Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
2: Evaluating Parental Effects on Child Development

Rapid change in social conditions, in housing customs, recreations, social mores . makes a demand upon parents for a philosophy and methods based on today, (NSSE Yearbook, p. 67) [while] The community, examining the child at the close of his preschool and most fundamental years, and finding him wanting, consistently lays the responsibility for this lack at the door of the home, [and], further, demands that the home remedy the situation. Forest (1927), p. 231
Dynamics of indigenous and inoculated yeast populations and their effect on the sensory character of Riesling and Chardonnay wines

To study the impact of yeast populations on wine flavour and to better understand yeast growth dynamics, wines were produced by the (i) indigenous microflora, (ii) vigorous yeast starter EC1118 and (iii) slowly fermenting yeast Assmannshausen. Sensory analysis revealed that wines differed depending on the fermentation type. However, these yeast‐related differences did not exceed the varietal character. Both added starter cultures clearly dominated the Saccharomyces population from the middle of fermentation onwards. The starter cultures differed in their repression of indigenous non‐Saccharomyces yeast. EC1118 limited growth of non‐Saccharomyces yeasts more strongly than Assmannshausen. Sulphite addition further repressed growth of non‐Saccharomyces yeasts. On completion, more than one Saccharomyces strain was present in each fermentation, with the largest variety in the non‐inoculated and the smallest in the EC1118‐inoculated fermentation. Results from the two genetic assays, karyotyping, and PCR using δ‐primers were not fully equivalent, limiting the usefulness of δ‐PCR in studies of native Saccharomyces yeasts.
Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Moves an Individual From Radical Opinion to Radical Action

Research has shown that there is no profile of individual characteristics of group-based terrorists, but profiling the characteristics of lone wolf terrorists may yet be possible. In this article, we bring together suggestions about what a lone wolf profile might look like. We describe a two-pyramids model that distinguishes radicalization of opinion from radicalization of action, then use this model to review three case histories of lone wolf terrorists. We also review results comparing two kinds of mostly lone actor violent offenders: assassins and school attackers. Results highlight the gap between radical opinion and radical action, and suggest two profiles of lone wolf terrorists: disconnected-disordered are individuals with a grievance and weapons experience who are social loners and often show signs of psychological disorder; caring-compelled are individuals who strongly feel the suffering of others and feel a personal responsibility to reduce or avenge this suffering.
Diagnosis and treatment of paediatric tuberculosis: An insight review

Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem, invading all age groups world-wide. It is an opportunistic infection affecting the individuals alone or with co-infections. Childhood TB is a neglected aspect and a significant health problem in epidemic areas. It constitutes more than 20% of TB incidence. Pediatric TB exists in the shadow of adult TB. The clinicians concentrate on pulmonary manifestation of TB, whereas it is a major problem in both pulmonary and extra-pulmonary infections. The rate of infection with this disease is mostly associated with poverty, social disruption and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The diagnosis of extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) is more difficult than pulmonary TB (PTB). Delayed diagnosis and executive treatment contribute to increase in the mortality rate in endemic areas. This article provides the evidence-based simple and safe screening method, indicating rapid, highly sensitive and specific diagnostic tests for pulmonary and EPTB in children. The most important aspect of treatment is the correct course of anti-tubercular drugs. This review serves the purpose of quick reference for microbiologists, epidemiologists, academicians, students and researchers. It provides guidance regarding early diagnosis and treatment accuracy of pediatric TB.
Keyword Search in Databases

Querying using keywords is easily the most widely used form o f querying today. While keyword searching is widely used to search documents on the Web, querying of dat abases currently relies on complex query languages that are inappropriate for casual end-users, sin ce they are complex and hard to learn. Given the popularity of keyword search, and the increasing use of d atabases as the back end for data published on the Web, the need for querying databases using keywords is being increasingly felt. One key problem in applying document or web keyword search techniques to dat abases is that information related to a single answer to a keyword query may be split across multiple tuples in different relations. In this paper, we first present a survey of work on keyword quer ying in databases. We then report on the BANKS system which we have developed. BANKS integrate s keyword querying and interactive browsing of databases. By their very nature, keyword querie s ar imprecise, and we need a model for answering keyword queries. BANKS, like an earlier system ca lled DataSpot, models a database as a graph. In the BANKS model, tuples correspond to nodes, and fo reign key and other links between tuples correspond to edges. Answers to a query are modeled as rooted tre s connecting tuples that match individual keywords in the query. Answers are ranked using a otion of proximity coupled with a notion of prestige of nodes based on inlinks, the latter being inspi red by techniques developed for Web search. We illustrate the power of the model and our prototype throug h examples.
Policy Drivers in UK Higher Education in Historical Perspective: ‘Inside Out’, ‘Outside In’ and the Contribution of Research

Where have been the main policy drivers for the development of British higher education over the last 50 years? This article argues that while higher education policy was once driven from the inside outwards, from the late 1970s it has been driven exclusively from the outside inwards. Policy decisions under either regime were rarely driven by research findings especially from within the higher education community. The current imbalance between ‘inside-out’ and ‘outside-in’ policy formation is paradoxically most apparent when the higher education system has a more widely diversified funding base than at any time since the 1930s. The key policy challenge is now not what new policies are needed but what new framework should be developed for policy making.
Exploring Implementation of the Ontario School Food and Beverage Policy at the Secondary-School Level: A Qualitative Study.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the implementation of the Ontario School Food and Beverage Policy (P/PM 150) from the perspective of secondary-school students. METHODS This research, informed by the ANGELO framework, undertook three focus groups with secondary students (n = 20) in 2 school boards representing both high- and low-income neighbourhoods in fall 2012. Focus groups were transcribed verbatim for subsequent analysis. Key themes were generated deductively from the research objectives and inductively as they emerged from transcripts. RESULTS Perceived impacts of P/PM 150 included high-priced policy-compliant food for sale, lower revenue generation, and food purchased off-campus. Limited designated eating spaces, proximity to external, nonpolicy-compliant food, and time constraints acted as key local level barriers to healthy eating. CONCLUSIONS Pricing strategies are needed to ensure that all students have access to nutritious food, particularly in the context of vulnerable populations. Recognition of the context and culture in which school nutrition policies are being implemented is essential. Future research to explore the role of public health dietitians in school nutrition policy initiatives and how to leverage local resources and stakeholder support in low income, rural and remote populations is needed.
Unique Suites of Trabecular Bone Features Characterize Locomotor Behavior in Human and Non-Human Anthropoid Primates

Understanding the mechanically-mediated response of trabecular bone to locomotion-specific loading patterns would be of great benefit to comparative mammalian evolutionary morphology. Unfortunately, assessments of the correspondence between individual trabecular bone features and inferred behavior patterns have failed to reveal a strong locomotion-specific signal. This study assesses the relationship between inferred locomotor activity and a suite of trabecular bone structural features that characterize bone architecture. High-resolution computed tomography images were collected from the humeral and femoral heads of 115 individuals from eight anthropoid primate genera (Alouatta, Homo, Macaca, Pan, Papio, Pongo, Trachypithecus, Symphalangus). Discriminant function analyses reveal that subarticular trabecular bone in the femoral and humeral heads is significantly different among most locomotor groups. The results indicate that when a suite of femoral head trabecular features is considered, trabecular number and connectivity density, together with fabric anisotropy and the relative proportion of rods and plates, differentiate locomotor groups reasonably well. A similar, yet weaker, relationship is also evident in the trabecular architecture of the humeral head. The application of this multivariate approach to analyses of trabecular bone morphology in recent and fossil primates may enhance our ability to reconstruct locomotor behavior in the fossil record.
The inner experience of time

The striking diversity of psychological and neurophysiological models of ‘time perception’ characterizes the debate on how and where in the brain time is processed. In this review, the most prominent models of time perception will be critically discussed. Some of the variation across the proposed models will be explained, namely (i) different processes and regions of the brain are involved depending on the length of the processed time interval, and (ii) different cognitive processes may be involved that are not necessarily part of a core timekeeping system but, nevertheless, influence the experience of time. These cognitive processes are distributed over the brain and are difficult to discern from timing mechanisms. Recent developments in the research on emotional influences on time perception, which succeed decades of studies on the cognition of temporal processing, will be highlighted. Empirical findings on the relationship between affect and time, together with recent conceptualizations of self- and body processes, are integrated by viewing time perception as entailing emotional and interoceptive (within the body) states. To date, specific neurophysiological mechanisms that would account for the representation of human time have not been identified. It will be argued that neural processes in the insular cortex that are related to body signals and feeling states might constitute such a neurophysiological mechanism for the encoding of duration.
Generically stable and smooth measures in NIP theories

We formulate the measure analogue of generically stable types in first order theories with NIP (without the independence property), giving several characterizations, answering some questions from [9], and giving another treatment of uniqueness results from [9]. We introduce a notion of “generic compact domination”, relating it to stationarity of Keisler measures, and also giving group versions. We also prove the “approximate definability” of arbitrary Borel probability measures on definable sets in the real and p-adic fields.
A GA-based realization method of optimal finite-precision system

A GA-based realization method of the optimal finite-precision system is proposed. The optimal realizations of the finite-precision systems are defined as those that minimize the error between the frequency characteristics of the original infinite-precision system and its finite-precision represented one and can be shown as the solutions of a nonlinear programming problem. Therefore, a GA-based optimization strategy is presented to provide an efficient method for solving this problem. The proposed realization method of the optimal finite-precision system is based on not only the genetic algorithm (GA) but also a simulated annealing (SA) to prevent the GA from going into local minima. Some numerical examples and comparison simulations with the traditional quantization methods, such as rounding off, rounding up, and rounding down, and another SA-based method are given to verify the high performance of the proposed method.
The Effectiveness of Adding Kinesthetic to Visual and Auditory Perception in the Teaching of Drawing

An interpretation of the data received through the sense organs to enable the individual to respond to situations and "wholes" rather than to fragmentary items is vitally involved in the learning process. Despite this evidence, teachers of drawing have relied extensively on visual per ception in their teaching. Viktor Lowenfeld, while working with visually handicapped subjects, found that artistic expression was not necessarily visual in origin (1).
Learning to recognise named entities in tweets by exploiting weakly labelled data

Named entity recognition (NER) in social media (e.g., Twitter) is a challenging task due to the noisy nature of text. As part of our participation in the W-NUT 2016 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task, we proposed an unsupervised learning approach using deep neural networks and leverage a knowledge base (i.e., DBpedia) to bootstrap sparse entity types with weakly labelled data. To further boost the performance, we employed a more sophisticated tagging scheme and applied dropout as a regularisation technique in order to reduce overfitting. Even without hand-crafting linguistic features nor leveraging any of the W-NUT-provided gazetteers, we obtained robust performance with our approach, which ranked third amongst all shared task participants according to the official evaluation on a gold standard named entity-annotated corpus of 3,856 tweets.
Key Characteristics of Effective Schools: a Review of School Effectiveness Research

MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. *Academic Achievement; Cognitive Processes; *Educational Environment; Effective Schools Research; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; *Institutional Characteristics; Instructional Leadership; Outcomes of Education; *Partnerships in Education; *School Effectiveness; Teaching Methods This review provides an analysis of the key determinants of school effectiveness in elementary and secondary schools. A literature review identified the following key correlates of effectiveness: (1) professional leadership; (2) shared vision and goals; (3) a learning environment; (4) concentration on teaching and learning; (5) purposeful teaching; (6) high expectations; (7) positive reinforcement; (8) monitoring progress; (9) pupil rights and responsibilities; (10) home-school partnership; and (11) a learning organization. The majority of effectiveness studies have focused exclusively on students' cognitive outcomes, but there is less evidence about school and classroom processes that are important in determining schools' success in promoting social or affective outcomes. Because of this focus, the review tells more about the correlates of academic effectiveness. Results of the review did not support the view that any one particular teaching style is more effective than others, but did indicate that flexibility and the ability to adapt teaching approaches are more important than notions of any single style. (Contains 186 references.) (ELD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. * *********************************************************************** OFFICE FOR LTANDARDS IN EDUCATION KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS A review of school effectiveness research U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION O 710e of Eduesnonal Rasura. and IMMOVefflarII EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) "IrEme dOcurnenl hae Oxen lepreduce as 'Moved from Me person or posnasoon Onpmehrs . 1 C Minor cheers& nave peen roads to improve reproduChol quality Pe.nte of 0,se or olannAs shoed rn MX.mem do no! neeesserny rapremor °Mow OEM popoon a ookcv
Forms of talk

Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned him in his work on frame analysis. This book brings together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk. " Of lasting value in Goffman's work is his insistence that behavior-verbal or nonverbal-be examined along with the context of that behavior. In all of these classic essays, there is a "topic" at hand for discussion and analysis. In addition, as those familiar with Goffman's work have come to expect, there is the wider context in which the topic can be viewed and related to other topics-a characteristic move of Goffman's that has made his work so necessary for students of interaction in many disciplines.
Vitamin D Status and Its Association with Parathyroid Hormone Concentration in Brazilians

Vitamins are organic compounds that play a vital role in the control of metabolic processes. The D complex is considered a nutrient with a hormonal action and has an important participation in the constant maintenance of serum and extracellular calcium levels. The present study aims to analyze the results of 105.588 vitamin D (25(OH)D) measurements obtained from a database from a clinical analysis laboratory in Brazil, between the years of 2011 and 2013. The values of 25(OH)D were correlated with age, gender, and values of PTH. The results show a high prevalence of values of 25(OH)D considered inadequate, characterizing 76% of the studied population. It was observed that 26,5% of the individuals had deficiency and 49,5% had insufficiency of vitamin D. It was also shown that there was a negative correlation between 25(OH)D and PTH levels. In conclusion, this study is in accordance with others that show a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in different populations and alerts us for the importance of these measurements and analysis in clinical practice and as a base for diagnosis and treatment of hypovitaminosis.
Calculation of loss probability in a partitioned buffer with self-similar input traffic [DiffServ network]

In the differentiated services model, provisioning quantitative assured services is a challenging topic, as it requires loss probability calculation for a partitioned buffer. In this paper, we study such a loss analysis problem with self-similar input traffic, which has never been studied in the open literature. The input is modeled as a fractional Brownian motion process including J classes of traffic. Each class has its unique requirement on packet loss probability. A first-in-first-out buffer partitioned with J-1 thresholds is used to provide J loss priorities. Heuristic expressions of the loss probabilities for all the J classes are derived, and simulation results demonstrate that the heuristic expressions provide an accurate estimate for all the loss probabilities over the entire buffer range.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Lightweight emulation to study peer-to-peer systems Lucas Nussbaum, Olivier Richard
A Cubic Algorithm for Computing Gaussian Volume

We present randomized algorithms for sampling the standard Gaussian distribution restricted to a convex set and for estimating the Gaussian measure of a convex set, in the general membership oracle model. The complexity of integration is $O^*(n^3)$ while the complexity of sampling is $O^*(n^3)$ for the first sample and $O^*(n^2)$ for every subsequent sample. These bounds improve on the corresponding state-of-the-art by a factor of $n$. Our improvement comes from several aspects: better isoperimetry, smoother annealing, avoiding transformation to isotropic position and the use of the "speedy walk" in the analysis.
CSP-Based Sensor Network Architecture for Reconfigurable Measurement Systems

A reconfigurable sensor-networking architecture is proposed, which is constructed from lightweight functional elements running on small virtual machines. The proposed architecture provides a flexible measurement framework that is easily adaptable to changing system requirements in run-time. The system is based on Communicating Sequential Processes and thus provides the possibility of verification and checking of system correctness in order to produce provably robust and reliable measurement systems. The structural deadlock-free property of the network is formally proven.
Cited Half-Life of the Journal Literature

Analyzing 13,455 journals listed in the Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters) from 1997 through 2013, we report that the mean cited half-life of the scholarly literature is 6.5 years and growing at a rate of 0.13 years per annum. Focusing on a subset of journals (N=4,937) for which we have a continuous series of half-life observations, 209 of 229 (91%) subject categories experienced increasing cited half-lives. Contrary to the overall trend, engineering and chemistry journals experienced declining cited half-lives. Last, as journals attracted more citations, a larger proportion of them were directed toward older papers. The trend to cite older papers is not fully explained by technology (digital publishing, search and retrieval, etc.), but may be the result of a structural shift to fund incremental and applied research over fundamental science.