Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A systematic review of the literature comparing male non-serial sexual killers and sexual aggressors: examining homogeneous and heterogeneous characteristics of these groups

ABSTRACT This systematic review considers what is known about the characteristics of sexual killers and sexual aggressors. The aim was to identify which characteristics have consistently been shown to be similar (homogeneous) and which are different (heterogeneous) across these two groups. Ten studies, including approximately 300 sexual killers, were analysed. Only studies where the samples were directly compared and where sexual killers were male, predominantly non-serial and perpetrated against adult female victims were included. Results indicate that levels of loneliness and anger appear to be more prevalent in the sexual killer sample while mental health disorders, criminal history, family structure and history of sexual abuse as well as some crime scene behaviours seem to be similar across the two groups. The results of this review have also highlighted some methodological problems inherent to these types of studies and these issues are discussed from the perspective of improving research on these crimes.
The Male Eyebrow: A Topographic Anatomic Analysis

Purpose: To study and quantify the topographic anatomy of the male eyebrow and its 3-dimensional relation, based on age and location, relative to the eye and the supraorbital rim. Methods: A prospective cohort of male patients seen for routine ophthalmic evaluation age 10 years and older had several eyebrow measurements incorporated in the examination. The presence or absence of brow ptosis was noted on the basis of observation. The location of the eyebrow relative to the center of the pupil, the lateral canthus, and the depth of the supraorbital rim was measured. The data were subjected to statistical analysis. Results: The study included 444 eyebrows of 222 patients ranging in age from 10 to 86 years, with a mean age of 46.75 years. The incidence of brow ptosis was 7.4%. The mean distance between the lateral canthus and inferior brow (LIBD) was 11.23 mm. The mean distance between the pupil and the inferior brow and the superior brow border was 11.15 mm (PIBD) and 19.8 mm (PSBD), respectively. Statistical analysis demonstrated that the mean brow position did not vary with age. However, there was a significant negative correlation between the position of the eyebrow and the depth of the superior sulcus below the supraorbital rim (correlation coefficient, 0.431 for PIBD and depth and 0.381 for LIBD and depth, respectively). Deeper-set eyes had lower brow position. Conclusions: The male eyebrow sits along the supraorbital ridge and has a flat contour. In men without frank brow ptosis, the eyebrow position relative to the pupil and the lateral canthus does not significantly fall with age despite the periocular changes associated with aging. However, 3-dimensional analysis demonstrates that individuals with deep-set eyes have a lower positioned eyebrow then those with a more shallow depth below the supraorbital rim. These findings are helpful in surgical management of the eyelid-eyebrow continuum. The age-related changes in the eyebrow area should be thought of as a 3-dimensional construct with collapse of the structure and not simply descent of the eyebrow.
Mucosal Immunogenicity of Genetically Modified Lactobacillus acidophilus Expressing an HIV-1 Epitope within the Surface Layer Protein

Surface layer proteins of probiotic lactobacilli are theoretically efficient epitope-displaying scaffolds for oral vaccine delivery due to their high expression levels and surface localization. In this study, we constructed genetically modified Lactobacillus acidophilus strains expressing the membrane proximal external region (MPER) from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) within the context of the major S-layer protein, SlpA. Intragastric immunization of mice with the recombinants induced MPER-specific and S-layer protein-specific antibodies in serum and mucosal secretions. Moreover, analysis of systemic SlpA-specific cytokines revealed that the responses appeared to be Th1 and Th17 dominant. These findings demonstrated the potential use of the Lactobacillus S-layer protein for development of oral vaccines targeting specific peptides.
Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Cultural Frame Switching

This study examines how the valence of cultural cues in the environment moderates the way biculturals shift between multiple cultural identities. The authors found that when exposed to positive cultural cues, biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as compatible (high bicultural identity integration, or high BII) respond in culturally congruent ways, whereas biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as conflicting (low BII) respond in culturally incongruent ways. The opposite was true for negative cultural cues. These results show that both high and low BIIs can exhibit culturally congruent or incongruent behaviors, and have implications for understanding situations where high and low BIIs might adapt differently.
A Construction of Dual Wavelet and its Applications in Image Edge Detection

The edge detection is usually used for controlling the automation of pattern recognition in intelligent machines, traffic control and mobile devices security systems. Due to the complex of image control, the dimensions are increasing so that the single wavelet is not able to address some applications, thus, high-dimensional wavelet basis is needed. This paper introduces a construction of dual wavelet for fulfilling the gap. A dual wavelet through the compactly support set/functions which can form the Riesz basis is built up. Based on the mathematic presentation of the construction of the dual wavelet, which is a dual orthogonal with scale function and duality, the constructed dual wavelet is used for an application testing with fingerprint. The proposed approach is compared with Sobel and Canny filter. It is observed that from the results, the proposed dual wavelet outperforms the Sobel and Canny filter in terms of effectiveness and computation time.
e-Recruitment: from transaction-based practices

Internet has already impacted the recruitment process. The development of Web 2.0 offers new perspectives to recruiters. Are Web 2.0 practices revealing new e-recruitment strategies? We first connect the RBV (Resource-Based View) and the SNT (Social Network Theory) respectively with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Then, we present the results from an exploratory study conducted among recruiters in software and computing services companies. It appears that the use of Web 1.0 is generalized but insufficient. Web 2.0 is used by firms to develop employer branding, reputation and to create new relationships with potential applicants. In conclusion, we adapt Ruël et al.’s e-HRM model to obtain a global view of e-recruitment issues.
Problems and Results in Graph Theory and Combinatorial Analysis

I published several papers with similar titles. One of my latest ones [13] (also see [16] and the yearly meetings at Boca Raton or Baton Rouge) contains, in the introduction, many references to my previous papers . I discuss here as much as possible new problems, and present proofs in only one case. I use the same notation as used in my previous papers . G(' )(n ;1) denotes an r-graph (uniform hypergraph all of whose edges have size r) of n vertices and I edges . If r = 2 and there is no danger of confusion . I omit the upper index r = 2 . K ( r ) (n) denotes the complete hypergraph G ( ' ) (n ; (;)) . K(a, b) denotes the complete bipartite graph (r = 2) of a white and b black vertices . K (r )(t) denotes the hypergraph of It vertices x (i ' ) , I < i < t, 1 < j < 1, and whose (I)tr edges are {x,1t ) , . , x~ )} where all the i's and all the j's are distinct . e(G(in)) is the number of edges of G(m) (graph of m vertices), the girth is the length of a smallest circuit of the graph .
Integrating Probabilistic and Knowledge-Based Systems for Explanation Generation

An important requirement for intelligent assistants is to have an explanation generation mechanism, so that the trainee has a better understanding of the recommended actions and can generalize them to similar situations. In this work we combine different knowledge sources to generate explanations for operator training. The explanations are based on a general template which is composed of 3 main parts: (i) the recommended action in the current situation; (ii) a graphical representation of the process highlighting the relevant variable; (iii) a verbal explanation. The optimal action is obtained from a Markov decision process (MDP) that guides the operator in the training session. For determining the relevant variable we developed a method that estimates the impact of each variable on the utility, selecting the one with highest impact in the current state. The verbal explanation is extracted from a domain knowledge base that includes the main components, actions and variables in the process, represented as a frame system. We present preliminary results of explanations generated in the power plant domain.
The GOODS-MUSIC sample: a multicolour catalog of near-IR selected galaxies in the GOODS-South field ,

Aims. We present a high quality multiwavelength (from 0.3 to 8.0 µm) catalog of the large and deep area in the GOODS Southern Field covered by the deep near-IR observations obtained with the ESO VLT. Methods. The catalog is entirely based on public data: in our analysis, we have included the F435W, F606W, F775W and F850LP ACS images, the JHKs VLT data, the Spitzer data provided by IRAC instrument (3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 µm), and publicly available U-band data from the 2.2ESO and VLT-VIMOS. We describe in detail the procedures adopted to obtain this multiwavelength catalog. In particular, we developed a specific software for the accurate “PSF-matching” of space and ground-based images of different resolution and depth (ConvPhot), of which we analyse performances and limitations. We have included both z-selected, as well as Ks-selected objects, yielding a unique, self-consistent catalog. The largest fraction of the sample is 90% complete at z � 26 or Ks � 23.8 (AB scale). Finally, we cross-correlated our data with all the spectroscopic catalogs available to date, assigning a spectroscopic redshift to more than 1000 sources. Results. The final catalog is made up of 14 847 objects, at least 72 of which are known stars, 68 are AGNs, and 928 galaxies with spectroscopic redshift (668 galaxies with reliable redshift determination). We applied our photometric redshift code to this data set, and the comparison with the spectroscopic sample shows that the quality of the resulting photometric redshifts is excellent, with an average scatter of only 0.06. The full catalog, which we named GOODS-MUSIC (MUltiwavelength Southern Infrared Catalog), including the spectroscopic information, is made publicly available, together with the software specifically designed to this end.
Bayesian machine learning methods for predicting protein-peptide interactions and detecting mosaic structures in DNA sequences alignments

Short well-defined domains known as peptide recognition modules (PRMs) regulate many important protein-protein interactions involved in the formation of macromolecular complexes and biochemical pathways. High-throughput experiments like yeast two-hybrid and phage display are expensive and intrinsically noisy, therefore it would be desirable to target informative interactions and pursue in silico approaches. We propose a probabilistic discriminative approach for predicting PRM-mediated protein-protein interactions from sequence data. The model suffered from over-fitting, so Laplacian regularisation was found to be important in achieving a reasonable generalisation performance. A hybrid approach yielded the best performance, where the binding site motifs were initialised with the predictions of a generative model. We also propose another discriminative model which can be applied to all sequences present in the organism at a significantly lower computational cost. This is due to its additional assumption that the underlying binding sites tend to be similar. It is difficult to distinguish between the binding site motifs of the PRM due to the small number of instances of each binding site motif. However, closely related species are expected to share similar binding sites, which would be expected to be highly conserved. We investigated rate variation along DNA sequence alignments, modelling confounding effects such as recombination. Traditional approaches to phylogenetic inference assume that a single phylogenetic tree can represent the relationships and divergences between the taxa. However, taxa sequences exhibit varying levels of conservation, e.g. due to regulatory elements and active binding sites, and certain bacteria and viruses undergo interspecific recombination. We propose a phylogenetic factorial hidden Markov model to infer recombination and rate variation. We examined the performance of our model and inference scheme on various synthetic alignments, and compared it to state of the art breakpoint models. We investigated three DNA sequence alignments: one of maize actin genes, one bacterial (Neisseria), and the other of HIV-1. Inference is carried out in the Bayesian framework, using Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
Evaluation of Web Accessibility of Consumer Health Information Websites

The objectives of the study are to construct a comprehensive framework for web accessibility evaluation, to evaluate the current status of web accessibility of consumer health information websites and to investigate the relationship between web accessibility and property of the websites. We selected 108 consumer health information websites from the directory service of a Web search engine. We used Web accessibility specifications to construct a framework for the measurement of Web Accessibility Barriers (WAB) of website. We found that none of the websites is completely accessible to people with disabilities, but governmental and educational health information websites exhibit better performance on web accessibility than other categories of websites. We also found that the correlation between the WAB score and the popularity of a website is statistically significant.
Spatial Auditory Maps for Blind Travellers

Empirical research shows that blind persons who have the ability and opportunity to access geographic map information tactually, benefit in their mobility. Unfortunately, tangible maps are not found in large numbers. Economics is the leading explanation: tangible maps are expensive to build, duplicate and distribute. SAM, short for Spatial Auditory Map, is a prototype created to address the unavailability of tangible maps. SAM presents geographic information to a blind person encoded in sound. A blind person receives maps electronically and accesses them using a small inexpensive digitalizing tablet connected to a PC. The interface provides location-dependent sound as a stylus is manipulated by the user, plus a schematic visual representation for users with residual vision. The assessment of SAM on a group of blind participants suggests that blind users can learn unknown environments as complex as the ones represented by tactile maps in the same amount of reading time. This research opens new avenues in visualization techniques, promotes alternative communication methods, and proposes a human-computer interaction framework for conveying map information to a blind person.
In vivo imaging of human cone photoreceptor inner segments.

PURPOSE An often overlooked prerequisite to cone photoreceptor gene therapy development is residual photoreceptor structure that can be rescued. While advances in adaptive optics (AO) retinal imaging have recently enabled direct visualization of individual cone and rod photoreceptors in the living human retina, these techniques largely detect strongly directionally-backscattered (waveguided) light from normal intact photoreceptors. This represents a major limitation in using existing AO imaging to quantify structure of remnant cones in degenerating retina. METHODS Photoreceptor inner segment structure was assessed with a novel AO scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) differential phase technique, that we termed nonconfocal split-detector, in two healthy subjects and four subjects with achromatopsia. Ex vivo preparations of five healthy donor eyes were analyzed for comparison of inner segment diameter to that measured in vivo with split-detector AOSLO. RESULTS Nonconfocal split-detector AOSLO reveals the photoreceptor inner segment with or without the presence of a waveguiding outer segment. The diameter of inner segments measured in vivo is in good agreement with histology. A substantial number of foveal and parafoveal cone photoreceptors with apparently intact inner segments were identified in patients with the inherited disease achromatopsia. CONCLUSIONS The application of nonconfocal split-detector to emerging human gene therapy trials will improve the potential of therapeutic success, by identifying patients with sufficient retained photoreceptor structure to benefit the most from intervention. Additionally, split-detector imaging may be useful for studies of other retinal degenerations such as AMD, retinitis pigmentosa, and choroideremia where the outer segment is lost before the remainder of the photoreceptor cell.
An automatic filtering method for field association words by deleting unnecessary words

Document classification and summarization are very important for document text retrieval. Generally, humans can recognize fields such as ⟨Sports⟩ or ⟨Politics⟩ based on specific words called Field Association (FA) words in those document fields. The traditional method causes misleading redundant words (unnecessary words) to be registered because the quality of the resulting FA words depends on learning data pre-classified by hand. Therefore recall and precision of document classification are degraded if the classified fields classified by hand are ambiguous. We propose two criteria: deleting unnecessary words with low frequencies, and deleting unnecessary words using category information. Moreover, using the proposed criteria unnecessary words can be deleted from the FA words dictionary created by the traditional method. Experimental results showed that 25% of 38 372 FA word candidates were identified as unnecessary and deleted automatically when the presented method was used. Furthermore, precision and F-measure were improved by 26% and 15%, respectively, compared with the traditional method.
Supervised Adaptive Hamming Net for Classification of Multiple-Valued Patterns

A Supervised Adaptive Hamming Net (SAHN) is introduced for incremental learning of recognition categories in response to arbitrary sequences of multiple-valued or binary-valued input patterns. The binary-valued SAHN derived from the Adaptive Hamming Net (AHN) is functionally equivalent to a simplified ARTMAP, which is specifically designed to establish many-to-one mappings. The generalization to learning multiple-valued input patterns is achieved by incorporating multiple-valued logic into the AHN. In this paper, we examine some useful properties of learning in a P-valued SAHN. In particular, an upper bound is derived on the number of epochs required by the P-valued SAHN to learn a list of input-output pairs that is repeatedly presented to the architecture. Furthermore, we connect the P-valued SAHN with the binary-valued SAHN via the thermometer code.
Transcriptomes of the Anther Sporophyte: Availability and Uses

An anther includes sporophytic tissues of three outer cell layers and an innermost layer, the tapetum, which encloses a locule where the gametophytic microspores mature to become pollen. The sporophytic tissues also comprise some vascular cells and specialized cells of the stomium aligning the long anther axis for anther dehiscence. Studies of the anther sporophytic cells, especially the tapetum, have recently expanded from the use of microscopy to molecular biology and transcriptomes. The available sequencing technologies, plus the use of laser microdissection and in silico subtraction, have produced high-quality anther sporophyte transcriptomes of rice, Arabidopsis and maize. These transcriptomes have been used for research discoveries and have potential for future discoveries in diverse areas, including developmental gene activity networking and changes in enzyme and metabolic domains, prediction of protein functions by quantity, secretion, antisense transcript regulation, small RNAs and promoters for generating male sterility. We anticipate that these studies with rice and other transcriptomes will expand to encompass other plants, whose genomes will be sequenced soon, with ever-advancing sequencing technologies. In comprehensive gene activity profiling of the anther sporophyte, studies involving transcriptomes will spearhead investigation of the downstream gene activity with proteomics and metabolomics.
Contributions au traitement des incertitudes en modélisation numérique : propagation d'ondes en milieu aléatoire et analyse statistique d'expériences simulées. (Contributions to the uncertainty management in numerical modelisation: wave propagation in random media and analysis of computer experiment

Le present document constitue mon memoire d'habilitation a diriger des recherches. Il retrace mon activite scientifique de ces douze dernieres annees, depuis ma these jusqu'aux travaux realises en tant qu'ingenieur-chercheur du CEA Cadarache. Les deux chapitres qui structurent ce document correspondent a deux domaines de recherche relativement differents mais se referant tous les deux au traitement des incertitudes dans des problemes d'ingenierie. Le premier chapitre etablit une synthese de mes travaux sur la propagation d'ondes hautes frequences en milieu aleatoire. Il concerne plus specifiquement l'etude des fluctuations statistiques des temps de trajet des ondes acoustiques en milieu aleatoire et/ou turbulent. Les nouveaux resultats obtenus concernent principalement l'introduction de l'anisotropie statistique des champs de vitesse lors de la derivation des expressions des moments des temps en fonction de ceux du champ de vitesse des ondes. Ces travaux ont ete essentiellement portes par des besoins en geophysique (exploration petroliere et sismologie). Le second chapitre aborde le domaine de l'utilisation des techniques probabilistes pour prendre en compte les incertitudes des variables d'entree d'un modele numerique. Les principales applications que j'evoque dans ce chapitre relevent du domaine de l'ingenierie nucleaire qui offre une grande variete de problematiques d'incertitude a traiter. Tout d'abord, une synthese assez complete est realisee sur les methodes statistiques d'analyse de sensibilite et d'exploration globale de modeles numeriques. La construction et l'exploitation d'un metamodele (fonction mathematique peu couteuse se substituant a un code de calcul couteux) sont ensuite illustrees par mes travaux sur le modele processus gaussien (krigeage). Deux thematiques complementaires sont finalement abordees : l'estimation de quantiles eleves de reponses de codes de calcul et l'analyse de codes de calcul stochastiques. Une conclusion met en perspective ces travaux dans le contexte plus general de la simulation numerique et de l'utilisation de modeles predictifs dans l'industrie.