Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pandora’s Briefcase: Unpacking the Retirement Migration Decision

This is an exploratory study of the decision process leading to retirement migration. It uses a unique national study of a sample (n = 255) of retirees who were aging in place in a city in the upper Midwest, and a sample (n = 593) of retired migrants to a Southeastern community in Florida. Both sets of respondents were asked an extensive set of questions (1) about their potential move (or the experience of having moved), and how destinations are chosen; (2) about their attachments to people and places in their lives; and (3) their images of the advantages and disadvantages of living in their current and other locations. These data were sorted in a spirit of exploration; serious attempts were made to minimize advanced expectations. Pushes and pulls were found both at the origin and at the destination of retirement moves although satisfaction with current residence was very high in both places.
Motors and Their Tethers: The Role of Secondary Binding Sites in Processive Motility

Cytoskeletal motors convert the energy from binding and hydrolyzing ATP into conformational changes that direct movement along a cytoskeletal polymer substrate. These enzymes utilize different mechanisms to generate long-range motion on the order of a micron or more that is required for functions ranging from muscle contraction to transport of growth factors along a nerve axon. Several of the individual cytoskeletal motors are processive, meaning that they have the ability to take sequential steps along their polymer substrate without dissociating from the polymer. This ability to maintain contact with the polymer allows individual motors to move cargos quickly from one cellular location to another. Many of the processive motors have now been found to utilize secondary binding sites that aid in motor processivity.
Inner loop control of supersonic aircraft in the presence of aeroelastic modes

Longitudinal control system design is considered for a linearized dynamic model of a supersonic transport aircraft concept characterized by relaxed static stability and significant aeroelastic interactions. Two LQG-type controllers are designed using the frequency-domain additive uncertainty formulation to ensure robustness to unmodeled flexible modes. The first controller is based on a 4th-order model containing only the rigid-body modes, while the second controller is based on an 8th-order model that additionally includes the two most prominent flexible modes. The performance obtainable from the 4th-order controller is not adequate, while the 8th-order controller is found to provide better performance. Frequency-domain and time-domain (Lyapunov) methods are subsequently used to assess the robustness of the 8th-order controller to parametric uncertainties in the design model.
Tunable In-Phase Power Divider for 5G Cellular Networks

A tunable power divider that operates in the 28-GHz band for future 5G mobile systems is presented. The proposed power divider can be used in the feeding network of the antenna array of a cellular network for a beamforming purpose. The proposed design is a modification of the traditional Wilkinson power divider and has the ability to change the output power division ratio continuously. To realize that, two varactor-loaded L-shaped open-ended stubs are connected to the two branch lines of the device to ensure the flatness of the power division. Moreover, two asymmetrical coupled lines are adopted in the output ports and a stepped-impedance transformer is added at the input port to enhance their matching across different power divisions and wide frequency range. A prototype is developed and tested. A tuning power ratio range from 1:1 to 1:2.3 across the band (27–29 GHz) is achieved. The return losses are more than 13 dB, while the isolation is more than 10 dB across that band. In addition, the simulated and measured amplitude and phase imbalances are less than 0.2 and 0.5 dB, and 5° and 12°, respectively, from the ideal values.
The emptiness of the lexicon: Critical reflections on J. Pustejovsky's the generative lexicon

INTRODUCTION A certain metaphysical thesis about meaning that we'll call Informational Role Semantics (IRS) is accepted practically universally in linguistics, philosophy and the cognitive sciences: the meaning (or content, or`sense') of a linguistic expression 1 is constituted, at least in part, by at least some of its inferential relations. This idea is hard to state precisely, both because notions like metaphysical constitution are moot and, more importantly, because different versions of IRS take different views on whether there are constituents of meaning other than inferential role, and on which of the inferences an expression occurs in are meaning constitutive. Some of these issues will presently concern us; but for now it will do just to gesture towards such familiar claims as that: it's part and parcel of dog meaning dog 2 that the inference from x is a dog to x is an animal is valid; it's part and parcel of boil meaning boil that the inference from x boiled y to y boiled is valid; it's part and parcel of kill meaning kill that the inference from x killed y to y died is valid; and so on. (See Cruse, Ch. 1 and passim.) IRS brings in its train a constellation of ancillary doctrines. Presumably, for example, if an inference is constitutive of the meaning of a word, then learning the word involves learning that the inference holds. If dog means dog because dog-> animal is valid, then knowing that dog-> animal is valid is part and parcel of knowing what the word dog means; and, similarly, learning that x boiled y-> y boiled is part and parcel of learning what boil means, and so forth. IRS constrains grammatical theories. The semantic lexicon of a language is supposed to make explicit whatever one has to know to understand the lexical expressions of the language, so IRS implies that meaning constitutive inferences are part of the semantic lexical entries for items that have them. Lexical entries are thus typically complex objects (`bundles of inferences') according to standard interpretations of IRS. It is this latter thesis that will primarily concern us in the present discussion. For reasons that we've set out elsewhere, we doubt that IRS can be sustained (Fodor and Lepore, 1992); a fortiori, we doubt the cogency of arguments that take IRS as a premise. The primary question in what follows will be whether there are any persuasive arguments …
On Analytic Surfaces with Two Independent Meromorphic Functions.

Let V be a compact complex analytic variety of complex dimension r, defined in abstracto without* any embedding space. ' According to a recent result of Chow,2 the field 0(V) of all meromorphic functions on V is a finite algebraic function field whose degree of transcendency s is at most equal to r. There exists therefore an algebraic variety V* of dimension s in a projective space, uniquely determined up to a birational transformation, and a meromorphic transformation TX of V onto V*, such that every meromorphic function on V is the image of a meromorphic (and hence rational) function on V* under the inverse transformation D-1. Thus the meromorphic transformation 4) induces an isomorphism between the two fields a( V) and a( V*), so that we can identify the two and set a( V) = a( V*) = a. The variety V* will be called the algebraic equivalent of V. Now, we shall say that the analytic variety is algebraic (in an extended sense), if its algebraic equivalent V* can be so chosen that the transformation 4) is bi-regular between V and V*. Since from the abstract point of view two bi-regularly equivalent analytic varieties can be considered as not essentially distinct, it follows that in this case we can identify V with V*, so that our definition of an algebraic variety is a natural extension of the usual one for a variety in a projective space. It is obvious that an algebraic variety V of dimension r possesses the maximum possible number r of algebraically independent meromorphic functions. The question naturally arises whether the converse is also true: If a compact analytic variety has as many algebraically independent meromorphic functions as its dimension, is it then necessarily algebraic? So far as we know, this question has not yet been decided except for some special cases. It is therefore probably not without some interest to present here an answer to this question for the case of a compact analytic manifold of complex dimension 2 with a Kahlerian metric, which we shall call a Kahlerian surface. In the following we shall prove: THEOREM. Any Kdhlerian surface with two algebraically independent meromorphic functions is an algebraic surface without singularities. We begin with the observation that the so-called quadratic Cremona transformation in algebraic geometry can be applied also to an analytic surface V. In fact, it can be described in terms of local coordinates as follows: let p be a point on V and (xI, x2) be a system of local coordinates with the center p. We consider the direct product Up X S of a neighbor319
Going Global: Rethinking Culture Teaching in ELT Contexts

This paper argues that the manner in which culture is taught to English learners needs to be rethought in light of the globalisation of the English language. It is maintained that change is needed in at least three areas. First, English teaching professionals should discard the notion that the US and Great Britain represent the sole ‘target cultures’ of the English language. Second, they should rethink the goals of culture and language education to better meet their students' diverse needs. And third, ELT professionals should do more to design and/or select teaching materials that are international and inclusive in scope. The paper concludes that EFL/ESL instructors should better educate themselves and their students on world cultures to promote genuine linguistic/cultural awareness and international understanding.
Developmental Differences in the Relationship between Reading Comprehension and Hemispheric Alpha Patterns: An EEG Study.

Les electro-encephalogrammes de 55 enfants droitiers de 6 a 8 ans et de 10 a 12 ans, produits alors qu'ils pratiquent la lecture, sont analyses. Les differences dans l'activite des deux hemispheres cerebraux sont etudiees en fonction de l'âge
Dynamic Load-Balancing in iSCSI Systems Based on a Feedback Control Mechanism

Multiple network cards and multiple connections in iSCSI are important ways to improve iSCSI systems performance, fault tolerance and scalability. But multiple connections technology cannot assign every task appropriately, so it cannot produce the excellent performance. This paper proposes a dynamic load balancing algorithm using a feedback control mechanism to improve the overall performance in iSCSI systems. In order to adjust the load state dynamically, this algorithm adopts a feedback mechanism to calculate multiple resources states that have been collected in this system, and then combines the results and the previous feedback. The test results indicate that with the help of this algorithm the performance of iSCSI system has been improved.
Automated peak picking and peak integration in macromolecular NMR spectra using AUTOPSY.

A new approach for automated peak picking of multidimensional protein NMR spectra with strong overlap is introduced, which makes use of the program AUTOPSY (automated peak picking for NMR spectroscopy). The main elements of this program are a novel function for local noise level calculation, the use of symmetry considerations, and the use of lineshapes extracted from well-separated peaks for resolving groups of strongly overlapping peaks. The algorithm generates peak lists with precise chemical shift and integral intensities, and a reliability measure for the recognition of each peak. The results of automated peak picking of NOESY spectra with AUTOPSY were tested in combination with the combined automated NOESY cross peak assignment and structure calculation routine NOAH implemented in the program DYANA. The quality of the resulting structures was found to be comparable with those from corresponding data obtained with manual peak picking.
A Distribution-free Multivariate Change-point Model for Statistical Process Control

This article develops a new distribution-free multivariate procedure for statistical process control based on minimal spanning tree (MST), which integrates a multivariate two-sample goodness-of-fit (GOF) test based on MST and change-point model. Simulation results show that our proposed procedure is quite robust to nonnormally distributed data, and moreover, it is efficient in detecting process shifts, especially moderate to large shifts, which is one of the main drawbacks of most distribution-free procedures in the literature. The proposed procedure is particularly useful in start-up situations. Comparison results and a real data example show that our proposed procedure has great potential for application.
Candida albicans Heat Shock Proteins and Hsps-Associated Signaling Pathways as Potential Antifungal Targets

In recent decades, the incidence of invasive fungal infections has increased notably. Candida albicans (C. albicans), a common opportunistic fungal pathogen that dwells on human mucosal surfaces, can cause fungal infections, especially in immunocompromised and high-risk surgical patients. In addition, the wide use of antifungal agents has likely contributed to resistance of C. albicans to traditional antifungal drugs, increasing the difficulty of treatment. Thus, it is urgent to identify novel antifungal drugs to cope with C. albicans infections. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) exist in most organisms and are expressed in response to thermal stress. In C. albicans, Hsps control basic physiological activities or virulence via interaction with a variety of diverse regulators of cellular signaling pathways. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that Hsps confer drug resistance to C. albicans. Many studies have shown that disrupting the normal functions of C. albicans Hsps inhibits fungal growth or reverses the tolerance of C. albicans to traditional antifungal drugs. Here, we review known functions of the diverse Hsp family, Hsp-associated intracellular signaling pathways and potential antifungal targets based on these pathways in C. albicans. We hope this review will aid in revealing potential new roles of C. albicans Hsps in addition to canonical heat stress adaptions and provide more insight into identifying potential novel antifungal targets.
Segmentation Using HED And Analyze AMFE Feature Of Flame Suspected Area By Using Wavelet Transform

This paper proposes that a video which is to be converted into ‘n’number of frames. A flame is to be detected from each frame based on the Amount of the Movement of the Flame Edge (AMFE) for detecting the fire with the characteristic of the flame edges constant motion. Fire and Flame images are highly affected by noise which is removed by using Gaussian filter. Firstly, background update has to be done to extract moving regions. And then the suspect area of similar flame color will be identified from the moving regions based on HSI color model. Finally, the paper construct curve of the AMFE of the flame suspect area, and make use of the local maxima of the wavelet coefficient of the high frequency components to detect whether there is flame in the video sequence with the application of wavelet transform on this curve. The experimental results prove the accuracy and the effectiveness of this method. Keywords— AMFE, HSI color model, Suspect area.
Bimodal Stimulation with Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid in Cases of Highly Asymmetrical Hearing Loss.

OBJECTIVE Bimodal stimulation is a possible treatment for asymmetrical hearing loss, wherein 1 ear is stimulated with a cochlear implant and the other is stimulated with a hearing aid. This emerging indication has gained significance over the last few years. However, little research has been conducted regarding the performance in different types of asymmetric Hearing loss. This study seeks to prove the bilateral-binaural advantage in a group of patients treated with bimodal stimulation (cochlear implant and hearing aid), with different degrees of hearing loss in their best ear. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, 31 patients were recruited for the study. They were divided into 3 groups on the basis of the ear with the hearing aid: Group A, pure tone average (PTA) between 41 and 70 dB HL; Group B, PTA between 71 and 80 dB HL; and Group C, PTA between 81 and 90 dB HL. The performance in PTA and disyllabic word recognition were analyzed separately in each ear and then bimodally. The minimum follow-up period was 2 years. RESULTS There were statistically significant differences between bimodal and monaural conditions both in PTA and in disyllabic word recognition. The better the residual hearing in the ear with the hearing aid, the greater were the benefits obtained with bilateralism-binaurality. CONCLUSION Bimodal stimulation provides better results than any monaural hearing mode, regardless of whether it involves the use of a hearing aid alone or a cochlear implant alone.
Constructivist and Neuroconstructivist Transactional Analysis

After a brief description of postmodernism, constructionism, and constructivism, the author describes constructivist therapies in general and then distinguishes one variety of a transactional analysis societal constructionist approach and three varieties of individual constructivist approaches. Neuro-physiological processes, however, subserve ego states, transactions, and scripts. Those transactional analytic theories and practices that include consideration of changes in the brain through the development, maintenance, or modification of neural networks might well be called “neuroconstructivist transactional analysis. ” Through relationships and therapeutic interactions, we use our minds to change both our brains and the brains of others.
Beneficial Effects of a 4-Week Exercise Program on Plasma Concentrations of Adhesion Molecules

Plasma concentrations of adhesion molecules are elevated in patients with endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis (1), as well as in patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or type 2 diabetes—even those without angiographic evidence for atherosclerosis (2). Physical activity is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and total mortality in men with type 2 diabetes (3). The beneficial effects of physical activity could be mediated by improved markers of endothelial dysfunction, including adhesion molecules. We therefore tested the hypothesis that an intensive 4-week physical training program leads to improved plasma concentrations of intracellular …
Development of Face Recognition in 5- to 15-Year-Olds

This study focuses on the development of face recognition in typically developing preschool- and school-aged children (aged 5 to 15 years old, n = 611, 336 girls). Social predictors include sex differences and own-sex bias. At younger ages, the development of face recognition was rapid and became more gradual as the age increased up until the age of 11, after which point the influence of age was insignificant. This development could not be sufficiently explained by the improvement in visual attention or design memory tasks. Girls were slightly better than boys at recognizing faces in the youngest age group, but the effect of sex was minor. No significant own-sex bias was found for girls or boys.
Peak oil and climate change in a rural Alaskan community: A sketch of a nexus analysis

Peak oil and global warming have both been vilified and then vindicated. When the small community of Haines, Alaska, dependent for food, fuel and social services on the increasingly less viable fossil fuel economy, began noticing deficits in early 2007, its Borough Assembly engaged the volunteer Haines Energy Task Force to research and make recommendations on alternative energy sources for heating and transportation, local food production and harvesting of subsistence resources, social services and economic change. As a long-term resident and property owner, I found myself in a zone of identification (Burke 1950) as part of a nexus of practice (NOP) of citizens thinking about the future of reduced and alternative energy consumption and taking action toward bringing about the envisioned future. As part of this NOP, my analysis constituted social action by transforming the NOP in engaging the NOP, the opening move in a nexus analysis (Scollon and Scollon 2004: 9). This paper is an account of the ways and extent to which the task force was able to bring about change in the community. It is not a nexus analysis as such but a summary report.
ASSIST in Govan – A Case of Accidental Conservation

ASSIST is an architectural practice with offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is one of the very few architectural cooperatives that have survived from the 1970s when it was created as a Research Unit of the Department of Architecture of University of Strathclyde, from which it left in 1983. Its origins are in the early days of the tenement improvement programme in Glasgow – indeed, it could be argued that without ASSIST the physical shape of Glasgow would be quite different today. This paper is a personal account, maybe somewhat biased, as under the supervision of then Senior Lecturer Jim Johnson (later to become a well loved and influential Director of the Old Town Renewal Trust in Edinburgh), the author developed an experimental action research project in 1970 investigating the possibility of voluntary improvement. The project was interested in public participation in planning and architecture, not in saving tenements.
Eye Movements and Eye-Hand Coordination During Typing

Typing from text (copytyping) is part of a family of complex skills that require the coordination of vi sual encoding and manual perfor mance. What distinguishes typing from other eye-hand coordination tasks is its complexity and the con tinuous nature of the performance. The perceptual task requires the encoding of linguistic symbols, and manual performance involves all fingers of both hands, which must execute spatially calibrated and precisely timed (ordered) move ments over extended periods. De velopment of the skill requires con siderable amounts of practice, and performance continues to im prove over months? and often years? of practice. Despite the complexities of copytyping, the perceptual-motor processes in volved are relatively amenable to study, as perception and manual movements are confined to small and well-defined spaces, a to-be typed segment of text and a key board, respectively. Furthermore, perceptual processes can be di rectly related to manual move ments, as the encoding of a particu lar letter, word, or word sequence is followed by manual movements to corresponding keys. The vast majority of typing studies have examined manual movements (for reviews, see Soech ting, Gordon, & Engel, 1996; Vivi ani & Terzuolo, 1983). Results from these studies converge, showing that typists plan sequences of manual movements at several lev els, ranging from lexical units (words) to individual key presses (e.g., Gentner, Larochelle, & Gru din, 1988; Gordon, Casabona, & Soechting, 1994; Inhoff, 1991; Shaf fer, 1973; Sternberg, Monsell, Knoll, & Wright, 1978; Viviani & Laissard, 1996; Viviani & Terzuolo, 1983); that execution of planned movements is a function of the bio