Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Discovery of a low-glycaemic index potato and relationship with starch digestion in vitro

Potatoes are usually a high-glycaemic index (GI) food. Finding a low-GI potato and developing a screening method for finding low-GI cultivars are both health and agricultural priorities. The aims of the present study were to screen the commonly used and newly introduced cultivars of potatoes, in a bid to discover a low-GI potato, and to describe the relationship between in vitro starch digestibility of cooked potatoes and their in vivo glycaemic response. According to International Standard Organisation (ISO) guidelines, seven different potato cultivars were tested for their GI. In vitro enzymatic starch hydrolysis and chemical analyses, including amylose content analysis, were carried out for each potato cultivar, and correlations with the respective GI values were sought. The potato cultivars had a wide range of GI values (53–103). The Carisma cultivar was classified as low GI and the Nicola cultivar (GI = 69) as medium GI and the other five cultivars were classified as high GI according to ISO guidelines. The GI values were strongly and positively correlated with the percentage of in vitro enzymatic hydrolysis of starch in the cooked potatoes, particularly with the hydrolysis percentage at 120 min (r 0·91 and P <0·01). Amylose, dietary fibre and total starch content was not correlated with either in vitro starch digestibility or GI. The findings suggest that low-GI potato cultivars can be identified by screening using a high-throughput in vitro digestion procedure, while chemical composition, including amylose and fibre content, is not indicative.
Stable and Fast Wavelength Switching in Digitally Tunable Laser Using Chirped Ladder Filter

We propose a digitally tunable ring laser incorporating a chirped ladder filter and a ring resonator. The widely tunable ladder filter selects one channel from the periodic outputs of the ring resonator. Therefore, it is easy to change the lasing wavelength of this device. To obtain stable lasing operation, we employ chirping in the ladder filter. The chirped ladder filter has one dominant passband, and other peaks corresponding to the free-spectral range are suppressed. The device is monolithically integrated by using the InP-InGaAsP material system. The device is capable of 34-channel (100-GHz spacing) digitally tunable laser operation, and the sidemode suppression ratio is more than 40 dB. The switching time for any wavelength is less than 8 ns, and the frequency drift caused by the thermal transient is less than 500 MHz.
A Secure Multicast Model Using the Host Identity Protocol

An all-new model of the multicast communication is presented in this paper. It utilizes the architecture of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), which is being defined by the IETF, and two levels of hierarchical administration to achieve secure authentication of the identity of the group members and administration based on the ISP. It is called HIP-multicast. Keyword: IP-multicast Model, Security, Administration, HIP, Group Identity, Architecture, HIP-multicast Model.
Web-Scale Multimedia Analysis: Does Content Matter?

The initial success of Web-image search was based exclusively on the text around an image. Certainly we have progressed since then. But recent research results dramatically beg to differ. For example, if you want to judge the similarity of two different pieces of music, should you look at the musical notes, or should you look at what people say about the music? Similarly, how should you find the best movie to recommend to a friend? Shouldn't the genre of the movie matter? Or when tagging a photo, is it better to look at the pixels, or where the picture lives on the Internet? I want to think that content matters, but in all three cases, metadata about the content proves to be more useful. It's useful to look at several examples where content has lost out to other forms of data. These examples come from the worlds of music, movies, and images.
Power Iteration Based Training for Millimeter Wave MIMO Beamforming Systems

Due to the huge unlicensed spectrum, millimeter wave (MMW) communication are gaining much attention for 5G cellular systems. To combat the severe path loss encountered, MMW communication often resorts to multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) beamforming. The capacity-optimal transmit and receive beamforming vectors are determined by the singular value decomposition (SVD) of channel matrix. Therefore, the conventional way to realize SVD beamforming requires channel estimation, which poses a formidable challenge for MMW systems with large antenna arrays and a limited number of radio frequency (RF) chains. To bypass the burdensome channel estimation, this paper proposes an iterative compressed training scheme to realize SVD beamforming in MMW systems. Relying on the channel reciprocity in time division duplex (TDD), the proposed scheme employs power iteration to gradually approach the optimal beamforming vectors, which only needs to estimate several channel-related vectors instead of the channel matrix. Furthermore, by exploiting the spatial sparsity in MMW channels, the propose scheme uses compressive sensing to estimate the involved channel-related vectors. This processing not only allows for the limited number of RF chains, but also greatly alleviates the training burden. Simulations show that the proposed scheme can approach the perfect performance limits with quite moderate training overhead.
Consumer skepticism and online reviews: An Elaboration Likelihood Model perspective

Online consumers vary in their tendency to believe or disbelieve online reviews. Based on an Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM; Petty & Cacioppo, 1981, 1986), the present study tested the effects of consumer skepticism on online consumers. A total of 278 undergraduates expressed their attitudes about a product in an online experiment. Two findings emerged from the results. First, highly skeptical consumers tend to base their attitudes on intrinsic beliefs instead of situational factors; that is, they are biased against certain types of information and indifferent to the message quality. Second, consumers with low skepticism tend to adopt the peripheral route in forming attitude; that is, they are more persuaded by review quantity. These findings contribute to the ELM research literature by considering a potentially important personality factor in the ELM framework. Managerial implications are suggested.
Removal Characteristics of Immunoglobulin G Subclasses by Conventional Plasma Exchange and Selective Plasma Exchange

Selective plasma exchange (SePE) using a selective membrane separator is a modified method of simple plasma exchange (PE). Immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclass distribution is one of the important immunological characteristics of IgG. However, there is little information regarding the removal characteristics of IgG subclasses by SePE and conventional PE. Here, we investigated the removal ratio of IgG subclasses by PE and SePE in seven patients with immunological disorders. When the mean processed volume was 0.88 plasma volume (PV) (corresponding to 2.12 L), the mean percent reductions by PE were as follows: IgG, 63.2%; IgG1, 64.5%; IgG2, 64.0%; IgG3, 61.4%; and IgG4, 69.5%. When the mean processed volume was 1.18 PV (corresponding to 2.98 L), the mean percent reductions by SePE were as follows: IgG, 51.6%; IgG1, 55.3%; IgG2, 52.0%; IgG3, 53.7%; and IgG4, 64.6%. In both PE and SePE, using albumin solution as the supplementary fluid, IgG was effectively eliminated regardless of IgG subclasses.
Interpretação - reprodução musical - teoria da performance: reunindo-se os elementos para uma reformulação conceitual da(s) prática(s) interpretativa(s)

Great difficulties are noted in human sciences regarding the definition and use of the concepts designating cultural phenomena. This also stands good for the musical area, in which not often arise certain confusion when one moves to the understanding of what the terms interpretation and performance designate. The present essay aims to answer to this task, urgent both from the theoretical and from the scientific viewpoints. As the analysis involves the translation and transliteration of fundamental concepts from one idiom to another, we first approach the criteria guiding their application within the historical context of the classical-romantic Viennese musical tradition. The main objective is to demonstrate how these concepts differ in sense and end. The next step consists in a careful analysis of the concept of musical reproduction. Finally, the trinomial reproduction, interpretation and musical performance is proposed as a conceptual basis for teaching and research of the musical interpretative practice. At the same time, the theoretical field of the discipline increases in its scope, migrating from a basically interpretative concept to that of a multiform artistic process with great productive and transformational potential that also includes the extramusical elements of reproduction.
The Visual Language of Thought: Fodor vs. Pyly s hyn*

One of the least considered issues in relation to the Language of Thought hypothesis (LOT) is its applicability to abilities that do not require the exercise of language, such as abilities involved in visual perception. In spite of their early and explicit defence of such applicability, later views expressed by Pylyshyn and Fodor, each on his own, seem to be strikingly opposed to each other when it comes to the nature of visual representation. In this paper, I defend the view that, surprisingly enough, neither of those authors offers a satisfactory account of visual representation in LOT and I outline an alternative analysis for the correct formulation of a visual LOT.
Do Extracurricular Certificates Boost University Graduates' Job Entry? Evaluating the Impact of SAP TERP10 Courses

Although extracurricular certificates might facilitate the job entry of graduates by signalling quality, evaluation literature thereto is scarce. Hence, we conduct an observational study on the impact of a standardised course “Integration of Business Processes with SAP ERP (TERP10)” offered by a number of universities worldwide and in which students can take a certification exam held by SAP AG. This SAP consultant certificate is recognised as a worldwide standard. Our study population is 649 participants in 20092014 at two German universities. An Integrated Employment Biographies data set by the Research Data Center of the German Federal Employment Agency provides details on their individual employment history. This data set, primary data from an online survey of graduates, and additional secondary data from the student statistics will be joined by data linkage. Propensity score matching will be used to examine the impact of TERP1o certificates on multiple indicators operationalizing job entry success.
Differential response of LV sublayer twist during dobutamine stress echocardiography as a novel marker of contractile reserve after acute myocardial infarction: relationship with follow-up LVEF improvement.

AIMS Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is frequently performed to assess left ventricular (LV) contractile reserve in patients following myocardial infarction (STEMI). Given that resting LV sublayer twist assessment has been proposed as a marker of infarct transmurality, this study aimed to investigate whether response of LV subepicardial twist on DSE represents a novel quantitative marker of contractile reserve. METHODS AND RESULTS First STEMI patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention with a resting wall motion abnormality in greater than or equal to two segment(s) at 3 months who underwent full protocol DSE were included. Two-dimensional speckle-tracking was used to calculate LV subepi- and subendocardial twist-defined as the net difference (in degrees) of apical and basal rotation for each sublayer-at rest and peak-dose stages. Primary end point was a ≥5% absolute LV ejection fraction (LVEF) improvement between 3 and 6 months. In total, 61 patients (mean age 61 ± 12, 87% male) were included, of whom 48% (n = 29) demonstrated follow-up LVEF improvement. Mean change in both LV subepicardial (ΔLVsubepi) twist (2.4 ± 3.0 vs. 0.00 ± 2.0°, P = 0.001) and LV subendocardial (ΔLVsubendo) twist (2.7 ± 4.5 vs. 0.25 ± 4.5°, P = 0.04) from rest to peak was significantly higher in LVEF improvers. ΔLVsubepi (odds ratio, OR 1.5, 95% confidence interval, CI 1.1-2.0, P = 0.007), but not ΔLVsubendo (OR 1.1, 95% CI 0.99-1.3, P = 0.07), twist was independently associated with follow-up LVEF improvement following adjustment for baseline LVEF and β-blockade. CONCLUSION In post-STEMI patients with resting regional dysfunction, the response of LV subepicardial twist on DSE is associated with follow-up LV function improvement, suggesting recruitment in subepicardial function following STEMI reflects greater extent of contractile reserve.
STATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING: RESEARCH ON REPEAT DWI OFFENDERS

This study reviews the scientific literature since 1990 relating to drivers who have been convicted more than once of driving while impaired by alcohol (DWI). It covers the role of such drivers in alcohol-related crashes, their characteristics, and the nature and effectiveness of countermeasures designed to reduce their alcohol-crash involvement. The review was performed as part of a larger review of the state of knowledge of alcohol-impaired driving at the millennium.
Bee: an integrated development environment for the Scheme programming language

The Bee is an integrated development environment for the Scheme programming language. It provides the user with a connection between Scheme and the C programming language, a symbolic debugger, a profiler, an interpreter, an optimizing compiler that delivers stand alone executables, a source file browser, a project manager, user libraries and online documentation. This article details the facilities of the Bee, its user interface, and presents an overview of the implementation of its main components.
Using insurance claims data to identify and estimate critical periods in pregnancy: An application to antidepressants.

BACKGROUND Health insurance claims are a rich data source to examine medication use in pregnancy. Our objective was to identify pregnant women, their pregnancy outcomes, and date of their last menstrual period (LMP), and to estimate antidepressant dispensations in pregnancy. METHODS From a literature search, we identified diagnosis and procedure codes indicating the end of a pregnancy. Using Truven Health MarketScan® Commercial Claims and Encounters Databases, we identified all inpatient admissions and outpatient service claims with these codes. We developed an algorithm to assign: (1) pregnancy outcome (ectopic pregnancy, induced or spontaneous abortion, live birth, or stillbirth), and (2) estimated gestational age, to each inpatient or outpatient visit. For each pregnancy outcome, we estimated the LMP as the admission (for inpatient visits) or service (for outpatient visits) date minus the gestational age. To differentiate visits associated with separate pregnancies, we required ≥ 2 months between one pregnancy outcomes and the LMP of the next pregnancy. We used this algorithm to identify pregnancies in 2013 and to estimate the proportion of women who filled a prescription for an antidepressant from an outpatient pharmacy at various time points in pregnancy. RESULTS We identified 488,887 pregnancies in 2013; 79% resulted in a live birth. A prescription for an antidepressant was filled in 6.2% of pregnancies. Dispensations varied throughout pregnancy and were lowest (3.1%) during the second trimester. CONCLUSION This work will inform future efforts to estimate medication dispensations during critical periods of preconception, interconception, and pregnancy using health insurance claims data. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 106:927-934, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Optimized Hypergraph Based Social Image Search Using VisualTextual Joint Relevance Learning

Recent years have witnessed a great success of social media websites. Tag-based image search is an important approach to access the image content of interest on these websites. However, the existing ranking methods for tag-based image search frequently return results that are irrelevant or lacking in diversity. Most of the existing methods estimate the relevance of images by using tags and visual characteristics either separately or sequentially. The proposed system uses an approach that utilize simultaneously both visual information and textual information in real time to estimate the relevance of user tagged image. The method used to determine the relevance estimation is the hypergraph learning approach. The hypergraph is a generalization of a graph in which an edge in the hypergraph can be connected to any number of vertices. In the proposed method each social image can be represented by the bag-of-visual words and bag-of-textual words, which can be obtained from the textual content and visual content of the particular image. A hypergraph can be constructed in which the vertices represent the social images for ranking and the each hyperedge represents the visual words or tags that are obtained from the image. In the hypergraph learning scheme, both the visual content and tag information are taken into consideration at same time. Different from the method used by the traditional hypergraph, in the proposed system a social image hypergraph is constructed where vertices represent the images and hyperedges represent the visual or textual terms. The set of pseudo-positive images are used to achieve the learning, where the weight of hyperedges are updated throughout the learning process. Thus only the most relevant images are given to the user.
Modelling Decision Making to Support NetCentric Warfare Experimentation

Netcentric warfare and associated concepts have a fundamental assumption that improved information infrastructures will improve military decision-making and therefore military effectiveness. Previous work on linking NCW applications to military effectiveness using modelling and simulation have had difficulties in modelling the decision-making aspects of the process, and in particular modelling them such that NCW applications can be shown to make a difference. A survey of conceptualisations of decision making suggests that two characteristics of a decision, its speed (or timeliness) and its soundness, and two types of decision making, recognition-based and analytic, constitute a sufficient foundation for modelling. Models based upon empirical timings can be found for decision speed for the two types, however modelling decision soundness is more problematic. A theoretical structure for decision soundness modelling is proposed using situation and decision spaces and constrained by commanders intent. This structure appears to be rich enough in detail to encompass the concepts of commanders intent, decision-makers beliefs and biases etc., but has not yet been practically implemented. Within the structure, situational awareness is represented by a sub-space of possible situations and perturbed by decision-maker biases, commander's intent is represented by a second subspace of possible situations, and decisions are functions from one space to another. Decision soundness is a metric to assess the results of applying a decision function on both the perceived and actual situations and compares these results to the commanders intent or mission objective. The application of the proposed structure to the analysis of maritime interception operations is explored.
Critical Ethnography for Information Research

Poster Abstract Research in Library and Information Science (LIS) often involves the use of various types of information and of information technology. As such, it is primarily concerned with problemsolving in social spaces (e.g., as manifested in user studies) and in designing and troubleshooting of technological systems (e.g., research in information retrieval in general). Although most information research is oriented towards some kind of problemsolving, its nature is not purely technical as many have perceived; rather, it requires analyses of the interrelationship among human (users), technology, and society. In other words, information research is cultural and social in nature and it asks for the search for “affordances” (which can be analyzed in terms of Heidegger’s interpretation of Aristotle’s four types of causality) which bring forth, for example, user needs and technology uses. The widely and commonly used quantitative methods, however, are not sufficient for comprehensive analyses of cultural and social phenomena or affordances because quantitative methods are teleological in nature (often in a hypothetical-deductive manner). The search for affordances begs for a critical and conceptual space in research, on the one hand, and empirical approaches in which the understanding of the cultural and the social are central concerns, on the other. Critical ethnography is a critical and empirical research methodology that encompasses these two criteria.
Change in the Job choice: A Matter of Dissonance Authors:

The sample of 208 students who have just enrolled for the Post graduate program was taken and test was conducted on them to know the dimensions important to make the Job choice. The results of the research prove that the dissonance exists in the behaviour of the students as the result of the test conducted pre post graduation differs from the post employment test.
Black-Box / Glass-Box Evaluation in Shiraz

The Shiraz project included an evaluation component: two ‘glass-box’ evaluations have been performed during the project as well as a black-box evaluation at the end of the project. The evaluations were based on the use of a bilingual tagged test corpus of 3000 sentences. Evaluation tools were developed in order to automate the evaluation process. The glass-box evaluations included the evaluation of components of the MT system, and in particular the Persian morphological analyzer, the dictionary and the parser. The evaluation of the translations themselves (black-box evaluations) were performed manually on a subset of the test corpus. This paper outlines the problems encountered in trying to use these evaluations for development and testing purposes as well as traditional ‘off-line’ evaluations.
Thermal comfort index and infrared temperatures for lambs subjected to different environmental conditions

There is an abundance of thermal indices with different input parameters and applicabilities. Infrared thermography is a promising technique for evaluating the response of animals to the environment and differentiating between genetic groups. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate superficial body temperatures of lambs from three genetic groups under different environmental conditions, correlating these with thermal comfort indices. Forty lambs (18 males and 22 females) from three genetic groups (Santa Ines, Ile de France × Santa Ines and Dorper × Santa Ines) were exposed to three climatic conditions: open air, housed and artificial heating. Infrared thermal images were taken weekly at 6h, 12h and 21h at the neck, front flank, rear flank, rump, nose, skull, trunk and eye. Four thermal comfort indices were calculated using environmental measurements including black globe temperature, air humidity and wind speed. Artificial warming, provided by infrared lamps and wind protection, conserved and increased the superficial body temperature of the lambs, thus providing lower daily thermal ranges. Artificial warming did not influence daily weight gain or mortality. Skin temperatures increased along with increases in climatic indices. Again, infrared thermography is a promising technique for evaluating thermal stress conditions and differentiating environments. However, the use of thermal imaging for understanding animal responses to environmental conditions requires further study.