Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bayesian prediction of placebo analgesia in an instrumental learning model

Placebo analgesia can be primarily explained by the Pavlovian conditioning paradigm in which a passively applied cue becomes associated with less pain. In contrast, instrumental conditioning employs an active paradigm that might be more similar to clinical settings. In the present study, an instrumental conditioning paradigm involving a modified trust game in a simulated clinical situation was used to induce placebo analgesia. Additionally, Bayesian modeling was applied to predict the placebo responses of individuals based on their choices. Twenty-four participants engaged in a medical trust game in which decisions to receive treatment from either a doctor (more effective with high cost) or a pharmacy (less effective with low cost) were made after receiving a reference pain stimulus. In the conditioning session, the participants received lower levels of pain following both choices, while high pain stimuli were administered in the test session even after making the decision. The choice-dependent pain in the conditioning session was modulated in terms of both intensity and uncertainty. Participants reported significantly less pain when they chose the doctor or the pharmacy for treatment compared to the control trials. The predicted pain ratings based on Bayesian modeling showed significant correlations with the actual reports from participants for both of the choice categories. The instrumental conditioning paradigm allowed for the active choice of optional cues and was able to induce the placebo analgesia effect. Additionally, Bayesian modeling successfully predicted pain ratings in a simulated clinical situation that fits well with placebo analgesia induced by instrumental conditioning.
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Identification in Models of Oligopoly Entry

Abstract In the empirical study of markets, models of entry are often used to study the nature of firms' profits and the nature of competition between firms. Most of these estimated models have been parametric. In this paper, we review and extend a number of results on the identification of models that are used in the empirical literature.We study simple versions of both static and dynamic entry models. For simple static models, we show how natural shape restrictions can be used to identify competition effects. We consider extensions to models with heterogeneous firms, mixed-strategy equilibria and private information and provide insights that can be used in these settings to conduct inference. In the case of dynamic models, we review existing results on the model with i.i. d. linear errors, and then consider more realistic cases, such as when the distribution of fixed costs is unknown. INTRODUCTION In the empirical study of markets, models of entry are often used to study the nature of firms' profits and the nature of competition between firms. The idea of these models is that firms enter into a market only when they expect to operate profitably; therefore, entry decisions can be used as an indicator of a latent profit function. The study of entry into oligopoly markets is complicated by strategic interactions between firms. This means that traditional ideas in the econometric literature on discrete choice models have to be modified somewhat to account for these strategic interactions.
Decision Making Dialogue Management Belief Revision Behavior Realizer Perception Information State ( Context model ) Semantic Knowledge Perception Memory Knowledge Base Dialogue Semantic Cognitive Perceptual Audio / text Audio / text Control Flow Data Flow Virtual World Social Avatar Task

The coordination is an essential ingredient for the mixed human-agent teamwork. It requires team members to share knowledge to establish common grounding and mutual awareness among them. In this paper, we proposed a collaborative conversational belief-desire-intention (CBDI) behavioural agent architecture that allows to enhance the knowledge sharing using natural language communication between team members. We defined collaborative conversation protocols that provide proactive behaviour to agents for the coordination between team members. Furthermore, to endow the communication capabilities to CBDI agent, we described the information state based approach for the natural language processing of the utterances. We have applied the proposed architecture to a real scenario in a collaborative virtual environment for training. Our solution enables the user to coordinate with other team members. Keywords-Human interaction with autonomous agents, Cooperation, Dialogue Management, Decision-Making
Pulmonary BALT Lymphoma Successfully Treated with Eight Cycles Weekly Rituximab: Report of First Case and F-18 FDG PET/CT Images

Extra marginal-zone lymphomas of the lung is a very rare tumor and it originates from bronchial-associated lymphoid tissue. A 68-yr-old woman presented with productive cough and dyspnea. A thorax computed tomography scan showed a 9 × 10 cm in size mass in the left lung and pleural effusion in the lower lobe of left lung. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) revealed intense uptake foci at the upper and middle sites of left lung and slight uptake foci at the mediastinal lymph nodes which showed malignant involvement. After bronchoscopic biopsy, the diagnosis of pulmonary bronchial-associated lymphoid tissue (BALT) lymphoma was confirmed. At the end of the eight cycles weekly rituximab treatment, complete response was obtained by PET/CT findings. It is concluded that extended rituximab schedule is more effective and it would be beneficial to investigate the use of PET/CT in the diagnosis and evaluating of the treatment response of pulmonary BALT lymphoma.
New Aspects of Chemoreception in Flies

ABSTRACT: For studies of insect taste the sensory cells of labellar taste hairs on the proboscis of calliphorid flies (e.g., Phormia) are preferred objects. Three sensory cells are electrophysiologically characterized: a sugar cell, a water cell and a cation or salt cell. Studying hairs on legs and proboscis of other families of flies we recently obtained results that extend our knowledge about the complexity of food detection in flies.
Some reflections on social workers’ perspectives on mental health services in two cities - Sydney, Australia and Budapest, Hungary

English This article reflects on the ways in which historical and political narratives have shaped social work practice in mental health in two cities, Sydney, Australia and Budapest, Hungary. A small sample of social workers was interviewed in the two cities and their perspectives highlighted many similarities in theoretical orientation to their practice. French Cette thèse s'arrête sur les façons dont les récits historiques et politiques ont façonnéla pratique du travail social dans deux villes, Sydney en Australie et Budapest en Hongrie. Un échantillon restreint de travailleurs sociaux ont étéinterviewés dans les deux villes et leurs perspectives ont mis en lumière un grand nombre de similitudes en ce qui a trait à l'orientation théorique de leur pratique. Spanish Se reflexiona sobre la manera en que narrativas históricas y políticas han dado forma a la práctica de trabajo social en Sydney (Australia) y Budapest (Hungría). Se entrevistóa una pequeña muestra de trabajadores sociales en las dos ciudades. Sus perspectivas muestran muchas semejanzas en la orientación teórica de su práctica.
Bayesian Feature Enhancement for ASR of Noisy Reverberant Real-World Data

In this contribution we investigate the effectiveness of Bayesian feature enhancement (BFE) on a medium-sized recognition task containing real-world recordings of noisy reverberant speech. BFE employs a very coarse model of the acoustic impulse response (AIR) from the source to the microphone, which has been shown to be effective if the speech to be recognized has been generated by artificially convolving nonreverberant speech with a constant AIR. Here we demonstrate that the model is also appropriate to be used in feature enhancement of true recordings of noisy reverberant speech. On the Multi-Channel Wall Street Journal Audio Visual corpus (MC-WSJ-AV) the word error rate is cut in half to 41.9 percent compared to the ETSI Standard Front-End using as input the signal of a single distant microphone with a single recognition pass.
Process Control: Past, Present, and Future

As process technology has shifted from batch to continuous operations, control procedures have also evolved. Manual adjustment of process conditions has been superseded by automatic controllers, which in turn are now being supple mented by computers that can exercise control over entire plants. Justification for these systems is found in greater production capacity, lower raw material and utility costs, and improved quality control. Labor savings have played little part in justifying computer systems for process plants where automatic equipment has already cut the number of people needed to a practical minimum. The future will see continued technical developments in the field and a growing number of installations.
Psychometric properties of Young internet addiction test

Introduction: There is growing concern about internet addiction and accessing a valid and reliable assessment tool based on DSM diagnostic criteria which can differentiate normal internet users and internet addicts, is very limited. Young internet addiction questionnaire is one of valid available questionnaires. This study was designed to investigate psychometric properties of the mentioned questionnaire. Method: This descriptive cross-sectional survey research was performed on 233 Isfahan university students in 2008. Research units were selected by quota sampling from universities of Isfahan and completed demographic questionnaire, Young Internet Addiction Test and YDQ. A clinical interview based on DSM-IV-TR was performed on all samples. Data were analyzed using factor analysis, internal consistency, Cronbach's alpha, bisection, test-retest and ROC curve by SPSS 12. Results: Factor analysis by principal component and Varimax rotation revealed five factors of social problems, effect on performance, lack of control, pathological use of chat rooms and neglecting educational and occupational duties. Content and convergent validity, Internal consistency (α=0.88), test-retest reliability (r=0.82) and bisection (r=0.72) were determined and all were acceptable, regarding results. Best cut off point for the questionnaire was 46. Conclusion: Young's Internet Addiction Test has acceptable psychometric properties and is a valid and reliable tool that may be used in psychological and psychiatric studies in order to screen normal internet users and internet addicts.
Infants' Behavioral Strategies for Emotion Regulation With Fathers and Mothers: Associations With Emotional Expressions and Attachment Quality.

This study examined 12- and 13-month-old infants' behavioral strategies for emotion regulation, emotional expressions, regulatory styles, and attachment quality with fathers and mothers. Eighty-five infants participated in the Strange Situation procedure to assess attachment quality with mothers and fathers. Infants' behavioral strategies for emotion regulation were examined with each parent during a competing demands task. Emotion regulation styles were meaningfully related to infant-father attachment quality. Although expressions of distress and positive affect were not consistent across mothers and fathers, there was consistency in infant strategy use, emotion regulation style, and attachment quality with mothers and fathers. Furthermore, infants who were securely attached to both parents showed greater consistency in parent-oriented strategies than infants who were insecurely attached to one or both parents. Limitations of this study include the constrained laboratory setting, potential carryover effects, and a homogeneous, middle-class sample.
A 3D tele-immersion system based on live captured mesh geometry

3D Tele-immersion enables participants in remote locations to share, in real-time, an activity. It offers users natural interactivity and immersive experiences, but it challenges current networking solutions. Work in the past has mainly focused on the efficient delivery of image-based 3D videos and on the realistic rendering and reconstruction of geometry-based 3D objects. The contribution of this paper is a complete media pipeline that allows for geometry-based 3D tele-immersion. Unlike previous approaches, that stream videos or video plus depth estimate, our streaming module can transmit the live-reconstructed 3D representations (triangle meshes). Based on a set of comparative experiments, this paper details the architecture and describes a novel component that can efficiently stream geometry in real-time. This component includes both a novel fast local compression algorithm and a rateless packet protection scheme geared towards the requirements imposed by real-time transmission of live-capture mesh geometry. Tests on a large dataset show an encoding and decoding speed-up of over 10 times at similar compression and quality rates, when compared to the high-end MPEG-4 SC3DMC mesh encoder. The implemented rateless code ensures complete packet loss protection of the triangle mesh object and avoids delay introduced by retransmissions. This approach is compared to a streaming mechanism over TCP and outperforms it at packet loss rates over 2% and/or latencies over 9 ms in terms of end-to-end transmission delay. As reported in this paper, the component has been successfully integrated into a larger tele-immersive environment that includes beyond state of the art 3D reconstruction and rendering modules. This resulted in a prototype that can capture, compress transmit and render triangle mesh geometry in real-time over the internet.
ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: COMMUNICATOR ATTRACTIVENESS VERSUS SIMILARITY IN PERSUASION

Title of Thesis: COMMUNICATOR ATTRACTIVENESS VERSUS SIMILARITY IN PERSUASION Jarrod D. Hyman, Master of Arts, 2003 Thesis Directed by: Professor Judson R. Mills Department of Psychology The purpose of the present research was to investigate circumstances under which an attractive but non-similar communicator will be more persuasive than a similar but non-attractive communicator and circumstances under which a similar but non-attractive communicator will be more persuasive than an attractive but non-similar communicator. In the context of a study of memory for ads, female college students listened to an advertisement, after having received information that the speaker of the advertisement was either an attractive African-American male or a similar female student. The speaker described the product as something everyone needs, something everyone would like, something you need, or something you would like. Participants then indicated their attitude toward the product and rated characteristics of the speaker. It was found that when the product was described as something for everyone, participants liked the product more than when it was described as something for you (the listener). COMMUNICATOR ATTRACTIVENESS VERSUS SIMILARITY IN PERSUASION
The social construction of clients by service agents in reformed welfare administration

This article explores categorization and labelling in organizations through a study of the social construction of clients by service agents in reformed British welfare administration. We analyse the content of client typologies and show how these are embedded in the nature of front-line service work and the organizational context as structured by social authorities. We find a pervasive categorization and valorization of clients according to their perceived attitudes to work, on the reported basis of their body language and demeanour in initial service interactions. This is embedded in a more complex system of social construction, encompassing diverse criteria such as capacity for aggression, gratitude and social status and age. We show how the criteria used by staff to make sense of overlapping groups of clients differs between the main sample in post-reform sites and those working in pre-reform benefit offices. We consider the research and practical implications of our study, the latter relating to the espoused strategy of personalized and flexible treatment of clients in an era of new public management reforms.
Online Appendices for Finkelstein, Luttmer and Notowidigdo: “What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption” Online Appendix A: Derivations and Extensions of the Theoretical Model Determination of optimal savings

Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption” Online Appendix A: Derivations and Extensions of the Theoretical Model Determination of optimal savings We now prove the claim from Section 3.1 that individuals’ second-period wealth is proportional to their lifetime income and we determine the proportionality factor w. We first calculate expected second-period utility as a function of second-period wealth by taking the weighted average of equations (4) and (8), where the weights are the 1-p and p respectively. This yields:
Development of SNP‐genotyping arrays in two shellfish species

Use of SNPs has been favoured due to their abundance in plant and animal genomes, accompanied by the falling cost and rising throughput capacity for detection and genotyping. Here, we present in vitro (obtained from targeted sequencing) and in silico discovery of SNPs, and the design of medium‐throughput genotyping arrays for two oyster species, the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, and European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis. Two sets of 384 SNP markers were designed for two Illumina GoldenGate arrays and genotyped on more than 1000 samples for each species. In each case, oyster samples were obtained from wild and selected populations and from three‐generation families segregating for traits of interest in aquaculture. The rate of successfully genotyped polymorphic SNPs was about 60% for each species. Effects of SNP origin and quality on genotyping success (Illumina functionality Score) were analysed and compared with other model and nonmodel species. Furthermore, a simulation was made based on a subset of the C. gigas SNP array with a minor allele frequency of 0.3 and typical crosses used in shellfish hatcheries. This simulation indicated that at least 150 markers were needed to perform an accurate parental assignment. Such panels might provide valuable tools to improve our understanding of the connectivity between wild (and selected) populations and could contribute to future selective breeding programmes.
Ser/Thr Phosphorylation of IRS Proteins: A Molecular Basis for Insulin Resistance

S6K1, like other serine and threonine kinases activated by insulin (such as mTOR and PKCζ), has recently been shown to participate in negative feedback mechanisms aimed at terminating insulin signaling through IRS (insulin receptor substrate) phosphorylation. Such homeostatic mechanisms can also be activated by excess nutrients or inducers of insulin resistance (such as fatty acids and proinflammatory cytokines) to produce an insulin-resistant state that often leads to the development of diabetes. Identification of the specific kinases involved in such insulin resistance pathways can help lead to the rational design of novel therapeutic agents for treating insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
The Noldus database: Automated recognition of restaurant related activities for the restaurant of the future

The Restaurant of the Future is a futuristic approach for consumer research in food-related scenarios. Customers are closely monitored by cameras. Currently the video footage is evaluated and annotated manually. For a gradual automation of this process a video database with eating scenarios is published. The database is quite challenging with light changes, overexposure, occluded objects, and equally colored objects, such as glass, plate, skin, and cloth. Basic activities, as drinking, eating, coming in, going out, etc. are manually annotated and can be used as ground truth. A baseline system, consisting of five recognition modules and a rule-based activity recognition method is presented in this treatise. The results can be used as baseline results for comparison within the community.
Methionine recycling pathways and antimalarial drug design

5'-Deoxy-5'-(methylthio)adenosine (MTA) is an S-adenosylmethionine metabolite that is generated as a by-product of polyamine biosynthesis. In mammalian cells, MTA undergoes a phosphorolytic cleavage catalyzed by MTA phosphorylase to produce adenine and 5-deoxy-5-(methylthio)ribose-1-phosphate (MTRP). Adenine is utilized in purine salvage pathways, and MTRP is subsequently recycled to methionine. Whereas some microorganisms metabolize MTA to MTRP via MTA phosphorylase, others metabolize MTA to MTRP in two steps via initial cleavage by MTA nucleosidase to adenine and 5-deoxy-5-(methylthio)ribose (MTR) followed by conversion of MTR to MTRP by MTR kinase. In order to assess the extent to which these pathways may be operative in Plasmodium falciparum, we have examined a series of 5'-alkyl-substituted analogs of MTA and the related MTR analogs and compared their abilities to inhibit in vitro growth of this malarial parasite. The MTR analogs 5-deoxy-5-(ethylthio)ribose and 5-deoxy-5-(hydroxyethylthio)ribose were inactive at concentrations up to 1 mM, and 5-deoxy-5-(monofluoroethylthio)ribose was weakly active (50% inhibitory concentration = 700 microM). In comparison, the MTA analogs, 5'-deoxy-5'-(ethylthio)adenosine,5'-deoxy-5'-(hydroxyethylthio)ade nosine (HETA), and 5'-deoxy-5'-(monofluoroethylthio)adenosine, had 50% inhibitory concentrations of 80, 46, and 61 microM, respectively. Extracts of P. falciparum were found to have substantial MTA phosphorylase activity. Coadministration of MTA with HETA partially protected the parasites against the growth-inhibitory effects of HETA. Results of this study indicate that P. falciparum has an active MTA phosphorylase that can be targeted by analogs of MTA.
On the robustness of relevance measures with incomplete judgments

We investigate the robustness of three widely used IR relevance measures for large data collections with incomplete judgments. The relevance measures we consider are the bpref measure introduced by Buckley and Voorhees [7], the inferred average precision (infAP) introduced by Aslam and Yilmaz [4], and the normalized discounted cumulative gain (NDCG) measure introduced by Järvelin and Kekäläinen [8]. Our main results show that NDCG consistently performs better than both bpref and infAP. The experiments are performed on standard TREC datasets, under different levels of incompleteness of judgments, and using two different evaluation methods, namely, the Kendall correlation measures order between system rankings and pairwise statistical significance testing; the latter may be of independent interest.