Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
VAST 2014 mini-challenge 1: MEAT — Multiview event analysis tool of diverse data sources

Dealing with diverse data sources has becoming a new challenge in visual analytics. MEAT intelligence analysis system is designed to meet the challenge of VAST 2014 Mini-Challenge 1 [1]. Using a coordinated multiview with a clear interaction pipeline, MEAT supports complicated analyzing tasks, including intelligence collection and reasoning. Using MEAT, we have successfully mined a great amount of information from the available data, resolved the problems one after another and finally delivered a convincing outcome.
La réforme des systèmes de retraite dans les pays en développement et l'extension de la couverture à l'emploi informel: Application au Maroc

Cette these porte sur les reformes des systemes de retraite dans les pays en developpement et s’articule autour de deux axes : l’efficacite des systemes en place pour assurer aux affilies un niveau de revenu suffisant a la retraite ; et l’extension de la couverture aux travailleurs informels et aux personnes âgees non couvertes. Nous faisons d’abord une etude de 7 cas de pays d’Amerique latine ayant mene des reformes de passage de la repartition a la capitalisation. Elle montre que les effets observes s’ecartent de l’impact escompte en ce qui concerne le niveau des retraites obtenu et la formalisation de l’emploi. Nous considerons ensuite le cas du Maroc et le processus de reforme en cours. En nous appuyant sur les donnees demographiques et financieres des regimes, nous analysons la capacite actuelle et future du systeme a garantir aux retraites un niveau de revenu proche de celui des actifs. Nous montrons notamment que la reforme actuellement envisagee est insuffisante. Nous effectuons enfin, a partir de donnees microeconomiques marocaines, deux etudes empiriques sur la question de l’extension de la couverture retraite. La premiere vise a mesurer l’emploi informel et a identifier ses caracteristiques et ses determinants. Les resultats indiquent que les trois quarts des travailleurs hors secteur agricole ne sont pas affilies au systeme de securite sociale et que cet emploi informel est largement subi et non le resultat d’un comportement d’evasion. La deuxieme etudie la question de la pauvrete des personnes âgees et l’opportunite de creer une pension de solidarite. Les resultats montrent que les menages ou vivent les personnes âgees sont plus pauvres que les autres, que la cohabitation intergenerationnelle est forte et que la creation d’une pension minimale permettrait de sortir un grand nombre de menages de la pauvrete pour un cout inferieur a 0,5% du PIB.
Chelators at the Cancer Coalface: Desferrioxamine to Triapine and Beyond

The importance of iron and copper in cancer biology has been well established. Iron plays a fundamental role in cellular proliferation and copper has been shown to be a significant cofactor for angiogenesis. Early observations with the chelator used for the treatment of iron overload, desferrioxamine, showed that it had promise as an anticancer agent. These results sparked great interest in the possibility of developing more effective iron chelators for cancer therapy. The recent entry into clinical trials of the iron-binding drug, Triapine, provides evidence of the potential of this antitumor strategy. Likewise, chelators originally designed to treat disorders of copper overload, such as penicillamine, trientine, and tetrathiomolybdate, have also emerged as potential anticancer drugs, as they are able to target the key angiogenic cofactor, copper. In this review, we will discuss the development of these and other chelators that show potential as anticancer agents.
Next step in the ongoing arms race between myxoma virus and wild rabbits in Australia is a novel disease phenotype

Significance When a pathogen emerges in a host population, will it evolve to do more or less harm to its host? A single strain of myxoma virus was released as a biocontrol agent against Australian rabbit populations in 1950. The subsequent coevolution has become a textbook classic, although there has been little experimental work on this topic since the early 1980s. Here, we show that the host–pathogen arms race continued with the evolution of highly lethal viruses that cause immune collapse. The possibility that pathogens can become highly immunosuppressive in response to increases in host resistance needs to be considered where genetic and immunologic manipulations are used to enhance host resistance, as, for instance, in agriculture. In host–pathogen arms races, increases in host resistance prompt counteradaptation by pathogens, but the nature of that counteradaptation is seldom directly observed outside of laboratory models. The best-documented field example is the coevolution of myxoma virus (MYXV) in European rabbits. To understand how MYXV in Australia has continued to evolve in wild rabbits under intense selection for genetic resistance to myxomatosis, we compared the phenotypes of the progenitor MYXV and viral isolates from the 1950s and the 1990s in laboratory rabbits with no resistance. Strikingly, and unlike their 1950s counterparts, most virus isolates from the 1990s induced a highly lethal immune collapse syndrome similar to septic shock. Thus, the next step in this canonical case of coevolution after a species jump has been further escalation by the virus in the face of widespread host resistance.
#ISISisNotIslam or #DeportAllMuslims?: predicting unspoken views

This paper examines the effect of online social network interactions on future attitudes. Specifically, we focus on how a person's online content and network dynamics can be used to predict future attitudes and stances in the aftermath of a major event. In this study, we focus on the attitudes of US Twitter users towards Islam and Muslims subsequent to the tragic Paris terrorist attacks that occurred on November 13, 2015. We quantitatively analyze 44K users' network interactions and historical tweets to predict their attitudes. We provide a description of the quantitative results based on the content (hashtags) and network interaction (retweets, replies, and mentions). We analyze two types of data: (1) we use post-event tweets to learn users' stated stances towards Muslims based on sampling methods and crowd-sourced annotations; and (2) we employ pre-event interactions on Twitter to build a classifier to predict post-event stances. We found that pre-event network interactions can predict someone' s attitudes towards Muslims with 82% macro F-measure, even in the absence of prior mentions of Islam, Muslims, or related terms.
Comparing standard care with a physician and pharmacist team approach for uncontrolled hypertension

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of a physician and pharmacist teamwork approach to uncontrolled hypertension in a medical resident teaching clinic, for patients who failed to meet the recommended goals of the fifth Joint National Commission on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.HYPOTHESIS: Physician and pharmacist teamwork can improve the rate of meeting national blood pressure goals in patients with previously uncontrolled hypertension.DESIGN: A single-blinded randomized controlled trial lasting 6 months.SETTING: A primary care outpatient teaching clinic.PATIENTS: A sample of 95 adult hypertensive patients who failed to meet national blood pressure goals based on three consecutive visits over a 6-month period.INTERVENTION: Patients were randomly assigned to a control arm of standard medical care or to an intervention arm in which a physician and pharmacist worked together as a team.MAIN RESULTS: At study completion, the percentage of patients achieving national goals due to intervention was more than double the percentage in the control arm (55% vs 20%, p < .001). Systolic blood pressure declined 23 mm Hg in the intervention arm versus 11 mm Hg in the control arm (p < .01). Diastolic blood pressure declined 14 and 3 mm Hg in the intervention and control arms, respectively (p < .001). The intervention worked equally as well in men and women and demonstrated noticeable promise in a minority of mixed-ancestry Hawaiians in whom hypertension is of special concern.CONCLUSIONS: Patients who fail to achieve national blood pressure goals under standard outpatient medical care may benefit from a program that includes a physician and pharmacist teamwork approach.
Network Analysis and Political Science

Political science is fascinated with networks. This fascination builds on networks' descriptive appeal, and descriptions of networks play a prominent role in recent forays into network analysis. For some time, quantitative research has included node-level measures of network characteristics in standard regression models, thereby incorporating network concepts into familiar models. This approach represents an early advance for the literature but may (a) ignore fundamental theoretical contributions that can be found in a more structurally oriented network perspective, (b) focus attention on superficial aspects of networks as they feed into empirical work, and (c) present the network perspective as a slight tweak to standard models that assume complete independence of all relevant actors. We argue that network analysis is more than a tweak to the status quo ante; rather, it offers a means of addressing one of the holy grails of the social sciences: effectively analyzing the interdependence and flows of influ.
Quality of Care Provided to Individual Patients in US Hospitals: Results From an Analysis of National Hospital Quality Alliance Data

Background:There is little national data on the characteristics of patients who receive high quality inpatient care defined as either the receipt of all appliable processes (all-or-none performance) or the proportion of applicable processes received during thier hospitalization. Objectives:To assess the quality of care provided to patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure or pneumonia, to describe variations in quality by patient and hospital characteristics, and the sensitivity of all-or-none performance to the number and type of processes. Design and Subjects:Retrospective analysis of previously unavailable Hospital Quality Alliance patient-level data on 2.3 million individuals receiving care in non-federal US hospitals in 2005. Measures:The proportion of patients who received all applicable care processes, and the mean proportion of applicable processes received by hospitalized patients. Results:82.8% of AMI patients, 57.3% of HF patients, and 41.7% of PN patients received all applicable care processes during their hospitalizations. Within each condition, all-or-none performance varied by patient age, race/ethnicity, and admission source, and characteristics of the hospital in which they received care. In addition, patients who were eligible for more processes were less likely to receive all of them, and certain individual processes had large impacts on all-or-none performance. Conclusions:Large numbers of U.S. hospital patients fail to receive all recommended care. All-or-none composites are intriguing indicators of quality; however designers of such systems should address the sensitivity of these composites to both the number and type of individual processes included.
Overloading conditions management in remote networks by coupling neighboring microgrids

Remote area microgrids (MG) can experience overloading or power deficiency throughout their dynamic operations due to load and generation uncertainties. Under such conditions, load-shedding is traditionally considered as the first successful mechanism to prevent system instability. To minimize load-shedding, islanded neighboring MGs can be connected to each other in remote areas to provide a self-healing capability. For this, extra generation capacity needs to be available in the distributed energy resources (DER) of one of the MGs to supply the extra demand in the other MG. In this way, the total load in the system of interconnected MGs will be shared by all the DERs within those MGs. This process falls within the network tertiary controller functions. Therefore, the tertiary controller should have a self-healing algorithm that needs to be carefully designed to initiate the command for interconnection of the MGs. The self-healing strategy needs to consider the required criteria to prevent system instability. The MGs will then be interconnected through an interconnecting static switch (ISS). This strategy also needs to decide when two interconnected MGs should be isolated. This paper focuses on the self-healing strategy, its criteria and features. The efficacy of the developed strategy in interconnecting and isolating the neighboring MGs is validated through PSCAD/EMTDC simulations.
Distribution of protein folds in the three superkingdoms of life.

A sensitive protein-fold recognition procedure was developed on the basis of iterative database search using the PSI-BLAST program. A collection of 1193 position-dependent weight matrices that can be used as fold identifiers was produced. In the completely sequenced genomes, folds could be automatically identified for 20%-30% of the proteins, with 3%-6% more detectable by additional analysis of conserved motifs. The distribution of the most common folds is very similar in bacteria and archaea but distinct in eukaryotes. Within the bacteria, this distribution differs between parasitic and free-living species. In all analyzed genomes, the P-loop NTPases are the most abundant fold. In bacteria and archaea, the next most common folds are ferredoxin-like domains, TIM-barrels, and methyltransferases, whereas in eukaryotes, the second to fourth places belong to protein kinases, beta-propellers and TIM-barrels. The observed diversity of protein folds in different proteomes is approximately twice as high as it would be expected from a simple stochastic model describing a proteome as a finite sample from an infinite pool of proteins with an exponential distribution of the fold fractions. Distribution of the number of domains with different folds in one protein fits the geometric model, which is compatible with the evolution of multidomain proteins by random combination of domains. [Fold predictions for proteins from 14 proteomes are available on the World Wide Web at. The FIDs are available by anonymous ftp at the same location. ]
Factors Predicting Impact of ICT-Use on Students: An Exploration of Teachers’ Perceptions

As a secondary analysis of the SITES 2006 data, the present paper focused on the exploration of the factors associated with the impact of ICT-use on students’ 21st-century skills as perceived by teachers, in which students’ 21st-century skills included information-handling skills, problem-solving skills, self-directed learning skills, collaborative skills, communication skills, ICT skills, and ability to learn at students’ own pace. In order to predict and understand teachers’ perceptions of the impact of ICT-use on students’ 21st-century skills, we proposed a model embracing five factors: (1) teachers’ perceptions on teacher-practice orientation 21st-century learning, (2) student-practice orientation of 21st-century learning, (3) pedagogical ICT competence, (4) teachers’ perceptions on the presence of a community of practice on professional collaboration, and (5) teacher-related obstacles in using ICT. Results of the path analysis revealed three direct effects on student-impact, namely teacher-practice orientation, student-practice orientation, and pedagogical ICT competence. Findings revealed that teacher perception on student-practice orientation was the strongest predictor of student-impact than other factors. The direct effects of teacher-practice orientation, student-practice orientation, and pedagogical ICT competence on student-impact were positive. The pedagogical ICT competence had direct as well as indirect effects on student-impact. However, the effects of pedagogical ICT competence on the mediated factors teacher-practice orientation and student-practice orientation were negative. The indirect effects of community of practice on professional collaboration and teacher-related obstacles in using ICT on student-impact were mediated through teacher-practice orientation, student-practice orientation, or pedagogical ICT competence. The effects of community of practice on professional collaboration on all mediated factors were positive whereas the effects of teacher-related obstacles in using ICT on all mediated factors were negative. Finally, implications for teacher professional development are discussed.
The role of fungal spores in thunderstorm asthma.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To document the existence and investigate the etiology of "thunderstorm asthma," which has been reported sporadically over the past 20 years. DESIGN We assessed the relationship between thunderstorms, air pollutants, aeroallergens, and asthma admissions to a children's hospital emergency department over a 6-year period. RESULTS During thunderstorm days (n = 151 days) compared to days without thunderstorms (n = 919 days), daily asthma visits increased from 8.6 to 10 (p < 0.05), and air concentrations of fungal spores doubled (from 1,512 to 2,749/m(3)), with relatively smaller changes in pollens and air pollutants. Daily time-series analyses across the 6 years of observation, irrespective of the presence or absence of thunderstorms, demonstrated that an increase in total spores, equivalent to its seasonal mean, was associated with a 2.2% (0.9% SE) increase in asthma visits. CONCLUSIONS Our results support a relationship between thunderstorms and asthma, and suggest that the mechanism may be through increases in spores that exacerbate asthma. Replication in other climates is suggested to determine whether these findings can be generalized to other aeroallergen mixes.
Locating Adaptive Learning: The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations

This paper explores the nature of adaptive learning around new technology in organizations. To understand this issue, we examine the process of problem solving involving new production equipment during early factory use. We find that adaptation is a situated process, in that different organizational settings (1) contain different kinds of clues about the underlying issues, (2) offer different resources for generating and analyzing information, and (3) evoke different assumptions on the part of problem solvers. Consequently, actors frequently must move in an alternating fashion between different organizational settings before they can identify the causal underpinnings of a problem and develop a suitable solution.These findings suggest that traditional, decontextualized theories of adaptive learning and of collaboration could be improved by taking into account that learning occurs through people interacting in context ---or, more specifically, in multiple contexts. Learning is often enhanced not just by bringing people together, but by moving them around to confront different sorts of clues, gather different kinds of data, use different kinds of tools, and experience different pressures relevant to a given problem. We discuss both managerial and theoretical implications of these findings.
A Study of the California Test of Mental Maturity: Advanced Battery

The California Test of Mental Maturity is one of the newer intelli gence tests which has attracted wide attention within the last year or two. An important reason for the interest in it is that it attempts to make a diagnostic measurement of mental functions. The test is designed to measure the following types of mental ability : memory, spatial re lationships, reasoning, and vocabulary. Each of these parts contains several sub-tests. The test yields three intelligence quotients? an IQ for language factors and an IQ for non-language factors, as well as the usual type of IQ based on total scores. The IQ for language factors is based on tests of delayed recall, number quantity, inference, and vocabu lary. The IQ for non-language factors results from tests of immediate recall, sensing right and left, manipulation of areas, foresight in spatial relations, opposites, similarities, analogies, number series, and number quantity.
Effects of speech style and sex of speaker on person perception.

Lakoff has suggested that men and women use different speech styles, with women's speech more polite but less assertive than men's. The assumption that three of Lakoff's linguistic variables (tag questions, qualifiers, and compound requests) affect person perception in these ways was tested. Sex of speaker was also varied. In Experiment 1, undergraduate s rated the assertiveness, warmth, and politeness of two male and two female speakers who used or did not use the three linguistic forms. All three "female" linguistic forms were rated less assertive than corresponding "male" forms; qualified speech and compound requests were rated warmer and compound requests more polite. Sex of speaker was a significant factor in only one possible comparison. These results were substantially replicated in Experiment 2, in which older and/or less educated women acted as judges. These findings suggest that Lakoff's intuitions concerning effects of speech styles on person perception are largely correct and that modification of speech styles could allow men and women to affect how they are perceived.
Constructs of the Work/ Life Interface: A Synthesis of the Literature and Introduction of the Concept of Work/Life Harmony

The purpose of this article is to identify construct definitions and measurement tools for the work/life interface concepts: conflict, enrichment, and balance. An understanding of these concepts is critical to HRD professionals because interventions designed to counter work/life interface issues cannot be strategically created, and culture changes cannot be effectively addressed until the discipline understands the nature and the organizational implications of employees’ work/life interface. A new construct called work/life harmony and the work/life harmony model are introduced to aid in the understanding of the work/life interface.