Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
L'intérêt clinique du modèle de personnalité en cinq facteurs

Le questionnaire de personnalite NEO-PIR et le modele de personnalite en cinq facteurs, qui lui est sous-jacent, meritent de retenir l'attention des psychologues cliniciens. La structure a deux etages du modele, dans lequel les cinq dimensions principales sont chacune subdivisees en six facettes, permet une analyse tres fine des particularites comportementales, cognitives et affectives des patients atteints de troubles anxieux et depressifs. A partir des premiers resultats de l'application du NEO-PI ou du NEO-PIR, on presente quelques reflexions et hypotheses. Tout d'abord, on souligne que les questionnaires de personnalite permettent paradoxalement le devoilement d'aspects non-conscients du fonctionnement psychique des patients. Ensuite, on avance l'hypothese que les notes d'agreabilite et de « conscienciosite » pourraient varier en fonction du niveau de l'estime de soi des sujets. Pour finir, on propose l'idee que les profils de personnalite des patients psychiatriques sont plus nombreux et plus contrastes que les profils observables chez les sujets normaux.
An Investigation of the Evaluation of the Viral Marketing Research

This paper aims to locate the key schools of thought in viral marketing VM literature, recognise the various sub-sets within viral marketing overall area of research and to identify the different gaps in viral marketing research literature offering a summation of the existing work done so far. The paper tries to build on the existing body of literature in the field of viral marketing, its related electronic word of mouth eWOM context and to present a taxonomic classification for future research. The review uses the paradigm funnel to examine the development of VM, key research contributions and categorises the published literature according to their objectives, analytical approaches and their contributions to theory. The literature addresses many subjects of study e.g. E-Marketing, E-Word of Mouth, Social Media, Peer-to-Peer Communications, Viral Marketing, Buzz Marketing, Stealth Marketing, Viral Advertising, Viral Videos and other aligned research areas. The findings illustrated that there are various gaps in the literature that require further investigation. Based on the findings, it is evident that the existing frameworks arising from the literature should be enhanced by the adoption of qualitative approaches that explore how general observations respond to contingent factors.
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus-Infected Hepatocytes Induce ER-Stress and Apoptosis Crosstalk

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a widely distributed tick-borne member of the Nairovirus genus (Bunyaviridae) with a high mortality rate in humans. CCHFV induces a severe disease in infected patients that includes, among other symptoms, massive liver necrosis and failure. The interaction between liver cells and CCHFV is therefore important for understanding the pathogenesis of this disease. Here, we described the in vitro CCHFV-infection and -replication in the hepatocyte cell line, Huh7, and the induced cellular and molecular response modulation. We found that CCHFV was able to infect and replicate to high titres and to induce a cytopathic effect (CPE). We also observed by flow cytometry and real time quantitative RT-PCR evidence of apoptosis, with the participation of the mitochondrial pathway. On the other hand, we showed that the replication of CCHFV in hepatocytes was able to interfere with the death receptor pathway of apoptosis. Furthermore, we found in CCHFV-infected cells the over-expression of PUMA, Noxa and CHOP suggesting the crosstalk between the ER-stress and mitochondrial apoptosis. By ELISA, we observed an increase of IL-8 in response to viral replication; however apoptosis was shown to be independent from IL-8 secretion. When we compared the induced cellular response between CCHFV and DUGV, a mild or non-pathogenic Nairovirus for humans, we found that the most striking difference was the absence of CPE and apoptosis. Despite the XBP1 splicing and PERK gene expression induced by DUGV, no ER-stress and apoptosis crosstalk was observed. Overall, these results suggest that CCHFV is able to induce ER-stress, activate inflammatory mediators and modulate both mitochondrial and death receptor pathways of apoptosis in hepatocyte cells, which may, in part, explain the role of the liver in the pathogenesis of CCHFV.
An Exploratory Investigation of Frontline Employees’ Family Interferences on Job Attitudes and Service Outcomes

This study examines the negative spillover effect of hospitality frontline employees’ work-family conflicts on their affective reactions and commitment and on customer satisfaction. As a field survey indicated, frontline employees’ role conflicts between work and family result in less positive affective job-related reactions, decreased emotional attachment to the organization, and lower levels of customer satisfaction. The findings suggest that tourism & hospitality organizations need to be aware of how factors outside the workplace influence service excellence.
Single-Event Upsets Characterization &amp; Evaluation of Xilinx UltraScale&#8482; Soft Error Mitigation (SEM IP) Tool

This paper examines the single-event upset response of the Xilinx UltraScale Soft Error Mitigation (SEM IP) software tool irradiated with a 64MeV proton source. The SEM SEU results are then compared to accelerated particle testing results for the Xilinx 20nm Kintex family, collected at LANSCE and Crocker, to evaluate its capability to detect &amp; collect SEU accurately. Furthermore, Xilinx 20nm stacked silicon on interposer (SSI) technology SEU response is characterized. SEU and MBU results are presented.
IntellWheels: Intelligent wheelchair with user-centered design

Intelligent wheelchairs can become an important solution to assist physically impaired individuals who find it difficult or impossible to drive regular powered wheelchairs. However, when designing the hardware architecture several projects compromise the user comfort and the wheelchair normal usability in order to solve robotic problems. In this paper we describe the main concepts regarding the design of the IntellWheels intelligent wheelchair. Our approach has a user-centered perspective, in which the needs and limitations of physically impaired users are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. Finally, our design was evaluated through a public opinion assessment. A statistical analysis suggested that the design was effective to mitigate the visual and ergonomic impacts caused by the addition of sensorial and processing capabilities on the wheelchair.
PCANet for Blind Image Quality Assessment

In this work, we introduce a simple deep learning network, namely, PCANet to general-purpose blind/no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA). The goal of no-reference/blind image quality assessment (NR-IQA) is to devise a perceptual model that can accurately predict the quality of a distorted image as human opinions, in which feature extraction is an important issue. However, for most NR-IQA models, their features extraction process were some kind of supervised models and the features are usually natural scene statistics (NSS) based or are perceptually relevant, therefore the performance of these models is limited. In this paper, we present a new NR-IQA metric in which the features are extracted unsupervisely. Once the parameters have been given to the trained deep network, it outputs the final result without any manual mending. Experimental results on the LIVE dataset show that this approach yields state-of-the-art performance.
Nutrient Intakes and Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus and Distal Stomach

We studied the relationship between nutrient intakes and adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and distal stomach among 124 esophageal adenocarcinoma cases, 124 distal stomach cancer cases, and 449 controls in a population-based case-control study in eastern Nebraska. The residual method was used to adjust nutrient intake quartiles or tertiles for energy intake. We observed significant inverse associations with risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma for dietary intakes of total vitamin A [highest vs. lowest quartile, multivariate odds ratio (OR) = 0.5, P for trend = 0.05], β-cryptoxanthin (OR = 0.5, P = 0.05), riboflavin (OR = 0.5, P = 0.01), folate (OR = 0.5, P = 0.03), zinc (OR = 0.5, P = 0.05), dietary fiber (OR = 0.5, P = 0.05), protein (OR = 0.5, P = 0.02), and carbohydrate (OR = 0.4, P = 0.02). For distal stomach cancer, only vitamin C (OR = 0.6, P = 0.04), dietary fiber (OR = 0.4, P = 0.007), and carbohydrate (OR = 0.4, P = 0.004) were inversely associated with risk. Our analyses showed significant interaction between dietary fat intake, but not intakes of other nutrients, and respondent type for both cancer sites. Subgroup analyses among self-respondents revealed positive associations between saturated fat intake and risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma (OR = 1.0, 4.1, and 4.6 for intake tertiles, P for trend = 0.02) and risk of distal stomach cancer (OR = 1.0, 1.2, and 3.6, P = 0.03). However, no such associations were found among proxy respondents. Our data suggest that greater intake of dietary fiber, certain carotenoids, and vitamins may decrease the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma, whereas greater intake of saturated fat may increase the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma and distal stomach cancer.
Mutual Information based Rigid Medical Image registration using Normalized Tsallis entropy and Type II fuzzy index.

We investigated the registration of medical images based on the Normalized Tsallis entropy using mutual information measure. A prerequisite for successful registration is unambiguous maximum of mutual information. We discuss the framework of our algorithm with Normalized Tsallis entropy as the core. Further we propose a type II fuzzy based technique to select the optimal Tsallis parameter q which provides the best alignment. Consequently, specific instances of image registration involving rigid affine transformations were studied. Registration was applied to clinically acquired mammogram. The accuracy was compared with several other techniques. Our algorithm shows promising results. Further, the Need for Pre-registration in mammogram is discussed in detail. Our algorithm can be effective enough to replace Shannon and Tsallis entropy based affine registration.
A Delta-operator Approach to Robust Stabilization for Uncertain Time-delay Systems with Jumping Parameter

This paper deals with the robust stabilization for a class of linear Delta-operator formulated uncertain systems with state delays and jumping parameters. The transition of the jumping parameters in systems is governed by a finite-state Markov process. The class of systems is a hybrid class of systems with two components in the vector state. The first component refers to the mode and the second one to the state. The mode is described by a continuous Markov process with finite state space. The state in each mode is denoted by a stochastic differential equation. Based on stability theory in stochastic differential equations, a sufficient condition on the existence of robust stabilizing control law is derived. Based on this condition, a robust memoryless stabilizing control law is designed in terms of a set of linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example demonstrates the effect of the proposed design approach
A user-centric analysis of vertical handovers

To implement seamless mobility inside an integrated, multiple (e.g. GPRS/WiFi) access system, a vertical handover policy has to be devised. This is usually done at the mobile terminal, allowing it to be customized from a end-user perspective, in order to fit individual needs/preferences. We propose a new approach in taking vertical handover decisions, which are not anymore exclusively based on the knowledge of the available access networks' characteristics but also on higher level parameters which fall in the transport and application layers. To this extent, in this paper a model has been realized and simulations have been run in order to evaluate the impact of the vertical handover and its frequency on a set of typical user's network applications/services. We also take into account the user preferences in terms of cost and quality of service. We believe this approach reflects the optimal settings from the user's point of view with regard to his running services and applications. Our aim is to understand how to define a metric to be used in order to devise a solution which should try to balance the overall <i>cost</i> of vertical handovers with the actual benefits they bring to actual user's networking needs. This way, each mobile user could autonomously apply the handover decision policy which is more convenient to his specific needs.
Document-Oriented Database-Based Privacy Data Protection Architecture

NoSQL database has been popular in cloud storage and document-oriented database also has attracted much attention as a kind of NoSQL database. This paper introduces document-oriented database-based privacy data protection architecture. This architecture maintains the feature as scheme-free and nested document of document-oriented database, and protects tenants' privacy through split value and confused key. To prevent the attacker recombining the split value, we provide the theory of matching degree, and give related definition and algorithm to decrease the possibility of exposing tenants' privacy data. Finally the experiment proves that our architecture is practical and efficient.
Evolve Networks Towards Better Performance: a Compromise between Mutation and Selection

The interaction between natural selection and random mutation is frequently debated in recent years. Does similar dilemma also exist in the evolution of real networks such as biological networks? In this paper, we try to discuss this issue by a simple model system, in which the topological structure of networks is repeatedly modified and selected in order to make them have better performance in dynamical processes. Interestingly, when the networks with optimal performance deviate from the steady state networks under pure mutations, we find the evolution behaves as a balance between mutation and selection. Furthermore, when the timescales of mutations and dynamical processes are comparable with each other, the steady state of evolution is mainly determined by mutation. On the opposite side, when the timescale of mutations is much longer than that of dynamical processes, selection dominates the evolution and the steady-state networks turn to have much improved performance and highly heterogeneous structures. Despite the simplicity of our model system, this finding could give useful indication to detect the underlying mechanisms that rein the evolution of real systems.
Maximal path based conflict resolution approach in multiple homologous gene list alignment

This paper deals with the alignment of multiple homologous gene lists, which is a specific problem of multiple sequence alignment. In this case, the smallest unit of the input sequences is comprised of complete genes. An efficient graph based algorithm for the alignment of multiple homologous gene lists is presented in this paper. The fundamental concept to multiple sequence alignment and the graphical structure of the genomic segments are provided. Two heuristics are developed for the resolution of local alignment conflicts which reduces the search space while searching for the candidate link for deletion. The performance of the proposed algorithm is assessed by comparing the alignment results of homologous genomic segments in Arabidopsis thaliana to those obtained by using other alignment methods.
Campylobacter jejuni-Induced Cytokine Responses in Avian Cells

ABSTRACT Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of human inflammatory enteritis. During the course of human disease numerous proinflammatory cytokines are produced. Little is known, however, about the cytokine responses produced during the interaction of this bacterium with the avian host. Campylobacter has been considered a commensal of the avian host. Any differences in innate responses to this pathogen between the human and avian hosts should lead to a greater understanding of the disease process in humans. We have demonstrated expression of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines in response to Campylobacter infection in avian primary chick kidney cells and the avian macrophage cell line HD11. The data indicate that Campylobacter can stimulate the avian host in a proinflammatory manner. The data strongly suggest that the lack of pathology in vivo is not due to an inability of Campylobacter to stimulate a proinflammatory response from avian cells.
Les antécédents intra et inter-organisationnels du processus d’adoption des achats responsables

Les Achats Responsables (AR) constituent indeniablement un sujet d’actualite. Le developpement recent de la litterature sur cette thematique montre qu’ils suscitent un interet croissant aupres du monde academique. On peut toutefois regretter le deficit de reponses a l’enjeu managerial de leur mise en œuvre operationnelle. Cette these vise donc a combler ce manque en identifiant les antecedents (leviers et les obstacles) a l'adoption d'une demarche d'AR dans l'entreprise. Elle developpe un cadre d'analyse original qui considere non seulement l'importance des antecedents intra-organisationnels pour l'adoption perenne d'une telle demarche mais aussi le role cle joue par les relations collaboratives client-fournisseur. Ce cadre d'analyse a fait l'objet d'une validation empirique aupres de cinq grandes entreprises situees a des stades d'avancement distincts de la demarche d'AR.Les resultats montrent que les antecedents intra-organisationnels jouent un role critique pour la phase de mise en place et de deploiement, tandis que les antecedents inter-organisationnels (la relation collaborative client-fournisseur) apparaissent essentiels pour la perennite de l'adoption des AR. Cette recherche apporte des indications pour activer ces leviers au cours du processus d'adoption des AR. Elle aide egalement les entreprises a evoluer leur niveau d'adoption des AR.
A multi-faceted approach to high quality professional development

Meg Gawalis A MULTI-FACETED APPROACH TO HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2004/05 Dr. Dennis Hurley Master of Arts in School Administration The purpose of this study was to develop a meaningful professional development program that promotes lifelong learning and supports continued growth through individual and group activity that includes independent study, action research, study groups, peer coaching, reflective journaling, computer applications, and training. The sample population included 170 members of the teaching staff at Absegami High School, a large comprehensive high school located in Galloway Township, New Jersey. The study utilized an action research design in which a needs assessment was distributed to teachers to determine workshop offerings, and workshops were evaluated with respect to content, presenter, length of time, and relevance to classroom instruction. Analysis of the data showed the importance of the continued support of the novice and veteran teacher by offering high quality workshops that are both meaningful and promote professional growth.
Clinical Ophthalmology Dovepress Dovepress

hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms Visual field defects and changes in macular retinal ganglion cell complex thickness in eyes with intrachoroidal cavitation are similar to those in early glaucoma Background/aims: To examine the characteristics of visual field defects and optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings in eyes with intrachoroidal cavitation (ICC) and investigate the similarities between these results and glaucomatous changes. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed patients diagnosed with ICC based on peripapillary radial cross-sectional scans performed with OCT. Visual field was measured with the Humphrey automated visual field analyzer SITA standard central 24-2 program, and macular ganglion cell complex (GCC) thickness was measured in 9×9 mm areas on OCT. The positive rates for the Anderson criteria, site of visual field defect, and mean GCC thickness in each quadrant were compared; the association between these results and ICC location was assessed. Results: Fifteen eyes from eleven patients (five males and six females; mean age, 54.6±10.7 years) were selected for investigation. ICC was detected in the inferior temporal side of the optic disc in all studied eyes. The positive rate for the Anderson criteria was 73.3% (11/15 eyes). Visual field defects were most commonly observed in the cluster that corresponded to the superior Bjerrum area (53.3%; 8/15 eyes). GCC thickness was significantly lower in the inferior side, where the ICC was located, than the superior side, where the ICC was absent (P=0.0001). GCC thinning that correlated with ICC was observed in 66.7% (10/15 eyes) of the ICC eyes. Conclusion: Visual field and GCC findings on OCT in ICC eyes are extremely similar to those observed in superior visual field defect-type early glaucoma, indicating a possible difficulty in distinguishing the two conditions.
Revisiting two local constraints of the Galactic chemical evolution

I review the uncertainties in two observational local constraints of the Galactic disc chemical evolution: the metallicity distribution of long-lived dwarfs and the age–metallicity relation. Analysing most recent data, it is shown first that the observed metallicity distribution at solar galactocentric radius, designed with standard methods, is more fit to a closed-box model than to the infall metallicity distribution. We argue that this is due to the specific contribution of the thick-disc population, which has been overlooked both in the derivation of the observed metallicity distribution and in the standard chemical evolution models. Although this agreement disqualifies the metallicity distribution as the best supportive (indirect) evidence for infall, we argue that the evolution must be more complex than described by either the closed-box or the standard infall models. It is then shown that recent determinations of the age–metallicity distribution (AMD) from large Stromgren photometric surveys are dominated by noise resulting from systematic biases in metallicities and effective temperatures. These biases are evaluated and a new AMD is obtained, where particularities of the previous determinations are phased out. The new age–metallicity relation shows a mean increase limited to about a factor of 2 in Z over the disc age. It is shown that below 3 Gyr, the dispersion in metallicity is about 0.1 dex, which, given the observational uncertainties in the derived metallicities, is compatible with the small cosmic dispersion measured on the interstellar medium and meteoritic pre-solar dust grains. A population that is progressively older and more metal rich arises at a metallicity greater than that of the Hyades, to reach [Fe/H]≈+0.5 dex at ages greater than 5 Gyr. We suggest that this is best explained by radial migration. A symmetrical widening of the metallicity interval towards lower values is seen at about the same age, which is attributed to a similar cause. Finally, the new derived ages are sufficiently consistent that an age–metallicity relation within the thick disc is confirmed. These new features altogether draw a picture of the chemical evolution in the solar neighbourhood where dynamical effects and complexity in the AMD dominate, rather than a generalized high dispersion at all ages.