Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multi-Image Graph Cut Clothing Segmentation for Recognizing People Anonymous CVPR submission Paper ID 2670

Reseachers have verified that clothing provides information about the identity of the individual. To extract features from the clothing, the clothing region first must be localized or segmented in the image. At the same time, given multiple images of the same person wearing the same clothing, we expect to improve the effectiveness of clothing segmentation. Therefore, the identity recognition and clothing segmentation problems are inter-twined; a good solution for one aides in the solution for the other. We build on this idea by analyzing the mutual information between pixel locations near the face and the identity of the person to learn a global clothing mask. We segment the clothing region in each image using graph cuts based on a clothing model learned from one or multiple images believed to be the same person wearing the same clothing. We use facial features and clothing features to recognize individuals in other images. The results show that clothing segmentation provides a significant improvement in recognition accuracy for large image collections, and useful clothing masks are simultaneously produced. A further significant contribution is that we introduce a publicly available consumer image collection where each individual is identified. We hope this dataset allows the vision community to more easily compare results for tasks related to recognizing people in consumer image collections.
Variable Ranges Security Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor network applications pose novel challenges to networking and protocol design. Generally, traditional wireless devices directly link to a base station or beacon within their transmission range to facilitate ensuring integrity and security of communication, only rarely they make use of any multi-hop messaging. Wireless sensor networks, in contrast, are often intrinsically based on a peer to peer infrastructure, where messages inevitably traverse long distances through the network, passing multiple nodes to reach a certain destination. With the sensitivity of the communicated data (e.g., in safety or privacy critical areas such as hospitals or power plants) the required level of security increases, making effective security mechanisms a prime concern of the protocol design. This higher level of security, in the context of the limited resources and the high distributivity of ad-hoc sensor networks, gives raise to complex issues in communication
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for adiponectin level in East Asians identifies a novel locus near WDR 11-FGFR 2

Ying Wu*, He Gao*, Huaixing Li*, Yasuharu Tabara*, Masahiro Nakatochi*, Yen-Feng Chiu*, Eun Jung Park*, Wanqing Wen*, Linda S. Adair, Judith B. Borja, Qiuyin Cai, Yi-Cheng Chang, Peng Chen, Damien C. Croteau-Chonka, Marie P. Fogarty, Wei Gan, Chih-Tsueng He, Chao A. Hsiung, Chii-Min Hwu, Sahoko Ichihara, Michiya Igase, Jaeseong Jo, Norihiro Kato, Ryuichi Kawamoto, Christophor W. Kuzawa, Jeannette Lee, Jianjun Liu, Ling Lu, Thomas W. McDade, Haruhiko Osawa, Wayne H-H Sheu, Yvonne Teo, Swarooparani Vadlamudi, Rob M. van Dam, Yiqin Wang, Yong-Bing Xiang, Ken Yamamoto, Xingwang Ye, Terri L. Young, Wei Zheng, Jingwen Zhu, Xiao-Ou Shu†, Chol Shin†, Sun Ha Jee†, Lee-Ming Chuang†, Tetsuro Miki†, Mitsuhiro Yokota†, Xu Lin†, Karen L Mohlke†, E Shyong Tai†
Inhibition of IκB Kinase Subunit 2 in Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma Down-Regulates Nuclear Factor-κB Constitutive Activation, Induces Cell Death, and Potentiates the Apoptotic Response to Antineoplastic Chemotherapeutic Agents

Purpose: A key molecular feature of cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCL) is the constitutive activation of the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) transcription factor. We investigated in vitro the effects on CTCL survival and chemoresistance of a specific inhibition of IκB kinase subunit 2 (IKK2). Experimental Design: Selective IKK2 inhibition was carried out by transfection of SeAx and MyLa CTCL lines with an inactive form of IKK2 and by exposing these lines and tumor cells from 10 patients with Sézary syndrome (SS) to AS602868, a new IKK2 inhibitor. The constitutive nuclear translocation of NF-κB was analyzed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay and confocal microscopy. Apoptosis was determined by Annexin V/propidium iodide–positive staining and mitochondrial transmembrane potential alterations as well as poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase cleavage. The expression of Bcl-2 family oncoproteins and survivin was studied by immunoblotting. Results: Specific IKK2 inhibition resulting from transfection or from incubation with AS602868 allowed a down-regulation of NF-κB transcriptional activity. As shown by electrophoretic mobility shift assay and apoptosis assays, AS602868 down-regulated the nuclear translocation of NF-κB and induced a potent apoptotic response in CTCL lines and in tumor cells from patients with SS while preserving the viability of both peripheral blood lymphocytes from healthy donors and of nonmalignant T cells from SS patients. Moreover, CTCL death induction by conventional antineoplastic agents etoposide and vincristine was potentiated by AS602868. Finally, AS602868-induced apoptosis of CTCL cells was associated with an up-regulation of Bax dimers and a decrease of survivin. Conclusion: These results indicate that IKK2 inhibition represents a promising strategy for the treatment of advanced stages of CTCL.
Positive psychology in educational administration Eğitim yönetiminde pozitif psikoloji

In this study, it was aimed to question the intellectual foundations of educational administration with the discussion of the relationship between educational administration and positive psychology. The most importantjustification forthis study is that foundations of educational administration are based on positivist paradigm and in parallel with this the ignorance of human features. Positivist paradigm caused that educational administration is perceived as technical-mechanical area more and some areas in educational administration such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, literature is neglected. This negligence led to the management is regarded as administration and management theories are adapted to the educational organizations. However, educational organizations are value-based organizations. In this study, it was hoped that to start a debate about the place of positivist paradigm in the educational administration in order to emphasize the deficiency.In recent years, positivist psychology has been especially based on positive human features which are the neglected subject of psychology. In the article, it was mentioned that positivist psychology supplied with humanist psychology and then analyzed how can be taken advantage of positivist psychology in educational administration area. Ozet Bu calismada, egitim yonetimi ile pozitif psikoloji arasindaki iliski tartisilarak, egitim yonetiminin dusunsel temellerinin sorgulanmasi amaclanmistir. Egitim yonetimi alaninin temellerinin pozitivist paradigma kaynakli olmasi ve buna bagli olarak insancil ozelliklerin goz ardi edilmesi bu calismanin en onemli gerekcesidir. Pozitivist paradigma, egitim yonetimi alaninin daha cok teknik-mekanik bir alan olarak algilanmasina ve egitim yonetiminde felsefe, psikoloji, sosyoloji, antropoloji, edebiyat gibi alanlarin ihmal edilmesine yol acmistir. Bu ihmal isletmenin yonetim sanilmasina ve yonetim kuramlarinin birebir egitim orgutlerine uyarlanmasina yol acmistir. Ancak egitim orgutleri deger merkezli orgutlerdir. Bu baglamda bu calismada, soz konusu eksikligi vurgulamak amaci ile pozitif psikolojinin egitim yonetimi alanindaki yeri ile ilgili bir tartisma baslatilmak istenmistir. Pozitif psikoloji son yillarda ozellikle psikolojinin ihmal edilen bir konusu olan olumlu insanin ozellikleri uzerinde temellenmektedir. Makalede, pozitif psikolojinin beslendigi insancil psikolojiden soz edilmis, daha sonra da egitim yonetimi alaninda pozitif psikolojiden nasil yararlanilabilecegi ile ilgili bir cozumleme yapilmistir.
Countering Correctional Discourse

SUMMARY This article discusses the development of a feminist support group for women prisoners enrolled in a six-month substance abuse treatment program in an adult correctional facility in Guam. After the completion of five Group cycles, a follow-up study was conducted in the community using qualitative, feminist, and participatory methods. Results indicate that the Group was successful in helping women prisoners to address trauma, addiction, and the stresses associated with incarceration. Nevertheless, participants reported having significant difficulty transitioning into the community upon release and 23% were sent back to prison for parole violations. Recommendations are outlined for gender-responsive programming, both within women's prisons and in the community, to support women offenders after release.
The Development of Internal State Language during the Third Year of Life: A Longitudinal Parent Report Study

Children's talk about the mind has been scarcely studied in non-English speakers. For this reason, this longitudinal study documents age-related changes in German-speaking children's internal state language. At 24, 30 and 36 months, children were administered general language tests and their internal state vocabulary levels were obtained via parental report. The developmental transition from a vocabulary rich in physiological, perceptual and desire terms to a vocabulary rich in a wider range of mental concepts confirmed previous research with French-speaking and English-speaking children and research in children's internal state comprehension. Further, children's category scores proved to be developmentally stable. Finally, with increasing age, children's category scores became more specifically related to each other, independent of general language skills. The results are discussed in regard to the universality of children's talk about the mind. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st edition. The book is an invaluable guide for teachers and curriculum developers, taking them from a definition of Intercultural Communicative Competence through planning for teaching to assessment.
Merged bilingual trees based on Universal Dependencies in Machine Translation

In this paper, we present our new experimental system of merging dependency representations of two parallel sentences into one dependency tree. All the inner nodes in dependency tree represent source-target pairs of words, the extra words are in form of leaf nodes. We use Universal Dependencies annotation style, in which the function words, whose usage often differs between languages, are annotated as leaves. The parallel treebank is parsed in minimally supervised way. Unaligned words are there automatically pushed to leaves. We present a simple translation system trained on such merged trees and evaluate it in WMT 2016 English-to-Czech and Czechto-English translation task. Even though the model is so far very simple and no language model and word-reordering model were used, the Czech-to-English variant reached similar BLEU score as another established tree-based system.
Rasch Models For Measurement

It is true that, in his interpretation of the results of these analyses, the author implicitly accepts the limitation which this unexplored level of collinearity in his variables imposes: his interpretation is almost entirely carried out in terms of the values on the left-hand side of his equations and he properly refrains from any attempt to interpret the individual coefficients on the right-hand side. Nevertheless I think that the book would have been considerably improved if space could have been found for even a brief discussion of the inter-relationships between the variables. The lack of such an exploration has at least three disadvantages. First, as the author recognises, it makes his discussion of the substantive findings in the central chapter of the book extremely heavy going, since the elements in the discussion are all so abstract. (As he rightly says, "This has been an exceedingly difficult chapter"! ) Secondly, it leaves unanswered the intriguing question as to why, in linguistic terms, an analysis using these variables should work at all-an inevitable question if only because, in an inflected language like classical Greek, his 'last letter' variables usually have direct grammatical significance. Thirdly, it will leave those who would wish to carry further the work in this field, which, as the author says, is "deficient still in its theoretical content", with very few further basic principles to guide their work. So one must hope that the author will find time and resources to explore in much more detail the workings of the methodology which he has so successfully introduced to this intriguing field of enquiry.
Caffeine's Effect on Appraisal and Mental Arithmetic Performance: A Cognitive Modeling Approach Tells Us More

A human subject experiment was conducted to investigate caffeine’s effect on appraisal and performance of a mental serial subtraction task. Serial subtraction performance data was collected from three treatment groups: placebo, 200 mg caffeine, and 400 mg caffeine. Data were analyzed by average across treatment group and by challenge and threat task appraisal conditions. A cognitive model of the serial subtraction task was developed and fit to the human performance data. How the model’s parameters change to fit the data suggest how cognition changes across treatments and due to appraisal. Overall, the cognitive modeling and optimization results suggest that the speed of vocalization is changed the most along with some changes to declarative memory. This approach promises to offer fine-grained knowledge about the effects of moderators on task performance.
Robust local scale estimators for blind evaluation of noise variance in images

A task of blind evaluation of additive Gaussian noise variance in images is considered. One stage of many methods used for this purpose is obtaining local estimates of noise variance in blocks (scanning windows) of small size tessellating an image. For this purpose, we propose to use robust estimators of sample scale. Several such estimators are studied for cases of pure additive noise and mixed additive and impulsive noise. It is shown that the use of robust scale estimators allows increasing the number of “normal” estimates, close to a true value of noise variance. However, the estimate distributions have specific features to be taken into account in searching distribution mode accepted as the final estimate of noise variance. Efficiency of noise variance estimators based on local robust scale estimates is evaluated for color image database TID2008. It is demonstrated that for the pure additive noise case this efficiency is comparable to that one of standard methods. In turn, for the mixed noise case with probabilities of up to 0.1 in each color component, the proposed approaches are still able to provide appropriate estimation accuracy of variance for additive noise component.
Catalytic Domain Architecture of Metzincin Metalloproteases*

Metalloproteases cleave proteins and peptides, and deregulation of their function leads to pathology. An understanding of their structure and mechanisms of action is necessary to the development of strategies for their regulation. Among metallopeptidases are the metzincins, which are mostly multidomain proteins with ∼130–260-residue globular catalytic domains showing a common core architecture characterized by a long zinc-binding consensus motif, HEXXHXXGXX(H/D), and a methionine-containing Met-turn. Metzincins participate in unspecific protein degradation such as digestion of intake proteins and tissue development, maintenance, and remodeling, but they are also involved in highly specific cleavage events to activate or inactivate themselves or other (pro)enzymes and bioactive peptides. Metzincins are subdivided into families, and seven such families have been analyzed at the structural level: the astacins, ADAMs/adamalysins/reprolysins, serralysins, matrix metalloproteinases, snapalysins, leishmanolysins, and pappalysins. These families are reviewed from a structural point of view.
Hole mobility in ultrathin body SOI pMOSFETs with SiGe or SiGeC channels

The hole mobilities of SiGe and SiGeC channel pMOSFETs fabricated on ultrathin silicon-on-insulator substrates are investigated and compared with reference Si channel devices. The total thickness of the fully depleted Si/SiGe(C)/Si body structure is /spl sim/ 25 nm. All devices demonstrated a near ideal subthreshold behavior, and the drive current and mobility were increased with more than 60% for SiGe and SiGeC channels. When comparing SIMOX and UNIBOND substrates, no significant difference could be detected.
Calcium depletion in frog muscle tubules: the decline of calcium current under maintained depolarization.

1. Ca2+ currents in frog skeletal muscle fibres were studied with a voltage‐clamp technique. Under membrane depolarization maintained for several seconds, Ca2+ current was found to decline with time constants of 0.2‐2 sec when [Ca2+]o = 10 mM. 2. Ca2+ currents are diminished by nifedipine, D‐600, tetracaine and Ni2+. 3. When peak current is diminished by making the membrane potential positive, by block with drugs or by substituting the relatively less permeant Mn2+ for Ca2+ then the rate of decline is diminished also. When peak current is increased by recording at relatively negative membrane potentials or by substituting for Ca2+ the more permeant ions Ba2+ or Sr2+, then the rate of decline is increased in proportion. Evidently, the size of the current determines the rate of decline. 4. Decline of current is greatly slowed in isotonic Ca2+ saline or when the [Ca2+]o is buffered by the organic anion malate. These findings indicate that the decline of current arises from Ca2+ depletion in an extracellular compartment, most probably the transverse tubules. On this basis, an analysis of Ca2+ current decline and recovery leads to the following conclusions. 5. Ca2+ current flows almost entirely across the membranes of the transverse tubules. 6. After allowing for the tortuosity of the tubular network, the apparent diffusion coefficient for Ca2+ in the transverse tubules is about 2.6 X 10(‐6) cm2/sec, three times less than the diffusion coefficient for K+ in the transverse tubules and about three times less than the diffusion coefficient for Ca2+ in free solution. 7. The transverse tubule lumen does not appear to have a large Ca2+‐buffering capacity in the millimolar range. At [Ca2+]o = 10 mM, the tubule lumen binds less than 0.6 dissociable Ca2+ ions for every free ion.
Understanding mass cooperation through visualization

We present a new type of visualization designed to help the understanding of inner mechanisms of mass cooperation. This type of cooperation is ubiquitous nowadays, not only in Online Social Networks, but also in many other situations, such as scientific research on a worldwide scale. Mass cooperation is also at the source of most complex systems. One problem to which researchers are confronted to when they study such cooperation is to build an intuitive representation of what is happening. Many tools and metrics exist to study the results of the cooperation, but sometimes, these metrics can be misleading if one doesn't really observe what the cooperation process really looks like. The main proposition of this paper is a visualization of the cooperation flow. The novelty of our approach is to represent the internal structure of the cooperation in a longitudinal perspective. Through examples, we present how one can form a rich understanding of what form the cooperation takes in a given context, and how this understanding can help to formulate hypothesis which can consequently be studied with appropriate tools such as statistical analysis.
Interactions between HIV‐infected monocytes and the extracellular matrix: HIV‐infected monocytes secrete neutral metalloproteases that degrade basement membrane protein matrices

The frequency of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‐infected monocytes that spread on a model basement membrane was about twofold greater than that of an equal number of uninfected control cells through the initial 12 to 18 h of culture. By 24 h, virtually all HIV‐infected and uninfected control cells spread on the basement membrane gel. The frequency of spread cells in the uninfected control population was < 10% of total cells by 12 days. In contrast, 30 to 40% of HIV‐infected monocytes remained spread through this time interval and formed a dense interdigitated network of cell processes on and into the gel matrix. Invasion of the basement membrane matrix by HIV‐infected monocytes suggested increased secretion of proteases able to digest the gel. Indeed, levels of neutral protease activity in culture fluids from HIV‐infected monocytes were significantly higher than those from equal numbers of uninfected control cells. High levels of protease activity in culture fluids of HIV‐infected monocytes required productive virus infection and were not observed with cells exposed to T cell‐tropic HIV isolates. The predominant protease activity in these cultures was a 92‐kd neutral metallogelatinase. HIV‐induced changes in monocyte metalloprotease activity may be important for extravasation of infected cells to tissue or for the development of AIDS‐associated neuropathology, carcinogenesis, and opportunistic infection.
Maximum correlation minimum redundancy in weighted gene selection

Microarray technology has been recently used to analyze the behavior of thousands of genes simultaneously, and have an important role in diagnosis, detection and treatment methods. Reducing the size of the attributes (genes) with high potential for classification of microarray data analysis is thus an important goal. In this paper, we propose a new feature selection method based on maximum correlation and minimum redundancy (MCMR). In addition, a new method for weighting the genes has been introduced to select a final set of genes within all participated genes in cross validation procedure. The performance of proposed have been analyzed on two microarray data sets: colon cancer and breast cancer dataset. The results show that MCMR can increase the classification accuracy as well as reducing the number of selected genes significantly, compare to some other gene selection methods such as SNR (signal to noise ratio), PCC (Pearson Correlation Coefficient) and Fisher score.