Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Peoples Republic of Monsters

Free All Monsters! is a location based game where players turn their iPhone into a Magic Monstervision Machine and spot invisible monsters on the city streets. The game draws upon Lefebvre’s agenda of ‘the right to the city’ by encouraging the appropriation of everyday space in which to play the game by presenting players with lusory goals anchored by environmental conditions relating to that particular space, and at that particular moment in time, rather than the desires of the designer or controller of that space. Further, these goals are not defined by us as ‘the designers’ of the game but by their fellow players who put into practice their own interplay between context and situation by setting a their own monster free. Within the game setting a monsters free involves players hand drawing or sculpting their own monsters and then taking a picture before uploading then to the game via the App. Therefore for us Monstrous’ is not used in relation to being ‘hideous or frightful’ but rather relates to these fabulous imaginary creatures and as there is no limit to the number of monsters that can be set free we intend the game itself to become monstrous, meaning on a gigantic scale, self generating and beyond our control.
Enhancing Blood-Stage Malaria Subunit Vaccine Immunogenicity in Rhesus Macaques by Combining Adenovirus, Poxvirus, and Protein-in-Adjuvant Vaccines

Protein-in-adjuvant formulations and viral-vectored vaccines encoding blood-stage malaria Ags have shown efficacy in rodent malaria models and in vitro assays against Plasmodium falciparum. Abs and CD4+ T cell responses are associated with protective efficacy against blood-stage malaria, whereas CD8+ T cells against some classical blood-stage Ags can also have a protective effect against liver-stage parasites. No subunit vaccine strategy alone has generated demonstrable high-level efficacy against blood-stage infection in clinical trials. The induction of high-level Ab responses, as well as potent T and B cell effector and memory populations, is likely to be essential to achieve immediate and sustained protective efficacy in humans. This study describes in detail the immunogenicity of vaccines against P. falciparum apical membrane Ag 1 in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), including the chimpanzee adenovirus 63 (AdCh63), the poxvirus modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), and protein vaccines formulated in Alhydrogel or CoVaccine HT adjuvants. AdCh63-MVA heterologous prime-boost immunization induces strong and long-lasting multifunctional CD8+ and CD4+ T cell responses that exhibit a central memory-like phenotype. Three-shot (AdCh63-MVA-protein) or two-shot (AdCh63-protein) regimens induce memory B cells and high-titer functional IgG responses that inhibit the growth of two divergent strains of P. falciparum in vitro. Prior immunization with adenoviral vectors of alternative human or simian serotype does not affect the immunogenicity of the AdCh63 apical membrane Ag 1 vaccine. These data encourage the further clinical development and coadministration of protein and viral vector vaccine platforms in an attempt to induce broad cellular and humoral immune responses against blood-stage malaria Ags in humans.
Mixed communities: challenges for urban education policy

This collection of articles is concerned with urban education, and specifically with the challenges posed to education policy and practice by the current direction of urban revitalization strategies in advanced industrial nations. Drawing on urban experiences in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, the articles examine theoretical and practical questions about efforts to transform low-income neighbourhoods into ‘mixed-income communities’ by attracting higher income families. These include social housing redevelopment and public incentives to encourage private market investment in older housing and derelict neighbourhoods. Both rely on and directly impact upon urban schools. In order to gain perspective on this phenomenon, contributions were sought from authors both within and outside education policy. They bring different lenses to the challenges and opportunities these strategies create for schools and educators in communities experiencing (or likely to experience) significant change.
Introducing widening participation policies in higher education: the influence of institutional culture

This paper examines the role of culture in the development of higher education institution (HEI) policy on widening participation. The study involved documentary research and interviews with senior and middle managers. It suggests that a culture of widening participation is often not embedded throughout institutions. Therefore, widening participation policy formulated at the senior management level is likely to be reinterpreted, revised—and in many cases even undermined or ignored—as it migrates down the organisational hierarchy. The paper contends that senior management take insufficient account of the cultural complexity of HEIs. As a result, there is too much emphasis on institutional (or ‘meso’) level policy‐making and a top‐down approach. The paper argues that more attention should be given to generating widening participation policy at the micro level within universities and colleges of higher education.
Impulsive control for a class of delayed parabolic complex networks

This paper proposes a new parabolic complex dynamical network model. An impulsive delay differential inequality is employed to analyze the global exponential stability of the proposed network model under impulsive control. On the basis of the analysis, a design procedure of impulsive controllers is presented. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the efficiency of the derived outcome.
Metamorphic inhibition of Xenopus laevis by sodium perchlorate: Effects on development and thyroid histology

The perchlorate anion inhibits thyroid hormone (TH) synthesis via inhibition of the sodium‐iodide symporter. It is, therefore, a good model chemical to aid in the development of a bioassay to screen chemicals for affects on thyroid function. Xenopus laevis larvae were exposed to sodium perchlorate during metamorphosis, a period of TH‐dependent development, in two experiments. In the first experiment, stage 51 and 54 larvae were exposed for 14 d to 16, 63, 250, 1,000, and 4,000 μg perchlorate/L. In the second experiment, stage 51 larvae were exposed throughout metamorphosis to 8, 16, 32, 63, and 125 μg perchlorate/L. Metamorphic development and thyroid histology were the primary endpoints examined. Metamorphosis was retarded significantly in the first study at concentrations of 250 μg/L and higher, but histological effects were observed at 16 μg/L. In the second study, metamorphosis was delayed by 125 μg/L and thyroid size was increased significantly at 63 μg/L. These studies demonstrate that inhibition of metamorphosis readily can be detected using an abbreviated protocol. However, thyroid gland effects occur at concentrations below those required to elicit developmental delay, demonstrating the sensitivity of this endpoint and suggesting that thyroidal compensation is sufficient to promote normal development until perchlorate reaches critical concentrations.
A 2D visual servoing for underwater vehicle station keeping

This paper introduces a 2D visual servoing technique for the station keeping of an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) with respect to planar targets on the sea bed. The underwater vehicle is subject to sea current disturbances which make it drift from its desired position. Feature points from unmarked objects are extracted and tracked with a sparse feature tracker developed in-house. The scene depth is estimated from a planar homography. To validate our approach, we emulate the dynamics of the surge and the sway degrees-of-freedom of an UUV model with a planar Cartesian robot in our water test tank. Successful station keeping experiments obtained with a range of sea current disturbances are presented.
Service discovery using FIPA-compliant AP to support scalability in ubiquitous environments

Traditional service discovery mechanisms propose efficient and fast searching schemes for service discovery. And their schemes do not consider interoperability among discovery protocols. In this paper, we design an agent platform (AP) modifying FIPA-OS (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents Open Source) based on FIPA specifications. FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) is a nonprofit organization aimed at producing standards for the interoperation of heterogeneous software agents. Until now FIPA specifications have not been considering mobile ad hoc networks. In such environments, agents can 7 find services offered by other service discovery engines in heterogeneous networks. We can guarantee scalability, by adding DM (discovery middleware) modules in the AP. The DM helps agents find and use services exploiting existing service discoveries under ad hoc networks. We chose UPnP (universal plug and play) and LSD (lightweight service discovery protocol) as DMs among various service discovery technologies. UPnP is a set of protocols for service discovery under development by the UPnP forum and LSD is a new discovery protocol for mobile ad hoc networks emphasizing on cache management that we designed. On our AP, we can use the services which devices of UPnP and LSD provide.
Performative artefacts: users "speaking through" artefacts in collaborative design

This paper argues for a relational view of collaboration in User-Centered Design activities. It argues that artefacts of different kinds are performative in making both users and designers perform in particular ways. In this way, it treats a case of a "catastrophic" user workshop as a heterogeneous enactment of relations rather than a case of having e.g. conservative or ignorant users.
Semantic Propagation Method Enhanced by Structure for Link Prediction

In link prediction, text is widely used due to its rich semantic information. However, existing researches have the problems of high information redundancy, large complexity of algorithms, and lack of integration with structure knowledge of knowledge graph. This paper proposes a component-focused Siamese textual encoder CFSTE, which reduces the negative impact of redundant text description by adding a component focusing module and introducing a Siamese structure to reuse the same entities and relationships to reduce the complexity of the encoder. In addition, the structure knowledge of knowledge graph is also jointed through the integration strategy of interpolation prediction. Our proposed model is tested on multiple datasets and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the overall indicators. On the WN18rr, Hits@1, Hits@3 and MRR are increased by 0.22%, 1.63% and 5.28%, respectively. For FB15k-237, Hits@1, Hits@3, Hits@10 and MRR are increased by 8.76%, 4.99%, 3.04% and 4.68%, respectively.
Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs (Artifact)

This artifact is based on Scala-AM, a static analysis framework relying on the Abstracting Abstract Machines approach. This version of the framework is extended to support actor-based programs, written in a variant of Scheme. The sound static analysis is performed in order to verify the absence of errors in actor-based program, and to compute upper bounds on actor's mailboxes. We developed several mailbox abstractions with which the static analysis can be run, and evaluate the precision of the technique with these mailbox abstractions. This artifact contains documentation on how to use analysis and on how to reproduce the results presented in the companion paper.
Hallucinations: The Science of Idiosyncratic Perception

Hearing voices when nobody speaks or seeing objects no one else sees - hallucinations are intriguing phenomena that have puzzled clinicians, researchers, and lay people alike for centuries. In this book, authors Andre Aleman and Frank Laroi review the latest research on the cognitive and neural bases of hallucinations and outline their unique neurobiology by drawing on evidence from brain imaging and neurotransmission studies. Detailed attention is paid to hallucination characteristics in different forms of psychosis as well as other clinical groups and conditions, such as brain damage, Charles Bonnet syndrome, dementia, and chemical substance abuse.The authors integrate the wealth of recent findings into a cohesive framework and put forward a comprehensive, multicomponent model of hallucinations. Finally, treatment of hallucinations is discussed, ranging from pharmacotherapy and cognitive therapy to transcranial magnetic stimulation. A comprehensive list of available hallucination questionnaires and scales is also included as a handy clinical assessment resource.
Precocious sister chromatid separation (PSCS) in Cornelia de Lange syndrome

The Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) (OMIM# 122470) is a dominantly inherited multisystem developmental disorder. The phenotype consists of characteristic facial features, hirsutism, abnormalities of the upper extremities ranging from subtle changes in the phalanges and metacarpal bones to oligodactyly and phocomelia, gastroesophageal dysfunction, growth retardation, and neurodevelopmental delay. Prevalence is estimated to be as high as 1 in 10,000. Recently, mutations in NIPBL were identified in sporadic and familial CdLS cases. To date, mutations in this gene have been identified in over 45% of individuals with CdLS. NIPBL is the human homolog of the Drosophila Nipped‐B gene. Although its function in mammalian systems has not yet been elucidated, sequence homologs of Nipped‐B in yeast (Scc2 and Mis4) are required for sister chromatid cohesion during mitosis, and a similar role was recently demonstrated for Nipped‐B in Drosophila. In order to evaluate NIPBL role in sister chromatid cohesion in humans, metaphase spreads on 90 probands (40 NIPBL mutation positive and 50 NIPBL mutation negative) with CdLS were evaluated for evidence of precocious sister chromatid separation (PSCS). We screened 50 metaphases from each proband and found evidence of PSCS in 41% (compared to 9% in control samples). These studies indicate that NIPBL may play a role in sister chromatid cohesion in humans as has been reported for its homologs in Drosophila and yeast. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Regulatory T cells in the skin lesions and blood of patients with systemic sclerosis and morphoea

Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) and morphoea are connective tissue diseases characterized by fibrosis of the skin. Although to date their pathogenesis has not been clearly defined, it is thought that autoimmunity may play a role in the development of the skin lesions observed in both these diseases. As regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a key role in the modulation of immune responses, it has recently been suggested that Treg impairment may lead to the development of autoimmune diseases.
Surviving Mental Illness: Stress, Coping, and Adaptation

The Personal Side of Mental Illness. A Conceptual Basis for Understanding Patients' Behavior: The Case of Schizophrenia. HOW PATIENTS EXPERIENCE PSYCHOSIS. Disturbances of the Self. Disturbances in Cognition. Disturbances in Emotions, Relationships, and Behaviors. Cruising the Cosmos, Part Three: Psychosis and Hospitalization - A Consumer's Personal Recollection, Frederick J. Frese, III, Ph.D.HOW PATIENTS EXPERIENCE THE INTERPERSONAL ENVIRONMENT. Patients' Perceptions of Families. Patients' Perceptions of Professional and the Service Provider System. Community Acceptance and Self-Perception. The Interpersonal Environment - A Consumer's Personal Recollection, Esso Leete. HOW PATIENTS EXPERIENCE THE RECOVERY PROCESS. Events Leading to Recovery. Developing and Acceptable Identity and New Purposes in Life. Learning How to Manage the Illness and Avoid Relapse. Life on the Ledge: My Recovery from a Major Mental Illness - A Consumer's Personal Recollection, Daniel Link, M.S.W. LESSONS LEARNED FROM CONSUMERS. 15. Summary, Conclusions, and Implications. References. Index.
Method of space diversity frequency combining based on single carrier frequency domain equalization

In the wireless communication and ultra-wideband communication, Single Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization (SC-FDE) has received extensive concern with its high spectral using efficiency and simple implementation of equalization in recent years. The paper mainly integrates SC-FDE and Space Diversity technology and designs a scheme which is suitable for underwater acoustic communication. The simulation and the experiment verify that the algorithm can effectively reduce error probabilities and rapidly implement the combination of each branch.
Secure Conjunctive Multi-Keyword Search for Multiple Data Owners in Cloud Computing

Recently, secure search over encrypted cloud data has become a hot research spot and challenging task. Some secure search schemes have been proposed to try to meet this challenge. In this paper, we propose a conjunctive multi-keyword secure search scheme for multiple data owners. To guarantee data security and system flexibility in the multiple data owners environment, we design an ingenious secure query scheme that allows each data owner to adopt randomly chosen temporary keys to build secure indexes for different data files. An authorized data user does not need to know these temporary keys of constructing indexes and can instead randomly choose another temporary query keys to encrypt query keywords while the cloud can correctly perform keywords matching over encrypted data files. Extensive experiments demonstrate the correctness and practicality of the proposed scheme.
SHC-PWM Closed-Loop Control Based on PI Controllers for Active Power Filters

The increase of non-linear loads connected to the grid has led to the use of active power filters (APF) to reduce the low-order current harmonics injected by this kind of loads. In case of high-power medium-voltage applications, low switching frequency optimized modulators are preferred over standard carrier based-PWM. Therefore, in this work the selective harmonic control - PWM (SHC-PWM) modulation technique is used. SHC-PWM allows to synthesize low-order harmonics in amplitude and phase with low switching frequency. A closed-loop control system for APFs is proposed in order to address the control dynamic challenges related to low switching frequency modulation techniques. The closed-loop control uses a Kalman filter to estimate the harmonic currents in the grid side, a proportional-integral controller and SHC-PWM modulator based on artificial neural network. Simulation results are provided for a 3-level NPC converter to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control.
Explaining everyday problem solving

How well can we explain natural occurrences of cognitive behaviours given the theoretical frameworks available to us today? The thesis explores what has to be assumed in cognitive theory in order to provide such an explanation, in contrast to being able to predict behaviour under controlled circumstances. The behaviours considered are all of the type described as involving higher level cognition or being representation hungry. Examples are problem solving and certain types of decision-making. Three different theoretical frameworks are examined: (1) general theories such as Newell and Simon’s Universal Problem Solver, (2) the stances sometimes referred to as “situated cognition,” particularly those that try to exclude cognitive components from their explanatory framework (e.g. extreme versions of situated action and practice theory); and (3) domain-specific theories of cognition. The last category can broadly be separated into two different types of theories: those who claim that specialised cognitive processes are activated through situational features (e.g. evolutionary psychology) and those who claim that specialised cognitive processes are successful relative such features (e.g. ecological rationality). The conclusion is that none of the stances are sufficient on their own. The proposed solution is instead to take both the hypothesised domain-specific process and the information it utilises into account. If we allow for “high-quality” information of a more domain-general nature, that indicates which parts of the current situation are important, or makes it possible for the individual to assume certain relations in advance, then this information can account for parts of the flexibility and stability required of the cognitive processes. Examples of such information are causal relations and epistemic information connected to social information. Since these point us to how the features of the situation at hand were produced, they help us identify relevant aspects of, and relations between different situations. By utilising high-quality information, domain-specific processes can be made broader, and less specialised, while keeping a close tie to the situations in which they are active. In this way we can begin to explain real life cognitive behaviours.
Using Ontologies in Hybrid Software Agent Architectures

Having the properties of autonomy, sociability and learning ability, software agents provide a better approach to the increasing complexity of both software problems and solutions and to support the decision making process. An important decision when developing a software agent is the choice of its internal architecture. Several models of deliberative and reactive architectures have already been proposed. However, approaches of hybrid software architectures that combine deliberative and reactive components, with the advantages of both behaviors, are still an open research topic. This work aims at contributing to the development of complex systems through the proposal of ontology-driven hybrid software agent architecture, by exploring automated reasoning and learning techniques. The architecture is composed of a reactive system and a deliberative one. Through a learning mechanism, the set of inference rules in the ontology of the deliberative system are transformed into reactive rules to be used by the reactive system, thus providing a more effective decision.
Binge Drinking and Blood Pressure: Cross-Sectional Results of the HAPIEE Study

Objectives To investigate whether binge drinking pattern influences blood pressure independently from drinking volume or whether it modifies the effect of volume of drinking. Methods We used cross-sectional data from population samples of 7559 men and 7471 women aged 45–69 years in 2002-05, not on antihypertensive medication, from Russia, Poland and Czech Republic. Annual alcohol intake, drinking frequency and binge drinking (≥100 g in men and ≥60 g in women in one session at least once a month) were estimated from graduated frequency questionnaire. Blood pressure was analysed as continuous variables (systolic and diastolic pressure) and a binary outcome (≥140/90 mm Hg). Results In men, annual alcohol intake and drinking frequency were strongly associated with blood pressure. The odds ratio of high blood pressure for binge drinking in men was 1.62 (95% CI 1.45–1.82) after controlling for age, country, body mass index, education and smoking; additional adjustment for annual alcohol intake reduced it to 1.20 (1.03–1.39). In women, the fully adjusted odds ratio of high blood pressure for binge drinking was 1.31 (1.05–1.63). Binge drinking did not modify the effect of annual alcohol intake. Consuming alcohol as wine, beer or spirits had similar effects. Conclusions The results suggest that the independent long-term effect of binge drinking was modest, that binge drinking did not modify the effect of alcohol intake, and that different alcoholic beverages had similar effects on blood pressure.