Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Recent literature on new media and intercultural communication

As the Internet, along with related network and mobile communication media, continues to spread across the world, we have experienced a greater diversity of social actors who communicate within as well as interact across geolinguistic regions and cultural boundaries. Subsequently, there has seen rising scholarly attention to the issues of culture in relation to new forms of mediated communication. The one special forum and two edited volumes reviewed in this essay are among the first concerted efforts devoted to exploring a range of issues that involve these two of the most intriguing yet complex research subjects in the field of communication. While these subjects attract the interests of scholars of various backgrounds, the issues and research questions in the studies reviewed in this essay were mainly works conceived and carried out from the perspective of (mediated) intercultural communication. Presumably, to provide their volume an epistemological boundary, Cheong, Martin, and Macfadyen (2012) traced the scholarly origin of the mediated intercultural communication in the introductory chapter of ‘New media and intercultural communication’, one of the volumes reviewed here. By their account, the field started in early 1990s with the growing research interests of some culturally sensitive researchers working in informatics, computer science, and computermediated communication (aka new media studies or Internet research). They were joined, shortly after, by researchers from intercultural communication, who were increasingly concerned with new forms of mediated communication. While this brief history offered a useful background for us to get a sense of the emerging topical area related to culture and new media, it is worth noting that the two component fields it drew on, that is, intercultural communication and new media studies, are themselves
Les facteurs de risque familiaux et environnementaux des troubles du comportement chez le jeune enfant : une revue de la littérature scientifique anglo-saxonne

Ces dernieres annees, plusieurs etudes longitudinales ont permis une meilleure analyse des mecanismes en cause dans les troubles du comportement tels que les troubles des conduites. Si l’origine des troubles du comportement apparait effectivement multi-factorielle, il est manifeste que les relations parent/enfant jouent un role aussi bien comme facteurs de risque que de resilience. Elles sont un mediateur essentiel entre disposition temperamentale et devenir comportemental. La pathologie individuelle debuterait ainsi par des troubles precoces des relations, la qualite de l’attachement (secure, insecure, desorganise) en etant une bonne illustration. Ainsi, il est justifie de proposer, sur le modele des etudes menees par Olds, une intervention precoce, des le dernier trimestre de grossesse, reguliere et prolongee jusqu’aux deux ans de l’enfant et d’evaluer si, en France, on peut aussi inflechir la prevalence des facteurs en cause (comme la depression postnatale) ainsi que les troubles du comportement en eux-memes.
Adiponectin Deficiency Limits Tumor Vascularization in the MMTV-PyV-mT Mouse Model of Mammary Cancer

Purpose: High levels of the fat-secreted cytokine adiponectin (APN) are present in the circulation of healthy people, whereas low levels correlate with an increased incidence of breast cancer in women. The current study experimentally probes the physiologic functions of APN in mammary cancer in a newly generated genetic mouse model. Experimental Design: We established an APN null mouse model of mammary cancer by introducing the polyoma virus middle T (PyV-mT) oncogene expressed from mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) regulatory elements into APN null mice. MMTV-PyV-mT–induced tumors resemble ErbB2–amplified human breast cancers. We monitored tumor onset, kinetics, and animal survival, and analyzed vascular coverage, apoptosis, and hypoxia in sections from the primary tumors. Metastatic spreading was evaluated by analyses of the lungs. Results: APN prominently localized to the vasculature in human and mouse mammary tumors. In APN null mice, MMTV-PyV-mT–induced tumors appeared with delayed onset and exhibited reduced growth rates. Affected animals survived control tumor-bearing mice by an average of 21 days. Pathologic analyses revealed reduced vascularization of APN null tumors along with increased hypoxia and apoptosis. At the experimental end point, APN null transgenic mice showed increased frequency of pulmonary metastases. Conclusion: The current work identifies a proangiogenic contribution of APN in mammary cancer that, in turn, affects tumor progression. APN interactions with vascular receptors may be useful targets for developing therapies aimed at controlling tumor vascularization in cancer patients.
Emotion perceived and emotion felt: Same and different

Abstract The goal of the present study was to examine the relationships and differences between emotion perceived (i.e., the emotional quality expressed by music) and emotion felt (i.e., the individual's emotional response to music). Thirty-two participants listened to 12 music pieces differing in terms of a priori basic emotional quality, and rated the music from two points of view (i.e., emotion felt and emotion perceived) using 16 adjectives from dimensional models of emotion. As expected, in general, music seemed to arouse emotions similar to the emotional quality perceived in music. However, the affect ratings were significantly moderated by the point of view from which the emotions were assessed. Felt emotions were stronger than perceived emotions in connection with pleasure, but weaker in connection with arousal, positive activation, and negative activation. As also expected, negative perceived quality in music elicited less or an opposite felt emotion. That is, fearful music was perceived as negative but felt as positive.
The gallery and the inukshuk: everyday creativity and cultural production as leisure practices

This article considers the production and consumption of visual art as an everyday dimension of human activity that necessarily occurs in relation to authoritative discourses, spaces and institutions. Because making art offers a unique and broad scope for generating creative messages and representations, the activity has particularly emancipatory implications. Studies of making and sharing works of art can contribute to an understanding of leisure activity in terms of relationships of power that shape the significance of cultural phenomena, including those often marginalized under conditions of capitalism. Perspectives drawn from leisure studies and critical theory in the first section of the article provide a framework to discuss illustrative events and practices, including an exhibition of amateur art at the Art Gallery of Alberta that demonstrated a powerful local interest in participatory culture. The growing phenomenon of traditional “pencil and paper” sketching groups coordinated through online exhibits, blogs and exchanges is also examined. Finally, the article discusses how everyday creativity inflects ways of thinking about the access and inclusion in collective cultural life and the social potential of related leisure practices. Ideally, the objective is not to reject the roles of professional art worlds and institutions but to foster the conditions to support diverse creative acts challenging the socially constructed barriers between amateur and professional status, and between private and public space and time.
Oral Immunization with a Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Vaccine Induces Specific Circulating Mucosa-Homing CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells in Humans

ABSTRACT The kinetics and homing characteristics of T-cell responses in humans after mucosal immunizations have not been well characterized. Therefore, we have investigated the magnitude and duration of such responses as well as the homing receptor expression of antigen-specific peripheral blood T cells by using an oral model vaccine, i.e., the live, attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi vaccine (Ty21a). Eight volunteers were each given three doses of the vaccine 2 days apart, and blood samples, from which CD4+ and CD8+ T cells were selected by the use of magnetic beads, were collected before vaccination and at regular intervals thereafter. To purify the potentially antigen-specific gut-homing T cells, CD45RA− integrin β7+ cells were further sorted by flow cytometry. The sorted cells were then stimulated in vitro with the serovar Typhi vaccine strain, and the proliferation of cells and the cytokine production were measured. Following vaccination, there was a large increase in both the proliferation of and the gamma interferon (IFN-γ) production by blood T cells stimulated with the vaccine strain. The responses were seen among both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, although the CD8+ cells produced the largest amounts of IFN-γ. Peak responses were seen 7 to 14 days after the onset of vaccination. Furthermore, most of the IFN-γ produced by both CD4+ and CD8+ cells emanated from cells with the potential to home to mucosal tissues, as the integrin β7-expressing memory T cells produced around 10-fold more IFN-γ than the remaining populations. In conclusion, we demonstrate that oral vaccination with a live oral bacterial vaccine induces antigen-specific CD4+ and CD8+ memory T cells, almost all of which express the gut-homing integrin β7.
A Dual-Band Antenna-On-Chip Using Microbumps

A dual-band antenna-on-chip (AoC) with a loop-type antenna at 120 GHz and a 1-by-2 dipole-type array at 280 GHz realized in a shared structure was presented. The AoC utilizes micro-bumps in a standard flip-chip assembly process, showing radiation gains of -5.71 dBi and 7.32 dBi, as well as maximum efficiency of 13.56% and 52.14% at two bands, respectively. It is promising to be applied for millimeter-wave and THz integrated sensing and communication.
Cloud-Aware Middleware

The exponential growth of cloud computing popularity in the last years brings up new possibilities to reduce costs and places new challenges for application and middleware developers. As usually adopted, applications are developed atop middleware systems whose role is to hide the complexity of underlying cloud technologies and distribution mechanisms. However, traditional distribution transparencies and services provided by off-cloud middleware need to be redesigned in order to leverage cloud computing facilities and capabilities such as elasticity, infinite resource illusion, virtualization, and so on. In this context, this paper proposes a middleware, namely CaMid, which takes advantages of the inherent cloud characteristics and made available them to applications in a transparent way, i.e., applications developers are kept away from IaaS and distribution mechanism complexity. In order to evaluate the CaMid, we carry out an experimental assessment to measure its impact on the performance of distributed applications.
TQM: the role of leadership and culture

Examines the effects of a total quality management initiative on a department in a mid‐sized utility company in the USA. A longitudinal design was used to examine the effects of total quality management on performance measures and employee satisfaction over time, and a cross‐sectional survey was used to measure the perceived effects of leadership and culture on these outcomes. Results suggested that a culture change characterized by empowerment, employee development, and teamwork occurred immediately after the intervention, and was sustained over the next two years. However, a shift back to the pre‐intervention culture was evidenced by the end of the study, a shift accompanied by a significant decline in employee job satisfaction. Possible explanations for the organization’s failure to sustain the culture change are discussed, including the role of leadership, external threats and the threat‐rigidity hypothesis, and changes in the intervention itself.
Quasi-Parallel Dense Video Captioning: A Novel Approach to Achieving Ground Truth Event Captions using Hierarchical Attention

Video captioning is a complex process, involving the automatic generation of descriptive, natural language narratives for video content. The current landscape of video captioning models primarily emphasizes crafting coherent, grammatically sound captions, yet often falls short in comprehensively capturing the essential events and actions portrayed in the video. Capturing ground truth events and localization of the generated predictions stays a challenge. This study introduces a novel video captioning model, Quasi-Parallel Dense Video Captioning (QPDVC), which directly targets authentic events within the video. QPDVC operates by concurrently analysing random frames, generating captions for each frame. These captions are then amalgamated, localized, and condensed to construct a cohesive story or summary. The distinct design of QPDVC is meticulously crafted to achieve elevated precision, rendering it particularly apt for applications such as sophisticated AI-based CCTV surveillance and advancing the realm of video captioning research. This approach not only enhances the interpretative capability of video captioning systems but also ensures a more accurate portrayal of the actual content. The model's framework provides an efficient mechanism to process and synthesize information, thereby offering a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the video's content. As the necessity for accurate video understanding grows across various domains, from security surveillance to content analysis, QPDVC's precision-driven methodology represents a significant step forward in the evolution of video captioning technology.
Effects of the halothane genotype and slaughter weight on texture of pork.

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the halothane (HAL) genotype, slaughter weight (SW), and the HAL x SW interaction on compositional and textural traits of raw and cooked pork. Pigs were bred to exhibit one of the three HAL genotypes (NN, Nn, and nn) with otherwise equivalent genomes. The nn halothane reactors are known to typically produce PSE pork, whereas NN pigs do not typically produce PSE pork. Pietrain x Large White gilts and boars, all with verified Nn genotype (by DNA test), were mated to obtain F2 littermates of the three HAL genotypes. These pigs were slaughtered at either 101 +/- 3 ("light") or 127 +/- 3 ("heavy") kg BW and were evaluated for longissimus muscle traits. The pH at . 5 h after death (pH1) was 6.35, 6.13, and 5.68 in NN, Nn, and nn pigs, respectively. Sarcomere length was greater in nn than in NN and Nn pigs (1.94 vs 1.83 and 1.85 microm, respectively). Mechanical resistance was higher in nn than in NN pigs for both raw and cooked meat. Meat from nn pigs was judged by a trained panel to be less rough, more cohesive, harder, more fibrous, less granular, more elastic, and less easy to swallow than meat from NN pigs. For most traits under study, the heterozygotes were intermediate between the homozygotes but closer to NN than to nn pigs. Muscle from heavy pigs had longer sarcomeres and less moisture than muscle from light pigs. The n allele of the HAL gene unfavorably affects pork texture, and this effect is maintained throughout the range of 101 to 127 kg BW.
Near-zone electromagnetic interference estimation for shielding effectiveness of apertured rectangular enclosure

This paper presents an equivalent circuit approach to evaluate the effect of near-zone electromagnetic interference on the shielding effectiveness (SE) of an apertured rectangular enclosure. The approach is an extension of Robinson's equivalent circuit formulation. The extension in this paper is carried out by using an electric dipole to represent the external interference and applying the electric field at the aperture caused by the dipole to replace Robinson's incident plane wave. The SE correlates to the dimensions of the enclosure and the aperture. The distance from the interference to the enclosure and the observed position within the enclosure are significant parameters on the SE evaluation. The shapes of the aperture also affect the SE. This equivalent circuit approach based on the available analytical formulation provides a fast means of investigating the effect of design parameters on the SE of an apertured enclosure for near-zone interference and can be used for designers of shielded enclosures.
Psychiatric disorder among American Indian adolescents: prevalence in Northern Plains youth.

UNLABELLED This article presents data on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among American Indian adolescents, using DSM-III-R criteria. OBJECTIVE To generate current prevalence data using a structured diagnostic instrument, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Version 2.1C (DISC-2.1C). METHODS Youths from a Northern Plains tribe who had participated in an earlier study comprised the sample. At reinterview, respondents were between 14 and 16 years of age, when Indian adolescents are thought to be at particularly high risk for manifesting emotional disorders. One hundred nine of the original sample of 251 were still in schools on the reservation. Trained indigenous lay interviewers administered the DISC-2.1C to respondents in a private setting within the school. RESULTS The findings indicate that rates of some psychiatric problems (e.g., disruptive behavior disorders, substance-related disorders, and their comorbidity) are high among these high school students. CONCLUSIONS These data, as well as national statistics, suggest that, compared with non-Indian populations, a greater percentage of Northern Plains adolescents manifest significant psychiatric symptoms which warrant treatment.
Global agriculture and carbon trade-offs

Significance We assess how to meet growing demand for agricultural production to minimize impact on the environment. Higher levels of population and affluence may require expanding land in agriculture by converting grasslands and forests to cropland. Such conversions often reduce valuable ecosystem services. Our research identifies where are the best places to expand agricultural production that minimize the loss of one ecosystem service, carbon storage. We show that selectively choosing where to expand agriculture saves over $1 trillion (2012 US dollars) worth of carbon storage relative to a proportional expansion. Feeding a growing and increasingly affluent world will require expanded agricultural production, which may require converting grasslands and forests into cropland. Such conversions can reduce carbon storage, habitat provision, and other ecosystem services, presenting difficult societal trade-offs. In this paper, we use spatially explicit data on agricultural productivity and carbon storage in a global analysis to find where agricultural extensification should occur to meet growing demand while minimizing carbon emissions from land use change. Selective extensification saves ∼6 billion metric tons of carbon compared with a business-as-usual approach, with a value of approximately $1 trillion (2012 US dollars) using recent estimates of the social cost of carbon. This type of spatially explicit geospatial analysis can be expanded to include other ecosystem services and other industries to analyze how to minimize conflicts between economic development and environmental sustainability.
Utility-based joint Power and Rate Control Game with Interference Threshold Elasticity for Cooperative Cognitive Networks

In cognitive networks, the cognitive radio users can share spectrum resource with the primary user while ensuring the normal communication of primary user. In addition, next generation wireless systems needs to provide flexible transmission rate to each terminal. In this paper, a utility-based game-theoretic model is proposed to study the joint power and rate control problem in spectrum underlay fashion in cognitive networks. We adopt a novel utility function based on cognitive network which focuses on social optimal resource allocation through pricing. Further, we show an interference threshold elasticity perspective, which is the key for primary network to maximize its utility by increasing its transmitted power to adjust the tolerable interference constraint. And also, the cognitive network can increase its total throughput capacity. In Stackelberg game, the primary user and the cognitive radio users interact with each other by adjusting their own actions. The cooperative cognitive networks model follows the “best-effort” principle as well as the win-win perspective of primary-cognitive user. Numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the model. The results show that the PU network can get more profit and also the CRU network can increase its total throughput capacity by the adjustment of the interference threshold.
Study of harmonic elimination in switching devices in STATCOM

At present, static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) has the problem of switching harmonics generated by the device, this paper proposes a better method that the cascade multilevel inverter as the master topology of STATCOM combines SPWM (CPS-PWM) modulation, and describe the working principle of STATCOM and the control methods. This method can effectively eliminate high harmonics and low harmonics, and obtain a better output voltage waveform. Finally, through the MATLAB simulation, it can found that the method can reduce power consumption; also doubly improve the equivalent carrier frequency, and significantly reduce the content of the output harmonic, so as to make STATCOM better achieve reactive power compensation.
Oscillators for Modeling Biomass Growth Adaptation to Circadian Rhythms

Two types of oscillators suitable for modeling the growth rate adaptation of biomass production process to circadian influences are presented and compared. These oscillators are forced by cyclic inputs representing basically the diurnal cycles corresponding to the periodical changes of light and dark phases and adapt their own natural circadian rhythm to them. This adaptation is referred to as entrainment and the oscillators considered for this circadian rhythm entrainment are based on Van der Pol and Lorenz type models. The Van der Pol type oscillator is proposed in a matrix form and subsequently compared with a generalized Lorenz model. The proposed oscillators are linked to a delayed Volterra model and the generic structure is applied to the case of cyanobacteria population growth. Using data recently obtained from the measurements on a laboratory-scale photobioreactor the parameters of oscillators are tuned to fit measured excited growth responses of cyanobacteria concentration.
Disrupting the timing of Wolbachia-induced male-killing

Several lineages of maternally inherited symbionts have evolved the ability to kill infected females' sons, a phenomenon known as male-killing. Male-killing varies in its timing, from early (death during embryogenesis) to late (mortality of late larval instars). Following the observation that treatment of male-killer infected adult females Hypolimnas bolina with tetracycline, a bacteriostatic antibiotic, produces a delay in the timing of male death, we hypothesized that early male-killers possess the ability to kill males through bacterial activity outside of embryogenesis. We verified this hypothesis by showing that treatment of surviving larvae with the bacteriocidal antibiotic rifampicin rescues males. This discounted the hypothesis that delayed death occurred due to postponed effects of toxins produced at earlier stages, and thus supported the importance of bacterial activity in the larval phase in delayed male-killing. These results argue against the view that early male-killing is achieved by specifically targeting an early developmental process within the sex determination pathway.