Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MFDL: A Multicarrier Fresnel Penetration Model based Device-Free Localization System leveraging Commodity Wi-Fi Cards

Device-free localization plays an important role in many ubiquitous applications. Among the different technologies proposed, Wi-Fi based technology using commercial devices has attracted much attention due to its low cost, ease of deployment, and high potential for accurate localization. Existing solutions use either fingerprints that require labor-intensive radio-map survey and updates, or models constructed from empirical studies with dense deployment of Wi-Fi transceivers. In this work, we explore the Fresnel Zone Theory in physics and propose a generic Fresnel Penetration Model (FPM), which reveals the linear relationship between specific Fresnel zones and multicarrier Fresnel phase difference, along with the Fresnel phase offset caused by static multipath environments. We validate FPM in both outdoor and complex indoor environments. Furthermore, we design a multicarrier FPM based device-free localization system (MFDL), which overcomes a number of practical challenges, particularly the Fresnel phase difference estimation and phase offset calibration in multipath-rich indoor environments. Extensive experimental results show that compared with the state-of-the-art work (LiFS), our MFDL system achieves better localization accuracy with much fewer number of Wi-Fi transceivers. Specifically, using only three transceivers, the median localization error of MFDL is as low as 45$cm$ in an outdoor environment of 36$m^2$, and 55$cm$ in indoor settings of 25$m^2$. Increasing the number of transceivers to four allows us to achieve 75$cm$ median localization error in a 72$m^2$ indoor area, compared with the 1.1$m$ median localization error achieved by LiFS using 11 transceivers in a 70$m^2$ area.
The Routledge Companion to the Future of Marketing

Introduction (Luiz Moutinho, Eric Bigne and Ajay Manrai) Part I: New Paradigms and Philosophical Insights 1. Toward a New Marketing Paradigm (Yoram Wind) 2. New Philosophical Paradigms in Marketing: From amoral consumerism to axiological societing (George G. Panigyrakis and Anna Zarkada) 3. Restoring Justice- An Examination in the Marketing Context (Anna Mattila) 4. Process Based Marketing Management (Tarek Mady, Ajay Manrai and Lalita Manrai) 5. Future of Theorizing in Marketing: Increasing Contribution by Bridging Theory and Practice (Rod Brodie) Part II: Contributions from other Scientific Fields 6. Biomarketing: An Emerging Paradigm Linking Neuroscience, Endocrinology, and Genetics to Buyer-Seller Behavior (Richard P. Bagozzi and Willem Verbeke) 7. Neurophilosophy of explanation in consumer research (Gordon Foxall) 8. Autobiographical Episodes, Semantic Memories and Branding (Nilanthi Ratnayake and Amanda J. Broderick) 9. Looking at vision: eye/face/head tracking of consumers for improved marketing decisions (Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters) Part III: Reconnecting with Consumers and Markets 10. Evaluating customer relationships: current and future challenges (Siddharth S. Singh and Dipak C. Jain) 11. Unconventional Marketing: From Guerrilla to Consumer Made (Bernard Cova and Marcel Saucet) 12. Social Media: past, present, and future (Dana Lascu, Lalita Manrai, Ajay Manrai and Lindsay Korenich) 13. Brand Engagement (Jose Marti, Enrique Bigne and Antonio Hyder) 14. Branding in the Age of Digital Connectivity (Baskin Yenicioglu and George Christodoulides) 15. The Future of Pricing in the Digital Era (PK Kannan) 16. Computer Human Interaction (Antonio Hyder, Enrique Bigne, Jose Marti) 17. The Slogan Validator - the Application of Human-computer Interface (Wan-Chen Wang and Luiz Moutinho) Part IV: New Methodological Insights in Scholarly Research in the Field 18. Memes, Memetics and Marketing: A State of the Art Review and A Lifecycle Model of Meme Management in Advertising (Noel Murray, Ajay Manrai and Lalita Manrai) 19. Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis as a Tool to Decide between the Formative/Reflective Nature of Constructs in Marketing and Management Research (Joaquin Aldas-Manzano) 20. The Future Applications of Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing (William Rand) 21. Genetic, Memetic and Electromagnetism-Like Algorithms - Applications in Marketing (Pedro Godinho and Manuela Silva) 22. Futures Research Insights and Methods (Luiz Moutinho, Nuno Teixeira and Miguel Lage)
A new approach for hand-waving detection in crowds

In this paper, we propose a new approach to detect hand-waving motion in crowds. Different from previous approaches which are often based on segmentation and motion detection, our method can be seen as a complexity reduction process from the problem of 3D motion detection to 2D object detection. Through arranging the same row of per video frame along the time sequence, we obtain 2D images composed of traces of moving object, and in these images hand-waving motion are represented as 2D patterns which have strong periodicity. Considering the similarity between these patterns, we first use Chamfer Distance Matching to locate the patterns' position roughly. Then we convert 2D patterns to 1D signals and apply Fourier Transformation to these signals. Finally, we identify a region as a hand-waving one, if its intensity spectrum of Fourier Transformation of 1D signals has a peak response between specified locations, and the value of the peak is greater than a threshold. Experiments on two self-built hand-waving datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can detect hand-waving motion effectively.
Strong correlation of wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) population structure with temperature and precipitation variation

In this study, we present the genetic analysis of a new collection of wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) using 42 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers that represent the seven chromosomes. The Barley1K (B1K) infrastructure consists of 1020 accessions collected in a hierarchical sampling mode (HSM) from 51 sites across Israel and represents the wide adaptive niche of the modern barley's ancestor. According to the genetic structure analysis, the sampled sites can be divided into seven groups, and sampled microsites located on opposing slopes or in different soil types did not show significant genetic differentiation. Although the genetic analysis indicates a simple isolation‐by‐distance model among the populations, examination of the genetic populations’ structure with abiotic parameters in an ordination analysis revealed that the combination of elevation, mid‐day temperature and rainfall explains a high proportion of the variance in the principal components analysis. Our findings demonstrate that the current populations have therefore been shaped and distinguished by non‐selective forces such as migration; however, we suggest that aridity and temperature gradients played major roles as selective forces in the adaptation of wild barley in this part of the Fertile Crescent. This unique collection is a prelude for the investigation of the molecular basis underlying plant adaptation and responsiveness to harsh environments.
Antioxidant properties of drugs used in Type 2 diabetes management: could they contribute to, confound or conceal effects of antioxidant therapy?

ABSTRACT Objectives: This is a narrative review, investigating the antioxidant properties of drugs used in the management of diabetes, and discusses whether these antioxidant effects contribute to, confound, or conceal the effects of antioxidant therapy. Methods: A systematic search for articles reporting trials, or observational studies on the antioxidant effect of drugs used in the treatment of diabetes in humans or animals was performed using Web of Science, PubMed, and Ovid. Data were extracted, including data on a number of subjects, type of treatment (and duration) received, and primary and secondary outcomes. The primary outcomes were reporting on changes in biomarkers of antioxidants concentrations and secondary outcomes were reporting on changes in biomarkers of oxidative stress. Results: Diabetes Mellitus is a disease characterized by increased oxidative stress. It is often accompanied by a spectrum of other metabolic disturbances, including elevated plasma lipids, elevated uric acid, hypertension, endothelial dysfunction, and central obesity. This review shows evidence that some of the drugs in diabetes management have both in vivo and in vitro antioxidant properties through mechanisms such as scavenging free radicals and upregulating antioxidant gene expression. Conclusion: Pharmaceutical agents used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes has been shown to exert an antioxidant effect.
Scale Invariant Associationism , Liquid State Machines , And General Purpose Ontogenetic Learning In Robotics

Unsupervised Hebbian learning produces a scale invariant associative phenomena with limited computational power (the linear separation of states). With the inclusion of a Liquid State Machine (LSM), simple associative methods are transformed to provide truly general purpose and computationally powerful ontogenetic learning. This radical expansion of the representational space of a problem enables solutions by computationally primitive means. This not only supercharges unsupervised techniques but also leads to cognitive penetrability and successful psychological explanation. Demonstrated on an embodied robot the approach displays cumulative general-purpose learning and training through human interaction leading to multiple psychological phenomena, sequence learning, navigation, and a strong resilience to catastrophic
Draft Genome Sequence of Low-Passage Clinical Isolate Porphyromonas gingivalis MP4-504

ABSTRACT We present the draft genome of Porphyromonas gingivalis MP4-504, a low-passage clinical isolate obtained from a periodontitis patient. The genome is composed of 92 contigs for a length of 2,373,453 bp and a G+C of 48.3%. The traA-Q conjugative transfer locus is genetically distinct from W83 but highly similar to ATCC 33277.
A Test of Diminishing Marginal Value

The notion of diminishing marginal value had a profound impact on the development of neoclassical theory. Early neoclassical scholars had difficulty convincing contemporaries of the new paradigm's value until political economists used the critical assumption of diminishing marginal value to link utility and demand. While diminishing marginal value remains a key component of modern economic intuition, there is little direct verification of this behavioural property. This paper reports experiments on a myriad of subject pools to examine behaviour in both price and exchange settings. We report results from nearly 900 subjects across 19 treatments and find strong evidence of diminishing marginal value.
Aspectos teóricos actuales de la memoria a largo plazo: De las dicotomías a los continuos

En el estudio de la memoria a largo plazo se observan discrepancias terminologicas entre los autores a pesar de que historicamente manejen los mismos terminos. Asi, unos dan mas importancia al formato en el que se almacena la representacion, otros al formato que dicha representacion toma a la hora de salir del sistema y otros a la conciencia o inconsciencia, bien en el almacenamiento, bien en la recuperacion. En el presente trabajo se ponen en relacion, tanto los conceptos de aprendizaje y memoria, como los de codificacion, almacenamiento y recuperacion, con dicotomias clasicas (explicito/implicito, declarativo/procedimental, con-trolado/automatico e intencional/incidental). En la actualidad hay varios investigadores que adoptan y apoyan una renovada idea de "cotinuum" de las capacidades de atencion, intencion y conciencia en el almacenamiento y en la recuperacion para las tareas de aprendizaje y memoria. Por ello, se pone de manifiesto la necesidad de considerar la idea de "continuum" entre la memoria explicita y la implicita, los procesos controlados y automaticos e incluso entre intencionalidad e incidentalidad, ya que son varias las aportaciones que nos muestran los diferentes efectos de "contaminacion" de unos mecanismos sobre los otros
Advances on human milk hormones and protection against obesity.

Extensive research shows that breast milk could have positive health effects not limited to infancy, but extend into childhood and adulthood. Recently many studies have provided new evidence on the long—term positive effects of breastfeeding, in particular protection against obesity and type 2 diabetes, suggesting that breast milk may have a role in the programming of later metabolic diseases. The mechanism throughout breastfeeding that exerts these effects has been a major focus of interest for researchers and it is still not completely known. There are some hints for biological plausibility of beneficial effects of breastfeeding including macronutrient intake, hormonal and behavioural mechanisms related to breast milk composition. Breast milk biochemical components, such as protein quantity and quality, polyunsaturated fatty acids, oligosaccharides, cytokines and hormones, in particular leptin, adiponectin and resistin together with the breastfeeding practice itself can influence infants feeding behaviour and regulation of growth and appetite control later in life. Further research is needed to confirm the possibility that hormones present in breast milk exert a metabolic and beneficial effects.
Case Competitions: An Opportunity for Building Knowledge about Professional Translation

The paper presents and discusses a teaching project with case competitions for MA students of specialised translation at the Aarhus School of Business (ASB), Aarhus University. The project was intended as one way of helping participants to prepare for working life by giving them an opportunity for building knowledge about professional translation. The paper gives some background information about our MA of specialised translation and then sets out to discuss what sort of knowledge translation students are expected to acquire while still at university. It presents and discusses the aims and setup of two case competitions that were organised at the ASB. Drawing on the results of a series of online questionnaires, the paper ascertains how the project was evaluated by the participating students and what sort of knowledge they seem to have been building in connection with their participation.
A Universidade Portuguesa: o abrir do fecho de acesso - o caso dos maiores de 23 anos

Este artigo integra uma dupla preocupacao. Por um lado, procedemos a um enquadramento historico do processo constitutivo da universidade portuguesa. Por outro, quisemos contemplar uma dimensao empirica. Para darmos seguimento as preocupacoes enunciadas fizemos (i) uma analise documental onde exploramos diferentes tipos de fontes (manuscritas e impressas) e (ii) aplicamos um questionario a uma amostra de 36 alunos maiores de 23 anos que se encontram a frequentar o Curso de Educacao Fisica e Desporto (69.4%) e de Ciencias da Educacao (30.6%) da Universidade Lusofona no ano de 2010/2011.Para este trabalho, partimos da tese de que as universidades portuguesas, na sua origem historica, eram um espaco para a formacao das elites, e que na sociedade globalizada do conhecimento de hoje enfrentam o desafio da democratizacao do acesso a novos publicos. A partir da reconstituicao historica desta instituicao secular, procura-se tambem demonstrar a relacao entre poder/saber. A universidade, ao constituir-se um bem publico, rompeu as barreiras do elitismo e veio proporcionar o “abrir do fecho de acesso”, o que possibilita uma maior democratizacao do ingresso no ensino superior. Em sintese, o texto apresenta resultados da investigacao do processo de democratizacao do ensino superior em Portugal. Palavras-Chave : universidade; acesso; elitismo; democratizacao.
Epidemic spreading in time-varying community networks

The spreading processes of many infectious diseases have comparable time scale as the network evolution. Here, we present a simple networks model with time-varying community structure, and investigate susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic spreading processes in this model. By both theoretic analysis and numerical simulations, we show that the efficiency of epidemic spreading in this model depends intensively on the mobility rate q of the individuals among communities. We also find that there exists a mobility rate threshold qc. The epidemic will survive when q > qc and die when q < qc. These results can help understanding the impacts of human travel on the epidemic spreading in complex networks with community structure.
On the Maximum Mass of Differentially Rotating Neutron Stars

We construct relativistic equilibrium models of differentially rotating neutron stars and show that they can support significantly more mass than their nonrotating or uniformly rotating counterparts. We dynamically evolve such "hypermassive" models in full general relativity and show that there do exist configurations that are dynamically stable against radial collapse and bar formation. Our results suggest that the remnant of binary neutron star coalescence may be temporarily stabilized by differential rotation, leading to delayed collapse and a delayed gravitational wave burst.
Thematic relations in adults' concepts.

Concepts can be organized by their members' similarities, forming a kind (e.g., animal), or by their external relations within scenes or events (e.g., cake and candles). This latter type of relation, known as the thematic relation, is frequently found to be the basis of children's but not adults' classification. However, 10 experiments found that when thematic relations are meaningful and salient, they have significant influence on adults' category construction (sorting), inductive reasoning, and verification of category membership. The authors conclude that concepts function closely with knowledge of scenes and events and that this knowledge has a role in adults' conceptual representations.
A Mapping-Based Approach for General Formal Human Computer Interaction Using Natural Language

We consider the problem of mapping natural language written utterances expressing operational instructions 1 to formal language expressions, applied to French and the R programming language. Developing a learning operational assistant requires the means to train and evaluate it, that is, a baseline system able to interact with the user. After presenting the guidelines of our work, we propose a model to represent the problem and discuss the fit of direct mapping methods to our task. Finally, we show that, while not resulting in excellent scores, a simple approach seems to be sufficient to provide a baseline for an interactive learning system.
The Arabidopsis Abscisic Acid Response Locus ABI4 Encodes an APETALA2 Domain Protein

Arabidopsis abscisic acid (ABA)–insensitive abi4 mutants have pleiotropic defects in seed development, including decreased sensitivity to ABA inhibition of germination and altered seed-specific gene expression. This phenotype is consistent with a role for ABI4 in regulating seed responses to ABA and/or seed-specific signals. We isolated the ABI4 gene by positional cloning and confirmed its identity by complementation analysis. The predicted protein product shows homology to a plant-specific family of transcriptional regulators characterized by a conserved DNA binding domain, the APETALA2 domain. The single mutant allele identified has a single base pair deletion, resulting in a frameshift that should disrupt the C-terminal half of the protein but leave the presumed DNA binding domain intact. Expression analyses showed that despite the seed-specific nature of the mutant phenotype, ABI4 expression is not seed specific.
Lost in time: the meaning of temporal aspects in user experience

The long-term and dynamic nature of user experience (UX) is challenging both UX design and evaluation activities. Although the CHI community acknowledges the importance of a temporal perspective on UX, we are still lacking an understanding of time and the meaning of temporal aspects in UX. In order to close this gap, we organized a workshop at NordiCHI 2012 exploring the topic with researchers and practitioners, especially searching for a common understanding of long-term UX and its relevance to the field. In this paper, we analyze the current state of the topic, discuss definitions and theoretical models based on previous work and the outcome of the workshop. We conclude with a working definition for long-term UX, its relevance for design and summarize future research directions.
Repetitive sequences and their organization on genomic clones of Zea mays

Fourteen recombinant clones from Zea mays were studied with regard to their composition of unique and repetitive sequences. Southern hybridization experiments were used to classify restriction fragments of the clones into a unique, middle or highly repetitive class of reiteration frequency. All three classes were often found on the same genomic clone. Crosshybridization studies between clones showed that a given repeat might be present on several clones, and thus four families of highly repetitive elements were established. Heteroduplex analysis was used to show the arrangement and size of repeats common between several clones. A short interspersion pattern of unique, middle and highly repetitive DNA was found. The dispersed repetitive elements were ˜300–1300 bp in length. Analysis of the pattern produced by a given repeat in genomic Southern experiments suggests that some small dispersed repeats may also exist as part of a larger repeating unit elsewhere in the genome.
Mitotic Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum Shows a Stable Core Genome but Recombination in Antigen Families

Malaria parasites elude eradication attempts both within the human host and across nations. At the individual level, parasites evade the host immune responses through antigenic variation. At the global level, parasites escape drug pressure through single nucleotide variants and gene copy amplification events conferring drug resistance. Despite their importance to global health, the rates at which these genomic alterations emerge have not been determined. We studied the complete genomes of different Plasmodium falciparum clones that had been propagated asexually over one year in the presence and absence of drug pressure. A combination of whole-genome microarray analysis and next-generation deep resequencing (totaling 14 terabases) revealed a stable core genome with only 38 novel single nucleotide variants appearing in seventeen evolved clones (avg. 5.4 per clone). In clones exposed to atovaquone, we found cytochrome b mutations as well as an amplification event encompassing the P. falciparum multidrug resistance associated protein (mrp1) on chromosome 1. We observed 18 large-scale (>1 kb on average) deletions of telomere-proximal regions encoding multigene families, involved in immune evasion (9.5×10−6 structural variants per base pair per generation). Six of these deletions were associated with chromosomal crossovers generated during mitosis. We found only minor differences in rates between genetically distinct strains and between parasites cultured in the presence or absence of drug. Using these derived mutation rates for P. falciparum (1.0–9.7×10−9 mutations per base pair per generation), we can now model the frequency at which drug or immune resistance alleles will emerge under a well-defined set of assumptions. Further, the detection of mitotic recombination events in var gene families illustrates how multigene families can arise and change over time in P. falciparum. These results will help improve our understanding of how P. falciparum evolves to evade control efforts within both the individual hosts and large populations.