Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Motivation and Development o

Motivation system in senior adolescent and youth age (students of the 9th and 11th forms) was studied on the basis of a complex approach and a comparative analysis of emotional attitude and a deliberate preference of values (those general and educational). It was shown, that the significance and accessibility of analyzed groups of values to a considerable extent are determined by a dominant motivation. Besides, a tendency was found out of contraposition of a conscious and emotional attitude to values, the values, which are highly attractive in the motivation-and-emotional plane, on the level of conscience are underestimated, as compared with other ones. This determines also the further trend of development of a personality in the direction of acceptance of socially approved general and educational values, leads to convergence of personality development of schoolchildren at that stage of their life. Besides, there were also revealed some gender features of value orientations, related to the outstripping development of girls, as compared to boys of the same age.
Modified hill climbing method for active yaw control in wind turbine

Due to the inaccuracy of the wind vane for measuring the wind direction, the wind turbine may not capture the maximum generating power point. This study proposes a modified hill climbing control (HCC) method for an active yaw control in the horizontal axis wind turbines. The presented method adopts the varying control steps obtained through bisecting-plane (BP) algorithm during the searching procedure, which is more efficient and accurate than the HCC method with the constant searching step. The wind turbine can rotate to certain yaw angle based on the measurement of wind vane, and then the modified HCC method is applied to find the desired yaw angle to capture maximum wind energy. The proposed methods are verified through the simulation based on the aerodynamic loading under smooth and turbulent wind profiles obtained from the simulation of a 1.5 MW variable-speed turbine model on the FAST (Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structural and Tower) software developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Entertainment is Emotion: The Functional Architecture of the Entertainment Experience

Current standard accounts of entertainment have regarded emotions as essential for the entertainment experience, but it has not been understood why emotions are so important for it. Recent views of entertainment as an adaptively significant activity propose that the distal cause of entertainment activity is an unconscious need for training useful capabilities, whereas the proximal cause is enjoyment of the activity for its own sake. This theoretical paper argues emotions provide the link between distal and proximal causes of engaging in entertainment. An architecture of the entertainment experience based on Steen and Owens' (2001) account of pretense play is proposed. The entertainment experience is an episode of emotions in response to an ongoing guided imagination. Two key factors are posited to shape the entertainment experience. First, interest is asserted as the “go-mechanism” of the entertainment experience. Second, the emotional reactions to the content of imagination are argued to lend coloring to the experience as well as to help train people's adaptive capacities. This architecture contributes to a solution of two problems for a theory of entertainment: the paradox of negative experiences and the perceived reality of entertainment content. In closing, a plea is made for studying the entertainee's appraisal of the entertainer's agency and qualities.
Polysialic Acid Directs Tumor Cell Growth by Controlling Heterophilic Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Interactions

ABSTRACT Polysialic acid (PSA), a carbohydrate polymer attached to the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM), promotes neural plasticity and tumor malignancy, but its mode of action is controversial. Here we establish that PSA controls tumor cell growth and differentiation by interfering with NCAM signaling at cell-cell contacts. Interactions between cells with different PSA and NCAM expression profiles were initiated by enzymatic removal of PSA and by ectopic expression of NCAM or PSA-NCAM. Removal of PSA from the cell surface led to reduced proliferation and activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), inducing enhanced survival and neuronal differentiation of neuroblastoma cells. Blocking with an NCAM-specific peptide prevented these effects. Combinatorial transinteraction studies with cells and membranes with different PSA and NCAM phenotypes revealed that heterophilic NCAM binding mimics the cellular responses to PSA removal. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that PSA masks heterophilic NCAM signals, having a direct impact on tumor cell growth. This provides a mechanism for how PSA may promote the genesis and progression of highly aggressive PSA-NCAM-positive tumors.
Intelligent remote control of smart home devices using physiological parameters

The goal of this paper is to propose a new approach for controlling smart home devices using physiological and movements signals (electromyogram, accelerometer and gyroscope). Our proposed approach exploits the ElectroMyoGram (EMG) signal to detect user muscles contraction and to trigger the associated actions on the controlled device. The triggered action is based on the position of the hand or its movement pattern. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to classify the gyroscope data and to detect hand movements. The position of the hand is determined using the K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm. Our proposed approach can be used to command any electronic device or connected objects and it is intended to work with data from wearable arm band containing triaxial accelerometer, gyroscope and able to measure EMG signal. Our experimental results are very encouraging where we achieve fast processing and reliable evaluation of hand movement with very low rate of actions miss interpretation.
SpaceWalk: Movement and Interaction in Virtual Space with Commodity Hardware

We introduce SpaceWalk, an experimental approach to allow a person to move around a small room while wearing a Head Mounted Display. The goal is to get immersed users in everyday settings out of their seats and naturally experiencing movement within the simulation. SpaceWalk integrates a wireless solution around commodity equipment and requires no calibration by the user. This allows a low encumbrance full-body immersion in virtual reality while walking around living-room sized real-world spaces. The platform combines a commodity Head Mounted Display (Oculus Rift), with a depth-based camera (Kinect2) capturing movement of body and limbs within the space. A tablet computer, carried in a backpack, runs commodity VR software (Unity) with our own extensions that integrate the components. A brief survey of the literature demonstrates a gap in that other systems do neither allow a person's body to be routinely tracked without calibration, or movement around the space without the encumbrance of wires. The proposed full body immersive virtual reality platform opens the door to Virtual Reality in small environments, such as people's homes, that is compelling, easy to setup and use. After half a century, VR is coming of age, yet routine and unencumbered movement still needs to be achieved. This paper offers a method for doing so. Its contribution is to make Virtual Reality accessible to a wider group of users who do not have access to a professional virtual reality facility. In doing so it may help to unlock new paradigms for work, learning and entertainment.
Cell death in the mammalian visual system during normal development: I. Retinal ganglion cells

Degenerating cells may be observed with light microscopy in the hamster retinal ganglion cell layer during early postnatal development. On the first postnatal day, degenerating cell profiles were found at a rate of 2.7 per 1,000 live cells. This rate increased to a peak of 14.7 degenerating cells per 1,000 live on postnatal day 5 and then slowed to 4.2 per 1,000 live by postnatal day 10. These rates of cell death correspond to a 49% reduction in cell number in the ganglion cell layer. Examination of the spatial pattern of cell death revealed that although on visual inspection degenerating cells appear to occur in clumps, statistical analyses demonstrated a random distribution within retinal areas. Across the retina, cell death rates were higher in peripheral retina than in central retina. The timing and pattern observed correspond well with that of cell degeneration observed in the superficial layers of the superior colliculus, the major target of the retinal projection.
Discrete Kinetic Schemes for Multidimensional Systems of Conservation Laws

We present here some numerical schemes for general multidimensional systems of conservation laws based on a class of discrete kinetic approximations, which includes the relaxation schemes by S. Jin and Z. Xin. These schemes have a simple formulation even in the multidimensional case and do not need the solution of the local Riemann problems. For these approximations we give a suitable multidimensional generalization of the Whitham's stability subcharacteristic condition. In the scalar multidimensional case we establish the rigorous convergence of the approximated solutions to the unique entropy solution of the equilibrium Cauchy problem.
Heat resistant and biaxially stretched blow-molded plastic container having a base movable to accommodate internal vaccum forces and issued from a double-blow process

The heat resistant and biaxially stretched blow-molded plastic container is issued from a double-blow process. Said container comprises a base (101) movable to accommodate vacuum forces generated within the container, thereby decreasing the volume of the container. Said base comprises a push-up portion (1011 b), and first and second parting lines (PL1; PL2) that are separated from one another by a gap, and that are extending on opposite sides of the push-up portion (1011 b), and wherein: (i) the distance (H1; H2) between each parting line (PL1; PL2) and the center (C) of the base is not more than 20 mm, and/or (ii) the distance (G) between the two parting lines (PL1; PL2) is not more than 40mm, and/or (iii) the distance (G) between the two parting lines (PL1; PL2) is less than 50% of the transverse dimension (DB) of the base (101) measured between the two outermost points (P1, P2) of the parting lines (PL1, PL2).
The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

We use unique Swedish data with information on adopted children's biological and adoptive parents to estimate intergenerational mobility associations in earnings and education. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad prebirth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad postbirth factors, such as childhood environment. We find that both pre- and postbirth factors contribute to intergenerational earnings and education transmissions, and that prebirth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father's income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between postbirth environment and prebirth factors.
Defining junctional complexes

There are four major types of cell–cell junctions in the polarized epithelial cells of vertebrates. Farquhar and Palade (1963) defined three of them. [Graphic][1] Three in one: The EM of an intestinal epithelium reveals a tight junction (arrows 1 to 2), adherens junction (arrows 2
Security Requirements for Multimedia Archives

With the explosive growth of various multimedia contents, digital archives are used to store those contents accordingly. In contrast to the traditional storage systems in which data lifetime is measured in months or years, data lifetime in the archive is measured in decades. This longevity of contents causes new security issues that threat the archive systems. In this paper, we discuss these new security issues in perspective. And we suggest some security requirements for digital archives.
On the average redundancy rate of adaptive block codes under mixed sources

Summary form only given. The average redundancy rate of Krichevsky's sample-based universal block codes was analyzed, in a situation wherein the samples and block codes for compression were produced from two different memoryless sources. It was proven that the average redundancy rate of adaptive block codes O/sub /spl lscr/,T/, constructed using samples of length /spl lscr/ from a source T, were used to encode block codes of length n from a source S. The adaptive block codes, constructed using samples from a source T and applied to a source S, have achieved lower average redundancy than universal codes.
MiR-210 disturbs mitotic progression through regulating a group of mitosis-related genes

MiR-210 is up-regulated in multiple cancer types but its function is disputable and further investigation is necessary. Using a bioinformatics approach, we identified the putative target genes of miR-210 in hypoxia-induced CNE cells from genome-wide scale. Two functional gene groups related to cell cycle and RNA processing were recognized as the major targets of miR-210. Here, we investigated the molecular mechanism and biological consequence of miR-210 in cell cycle regulation, particularly mitosis. Hypoxia-induced up-regulation of miR-210 was highly correlated with the down-regulation of a group of mitosis-related genes, including Plk1, Cdc25B, Cyclin F, Bub1B and Fam83D. MiR-210 suppressed the expression of these genes by directly targeting their 3′-UTRs. Over-expression of exogenous miR-210 disturbed mitotic progression and caused aberrant mitosis. Furthermore, miR-210 mimic with pharmacological doses reduced tumor formation in a mouse metastatic tumor model. Taken together, these results implicate that miR-210 disturbs mitosis through targeting multi-genes involved in mitotic progression, which may contribute to its inhibitory role on tumor formation.
D‐penicillamine‐ and quinidine‐induced antinuclear antibodies in A.SW (H‐2s) mice: similarities with autoantibodies in spontaneous and heavy metal‐induced autoimmunity

Ten percent of human lupus syndromes occur in patients as a result of treatment with certain medications. H‐2s mice can produce autoantibodies following treatment with various drugs or heavy metals and they are a potential animal model of drug‐induced lupus. We have examined nine anti‐chromatin monoclonal antibodies (mAb) from A.SW mice that had been treated with either D‐penicillamine or quinidine, two lupus‐inducing drugs in humans. These mAb are specific either for DNA or histone‐DNA complexes corresponding to nucleosomes or subnucleosome particles. Only one mAb reacts with an unknown chromatin antigen. The V region sequences of six of these mAb were studied and are notable by several features. As previously observed in spontaneous autoantibodies to DNA or histone‐DNA complexes, arginine or asparagine residues are found at critical locations throughout the V regions. Many of these residues, potentially important for binding to DNA or DNA‐histone complexes, result either from somatic mutations or atypical VH‐D‐JH rearrangements. Another significant characteristic is that the VH genes of several D‐penicillamine‐ or quinidine‐induced mAb are most similar to those of anti‐nucleolar mAb obtained from mercury‐injected A.SW mice. The implications of these findings for the pathogenesis of spontaneous or induced autoimmunity are discussed.
Expression of heteromeric amino acid transporters along the murine intestine

Members of the new heterodimeric amino acid transporter family are composed of two subunits, a catalytic multitransmembrane spanning protein (light chain) and a type II glycoprotein (heavy chain). These transporters function as exchangers and thereby extend the transmembrane amino acid transport selectivity to specific amino acids. The heavy chain rBAT associates with the light chain b°,+AT to form a cystine and cationic amino acid transporter. The other heavy chain, 4F2hc, can interact with seven different light chains to form various transporters corresponding to systems L, y+L, asc or x−c. The importance of some of these transporters in intestinal and renal (re)absorption of amino acids is highlighted by the fact that mutations in either the rBAT or b°,+AT subunit result in cystinuria whereas a defect in the y+‐LAT1 light chain causes lysinuric protein intolerance. Here we investigated the localization of these transporters in intestine since both diseases are also characterized by altered intestinal amino acid absorption. Real time PCR showed organ‐specific expression patterns for all transporter subunit mRNAs along the intestine and Western blotting confirmed these findings on the protein level. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated basolateral coexpression of 4F2hc, LAT2 and y+‐LAT1 in stomach and small intestine, whereas rBAT and b°,+AT were found colocalizing on the apical side of small intestine epithelium. In stomach, 4F2hc and LAT2 were localized in H+/K+‐ATPase‐expressing parietal cells. The abundant expression of several members of the heterodimeric transporter family along the murine small intestine suggests their involvement in amino acids absorption. Furthermore, strong expression of rBAT, b°,+AT and y+‐LAT1 in the small intestine explains the reduced intestinal absorption of some amino acid in patients with cystinuria or lysinuric protein intolerance.
Out of necessity: oncology nurses' experiences integrating the internet into practice.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To understand the experiences of oncology nurses who use the Internet in their practice when their patients use the Internet for cancer care. RESEARCH APPROACH Heideggerian hermeneutics branch of phenomenology. SETTING Oncology nurses were interviewed at their practice settings (n = 13), the researcher's office (n = 5), or their homes (n = 2). PARTICIPANTS 20 nurses recruited from local and national Oncology Nursing Society meetings. Their practice sites were cancer centers, hospitals, clinics, veterans centers, communities, and Internet companies. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Data were collected by informal interviews that provided the narrative stories for hermeneutic analysis. MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES Internet use for cancer care, nurse-patient relationships, and Internet use for nursing practice. FINDINGS Five related themes emerged: (a) varying degrees of Internet integration in the practice environment, (b) changing schools of thought, (c) developing Internet use for professional practice, (d) redefining relationships, and (e) new nursing skills. The two constitutive patterns are (a) integrating Internet into practice out of necessity and (b) reflecting historical changes in practice patterns influenced by technology. CONCLUSIONS Nurses who use the Internet are developing new practice patterns that incorporate technology and foster nurse-patient partnerships. Practice environments either foster or hinder technology use. Nurse computer competency is essential. INTERPRETATION Findings reflect the influence of adapting technology on practice. Internet use is a catalyst for redefining nurse-patient relationships into partnerships. The movement suggests a need for nurse Internet competencies, environmental support, and consideration for patient access (digital divide). Evaluation of content in nursing curricula and of patient competencies is advised. Further research on patient experiences is recommended.
Efficient Memory Repair Using Cache-Based Redundancy

In modern processes, conventional defect density and variability related yield losses are a major concern for the aggressive memory designs in integrated circuits. Synergistic action for memory repair at the circuit and architectural level is essential to maintain the yields and profitability of past technology nodes. In this paper, we propose a scalable memory repair architecture that utilizes a set of direct-mapped cache banks to replace faulty words. Statistical and mathematical probability analysis shows that the proposed scheme achieves high repairability levels with low area and static power dissipation overheads, the latter being a dominant issue in nanometer technologies. It is therefore a suitable solution along with other mature memory repair techniques, to enhance the overall repairability features and guarantee the correct and reliable operation of embedded memories in nanometer technologies.
Auditory Hallucinations of Hearing Voices in 375 Normal Subjects

Jaynes' elaborate theory of the evolution of human consciousness speculates that unconscious language use by the right hemisphere produced frequent auditory hallucinations in primitive people [1]. Jaynes offers some explanation as to why hearing voices would now be less common. It is parsimonious, however, to predict that hearing voices is still common, although usually unreported, in the modern normal population. Some clinical literature gives support to this prediction. This study tested the prediction by means of surveying 375 college students with a two-part questionnaire. The first section presented fourteen different examples of auditory hallucinations and asked whether the subject had experienced such occurrences. The second section asked for information concerning the characteristics of any hallucinated voices and for information about the subject that might relate to cerebral laterality. The results support the prediction that hearing voices is common within the normal population. Overall, 71 percent of the sample reported some experience with brief, auditory hallucinations of the voice type in wakeful situations. Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations were also reported. The most frequent incidents were hearing a voice call one's name aloud when alone (36%) and hearing one's thoughts as if spoken aloud (39%). Interviews and MMPI results obtained from twenty selected subjects suggested that these reports of hearing voices were not related to pathology. Further findings of a significant relationship between high rates of auditory hallucinations and the extent to which subjects reported skills in music, art, and poetry were interpreted as weak support for Jaynes' speculation that right hemisphere activity may account for auditory hallucinations. Overall, the results are seen as supportive of several of Jaynes' theoretical points.
Error handling in multimodal biometric systems using reliability measures

In this paper, we present a framework for predicting and correcting classification decision errors based on modality reliability measures in a multimodal biometric system. In our experiments we use face and speech experts based on a recently proposed framework which uses Bayesian networks. The expert decisions and the accompanying information on their reliability are combined in a decision module that produces the final verification decision. The proposed system is consequently shown to yield higher decision accuracy than the corresponding unimodal systems.
A 35.2-37.6 GHz LC VCO in a 70/100 GHz f/sub T//f/sub max/ SiGe technology

An LC VCO circuit uses two cascaded emitter followers with resistive loads and combines negative resistance and output buffers. The VCO is particularly suited for frequencies above the limit of the cross-coupled differential pair, and a 35.2-37.6 GHz VCO achieves a phase noise of -105 dBc/Hz at 2 MHz from the carrier, in a 0.25 /spl mu/m production SiGe technology.