Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Development of a Fully Automated, Web-Based, Tailored Intervention Promoting Regular Physical Activity Among Insufficiently Active Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Integrating the I-Change Model, Self-Determination Theory, and Motivational Interviewing Components

Background Type 2 diabetes is a major challenge for Canadian public health authorities, and regular physical activity is a key factor in the management of this disease. Given that fewer than half of people with type 2 diabetes in Canada are sufficiently active to meet the recommendations, effective programs targeting the adoption of regular physical activity (PA) are in demand for this population. Many researchers argue that Web-based, tailored interventions targeting PA are a promising and effective avenue for sedentary populations like Canadians with type 2 diabetes, but few have described the detailed development of this kind of intervention. Objective This paper aims to describe the systematic development of the Web-based, tailored intervention, Diabète en Forme, promoting regular aerobic PA among adult Canadian francophones with type 2 diabetes. This paper can be used as a reference for health professionals interested in developing similar interventions. We also explored the integration of theoretical components derived from the I-Change Model, Self-Determination Theory, and Motivational Interviewing, which is a potential path for enhancing the effectiveness of tailored interventions on PA adoption and maintenance. Methods The intervention development was based on the program-planning model for tailored interventions of Kreuter et al. An additional step was added to the model to evaluate the intervention’s usability prior to the implementation phase. An 8-week intervention was developed. The key components of the intervention include a self-monitoring tool for PA behavior, a weekly action planning tool, and eight tailored motivational sessions based on attitude, self-efficacy, intention, type of motivation, PA behavior, and other constructs and techniques. Usability evaluation, a step added to the program-planning model, helped to make several improvements to the intervention prior to the implementation phase. Results The intervention development cost was about CDN $59,700 and took approximately 54 full-time weeks. The intervention officially started on September 29, 2014. Out of 2300 potential participants targeted for the tailored intervention, approximately 530 people visited the website, 170 people completed the registration process, and 83 corresponded to the selection criteria and were enrolled in the intervention. Conclusions Usability evaluation is an essential step in the development of a Web-based tailored intervention in order to make pre-implementation improvements. The effectiveness and relevance of the theoretical framework used for the intervention will be analyzed following the process and impact evaluation. Implications for future research are discussed.
An enhanced automatic speech recognition system for Arabic

Automatic speech recognition for Arabic is a very challenging task. Despite all the classical techniques for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which can be efficiently applied to Arabic speech recognition, it is essential to take into consideration the language specificities to improve the system performance. In this article, we focus on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech recognition. We introduce the challenges related to Arabic language, namely the complex morphology nature of the language and the absence of the short vowels in written text, which leads to several potential vowelization for each graphemes, which is often conflicting. We develop an ASR system for MSA by using Kaldi toolkit. Several acoustic and language models are trained. We obtain a Word Error Rate (WER) of 14.42 for the baseline system and 12.2 relative improvement by rescoring the lattice and by rewriting the output with the right Z hamoza above or below Alif.
Phenotypic and Functional Separation of Memory and Effector Human CD8+ T Cells

Human CD8+ memory- and effector-type T cells are poorly defined. We show here that, next to a naive compartment, two discrete primed subpopulations can be found within the circulating human CD8+ T cell subset. First, CD45RA−CD45R0+ cells are reminiscent of memory-type T cells in that they express elevated levels of CD95 (Fas) and the integrin family members CD11a, CD18, CD29, CD49d, and CD49e, compared to naive CD8+ T cells, and are able to secrete not only interleukin (IL) 2 but also interferon γ, tumor necrosis factor α, and IL-4. This subset does not exert cytolytic activity without prior in vitro stimulation but does contain virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) precursors. A second primed population is characterized by CD45RA expression with concomitant absence of expression of the costimulatory molecules CD27 and CD28. The CD8+CD45RA+CD27− population contains T cells expressing high levels of CD11a, CD11b, CD18, and CD49d, whereas CD62L (L-selectin) is not expressed. These T cells do not secrete IL-2 or -4 but can produce IFN-γ and TNF-α. In accordance with this finding, cells contained within this subpopulation depend for proliferation on exogenous growth factors such as IL-2 and -15. Interestingly, CD8+CD45RA+CD27− cells parallel effector CTLs, as they abundantly express Fas-ligand mRNA, contain perforin and granzyme B, and have high cytolytic activity without in vitro prestimulation. Based on both phenotypic and functional properties, we conclude that memory- and effector-type T cells can be separated as distinct entities within the human CD8+ T cell subset.
In vitro study on passive fit in implant-supported 5-unit fixed partial dentures.

PURPOSE Fabrication and retention methods have an influence on the passivity of superstructure fit. The objective of the study was to quantify the strain development of various cemented and screw-retained fixed partial dentures (FPDs). MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty samples of 4 different types of FPDs (10 of each type) were investigated. Each sample had 3 ITI implant abutments and 2 pontics. The 3 implants were anchored in a straight-line configuration in a measurement model simulating a real-life patient situation. Strain gauges were mounted close to the implants and on the pontics. The developing strains were recorded during cement setting and screw fixation. For statistical analysis, multivariate 2-sample tests were performed, with the level of significance set at P = . 1. RESULTS All FPDs investigated revealed a considerable amount of strain, with no significant difference between cement and screw retention. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between the conventional fabrication modes for screw-retained FPDs. The lowest strains were found in prostheses that were intraorally bonded onto gold cylinders. DISCUSSION Because bonding of the superstructure in the oral cavity may compensate for impression and laboratory variables, restorations with the best possible passive fit can result from this retention technique. Before this technique can be recommended, the long-term stability of the adhesive layer should be investigated. CONCLUSIONS As an absolute passive fit of superstructures is not possible using conventional clinical and laboratory procedures, and as clinical fit-evaluation methods often do not detect "hidden" inaccuracies, the more sensitive strain-gauge technique should be utilized for an objective accuracy test. Reference strain values from implant-supported prostheses that have served without complications could help define a "biologically acceptable fit.
Computational learning theory: survey and selected bibliography

Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material ie granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notica is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission. 24th ANNUAL ACM STOC 5/92/VICTORiA, B. C. , CANADA G 1992 ACM ()-89791.51 2-7/92/0004/03~j -. $1 . ~() the only textbook in the field is Natarajan’s [101]. Surveys by Laird [83] and Valiant [129] are valuable. Somewhat more peripheral are the European meetings on Analogical and Inductive Inference, AH, and the AI machine learning communit y’s annual International Conference on Machine Learning. In addition, the general AI meetings, AAAI and IJCAI, currently have a large number of papers devoted to learning, as do the neural net meetings.
Synthesis of heterogeneous pipelined multiprocessor systems using ILP: jpeg case study

Streaming applications can be implemented with a pipeline of processors. Each processor in the pipeline can be an application Specific Instruction Set Processor (ASIP) with the result being a heterogeneous pipelined MPSoC system. Since ASIPs can be of differing configurations, finding the optimal set of configurations for a multiprocessor architecture is a difficult problem. In this paper, we obtain an optimal system design for a set of processors which execute a multimedia application. The variables in the system are the presence or absence of different additional instructions and differing cache configurations for each of the processors. The problem is formulated as a 0-1 Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem. To reduce the complexity of the ILP formulation, inferior ASIP configurations are efficiently pruned so that the solution could be reached quickly. Given a system runtime constraint, the proposed methodology finds a design with minimal area. We integrated this design methodology into a commercial design flow, and performed a case study upon the JPEG encoding application. We obtained 15 optimal designs subject to 15 different runtime constraints, each in less than 100 seconds from more than 4.2 x 1013 design points.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes produce immune interferon in response to antigen or mitogen

Interferon (IFN) was found to be secreted by cloned lines of murine cytotoxic T lymphocytes in response to mitogenic or antigen specific stimulation. The IFN produced was shown to be of the immune type based on its sensitivity to pH 2.0 and on the ability of an antiserum to immune IFN to neutralize the antiviral activity.
Reading the ‘foreign skull’

The death of William Lanney in 1869 was thought to mark the virtual extinction of the Tasmanian Aboriginal race. European and colonial scientists longed to possess Lanney's bones for museum collections, and several of Hobart's medical men set about the business of harvesting them. In histories of racial relations in Tasmania, this episode has become an exemplar of the brutal process of settler colonialism in that place. However, the mutilation of Lanney's body also involved the dismemberment of a European man. Placing him at the centre of the episode reveals how the colony's medical men obtained ‘subjects for dissection’ when few were legally available, and tells us something rich about the history of medicine in Tasmania.
Graphic Visualization of the 802.11 DCF Protocol under the NS-2 Simulator

The IEEE 802.11 standard uses the distributed coordination function (DCF) protocol to share the medium among multiple stations. DCF is implanted in all the mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) simulators but its validation poses a true problem considering both the diversity of the models and their simplicity. The validation systems being hard to implement, the visualization tools represent, by comparison, auxiliary applications much more simple to develop. Behind their apparent simplicity, the graphic traces are extremely powerful teaching aids able to bring images of the DCF dysfunctions observed during the simulation execution. For this purpose, the simulation events are logged in trace files and then displayed in the form of timeline. The main contribution of this work is the definition of a tool allowing visualization of the network simulators activity at the data link layer. To show the potential of the approach, screenshots showing the dysfunctions observed in the NS-2 simulator are presented and analyzed
Self-adapting part-based pedestrian detection using a fish-eye camera

Nowadays, fish-eye cameras play an increasingly important role in intelligent vehicles because of its wide field of view. Using fish-eye camera, pedestrians around the vehicles could be monitored expediently, but the problem of pedestrian distortion has always existed. This paper creates a new warping pedestrian benchmark using imaging principle of the fish-eye camera based on ETH pedestrian benchmark. With this practical benchmark, warping pedestrians are trained differently according to the position in fish-eye images. A self-adapting part-based algorithm is proposed to detect pedestrian with different degrees of deformation. Moreover, GPU is used to accelerate the whole algorithm to guarantee the real-time performance. Experiments show that the algorithm has competitive accuracy.
Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism

Introduction: extraordinary allegations: lesbian suggestion and the culture of modernism Part I. The Suggestion of Lesbianism and British National Culture: 1. The suggestion of lesbianism and the great war: 'the cult of the clitoris' scandal 2. Lesbian ghost stories and post-war culture Part II. The Suggestion of Lesbianism and Modernist Communities: 3. Modernist patronage, literary obscenity, and 'doing the lesbian business' 4. Bloomsbury and the scandal of The Well of Loneliness Conclusion Notes.
Power-performance efficiency of asymmetric multiprocessors for multi-threaded scientific applications

Recently, under a fixed power budget, asymmetric multiprocessors (AMP) have been proposed to improve the performance of multi-threaded applications compared to symmetric multiprocessors. An AMP is a multiprocessor system in which its processors are not operating at the same frequency. Power consumption has become an important design constraint in servers and high-performance server clusters. This paper explores the power-performance efficiency of hyper-threaded (HT) AMP servers, and proposes a new scheduling algorithm that can be used to reduce the overall power consumption of a server while maintaining a high level of performance. Prototyping AMPs on a commercial 4-way SMP server, we show that on average 15.6% energy savings and 6.1% slowdown for the HT-disabled case, and 7.1% energy savings and 4.8% slowdown for the HT-enabled case can be achieved across NAS and SPEC OpenMP applications.
Differential Role of Hematopoietic and Nonhematopoietic Cell Types in the Regulation of NK Cell Tolerance and Responsiveness

Many NK cells express inhibitory receptors that bind self-MHC class I (MHC I) molecules and prevent killing of self-cells, while enabling killing of MHC I–deficient cells. But tolerance also occurs for NK cells that lack inhibitory receptors for self-MHC I, and for all NK cells in MHC I–deficient animals. In both cases, NK cells are unresponsive to MHC I–deficient cells and hyporesponsive when stimulated through activating receptors, suggesting that hyporesponsiveness is responsible for self-tolerance. We generated irradiation chimeras, or carried out adoptive transfers, with wild-type (WT) and/or MHC I–deficient hematopoietic cells in WT or MHC I–deficient C57BL/6 host mice. Unexpectedly, in WT hosts, donor MHC I–deficient hematopoietic cells failed to induce hyporesponsiveness to activating receptor stimulation, but did induce tolerance to MHC I–deficient grafts. Therefore, these two properties of NK cells are separable. Both tolerance and hyporesponsiveness occurred when the host was MHC I deficient. Interestingly, infections of mice or exposure to inflammatory cytokines reversed the tolerance of NK cells that was induced by MHC I–deficient hematopoietic cells, but not the tolerance induced by MHC I–deficient nonhematopoietic cells. These data have implications for successful bone marrow transplantation, and suggest that tolerance induced by hematopoietic cells versus nonhematopoietic cells may be imposed by distinct mechanisms.
Erratum: A radio and mid-infrared survey of northern bright-rimmed clouds

We have carried out an archival radio, optical and infrared wavelength imaging survey of 44 Bright-Rimmed Clouds (BRCs) using the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) archive, images from the Digitised Sky Survey (DSS) and the Midcourse Space eXperiment (MSX). The data characterise the physical properties of the Ionised Boundary Layer (IBL) of the BRCs. We have classified the radio detections as: that associated with the ionised cloud rims; that associated with possible embedded Young Stellar Objects (YSOs); and that unlikely to be associated with the clouds at all. The stars responsible for ionising each cloud are identified and a comparison of the expected ionising flux to that measured at the cloud rims is presented. A total of 25 clouds display 20 cm radio continuum emission that is associated with their bright optical rims. The ionising photon flux illuminating these clouds, the ionised gas pressure and the electron density of the IBL are determined. We derive internal molecular pressures for 9 clouds using molecular line data from the literature and compare these pressures to the IBL pressures to determine the pressure balance of the clouds. We find three clouds in which the pressure exerted by their IBLs is much greater than that measured in the internal molecular material. A comparison of external pressures around the remaining clouds to a global mean internal pressure shows that the majority of clouds can be expected to be in pressure equilibrium with their IBLs and hence are likely to be currently shocked by photoionisation shocks. We identify one source which shows 20 cm emission consistent with that of an embedded high-mass YSO and confirm its association with a known infrared stellar cluster. This embedded cluster is shown to contain early-type B stars, implying that at least some BRCs are intimately involved in intermediate to high mass star formation.
A distributed database architecture for global roaming in next-generation mobile networks

The next-generation mobile network will support terminal mobility, personal mobility, and service provider portability, making global roaming seamless. A location-independent personal telecommunication number (PTN) scheme is conducive to implementing such a global mobile system. However, the nongeographic PTNs coupled with the anticipated large number of mobile users in future mobile networks may introduce very large centralized databases. This necessitates research into the design and performance of high-throughput database technologies used in mobile systems to ensure that future systems will be able to carry efficiently the anticipated loads. This paper proposes a scalable, robust, efficient location database architecture based on the location-independent PTNs. The proposed multitree database architecture consists of a number of database subsystems, each of which is a three-level tree structure and is connected to the others only through its root. By exploiting the localized nature of calling and mobility patterns, the proposed architecture effectively reduces the database loads as well as the signaling traffic incurred by the location registration and call delivery procedures. In addition, two memory-resident database indices, memory-resident direct file and T-tree, are proposed for the location databases to further improve their throughput. Analysis model and numerical results are presented to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed database architecture. Results have revealed that the proposed database architecture for location management can effectively support the anticipated high user density in the future mobile networks.
Early morphogenesis of the Caenorhabditis elegans pharynx.

We investigated the cellular behaviors that accompany the early stages of pharyngeal morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. The embryonic pharynx develops from a ball of cells into a linear tube connected anteriorly to the buccal cavity and posteriorly to the midgut. By using GFP reporters localized to discrete subcellular regions, we show that pharyngeal morphogenesis can be divided into three stages: (1) lengthening of the nascent pharyngeal lumen by reorientation of apicobasal polarity of anterior pharyngeal cells ("Reorientation"), (2) formation of an epithelium by the buccal cavity cells, which mechanically couples the buccal cavity to the pharynx and anterior epidermis ("Epithelialization"), and (3) a concomitant movement of the pharynx anteriorly and the epidermis of the mouth posteriorly to bring the pharynx, buccal cavity, and mouth into close apposition ("Contraction"). Several models can account for these cellular behaviors, and we distinguish between them by physically or genetically ablating cells within the digestive tract. These studies provide the first description of how the pharynx primordium develops into an epithelial tube, and reveal that pharyngeal morphogenesis resembles aspects of mammalian kidney tubulogenesis.
Exploiting ferroelectric FETs for low-power non-volatile logic-in-memory circuits

Numerous research efforts are targeting new devices that could continue performance scaling trends associated with Moore's Law and/or accomplish computational tasks with less energy. One such device is the ferroelectric FET (FeFET), which offers the potential to be scaled beyond the end of the silicon roadmap as predicted by ITRS. Furthermore, the Ids vs. Vgs characteristics of FeFETs may allow a device to function as both a switch and a non-volatile storage element. We exploit this FeFET property to enable fine-grained logic-in-memory (LiM). We consider three different circuit design styles for FeFET-based LiM: complementary (differential), dynamic current mode, and dynamic logic. Our designs are compared with existing approaches for LiM (i.e., based on magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), CMOS, etc.) that afford the same circuit-level functionality. Assuming similar feature sizes, non-volatile FeFET-based LiM circuits are more efficient than functional equivalents based on MTJs when considering metrics such as propagation delay (2.9×, 6.8×) and dyanmic power (3.7×, 2.3×) (for 45 nm, 22 nm technology respectively). Compared to CMOS functional equivalents, FeFET designs still exhibit modest improvements in the aforementioned metrics while also offering non-volatility and reduced device count.
Differential Impact of Three Alcohol Prevention Curricula on Hypothesized Mediating Variables

This study examines the effects of alcohol use prevention curricula designed to have differential impact on hypothesized mediating variables. Three curricula, one which focused on teaching individuals social pressure resistance skills, one which focused on solidifying conservative group norms, and one which had a goal of increasing student understanding of the consequences of using alcohol, were tested. Results confirm that each program had a differential effect on hypothesized mediating variables.
Microwave Radar with Transponder for Displacement Measurement in Structural Health Monitoring

Having combined the advantages of ground-based interferometric radar and Global Position System (GPS), a microwave radar with transponder for three-dimensional displacement monitoring method has been proposed. In this system, the active reflector ensures the long measurement distance at low antenna radiation power; the transponder provides the total solutions to antenna microwave leakage and multipath reflection problems; the phase demodulation with FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) make sure that the accuracy approach to submillimeter level. The experiment results show that the system measurement error is less than 0.32mm within 400 meters at 1.6W transmitting power, measuring speed is 10ms per time, and the displacement measurement range can reach 60mm.