Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gender Dysphoria and the Role of Occupational Therapy

Prompted by Kristin Brubaker, a licensed pediatric occupational therapist who works at the Center for Therapeutic Intervention (CTI) in Gig Harbor, WA, the researchers set out to answer the following question: “What evidence supports the use of occupational therapy (OT) interventions in improving the psychosocial health of children and youth between the ages of 0 to 25 experiencing gender dysphoria (GD)? ” After reading and evaluating 29 articles from qualitative and quantitative research, systematic reviews, and additional evidence, the researchers concluded that occupational therapists can assist this population by affirming the experience of GD, encouraging exploration of gender identity, providing a safe and supportive environment, maximizing strengths and resources, reflecting upon long-term consequences of various treatment approaches, facilitating social transition into preferred gender roles, and preventing loss of engagement in meaningful occupations. After summarizing these findings, the researchers conducted an in-service presentation at CTI regarding GD and the role of OT. In order to assess effectiveness, the researchers administered three surveys to monitor the clinicians’ knowledge, confidence, and implementation of the aforementioned practice recommendations. Future continuations of this project could focus on compiling additional evidence to determine what constitutes effective parent/caregiver education for children with GD, and examining occupational deprivation within this
The Economic Lives of the Poor

This paper uses survey data from 13 countries to document the economic lives of the poor (those living on less than $2 dollar per day per capita at purchasing power parity) or the extremely poor (those living on less than $1 dollar per day). We describe their patterns of consumption and income generation as well as their access to markets and publicly provided infrastructure. The paper concludes with a discussion of some apparent anomalous choices.
Proximity Probe ADC DAC DAC Source Low Pass Filter Low Pass Filter Amplifier Amplifier State Estimator Formulate Control dSpace

In this paper, we consider the real-time synthesis of reduced order model based control methodologies for the attenuation of vibrations of a cantilever beam caused by either a transient spike disturbance or a narrow-band exogenous force in a smart structure paradigm. By a narrow-band exogenous force we mean a periodic force over a narrow frequency band or a particular harmonic. The control methods under consideration are based on the minimization of two specific quadratic cost functionals. One of these cost functionals is a typical time domain cost functional constrained by an affine plant. The other is a cost functional that is frequency dependent. These control methods have been used successfully in various applications but this investigation differs from other works in that it emphasizes the development of real-time control methodologies based on reduced order models derived from physical first principles. In particular, we consider two reduced order model based control approaches: reduce the order of the model followed by control formulation and formulate a control based on the full order model followed by control reduction.
Characterizing scalar opportunities in GPGPU applications

General Purpose computing with Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) has gained widespread adoption in both the high performance and general purpose communities. In most GPU computation, execution exploits a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) model. However, GPU execution typically pays little attention to whether the data operated upon by the SIMD units is the same or different. When SIMD computation operates on multiple copies of the same data, redundant computations are generated. It provides an opportunity to improve efficiency by just broadcasting the results of a single computation to multiple outputs. To better serve those operations, modern GPUs are armed with scalar units. Then SIMD instructions that are operating on the same input data operands will be directed to execute upon scalar units, requiring only a single copy of the data, and leaving the data-parallel SIMD units available to execute non-scalar operations. In this paper, we first characterize a number of CUDA programs taken from the NVIDIA SDK to quantify the potential for scalar execution. We observe that 38% of static SIMD instructions are recognized to operate on the same data by the compiler, and their dynamic occurences account for 34% of the total dynamic instruction execution. We then evaluate the impact of scalar units on a heterogeneous scalar-vector GPU architecture. Our results show that scalar units are utilized 51% of the time during execution, though their use places additional pressure on the interconnect and memory, as shown in the results of our study.
The effects of stimulus rate on ABR morphology and its relationship to P1 CAEP responses and auditory speech perception outcomes in children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder: evidence from case reports

Abstract Objective: Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) affects approximately 5–15% of children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). ANSD is characterized by the presence of otoacoustic emissions (OAE) and an absent or abnormal auditory brainstem response (ABR). The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of slow-rate ABR in predicting the auditory cortical development and auditory speech perception outcomes in case studies of children with ANSD. Design: ABR waveform characteristics were collected at slow stimulation rates (5.1 clicks/second) and a fast stimulation rates (>11–31.1 clicks/second, rates typically used in a clinical setting) in three case reports of children with ANSD. P1 CAEP responses and measures of auditory speech perception using the Infant Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (IT-MAIS) were also collected in these children. Retrospective analysis was performed to evaluate the prognostic value of slow- versus fast-rate ABR in predicting P1 CAEP responses and auditory speech perception outcomes in these children. Study sample: Participants included case reports of three paediatric participants with a clinical diagnosis of ANSD. Results: Slow-rate ABR did not elicit significant improvements in waveform morphology compared to fast-rate ABR. P1 CAEP results were present in 2 out of 3 cases and were consistent with auditory speech perception outcomes. Conclusions: Even when ABR stimulation rates were slowed, ABR responses in these children with ANSD did not display any characteristic or replicable pattern, and ABR responses were not predictive of cortical auditory maturation or behavioural performance. In contrast, P1 CAEP responses provided valuable information regarding the maturational status of the auditory cortex and P1 CAEP responses were consistent with behavioural measures of auditory speech perception. Overall, results highlight the high prognostic value of P1 CAEP testing when used in conjunction with behavioural measures of auditory speech perception in children with ANSD.
Optimize particle filter tracking algorithm by features fusion and variable noise covariance

A particle filter target tracking algorithm is proposed to solve tracking problems in complex scene. Used united histogram according to weighted background as in Eq. 7 to describe gradient direction and grayscale features imformation of target, adjusted features weights adaptively in the observational model based on features' dependability as in Eq.9, and combined the observational model with particle filter, designed a variable state noise covariance to moving model as in Eq.14 to conrol the main seeking area of particles to adopt tracking conditions. The experimental result given by Fig. 1∼Fig. 3 shows using features fusion algorithm procedes methods based on single feature.
Is UK Risky Money Weakly Separable? A Stochastic Approach

Using non-parametric weak separability tests that are extended to allow for measurement errors in the data, a broad group of UK monetary assets is found to be weakly separable from consumer goods and leisure over the larger part of the nineties. Financial innovations have made assets with substantial interest rate risk (e.g. unit trusts) more liquid and recent developments in monetary aggregation theory dealt with risk and risk aversion in the calculation of user costs. It is, however, not possible to find any weakly separable group of assets that contains ‘risky’ assets in the current sample.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE MARTIAN HYDROSPHERE: IMPLICATIONS

In this paper we consider the hydraulic and thermal conditions that gave rise to the elevated source regions of the Late Hesperian outflow channels and explore their implications for the evolution of the Martian hydrosphere. We find that if the outflow channel floodwaters were derived from a subpermafrost aquifer, then it implies that, throughout the planet's first billion years of evolution, as much as one third of its surface was covered by standing bodies of water and ice. Following the development of the global dichotomy, the bulk of this water would have existed as an ice-covered ocean in the northern plains. We demonstrate that the progressive crustal assimilation of this early surface reservoir of H 2 O (punctuated by possible episodes of less extensive flooding) was a natural consequence of the planet's subsequent climatic and geothermal evolution – potentially cycling the equivalent of a km-deep global ocean of water through the atmosphere and subsurface every ~10 9 years. In response to the long-term decline in planetary heat flow, the progressive cold-trapping of H 2 O into the growing cryosphere is expected to have significantly depleted the original inventory of groundwater – a development that could well explain the apparent decline in outflow channel activity observed during the Amazonian. Although primarily a theoretical analysis, our findings appear remarkably consistent with the geomorphic and topographic evidence that Mars once possessed a primordial ocean and that a substantial relic of that body continues to survive as massive ice deposits within the northern plains. Confirmation of the presence of such deposits, combined with the potential detection of a global-scale groundwater system, would provide persuasive support for the validity of this analysis.
Reconfigurable out-of-order mechanism generator for unstructured grid computation in computational fluid dynamics

FaSTAR developed by JAXA is a leading edge CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) program package which supports various solvers based on unstructured grids. The computation based on unstructured grid causes a lot of pipeline stalls by RAW (Read After Write) hazard when reconfigurable accelerators are implemented in FPGAs. In order to cope with this problem, the OoO (Out-of-Order) mechanism generator is proposed. By setting parameters depending on the target computation, the OoO mechanism with appropriate structure of the execution unit and waiting buffer is generated. The OoO mechanisms are applied to five subroutines in FaSTAR, and it achieved 2.6 times performance as the case of in-order execution, and 2.9 times as the software executed by Intel Core2Duo processor with reasonable amount of overhead.
Titin and myosin, but not desmin, are linked during myofibrillogenesis in postmitotic mononucleated myoblasts

Monoclonal antibodies specific for the muscle protein titin have been used in conjunction with muscle-specific antibodies against myofibrillar myosin heavy chains (MHCs) and desmin to study myogenesis in cultured cells. Desmin synthesis is initiated in replicating presumptive myoblasts, whereas the synthesis of titin and MHC is initiated simultaneously in their progeny, the postmitotic, mononucleated myoblasts. Both titin and MHC are briefly localized to nonstriated and thereafter to definitively striated myofibrils. At no stage during myofibrillogenesis is either protein observed as part of a sequence of mini-sarcomeres. Titin antibodies bind to the A-I junction, MHC antibodies to the A bands in nascent, maturing, and mature myofibrils. In contrast, desmin remains distributed as longitudinal filaments until well after the definitive myofibrils have aligned laterally. This tight temporal and topographical linkage between titin and myosin is also observed in postmitotic, mononucleated myoblasts and multinucleated myotubes when myofibrillogenesis is perturbed with Colcemid or taxol. Colcemid induces elongating postmitotic mononucleated myoblasts and multinucleated myotubes to round up and form Colcemid myosacs. The myofibrils that emerge in these rounded cells are deployed in convoluted circles. The time required for their nonstriated myofibrils to transform into striated myofibrils is greatly protracted. Furthermore, as Colcemid induces immense desmin intermediate filament cables, the normal spatial relationships between emerging individual myofibrils is distorted. Despite these disturbances at all stages, the characteristic temporal and spatial relationship observed in normal myofibrils between titin and MHC is observed in myofibrils assembling in Colcemid-treated cells. Newly born postmitotic mononucleated myoblasts, or maturing myotubes, reared in taxol acquire a star-shaped configuration and are induced to assemble "pseudo- striated myofibrils. " Pseudo-striated myofibrils consist of laterally aggregated 1.6-micron long, thick filaments that interdigitate, not with thin filaments, but with long microtubules. These atypical myofibrils lack Z bands. Despite the absence of thin filaments and Z bands, titin localizes with its characteristics sarcomeric periodicity in pseudo-striated myofibrils. We conclude that the initiation and subsequent regulation of titin and myosin synthesis, and their spatial deployment within developing sarcomeres are tightly coupled events. These findings are discussed in terms of a model that proposes interaction between two relatively autonomous "organizing centers" in the assembly of each sarcomere.
Hand dorsal vein recognition by matching Width Skeleton Models

This paper proposes a novel and efficient shape-based approach for hand dorsal vein recognition. A coarse-to-fine segmentation method is first introduced to precisely detect the boundaries of the vein areas. A generalized graph model, namely Width Skeleton Model (WSM), is built then, which takes both the topology of the vein network and the width of the vessel into account, thereby achieving more comprehensive geometric representation and conveying more discriminative cues for identification. The models of different samples are further efficiently compared through a new matching scheme for similarity measurement, based on which the identity of the individual is finally decided. We evaluate the proposed approach on the NCUT database, and the rank-one recognition rate reaches 99.31%, which is superior to the state of the arts, clearly illustrating its competency.
The Role of Zinc in Alzheimer's Disease

Zinc, the most abundant trace metal in the brain, has numerous functions, both in health and in disease. Zinc is released into the synaptic cleft of glutamatergic neurons alongside glutamate from where it interacts and modulates NMDA and AMPA receptors. In addition, zinc has multifactorial functions in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Zinc is critical in the enzymatic nonamyloidogenic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and in the enzymatic degradation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide. Zinc binds to Aβ promoting its aggregation into neurotoxic species, and disruption of zinc homeostasis in the brain results in synaptic and memory deficits. Thus, zinc dyshomeostasis may have a critical role to play in the pathogenesis of AD, and the chelation of zinc is a potential therapeutic approach.
A comprehensive concomitant analysis of service employees’ well-being and performance

Purpose The connection between employees’ well-being and performance, although widely studied in organizational psychology, has received much less attention from HRM scholars. The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature by examining the impacts of the multidimensional structure of well-being consisting of psychological, social and health dimensions on employees’ task and contextual performance. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected data from 281 employees from the New Zealand service sector using a questionnaire survey. Factor analysis was used to determine items that form various facets of well-being and performance constructs. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test the well-being – performance relationship. Findings The findings show that different facets of well-being differentially contribute to employees’ task and contextual performance. Specifically, the facets of happiness and trust were positively associated with both task and contextual performance, while the effects of life satisfaction and work life balance on task and contextual performance were insignificant. Moreover, work intensification was only associated with task performance, in contrast, job satisfaction and over commitment were only related to contextual performance. Practical implications The implications of these findings are two-fold. For researchers, a review and overhaul of the conceptualization and operationalization of well-being in HRM studies is long overdue. For managers, improvements to employees’ job performance and the organization’s health can result from simultaneously enhancing multiple dimensions of employees’ well-being. Originality/value This study provides new insights into the complex relationship between well-being and performance by incorporating a multidimensional and multifaceted perspective of well-being and highlighting the distinctive effects of various facets of well-being on different types of employees’ performance.
Institutional Expectations, Opportunities, and Interest in the Professoriate: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Satisfaction Among Doctoral Students in Social Work

ABSTRACT This article explores doctoral student satisfaction as related to interest in the professoriate and as influenced by issues of social justice, according to a national student survey. Results indicate that 85% of respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with their doctoral education. Most satisfying aspects were individualization or independence, collegiality or collaboration, praxis or translation, and reaching or achieving milestones. Least satisfying aspects were educational environments or climates, course quality, mentorship quality, and finances. Eighty percent reported that satisfaction was “explained by social justice training opportunities and a sense of a socially just institution. ” At research-intensive universities, satisfaction predicted interest in the professoriate. Understanding student satisfaction may improve doctoral education and the faculty pipeline.
Multi-Pursuer Multi-Evader Pursuit-Evasion Games with Jamming Confrontation

Existing pursuer-evader (PE) game algorithms do not provide good real-time solutions for situations with the following complexities: (1) multi-pursuer multi-evader, (2) multiple evaders with superior control resources such as higher speeds, and (3) jamming confrontation between pursuers and evaders. This paper introduces a real-time decentralized approach, in which decentralization strategy reduces computational complexity in multi-pursuer multievader situations, cooperative chasing strategy guarantees capture of some superior evaders, and min-max double-sided jamming confrontation provides optimal jamming-estimation strategies under adversarial noisy environments. Extensive simulations confirm the efficiency of this approach.
THE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY OF ACADEMIC INVENTORS

Based on longitudinal data for a matched sample of 592 Italian academic inventors and controls, the paper explores the impact of patenting on university professors’ scientific productivity, as measured by publication and citations counts. University professors who appear as designated inventors on at least one patent application at the European Patent Office publish more and better quality papers than their colleagues with no patents, and increase their productivity after patenting. Endogeneity problems are dealt with both by using instrumental variables and by applying inverse probability of treatment weights. The beneficial effect of patenting on publication rates last longer for academic inventors with more than one patent.
----Reinforcement learning for multi-step problems

In reinforcement learning for multi-step problems, the sparse nature of the feedback aggravates the difficulty of learning to perform. This paper explores the use of a reinforcement learning architecture, leading to a discussion of reinforcement learning in terms of feature abstraction, credit-assignment, and temporal-difference learning. Issues discussed include: the conditioning of the reinforcement signal, requirements for feature abstraction, the effect of feature representation on credit-assignment, and structural and temporal credit-assignment in terms of on-line tree search.
An answer recommendation algorithm for medical community question answering systems

Online medical community question answering (cQA) systems are playing important roles as a supplement of the traditional medical service systems. The answer recommendation service provides guidance to diagnose diseases and brings convenience and valuable reference to users. In this paper, we propose a method to recommend answer for particular questions on medical cQA system. There are three steps for the answer recommendation system, including similar cases retrieval, answers quality estimation and answer recommendation. The proposed algorithm is tested on a dataset collected from online medical community question answering system. The results show a good performance in answer recommendation.