Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interval Size and Affect: An Ethnomusicological Perspective

This commentary addresses Huron and Davis’s question of whether “The Harmonic Minor Provides an Optimum Way of Reducing Average Melodic Interval Size, Consistent with Sad Affect Cues” within any non-Western musical cultures. The harmonic minor scale and other semitone-heavy scales, such as Bhairav raga and Hicaz makam, are featured widely in the musical cultures of North India and the Middle East. Do melodies from these genres also have a preponderance of semitone intervals and low incidence of the augmented second interval, as in Huron and Davis’s sample? Does the presence of more semitone intervals in a melody affect its emotional connotations in different cultural settings? Are all semitone intervals equal in their effect? My own ethnographic research within these cultures reveals comparable connotations in melodies that linger on semitone intervals, centered on concepts of tension and metaphors of falling. However, across different musical cultures there may also be neutral or lively interpretations of these same pitch sets, dependent on context,manner of performance, and tradition. Small pitch movement may also be associated with social functions such as prayer or lullabies, and may not be described as “sad. ” “Sad,” moreover may not connote the same affect cross-culturally.
Cytomegalovirus Destruction of Focal Adhesions Revealed in a High-Throughput Western Blot Analysis of Cellular Protein Expression

ABSTRACT Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) systematically manages the expression of cellular functions, rather than exerting the global shutoff of host cell protein synthesis commonly observed with other herpesviruses during the lytic cycle. While microarray technology has provided remarkable insights into viral control of the cellular transcriptome, HCMV is known to encode multiple mechanisms for posttranscriptional and posttranslation regulation of cellular gene expression. High-throughput Western blotting (BD Biosciences Powerblot technology) with 1,009 characterized antibodies was therefore used to analyze and compare the effects of infection with attenuated high-passage strain AD169 and virulent low-passage strain Toledo at 72 hpi across gels run in triplicate for each sample. Six hundred ninety-four proteins gave a positive signal in the screen, of which 68 from strain AD169 and 71 from strain Toledo were defined as being either positively or negatively regulated by infection with the highest level of confidence (BD parameters). In follow-up analyses, a subset of proteins was selected on the basis of the magnitude of the observed effect or their potential to contribute to defense against immune recognition. In analyses performed at 24, 72, and 144 hpi, connexin 43 was efficiently downregulated during HCMV infection, implying a breakdown of intercellular communication. Mitosis-associated protein Eg-5 was found to be differentially upregulated in the AD169 and Toledo strains of HCMV. Focal adhesions link the actin cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix and have key roles in initiating signaling pathways and substrate adhesion and regulating cell migration. HCMV suppressed expression of the focal-adhesion-associated proteins Hic-5, paxillin, and α-actinin. Focal adhesions were clearly disrupted in HCMV-infected fibroblasts, with their associated intracellular and extracellular proteins being dispersed. Powerblot shows potential for rapid screening of the cellular proteome during HCMV infection.
DLUT Question Answering System at NTCIR-8 CCLQA

This paper describes the Chinese question answering system DLUT for the CS-CS Subtask evaluation of NTCIR-8 CCLQA. The system utilizes Situation Unit (SU), combined syntactic and semantic information, as a basic processed unit to get candidate answers, wherein the SUs in the question sentences are matched with those in the texts of corpus. In this evaluation, answers are presented in the form of whole sentences instead of their simplified versions. The average F3 Score reaches 0.1954, and the average Recall is�1 0.75 for the six question types, BIOGRAPHY, DATE, DEFINITION, LOCATION, ORGNIZATION and PERSON. As the current system only employs the partial information in SUs, the evaluation result only indicates that the SU-based question answering system can get promising Recall.
An Exploratory Study of the Benefits of a Mindfulness Skills Group for Student Veterans

Military personnel are increasingly transitioning out of the military. Veterans bring varied strengths and experiences to their academic journey as they enter colleges and universities. Many campuses are responding to the unique needs of these veterans by offering academic, emotional, and personal support to assist them in their quest for a university degree. This article describes an exploratory qualitative study of the benefits of a mindfulness skills group program designed to assist student veterans in coping with stressors related to their transition from warrior to student on a large campus that has a robust veteran-friendly initiative. This program was offered in a group format over three semesters and served 14 students. Qualitative data on perceived benefits of the program were collected from nine of these students using pre–post questionnaires and feedback from a post-intervention focus group. Data analysis indicated several themes related to perceived benefits of participating in the mindfulness skills groups. Findings suggested students attributed improved emotional and physical coping, positive changes in personal functioning, improved organizational capabilities, and improved stress management skills to participation in the mindfulness skills group. Lessons learned from implementing this program are offered.
Mcp4, a Meiotic Coiled-Coil Protein, Plays a Role in F-Actin Positioning during Schizosaccharomyces pombe Meiosis

ABSTRACT Some meiosis-specific proteins of Schizosaccharomyces pombe harbor coiled-coil motifs and play essential roles in meiotic progression. Here we describe Mcp4, a novel meiosis-specific protein whose expression is abruptly induced at the horsetail phase and which remains expressed until sporulation is finished. Fluorescence microscopic analysis revealed that Mcp4 alters its subcellular localization during meiosis in a manner that partially resembles the movement of F-actin during meiosis. Mcp4 and F-actin never colocalize; rather, they are located in a side-by-side manner. When forespore membrane formation begins at metaphase II, the Mcp4 signals assemble at the lagging face of the dividing nuclei. At this stage, they are sandwiched between F-actin and the nucleus. Mcp4, in turn, appears to sandwich F-actin with Meu14. In mcp4Δ cells at anaphase II, the F-actin, which is normally dumbbell-shaped, adopts an abnormal balloon shape. Spores of mcp4Δ cells were sensitive to NaCl, although their shape and viability were normal. Taken together, we conclude that Mcp4 plays a role in the accurate positioning of F-actin during S. pombe meiosis.
Lesbian Social Drinking: The Role of Alcohol in Growing up and Living as Lesbian

Lesbians reportedly use alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than heterosexuals, conceivably placing them at greater risk for alcohol-related problems. Past theorists have suggested psychosocial variables such as stress or the centrality of the gay bar to account for these findings. Researchers have not examined lesbian drinking within its historical, social, and cultural contexts. This paper reviews findings of a qualitative interview study examining sexual identity development and alcohol use patterns of 31 self-identified lesbian social drinkers. Findings reveal the importance of multiple contexts to understanding lesbian drinking. The author proposes a correspondence between identity development and alcohol use, as both are affected by the changing social conditions of different historic eras. The normalized presence of alcohol in lesbian contexts and norms related to its use present distinctive dilemmas for alcohol problem identification and treatment with this population. These findings have several implications for practice with lesbian clients.
Nonlinear Dynamics Techniques for the Detection of the Brain Areas Using MER Signals

A methodology for identifying brain areas from the brain MER signals (microelectrode recordings) is presented, which is based on a nonlinear feature set. We propose nonlinear dynamics measures such as correlation dimension, Hurst exponent and the largest Lyapunov exponent to characterize the dynamic structure. The MER records belong to the Polytechnical University of Valencia, 24 records for each zone (black substance, thalamus, subthalamus nucleus and uncertain area). The detection of each area using characteristics derived from complexity analysis was obtained through a classifier (support vector machine). The joint information between areas is remarkable and the best accuracy result was 93.75%. The nonlinear dynamics techniques help to discriminate the four brain areas considered, since they take into account the intrinsic dynamics of the signals and the structures analysis based on the multivariate statistical procedures is an important step in the data preprocessing.
Differential gene expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma Hep3B cells induced by apoptosis-related gene BNIPL-2.

AIM Bcl-2/adenovirus E1B 19 ku interacting protein 2-like (BNIPL-2) is a novel protein recently identified in our laboratory. BNIPL-2 is homologous to human BNIP-2, a potentially proapoptotic protein, and can interact with Bcl-2 and Cdc42GAP and promote apoptosis in BEL-7402 cells. Here we report the gene-expression profile regulated by BNIPL-2 in human hepatocarcinoma Hep3B cells and the analysis of its potential roles in cell apoptosis. METHODS BNIPL-2 was overexpressed in Hep3B cells using tetracycline inducible or Tet-on system. Screened by Western blot, the cells with low background and high induction fold of BNIPL-2 were obtained. We performed Atlas human cDNA expression array hybridization on these cells and analyzed the data with Quantarray software to identify BNIPL-2-regulated genes and their expression profile. RT-PCR was used to confirm the altered expression level of part of genes identified by the Atlas array hybridization. RESULTS Fifteen of 588 genes spotted on the Atlas membrane showed altered expression levels in BNIPL-2-transfected Hep3B-Tet-on cells, in which 8 genes involved in cell apoptosis or growth inhibition were up-regulated and 7 genes involved in cellular proliferation were down-regulated following overexpression of BNIPL-2. CONCLUSION cDNA array is a powerful tool to explore gene expression profiles under inducible conditions. The data obtained using the cDNA expression microarray technology indicates that BNIPL-2 may play its roles in apoptosis through regulating the expression of genes associated with cell apoptosis, growth inhibition and cell proliferation.
Trust, Authentic Pride, and Moral Reasoning: A Unified Framework of Relational Governance and Emotional Self‐Regulation

This conceptual article introduces behavioral perspectives into the governance arena and undertakes a psychological assessment of managerial decision making in organizations by elaborating on the treatment of trust and (authentic and hubristic) pride in the extant literature. While trust is conceived by governance scholars as a device for monitoring relationships with others, we argue that authentic pride, contrary to hubris, could operate as an attribute of emotional self‐regulation allowing corporate leaders to govern the social behavior of their own self. Contrasting the features of trust and authentic pride, we advance several propositions to capture their relevance and simultaneous importance as viable governance mechanisms in light of a manager's level of cognitive moral reasoning. Our study builds a unified theoretical framework of governance which integrates human agency, psychological states, and moral judgment to foster a deeper understanding of complex self‐regulatory processes that are activated by decision makers in the execution of their roles.
Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists

Introduction: Consciousness Beliefs About Consciousness and Reality The Scientific Study of Consciousness Overview. Wakefulness: Introspection Thinking Daydreaming Sensory Restriction. Sleep: Sleep Physiology and Behaviour Sleep Mentation The Purpose of Sleep The Neurobiology of Sleep Sleep Disorders. Dreams: Dream Theories Dream Content Lucid Dreaming Precognitive Dreams. Hypnosis: Hypnotic Phenomena Hypnotic Susceptibility Explanations of Hypnosis Applications of Hypnosis. Trance: Shamanism Possession Dissociative Identity Disorder Alien Abduction Experiences. Psychedelics: Modern Beginnings Varieties of Psychedelics Long-Term Effects of Psychedelics Transcendental Effects of Psychedelics. Transcendence: Variety of Transcendent Experiences Examples of Spontaneous Transcendence Meditation Spiritual Aspiration Explanations of Transcendence. Death: Out-of-Body Experiences Near-Death Experiences Past-Life Experiences The Question of Life After Death. Conclusion: Recapitulation of Thematic Threads Alternative Explanations of Reality.
A photosynthetic strategy for coping in a high‐light, low‐nutrient environment

Phytoplankton in high‐light, low‐nutrient ocean environments are challenged with maintaining high photosynthetic efficiency and simultaneously preventing photodamage that results from low levels of electron acceptors downstream of photosystem II (PSII). Here, we identify a process in open ocean picophytoplankton that preserves PSII activity by diverting electrons from the photosystem I (PSI) complex‐mediated carbon assimilation to oxygen via a propyl gallate‐sensitive oxidase associated with the photosynthetic electron transport chain. This process stabilizes diel photochemical efficiency of PSII, despite midday photoinhibition, by maintaining oxidized PSII reaction centers. Although measurements of the maximum photochemical efficiency of PSII, Fv : Fm show midday photoinhibition, midday CO2 fixation is not depressed. Moreover, CO2 fixation saturates at low irradiances even though PSII electron flow is not saturated at irradiances of 1,985 mmol photons m−2 s−1. This disparity between PSII fluorescence and CO2 fixation is consistent with the activity of an oxidase that serves as a terminal electron acceptor, maintaining oxidized PSII reaction centers even when CO2 fixation has saturated and the total number of functional reaction centers decreases because of photoinhibition (reflected in lower midday Fv : Fm values). This phenomenon is less apparent in coastal phytoplankton populations, suggesting that it is a strategy particularly distinctive of phytoplankton in the oligotrophic ocean. Spatial variability in features of photosynthetic electron flow could explain biogeographical differences in productivity throughout the ocean and should be represented in models that use empirical photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence measurements from a limited number of ocean sites to estimate the productivity of the entire ocean.
DISCOVERY OF LARGE MOLECULAR GAS RESERVOIRS IN POST-STARBURST GALAXIES

Post-starburst (or “E+A”) galaxies are characterized by low Hα emission and strong Balmer absorption, suggesting a recent starburst, but little current star formation. Although many of these galaxies show evidence of recent mergers, the mechanism for ending the starburst is not yet understood. To study the fate of the molecular gas, we search for CO(1–0) and (2–1) emission with the IRAM 30 m and SMT 10 m telescopes in 32 nearby (0.01 < z < 0.12) post-starburst galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We detect CO in 17 (53%). Using CO as a tracer for molecular hydrogen, and a Galactic conversion factor, we obtain molecular gas masses of M(H2) = 108.6–109.8 M☉ and molecular gas mass to stellar mass fractions of ∼10−2–10−0.5, comparable to those of star-forming galaxies. The large amounts of molecular gas rule out complete gas consumption, expulsion, or starvation as the primary mechanism that ends the starburst in these galaxies. The upper limits on M(H2) for the 15 undetected galaxies range from 107.7 M☉ to 109.7 M☉, with the median more consistent with early-type galaxies than with star-forming galaxies. Upper limits on the post-starburst star formation rates (SFRs) are lower by ∼10 × than for star-forming galaxies with the same M(H2). We also compare the molecular gas surface densities () to upper limits on the SFR surface densities (ΣSFR), finding a significant offset, with lower ΣSFR for a given than is typical for star-forming galaxies. This offset from the Kennicutt–Schmidt relation suggests that post-starburst galaxies have lower star formation efficiency, a low CO-to-H2 conversion factor characteristic of ultraluminous infrared galaxies, and/or a bottom-heavy initial mass function, although uncertainties in the rate and distribution of current star formation remain.
A proxy-based mobile web browser

In this paper, we present a proxy-based mobile web browser with rich experiences. We use the server-side web parsing and rendering to leverage the browser computing logic. We use a composite screen format to represent the display of the web content, incorporating the web background screen and the dynamic web objects. And then we employ a slice-based screen encoding scheme to efficiently compress the web background screen. Besides the display screen of the web content, we also send the side information of the web objects to enable the designed object-level interaction mechanisms. The experimental results show that our browser can achieve the superior browsing speed, compared with the native browser and yield much better visual quality than the existing proxy-based browser
Vehicle Following Model Using Dynamic Spacing Strategy Based on V2X

Addressing the limitations of the constant headway car-following model, this paper introduces a V2X-based dynamic headway car-following strategy. It considers both vehicle speeds and the preceding car's acceleration to enhance adaptability and flexibility. By utilizing real-time V2V communication, accurate preceding car data is obtained, improving data reliability and overall effectiveness. MATLAB/Simulink is employed to establish a vehicle dynamics model for verification. Experimental results demonstrate the strategy's improved performance across various acceleration and deceleration scenarios. Overall, this dynamic strategy surpasses the traditional constant headway approach, aligning better with real-world car following conditions. It allows flexible spacing adjustments for increased safety during rapid deceleration. With gentler speed changes, it reduces the maximum speed difference by 21.72%, enhancing driving comfort. Thus, this dynamic headway car-following strategy effectively addresses the challenges of low headway adjustment capability in complex scenarios.
Subtree Sizes in Recursive Trees and Binary Search Trees: Berry–Esseen Bounds and Poisson Approximations

We study the number of subtrees on the fringe of random recursive trees and random binary search trees whose limit law is known to be either normal or Poisson or degenerate depending on the size of the subtree. We introduce a new approach to this problem which helps us to further clarify this phenomenon. More precisely, we derive optimal Berry–Esseen bounds and local limit theorems for the normal range and prove a Poisson approximation result as the subtree size tends to infinity.
‘Feed‐forward’: improving students' use of tutors' comments

A small‐scale action research project was carried out on students' feedback histories on one undergraduate module. Old grades and comment sheets were collected and analysed by staff for recurring advice to individual students on the target module. This advice was then synthesized to create simple individual learning plans for the students' forthcoming assignments, in other words old feedback was applied to a new task. A number of additional teaching and learning interventions were provided for participants and the statistical outcomes showed a small gain in the grades achieved against those who did not participate. Interviews were held with participants that indicated a number of reasons why feedback was not optimized to assist further learning.
Cardiovascular Abnormalities Identification by Machine Learning Classifiers and its Comparision

Heart diseases related to the heart increasing everywhere. Human beings are suffering from most dangerous cardiovascular disorders (CVD). Features are main parameters to identify diseases. The feature extraction is done from the signals and make ready for the analysis. Where machine learning (ML) is a technique that tells the potential emergence of cardiac disease. Information science uses machine learning to address a variety of difficulties. The basic use of machine learning is the forecasting of a result based on data that is already available. The machine applies the designs from the current dataset to a hidden dataset in order to predict the disorders. There are several arranging calculations to be completed with sufficient accuracy. We have used various machine learning classifiers for identifying CVDs. Random forest (RF) classifier producing highest accuracy compared to other classifiers.
DICOM and XML usage for multimedia teleconsultation and for reimbursement in cardiology

We've defined an open, scaleable telemedicine architecture to reduce the time of reports delivery and consultation; increasing their simplicity via introducing common image capture, compression, storage, presentation- and telecommunication formats and methods for telecardiology based on DICOM. We've developed a software application to implement them in 4 Hungarian and 4 Lithuanian cardiac clinics, introducing the most appropriate digital imaging methods and formats using the latest available technology. We describe data and document exchange among health care providers (hospitals, GPs etc.) and the reimbursing insurance institutes introducing XML technology. We present the most important XML datasets for reimbursement in Hungary, the validation schemas and procedures, comparing the XML and old data file sizes with different compressions and (server and client) XML tools. The comparison includes different schema file sizes, and validation times.
Goodness-level dependent word-order effect in preference comparison : Semantics is an important factor

Hellstrom (2003) and Englund (2008) found a goodness-level dependent word-order effect (WOE) for preference judgment–a tendency to prefer the left (first read) of two good alternatives and the right (second) of two bad ones. Stimuli were spaced horizontally, and participants indicated preference by choosing one of several written statements (e.g., “apple I like more than pear”). The results were described as being due to a higher weight for the left/first stimulus than for the right/second. In the present study, Experiment 1 was similar to the previous studies, except that the stimuli were spaced vertically. In Experiment 2, stimuli were spaced horizontally, but preference was indicated by symbols instead of statements. The results of Experiment 1 essentially replicated the earlier findings, with a higher weight for the upper (first read) stimulus, but those of Experiment 2 did not. These results suggest that the semantic structure of the preference statements is an important factor behind the goodness- level dependent WOE.