Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Learning Chomsky-like Grammars for Biological Sequence Families

This paper presents a new method of measuring performance when positives are rare and investigates whether Chomsky-like grammar representations are useful for learning accurate comprehensible predictors of members of biological sequence families. The positive-only learning framework of the Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) system CProgol is used to generate a grammar for recognising a class of proteins known as human neuropeptide precursors (NPPs). As far as these authors are aware, this is both the first biological grammar learnt using ILP and the first real-world scientific application of the positive-only learning framework of CProgol. Performance is measured using both predictive accuracy and a new cost function, em Relative Advantage (RA). The RA results show that searching for NPPs by using our best NPP predictor as a filter is more than 100 times more efficient than randomly selecting proteins for synthesis and testing them for biological activity. The highest RA was achieved by a model which includes grammar-derived features. This RA is significantly higher than the best RA achieved without the use of the grammar-derived features.
Evolutionary Divergence of Geographic Subspecies within the Scalloped Spiny Lobster Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus 1758)

Panulirus homarus is an economically important spiny lobster that is widespread through the Indo-West Pacific Region, but has an uncertain taxonomic status, with three or four geographic subspecies having been described. This study used mitochondrial (16S, COI and control region) and nuclear (18S, ITS-1) DNA sequences to examine specimens of all putative subspecies and forms from throughout their range, in order to determine their genetic validity, and understand the evolutionary history of this species. Despite the range of diversity present in the loci examined, the results were consistent across genes. P. h. rubellus from the SW Indian Ocean comprised the most divergent lineage that was reciprocally monophyletic with respect to all other P. homarus (approx. 9% divergence in COI), and has likely evolved reproductive barriers. The putative P. h. “Brown” subspecies from the Marquesas Is in the central Pacific also comprised a somewhat divergent monophyletic lineage (approx. 3% in COI), but may simply be an allopatric population. The widespread P. h. homarus was not diverged at all from the described P. h. megasculpta from the NW Indian Ocean. The degree of evolutionary divergence of populations at the extremes distribution of the species is somewhat surprising, given the long pelagic larval stage, but suggests that allopatric speciation has been an important driver in the evolution of the genus.
Media violence and its effects on children’s health and aggressive behaviour in Osun State, Nigeria

Over the years, media violence and its effects on children’s health and aggressive behaviour remain a puzzle to be solved in many urban centres of developing world. At different ages, children due to their exposure, watch, sight-see, read, play and understand videos, television, magazines, videogames and films in different ways and as such, mimic behaviour from media especially when such behaviour is presented in a simple and instructional manner. This paper examines the kind of media device parents acquired for their children. It also assesses factors responsible for children aggression, and identifies the causal connection between media violence and how children unconsciously translate it to behaviour, as well as its health implication. The study adopts a survey research design where primary data were obtained through mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative techniques). The sample consists of 150 parents selected for questionnaire administration and two groups for Focus Group Discussion comprising of parents of both sexes. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics while qualitative data were analyzed through thick description. The findings reveal that media violence has a great effect on children aggressive behaviour in particular and countless impacts on their health and our society at large. The most often cited reasons were parental role, Government influence, societal influence and peer influence in the exposure of children to violence. It concludes that children’s aggression in the contemporary times have taken a worrisome and complex dimension that could not be curtailed as this disrupts the process of socializing the children into the norms and values of society. Hence, the ways of curbing children’s aggressive behaviour range from the government regulation, media censor, parental control and counseling in schools to religious control.
An Innovative Mode of Supply Chain Management in Tsinghua University Press

To solve many issues that exist in supply chain management in publishing enterprises in China, combined with an innovative mode case for Tsinghua University Press, this article has proposed a strategy named as integration of branch press platform and distributor. Several comparisons between and analysis of the new strategic mode and outdated supply chain mode have been conducted by adopting the most optimal decision to support system model calculation, and restructuring and optimizing the new logistic network. Results from calculation and analysis have indicated that integration of branch press platform and distribution strategy could effectively save logistic cost, time cost and total stock cost, improve service and reduce bullwhip effect. This innovative supply chain management mode has offered a valuable reference for other publishing enterprises while they are making nationwide promotion in China.
Energy Consumption Evaluation of ICN Toward Power-Saving Video Delivery

Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a new networking paradigm in which the network provides users with named content, instead of communication channels between hosts. However, many issues, such as naming, routing, resource control, and security, still need to be resolved before it can be realized practically. Further, the energy efficiency of ICNs has not been sufficiently considered. In this study, we evaluate the energy consumption of an ICN network by first measuring the power consumption of actual PCs/smartphones and constructing an energy consumption model. Then, by using the model and the simulator ndnSIM, we calculate the energy consumed by the network. We also evaluate the energy consumed for video delivery, with a view toward power-saving video delivery.
Essays in Telecommunications Policy and Management

This work comprises three independent essays in Telecommunications Policy and Management. In the first study we focus on the deployment of green field next generation access network infrastructures when the national regulatory authority has the power to define geographical markets at sub-national level for which it can apply differentiated regulatory remedies Geographically Segmented Regulation (GSR). Using a game theory model that we developed, we confirm the asymmetric business case for the geographic development of these new infrastructures: highly populated areas are likely to develop into competitive telecommunication markets while regions with low household density will only see limited investment and little or no competition. We show that supply side interdependencies among markets make the implementation of GSR non-trivial, namely, we show that changes in the wholesale access price in one market can have undesirable consequences in the competitive conditions of interrelated regions where wholesale prices are unchanged. In the second study we focus on how individual purchase decisions are influenced by the behavior of others in their social circle. We study the case of the diffusion of the iPhone 3G across a number of communities sampled from a dataset provided by a major mobile carrier in one country. We find that the propensity of adoption increases with the proportion of each indivudal’s adopter friends. We estimate that 14% of iPhone 3G adoptions in this carrier were due to peer influence. We provide results from several policy experiments that show that with this level of effect from peer influence the carrier would hardly be able to significantly increase sales by selectively targeting consumers to benefit from viral marketing. Finally, in the third study, we perform a randomized field experiment to determine the role that likes play on the sales of movies in Video-on-Demand (VoD). We use the VoD system of a large telecommunications provider during half a year in 2012. The system suggests movies to consumers ordered by the number of consumer likes they obtained in previous weeks. We manipulated such natural order by randomly swapping likes across movies. We found that movies promoted (demoted) increased (decreased) sales, but the amount of information publicly available about movies affected the result. Better known movies were less sensitive to manipulations. Finally a movie promoted (demoted) to a fake slot sold 15.9% less (27.7% more) than a true movie placed at that slot, on average across all manipulations. A movie promoted (demoted) to a fake slot received 33.1% fewer (30.1% more) likes than a true movie at that slot. Hence manipulated movies tended to move back to their true slots over time. This means that self-fulfilling prophecies widely discussed in the literature on the effect of ratings on sales are hard to sustain in markets with costly goods that are sufficiently well-known.
Optimization of Phenolics Extracted from Idesia polycarpa Defatted Fruit Residue and Its Antioxidant and Depigmenting Activity In Vitro and In Vivo

Extraction of phenolics from Idesia polycarpa defatted fruit residue was optimized by the maximization of the yield in total phenolics, using the response surface methodology. The optimized conditions were 50% ethanol, 5 h extraction time, 1 : 40 liquid to solid ratio, and 80°C extraction temperature. The experimental average total phenolics yield was 54.49 ± 4.26 mg/g. These antioxidant properties of phenolics were comprehensively analyzed for the first time. All the extracts not only demonstrated the significant free radical scavenging activities and metal chelating activity but also inhibited lipid, lipoprotein peroxidation and revealed reducing power activity. Ethyl acetate extraction (EAE) also inhibited mushroom tyrosinase activity and significantly increased the average skin-whitening index (L value) of the skin of C57BL/6 mice, indicating its potential use for skin hyperpigmentation in humans. The results of cell experiments showed EAE could strongly inhibit cellular tyrosinase activity, which had led to the decrease of melanogenesis in B16 mouse melanoma cells. Overall, EAE is an excellent natural antioxidant and depigmenting agent, which can be developed as a new food additive, medicine, and cosmetic.
Questrom vs. Federated Department Stores, Inc: A Question of Equity Value

This case is based on a factual situation facing the courts. Allen Questrom, recently retired Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Federated Department Stores, is suing the company for the amount of incentive compensation he earned during the five years he was Federated's CEO. This incentive compensation was to be based on the increase in the firm's total equity value over this five‐year period, a time during which Questrom rescued the retailer from bankruptcy. Questrom and Federated are in dispute over Federated's equity value as of January 28, 1995. Therefore, the court is being asked to estimate Federated's equity value as of January 28, 1995 and then determine the amount of compensation that Federated owes Questrom. The presiding judge (Gilbert Snider) wants you to analyze selected information from Federated's financial statements. As part of your analysis, the judge has asked you to explain the role that certain components of the financial statements have with respect to firm valuation. You are asked to .
Facilitating self-development: how tour guides broker spiritual tourist experiences

ABSTRACT Tourists are increasingly seeking personal development through spiritual, or mystical and divine, tourist experiences. Yet, spiritual tourism research is still largely in its infancy. This paper reports on a research study that aimed to investigate how spiritual tour guides manage and organise, or broker, spiritual tourists’ experiences. To address the aim, research was conducted with eleven spiritual tourism guides via semi-structured, in-depth, interviews. Thematic analysis of the interview data revealed that spiritual tourism guides broker the experiences of tourists through provision of physical access to sites, facilitating encounters within and beyond the travel group, and through facilitating understanding, empathy and self-development. Within the self-development theme, data were further categorised into five chronological brokering stages, ranging from pre-tour to post-tour. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to developing spiritual tourism and tour guiding theory and practice. Suggestions for future research are also proposed.
A Singleton Bound for Lattice Schemes

In this paper, we derive a Singleton bound for lattice schemes and obtain Singleton bounds known for binary codes and subspace codes as special cases. It is shown that the modular structure affects the strength of the Singleton bound. We also obtain a new upper bound on the code size for non-constant dimension codes. The plots of this bound along with plots of the code sizes of known non-constant dimension codes in the literature reveal that our bound is tight for certain parameters of the code.
Outage performance of relay assisted hybrid overlay/underlay cognitive radio systems

In this paper, considering a relay assisted hybrid overlay/underlay cognitive radio system with peak interference power constraints for protecting the primary system, the upper bound of outage probability of secondary system with power limit is derived. The results show that the outage performance of secondary system improves with the increase of maximum tolerated interference power before a specific threshold, but it keeps unchanged after the threshold. The results also show that more relays can provide higher diversity gain to get better outage performance in this kind of cognitive radio system. It is also indicated that the outage performance of secondary system is affected by the activity behavior of primary network, and relay cooperation can decrease this kind of affection.
The Therapeutic Efficacy of Anti–Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Antibody, Bevacizumab, and Pemetrexed against Orthotopically Implanted Human Pleural Mesothelioma Cells in Severe Combined Immunodeficient Mice

Purpose: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive malignancy, which has a poor prognosis with a median survival of less than 1 year. The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been reported to be an ideal therapeutic target, and a multitargeted antifolate, pemetrexed, has been clinically used for the treatment of MPM. Experimental Design: We examined the therapeutic efficacy of the antihuman VEGF neutralizing antibody, bevacizumab, in combination with pemetrexed against two different human MPM cells, EHMES-10 and MSTO-211H, orthotopically inoculated into severe combined immunodeficient mice. Results: Bevacizumab inhibited a VEGF-induced proliferation of the human endothelial cells in a dose-dependent manner, but it had no effect on the proliferation of the two MPM cell lines in vitro. The orthotopically inoculated EHMES-10 cells (VEGF high expressing) produced thoracic tumors and a large volume of bloody pleural effusion, whereas the MSTO-211H cells (VEGF low expressing) produced thoracic tumors and a small volume of bloody effusions. Treatment with bevacizumab effectively inhibited the production of thoracic tumors and dramatically prevented the production of pleural effusion by the EHMES-10 cells but not the MSTO-211H cells. Treatment with bevacizumab reduced the number of enlarged tumor-associated vessels and proliferating tumor cells. Moreover, treatment with bevacizumab in combination with pemetrexed more effectively suppressed the formation of the pleural effusion and prolonged the survival compared with the control and monotherapy in the EHMES-10 cell–bearing severe combined immunodeficient mice. Conclusions: These results suggest that the combined use of bevacizumab and pemetrexed may therefore be promising for controlling the progression of MPM highly expressing VEGF.
Combining speed and acceleration to detect reckless driving in the informal public transport industry

The informal transport industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is notoriously dangerous, leading to many fatalities annually. This paper presents an innovative way of monitoring driver behaviour, in real-time, by taking into account road design standards, vehicle dynamics, and passenger comfort. Two models are presented that each combines acceleration and speed data into an erratic driving detection algorithm. The first model is developed though the evaluation of empirical results taken from trips in a minibus taxi, and subjectively gauging recklessness from a passenger's perspective. The second model presents a novel use of commonly used civil engineering principles, used in road design. Evaluation of the models, using actual minibus data, demonstrates that both successfully detect reckless driving, but the second model proves to be simpler and less processor intensive.
Social Factors in the Development of Autobiographical Memory : The State of the Art

This review addresses theory and research on the role of self understanding, language, theory of mind, attachment security, and parental style in children’s autobiographical memory development. Social-cognitive factors appear to interact with parental style in producing children’s first verbal memories. Emotional factors, such as attachment security, may also prove to be critical for the socialization of life histories. Further longitudinal studies will be necessary to examine individual differences in the growth of this complex and multiply determined skill.
Disturbance rejection by online ZMP compensation

SUMMARY A novel method of Zero-Moment-Point (ZMP) compensation is proposed to improve the stability of locomotion of a biped, which is subjected to disturbances. A compensating torque is injected into the ankle-joint of the foot of the robot to improve stability. The value of the compensating torque is computed from the reading of the force sensors located at the four corners of each foot. The effectiveness of the method is verified on a humanoid robot, MANUS-I. With the compensation technique, the robot successfully rejected disturbances in different forms. It carried an additional weight of 390 gm (17% of body weight) while walking. Also, it walked up a 10° slope and walked down a 3° slope.
Effcient Mining of Weighted Frequent Patterns over Data Streams

By considering different weights of the items, weighted frequent pattern (WFP) mining can discover more important knowledge compared to traditional frequent pattern mining. Therefore, WFP mining becomes an important research issue in data mining and knowledge discovery area. However, the existing algorithms cannot be applied for stream data mining because they require multiple database scans. Moreover , they cannot extract the recent change of knowledge in a data stream adaptively. In this paper, we propose a sliding window based novel technique WFPMDS (Weighted Frequent Pattern Mining over Data Streams) using a single scan of data stream to discover important knowledge form the recent data elements. Extensive performance analyses show that our technique is very efcient for WFP mining over data streams.
Mexico City basin wind circulation during the MCMA-2003 field campaign

Abstract. MCMA-2003 was a major field campaign investigating the atmospheric chemistry of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) in April of 2003. This paper describes the wind circulation patterns during the campaign both within the Mexico City basin and on the regional scale. ''Time roses'' are introduced to concisely analyze the diurnal wind patterns. Three episode types were identified that explain the conditions encountered: ''O3-South'', ''Cold Surge'' and ''O3-North''. These can be diagnosed from a combination of synoptic and basin observations based on whether the day was predominantly cloudy, or whether the O3 peak was in the north or south of the basin. O3-South days have weak synoptic forcing due to an anti-cyclone over the eastern Pacific. Strong solar heating leads to northerly flows in the basin and an evening shift due to a gap flow from the south-east. Peak ozone concentrations are in the convergence zone in the south of the city. Cold Surge days are associated with ''El Norte'' events, with strong surface northerlies bringing cold moist air and rain. Stable conditions lead to high concentrations of primary pollutants and peak ozone in the city center. O3-North days occur when the sub-tropical jet is closer to Mexico City. With strong westerlies aloft, the circulation pattern is the same as O3-South days except for a wind shift in the mid-afternoon leading to ozone peaks in the north of the city. This classification is proposed as a means of understanding pollutant transport in the Mexico City basin and as a basis for future meteorological and chemical analysis. Furthermore, model evaluation and design of policy recommendations will need to take into account the three episode types.
Parallel Computing in Multicore Architecture

Many Applications are ranges from signal processing to astronomy includes FFT (Fast Fouries Transform) to increase the speed of computation. The computati onal demands of software continue to outpace the ca p bilities of processor and memory technologies especially in sci entific and engineering programs. The parallel FFT computation offers a new advancement to increase the speed of c mputation is the objective of this research. This research deals with various approaches for FFT computation in multicore processor in application of twodimensional FFT and DCT.
Providing Recreation Services for all Individuals

Abstract Individuals with disabilities currently represent the largest minority group in the United States, yet recreation undergraduate students often perceive this as a population they may or may not provide services to in their future careers. The activities presented in this paper, Inclusion Knowledge Audits (IKA), are developed to make the connection between inclusion (for all people) to the provision of leisure services in all recreation settings. Focusing on the cultural competencies needed to work with individuals with disabilities, IKAs have been designed as both in-class and out-of-class assignments where students are provided the opportunity to connect coursework on inclusion and disabilities to their specific area of interest (e.g., community, commercial, or outdoor recreation).
Performance Analysis of Modulation Techniques in MIMO Rician Channel for WCDMA System

In today communication network the major challenges is to integrates a wide variety of serves, convey the more information as efficiently as possible through limited bandwidth and providing high data rates. Some of information bits are lost in most of the cases and signal which is sent originally will face fading. To reduce the bit error rate and signal fading require high data rate modulation schemes.3GPP Release 7 (HSPA+) WCDMA systems introduced two features Higher Order Modulation (HOM) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO). This paper focuses on the performance analysis of 16 QAM and 64 QAM in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) Transmission in the Rician channel by considering two encoding REED SOLOMON Encoding and BCH Encoding in WCDMA system. The analysis has been performed by using MATLAB for simulation and evaluation of Bit Error Rate (BER) for W-CDMA system.