Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using Density-based d-Hop Connected d-Dominating Sets Routing Scheme to Achieve Load Balancing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Due to the energy limitation, sensor networks may schedule sensor activities so that some nodes may enter the sleeping mode to minimize energy consumption. However, sensor networks may face the constraints about sensing coverage introduced by the scheduling. From the coverage perspective, it is not always preferable to use short path for routing, especially when communications only happen among few nodes. We propose a density-based d-hop connected d-dominating sets routing algorithm which may evenly distribute energy consumption to the whole network and, hence, prolong the lifetime. We also prove the approach can be recovered within d hops of the failed d-dominating node. Our simulation results show that our approach can evenly distribute energy consumption when communications only happen among few nodes.
NaCl stress-induced changes in the essential oil quality and abietane diterpene yield and composition in common sage

Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate how increasing NaCl salinity in the medium can affects the essential oils (EOs) composition and phenolic diterpene content and yield in leaves of Salvia officinalis L. The protective role of such compounds against NaCl stress was also argued with regard to some physiological characteristics of the plant (water and ionic relations as well as the leaf gas exchanges). Materials and Methods: Potted plants were exposed to increasing NaCl concentrations (0, 50, 75, and 100 mM) for 4 weeks during July 2012. Replicates from each treatment were harvested after 0, 2, 3, and 4 weeks of adding salt to perform physiological measurements and biochemical analysis. Results: Sage EOs were rich in manool, viridiflorol, camphor, and borneol. Irrigation with a solution containing 100 mM NaCl for 4 weeks increased considerably 1.8-cineole, camphor and β-thujone concentrations, whereas lower concentrations (50 and 75 mM) had no effects. On the contrary, borneol and viridiflorol concentrations decreased significantly under the former treatment while manool and total fatty acid concentrations were not affected. Leaf extracts also contained several diterpenes such as carnosic acid (CA), carnosol, and 12-O-methoxy carnosic acid (MCA). The concentrations and total contents of CA and MCA increased after 3 weeks of irrigation with 75 or 100 mM NaCl. The 50 mM NaCl had no effect on these diterpenes. Our results suggest a protective role for CA against salinity stress. Conclusion: This study may provide ways to manipulate the concentration and yield of some phenolic diterpenes and EOs in sage. In fact, soil salinity may favor a directional production of particular components of interest.
Calibration method for 3-dimensional tip position tracking sensor

We described a calibration method for 3-dimensional tip position tracking sensor. This sensor consists of three optical fibers containing multiple fiber Bragg gratings. Each fiber Bragg grating measures a strain at their position as the sensor bends, then curvature and bending direction at the position is calculated. Finally, the position of the sensor tip was calculated from the information. Because the location of each fiber Bragg grating is very important to calculate tip position exactly, compensation to minimize the error caused by fabrication process is inevitable. The sensor was deflected in eight directions, and the position of the sensor tip was measured exactly by the camera with telecentric lens. Next, the deflected distance and tilted angle of the tip position from the original position were calculated by shape sensor. The two data were compared and compensated using simple linear regression analysis. The final error of calibrated single bending system was less than 1%.
Transforming Health Care One Team at a Time: Ten Observations and the Trail Ahead

The present review synthesizes existing evidence and theory on the science of health care teams and health care team training. Ten observations are presented that capture the current state of the science, with applications to both researchers and practitioners. The observations are drawn from a variety of salient sources, including meta-analytic evidence, reviews of health care team training, primary investigations, and the authors’ collective expertise in developing and implementing medical team training. These observations provide insight into the team (e.g., psychological safety) and organizational-level (e.g., culture for teamwork) factors that drive effective health care teamwork, as well as advancements and best practices for designing and implementing team training initiatives (e.g., multilevel measurement). We highlight areas where new knowledge has emerged, and offer directions for future research that will continue to improve our understanding of health care teams in the future.
Do partisanship and politicization undermine the impact of a scientific consensus message about climate change?

Scientists are in near-universal agreement that human activity is a primary cause of climate change. Yet, despite this scientific consensus, the American public remains divided when it comes to beliefs about human-induced climate change. We investigate the role of partisan group identity and the politicization of science in undermining the impact of a scientific consensus message about human-induced climate change. We do so with a survey experiment administered on a nationally representative sample, finding that partisan identity—and especially politicization—can stunt the effect of a scientific consensus statement about climate change. We conclude with a discussion about how scientists, as a group, might work with partisans to more effectively communicate scientific information.
Videogames as a Therapeutic Tool in the Context of Narrative Therapy

Videogames can have a significant impact on a person's life. Researchers have looked at how videogames impact a person's life ranging from their creative, mental, and physical aspects to even their social and political worlds (e.g., Montani et al., 2014; Sil et al., 2014; Alhabash and Wise, 2015; Bloom, 2015; Bock et al., 2015; Chang et al., 2015; Yeh, 2015; Gonzalez et al., 2016; Nebel et al., 2016). Videogames in relation to psychotherapy have also been studied and discussed (e.g., Graham, 2014; Fernandez-Aranda et al., 2015; Franco, 2015; Llorens et al., 2015). Franco (2015) discussed the use of family therapy in treating videogame addiction. Graham (2014), in particular, looked at videogame addiction and how to apply narrative therapy to translate videogame skills from online videogames to clients' offline lives. Rather than using family or narrative therapies to treat videogame addiction, it may serve narrative therapists to adopt videogames as a tool in narrative therapy. Videogames have been used in group therapy to treat individuals with traumatic brain injury (Llorens et al., 2015) and in conjunction with cognitive—behavioral therapy to treat individuals with bulimia nervosa (Fernandez-Aranda et al., 2015). Board games, videos, and art are often used by therapists to enable their clients to address therapeutic concerns. In that same vein, videogames can be integrated into the narrative therapy model as tools that can enable clients to externalize their problems and re-author their experiences.
The Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Hybrid Memory File System

The emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) connected to the memory bus provides opportunities for high-performance file accesses for its near-DRAM speed and byte-addressability. In this paper, a high-performance hybrid file system, called Hybrid Memory File System (HMFS), is designed and implemented to exploit the high speed of NVM and the large capacity of block devices. A file in HMFS can be stored across the NVM and block devices. In HMFS, each opened file is mapped to a contiguous virtual address space of the kernel. Using the related virtual address space, the physical locations of file data can be efficiently located by the hardware MMU or a dedicated page fault handler for HMFS. The file data in the NVM are accessed with high performance using the corresponding virtual addresses. The file data stored in the block devices are pre-fetched to take advantages of the NVM. Extensive experiments are conducted. The experimental results show that HMFS achieves significant performance improvement over EXT4 with a DRAM cache.
AN EMPIRICAL TEST AND EXTENSION OF THE BARTLETT AND GHOSHAL TYPOLOGY OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES

This study offers an empirical test and extension of the Bartlett and Ghoshal typology of MNCs. A threefold typology of multinational companies: global, multidomestic and transnational is induced from the literature. This typology is tested using data from 166 subsidiaries of 37 MNCs, headquartered in nine different countries. Subsidiaries in the three types of MNCs are shown to differ significantly on aspects of interdependence, local responsiveness, control mechanisms and expatriate presence. INTRODUCTION Most of the literature in international management either explicitly or implicitly assumes the existence of different types of MNCs. Terms such as polycentric, geocentric and ethnocentric and multi-domestic, international, global and transnational are often used to denote different types of MNCs. Several of these typologies have become standard textbook matter and are widely taught in courses on international business and management. There are several reasons why a typology of MNCs can be useful for both academics and students. First, it can reduce the complexity of multinational organizational reality into a manageable number of related characteristics, making it easier to understand and explain the functioning of multinational companies. Second, if meaningful organizational typologies can be discovered they can then be used in a predictive way. When certain characteristics are shown to cluster in distinct typologies, the presence of one or more of these characteristics in other samples can lead to a prediction of the remaining elements. This would make it easier to compare and integrate different studies in the field and may go some way to remedy the " lack of (both) conceptual integration and empirical corrobora-tion " in the field of international business and management (Macharzina & Engelhard, 1991:24). In a final stage, if meaningful typologies of mutually reinforcing characteristics can be derived, these typologies might serve as prescriptive configurations of MNCs. MNCs that conform more closely to these ideal types and that show a fit between environment, strategy, structure and processes would then be expected to outperform MNCs that do not show such a fit. Up until now, however, very few studies in the international management literature have tried to derive and test comprehensive typologies of MNCs. Bartlett & Ghoshal (1989) probably provided the most extensive typology of MNCs. Bartlett & Ghoshal's work and in particular their idea of the transnational company has been extremely influential. In a recent book (International Business: An emerging vision), in which 12 chapters, all consisting of contributions by various authors, give …
Dependability evaluation and benchmarking of Network Function Virtualization Infrastructures

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging solution that aims at improving the flexibility, the efficiency and the manageability of networks, by leveraging virtualization and cloud computing technologies to run network appliances in software. However, the “softwarization” of network functions raises reliability concerns, as they will be exposed to faults in commodity hardware and software components. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the dependability evaluation and benchmarking of NFV Infrastructures (NFVIs), based on fault injection. We discuss the application of the methodology in the context of a virtualized IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and the pitfalls in the design of a reliable NFVI.
Semaphorin-3D and Semaphorin-3E Inhibit the Development of Tumors from Glioblastoma Cells Implanted in the Cortex of the Brain

Class-3 semaphorins are secreted axon guidance factors. Some of these semaphorins have recently been characterized as suppressors of tumor progression. To determine if class-3 semaphorins can be used to inhibit the development of glioblastoma-multiforme tumors, we expressed recombinant sema-3A, 3B, 3D, 3E, 3F or 3G in U87MG glioblastoma cells. Sema3A and sema3B expressing cells contracted and changed shape persistently while cells expressing other semaphorins did not. Sema3A and sema3F differed from other semaphorins including sema3B as they also inhibited the proliferation of the cells and the formation of soft agar colonies. With the exception of sema3G and sema3B, expression of these semaphorins in U87MG cells inhibited significantly tumor development from subcutaneously implanted cells. Strong inhibition of tumor development was also observed following implantation of U87MG cells expressing each of the class-3 semaphorins in the cortex of mouse brains. Sema3D and sema3E displayed the strongest inhibitory effects and their expression in U373MG or in U87MG glioblastoma cells implanted in the brains of mice prolonged the survival of the mice by more then two folds. Furthermore, most of the mice that died prior to the end of the experiment did not develop detectable tumors and many of the mice survived to the end of the experiment. Most of the semaphorins that we have used here with the exception of sema3D were characterized previously as inhibitors of angiogenesis. Our results indicate that sema3D also functions as an inhibitor of angiogenesis and suggest that the anti-tumorigenic effects are due primarily to inhibition of tumor angiogenesis. These results indicate that class-3 semaphorins such as sema3D and sema3E could perhaps be used to treat glioblastoma patients.
Clozapine Prescribing in a Canadian Outpatient Population

Objective Description of demographics of an outpatient population of clozapine users. Methods Retrospective chart review study of an urban population diagnosed with schizophrenia. Assessment of therapeutic histories in relation to clinical practice guidelines. Results Seventy-seven of the 467 patients were on clozapine therapy. Average patients’ age was 39.4 ± 11.8 years) and 68% were males. The majority of patients (68%) had tried 3 or more antipsychotics before switching to clozapine, 21% had tried two and 11% had tried one. Median length of therapy prior to clozapine initiation was 8.9 years in males and 7.7 years in females. Conclusion Until 2010, the use of clozapine was often delayed and more than 2 antipsychotic medications were tried for relatively long periods of time before patients were switched to this effective agent.
Modulation of fatty acid metabolism is involved in the alleviation of isoproterenol-induced rat heart failure by fenofibrate

Heart failure is a disease predominantly caused by an energy metabolic disorder in cardiomyocytes. The present study investigated the inhibitory effects of fenofibrate (FF) on isoproterenol (ISO)-induced hear failure in rats, and examined the underlying mechanisms. The rats were divided into CON, ISO (HF model), FF and FF+ISO (HF animals pretreated with FF) groups. The cardiac structure and function of the rats were assessed, and contents of free fatty acids and glucose metabolic products were determined. In addition, myocardial cells were isolated from neonatal rats and used in vitro to investigate the mechanisms by which FF relieves heart failure. Western blot analysis was performed to quantify the expression levels of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)α and uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2). FF effectively alleviated the ISO-induced cardiac structural damage, functional decline, and fatty acid and carbohydrate metabolic abnormalities. Compared with the ISO group, the serum levels of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), free fatty acids, lactic acid and pyruvic acid were decreased in the FF animals. In the cultured myocardial cells, lactic acid and pyruvic acid contents were lower in the supernatants obtained from the FF animals, with lower levels of mitochondrial ROS production and cell necrosis, compared with the ISO group, whereas PPARα upregulation and UCP2 downregulation occurred in the FF+ISO group. The results demonstrated that FF efficiently alleviated heart failure in the ISO-induced rat model, possibly via promoting fatty acid oxidation.
Development Of An Intelligent Speed Adaption System Based On Segmentation Incorporating A Central Surveillance Unit

In this paper, we review the research findings of the Intelligent Speed Adaption (ISA) system and propose an effective way of implementing this technique in developed, as well as developing countries with reasonable system reliability. Instead of digital mapping, we focus on widespread implementation of a road safety system by way of dividing the road transportation links of a vast region into segments. Besides support towards widespread implementation, the system has been designed to provide enhanced storage performance and simple to implement real time data update capability. The overall scheme has been developed as an organized interconnection between sub-systems and databases to ensure that essential data transmission to and from the moving vehicle occurs such that the safety of the road is enhanced. The design also incorporates the idea of a central surveillance unit which would not only store the data related to co-ordinates, corresponding speed limits and speed limit violators but also aid close supervision of running vehicles, thereby serving the supplementary task of improving homeland security.
A platform to standardize, store, and visualize proteomics experimental data.

With the development of functional genomics research, large-scale proteomics studies are now widespread, presenting significant challenges for data storage, exchange, and analysis. Here we present the Integrated Proteomics Exploring Database (IPED) as a platform for managing proteomics experimental data (both process and result data). IPED is based on the schema of the Proteome Experimental Data Repository (PEDRo), and complies with the General Proteomics Standard (GPS) drafted by the Proteomics Standards Committee of the Human Proteome Organization. In our work, we developed three components for the IPED platform: the IPED client editor, IPED server software, and IPED web interface. The client editor collects experimental data and generates an extensible markup language (XML) data file compliant with PEDRo and GPS; the server software parses the XML data file and loads information into a core database; and the web interface displays experimental results, to provide a convenient graphic representation of data. Given software convenience and data abundance, IPED is a powerful platform for data exchange and presents an important resource for the proteomics community. In its current release, IPED is available at http://www.biosino. org/iped2.
Location-aware utility-based routing for store-carry-forward message delivery

One of the most important technical problems in store-carry-forward routing is to reduce the number of message copies in networks without increasing the message delivery delay. In order to solve this problem, we focus on utility-based routing schemes, where for a message, utility of a node indicates its proximity to the destination node of the message. Utility-based routing schemes are promising when relay nodes, i.e., nodes with the message (copy), have sufficient opportunities to encounter other nodes. On the other hand, when relay nodes are in extremely sparse areas of nodes and they have few opportunities to encounter other nodes, the routing schemes do not work effectively. This observation naturally leads us to propose a location-aware utility-based routing scheme. The proposed scheme combines a utility-based routing scheme with location-aware probabilistic forwarding, where the forwarding probability is determined based on both node utility and node density at the contact location. With several simulation scenarios, we evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme in terms of the mean number of copies in the network and the mean message delivery delay.
College as a Turning Point

Using 1,016 male participants from the pathways to desistance sample, the current investigation assessed two different pathways, one of which ran from college attendance at age 19 to cognitive control at age 20 to reduced criminal offending at age 21 and the other of which ran from cognitive control at age 19 to college attendance at age 20 to reduced criminal offending at age 21. Of the two pathways, only the first one proved significant. These results indicate that college can serve as a turning point for crime deceleration and that it may achieve its effect indirectly by increasing cognitive control in former delinquents who attend college during the emerging adult years. The college experience may stimulate change by providing students with skills like cognitive control that support and maintain their desistance from crime, similar to how the antithetical thought process, cognitive impulsivity, once supported and maintained a criminal lifestyle.
A new indicator on the impact of large-scale circulation on wintertime particulate matter pollution over China

Abstract. Extreme particulate matter (PM) air pollution of January 2013 in China was found to be associated with an anomalous eastward extension of the Siberian High (SH). We developed a Siberian High position index (SHPI), which depicts the mean longitudinal position of the SH, as a new indicator of the large-scale circulation pattern that controls wintertime air quality in China. This SHPI explains 58 % (correlation coefficient of 0.76) of the interannual variability of wintertime aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieved by MODIS over North China (NC) during 2001–2013. By contrast, the intensity-based conventional Siberian High index (SHI) shows essentially no skill in predicting this AOD variability. On the monthly scale, some high-AOD months for NC are accompanied with extremely high SHPIs; notably, extreme PM pollution of January 2013 can be explained by the SHPI value exceeding 2.6 times the standard deviation of the 2001–2013 January mean. When the SH extends eastward, thus higher SHPI, prevailing northwesterly winds over NC are suppressed not only in the lower troposphere but also in the middle troposphere, leading to reduced southward transport of pollution from NC to South China (SC). The SHPI hence exhibits a significantly negative correlation of −0.82 with MODIS AOD over SC during 2001–2013, although the robustness of this correlation depends on that of satellite-derived AOD. The suppressed northwesterly winds during high-SHPI winters also lead to increased relative humidity (RH) over NC. Both the wind and RH changes are responsible for enhanced PM pollution over NC during the high-SHPI winters.