Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND There has been relatively little research into health inequalities in older populations. This may be partly explained by the difficulty in identifying appropriate indicators of socio-economic status for older people. Ideally, indicators of socio-economic status to be used in studies of health inequalities in older populations should incorporate some measure of life-time socio-economic standing, and house value may fill this role. This study examined whether an indicator of accumulated wealth based on a combination of housing tenure and house value was a strong predictor of ill-health in older populations. METHODS A total of 191 848 people aged > or =65 years and not living in communal establishments were identified from the 2001 Northern Ireland Census and followed for 5 years. Self-reported health and mortality risk by housing tenure/house value groupings were examined while controlling for a range of other demographic and socio-economic characteristics. RESULTS Housing tenure/house value was highly correlated with other indicators of socio-economic status. Public-sector renters had worse self-reported health and higher mortality rates than owner occupiers but significant gradients were also found between those living in the highest- and lowest-valued owner-occupier properties. The relationship between housing tenure and value was unchanged by adjustment for indicators of social support and quality of the physical environment. Adjustment for limiting long-term illness and self-reported health at baseline narrowed but did not eliminate the health gains associated with living in more expensive housing. CONCLUSIONS House value of residence is an accessible and powerful indicator of accumulated wealth that is highly correlated with current health status and predictive of future mortality risk in older populations.
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT NOISE AND MUSIC ON THE HUMAN BRAIN BY USING A BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI)

Efforts to advance brain computer interface (BCI) to aid people who have lost communication and movement abilities (neuromuscular disorders) are becoming popular and are obtaining funding from many Institutes. But it has remained untapped in other areas e.g. manufacturing, the military, the law, etc. Hence, the aim of the project is to investigate the impact of environmental sound (noise & music) on human thinking using the Electroencephalography (EEG) tool. The project is started with a subject literature review and then concentrates on the investigation of the kind of BCI signals and how EEG works. The information will be analyzed and classified to serve as references in the analysis of environmental noise level and music. The project is divided into two scenarios of treatment: the noise – silent – noise – silent form and the second treatment using noise – the silent – music – noise form. The next step is measuring and then analyzing the brain signals in a variety of sound levels. In this state, the comparisons of impact sound from two treatments are presented. Finally, the project shows that the music sound treatment produces a stable graph of brain response when compared with the noise sound treatment. As a consequence, people within pleasant sound will be more relaxed and focused on doing the task.
Electronic Commerce Research Review: Classification and Analysis

The purpose of this study was to determine trends and transformations in the electronic commerce (EC) research after dot com crash of 2000. This paper reviewed 779 articles published from the nine journals that are appropriate outlets for EC research [E. W. T. Nga et al., 2002] during calendar years 2000 to 2006 and comparatively analyzed with the previous research [E. W. T. Nga et al., 2002]. The principal aspects of EC research are identified in four categories: application areas, technological issues, support and implementation, and others. Moreover, a unified model of electronic commerce was presented to explain the relations among the major three categories. We believe our findings to be valuable to the field of EC research with providing a source for anyone interested in EC research and helping simulate further interest.
Parallel Computing Architectures as Technological Innovations

Parallel computer architectures and applications are analysed qualitatively on a technical, cultural and innovation level. This leads to a new kind of taxonomy of computer architectures. The other feature of this approach is also to view the content of the "science of parallel computing" from a more philosophical basis. The controversial debate about processor communication methods appears obsolete on this level.
Preparing the “New” Biologist of the Future: Student Research at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology

We describe a unique Research Experience for Undergraduates and Research Experience for Veterinary students summer program at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis on the campus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The program focused on interdisciplinary research at the interface of biology and mathematics. Participants were selected to work on projects with a biology mentor and a mathematics mentor in an environment that promoted collaboration outside of the students' respective disciplines. There were four research projects with teams of four participants and two faculty mentors. The participants consisted of a mixture of 10 undergraduates in biology- and mathematics-related disciplines, four veterinary students, and two high-school teachers. The activities included lectures on both the biological and mathematical backgrounds of the projects, tutorials for software, and sessions on ethics, graduate school, and possible career paths for individuals interested in biology and mathematics. The program was designed to give students the ability to actively participate in the scientific research process by working on a project, writing up their results in a final report, and presenting their work orally. We report on the results of our evaluation surveys of the participants.
Narcissism and Social Media Use: A Meta-Analytic Review

The relationship between narcissism and social media use has been a topic of study since the advent of the first social media websites. In the present manuscript, the authors review the literature published to date on the topic and outline 2 potential models to explain the pattern of findings. Data from 62 samples of published and unpublished research (N = 13,430) are meta-analyzed with respect to the relationships between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism and (a) time spent on social media, (b) frequency of status updates/tweets on social media, (c) number of friends/followers on social media, and (d) frequency of posting pictures of self or selfies on social media. Findings suggest that grandiose narcissism is positively related to all 4 indices (rs = .11–.20), although culture and social media platform significantly moderated the results. Vulnerable narcissism was not significantly related to social media use (rs = .05–.42), although smaller samples make these effects less certain. Limitations of the current literature and recommendations for future research are discussed.
Correlated Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Choice 1

For two decades, environmental economists have generally maintained that benefit uncertainty is irrelevant for choosing between price and quantity instruments, but that cost uncertainty matters, with the identity of the efficient instrument depending upon the relative slopes of the marginal benefit and cost functions. But, in the presence of simultaneous, correlated uncertainty, such policy instrument recommendations may be inappropriate. With plausible values of relevant parameters, the conventional identification of a price instrument will be reversed, to favor instead a quantity instrument. The opposite reversal}from the choice of a quantity instrument to a price instrument}seems less likely to occur. Q 1996
Modified LMMSE receiver for DS-CDMA-Part I. Performance analysis and adaptive implementations

Linear minimum mean squared error (LMMSE) criterion can be used to obtain near-far resistant receivers in direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems. The standard version of the LMMSE receiver minimizes the mean squared error between the filter output and the true transmitted data sequence. Since the detector depends on the channel coefficients of all users, it cannot be implemented adaptively in fading channels due to severe convergence problems. In this paper, a modified criterion for deriving LMMSE receivers in fading channels is presented. The modified LMMSE receiver is independent from the users' complex channel coefficients. The performance of the LMMSE receivers in fading channels is studied via computer simulations and numerical analysis. The results show that the modified LMMSE receiver has remarkably larger capacity than the conventional RAKE receiver at the SNRs of practical interest.
Endophilin Drives the Fast Mode of Vesicle Retrieval in a Ribbon Synapse

Compensatory endocytosis of exocytosed membrane and recycling of synaptic vesicle components is essential for sustained synaptic transmission at nerve terminals. At the ribbon-type synapse of retinal bipolar cells, manipulations expected to inhibit the interactions of the clathrin adaptor protein complex (AP2) affect only the slow phase of endocytosis (τ = 10–15 s), leading to the conclusion that fast endocytosis (τ = 1–2 s) occurs by a mechanism that differs from the classical pathway of clathrin-coated vesicle retrieval from the plasma membrane. Here we investigate the role of endophilin in endocytosis at this ribbon synapse. Endophilin A1 is a synaptically enriched N-BAR domain-containing protein, suggested to function in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Internal dialysis of the synaptic terminal with dominant-negative endophilin A1 lacking its linker and Src homology 3 (SH3) domain inhibited the fast mode of endocytosis, while slow endocytosis continued. Dialysis of a peptide that binds endophilin SH3 domain also decreased fast retrieval. Electron microscopy indicated that fast endocytosis occurred by retrieval of small vesicles in most instances. These results indicate that endophilin is involved in fast retrieval of synaptic vesicles occurring by a mechanism that can be distinguished from the classical pathway involving clathrin–AP2 interactions.
Functional Expression of T-Type Ca2+ Channels in Spinal Motoneurons of the Adult Turtle

Voltage-gated Ca2+ (CaV) channels are transmembrane proteins comprising three subfamilies named CaV1, CaV2 and CaV3. The CaV3 channel subfamily groups the low-voltage activated Ca2+ channels (LVA or T-type) a significant role in regulating neuronal excitability. CaV3 channel activity may lead to the generation of complex patterns of action potential firing such as the postinhibitory rebound (PIR). In the adult spinal cord, these channels have been found in dorsal horn interneurons where they control physiological events near the resting potential and participate in determining excitability. In motoneurons, CaV3 channels have been found during development, but their functional expression has not yet been reported in adult animals. Here, we show evidence for the presence of CaV3 channel-mediated PIR in motoneurons of the adult turtle spinal cord. Our results indicate that Ni2+ and NNC55-0396, two antagonists of CaV3 channel activity, inhibited PIR in the adult turtle spinal cord. Molecular biology and biochemical assays revealed the expression of the CaV3.1 channel isotype and its localization in motoneurons. Together, these results provide evidence for the expression of CaV3.1 channels in the spinal cord of adult animals and show also that these channels may contribute to determine the excitability of motoneurons.
ID3 Decision Tree in Fraud Detection Application

In this paper, data mining technology is applied to fraud detection, established the fraud detection model, described the process of creating the fraud detection model, then established data model with ID3 decision tree, and established example of fraud detection model by using this model. At last, pointed out the application fields of fraud detection model.
Spatial analysis of intracerebral EEG in the time and frequency domain : identification of epileptogenic networks in partial epilepsy

Electroencephalography (EEG) occupies an important place for studying human brain activity in general, and epileptic processes in particular, with appropriate time resolution. Scalp-EEG or intracerebral-EEG signals recorded in patients with drug-resistant partial epilepsy convey important information about epileptogenic networks that must be localized and understood prior to subsequent therapeutic procedure. However, this information, often subtle, is “hidden” into the signals. It is precisely the role of signal processing to extract this information and to put it into a “coherent and interpretable picture” that can participate into the therapeutic strategy. Nowadays, the panel of available methods is very wide depending on the objectives like, for instance, the detection of transient epileptiform events, the detection and/or prediction of seizures, the recognition and/or the classification of EEG patterns, the localization of epileptic neuronal sources, the characterization of neural synchrony, the determination of functional connectivity, among others. The intent of this paper is to focus on a specific category of methods providing relevant information about epileptogenic networks from the analysis of spatial properties of EEG signals in the time and frequency domain. These methods apply either to interictal or to ictal recordings and share the common objective of localizing the subsets of brain structures involved in both types of paroxysmal activity. Most of these methods were developed by our group and are routinely used during presurgical evaluation. Examples are detailed. Results, as well as limitations of the methods, are also discussed.
Powerful Actor and Hesitant Institutionalization: The State in the History of Turkish Football

Abstract We examine the validity of the assumptions of the new institutional theory about the state over the history of national football league as an institutional field in Turkey. The state is not out of the field, on the contrary, at the centre of the field, and is not an ordinary actor but the most important one although the intensity of the state’s impact changes from time to time. Sometimes, the state founds the football clubs and administrates them directly, decides who will be the champion; and sometimes, authorizes the regulative agency and gives autonomy. However, despite the state’s coercive power on the ground, the Turkish football field is still far from being fully institutionalized with its fluctuating structure.
Global Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) cloud detection and height evaluation using CALIOP

[1] A global 2-month comparison is presented between the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) for both cloud detection and cloud top height (CTH) retrievals. Both CALIOP and MODIS are part of the NASA A-Train constellation of satellites and provide continuous near-coincident measurements that result in over 28 million cloud detection comparisons and over 5 million CTH comparisons for the months of August 2006 and February 2007. To facilitate the comparison, a computationally efficient and accurate collocation methodology is developed. With the collocated MODIS and CALIOP retrievals, nearly instantaneous comparisons are compiled regionally and globally. Globally, it is found that the MODIS 1-km cloud mask and the CALIOP 1-km averaged layer product agreement is 87% for cloudy conditions for both August 2006 and February 2007. For clear-sky conditions the agreement is 85% (86%) for August (February). The best agreement is found for nonpolar daytime and the poorest agreement in the polar regions. Differences in cloud top heights depend strongly on cloud type. Globally, MODIS underestimates the CTH relative to CALIOP by 1.4 ± 2.9 km for both August 2006 and February 2007. This value of 1.4 km is obtained using the CALIOP 1 km layer products. When compared to the CALIOP 5-km products, the differences increase to −2.6 ± 3.9 km as a result of CALIOP's increased sensitivity to optically thin cirrus. When only high clouds above 5 km are considered, the differences are found to be greater than 4 km with individual comparisons having differences larger than 10 km. These large differences (>10 km) represent approximately 16% of the nonpolar high cloud retrievals (>5 km). For high clouds it is found that MODIS retrieves a cloud top height for 90% of the clouds detected by the CALIOP 5-km layer products. The large MODIS underestimates for optically thin cirrus occur for cases when MODIS reverts to a window brightness temperature retrieval instead of CO2 slicing. A systematic bias is found for marine low-level stratus clouds, with MODIS overestimating the CTH by over 1 km in dense marine stratocumulus regions. The cause of the bias was identified in the MODIS Collection 5 algorithm; an application of a modified algorithm reduced this bias.
Music Information Retrieval & Visualization

The growing possibilities for digital storage has led to large personal music collections that require new technologies to use and maintain them. There has been a lot of research done related to visualizing music collections in order to improve browsing, exploring and searching of music. While almost every publication in this subject has its own purpose and approach to achieve it there still exist common problems, ideas and methods. In the following I will identify major causes that led to such development, based on state of the art technology, at first. I will then further specify a couple of commonly used ideas to solve those problems as well as techniques to realise them. At last a couple of chosen examples are presented to demonstrate approaches to the prior specification. The ambition of this paper is to identify the development within Music Information Retrieval & Visualization and present a survey of recent research.
Information disclosure in real-time bidding advertising markets

Real-time bidding (RTB) advertising is a fast-growing business model in online display advertising markets. Unlike the guaranteed display advertising, it utilizes programmatic instantaneous auction to price and sell ad inventory on a per-impression basis. RTB enbales advertisers to target audiences at demographic, psychographic or behavioral levels across a wide range of websites. In RTB markets, information about target audiences is usually disclosed to advertisers, while information about publishers (e.g. website ranking, advertising page) are typically not avaliable for advertisers, especially in real-time setting. This leads to a serious information asymmetry problem in RTB markets, which has significant influence on both advertisers' bidding strategies and publishers' revenues. In this paper, we study the information disclosure strategies of publishers in case when the disclosure may incur an extra cost. We address this information asymmetry problem by first formulating the RTB auction as an second-price sealed-bid game, then discussing equilibrium information disclosure strategies for publishers and also investigating advertisers' bidding strategies in the three information disclosure cases: all disclosed, non-disclosed, and partially disclosed. We find that non-disclosed and partially disclosed strategies may lead to an adverse selection effect, and high-quality publishers will be forced to quit the RTB markets.
A Study on Emotional Intelligence and Vocational Self-Esteem

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between vocational self-esteem and emotional intelligence. A total of 390 (188 women and 202 men) university students volunteered to participate in the study were included. Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory and Vocational Self-Esteem Scale as well as General Information Form were used to collect the data. As a result of the study, a positive and significant relationship was found between emotional intelligence and vocational self-esteem. This positive and significant relationship was also found for subscales of emotional intelligence. In addition, a positive and significant relationship was found between emotional intelligence and vocational self-esteem in terms of gender and the value processes don’t take place in emotional intelligence, men's professional self-esteem level is as twice as women’s vocational self-esteem level at the beginning, the increase in the vocational self-esteem level is greater in women when emotional intelligence is included in the process.
The Importance of Physiological Limits in Determining Biogeographical Range Shifts due to Global Climate Change: The Heat‐Shock Response

Physiological processes that set an organism’s thermal limits are in part determining recent shifts in biogeographic distribution ranges due to global climate change. Several characteristics of the heat‐shock response (HSR), such as the onset, maximal, and upper limit of heat‐shock protein (Hsp) synthesis, contribute to setting the acute upper thermal limits of most organisms. Aquatic animals from stable, moderately variable, or highly variable thermal environments differ in their HSR. Some animals living in extremely stable thermal environments lack the response altogether. In contrast, rocky intertidal animals that experience highly variable thermal conditions start synthesizing Hsps, that is, the onset of synthesis, below the highest temperatures that they experience. Thus, these organisms experience thermal conditions in their environment that are close to the upper thermal limits in which they can defend themselves against cellular thermal insults by employing the HSR. Subtidal animals are characterized by moderately variable thermal environments, and their cells start synthesizing Hsps above the highest temperatures that they experience. The upper thermal limits against which they can defend themselves are thus much higher than the highest body temperatures they currently experience. Furthermore, the ability to acclimate to changing thermal conditions seems greatest among animals from moderately variable environments and limited in animals from stable and highly variable environments. Thus, these findings suggest that organisms with the narrowest (stenothermal) and the widest (highly eurythermal) temperature tolerance ranges live closest to their thermal limits and have a limited ability to acclimate, suggesting that they will be most affected by global climate change.
Throughput improvement with Decode-Forward and Compress-Forward Channels

Relay-based cooperative communication has become a research focus in recent years because it can achieve diversity gain in wireless networks. The multiuser communication channel, in which multiple users exchange information with the help of a relay terminal, termed the multi way relay channel (mRC), is introduced. In this model, multiple interfering clusters of users communicate simultaneously, such that the users within the same cluster wish to exchange messages among themselves, i.e., each user multicasts its message to all the other users in its own cluster. It is assumed that the users cannot receive each other’s signals directly. Hence, the relay terminal in this model is the enabler of communication. It is shown that a throughput of 1/1.5N symbol per node per channel use was achieved using binary signaling. To further enhance the throughput, QPSK modulation scheme is implemented. It can provide an increase in throughput of 1/2N symbol per node per channel. This is achieved by separately (and concurrently) dealing with the in-phase and quadrature components of QPSK symbols. The error performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated analytically.