze interconnect routing algorithm for VLSI designs. An interconnect routing and buffer insertion with look-ahead algorithm is used to construct a maze routing path. Simultaneous routing with buffer insertion and wire sizing is applied, taking into account wire and buffer obstacles. An iterative RLC interconnect model is proposed to estimate interconnect delay. Experimental results proves the effectiveness of the look-ahead scheme and shows RLC delay model improvement in delay estimation.
A CMOS chaotic jerk oscillator with smoothly balanced-to-unbalanced transition of double-scroll attractors

A CMOS chaotic jerk oscillator is presented based on inherently hyperbolic tangent nonlinearity. The circuit comprises three Gm-C integrators, a current mirror and a differential Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA). The OTA provides inherently hyperbolic tangent nonlinearity for chaos. A balanced double-scroll strange attractor is capable of continuously smooth transition to an unbalanced double-scroll and, finally, to either a right-half or a left-half single-scroll attractor. Such transition is adjustable by varying a DC voltage. The circuit is implemented in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology with full-custom design.
Education for Industry: A complex technicism

Employer criticism of British school-leavers is long-standing. Coherent statements by employers regarding their educational 'needs' have not materialised; employers' accounts concerning such needs are typically confused or contradictory. This paper formulates a 'filter' enabling better understanding of industry's educational needs. The starting point is that these needs are essentially labour-power needs. The 'needs filter' rests on this and another concept drawn from Marxism: capital. Furthermore, its development is grounded on a series of assumptions (that employers 'needs' can in principle be stated, that there are no contradictions within labour-power, and that employers' labour-power needs are realisable through education and training). After discussing conventional views on the 'needs of industry', the filter is presented as a series of labour-power needs for categories and functions of capital. Its utility for curriculum design, employers and researchers is explored. However, if the guiding assumptions underpinning the filter cannot be justified then the whole edifice collapses. It is argued that as labour-power is inherently contradiction-ridden then the filter implodes - along with it any notion that employers can straightforwardly state their labour power needs as a foundation for education and training planning and curriculum development.
Urogenital atrophy.

Urogenital atrophy in the postmenopausal or castrated woman is common with a multifactorial etiology and a varied clinical presentation. The effects of age and estrogen deprivation are, at times, poorly separable. Estrogen replacement may be used to significantly alleviate symptoms due to atrophy but must be used with appropriate surveillance to avoid potential adverse consequences.
A Note on Approximate Revenue Maximization with Two Items

We consider the problem of maximizing revenue when selling 2 items to a single buyer with known valuation distributions. Hart and Nisan showed that selling each item separately using the optimal Myerson's price, gains at least half of the revenue attainable by optimal auction for two items. We show that in case the items have different revenues when sold separately the bound can be tightened.
Voluntary SOCIAL DISCLOSURES by Large UK Companies

An extensive conceptual literature that examinesthe motives for, and consequences of, ﬁrmsmaking voluntary disclosures, emphasises thesigniﬁcance of legal, competitive, strategic, andﬁnancial factors (Grossman 1981, Milgrom 1981,Verrecchia 1983, Trueman 1997, Hughes Sthose drawing on economic theory; and thosebased on socio-political theories. These sharecommon ground in that they all suggest thatsocial disclosures are a signiﬁcant strategic tool inthe management of relationships between thecompany and stakeholder groups. According tothe decision-usefulness approach, corporate dis-closures are attempts to remove informationalasymmetries between the ﬁrm and external agents,primarily agents in the investment community.Empirical work that subscribes to this view mostcommonly attempts to evaluate the impactdisclosures have on stock prices (e.g. Shane &Spicer 1983), but with broadly inconclusiveresults. Economic approaches propose that socialdisclosures are pre-emptive steps to mitigateadverse regulatory or legislative pressures in thefuture. Managers are motivated to make disclo-sures of this kind because the failure to do so mayreduce their discretion over future investmentopportunities (Watts & Zimmermann 1978, Shane& Spicer 1983). The socio-political approaches arethose ‘set within a framework of assumptionsabout ‘political economy’’ (Gray et al. 1995: 52).
Exploring the links between corporate social responsibility and global talent management: a comparative study of the UK and Korea

The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Global Talent Management (GTM) is conspicuously absent from existing research on CSR. Our comparative study of CSR and GTM in the UK and Korea is one of the few empirical studies to examine the link between CSR and GTM strategy and how this relationship may vary in different national contexts. Our data revealed that CSR’s link with GTM strategy is taken more seriously in the UK than in Korea. The reason for this is not primarily a matter of the management competences required to connect it with strategy. Rather, it is more closely related to the country’s institutional and cultural contexts which lead businesses to demonstrate CSR in certain ways and influence people’s views on responsible business. Implications of this cross-national research for both researchers and practitioners are discussed in the conclusion.
Crowdsourcing based business models: In search of evidence for innovation 2.0

Open innovation has gained increased attention as a potential paradigm for improving innovation performance. This paper addresses crowdsourcing, an under-researched type of open innovation that is often enabled by the web. We focus on a type of crowdsourcing where financial rewards exist, where a crowd is tasked with solving problems which solution seekers anticipate to be empirically provable, but where the source of solutions is uncertain and addressing the challenge in-house perceived to be too high-risk. There is a growing recourse to crowdsourcing, but we really know little about its effectiveness, best practices, challenges and implications. We consider the shift to more open innovation trajectories over time, define crowdsourcing as an open innovation model, and clarify how crowdsourcing differs from other types of 'open' innovation (e.g. outsourcing and open-source). We explore who is crowdsourcing and how, looking at the potential diversity and core features and variables implicated in crowdsourcing models. Copyright The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.
Sustainable tourism: development, decline and de-growth. Management issues from the Isle of Man

The concept of sustainable tourism emerged as a reaction to the impacts of tourism development. This paper shows the relevance of sustainable tourism to tourism decline and the rising interest in de-growth. Mixed-methods research in the Isle of Man, UK, was carried out by analysing 355 postal questionnaires sent to randomly selected island households, and conducting 32 in-depth personal interviews. The research revealed a series of negative environmental and social consequences of tourism decline in a small island. Such consequences are found to occur despite successful local diversification into other industries, notably offshore finance. Consequences of decline are revealed as tangible, e.g. facilities closure, and as less tangible, e.g. a sense of rejection by off-islanders, and have led to an increasing sense amongst residents of isolation and loss of local attractiveness. Results suggest tourism decline, de-growth and economic replacement require sustainable management in order to facilitate change. Measures such as urban and rural landscape protection, may reduce adverse effects of decline. A re-assessment of the application of the principles of sustainable tourism in the context of decline, rather than development, is needed.
Electrical stimulation of the saphenous nerve in anesthetized rats: A novel therapeutic approach to treating overactive bladder

Posterior Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) is a minimally invasive yet effective therapy for treating overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms with electrical stimulations applied at 20 Hz coupled with amplitudes approximating the foot-twitch threshold (T). However, pre-clinical studies indicate that PTNS-evoked bladder reflexes require stimulation amplitudes exceeding 2T. The objective of this work was to evaluate the presence of secondary low-threshold sensory pathways in the hind-limb region that can be a potential target of activation during clinical PTNS set-up. Given the close proximity of the electrode tip and the cutaneous branches in the lower leg, we hypothesized the concomitant activation of saphenous nerve (SAFN) afferents during percutaneous PTNS. To this end, urodynamic model was established in ten anesthetized rats to investigate (1) the isolated role of SAFN trunk in modulating bladder activity and (2) characterize frequency-dependent changes in inhibitory response at low stimulation amplitudes. Our pre-clinical findings suggest that direct stimulation of SAFN can elicit robust and consistent inhibitory effects at 20 Hz. This novel inhibitory reflex may rationalize the therapeutic effects of clinical PTNS therapy and support the feasibility of enhancing the current algorithm of incontinence care.
The Informational Efficiency of Stock Prices: A Review

This paper is an attempt to pull together some of the pertinent evidence on the issue. The literature is so broad that it cannot be adequately surveyed in a single article. Excellent surveys already exist in certain areas, and those areas will not be re-examined here. The primary focus of this survey is the performance of professional money managers. This seems to be the most practical aspect of the abstract concept of informational efficiency. Most people are interested in the issue only to the extent that it affects what they do with their own money.
Cross-Border Valuation: The International Cost of Equity Capital

How does a firm in one country evaluate an investment in a firm in another country, or how does it evaluate a foreign project that the firm itself is undertaking? The firm must estimate future free cash flows just as in a domestic project, but choosing an appropriate discount rate is a particular challenge. This study examines the determinants of the discount rate for an international acquisition or project by examining the sources of risk in an international setting. These risks include stock-market price risk measured with various versions of the capital asset pricing model, as well as exchange rate risk and political risk. To measure stock market risk, both segmented and integrated models of the world equity markets are considered. The emphasis of the study is on some of the practical aspects of estimation, particular for markets where no comparable investments exist on which to base estimates of risk premiums. To show how each of these risks might be measured, the study reports estimates for a representative French firm, Thals. The estimates range widely depending on whether or not the equity market is globally integrated.
Canadian Inter-City House Price Differentials

The purpose of this paper is to identify the sources of intercity house price differentials in Canada. The results indicate that demand factors are important explanatory variables; a 1% increase in the income of households raises house prices by 1.11%; higher rates of anticipated inflation result in higher house prices as households increase their demand for real assets such as housing during inflationary periods; and finally, the fraction of households that are non-family households is positively associated with house prices. These results are in agreement with those of other countries. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
Asset Prices with Non-Permanent Shocks to Consumption

Most standard asset-pricing models assume that all shocks to consumption are permanent. We relax this assumption and allow also for non-permanent shocks. In our specification, the long-run mean of consumption growth is constant; consumption levels are subject to short-run deviations from their long-run trend. The implications of our model are dramatically different from those obtained in the prior literature. A canonical and parsimonious asset pricing model with CRRA preferences and non-permanent shocks can reproduce the equity premium, high return volatility and return predictability with a coefficient of relative risk aversion below ten. This finding suggests that non-permanent shocks can play an important role in explaining asset pricing puzzles.
Preoperative induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy in advanced carcinoma of the oral cavity and oropharynx

Combined modality therapy plays a central role in the management of advanced head and neck tumors. The objective of our Phase II study was to determine the feasibility, toxicity, and clinical and pathologic response of preoperative induction chemotherapy, followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with Stage III or IV squamous cell carcinoma according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging of the oral cavity and oropharynx with no distant metastases.
EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON CROWDFUNDING PROJECT RESULTS

Crowdfunding is a form of collaborative social media. Even though crowdfunding can function without social media, this phenomenon has developed greatly with the advance of social media. The studies in entrepreneurship and finance established connections between startup projects and social ties. However, the impact of social media on crowdfunding is still lightly studied in academic literature. The purpose of this thesis is to define the influence of social media on crowdfunding. In particular, this research studies the connections between social media assets such as the social media followers and the social media seals of approval and crowdfunding results such as the delivery of the funding target, the fundraising total, and the number of backers. In course of the research, data on the hundred crowdfunding projects on the Kickstarter site were collected. Collected data established a number of statistically relevant connections, including the connection between the social media seals of approval and the delivery of fundraising target, the connection between the social media seals of approval and the fundraising total, the connection between the social media seals of approval and the number of backers, and also the connection between the number of social media followers and the social media seals of approval. The value of this research is that it explores the underlying mechanism of social media influence on crowdfunding results and helps individuals and businesses involved in crowdfunding projects identify factors of success and predict results for their projects. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express sincere appreciation to several people who contributed to this study. Frist of all, I would like to thank Dr. James W. Gentry for introducing me into the world of marketing science. It is a great difference from what I was when I entered the UNL and what I have become over my course of studies and especially over time I worked on my thesis. I also would like to thank Tim Reilly for his help with my research. His insights were very valuable and enriched my analysis in many ways. A special note of thanks to Jason Rubbert for his help with statistical analysis and interpretation of the results. He was very patient to me and was interested in my research. Special gratitude to my wife, Alyona, who took a major share of hardships over time of studies and my mother. Lyudmila, who supported me in all so I could completed my studies. Final …