Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Early organization, commercialization and weaponization of social media in the entertainment industry: A case study, Bones, season 6 (2010–2011)

Abstract As a television series, the Fox procedural crime drama Bones is exceptional. Having completed its twelfth and final season (2017), it is the longest running drama in the studio’s history. It is also a pioneer in its interactions with social media, offering a precedent-setting early example of online potential for organizing, commercializing and weaponizing social media platforms. During its sixth season (2010–2011) interactions between fans on social media and showrunners erupted into an internet war which when organized into an analytical model demonstrates the potential damage such conflict can cause not only to a specific television production but by extension to its showrunners as well. This transformative moment in the history of television illustrates the point at which fans who had once communicated individually now had means to connect as active online aggregates and express their views across multiple public forums. This case study illustrates the convergence of social and broadcast media and demonstrates an elemental shift in the interpersonal dynamic employed by viewers and showrunners. Considered in this article are the showrunners’ initial narrative intentions, how those intentions changed, and how they ran into conflict with the expectations of social media fans. Using this analysis and the resulting metrics of ratings, DVD sales and advertising costs, a construct can be formed that suggests the ways in which such a conflict can affect overall audience viewing patterns, impact future projects, and how social media, itself, has become a recognized and increasingly powerful entertainment tool.
Automatic comic strip generation using extracted keyframes from cartoon animation

This paper proposes a novel method to generate comic strips from cartoon animation with the aim to cover more contents featured in each panel with more systematic representation. Consider that general techniques on video summarization usually drop some important contents due to its restriction on aspect ratio; this paper thus proposes a new method using panorama technology to include more details in each keyframe. The concept is to obtain various sizes keyframes generated from panning and non-panning shots. Each of these generated keyframes is treated as a comic strip panel. They are organized to be represented in comic books style. The results of this proposed method are the comic strip pages consist of comic panels derived from generated keyframes of various cartoon animations which are more aesthetic than lining ordinary keyframes up, and also have their contents similar to their respective comic adaptations.
New Educational Tools And CurriculumEnhancements For MotivatingEngineering Students To Design And RealizeBio-inspired Products

The use of bio-inspiration to create new products and devices requires the development of new design tools and manufacturing technologies, as well as the education of students capable of using them. At the University of Maryland, we have developed new educational tools that emphasize bioinspired product realization. These tools include the development of a bioinspired design repository, a concurrent fabrication and assembly technology that focuses on the use of multi-piece, multi-stage molds to affordably manufacture large numbers of bio-inspired products, and a series of undergraduate curriculum enhancements. This paper provides an overview of these two technologies and describes how these technologies are integrated into the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The new educational tools provide students with the fundamental design and manufacturing principles needed in bio-inspired product and device development. The curriculum changes culminate in an elective course undertaken in their senior year.
Tension research of a cable-driven biomimetic shoulder robot

In cable-driven 3-DOF (Degree of Freedom) robot, cable is only to be stretched but not compressed. It is significant to research the cable tension. It is easy to analyze assignment situation of cable tension by geometry. Tension coefficient is proposed as the appraisal for tension assignment. With tension coefficient distribution map, it has a direct-viewing understanding of tension workspace, then the effective tension assignment optimization algorithm is proposed; After discussion, it will obtain the smallest real-time computation preload force formula, thus it will guarantee that the cable tension is at tightens in every condition; Finally, with the prototype's strength examination system the tension feedback experiment is taken, which will confirm above theory.
Power Allocation and Coding for Image Transmission over Wireless Channels

In this paper, joint optimization of power allocation and channel coding is proposed for image transmission over wireless channels. The proposed scheme works iteratively to find the optimum combination of coding and power transmitted for individual bits to minimize the mean square error for better image quality. It is shown that bits of significant importance (most significant bits) should always be coded and allocated most of the power transmitted. However, other bits of less significance may be sent without coding and with less power. This is done while maintaining the average energy per bit at the same level. The combined approach shows a gain of about 3 dB compared to the case of coding alone. It also has better performance compared to the case of power allocation alone while reducing the peak-to-average ratio.
LinkedIn communities als recruitment instrument : De rol van ‘community’ identificatie en betrokkenheid voor loyaal gedrag van kandidaten

Het internet en vooral de opkomst van sociale netwerksites hebben het speelveld van recruiters ingrijpend veranderd. Kandidaten zijn actieve spelers geworden die hun loopbaan in eigen hand nemen. Loyale kandidaten, die de voorkeur hebben om diensten van een organisatie opnieuw te gebruiken, kunnen het verschil maken voor effectieve recruitment. Door ‘online communities’ op bijvoorbeeld LinkedIn te sponsoren onderhouden werkgevers al in een vroeg stadium contact met mogelijke kandidaten. In deze bijdrage worden inzichten uit de marketingliteratuur toegepast om te begrijpen hoe gesponsorde online communities (zoals LinkedIn communities) bijdragen aan het verkrijgen van kandidaten die zich loyaal gedragen jegens organisaties. Er werd verwacht dat loyaal gedrag jegens de community sponsor (de recruiter en diens organisatie) voort zou komen uit een gevoel van identificatie met en betrokkenheid bij de online community. Door middel van een online vragenlijst in acht verschillende LinkedIn communities werden gegevens verzameld van 128 deelnemers. Multivariate analyses bevestigden het belang van identificatie en betrokkenheid van deelnemers bij de community voor loyaal gedrag richting de community sponsor. Deze resultaten bevestigen het belang van relatiemarketing theorie- en strategie voor het optimaliseren van moderne recruitment processen.
Common chairs and chimerical measures

This paper argues that many of the attempts to put important aspects of human life into tabular form, by devising schemes for counting everything that counts, may have serious flaws. Using an attempt to get a measure of a common chair it demonstrates that without deep insight into the objects measured, measurements of quality, whether of chairs, managers or research efforts, might become arbitrary and misleading. The paper argues that reliance on such measures may have very problematic effects on individual attitudes and behaviour, leading people to orientate their efforts in the direction of what is measured and valued, whatever its relevance, and to disregard aspects that are not or cannot be counted even if they are deemed important. Not all calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions. There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Supposing we were to reserve our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!
The independent prospective associations of activity intensity and dietary energy density with adiposity in young adolescents

Abstract There is limited evidence on the prospective association of time spent in activity intensity (sedentary (SED), moderate (MPA) or vigorous (VPA) physical activity) and dietary intake with adiposity indicators in young people. This study aimed to assess associations between (1) baseline objectively measured activity intensity, dietary energy density (DED) and 4-year change in adiposity and (2) 4-year change in activity intensity/DED and adiposity at follow-up. We conducted cohort analyses including 367 participants (10 years at baseline, 14 years at follow-up) with valid data for objectively measured activity (Actigraph), DED (4-d food diary), anthropometry (waist circumference (WC), %body fat (%BF), fat mass index (FMI), weight status) and covariates. Linear and logistic regression models were fit, including adjustment for DED and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Results showed that baseline DED was associated with change in WC (β for 1kJ/g difference: 0·71; 95% CI 0·26, 1·17), particularly in boys (1·26; 95% CI 0·41, 2·16 v. girls: 0·26; 95% CI −0·34, 0·87), but not with %BF, FMI or weight status. In contrast, baseline SED, MPA or VPA were not associated with any of the outcomes. Change in DED was negatively associated with FMI (β for 1kJ/g increase: −0·86; 95% CI −1·59, −0·12) and %BF (−0·86; 95% CI −1·25, −0·11) but not WC (−0·27; 95% CI −1·02, 0·48). Change in SED, MPA and VPA did not predict adiposity at follow-up. In conclusion, activity intensity was not prospectively associated with adiposity, whereas the directions of associations with DED were inconsistent. To inform public health efforts, future studies should continue to analyse longitudinal data to further understand the independent role of different energy-balance behaviours in changes in adiposity in early adolescence.
A Feature Points Matching Algorithm Based on Wavelet Analysis

In this paper, we present an application of wavelet analysis on feature points matching. Wavelet coefficients which produced by wavelet transform can best display part character of the image. Through the new feature description and feature matching method, we can build a feature point database for each image and improve the efficiency of feature points matching. The experimental results show that this method is practicability, feasibility, good precision and fast speed.
A Note on Beauville p-Groups

We examine which p-groups of order ⩽p 6 are Beauville. We completely classify them for groups of order ⩽p 4. We also show that the proportion of 2-generated groups of order p 5 that are Beauville tends to 1 as p tends to infinity; this is not true, however, for groups of order p 6. For each prime p we determine the smallest nonabelian Beauville p-group.
Energy-Efficient Wireless MAC Protocols for Railway Monitoring Applications

Recent advances in wireless sensor networking (WSN) techniques have encouraged interest in the development of vehicle health monitoring (VHM) systems. These have the potential for use in the monitoring of railway signaling systems and rail tracks. Energy efficiency is one of the most important design factors for the WSNs as the typical sensor nodes are equipped with limited power batteries. In earlier research, an energy-efficient cluster-based adaptive time-division multiple-access (TDMA) medium-access-control (MAC) protocol, named EA-TDMA, has been developed by the authors for the purpose of communication between the sensors placed in a railway wagon. This paper proposes another new protocol, named E-BMA, which achieves even better energy efficiency for low and medium traffic by minimizing the idle time during the contention period. In addition to railway applications, the EA-TDMA and E-BMA protocols are suitable for generic wireless data communication purposes. Both analytical and simulation results for the energy consumption of TDMA, EA-TDMA, BMA, and E-BMA have been presented in this paper to demonstrate the superiority of the EA-TDMA and E-BMA protocols.
Problem-solving differences in exercise behaviour motivation in cardiac rehabilitation participants

Despite the positive outcomes of regular physical activity achieved in structured cardiac rehabilitation (CR), adherence to self-managed exercise post-CR is a problem. The Model of Social Problem-Solving (MSPS) suggests that individual differences in problem-solving abilities are linked to outcomes when individuals are challenged. Types of motivation are also linked to regulation of behaviour. Self-Determination Theory suggests the most positive outcomes are achieved through self-determined motivation (Vallerand et al., 2008). Self-determined regulation is related to increased persistence and likelihood to maintain behaviour (Deci & Ryan, 2002). Problem-solving is related to CR patients' exercise, but has not been examined relative to types of motivation. We compared CR participants more and less effective in problem-solving relative to (1) autonomous and (2) controlled motivation for regular exercise and (3) autonomy for CR exercise participation. Novice CR participants (N = 90; 66% male; Mage = 64.4 years) enrolled in a health region CR program completed measures of problem-solving effectiveness, autonomous and controlled motivation, autonomy, and persistence. MANOVA revealed a between-groups effect, Wilk's lambda = . 74, p < . 001, eta2 = . 26. Follow-up ANOVAs revealed more effective problem-solvers had significantly higher autonomous motivation and autonomy, and lower controlled motivation (p's < .05, effect sizes = .06 to .19). Autonomous motivation and autonomy significantly predicted post-CR persistence with exercise (p's ≤ .05). Findings expand the emerging literature on problem-solving in CR patients' exercise and support MSPS-based contentions.Acknowledgments: Royal University Hospital Foundation Research Fund; SSHRC Canada Research Chair Training Funds
Non-coherent and semi-coherent schemes for physical-layer wireless network coding

We investigate non-coherent and semi-coherent schemes for physical-layer network coding in two-way relaying scenarios. We distinguish between scenarios without any channel knowledge requirements (non-coherent communication) and scenarios when either the relay or the users have receive channel knowledge (semi-coherent communication). We combine the paradigm of subspace-based communication originally developed for non-coherent point-to-point channels, with two-way relaying schemes based on physical-layer wireless network coding with denoise-and-forward (DNF). The aim is to demonstrate that denoising can be performed non-coherently and to investigate if these schemes offer an improvement over the schemes based on amplify-and-forward (AF).
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect in Abell 370

We present interferometric measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect toward the galaxy cluster Abell 370. These measurements, which directly probe the pressure of the cluster's gas, show the gas distribution to be strongly aspherical, as do the X-ray and gravitational lensing observations. We calculate the cluster's gas mass fraction in two ways. We first compare the gas mass derived from the SZ measurements to the lensing-derived gravitational mass near the critical lensing radius. We also calculate the gas mass fraction from the SZ data by deprojecting the three-dimensional gas density distribution and deriving the total mass under the assumption that the gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium (HSE). We test the assumptions in the HSE method by comparing the total cluster mass implied by the two methods and find that they agree within the errors of the measurement. We discuss the possible systematic errors in the gas mass fraction measurement and the constraints it places on the matter density parameter, ΩM.
Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity

Objective The commensal microbiota, host immunity and metabolism participate in a signalling network, with diet influencing each component of this triad. In addition to diet, many elements of a modern lifestyle influence the gut microbiota but the degree to which exercise affects this population is unclear. Therefore, we explored exercise and diet for their impact on the gut microbiota. Design Since extremes of exercise often accompany extremes of diet, we addressed the issue by studying professional athletes from an international rugby union squad. Two groups were included to control for physical size, age and gender. Compositional analysis of the microbiota was explored by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Each participant completed a detailed food frequency questionnaire. Results As expected, athletes and controls differed significantly with respect to plasma creatine kinase (a marker of extreme exercise), and inflammatory and metabolic markers. More importantly, athletes had a higher diversity of gut micro-organisms, representing 22 distinct phyla, which in turn positively correlated with protein consumption and creatine kinase. Conclusions The results provide evidence for a beneficial impact of exercise on gut microbiota diversity but also indicate that the relationship is complex and is related to accompanying dietary extremes.
Subpixel Scanning Invariant to Indirect Lighting Using Quadratic Code Length

We present a scanning method that recovers dense sub pixel camera-projector correspondence without requiring any photometric calibration nor preliminary knowledge of their relative geometry. Sub pixel accuracy is achieved by considering several zero-crossings defined by the difference between pairs of unstructured patterns. We use gray-level band-pass white noise patterns that increase robustness to indirect lighting and scene discontinuities. Simulated and experimental results show that our method recovers scene geometry with high sub pixel precision, and that it can handle many challenges of active reconstruction systems. We compare our results to state of the art methods such as micro phase shifting and modulated phase shifting.
Different Patterns of Respiration in Rat Lines Selectively Bred for High or Low Anxiety

In humans, there is unequivocal evidence of an association between anxiety states and altered respiratory function. Despite this, the link between anxiety and respiration has been poorly evaluated in experimental animals. The primary objective of the present study was to investigate the hypothesis that genetic lines of rats that differ largely in their anxiety level would display matching alterations in respiration. To reach this goal, respiration was recorded in high-anxiety behavior (HAB, n = 10) and low-anxiety behavior (LAB, n = 10) male rats using whole-body plethysmography. In resting state, respiratory rate was higher in HABs (85±2 cycles per minute, cpm) than LABs (67±2 cpm, p<0.05). During initial testing into the plethysmograph and during a restraint test, HAB rats spent less time at high-frequency sniffing compared to LAB rats. In addition, HAB rats did not habituate in terms of respiratory response to repetitive acoustic stressful stimuli. Finally, HAB rats exhibited a larger incidence of sighs during free exploration of the plethysmograph and under stress conditions. We conclude that: i) HAB rats showed respiratory changes (elevated resting respiratory rate, reduced sniffing in novel environment, increased incidence of sighs, and no habituation of the respiratory response to repetitive stimuli) that resemble those observed in anxious and panic patients, and ii) respiratory patterns may represent a promising way for assessing anxiety states in preclinical studies.
On-Demand Dynamic Branch Prediction

In out-of-order (OoO) processors, speculative execution with high branch prediction accuracy is employed to achieve good single thread performance. In these processors the branch prediction unit tables (BPU) are accessed in parallel with the instruction cache before it is known whether a fetch group contains branch instructions. For integer applications, we find 85 percent of BPU lookups are done for non-branch operations and of the remaining lookups, 42 percent are done for highly biased branches that can be predicted statically with high accuracy. We evaluate on-demand branch prediction (ODBP), a novel technique that uses compiler generated hints to identify those instructions that can be more accurately predicted statically to eliminate unnecessary BPU lookups. We evaluate an implementation of ODBP that combines static and dynamic branch prediction. For a four wide superscalar processor, ODBP delivers as much as 9 percent improvement in average energy-delay (ED) product, 7 percent core average energy saving, and 3 percent speedup. ODBP also enables the use of large BPU's for a given power budget.
A living fossil tale of Pangaean biogeography

The current distributions of widespread groups of terrestrial animals and plants are supposedly the result of a mixture of either vicariance owing to continental split or more recent trans-oceanic dispersal. For organisms exhibiting a vicariant biogeographic pattern—achieving their current distribution by riding on the plates of former supercontinents—this view is largely inspired by the belief that Pangaea lacked geographical or ecological barriers, or that extinctions and dispersal would have erased any biogeographic signal since the early Mesozoic. We here present a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of Onychophora (velvet worms), an ancient and exclusively terrestrial panarthropod group distributed throughout former Pangaean landmasses. Our data not only demonstrate that trans-oceanic dispersal does not need be invoked to explain contemporary distributions, but also reveal that the early diversification of the group pre-dates the break-up of Pangaea, maintaining regionalization even in landmasses that have remained contiguous throughout the history of the group. These results corroborate a growing body of evidence from palaeontology, palaeogeography and palaeoclimatic modelling depicting ancient biogeographic regionalization over the continuous landmass of Pangaea.