Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Vaccine attitudes and practices among obstetric providers in New York State following the recommendation for pertussis vaccination during pregnancy

To determine factors associated with obstetric provider recommendation of pertussis vaccine (Tdap) to their pregnant patients following the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that Tdap be given in the third trimester of each pregnancy. Obstetric providers across New York State anonymously completed a standard set of questions to assess vaccine recommendation knowledge and practice. Statistical analysis: Descriptive statistical methods were used to define provider characteristics, knowledge and vaccine practices. Factors associated with recommendation were analyzed using odds ratios. 133 obstetric providers were included in the study. 11% and 13% expressed concern with pertussis vaccine safety and efficacy, respectively, in pregnant women. 92% of obstetric providers stated that they knew ACIP recommendations for Tdap during pregnancy, 80% recommended Tdap to all eligible patients, but only 67% provided Tdap vaccine in their office. Provider knowledge of recommendation (OR 23.33), routine provider recommendation of influenza vaccine (OR 12.5), and administration of pertussis vaccine in the office (OR 7.01) were all factors strongly associated with routine provider recommendation of Tdap vaccine to eligible pregnant women (P < 0.05). Providers expressed concerns with cost of Tdap, the need to administer Tdap with each pregnancy, vaccine safety, low incidence of pertussis in the area, and administration of pertussis vaccine at the hospital after delivery. Educational programs are needed to improve provider vaccine confidence and recommendation.
Activation Maximization Generative Adversarial Nets

Class labels have been empirically shown useful in improving the sample quality of generative adversarial nets (GANs). In this paper, we mathematically study the properties of the current variants of GANs that make use of class label information. With class aware gradient and cross-entropy decomposition, we reveal how class labels and associated losses influence GAN's training. Based on that, we propose Activation Maximization Generative Adversarial Networks (AM-GAN) as an advanced solution. Comprehensive experiments have been conducted to validate our analysis and evaluate the effectiveness of our solution, where AM-GAN outperforms other strong baselines and achieves state-of-the-art Inception Score (8.91) on CIFAR-10. In addition, we demonstrate that, with the Inception ImageNet classifier, Inception Score mainly tracks the diversity of the generator, and there is, however, no reliable evidence that it can reflect the true sample quality. We thus propose a new metric, called AM Score, to provide a more accurate estimation of the sample quality. Our proposed model also outperforms the baseline methods in the new metric.
Field Studies on Carbon Dioxide as a Possible Host Simulant to Mosquitoes.∗

Summary Carbon dioxide alone was a mosquito attractant in disease vector studies. Large numbers of female mosquitoes of several species were attracted into a trap baited with carbon dioxide. It consistently attracted more mosquitoes than calf or chicken baits. This chemotropism may be a major factor in controlling host selection by various species of mosquitoes.
Modélisation du profil émotionnel de l'utilisateur dans les interactions parlées Humain-Machine. (User's emotional profile modelling in spoken Human-Machine interactions)

Les travaux de recherche de la these portent sur l'etude et la formalisation des interactions emotionnelles Humain-Machine. Au dela d’une detection d'informations paralinguistiques (emotions, disfluences,.) ponctuelles, il s'agit de fournir au systeme un profil interactionnel et emotionnel de l'utilisateur dynamique, enrichi pendant l’interaction. Ce profil permet d’adapter les strategies de reponses de la machine au locuteur, et il peut egalement servir pour mieux gerer des relations a long terme. Le profil est fonde sur une representation multi-niveau du traitement des indices emotionnels et interactionnels extraits a partir de l'audio via les outils de detection des emotions du LIMSI. Ainsi, des indices bas niveau (variations de la F0, d'energie, etc.), fournissent des informations sur le type d'emotion exprimee, la force de l'emotion, le degre de loquacite, etc. Ces elements a moyen niveau sont exploites dans le systeme afin de determiner, au fil des interactions, le profil emotionnel et interactionnel de l'utilisateur. Ce profil est compose de six dimensions : optimisme, extraversion, stabilite emotionnelle, confiance en soi, affinite et domination (base sur le modele de personnalite OCEAN et les theories de l’interpersonal circumplex). Le comportement social du systeme est adapte en fonction de ce profil, de l'etat de la tâche en cours, et du comportement courant du robot. Les regles de creation et de mise a jour du profil emotionnel et interactionnel, ainsi que de selection automatique du comportement du robot, ont ete implementees en logique floue a l'aide du moteur de decision developpe par un partenaire du projet ROMEO. L’implementation du systeme a ete realisee sur le robot NAO. Afin d’etudier les differents elements de la boucle d’interaction emotionnelle entre l’utilisateur et le systeme, nous avons participe a la conception de plusieurs systemes : systeme en Magicien d’Oz pre-scripte, systeme semi-automatise, et systeme d’interaction emotionnelle autonome. Ces systemes ont permis de recueillir des donnees en controlant plusieurs parametres d’elicitation des emotions au sein d’une interaction ; nous presentons les resultats de ces experimentations, et des protocoles d’evaluation de l’Interaction Humain-Robot via l’utilisation de systemes a differents degres d’autonomie.
Applying a lifecycle perspective to explain tourism network development

In the twenty-first century, classic organization forms will be replaced by new forms of network organization. Specifically, the provision of complex, multi-optional and high-quality services raises numerous issues of managing and analysing network organizations in the service economy, not least in the service sector of tourism. This is a conceptual paper that explores the pertinent issues of tourism networks by discussing the application of general network research to characteristics of the tourism industry. The paper undertakes a thorough review of the relevant literature before developing propositions regarding network research in the tourism industry. This is one of the few studies to have addressed network analysis by means of the lifecycle model of destinations. Future research should undertake empirical studies to validate and/or modify the propositions presented in this conceptual paper.
Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics - Educational Assistance for Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning process of an educational institution needs to be monitored and effectively analysed for enhancement. Teaching and Learning is a vital element for an educational institution. It is also one of the criteria set by majority of the Accreditation Agencies around the world. Learning analytics and Educational Data Mining are relatively new. Learning analytics refers to the collection of large volume of data about students in an educational setting and to analyse the data to predict the students' future performance and identify risk. Educational Data Mining (EDM) is develops methods to analyse the data produced by the students in educational settings and these methods helps to understand the students and the setting where they learn. Aim of this research is to collect large collection of data on students' performance in their assessment to discover the students at risk of failing the final exam. This analysis will help to understand how the students are progressing. The proposed research aimed to utilize the result of the analysis to identify the students at risk and provide recommendations for improvement. The proposed research aimed to collect and analyse the result of the assessment at the course level to enhance the teaching and learning process. The research aimed to discuss two feature selection techniques namely information gain and gain ratio and adopted to use gain ratio as the feature selection technique.
Determinants of Financial Structure: A New Methodological Approach

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A firm's financial structure and its operating characteristics-its industrial classification and its size, among others-took on added importance as a result of the debate, started by Modigliani and Miller [8], regarding cost of capital and optimal structure. Impressive evidence that industrial class influences financial structure has been marshalled by Scott [12] and Scott and Martin [13]. Support for the view that size might shape a firm's debtequity mix may be found in Scott and Martin [13]. However, dissenting evidence has been presented, most notably by Remmers, Stonehill, Wright and Beekhuisen [11] who argue that neither size nor industry is clearly a determinant of the firm's use of debt. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationships between a firm's financial structure and its industrial class, size, variability of income, and operating leverage. The methodology used in this paper is new to this area of inquiry and promises superior results, because it avoids several measurement difficulties encountered in previous work. The resolution of these difficulties occurs through the development, within this paper, of a taxonomy of firms that is based on the firms' actual financial behavior. The taxonomical structure will provide the basis for an examination of associations between financial structure and industrial class, size, variability of income, and operating leverage. This paper's investigation of the determinants of financial structure will be performed through the examination of four specific hypotheses. The first hypothesis is concerned with the relationship between industrial classification and financial leverage. The view that industry class has an impact on financial leverage has intuitive appeal. Firms in the same industry class should experience similar amounts of business risk, because these firms produce similar products, face similar costs for materials and skilled labor, and rely on similar technology. Business risk-the uncertainty of future income streams-should substantially determine the amount of debt the capital markets will provide. The markets set interest rates and maximal debt loads by reference to the volatility of a firm's income stream. Because this volatility should be related to the products of the firm, there is reason to believe that financial structure is molded by a firm's industrial classification. The evidence, cited earlier, that industry type does not
Effect of Sucrose (C $_{12}{\hbox {H}}_{22}{\hbox {O}}_{11}$) Doping on the Critical Current Density of MgB$_{2}$

MgB2 bulk samples doped with sucrose were fabricated with the formula MgB2-xCx(x = 0, 0.08, 0.12, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5). Appropriate amounts of sucrose corresponding to the desired carbon content were added. The doping effect of sucrose was observed. It was found that samples doped with x = 0.2 sucrose have optimized current density at high magnetic field. The optimized sintering temperature for high current density was found to be 850degC. Hc2 and Hirr were both found to be improved due to the sucrose doping.
Concern for the Environment Among General Publics: A Cross-National Study

Concern for the environment has been noted in recent decades as a global phenomenon that is present among general publics in regions around the world. Though a topic of emerging interest, at present, assessments of environmental concern cross-nationally do not provide definitive evidence as to whether similar levels of environmental concern are identifiable across mass publics and whether its underpinnings are similar across national contexts. This research compares concern for the environment across 15 countries, examining the role of measurement cross-nationally. I demonstrate that different rankings of general publics can be distinguished with regard to different measures of environmental concern. I also examine demographic factors typically associated with the expression of environmental concern to determine their cross-national comparability. Results demonstrate that the measurement of environmental concern matters, both in terms of describing its composition in different countries and in identifying its underpinnings in this sample of countries.
Factors Which Influence the Success of Quality Circle Programmes in the United Kingdom

What constitutes a success, survivor, or failure regarding UK quality circle programmes, is not a clear‐cut issue, according to results from four questionnaire‐based surveys carried out by the Department of Management Sciences at UMIST, 1982–4. It is an open question whether some quality circles have a limited life‐span and should be allowed to die off naturally when appropriate; circle activity often appears to resume once labour conditions have stabilised. The success of individual circles seems to depend greatly on how well their members work and integrate together, and how well the circle philosophy has been evolved to fit the company's style. A circle will only work as part of a policy of worker involvement and open management and if it is coupled with a specific long‐term company‐wide commitment to quality.
Relationship between maturity levels and neuromuscular capacity among youth soccer players and individuals not practicing soccer

The aim of this study was to compare maturational stage and neuromuscular skills among soccer players and non-athletes, as well as to investigate the relationship between maturation and neuromuscular performance. Twenty five adolescent males (14.3 ± 0.45 years) participated in the study and were divided into two groups: soccer players (SP – n = 13, 14.1 ± 0.3 years, 58.9 ± 6.90 kg, 1.72 ± 0.04 m, 19.9 ± 1.7 kg·m2, 13.3% ± 4.3% fat) and non-athletes (NA – n = 12, 14.5 ± 0.5 years, 57.3 ± 6.9 kg, 1,67 ± 0.06 m, 20.6 ± 3.9 kg·m2, 14.0% ± 5.7% fat). The square test and 20 m speed test were used to assess agility and speed, respectively. The Tanner self-assessment of pubic hair and genitalia development test was used to estimate maturational development. The Shapiro Wilk test was used to verify the normality of samples. For any data not normally distributed, the non-parametric Mann Whitney test, as well as Kendall’s Tau correlation test, were used. The p-values determined for agility (p = 0.017) and speed (p = 0.054) indicated that agility was the only variable significantly different between SP and NA. The SP and NA groups showed no difference in the levels of maturation (p = 0.41), and maturational status was not significantly correlated with agility (r = 0.013) or speed (r = ? 0.003). Conclusion: Individuals who practiced football had better results for the agility test than non-athletes, even with no difference between the degree of maturation and speed. There is a low correlation between level of maturity and agility or speed.
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll

The link between team payroll and competitive balance plays a central role in the theory of team sports but is seldom investigated empirically. This paper uses data on team payrolls in Major League Baseball between 1980 and 2000 to examine the link and implements Granger causality tests to establish whether the relationship runs from payroll to performance or vice versa. While there is no evidence that causality runs from payroll to performance over the entire sample period, the data shows that the cross section correlation between payroll and performance increased significantly in the 1990s. As a comparison, the paper examines the relationship between pay and performance in English soccer, and it is shown that Granger causality from higher payrolls to better performance cannot be rejected. We argue that this difference may be a consequence of the open market for player talent that obtains in soccer compared to the significant restrictions on trade that exist in Major League Baseball.
Faculty perceptions of Division I male student-athletes : the relationship between student-athlete contact, athletic department involvement, and perceptions of intercollegiate athletics

It has been widely recognized that student-athletes, especially in the sports of men’s basketball and football, endure stereotyping (Bowen & Levin, 2003; Simons, Bosworth, Fujita, & Jensen, 2007, Baucom & Lantz, 2001). Although stereotypes about male basketball and football student-athletes academic behaviors are expressed by many sectors of the university community, the resentment most poignantly comes from faculty (Leach & Conners, 1984). The present study examined full-time faculty member’s negative stereotypes towards male basketball and football player’s. Specifically, this study looked at how faculty stereotypes about male basketball and football player’s academic behaviors relate to faculty perceptions about their campus’ athletics department, the amount of contact faculty have with male basketball and football student-athletes, and faculty involvement with their athletics department. Over 250 faculty members across eight different departments at four Division I institutions participated in this study. Results indicated that factors such as positive athletic department perceptions, greater contact with male basketball and football student-athletes and greater faculty involvement with their campus athletics department are related to fewer faculty stereotypes about male basketball and football student-athletes.
Is subsidized housing in sustainable neighborhoods? Evidence from Chicago

This article explores the connection between subsidized housing and sustainable urban form. Given the general disconnect between new market-rate housing in sustainable, walkable neighborhoods and affordable housing opportunities, we expect affordable housing to be located in less sustainable locations in terms of proximity to amenities, walkability, street connectivity, density, and diversity of urban form. A rich set of parcel and planning data for the city of Chicago was used to correlate sustainability indicators with the locations of both project- and tenant-based affordable housing programs. Difference-in-means tests and other descriptive statistical analysis suggest that project-based locations (with the exception of Chicago Housing Authority family units) actually score above average, especially in terms of accessibility and walkability, albeit it at the cost of concentrated poverty, racial segregation, and crime. In contrast, vouchers are located in less sustainable locations when it comes to accessibility and walkability, although they are in neighborhoods with more diversity and less poverty – and, at lower voucher concentrations, with less segregation and crime – than project units.
Mediation of strategy on intellectual capital and performance

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the mediating effect of business strategy (BS) on intellectual capital (IC) and financial performance (FP). The impact of financial crisis is also a major topic of this research. Design/methodology/approach – This study applies BS as mediator to explore the relationships between IC, BS, and FP. Partial least squares is employed to test the reliability and validity of measurements and the significance of path coefficients, and therefore to examine the hypotheses. Findings – IC has significant impacts on BS and FP in all samples, as well as in those years before and after the financial crisis. BS has a partial significant mediating effect between IC and FP. BS has significant effects on FP in all samples and pre-financial crisis, but has not in post-financial crisis. Research limitations/implications – IC has significant impacts on BS and FP. Moreover, the relationships of IC, BS, and FP are different during pre- and post-financial crisis. The direct effect .
The effects of sales promotion strategy, product appeal and consumer traits on reminder impulse buying behaviour

This article investigates factors of marketing communications and consumer characteristics that induce reminder impulse buying behaviour. Study 1 applies the antecedent, process and consequence approach to investigate the essential differences between reminder impulse buying and pure impulse buying. The results of Study 1 reveal that reminder impulse buying significantly differs from pure impulse buying on motivation, buying goal and decision evaluation. Study 2 further examines how sales promotion strategy might affect reminder impulse buying, with product appeal and consumer traits as moderating factors. Both sales promotion strategy and its interaction effects with product appeal are found to have significant influences on reminder impulse buying. Specifically, an instant-reward promotion promotes stronger reminder impulse buying than a delayed-reward promotion. Furthermore, both a utilitarian product appeal with a price discount promotion and a hedonic product appeal with a premium promotion can encourage greater reminder impulse buying.
Fast Surface Registration Based on Feature Area Detection

Surface scanning is able to capture the 3D geometry of patients for follow-up evaluation of surgery. In general, we can use a laser scanner to obtain the 3D image of the surface of the body. Since the surface invisible from the scanner is unable to be captured, it is necessary to capture and register surfaces from several viewpoints. In this situation, the registration is usually time-consuming, because a surface scan consists of large amount of vertices. In this paper, we present a new method to achieve faster registration based on detection of the area with geometric features. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is faster than the conventional method.
Overcoming adversity through diversity: aquatic carbon concentrating mechanisms

Carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM) systems, associated with evolutionarily diverse aquatic photosynthetic organisms, make a major contribution to global net primary productivity and marine carbon sequestration. Here, an overview of these global contributions is presented from their evolutionary origins, including a possible trigger for their diversification when the aqueous O2/CO2 ratio rose above parity, and a re-definition of the paradox of phytoplankton. The reviews and research in the special issue also include molecular physiology and ecology of CCMs, through to future potential applications for sustaining carbon sequestration and supporting terrestrial crop productivity.
Investment Performance within Urban Regeneration Locations

Purpose – Property performance indices have invariably focused upon prime markets with a variety of approaches used to measure investment returns. However, there is relatively little knowledge regarding the investment performance of property in regeneration areas. Indeed, there is a perception that such locations carry increased risk and that the returns achieved may not be sufficient to offset the added risk. The main objective of this paper, therefore, is to construct regeneration property performance indicators consistent with the CBRE rent index and average yield monitor.Design/methodology/approach – Local market experts were asked to estimate rents and yields for hypothetical standardised offerings for a range of regeneration locations throughout the UK, covering the period 1995 to 2002.Findings – The results show that rental growth was similar in regeneration locations compared to the prime market. However, the analysis highlights a major yield shift for property in regeneration areas in the short t.