Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dimensions of Normal Personality as Networks in Search of Equilibrium: You Can't like Parties if you Don't like People

In one currently dominant view on personality, personality dimensions (e.g. extraversion) are causes of human behaviour, and personality inventory items (e.g. ‘I like to go to parties’ and ‘I like people’) are measurements of these dimensions. In this view, responses to extraversion items correlate because they measure the same latent dimension. In this paper, we challenge this way of thinking and offer an alternative perspective on personality as a system of connected affective, cognitive and behavioural components. We hypothesize that these components do not hang together because they measure the same underlying dimension; they do so because they depend on one another directly for causal, homeostatic or logical reasons (e.g. if one does not like people and it is harder to enjoy parties). From this ‘network perspective’, personality dimensions emerge out of the connectivity structure that exists between the various components of personality. After outlining the network theory, we illustrate how it applies to personality research in four domains: (i) the overall organization of personality components; (ii) the distinction between state and trait; (iii) the genetic architecture of personality; and (iv) the relation between personality and psychopathology. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Modelling the Usefulness of Document Collections for Query Expansion in Patient Search

Dealing with the medical terminology is a challenge when searching for patients based on the relevance of their medical records towards a given query. Existing work used query expansion (QE) to extract expansion terms from different document collections to improve query representation. However, the usefulness of particular document collections for QE was not measured and taken into account during retrieval. In this work, we investigate two automatic approaches that measure and leverage the usefulness of document collections when exploiting multiple document collections to improve query representation. These two approaches are based on resource selection and learning to rank techniques, respectively. We evaluate our approaches using the TREC Medical Records track's test collection. Our results show the potential of the proposed approaches, since they can effectively exploit 14 different document collections, including both domain-specific (e.g. MEDLINE abstracts) and generic (e.g. blogs and webpages) collections, and significantly outperform existing effective baselines, including the best systems participating at the TREC Medical Records track. Our analysis shows that the different collections are not equally useful for QE, while our two approaches can automatically weight the usefulness of expansion terms extracted from different document collections effectively.
Arts, dance, cultural infrastructure, and city regeneration: Knowledge, audience development, networks, and conventions, and the relocation of a Royal Ballet company from London to Birmingham

The development of new cultural infrastructure has long been part of the urban regeneration toolkit. Cultural infrastructure is incorporated into major urban regeneration projects as part of a proactive entrepreneurial approach to planning designed to enhance a city's overall image. The existing literature on cultural industries concentrates on exploring film and contemporary music and ignores dance. The article explores the development of ballet in England from the 1920s and the relocation in 1990 of one of England's Royal Ballet companies from London to Birmingham. These events required investments in hard cultural infrastructure (provision of facilities, e.g. theatres) and soft cultural infrastructure (audience development). The development of new hard cultural infrastructure must be supported by a process of audience development and knowledge brokers. The establishment of ballet in England and the relocation of Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet (SWRB) to Birmingham were contingent on the articulation of networks of individuals, resources and institutions that had the power and resources to facilitate these developments. The analysis highlights the interplay existing between local and national policies and the ways in which the local can mobilize elites and others to shape the artistic and cultural character of a city.
Context-based video retrieval system for the life-log applications

Recently, we have often heard the terms "Wearable computing" and "Ubiquitous computing". Our expectation for the future of such new computing environments is growing. One of the characteristics of these computing environments is that they embed computers in our lives. In such environments, digitization of personal experiences will be made possible by continuous recordings using a wearable video camera[6, 7]. This could lead to the "automatic life-log application". However, it is evident that the resulting amount of video content will be enormous. Accordingly, to retrieve and browse desired scenes, a vast quantity of video data must be organized using structural information.In this paper, we attempt to develop a "context-based video retrieval system for life-log applications". This wearable system is capable of continuously capturing data not only from a wearable camera and a microphone, but also from various kinds of sensors such as a brain-wave analyzer, a GPS receiver, an acceleration sensor, and a gyro sensor to extract the user's contexts. In addition, the system provides functions that make efficient video browsing and retrieval possible by using data from these sensors and some databases. For example, we can use the following query using this system. "I talked with Kenji while walking at a shopping center in Shinjuku on a cloudy day in mid-May. The conversation was very interesting! I want to see the video of our outing to remember the contents of the conversation. "
Glucoamylase gene fusions alleviate limitations for protein production in Aspergillus awamori at the transcriptional and (post) translational levels

In this study we have analyzed the effects of a glucoamylase gene fusion on the mRNA levels and protein levels for the human interleukin-6 gene (hil6) and the guar alpha-galactosidase gene (aglA). Previously it was shown that production of nonfused alpha-galactosidase and hIL-6 in Aspergillus awamori was limited at transcriptional and (post)translational levels, respectively (R. J. Gouka, P. J. Punt, J. G. M. Hessing, and C. A. M. J. J. van den Hondel, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:1951-1957, 1996). Vectors were constructed which contained either the hil6 or aglA gene fused to the Aspergillus niger glucoamylase gene (glaA) under control of the efficient 1,4-beta-endoxylanase A promoter and transcription terminator. For comparison, the vectors were integrated in a single copy at the pyrG locus of A. awamori. A glaA fusion to the 5' end of the hil6 gene resulted in a large increase in hIL-6 yield, whereas with a glaA fusion to the 3' end of the hil6 gene, almost no protein was produced. Nevertheless, the steady-state mRNA levels of both fusions were very similar and not clearly increased compared to those of a strain expressing nonfused hIL-6. Fusions of glaA to the 5' end of the wild-type guar aglA gene resulted in truncated mRNA lacking almost 900 bases (> 80%) of the aglA sequence. When the coding sequence of the wild-type aglA gene was replaced by a synthetic aglA gene with optimized Saccharomyces cerevisiae codon usage, full-length mRNA was obtained. Compared to a nonfused synthetic aglA gene, a glaA fusion with the synthetic aglA gene resulted in a 25-fold increase in the mRNA level and, as a consequence, a similar increase in the alpha-galactosidase protein level. The truncated transcripts derived from the wild-type aglA gene were further analyzed by nuclear run-on transcription assays. These experiments indicated that transcription elongation in the nucleus proceeded at least 400 bases downstream of the site where the truncation was determined, indicating that transcription elongation or premature termination was not the reason for the generation of truncated mRNAs. As the truncated mRNA also contained a poly(A) tail, truncation most likely occurs by incorrect processing of the aglA mRNA in the nucleus.
The importance of cognitive self-report in early HIV-1 infection: validation of a cognitive functional status subscale

Background The Medical Outcomes Study HIV (MOS-HIV) Health Survey is a widely used instrument to assess quality of life in HIV-1-infected individuals. Its cognitive functional status subscale measures functional status owing to neuropsychological (NP) impairment. Objectives To determine the concurrent validity of the Dutch four-item MOS-HIV cognitive functional status subscale and its clinical significance in predicting NP test performance. Design Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data collected between October, 1994, and March, 1997, in the Netherlands and in Flanders, Belgium. Subjects A total of 85 HIV-1-infected homosexual men who participated in an ongoing longitudinal research project designed to study the effects of a support group. Results The MOS-HIV cognitive functional status subscale showed significant associations with NP test performance overall and, specifically, with the domains of abstraction, language and visuospatial abilities, controlling for CD4 cell count and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clinical disease stage. A trend toward significance was also found in the memory domain. Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first report of a cognitive functional status subscale used with HIV-1-infected subjects in a language other than English. The MOS-HIV cognitive functional status subscale seems particularly sensitive to changes in NP test performance in early HIV-1 infection. These results suggest the potential for clinical utility of a brief functional status self-report measure related to cognitive abilities in early HIV-1 infection for the screening and diagnosis of HIV-1 associated cognitive-motor disorders.
Maximal Inequalities for Bessel Processes S : E : G

and the boundary point 0 is a trap if 0 , a reflecting boundary if 0 < < 2 , and an entrance boundary if 2 . (For more information about Bessel processes we shall refer the reader to [4], [5], [7], [8], [9], [11], [13] and [14].) The Bessel processes of dimension 1 are submartingales. The Bessel processes of dimension 0 are supermartingales. However, the Bessel processes of dimension 0 < < 1 are not semimartingales. The Bessel process Z of dimension = n 2 N may be realized as the radial part of the n-dimensional Brownian motion B(n) = B1(t); . ; Bn(t) t 0 :
AdS/CFT description of D-particle decay

O † ˆ OJ is shown to be inappropriate, even in the large-N limit. The reason is that the final state consists of a large number of particles. By computing all probabilities for finding multi-particle states in the coherent state, we deduce the bulk particle content of the final state of the sphaleron decay. The qualitative features of this spectrum are compared with the results expected from the gravity side, and agreement is found. The spectrum of type-IIB string theory contains, apart from the stable BPS and non-BPS states, also a wide variety of unstable D-branes. These unstable branes contain a tachyon field on their world-volume, and the condensation of this field corresponds to the decay of the brane. Recently, a lot of progress has been made in understanding the dynamical aspects of the decay of unstable branes. Most of the analysis was performed directly using boundary conformal field theory in flat space, initiated by Sen’s construction of the boundary states for decaying D-branes [1], or by using the c = 1 matrix model for the description of the decay of D-branes in 1+1 dimensional string theory [2]. In the present paper we would like to study the problem of decaying branes in the set-up of the “standard” AdS/CFT correspondence. As was argued by Harvey et al. [3], the unstable Dbranes in string-theory are equivalents of “sphalerons”: they are unstable solutions located at a saddle point of the potential in configuration space, at the top of a noncontractible loop [4]. In the context of the AdS/CFT conjecture, this correspondence between unstable D-branes and sphalerons is in fact even more direct. It has been argued by Drukker et al. [5] that the existence of sphaleronic saddle points in the potential of the theories on both sides is a feature which is preserved when going from weak to strong coupling, despite the fact that the precise form of the potential receives quantum corrections. The unstable D-particles of string theory are then in precise correspondence with known sphaleron solutions of the dual gauge theory. Kinematical aspects of this correspondence were investigated in detail in [5]. In the present paper, we will analyse dynamical aspects of this correspondence. Our analysis consists of three parts. First, we will construct the classical solution of the decaying sphaleron, and obtain a quantum
A simpler and more efficient iterative learning controller for PMSM torque ripple reduction

Torque ripple minimization for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) based on PI-type iterative learning control (PIILC) strategy is discussed in this paper. Iterative learning control is naturally a good choice for minimize periodic torque ripple due to its data storage characteristic. To assure parameter convergence, infinite norm is used in controller design for learning gains. The approach proposed is not only simpler than conventional methods but more efficient because it is not necessary to detect electromagnetic torque and feed it back to the current loop. Several simulations are presented, suggesting that the method addressed is effective for constant-speed reference commands in torque ripple reduction.
Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Protocol

The Network File System (NFS) version 4 is a distributed filesystem protocol which owes heritage to NFS protocol version 2, RFC 1094, and version 3, RFC 1813. Unlike earlier versions, the NFS version 4 protocol supports traditional file access while integrating support for file locking and the mount protocol. In addition, support for strong security (and its negotiation), compound operations, client caching, and internationalization have been added. Of course, attention has been applied to making NFS version 4 operate well in an Internet environment.
A comparison of a flexometallic tracheal tube with the intubating laryngeal mask tracheal tube for nasotracheal fibreoptic intubation using the two‐scope technique *

We compared the incidence and site of impingement of a flexometallic tracheal tube with those of the re‐usable intubating laryngeal mask (ILMA) tube in 60 anaesthetised patients undergoing nasotracheal fibreoptic intubation for oral surgery. A two‐scope technique was used, observing the site of impingement with one scope whilst intubating with the other. The tubes were 6.0‐mm in females and 6.5‐mm in males. Impingement occurred with 10 (33%) flexometallic and 2 (7%) ILMA tubes (p < 0.032). In all but one case, the impingement was posterior to the right arytenoid cartilage. When impingement was observed, a single disempaction with a 90° anticlockwise rotational manoeuvre overcame impingement in every case except one, allowing successful intubation. We conclude that the incidence of impingement of the tracheal tube, and therefore of potential laryngeal trauma from nasotracheal fibreoptic intubation, is significantly greater with the flexometallic tube than with the ILMA tube.
On the Complexity of Recognizing Hamming Graphs and Related Classes of Graphs

This paper contains a new algorithm that recognizes whether a given graph G is a Hamming graph , i . e . a Cartesian product of complete graphs , in O ( m ) time and O ( n 2 ) space . Here m and n denote the numbers of edges and vertices of G , respectively . Previously this was only possible in O ( m log n ) time . Moreover , we present a survey of other recognition algorithms for Hamming graphs , retracts of Hamming graphs and isometric subgraphs of Hamming graphs . Special emphasis is also given to the bipartite case in which these classes are reduced to binary Hamming graphs , median graphs and partial binary Hamming graphs .
Prevention of Cyberbullying and Cyber Victimization: Evaluation of the ViSC Social Competence Program

It is well-documented that cyberbullying and victimization co-occur with traditional forms indicating that they share similar mechanisms. Therefore, it was hypothesized that the general antibullying program ViSC might also be effective in tackling these new forms of bullying. A longitudinal randomized control group design has been applied to examine the program effectiveness in 18 schools. In total, 2,042 students in Grades 5 to 7 (47.3% girls) aged 11.7 (SD = 0.9) attending 105 classes participated in the study. Utilizing a multiple group bivariate latent change score model controlling for traditional aggression, traditional victimization, and age, results demonstrate program effectiveness for cyberbullying (latent d = 0.39) and cyber victimization (latent d = 0.29) indicating that these behaviors reflect a systemic (school) problem.
Human papillomavirus type distribution in invasive cervical cancer and high‐grade cervical lesions: A meta‐analysis update

Data on human papillomavirus (HPV) type distribution in invasive and pre‐invasive cervical cancer is essential to predict the future impact of HPV16/18 vaccines and HPV‐based screening tests. A meta‐analyses of HPV type distribution in invasive cervical cancer (ICC) and high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) identified a total of 14,595 and 7,094 cases, respectively. In ICC, HPV16 was the most common, and HPV18 the second most common, type in all continents. Combined HPV16/18 prevalence among ICC cases was slightly higher in Europe, North America and Australia (74–77%) than in Africa, Asia and South/Central America (65–70%). The next most common HPV types were the same in each continent, namely HPV31, 33, 35, 45, 52 and 58, although their relative importance differed somewhat by region. HPV18 was significantly more prevalent in adeno/adenosquamous carcinoma than in squamous cell carcinoma, with the reverse being true for HPV16, 31, 33, 52 and 58. Among HSIL cases, HPV16/18 prevalence was 52%. However, HPV 16, 18 and 45 were significantly under‐represented, and other high‐risk HPV types significantly over‐represented in HSIL compared to ICC, suggesting differences in type‐specific risks for progression. Data on HPV‐typed ICC and HSIL cases were particularly scarce from large regions of Africa and Central Asia. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Marital Conflict, Divorce and Single Parenthood as Predictors of Adolescents’ Antisocial Behaviour in Ibadan

Manifestation of antisocial behaviour among adolescents in secondary schools in Nigeria is escalating day by day, threatening the peace and security of the society. It has been speculated in many quarters that the menace of unstable families is likely to be the cause. Hence, this study investigated the predictive effects of marital conflict, divorce and single parenthood on antisocia l behaviours among secondary school adolescents in Ibadan. Three hundred adolescents were randomly selected from Ibadan metropolis. Three research questions were raised, and the Crime Behaviour Factor Battery was used to collect data. The result revealed t
Severe Vitamin E deficiency modulates airway allergic inflammatory responses in the murine asthma model

Allergic asthma is a complex immunologically mediated disease associated with increased oxidative stress and altered antioxidant defenses. It was hypothesized that α-tocopherol (α-T) decreases oxidative stress and therefore its absence may influence allergic inflammatory process, a pathobiology known to be accompanied by oxidative stress. Therefore, selected parameters of allergic asthma sensitization and inflammation were evaluated following ovalbumin sensitization and re-challenge of α-T transfer protein (TTP) knock-out mice (TTP−/−) that have greatly reduced lung α-T levels (e.g.<5%) compared to their litter mate controls (TTP+/+). Results showed that severe α-T deficiency result in a blunted lung expression of IL-5 mRNA and IL-5 protein and plasma IgE levels compared with TTP+/+ mice following immune sensitization and rechallenge, although lung lavage eosinophil levels were comparable in both genomic strains. It is concluded that the initial stimulation of immune responses by the TTP−/− mice were generally blunted compared to the TTP+/+ mice, thus diminishing some aspects of subsequent allergic inflammatory processes.
The naturalistic imperative in cognitive science

This thesis reviews current progress in cognitive science towards satisfying the naturalistic imperative. Caref ul attention is paid to distinguishing metaphysical naturalism £rom methodological naturalism. Following this, methodological naturalism is further clarified as the set of imperatives: analyse, formalise, and mechanise. It is argued that simulation on its own is insufficient for satisfying these imperatives . Instead i t must be supplemented and constrained by existing psychological theory which wi1I indicate the relevant features for cornparision in any simulation that seeks to be an explanation of human cognition. Therefore, we turn to an examination of current work in cognitive psychology. Specif ically, we examine areas where attempts are being made to analyse and formalise cognition in terms of more basic psychological processes. So, the thesis proceeds to examine current work on categorisation and the nature of concepts, memory, problern solving, and inference. Lt shows how each can be considered a basic process in tems of which the rest of cognition might be analysed and formalised. However, we also discover that in each of these areas the naturalistic imperative is being seriously frustrated by a combination of conceptual and methodological problems. It is further shown that these problems are not independent but stem from a deep problem concerning the relationship between the two central notions of representation and relevance. The thesis argues for a very tight interdependence between the two notions so that whenever one is being used theoretically the other is being presupposed. In turn, it argues that this interdependence is frustrating current attempts to naturalise cognition. What then follows is an examination of attempts to break out of this bind by independently naturalising representation or relevance. These two projects are shown to fail precisely because they cannot break the interdependence between representation and relevance. It is argued that what i s behind this representation-relevance problem is a very serious problem in any attempt to naturalise the notion of relevance. Finally, there is a discussion of what follows for philosophy and cognitive science i f relevance cannot be completely naturalised.
Interaction histories mining for software change guide

This paper presents a prediction model for change propagation based on the developers 'interaction history. Since artifacts have internal and external dependencies, a change will cause some changes on related artifacts. In order to guide change operations in software development, our proposed method generates a change guide graph by mining developers' interaction histories which consist of write and read accesses to artifacts. Using a change guide graph, we can guide change using the context of previous changes. To evaluate proposed change guide method, we perform a case study with an open-source software. We show that the context information is effective for file level and method level change predictions.