Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The role of the mother's voice in developing mother's face preference: Evidence for intermodal perception at birth

Four experiments are described which investigated the role of the mother's voice in facilitating recognition of the mother's face at birth. Experiment 1 replicated our previous findings (Br. J. Dev. Psychol. 1989; 7: 3–15; The origins of human face perception by very young infants. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1990) indicating a preference for the mother's face when a control for the mother's voice and odours was used only during the testing. A second experiment adopted the same procedures, but controlled for the mother's voice from birth through testing. The neonates were at no time exposed to their mother's voice. Under these conditions, no preference was found. Further, neonates showed only few head turns towards both the mother and the stranger during the testing. Experiment 3 looked at the number of head turns under conditions where the newborn infants were exposed to both the mother's voice and face from birth to 5 to 15 min prior to testing. Again, a strong preference for the mother's face was demonstrated. Such preference, however, vanished in Experiment 4, when neonates had no previous exposure to the mother's voice–face combination. The conclusion drawn is that a prior experience with both the mother's voice and face is necessary for the development of face recognition, and that intermodal perception is evident at birth. The neonates' ability to recognize the face of the mother is most likely to be rooted in prenatal learning of the mother's voice. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Trabectome success factors

Abstract Our objective is to investigate which factors and patient characteristics are associated with success in Trabectome surgery. A total of 658 phakic cases with at least of 12 months follow-up were included in the analysis. Baseline demographics and medical data were collected. The main outcome measure was intraocular pressure (IOP), glaucoma medication (Rx), and secondary glaucoma surgery if any. Success was defined as IOP reduction of 20% or more from preoperative IOP and IOP < 21 mm Hg with no secondary surgery throughout the follow-up period. Risk factors for failure were determined by using univariate and multivariate cox regression. At baseline, the average IOP was 23.6 ± 7.8 mm Hg and the average number of medications was 2.6 ± 1.3 for all cases. At 12 months, the average IOP was 16.0 ± 3.6 mm Hg (P < .01*) and the average number of medications was 1.8 ± 1.3 (P < .01*). Based on the result of multivariate cox regression model, we found that the Trabectome + Phaco (TP) and Trabectome alone (TA) group had a 94% and 79% survival rate at 12 months, respectively. TP cases had 78% lower risk of failure than TA (95% confidence interval [CI]: 54–89), diagnosis of pseudoexfoliation glaucoma had a 54% lower risk of failure than primary open angle glaucoma patients (95% CI: 1–78). Hispanics had an estimated hazard ratio that is 60% lower than Caucasians (95% CI: 18–80); 20% of TA cases and 3% of TP cases were required to undergo additional secondary surgery (P < .01). Trabectome surgery, whether in combination with phacoemulsification cataract removal or stand alone, is associated with a significant reduction of IOP and glaucoma medication. Patients having a higher baseline IOP are expected to have a higher IOP reduction after Trabectome. Pseudoexfoliation glaucoma, combination with phacoemulsification cataract surgery and Hispanic race are factors associated with enhanced Trabectome survival.
Preventing Binge Eating with Deep Brain Stimulation – Can Compulsive Eating be Switched Off?

Reward-seeking behaviors, including palatable food consumption, are underpinned by activation of mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) neurocircuitry, resulting in extracellular release of DA in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) (1). Dysregulation of the mesocorticolimbic DA system is proposed to underpin binge eating – the compulsive consumption of palatable food within a short time period. Intermittent access to palatable food can induce addiction-like behaviors including binging, withdrawal, and cravings, producing persistent DA increases within the NAc shell (NAcSh), similar to drug self-administration (1).
A Design Quality Model for Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is emerging as an effective solution to deal with rapid changes in the business environment. To handle fast-paced changes, organizations need to be able to assess the quality of its products prior to implementation. However, literature and industry has yet to explore the techniques for evaluating design quality of SOA artifacts. To address this need, this paper presents a hierarchical quality assessment model for early assessment of SOA system quality. By defining desirable quality attributes and tracing necessary metrics required to measure them, the approach establishes an assessment model for identification of metrics at different abstraction levels. Using the model, design problems can be detected and resolved before they work into the implemented system where they are more difficult to resolve. The model is validated against an empirical study on an existing SOA system to evaluate the quality impact from explicit and implicit changes to its requirements.
HYSTERICAL ANESTHESIA, ANALGESIA AND ASTEREOGNOSIS: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

It is unfortunate that with the realization of the psychic causation of hysterical symptoms there has been a widespread neglect of the study of these phenomena from the physiologic standpoint. Psychoanalysts, in their elaborations of the psychologic mechanisms involved in the production of conversion symptoms, have not questioned seriously the means by which the nervous system is able to build these sudden physiologic manifestations of psychopathologic processes. The existence of the question has not been entirely ignored, 1 but with the exception of Hurst, 2 who reported a number of excellent experiments on the frequency and extent of special sense disorders in the war neuroses, there is an astonishing paucity of experimental data bearing on the problem. That this paucity has been a result of a lack of adequate methodologic approach seems possible. However, within the last decade technics have been developed which should prove fruitful if employed in this
n-Dimensional Fuzzy Negations

$n$ -dimensional fuzzy sets theory is a broad research area extending fuzzy set theory where the membership values are $n$ -tuples of real numbers in the unit interval $[0,1]$ orderly increased, called $n$ -dimensional intervals. The set of $n$ -dimensional intervals is denoted by $L_{n}([0,1])$ . This paper investigates a special extension from $[0,1]$ — $n$ -representable fuzzy negations on $L_{n}([0,1])$ , summarizing the class of such functions that are continuous and monotone by part. The main properties of (strong) fuzzy negations on $[0,1]$ are preserved by representable (strong) fuzzy negation on $L_{n}([0,1])$ , mainly related to the analysis of degenerate elements and equilibrium points. The conjugate obtained by the action of an $n$ -dimensional automorphism on an $n$ -dimensional fuzzy negation provides a method to obtain another $n$ -dimensional fuzzy negation, in which properties such as representability, continuity, and monotonicity on $L_{n}([0,1])$ are preserved. Finally, we provide a method for multiexpert decision-making problems based on ${\mathcal{N}}$ -reciprocal $n$ -dimensional fuzzy preference relations over a set of alternatives preserving the ${\mathcal{N}}$ -reciprocity for an $n$ -dimensional fuzzy negation ${\mathcal{N}}$ .
Perceiving the Classical Cadence

This study explores the underlying mechanisms responsible for the perception of cadential closure in Mozart’s keyboard sonatas. Previous investigations into the experience of closure have typically relied upon the use of abstract harmonic formulae as stimuli. However, these formulae often misrepresent the ways in which composers articulate phrase endings in tonal music. This study, on the contrary, examines a wide variety of cadential types typically found in the classical style, including evaded cadences, which have yet to be examined in an experimental setting. The present findings reveal that cadential categories play a pivotal role in the perception of closure, and for musicians especially, ratings of the cadential categories provide empirical support for a model of cadential strength proposed in music theory. A number of rhetorical features also affect participants9 ratings of closure, such as formal context, the presence of a melodic dissonance at the cadential arrival, and the use of a trill within the penultimate dominant. Finally, the results indicate that expertise modulates attention, with musicians privileging bass-line motion and nonmusicians attending primarily to the soprano voice.
Missed congenital hypothyroidism in an identical twin

Newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism has been remarkably effective, although rare cases of false negative screening have been reported in same sex twins, presumptively due to fetal blood exchange. We report a case in which the diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism due to thyroid ectopia in a monozygotic twin was delayed by 8 months, with a normal newborn screening TSH level of 11 mIU/L blood (normal < 15 mIU/L) at 2 days of life. This is the first such case since the national New Zealand newborn screening programme introduced screening for congenital hypothyroidism in 1981 (30 years ago). Repeating thyroid studies at 14 days of age in same‐sex twins has been advocated to avoid delayed diagnosis, but given the low risk, may not be cost effective. It is important to maintain a high index of suspicion in same‐sex twin pregnancies of potential congenital hypothyroidism.
Multi-Channel Scheduling for Fast Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks

We explore the following fundamental question - how fast can information be collected from a wireless sensor network? We consider a number of design parameters such as, power control, time and frequency scheduling, and routing. There are essentially two factors that hinder efficient data collection - interference and the half-duplex single-transceiver radios. We show that while power control helps in reducing the number of transmission slots to complete a convergecast under a single frequency channel, scheduling transmissions on different frequency channels is more efficient in mitigating the effects of interference (empirically, 6 channels suffice for most 100-node networks). With these observations, we define a receiver-based channel assignment problem, and prove it to be NP-complete on general graphs. We then introduce a greedy channel assignment algorithm that efficiently eliminates interference, and compare its performance with other existing schemes via simulations. Once the interference is completely eliminated, we show that with half-duplex single-transceiver radios the achievable schedule length is lower-bounded by max(2nk − 1,N), where nk is the maximum number of nodes on any subtree and N is the number of nodes in the network. We modify an existing distributed time slot assignment algorithm to achieve this bound when a suitable balanced routing scheme is employed. Through extensive simulations, we demonstrate that convergecast can be completed within up to 50% less time slots, in 100-node networks, using multiple channels as compared to that with single-channel communication. Finally, we also demonstrate further improvements that are possible when the sink is equipped with multiple transceivers or when there are multiple sinks to collect data.
Learning from positive and unlabeled examples by enforcing statistical significance

Given a nite but large set of objects described by a vector of features, only a small subset of which have been labeled as ‘positive’ with respect to a class of interest, we consider the problem of characterizing the positive class. We formalize this as the problem of learning a feature based score function that minimizes the p-value of a non parametric statistical hypothesis test. For linear score functions over the original feature space or over one of its kernelized versions, we provide a solution of this problem computed by a one-class SVM applied on a surrogate dataset obtained by sampling subsets of the overall set of objects and representing them by their average feature-vector shifted by the average feature-vector of the original sample of positive examples. We carry out experiments with this method on the prediction of targets of transcription factors in two dierent organisms, E. Coli and S. Cererevisiae. Our method extends enrichment analysis commonly carried out in Bioinformatics and its results outperform common solutions to this problem.
Assistive technologies and the visually impaired: a digital ecosystem perspective

Assistive technology devices for the visually impaired form a small part of a much wider support infrastructure of people and systems that cluster about a particular disability. Various disabilities, in turn, form part of a greater ecosystem of sometimes isolated support teams. These may cluster about a nucleus of various specific disabilities, such as vision impairment, speech or hearing loss, each focusing on their own particular disability category. Teams are comprised of therapists, caregivers, trainers, as well as device manufacturers, who design and produce computer-based systems such as mobility aids. There is, however, little evidence of any real crossover collaboration or communication between different disability support teams and a disparate cottage industry of manufacturers. The author proposes a collaborative digital ecosystem framework that may assist this challenge. Although this paper is not a survey of all available devices, examples of some commercial systems are cited in order to draw attention to user interface challenges that confront both those who rely on them.and those who design them.
Potential Still Untapped: Japanese Perceptions of the European Union as an Economic and Normative Power

Abstract This article focuses on two of the three pillars of the ‘EU through the Eyes of Asia’ perceptions project, and analyzes the Japanese print media and elite interviews. We focus on two issues: the first of these is exasperation at the slow progress towards an EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement/Economic Partnership Agreement (FTA/EPA). This exasperation is clearest in the Japanese elite interviews, but the trade negotiations also feature significantly in discussions in the Japanese print media. The second issue is the consistent perception of the EU as a significant normative and diplomatic power, and a leader on human rights promotion, with this perception strongly evident in both the Japanese print media and elite interviews. Overall, the EU was perceived positively as a political actor, and, in a boost for post-Lisbon perceptions of the EU, High Representative Catherine Ashton had a generally high and somewhat positive profile in Japan. This came across more strongly in the print media rather than the elite interviews. In a much-quoted speech given in Japan in 2006, Commission President José Manuel Barroso talked of the untapped trade potential within EU-Japan relations, and the normative power of the EU and Japan. A focus on perceptions helps to inform us about the global importance of the EU and how this is being interpreted outside of Europe. To understand the European Union itself we need to have an external reflection in order to interpret its meaning. Through our study, we hope to highlight and communicate the fact that the Barroso perspective is shared by many within Japan.
Symptoms of post‐traumatic stress disorder in couples after birth: association with the couple's relationship and parent–baby bond

Recent research suggests a proportion of women develop post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after childbirth. To date, the effects of postnatal PTSD on the couple's relationship and the parent–baby bond have not been examined. In the present study, 64 couples completed questionnaires about the birth, symptoms of PTSD, the couple's relationship and parent–baby bond 9 weeks after childbirth. Results showed 5% of men and women had severe symptoms of PTSD. Symptoms were strongly associated within couples and were related to similar birth factors for men and women. PTSD symptoms were associated with neither the parent–baby bond nor couple's relationship. The mother–baby bond was not associated with any variables measured in this study. However, the father–baby bond was associated with the couple's relationship. It is concluded that men and women have comparable levels of PTSD symptoms 9 weeks after birth. Furthermore, these results suggest postnatal symptoms of PTSD have little association with the couple's relationship or the parent–baby bond in the short term. However, further research is needed to address methodological considerations.
Th17, gut, and HIV: therapeutic implications

Purpose of reviewThe purpose of this review is to discuss the apparent impact of persistent-immune activation and inflammation on morbidity and mortality among treated HIV-infected individuals, to explore the potential role of Th17 T-cell depletion in this process, and to discuss potential-therapeutic implications. Recent findingsAlthough the vast majority of HIV-infected individuals can now achieve and maintain viral suppression with modern-antiretroviral therapy (ART), their life expectancy remains much shorter than the general population and they continue to be at much higher risk for non-AIDS-associated diseases commonly associated with aging (non-AIDS-associated cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc). Abnormal levels of immune activation and inflammation persist despite sustained viral suppression and may drive these clinical events. Although the causes of persistent-immune activation remain incompletely characterized, persistent low-level HIV replication and/or release from latently infected cells in gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) and microbial translocation probably play a major role. Failure to restore Th17 cells in GALT during ART might impair both the recovery of the gut mucosal barrier and the clearance of microbial products. SummaryInsights from recent-pathogenesis studies might suggest novel-therapeutic approaches designed to restore Th17 cells in GALT, thereby decreasing microbial translocation, immune activation, and ultimately morbidity and mortality during treated HIV infection.
AIS Electronic

Verification and validation are two important processes in the software system lifecycle. Despite the importance of these processes, a recent survey has shown that testing of data warehouse systems is currently neglected. The survey participants named besides others modest budget and the lack of appropriate tools as potential reasons for this circumstance. In order to verify these reasons, the paper at hand presents an evaluation of unit testing tools suitable for data warehouse testing. To address the modest budget problem, the range of evaluation candidates is limited to no charge, open source solutions, namely AnyDbTest, BI.Quality, DbFit, DbUnit, NDbUnit, SQLUnit, TSQLUnit, and utPLSQL. The evaluation follows the IEEE 14102-2010 guidelines for evaluation and selection of computer-aided software engineering tools in order to guarantee benefits from a practioners’ as well as scientific point of view. It results in a detailed overview of how the testing tools meet criteria such as different testing functionalities. At least one tool, namely DbFit, can be identified as a promising candidate with regard to the requirements.
Design of a discrete-time terminal sliding mode repetitive controller

This paper proposes a discrete- time terminal sliding mode repetitive controller (TSMRC) for improved robust tracking performance and fast transient response. The proposed control structure integrates the desirable features of repetitive control (RC) and terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) to accomplish a fast convergence rate, improved robustness against bounded matched uncertainties, and improved tracking of periodic reference trajectories. The RC control component aims to improve the tracking of periodic reference signals by eliminating periodic error at steady state. While, the discrete-time TSMC controller is added to improve the robustness of the system and achieve a fast transient response in the presence of matched uncertainties. Furthermore, a small pure phase advance component is added to the proposed control structure to improve the tracking of periodic reference signals with high frequency components. The effectiveness of the proposed discrete-time TSMRC is verified through simulation testing using a linear actuator (LA) plant model. Design details and a verification of the effectiveness of the proposed TSMRC are presented in this paper.
Gastric bypass and nesidioblastosis--too much of a good thing for islets?

As the obesity pandemic continues to worsen and medical interventions remain only moderately effective, bariatric surgery is at present the only method that reliably results in major, long-term weight loss.1,2 The most successful procedures durably reduce body weight by about one third and ameliorate nearly all obesity-related complications, most notably — almost miraculously — type 2 diabetes mellitus.2 Not surprisingly, bariatrics is the fastest-growing surgical subspecialty. The number of bariatric surgeons registered with the American Society for Bariatric Surgery increased by almost 50 percent per year during the past several years, and the number of bariatric operations nearly doubles .
Leveraging social software for social networking and community development at events

Professional networking is a primary goal of people attending conferences and events. Over the past year we have developed an online social networking and community tool for events, Pathable, to help attendees meet the right people. Pathable provides an online directory of attendee profiles, communication tools, and a recommendation system optimized to help people find each other based on commonalities. We performed a questionnaire study at a pathable-enabled event to assess the importance of social networking, and found that quality of conversations and sense of community were strong predictors of who said they would return year after year. In addition, the more people used Pathable to meet others at the event, the greater their event attachment and sense of community. Based on lessons learned from an overview of seventeen Pathable-enabled events, we provide guidelines for leveraging social software to optimize professional networking and community development at events.