Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in the Workplace: A Conceptual and Operational Review and Future Research Agenda

Employees need to regulate their own emotions as well as the emotions of others to enhance the quality of interactions with their colleagues. How well this is achieved has important outcomes for both employees and the organizations in which they work. In the field of organizational science, however, differing approaches have emerged regarding the conceptualization and operationalization of emotion regulation (ER) particularly in terms of interpersonal interactions. The present review examines contemporary theoretical perspectives of ER and its measurement with a view to resolving the confusion that currently exists around interpersonal ER in a workplace context. To understand how this field of research has developed so diversely, the authors begin by demonstrating the influence of three major individual-level ER models on interpersonal-level approaches: (1) the ER process model; (2) emotional labor; and (3) emotional intelligence. Moreover, to make sense of the range of interpersonal-level research underpinned by these theories, the authors present a 2×2 categorization, developed by Zaki and Williams (2013), which shows how workplace researchers have variously approached interpersonal ER as an intrinsic vs. extrinsic process, with activation of either response-dependent or response-independent categories. This categorization broadly shows interpersonal ER theory used in work contexts tends to fall into four groupings as: (1) a purely extrinsic process; (2) a differentiation of extrinsic interpersonal from intrinsic individual ER; (3) co-occurring intrinsic and extrinsic interpersonal ER; or (4) interpersonal coregulation. This paper also discusses the measurement of interpersonal ER and concludes by highlighting emerging research directions.
SURVEY ON PHY-LAYER KEY EXCHANGE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS

The multipath-rich wireless environment associated with typical wireless usage scenarios is characterized by a fading channel response that is timevarying, location-sensitive, and uniquely shared by a given transmitter-receiver pair.We review the PHYlayer security algorithms whose function is based on neural networks. Specifically, we studied a full key exchange scheme which includes channel sampling and thresholding and neural network based error reconciliation.
High Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Yazd, a Central Province of Iran

Background: There is a growing concern about the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its relationship with variety of diseases worldwide. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its relationship with pregnancy adverse effects in Yazd. Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted among 200 nulliparous women from October 2013 to April 2014. Data containing socio-demographic and personal details, vitamin D level, pregnancy complications and growth situation of newborns were collected and analyzed using Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis and Pearson's correlation coefficient by SPSS. p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The mean serum 1, 25 (OH)2D3 concentration was 20.3±10.8 μg/l. Totally, 78% of the women had less than sufficient levels. Mean of vitamin D was significantly higher in natural or elective cesarean in comparison with abortion and emergency cesarean (p=0.040). Risk of abortion was 3.1(1.39–6.8) and higher in severely deficient group in comparison to women with vitamin D deficiency (p=0.017) and mean of vitamin D group was significantly lower in women who had oligohydramnios or polyhydramnios complication (p=0.045). Conclusion: The study findings revealed that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in pregnant women and it is significantly associated with elevated risk for abortion, and oligohydramnios or polyhydramnios. Probably, a targeted screening strategy can be suggested to detect and treat women at high risk of vitamin D deficiency in early pregnancy as a simple way to reduce the risk of these adverse pregnancy outcomes in Yazd.
Unified Mogramming with Var-Oriented Modeling and Exertion-Oriented Programming Languages

The Service ORiented Computing EnviRonment (SORCER) targets service abstractions for transdisciplinary complexity with support for heterogeneous service-oriented (SO) computing. SORCER's models are expressed in a top-down Var-oriented Modeling Language (VML) unified with programs in a bottoms-up Exertion-Oriented Language (EOL). In this paper the introduction to mogramming (modeling and programing), which uses both languages, is described. First, the emphasis is on modeling with service variables that allow for computational fidelity within VML. Then, seven types of service providers, both local and distributed, are described to form collaborative federations described in EOL. Finally, the unified hybrid of SO modeling and SO programming is presented. Fourteen simple mogramming examples illustrate the syntax and usage of both VML and EOL.
Multiple object tracking with combinatorial model based on appearance and local features

We propose a novel approach for tracking multiple objects, which combines feature correspondence with a probabilistic appearance model. By online sampling, we construct a codebook of local features for each object and use it to estimate the distribution of object position by a detection-like way. Then the appearance model and the feature codebook work together to determine the optimal target position in an iterative procedure to handle occlusion. Compared to using a sole appearance model, taking local features into account alleviates the dependence on foreground extraction, and achieves higher accommodation to pose change and occlusion. The binding between features and appearance model not only reduces the cost for tracking separate features but also provides evidence about which object a certain feature belongs to. By employing appearance-based model and feature-based model in this mutually supporting framework, we obtain reliable object trajectories and efficiently managed models. Experimental results demonstrate the robust and efficient tracking performance of our approach under challenging conditions.
Cultivating student understanding of context through drama and scriptwriting

This paper presents an English as a foreign language (EFL) drama in language acquisition scriptwriting project that took place at a four-year private university located in Japan. The focus of this project was twofold: firstly, to see if students’ cognition of situational context improved after completing scriptwriting exercises, and secondly to see if role-playing the scripts increased awareness in the identification of setting, roles of speakers, and purpose while increasing language aptitude. Furthermore, this study addresses the insufficient communicative competence abilities of Japanese students who have had years of structured English study. Their lack of communicative abilities may be attributed to the method of English instruction used in Japan such as focusing on grammar and vocabulary in isolated example sentences. This lack of context in second language (L2) instruction may leave students with limited communicative competence (Brown, Collins & Duguid 1989; South, Gabbitas & Merrill 2008). If students improve their understanding of the context of language use, they may become better equipped to use the language they know. One approach that may help students improve this understanding of context is scriptwriting and drama (Belliveau & Kim 2013; Davies 1990). The results of this study indicate that participating in scriptwriting activities may improve students’ ability to identify the context of conversations.
Accuracy of Canadian Food Labels for Sodium Content of Food

The accuracy of the Nutrition Facts table (NFt) has a significant impact on Canadian efforts to reduce dietary sodium and monitor sodium content in foods. This study assessed the accuracy of sodium (and calories, trans fat, saturated fat, sugar) reported on the NFt for selected foods and beverages in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) sampled over 1000 foods and beverages from supermarkets, bakeries, and restaurants across Canada between January 2006 and December 2010. The samples were analyzed in CFIA laboratories. Results were requested for products with ≥1 of the following nutrients tested: sodium, calories, saturated fat, trans fat, and sugar. Differences between the label and laboratory values were calculated for each product. Overall, 16.7% (n = 169) of products were “unsatisfactory” with laboratory values exceeding ±20% of the NFt value. Sodium had the highest number of unsatisfactory products (n = 49, 18.4%) and trans fat had the lowest number of unsatisfactory products (n = 16, 4.3%). The proportion of unsatisfactory products for saturated fat, calories, and sugar was 15.8%, 14.2%, and 12.9%, respectively. All of the unsatisfactory products had excess nutrient content relative to the NFt. Sodium and calories were consistently underreported (p < 0.05), while NFt values for the other nutrients were not statistically different than laboratory values. Increased monitoring of NFt sodium values is recommended in order to increase consumer confidence in this nutrition tool, to encourage industry to accurately report nutrient content and to continue using the NFt to guide research, education, and policy development.
Quantified Group Responsibility in Multi-Agent Systems

This paper builds on an existing notion of group responsibility and proposes two ways to define the degree of group responsibility: structural and functional degrees of responsibility. These notions measure potential responsibilities of agent groups for avoiding a state of affairs. According to these notions, a degree of responsibility for a state of affairs can be assigned to a group of agents if, and to the extent that, the group of the agents have potential to preclude the state of affairs. These notions will be formally specified and their properties will be analyzed.
Restocking Our Subject Pools

PRESIDENTIAL continued on Page 39 Over the past few years, psychological science has faced considerable scrutiny. As a recent article in Science pointed out, psychology’s “culture that too heavily favors new and counterintuitive ideas over the confirmation of existing results has led to too many findings that are striking for their novelty and published in respected journals —but are nonetheless false” (www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6076/1558). Many of the top scientists in the field have called for a more transparent science and reaffirmed the value of replication. For instance, one of APS’s leading journals, Perspectives on Psychological Science, has created a section to publish registered replication reports (www.psychologicalscience.org/index. php/replication) and several psychologists have launched an unprecedented, large-scale effort to replicate many of the most prominent psychology experiments. Why isn’t replication more common? A major part of the answer is that replications are costly: when it can take months to run a study, replicating a new result comes at the expense of other, more exciting experiments that push scientific understanding further (assuming the original result was real). Furthermore, as the vast majority of psychology experiments have historically been conducted with a limited pool of undergraduate psychology students, replications can strain subject pools that are already stretched to the limit. A recent technological innovation is offering the opportunity to reduce these barriers to replication. Various online experiMy guest columnists this month are two early career scientists, Jay Van Bavel and David Rand, with interesting ideas about how to utilize new technology to advance psychological science. Their ‘call to action’ suggests a way we can all get involved to enhance our research capabilities and the quality of our science. –Elizabeth A. Phelps
A tunable CMOS transconductor for ultra-low Gm with wide differential input voltage range

A differential input, single ended output transconductor with gm in the range 0.5-5 nS is presented. The circuit uses a source coupled pair operated in triode region. The need of providing a fixed common mode input voltage, which afflicts circuits based on the same principle, is removed by adopting an original topology. The results of simulations based on the 0.35 /spl mu/m BCD6 process of STMicroelectronics are presented.
Assisted reproduction treatment and epigenetic inheritance

BACKGROUND The subject of epigenetic risk of assisted reproduction treatment (ART), initiated by reports on an increase of children with the Beckwith–Wiedemann imprinting disorder, is very topical. Hence, there is a growing literature, including mouse studies. METHODS In order to gain information on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and epigenetic effects induced by ART, literature databases were searched for papers on this topic using relevant keywords. RESULTS At the level of genomic imprinting involving CpG methylation, ART-induced epigenetic defects are convincingly observed in mice, especially for placenta, and seem more frequent than in humans. Data generally provide a warning as to the use of ovulation induction and in vitro culture. In human sperm from compromised spermatogenesis, sequence-specific DNA hypomethylation is observed repeatedly. Transmittance of sperm and oocyte DNA methylation defects is possible but, as deduced from the limited data available, largely prevented by selection of gametes for ART and/or non-viability of the resulting embryos. Some evidence indicates that subfertility itself is a risk factor for imprinting diseases. As in mouse, physiological effects from ART are observed in humans. In the human, indications for a broader target for changes in CpG methylation than imprinted DNA sequences alone have been found. In the mouse, a broader range of CpG sequences has not yet been studied. Also, a multigeneration study of systematic ART on epigenetic parameters is lacking. CONCLUSIONS The field of epigenetic inheritance within the lifespan of an individual and between generations (via mitosis and meiosis, respectively) is growing, driven by the expansion of chromatin research. ART can induce epigenetic variation that might be transmitted to the next generation.
Efficient Non-Interactive Verifiable Outsourced Computation for Arbitrary Functions

Non-interactive verifiable outsourced computation enables a computationally weak client to outsource the computation of a function f on input x to a more powerful but untrusted server, who will return the result of the function evaluation as well as a proof that the computation is performed correctly. A basic requirement of a verifiable outsourced computation scheme is that the client should invest less time in preparing the inputs and verifying the proof than computing the function by himself. One of the best solutions of such non-interactive schemes are based on Yao’s garble circuit and full homomorphic encryption, which leads to invest poly(T ) running time in offline stage and poly(logT ) time in online stage of the client, where T is the time complexity to compute f . In this paper, we’ll present a scheme which does not need to use garble circuit, but to use a very simple technique to confuse the function we are going to compute, and only invests poly(logT ) running time in the offline stage.
MRI Contrast Agents Based on Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Cancer Diagnosis

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a commonly used clinical technique for diagnosis of human lesions specifically cancer. In large parts of MRI experiments contrast agents are used for precise detection of lesions. This review article after pointing the contrast mechanisms in MRI and classification of MRI contrast agents, has discussed about the side effects of routinely used Gadolinium-based contrast agents. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as a main class of MRI contrast agents for cancer diagnosis are reviewed. Their synthesis method, surface modification, and specific characterization are summarized. Finally, the cancer theranostics system, a coincident diagnosis and therapy strategy, based oniron oxide nanoparticles is introduced.
Basic functional organization of second auditory cortical field (AII) of the cat.

The spatial representations of response characteristics to acoustic stimuli within the ventral primary auditory cortex (AI) and the second auditory cortical field (AII) were mapped in the left hemispheres of 14 anesthetized adult cats using closely spaced (200-500 micron) microelectrode penetrations to record cortical responses from small cell clusters. Responses were activated by 200-ms tone bursts (1/s). The obtained response characteristics were l) frequency selectivity, i.e., characteristic frequency (CF) for narrowly tuned responses and center frequency (arithmetic mean of bandwidth 10-15 dB above threshold) for broadly tuned responses; 2) threshold at CF; 3) bandwidth 10 dB above threshold (Q10); 4) binaural interaction class. CF maps. In AI a strictly tonotopically organized CF map was observed with a frequency gradient from high to low along a rostral/caudal axis. At the dorsal end of AII a 0.5- to 1-mm-wide stripe with clear but not strict tonotopic organization was seen, paralleling the organization of AI. In the ventral part of AII a tonotopic organization concordant with AI was found to be still present. However, it was significantly blurred by the strong variability of the CFs, local low-frequency islands, and increasing bandwidth of receptive fields. Q10 maps. In general, narrowly tuned responses were obtained in AI with increasing bandwidth toward the AI/AII border. In AII, broadly tuned responses were usually obtained with a further decrease of the Q10 value along a dorsal/ventral axis. The Q10 at the transition from AI to AII can be described by Q10 = 1.6 X CF0.36 X Q10 in AI is usually higher and Q10 in AII is usually lower than this transition value. Threshold. The sensitivity of AI responses to tonal stimuli was slightly greater than in AII. Across the AI/AII border, a drop in the sensitivity of 10-15 dB was usually observed. The variability in the thresholds of adjacent locations was much higher in AII than in AI. Binaural interaction. Aggregates of neurons with similar binaural properties in ventral AI were "band" shaped and ran roughly orthogonal to isofrequency contours. The course of the binaural bands showed major variations with possible interruptions. The most ventral AI band was EI (contralateral excitation, ipsilateral inhibition) in about 70% of the investigated cortices. In AII binaural aggregates had polymorphic shapes. The sizes and principal orientations of these binaural patches varied widely in different cortices. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Adaptive blind signal separation using a new simplified mixing model

This paper addresses the problem of separating multiple speakers from mixtures of these that are obtained using multiple microphones in a room. A new adaptive blind separation algorithm is proposed which is based on a new simplified mixing model and uses only second order statistics. The simplified model uses the fact that the acoustic transfer functions from a single source to two closely spaced microphones are very similar. Under certain conditions one acoustic transfer function and a difference, which is made up of a timedelay and an attenuation factor in this paper, will be enough. Simulation results using real speech mixtures recorded in a normal living room show the effectiveness of this algorithm. Keywords—adaptive filtering; blind signal separation; second order statistics
Quantum Simpsons Paradox and High Order Bell-Tsirelson Inequalities

The well-known Simpson's Paradox, or Yule-Simpson Effect, in statistics is often illustrated by the following thought experiment: A drug may be found in a trial to increase the survival rate for both men and women, but decrease the rate for all the subjects as a whole. This paradoxical reversal effect has been found in numerous datasets across many disciplines, and is now included in most introductory statistics textbooks. In the language of the drug trial, the effect is impossible, however, if both treatment groups' survival rates are higher than both control groups'. Here we show that for quantum probabilities, such a reversal remains possible. In particular, a "quantum drug", so to speak, could be life-saving for both men and women yet deadly for the whole population. We further identify a simple inequality on conditional probabilities that must hold classically but is violated by our quantum scenarios, and completely characterize the maximum quantum violation. As polynomial inequalities on entries of the density operator, our inequalities are of degree 6.
Conceptualization of depression in Parkinson’s disease

Aims To discuss the current methodological and conceptual difficulties inherent in characterizing the emotional manifestations of neurodegenerative disease through critically reviewing depression as a manifestation of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD). Methods Selective literature review of the neurobiological, psychological, and physical basis of depressive symptoms in PD from 1993–2003, with reference to key earlier articles. Conclusions There are difficulties in defining the syndromes of PD itself as well as depression in PD. The use of more conceptually reductionistic definitions of emotion and behavior in comprehensive longitudinal studies of the natural history of PD is recommended.
Critical Review of Economical Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) Mitigation Techniques

Many organizations and service providers have started shifting from traditional server-cluster infrastructure to cloud-based infrastructure. The threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack continues to wreak havoc in these cloud infrastructures. In addition to DDoS attacks, a new form of attack known as Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attack has emerged in recent years. EDoS which is unique to cloud infrastructure may not be easily detected as with DDoS. Although EDoS attack is small at the moment, it is expected to grow in the near future in tandem with the growth in cloud usage. As EDoS has a major impact economically, it can considered to be more serious than DDoS and many defence and mitigation mechanisms have been proposed to combat these attacks. This paper introduces EDoS and how it differs from DDoS. The existing mitigation techniques are described and the drawbacks of these techniques are explained.
Predicting Pairwise Pitch Contour Relations Based on Linguistic Tone Information in Beijing Opera Singing

The similarity between linguistic tones and melodic pitch contours in Beijing Opera can be captured either by the contour shape of single syllable units, or by the pairwise pitch height relations in adjacent syllable units. In this paper, we investigate the latter problem with a novel machine learning approach, using techniques from time series data mining. Approximately 1300 pairwise contour segments are extracted from a selection of 20 arias. We then formulate the problem as a supervised machinelearning task of predicting types of pairwise melodic relations based on linguistic tone information. The results give a comparative view of fixed and mixed-effects models that achieved around 70% of maximum accuracy. We discuss the superiority of the current method to that of the unsupervised learning in single-syllable-unit contour analysis of similarity in Beijing Opera.